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Readers Choice Awards April 17, 2010

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Movers, shakers shine in 2nd annual survey

East Metro’s best to be honored at April 24 Expo at the Mall at Stonecrest John Evans (above), whose willingness to fight for the downtrodden and against oppression is well-documented, was among top vote-getters in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Readers Choice Awards.

Evans, who was voted the area’s Best Local Activist, was joined by winners such as Saint Philip Pastor George

Moore (below), who was voted Citizen of the Year; DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis and County Commissioner Connie Stokes (top right, named Most Beloved Elected Official and Best County Commissioner, respectively); and Billy Mitchell (lower right), the Most Active State Legislator.

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The 2010 Best of East Metro Expo Special Section is a publication of CrossRoadsNews Inc., East Metro Atlanta’s awardwinning weekly newspaper.

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Readers Choice Awards

Community picks Best of winners online and in print More than 4,000 ballots were cast in print and online in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews BEst of East MEtro Readers Choice Award.

The event, which is in its second year, celebrates the best that DeKalb abd Rockdae County has to offer.

Nominations are made in January each year and voting takes place in March.

The winners are celebrate at the Best of East Metro/Small Business Expo at the Mall at Stonecrest in April. The 2010 Expo takes place on April 24, from noon to 5 p.m.

Please join us to celebrate the winners.

This year, Expo goers can compete to win the grand prize of $3,500 advertising package from CrossRoadsNews.

MC veteran of many CRN Expos Pamela Holmes, owner the Nappy Hair Shop, will be mistress of Ceremonies for the 2010 Best of East Metro/Small Business Expo.

Holmes, who is also an Atlanta-based Realtor, is no stranger to the CrossRoadsNews Community Expos at the Mall at Stonecrest.

Since 2006, she has also done emcee duty ar the Health & Wellness Expo in January, the Summer Camp Expo in March and the Family & Adoption Expo in August.

Holmes also sings and has a cooking show on YouTube.

CEO Voted Most “Beloved Elected Official”

Public Affairs Citizen of the Year

Pastor George Moore, St. Philip AME Best School Board Member

Jesse “Jay” Cunningham

Best County Commissioner

Connie Stokes

Best Local Entrepreneur (tie)

Tony Royal, Chick-fil-A LaTasha Lewis, Tadda’s Fitness Camp

Favorite Local Character

Eddie Long

Favorite Local Activist

John Evans

Most Beloved Elected Official

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Burrell Ellis, DeKalb CEO

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DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, pictured above with his wife, Philippa and children, Burrell lll and Victoria, was voted “Most Beloved Elected Official.”

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Always ready for battle – community activism is second nature

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

If there is an issue of importance to the community, John Evans is always on the right side of it.

When he dons his blue denim overalls and red shirt – channeling the late Hosea Williams – and grabs his megaphone, the fainthearted knows it’s time to look out.

For decades Evans has been South DeKalb’s activist extraordinaire, opposing infringements on civil rights and liberties and fighting for young people’s education.

He says he is just serving the community.

“If it’s genuine. If it’s a people issue, I have to be involved,” said Evans, who turned 77 years old on Jan. 29.

His passion, dedication and steadfastness are among the many reasons that Evans was voted “Best Local Activist” in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Readers Choice Award.

Evans, a former DeKalb NAACP president and the county’s first black elected county commissioner in 1982, regularly attends DeKalb School Board meetings to keep board members’ feet to the fire and to prod them to do the right thing.

In January 2005, when his term ended at the NAACP, Evans founded Operation LEAD (Leaders to End All Discrimination), a legal, civil and human rights to continue his activism.

At community meetings, he asks the tough questions and last year fought with the Grady Hospital Board to ensure that health care for the poor stayed on its radar.

Last year, as the nation and Congress wrestled over President Barack Obama’s health plan, Evans draped a sandwich board sign around his neck and took the streets to

Decked out in his signature red T-shirt and blue coveralls – a tribute to late civil rights activist Hosea Williams – and bullhorn by his side (far left), Evans is a regular presence at rallies or marches to protest injustice.

counter health reform opponents.

But his activism knows no geographic boundaries. If there is something worth fighting at the Clayton County school board, Evans is there. If there is police brutality Muscogee County, Evans is among the

marchers. When thousands marched in 2007 to free Genarlow Wilson, who was imprisoned for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, Evans was prominent among the throngs.

Josie Dean, a fellow activist, calls him a

fighter.

“He has been on the battlefield,” she said.

“Sometimes he don’t have gas for his car, but when nobody else is there, he is there. He just takes on these fights. When he sees injustice, he takes it on.”

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Small Business & Best of East Metro Expo

Thanks for voting Saint Philip AME Church the winner in eight categories in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews “Best of East Metro” Readers Choice Awards

Congratulations to Pastor George Moore, our pastor of 40 years, for being voted “Citizen of the Year”

Thanks for voting Saint Philip AME as “Best Large Church” And our ministries….

Saint Philip Holy Dance Ministry

Congratulations to these church members who also won: State Rep. Billy Mitchell

“Best Dance Ministry”

“Most Active State Legislator”

Saint Philip Marriage Ministry

DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis “Most Beloved Elected Official”

“Best Outreach Ministry”

Connie Stokes

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“Best County Commissioner”

“Best Church Choir”

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Saint Philip AME Academy

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Visit us and see why Saint Philip AME Church is

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Pow Saint Philip AME Church Choir was voted “Best Choir.” The church’s Holy Dance Ministry won “Best Dance Ministry” and its Marriage Ministry was voted “Best Outreach Ministry.” The church, which is located at the intersection of Candler Road and Memorial Drive, also won “Best Large Church” and its pastor, George Moore, was voted “Citizen of the Year.” Altogether, Saint Philip won eight awards, the most for a single organization or individual.

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Chick-fil-A’s Royal wins awards two years in a row Best Handyman

For the second year in a row, Chickfil-A owner/operator Tony Royal has been voted “Best Local Entrepreneur” in the CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Reader Choice Awards.

Royal shares the honor this year with LaTasha Lewis, owner of Tadda’s Fitness Camp.

His Turner Hill Road store also won “Best Restaurant Service”, BEst Free WiFi and “Best Take Out.” Royal, who also operates the Chick-filA at South DeKalb Mall, joined the Chickfil-A family in August 2000 and opened the 1,000th restaurant on Turner Hill Road outside the new Mall of Stonecrest in 2001.

Over the years, Royal has distinguished himself in the community as a great supporter of education.

His Partners in Service Scholarship program benefits students at high schools and colleges that partner with his restaurants.

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Tony Royal and his wife Leslie pose with 2009 expo emcee Chantell Christopher (at center) after winning three awards last year. This year, Royal won four awards in the 2010 Best of East Metro Readers Choice Awards.

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A volunteer doctor attends to a patient at the South DeKalb Center for Healthy Living in Lithonia. The non-profit center, which offers free health care to low-income residents, was voted “Best Health Clinic” in the 2010 Readers Choice Award.

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New entrepreneur finds lots of success at healthy and fitness business

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Nineteen months ago, LaTasha Lewis was a registered nurse at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale offering a six-week 5 a.m. class to her colleagues – doctors, nurses and others – who wanted a healthier lifestyle.

Her rigorous strength building and toning exercises and healthy eating nutritional plan helped the women and men drop up to 32 pounds over the six weeks. Word spread and soon she had 110 people asking for classes on difLaTasha Lewis ferent hours and days.

In March 2009, she moved Tadda’s Fitness Camp – named for the nickname her parents gave her as a child – to a 4,000-square-foot studio down the road from the hospital in Lithonia.

This weekend Lewis, who quit her nursing job at DeKalb Medical last July, will host an awards ceremony for a class of 192 people.

“It’s been an amazing year-and-a-half,” she said. “I never dreamed that I would be running a fitness business. I truly believe it’s the work of the Lord.”

Lewis’ success at her business prompted her clients to nominate her for the Best Local Entreprenuer in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Readers Choice Awards.

She tied with Chick-fil-A operator Tony Royal for the award.

“I don’t take this honor lightly,” she said. “I am humbled to be nominated and to win.”

Lewis said she was able to grow her business by listening to her clients.

When they said it would be great to shower after 5 a.m. class and go to work, she installed nice showers for them. When they

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LaTasha Lewis (left), who says she never dreamed she’d own a fitness business, monitors an exercise class on Thursday at her Taddas Fitness Camp in Lithonia.

yearned for child care, she added it, so moms can work out, confident that their kids are in good care.

But Lewis said the best thing for her is seeing people get healthy again and broken families mend.

“It’s not only the physical transforma-

tion,” she said. “It’s also spiritual and emotional.”

She tells the story of a couple who were drifting away from each but have found new camaraderie by participating together in her fitness camp.

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cooking and eating together,” she said.

Lewis that even teenage boys have followed their parents to the class.

“They wanted to know what was making their mother so happy,” she said. “The next class, the mother, father and their 15- and 16-year-old sons signed up.”

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Saint Philip AME’s humble pastor of 40 years voted Citizen of the Year

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Even though Pastor George Moore heads a mega church in South DeKalb County, its never been about him.

You won’t find on television and he is not jetting around the world in a private jet.

Instead, the man Saint Philip AME Church members call servant leader, visionary, humble, compassionate, and dynamic, often deflect the attention away from himself.

But this time, CrossRoadsNews readers and his church flock got him.

In landslide balloting in the 2010 CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Readers Choice Award, they voted him “Citizen of the Year.”

Moore, the contest’s favorite, got the most votes of all the nominees and in his category, he garnered four times the votes of the other six nominees together. He will pick up his award from the Main Stage in front of Macy’s at the 2010 Best of East Metro/Small Business Expo on April 24 at the Mall at Stonecrest.

Moore, who has been in ministry for 54 years, spent the last 40 years at Saint Philip AME Church shepherding its growth from 180 members to more than 8,000 today.

On Oct. 22, he will turn 75 years old, mandatory retirement age for the AME Church.

During his tenure at the church, he led his congregation of 3,900 families to corral one corner of Candler Road and Memorial Drive and build a $8 million sanctuary and $12 million family life center.

The growth of Saint Philip AME is the crowning achievement of Moore’s five decades of ministry. Among the 525 AME churches in Georgia, only one other – comes from helping people bring their lives Turner Chapel in Marietta – has equaled together.

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“That was such a crucial time in the lives of black people,” he said. “It was an enjoyable morning to go to the little one-room church.”

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Readers Choice Awards YOUR CONFIDENCE IN ME IS GREATLY APPRECIATED Thanks for voting me “Best School Board Member” in the 2010 “Best of East Metro” Readers Choice Awards.

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