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The festivities just keep coming for Pearl Gamble. The ‘feisty’ centenarian has had three cakes and two celebrations since her 100th birthday on March 23. A4
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‘Violet’ star has local ties By Adrianne Murchison
Some audiences are tougher than others, and actress Nicole Beharie’s most recent crowd was no pushover. Still, second-graders at Smoke Rise Elementary School were captivated last month, when she read “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Fairy Tales,” aloud in their classroom. Karensa Harris, Beharie’s older sister and the students’ teacher, said Beharie was making all these sounds and the kids were mesmerized by the way she was reading. “Nicole said, ‘Teaching is just like what I do; you have to capture your audience,’” said Harris. Beharie is a hit outside of the classroom, too. She has a lead role in “American Violet,” an independent film garnering rave reviews nationally. The film opened Friday at the AMC Theaters at Stonecrest and around metro Atlanta. She plays the role of Regina Kelly, a single mother of four small daughters who was wrongly accused of dealing drugs after a raid at her housing project in Hearne, Texas. “I didn’t think it was going to be this big,” said Beharie, who stars alongside Alfre Woodard, Michael O’Keefe and Charles Dutton. “It has gotten really good reviews.” Beharie’s visit to Smoke Rise in Stone Mountain was a return to her DeKalb roots. She spent 10 years of her youth living in the Main Street community in Stone Mountain, and attended Main Street Elementary School (now E.L. Miller Elementary) and Middle Grove Middle in Decatur before relocating at the end of the seventh grade to Orangeburg, S.C. ,with her mother, Coleen Brown, at age 14. Her family also were members of the Ray of Hope Church in Decatur, where she sang in the Children’s Choir. Beharie credits Jackie Henry, who taught her in both the third and sixth grades at Main Street Elementary, with charting her course in life. She said Henry played jazz and classical music for her students and recited poetry and famous quotations. “She exposed us to so much culture,” Beharie said Wednesday. “It really affected my life.” She said she has been trying to find Henry but hasn’t had much luck. Beharie had wanted to act since she was small, but her family didn’t know she was serious until she attended South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, Harris said. That was followed by the prestigious Julliard School in New York City on scholarships, and student loans that she is still repaying. She skipped her 2007 graduation to play the girlfriend of Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman
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“I’m still optimistic that the money identified for DeKalb will be certified by the governor. We have got to recognize that they are going to deal with the safety projects first.” Robert Brown, GDOT Board member
Perdue nixes all but one DeKalb project
Nicole Beharie, who plays a single mother wrongly accused in “American Violet,” lived in Stone Mountain for 10 years before moving to South Carolina at age 14.
“She’s always been very into the arts, singing and dancing for the family and putting on shows. Now, to see her on screen, to see how versatile she is in this movie really surprised me. Her performance is very emotional.” Karensa Harris, Nicole Beharie’s sister
Trophy, in “The Express,” the 2008 film on his life. Harris, who joined Beharie for the Los Angeles premiere of “American Violet” on Monday, said her sister was stagestruck even as a small child. “She’s always been very into the arts, singing and dancing for the family and putting on shows,” she said. “Now, to see her on screen, to see how versatile she is in this movie really surprised me. Her performance is very emotional.” Beharie remembers dressing up her little brother Darien as a girl and making him perform. “I was very bossy, then everybody
got bigger than me and I couldn’t push them around anymore,” she joked Wednesday. Beharie is hoping that DeKalb County will come out to see the movie about a struggling single mother who had the guts to stand up to her community’s powerful elite, not just because she is in it, but because the story is one to which her former neighbors, classmates and church members can relate. “It’s inspiring but also sobering,” she said. “We know that racism exists. It’s our story and it affects our community. We are disproportionately affected by laws that are unjust.”
Only one shovel-ready DeKalb project awaiting federal stimulus funding got the nod from Gov. Sonny Perdue last week. In his first list of 67 projects certified on April 9 for more than $207 million from the $787 billion federal stimulus plan, Perdue only gave the green light to an $887,568 project to upgrade traffic lights at seven locations along Hairston Road. It was the least expensive of 13 DeKalb projects, valued Sonny Perdue at $27 million. Overall, Georgia is expected to receive about $932 million for a wide range of transportation initiatives. By comparison, Perdue gave a thumbs-up to four transportation projects in neighboring Gwinnett County, totaling $42.6 million, that will be used to pay for bridge repairs, road widenings and safety enhancements. Fulton County also fared better than DeKalb in the first round, receiving $9,851,165 million to start work on six projects. In a press release announcing the approval of the 67 stimulus-funded projects statewide, the governor promised that “more projects would be certified.” The statement said that additional certifications would be forthcoming based on updates of other of shovel-ready projects from the Georgia Department of Transportation and regional planning agencies, such as the Atlanta Regional Commission. As with other states, at least half of Georgia’s stimulus funding must be awarded by the end of June and the other half by the end of the calendar year. Fourth District Congressman Hank Johnson, who represents DeKalb County as well as parts of Gwinnett and Rockdale counties, said he was surprised there was just one DeKalb project on the governor’s initial certification list. “I’m confident the other dozen projects will receive fair consideration Hank Johnson by Mr. Perdue as he and his team work to approve more projects this summer,” Johnson said in an April 10 statement. “I look forward to working with the governor and his office in any way I can to make sure the Fourth District is not passed over when it comes to stimulus transportation funding.” Robert Brown, who represents DeKalb on the GDOT Board, said residents should not get upset just yet. “I’m still optimistic that the money identified for DeKalb will be certified by the governor,” Brown said Wednesday. “We have got to recognize that they are going to deal with the safety projects first.” Shortly after the stimulus package was signed by the Obama administration, several Southern GOP governors – including Perdue – said they might reject some or all of the money. The threats were regarded by some as evidence of an Obama backlash driven by race and politics.
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“One-to-one mentoring often results in better attendance and attitude at school and builds more trusting relationships with caregivers.”
Help available for distressed homeowners Ex-deputy still on the loose Home and property owners facing foreclosure can learn strategies that will help save their house at Congressman Hank Johnson’s April 25 “Saving the Dream” town hall meeting at Salem Bible Church in Lithonia. The 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. preforeclosure meeting will feature workshops and some lenders rewriting loans on-site. Participants will hear about eviction procedures, the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, and the Neighborhood Sta-
bilization Plan, and will find out how bankruptcy affects pending foreclosures. There will also be speakers including CEO Burrell Ellis, who will talk about DeKalb’s foreclosures. DeKalb Community Development Director Chris Morris will outline the Neighborhood Stabilization Plan, and officers from the DeKalb Marshall’s Office will discuss eviction procedures. HUD-approved counselors will be available for consultations. If a home or property owner
needs their mortgage rewritten they must bring a hardship letter, which explains why the owner is requesting a loan modification; recent pay stubs; tax returns; a bank statement from the last two months; property tax bill and homeowners insurance bill, if they are not part of the mortgage and mortgage documents. Salem Bible Church is at 5460 Hillandale Drive in Lithonia. For more information, contact Betty Dixon at betty.dixon@mail.house. gov or 770-987-2291.
Accused double murder suspect Derrick Yancey was still on the run Thursday, 12 days after he escaped house arrest. Mikki Jones, spokeswoman for the DeKalb Sheriff ’s Office, said Wednesday that if Yancey is not captured in the next week, the ex-deputy will be featured on the April 25 episode of “America’s Most Wanted” at 9 p.m. on WAGA-TV. Yancey, an who worked 17 years with the Sheriff ’s Office, was awaiting trial for the June 9, 2008, murders of Linda Yancey, his wife
of 17 years, and Guatemalan day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc, when he discarded his electronic ankle bracelet and ran on April 4. Yancey had been on house arrest at his mother’s house in Jonesboro since last August. Yancey is one of 94 fugitives listed on the “America’s Most Wanted” website. A possible sighting of Yancey on April 13 did not turn him up. To report information about Yancey’s whereabouts, call the DeKalb Fugitive Squad at 404-298-8200.
Program hosting picnic to recruit more men to mentor at-risk youth Men ages 19 and above can learn more about the Meeting of the Hearts (MOTH) program at the organization’s 100 MENtors Campaign picnic on April 25 at Exchange Park in Decatur. The DeKalb-based mentoring program supports children who have a parent, guardian or caregiver who has been incarcerated or has recently been released from prison. The two-year-old program operates under the direction of the DeKalb County Human Development Department and is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Governor's Office for Children and Families. The 9 a.m.-4 p.m. event will disseminate information about how to be a male mentor. MOTH is seeking to link 100 male mentors with at-risk boys ages 9-18. The 98 boys in need of
Anthony Fredenburg (right) has been mentoring Antwan Jenkins since November 2007.
mentors have been invited to the picnic. William E. Smith, MOTH’s director, said the program is in a desperate situation. "We have the funding to sup-
port the program... but we have few male mentors for our boys,” he said. “We have found that young men between the ages of nine and 18 respond better if paired with adult males."
Anthony Fredenburg, a Georgia Tech graduate studen who has been a mentor to 8-year-old Antwan Jenkins since November 2007, said volunteering is making a positive impact on both of their lives. He was paired with Antwan when the youth’s mother was sent to prison. They have had a great impact on each other. Fredenburg said it is a perfect match. “Antwan and I see each other just about every weekend, and I’ve found a groove that’s outside my normal realm,” he said. “It gets me out of the lab and doing something really positive with my weekends. I feel this relationship is making a difference in both our lives.” Smith said that studies show that children with an imprisoned parent or parents are five times
more likely than other children to become incarcerated themselves and are at heightened risk of a variety of educational and behavioral difficulties. “One-to-one mentoring often results in better attendance and attitude at school and builds more trusting relationships with caregivers, improved social skills and less drug and alcohol use,” he said. The program provides mentor training and pays travel expenses for the pairs to interact weekly. Mentors must be willing to make a 10-month commitment to mentor a child one to two hours a week. They must also pass a background check and complete four hours of training. Exchange Park is at 2771 Columbia Drive in Decatur. For more information, call William Smith at 404-270-1178.
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“I sure do thank the Lord. I don’t need nothing else.”
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Pearl Gamble’s passions are cooking and church, but she is quite the storyteller too. After all, she has a 100 years’ worth of tales to tell. Gamble, who became a centenarian on March 23, celebrated her birthday for a solid three weeks with her family and friends from Restoration Ministries Church in Decatur. By April 9, she had had three birthday cakes and two parties. On that Tuesday in 1909 when she was born in Norcross, Theodore Roosevelt who had been out of the White House for three weeks, his son, Kermit, and three naturalists set sail on the steamer Hamburg from New York for an African safari to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Museum. That day too, New York became the second state behind Colorado to make Columbus Day a legal holiday. Last week, more a dozen balloons and birthday cards from family and well-wishers decorated her room at the Atlanta Rehabilitation Center in Sandy Springs, where she has lived for the last year following a fall that broke her pelvic bone. On her birthday, Gamble’s two daughters, Stella Reese and Nancy Boyd, and most of her five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren held a party for her. Gov. Sonny Perdue sent a congratulatory letter calling her “a joy and inspiration.” “I know you have touched many lives by sharing your wisdom and experience with others,” Perdue wrote. “Mary and I take great pleasure in honoring you and extending our best wishes for a memorable
celebration.” On March 29, over a dozen members from Restoration Ministries in Decatur, where Gamble has been a member for five years, held a birthday party for her at the nursing home. On April 5, members brought her to the Mercer Road church for another celebration in her honor. Gamble is enjoying all the fuss everyone is making over her. “I sure do thank the Lord,” she said. “ I don’t need nothing else.” Brenda Scott, who co-pastors the church with her husband Perry Scott, said their oldest member is a very feisty 100-year-old. “She has an excellent sense of humor,”Scott said. “She has brought an excellent seasoning to the church.” Gamble said living to be 100 doesn’t feel different from 70 or 90 except she isn’t as active as she used to be and doesn’t get to church as
often as she would like. “I feel the same,” she said. “Really, I do.” Other than a 30-year stint living in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., between 1946 and 1976, Gamble has lived most of her life in or around DeKalb County. She remembers her grandmother’s stories of being a slave in southern Georgia. Like most women of her time who had no career options, she was a domestic servant, cleaning, washing and cooking in the homes of many influential and rich white Atlanta families. Gamble was a looker in her day. Her first husband, Ray Benton, joined Simpson Baptist Church in Norcross so he could court her. Gamble, who was 32 at the time, said it all started with her asking him to go to a revival. “I said, ‘We are having revival at the church. You wanna’ go?’ ” she said. “He said, ‘I don’t go to church.’
Johnson to give keynote speech Focus on DeKalb Commissioner Larry Johnson will deliver the keynote address at the April 26 annual day of The Lay Organization of Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church in Kirkwood. The service starts at 10:50 a.m.
and the public is invited. Johnson, who represents District 3, is the presiding officer on the Board of Commissioners this year. The Church is at 66 Howard St. N.E. in Atlanta. For more information, call 404-378-5970.
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100-year-old Pearl Gamble shares a moment with her daughter Nancy Boyd last week at the rehab center where she has been living since a fall.
I said, ‘Your mother goes. I don’t keep company with nobody that don’t go to church.’ ” The next time she saw Benton he was in church. They were married for more than 20 years and had two children, Stella and Nancy. They divorced in the 1960s. Walter Gamble, a PTA and deacon board president, became her second husband in 1971. He died in the 1980s. In her 100 years, Gamble lived through Jim Crow segregation, the crash of the stock market and the Great Depression, the fight for voting rights, the Civil Rights Movement, and the economic boom in Atlanta. She remembers the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy, and the Atlanta preacher, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Gamble said she never thought she would see a black U.S. president in her lifetime, and during the 2008 campaign, she feared for the safety of Barack Obama. “I said ‘Oh Lord, why would he want to do that,” she said. “I never believed I would see a black man become president. No one did.” Her 64-year-old daughter Nancy Boyd, who sits with her often at Atlanta Rehabilitation, said last week said it is a blessing to still have her mother. “Naturally no one ever knows how long they will live for,” said Boyd, who lives in Chamblee. For her to live this long is great.” Growing up, Boyd said her mother told her the secret to a long and healthy life was being polite, not drinking or fighting, and staying in the church. “That’s right,” said Gamble, nodding her head. “I can’t stay out the church.”
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“If approved, the funds will avert cuts in service that MARTA was facing in September.”
Library closing until mid 2010 ARC may rescue MARTA The Salem-Panola Library in Lithonia will close on April 18 for a major expansion project. The public library at 5137 Salem Road in Lithonia will undergo major construction that will more than quadruple its size, from 4,000 to 18,000 square feet. The Salem-Panola branch is one of 12 county libraries being expanded or built with $54.5 million in bond funds approved by voters in November 2005. When it re-opens in mid-2010, it will have a 53,000 volume collection, a youth services area, a teen area, an audiovisual collection area
and a magazine collection area. The expanded library will also have a 100-seat meeting room, 12-seat conference room, six-seat study/tutor room, 38 computers for public use, a computer lab with 12 computers, self-checkout stations, and 140 parking spots. C.D. Moody Construction is building the library. While the library is closed patrons can use nearby libraries such as Lithonia-Davidson Library, 6821 Church St.; Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library, 2861 Wesley Chapel Road; and Flat Shoals Library, 4022 Flat Shoals Parkway.
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On Common Ground News moves to Rockdale County
Gloria Solomon with the U.S. Census Bureau will be the guest speaker at the DeKalb County NAACP’s monthly meeting on April 18 at the Gallery at South DeKalb. During the 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. meeting Solomon will discuss the 2010 Census and jobs within the census bureau. The meeting will be in the mall’s community room. Admission is free. The Gallery at South DeKalb is at 2801 Candler Road. For more information, call 404-2418006.
DeKalb County has lost one of its newspapers to Rockdale County. Twice-monthly On Common Ground News has relocated to Rockdale County. In a front page editorial in its April 1 issue, publishers Glenn and Valerie Morgan said they they have relocated to 1240 Sigman Road, one exit from their old address on Stonecrest Concourse. “It is no secret that the downturn in the economy has devastated the print media,” they said. “With advertising dollars drying up newspapers across the country are struggling to stay in business.”
The Atlanta Regional Commission’s Board of Directors will vote on whether to send millions of dollars in federal stimulus money to cash-strapped MARTA during a meeting on May 27. If approved, the funds will avert cuts in service that MARTA is facing in September. The ARC’s Transportation & Air Quality Committee unanimously approved a motion on April 9 to pursue using $25 million of American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds to temporarily fill a shortfall in MARTA’s operating budget for this fiscal year.
They said the move to the new location is an effort to continue to serve its readers. In Rockdale County, On Common Ground News joins the sixday-a-week Rockdale Citizen and a new Morris Multimedia weekly paper, the Rockdale News, which published its first issue on April 4. Morris Multimedia also publishes the Covington News, The Gainesville Times and the Statesboro Herald. DeKalb County is still served by four weekly newspapers – CrossRoadsNews, the Champion, the Dunwoody Crier and the DeKalb News Era.
MARTA is facing a $24.1 million deficit this year and a $40 million shortfall in next year’s budget due to a severe downturn in the economy and declining sales tax receipts in DeKalb and Fulton counties and Atlanta, the municipalities that fund the trnsit authority. It has failed to convince the Georgia General Assembly to give it access to funds being held in reserves for capital expansion. MARTA CEO and general manager Dr. Beverly Scott said MARTA is extremely grateful to the ARC’s consideration and support.
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“Our people perish from lack of knowledge. I don’t want to lose a brother, a friend, or a neighbor because he failed to get a simple prostate test.”
Event to explore issues of death, dying “Death and Dying: An Inevitable Event” will take place April 26 at the Masjid An Nur in Lithonia. The 2 p.m. seminar, hosted by Essential Living for Muslim Women Inc., will explore the issues around death and dying. Bring
Your Qur’an. Registration is $15 and is available online at EL4MW.org. Masjid An Nur is at 1996 Stone Mountain Lithonia Road. For more information, call Safiyah Abdul Khaaliq at 770-365-2277 or Thaahirah Stephens at 404-518-9728.
Churches hosting sessions on health The DeKalb Consortium of Churches will host “Healing from the Inside Out” on May 2 at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center in Decatur. The 9 a.m.-2 p.m. event is co-hosted by Hillside Presbyterian, Holy Cross Episcopalian, Peace Lutheran, Trinity Presbyterian
and Christian Jubilee FWBC in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and the DeKalb County Board of Health. It will include sessions for teens, breakfast and lunch. For more information, contact Peace Lutheran Church at 404-2891474 or call John Brooks at 404-213-3205.
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April 18, 2009
DeKalb Initiative for Children raise By McKenzie Jackson
When Lenean Priester moved to Fulton County four years ago, her then-16-year-old daughter almost fell victim to a man who was helping them find a home in Atlanta. When Priester’s daughter reported the attempted abuse Lenean Priester to law enforcement, she found out that a week earlier, an 11-year-old girl had told some adults that the man – Rodney Williams – had been raping her for six months. Williams’ arrest in September 2005 revealed that he had also been sexually and physically abusing the 11-yearold’s two sisters also. A Fulton County jury sentenced him in February 2006 to 100 years in prison. Priester said the attempted molestation of her daughter forced her to come to grips with the sexual abuse she suffered as an 8-year-old girl growing up in Detroit, Mich. “It’s hard,” she said. “Sometimes if I’m touched at night I wake up shaken because it takes me back to what happened.” Now 40 years old, Priester is a member of the DeKalb Initiative for Chil-
“The rate of child crimes over the Internet has bee increasing and in that realm it’s stranger on stranger usually, or just a brief contact in terms of talking ov the Internet as opposed to a family member that you would see on a regular basis.” Gwen Keyes Fleming, DeKalb District Attorney
dren and Families and the Community Partnership for Protecting Children, which seeks to create awareness about the growing problem of child sexual abuse and neglect in DeKalb. On April 25, the group is hosting its first “DeKalb Stand 4 Children’s Day” at the Peachcrest Unit of the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club in Decatur. The 10 a.m.-2 p.m. event will feature workshops and discussions for families, parents and youth that will touch on different aspects of child abuse and neglect. “Children’s Day” is one of many events being held around the country in recognition of April being National Child Abuse Prevention Month. There will be sessions that explain to young children the unacceptable ways that abusers will try to touch their bodies. They will also teach signs to notice if a child is being abused or neglected, as well as sessions on drugs, alcohol, gang violence and health.
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Health fair to offer prostate, other scre Men can get a free screening for prostate cancer on April 25 at Hillcrest Church of Christ’s annual Community Health Fair. The Decatur church is offering the screenings in conjunction with Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia, which has been targeting African-American men as part of it early detection TRIM program. Nationally, almost 230,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually. African-American men are 61 percent more likely than white men to develop the cancer and nearly 2.5 times more likely to die from the disease because theirs is often diagnosed late when it has spread beyond the prostate and treatment is more difficult. William “Tank” Sims, a church member who was diagnosed with the disease last year, is helping spread the word about early detection. He said that if he could get the cancer, it can
happen to anybody. “I’ve always been a health-conscious person,” said Sims, 58, who has run the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race for the last 18 years. He began taking the annual prostate-specific antigen test, or PSA, when he reached 50, so when his doctor noticed elevated levels, further tests were done to diagnose the cancer and begin treatment. Since then Sims has been on a mission to encourage men to get screened. The health fair will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be screenings for vision, dental, spine, heart, nervous system and kidney diseases. Sims, his doctor, Dr. James Bennett, Midtown Urology and other prostate cancer survivors will be on a panel, discussing the illness at 11 a.m. Sims says he knows how difficult it is to get men to discuss health issues, particularly prostate cancer. “Knowledge is power,” he said. A PSA test can cost up to $200 from
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Tucker students gather pennies to fight l The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients campaign got a big boost from students at Tucker Elementary School last month. The students collected $1,960.81 between January 20 and February 13 to help the society fight blood cancers liker leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. Their fund-raising activities in-
cluded a hat day, on which students donated a dollar to wear their favorite cap during school hours, and a homeroom competition to see which class could collect the most pennies. Paige Camp’s seventh-grade class collected $600 and earned a pizza party. The Pennies for Patients campaign supports programs of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To make it
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ill kick off at 8 a.m. with lly led by DeKalb Comy Johnson. Child advocates will march from Saint Philip AME Church, 240 Candler Road, to the Wal-Mart at 3580 Memorial Drive. Johnson represents Commission District 3, home 30032, which has the tage of the child abuse ses reported in DeKalb
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rclay, Hillcrest’s senior the church is commitducate the community ving PSA screening. e perish from lack of said. “I don’t want to a friend, or a neighbor ed to get a simple pros-
health fair, Hillcrest rage teens and adults to hy through fun physical golf, tennis and other The church is at 1939 ad. For more informa.hillcrestcoc.net or call
Students at Tucker Elementary School raised almost $2,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients campaign.
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in the county.” Priester said child sexual abuse is an epidemic all over DeKalb. “It is a real big problem,” she said. “People don’t understand. We are No. 2 in teen pregnancy in the state. That all comes up under the possibility of being sexually abused. I’m one of them, I’ve been that stat, because I was sexually abused and came out being promiscuous and ended up getting pregnant at a young age.” The DeKalb District Attorney’s Office reports that there were 254 crimes against children in DeKalb in 2008. The crimes range from sexual abuse to physical abuse, homicides, neglect and sexual exploitation. Gwen Keyes Fleming, the county’s district attorney, said child sex crimes are underreported in the county. “It is kind of swept under the rug by families,” she said. “They kind of want to handle it themselves.” Keyes Fleming said children are often abused by people they are comfortable around. “It could be anyone from a music teacher, religious leader or some kind stepfather or stepfather’s son,” she said. Priester said that a lot of parents think it is completely safe when
they send their kids off to school, church or to youth organizations. “We just have to make it known that it is not always like that,” she said. “There are red flags you need to look for.” Keyes Fleming added that her office has had some cases where a child was being sexually exploited online. “The rate of child crimes over the Internet has been increasing and in that realm it’s stranger on strangers, usually, or just a brief contact in terms of talking over the Internet as opposed to a family member that you would see on a regular basis,” she said. “Child porn, solicitation – you would be amazed at some of the things Craigslist is used for.” Priester said that child abuse and neglect is a community issue. “We all just want to come together and share together and come out of this crisis and protect our children,” she said. Admission is free. The Peachcrest Unit of the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is at 3500 Sherrydale Lane in Decatur. For more information, call 404-298-4090.
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“We are going to be a major contributor to the local economy. A lot of opportunities will open up.”
New campus to give Wesley Chapel Road a needed shot in the arm By Jennifer Ffrench Parker
When the Everest Institute opens its Decatur campus on Wesley Chapel Road on May 4, it will be provide a boom to the local economy on many fronts. The school is opening up old Wal-Mart building, vacant space that been a blight on the community for more than four years. It will bring 700 students to the floundering Wesley Chapel corridor. It will be training students for medical support careers and the trades, and it will be building partnerships with local employers who will hire many of those students. Barbara Holliman, the campus president, said they will definitely have an impact on Barbara Holliman the corridor. “We are going to be a major contributor to the local economy,” she said last week while touring the building. “A lot of opportunities will open up. Food service will definitely increase because of our students.” The campus, which is relocating from North Druid Hills in Atlanta, will open with 700 students, ages 19 to 52, attending days, evenings and weekend classes. Holliman said the Everest Insti-
The Everest Institute will train students for medical support careers when it opens in the former Wal-Mart space on May 4.
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tute which is owned by Santa Ana, Calif.-based Corinthian Colleges, invested $4 million into retrofitting the former Wal-Mart store into a 50,000-square-foot school, and a 36,500-square-foot retail space for which it is seeking tenants. The 91,124-square-foot building had been vacant since summer 2004, when Wal-Mart relocated to a larger store on Fairington Road
in Lithonia. Patricia Cunningham, the campus’ operations vice president, said 30 percent of the campus’ students are already from DeKalb County. They are enrolled in diploma programs for medical assistants, medical administrator assistants, medical insurance billing and coding, massage therapy and dialysis technician. They also have students
pursuing associate degrees in respiratory therapy In August, the campus will begin offering diploma programs for electricians, HVAC technicians, and dental assistant. This fall, it will add degree programs in accounting business administration, criminal justice and paralegal. Holliman said they are adding
Local mortgage firm ceases operations 1st Commitment Mortgage Services has gone out of business. Percy Blackshear III, who founded the residential mortgage licensing agency in 2003, said
he ended operations March 31 because of current market conditions. “We elected to cease our annual broker license renewal with the
electrical and HVAC because those trades are in demand in the area. “The jobs are there even in this economy,” she said. Holliman said the campus offers life-time placement assistance for its graduates and don’t offer programs in fields it cannot place them. “We have a 85 percent placement rate,” she said, “and our placement service is always free to our graduates.” She said their placement rate is so high because they establish partnerships with local employers who are looking for trained employees. At full capacity, Holliman said the campus will have 1,500 students. They expect to get there within two years. For the 36,500 square-foot retail space, Holliman says they are looking for businesses that will compliment the campus. She said they are open to medical or dental practices, fitness center, or daycare center. David Cure, project manager for Freese Construction which is renovating the space, said they are now working 5:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. to complete the renovations in time for the May 4 opening. “We started construction on Jan. 19 and we will be done in three months,” he said. Holliman said equipment and furniture will be moved in starting April 27. A grand opening and open house is planned for June. Donna Echols won $1 million in the Georgia Lottery’s Extreme Green promotion last month.
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Winner joins lucky friend Donna Echols of Ellenwood was a big winner in the Georgia Lottery Extreme Greene instant game last month. Echols scratched off a $1 million cash prize and joined her good friend Patricia Taylor in the winners circle. Taylor of McDonough won $5 million in Lottery’s 15th anniversary Millionaire Extravaganza last December. Echols was pleasantly surprised by that good fortune struck so close twice.
“It’s not something that happens every day,” she said. Echols bought her winning ticket at the BP Food Shop on Panola Road in Ellenwood, She didn’t learn she was a lottery winner until hours after buying the ticket. “I asked my husband [Mike] to take a look, and he told me I’d won $1 million,” she said. The two plan to save the money for retirement. “We’re all very excited,” she said.
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“I’m a passionate person, and the nature of most deaf people that they are more expressive.”
Events showcase Alice Walker’s life, work Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker will speak on her art and life at Emory University on April 24. Walker, who has authored 26 books spanning the genres of the novel, poetry and the essay, won the Pulitzer Prize and the AmeriAlice Walker can Book Award in 1983 for her novel “The Color Purple,” which has been adapted for film and stage. Walker placed her archive at Emory in 2007.
Her public talk at 8 p.m. – titled “Reflections on the Turning of the Wheel: Living a Life of Freedom and Choice” – takes place at Emory’s Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Road. It is among events celebrating the April 23 opening of “A Keeping of Records: The Art and Life of Alice Walker,” the first public exhibition of papers and other memorabilia from Walker’s archives. Rudolph P. Byrd, the exhibition’s curator, said “A Keeping of Records” features 200 items drawn from one of the most complete archives in existence.
The exhibition will run through Sept. 23 at the Schatten Gallery of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. At an April 24 daylong symposium, scholars, artists and activists will celebrate Walker’s art and life. Participants at 8:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. event include Gloria Steinem, journalist, activist and co-founding publisher of Ms. Magazine; Howard Zinn, historian and professor emeritus at Boston University, Susan Booth, artistic director of Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre; and Evelyn White, a journalist and independent scholar who authored “Alice Walker: A Life.”
Exhibition: “A Keeping of Records: The Art and Life of Alice Walker,” April 23-Sept. 23, Schatten Gallery and New Books Rotunda, Robert W. Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322. Free during regular library hours. Parking is available in Fishburne Deck, accessible off Fishburne Lane. Please use public transit when possible. For more information, call Julie Delliquanti at 404-727-0136. Symposium: “A Keeping of Records: The Art and Life of Alice Walker,” 8:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m. April 24, Emory Conference Center and Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329. Registration: $25 fee; Free for students from any school with valid student ID. Deadline to register is 5 p.m. April 22. To register, visit https://www.alumniconnections.com/ , or call Reagon Goodnough at 678-990-9791. Parking available at the Emory Conference Center Hotel. Presentation: “Reflections on the Turning of the Wheel: Living a Life of Freedom and Choice,” a talk by Alice Walker, 8 p.m. April 24, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta. Open to the public but free tickets are required for admission. Limit two tickets per person, available at the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts box office. For ticket information, call 404-727-5050. Parking available in the Fishburne Deck accessible off Fishburne Lane.
Deaf student signs his way through play When Nicholas Stargall takes the stage this week for his part in “Arcadia,” his lines will be wordless. And he won’t hear any of his cues. But that is just fine for Stargall, a 19-year-old Georgia Perimeter College philosophy major and theater minor. His role of Gus Coverly in the Theatre Arts Guild production of the Tom Stoppard play is nonspeaking. Instead, Stargall, who is deaf, will use sign language to communicate. The play, which is directed by Sally Robertson, opened April 16 at Cole Auditorium on the Clarkston campus and will be staged again April 24-26. Stargall’s character has autism and does not speak; he practices his stage cues with the help of his certified international sign
Nicholas Stargall (right), who is deaf, uses sign language in his role as a character with autism.
language interpreter. Robertson said that the cast and crew have also learned some sign language. Stargall said that even though he doesn’t speak, acting is not a far stretch for a deaf person. He points to Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Maitlin as proof. “I’m a passionate person, and the nature of most deaf people that they are more expressive,” he said. “We use a lot of exaggerated facial
expressions. It’s part of a natural tendency – you don’t have to role play, you are always role playing to express yourself.” Stargall grew up with “signing” as his first language and English is second. “Arcadia” will be staged at 8 p.m. on April 24-25, with a matinee performance at 3 p.m. on April 26. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 general admission. For information and tickets call 678-891-3572.
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