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Volume 21, Number 17

Julian Bond remembered as champion of equality for all By Ken Watts

Civil rights activist Julian Bond died on Aug. 15 at age 75.

Tributes poured in this week from elected officials and community leaders for Julian Bond, former NAACP chairman, a key figure in the 1960s civil rights movement, a Georgia lawmaker for 19 years, and a lifelong champion of equal rights. Bond, 75, died after a brief illness on Aug. 15 in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. His wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz, said he died of complications from vascular disease. In an Aug. 16 statement, President Barack Obama called him a friend. “Michelle and I have benefited from

his example, his counsel, and his friendship,” the president said. “We offer our prayers and sympathies to his wife, Pamela, and his children.” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Bond lived a life of “great impact” and was an impassioned advocate for nonviolence throughout his career. “His voice never wavered in his lifelong fight for justice,” Reed said. “We may take comfort in knowing his legacy lives on in his children and grandchildren, in the organizations he founded and the barriers he broke. Julian Bond changed our state and our country, and we are forever in his debt.” U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson said our

country lost a hero with Bond’s death. “Julian Bond was a man of courage and conviction and we are all better off because of him,” Johnson said. “As co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Poverty Law Center, he helped to change our public discourse for the better.” SCLC President Charles Steele said Bond will be remembered as one of the leading lights of the movement. “I am saddened by his sudden death but heartened by the dynamic life he lived and difference his considerable Please see TRIBUTES, page 2

GPTC’s South DeKalb Campus to ‘get job done’ Adult education, college credit courses offered

Visitors tour Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s new South DeKalb Campus on Wesley Chapel Road on Aug. 20 after the ribboncutting ceremony.

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Georgia Piedmont Technical College cut the ribbon on its 50,000-square-foot South DeKalb Campus in Decatur on Thursday, calling it a “great moment” for DeKalb County, GPTC President Jabari Simama said there are 65,000 people in South DeKalb without high school diplomas. “There is a tremendous number of people who need what we have,” he said. “We are not going Jabari Simama anywhere until we get the job done.” The South DeKalb Campus, which opened at a cost of $500,000, is the 10th campus for the technical college that opened in 1961. GPTC, formerly DeKalb Tech, also has campuses in Clarkston; a transportation center in Lithonia; and campuses in Rockdale, Newton and Morgan counties. Matt Arthur, deputy commissioner for the Technical College System of Georgia, said that with its 3,500 students, GPTC is home to the state’s second-largest adult education program. Last year, he said the college helped Matt Arthur 452 adults enter the work force, 672 people retain their jobs, and 83 students get their GEDs. “We expect its impact to be positive and long-lasting,” Arthur said. Simama said GPTC flip-flops with Gwinnett Technical College for first place. “Gwinnett may be No. 1 now, but we are going to be No. 1 again,” he said to laughter

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from the auditorium packed with elected county and school officials, community and college leaders, students and curious residents. DeKalb interim CEO Lee May, who was accompanied by DeKalb Commissioners Larry Johnson and Stan Watson, called the ribbon cutting “an exciting moment for the entire county.” May said the campus location at 2460 Wesley Chapel Road will put a tremendous focus on education for young people and adults. “What it will do for the lives of adults in this corridor, we are just ecstatic,” he said. Stephanie McRae, who brought her 2-year-old son Alexander in his stroller to the event and took one of the tours of the corridors of classrooms, computer labs and workshops, said she is considering applying

to GPTC to train to be a licensed practical nurse. She said she is very impressed with the South DeKalb Campus. “I am getting chills,” said McRae, who lives in Stone Mountain. “When I walked in, it was ‘wow.’ I am speechless about the opportunities that are opening up right here in our community.” McRae, who graduated from Stone Mountain High in 2000 and did a four-year stint in the Army as a chemical specialist, says she now thinks nursing is the career she wants to pursue. “I am going home to apply online,” she said after the tour. Within five miles of the campus, located in the Wesley Chapel Crossing shopping, are 207,386 residents.

GPTC is targeting residents age 16 to 65 primarily in four South DeKalb ZIP codes – 30034, 30035, 30038 and 30058 – but the campus is open to anyone who finds it convenient to take classes there. Classes in technical, adult and continuing education are available with college credit courses in business management, financial and investment services, office accounting, early childhood education, air conditioning, criminal justice, barbering, and others. The South DeKalb Campus is also home to GPTC’s new Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Development that is offering tools for individuals to create and/or expand their businesses. Free adult literacy and GED preparation classes also are offered. Registration is available at www.gptc. edu.

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August 22, 2015

“In a county that has recently seen its share of corruption cases, this is a particularly sad chapter.”

Boyer’s husband gets year, day in federal prison in fraud case By Ken Watts

John Boyer, who masterminded his wife’s theft of $85,000 in DeKalb County taxpayers’ funds, is going to federal prison for one year and one day. His wife, former DeKalb Commissioner Elaine Boyer, is already serving 14 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans sentenced John Boyer on Aug. 19 for his part in the kickback scheme. After his sentence, Boyer will serve three years on supervised parole and pay about $87,000 in restitution. Boyer, 63, pleaded guilty to mail fraud on Feb. 24.

U.S. Attorney John Horn said Boyer used his wife’s position as a DeKalb County commissioner to steal the money. “The Boyers’ scheme put county money in their pockets and ultimately left the citizens of DeKalb County holding the tab,” Horn said. “In a county that has recently seen its share of corruption cases, this is a particularly sad chapter.” Family friend Marion Rooks Boynton also was indicted on Aug. 11 in connection with the scheme. Boynton, 73, a resident of St. Simons Island, faces charges of conspiracy and theft. According to the indictment, the Boyers were experiencing financial difficulties

in 2009 when they devised the “unlawful kickback scheme” to obtain money from DeKalb County. Elaine Boyer, who was the DeKalb District 1 commissioner for 22 years, hired Boynton as a political adviser and paid him more than $85,000 for consulting work between September 2009 and November 2011 that federal prosecutors say he never performed. He is accused of kicking back about $60,000 to the personal bank accounts of the Boyers who used the money for their personal living expenses. The feds say that Boynton kept and spent about $25,000 of the money he received from the county. Britt Johnson, special agent in charge of

the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office that investigated the case, said Boyer’s sentencing illustrates that there are consequences for those who assist or entice public officials with regard to criminal corrupt activities. “The FBI continues to make public corruption investigations its No. 1 criminal program priority and asks that anyone with information regarding such activity to notify their nearest FBI field office,” Johnson said. As part of their plea deal, the Boyers agreed to cooperate with authorities in their investigation of Boynton. Elaine Boyer, 59, is serving her sentence at a women’s prison in Marianna, Fla. It was unclear at press time where her husband will serve his sentence.

Ethics Board chair Ernst resigns Bond was ‘smart, gifted, articulate’ By Ken Watts

His resignation came a day after the Ethics Board found ComDeKalb Ethics Board Chairman missioner Stan Watson guilty of John Ernst has resigned after two three ethics violations. It found years on the board. Watson had conflicts of interest In an Aug. 14 letter of resignawhen he voted to approve $1.5 tion to interim CEO Lee May, Ernst million of county funds to go to gave no reason for the departure, developer APD Solutions, a firm but he told reporters that he is that had hired him as a consultant stepping down to “pursue other John Ernst and paid him nearly $20,000 in public service opportunities.” fees. The board voted 4-2 not to suspend His departure was effective immedi- Watson but issued an official reprimand. ately. When he joined the board in 2013, Ernst told May that he leaves the board in Ernst said it had a $16,000 budget, lacked a better position than he found it. full membership, and had to suspend op“Today I’m proud to say at least we’ve erations because of a backlog of old cases. dealt with dozens of cases and complaints,” Ernst says the Watson ruling signals that Ernst wrote. “We have a much more robust the panel is fully functioning and ready to budget from council for investigation that go after ethics violators. will help DeKalb move forward in rooting Board Vice Chair Clara Black DeLay out unethical behavior.” replaces Ernst as chair.

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contributions made for all Americans,” Steele said. Horace Julian Bond was born in 1940 to an upper-middle-class family in Nashville, Tenn., to Horace Mann Bond and Julia Agnes Washington. In 1945, his father became the first black president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Their home frequently hosted scholars and celebrities such as W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Bond returned to the South in the late 1950s to attend Morehouse College and work in the movement. Known for his good looks, keen intelligence and charismatic personality, Bond became a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 while at Morehouse College. He served as media director of SNCC’s communications office from 1961 to 1966. SNCC was the youth arm of the movement, and Bond used it to help mobilize teens and young adults from across the nation to help desegregate lunch counters and public accommodations and organize voting rights efforts in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. In 1965, Bond was one of 11 black candidates elected to the Georgia House after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But the House refused to seat him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was blocked for two terms as his district continued to elect him. On his third election, he was finally seated after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the House had deprived Bond of his freedom of speech and ordered it to seat him. Bond went on to serve four terms in the House from 1967 to 1975 and six terms in the Georgia Senate from 1975 to 1987 despite seeing his district redrawn three times by the Legislature. In 1971, he and attorney Morris Dees cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. He served as the center’s president until 1979 and worked as a board member emeritus until his death. In 1986, Bond lost a bitter campaign for Atlanta’s 5th Congressional District seat to John Lewis, his longtime friend and civil rights colleague. Lewis told USA Today that Bond helped inspire an entire generation of young people, both black and white. “He spent so much time speaking on college campuses, telling the story of the movement,” Lewis said. “He was so smart, so gifted, so articulate, and he had a way of getting to people, to students, to young people, and he succeeded.” After his elected political career, Bond continued his activism as a writer, educator and TV talk-show host during the 1980s and 1990s and was the NAACP national chairman from 1998 to 2010. Bond was an outspoken supporter of the rights of gays and lesbians and fought in

To be buried at sea Civil rights icon Julian Bond will be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 22 at 2 p.m. A family statement said on Aug. 19 that they are honoring the wishes of Bond, who died Aug. 15 in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., with a “family-only burialat-sea service,” but they promised a public memorial service later “for all of Julian’s friends.” “We realize that many people loved and admired Julian,” the statement from his widow, Pamela Horowitz, and his five children said. “We understand that at this time of great loss for our family that many of you are feeling your own sense of loss. We also very much understand the need for community closure and an opportunity to celebrate the life of a great husband, father and grandfather, but also a great national treasure and civil rights icon.” In lieu of joining them, the family offered an alternative. “We invite you to gather at a body of water near your home and precisely at 2 p.m. CDT spread flower petals on the water and join us in bidding farewell to Horace Julian Bond. This gesture will mean a great deal to us as a family and also provide some comfort in knowing that you share our loss.”

support of gay marriage. On news of his death, Georgia Democratic Party Chair DuBose Porter said Bond will be remembered as a consistent advocate for social justice. “We have lost a powerful and beautiful voice for the rights of all,” Porter said. “Julian Bond lived his life to make the world a better place, and we are a better place because of his love and leadership.” Clayola Brown, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, called Bond a role model for today’s young activists. “Julian Bond was a man of great insight and eloquent wisdom. He was one of the architects of the Black Lives Matter movement before there was a hashtag,” she said. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters of California said that as an early student of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bond firmly believed that the law should protect and respect the dignity of all oppressed and marginalized communities. “His advocacy therefore extended beyond the fight for equal protection of AfricanAmericans and included women, the LGBT community and people of color abroad,” she said. Bond is survived by his wife; three sons, Horace Mann Bond II, Jeffrey, and Michael Bond, an Atlanta City Council member; two daughters, Phyllis Jane Bond McMillan and Julia Louise Bond; a sister, Jane; a brother, James; and eight grandchildren.

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Hudson said some of the 747 seniors who did not get diplomas at graduations in May went to summer school.

District revises 2015 graduation numbers By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

747 in 2015 class did not get diploma

The DeKalb School District has revised The number of DeKalb seniors who left school this year without a high school its numbers for the class of 2015 to show that diploma was down 709 from 2014, when 1,456 failed to get diplomas. This year, 88 one in eight, and not one in nine, seniors did percent of seniors – 5,478 of 6,225 – got diplomas. not get high school diplomas at May 2015 Did not % did not graduations. School Seniors Graduates graduate graduate The district now says that 747, or 12 perElizabeth Andrews HS 354 250 104 29.4 cent, of the 2015 senior class of 6,225 did not Miller Grove HS 357 282 75 21.0 get high school diplomas. Cedar Grove HS 203 161 42 20.7 In July, the district released numbers Southwest DeKalb HS 311 270 41 13.2 showing 964, or 15.5 percent, of the senior Clarkston HS 301 261 40 13.3 class of 6,225 did not get diplomas at graduTucker HS 372 332 40 10.8 ation and that Martin Luther King Jr. High, Stone Mtn. HS 241 203 38 15.8 with 188, or 57.5 percent, of its senior class Columbia HS 268 231 37 13.8 topped the list of schools with the most stuMartin Luther King Jr. HS 327 290 37 11.3 dents who did not graduate. Druid Hills HS 389 352 37 9.5 With the revised numbers, released Aug. Chamblee Charter HS 250 217 33 13.2 13, MLK Jr. High is now in ninth place with Stephenson HS 371 338 33 8.9 37 seniors, or 11.3 percent, of its class of 327 Lithonia HS 263 232 31 11.8 failing to get high school diplomas. Lakeside HS 438 407 31 7.1 Elizabeth Andrews High, an alternative Dunwoody HS 354 324 30 8.5 school in Decatur, now tops the list with the McNair HS 166 141 25 15.1 most students who did not graduate. It had Redan HS 279 263 16 5.7 104 seniors, or 29.4 percent, of its class of Towers HS 227 213 14 6.2 354 students who did not get high school Margaret Harris Comprehensive School 19 6 13 68.4 diplomas. DeKalb Alternative 13 1 12 92.3 School spokesman Quinn Hudson said Cross Keys HS 204 196 8 3.9 this week that the original numbers were Gateway to College 29 25 4 13.8 generated by the district’s IT department Destiny Academy of Excellence 70 68 2 2.9 and the errors were not discovered until the DeKalb Early College Academy 87 85 2 2.3 principal at MLK Jr. High complained that Arabia Mountain HS 277 275 2 0.7 the numbers for her school were incorrect. DeKalb School of the Arts 55 55 0 0.0 “Her numbers were verified and the IT database was corrected,” Hudson said in an Total: 6,225 5,478 747 12.0 Aug. 18 email. Source: DeKalb County School System “Not certain why the IT numbers were incorrect. I apologize for the incorrect numbers that were sent initially.” “There were 63 seniors who graduated going to Elizabeth Andrews HS to complete Hudson said some of the 747 seniors who from summer school on Aug. 7,” Hudson their course work this school year.” did not get diplomas at graduations in May said. “Some are returning to complete course The new list shows that 5,478 seniors, up went to summer school. work this school year at their home school or from 5,261, got high school diplomas. METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY

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DeKalb’s School District is growing a crop of young farmers at McNair Discovery Learning Academy where students will grow food by aquaponics – soilless agriculture. The district launched its first aquaponics lab at the Decatur school on Aug. 20, the second anniversary of gunman Michael Brandon Hill terrorizing the school in 2013. The food lab will help feed 20,000 children by 2020. Students in grades one to five will grow organic fish and vegetables in a learning environment. Schools Superintendent Stephen Green; Ryan Cox, CEO of Hatponics Sustainable Agriculture; and McNair’s principal, Dr. Brian Bolden, cut the ribbon on the $15,000 lab on Aug. 20. The lab’s two 500-gallon tanks of water hold newly hatched tilapia and other varieties of fish. Vegetable plants float in small containers at the surface of the tanks. Cox said fish and vegetables are in a balanced ecosystem. “So the fish rely on the plants and the plants rely on the fish,” he said. The fish will be distributed by the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Green said the lab and other STEM initiatives are creating exciting options for McNair students. “Their skill in learning how to work in science, technology, engineering and math is great, and they’re learning how to help the community at the same time.”

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Julian Bond was a leader of exceptional clarity. He had the strong mind and courage needed to break strong chains.

Bond ‘helped change this country for the better’ The news last weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me deeply. America has lost a true and still vital champion for justice. President Barack Obama, hailing Bond as a hero and a friend, noted that “Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.” At a very young age, Bond helped forge the emerging civil rights movement and was in many ways a founding father of the New South that we now see still in formation. In 1957, as a student at Morehouse, son of a college president, varsity swimmer, head of the literary magazine, intern for Time magazine, he was on the path to succes s. But the success he chose was to make history, not money. He was arrested after organizing some of the first student demonstrations to desegregate Atlanta’s lunch counters, parks and theaters. Realizing that young people could take risks too costly for adults with families, at 20, he helped found SNCC, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. He became its secretary and head of its communications in part because he was seen as organized, levelheaded and eloquent. Julian was ahead of most in the movement for understanding the big picture. He realized that civil rights could not be achieved without economic rights, and that economic rights would not advance if America kept throwing resources and lives into war abroad. He became an early and outspoken critic of the Vietnam War.

Former state legislator and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who helped found SNCC and the Southern Poverty Law Center, died on Aug. 15 at age 75.

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After the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, Julian led voter registration drives. At the remarkable age of 25, he was elected to the Georgia State House. The sitting legislators demanded that he repudiate his opposition to the Vietnam War. When he refused, they refused to seat him. Three times his constituents re-elected him, three times the House denied him his seat. Finally the Supreme Court ruled their actions unconstitutional. In January 1967, Bond took his seat and served in the House and Senate for the next two decades. By that time he was a national hero for having stood on principle

even at the cost of his political career. In the embittered 1968 Chicago Democratic presidential convention, Bond led an insurgent Georgia delegation and was called upon to second the nomination of Eugene McCarthy for president. With the convention floor in bedlam and demonstrations raging outside the hall, Bond was nominated as vice president, a symbolic nomination (he was only 27 and the constitutionally required age is 35) “about the wave of the future.” Bond served as legislator, scholar, teacher and leader. He was a founder and early president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He taught at the University of Virginia and lectured widely, receiving over 30 honorary degrees. He chaired the NAACP for 12 years until 2010. He had experienced firsthand the slight and shackles of segregation – and organized to end them.

He knew firsthand the suppression of the right to vote and helped build a movement to challenge that. To his final years, his intelligence, clarity and passion continued to instruct. He understood that, as he put it, “America is race,” from the founders to the Civil War to the civil rights movement to Trayvon Mar tin, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland. He knew that Barack Obama’s election and re-election was a measure of the progress that had been made but “didn’t herald a post-civil rights America. … It couldn’t eliminate structural inequity or racist attitudes,” he said, even suggesting Obama’s election fomented such attitudes: “Obama,” he said, “is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.” To his final days, he urged people into motion, knowing that only when people acted could anything change. “We look back and see giant leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King,” he taught, but the civil rights movement was “a people’s movement. It produced leaders of its own; but it relied not on the noted but the nameless, not on the famous but the faceless. It didn’t wait for commands from afar to begin a campaign against injustice. It saw wrong and acted against it; it saw evil and brought it down.” Julian Bond was a leader of exceptional clarity. He had the strong mind and courage needed to break strong chains. He made a dramatic contribution with his life. And he will be deeply missed. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Soccer deal is good for our economy, business, families A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get out the front door, and that is what’s happening right now in DeKalb County. There has been a lot of misinformation, at best, and outright lies and deception, at worst, as it pertains to the new soccer development coming to DeKalb. The Atlanta United Football Club is investing upward of $51 million into this area, [$35 million for Phase 1 – three soccer fields and the 3,500-seat stadium, and $16 million for Phase 2 – indoor training facility and three additional fields] and it is the single largest investment central and south DeKalb County has seen in more than two decades. It comes at a cost of $12 million to the county, which is a 325 percent return on investment. However, the significance of the deal spans far beyond the numbers. This project will be a catalyst for the revitalization of the Memorial Drive corridor and will bring new people and expanded awareness of the area as a destination for business growth and development. DeKalb’s vast diversity in its population of more than 700,000 is concurrent to the diversity of Major

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“I take the blame for the lack of public comment on this item before it was approved. … It is worth pointing out though that any commissioner who wanted a public hearing on the item could have and should have requested it at the time that the item was placed on the agenda.” Lee May, Interim DeKalb CEO

League Soccer’s fan base. My hope is that this development can unite north and south DeKalb, as it presents a new venue for entertainment, events and tournaments, outdoor graduations and large community gatherings. I have made no commitments on job numbers, taxes generated, or of specific financial benefits for a reason. This is more than just a soccer facility, and it is more than just about Arthur Blank, although we are excited to welcome both. It is an investment in our future. DeKalb County government is a billion-dollar organization, and our investment is only a fraction of our budgets over the multiyear commitment in which we will pay out the $12 million. This is a decision the county has made to truly transform an entire area of the county that is sorely in

need of quality growth beyond fastfood restaurants, pawnshops, check cashing stores, liquor stores and the county jail in order to attract jobs and new development. As the opportunity came to our attention, we communicated with all commissioners whose districts are near the proposed area – districts 3, 4, 6 and 7 – as early as April 2015, and all of them sent letters of support in response. When we learned in July that DeKalb was a finalist for consideration, we immediately alerted all commissioners and brought them into the fold. The proposal was brought to the full Board of Commissioners during the last public meeting of July, which is televised live and covered extensively by local media. At that meeting, the BOC deferred the item to allow time to talk to their constituents – and

they did. I take the blame for the lack of public comment on this item before it was approved. No excuses can be offered for the lack of public comment. It is worth pointing out though that any commissioner who wanted a public hearing on the item could have and should have requested it at the time that the item was placed on the agenda, as all agendas are set about a week in advance for public meetings. I stand by the decision to bring Atlanta United FC to DeKalb County. I am confident it will be a spur for redevelopment where it is deeply needed in our county and look forward to seeing its effects in the short and long term. Look at Suwanee and Flowery Branch. It is no coincidence that these communities have grown and continue to grow thanks to the impact and legacy of the Atlanta Falcons. This is good for DeKalb – our economy, business, families. And most of all, it is good for our children as it promotes physical fitness and healthy lifestyles. I look forward to our future as we welcome Atlanta United to DeKalb. Lee May is the interim CEO of DeKalb County.

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55,581 Georgia residents use ACA special enrollment period More than 55,500 Georgia residents selected a health coverage plan through the HealthCare.gov platform using a special enrollment period between Feb. 23 and June 30. The 55,581 new Georgia consumers include 25,665 reporting loss of coverage, 10,392 reporting denial of Medicaid, and 10,869 during tax season. Nationwide, nearly 950,000 new consumers selected a plan during the same time period using a SEP. The next open enrollment period for

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Community partners, particularly in South DeKalb, are needed to host the Mobile Farmers Market, which carries fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables.

Hosts sought for Mobile Market DeKalb Extension is seeking community partners, particularly in South DeKalb, who are interested in hosting new locations for the Mobile Farmers Market. Religious institutions, nonprofits, clinics, community centers, and neighborhood associations can email uge1089@uga.edu or call 404-298-4080 for more information. Jessica Hill, Extension coordinator, said the route is expanding for the Mobile Mar-

ket, which carries fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables. “We needed a convenient way to reach people that don’t have easy access to healthy foods,” Hill said. The service recently added a Friday morning stop just outside its doors at 4380 Memorial Drive. For the current schedule, visit http://web.co.dekalb.ga.us/portals/ news-room/a_release.asp?filePK=2666.

5K run benefits A Beacon of Hope Music and fun await kids and adults participating in the second annual Reflect Hope Twilight 5K Run/Walk on Aug. 29 in downtown Decatur. The family-friendly summer evening event includes a 1-mile run that starts at 7:30 p.m., a 5K run/walk with chip timing that begins at 8, glow gear for runners, T-shirts, a live DJ and awards ceremony. It benefits A Beacon of Hope Pregnancy and Relationship Resources and helps raise funds to provide medical, emotional and long-term care to young women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy. Register online at itsyourrace.com – search for “Reflect Hope.” The faith-based nonprofit operates two medical clinics – Women’s Clinic of Atlanta in Decatur and Johns Creek. It provides pregnancy testing; STI testing/HIV screening; maternity/baby supplies; group and individual classes; ultrasound services; options education, including parenting and

adoption; prenatal and postnatal education; sexual health education; and clinical, social service and community service referrals. The organization says 51 percent of pregnancies are unplanned; 40 percent of unplanned pregnancies end in abortion; one in three women has had an abortion by age 45; there are more than 34,000 abortions in Georgia each year; and DeKalb and Fulton are the highest abortion providing counties in the state. Prevention of unplanned pregnancies is also a part of its mission – visit www.theswatteam.org. A Beacon of Hope says 61 percent of U.S. 12th graders are sexually active; 20 percent of sexually active teens will be pregnant by age 18; 25 percent of sexually active teens have an STI; and STDs/STIs have reached epidemic proportions – 4 million teens each year. For more information, visit www.friendsofbeacon.com, email jillfossett.aboh@gmail. com or call 404-377-6642.

supported State-Based Marketplaces. Kevin Counihan, CEO of the Health Insurance Marketplace, said assistance is available to help find affordable coverage. “Life changes are often impossible to predict, but access to affordable and Kevin Counihan quality health care coverage should never be,” Counihan said in an Aug. 13 statement. “So far this year, nearly 950,000 people

have gained the peace of mind that comes with access to coverage by taking advantage of a special enrollment period, providing us with further evidence that the Health Insurance Marketplace is working for America’s families,” he said. “We want people to know that if they lose a job, get married, have a baby, or experience other life changes, we’re here to help them find coverage they can afford.” If you think you’re eligible for a SEP, visit HealthCare.gov or contact the Marketplace call center at 1-800-318-2596.

Volunteers needed for ‘Post It Up’ Volunteers are needed for a DeKalb “Post It Up” event on Aug. 29 to fight human trafficking. DeKalb’s ongoing campaign organized by the Human Development Department, Interfaith Children’s Movement and other nonprofits was launched on June 27 with more than 100 volunteers participating. They posted the National Human Trafficking Hotline number in mandated businesses for victims and as a resource for residents within the community. Notices were posted in over 400 establishments along major business corridors such as Memorial Drive and Candler, Glenwood, Panola and Wesley Chapel

roads. They also have been posted in all of the county’s recreational centers. The campaign seeks to inform the general public of the social and economic impact of human trafficking and how stakeholders can coordinate grass-roots efforts to marginalize its growth. Post It Up DeKalb runs in concert with advancing law enforcement strategies. To register, visit http://events.r20. constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk= a07ebadghs76f1876e3&llr=qva89lcab. For more information, contact Erica L. Williams, Human Development special projects coordinator, at elwilliams@dekalbcountyga.gov or 404-370-7669 or visit www. facebook.com/takenpostitup.

Possible case of plague probed Public health officials and the CDC are investigating a possible case of plague in Georgia in a person who may have been infected while hiking in California. Testing is being done by the Georgia Public Health Laboratory and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The person is hospitalized and being treated with antibiotics and is expected to make a full recovery. Plague is not endemic in Georgia. There is an investigation into plagueinfected animals in Yosemite National Park, Sierra National Forest and surrounding areas. One human case of plague has been confirmed in California. The infectious bacterial disease is carried by wild rodents and their fleas. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea carrying the bacterium or by handling an infected animal. It is not transmitted from human to human

unless a patient with plague also has a lung infection and is coughing. Symptoms usually appear two to six days after a bite and may include high fever, chills, nausea, weakness and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit or groin. Dr. Patrick O’Neal, director of health protection for DPH, said immediate treatment is crucial. “Antibiotics are effective in treating plague, but without prompt treatment, the disease can cause serious illness or Patrick O’Neal death,” he said. Also, the first human case of West Nile virus in Georgia this season has been confirmed – a metro Atlanta resident contracted the mosquito-borne illness and has since recovered. For more information, visit www. cdc.gov.

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Macy’s Shop for a Cause has raised more than $47 million for charities across the country. The theatrical production “Don’t Be a Bully! Speak Up, Speak Out!” takes place on Aug. 29 at Stonecrest Library in Lithonia.

Shop for a Cause at Macy’s on Aug. 29 Shoppers can get a great deal and support March of Dimes and other local nonprofits like Brighter DeKalb Foundation on Aug. 29 at Macy’s at the Gallery at South DeKalb. For a $5 donation, customers get a 30 percent off shopping pass, good all day on most items. Store manager Terry Young said the store will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. “Best of all,” she said, “one hundred percent of your $5 donation will benefit the March of Dimes and their mission to help moms have full-term pregnancies.” For best selections, shoppers who purchase their savings pass now can prepurchase their items and pick them up at the store on Aug. 29. Donors’ names will be entered in a drawing that takes place at the store on Aug. 30 for a $500 Macy’s gift card. Since 2006, Macy’s Shop for a Cause has helped schools and nonprofits raise more than $47 million. Sign up at macys. com/shopforacause.

Library production takes on bullying “Don’t Be a Bully! Speak Up, Speak Out!” on Aug. 29 at Stonecrest Library is geared toward kids, teens and adults. The two-hour motivational and educational theatrical production begins at 2 p.m. It addresses the epidemic of bullying and encourages young people to talk about bullying and to seek support from parents, teachers, resource officers and friends if they or someone they know is being bullied. In addition to encouraging young people

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