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Ardent Obama supporter wants everyone to vote Nov. 6 By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Event planner Veta Zoe Victorian of Decatur designed her own signs to show support for President Barack Obama and to encourage everyone to vote.

Congress in his first term – into place. Victorian, who chokes up talking about the president, says she loves how he talks, treats people, and leads the country, “He touches my soul,” she said. “I have never met him. I have never been close to him. I like the way he treats his wife. I like the way he treats his children. I just like how he makes me feel about the country and the world.” Victorian believes that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee felt the same way when they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama in 2009. “They felt his spirit,” she said. “They knew

Veta Zoe Victorian of Decatur loves her some President Barack Obama. And on Nov. 6, she wants everyone to vote him into a second term of office. From the “We Got Your Back” sign across her garage door to the “Welcome to Obama Country” sign and poster-size photograph of the president on the lawn of her Vera Cruz Drive home, Victorian wears her heart and desires on her sleeves. The 60-year-old event planner and former Motown record promoter says she has made her yard a shrine to the president because he deserves a second term and the opportunity to put his policies – blocked by Please see SIGNS, page 2

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Flat Rock’s Son Embraces His Roots Family home now houses museum of black settlement

The Rev. Theodore Arthur Bryant Jr., who turns 90 on Nov. 24, visits the Flat Rock Archive in Lithonia every Tuesday. He was born in the house, which was built in 1917.

By Donna Williams Lewis

Once a week, almost without fail, the Rev. Theodore Arthur Bryant Jr. returns to the very spot where his life began. The East Atlanta resident was born in the little 1917 house that is now home to Lithonia’s Flat Rock Archive, a museum that showcases the history of DeKalb County’s oldest black community. Bryant, who will be 90 years old on Nov. 24, heads back to his birth home every Tuesday to mingle with family, friends and archive visitors for a few hours. The museum has been open to visitors one day a week, on Tuesdays, since its launch in 2006. That was one year after Bryant and his sole surviving sibling, Zella Bryant Guthrie, donated the house at 3979 Crossvale Road to the Flat Rock Archive. Guthrie turned 97 in October. Bryant has missed just three Tuesdays in six years – once for a funeral, another time because the archive was closed due to washed out roads, and on Tuesday, Oct. 9, to see his doctor. “It’s like going back home,” he said. “Plus, I got hooked on family history and I want to be there to be able to help other people with their family history if possible. Most of us can’t go farther back than slavery.” Bryant, a Navy veteran, will be in the spotlight on Nov. 10 when he serves as grand marshal of the city of Lithonia’s inaugural Veterans Day parade. Col. Brent Bracewell, director of the Joint Staff of the Georgia National Guard, is the speaker. The marching bands of Cross Keys, Stone Mountain and Clarkston high schools will perform as will ROTC units from Lithonia and Miller Grove high schools. Lithonia Mayor Deborah Jackson said she

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met Bryant at community meetings for the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area, which encompasses the Lithonia area. “We see him as one of the elder statesmen of the community,” she said. “There’s a historic relationship between the city of Lithonia and the Flat Rock Community.” The history of Flat Rock has been featured on a PBS special, “African American Lives,” as one of the oldest slave settlements in America. On Oct. 16, Bryant sat in the archive’s front room, surrounded by historical photos and artifacts. A “Colored Waiting Room” sign rested on a table behind him. His father, Theodore Arthur Bryant Sr., built the house. In those days of racial segregation throughout the South, land that fronted roads was not sold to blacks. He rented it until 1945, when he was finally allowed to purchase the land.

On this Tuesday, Bryant sat at a table that had been his family’s dining room table to tell the story of his 90 years, a story that spanned living down the road from a grandfather who had been a slave to Bryant now carrying a cell phone in his pocket. He looks nothing near his age. Johnny Waits, president of the Flat Rock Archive, said his unlined face is the envy of those who know him. “You don’t see a wrinkle until he smiles,” said Waits, who is also Bryant’s Johnny Waits cousin. Bryant summed up the secret to his fountain of youth with one word: love. “Carry love in your heart, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative,” he said.

“Love everybody, even people you don’t like. Hatred will stress you out.” Despite all outward appearances – smooth skin, black hair just moderately tinged with gray – time is taking its toll on Bryant. “I appreciate the attention,” Bryant said, “but I’m getting tired.” Bryant grew up in the early 1900s in a world centered around the family farm and Flat Rock Methodist Episcopal Church. Founded by slaves in 1860, the original church building is buried on the grounds where it stood at 4250 Flat Rock Road. Bryant was one of five children who helped their parents tend the 40 acres of land they rented and the 45 acres they owned behind them, purchased in 1925. They grew cotton and corn, wheat and Please see FLAT ROCK, page 4

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“I am on the main street so everybody drives by my house to the store or to work. They smile and wave.” Veta Zoe Victorian says she gets honks and shouts of encouragement from passers-by.

Deep pockets for pro-charter cause By Jim Walls

Atlanta, $100,000.

In October, Walmart heiress Alice Walton and other out-of-state interests dumped more than $1.1 million into the campaign to allow more state-chartered public schools in Georgia, new campaign finance filings show. Families for Better Public Schools, the largest of the pro-charter committees, filed papers on Oct. 26 showing it had sunk another $1.28 million in October into the campaign for the proposed amendment to Georgia’s Constitution that is on the Nov. 6 election ballot. Voters will decide on Election Day whether to accept or reject Amendment One, which would allow the state to charter schools over the objections of local school systems. With its large coffers, the pro-amendment campaign has flooded the airwaves with radio and television ads pushing the yes vote. They also have been stuffing the mailboxes of voters with glossy “vote yes” brochures. By contrast, under-financed opponents of the constitutional amendment have been silent and have only a sprinkling of campaign signs around South DeKalb, where more than 125,000 voters have already cast early ballots. Walton, the committee’s largest single donor, kicked in $350,000 on top of the $250,000 she’d given previously. Other big donors disclosed in the committee’s latest filing were: n San Francisco billionaire Doris Fisher, widow of the Gap founder Donald Fisher, $250,000. n Students First, a Washington advocacy group, $250,000. n Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, $250,000. n Peter Islands Resort CEO Richard Gaby of

n J.C. Huizenga, founder of a national char-

ter school management firm, $25,000. n Wall Street investment manager Joe Bridy, $25,000. n Atlanta developer Tom Cousins, $20,000. All told, Families for Better Public Schools has raised nearly $1.8 million, 77 percent of it from outside Georgia. Corporate donors that stand to gain from amending Georgia’s Constitution include K12 Inc., which has given $100,000; Charter Schools USA, which has given $50,000; and Huizenga’s National Heritage Academies, which has donated $75,000. Students First and three other Washington-based groups – the American Federation for Children, Americans for Prosperity and PublicSchoolOptions.org – have given $388,000 more to their own committees to promote the charter school amendment. On Oct. 9, the federation also created another ballot committee that has yet to file a disclosure. On top of that, billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, longtime charter school advocates, donated $92,000 last month to Republicans in the Georgia House and Senate. Sixteen Democrats shared another $8,500 in contributions from the Koch brothers. All that cash adds up to about $2.28 million so far to push for the amendment’s passage and implementation. Of that, Georgians accounted for about $410,000, or 18 percent. With the Chamber of Commerce and the three wealthy donors – Marcus, Gaby and Cousins, Georgians contributed $30,615 to the cause. That’s 1.4 percent – hardly a groundswell of in-state support for the charter amendment. Jim Walls writes for http://atlanta unfiltered.com.

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he was about doing the right thing.” Victorian began decorating her yard with Obama signs after returning from the Sept. 24 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. She designed her own signs and had them printed. She was among the first DeKalb voters to cast early ballots on Oct. 15 when early polls opened. Through Wednesday, 125,736 early voters had cast ballots in the county. Since Oct. 15, Victorian has been encouraging neighbors, friends, family and anyone who drives down her street to vote for a second term for Obama whi is being challenged by Republican Mitt Romney. Her signs have been the envy of those who see them, and when they started disappearing from her yard at nights, Victorian began picking them up at dusk.

Every morning when she sets them out again on the lawn of the house she has lived in for 34 years, she gets honks and shouts of encouragement from passers-by. “I am on the main street so everybody drives by my house to the store or to work,” she said Thursday. “They smile and wave.” When she voted for Obama in 2008, Victorian said that was the first time she had ever voted in her life. “Before that, none of them had ever touched me,” she said. “I liked Bill Clinton but not enough to go vote.” While she says she is not better off now than she was in 2008, she believes that if the president had been allowed to be Barack Obama, the country would be better off. “They have not allowed him to be everything he needs to be,” she said. “Once we get him into office again, the Congress needs to get out of the way. Once we stand together, he could make a real difference.”

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Plumbing and sanitary sewer systems are simply not designed to handle the F.O.G. that accumulates in pipes. When it gets into the pipes and hardens, blockages occur and cause sewage to backup and overflow out of manholes or into homes. This is expensive for you, and for the County. The damages caused by fats, oils and grease in the sewer system are costly to repair. Over time, they increase the costs of our water and sewer services.

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“Don’t go to early voting sites on Tuesday. You have to go to your designated voting place.”

Large Election Day turnout will mean long wait at some polls By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

If there is a large turnout for the Nov. 6 presidential and general election, voters at dozens of DeKalb precincts will face long times because of the sheer numbers of people scheduled to vote at some precincts. New numbers released by the DeKalb Elections Office on Thursday show that with new registrations through Oct. 9, the final registration day for the general and presidential election, the county now has 470,605 registered voters, up by 13,051 from the 457,554 registered voters for the July primaries. Of those, 418,611 are designated active voters, an increase of 17,608 from July’s 401,003 active voters. Through Wednesday, only 125,736 of DeKalb residents had voted, which leaves 344,869 registered voters still to vote at the county’s 189 precincts. With the increased voter registrations, 41 of the county’s precincts have 3,000 or more voters. Seventeen of those precincts have 3,500 to 5,351 registered voters. The majority of the large precincts are in south DeKalb County. They range from Miller Grove Middle School in Lithonia, which has 3,509 voters, to Woodrow Road in Lithonia, which has 5,351 voters. DeKalb Election Director Maxine Daniels said the consolidation into larger precincts is by design. “The new technology and process allows us to have large precincts,” she said, adding that nearly half of the people are voting early anyway.

In the past, when 2,000-voter precincts proliferated, Daniels said poll workers would sit all day and only 500 people showed up. With electronic voting, it also takes less time to vote if residents show up at the right place. “Don’t go to early voting sites on Tuesday,” she said. “You have to go to your designated voting place.” Maxine Daniels Early voting ended on Nov. 2 and there is no Saturday voting this week. On Election Day, all 189 county neighborhood precincts will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Daniels said voters can locate their neighborhood voting precinct and a sample ballot at www.dekalbvotes.com or My Voter Page at http://mvp.sos.state.ga.us/ and select DeKalb. Between Oct. 15 and 27, the number of early voters totaled 75,829 and equaled the numbers who voted over the 45 days of early and advance voting in 2008. But DeKalb is expected to fall short of the 2008 numbers for the final week of early voting before the 2008 election, which was 150,000. After three days of voting this week, only 36,922 people had voted. “In 2008 we averaged 15,000 voters a day,” Daniels said. “This week we are averaging 12,000 voters a day.” Voter turnout in 2008 was 75 percent. This election, Daniels is predicting a turnout of 70 percent to 75 percent.

‘Get Out the Vote’ seeks volunteers Five DeKalb civic and Greek organizations are mobilizing for an Election Day “Get Out the Vote” campaign. The groups – DeKalb League of Women Voters, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity – are seeking volunteers to man telephone banks from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Community Achievement Center and to do street cam-

paigning. Election Day polls for the presidential and general elections will open on Nov. 6 at 189 precincts from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Volunteers also are needed to walk the streets to encourage registered voters to go to the polls. The Community Achievement Center is at 4522 Flat Shoals Parkway in Decatur. To sign up, visit www.SignUpGenius.com/ go/20F0B4FA8A72CA57-election/2644577.

Many large precincts in S. DeKalb DeKalb County has 470,605 registered voters who are eligible to vote at its 189 precincts. Forty-one of those precincts have more than 3,000 voters. Below are the 17 precincts with between 3,500 and 5,351 voters. More than half of them are in south DeKalb County.

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Woodrow Road Fairington Elem. Oakview Elem. Boulevard Bethune Middle Georgetown Hawthorne Elem. Marbut Elem. Epworth Pleasantdale Elem. Silverlake Shadow Rock Elem. Montgomery Elem. Cedar Grove Elem. MLK Jr. High Eastlake Miller Grove Middle

Voters 5,351 4,298 4,212 4,034 4,023 3,937 3,906 3,888 3,808 3,749 3,719 3,665 3,657 3,612 3,598 3,542 3,509

Source: DeKalb Voter & Elections Office

DeKalb NAACP offers rides to polls Voters who need rides to the polls on Election Day can call the DeKalb NAACP. Angela Patrick, a member of the chapter’s Executive Committee, said registered voters with IDs can get a ride to their voting precincts on Nov. 6 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. by making reservations now. To schedule a ride, call 404-241-8006.

All requests should be made no later than Monday, Nov. 5. Callers should leave their names and telephone numbers. The branch also is seeking volunteers to help with its “Get Out the Vote” efforts on Election Day. Volunteers willing to provide rides should call 404-241-8006 and leave their names along with a phone number or e-mail address.

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“Carry love in your heart, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. … Hatred will stress you out.”

Actor, comedian in Lithonia’s Veterans Parade Hollywood actor and comedian Chris Tucker will join the inaugural Lithonia Veterans Parade on Nov. 10. Tucker’s grandfather, the Rev. Theodore Bryant, will be the parade’s grand marshall. The star of the “Rush Hour” movies will be town for his Chris Tucker Live show at the Atlanta Fox Theater on Nov. 9 and 10. Lithonia Mayor Deborah Jack-

son said they are thrilled at the news. The parade is sponsored by the city and the Lithonia Veterans Day Committee. It will honor past and present veterans of Lithonia. The 11 a.m. to noon parade will start at Lithonia Middle School and end at Lithonia’s historic African American cemetery. It will be followed by a program that includes special guests, choirs and a keynote

speaker. There will be tours of the city’s two historic cemeteries after the program. A commemorative booklet will highlight veterans who are buried in the Lithonia City Cemetery and the Bruce Street African American Cemetery. Lithonia Middle School is at 2451 Randall Ave. For more inforChris Tucker’s family roots are in mation, call 678-459-8687. Lithonia’s Flat Rock community.

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oats to feed the animals, and all kinds of vegetables, from beans and peas to potatoes. His mother, Zudia Waits Bryant, would say he became a minister at about the same time he started school at Flat Rock Elementary. “I was a preacher at home,” Bryant said. “We’d go to church every Sunday, and I’d come back home and preach the same sermon the minister preached all over again.”

An education interrupted Getting to the eighth grade meant traveling to Lithonia’s Bruce Street Elementary School six miles away in an age when automobiles were not widely owned by blacks and public transportation wasn’t available. Bryant’s mind took him back to a time when buses carried only white children to school – watching those buses pass him, with children who weren’t very friendly toward him. “I had to ride an old brokendown bicycle every day to school,” Bryant said. “Six miles one way.” “On a dirt road,” his daughter added, for good measure. Patricia Bryant Hughes sat next to her father, listening to a story that never gets old for her. It’s a story that has been repeated through the generations of Bryant’s nine children, 19 grandchildren, more than 20 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild. The story gets to the essence of a man who wanted an education so badly that he traveled many more miles away to Booker T. Washington in southwest Atlanta, the closest high school for blacks. Living the farm life meant Bryant could only go to school when it wasn’t planting season or harvesting season, limiting him to school just in November through March. He’d ride in his father’s truck, usually after a day of working the farm, to attend night school. In the winters, when he wasn’t needed on the farm, he lived with a relative who lived near the school. Bryant was forced to quit school after the 10th grade when he was drafted into the U.S. Navy at the age of 21. But before he left, he fathered a daughter, Mary Bryant Tucker. In 1971, she gave birth to a son,

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Patricia Bryant Hughes, the Rev. Theodore Arthur Bryant Jr.’s daughter, says his stories about Flat Rock and their family never get old.

Celebrating Flat Rock and Lithonia’s veterans n “The Grace of Silence,” Michele Norris’ moving memoir of a black family, and how it mirrors experiences of families from the Flat Rock African-American community will be discussed on Nov. 13 at the Stonecrest Library, 3123 Klondike Road. The book discussion takes place 6 to 8 p.m. Limited quantities of the book are available for checkout. n “Reflections of Our Community Past and Present,” a photography exhibit of the Flat Rock Community, is on display at the Stonecrest Library, 3123 Klondike Road in Lithonia, through Nov. 13. The exhibit includes photos and artifacts from the Flat Rock Archive and photos taken by students in the Arabia Mountain High School Photography Club. n Lithonia’s Veterans Day parade is Saturday, Nov. 10, at 11 a.m. The parade, sponsored by the Lithonia Veterans Day Committee and the city of Lithonia, begins at Lithonia Middle School, 2451 Randall Ave. It culminates with a program at Lithonia’s historic black cemetery next to the police precinct at 2484 Bruce St.

Chris Tucker, who would become a pretty famous actor and comedian. Tucker is scheduled to appear in “Chris Tucker Live,” a one-man show, at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on Nov. 9 and 10. Bryant and Tucker were featured together on the PBS special about Flat Rock. After two years in the military, Bryant returned to Flat Rock and in 1947, at the age of 25, he was finally able to earn his high school diploma, from the Lithonia High School for Negroes. That same year, he married Lila Minter. They would have eight children and were together for 52 years until she died in 1999. In 1960, Bryant went to ministerial school at Gammon Theological Seminary, the predecessor to the Interdenominational Theological Center. He was an associate minister of three churches in the area, includ-

ing Flat Rock, for about five years. He then spent the next 20 years pastoring churches from Atlanta to Lumpkin, all while helping to raise his large family and working full time building the fuselage parts of airplanes at the Lockheed plant in Marietta.

‘He’s an awesome man’ Hughes, his daughter, said he was the kind of dad who struck fear in them if they had misbehaved. “When he came home from work, we’d be running to the door,” she said. “My dad could talk to you. He wouldn’t whip you, but he would talk to you and you wished he would. … You wanted him to be proud of you.” The family moved to Atlanta in 1956 in search of good schools. Hughes integrated Murphy High. In 1987, Bryant retired from Lockheed after 35 years. In 1989,

he retired from pastoring, but his daughter said he didn’t retire from the ministry. Bryant remains active at his boyhood church, now called Flat Rock Community Church, where he is pastor emeritus. The new church building opened at 4542 Evans Mill Road in 2005. Flat Rock’s pastor, the Rev. Binita Miles, has only begun to know Bryant well in the past two years, but she already calls him her father. “He’s an awesome man,” she said. “He’s always imparting words of wisdom into me about the ministry, how the church should be, and what God has in store for us. I don’t think he’s lost any of that zeal.” While he has many good memories of a life well-lived, Bryant acknowledged some regrets. “I’ve always thought I was born at the wrong time, in the wrong place,” he said. “I wanted to be a professional baseball player and I could have been an engineer. I used to dream up building bridges.” A Florida baseball tryout camp told him blacks and whites could not play on the same field. His educational background wasn’t “stable enough” to get him into an engineering school even if there was one around that would accept a black man. “He truly wanted a college education,” Waits said. “He also wanted to be a doctor of theology, but when family came and ministry came, it just wasn’t plausible.” Since retirement, Bryant’s life is full of family and friends. Every Saturday morning, for nearly 20 years, he has hosted breakfast at his home for any family members who want to come by. He can count on eight of his children to be there: Patricia, Angerlia, Irvin, Jacqueline, Sylvia, Joyce, Laura and Theodore III. At first, Bryant did all of the cooking. Now, everyone brings a dish. Or they go out to Bryant’s favorite breakfast restaurant, the Cracker Barrel in Conyers. Every first Tuesday of the month, Bryant is in Austell to have brunch with fellow Lockheed retirees. And, of course, it wouldn’t be Tuesday if the Rev. T.A. Bryant wasn’t at the Flat Rock Archive.

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Lance Hammonds said the designation offers opportunities to perpetuate King’s nonviolent ideals and advocacy. Alpha Phi Alpha led the effort to designate a portion of Snapfinger Road as Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in honor of the civil rights leader, who was an Alpha.

Dems victory party at the Depot The Democratic Party of Georgia is hosting a victory party on Nov. 6 at the Freight Depot, next to Underground Atlanta. Admission is free and the party begins at 7 p.m. A cash bar will be provided. Diamond sponsors include state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Berlon, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson and David Scott, state Sen. Steve Henson, state Rep. Stacey Abrams,

former Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond, Stephen and Lucy Draper, and Anyon Scruggs of Rhythm Nation Entertainment. Among gold sponsors are the Rev. Joseph Lowery, state Sen. Vincent Fort, state Rep. Billy Mitchell, DeKalb District Attorney Robert James, Charlie Flemming of the AFL-CIO, DeKalb Sheriff Thomas Brown, Morrow Mayor J.B. Burke, and Andrea Boone. For more information, visit www.georgia democrat.org.

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Five-mile stretch honors King Snapfinger Road between Wesley Chapel Road and the Henry County line is now Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in honor of the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The five-mile stretch of road includes Martin Luther King Jr. High School, which was named for King in 2001. It’s the only school in Georgia named for King. The effort to designate the road for King was led by his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., and spearheaded by Freddie West, a retired educator. The designation ceremony, held in partnership with the DeKalb NAACP, took place Oct. 18. West, 68, participated in a number of anti-segregation sit-ins during the early 1960s when King led the civil rights movement. He was at the March on Washington in August 1963 and returned to the National Mall in 2010 for the unveiling of the King Memorial. In January 2011, he worked closely with state Sen. Ronald Ramsey on the resolution

that designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Supporters of the effort had wanted to change the street’s name but did not get a majority of property owners to agree. The designation does not change the addresses on the street, but it is the first street designated in a middle-class AfricanAmerican community to King. Everett Patrick, the Decatur chapter president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the designation is a dream come true. “A few years ago, this street designation was just an idea tossed around by a few,” Patrick said. “I am sincerely proud of the part my brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha played in making this idea a reality.” Lance Hammonds, an Alpha and NAACP member, said the designation offers opportunities to perpetuate King’s nonviolent ideals and advocacy. “The purpose of the organizers of this effort is to use the designated route as a focal point for promoting the teachings of Dr. King to the youth of DeKalb County.”

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“How many people making under $100,000 can afford to take on 50 percent more in taxes.”

Decatur explores annexation of 800 parcels By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

The city of Decatur is exploring annexing portions of unincorporated DeKalb into the city, and the deadline to petition for or against the move is Nov. 6. The city says it is studying the annexation as part of its 2010 Strategic Plan that calls for it to expand, stabilize and diversify its revenue base; influence and control development at key gateways; respond to interest from property owners; and consolidate partial parcels. Among the 800 parcels being targeted for annexation are the Midway area of the county and the United Methodist Children’s Home on Columbia Drive, up the road from the Memorial Drive Walmart. Both the City Schools of Decatur and the City Commission have committees analyzing the draft annexation plan. At an Oct. 22 public hearing, residents in the targeted areas were either starkly for or against the plan. Those opposed to the plan included seniors on fixed income who said incorporation into the city would increase their taxes. Those supporting the annexation were interested in getting into Decatur City Schools, getting sidewalks, code enforcement and services they say the county is not providing. Ann Waleston said she didn’t want to be annexed into the city because of its higher taxes. “I don’t feel I can afford to take on the city of Decatur taxes,” she said. “How many people making under $100,000 can afford to take on 50 percent more in taxes,” she said. Denise Walton said the area has a lot of seniors and asked if the option exists for them to defer their taxes until their house is sold. Albert Shepherd, who has lived on McK-

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innon Drive in the Midway Woods area since 1988, said that 13, or 69 percent, of the 19 property owners on his zone don’t want to be annexed into the city. “Many live on fixed income,” he said. “This will cause them to lose their homes. There are many wonderful properties for sale in the city. Those who want to be in the city should buy there and not force a hostile takeover of McKinnon Drive.” Claire Lauderdale said that she is for annexation and the issue should be put to the vote. Business and commercial property owners found out they will not have a vote in the referendum, and if annexation succeeds the current uses of properties would be grandfathered in until the business ceases operation. To questions about the city’s financial state, Peggy Merriss, Decatur city manager, said it has AA-plus credit rating and strong fund balance. Merriss said the city’s credit rating increased during the economic downturn, its Reserve Fund Balance is 75 percent,

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and its property values are higher in 2012 than they were in 2008. “They are up 3 percent in 2012,” she said. “Our financials are very stable. Our financial picture is very healthy.” The City Commission’s final work session and public hearing into annexation takes place Dec. 3. The commission will vote on Dec. 17. If the plan is adopted, it will go to the General Assembly for consideration and authorization and will be on the Nov. 5, 2013, ballot. If approved by voters, the annexation takes effect on Dec. 15, 2013, and the first installment of the taxes would be due June 1, 2014. Decatur is the latest city to form or take slices of the county, which no longer has a say in whether cities can expand by annexations. In July, Brookhaven, the county’s newest and largest city, was approved by voters. On the Nov. 6 ballot, Chamblee residents will vote on annexing a chunk of the county. For more information, visit http://www. decaturga.com/index.aspx?page=660.

Eligible residents can apply for aid with heating bills Low-income residents in DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton and Walton counties can now apply for assistance with their heating bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The nonprofit Partnership for Community Action Inc., which manages the program, said the program opened for applications for the 2012 season on Nov. 1 for senior households ages 65 and older, with or without minor children in the home; disabled persons with limitations that prevent them from applying during the general public period; and disabled homebound households with or without minor children. All other residents may apply for assistance during the general public period starting Dec. 3. They will get a one-time heating assistance payment of $310 or $350 to help with the high cost of heating bills. Eligible applicants must heat their homes with natural gas, electricity, propane, wood, kerosene or coal and meet the income guidelines of 60 percent of the median household income for Georgia. Proof of income for all household members 18 years of age, a recent home heating bill, and Social Security cards for all household members are required. Copies of the documents along with the originals will expedite the process. Applicants can schedule an appointment by calling 404-537-4300. For more information, visit www .pcaction.org or Partnership for Community Action at 815 Park North Blvd. in Clarkston or call 404-929-2500.

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Museum School celebrates move Chapel Hill lineman racks up accolades The Museum School of Avondale Estates is now located in the former Forrest Hills Elementary School buildings in Decatur. The charter school, which is in its third year of operation, celebrated the move to its new and permanent home on Oct. 16. It spent its first two years in modular classrooms in the parking lot of Avondale Estates First Baptist Church. It is leasPhoto by Erik S. Lesser ing the buildings at 923 Forrest Blvd. from the DeKalb Board of Supporters of the Museum School of Avondale Estates cut the ribbon on the school’s permanent home at the former Education. The school was founded Forrest Hills Elementary School in Decatur. Aspen Kron, who chairs the school’s in 2010 by a group of parents, community members and educators with a curriculum governing board, said the move allows modeled after a magnet school in Tennessee. more space to serve the school’s 264 stuThis year, its third-graders had the highest dents in kindergarten to grade five. “Our kids do a lot of hands-on learnscience test scores in Georgia. It is in the midst of a five-year, $3 million ing, exploration, creating and collaboratcapital campaign. It is responsible for reno- ing, and they now have the space they need vating and maintaining the campus. The first to do that,” Kron said. The public charter school is approved phase of the renovations was completed in August so that students could start the school by the School Board and funded with tax dollars but operates independently of the year in the new schoolhouse. Phase two of five is expected to begin local school district. For more information, visit themuseumschool.org. next spring.

Banquet raising funds for Greenforest school Greenforest-McCalep Christian Academy students will sing and dance at a Nov. 10 banquet to honor their teachers and staff and raise funds for the Decatur school. The banquet begins at 4 p.m. It is sponsored by the nonprofit Ministry of Hope. The academy serves children ages 6 weeks

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raising campaign to sustain the organization. The Leadership DeKalb “The economy has been community will show its love tough,” Fountain said. “That’s why for retired executive director I wanted a sustaining fund-raising Sara Fountain during its 26th campaign.” annual meeting and reunion The Nov. 7 event takes place on Nov. 7, at the Atlanta Bo6 to 10 p.m. in the botanical gartanical Garden in Midtown den’s Day Hall. Atlanta. Graduates, current class memFountain said Thursday bers, friends and supporters will she is looking forward to the chow down on Low country festivities, and the opportunity Sara Fountain barbecue, and network. The orgato be retired for now. nization will also vote in its new She does not plan to stay retired. board of directors and officers, recognize “I am contemplating my next adventure,” the 2012 Leadership Award recipients, and she said. “I have a lot of passions, for educa- announce the winner of the Best Class Ever tion, sustainability and leadership. I am not Award. sure what I will do next.” Carolyn Moise, a 2001 Leadership DeKalb Fountain came to Leadership DeKalb in graduate and former board member is November 2001 and stayed 10 years and 10 serving as interim director while the board months. searches for a new executive director. She said she accomplished most of her The Atlanta Botanical Garden is at 1345 goals with the nonprofit, which educates Piedmont Ave. N.E. For more information community leaders, including county of- and registration, visit www.leadershipdekalb. ficials and corporate managers, on the chal- org or call 404-373-2491. lenges facing the county and trains them in building ties and working to make DeKalb a better place. “If you have people who understand the challenges, hopefully it helps us become a better county,” she said. During her tenure, more than 800 leaders, including Lee May and Sharon Barnes Sutton, who went on to become county commissioners, graduated from the program. The largest class of 55 also went through the program on her watch, and Youth Leadership DeKalb blossomed with support of alumni, and grew in size and content. Fountain, a 1992 graduate of Leadership DeKalb and a 2004 graduate of the Regional Leadership Institute, also worked to give Leadership DeKalb more regional focus. “Our issues are not just DeKalb’s,” she said. “They are regional issues because we CO. DEKALBYEES are part of a region.” O EMPLE IN ONLY Program participants are also now reNT DIN U O C IS D quired to develop and execute a project that T OU K will make the county better. C E CH MER ! regret is that she leaving R SUMCIALSone OUFountain’s PE had Sshe lowinstituted an annual fundE before e B M s I T pon

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November 3, 2012

MALCOLM CUNNINGHAM FORD DEKALB

IT’S

COUNTY’S

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