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The DeKalb Board of Health is encouraging everyone to get flu shots this year, especially who received the H1N1 influenza vaccine or had H1N1 flu. 7

North DeKalb Mall is gearing up for its 2010 Junior Idol competition.

Auditions are set for Oct. 2. 8

A new community garden at Browns Mill Recreation Center will help teach kids that fruits and vegetables come out the ground, not the grocery store. 9

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Bishop Long says charges against him are false

By Carla Parker

Bishop Eddie Long, who was accused this week of molesting three young men when they were teenagers, said Thursday that he categorically denies “each and every one of these ugly charges” and that he will respond to his congregation at Sunday’s 11 a.m. service.

“Let me be clear,” Long said in the Sept.

23 statement, “the charges against me and New Birth are false.”

In three separate lawsuits filed in DeKalb

Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, coerced them into sexual acts in exchange for lavish trips, cars and money.

Two of the Eddie Long Anthony Flagg Jamal Parris Maurice Robinson plaintiffs, AnState Court this week, three young men, who thony Flagg, 21, and Maurice Robinson, 20 are former members of the church, said that – who both live in DeKalb – filed lawsuits Long, leader of the 25,000-member New on Sept. 21. Jamal Parris, 23, who now lives

in Colorado Springs, Colo., filed his lawsuit on Sept. 22.

All three men are represented by Atlanta lawyer B.J. Bernstein.

The lawsuits each allege 11 counts, including fraud and negligence, against Long; the church; and the Longfellows Youth Academy, a program based at New Birth that caters to young males ages 13 to 18. Long’s three accusers were members of the academy and were considered Long’s “spiritual sons.”

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“This doesn’t look like a middle-class community.”

RBC Bank executives from Canada, visiting bank’s branch on Wesley Chapel Road.

Ugly, Ugly South DeKalb Uncut grass, illegal signs, litter mar county’s south end

Illegal signs abound Here are numbers of illegal signs tallied on Sept. 18 from randomly selected intersections in South DeKalb. These signs – many of them by repeat offenders – also represent potential revenue for the county if fines for code violations were pursued aggressively.

No. Intersection of Signs* I-20 W. @ Flat Shoals Rd. 18 I-20 E. @ Flat Shoals Rd. 21 I-20 W. @ Gresham Rd. 16 I-20 E. @ Gresham Rd. 16 Second Ave. @ Flat Shoals Rd. 17 Gresham Rd. @ Flat Shoals Rd. 14 Second Ave. @ McAfee Rd. 19 Glenwood Ave. @ Candler Rd. 34 Glenwood Ave. @ Columbia Dr. 27 Total 182

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

All 12-year-old Doug Peavey wants is a clean sidewalk when he and his half brother, Shawn Sand, walk to the convenience store on Snapfinger Road to buy snacks.

But the boys, who live off Flat Shoals Parkway in Decatur, must trudge through tall grass, weeds and kudzu to get to the store.

“I just want it clear so that I can see what’s on the path,” Doug said Saturday while making a run for potato chips.

“Someone needs to cut it,” said Shawn.

“The grass itches against your leg, and last week we saw a snake, this big.”

Both boys held their hands about two feet apart. “We ran real fast when we saw it,” they said in unison.

With its overgrown sidewalks and medians, the proliferation of illegal advertising signs along the public rights of way, litter everywhere, and rampant building and property code violations, an air of neglect has settled over South DeKalb County.

Gil Turman, president of the South DeKalb Neighborhoods Coalition, puts it simply.

“It’s ugly,’ he said Monday. “The businesses look like hell. When you go into neighborhoods, they look like hell. There are old cars, uncut grass. Gil Turman There is no enforcement to keep them up. I feel embarrassed and I am angry to an extent because of the reasons that this is happening.”

The seeds of neglect are rooted in a lack of code enforcement, the lack of any cohesive county plan to care for streetscape improve-

* Includes freestanding signs like the ones above, as well as signs tacked to utility poles at or near the intersections.

the county they are neater,” he said. “Their residents won’t take it. We know it doesn’t look right but we don’t fight to make it right.

The community has low expectations. We don’t complain. They are not in any hurry to do what needs to be done.”

Quality of life issue But the air of neglect is beginning to gnaw at some residents who invested in large homes and just want their surroundings to look neat.

Jimmy Brackery, who lives in Lithonia, deteriorate because the county doesn’t get hates the deterioration he sees in the comthe kind of negative feedback from South munity and has made it his personal mission DeKalb residents that they get from other to call the county regularly to clean up the parts of the county.

“When you drive through other areas of Please see UGLY, page 2 Jennifer Ffrench Parker / CrossRoadsNews

At top, Doug Peavy and his brother Shawn Sand walk through weeds and kudzu on Flat Shoals Parkway in Decatur. At left, grass covers the sidewalk in front of Greenforest Community Baptist Church on Rainbow Drive, and at right, lush weeds grow out of the median, near the Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library, also in Decatur.

ments installed over the last five years, the lack of any county street cleaning program, pervasive littering of the public rights of way, and low expectations from residents.

Turman said the situation is allowed to

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“As a taxpayer, you should have your area look clean and tidy. I don’think that is asking a lot.”

Signs of neglect proliferate from Decatur to Lithonia UGLY,

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place.

This year, he finds himself calling either DeKalb Sanitation or Code Enforcement Departments once every two months.

“I call as often as I see something that needs to be taken care,” he said Thursday.

He called recently because a street sign on Rock Springs Road near Cleveland Avenue was blocked by tall weeds.

“The thing that bothers me is that we have to constantly call to get basic service taken care of that should be covered by the taxes you pay,” said Brackery. “Just look at Flat Shoals Parkway. It is covered with weeds.

It seem that it has be grossly overgrown and someone has to call before its is taken care of.

When I drive to the other side of town and other parts of metro Atlanta, its not that.”

Brackery said when he goes to Peachtree City or Fayetteville or Marietta, he does not see the kind of neglect that is being forced onto South DeKalb residents.

“Even in neighborhoods with houses of lesser value than ours, it doesn’t look like it does here,” he said. “As a taxpayer, you should have your area look clean and tidy. I don’think that is asking a lot.”

Brackery, Turman and others say that maintaining the public spaces is a quality of life issue, and that it help homeowners maintain the value of their homes and feel good about where they live.

“When the public spaces is unkempt it creates a mindset in the community,” Brackery said. “People see trash around and they think, what is one more bottle or piece of paper going to do?”

The area’s appearance is also hurting its curb appeal for new business and economic development and investment.

“How are we going to attract economic development to South DeKalb when there is nothing attractive about it,” Turman said.

A former manager at the RBC bank on Wesley Chapel Road confided that when executives from the bank’s Canadian headquarters came to visit the branch a couple of years ago, they were surprised at the area’s appearance.

“This doesn’t look like a middle class community,” they said at the time.

And they are right.

Three years after county officials cut the ribbon on the $16.5 million Wesley Chapel Road improvement project, the street scape improvements are unkempt and uncared for.

At its ribbon-cutting in June 2007, GDOT Commissioner Harold Linnenkohl hailed the project as a “nice improvement.” But the decorative shrubs and plants that were part of the drawings shown to the community during the project’s development were never planted. Instead, all the community got were

By the Numbers

12 number of mowing tractors owned by DeKalb County

21 field workers caring for public rights of way

5,000 miles of DeKalb County public rights of way

207 miles of public rights of way cleaned by county in 2009

4,000 number of volunteers who picked up litter

410,000 Photos by Jennifer Ffrench Parker / CrossRoadsNews

Poor maintenance of sidewalks and public rights of way abound. Above, healthy weeds proliferate along the sidewalk at the intersection of Woodrow and Evans Mill roads in Lithonia.

“Someone needs to cut it. The grass itches against your leg, and last week we saw a snake this big.”

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trees and grass.

Today, the paved sidewalks and medians are sprouting weeds and grass in cracks in the concrete, and when the county mows the grass, the clippings are left along the curb to pile up and grow more weeds.

DeKalb County Sanitation Department, which is responsible for cutting the grass on the median, said Wesley Chapel is on a priority list for regular mowing, but that they lack the equipment and staff to do neat work.

“We are just knocking down the grass,” said Curtis Dozier, the department’s general foreman for Mowing & Herbicide. “We are

Grass clippings left along the curb of the Wesley Chapel Road median near the entrance to the Chapel Lake subdivision (left) and near the Wesley Chapel Library at right.

pounds of litter picked up by the Litter Patrol

using tractors. We can’t cut real close. It’s not Shawn are fighting kudzu to get to the convenience store is a state road and is maintained like landscaping.”

Dozier said the county has 12 mowing by Georgia Department of Transportation.

Dozier said that when the county gets tractors, 21 field workers and 5,000 miles of public rights of way. He said it doesn’t own complaints about state roads, they are referred to DOT’s Ronnie Jones at 404-299a single street sweeper.

“We mow for safety issues along high 4382.

“He is responsive,” he said. “But like traffic areas,” he said. “If it poses a hazard, we go back and repeat the cutting, even if it everyone, he has limited resources. He is up against it like everybody.” its not time.”

With declining revenues and a spate of When crews are done mowing, the clippings, that don’t blow away in the wind, are early retirements this year, Dozier said that left by the curb, causing build up that grows they are doing more with less. He said it’s weeds, and or clog the storm-water drains. going to take a team effort to clean up the “Procedures are, once we cut, we take a county.

“The citizens of this county and the moblower and blow what we can,” Dozier said.

“Curb cleaning is another department’s torists who drive through must play a part ,” he said. “They can stop littering and stop responsibility.”

Residents who call to complain about the illegal dumping. I just feel that government can’t do it all.” build up are referred Dozier said to the count y’s Who do you call? that citizens can Roads and Drainmow and mainage Department. n For mowing and litter pickup tain the rights of With limited n For county roads, call 404-294-2900 way in front of workers and ren For state roads, call DOT at 404-299-4382. their businesses sources, Dozier said n To volunteer for trash pick-up and to and home. they have designatadopt a road, call 404-371-2654 or visit “You can cut ed priority areas, Keepdekalbbeautiful.org right up to the which are high trafroad if you want fic areas.

He provided a list of 10 roads and to,” he said. “A lot of people choose not to. If county-owned lots that are serviced by his it was my yard, I would cut in front of it. It’s department on a four- to seven-week cutting the citizen taking responsibility.”

Dozier said the county’s three-man litter cycle. The roads are Wesley Chapel Road, DeKalb Medical Parkway, South Hairston patrol, which he manages, picks up trash one and North Hairston roads, Boring Road, day and the next day, it’s trash again.

“We are collecting more trash in central Turner Hill Road between I-20 East and Mall Parkway and the Candler Road streetscape and south locations than up north,” he said. project at the intersection of Glenwood and “We see paper, fast food containers and cups, beer bottles, beer cans and illegal signs.”

Candler roads.

In 2009, the Sanitation Department’s litThe rest of the county’s roads are on a four-times-a-year schedule. But Dozier said ter patrol picked up 410,000 pounds of litter and 1,000 tires. On top that, DeKalb Clean sometimes they don’t make that.

“We try hard,” he said. “Sometimes we & Beautiful, the county’s environmental get to them. If we don’t, we will at least give education arm, said 4,000 volunteers worked 14,500 hours to clean up 207 miles of public them one or two cuts a year.”

Flat Shoals Parkway, where Doug and rights of way.

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Eliminated MARTA routes and modifications take effect Starting Sept. 25, eight MARTA buses serving South DeKalb County will be eliminated and 15 routes will be modified.

The cutbacks, changes, and a price increase that goes into effect on Oct. 3, come in the wake of the transit authority’s $69.3 million budget deficit.

It is cutting service by 10.2 percent to 91 routes from 131, reducing rail service by 14.2 percent and increase weekly, monthly and Mobility pass prices.

MARTA is also closing two RideStores at Lenox and Lindbergh stations, reducing customer service call center hours, cutting the number of Station Agents assigned throughout the system, and closing 9 restrooms On Sept. 30, MARTA will stop accepting tokens. Until that time, customers may use tokens to purchase a Breeze ticket from a Breeze Vending Machine or exchange 10-200 tokens for trips by bringing tokens and a Breeze Card to the Five Points or Airport RideStores.

MARTA is not offering cash refunds for tokens.

MARTA said this week that it has been preparing customers for the service changes and price increases with notices that have been posted in rail stations, bus bays, trains and buses. New bus schedules have been available since Sept. 20.

Extensive information about bus, rail, fare and customer service changes is available at www.itsmarta.com and by calling Customer Service at 404-8485000.

Service changes in store The discontinued MARTA routes are: n Route 7 – McAfee n Route 18 – South Decatur n Route 22 – Second Avenue n Route 28 – Village of East Lake n Route 96 – Snapfinger Woods Drive n Route 122 – Georgia Perimeter College n Route 216 – Lithonia Express and n Route 245-Kensington/Emory Express The routes that have been modified are: n Route 15 – South DeKalb/Candler Road n Route 18 – South Decatur n Route 21 – Memorial Drive n Route 24 – East Lake/Hosea Williams Dr. n Route 34 – Gresham Road/Clifton Springs n Route 86 – Fairington Road/McAfee Road n Route 107 – Glenwood Road n Route 111 – Snafinger Woods Drive/ Stonecrest n Route 114 – Columbia Drive n Route 119 – Kensington/Hairston Road n Route 123 North DeKalb Mall/ Belvedere n Route 125 – Clarkston/Northlake n Route 186 – Rainbow Drive/S. DeKalb

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The lawsuit claims that Long used Scriptures to justify and support the sexual activity.

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More than 400 volunteers will be honored by the DeKalb County Juvenile Court and the Child Advocate Network at a Sept. 23 appreciation ceremony in Lithonia.

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They are seeking a trial by jury and unspecified damages.

DeKalb State Court Clerk Melanie Wilson said Thursday that all three lawsuits have been assigned to Judge Johnny Panos but that a hearing date has not yet been set.

She said that the lawsuits have to be served on the defendants, who will have to answer 30 days after they’ve been served.

Wilson did not know if the defendants had been served. Long’s lawyer, Craig Gillen, said Wednesday on “The Frank & Wanda Show” on V-103 that they were not notified about the lawsuits and had not received a copy ahead of filing.

All three lawsuits accuse Long of using his power to force the young men into a sexual relationship with him.

In exchange, the accusers say that the bishop, who has led the church for 21 years, placed them on the church’s payroll, bought them cars and other gifts, and took them on lavish trips abroad.

Encouraged by his legal team, Long canceled a news conference that was scheduled for Thursday before news of the third lawsuit broke on Wednesday.

Instead, he issued a written statement through the church’s public relations firm, the Franklin

Media Group.

Long, who grew New Birth from a 300-member church to one of the nation’s largest megachurches with ministries worldwide, said that he has been through storms and that his faith has always sustained him.

“I am anxious to respond directly to these false allegations and I will do so. However, my lawyers have counseled patience at this time,” he said.

“But let me be clear; the charges against me and New Birth are false.

I have devoted my life to helping others and these false allegations hurt me deeply. But my faith is strong and the truth will emerge.

“All I ask is for your patience as we continue to categorically deny each and every one of these ugly charges.

“Finally, as I have done for thousands of others over my decades of preaching, I ask for your prayers for me, my family and our church. On Sunday, at New Birth, I will respond to my congregation.”

At a Sept. 21 news conference, Bernstein, the men’s attorney, said that Long began having inappropriate relations with Robinson and Flagg when they were 16, which is the legal age of consent in Georgia.

Parris’ suit says that within two weeks after he and his mother joined New Birth in 2001, Long

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gave him his personal cell phone number.

He was 14 years old at the time.

The lawsuit said Long began spending time with Parris during the 2004-05 school year, including alone time at his guesthouse on Snapfinger Road.

It said that Long encouraged Parris to call him “Daddy” and thaat “initially Long engaged in sexual touching during their encounters and then escalated the activity to oral sodomy and other acts of sexual gratification.”

The lawsuit claims that Long used Scriptures to justify and support the sexual activity.

Parris said he left the church in 2009 “disillusioned, confused and angry.”

Robinson’s lawsuit alleges Long began to spend personal time with him when he was 15 years old. Robinson was placed on the payroll.

The lawsuit said that Long took Robinson on several overnight trips to various cities, including New York, and to Turks and Caicos. It also said that Long took Robinson to Auckland, New Zealand, for his birthday in 2008.

During that trip, Long regularly “engaged in sexual touching and other sexual acts,” the lawsuit said.

It also alleges that Long paid Robinson’s tuition at Georgia Perimeter

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All 12-year-old Doug Peavey wants is a clean sidewalk when he and his half brother, Shawn Sand, walk to the convenience store on Snapfinger Road to buy snacks.

Young scoliosis patients can receive robot-guided surgery at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the first pediatric facility in the United States to offer the procedure.

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Starting Sept. 25, eight MARTA buses serving South DeKalb County will be eliminated and 15 routes will be modified.

Families, caregivers and activists who want to help raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care and research can participate in Memory Walk Atlanta on Oct. 2.

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Nominations for candidates interested in being appointed DeKalb’s solicitor-general are now open.

Gov. Sonny Perdue’s office said Monday that the governor is accepting applications through Sept. 30.

The successful candidate will succeed Robert D. James, who resigned the office on Sept. 7 to run for DeKalb district attorney in the Nov. 2 special election.

Qualified individuals must complete and submit an application to the Governor’s Office by the dealine. Applications may be e-mailed to rgreenway@gov.state.ga.us; faxed to 404-656-5948; or mailed to 201 State Capitol, Atlanta, GA 30334.

For more information, contact Rhonda Greenway, the governor’s executive legal assistant, at rgreenway@gov.state. ga.us or at 404-651-7715.

Lawsuits allege that bishop engaged in sexual touching LONG,

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Senate and was recently named one of the 100 Women of Influence by the Atlanta Business League.

Omilami also has received the Georgia Secretary of State Outstanding Citizen Award.

The volunteers, who contribute more than 30,000 hours of service annually, come from Citizen Panel Review Program, CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates, Youth Diversion Program, Community Service Program and Teen Court.

For more information, call Court Services Phyllis Douglas at 404-294-2777.

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More than 400 volunteers will be honored by the DeKalb County Juvenile Court and the Child Advocate Network at a Sept.

23 appreciation ceremony in Lithonia.

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Flagg, who also was placed on the payroll, said Long bought him a house in Lithonia referred to as the “Golod House” and bought him a Ford Mustang.

The house was owned by Andrew Moman, who serves as athletic director at New Birth.

The lawsuits allege that on some of the trips with Robinson and Flagg, Long would use the alias “Dick Tracy” when he checked into hotels. Flagg’s lawsuit alleges that during the overnight trips, Long “shared a bedroom and engaged in intimate sexual contact with him.”

Parris’ suit claims that Long took him on trips on his private jet as far away as Trinidad and Honduras.

Bernstein said the bulk of the relations occurred on the church’s property. She said she has e-mails, text messages and photographs between Robinson, Flagg and Long.

In June, Robinson and Anthony Boyd, 19, were caught on on surveillance cameras burglarizing Long’s personal office at the Lithonia church.

A police report of the incident said Robinson and Boyd took an iPod, iPad and jewelry.

Bernstein said Robinson and Flagg were angry at Long and were seeking retaliation after learning he was involved with other men.

Historic planes from Delta’s past to be on display 8 Aviation lovers can see some of Delta’s historic airplanes at the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum.

Men Stopping Violence awards for domestic violence 8 Tim McGraw, Pearl Cleage, Herman “Skip” Mason Jr., and the late Dr. Frank Ostrowski will be honored at the 2010 Men Stopping Violence Awards Dinner.

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Kids at Browns Mill Recreation Center in Lithonia got a taste of the fresh fruits and vegetables that could one day come from a community garden they got to plant.

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Nearly 5.5 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 450,000 new cases are discovered each year.

AKA day to empower families Robot-guided surgery for kids Residents who need a checkup as well as help with their job search and mortgage issues can get free assistance at a Family Empowerment and Health Day on Oct. 2 at the Gallery at South DeKalb.

The noon-to-4 p.m. event, a community service project hosted by the Stone Mountain/Lithonia Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, features healthy eating food demonstrations; diabetes awareness; and vision, dental and blood pressure screenings.

There will be a resume writing workshop, and human resources professionals will be on-site to answer questions at the South DeKalb mall. Workshops also include fore-

closure prevention and refinancing home mortgages.

Registration is free, and registered guests receive free tickets for hourly raffles.

The AKA graduate chapter has served the local community since 1993, addressing the health, economic and educational needs of the citizens of Stone Mountain and Lithonia and has a membership of more than 120 college-educated women.

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Young scoliosis patients can receive robot-guided surgery at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the first pediatric facility in the United States to offer the cutting-edge procedure.

The SpineAssist surgical guidance system allows a surgeon to preplan a procedure in a CT-based 3-D simulation of the patient’s spine.

During the surgery, Dennis Devito a robotic extension arm guides the surgeon to the pre-planned location. While only four health care facilities in the United States currently use the system, it is widely used in Europe.

Children’s orthopedic surgeon Dennis Devito pioneered the use of the device

in pediatric scoliosis patients. In a study performed by Devito, he found improved accuracy when using the robotic guidance system for screw implantation in scoliosis patients. “Worldwide, Children’s has the largest volume of experience using robotic guidance in pediatric patients,� Devito said. “We’re excited to offer scoliosis patients this leadingedge device.�

Children’s pediatric orthopedic surgeons care for thousands of patients annually who require specialized treatment.

Dr. Michael Schmitz, Children’s chief of orthopedics, called Devito’s work an excellent example of their surgeons’ efforts to combine the latest technology and clinical methods to care for patients. For more information, visit www.choa.org.

Memory walk for Alzheimer’s Families, caregivers and activists who want to help raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research can participate in Memory Walk Atlanta on Oct. 2 at Zoo Atlanta.

Senior Helpers of Greater Atlanta North sees the walk as an opportunity to urge family members with elderly loved ones to be on the lookout for the early warning signs of the deadly disease and raise awareness on the power of preventive care.

Nearly 5.5 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 450,000 new cases are discovered

each year.

Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual Memory Walk has raised more than $300 million. Walks are held in nearly 600 locations nationwide, and walkers typically register in teams of 10 to 12 members.

Participants in the Atlanta walk can sign up for 1 mile or 3.1 miles events. The walk begins at 7 a.m. with registration at the zoo, 800 Cherokee Ave. S.E. in Atlanta. Although there are no registration fees, walkers are encouraged to raise money for the cause.

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“Our goal is to encourage everyone from the age of 6 months and older to get vaccinated.”

Board of Health pushing early vaccination against the flu Seasonal flu shots are now available through the DeKalb Board of Health’s early vaccination program.

District health director Dr. S. Elizabeth Ford is pushing the early flu vaccination effort as part of a national goal to reach people now about the importance of protecting themselves and their family against the flu.

“Our goal is to encourage everyone from the age of 6 months and older to get vaccinated,” she said.

Last year, many Georgians got two flu shots, a seasonal and a H1N1. This year’s vaccination combines H1N1 with two other circulating viruses. People who received the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine or had H1N1 flu should still get the new 2010-2011 seasonal flu vaccine.

Ford said that there are specific groups at high risk of being hospitalized or dying from flu complications. The high-risk groups include children 6 months and older, adults 65 years and older, and pregnant women.

Also in the high-risk groups are people who have medical conditions including: n Asthma, even if it’s controlled or mild. n Neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions, including disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve and muscle, such as cerebral palsy; epilepsy (seizure disorders); stroke; intellectual disability (mental retardation); moderate to severe developmental delay; muscular dystrophy; and spinal cord injury. n Chronic lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. n Blood disorders, such as sickle cell disease. n Endocrine disorders, such as diabetes mellitus.

Health officials say people who received the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine or had H1N1 flu should still get the new 20102011 seasonal flu vaccine.

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n Heart disease, such as congenital heart

disease, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease. n Kidney, liver or metabolic disorders. n Weakened immune system due to disease or medication, such aspeople with HIV, AIDS or cancer and those on chronic steroids. n People younger than 19 years of age who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy. n People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. n People who are morbidly obese (having a body mass index of 30 or greater).

In addition to the standard flu vaccine, two other vaccines are available. One is Fluzone High-Dose, which creates a stronger immune response in people 65 and older.

The other is the FluMist nasal spray vaccine for healthy children.

The Board of Health’s fees for flu vaccines are: n Standard flu vaccination: $25 (covered

by Medicaid, Medicare and PeachCare for Kids). n Standard flu vaccination for Vaccines for Children-eligible children: $14.81. n FluMist for Vaccines for Children-eligible children: $14.81. n Fluzone High-Dose: $40 covered by Medicare.

Checks (on Georgia banks), cash, credit cards, Medicaid, Medicare (part B) and PeachCare for Kids are accepted with insurance card.

The Vaccines for Children program provides low-cost flu vaccines for uninsured and under-insured children under age 19. To see whether your child is eligible, call your

nearby Board of Health center.

Individuals with health insurance coverage through either United Health Care or Cigna can receive their flu vaccination at any Board of Health location.

Personal hygiene practices also can help reduce the spread of viruses like influenza, the board says. They include washing your hands frequently for at least 20 seconds, coughing in to your sleeve, using disinfectant to clean shared surfaces such as doorknobs and faucet handles, and staying home when you become sick with flu-like symptoms.

Symptoms of influenza are a cough, sore throat, headache, fatigue, runny or stuffy nose, and body aches. Diarrhea and vomiting also may occur and are usually more common in children than in adults.

Seasonal flu vaccinations are available on a walk-in basis weekdays between 8:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the following locations: n Clifton Springs Health Center, 3110 Clifton Springs Road, Decatur, 404-244-2200. n East DeKalb Health Center, 2277 S. Stone Mountain-Lithonia Road, Lithonia, 770484-2600. n North DeKalb Health Center, 3807 Clairmont Road N.E., Chamblee, 770-454-1144. n T.O. Vinson Health Center, 440 Winn Way, Decatur, 404-294-3762. n Refugee Health Services, Richardson Health Center, 445 Winn Way, Decatur, 404294-3818.

On-site flu clinics are also available for local businesses and groups with 25 or more people. Call the nearest health center to arrange for an immunization team to come to your location.

For more information, call 404-508-7880 or visit www.dekalbhealth.net.

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Each week a panel of judges will decide which contestants advance to the next round of competition.

Historic planes from Delta’s past to be on display

Zemirah Davis was last year’s Junior Idol winner at North DeKalb Mall.

Some of Delta’s historic airplanes will be on display at the Atlanta Airline Collectibles Show & Sale.

Aviation lovers can see some of Delta’s historic airplanes at the Atlanta Airline Collectibles Show & Sale on Oct. 2 at the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum.

The 4 p.m. event includes a tour of two of Delta’s original 1940s airplane maintenance hangars, and a look at more than 80 years of aviation history. Some other tours include The Spirit of Delta, a Boeing 767-200, a 1941 DC-3 and one of Delta’s first passenger planes, a 1931 Travel Air. More than 50 vendors will be selling aviation-related items ranging from airplane seats to aircraft models and playing cards.

Admission is $5 for adults; children 12 and under are free with paying adult.

The museum is at Delta World Headquarters, 1060 Delta Boulevard Building B, Department 914 in Atlanta, next to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Visit www.deltamuseum.org or call 404715-7886.

Auditions set for mall’s Junior Idol competition Greenbriar to celebrate 45th year Young singers can audition on Oct. 2 for a chance to win $1,000 in the North DeKalb Mall annual Junior Idol competition.

Auditions will be held for children and teens, ages 8 to 15, at the Idol Studio inside the mall, next to Burlington Coat Factory.

Shows will be held Saturdays, Oct. 9 to Nov. 6, at 12:30 p.m. at the mall’s food court.

Each week a panel of judges will decide which contestants advance to the next round of competition.

The 2010 judges are songwriter and producer Randall Browner, president and CEO of Browner Entertainment; Felicia Harris, former owner of Soulful Tunes; and Abbie Mansour, former pageant winner and pageant judge.

Registration fee for the auditions is $15.

North DeKalb Mall is at 2050 Lawrenceville Highway in Decatur. For more information, call Mary Joyce Burdge at 404-235-6444.

Greenbriar Mall has pulled out all the stops for its 45th anniversary celebration which is under way through Sept. 25.

The weeklong festivities kicked off Sept. 19 and include celebrity guests, live musical performances, city proclamations, and fun for the entire family.

Performers include Stellar-Award winning art- Canton Jones ists Canton Jones, DeWayne Woods and Jeff Sparks, and a performance by popular kid group the OMG Girlz.

The “Grand 45th Anniversary Day”

celebration kicks off at 12:45 p.m. on Sept. 25 on the Macy’s Stage with live jazz with WCLK 91.9FM. Greenbriar Mall general manager David Long will welcome everyone at 2 p.m. and saxophonist Jeff Sparks will be on stage for a live performance at 2:10 p.m.

The mall will get proclamations from the cities of Atlanta and East Point, followed at 2:45 p.m. by a presentation of Community Icon Awards to honorees.

SDBA mixer offers fish, fun Business people and their families can mingle and network at the South DeKalb Business Association’s Oct. 2 Membership Mixer & Fish Fry at Wade Walker Park in Stone Mountain.

The free mixer at the park Shelter #1 is being held in lieu of the association’s monthly September and October meetings. It takes place 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

There will be fun, games and fellowship and information about joining the association. The deadline to RSVP to 678476-3727 is 5 p.m. on Sept. 28.

Wade Walker Park is at 5584 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain.

Men Stopping Violence awards for domestic violence Music and film star Tim McGraw, award-winning playwright Pearl Cleage, Alpha Phi Alpha president Herman “Skip” Mason Jr., and the late Dr. Frank Ostrowski will be honored at the 2010 Men Stopping Violence Awards Dinner on Oct. 2 at the Ritz-Carlton Atlanta.

The 6:30 p.m. awards dinner Pearl Cleage Skip Mason Jr. Tim McGraw recognizes individuals who have dedicated time and resources to fostering broad audience with a message of safety and safety and justice for women. It is the pri- respect for women. mary annual fundraiser for Men Stopping Mason, who is an author and fraternity Violence. historian, and McGraw will accept the True Cleage will receive the Kathleen Carlin Ally Awards, which recognize men of conJustice Seekers Award, named for the found- science who use their influence to advocate ing executive director of Men Stopping for safety, equality and respect for women Violence. She is being honored for ability to and girls. write novels as a way of connecting with a McGraw has helped raise tens of thou-

sands of dollars for battered women’s shelters in Tennessee, and Mason reached out to every chapter in his fraternity last year with a powerful message about what members could do to help end violence against women.

Ostrowski, who died this year at age 80, is being recognized posthumously with the Dick Bathrick Activist Award, given to a man who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the work to end violence against women. Ostrowski co-founded Alternatives to Violent Acts, a precursor to the Men Stopping Violence organization.

Individual tickets are $225; patron tickets are $750; and individual tables are $2,000.

The Ritz-Carlton Atlanta is at 181 Peachtree St. NE in Atlanta. For information or tickets, visit www.menstoppingviolence.org or call 404-270-9894.

Golfers raise green for GED aspirants State Farm agent Devon Hudson and his team walked away with the first place trophy in the Rev. Clifton Dial Sr. Scholarship Foundation’s first golf tournament on Sept. 18. Hudson’s team,which included Thomas White, Windell Ellis and David Hudson, was among 39 golfers who teed off for the event at Browns Mill Golf Course. The tournament raised funds for financial and educational support to students seeking to obtain their GED. Eligible students must be enrolled in a stateapproved GED class and meet minimum requirements.

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Youth At the end of the day, we must consider a leader who can help create the necessary learning environment for our children to succeed in the 21st century workplace.

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“Seventy-three million people in the U.S. are considered obese and 17 million don’t have enough to eat.”

Weight Watchers Terri Earls help kids select fresh friuits from a platter at Browns Mill Recreation Center.

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Eye on Education

By Ernest Brown

Get involved to help find new school superintendent Someone I have a lot of respect for shared with me that the toughest elected positions belong to the President of the United States and school board members.

The president is responsible for protecting the citizens in the county and ensuring the economy runs smoothly. School board members have oversight for the education of the citizens in the country who will ultimately contribute to the success of the country.

In this oversight are the four primary duties of a school board member: develop a fiscally and educationally sound budget; set policies that govern the school system; hire a superintendent to run the day to day operations; and work collaboratively with the superintendent in establishing the goals for the school system.

If the board members, superintendent, and community are in alignment with the goals, the school district has a basis for moving forward. Given many of the recent events with respect to our school system along with the lack of a permanent superintendent, many in the community have expressed concern about the current direction.

I believe Ms. Ramona Tyson has done a tremendous job as interim superintendent, however she has indicated that she is not interested in the permanent job.

The Board’s Request for Proposal (RFP) for a search firm to help find and screen prospective superintendent candidates ended Sept. 14. There is a public engagement component to this where citizens have an opportunity to indicate the qualities and characteristics they are looking for in a superintendent.

It is expected that the Board will select a potential candidate by spring 2011. That gives the community ample time to provide feedback to board members.

Citizens should become engaged sooner rather than later to ensure their opinions are considered.

There are websites that can help provide some insight on ideal qualities, but at the end of the day, we must consider a leader who can help create the necessary learning environment for our children to succeed in the 21st century workplace.

We should factor the current demographics and socioeconomic status of the community in this decision. Give this some thought, speak to your neighbors and ultimately make sure your voice is heard.

Ernest Brown is a parent with children in DeKalb School System. He lives in Lithonia. Read his Eye On Education blog at www.crossroadsnews.com/blog/9388966/ Eye+on+Education.

Kids to plant rec center community garden On Sept. 22, kids who frequent Browns Mill Recreation Center in Lithonia got a taste of the fresh fruits and vegetables that could one day come from a community garden they got to plant.

The recreation center’s new community garden is a project of DeKalb Parks and Recreation, Weight Watchers, Share Our Strength, and Action Against Hunger.

It will grow and provide fresh food to local schools and needy families.

Browns Mill director S. Papasan Canty said the garden will educate youngsters on where vegetables and fruits come from.

“A lot of the kids think fruits and vegetables just come from the grocery store and didn’t know that they are grown from the

ground,” he said.

The garden will be used to correct that misconception and educate the children about planting and harvesting.

Canty said Girl Scout Troop 4105, which is based at the rec center, will manage which is based at the Rec Center will manage the garden, and that students at Browns Mill Elementary, which is next door to the center, will get to learn about gardening as well.

Trudie Jeffery of Weight Watchers in Atlanta said the organization got involved with the community garden to help bring attention to obesity and hunger.

“Seventy-three million people in the U.S. are considered obese and 17 million don’t have enough to eat, so we want to teach the

kids how to eat healthy and make sure kids are not hungry,” Jeffery said.

The program is also a part of Weight Watchers’ national Lose for Good campaign, which challenges its members to lose more than 40 million pounds.

Jeffery said once the members meet the goal, Weight Watchers will donate $1 million to Share Our Strength, which is focused on ending childhood hunger in the United States, and Action Against Hunger, which focuses on ending world hunger.

Canty said the community can also participate in the garden. “Hopefully, people from the community will help harvest the garden,” he said. For more information, call 404-371-6295.

University chancellor hears concerns from GPC faculty Faculty members at Georgia Perimeter College got the ear of University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll Davis on Sept. 20 and they had a lot to tell him.

The professors told Davis, who met with them at the GPC Dunwoody campus, that the lack of a pay raise could deplete their ranks and hurt the college, which has campuses in Atlanta, Decatur, Clarkston and Erroll Davis Covington.

Davis, who also met with students, was in town to discuss the needs of the institution, students and community.

He said faculty members were concerned about entering a second year without an increase in pay. He said it was not a personal concern, but a concern about losing colleagues.

“Departments really depend on collection of scholars, and if those collections fall apart then it will be difficult to put back together,” he said.

With the bad economy, Davis said the system has experienced a nearly $300 million reduction in state funds over the last three years and is unable to give out pay raises.

He also said there are fewer full-time professors and professors on tenure, and more adjunct – part-time – professors.

“The percentage of adjunct faculty members has risen because in spite of the fact that we’ve had revenue reduction, we’ve had an explosion in the number of students and we’ve have had to add a lot of adjunct professors,” he said.

Davis said more than 40,000 students enrolled in the university system over the

past three years.

Davis said the University System is expecting its 2011 financial year, which started in July, to be less challenging than FY 2010.

“Part of the economy has been kept afloat the last two years in the educational sector by $1.5 billion worth of stimulus funding,” he said. “All of which will end at the end of

FY 2011.”

He said that the HOPE Scholarship, which provides scholarships to college for eligible students, will go bankrupt, if it doesn’t change.

“It is now operating at a deficit and is tapping into its reserves,” he said. “If nothing changes it will go broke.”

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WATCHES, SHOES, COATS, SUITS, DRESSES, INTIMATES; MEN’S SUIT SEPARATES & SPORTCOATS; SELECT HOME ITEMS AND ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICS Excludes: special purchases, specials, super buys, furniture, mattresses, floor coverings, rugs, cosmetics/fragrances, fine & fashion jewelry, men’s store electronics, gift cards, jewelry trunk shows, previous purchases, special orders, selected licensed depts., macys.com, services. Cannot be combined with any savings pass/coupon, extra discount or credit offer except opening a new Macy’s account. EXTRA SAVINGS % APPLIED TO REDUCED PRICES. Valid 9/25-9/27/2010

Use your Macy’s Card and take an extra 20% off a selection of sale & clearance apparel for him, her & kids, or, take an extra 15% off all sale & clearance shoes, coats, suits, dresses, intimates; suit separates & sportcoats for him and select home items; or, take an extra 10% off all sale & clearance watches and electronics & electrics. Excludes: specials, super buys, furniture, mattresses, floor coverings, rugs, men’s store electronics, cosmetics/fragrances, fine & fashion jewelry, jewelry trunk shows, previous purchases, special orders, selected licensed depts., special purchases, services. Cannot be combined with any savings pass/coupon, extra discount or credit offer except opening a new Macy’s account. EXTRA SAVINGS % APPLIED TO REDUCED PRICES. EXTRA SAVINGS VALID THROUGH 9/27/2010.

REG. & ORIG. PRICES ARE OFFERING PRICES, AND SAVINGS MAY NOT BE BASED ON ACTUAL SALES. SOME ORIG. PRICES NOT IN EFFECT DURING THE PAST 90 DAYS. SALE PRICES IN EFFECT THROUGH 9/27/10, EXCEPT AS NOTED. *Intermediate price reductions may have been taken. Orig/Now and Special Purchase items will remain at advertised prices after event and are available while supplies last. Advertised items may not be available at your local Macy’s, and selections may vary. Prices and merchandise may differ at macys.com. 6080064. For store locations & hours, log on to macys.com 6080064A.indd 1

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