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Sandy Springs high schools celebrated their most recent graduates this month. Left, Lauren Callaway, a senior at Riverwood International Charter School, receives her diploma at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on May 23. Right, Miriam Burgess takes pictures of North Springs Charter High School graduates Maia Charanis, left, and her son, Salutatorian Steven Burgess on May 22. More photos on page 19.

City’s $90 million budget for 2015 includes millions in expenditures on new City Center, roads BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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Sandy Springs taxpayers will get a chance to publicly address how the city spends its money when the first public hearing on the proposed 2015 budget is held June 3. The city’s $90 million general fund expenditure budget for 2015 includes $13.75 million for City Center Phase I implementation, $8.7 million for transportation improvements and no property tax increase. Transportation improvements on tap include $750,000 for the city’s sidewalk program, $500,000 for Abernathy and Johnson Ferry roads and $2.4 million for the Heards Ferry Elementary intersection.

Under the proposed budget, which the Sandy Springs City Council will consider approving on following a final public hearing June 17, the tax millage will hold steady at 4.731 mills. Projected revenue for 2015 is $83 million, up from $80 million in 2014. Projected general fund expenditures for 2015 are $90.1 million, up .93 percent from $89.3 million in 2014. To balance the budget, a general fund balance from 2014 of $7 million will carry over into the 2015 budget. SEE BUDGET, PAGE 5

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Ray Mock wasn’t expecting to find 60 Like the houses – the Galloway site graves and counting when he hired a maphoused white people and the arts center ping service to check out a 100-year-old site housed black people – the graveyards gravesite at the Chastain Park golf course. made during that time likely were segre“I didn’t have any expectations,” he gated, Strozier said. said. But knowing that old maps indicated Pointing to a gap between two sets graves along the eastern side of the course of graves, Strozier said the space was near the intersection of Lake Forrest Drive once a road that may have separated the and Lake Forrest Lane, the Chastain Park gravesites based on race. He said that Conservancy’s operations manager decidbased on practices at the time, whites ed to investigate. were probably put in the eastern-most The conservancy hired Len Strozier of grouping of graves so they would be Omega Mapping Services to locate and closer to the front of the line when Jesus map the graves. Strozier uses ground-penreturned in the eastern sky. 404.805.5133 etrating radar to look for linear air pock“This is an assumption, but I’ve found ets some two to four feet down in the it to be true in a lot of the cemeteries I’ve ground. The pockets are produced by the done. It was just part of the culture,” Strograves once all traces of the body have diszier said. appeared. Still, that may not be what happened. “That’s an air pocket,” Strozier said one With help from the Buckhead Heritage recent afternoon, pointing to the screen Society, four death certificates for almson his machine, which displayed groups house residents were found – three for of lines. black residents and one for a white resiPassers-by are caught by surprise, as dent. there are no markers on the graves. “I’ve Mock said that the death certificate for had walkers and joggers stop by all mornthe white person indicated burial at the ing long, and when I tell them what I’m “almshouse cemetery,” but the bodies of doing, first of all they’re mystified and then the three black people were donated to scithey’re grateful,” Strozier said. “Millions of ence. “That furthers the mystery. Were all golfers have come by oblivious that there’s the black people ‘donated to science’ and a cemetery. I’m proud of the conservancy white people buried here?” for wanting to put it back on the map and Mock said he hopes to mark the site. honor the ground.” He suggested perhaps a plaque or sign, or Mock said the graves likely belong to even a field of wildflowers. residents of former almshouses at Chastain Mock says the project falls in line with Park, buildings now used for the Galloway the non-profit group’s mission of mainSchool and the Chastain Arts Center. The taining and preserving the park, and that residents were indigent citizens of Fulton it still needs to raise money to complete County who, instead of receiving welfare, the project. were put up in the buildings, constructed “We want to put a report together for in the early 1900s and in operation until posterity,” he said. “We want to recognize the 1960s. our history.

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In a race decided by about 350 of Wittschen. the more than 45,000 votes cast, Fulton According to the Georgia Secretary of County Commission Chairman John State and Fulton County officials, here are Eaves held on to the Democratic nominathe unofficial results of contested local raction to the sole commission seat selected es in the May 20 primaries and nonpartiby voters countywide. san special elections. Eaves outpolled fellow Commissioner State Senate, District 40 Robb Pitts in the near dead heat in Democratic Primary the May 20 Democratic PrimaTamara Y. Johnson 69 % ry for nomination to District Benedict I. Truman II 31 % 7 seat on the commission. Eaves received 50.4 percent Republican Primary of the votes cast, compared Fran Millar (I) 77 % to 49.6 percent for Pitts, acRichard D. “Dick” Ancording to the Fulton Counderson 23 % ty elections webpage. In other Fulton CommisState House of Represension races, former Atlanta City Councilman Lee Morris held a comtatives, District 54 fortable lead in the four-way Republican Republican Primary Primary race to represent District 3 on Beth Beskin 49 % the Fulton County Commission. Morris John J. McCloskey 30 % took 57 percent of the vote in the primary, Loretta A. Lepore 15 % enough to claim the nomination without S. Angelic Moore 5% a runoff, according to unofficial returns posted on the county website. No DemoDemocratic Primary crat filed in the district, which covers porRobert W. Gibeling 100 % tions of Buckhead and Sandy Springs. And in the newly redrawn District 2, State House of Representatives, which includes a portion of Sandy Springs, District 80 Bob Ellis outpolled Eric Broadwell about Republican Primary two to one for the Republican nomination Michael J. “Mike” Jacobs (I) 75 % to the seat. No Democrat filed to run for Catherine S. Bernard 25 % the seat. In Buckhead, Beth Beskin led the Fulton County four-candidate race See a Q+A with new Fulton Commission, for the Republican County Commissioner Lee May District 2 nomination to sucin Commentary, page 6. Republican Primary ceed former state Bob ElRep. Ed Lindsey in lis 66 % House District 54. Eric Lindsey did not seek Broadwell 34 % re-election so he could run for a seat in the U.S. House. The winner of the Republican primary in District 54 will face DemFulton County Commission, ocrat Robert W. Gibeling in the fall. District 3 On May 21, Fulton County elecRepublican Primary tion officials reported Beskin had collectLee Morris 57 % ed 49.9 percent of the votes cast. Beskin Bernand “Bernie” Tokarz 17 % requested a recount, county officials said, Cory Ruth 16 % but on her webpage, Beskin said she was Alexander Palacios 10 % preparing for a runoff July 22 with secondplace finisher John J. McCloskey, who colFulton County Commission, lected 30 percent of the vote. In Georgia, races that end with no single candidate reDistrict 7 ceiving more than half the total vote are Democratic Primary decided by a runoff between the two canJohn Eaves (I) 50 % didates receiving the most votes. Robb Pitts 49 % On May 28, McCloskey posted on Facebook that he would suspend his Republican Primary runoff campaign and support Beskin. Earl Cooper 100 % “Avoiding a long and expensive runoff election in our District is in the best inFulton County Board of terest of the Republican Party,” his Facebook page said. Education In nonpartisan races for the Fulton Julia Bernath (I) 53% County school board, incumbent Julia Kate Wittschen 47 % Bernath received 53 percent of the votes cast to withstand a challenge from Kate (I) Marks incumbent SS

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New county commissioner: Can Fulton County and its cities work together? Editor’s note: In the May 20 Republican Primary, Lee Morris received 57 percent of the votes cast in the race for the District 3 seat on the Fulton County Commission. The district, redrawn as part of a redistricting of the commission, covers Buckhead and a portion of Sandy Springs. By winning the primary over three other candidates, Morris, a former Atlanta City Councilman, in effect wins the seat as he has no Democratic opponent in the fall. The Sandy Springs Reporter asked Morris why he decided to run and what he foresees for his new district. Here are his answers.

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After holding a seat on the Atlanta City Council, why did you decide to run for Fulton County Commission? Remember that I stepped down from the Atlanta City Council many years ago. I chose not to seek reelection in 2001 after eight years of service, honoring a campaign pledge to that eﬀect. I made that pledge because I believed in citizen-legislators, and I never had any intention of making politics a career. Indeed, I ran for City Council in 1993 in the first place only after being unable to find anyone else to challenge the long-time incumbent who I thought needed to be replaced! After the Legislature re-drew the Fulton Commission district lines and created this Buckhead/southern Sandy Springs district, many people started asking me to think about resuming my public service to seek this seat. My wife Gilda and I thought about it for many months and decided last winter that my background could be useful to help fix Fulton County’s government.

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What do you see as the biggest issue facing Fulton County now?

The county must control and reduce its spending. Studies have shown that Fulton spends more per capita than other large counties in the state. The 2014 budget is not balanced, instead using about $40 million of reserves to meet a planned revenue shortfall. To make it worse, the budget assumes a 15 percent property tax increase, in the face of a state law prohibiting any increase in 2014. If the inevitable legal challenge reverses the increase, the shortfall in the budget will approach $85 million to $90 million.

A decade or so ago, Fulton County government provided most of the local services in the northern end of the county. Now, with the creation of new cities in the area, including Sandy Springs, the county’s role is greatly diminished. What do you see as the county government’s role in north Fulton and Buckhead now, and as its role in the future?

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be providing. Now the county’s role in the northern part of the county is the same as its role in Atlanta – providing for courts, jail services, tax appraisal and collection, elections, libraries, and health and social services. Now the cities’ role is to provide police, fire, zoning, code enforcement and similar municipal services. The interesting question for the future is whether the county and the cities can provide some services Lee Morris more eﬀectively and efficiently by working together in a collaborative way.

District 3 covers Buckhead and a substantial portion of Sandy Springs. What do you see as common issues among Buckhead and Sandy Springs? How do you think you can address those issues from a seat on the County Commission?

In addition to the universal desire for safe neighborhoods and good schools that is not limited just to Buckhead and Sandy Springs, residents in Buckhead and Sandy Springs also share a desire for eﬀective and efficient government. While the commission has no direct role in the schools, its funding of courts and jail functions can have an impact on safety in our communities. And certainly the commission can and should work toward more eﬀective and efficient local government.

Atlanta and Sandy Springs at times have diﬀering interests. What do you see as the major divisions between the two? Can the county government help bridge those diﬀerences.

While it is true that Atlanta and Sandy Springs can have major diﬀering interests, the diﬀerences between Sandy Springs and the portion of Atlanta that is Buckhead, are not so significant. The county should and can work with, not against, Sandy Springs, as well as the other cities in the county. And clearly the county government needs to work on its relationship with Atlanta’s government, especially with respect to public safety issues and the chronic county jail overcrowding.

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What’s the first thing you hope to accomplish on the commission?

I want the commission to pass a balanced budget that does not rely on reserves or tax increases. I’ll be working on that goal in the coming months, even prior to taking office in January.

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Five Davis Academy seventh graders offered a one-word description of their day on the job at Perimeter Mall Macy’s: “exhausting.” But, these students said it was worth it for the experience of real-world work. During their day on the job, these students did everything from watching for shoplifters to working the cash register to dressing the mannequins. “My favorite parts were greeting the customers and selling,” said Hannah York, one of five students in David Rifkin’s language arts class chosen for the project. A real-world workday wasn’t the only experience the students gained. They had to earn the job. Abbi Goldberg, Joelle Zelony, Sophia Gurin, Isabelle McCullough and Hannah York were chosen after each wrote a persuasive essay and were interviewed by a former Rich’s executive. Rifkin, in his second year of teaching at Davis, said this was the 15th year he’d had students work a day at the department store. He previously conducted the program at a school in Alpharetta. The idea, he said, was to teach his students skills they would need to get a job and keep it. “All these kids will have to do this in real-life situations,” he said. He coordinated with a friend, Michael Pomerance, a longtime executive at Rich’s before it became Macy’s. Pomerance interviewed students who made the cut after writing an es-

say titled “Why Macy’s Should Hire Me.” The interviews were conducted in front of the class, and students were critiqued by their classmates. Pomerance then chose five who would go on to work at Macy’s for a day. “Kids don’t really have any basis of the real world of interviewing and the skills, fears and nerves involved,” Pomerance said. “I interview them as reasonably close to the real world as I

At a recent luncheon, members of the chambers of commerce of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody met at an office building in Brookhaven to hear a presentation from MARTA’s general manager. That mix of local and regional forces illustrates the current state of business groups in the Perimeter area, who are loyal to their individual cities but also stress the importance of working together to promote their bustling corner of metro Atlanta. Three cities with a stake in the Perimeter – Brookhaven, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs – each have their own chamber of commerce. Nearby Chamblee is in the process of forming its own chamber of commerce, too. On top of that, there’s also a group called the Perimeter Business Alliance. “You have four different business groups representing one fairly small geographic area,” said Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul. “I don’t think that helps the business community having that diverse, confusing, mishmash of business organizations in that area.” Paul, the former chairman of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, said he would like to see the different groups come together to form one chamber of commerce for the Perimeter area. Within that larger organization, he envisions each city maintaining its own business association, he said. “On a lot of issues, businesses of those three communities should be speaking with one voice, and they’re missing an opportunity when they don’t,” Paul said. Todd Lantier, chairman and founding director of the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce, said he too would like for the chambers in the Perimeter area to collaborate. He said he has had conversations with the leaders of other Perimeter chambers about forming an alliance. “There’s so much going on here that my vision is that we come together not losing our own individuality, maintaining our Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce for local reasons, but coming together to promote the region as a more viable option than, say Downtown or Buck-

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The Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce welcomed Dress Up Boutique, selling women’s fashions, to the Perimeter Place Shopping Center, 4520 Olde Perimeter Way, Suite 100. On hand, from left, Madison Thomas, Morgan Dale, Cory Stokes, MJ Thomas, City Councilman Denny Shortal, Danielle Case, Derrick Case, Beth Summers, Hillary Harper, Kaitlin Fox, Carrie Mauldin, Wendy Grifﬁn, Thom Coughlin, Clare Callahan and Sara Massey. SPECIAL

Dunwoody Animal Medical Center celebrated its new location on April 26 with a ribbon cutting. From left, Sammie Rahn, Ries Reinstein, Katie Wheeler, Eileen Brewster, City Councilman Terry Nall, City Councilman Jim Riticher, Dr. Cecil Johnson, Dr. Iris Pinsky, Kim Johnson, City Councilman Denny Shortal, Asya Yavuncu, Lindsey Waters, Millie Travis, Angela Luber and Holly Hains. The center is located at 2458 Jett Ferry Road.

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Karen Cannon Realtors recently opened its doors at 1317 Dunwoody Village Parkway, Suite 103. Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis joined company principals Karen Cannon and Anderson Cannon for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, May 7. Also attending the ceremony were Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Beth Summers and board members Paula Owens, Brent Morris, MJ Thomas and Larry Feldman. SPECIAL

The Sandy Springs/ Perimeter Chamber of Commerce welcomed The Joint…the chiropractic place to 6623 Roswell Road. Celebrating at the ribbon cutting on May 7, from left, Chris Adams, Tom Mahaffey, Clare Stefan, Mayor Rusty Paul, Garrett Henry, Jasper Haimes, Skyler Haimes, Britni Laboy, Dr. Erika Henry, Angie Haimes, Tom Haimes, Jeff McGinty, Cindy McGinty and Mark Renier. SPECIAL

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It is an exciting time to live and work in Sandy Springs! With the City Center development and a number of new residential projects underway, complimented by a healthy business climate and a strong Perimeter office market, we believe there is a real need for a local bank that is financially strong and managed by community leaders who are keenly focused on meeting the financial needs of our residents and business owners. For this reason, we formed Bank of Sandy Springs as a division of Midtown Bank to leverage the stability and financial strength of Midtown’s charter while focusing specifically on serving the Sandy Springs market.

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head,” Lantier said. Lantier said the chambers need to work together to promote the Perimeter area as a whole, rather than each city’s piece of it. “We want them to succeed just as much as anyone else does, because if they’re successful, we’ll be successful,” Lantier said of the other cities. The Sandy Springs and Dunwoody chambers are trying joint promotions of events, such as holding joint luncheons. “It was kind of like, ‘Let’s date before we get married,’” Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber President Tom Mahaffey said. “It’s worked out pretty well.” But one recent attempt to combine efforts fizzled. The third annual joint Perimeter Business Expo, originally sched-

uled for June 5, was cancelled due to lack of participation, Mahaffey said. Mahaffey said exhibitors had complained about turnout for past expos. This year, he said, only 24 exhibitors signed up in advance, when Mahaffey thought he needed 45 to 50. “I didn’t feel good about it,” he said. Mahaffey said he thought the lack of participation reflected the type of businesses operating in the Perimeter area, especially in Sandy Springs. Many are large corporations, not the small businesses whose owners are interested in an event like the expo. In the future, he said, he was thinking of organizing a show dealing with a segment of the corporate market, such as health care. “The small business expo – I just don’t think this is the communi-

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can, with keeping in mind that these are still young kids.” He says he wants to see students communicate clearly and effectively. “They have incredible difficulty talking about themselves,” Pomerance said. “I want to see some passion.” Joelle said she thinks she was chosen in part because she was confident in the interview. “I really worked hard and I made sure my essay was perfect before I turned it in,” she said. Abbi prepared for the interview by having friends and family conduct mock interviews with her. “I knew I really didn’t have great interview skills, but I worked hard to get them better,” she said. Sophia’s favorite part of the day was visiting the loading dock. “I got to look through all the new clothes,

see where they put the security pieces on the clothing and try to do that myself,” she said. Hannah says she now has a better appreciation for salespeople. “When a Macy’s employee comes up to you, it can be kind of bothersome, but once I was in the shoes of the Macy’s employee, [I learned] they value customer service so much,” she said. “I used to think they came up to you just to make you buy things, but they actually do come up to you to see how you’re doing.” Sophia said helping customers was particularly satisfying. “Every once in a while, I’d get a customer who would say, ‘Yes, you can help me,’ and I’d get to help them find a specific style or a different size of something,” she said. “That was really fun because I felt like I was really working at Macy’s.”

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ty,” he said. Bob Dallas, a board member of the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce, said he doesn’t think it’s redundant for each city to have its own chamber. Dallas said larger chamber organizations, like the Georgia Chamber of Commerce or Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, can do things like reach out to large corporations overseas, where as city chambers can focus their efforts on local business communities. “They represent different skill sets,” Dallas said. Dallas said he thinks the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce is important to keep the city balanced by providing representation to the business community, which helps keeps taxes low for residents. The chamber can speak out on behalf of businesses when the city council considers things like changes to the sign ordinance or permitting procedures that could affect businesses in the city. He said as the different chamber groups in the Perimeter area mature, it makes sense for them to collaborate. He would like to see them work more with the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce as well. “A lot of it has to do with where you are in your life cycle as an organization,” Dallas said. “These natural relationships

will come to fruition, especially on our DeKalb County side.” Van Pappas, president and chairman of the board of the Chamblee Chamber of Commerce, said after years of operating as a business association, his organization felt it was time to develop into a chamber of commerce to provide more services and resources for Chamblee businesses. Pappas said he would be very interested in working with other chamber organizations around north DeKalb. But the Chamblee Chamber will likely spend its first year focusing on local business relations and developing a strong relationship with Chamblee’s city government. “We’re a brand new organization,” Pappas said. “The first year is crucial.” Paul said while many in the various chamber organizations are interested in joining forces, there has never been a consensus. “I think community pride plays a part in it. Nobody wants to lose their identity,” Paul said. “The only thing missing is the will to do it, and I’m hoping that will shows up sooner rather than later. I think all three communities would benefit. This is something I care deeply about and I think is vital to the longterm health of all three communities.”

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Friday, June 13, 7 p.m. – Dunwoody United Methodist Church presents “Little Women,” the musical. Louisa May Alcott’s American classic is brought to life on the musical stage, offering a night of laughter, tears and a lifting of the spirit. Additional shows, June 14, 7 p.m. and June 15, 3 p.m. Tickets, $15 at the door. 1548 Mt. Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-0675 with questions.

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ebrate Flag Day by participating in a summer sing with the Choral Guild of Atlanta, singing American music from all genres. Free to all interested singers. Come early for coffee, conversation and breakfast pastries starting at 9:15 a.m. Social event to follow the “sing.” St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church, 1978 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For details, email: info@cgatl.org or call 404-223-6362.

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Creepy Critters Wednesday, June 4, 2-2:30 p.m. – Get an up-close look at the world of bugs! Join the Big Thinkers in classifying different types of insects, exploring insect habitats, and building your very own bug model! Free and open to the community. For 3-5 years old. Make a reservation and ask questions by calling 404-814-3508. Northside Branch Library, 3295 Northside Parkway, NW, Atlanta, 30327.

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itage Sandy Springs’ Little Diggers program continues with making a pizza garden. Meet farmers who grow the food we eat, then make your own pizza garden to take home to water, care for and enjoy! Free; open to youngsters ages 6-10. Must be accompanied by adult. NOTE: different location and starting time. Heritage Sandy Springs Farmers Market, Parkside Shopping Center, 5920 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. To learn more, call 404-8519111, visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org or email: events@heritagesandysprings.org.

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R O BBERY  6600 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 10, a man in his 20s robbed the SunTrust Bank inside Publix Abernathy Square. The robbery occurred around 3:30 p.m.

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 Roswell Road and Sugar Mill Road 30350 – On May 16, the victim said she used the ATM at a gas station and then later, as she walked down the roadway, a man told her that he needed to talk to her. She ignored him and continued. A car, described as an older gray car, possibly a Honda, drove by and the man cut her purse strap and took the purse.  7800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 16, the victim said that he was using a cut through to his apartment on Spring Creek Lane just before midnight. He came upon four men, one of whom said, “What the f— are you looking at?” The report said the man told cops that regardless of how many men there were, he would not be ”disrespected.” He had a short exchange of words and then was robbed, at gunpoint, of his backpack, $220 cash, a passport and keys.

BUR G LARY  8300 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 9, the victim said her front door had been forced open. Someone entered the home but apparently took only an air mattress.

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 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 10, a man reported someone entered his apartment without force, and took a coin jar with $300 in it.  1300 block of Harbor Pointe Parkway 30350 – On May 11, the victim said between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. someone came in by kicking the door, and took an iPad, Beats headphones, two, 42-inch TVs, 12 pairs of Jordan sneakers, diamond earrings, a watch and PS4 game system. The same apartment was burglarized on April 27.  6100 block of Blackwater Trail 30328 – On May 13, sometime between 9a.m. and 11 a.m., someone attempted to enter the home while the resident was gone. The victim found broken glass on a window and what appeared to have been two or three attempts to open windows; however, they were painted shut.  200 block of Marchand Court 30328 – On May 13, police received an alarm around 9:40 a.m. Ofﬁcers arrived six minutes later and found evidence of forced entry. They found a number of items indicating the rooms had been ransacked. The resident said several electronic items were taken.  6200 block of Mount Vernon Oaks Drive 30328 – On May 13, sometime between 7:20 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., someone entered the home by kicking in the back door. Laptops, a TV, jewelry and other items were taken.

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 6400 block of Glen Oaks Lane 30328 – On May 13, the resident said someone kicked in his front door sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. He is missing some electronic items and coins from a bowl.  6500 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 13, police received an alarm at 4:36 a.m. They found that someone threw a rock and shattered a phone store’s front window. The manager later said four cellphones were taken.  300 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On May 18, two televisions were stolen from a defensive driving school. The owners reported that the front door was forced open.  6300 block of Vernon Woods Drive 30328 – On May 19, someone kicked in the victim’s front door. However, at the time of the report, nothing was reported missing.

A S S A U LT  8600 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On May 9, a woman reported that her sister got into a ﬁght with her during an argument over the sister being evicted from the victim’s apartment.

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ployees at a discount department store said a female juvenile concealed the following in her purse, and then attempted to leave without paying: a tank top, eyeliner, facial powder, mascara, more face powder. The value of the theft came to just over $71. The juvenile’s mother, who was at a church recital near the store, was contacted and picked the juvenile up. She was released to her mother pending a juvenile court date.  1100 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On May 13, security employees of a grocery store said they watched a man go up and down the aisles, taking food items, and then walk into the bathroom where he consumed the food, consisting of ravioli and some cheese. The value of the meal was just under $9. He was arrested. His information showed that he was wanted for a probation violation in Indiana; however, they declined to extradite him.  The staﬀ at an apartment complex said someone stole the keyboard from the computer room. They viewed a video showing a man, known to them, walking in the room with nothing in his hands but then leaving with a dark object in his hands. They could not identify the object as a keyboard. The officer ran the name of the suspect on GCIC and it indicated to him that he was wanted on a warrant in DeKalb County. The suspect was not initially on the scene but later walked up to the officer’s car which SS

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Bad guys who want to elude Sandy Springs police may want to get into better shape. Sandy Springs police soon will have a new fitness and training center that will be paid for entirely with money seized from criminals. “We will be using police departmentseized funds at no cost to the city or taxpayers,” Police Chief Ken DeSimone told the council. The City Council on May 20 approved a $257,197 contract with Diversified Construction of Georgia to convert a building at 182 Hilderbrand Drive to house the fitness center. The fitness center will take up most of the two-story building, will include classrooms and may be open to other police departments. DeSimone said that the department will contract with a fitness company to supply equipment, which will also be funded with seized money. He joked that the department currently has $714,568 of cleared money in its seized funds account,

thanks to “drug dealers passing through Sandy Springs.” He said one benefit of the police department having its own fitness center is that a lot of gyms close at night, which is “the middle of the day for some police officers who work the night shift.” “They can’t go to a gym at three in the morning because there’s none open,” the chief said. “This allows our men and women who work at night to have a gym and a training facility open for them 24 hours a day.” But DeSimone said the fitness center will not be a typical gym. “Some of this is specific to police such as heavy bags and training bags that we have to use for night stick training, [and] certain dummies that you shoot the Taser into,” he said. “The fitness facility is not what a civilian thinks of a fitness facility as. It is a gym, but there’s specialized equipment that we have to use for specific police training.”

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The Jewish holiday of Shavuot is a practical observance. While it recognizes the anniversary of God giving the Torah to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, the holiday is marked by counting the 50 days from Passover to Shavuot. Rabbi Brian Glusman, director of community outreach and engagement for the Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody, says that the practice of saying a blessing that counts each day links Shavuot to Passover. “It’s as if to say our freedom at Passover is dependent upon our acceptance of law. Freedom without order or responsibility is chaos; we need a higher authority,” he said. Glusman said that one of the ways to celebrate the receiving of the Torah is to stay up all night studying it. “We’re always in the process of receiving Torah or receiving teaching,” he said, likening the practice to renewing one’s commitment to God. Another way to celebrate Shavuot, Glusman said, is to consume dairy products. “Dairy represents nourishment, and we celebrate the way in which we are nourished through God.” He said folks often eat cheesecake and cheese blintzes to mark the day. “We call

it the holiday of cholesterol,” he said. Kelly Cohen, a Judaics Studies teacher at Davis Academy, notes an agricultural component of Shavuot, which coincides with the wheat harvest in ancient Israel that started at Passover and lasted for seven weeks. At the end of the seven weeks on Shavuot, people would bring oﬀerings of wheat to the Temple. Cohen says that fifth graders at Davis are chosen during the morning announcements to say the blessing counting the days leading up to Shavuot. “It’s considered an honor for the fifth-graders to say the blessing,” she said, adding that Shavuot generally falls around the end of the school year, so as the children are counting up to the holiday, they are also counting down to the last day of school. “It’s nice when those things line up,” Cohen said. She added that the school usually celebrates its Field Day on or near the 33rd day of counting, which typically is celebrated with bonfires. She said that during the Shavuot period Davis students also study Torah, learn about the 10 Commandments, play counting games and make crowns symbolizing earning the “crown of Torah.”

Shavuot studies This year Shavuot takes place beginning the evening of Tuesday, June 3, and ending the evening of Thursday, June 5. AA Synagogue hosts an allnight learning event for Shavuot from 6:30 p.m. on June 3 to 7:30 a.m. on June 4. For more information: www.aasynagogue. Congregation Beth Shalom hosts a night of Shavuot study at the home of Rabbi Mark and Linda Zimmerman starting at 7:45 p.m. on June 3. The congregation also hosts two Shavuot services on June 3 and 4, both at 9:30 a.m. For more information: www.bshalom.net. Congregation Beth Teﬁllah/ Chabad of Georgia serves a dairy luncheon for Shavuot on June 4 at 12:30 p.m. For more information: www.bethteﬁllah.org. Congregation B’nai Torah hosts three different Shavuot study sessions at three different locations on the night of June 3, starting at 8. There will also be Shavuot services on June 3 and 4: morning services at

Weber at 9, youth services at Weber at 10:30 a.m., Kiddush at Weber at noon, and Mincha at the Carleton at 6:15 p.m. For more information: www.bnaitorah.org. Congregation Or Hadash holds a Shavuot study session starting at 8:30 p.m. on June 3 and a morning service at 9:15 on June 4. For more information: www.or-hadash.org. Temple Sinai hosts a Shavuot service in the chapel on June 4 from 11 a.m. to noon, which will then be followed by a Lunch and Learn from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. For more information: www. templesinaiatlanta.org. The Kehilla in Sandy Springs has all-night Shavuot learning from 10 p.m. June 3 to 2 a.m. June 4 For more information: www.thekehilla.org. The Temple will have a Shavuot service on June 4 from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Covenant Chapel. For more information: www.the-temple.org. –Jenna Goff

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