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Gas station ‘Think Tank’ offers up coffee, politics and daily conversations BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE
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Julie Greer, 2, daughter of Kimberly Greer, assistant to the city manager, plays before the grand opening of Phase II of Brook Run Park’s multi-use trail on Aug. 23. A children’s bicycle race and a run/ walk also ushered in the latest section of the trail now open for public use. More photos on page 20.
Status updates and “liking” on social media posts are slowly replacing gatherings of friends in public, but virtual reality takes away the warmth of a handshake, hug and a smile. “People don’t say to your face what they will say behind a machine,” Chuck Batcheller said. These are some of the reasons Dan McMahan sticks with Batcheller and several others he joins for coffee just about every morning, before everyone rushes out to fulfill the day’s duties. They call themselves the Dunwoody Think Tank, and they invite everyone to stop by and say hello. Well, almost everyone. “Dunwoody Think Tank, everyone welcome,” reads the side of a sign that has been in the window about six years. From the outside, visitors cannot see the white letters added on the reverse side of the sign that say “almost.” “It’ a joke,” McMahan says. McMahan and his fellow thinkers have been meeting at the BP gas station on Chamblee Dunwoody Road for about as long as Facebook SEE ‘THINK TANK,’ PAGE 4
County commission office will continue to provide services despite Boyer’s departure BY JOE EARLE
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As former DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyopinions and issues on to other commissioners, and preer confronts federal criminal charges, her office will remain pare the office for the next elected commissioner, he said. open to provide services to residents of the north end of the “We’ll make sure everything is ready for the new commiscounty, the DeKalb County interim CEO says. sioner when they step in.” “Bob Lundsten will remain as constituent service person Federal prosecutors on Aug. 26 accused Boyer of misfor District 1,” Lee May told about two using county money and a county purdozen residents and city officials gathered chasing card. They said she conspired to For updated information to hear him speak in Dunwoody on Aug. commit mail fraud and wire fraud. In a on the case, go to 28. The district covers much of north press release, they said she was scheduled DeKalb County, including Dunwoody, to plead guilty to the charges on Sept. 3. ReporterNewspapers.net. and a significant portion of Brookhaven. Lundsten said he was surprised by the Lundsten, Chief of Staff to Boyer, said charges, but had no further comment he and another District 1 staff member would stay in place on Boyer’s situation. “I haven’t spoken to her since it hapuntil a new commissioner is elected. pened,” he said. They will deal with constituent concerns, pass political SEE DESPITE PAGE 3
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State lawmakers met Aug. 26 with advocates of new cities in DeKalb County to tell them to agree on the boundaries of their proposed communities by November or expect a panel of legislators to draw a map for the new cities. “The General Assembly can’t be caught in an intractable, three-way dispute over boundaries,” Rep. Mike Jacobs (RBR I EF S Brookhaven) said after the meeting. Jacobs and Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody) met with representatives of three groups promoting the creation of new cities — the City of Briarcliff Initiative, Lakeside Yes and Tucker 2015 –and laid out directions for DeKalb County cityhood boundary line proposals from the House Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees legislation involving the creation of new cities. Past efforts to create the cities collapsed in boundary disputes. According to a press release issued after the meeting, directions for drawing cityhood proposals are as follows: • Each of the three groups will have until Sept. 5 to identify one authorized signatory for a compromise boundary map. • Cityhood proponents have until Nov. 15 to come to a mutual agreement on boundary lines and submit the agreed upon map bearing three signatures from the authorized signatories to the House Governmental Affairs Committee. • If an agreement cannot be reached by that date, House Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Amy Carter will appoint a panel of five state House members to carry out the task of drawing city boundaries for the proposed cities. The panel’s sole charge will be to produce a boundary map no later than Dec. 31 by majority vote of the panel. • Either the agreed upon map by cityhood proponents or the map drawn by the legislative panel will be the only acceptable version that the House Governmental Affairs Committee will consider. “Our goal for this process is to encourage all stakeholders to engage in conversations now about cityhood boundary lines and to ensure any remaining disputes are resolved prior to 2015,” Jacobs said in the release. Carter (R-Valdosta) said the plan gives cityhood proponents “the best chance for successful passage of legislation that will allow new city proposals to go before the voters for consideration.” “There is a need to bring order to this process and the directions outlined to the stakeholders today will accomplish just that,” she said.
Government 101 graduates new class The third year of Dunwoody’s Government 101 program recently graduated a group of residents who are better informed about the way local government works. The free course is available in Dunwoody for residents to learn more about the roles of city officials. On each of the eight weeks, a city department head gets in front of the class to explain the job he or she does. William Middleton, a member of the 2014 class, spoke during the Aug. 25 Dunwoody City Council meeting about the course and its benefits. “Now the mayor’s wife knows what he does on Monday nights,” Middleton joked from the podium. Members of the class included Mary Pat Davis, wife of Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis. The rest of the class included (not all pictured): Jeanna Bierenfeld, Matthew Blankenship, Richard Doster, Sally Doster, Zachary Ferrara, Thomas Hall, Jan Jacobs, Arthur Katz, Carol Katz, Carol Knight, Richard Lapin, Wayne Radloff, Ian Schonberg, Pamela Smith, Megan Weiland and Shelia Williams.
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Despite Boyer’s resignation, county services continue CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sept. 10. Candidates may file for the seat at the office of the DeKalb County Board Federal authorities reportedly reviewof Registrations and Elections, 4380 Meing records on the use of purchasing morial Drive, Decatur, 30032. The fee cards by all DeKalb County employees. to qualify is $1,151.24, the “I’m in the same situation as county said. every other employee who Former DeKalb School has had a P-card,” Lundsten Board member Nancy Jestsaid. er announced she plans to The 57-year-old comrun for the seat. She planned missioner resigned from her to kick off her campaign on post on Aug. 25, the day beSept. 4. fore the charges were filed. Federal authorities say “It’s a very hard decision, Boyer paid $78,000 to a and I’m heartbroken and consultant who then funsaddened, but I need to reneled 75 percent of the sign,” she told a Channel 2 money back to her personal reporter. “I’ve betrayed the bank account. people and I’ve abused my Elaine Boyer “From September 2009 position of power, and so I to November 2011, false infeel like I need to do this and voices were submitted to Ms. Boyer’s publicly acknowledge that I’m ending office for consulting services purportmy position.” edly rendered by [the] advisor…,” the She had represented the district U.S. Attorney’s office said in the press since 1992 and was the sole Republican release. “Between September 2009 and on the commission. Her current term November 2011, [the] advisor deposwas due to expire in 2016. ited more than $58,000 in DeKalb May immediately issued a statement County funds into Ms. Boyer’s personon her resignation. “Recent news stories al bank account (while retaining the renotwithstanding, Elaine Boyer has faithmainder of the money). fully served the constituents of District 1 “In turn, Ms. Boyer used the money and DeKalb County for over 20 years,” deposited into her account to pay perMay’s statement said. “It is my sincere sonal expenses, including purhope that her resignation will chases at hotels and high-end allow the healing process to department stores.” begin and open the door for Federal authorities say a new voice on the Board of Boyer also made more than Commissioners. I wish her 50 purchases, including airthe best.” line tickets and hotel rooms County election officials for personal travel, using scheduled a special election her county Visa Purchasing on Nov. 4 to choose a new Card. “In total, she made commissioner. The special over $15,000 worth of purelection will be held on the chases on her P-Card for same day as the general elecpersonal goods and serviction that already is schedes,” the press release said. uled. Bob Lundsten U.S. Attorney Sale QuilIn Dunwoody, May joked lian Yates said that as a commissioner, that the election may attract a large Boyer made a commitment to serve the number of candidates. “Everyone and best interests of DeKalb residents. their mama is going to want to run for “Instead of honoring that committhis seat because it’s been occupied for ment,” Yates said in a press release, “Ms. 20 years,” he said. Boyer stole from the citizens she was The DeKalb Board of Registrations sworn to serve by diverting thousands and Elections said any candidate interestof dollars in county funds to her personed in the position may file a notice of inal bank account and using her county-istention to run with county elections offisued credit card like it was her own.” cials from 8:30 a.m. Sept. 8 through noon DUN
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has existed. Before the BP gas station was built, the group met at other locations around town, including the BP at Georgetown, and, for a short while, at the Dunkin’ Donuts across the street from their current “home.” They meet daily, discussing local politics, the community and whatever is on their minds that day. When McMahan walked into a small Amoco station about 10 years ago, warm smiles from about four people caused him to take a few extra minutes out of his morning commute, to stop and say hello. “We’d talk about life, everything,” he says. “This was back when I was smoking and we’d have a couple of cigarettes and a couple of cups of coffee and then we’d go on in to work.” That went on for a couple years, McMahan said, before they tore the Amoco down, and the group moved to the BP at Georgetown. “It started growing, and more and more people started coming by,” he said. They meet seven days a week and 365 days a year. “It was kind of a joke because people would come in and say, ‘What are you still doing here?’” he said. “We’re here Christmas morning, if we can get out of the house.” Batcheller works as a concrete and stone contractor. He met McMahan not at the think tank, but while renovating the pool in his Dunwoody neighborhood. Batcheller “genuinely cares about everybody,” McMahan said, with his wife, Lori, adding, “but you don’t see it when you first meet him.” “He has an opinion, and you may not agree with it, but it’s his opinion and he’s going to give it to you,” McMahan said. The others have grown used to that. “We all brag about having a thick skin, a short memory and a long fuse,” Dave Haverty said.
From left, Dave Haverty, Chuck Batcheller and Dan McMahan enjoy the view from inside their ‘Think Tank ‘ headquarters at the BP gas station on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
The idea for the sign naming the morning chat group the Dunwoody Think Tank came from Batcheller, while he visited with a cousin in Florida. Batcheller asked Richard Scarpa, a friend who owns Signs Now Atlanta, about making a sign for the window above the table at BP. When Batcheller picked up the finished sign, Scarpa told him, “I’m not going to charge you. This is community service.” The Georgetown BP bought outdoor tables for the group because it had gotten so large. When the manager at the Georgetown BP became the manager of the current location, he “bribed us to come up here,” McMahan said, describ-
ing the former manager as a nice young man who has moved on to other things. “It’s just a bunch of old guys, hanging out, talking about life, talking about a lot of politics,” McMahan said. But it’s not just guys, and McMahan may not have originally met his wife at the think tank, but they started dating after running into each other at the table in BP. “They were like light fixtures here,” she said. “They were always here every morning.” Lori McMahan still remembers Dan was wearing a yellow shirt and khakis on the day he said to her, “We’re here every morning. Stop by and have a cup of
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Developer Minerva won unanimous approval from the Dunwoody City Council to rezone property west of Chamblee Dunwoody Road to allow for construction of 55 town homes. The developer said during the council’s Aug. 25 meeting that its project would revitalize a declining office park, and countered concerns about green space in the project by saying it would tie into the city’s multi-use trail and replace some existing parking areas with grass. “What I’m hearing from a lot of people who couldn’t be here tonight that it’s a net gain of a lot of green space,” Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch said. The property consists of 5.73 acres at 4330 Georgetown Square. Construction of 55 three-story townhomes will replace the five two-story, brick office buildings and surface parking lot currently there.
Multi-family apartments will not be permitted, Community Development Director Steve Foote said during the Aug. 11 council meeting. Councilman Denis Shortal said one of his main concerns about the project involved how many units would be available as rentals. Minerva recommended a homeowner’s association be created and that no more than five units be available to rent at any one time. A traffic study conducted by Minerva determined traffic congestion would be improved in a 5-to-1 reduction due to residential units as opposed to office units. Other concerns council members expressed involved the siding Minerva would use on the exterior of the townhomes. An agreement was made to use 66 percent brick and stone facing.
City Council backs Dunwoody Club Forest residents BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE
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The Dunwoody City Council backed residents in the Dunwoody Club Forest subdivision, and agreed to veto a plan to split a large corner lot to make room for two homes. Discussions leading up to the Aug. 25 vote centered on the design of the Dunwoody Club Forest subdivision, and whether plans to subdivide a lot would devalue surrounding properties. During public comment, Kyle Williams, attorney for the property owner at 5258 Vernon Lake Drive, said city staff’s approval of splitting the lot should be upheld. An attorney for residents Erika Harris, Constance Nagel and Eleanor Goodwin presented to council members a document outlining “11 points of opposition,” and he asked council to use its “broad discretion” to uphold parts of the Dunwoody code “to preserve and conserve” land. Councilman John Heneghan made a motion to approve the appeal and said DUN
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Variable speed limits smart idea for Perimeter To the editor:
This is the same concept applied to the ramp meters stopping drivers before they enter the Perimeter; even when it isn’t The times are a “changing,” but so are the speeds on the Pecongested. By restricting the flow of vehicles entering the inrimeter’s “Top End” come September. terstate, it flows more smoothly and the impact on congestion We all know the Perimeter (I-285) speed limits on the half is ameliorated. running below I-20 were raised to 65 mph several months ago. In practice, speed limits will be lowered upon several cirGeorgia Department of Transportation’s assesscumstances. ment of the traffic on the “Lower-Half ” of the First, a lane-blocking incident will trigger Perimeter justified raising the permanent speed speed reduction miles before the incident. SecLE TTE R TO limits based on many criteria, which included ond, adverse driving conditions such as a popsafety, number of exits and congestion considup shower or blinding sunshine slowdowns can THE E DITOR erations. be accommodated. E-mail letters to The Perimeter Top End however, not so Third, and the most impactful, is prior to editor@reporternewspapers.net fast. There, the congestion, number of exits the predictable peak congestion, the speed limand safety concerns were significantly more its will be lowered. For example, if the peak is impactful. While conditions on weekends and at 7:30 a.m., when traffic cannot move at anylate nights support shifting the speed limit up from 55 to 65 where near the current 55 mph speed limit, anticipate the new mph, peak hours suggested downshifting to a lower speed. 65 mph being incrementally lowered to 55 mph at 6:30 a.m., Thus, drivers of the Perimeter Top End may have noticed then to 45 mph at 7 a.m. For drivers who believe speed limnew signs being installed at strategic intervals. These signs its are simply suggestions, or worse, anticipate more than one are electronic and will be able to display variable speed limits. complaint over a citation issued for exceeding a lower speed Quoting the Texas A&M Transportation Institute: “Varilimit when the road was “wide open.” able speed limits are enacted by signs that can be changed Before we protest too much, lowering the speed limit preto alert drivers when traffic congestion is imminent. Sensors peak is the most effective way to improve performance to along the roadway detect when congestion or weather conavoid the worst congestion during peak drive times. ditions exceed specified thresholds, and automatically reduce Why does this work? It avoids the accordion effect that the speed limit (in 5 mph increments) to slow traffic and postcreates stop-and-go traffic, and significantly reduces the numpone the onset of congestion. The system’s goal is to slow trafber of severe crashes that degrade the flow. Studies consistentfic uniformly in a way that allows smooth traffic flow and ly show the optimal speed which accommodates the most veavoids stop-and-go conditions.” hicles is just under 45 mph. It also reduces crashes caused by multiple lane changes and The concept is to slow down to get there faster. As counquick stops. terintuitive as this is, it works. What will not be intuitive to drivers is that slowing down will occur prior to encountering congestion. Thus, a drivBob Dallas er may perceive little congestion and question why the speed limit has been reduced. As the goal is to prevent or delay the Bob Dallas, who headed the Governor’s Office of Highway onset of congestion, slowing drivers down has to occur before Safety under former Gov. Sonny Perdue, serves on the Dunwoody the congestion is experienced. Planning Commission.
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“Our vision is to expand Blue Heron well beyond our own boundaries by connecting our trails to existing ones all around us.” –Nancy Jones, executive director of the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Buckhead, on plans to create trails at the preserve that could link to other walkways in the surrounding area.
“It looked awful. I didn’t even go inside.” –Sandy Springs resident Sylvia McAdam, recalling when she went to the local library to get a book earlier this summer. Instead, she turned around, went home and told her husband, Don, “We needed to go cut the grass at the library.” Now the couple regularly volunteers to maintain the Sandy Springs library grounds and is recruiting other groups to pitch in.
“Sadly, Fulton County taxpayers have been subjected to this repetitive pattern of willful disregard of fiscal constraints, and the Fulton County Commission has failed to recognize the eventual outcome of their actions – the money runs out!” –Reps. Jan Jones (R-Milton), Wendell Willard (R-Sandy Springs), Joe Wilkinson (R-Sandy Springs), Chuck Martin (R-Alpharetta), Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell), Lynne Riley (R-Johns Creek) and former Rep. Ed Lindsey of Buckhead, who brought suit against Fulton County over a recent tax increase.
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Forget the Terrible Twos. How about the Terrible 22s? I knew what to do with a 2-year-old, but what do I do with a 22-year-old? By the miracle of life, the 2-year-old boy who was toddling around our house — it couldn’t have been 20 years ago — has suddenly become a full grown man. He’s in that nebulous area of space and time, waffling between higher education and independent living. He’s old enough to drive, vote and serve our country, but he still doesn’t know how to load a dishwasher. It’s that age between learning how to cite your sources and learning how to scramble an egg. Some say it’s just a phase. He went through phases when he was in his terrible twos. I remember that. There were books on that. There was the colicky phase, the phase of exploration, the “my little potty” phase. And although I ran myself ragged during that time, I knew that (fall-down-and-die exhaustion aside, I can’t say it enough) this would not be the most difficult part of mothering. He still took naps. I was still bigger than he was — and continued to be, until he turned 12. Above all, I knew that the crap I dealt with then I could flush down the toilet. But the age of unflushable crap has arrived. Still, the similarities between a 2-yearold and a 22-year-old are remarkable. When he was 2, he waddled around the house half-naked, wearing nothing but his diapers. It was very cute. At 22, he lumbers around the house, with his 6-foot-tall, extremely hairy body, wearing nothing but boxers or a wet towel— never both at the same time. It’s not so cute. When he was 2, he pattered gleefully from room to room, marking his territory with squeaky toys and sippy cups. At 22, he plods from den to kitchen to bedroom, leaving a trail of stained coffee cups, half-eaten cookies and stacks of books in his wake. When he was 2, he would wake up at 3 in the morning, crying from night-
mares. At 22, he comes in at 3 in the morning. And I’m the one having nightmares. I remember when he was born, how I labored ROBIN JEAN for 26 hours MARIE CONTE until he finally came into ROBIN’S NEST the world, how my doctor presented me with him, saying, “It’s a boy! And he’s perfect!” I remember how I spent the night in the hospital, my first night as a mother, lying there with my brand new baby boy asleep on my stomach. It was the most magical night of my life. I spoke to him as he slept in his infant oblivion. I told him about the room we had waiting for him at home, lined with stuffed animals and decorated with cheery colors. I told him about the grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and friends who couldn’t wait to meet him or see him again. I told him that his father and I were so happy to have him, about all the things we would do together, the fun we would have. Then my husband entered the room, ever the eager one, actually trying to give me lessons on breast feeding. The summer is almost over and my son will be leaving in a few days. I could say that I’ll miss his stacks of debris and barely-clothed hairy body. But I won’t. What I will miss is his company — his humor, his conversation, his incredible intelligence. So as I close the door to his train wreck of a room, I remind myself: This is all just a phase.
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about $500,000 – half a million dollars – in Reporter Newspapers communities? What’s a half-million-dollar house these days? “Well, it’s not what it used to be,” joked Sandy Springs Realtor Katie Brinkman, who’s been in the business a quarter century. “But people get good buys for their money, particularly in the suburbs.”
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It can all be rather confusing. Buying a house sometimes can seem like a return to math class. There’s a parade of unintelligible numbers. Prices are up here, down over there. Inventories are flat for one kind of home, shrinking for another.
Sometimes, comparing houses can even take on the look of an algebraic calculation: Does 5 BR + 4 ½ BA in Sandy Springs = 4 BR + 3 ½ BA in Dunwoody? To try to cut through some of the numbers, we decided to pose a simple question: What can you get for
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Real estate snapshot: Single family home sales Sandy Springs: 30350 High Low Median
# BRs 7 2 5
Sq. Ft. 10,307 760 3,958
List Price $2,300,000 68,000 549,900
Sales Price $2,199,000 64,050 525,000
Days on Market 1,218 0 60
Sales Price $6,300,000 305,000 646,000
Days on Market 871 0 36
Sales Price $2,325,000 169,150 444,000
Days on Market 560 0 25
Buckhead: 30305 High Low Median
# BRs 7 2 4
Sq. Ft. 12,705 928 2,698
List Price $6,900,000 290,700 672,500
Brookhaven: 30319 High Low Median
# BRs 7 0 4
Sq. Ft. 6,811 840 2,452
List Price $2,500,000 175,000 450,000
Dunwoody: 30338 # BRs Sq. Ft. List Price Sales Price Days on Market High 6 31,873 $1,250,000 $1,160,000 567 Low 3 1,265 150,000 120,000 0 Median 4 2,889 424,950 415,375 24 This information is compiled from First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) from January-August, 2014. This information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed, and is not a complete list of activity. Data provided by Judy Soden, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Sandy Springs office.
Real Estate Briefs Ashton Woods Homes has opened the new model home at Gramercy, its latest Dunwoody townhome community. Priced from the $400s, luxury amenities include an optional elevator, master suites, media/game rooms, decks with fire rings and built-in bars. For more visit www.ashtonwoods. com/Atlanta. Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta has announced the hiring of Suzy Smith as a new real estate advisor. She brings 15 years of experience with in-depth market knowledge of the Atlanta area. Engel & Völkers also named a new senior vice president of business development, Valerie Levin, who has 25 years of real estate experience in sales, management, training and recruiting. GROUNDFLOOR, the first microlending community for real estate, has opened its headquarters at Atlanta Tech Village. This comes immediately after the company raised $1 million in seed round funding from angel investors including Michael Olander, Bruce Boehm, Mark Easley Sr. and the Inception Micro-Angel Fund. The company selected Georgia as its new home to grow its business due to the state’s progressive stance on crowdfunding policies and citizen-backed real estate development.
The map above, prepared by the Atlanta Regional Commission using demographic data from ESRI, shows areas with these median home values:
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Prostate Cancer Wednesday, Sept. 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m. – Join experts from Emory University’s Winship
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Fall Gardening Wednesday, Sept. 17, 3-3:45 p.m. – Sum-
mer may be over, but there is still plenty of time for gardening! Sarah Brodd from the UGA Cooperative Extension provides tips and tricks for a fall vegetable garden. Open to the first 30 participants. Free. For adults. Call 404-848-7140 to register. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319.
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itage Sandy Springs’ “Turtle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for children ages 2-5, continues. In this program, join museum mascots Spring and Sandy, as Spring “Spies the letter ___?” Free; donations encouraged. No reservations required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: kbrigance@heritagesandysprings. org, call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.
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Bogey and The Viceroy Sunday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m. – Concerts by the
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No pets, no smoking. Picnic baskets, coolers and blankets are welcome; no outside tables. Additional food and beverages available for purchase. Heritage Green, on the Sandy Springs Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org, call 404-851-9111, ext. 4 or email: information@heritagesandysprings.org.
Gospel Music Sunday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. – Forget your normal
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Redheads 5K Saturday, Sept. 13, 7:30 a.m. – Run, walk or brachiate to save orangutans! Join others for the 2nd annual Run for the Redheads 5K. Dress as your favorite redhead, wear red, paint your hair red and help save the endangered orangutan. $20 pre-race; $25 race day; $10 for 1-mile Great Ape Gallop; $15 race day. Proceeds go to Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. Start/finish at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3003 Howell Mill Rd., Atlanta, 30327. Go to: www.active.com or www.apeconservationeffort.org to register. Questions? Email: redheadrun@apeconservationeffort.org.
Thursday, Sept. 18, 5-9 p.m. – Kingswood
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BY ART HUCKABEE In this Top Chef crazy restaurant town, can Aunt Bella make it? “Aunt who?” you ask. That would be former University of Georgia professor and now restaurateur, Dr. Kim Grady’s aunt, the woman who helped raise her and gave her the inspiration for Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet, a newly opened bakery restaurant tucked among the boutiques, art galleries and antique shops on Bennett Street in south Buckhead. As Kim tells the story, while working on her doctoral dissertation, she would bake nightly to relax. The next day she would bring her baked goods to class. Kim’s students were the first to urge her to consider going into the baking business. Kim reconnected with her childhood friend, now husband, Ray Grady, several years ago. Ray, a big, soft-spoken man, and Kim’s number one fan, likes to tell of the first time he sampled Kim’s baked goods. He says, “The first time I tasted (it), I cussed… It was that good.” You can tell that Ray doesn’t cuss very often. Kim and Ray began selling their allorganic vegetarian baked goods and other goodies at local farmer’s markets in Sandy Springs, Emory and Tucker. Even now, with the demands of their new restaurant, they still have a stall at each market. It was a reader who suggested that I visit Bella’s Best. They had been open just a month and a day when I stopped in with two friends for lunch. It’s a space with lots of potential and is clearly a work in progress. Ray was behind the baked goods counter. Save for him and Kim in the kitchen, we were the only
others in the place. In addition to the sweet baked goods, the savory offerings consisted of a spinach quiche, a stuffed red pepper, a vegetable pie and a pastry Kim calls “strucla” which on this day was filled with portabella mushrooms. All are individually sized so we chose to share one of each. Strucla is Kim’s pièce de résistance. Originally made by her Aunt Bella as a treat at Christmas time, this pastry has its roots in Polish baking. The dough has cream cheese in it but remains light with a firm, chewy texture. Kim fills each pastry with a variety of homemade organic fruit preserves and vegetables. The portabella strucla was excellent and with a side salad, would make the perfect lunch for those well-heeled shoppers who frequent Bennett Street. On other days a tomato basil strucla and a spinach artichoke strucla are in the offerings. The stuffed red pepper was filled with cooked grains, red onion, corn and peas. It was the perfect doneness with all of the veggies still having a brightness and toothsome crunch. The spinach quiche and the vegetable pie were also quite good. Kim uses the same dough for these as she does her strucla. The lack of a side or garnish makes it feel like you’re dining in a bakery more than a restaurant. Kim later explained that when their traffic picks up she will have the ability to include more garnishes and sides, but for now, she tries to limit her perishables. All of her baked products are made fresh each day. For dessert, we tried Kim’s signature strucla, a “classic” apricot. As Ray explains, “It has apricots, walnuts, golden
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raisins, coconut and some hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.” It was gooey and not too sweet. We also tried a fig strucla, a ginger cookie and the pecan shortbread. All were very good with the ginger cookie packing a spicy punch. Kim emerged from the kitchen to inquire how we liked our lunch. It’s clear that she and Ray have big plans for this restaurant even talking of eventually opening a kid’s baking school and a meals-to-go section. It’s also clear that those plans are firmly rooted in values that honor family and community. Making it in the restaurant business is tough. Kim and Ray have already fielded offers to sell their products through grocery chains and other restaurants, but have resisted, fearful that they would not be able to maintain the quality and high standards that are the bedrocks of
their business. As to the original question, will Aunt Bella make it? It’s clear that she already has. Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet is located at 25-D Bennett St. For more information, call 404-603-4733
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The State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia on Aug. 27 denied the petition for Brookhaven Innovation Academy, a charter school planned by Brookhaven’s city council that had also received the support of the DeKalb County School System. However, Bonnie Holliday, the commission’s executive director, said she is encouraging the school to reapply for next year. “The SCSC staff is very supportive of the board’s efforts, and we are committed to working with them over the course of the next year to strengthen their petition and improve their capacity for the 2015 application cycle,” she said in an e-mail. At a District 3 town hall meeting on Aug. 25, Councilman Bates Mattison said if the school wasn’t approved this year the city would try again for next year. “Even if we have to move it to get approved next year, we’re dedicated to making sure . . . there are educational options here in Brookhaven,” he said. “This school is really intended to embrace disadvantaged kids, particularly on Buford Highway, and get them into high-skilled, high-tech jobs for the future and we believe that we’ve got a good petition to be able to do that. So we’ll get there eventually.” He said he understands that the state commission is nervous about approving new schools and is encouraged by the fact that three of the four charters they approved this year were denials from last year. “My perception is they like to move very slowly and we moved very quickly,” he said. The commission’s staff had notified the city on Aug. 18 that it would recommend denial of the charter school, citing concerns that the application didn’t demonstrate a cohesive plan for a consistent educational program, didn’t provide a governance structure with clear authority, didn’t provide any detail on how the school would meet the needs of students with disabilities and that its proposed attendance zone was inconsistent with state law. Following the notification, Brookhaven City Council petitioned
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for more time to work with staff on those concerns, asking the commission to wait until its September meeting to make a decision about the school. Mayor J. Max Davis responded to each of the commission staff ’s concerns in a letter dated Aug. 20 that explained why he thought the school’s plan for its educational model was clear and that explained that the school’s board would hire professionals with clear authority. He also stated the need for better educational opportunities in the city. “First, as the mayor and city council of Brookhaven, we are acutely aware of the need to offer quality educational options to our residents,” the letter says. “We recognize that Brookhaven has a significant educational challenge. The only public high school physically located in Brookhaven . . . is Cross Keys. Unfortunately, its graduation rate is 43 percent.” In July, DeKalb Schools Superintendent Michael Thurmond wrote a letter in support of the school to the commission. “Overall, the district supports the inaugural operation of this progressive statewide charter school in DeKalb County,” the letter read, describing the school’s proposal to teach computer language coding
to students in kindergarten through 12th grade as “impressive and admirable.” During the Aug. 1 hearing, a lot of the commission’s questions to
the council centered around council members’ ability to handle the double duty of running both a city and a school. Council members said the key would be finding the right people to run the school’s day-to-day operations, just like they did for the city. “Our experience as city councilmen and women lends a great deal of experience to what we’re charged to do as members of the governing board of Brookhaven Innovation Academy,” Mattison said at the hearing. The school proposal, first unveiled in May at Brookhaven’s City Hall, calls for the school to be operated by a non-profit governed by a board whose members would be appointed by Brookhaven City Council. The board also would include representatives of parents and the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce and could include a representative of the DeKalb school board. The school, like other charter schools, would be financed through school taxes. City officials have said no city money would be spent operating the school, but about $300,000 to $400,000 is needed to start the school, with that money coming from the state and private foundations.
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For the last 5 1/2 years, Jim King has been the face of Buckhead’s neighborhoods. On Nov. 14, King announced he is stepping aside from his role as Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods chairman. Tom Tidwell, a BY MELISSA WEINMAN melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net member of the West Paces/Northside Neighborhood Association, will take over that role. King says he will remain as vice chairman, As state legislators head back to the Gold Dome in 2013, they “temporarily.” King said he’d been considering giving up the post for have somea lot to think about. One local issue the state’s lawmakers may be asked to confront time, but some recent developments in his personal life pushed is the controversy surrounding DeKalb County’s school board. SEE JIM KING, PAGE 6 The system was recently placed on accreditation probation by AdvancED, the accrediting agency. Sen. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody), who chairs the Senate Education Committee, said at a recent forum that DeKalb County schools are his No. 1 priority. “I’m guardedly optimistic we can turn this thing around,” MilScan here to get lar said. Reporter Newspapers A Jan. 17 hearing of the Georgia Board of Education is schedin your inbox “Since 1983” uled to consider suspending the DeKalb school board members. If or sign up @
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Angry Ashford Park neighbors told City Council that the handling of permits for a new home in their neighborhood has them questioning their confidence in the new city’s government. On Nov. 22, residents addressed the City Council before a special called private meeting. They are concerned about a home being built at 2802 Ashford Road that they say is being built far closer to the street than it should be under city zoning regulations. According to the DeKalb County zoning code adopted by
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handles an ornament at the third annual Elegant Elf Marketplace at Lake Forest Elementary School on Nov. 16. The two-day holiday event, presented by The Sandy Springs Society, raises funds for local community services. Rider, part of a multigenerational family selling hand-painted ornaments at the market, personalized the decorations with a buyer’s name while he or she shopped, having it ready when the customer was finished. Additional photos on page 3.
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300 block of Perimeter Center – On Aug. 22 an arrest was made for DUI.
arrest for loitering was made when police saw a suspicious person run away from the area after seeing law enforcement officers.
Ashford Dunwoody Road at Perimeter Center East – On Aug. 25, an arrest was made for driving while unlicensed.
simple assault and simple battery were reported. One person was arrested.
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6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – On Aug. 28, an
4400 block of Tilly Mill Road – On Aug. 25, a wanted person was located and arrested.
6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – On Aug. 22,
4900 block of Winters Chapel Road – On Aug. 29, a report of family battery, simple battery was made.
rest was made for driving without a license.
Highway 285 at Chamblee Dunwoody Road – On Aug. 25, a traffic stop led to an arrest for possession of marijuana.
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6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – On Aug. 29, a report of family battery, simple battery was made.
2100 block of Dunwoody Glen – On Aug. 27, an ar-
made for obstruction and probation violation; On Aug. 26, an arrest was made for obstruction and a probation violation; On Aug. 27, two arrests were made for failure to appear in court; On Aug. 28, three arrests for failure to appear in court were made; On Aug. 29, two arrests were made for failure to appear in court and an arrest was made for probation violation.
200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – On Aug. 22, a simple assault and a simple battery were reported.
made for loitering and prowling.
100 block of Perimeter Center East – On Aug. 24, an arrest was
4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – On Aug. 28, swindle was reported.
ily-related simple battery was reported. Two people were arrested.
100 block of Perimeter Center Place – On Aug. 27, an arrest was
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Court extends order halting Brook Run trail
Contract awarded for Lake Forrest fix
Councilwoman makes last stand for trees
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City Council awarded a $717,689 contract to C.W. Matthews Contracting to fix a portion of Lake Forrest Drive that’s been closed since June. The city’s current timetable estimates the portion of Lake Forrest between Lake Summit and Chevaux Court will be reopened by A court order halting construction a controversial multi-useFeb. 28, 2014. Scanofhere to get trail through Brook Run Park was extended after a boisterous Fri- The city closed the road after multiple rock slides. Reporter Newspapers day afternoon hearing in DeKalb County Superior in your inbox Court attended The initial quote from C.W. Matthews was $1.5 million. City by city officials and dozens of opponents of the city’s plan. or sign up @ officials revised their plans for the fix, deciding to use a net to catch Judge Tangela M. Barrie said her temporary restraining order ReporterNewspapers.net SEE CITY COUNCIL, PAGE 27 against the trail will remain in effect until she holds a full hearing on the matter. Barrie said homeowners who oppose the city’s plan for the trail must convince her that its construction through the forest in Brook Run Park should be permanently stopped. Critics are upset the planned 12-foot-wide concrete trail will require removal of more than 300 trees. City officials say an equal number of trees will be replanted. The judge’s decision to extend her temporary order capped a two-hour hearing before a packed courtroom. Chairs were add-
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Before she exits Sandy Springs City Council in January, District 6 City Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny is working to secure her legacy as the city’s lead tree preservationist. McEnerny, a firm believer in term limits, didn’t seek a third term in this year’s municipal election. She’s also a firm believer in tree protection, and has spent the last few months trying to get the council to correct what she believes are glaring flaws in the city’s tree ordinance. City Council on Nov. 19 discussed McEnerny’s suggested fixes
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4600 block of North Shallowford Road – On Aug. 23, a robbery of a business with a gun was reported.
300 block of Perimeter Center North – On Aug. 26, police responded to a domestic dispute and arrested a woman for disorderly conduct and under the influence of alcohol.
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Does Dunwoody police force reflect those they serve? Following protests in Missouri after a police shooting of a young black man, some residents have questioned how well local police agencies mirror the communities they serve. Here are racial and ethnic compositions of the Dunwoody Police Department, compared to the overall population of the city of Dunwoody.
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Percent of police (51 total officers) 82% 10% 2% 6%
Percent of population (47,591#) 64%* 13%* 11%* 10%*
#2013 estimate, *2010, Sources: Dunwoody Police Department; U.S. Census
Dunwoody Police Blotter CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 4000 block of Dunwoody Park – On Aug. 29, a wanted person was located and arrested. Highway 285 at Ashford Dunwoody Road – On Aug. 29, an arrest was made for driving while unlicensed after a traffic stop for improper lane usage was made.
OTHER 100 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – On Aug. 22, damage to private property was
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4400 Ashford Dunwoody Road – On Aug. 24, a report was made by a man about a civil dispute he was having with his ex-wife. 1300 block of Peachford Circle – On Aug. 24, a report was made of suicidal threats. 6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard – On Aug. 25, a report of loitering and drinking in public was made at the Dunwoody Glen Apartments. Citations were issues, and no arrests were made.
Aug. 25, an arrest was made for striking an unattended vehicle. While driving in the parking deck at an apartment complex, a driver struck an unattended 2005 Toyota Tacoma truck and failed to provide information as required by State law. 4000 block of Dunwoody Park – On Aug. 25, a report of hit and run was made after a driver left the scene of an accident. 1700 block of Chateau Drive – On Aug. 28, damage to private property was reported.
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