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Left to right, caroline Koziol, 8, Reese Butler, 9, and Thomas Koziol, 5, get a kick out of a carnival ride at St. Martin’s episcopal School’s fall festival on oct. 19. The event, sponsored by the Parent Teacher organization, featured bungee jumping, games, food and more. Additional photos on page 19.

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A DeKalb judge has ruled that Brookhaven may not annex Century Center unless a Nov. 5 referendum to annex the property into Chamblee fails. Citing Georgia law in an Oct. 28 order, DeKalb Superior Court Judge Tangela Barrie ruled that Local Act 205, the General Assembly’s legislation creating the Chamblee annexation referendum, trumps Brookhaven’s Oct. 8 vote to annex the Century Center office park. “By proceeding to annex using an alternative method, Brookhav-

A recent planning session centered on the Brookhaven-Oglethorpe MARTA station yielded ideas for improving Peachtree Road, and unveiled tensions between MARTA and Brookhaven officials over the control of the large redevelopment project. The four-day ‘charrette’ for the redevelopment of the Brookhaven-station, which came to a close Oct. 24, was a planning and brainstorming session for architects, urban planners, transportation experts and stakeholders to discuss ways to make “transit-oriented development” at the MARTA station a reality.

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At the urging of residents, Brookhaven City Council will consider seeking additional legal advice regarding its controversial sexually-oriented business ordinance. Brookhaven residents, dissatisfied with the city’s legal battle with the Pink Pony strip club, aired their grievances during an Oct. 16 roundtable discussion with Mayor J. Max Davis and Councilman Joe Gebbia. The informal gathering was organized by a group of neighborhood leaders who commissioned a telephone poll about the lawsuit. The results showed 75 percent of those polled wanted the city to settle its lawsuit with the Pink Pony, and 62 percent felt the city’s actions did not represent the will of the people. Residents lobbed their questions and criticisms at the city officials, who for months have been advised not to talk about the lawsuit. “This is not so much about the Pink Pony, but the will of the people,” said Kerry Witt, president of the Pine Hills Homeowners Association and an organizer of the poll. “We’re just trying to convey to the city that the will of the people is just as important as what they think is right for the city.” Earlier this year, the Pink Pony strip club sued the city of Brookhaven over its sexually-oriented business ordinance, which bans nude dancing and alcohol. City officials say DeKalb’s law is unconstitutional, and a stronger ordinance is necessary to protect the city. But the owners of the club say the law would put them out of business. Currently, the owners of the Pink Pony pay DeKalb County a $100,000 annual licensing fee as part of a settlement from a previous lawsuit. Davis asked the group for a show of hands to see who would feel comfortable with the city collecting that fee from the Pink Pony in exchange for ignoring the law. All hands shot up, and some even suggested the city should ask for more. “We in the city need these tax dollars. I want to see 15 more squad cars,” said Ashford Park resident Ronnie Mayer. “Use that tax money for good.” Many of the residents questioned the city’s employment of Scott Bergthold, the Tennessee attorney who was hired to help draft the sexually-oriented business ordinance. Bergthold has written and defended laws that regulate adult businesses around the country. One woman asked the city officials to seek the advice of other attorneys. Residents also disputed the city’s claims of “secondary effects” caused by sexually-oriented businesses. A Pine Hills resident who said he lives “a stone’s throw” from the Pink Pony said he has never had any problems associated with the club. Kathy Forbes, a Brookhaven Fields

resident who organized the event, listed a number of new businesses near the club to dispute claims that the Pink Pony will discourage economic development. “We just don’t buy it. They’ve been good neighbors, and there’s a lot of business coming in,” Forbes said. Davis said members of City Council felt it was their duty to shore up the regulations for adult businesses. He said clubs that serve alcohol and allow nude dancing can bring down property values and have shown to be associated with other crimes. “It’s not because we’re moralists,” Davis said. “It’s not because we’re on a crusade to shut down strip clubs.” At the City Council’s Oct. 22 meeting, Davis told the other council members that following the suggestions from residents at the roundtable discussion, he’d like to seek the advice of other attorneys regarding the city’s law. He said outside opinions would help to affirm the city’s position or bring up things they may not have considered. “Frankly, there were a couple things I didn’t have answers for that I would like answers to,” Davis said of the roundtable discussion. He said seeking outside legal advice is “not to undermine our ordinance …. It’s just more informing our decision.” Councilwoman Rebecca Chase Williams quickly rejected the suggestion. “I have a bit of an objection to this. I personally think we reached out early on and had suggestions at a work session,” Williams said. “Are we going to keep looking for opinions until we find one they agree with?” Councilman Bates Mattison, who watched a video of the roundtable discussion, said he’d like to entertain other ideas to help potentially lower the city’s legal costs. “The issue I heard resoundingly is that [residents] are concerned about the cost,” Mattison said. Councilman Jim Eyre also questioned the need to seek other advice. He said he doesn’t know what, short of rescinding the ordinance, would make the Pink Pony owners drop the lawsuit. “We’re sort of on a train that has left the station,” Eyre said. “While I understand and appreciate what you’re saying, I don’t know that we have the option to mitigate those costs because we’re not driving those costs.” Gebbia said talking about the sexuallyoriented business ordinance with residents was very valuable because council members have been “muzzled” on the topic. “One of the most valuable outcomes was people were generally satisfied to have us there,” Gebbia said. “We all ran on the basis of transparency and that was transparency.” BK

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Brookhaven has set aside funds to begin improvements to the city’s parks and sidewalks before the end of the year. City Manager Marie Garrett told City Council Oct. 22 that there is $400,000 to be split among sidewalk projects in the city’s four council districts and $200,000 for use in the parks. “It’s to allow you to have some visual impact this year,” Garrett said. “That includes enough funding to provide 1,000 feet of sidewalk improvements in each of your districts.” The 2013 fiscal year ends Dec. 31. Garrett asked council members to suggest sidewalk improvements or construction that could be completed quickly and cheaply. Councilman Jim Eyre said one such project is extending a sidewalk in his district. He encouraged other council members to meet with public works staff as soon as possible to ensure that their sidewalk projects can be handled. “It’s a relatively easy project but it’s not going to happen overnight,” Eyre said. As with sidewalks, Garrett encouraged City Council to think of small

improvements that could be made in Brookhaven parks by the end of the year. “The criteria should be what is quickest and makes the most visible impact?” Garrett said. The city is preparing to begin a parks and recreation master plan. Council members discussed waiting to begin any big projects in the parks until after that planning process is complete. There are no parks in District 4, the southern portion of the city represented by Councilman Joe Gebbia. But Gebbia said he would like to work out a land sharing agreement with the DeKalb County School system that would allow the city of Brookhaven to use the athletic fields at Cross Keys High School on the weekends. Gebbia said an arrangement would provide green space for residents in District 4 and help the school. “We’re in a dire situation with no funding at all being put into that school,” Gebbia said. “At the same time, we could be making some very valuable improvements that would not only benefit residents from a parks standpoint but also benefit students.”

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Beginning next month, Brookhaven residents will see their power bills go up slightly. Georgia Power Co. will begin collecting an additional charge called a franchise fee from residents of the new city. Georgia Power began sending letters to Brookhaven customers Sept. 24, informing them of the upcoming changes to their bills. According to the letter, “This change has resulted in a debit being applied to your account to bill the appropriate Municipal Franchise Fee from March 2013 until the current billing period. This retroactive amount will be reflected on your next monthly statement. Going forward, this Municipal Franchise Fee will be applied to your monthly bill based on your current monthly usage.” Some Brookhaven residents are unhappy about the new charges. Jane Fink said she wants to know exactly what the city will do with the revenue from franchise fees. She said she will pay about $43 more per year due to the franchise fee. “If you’re going to raise taxes, I don’t have a problem with that. But tell me why you’re raising taxes,” Fink said.

Georgia cities may collect franchise fees from electric, gas, telecommunication and cable providers. Franchise fees were historically implemented to encourage economic development in Georgia cities, Brookhaven officials said. The charge won’t increase power bills by much. The franchise fee for Brookhaven residents is 2.9 percent, compared to a 1.1 percent charge under DeKalb County, according to the city. Brian Green, a spokesman for Georgia Power, said for a typical customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month, the new franchise fee will be $3.68. Before Brookhaven incorporated, those customers were charged 1.1 percent, or $1.36. Georgia Power pays the fees to cities with franchise agreements to place and maintain their equipment, such as poles and power lines, on public right-of-way property, Green said in an email. Brookhaven officials said the money from franchise fees will go into the city’s general fund and will be used to provide city services.

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MARTA will soon begin the search for a developer to build a mixed-use project on the underutilized parking lots surrounding the station. The main purpose of the gathering was to think of ways to make street improvements so people would be able to walk or bike to the station – located on a busy stretch of Peachtree Road – rather than driving in their cars. City officials also discussed potential zoning for the MARTA property, which is envisioned as a unique mix of uses surrounding the station. Robert Reed of Southface, the organization leading the charrette, said Brookhaven’s PC3 zoning classification – a mixed-use designation that relies heavily on a site plan – would be ideal. He said the rezoning application would include ‘pods’ with descriptions from the developer. Ideally, he said, the zoning would be in place before MARTA puts out a request for proposals from developers next year. But Brookhaven City Council members did not like the idea of approving the zoning before seeing the development plans. “Having the zoning done before you know what the development is going to be is a bit ‘cart before the horse,’” Mayor

J. Max Davis said. Reed warned that quality developers may not be interested in going through the effort of preparing an RFP and working with MARTA if the zoning is uncertain. “Our goal obviously is to minimize barriers … for developers,” said Jason Ward, manager of joint development for MARTA. Michael Roberts, of the Brookhaven Peachtree Community Alliance, presented a plan to provide runoff detention and treatment at Fernwood Park by creating an amenity lake and green space at the site, which is behind the Brookhaven library branch. Joe Palladi, a Brookhaven resident and retired GDOT engineer, presented some of the road design options from the charrette. One idea was to install a median along Peachtree Road, providing pedestrian refuge much like the recently completed work along the same road in Buckhead near Lenox Mall. Another idea is a boulevard design, featuring two center lanes for higher-speed travel separated by two medians, and two outer lanes for lower-speed travel, bicycles and street parking. Palladi told council members there aren’t cost estimates for these proposals. “These are ‘what-ifs.’ Not ‘can you afford its?’” Palladi said. BK

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en’s actions are in fact impairing the General Assembly’s authority to annex via local act because Brookhaven’s actions would essentially usurp the intent of the referendum,” Barrie wrote in the order. According to the Georgia Code section Barrie sites, “Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, no provision of this chapter relating to annexation or deannexation by any such alternate method is intended to or shall be construed to in any way restrict, limit, or otherwise impair the authority of the General Assembly to annex or deannex by local act.” Brookhaven officials appealed the judge’s decision to the Georgia Supreme Court on Oct. 29 In a news release, city officials also encouraged more county residents to petition to join Brookhaven. Mayor J. Max Davis invited residents of DeKalb County’s north-central corridor to apply to be annexed into the city. “We are confident that the Supreme Court will see the merits of Brookhaven’s claims and respect the property owners’ wishes to be included in Brookhaven’s boundaries,” Davis said. “We as a city have a strong desire to expand our borders and municipalize DeKalb’s northcentral corridor. We encourage any property owner – residential or commercial – to petition to be part of our city and enjoy the benefits of living in Brookhaven.” On Nov. 5, voters will decide on whether Chamblee should annex a large tract of land to its southern border, including about 11,000 homes from the Dresden East neighborhoods and the Century Center office park. The cities of Brookhaven and Chamblee have been in and out of court arguing over the right to annex Century Center, a tax-rich commercial property located near I-85 and Clairmont Road. On Aug. 16, Barrie issued an injunc-

tion temporarily blocking Brookhaven from annexing the property until after the Oct. 24 hearing. On Sept. 17, Brookhaven filed an emergency motion asking the Supreme Court to lift the injunction. In the motion, Brookhaven claimed the DeKalb judge overstepped her authority because she “enjoined a state legislative function, which is entirely inappropriate and outside the jurisdiction of the Superior Court.” The high court ruled Oct. 3 that Brookhaven had the right to vote to annex the Century Center office complex. However, the court’s ruling only applied to the city’s ability to vote, leaving the dispute over the annexation open. On Oct. 24, Chamblee and Brookhaven’s high-profile lawyers argued their cases during a three-hour hearing. Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County district attorney, said that the General Assembly had the ultimate authority on annexation. “Until 1954, there was absolutely no way anyone other than the General Assembly could do annexation,” Wilson said. Then, annexation was delegated to cities through alternative methods, however Wilson said, “the paramount authority of annexation rests with the General Assembly.” “Indisputably, the reason we are here is what Brookhaven is doing is in conflict with Local Act 205,” Wilson said. Former Gov. Roy Barnes, representing Brookhaven, argued that the local act is not yet effective because it hasn’t been approved by voters. Barnes said there is no language in the General Assembly’s local act that prevents other methods of annexation from taking place. “There is legal delegated authority that has already been exercised,” Barnes said. “Can the General Assembly, without saying so, prevent a totally legal action of delegated authority from the Constitution?”

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DeKalb should review its charter and empower its ethics board With the indictment of DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, new calls have come for a shift to a commission/manager form of government in DeKalb County. As with the CEO form, there is no standard structure in Georgia enabling legislation, so the “devil is in the details” on exactly what this means. To inform opinion, it is important to look at all the mechanics of the “Organizational Act” or charter, identifying deficiencies and options for improvement. Neither form is invulnerable to manipulation by elected or appointed officials, so the real test is what’s in a charter that informs the public on government operations and makes it accountable to voters and taxpayers. Governmental operations are complex, and they can affect your freedom, property and welfare. Therefore, you should be able to know in advance how you will be treated by government, and be treated the same as others. Unfortunately, many governmental processes are not formalized, and are subject to the whims of individuals. The most egregious example of this is the alleged manipulation of purchasing procedures for political gain, but it can happen in the award of permits, employment, and the enforcement of laws and regulations. DeKalb County needs an administrative procedures mandate that will require county departments to formalize and document how they conduct business and implement laws, and to adhere to those procedures. The charter restriction against adopting a purchasing code should be removed. Elected and appointed officials are fond of touting their accomplishments, and as in Lake Woebegon, everyone seems to see their accomplishments as above average. What’s lacking is an objective third party with the skills and resources to systematically evaluate DeKalb operations against best practices and makes a public report of findings and recommendations for improvement. Surprisingly, the current charter provides that option in the form of an internal auditor, but the Board of Commissioners has never filled the position or funded operations. DeKalb County needs an independent and mandatory internal auditor with a guaranteed budget. Likewise, the ethical conduct of elected office is the foundation of governmental legitimacy. DeKalb County has a statemandated Board of Ethics, but it has been neglected and underfunded by the county government. DeKalb’s ethics board should be strengthened by shifting the power of appointment away from the officials the ethics board

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oversees, and by giving the ethics board a guaranteed budget equal to at least 25 cents for each of DeKalb’s 700,000 persons. A quarter per capita is a small price to pay for an effective ethics watchdog. County governments are too small and too important to operate on a partisan basis. Partisan alignment disenfranchises large minorities in jurisdictions where elections are determined in the primary. The JeFF RadeR election of all county offices should DeKalB be non-partisan. COUnTy COMMissiOn Commission district boundaries, like those of the General Assembly and Congress are the object of increasingly effective gerrymandering. As in these other bodies, the result is entrenched incumbency, political polarization and a general disaffection with government as representative of the common interest. DeKalb should have an objective redistricting protocol that creates compact districts with common communities of interest. As mentioned at the start, the details of an improved charter are important and complex. In many other states (and increasingly in new DeKalb cities) charter review is accomplished by a “Charter Commission”, an independent group of leading citizens with expert staff, but in Georgia, such changes are often accomplished by local legislative delegations in the course of the 40-day legislative session. The DeKalb delegation should empanel and fund (using county tax dollars) a Charter Commission to work for a year to draft a revised DeKalb County Organizational Act for legislative approval in 2015. All these suggestions and not a word about CEO vs. Commission/Manager! That’s because the improvement of government is not so much about how politicians divide power between themselves, but is instead about how accountable those politicians are to the public that elects them. If voters don’t insist that accountability be strengthened, the CEO/commission-manager debate won’t matter much at all.

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harder to maintain and costlier to operate as they age. When the time came to consider improved facilities, we knew it was also the time to look at the current location of our administrative centers and whether they were in the right place.” –Fulton County School Board President Linda Schultz on the school system’s decision to move to its offices to Sandy Springs “Barring unforeseen complications, Lake Forrest Drive should reopen in early 2014.” –Sandy Springs city spokeswoman Sharon Kraun on the status of work to reopen Lake Forrest Drive between Lake Summit and Chevaux Court. City officials closed the popular north-south road in August for safety reasons. BK

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Blackburn Park in Brookhaven, on a recent Saturday morning: On a couple of fields, parents cheer their kids as they play soccer. On one baseball field, a group of guys play touch football. On the adjacent baseball field, a smaller group of guys, most wearing bright yellow shirts, practice catching a red ball lofted by a wide, flat-faced bat. The guys in yellow shirts call themselves the Dunwoody Hitters, but they are playing the game of a different place. They’re playing cricket. It reminds some of them of home. “It’s getting back to the roots in a foreign land,” Jai Varadarajan said. Most of the Hitters come from India. They’re from all over that country, from the south and north. They live in Dunwoody now, mostly in two apartment complexes with a lot of other Indian residents. They work with computers and came to the United States for jobs. They love playing cricket, a game not a lot of Americans follow or understand. The

scattered.” The team has a total of 15 members. They grab unused baseball fields for practices on weekends. On some Sundays, they AROUND play matchTOWN es with other teams that JOE EARLE have organized around metro Atlanta, in towns such as Marietta. They usually don’t draw a crowd. But passersby sometimes stop to gawk and try to figure out what they’re doing. “We have some spectators come and take pictures,” Varadarajan said. All but one of the members of the team is Indian. The exception is Derek Kuipers, who’s 47, and works in corporate finance. He only half jokes that when other teams see him show up with the Hitters, they assume he must be Australian or English or South African or an immigrant from some other former British Empire country where cricket is played. Kuipers came to cricket in a roundabout way. He played American sports such as softball and baseJOE EARLE ball – he’s a center Left to right, Hari Prasad Adinarayanan, Rohan Jain, fielder – but knew litDerek Kuipers, Ilaiyaraja Rajamohan, Pravinkumar tle of cricket until he Nallamaruthamuthu and Jai Varadarajan. started sending money to a charity that yellow jerseys they wear to practice bear helps care for poor children in foreign the team colors of their favorite profescountries. He was paired with a boy in sional team, the Chennai Super Kings. India. They corresponded often, and “In India, we love cricket,” said Ilthe boy wrote regularly about his faaiyaraja Rajamohan, who’s been in the vorite cricket team and players. KuiU.S. only five months. He used to play pers started following the game on on his school’s cricket team, he said. the Internet so he’d have something to “Everyone plays cricket.” write about. “It’s in the genes,” said Pravinkumar A few months ago, he was walking Nallamaruthamuthu, who’s 40, and says his dog through Dunwoody Park, he he started playing cricket at age 5. He’s said, when he saw the Hitters practicone of the founders of the Hitters. “At ing. He started talking to them about my age, however much I can, I will play.” their game and soon joined in. “The first There’s another cricket team based in time I played, they put me in the equivDunwoody that’s composed of Indian alent of right field,” he said. Now he’s players, Nallamaruthamuthu said. The one of their best fielders, his teammates Dunwoody Devils, he said, have been say. “Now I play the equivalent of shortaround a little longer. Nallamaruthastop,” he said. muthu and Varadarajan started the HitHe says the game has given him an ters about a year ago. The two have each introduction to Dunwoody’s Indian lived in the U.S. 11 years. They met at community. “I’m just fascinated by the their gym. They started talking about Indian population in Dunwoody. There their favorite sport and decided to pull are places in Dunwoody where that’s all together their own team. Nallamaruthayou’ll see, and there are people in Dunmuthu said the Hitters started “with my woody who don’t know they’re there.” apartment friends. Now we’re kind of They are. So is their game.

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Drive around metro Atlanta in the morning or late afternoon and you will likely encounter traffic troubles around schools, as big yellow buses, parents in minivans, and kids with backpacks all try to move in and out of school driveways. Sven Hagen, co-president of the PTA for Ashford Park Elementary Sandy Springs Police Ofﬁcer Nick Smith, School in Brookhaven, said left, and Sgt. James McNabb direct the problems at his school trafﬁc in front of The Weber School, mostly come from parents double parking and blocklocated at 6751 Roswell Road. ing the flow of traffic. “It’s partly a function of the design of ementary School, Peachtree Charter the school, which is from a different era Middle School and Dunwoody Elemenwhen a lot of the kids walked to school,” tary School, which are located on busy Hagen said. “It doesn’t allow for a lot North Peachtree and Womack roads. of traffic at the front of the school. The “Those are both very high traffic areas problem comes when we have parents … due to the [Georgia Perimeter] Colpulling in and pulling out.” lege and the closeness to the Interstate as Hagen said at the start of the school well,” Fecht said. year, he and other parents volunteered Hagen said Brookhaven police do to pay for an off-duty police officer to not have the resources to send an officer help direct traffic around the school. “It to the school every day, and he doesn’t was the first two weeks of school and it want to drain the PTA’s resources paying was just bedlam,” Hagen said. an off-duty officer. He hopes the traffic Local police departments usually problem will solve itself, if more people do not direct traffic at schools as part follow the rules. of their regular assignments. But many “It is our parents that are choosing schools hire off-duty officers to help not to follow the program for whatever move cars more smoothly at the start of reason,” Hagen said. school and at dismissal. Brookhaven Police Lt. Brandon GurDunwoody Police Officer Tim Fecht ley said while the police department said traffic can be particularly bad at doesn’t station officers at schools, it does schools located on major thoroughfares. provide regular patrols around the 12 He said Dunwoody police have a reguschools within Brookhaven’s borders. lar presence near Chestnut Charter El“We’ve developed really strong work-

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Friday, Nov. 8, 6 p.m. – Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery hosts “Strength for the Journey: Art by Art Therapists,” an exhibit and symposium in which Georgia art therapists reflect on the power of art-making in their own lives. Free and open to the public. Bring a toy or food for the Atlanta Food Bank. Exhibition continues through Dec. 31. Therapists’ symposium on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2:304:30 p.m. 199 Armour Dr., NE, Atlanta, 30324. To learn more, contact Gayle Torres at 404-917-4254 or email: wheeliecelt@gmail.com.

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“Seeds” Thursday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m. – The Upper School at Mount Vernon Presbyterian presents “Seeds,” part courtroom drama and part social satire, which documents the 2004 Canadian Supreme Court showdown between a Saskatchewan farmer and a multinational biotech firm. Additional shows, Nov. 8 and 9, 7 p.m.; matinee at 1 p.m., Nov. 9. In the MVPS Black Box Theatre, on the Glenn campus, 510 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Tickets, $5. Register online: www.mountvernonschool.org or call 404252-3448, ext. 2801 for information.

Pro-Mozart Society Sunday, Nov. 10, 3-5 p.m. – The Pro-Mozart

Society of Atlanta presents organist Brink Bush and pianist Frank Mitchell Bush in a joint concert, at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church. Free; $15 per person donation is encouraged to help raise funds for the organization’s scholarship program. 805 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30327. For information about the concert or the society, visit: www.mozartatlanta.com, call 404-667-4700 or email: kevin15120@aol.com.

Harpsichord Concert Sunday, Nov. 10, 4 p.m. – Enjoy “Round and ‘Round La Ronde: Chaconnes, Passacailles and other Rondeaux from the Court of the Sun King,” featuring David Buice on the Harpsichord. General admission, $10; free for Oglethorpe University Museum members and those with a Petrel Pass. 4484 Peachtree Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information email: brunnels@oglethorpe.edu or call 404364-8555. www.oglethorpe.edu.

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Folklore Hike Saturday, Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m. – Join Horticulturalist Lisa Cole in an evening journey through illuminated, woodland trails at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Identify common species in our region, as well as get insight into the “Spirit of the Trees.” Topics include Celtic and American folklore, medicinal properties, and the associations with Hobbits and Winnie the Pooh. Evening ends with marshmallows, plant-infused teas and more. $15 general public; $10 CNC members. Register by Nov. 6. 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. Call 770-992-2055 with questions. www.chattnaturecenter.org.

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The picture of a 9-year-old Kim Phúc, naked and screaming as napalm singed skin from her body, remains a potent symbol of senseless conflict. Phúc on Oct. 23 told a group of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School students that while the Pulitzer-prize winning photo is forever burned into the historical record of the Vietnam War, her anger is not eternal. She forgives the pilots who dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, in 1972. She forgives the communist government that forced her to drop out of medical school so she could serve as a prop for its propaganda machine. In time, she even grew to love the people who had wronged her. “It sounds easy, but it wasn’t,” Phúc told students gathered in the school’s Fine Arts Building. “It was the hardest work of my life, but I did it. If I can do it, I believe all of you here can do it too, right?” Phúc becoming a Christian was the first step in her lifelong journey toward healing her heart.

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denly there were bombs and explosions of gasoline. You know what happened. My clothes were burnt off by the fire, and my skin was on fire. Someone began screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’ That someone was me.” Ut carried the 9-year-old girl to the local hospital. She was transferred to the children’s hospital. Staff there thought there was no hope of saving her, so they moved her to the morgue where she remained for three days. Her parents eventually found her and she spent the next 14 months in a burn clinic. Phúc underwent 17 operations, but scars remain. She wears long sleeves most of the time. After spending so much time surrounded by doctors, Phúc decided she’d become a doctor, too. She was accepted into medical school in Vietnam, but the government had dif-

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Parents and teachers in north DeKalb County shared their ideas for improving the struggling school system as part of a reboot of the district’s five-year plan. During a brainstorming session at Cross Keys High School on Oct. 29, stakeholders gave their input on the five strategic goals that have been identified for the school system: student success; staff efficacy and excellence; stakeholder engagement; internal/external communication; and operational and organizational effectiveness and efficiency. The Georgia School Boards Association began the five-year strategic planning process with DeKalb in 2010, but upheaval in the school district’s administration shelved the process. The Oct. 29 meeting was held for stakeholders in Region 1 of the DeKalb County School System, which includes the Cross Keys High, Chamblee Charter High and Dunwoody High school clusters. Laura Reilly, a consultant with the GSBA who led the meeting, said suggestions from parents during the 2010 process were used as a starting point this year. “We actually used all that input we had gotten to come up with these five strategic goal areas,” Reilly said. Reilly said Interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond believes very strongly in the need for a five-year plan. “There’s been a sea change of leadership here in DeKalb County,” Reilly said. Parents expressed frustration over the lack of action from the school system. Allegra Johnson of Dunwoody told Reilly it may be difficult to engage parents in the planning process. Parents who were involved in the past did not see results, she said. “We went through it with [former Superintendent Cheryl] Atkinson, we went through it with [former Superintendent Crawford] Lewis, and now we’re going through it again. The third time is not a charm,” Johnson said. Several students were included in the discussion as well. Their ideas ranged

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