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Dunwoody’s third mayoral race Nov. 3 pits the in-cumbent against a founding City Councilman and two newcomers.

Denis Shortal, who has served as a City Councilman from District 1 and mayor pro tem since the city was founded, is challenging Mayor Mike Davis with plans to “restore open and positive leadership to the city,” said Shortal’s campaign manager, George Stewart.

“Many people who found out Denny was running were happy it was him because of the way he treats oth-ers,” Stewart said.

Davis said he wants a chance to continue the work he’s started with his election in 2012 as the city’s second mayor, after founding Mayor Ken Wright.

“We’ve had great success as a city,” Davis said. “As a term-limited mayor I only have one more term to contin-ue to fi x intersections, improve safety and pave streets.”

Candidate Steve Chipka said he wanted to take city

government back to its basics. “We’re fi xing problems that don’t exist, but in the meantime, we need to get back to police, parks, paving – the core things the city of Dunwoody people voted for when we created the city of Dunwoody,” Chipka said.

In 2013, Chipka fi led an Ethics Board complaint against former Councilwoman Adrian Bonser. Th e com-plaint was dismissed.

A fourth candidate, Chris Grivakis, fi led paperwork on the fi nal day for qualifying to run for the mayor’s post. Attempts to contact him for this article were not successful.

Only one of the four City Council seats up for elec-tion drew more than a single candidate. Councilwom-an Lynn Deutsch and Councilman John Heneghan both fi led for re-election without opposition.

Councilman Terry Nall is seeking re-election to the at-large seat representing District 1.

He is opposed by Rebecca Springer, a mother of three who is making her fi rst race for a council seat. Springer has said she plans to focus on expanding police services, adding more sidewalks in the community and bringing more small business to Dunwoody. She said she believes she has a better chance of earning votes throughout the city rather than solely in her district.

Nall said as an incumbent he has the added benefi t of “promises made and kept” from his 2011 campaign and his record over the last four years.

“We’re all friends and neighbors before and after the campaign,” Nall said. “May every candidate, including my opponent, stick to the issues of the city and their plan of specifi c initiatives for how to address the issues.”

In the District 1 race, Pam Tallmadge was the sole candidate to fi le for the seat vacated by Shortal’s resigna-tion to run for mayor.

“I believe the city and its citizens are going to face sig-nifi cant growth over the next few years, and I would like to be part of the team that brings fresh ideas ... for the betterment of the city,” Tallmadge said.

Mayor faces a trio of challengers in Nov. 3 election

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Th e Donaldson-Bannister Farm-house will be open to the public soon -- after stabilization of the historic house and demolition of the non-historic barn is complete, members of the Dunwoody Preservation Trust say.

City Council on Aug. 24 approved a $167,500 bid from Midwest Mainte-nance for installation of new supporting fl oor joists, support beams and rear wall replacement, based on a structural engi-neer’s report on the city-owned home.

Dolores Lauderdale, co-president of the presentation trust, which has part-nered with the city to restore the proper-ty, said the renovation project was sched-uled to begin this month and should be completed in October.

Jim Williams, vice president of prop-erties with the trust, said the process to schedule various kinds of work at the same time has been tricky. Th e project includes strengthening the house and demolishing the barn.

“I do know the permit for the de-molition for the rear part of the barn has been awarded and that part will be done,” Williams said. “I would say 90 percent chance it will be done in 30 days.”

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Left, Jim Williams, vice president of properties with the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, and Clare Weaver, a director of the Donaldson-Bannister Farmhouse, are anxiously awaiting completion

of a stabilization project so the historic home, built in 1870, can open to the public.

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Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods plans to build 87 townhouses in Perimeter Center

Dunwoody City Council on Aug. 24 approved 4-1, with Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch opposed, a plan by Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods to build 87 townhous-es in Perimeter Center, backing up to Nancy Creek.

Den Webb, an attorney for the developer, said young professionals without chil-dren and people who don’t want a large, single-family home would show interest in the townhouses. “Th e target is not families,” Webb said.

During Council’s Aug. 10 discussion, council members ex-pressed concern over a hydrology study and asked the city’s engineer to return before the fi nal vote. Council members Deutsch and John Heneghan each asked the city’s engineer, Rich Edinger, about the eff ect of the project on storm water runoff and how residents downstream might be aff ected.

Edinger said there is no storm water issue that isn’t being addressed by the city’s code. He said no detention pond would be necessary because the strategy involves getting the runoff water from the development into the creek before the “peak event.”

“Th e issue for the folks downstream is really the peak fl ow in the north fork of Nancy Creek, and based on what I’ve reviewed thus far, that’s not being made any worse than it exists right now,” Edinger said.

A space of 2.3 acres will be donated to the city to act as a “park” separating the 87 townhouses from the Georgetown neighborhood. Th e park would also help in keep-ing wildlife close to the creek.

Deutsch said she expects the city would leave the park “undisturbed.”

Rezoning approved for State Farm projectCity Council on Aug. 24 approved a development agreement between the city of

Dunwoody and KDC, State Farm’s real estate development company. Revisions were made to the agreement pertaining to the “east-west connector” that

would exist in parts of both Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. If the approvals couldn’t be obtained, alternative improvements would be needed, Councilman Terry Nall said.

“Obviously, we do want the east-west connector, ideally,” Nall said.

Public Works Director Michael Smith said if for some reason the road could not be constructed because of permitting or other approval issues, the city would need to re-quire diff erent improvements. He said city staff was seeking $500,000 in grant money from the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank and that the application would include a $500,000 match from the city.

If the connector isn’t built by the time the certifi cate of occupancy is issued for the third State Farm building, alternative road improvements would be required.

David Kirk, an attorney for the applicant, said he wanted the specifi c required im-provement to be a right turn lane eastbound on Hammond Drive to Perimeter Cen-ter Parkway because that is what the completed traffi c study recommended.

Rapidly fl ashing beacons coming to Mount Vernon Road crosswalk

City Council on Aug. 24 unanimously approved installation of rapidly fl ashing beacons to help pedestrians at the crosswalk at Stratham Drive and Mount Vernon Road.

In April 2014, City Council approved a package of pedestrian crosswalk improve-ments and of the seven on the list, the Mount Vernon crosswalk improvement was the only one involving a major roadway change, Councilman Jim Riticher said.

He argued to install beacons at the crosswalk instead of moving the crosswalk or adding a pedestrian island.

“In looking at it closely, it is my belief that what we are going to do is create an ad-verse eff ect for vehicle traffi c leaving Dunwoody Club Forest via Forest Springs be-cause currently that vehicle traffi c uses that traffi c lane,” Riticher said before the vote. Riticher suggested adding the beacons at the existing crosswalk at Stratham.

Ellen Hunter, who was part of the original “safe walks to school” group, thanked council members for the decision to add the beacons. She said the beacons are needed because when she as a pedestrian pushes a button to cross at a crosswalk, drivers stop, smile and wave her on, but when she stands at the corner of Stratham Drive, she waits as long as fi ve minutes before she and her children can cross Mount Vernon Road.

Hunter said she thinks this will eff ectively calm traffi c. “Being able to start the walk and complete the walk is what it’s all about,” Hunter said.

“I think you will see an increase of people crossing the street. You will make it not only calm but stand still.”

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Dunwoody Government CalendarThe Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41 Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103. For a complete and up to date schedule of Dunwoody City meetings, visit http://www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/Calendar.aspx

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In just its third year, Dunwoody’s Apple Cider Days has grown to be-come one of the city’s largest events. More than 30,000 people are expected to gather in October at Perimeter Mall to take part in the festival’s mix of carni-val rides, food and games.

Dolores Lauderdale, co-president of the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, on Aug. 24 asked City Council offi cial-ly to categorize the October festival as a “signature” event because of the size of the crowd it draws. Th e council’s unan-imous vote means the city will pay half the cost of hiring police for the fall fes-tival.

Lauderdale said Apple Cider Days brought out about 15,000 people in its fi rst year, 2013, and the nonprofi t decid-ed it would continue hosting the event in October as a fun-draiser for its educa-tional programs.

Other large events include the Dun-woody Homeowners Association’s Fourth of July Parade and Food Truck Th urs-days, and the preservation trust-host-ed Lemonade Days festival held in the spring.

Lemonade Days started as a commu-nity eff ort to clean up and repair damage from a devastating tornado in 1998. Th e spring festival, which also includes car-nival rides, attracted about 80,000 this

year, Lauderdale said.“Lemonade Days started 16 years

ago,” Lauderdale said. “It began because so many trees were destroyed, as a way of ‘making lemonade out of lemons.’”

Most of the money raised during Lemonade Days and Apple Cider Days goes to the restoration of the Donald-son-Bannister Farmhouse, but Lauder-

dale said additional funds are allotted to maintain three cem-eteries, including New Hope Ceme-tery, where a number of early settlers and Confederate soldiers are buried.

Apple Cider Days is scheduled Oct. 21 through Oct. 25 at Perimeter Mall, with carnival rides, midway games and a variety of food vendors. Th e event is free, but visitors must purchase tickets for amusement rides and food.

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Punchline may revive at diner in comedy club swap

BY JOHN [email protected]

A stand-up switcheroo may resurrect the historic Punchline Comedy Club at Buckhead’s Landmark Diner.

In turn, Atlanta comedy legend Jer-ry Farber’s Side Door club would move from the diner, where it occupies a side room, to a new Buckhead or San-dy Springs spot.

Everyone involved diff ers on how close the Landmark is to becoming the new home of the Punchline, which shuttered its Sandy Springs doors in April after 33 years of hosting top stars. Farber said he suggested the comedy swap and is hopeful the deal will happen as a rare moment of club camaraderie.

“I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart [for the Punchline]…Th ey were always good to me,” said Farber, the 77-year-old dean of Atlanta’s comedy scene, who headlined the Punchline 26 times. “I’ve gone through the comedy club wars.”

Punchline co-owner Jamie Bendall said he understands the curiosity—among both the public and comedi-ans—about the future of his club, which was forced to close its Roswell Road spot by a pending redevelopment plan. Th e Punchline was a nationally known stop for such legends as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld.

“We’re in discussion” with the Land-mark, Bendall acknowledged, but also said that talk of a deal is “still very pre-mature.”

“We’ve probably seen somewhere in the vicinity of 30 to 50 diff erent prop-erties,” Bendall said. “To highlight this one with any more attention than any of the others isn’t fair to anybody.”

Meanwhile, the Punchline contin-ues to stage “pop-up shows” in various

towns, including Peachtree City and Al-pharetta. Th e next one will be held Sept. 17 in conjunction with an Alpharet-ta food truck event. Bendall said those one-time shows are “separate and dis-tinct” from the search for the Punch-

line’s permanent home, but could continue as part of the busi-

ness.“Nothing yet,” Land-

mark owner Tom Lambrou said on Aug. 31 about a potential Punchline deal. “We talk about it, but

nothing defi nite…[It will] maybe take a little more time

to get it done.”Farber said he thought a deal was al-

ready done. “Th ere were complications, as it turns out,” he said.

Farber knows a thing or two about the comedy business. A fi xture of At-lanta’s comedy scene since 1960, he for-merly ran his own club in the 1980s on Pharr Road during Buckhead’s raucous nightclub heyday.

In 2010, he started the Side Door at the Landmark, where he books comedy, music and novelty acts, and sometimes performs himself.

Farber said the Side Door space would need signifi cant upgrades and en-larging to house the Punchline.

He thought that work was feasible. And he was willing to move out himself, he said, because he makes his living on the road, not at the Side Door.

Farber had that “pure moment of un-selfi shness,” he said, out of respect for the Punchline—and his knowledge of how rough the modern comedy-club business is.

“I love to equate what we do with the Marines [slogan]… Many are called, few are chosen,” he said. “Many [clubs] open, but few make the cut.”

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In a suburban city where sidewalks are rare and car horns provide the ongo-ing song of the road, a street musician is an unusual sight—and, judging by the smiles on passersby, a welcome sound.

Sonny Calo, the street musician of Dunwoody, breaks out his saxophone on early evenings at the Georgetown Shopping Center and plays rich, mel-low jazz.

Entranced kids toss a coin or two into his sax case. Adults break into grins and stop to listen or even shoot cellphone video of the slim, middle-aged musician with his thin moustache and jazz hat.

“Music is uplifting. Music is a spiri-tually uplifting thing,” Calo said during a pause in his playing.

Now a Dunwoody resident, Calo is a New York native who headed south after attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. He plays in some bands, including Atlanta Boo-gie, and performs for residents of assist-ed living facilities.

About a year ago, he began playing outdoors at shopping centers in Dun-woody and Sandy Springs, including the miniature park next to the Kroger at Georgetown.

“Rather than sitting in a room [while practicing], why not share the music?” he said.

Calo plays jazz, saying he likes its freedom. He enjoys the many flavors of jazz, and many other types of music, such as punk rock. “It’s all just music,” he said.

He performs on a Selmer Mark VI sax, a beautiful instrument with an etched surface, mother-of-pearl keys and a patina from frequent handling that lends it a sense of character. It’s a French instrument that he estimates is about 50 years old.

On the Georgetown sidewalk, Calo

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Historic farmhouse readies to welcome public

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erty, Clare Weaver, said this project has been years in the making and she’s ex-cited to see the work begin. Along with Jane Henley, Weaver said she has worked on the project to restore the house since the preservation trust got involved four years ago.

“It’s exciting to see this finally start to happen,” Weaver said. “After stabiliz-ing the house we can open it to the citi-zens of Dunwoody. It’s been a long time coming and I’m looking forward to it.”

A step-by-step evaluation of the property helped members of the Dun-woody Preservation Trust understand what should be saved and what should be demolished, said Lauderdale, who has been involved with the organization for a decade.

Lauderdale said the front part of the house, the part facing Chamblee-Dun-woody Road, is what is considered his-toric, and what was listed on the Na-tional History Register in 2008.

“I was excited to see it will get saved, but it will take $4 million to $5 million [to do everything needed],” Lauderdale said.

The goal is to get the house open to the public, Williams said.

“I think the key thing is to know this house is a public park, and it will be a public park for citizens of Dunwoody and the community at large,” Williams

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PHOTOS BY ISADORA PENNINGTON

Photos on this page: The Dunwoody City Council approved a $167,500 bid to install new supporting floor joists, support

beams and rear wall replacement on the Donaldson-Bannister Farmhouse, based on a structural engineer’s report. Upon completion, the goal is to open the home to the public.

Facing page: Top, Clare Weaver said the restoration project has been years in the making. Center, Jim Williams, left,

said plans call for converting some of the space, right center, into areas to hold events such as weddings. Right, the

front side of the farmhouse, located on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, was listed on the National Historic Register in 2008.

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said. Th e trust plans to host a variety of ed-

ucation programs at the house. Williams said neighbors want to see the proper-ty and house put to use, and the plan to stabilize the fl oor will allow people to use the building.

Williams said through the renova-tion, the city and trust are adding bath-rooms, space for an educational facility for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and an event facility that could potentially be used for weddings. Th e fa-cility also will include a multi-function

room and an area to gather groups of people, he said.

When the current phase of the reno-vation is completed, the nonprofi t plans to continue working on additional grant applications from both the city and oth-er organizations to continue work on the property.

“We certainly have a tremendous outpouring of volunteers and we’re al-ways looking for more,” Williams said. “A lot of the work will be broken down into mini-projects that volunteers can help with and take pride in the work.”

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CorrectionA map showing multifamily residential projects approved or under construction along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs incor-

rectly stated the number of units planned at the JLB/Gateway site, 4586 Roswell Road. While the developer currently has build-ing permits for 316 units, that is the fi rst phase of the entire project, which was approved for a total of 630 new units. Th e proj-ect replaces 436 existing units.

Weatherwise, it’s been a summer of sharp contrasts in met-ro Atlanta. Weeks of hot, dry weather have been punctuated by torrential rain storms that have kept the plants in my yard sporadically happy and local lakes and rivers mostly full.

While a portion of northern Georgia was considered “ab-normally dry” in July, according to the U.S. Drought Moni-tor, our water supplies are in pretty good shape this year for most of the state.

But, in California, it’s a diff erent story. It is in its fourth year of an “exceptional drought” with no end in sight. Resi-dents in communities throughout the state have been ordered to conserve water or face consequences, and “drought sham-ing” of those with well-watered lawns or other signs of exces-sive water consumption has become commonplace.

Six years ago, we were experiencing our own exceptional drought here in Atlanta. Given recent trends, it’s just a mat-ter of time before another drought comes our way. Th e ques-

tion is whether or not we’ll be more prepared for the next one than we were for the last.

A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey concludes that water use decreased signifi cantly in Georgia during the decade from 2000 to 2010 when we experienced two major droughts.

While this decrease was largely due to the move from coal-fi red power plants – which use large volumes of water – to gas-fi red plants, it is also appar-ent that people are begin-ning to get in the habit of conserving water, wheth-

er we’re in a drought or not. And that’s good news.

I love my garden as much as any other Southerner, and one of the best places I’ve found to reduce my personal water use is through rainwater harvesting to sustain my plants during Atlanta’s hot sum-mers. Every time we have another downpour, my rain barrel captures and stores 60 gallons of water that falls on my roof, before it can enter a storm drain and disappear.

Rainwater harvesting is an easy and eff ective technique to cope with drought, reduce storm runoff and increase our available water resources. Reducing Atlan-ta’s water demand also means that less water needs to be with-drawn from local rivers, keeping them as healthy as possible.

Georgia Tech, Emory and other colleges have installed rain-water harvesting systems on their campuses that are delivering signifi cant amounts of water for non-potable uses. Business-es are also investing in rain harvesting systems to maintain the appearance of their landscaping and reduce their water bills.

Th e city of Atlanta is hosting a rain barrel workshop on Sept. 23 from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Water Works Lodge, 655 Green Street, NW. Th e fee of $40 includes a rain bar-rel and installation kit. To register, contact Danita Ogand-aga at [email protected] or 404-546-3217.

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper also provides rain barrel work-shops for groups of 15 or more. For more information, see chattahoochee.org/our-work/education-training/rain-barrel-workshops/or call 404-352-9828.

Sally Bethea is the retired executive director of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (chattahoochee.org), a nonpro� t environmental ad-vocacy organization whose mission is to protect and restore the drinking water supply for nearly four million people.

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Good riddance, Chip and Dale! Please leave my garden alone!Th e sign at the en-

trance of our neighbor-hood warns, in large letters, “COYOTES in the neigh-borhood! Guard your pets!”

When my husband read that he said, “Maybe they’ll eat the chipmunks.”

If only. I, too, have grown to be

a chipmunk hater. For years, I thought

they were cute and love-able. When I was a child, I enjoyed watching them in their animated forms be-ing zany with all the oth-er talking cartoon creatures of Satur-day morning. I loved them and their striped-fur appeal throughout my ado-lescence and into the stages of my ear-ly adulthood.

I was charmed by them, still, when we met them, person-to-chipmunk, at Disneyworld. We had taken our two young, impressionable tots to the Min-nie-Ha-Ha-Menehune – Make-Me-Say-Th ings-I-Can’t-Believe-I’m–Saying Character Breakfast at the Polynesian Villages Restaurant.

Chip and Dale were headliners then, along with Minnie Mouse in a grass skirt, and we were keen to meet the pair of chipmunks–terrifyingly large and plastic-eyed, though they were. We hugged their gigantic, faux-fur bodies, got their autographs, and even joined the conga line with them. Th ey con-gaed like nobody’s business. We learned that we could tell the two of them apart because Chip has the “chocolate chip nose.”

Well, it’s all over, rodent. I’m a homeowner and a gardener now, and that piece of cocoa on your face is not going to save you.

Th ese tiny, scampering little fur-balls may appear adorable and harm-less, but in reality, they are treacherous. Th ey tunnel under brick and concrete, creating structural havoc. Th ey chew through wires and tulip bulbs, and they raid gardens and eat vegetables that are meant for humans, not disease-carrying varmints. Th ey can ingest $37 worth of pansies, overnight.

Someone told me that cayenne pep-per is a good natural repellant for chip-munks. I did try it, emptying three bot-tles in the holes under my front porch. But really, that’s like trying to hold a wolf at bay with a cigarette lighter.

For years I watched these destructive, disdainful critters scurry in and out of my fl owerbeds, impervious to neighbor-hood dogs, hawks, snakes and spice jars. I fi nally decided that it was time to call in the big guns, and I enlisted the help of the professionals.

I Googled “kill the rodents” until I found a professional near me. A man from the Chipmunk Patrol drove up to my house the next day and determined that I did have an infestation.

An infestation! I had just been call-

ing it a nuisance! But now my problem was being de-fi ned by a term that was making my skin crawl. Th is was serious.

Th e Chipmunk Patrol-ler said that he could trap the rodents and remove them, and that sounded like a good plan to me at fi rst. Th e (excuse me) “catch” was that the company used live traps, which meant that once trapped, the disgusting creatures could theoretical-ly languish there, alive and wriggling, until the Chip-

munk Patroller came to remove them.Ugh! I can’t even stand the sight of

an upside down cockroach.Th en the professional rodent de-

stroyer told me that if the burrows were deep enough, he could drop smoke bombs in there—lethal to the chipmunks, but harmless to children, birds and pets.

Perfect. Die, Chip and Dale, Die!So Mr. Chipmunk dropped the

smoke bombs, and for exactly two weeks I could watch our garage door open without seeing a gang of chipmunks scatter like thugs being raided at a craps game.

Th en they all found their way into my tomatoes and under my deck again.

I’m going to put up a sign of my own, in my front yard. It will read, in large

letters, “Coyotes welcome!”Robin Conte is a writer and mother of

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Russian import: This gym promotes very heavy lifting

From the outside, the little building in Sandy Springs doesn’t seem all that diff erent from its neighbors. It’s just an-other former suburban home off Ro-swell Road that has been converted to an offi ce or shop.

But inside, things look a bit diff er-ent. Although most of the rooms in this Cliftwood Drive business are sparely furnished, a single, large room that runs along one end of the building is fi lled with rows of equipment. It’s a very spe-cialized gym.

Th e clients training in this gym work out with weights. Th ey don’t lift weights in the familiar way, with arm curls or clean-and-jerks, but instead follow a training program developed by a Rus-sian physiologist named Anotoly Samo-dumov. Th ey’re not here to build mus-cles, but to improve their health.

“Th ere’s one place in the world, other than Moscow, where this is done, and it’s Sandy Springs,” said Dr. David Burke, who chairs the department of rehabilita-tion medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and has been study-ing the program.

Under the watch-ful eye of trainer Vladimir Chubin-sky, a Ukrainian-born physical ther-apist and wrestler who brought the “gravitational well-ness” program to the U.S in 1997, the people working out in the Cliftwood Drive gym lift weights loaded with metal disks weighing hun-dreds of pounds.

Hundreds and hundreds of pounds, in fact. More than 1,000 pounds, at times. Even participants admit the

numbers can be eye-pop-ping. “Sat-urday I was there, and I lifted 1,500 pounds,” Burke said.

Chubin-sky charges $100 a ses-sion. Each workout takes about 30 minutes and the pro-gram includes workouts once a week for 10 to 12 weeks or so. Clients say the program makes them feel better and im-proves their health, Burke said.

“I’m a big advocate...,” Sandy Springs developer Jim Jacoby said. “I’m going to be 72 and I’ve still got a lot of energy and it gives me more. ... My wife did it, too, and my daughter.”

Chubinsky says he doesn’t know why the program improves his clients’ health, just that they tell him it does. “It’s not about [how much] weight [one lifts],” he said. “It’s about how you feel.”

Participants are able to lift large amounts of weight because the lifts are done with their cen-tral bodies. For the

fl oor lift, Chubinsky places a wide belt across the lifter’s lower back, spreading the weight across their bodies. Altogeth-er, there are four weight stations that stress diff erent areas of the body. Over time, “this program gives you addition-

“This program gives you additional strength,

which you cannot get by any other workout.”

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Left, Vladimir Chubinsky keeps a watchful eye on client Beth Nowak as she lifts weights during a “gravitational wellness” program.

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Chubinsky said he moved to Sandy Springs in the 1990s because he wanted to operate his business in metro Atlanta. “People say if you can succeed in Atlan-ta, you can succeed anywhere,” he said.

His gym has attracted celebrities, ath-letes and local business leaders. Some clients fly in from New York, Canada or Europe just for the workout, Chubinsky said. “It’s got a cult following,” Burke said.

Word of the program spreads primar-ily through word of mouth. Some local and national sports publications have written about Chubinsky, but most of his clients are referred by other clients.

Chubinsky believes the program won’t stay small forever. He’s convinced that “gravitation wellness” will spread and become something many people do as part of their regular fitness pro-grams. He imagines it being used in high schools. When? “I don’t know,” he said. “But it will happen.”

Burke, who also lives in Sandy Springs, started studying the “gravita-tional wellness” program several years ago after he overheard someone at a conference talking about lifting extraor-

dinary amounts of weight at Chubin-sky’s gym. Burke has produced scientif-ic papers on the program, including one he presented in July at an internation-al medical conference in Berlin. His col-leagues’ reactions? “This is such stunning stuff, they don’t know what to make of it,” he said.

But Burke seems convinced that something extraordinary takes place on Cliftwood Drive. He considers it alter-native medicine. “It seems to me this is something unique,” he said. “People feel better ... and it doesn’t require a lot of effort.”

Burke holds a third-degree black belt in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do. He thinks Chubinsky’s clients may feel stronger and healthier because they stim-ulate primarily the core of their bodies.

That area is associated in martial arts with “chi,” or life force, he said, and the people he interviewed for his study said the program made them feel better. “Ev-erybody said, ‘I’ve got so much more en-ergy. I think more clearly.’ It was just a sense of well-being,” he said.

“Here’s the bullet item that intrigued me: You [work out] a maximum of 30 minutes a week for two months, and you’re able to double your strength and increase you sense of health, well-being and vitality, with no injuries. That is just shy of taking a pill.”

“There’s one place in the world, other than Moscow, where this is

done, and it’s Sandy Springs.”

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Lenny MarcusSaturday, Sept. 12, 8:30- 0:30 p.m. – The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta pres-ents a standup performance by comedian Lenny Marcus. With recent appearances on Comedy Cen-tral and The Late Show, this standup performance is sure to please comedy enthusiasts. This event is strictly 18+. Tickets are $18 for members and $25 for nonmembers. MJCCA, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go to at-lantajcc.org or call 678-812-4000.

Ruthless! Friday, Sept. 18 through Saturday, Oct. 3 – Act3 Productions presents “Ruth-less!,” at Act3 Playhouse in Sandy Springs. The show incorporates elements of Broadway, and plays on the themes of ambition, parenting and child acting. Tickets begin at $15 and can be purchased through the website: act3produc-tions.org. Sandy Springs Plaza, 6285 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328.

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Entertainment Schedule Location: Festival Main Stage

Saturday, September 19, 20159:30 – 10:30 am Kiwanis Pet Parade Registration10:30 – 11:30 am 27th Annual Kiwanis Pet Parade and Awards Ceremony11:30 – 12:15 pm J Dance Company and Collective Dance ProjectMarcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta12:15 – 1:00 pm Ridgeview Singers, Ridgeview Jazz Band, Riverwood SingersRidgeview Charter Middle School & Riverwood High School1:00 – 1:15 pm Los Ninos Primeros Chorus1:15 – 1:45 pm Sandy Springs Recreation and Parks Department Gymnastics Demonstration1:45 – 2:15 pm Bush Centre for Ballet2:15 – 3:15 pm Is That So?3:15 – 4:15 pm Mr. Blue Sky4:15 – 5:30 pm UndercurrentFestival closes at 6:00 pm

Sunday, September 20, 201510:00 – 10:45 am Muse for Life: Craig and Havalyn’s Original Music Experience10:45 – 11:00 am Moohans Martial Arts Karate Demonstration11:00 – 11:30 am Jump Start Gym Demonstration11:30 – 12:00 am Dance Theatre of Sandy Springs 12:00 – 12:30 pm Sky Gym / Ariel Dance12:30 – 12:45 pm Georgia Boy Choir12:45 – 1:30 pm Great Safari Adventure Show, A Kids Exercise Extravaganza1:30 – 2:30 pm Darnell Boys2:30 – 3:15 pm North Springs Charter High School Marching Band3:15 – 4:30 pm Black Lion ReggaeFestival closes at 5:00 pm

Thank you to the following individuals for their financial support of the 2015 Sandy Springs Festival:Friends of the FestivalAnne and Jeff BachmanHoney and Alan Barnes

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Margie KesslerKevin King

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Bunny MitchellDorothy S. Myers

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Bob and Georgia WattsMarsha Webb

Dick and Dale WernerDan and Beka Whigham

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What To Know Before You Go FESTIVAL HOURS: Saturday, September 19, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm. • Sunday, September 20, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. This event is rain or shine. ABOUT: The Sandy Springs Festival is a two-day outdoor arts and community festival presented by Heritage Sandy Springs, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting history, stewarding a community park, and enhancing the cultural identity of Sandy Springs. The Festival is celebrating its 30th year in 2015.

ADMISSiON:Adults $5 2-Day Pass: Adults $7Youth (Ages 6-17) $2 2-Day Pass: Youth (Ages 6-17) $3Children (5 and under) FREE HSS Members FREE

PARKING/TRANSPORTATION: FREE PARKING, with shuttle service provided by Cooper GlobalChauffeured Transportation, is available at the following locations:

The closest MARTA stop is the Dunwoody Station, 1.6 miles away. A passenger can take the #5 Sandy Springs or the #87 Roswell Road bus. Both drop passengers at Hilderbrand Drive and Roswell Road, one block east of the Festival entrance on Hilderbrand Drive and Bluestone Road Please DO NOT park at City Walk or area shopping centers. These private lots are for retail patrons only.

FESTIVAL AMENITIES: Amenities include ATMs, Lost and Found, designated recycling and trash containers, a baby changing station, as well as multiple restroom locations. Food and beverage vendors will be located through-out the Festival and in the Food Court. The Moondog Growlers Beer Garden will feature a selection of local craft brews on draft for attendees age 21+. The Sandy Springs Festival prides itself in being a pet-friendly event! Please keep your pet on leash at all times and be mindful of others. Heritage Green is a smoke-free park. No tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco will be permitted.

SECURITY:The Sandy Springs Police and Fire Departments will be on site all weekend and ready to provide assistance should the need arise. Please report any and all criminal or suspicious activity to the nearest officer. Any emergency health concerns should immediately be referred to these trained personnel.

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Saturday, Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. – Blue Heron Nature Preserve partners with Farm Chastain to present Urban Farm Day, part of their Second Saturday Safari Series. The event features a tour of the property and a chance to harvest your own veggies for a healthy salad. Master gardeners will provide fall gardening tips, soil test kits and seed packets. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids. Farm Chastain, 4001 Powers Ferry Rd., Atlanta, 30342. For more in-formation, go to bhnp.org.

Pirate CraftsThursday, Sept. 17, 4-4:30 p.m. – In hon-or of Talk Like a Pirate Day, the Brookhaven Li-brary hosts a craft workshop to make pirate hats and eyepatches. Funding provided by the Friends of the Brookhaven Library. Free. Suitable for kids aged 5 to 12. Open to the first 20 partici-pants. 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhav-en, 30319. For more information, go to dekalbli-brary.org or call 404-848-7140.

Book SaleFriday, Sept. 18, 12-6 p.m. and Satur-day, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. – Friends of the Northside Library presents their monthly book sale and fundraiser in the meeting room. Free event is open to the public. Suitable for all ages. Northside Branch Library, 3295 North-side Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. For more in-formation, email [email protected] or go to afpls.org/northside-branch.

KidStuff ConsignmentThursday, Sept. 17, 5-9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. – Just in time for back to school, this consignment sale features children’s fall and winter clothing, toys, books, baby equipment and much more! All proceeds support the missions of Kingswood UMC. No children under 10 per-mitted on Thursday, and on Saturday, many items will be discounted or half price. Kingswood United Methodist Church, Community Life Center, 5015 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more infor-mation, go to kingswoodumc.org/kidstuff.

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Friday, Sept. 25, 6 p.m. – Come out for a screening of Cinderella at Movies by Moonlight, a free drive-in movie and block party suitable for the whole family. Presented by Leadership Sandy Springs. Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, 86 Mount Vernon Hwy., NW, Sandy Springs, 30328. Need additional details? Go to leadership-sandysprings.org or call 404-256-9091.

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Fall in love with fall festivalsBY ISADORA PENNINGTON

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As days grow shorter and the air be-comes distinctly more crisp, fall enthusi-asts everywhere rejoice with the onset of autumn, dreaming of pumpkin spice ev-erything and cozy scarves on chilly days.

For those living in our communi-ties, fall also means some great festi-

vals and events nearby, made all the sweeter by cooler temperatures and beautiful autumn colors.

Along with the Sandy Springs Fes-tival set for Sept. 19 and 20, here are some other festivals planned in the metro area this fall.

Yellow Daisy FestivalTh ursday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 13. Returning for its 43rd year to

Stone Mountain Park, this outdoor festival off ers shopping, live entertainment, fes-tival foods and works for sale by more than 400 artists and crafters. With vendors from 38 states and internationally as well, this bustling event has grown tremendous-ly since it began as a small arts and crafts show many years ago. Families and visitors of all ages are invited to partake in Children’s Corner activities, crafter demonstrations and beautiful wooded trails for walking. Admission to the Yellow Daisy Festival is free with parking, which is $15 per vehicle for a one-day permit. Stone Mountain Park, Highway 78E, Stone Mountain, 30086. To fi nd out more details about the event, go to stonemountainpark.com or call 770-498-5690.

Pumpkin FestivalFridays through Sundays, Sept. 25 to Oct. 25. Th is annual happening brings

visitors to Stone Mountain Park for attractions, games, shows and beautiful views of changing fall colors. Life-sized storytelling, a parade, meet and greet with characters, a scavenger hunt and even a pie-eating contest make this recurring weekend outing a family favorite. Visitors can also trek through the treetops in the ropes course and take a ride to the summit of the mountain during their trip. Tickets can be purchased on-line, and more information can be found at stonemountainpark.com. Stone Moun-tain Park, Old 78 Hwy., Stone Mountain, 30083.

Atlanta Greek FestivalTh ursday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Sept. 27. Experience the tastes and tra-

ditions of Greece at the Atlanta Greek Festival. Alpha-Omega Sound headlines the event and plays authentic music from diff erent regions in Greece, and dancers from the Greek Orthodox Cathedral perform traditional as well as contemporary danc-es from Greece, Cyprus and Asia Minor. Live cooking demonstrations by local chefs and plenty of festival favorites like gyros and Greek pizza are available for sale using the Festival Bucks system. Large crowds are expected, so plan accordingly. Free park-ing and shuttle buses available at the Century Center Offi ce Park adjacent to I-85, at 2200 Century Pkwy., NE, Atlanta, 30345. For more information, go online toatlgoc.org/greek-festival or call 404-633-7358. Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 2500 Clairmont Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30329.

Fall Folklife FestivalSaturday, Sept. 26. Celebrate the traditions of the South at the Atlanta History Cen-

ter’s Fall Folklife Festival. Th e family-friendly activities include live bluegrass and folk mu-sic by local musicians and taste treats from Atlanta-based food trucks. Th is year the festival is highlighting the contributions of African-American chefs and home cooks, including demonstrations by Michael Twitty and a panel discussion with Southern chefs moderat-ed by Erika Council, author of the Southern Souffl e blog. Th e event is free for members and included in the cost of general admission for nonmembers. Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. To learn more, go to atlantahistorycen-ter.com or call 404-814-4000.

Brookhaven Chili CookoffSaturday, Oct. 10. If chili is your thing, then you may not wanr to miss this festival in

the heart of Brookhaven. Featuring a chili and brunswick stew tasting with 75+ competi-tion teams, this event is perfect for the foodie in your life. In addition to the chili off erings, food trucks will be on hand selling their goods. Adults can enjoy adult beverages and foot-ball on the big screen while kids play cornhole, do arts and crafts and hit the kid’s zone. Live music will entertain the entire family while raising money for Releash Atlanta. Am-ateur teams can sign up for a chance to win prizes, medals and bragging rights. Leashed pets are allowed, but no coolers, outside food or beverages permitted in the venue. Tick-ets and more information can be found on their website at brookhavenchilicookoff .com. Brookhaven Park, 4158 Peachtree Rd., Brookhaven, 30319.

Brookhaven Arts Festival Saturday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18. Th is juried fi ne art event returns for its 11th

year to Brookhaven. Produced with the input of local artists by the Brookhaven Commu-nity Foundation, this popular event has returned after their 2014 hiatus. Boasting more than 150 artists, the event also off ers plenty of food, live music and a classic car show. Th e Little House of ART will provide an interactive kid’s booth. Free and open to the public. Apple Valley Road behind the MARTA station, 2573 Apple Valley Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. To learn more, call (770) 988-4548 or go to brookhavenartsfestival.org.

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val returns to Chastain Park along Park Drive, and features goods and art by approxi-mately 185 artists and artisans. A children’s area, food and beverages, including gour-met food trucks, and local acoustic musicians make this free event a fun time for the entire family. Th e event is organized by the Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces and volunteer artists. Chastain Park, 4001 Powers Ferry Rd., Atlanta, 30342. More infor-mation on the festival can be found online at chastainparkartsfestival.org or by call-ing 404-237-2177.

Book Festival of the MJCCATh ursday, Nov. 5 through Sunday, Nov. 22. Th e Marcus Jewish Community

Center of Atlanta hosts the 24th annual Book Festival, a literary event featuring a lineup of authors, celebrities and thinkers. Panels, book signings, author meet-and-greets, panel discussions and a community reading are features that draw thousands of book lovers to Dunwoody. Featured authors include David Gregory, Judy Blume, Ted Koppel and many more. MJCCA, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, call 678-812-4000 or go online to atlantajcc.org where you can also purchase tickets.

Fall Festival on Ponce Saturday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18. Th e Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces

presents the 5th annual Fall Festival on Ponce in Olmsted Linear Park. Visitors can browse over 125 fi ne art, folk and craft displays. Kids can enjoy a children’s area while adults sam-ple local gourmet food, beverages and listen to acoustic musical performances. Th is out-door event is free and open to the public. Olmstead Linear Park, 1451 Ponce de Leon Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30307. For more information, go to festivalonponce.com.

Dunwoody Apple Cider DaysThursday, Oct. 21 through Sunday, Oct. 25. Hosted by the Dunwoody Pres-

ervation Trust, this annual fall fundraising event is a family favorite. Festivities include carnival rides, amusement games, food and vendors. With an expected crowd of more than 30,000 people, the event is a tradition in Dunwoody and held at Perimeter Mall. Admission to Apple Cider Days is free; individual ride tickets are $1 each. Perimeter Mall, 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., NE, Dun-woody, 30346. For more information, go to appleciderdays.org or call the Dun-woody Preservation Trust at 770-668-0401.


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One of those other places is actually just down the block, but Chama Gaúcha is 10 bucks cheaper at about 40 bucks for din-ner and 25 bucks for lunch. Th e food and beverage quality was excellent. Our serv-er suggested a caipirinha, Brazil’s national cocktail, similar to a margarita. Th ey don’t use a mix for the lime juice – several times I had to unclog my straw because of pulp, which adds brightness to the drink so your taste buds won’t burn out.

It’s misleading to say that we then went to the salad bar. Chama Gaúcha is home to a 360º ice bar: a square covered on all sides by elegantly hard-packed crushed ice, atop which are embedded a wide variety of cold items. You can treat it like tapas, make a salad, or just peck around for interesting things. Hearts of palm, seasoned mozza-rella, smoked salmon, sun-dried tomatoes, jumbo asparagus, fi ve olive oils, marinated mushroom caps, a parmesan wheel as big as your head, et cetera. My wife went nuts over a heaping pile of sweet shrimp cock-tail, and I dabbled around with a basil lime sauce that went great on everything. Every item was of the utmost freshness. Vegans can easily get their money’s worth without ever touching meat or bread.

Th e bread! Small, gorgeously doughy popovers with a faint hit of parmesan. Th ey’re hollow, so don’t worry about get-ting full before the parade of meats.

Th ere’s a card on your table, and when

you fl ip it from red to green, the servers ap-pear with a dozen usual cuts and daily spe-cials. Meanwhile, your table accrues a pile of accompaniments. Sauces: horsey, mint jelly, chimichurri, salsa. Sides: mashed po-tatoes, fried polenta cakes, fried bananas. When you realize you’re too full for des-sert, you’ll be glad for that fried banana.

We could talk about the specifi c meats, but why? You go to a Brazilian steakhouse so you can try everything and get a lit-tle meat-drunk. Every bite was cooked to perfection and the char on the outside was just right. My wife dug the bacon-wrapped sirloin and I couldn’t get enough of the beef ribs. To each their own, again and again until you give up and turn your card to the red side.

Th e beauty of the service at Chama Gaúcha is that at fi rst they won’t take red for an answer. Th is is Brazilian hos-pitality! Your server is there to direct the fl ow of food and to ask you seven times if you’re sure you can’t eat one more bite. We’d thrown in the towel before the kitch-en got cracking on some sausage, so our server totally charmed us into fl ipping that card back to green. Nobody was pushy; ev-erybody was super nice and attentive. You can bring your fi nicky grandmother here – or your no-nonsense boss, your gluten-free friend, your table of 25 people where sev-en of them are always late. Indeed, we’re going back very soon.

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Open Hand will host its 12th annual culinary-focused fundraising event – Party in the Kitchen. The event will be held at American Spirit Works, 199 Armour Drive, on Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. Organized by Chef Kevin Rathbun, Chef Gerry Klaskala, Kim Klumok, Stewart Little and Mary Williams, guests will enjoy an evening of music, cocktails and cuisine prepared by some of the city’s most talented chefs and mixolo-gists. There will be an opportunity to bid on silent and live auction items that include travel and entertainment packages. Tickets to the main event are $250 each. To pur-chase tickets: partyinthekitchen.org.

Bert’s Big Adventure Restaurant Week will be held Sept. 14-20. The event will

benefit the nonprofit that offers trips to children with chronic and terminal illness-es and their families. Participating restaurants include: Avellino’s Pizza in Brookhav-en and Decatur, Buttermilk Kitchen, YEAH! Burger in West Midtown and Virginia-Highland, Suwannee Park Tavern in Suwanee, 1Kept in Buckhead and all locations of Taco Mac, Tin Lizzy’s Cantina, and Stars and Strikes Family Entertainment Centers.

Marlow’s Tavern plans to open its next location in Brookhaven, according to a re-port from Tomorrow’s News Today. The 3,400-square-foot restaurant would occupy suite 301 of Brookleigh Market on Johnson Ferry Road in Brookhaven.

Atlanta’s Best Cellars Dinner will be held Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the InterConti-nental Buckhead. Attendees will drink rare wines, listen to live music by the Class Act Band, and eat a four-course meal prepared by Guest Chef de Cuisine Jérôme Gril-hot and Executive Chef Didier Lailheugue. For more information, visit tjmartell.org.

Restaurateur Justin Anthony (10 Degrees South, Yebo) plans to open Cape Dutch, a contemporary steak and seafood kitchen, in the Morningside neighborhood this month. The restaurant will be located at 1782 Cheshire Bridge Road.

The annual Great Atlanta Beer Fest at Turner Field is on Sept. 26 from 3 to 8 p.m. The event features 200-plus beers, ciders and 30-plus wines. There will be live music from the Geeks Band, college football on big TVs, and fun and games on Scout’s Al-ley and around the event. Advance tickets are $40, $45 after Sept. 17 and $55 the day of the event. Tickets can be purchased at greatatlantabeerfest.com.

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Andrew Agrippina started the pro-life club at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, but that wasn’t enough for the young activist.

He’s also volunteered as presi-dent of Delta Omega, a service club, at soup kitchens in Atlanta, collect-ing over 1,000 cans of food, and host-ing different drives to collect food and blankets. He was also involved in ser-vice as a part of Youth Leadership San-dy Springs.

Andrew said he was shocked when he learned what abortion is and that it happens. “My Catholic faith tells me that I cannot stand idle while grave in-justices run rampant in our society,” he said.

Earlier this year, Andrew worked with Knights of Columbus at Holy Spirit Catholic Church to raise a bill-board on I-75 in Atlanta. The photo of a newborn baby with the words “All Life Matters” represents to Andrew a dedication to life and serving others.

He said he took his school’s mot-to, “Ministrare non Ministrari,” which means “to serve, not to be served,” se-riously.

“I have been raised with these val-ues, and they have become a part of who I am,” Andrew said.

He calls Tommy Curtin his mentor, and “an educator in the purest sense.” Curtin served as football coach, prin-cipal, teacher, director, piano accom-panist and vocal coach during An-drew’s time at Holy Spirit.

“He played a pivotal role in my for-mation as a student, helping me dis-cover my passion for music and love of knowledge,” Andrew said. “He’s an in-credible teacher, and it is very evident that he loves what he does.”

Curtin said Andrew followed through with his billboard plan like a good business person.

“As part of his work with [the pro-life club], he met with city officials in Atlanta to propose billboards to pro-mote life, and I believe one was ap-proved,” Curtin said. “He saw the project through start to finish, and that to me is a very entrepreneurial ac-tivity.”

Andrew said the effort to raise the billboard taught him how important perseverance and drive are, but he said he also learned he cannot do every-thing alone. He said he is thankful for the help he got from Knights of Co-lumbus.

On his resume, Andrew lists the Ray Kroc Youth Achievement Award, which was established by the Great-

er Atlanta McDonald’s Operators As-sociation in 1985 in memory of Mc-Donald’s founder, Ray A. Kroc. Each participating school selects one grad-uating senior per year to receive the award.

“Andrew is a natural leader, and he combines great leadership skills with an incredibly optimistic attitude,” Curtin said.

His belief that good things come from hard work fuels his projects. “He’s also very talented, which allows him to be successful in many areas from arts to academic to service orga-nizations at our school,” Curtin said.

In addition to starting the pro-life club at school, Andrew participat-ed and won first place in the Atlanta Chapter of Georgia Right to Life Ora-tory Contest in the spring of 2014. He went on to win the statewide contest, earning $250 and a summer intern-ship with Georgia Right to Life. His winning speech was titled “Proliferate the Pro-Life Rate.” In the speech, he said people should love and not pass judgment on women who become un-expectedly pregnant.

But Andrew’s commitment to life extends beyond pregnancy.

“To me, the pro-life cause tran-scends the issue of abortion,” he said. “Being pro-life means treating every-one I meet with the love and dignity that every human life deserves.”

When the pro-life club took a trip to the District of Columbia for the March for Life, Andrew and other club members brought along blankets and granola bars to donate.

“We handed these out to the home-less people we encountered while marching,” Andrew said. “That is what the pro-life movement is about.”

What’s Next: Andrew plans to attend Washing-

ton and Lee University, with a dou-ble major in business administration and politics, and minor in music. He said he made the choice based on the school’s inspiring honor code and inti-mate academic environment.

This article was prepared by Lela Johnson and written by Ellen Eldridge.

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New state charter in hand, members of the board of the Brookhaven Inno-vation Academy are looking for a new home, a new leader and fi nancial con-tributions.

“Now the work starts, the opera-tional work,” Bates Mattison, chairman of the school’s board and a member of Brookhaven City Council, said after the State Charter Schools Commission vot-ed unanimously Aug. 26 to approve a charter for the Brookhaven-based public school that will emphasize science, tech-nology and math classes.

“We really do have a tremendous amount of work to do.”

Th e board hopes to settle on a location for the school by October, Mattison said.

City offi cials re-cently proposed buying a for-mer school build-ing from the state, which now uses it for offi ces. School board members are negotiating to use that building to house the school, Mat-tison said, but if that location doesn’t work out, board members are consider-ing several other possible sites.

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Developer Ashton Woods is stirring controversy for another plan to turn former Glenn family land on Sandy Springs’ Glenridge Drive into single-family and multifamily housing.

Th e “Glenn West” project at 6500 Glenridge Road, which puts 123 homes alongside new ball fi elds for Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, is right across the street from where Ashton Woods plans a vari-ety of housing around the future Mercedes-Benz USA headquarters.

Neighbors already unhappy with the density and projected traffi c eff ects of the Mercedes plan aren’t thrilled with another 80 townhomes, 43 detached homes and fi ve new driveways coming to Glenridge Drive.

About 60 residents expressed concerns at an Aug. 27 Community Developer Resolution Meeting at Sandy Springs City Hall.

Th e project I scheduled to go before the city’s public Planning Commission on Sept. 17Th e 36-acre site is largely wooded, with a forking stream running through it. Th e property is part of

the former Glenn family estate that once covered nearly 500 acres. Th e pieces Ashton Woods and Mercedes are acquiring, on the east side of Glenridge, are being sold

by family member Caroline Glenn Mayson, who controversially demolished Glenridge Hall, the fami-ly mansion, earlier this year.

Th e Glenn West parcel, on the west side, is being sold by her cousin, Tom Glenn, and his wife Lou, according to Dr. J. Brett Jacobson, the head of school at Mount Vernon Presbyterian.

At Glenn West, the school would take 10 acres for a new multi-sport fi eld and softball diamond. In part, that clears room for a new high school building. School offi cials say the number of students attend-ing the school will increase, but won’t exceed the cap of 750 students allowed on that campus.

Th e project requires rezoning to allow the townhouses, and variances to let the school’s fi eld encroach on a street setback and a stream buff er.

Neighbors questioned Ashton Woods’ density calculations—which include the ball fi elds—and traf-fi c numbers. Th ey generally opposed the multifamily component.

Mike Busher, a senior vice president of Ashton Woods, said demand is driving the multifamily part. “Certainly, I feel [the mood] from the room that one more [multifamily project] is too many,” he said, but added the market shows a “huge underserved need for Perimeter housing” of that type. In a later in-terview, he said Ashton Woods will continue to negotiate with neighbors.

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A pond where a great blue her-on and a kingfi sher hunt. A stream with small waterfalls fl owing through century-old forest. A “se-cret garden” with an outdoor stone fi replace.

Th ose are just a few features of the former Glenridge Hall estate that Ashton Woods, as a deal-sweet-ener for a controversial housing de-velopment plan, has agreed to pre-serve as a new 14-acre public park.

One recent afternoon, Lin-da Bain, executive director of the Sandy Springs Conservancy, and Mike Rabalais, who long lived on and managed the Glenridge estate, hiked the property together to look it over.

As deer dashed nearby, Bain ex-plained how the conservancy bro-kered the park deal and Rabalais described how former owner Caro-line Glenn Mayson strategized for part of the historic family estate to become parkland.

“Th is is a vast piece of land in an extraordinary location worth a vast amount of money,” said Bain, not-ing the rarity of scoring prime re-development land for what will be

one of Sandy Springs’ biggest parks.Th at value is also why the oth-

er 60 acres will become housing de-spite complaints from some neigh-bors.

Mayson sparked protests by de-molishing the family mansion ear-lier this year and selling to Ashton Woods for a development that ex-tends across Abernathy Road to where Mercedes-Benz USA’s new headquarters will rise.

Th e tour by Bain and Rabalais included a stop at the mansion site, now an imploded basement fi lled with brick rubble.

“It does break your heart,” Rab-alais said while approaching the ru-ins. He described how he and May-son spent four years trying make the fi nances work for turning the mansion into an event facility.

When that idea failed, Mayson remained committed to preserving some public-access green space, he said.

“Our test was, when we come back in 10 years, we want some-thing we can be proud of,” Rabal-ais said.

Bain praised Ashton Woods as

willing to preserve trees and open space, and for agreeing at the “11th hour” to making the new park a re-quired condition of the zoning ap-proval. Th e conservancy brokered that deal behind the scenes, push-ing the developer to shift from a general green space plan to an offi -cial public parkland.

“Ashton Woods is thrilled with the inclusion of a public park into the planned New Urbanist village at Glenridge Drive,” said Mike Bush-er, a senior vice president at Ashton Woods, in a written statement.

Ashton Woods will pay for the park’s amenities, largely consisting of trails and six to eight parking spaces at various spots along Aber-nathy and Glenridge Drive. Bush-er estimated the cost at $200,000 or more.

Completion of the still-un-named park and the housing com-plex are years away—assuming they happen at all, as some neigh-bors say they may sue Ashton Woods to stop the development.

But, Bain said, the project is a big step in assembling park space in a young city undergoing a develop-ment boom.

“We’re eking out a park system,” she said.

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Police BlotterFrom police reports dated

Aug. 15-27.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website

and is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY � 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Aug. 18, robbery of a busi-ness with a gun was reported.

BURGLARY � 1200 block of Madison Drive—On

Aug. 19, burglary was reported.

� 100 block of Azelea Gardens Drive—On Aug. 19, burglary was reported.

� 4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 21, burglary was report-ed.

� 1000 block of Potomac Road—On Aug. 21, burglary was reported.

� 4700 block of North Peachtree Road—On Aug. 21, burglary was reported.

� 5400 block of Brooke Farm Drive—On Aug. 23, burglary was reported.

� 9200 block of Perimeter Lofts Circle—On Aug. 24, burglary was reported.

AUTO THEFT � 6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial

Boulevard—On Aug. 15, motor vehicle theft was reported.

� First block of Perimeter Cen-ter East—On Aug. 19, a motor vehicle theft was reported; On Aug. 21, an ar-rest was made for theft of a motor vehi-cle.

� 4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 19, a motor vehicle was reported stolen.

� 500 block of Ashwood Parkway—On

Aug. 20, theft of a motor vehicle was re-ported.

THEFT/LARCENY � 4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Aug. 15, 16 and 18, shop-lifting was reported and/or arrests were made.

� 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 15, larceny was report-ed; On Aug. 15 and 26, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported; On Aug. 18, 19, 25 and 26, shoplifting was reported and/or arrests were made.

� 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 18, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported; On Aug. 18, 21, 22, 25 and 27, shoplifting was report-

ed and/or arrests were made.

� 2300 block of Peachford Road—On Aug. 15, lar-ceny was report-

ed.

� 1600 block of Old Spring House Lane—On Aug. 16, larceny was report-ed.

� 1200 block of Ashford Crossing—On Aug. 18, theft of articles from a vehicle

was reported; On Aug. 24, theft of arti-cles from a vehicle was reported.

� 300 block of Perimeter Center North—On Aug. 19, theft of articles from a vehi-cle was reported.

� 1200 block of Lake Ridge Lane—On Aug. 19, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive—On Aug. 19, larceny from a building was re-ported.

� 1200 block of Hammond Drive—On Aug. 20, larceny was reported.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West—On Aug. 19, shoplifting was reported.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place—On Aug. 20, shoplifting was reported and an arrest was made; On Aug. 21 and 27, arrests were made for shoplifting.

� 4400 block of Abercorn Avenue—On Aug. 21, larceny was reported.

� 2500 block of Stonington Road—On Aug. 22, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

� 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On Aug. 22 and 23, theft of articles from vehicles was reported.

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� 1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On Aug. 22, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

� 2100 block of North Forest Trail—On Aug. 22 and 23, theft of articles from ve-hicles was reported.

� First block of Perimeter Center East—On Aug. 25, an arrest was made for lar-ceny.

� 4400 block of North Shallowford Road—On Aug. 25, larceny was report-ed.

� 500 block of Ashford Parkway—On Aug. 25, theft of parts from a vehicle was reported.

� 1400 block of Holly Bank Circle—On Aug. 26, larceny was reported.

� 4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 27, shoplifting was re-ported.

ASSAULT � 5200 block of Wyntercreek Court—

On On Aug. 15, harassing communica-tions were reported.

� First block of Perimeter Center East—On Aug. 15, simple assault was reported.

� 8000 block of Perimeter Trace East—On Aug. 16, simple battery of a family member was reported.

� 6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On Aug. 16, simple assault and battery was reported.

� 4900 block of Winters Chapel Road—On Aug. 19, simple battery of a family member was reported.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West—On Aug. 20, assault by intimidation was reported.

� 2400 block of Mount Vernon Road—On Aug. 20, simple assault and battery

was reported.

� 4500 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 21, a sexual assault was reported.

� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-way—On Aug. 22, aggravated assault and battery with a weapon was reported and two arrests were made.

� 2600 block of Peeler Road—On Aug. 23, simple assault and battery was report-ed.

� 6800 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On Aug. 23, simple assault and battery was reported and an arrest was made.

� 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On Aug. 23, aggravated assault and bat-tery with a weapon was reported.

� 4200 block of East Kings Point Cir-cle—On Aug. 23, assault by intimidation was reported.

� 2700 block of Claridge Court—On Aug. 27, assault by intimidation was re-ported.

FRAUD � 2800 block of Winterhaven Court—

On Aug. 15, fraud was reported.

� First block of Perimeter Center East—On Aug. 18, credit fraud was reported; On Aug. 19, fraud was reported.

� 6500 block of Madison Drive—On Aug. 18, fraud by swindle was reported.

� First block of Perimeter Center East—On Aug. 20, fraud by worthless check was reported.

� 1500 block of Summerset Drive—On Aug. 20, credit fraud was reported.

� 1300 block of Azalea Garden Drive—On Aug. 21, credit fraud was reported.

Firefighters celebrate one of their ownDeKalb County Fire Station No. 2, located on Dresden Drive, celebrated the service of one of its own on Aug. 29, holding a retirement reception for firefighter Chris Mruk.

Left, firefighters from many DeKalb stations came by to show support.

Below, left, Mruk’s fellow firefighters at station No. 2 created a U.S. flag out of a firehose.

Below, center, DeKalb firefighter Brock Roddey, left, speaks with retired DeKalb firefighter Clarence “CP” Smith.

Below, right, Murk served as a DeKalb County police officer from 1986 to 1996 before joining the fire department. He served at station No. 2 from 1987-2015.

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

CONTINUED ON PAGE 30



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� 4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 26, fraud by swindle was reported; On Aug. 27, credit fraud was reported.

� 2900 block of Four Oaks Drive—On Aug. 27, fraud by swindle was reported.

ARRESTS � 4800 block of Winters Chapel Court—

On Aug. 15 and 18, arrests were made for possession of marijuana.

� 5000 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Aug. 15, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana.

� I-285 at North Peachtree Road—On Aug. 16, an arrest was made for driving on a suspended or revoked license.

� I-285 at Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Aug. 19, an arrest was made for fol-lowing too close and driving while unli-censed; On Aug. 23, an arrest was made for DUI.

� I-285 at Perimeter Center Parkway—On Aug. 20, an arrest was made for driv-ing in an emergency lane.

� First block of Perimeter Center East—On Aug. 23, an arrest was made for fail-ure to appear in court.

� 1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On Aug. 24, an arrest was made for posses-sion of marijuana.

� 2100 block of Cotillion Drive—On Aug. 24, an arrest was made for driving while license was suspended or revoked.

� 1200 block of Mount Vernon Road—On Aug. 25, a wanted person was locat-ed and arrested.

� 300 block of Perimeter Center North—On Aug. 27, seven arrests were made for operating and participating in a gam-bling card game.

OTHER � 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—

On Aug. 20, damage to private proper-ty was reported.

� 6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On Aug. 22, damage to pri-vate property was reported.

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