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Brook Run Park is being remade under city

PHOTOS BY ELLEN ELDRIGE

Left, Brooks Rosecrans, 1, enjoys a ride on the swing set at Brook Run Park. Above, Renee

Szabo, a member of the Dunwoody Garden Club, tidies up the grounds by removing spent tulip bulbs and adding crimson loropetalum shrubs.

Alejandro Tenorio, left, and Alex Agustin, members of Dunwoody High School’s 1264B Robotics Team, demonstrate their robot’s capabilities.

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BY ELLEN [email protected]

It takes more than engineering to design a robot. Students from Dunwoody High School, who placed third in the world in a robot-building contest recently, say it takes salesmanship, skill and teamwork.

When Alejandro Tenorio walked into the expo center in Kentucky for the VEX Robot-ics World Competition, he just thought, “Wow, this is big,” he said.


Since 2010, the city of Dunwoody has re-made Brook Run Park. Th e 100-acre park now includes an expanded community garden, miles of hiking trails, a zip-line-based entertainment complex and a new dog park.

“I don’t think they did much with it when it was a DeKalb County park,” Dunwoody resident Kerry May said. “I think they cleared some land and leveled some buildings. Once it became part of Dunwoody, they did the playground and the path and the community garden.”

Brook Run wasn’t always a park. Th e Geor-gia Retardation Center used to occupy much of what is now Brook Run Park. DeKalb Coun-ty demolished many of the center’s buildings, which opened up more areas for improvements, Parks Director Brent Walker said.

Th e park’s master plan, originally written in 2010, will be updated next year, Walker said, so community members and park enthusiasts can provide feedback to the city as to what kinds of amenities they want to see in the remaining acres.

Walker said the 12 acres where the retardation center’s hospital sat provide a lot of opportuni-ty for Brook Run Park. Waving his hand toward a large fi eld, Walker said the back of the park is full of potential.

“When we took over this was a dead zone; no-body ever came back here,” Walker said.

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Dunwoody City Council on April 27 took a new step toward a plan for rede-veloping the area around Winters Cha-pel Road.

Th e area covers portions of both Dunwoody and the city of Peachtree Cor-ners, so the fi nal plan will require approval of both cities and the city of Sandy Springs, Dunwoody offi -cials said.

Th e plan calls for fi ve-foot side-walks and park benches along Winters Chapel Road and also in-cludes a 12-foot-wide multiuse trail.

Mayor Mike Davis said the point of approv-ing the study was to “begin the con-versation without it being a compre-hensive plan of any sort.

“I’m afraid the deeper we get into the details of this, the harder it’s going to be to ever get anywhere,” Davis said. “Let’s just get an agreement started that gets us on the same page.”

Th e vision comes from meetings be-tween staff members for the cities of Dunwoody and Peachtree Corners, with

additions from residents of both cities. Th e study has been approved already by Peachtree Corners City Council.

Some Dunwoody council members said they want to coordinate with of-

fi cials from other communities to set a consistent speed limit on Win-ters Chapel Road. Councilman John Heneghan not-ed one Dunwoody speed limit in the area had already been changed.

Councilman Doug Th ompson, who represents the area, said he wants Winters Chapel area trails to main-tain the 12-foot wide multiuse trail standard that ex-ists in Dunwoody. “Keep in mind this is a streetscape plan, not a master plan,” Th ompson said. He added that the area will need its own sub-area mas-ter plan, but getting started is crucial.

Th ompson added that as important as maintaining the standard of Dun-woody is for him, he wants to progress.

“Th e last thing I want to do is mess anything up with Winters Chapel be-cause that’s an area where it needs so much,” Th ompson said.

“The last thing I want to do is mess anything up with Winters Chapel because that’s an area

where it needs so much.”

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Maintaining the neighborhoods and preserving the “historic charm” of Dun-woody were the two most popular goals of residents who attended the April 23 public workshop hosted by the city and held at the Dunwoody Nature Center.

As part of Dunwoody’s “Needs and Opportunities” workshop series, city of-fi cials and planners want to develop “the framework for the future,” Jacobs Engi-neering Project Manager Jim Summer-bell said.

“Th e state says we have to do a SWOT Analysis to identify the strengths, op-portunities, weakness and threats, and we’ve kind of boiled that down to ‘needs’ and ‘opportunities,’” Summerbell said.

Th is provides the entire framework for the city’s future, he said.

A draft of the plan will be available in June, when the public will be invit-ed back out for the last two workshops in the series.

Jim Blakeley, who has lived in Dun-woody more than 30 years, said he knows of places he doesn’t want Dun-woody to turn into.

“Preserve the character,” he said as an important goal for the city. He added that traffi c is “a mess” along Ga. 400 and will only get worse, but he called Dun-woody “beautiful.”

Resident Melanie Williams said she is also interested in preserving the charac-ter of Dunwoody, where she’s lived for 38 years. She placed her dot on the third of 10 goals for Dunwoody, which says “Maintain the historic charm of Dun-woody and the city’s heritage proper-ties.”

She’s involved with the Dunwoody Preservation Trust and cites saving the

Spruill House as an accomplishment of the trust. Now, she says DPT and resi-dents like her “want to restore the Don-aldson-Bannister house and make it available to the community as a park, where children and families can enjoy the innate personality of the farm.”

Williams said she believes in progress and doesn’t want to “live in the past,” but she feels strongly that too much de-velopment will hurt the city’s charm.

“It’s so important to not overdevelop because then I think we lose our heri-tage,” she said. “Green space is so im-portant. I love the urban but don’t want to lose what so many of our forefathers worked for.”

After breaking down into three groups, residents talked more specifi cal-ly about ideas.

Councilman Denis Shortal said he’s concerned with overall “protection of residential neighborhoods.”

Others talked in groups about traf-fi c calming eff orts, increased parks and park programs, and infrastructure to in-crease “walkability.”

Jeff Coghill said he knows the people he will eventually sell his house to will want bike lanes and walkability.

“We’re in a competitive and desirable neighborhood,” Coghill said.

Th e series of workshops helps Jacobs Engineering planners learn what the pri-orities of Dunwoody residents are. Th e fi rst two workshops, which concluded March 2, provided an idea of the com-munity’s vision and goals for the next fi ve years. Around May or June, two public meetings to develop a fi ve-year work program and then a plan of action will take place.

Dunwoody Government CalendarThe Dunwoody City Council usually meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Dunwoody City Hall located at 41 Perimeter Center East Suite No. 103.

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Inaugural breakfast intended to bring more art to Dunwoody

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City offi cials and arts representatives gathered for a fi rst-of-its-kind breakfast April 16 to discuss ways to work togeth-er and bring more art to Dunwoody.

“Communities are better with art,” Mayor Mike Davis said. “We all win as a result of this collaboration.”

Th e inaugural Arts in Dunwoody Breakfast was presented by the Arts in Dunwoody Initiative, a group dedicated to connecting artists, art organizations, nonprofi ts, and businesses in creative in-dustries.

Karen Paty, the executive director of the Georgia Council for the Arts, spoke about the importance of art within the community. A roundtable session fol-lowed the presentation and participants

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BY TIM DARNELLPeople living near DeKalb-Peachtree

Airport who are concerned about noise “have nothing to worry about,” says its newly appointed interim director, even as the airport strives to bring in more business.

“Th e Gulfstream 650 is the largest corporate jet we can accommodate, and they are nowhere near as loud as some of the Cessna Citations and Falcon Jets that were built in the ’90s,” said Mario Evans, who was named interim director on April 17. “Aircraft engine technolo-gy has improved so much over time, and it’s only going to continue improving.”

Evans took over the job from Mike Van Wie, who recently retired. Evans had been the airport’s assistant director since 2010, and previously was the air-port’s noise and environmental special-ist.

“We’ve been averaging about 144,000 fl ights annually, for the last three years,” Evans said. “When I fi rst came here 14 years ago, we were operating more than 200,000 fl ights, so we’re almost half of what we used to do.

“Th e aviation industry mirrors the nation’s economy, and we’re only now seeing little bits and pieces of improve-ments,” Evans said.

Th e airport, generally known by its nickname, PDK, is Georgia’s second-busiest airport. According to DeKalb County, it employs 1,800 people, and has an annual payroll of more than $65 million. It’s home to more than 25 air-port-based businesses, and companies like Waffl e House, Southern Co. and Rollins base their corporate fl ight op-erations there. About 590 aircraft are housed at PDK.

Evans wants to bring more business to the airport.

“We want to bring economic dol-lars to our surrounding communities,” which include unincorporated DeKalb County and the cities of Brookhaven, Chamblee and Doraville, Evans said. “Th ese areas are all trying to attract For-tune 500 companies, and that means things like jobs to our area.

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working with new technolo-gy. I love all the STEM con-cepts—science, technology, engineering and math—and it’s opened my eyes as to how robotics is coming into the medical world.”

Sardar isn’t sure if he wants to be the doctor using the robots or the computer science engineer who designs and programs them, he said.

“Th is is the thing I’m kind of wavering on right now: do I want to be the one who makes them or the one who uses them,” Sardar said. “I’m leaning more toward the one that uses them right now.”

Th e robotics team advis-er, Rose Th omas, said she is proud of how the group has grown and all it has accom-plished. She said they serve as role models to younger team members, and she looks for-ward to seeing how their hard work pays off in their professional careers.

“Th e perseverance of the students to continue to im-prove their performance is what has always impressed me about this team,” she said.

Robotics team fi nishes third in world

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Tenorio was one of seven students on Team 1264B, representing the Wildcats of DHS in a worldwide contest where 450 teams compete. Of those 450, 20 teams came from Georgia.

Dunwoody High’s two teams com-peted against the 18 other Georgia teams as well as teams from 29 coun-tries including China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Dubai. “We were the only American team in the hotel,” Arch-ish Chaturvedi said. “We were like for-eigners in that hotel.”

Dunwoody’s B team won its divi-sion and was part of an alliance of three teams that placed third overall, said team advisior Rose Th omas. An alliance of teams from New Zealand, Texas and Utah placed fi rst overall, according to the competition’s webpage. Th e second team from Dunwoody, 1264A, came in 56th in its division.

Team B’s robot, constructed of met-al pieces bolted together on a base with wheels, wasn’t designed to be pretty (it has no face). Instead, the task before the

team was to design, program and drive a machine that would pick up yellow pegs, stack them in a “sky-rise” and then collect three cubes and place them on the assembled pegs.

Drivers Alex Agustin and Tenorio used video game controllers where one person controls the body of the robot and the other manipulates the robot’s arm. Th e game lasts a minute and 45 seconds, including a 15-second period where the robot moves on its own.

Th e teamwork doesn’t stop with driv-ing the robot. To be most eff ective in the alliance-based part of the competition, a team needs a member who can watch other matches and determine how best to pair up.

Davis Apseloff , one of the builders, said he turned salesman during the com-petition, and that greatly helped form the winning alliance.

Apseloff started at DHS his sopho-more year, and though his friends were into building robots, he didn’t join the team until his junior year. By senior year, he spent time putting the robot to-gether. During the competition, he got to “sell” the robot to potential partner teams, he said.

“I was trying to sell that our robot was good at what the other teams’ robots were weak at,” Apseloff said. “I’m good at talking to people and arguing my side of things logically.

“I was constantly walking around talking to diff erent teams, and it really paid off ,” he said.

Most members of the team gradu-ate in May and plan to head off to col-leges like Georgia Tech and University of Georgia to study engineering and fi -nance, but Tejas Sardar wants to study medicine at Emory University.

“One thing that robotics has real-ly introduced to me is how much I love

ELLEN ELDRIDGE

The robot created by the Dunwoody B team was tasked to pick up pegs, stack them, collect cubes and place

them on the assembled pegs.

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Members of Team 1264B attending the VEX Robotics World Competition in Kentucky included: Archish Chaturvedi, Max Noto, Tejas Sardar, Alex Agustin, Alejandro Tenorio,

Aqil Herb, Davis Apseloff and advisor Rose Thomas.

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It’s nothing new that some politicians in local or state gov-ernment abuse their positions of power. Former DeKalb Com-missioner Elaine Boyer recently pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and was sentenced to 14 months in jail. According to Boyer’s own confession, she pocketed our tax dollars for her own personal use. At the time of her misdeeds, she claimed to be our fi scal savior.

Corruption in politics is a tale as old as time. In our state, we’ve had Schrenko and Walker and now Boyer. It’s foolhardy to believe that we’ll one day rid ourselves completely of uneth-ical behavior. In DeKalb County, many point to fl aws in our county executive form of government as the reason for abuse.

Whatever the case, DeKalb has the strongest ethics board in the state -- on paper. Members of the Board of Ethics now have the ability to fi re unethical employees, whether they be secretaries, department heads, members of the Board of Com-missioners, or even the CEO himself.

Within the past year, we addressed a major defect of our Board of Ethics. For a long time, we lacked funding and full membership.

After pushing the Board of Commissioners and the In-terim CEO’s offi ce for an increase in funding, we received nearly $200,000 for our annual budget, a nearly 10-fold in-crease over previous board budgets. We also were able to push DeKalb County to fi ll all of the remaining vacant board seats, we hired investigators, and we hired a lawyer with ethics expe-rience at the State Bar to advise the board.

With our house now in order, we’ve focused on moving through our caseload of complaints effi ciently and eff ectively.

Since March 2014, the Board of Ethics has received over

30 complaints and requests for ad-visory opinions. While we’re hap-py to be in a position to now deal with the workload, we also fi nd ourselves needing someone to assist our all-volunteer board with day-to-day operations.

Th at need is why about two months ago, we initiated a process to hire an Executive Director, who reports directly to the board. Th e Executive Director will be respon-sible for fi elding tips about uneth-ical behavior, giving ethics training to county employees, and bringing concerns to the board for review.

I am excited that the board is taking this next step in ensur-ing a more ethical and transparent county government. I am also pleased that the Georgia General Assembly passed legisla-tion to reform the ethics board so that all appointments, start-ing in January 2016 (if approved by voters by referendum), will come from community organizations outside of DeKalb County government.

Th e new law will also give the board the ability to impose fi nes on unethical county employees.

I remain hopeful that we will restore local government from the crisis of confi dence that has been affl icting it for years. We will only be proud of our government when we make ethics an essential and integral component of leadership.

John Ernst chairs the DeKalb County Board of Ethics.

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“When I joined the [North Buckhead Civic Association] board in the late ‘90s, we didn’t have any parks in North Buck-head. Now, we don’t have enough. But we have some.”

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Summer jobs prepare teens for work

Remember the Doritos ‘GOATS4SALE’ Super Bowl ad? Tunewelders provided the sound

BY LESLIE WILLIAMS JOHNSONKatie Buckis, 18, knows that real work doesn’t always involve

a paycheck.As a junior counselor over the past few summers at the Dun-

woody Nature Center, the Marist senior has assisted the camp’s teachers in the classroom by passing out crayons, helping kids with indoor and outdoor activities, and cleaning up after the camp day ends – including bathrooms.

Her experience has helped her narrow down her career choic-es: She is considering becoming a high school teacher.

“I just want to work with kids,” said Buckis, who hopes to do an internship at the nature center this summer, and has Univer-sity of Georgia at the top of her list of possible colleges. “It’s a good way to keep yourself young. Kids are so interesting.”

As the end of the school year and the beginning of summer inch closer, teens throughout metro Atlanta are nailing down their job options.

Whether it’s paid work, volunteerism or unpaid internships, young workers get a glimpse of the many facets of an eight-hour work day, including cooperating with others and problem solv-ing.

“It’s a great experience for the teen to get used to being re-sponsible, for getting ready for camp, for being accountable,” said Dunwoody Nature Center Executive Director Alan Moth-ner.

Paid teen summer jobs often boil down to camp counseling positions as well as minimum wage jobs in the retail, restaurant and recreation industries. Teens also take advantage of company internships relating to their career interests.

Th e latest national information on employment and unem-ployment among youth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is from last year, and shows that from April to July 2014, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old was 20.1 mil-lion, up by 2.1 million.

Last July, 51.9 percent of young people in the 16-24 year old age group were employed, an increase from 50.7 percent from the year before.

BY CLARE S. RICHIENext time you watch television, close your eyes and really

listen to the commercials. If the spot is for the Braves, Hawks, Krystal hamburgers or Baskin Robbins — what you’re hearing is the audio work of Tunewelders, a music creation and sound production company. Th eir projects in-clude commercials, fi lms, musicals, theme songs, video games and more.

“Th ere are a lot of music and audio challenges our clients don’t know how to solve, but we help them fi gure it out,” explained Ben Holst, Tuneweld-ers producer and creative director.

Housed at the iconic Atlanta Southern Tracks studio on Clairmont Road, where artists from Bruce Springsteen to Pearl Jam have recorded, Tunewelders continues to produce sonic

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Th e number of unemployed youth reached 3.4 mil-lion in July 2014, down from 3.8 million a year earli-er. July is considered the summertime peak for youth employment, according to the BLS.

Th e city of Sandy Springs hires teenagers as youth counselors, typically ranging from age 16-18 years old for its summer camps.

Th e city will hire, at $8 an hour, about six youth counselors. Th ree are returning from last summer. Th e camps especially need teens with skill sets in theater, art and gymnastics.

Th e summer positions help teens “really get the big picture about things and how it’s going to be in the

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My Salon Suite held at ribbon cutting on March 30, at its location at 227 Sandy Springs Place, #422, in the CityWalk Shopping Center. Attending, Rick Booher, Jessica Mitchell, Joy Barnes, Angie Jones, owners Vic Tenuto and Lori Tenuto, Pamela Smith, Jennifer Morris and Colleen Burns. The salon rents fully furnished suites for stylists, barbers,

estheticians, manicurists, massage therapists or anyone in the beauty-related industry.

Engel & Völkers, the European-based premium real estate

brand, recently celebrated its grand opening in the Buckhead Atlanta shopping destination.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, right center, presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which was also attended by, from left,

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Veronique Southerland and Deborsha Clark. The shop is located at 5610 Glenridge Drive, Suite 103, in Sandy Springs.

Risk & Insurance Consultants, offering business/commercial, personal and health/life insurance, held a ribbon cutting on April 9. Located at 5416 Glenridge Drive, in Atlanta, many attended the festivities, including: Rob Murphy, Chelsea Porter, Jill Kitchen, owner/principal, Shadi Kamyab, Whitney Jaynes, Tom Martinelli, Steve Molina, owner/senior partner, Sherri Severa, Nick Heintzman, Tabitha Molina, Chris Smith, Amy Kilheffer, Becky Compton, Stuart Jerkins, Stephen English, Cheryl Collins, Mike Reid, Melanie Blievernicht, Cynthia Williams and Erika Ponce.

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P E R I M E T E R B U S I N E S SAtlanta Spine & Wellness celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting on March 12. Attending, from left, co-owners Dr. Christopher Heitman and wife, Kristen, Lisa Berthelsen and Suzanne Brown, with the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce. The company, located at 7100 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Suite 110, in Sandy Springs, offers chiropractic and other services.

Planet Beach cut the ribbon on its Dunwoody location on March 19, joined by, far left, Stephanie Snodgrass, president and CEO of the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce, Dunwoody City Councilman Denny Shortal, center left, and owner, Delicia Smalls, center right, staff, friends and members of the chamber. Located at 5529 Chamblee

Dunwoody Road, Suite 260B, Planet Beach offers sunless tanning and UV therapy, facial ejuvenation, touchless massage and skin care products. Jeweler D. Geller

& Son, located at 5975 Roswell Road, Suite B225, in Sandy Springs, held a ribbon cutting on March 28. On hand to celebrate: Candy Johnson, Taylor Richards, Mario Robles, Meredith Naggar, Erica Rocker-Wills, Chris Frazier, Sara Smathers, Mike Geller, Heather Klisures, Suzanne Brown, Patty Conway, Sandy

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Experimac, which buys, sells, trades and repairs Apple Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads, held a ribbon cutting on April

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Price Right Outlets, which sells high-end overstocks from big box retailers at discount prices, noted its opening with a ribbon cutting on March 25. Attending, front row, from left, Ana Pena, Gerardo Pena and Alexia Pena. Back row, from left, Sandy Springs Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Tom Mahaffey, Susan Roman, Sandy Springs City Councilman Andy Bauman, Dan Donelson, Megan Gladden and Tapp Palmer. The store is located at 7728 Spalding Drive, in Norcross.

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QUESTION: How does the whole body cryotherapy process work? Our clients stand on an adjustable platform inside the octagonal-shaped chamber during treatment which ensures their head remains outside the unit. I fill the chamber with nitrogen vapor, which drops the temperature to a range of minus 110°C to -145°C and temporarily lowers the temperature of the skin’s top layer.During the typical three minute treatment, the skin sends a signal to the brain, which stimulates physical reactions and activates naturally occurring healing resources. Once out of the chamber, the body immediately reheats.

QUESTION:What is the typical experience for a first-time user? Since it is a new experience, clients are typically a bit tentative for their first session. We thoroughly explain the process, answer any questions or concerns, and assure them we’ll be standing two feet away the entire time they are in the chamber. We let them know that they can exit at any time and I

can pause the controls if needed. Really, it is overcoming mental blocks because physically they can definitely handle it.

QUESTION: What is the typical reaction when a client exits the chamber? Invariably, when clients step out of the chamber, they have a big smile on their faces. I hear them say things like, “Wow, that was awesome, or I really feel energized, or my knee feels so much better!”

QUESTION: When clients have their next session, does their mindset change? They come back excited and are pumped up for their cryo session. The typical comment is, “Alright, let’s do this!”

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Summer jobs give teens insight into career opportunities

workforce,” said Deb Strycula, Sandy Springs’ manager of recreation and ath-letics.

The city also brings on volunteers for its special needs camp, Strycula said.

Josh Teal, a graduating senior at North Springs High School, worked his first job as a counselor for the Sandy

Springs camps last summer, and will re-sume his role in a few weeks.

Teal’s earnings helped him buy a 2000 Pathfinder. He also learned a lot about working with children, something that could come in handy in his future career. Teal plans to major in technical theater at Columbus State University.

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Buckis started working at the Dun-woody Nature Center the summer after eighth grade, getting involved through the National Charity League.

“It’s a lot of fun to work hands-on with the kids, to get to talk with them and joke around with them,” Buck-is said. “I’m really an outdoorsy person, and you’re always outside, unless there’s a thunderstorm.”

At metro Atlanta YMCAs, such as the ones in Dunwoody and Buckhead, 50 to 150 staff members are hired for summer work, said Nicky Rosenbluth, executive director of talent and lead-ership development at Metro Atlanta YMCA.

Several YMCAs are still adding to their aquatics staff . In fact, the biggest Y opportunities for 16 year olds are in the aquatics program, Rosenbluth said. Th e Y off ers a unique opportunity for people meeting the aquatics staff qualifi cations to earn certifi cation as a lifeguard or swim instructor. Applicants for aquatics positions should email: [email protected].

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theater production camp counselors in Sandy Springs’ day camp program. Left, Josh Teal’s fi rst

job was a day camp youth counselor, and he earned enough to purchase a 2000 Pathfi nder. Above, junior

counselor Chloe Hangartner, center, with some young campers at the Dunwoody Nature Center.

Th e YMCAs’ camp counselor search begins around November, hiring takes place in February and March, and train-ing goes on in April and May.

Pay ranges from minimum wage up to about $15 an hour, depending on the employee’s qualifi cations.

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David Shope, a 25-year veteran in the commercial real estate industry and a Dun-woody resident, has rejoined Cousins Properties. Shope will oversee existing custom-ers, as well as leasing renewals and expansions at Northpark Town Center, the 1.5-mil-lion-square-foot offi ce complex in the Central Perimeter that Cousins acquired last fall.

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“Ice cream doesn’t make a distinct noise,” Holst joked, but Baskin Robbins’ agency 22 Squared wanted audio to evoke a “Spidy sense” of amplified hearing as the viewer seemingly flew over large images of scooped ice cream. Holst recorded the sound of dropping ice cubes into a hot cup of coffee to simulate freezing motion. Ja-son Shannon then layered this sound into

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To hear Tunewelders’ latest project, check out Dad’s Garage Theater Com-pany’s new musical, “King of Pops: A Post-Apocalyptic Musical.” The show is performed every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening through May 30 at the 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points.

Mike Schatz of Dad’s Ensemble has created a whimsical musical about At-lanta’s popsicles and rainbow cart. It’s his imagined story of founder Steven Carse, who leaves the corporate world and fac-es battles of epic proportions to pursue doing what he loves. Carse approved the main idea and then gave Schatz space to spin this tale.

Outside of the theater world, Schatz is the creative director for Blue Sky Agency.

“Ben and I collaborate on a lot of commercial projects,” Schatz said. So, he reached out to Holst and Shannon to com-pose and produce the music for his play. This was an easy choice since “Tuneweld-ers also pursues what they love.”

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Magic MondayMonday, May 11, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Magic Monday is a monthly program featuring activities that introduce children to history in cre-ative ways. The event features tours of the Atlanta History Center exhibitions and houses as well as demonstrations, arts and crafts projects, and sto-ry time. Tickets are free for members, general ad-mission tickets: $6.50 for adults; $5.50 for chil-dren. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For more information and to register go online: www.atlantahistorycen-ter.com/magicmondays or call 404-814-4110.

Kids to Parks DaySaturday, May 16, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – This grassroots event developed five years ago by the National Park Trust seeks to encourage kids to be active and healthy. The event will feature games, contests, races, watersides, face painting and more. Free. Hammond Park Turf Field, 705 Hammond Dr., Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information go to: www.kidstoparks.org or call 301-279-7275.

Little DiggersSunday, May 17, 10-11:30 a.m. – Learn about native plants and how they provide habi-tat for birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Make a seedball to take home. Led by garden educators from the North Fulton Master Gardeners, kids aged 6 ro 10 and accompanying adults will learn about gardening and horticulture. Free. Heri-tage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30328. For additional information, go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org or call 404-851-9111.

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End of Life IssuesWednesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. – Temple Sinai’s Michael Alembik Endowment Fund pres-ents Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., an internationally acclaimed speaker, and professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Ethics at Emory Uni-versity. Free and open to the public. Temple Si-nai, 5645 Dupree Dr., Sandy Springs, 30327. To register, go to: www.templesinaiatlanta.org or call 404-252-3073.

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Saturday, May 9, 1-2:30 p.m. – Presented by William Smith, retired Army Lieutenant Colo-nel, this workshop teaches technique and educates participants about the benefits of meditation. Free and open to the public. Sandy Springs Branch Li-brary, 395 Mt. Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. To learn more, visit: www.afpls.org or call 404-303-6130.

Saturday, May 9, 4:30 p.m. – This guid-ed meditation class, hosted by the Kadam-pa Meditation Center of Georgia, is led by Kel-sang Rigden, and includes breathing mediations and a short lecture. Admission: $10. Infini-ty Yoga, 1376 Dresden Dr. NE, Brookhaven, 30319. For more information and to register go online to: www.meditationingeorgia.org or call 678-453-6753.

Adult LearningMondays, May 11 and May 18, 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. – Perimeter Adult Learn-ing Services offers classes covering topics such as finance, estate planning, history, gardening, health and exercise. Tickets start at $45 each. Dunwoody United Methodist Church, 1548 Mt .Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more in-formation and to register, go to: www.palsonline.org or call 770-698-0801.

Buckhead Writer’s Group

Monday, May 11, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. – Anita Lovely facilitates this writing workshop and critique for writers from novice to experienced. Event provides an opportunity to share and get feedback for writing like novels and screenplays. Free and open to the public. Buckhead Branch Library, Small Conference Room, 269 Buckhead Ave. NE Atlanta, 30305. For information, visit: www.afpls.org or call 404-814-3500.

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‘Afterwar’ IssuesSaturday, May 23, 2 p.m. – Th is lecture is based on “Afterwar,” a book detailing the experience of soldiers returning home and the struggles they face. Written by philosopher Nancy Sherman, the lecture discusses the moral dimensions of psycho-logical injuries that remain after wartime experienc-es. Free. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Fer-ry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For more information go online to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com or call 404-814-4000.

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Georgia PhilharmonicSaturday, May 9, 8 p.m. – Th e Georgia Phil-harmonic’s fi nal concert of the year takes place at Oglethorpe University’s Conant Performing Arts Center. Performance includes pieces by Stravinsky, Rossini, Saint-Saens Danse Macabre, and Prokofi ev. Tickets: $10. 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhav-en, 30319. To learn more and to purchase tickets go online to:www.georgiaphilarmonic.org or call 404-261-1441.

Concerts by the Springs

Sunday, May 10, 7-8:30 p.m. – Th e Doug-las Cameron Orchestra kicks off the Concerts by the Springs series with a big band and swing music performance. Free. Sandy Springs So-ciety Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. For more informa-tion go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org or call 404-851-9111.

Concerts in the ParkSaturday, May 16, 7 p.m. – Music by garage band Th e Bad Neighbors. Th is biweekly live music event takes place through July 11 and features craft beer selected by Moondog Growlers. Tickets are free for Dunwoody Nature Center members and chil-dren under 3 years old. General admission tickets: $5 and $3 for students. Dunwoody Nature Center, 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. For more in-formation go online to: www.dunwoodynature.org or call 770-394-3322.

Choral Guild Performance

Sunday, May 17, 4 p.m. – Th e Choral Guild of Atlanta performs “An American Celebration,” featuring a jazz orchestra and natural sound ef-fects in a jazz gospel vocal style. General admission tickets: $15; seniors, $12; students, $5. Northside Drive Baptist Church, 3100 Northside Dr., Atlanta, 30305. For additional information, visit: www.cgatl.org or call 404-223-6362.

An Evening with Sally Mann

Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m. – Th is lecture covers the photography of Sally Mann and discuss-es her book “Hold Still.” Th e book follows her life and career through imagery and narrative storytell-ing. Tickets: free - $10. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For more information go online to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com or call 404-814-4000.

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Brookhaven Food Truck NightsWednesday, May 6, 5-9 p.m. – Th e fi rst Food Truck Night of the year will kick off with food trucks, live entertainment, bounce house, and beer and wine for sale. Free and open to the public. For more infor-mation, go to: www.facebook.com/brookhavenftn or call 404-719-3257.

Dunwoody Art FestivalSaturday, May 9, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, May 10, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Dunwoody Village Parkway transforms into an artist market and street festival. Event includes live music, art sales, kids area and food court. Free and open to the public. Rain or shine event. Dunwoody Village Parkway, Dun-woody, 30338. For further details, go to: www.dunwoodyartfestival.splashfestivals.com or call 404-237-3761.

Chastain Park Art FestivalSaturday, May 9, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 10, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Th e sixth annual Chastain Park Art Festival showcases art by approximately 185 artists and artisans. Th e festival fea-tures food trucks, a kid’s area, live acoustic music, and fi ne art for sale. Free and open to the public. Chas-tain Park, 4469 Stella Dr., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Find out more by going to: www.chastainparkartsfestival.com or call 404-873-1222.

Good Mews Flea MarketWeekends, May 9-10 and May 15-17, Friday and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 12-5 p.m. – Th e Good Mews Animal Foundation, a no-kill cat shelter, presents their annual Spring Flea Market in Sandy Springs. Th e organization will be accepting donations on Saturday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at their storefront, and proceeds from the sale will benefi t the shelter. Free. 6317 Roswell Rd. #6331, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information go online to: www.goodmews.org or call 770-499-2287.

Dunwoody Food Truck ThursdayTh ursday, May 14, 5 p.m. – Every Th ursday through October 29 the city of Dunwoody hosts a fam-ily-friendly food truck event with live music and craft beer. Free. Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information visit: www.dunwoodyga.org or call 404-754-3211.

Brookhaven Bolt 5kSaturday, May 16, 8 a.m. – Th e annual race/walk takes participants through the Ashford Park neigh-borhood. Proceeds benefi t Ashford Park Elementary School. Pre-registration is $30 through May 15, day of registration is $35. Caldwell Road directly behind Village Place Brookhaven, Brookhaven, 30319. For more information and to register, go to: www.brookhavenbolt.com.

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To get to the front door of Lee and Mike Dunn’s home, you take their lengthy driveway through a wood-land area, go past a waterfall that empties into a koi pond and then walk under a trellis to a “Welcome Gar-den” of blooming rosebushes, delphiniums and calla lil-ies.

Th at living palette of color is only the fi rst in a series of artistic, themed gardens that cover the Dunns' three acres in Sandy Springs.

Th eir tranquil setting is being readied for a huge wave of visitors as one of 12 exquisite private gardens on the 31st annual Gardens for Connoisseurs Tour, Sat-urday and Sunday, May 9-10.

A benefi t for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the self-guided tour is a popular Mother’s Day weekend event that this time features gardens in Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Midtown and Decatur.

Organizers hope to draw 3,000 people, and not just the green-thumbed set.

“Some people just want to go to look, and others are looking for inspiration and ideas,” said Tour Chair-man Paula White, an active volunteer at the Botani-cal Garden.

Garden tourists can look forward to “an exception-ally good garden diversity this year,” White said. “Th ere truly is something for everybody in these gardens.”

Th is year’s tour includes everything from a formal, walled English garden brimming with boxwoods, hy-drangea and magnolia in Buckhead to the lush peren-nial borders, espaliered fruit trees and vegetable garden at the home of a busy family also in Buckhead.

For the fi rst time in the tour’s his-tory, a commercial property is on the map.

Operating out of a renovat-ed 1920s house in Chamblee, Alex Smith Garden Design Ltd. main-tains a meadow, greenhouse and gar-den. Landscape designer Alex Smith said his clients can come to the stu-dio to see living examples of the pe-onies, antique roses, hydrangeas and irises the company uses in its gardens and fl oral designs.

Also on the tour is Carole and Jim McWilliams’ garden, a wildlife hab-itat certifi ed by the Audubon Soci-ety and Th e National Wildlife Fed-eration.

Th eir fi ve acres in Sandy Springs have changed considerably since they moved there 22 years ago.

“It was honestly a house in the woods,” Carole McWilliams said. “Th ere was not a shrub on the prop-erty.”

Now, with the assistance of garden designer Tim Stoddard, the property has become a woodland sanc-tuary that features an antique rose garden, collections of rhododendrons and native azaleas, weeping Katsu-ra over a tiered pond, a greenhouse and a barn with a fi re pit.

“We started with a courtyard garden in front of the house,” Carole McWilliams said. “I became so obsessed with fl owers that I went to classes to become a master gardener.”

An extensive collection of birdhouses on the proper-ty draws many bluebirds, wrens, cardinals, fi nches and owls.

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“Th e fi rst thing we had to do was create a canvas and take big swipes at the proper-ty,” Mike Dunn said. “It went from a lot of work to an act of love.”

“Now,” Lee Dunn said, “it’s kind of ev-erything we ever imag-ined it could be.”

Railroad-tie re-taining walls were replaced by tons of stone. Th e deer prob-lem was conquered with a custom fence that keeps the for-agers out of the rear two-thirds of the property.

Around their place, Lee is the gar-dener. Mike is the hardscape guy. To-gether, they make ever-evolving mag-ic.

A Harry Lauder’s walking stick fl anks an outdoor fi replace with stone seat-ing. An espaliered apple tree adorns the entrance to the Kitchen Garden, just around the corner from an antique Bel-

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Angela Bortone hand lettered yellow tape to read "Caution Nature in Construction." Th e Atlanta artist then strung the sign in the trees around a small clearing at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Buckhead.

Nature, she said, is always under construction, ever growing and evolving.

Her installation is part of “Th e Art of

Nature,” a juried art show at the nature preserve, a small bit of wilderness along Roswell Road. On April 26, the preserve offi cially opened its fi rst outdoor art show.

Th e nonprofi t Blue Heron Nature Preserve off ers a community garden, trails, art classes and summer camps at the center's educational lab. Th e property is also home to the Atlanta Audubon Society and the Little Da Vinci International School.

Presented in honor of Earth Day by the Georgia Chapter of the Women Caucus of Art and led by Brookhaven artist Sally Eppstein, the “Art of Nature” exhibit showcases works by a group of artists. Th e works are spread throughout the grounds of the preserve.

Eppstein, vice president of her local women caucus chapter, came to be affi liated with the preserve after donating a totem pole last year. She now is the art director in charge of the gallery on site.

Th e road into the wooded nature preserve crosses a small bridge, the underside of which is host to two ‘wheatpastes,’ images that are printed and then affi xed to walls with a gel made of starch and water. Th e pieces, by Joe Dreher of Atlanta, combine his association with local performance organization Glo Atl and his love for photography. Dreher intends to allow nature to reclaim the walls, as over time the paper will fade and wash away on its own.

Claire Evans constructed a dynamic sculpture of twisted bamboo that she suspended from a tall branch in the center of the clearing. She chose to use bamboo

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Along the main path and sprinkled throughout the grounds are little blue birds suspended from trees by artist Maggie Bethel. The birds are painted on recycled plastic and spin in the breeze, glinting in dappled sunlight.

Further along the trail is a small hill, atop which sits the first of Leisa Rich's two fabric installations. The piece eventually will rot and disintegrate, and Rich hopes that it will provide a fertile environment for animal and plant life alike.

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the relationships of mankind with nature. Continuing into the park, bird masks

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Crocheted spiderwebs hang from low branches near the trails, constructed by Maxine and George Hess.

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Just over a bridge, the trail continues down to the last exhibit, a large painting by artist Diana Toma. Several of the guests in attendance are students in Toma’s art classes, and the crowd gathered around her as she discussed her colorful and vibrant painting.

Olesya Vega is a student of hers and said it was her affection for Toma that led her to visit the preserve with her daughters Olivia and Elena. "I love her work and I just had to come and see it," Vega said. "I had never been to the Blue Heron preserve before, and I have fallen in love with this wonderful place."

The art show, more of an art walk, brought together many members of the local community who had little knowledge of the preserve’s existence.

"I didn't know that all this was here," said Richard Smith, whose wife, Kathy, is a student in Toma’s watercolor class. "This is a place we will come to, it's a gift."

The preserve feels like a treasure in the midst of a sprawling neighborhood. It features a stream, sitting areas, lookout points, and plenty of native trees and plants.

"God knows the developers will get to it if they can," Richard Smith laughed, shaking his head.

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“I realized my parents’ genera-tion grew up with the admonishment, ‘Don’t touch!’ Th ey were taught not to handle expensive items for fear of breaking them,” Ratliff said. “I had to fi gure out a way to overcome my moth-er’s fear and con-vince her that tech-nology was her friend.”

Ratliff began teaching her mother how to use the iPad, breaking the les-sons down into simple steps. Th e les-sons covered basic operations, email use, social media and more. Soon, Ratliff ’s mother was sending and re-ceiving email, posting and comment-ing on Facebook and playing a word

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BlueHair Technology Group’s workshops are specifi cally designed to address the unique challenges that older adults experience with technolo-gy. Th e classes, which are constructed to be fun, comfortable and convenient for seniors, are taught by knowledge-able instructors, who are assisted by a staff of volunteers.

“We provide hands-on, ‘high-touch’ instruction in a fun, low-key environ-ment that encourages our students to overcome their fear of technology and become receptive to using it,” Ratliff said. “Once they lose that fear, they are eager to engage with their devices and explore their personal interests.”

BlueHair off ers various workshops that teach participants about basic computer skills, smartphone or tablet use, programs like Windows 8 and so-cial media such as Facebook.

Each class has a curriculum de-signed for the specifi c device or pro-gram. For example, the iPhone and iPad Basics workshops focus on teach-ing the basic functions and mainte-nance of the devices, as well as how to make and receive calls, send and re-ceive emails and text messages, take

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As the schedule of workshops evolves, Ratliff and her staff sometimes fi nd there is a need to extend the con-tent of certain classes. For example, a workshop covering iPhone Basics at Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Buckhead was so popular that it has expanded into a two-part series.

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BlueHair Technology continues to increase its course off erings, and there-fore is in need of additional instruc-tors, volunteers and donors.

“We are constantly adding new ven-ues, such as independent and assisted living communities, neighborhood or-ganizations and community centers. So, we’re always looking for people with a knack for technology and a pas-sion for teaching others who can serve as instructors,” Ratliff said.

“Additionally, we’re interested in partnering with other organizations and individuals — and in securing grants, donors and corporate sponsors — who support our mission of being able to off er these classes at little or no cost to seniors. We hope to reach this goal by the end of 2016.”

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� Benjamin Yarmowich � The Lovett School, junior

Tired of seeing the dirty and aged street signs in his neighborhood, Ben-jamin Yarmowich was determined to make a change.

This January, the Lovett School ju-nior earned his Eagle Scout rank after completing a neighborhood clean-up ef-fort that successfully cleaned over 200 signs in the Pine Hills neighborhood.

“If you drive through my neighbor-hood, you saw that the signs were in bad shape. It was evident that something needed to happen, so I said I would do it,” he said.

Starting in September of 2013, Ben-jamin began the paperwork to start his project. With the help of his mom, he baked bunny-shaped cookie cakes around Easter to raise money to pay for cleaning materials. After raising $600, he and other volunteers got to work scrubbing the years of wear and tear off the signs.

Atlanta city councilman Howard Shook honored Benjamin for the proj-ect’s success by declaring Jan. 25 “Eagle Scout Benjamin Richard Yarmowich” Day in Atlanta.

“I was thrilled to present Benjamin with the thanks of the city,” Shook said. “His work cleaning dozens of neglected signs provided a measurable improve-ment to the safety and welfare of the Pine Hills neighborhood.”

Benjamin first began Boy Scouts 11 years ago and became a member of Troop 370, which is run out of St. James United Methodist Church, through

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which he says he has built many strong friendships. Over the years Benjamin

has participated in monthly campouts and meetings, where he has gained a strong passion for service, leadership and sense of community, he said.

Benjamin said he was surprised and humbled with the city recognition. “It obviously feels really great to have com-pleted something that is so noticeable to the city, and it’s just such a great feeling to drive by those new signs and to feel that sense of accomplishment.”

In addition to Boy Scouts, Benjamin is also a member of the speech and de-bate team, and the academic team. He is also the captain of the robotics team and co-president of the Live Action Role Play club. This spring, you can catch him on Lovett’s stage in the spring play.

What’s Next: Benjamin says he is not finished with

his college search, but is looking into Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia and MIT. He hopes to major in com-puter technology.

This article was written by Amanda Gibson, a student at Holy Innocents’ Epis-copal School.

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Left, Atlanta City Councilman Howard Shook, left, honored

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As a junior in high school, William Denning has already found his passion in life: graphic design.

His interest was fi rst sparked in eighth grade when he took part in a Synergy class at Th e Westminster Schools. He and his group were challenged to identify an issue in the community and work to solve it.

William struggled to pinpoint prob-lems in the community that he could fea-sibly fi x, but he discovered that he was able to support the other groups in his class by acting as the communications and graph-ic design expert.

In the years following William’s initial exposure to marketing, he decided to ex-plore every aspect of the profession. Dur-ing the summer before his sophomore year, William worked with Whittaker Marketing, a small marketing fi rm in Do-than, Alabama. Because of the size of the company and the city itself, the job off ered William experience in every aspect of mar-keting. “With bigger fi rms you don’t get as much personal connection with the cli-ent,” William said.

Th e summer before his junior year, William took on a new challenge by work-ing on the Michelle Nunn campaign. Th rough his work as one of the campaign’s summer communications fellows, Wil-liam gained insight into the more “liberal, fast-paced, modern, guerilla marketing” side of the profession.

Specifi cally, William worked as a graph-ic designer and content creator for the campaign’s social media sites. He learned invaluable skills working on the campaign because he was tasked with building a campaign that created a connection with a wide range of voters in Atlanta, along with every other region of Georgia.

From his knowledge and experience in the marketing and graphic design fi eld,

William has gained a new view of market-ing.

He has worked in various business settings and gained experience working alongside other professionals. He has ac-quired the versatility of a professional who has had to adapt from catering to a local audience to a very national audience.

William is currently working on build-ing his portfolio.

Along with his early career in graph-ic design, William is an active participant on Westminster’s mock trial team and an avid thespian. As a fi rst-year plaintiff law-yer, William earned an “Outstanding At-torney” award from the district mock tri-al competition earlier this year. William’s years of participating in theater have had a lasting impact on him, he said. William says that theater has given him “memoriza-tion skills, positivity and community.” He said that the theater is an “amazing com-munity that a lot of people mature into,” and he expects to perform once he goes to college.

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Following the death of Sandy Springs’ “founding mother” and first Mayor Eva Galambos on April 19 at age 87, friends, family and fans re-membered her as a strong, committed woman who changed history.

She and her family fled Nazi Ger-many and then Fascist Italy to end up in Georgia. Once settled in the Atlanta suburbs, Galambos spent more than a quarter century convincing state law-makers to allow her suburban commu-nity to become a city.

She had a sense of humor, too. Say-ing she was often told Sandy Springs would be allowed to have its own gov-ernment only “when pigs can fly,” she decorated her office in City Hall with images of flying pigs.

“If we’d never had Eva, we’d proba-bly never had a city of Sandy Springs,” said Sandy Springs City Attorney and state Rep. Wendell Willard, a long-time friend of the former mayor’s and the city attorney. “Thank God we had Eva.”

Here are selected remembrances of the woman some friends and politi-cal supporters called Sandy Springs’ own “Iron Lady.”

“Eva was truly our city mother. Her efforts led to the city’s creation. She cared and nurtured the city, and the strength of our community is due great-ly to her unwavering love and devotion to creating something better for us all.”

--Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul

“Eva Galambos was a pioneer and a champion of bringing smart, local con-trol of government closer to the people. She was tireless in her efforts to estab-lish the city of Sandy Springs and almost singlehandedly brought forth the pub-lic-private partnership model, which many municipalities have mirrored. ... Dr. Galambos opened the door for the new municipalities, and we owe her tremen-dous thanks for helping us create what we have today in Dunwoody.”

--Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis

“Margaret Thatcher may have been Britain’s ‘Iron Lady,’ but Eva Galambos was the ‘Iron Lady’ of Sandy Springs and all the new cities, including Dun-woody.”

--Dunwoody City Councilman Terry Nall

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Eva Galambos, a part of Sandy Springs’ history, was instrumental in bringing a part of world history to her community here.

Th e exhibit “Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945,” had once been on display at Kennesaw State Universi-ty and at the old courthouse in Decatur, but has resid-ed in Sandy Springs since 2010 as a result of the eff orts of its fi rst mayor, Galambos.

Galambos, mayor until last year, passed away from cancer April 19. In lieu of fl owers, Galambos’ family asks supporters to consider making a donation to the Anne Frank exhibit. Contributions should be made to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, with do-nations specifi ed that it is for the exhibition and in her memory.

Offi cials said they hope to use the donations to up-grade the exhibit and its facility.

“We are looking to use technology to update the ex-hibition and to add another layer of information, per-haps specifi c to Georgia,” said Sally Levine, executive director of the commission.

Levine said she last saw Galambos at her home this past fall. “We just talked about the work of the com-mission. Th at was the last in-person conversation I had with her, so I knew that was important to her,” she said.

In 2009 Galambos charged neighbor Gary Alexan-der with the task of bringing the exhibit to the city.

“I was at home watching a ‘Law and Order’ repeat, and the phone rang and it was the mayor,” Alexander said. “She said, ‘Gary, it is Eva. I’m in the middle of a council meeting—you’ve been nominated to bring the Anne Frank exhibit from Decatur to Sandy Springs.

Have a nice evening.”Alexander had his last meeting with Galambos April

17, just two days before her passing. She was to receive the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust’s 2015 Hu-manitarian Award. In her absence, Sandy Springs May-or Rusty Paul accepted the award on her behalf.

“[Paul and I] went over to her house and she had been in and out of consciousness, and we came in, she recognized Rusty, she recognized me,” Alexander said. “I held her hand and told her I loved her, and she smiled, told me to give my regards to my wife, Sam. She talked to Rusty a little bit, and we gave her the award.

“We got ready to leave, and we both hugged each other and cried,” he said, “because we knew we were both saying goodbye to a friend.”

Shortly after Galambos’ call to Alexander, he was tapped to be the chairman of the advisory board of the Holocaust commission. A committee was formed and capital was raised. A month later, offi cials announced that the exhibit would be coming to Sandy Springs.

Th e exhibit, admission to which is free and open to the general public, includes a replica of Anne Frank’s room, daily showings of "Th e Short Life of Anne Frank,” and more than 600 photographs that tell her story, which culminated with the events of World War II and the Holocaust.

Galambos and her husband, Dr. John Galambos, shared a connection to the historical era. He was a Ho-locaust survivor from Budapest, Hungary. In 1945, he was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by U.S. troops. Galambos herself was born in Germany, though her family left before the Holocaust.

Th e exhibit’s arrival to Sandy Springs didn’t mark the end of her support of Holocaust education.

“While she was in offi ce, I met with Eva probably every 30 days in her offi ce to talk about the exhibit and what we needed to do to make it stable and bring peo-ple in to see it,” Alexander said.

Galambos’ eff orts to support the exhibit and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, which spon-sors the exhibit on behalf of the state, continued for years to come. She was among those who interviewed Levine for the position of the commission’s executive director. Levine said her interactions with Galambos didn’t stop there.

“She took it upon herself as her role, once I took the position, to introduce me to the politicians and the people who we need to work with so that we can con-tinue to follow our mission,” Levine said.

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Left, then Mayor Eva Galambos cuts the ribbon at the opening of the Anne Frank

exhibit in Sandy Springs in 2010.

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Dunwoody has remade Brook Run Park over the years

He added that some people have con-sidered the area dangerous. Others said it was haunted by souls of people who allegedly suffered under the state-run operations.

May remembers the old hospital from the 1970s. She said during a two-week rotation she studied nursing in the hospital, and then she laughed at how long she’s been around Dunwoody.

“We moved to the area in ’93, but I went to nursing school in ’76 or ’77, and we came here as part of our rota-tion,” she said.

May noted that many people don’t know about the history of their park.

“It was really a remarkable place,” May said, adding that the people who lived in the center worked and lived in what residents now know as a park.

Buildings left over from the Georgia Retardation Center included a dormito-ry building, which Dunwoody approved for demolition earlier this year. The last remaining pieces of the foundation are currently being destroyed.

Some Dunwoody residents want a theater building left over from the re-tardation center to be reopened in the future as a performing arts center. The Dunwoody City Council in April start-ed the process to determine how much it would cost to fix the deteriorating build-ing.

A playground and restroom sit across the road. Heading from the North Peachtree entrance past the playground and toward the back of the park, visitors have the skate park.

DeKalb County recreation officials installed the skate park before the city of Dunwoody was created. They found they lost money when they charged for admission, Walker said. City officials paid skate park staff for the first year the city operated the facility, he said, then looked for an alternative.

Now the skate park is free to use and the building previously used to admit people to the skating area is set to be-come a concession area, where visitors

can purchase drinks and snacks. “Usage shot up,” Walker said.While Brook Run Park had for years

provided recreation for families, garden-ers, walkers and skaters, nothing really unified and connected the park until its two-mile multiuse trail was completed in 2014.

“Skate parks are great, but they’re for a very specific group of people,” Walk-er said.

The multiuse trail provides access to the various sections of the park and it connects the park with the community because anyone can use the trail.

“All the slopes are ADA compliant; we want everybody to come out here,” Walker said. “That’s the beautiful thing about the multiuse trail.”

Walker said the long-term goal is to connect the 3 ½- mile trail system from Georgetown to Perimeter Mall.

And that’s not the end of it. “The ultimate goal is to find a way

for us to connect to Sandy Springs to get over to the Ga. 400 trail, which con-nects to the BeltLine,” he said.

“So who knows, one day you might be able to park here and get all the way down to Midtown on a paved pathway,” Walker said.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Left, Dunwoody Parks Director Brent Walker said Brook Run Park’s master plan, written in 2010, will be updated next year. Feedback from the community will tell the city what kind of amenities to add to the park.

Below, the 100-acre park now includes a community garden, an organic area, miles of hiking trails and a new dog park.

Bottom, the park also contains a veterans memorial, in place before Dunwoody became a city.

Below, left, Treetop Quest operates a zip line and obstacle course in the park. PHOTOS BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE

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Police BlotterFrom police reports dated April 10

through 23.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website and is presumed to be ac-

curate.

ROBBERY 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing—

On April 17, a robbery of a residence with a gun was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On April 20, robbery of a residence with a gun was reported.

4300 block of North Peachtree Road—On April 23, robbery of a business with a gun was reported.

BURGLARY 2000 block of Asbury Square—On

April 15, burglary was reported.

3100 block of Asbury Square—On April 15, burglary was reported.

3300 block of Asbury Square—On April 15, burglary was reported twice.

2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On April 15, burglary was reported.

First block of Dunwoody Park—On April 16, burglary was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On April 17, burglary was reported twice.

First block of Perimeter Center Place—On April 23, burglary was reported twice.

100 block of Perimeter Trace—On April 17, burglary was reported.

6000 block of Azalea Garden Drive—On April 20, burglary was reported.

6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On April 22, burglary was reported.

2400 block of Dunwoody Hollow Drive—On April 23, burglary of a resi-dence was reported.

THEFT/LARCENY 4600 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On March 27, shoplifting was re-ported.

4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 10, 12, 13, 16, 21 shoplifting was reported and on April 15 and 21, arrests were made for shoplifting.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 10, 13, 14 and 23 in-cidents of shoplifting were reported; On April 10, 14 and 23 arrests were made; On April 19, theft of articles from a vehi-cle was reported twice.

4500 block of Ashford-Dun-woody Road—On April 11, shoplift-ing was reported and an arrest was made; On April 20, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

4600 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 11, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported twice.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—Reports of shoplifting were made on April 10, 11, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 23. Arrests were made in connection with shoplifting reports on April 10, 11, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 23.

5400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On April 11, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

5400 block of Mount Vernon Way—On April 12, larceny was reported.

2300 block of North Peachtree Way—On April 13, theft of articles from a vehi-cle was reported.

2400 block of Glenbonnie Drive—On April 13, larceny was reported.

4400 block of Huntington Circle—On April 14, theft by receiving stolen prop-erty was reported and an arrest was made.

5300 block of Abercorn Avenue—On April 16, theft of parts from a vehicle was reported.

4000 block of Dunwoody Park—On April 16, larceny from a building was re-ported and an arrest was made.

300 block of Perimeter Center North—On April 16, larceny was reported.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place—On April 17, an arrest was made for shoplifting; On April 20, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

200 block of Perimeter Center Park-way—On April 17 and 19, theft of articles from a vehicle was re-ported.

2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On April 18, larceny was reported.

8000 block of Madison Drive—On April 19, larceny was reported.

1100 block of Hammond Drive—On April 19, larceny was reported.

5600 block of Woodsong Trail—On April 20, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

4700 block of Cambridge Drive—On April 20, theft of articles from a vehicle

was reported.

ASSAULT 100 block of Azalea Garden Drive—

On April 10, family battery was reported.

100 block of Perimeter Trace—On April 12, family assault was reported.

4000 block of Dunwoody Park—On April 12, aggravated assault and battery with a weapon was reported; On April 13, an arrest was made for aggravated as-sault and battery with a weapon.

1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On April 12 and 13, family battery was re-ported.

6800 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On April 12, simple assault and battery was reported.

4500 block of Olde Perimeter Way—On April 15, aggravated stalking was re-ported.

12,000 block of Madison Drive—On April 17, aggravated assault and battery with a weapon was reported and an ar-rest was made.

8000 block of Madison Drive—On April 19, family batter was reported.

4400 block of Tilly Mill Road—On April 19, an arrest was made for kidnap-ping of a minor.

4300 block of Charleston Place—On April 20, family battery was reported and an arrest was made.

2900 block of Wintercrest Way—On April 21, aggravated assault and battery with a gun was reported.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 22, assault by intimida-tion was reported.

2100 block of Peachford Circle—On April 23, harassing communications were reported.

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OTHER 6800 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On

April 10, damage to private property was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On April 10, disorderly conduct was reported and an arrest was made; arrests were made for probation violation on April 10, 15, 17, 18 and 21; On April 10, an arrest was made for failure to appear.

5400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On April 10, an arrest was made for passing in a no passing zone.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 10, damage to private property was reported; On April 19, disorderly conduct was reported; On April 22, an ar-rest was made for DUI.

100 block of Azalea Garden Drive—On April 10, crim-inal trespassing was reported and an arrest was made.

Ga. 285 at Ashford-Dunwoody—On April 12, an ar-rest was made for driving while unlicensed during a traf-fi c stop for speeding.

Ga. 285 at Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On April 15, an arrest was made for speeding.

Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard at Tilly Mill Road—On April 13, an arrest was made for driving without a license.

4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On April 13, a wanted person was located and arrested.

9300 block of Peachford Circle—On April 14, an ar-rest was made for possession of marijuana.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On April 14, an arrest was made for driving while license was sus-pended or revoked and not having insurance; On April 22, an arrest was made for duisorderly under the infl u-ence.

1400 block of Meadow Lane Road—On April 15, a wanted person was located and arrested.

4700 block of Peachtree Road—On April 16, damage to private property was reported; On April 18, arrests were made for disorderly conduct and possession of mar-ijuana.

4500 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On April 16, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana. 1700 block of Womack Road—On April 23, a wanted person was located and arrested.

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