Inside SEE BROOKHAVEN, PAGE 4 JULY 24 — AUG. 6, 2015 • VOL. 8 — NO. 15 Brookhaven Reporter www.ReporterNewspapers.net PHIL MOSIER From left, Jose Luis, 6, Wendy Galaviz, 6, and her sister Viana, 5, prepare “Back to School Supply Pouches,” containing pencils, erasers and crayons for Woodward Elementary students to use on the first day of school. The three were part of the second annual “Georgia United Credit Union School Crashers” event on July 18. See more photos on page 19. Pack a little pouch It’s a violation Attorney General scolds city COMMUNITY 3 Special Spruill Ready to celebrate 40 years OUT & ABOUT 14 Some residents say revised tree ordinance isn’t strict enough SEE PROPOSED, PAGE 3 BY JOE EARLE [email protected]About a year after city officials adopt- ed Brookhaven’s controversial tree ordinance, they’re reworking parts of it. “We said all along this would be a work in progress,” Mayor Rebecca Chase Williams said. City arborist Kay Evanovich said the pro- posed changes – drafted after meetings with residents, many of whom thought the orig- inal law was too weak, and with developers and builders – were designed to help preserve Brookhaven’s tree canopy. “We’ve had issues come up with the loss of canopy,” she said. “We’re trying to stem that, and see if we can get some of the older growth preserved.” Proposed revisions, she said, include adding language to the ordinance to state that the goal of the law is to maintain a sustainable tree can- opy in the city. But several residents who have advocat- ed for tree protection told members of City Council that even with the changes the city’s ordinance wouldn’t be strict enough. Some said the proposal needs more review and dis- cussion. “Some of us don’t see this ordinance as ready for prime time,” Lissie Stahlman told council members. Kathryn Gable called Brookhaven’s trees “the heart of the community.” New charter school plans ‘top-tier education’ Supporters of the Brookhaven Innova- tion Academy, a proposed public charter school in Brookhaven, were scheduled to present their case to Georgia’s State Charter Schools Commission on July 24. e com- mission rejected the Brookhaven applica- tion last year, so supporters retooled their plans and resubmitted them. City Councilman Bates Mattison chairs the school’s founding board. e Brookhaven Reporter recently questioned him about the board’s current plans for the school. Here are his answers. Q: Why create the Brookhaven Innovation Acad- emy? A. Since the inception of the city of Brookhaven, our city has worked toward improving public school education due to its impact on economic development. In addition to working with DeKalb County School System (DCSS) to improve our existing schools, we realized that providing an independent charter school focused on science, tech- nology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM), using proj- ect-based learning would benefit our children and our cit- izens. In addition, every DCSS elementary school in our city is over capacity, and Brookhaven is the fasting-grow- ing city in metro Atlanta. Our efforts help DCSS ad- dress this capacity issue, while also providing school choice for our children beyond their district attendance zones. Q: How will Brookhaven benefit from having the new charter school? A. First, our children will have access to a top-tier ed- ucation that teaches to the skills required in the 21st centu- ry. Second, residents should see increases in their property values due to the availability of excellent public-school ed- ucation options. ird, our business community will have a more skilled workforce, and Brookhaven will be an even Perimeter Business PAGES 7-11 Down to two Former mayor and Republican candidate J. Max Davis squares off against attorney Taylor Bennett, the sole Democrat, in a runoff on Aug. 11 for the District 80 seat. Read more on page 2.
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PHIL MOSIER
From left, Jose Luis, 6, Wendy Galaviz, 6, and her sister Viana, 5, prepare “Back to School Supply Pouches,” containing pencils, erasers and crayons for Woodward Elementary students to use on the fi rst day of school. The three were part of the second annual “Georgia United
Credit Union School Crashers” event on July 18. See more photos on page 19.
About a year after city offi cials adopt-ed Brookhaven’s controversial tree ordinance, they’re reworking parts of it.
“We said all along this would be a work in progress,” Mayor Rebecca Chase Williams said.
City arborist Kay Evanovich said the pro-posed changes – drafted after meetings with residents, many of whom thought the orig-inal law was too weak, and with developers and builders – were designed to help preserve Brookhaven’s tree canopy.
“We’ve had issues come up with the loss of canopy,” she said. “We’re trying to stem that, and see if we can get some of the older growth preserved.”
Proposed revisions, she said, include adding language to the ordinance to state that the goal of the law is to maintain a sustainable tree can-opy in the city.
But several residents who have advocat-ed for tree protection told members of City Council that even with the changes the city’s ordinance wouldn’t be strict enough. Some said the proposal needs more review and dis-cussion.
“Some of us don’t see this ordinance as ready for prime time,” Lissie Stahlman told council members.
Kathryn Gable called Brookhaven’s trees “the heart of the community.”
New charter school plans ‘top-tier education’Supporters of the Brookhaven Innova-
tion Academy, a proposed public charter school in Brookhaven, were scheduled to present their case to Georgia’s State Charter Schools Commission on July 24. � e com-mission rejected the Brookhaven applica-tion last year, so supporters retooled their plans and resubmitted them.
City Councilman Bates Mattison chairs the school’s founding board. � e Brookhaven Reporter recently questioned him about the board’s current plans for the school. Here are his answers.
Q: Why create the Brookhaven Innovation Acad-emy?
A. Since the inception of the city of Brookhaven, our city has worked toward improving public school education due to its impact on economic development. In addition to working with DeKalb County School System (DCSS) to improve our existing schools, we realized that providing
an independent charter school focused on science, tech-nology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM), using proj-ect-based learning would benefi t our children and our cit-izens.
In addition, every DCSS elementary school in our city is over capacity, and Brookhaven is the fasting-grow-ing city in metro Atlanta. Our eff orts help DCSS ad-dress this capacity issue, while also providing school choice for our children beyond their district attendance zones.
Q: How will Brookhaven bene� t from having the new charter school?
A. First, our children will have access to a top-tier ed-ucation that teaches to the skills required in the 21st centu-ry. Second, residents should see increases in their property values due to the availability of excellent public-school ed-ucation options. Th ird, our business community will have a more skilled workforce, and Brookhaven will be an even
Perimeter Business
PAGES 7-11
Down to twoFormer mayor and Republican
candidate J. Max Davis squares off against attorney Taylor Bennett, the
sole Democrat, in a runoff on Aug. 11 for the District
80 seat.
Read more on page 2.
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Some expected Republicans to dominate in the race for the seat in the state House of Representatives that had been held by former Rep. Mike Ja-cobs, a Brookhaven Republican.
Four candidates, three of them Re-publicans, campaigned for the District 80 seat in the state House of Repre-sentatives. But when the votes in the July 14 election were counted, the sole Democrat led the fi eld.
Democrat Taylor Bennett, an attorney and former Georgia Tech football player, will face Republican and for-mer Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis in an Aug. 11 runoff election.
Bennett collected 1,473 votes, or about 37 percent of the total vote cast, according to unof-fi cial returns posted on the Georgia Secretary of State’s web-site.
Davis fi elded 32 percent of the vote, with 1,259 votes, just 56 more than the 1,203, or 30 percent of the total, cast for fellow Republican Catherine S. Bernard, according to the Secretary of State’s website. Republican Loren Collins received 63 votes or about 1.5 percent of the total, the website said.
“Th at was a huge victory for us and demonstrates how viable we are going into this runoff ,” Bennett said in an email shortly after the election.
“I think that we performed so well in this district because it’s not a ‘Re-publican district,’ it just happened to be held for a long time by an admi-rable Republican legislator in Mr. Ja-cobs. District 80 is an incredibly di-verse, well-educated, rapidly growing
part of the metro area. “I don’t think that the people of this
district have much time or incli-nation to play politics, they
simply want a representa-tive who will be accessi-ble, accountable, and trustworthy to them. Th ey want someone with new ideas, a coop-erative approach, and a
vision for improving our district and our state in a
way that makes them proud. Th at goes beyond party.”
But Davis said the three Republi-cans simply split their party’s votes.
“Democrats, of course, coalesced around their single choice, so it was not surprising,” Davis said. “It means that the two-thirds of the voters in the race who voted Republican need to come back out and vote Aug. 11.”
Th e district covers Brookhaven and parts of Sandy Springs, Chamblee and Dunwoody. But DeKalb County vot-ers in Georgia House District 80 went to the polls this week at a much higher rate and in much higher numbers than their Fulton County counterparts, re-turns from the July 14 election show.
Turnout in the DeKalb portion of the district reached nearly 16 percent of the registered voters. In Fulton, a mere 6 percent made it to the polls.
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Candidate Percent VotesTaylor J. Bennett (D) 36.84% 1,473J. Max Davis (R) 31.49% 1,259Catherine S. Bernard (R) 30.09% 1,203Loren Collins (R) 1.58% 63Total votes 3,998
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Proposed ordinance revisions look to tree canopy
“The ordinance is too vague,” Gable said. “It needs to be more specific for peo-ple and builders who don’t have experience with how a forest works.”
During the council’s work session July 21, Evanovich outlined the proposed revi-sions to the ordinance.
One change, she said, would allow de-velopers to choose the formula they would use to determine how many trees to pro-tect during construction of new buildings.
Current rules base the number of trees to be preserved on a formula that computes a total number of “tree inch-es per acre,” a calculation based on mea-surements of the diameter of the trees at breast height. Brookhaven’s regulations say a project should maintain 100 inches of trees per acre.
The proposed rewrite would allow a de-
veloper to choose between 120 inches of trees per acre or maintaining 45 percent of the tree canopy on the property. Evanov-ich said the 45 percent figure was chosen in an effort to maintain or slightly grow Brookhaven’s current tree canopy, which recent measurements put at 49 percent.
Because the city’s parks and other heav-ily wooded areas are counted in the to-tal amount, the overall canopy percent-age should remain level or grow if builders preserve 45 percent during construction projects, city officials said.
The tree preservations calculations, she said, work out to about three large trees on a quarter-acre lot and four large trees on a third of an acre.
Another major change proposed for the ordinance would reduce to three from five the number of non-hazardous trees a homeowner could cut down in a year.
City officials violated the state’s “sunshine” laws in their handling of a request for information about an in-vestigation of a complaint concern-ing the city’s former mayor, the state Attorney General’s office has deter-mined.
Assistant Attorney General Jenni-fer Colangelo wrote to new City At-torney Christopher Balch on July 20 that the city had violated state Open Records and Open Meeting acts in its handling of the re-lease of an email from City Manag-er Marie Garrett to Human Resources Director Rick Stone.
The city at first improperly refused to release the email, which had been re-quested by Trey Ben-ton, editor of the Brookhaven Post, and later released an improperly redacted version of the email, Colangelo wrote. The city violated the Open Meetings Act when City Council wrongly dis-cussed the email in a closed meeting, she said.
“[The law] does allow executive ses-sions to be used to discuss the contents of records that are exempted from dis-closure under the Open Records Act,” she wrote in her letter. “However ... the email was not exempted from dis-
closure and therefore should not have been discussed in executive session.”
Colangelo concluded the letter by asking that the city release any other documents related to the issue.
“We have not been hit with any sanctions,” Balch told council mem-bers on July 21.
Garrett’s email related to an inci-dent in which former Mayor J. Max Davis had sprayed an aerosol can “in
the vicinity of two city employees,” a city news release said. Davis later de-scribed the incident as “a silly joke.”
At the time, the city denied there was any investiga-tion of sexual ha-rassment connected to the event. In her email, Garrett said she thought the in-cident was an act of sexual harassment.
Council mem-bers said that the documents have all
been released. In the aftermath of the release of the documents, former City Attorney Tom Kurrie resigned and was replaced by Balch.
“We have to rely on the advice of our attorneys. That’s what we pay them for,” Mayor Rebecca Chase Wil-liams said. “I think we got some bad advice...I feel badly that this hap-pened.”
“We have to rely on the advice of our attorneys. That’s what we pay them for. I think we got some bad advice...I feel badly
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Q: Why pursue a state charter for the school rather than backing, as Dunwoody has done, legislative ef-forts to allow creation of a separate city school system? Are the two city’s e� orts in con� ict?
A. Our pursuit of the state char-ter school works in concert with the city school system. While Brookhaven has always supported the legislative ef-forts to create a city school system, our kids can’t wait for this change. Every year that our charter school is delayed, another hundred kids that could have entered BIA will have missed the op-portunity to participate in our “Deep-er Learning by Design” curriculum. When the city school system eff orts are successful, BIA could be absorbed into this system just as the existing public schools could be.
Q: Who do you think will at-tend the Brookhaven Innovation Academy?
A. Admission will be by lottery, and I hope that we will have a repre-sentative group of kids which mirror the diversity of the city of Brookhaven. Our city’s population is very culturally diverse and our intent is to address the needs of all kids who desire an innova-tive education focused on project-based learning.
Q: Has the plan to allow state-wide enrollment through online courses been dropped? If so, why? If not, what bene� t do you see from the online courses?
A. Th e State Charter School Com-mission (SCSC) gave feedback last year that providing an exclusively online ed-ucation in addition to the “bricks and mortar” was too complicated for a start-up school. To address those very real con-cerns, BIA decided to focus all of our
energy at this time on a campus-based model. We are still utilizing blended learning by combining online resourc-es with classroom instruction, but that is only being off ered to students that are at-tending the physical campus.
Q: � e new school will empha-size science, technology and math. What does that mean for the stu-dents? � e teachers? � e community?
A. Th ese subjects, known as STEAM, address the skills needed and sought after by employers in the 21st century. In addition to science, tech-nology, engineering and math, our fo-cus includes “A” for arts. Creativity and critical thinking are extremely impor-tant skills, which we hope to build at BIA. Our teachers will be compliment-ing the core curriculum with an inno-vative, project-based learning strategy as well as providing an individualized learning curriculum for every child.
Q: How does the board intend to be “innovative” with the new school?
A. Having established the mis-sion of the school, including the innova-tive curriculum focus, the board’s role will be focused on school governance. While this founding board will have many tasks to get the school started, our primary re-sponsibility will be setting the school pol-icies while providing oversight, leader-ship and guidance to our BIA school director.
Q: How will it di� er from Brookhaven’s existing elementary and middle schools?
A. Our use of blended learn-ing as a core curriculum combined with the integration of computer cod-ing and STEAM-based, project-based learning is unique to education in this area. Many of our existing schools pro-vide some component of project-based learning, but BIA uses this focus as a core component of our Deeper Learn-ing by Design strategy.
We will be utilizing the Compass blended-learning system, which allows personalized computer-based learning hand-in-hand with direct instruction. Many individual components of our plan can be found in some of our ex-isting schools, but BIA’s focus and cur-riculum have been built around these high-tedch learning strategies.
Q: What’s the planned relation-ship between the school and the city government? Recently, City Coun-cil authorized the purchase of a state building on Skyland Drive that could
be used to house the new school (or perhaps for a future City Hall); if the building houses the academy, will the city be more than the school’s landlord? What else do you think the city will be required to spend on the school?
A. Th e city of Brookhaven autho-rized the purchase of the old Skyland Elementary building, which currently houses the Georgia Vital Records De-partment. Th is building would make an excellent location for BIA, if the charter school is approved. Th ere are no current plans for the city’s participation in BIA other than acting as a landlord, if the city chooses to lease the building to this school.
Th e city of Brookhaven will make every eff ort to support BIA, just as we hope to support all of our pub-lic schools in Brookhaven. If BIA is allowed to lease the Skyland proper-ty, I expect the terms of the lease to be market-based and the build-out of the property to be handled by Brookhaven Innovation Academy.
For more: brookhaven.education/in-dex.html
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
JOE EARLE
Brookhaven City Council recently authorized purchase of a state building on Skyland Drive that could house a City Hall or the new school.
“Creativity and critical thinking are extremely important skills, which
we hope to built at BIA.”
– BATES MATTISON
CHAIR, BIA BOARD & CITY COUNCILMAN
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For many Dunwoody parents, the GLASS is half full.
Erika Harris, co-chair of Georgians for Local Area School Systems, or GLASS, says upcoming months will be about fun-draising and educating lawmakers.
Dunwoody’s hopeful lobbyists want state lawmakers to call a vote to amend the state Constitution and allow local school districts in places such as Dunwoody. But they’ve watched legislation stall during the past two years. This year, they hope to convince state lawmakers to pass the bill, known as HR 4.
Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody), who wrote HR 4, said he plans to bring it up for a vote this year. “We want to bring it the floor as early as we can,” he said.
Taylor also said a Senate version of the bill may move forward, if HR 4 stalls in the House. GLASS’s focus, he said, will be advocating for the legislation while he is working on the “procedural stuff to get the bill through.”
GLASS supporter Heyward Wescott of Dunwoody said the organization needs to get information in front of every legislator.
“We’ve got to spell it out for them” he said. “This is statewide, and many legisla-tors might not realize this is coming down
the pipe.” Wescott said he came to Dunwoody
like other parents “to build a nest” and only after moving in did he start to look closely at the schools. He said Dunwoody has a “perfect footprint” for a Dunwoody school system with several elementary schools feeding into middle and then a single high school.
“We’re excited,” he said. “It’s a major uphill task, but right now it’s one of the best options the state has in improving the education system.”
He described Harris as somebody who “drills down to the issues.”
Harris is a mother of four and a master teacher who earned a graduate degree to teach elementary through middle schools in California. After her family moved to Georgia, she said she started asking ques-tions.
“I didn’t understand why there weren’t smaller school systems,” she said.
She said she quickly learned 49 of the 50 states have flexibility in creating small-er school systems, but even when DeKalb County nearly lost its accreditation recent-ly, Dunwoody was prevented by the state Constitution from creating its own sys-tem.
“DeKalb County was unable to meet the individual needs of its students,” she said. “You’d hear a lot of chatter without any effort put into solving the real prob-lems and with a district this big, they were solving it from a top-down approach and that’s not going to work.”
In a district with 100 schools, meeting the needs of the students is impossible, she said.
“DeKalb has a one-size-fits-all policy and that’s frustrating,” she said.
The curriculum in DeKalb County Schools failed to meet the needs for Harris’ daughters, she said. One daughter is gifted and the other has dyslexia.
“We had a choice of two curriculums to meet 100,000 students’ needs,” Harris said and her daughters had unique needs that would have been met in a smaller school system, she said.
Harris recently pulled her girls out of public school and began home-schooling them so she could them her 100-percent attention, she said. She plans to enroll her 5-year-old twin boys in public school and “see how it goes,” she said.
“Historically, the top-ranked school systems in the state are city school sys-tems,” Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis said. “We know what works, so why not support and educate people on a potential bill which promotes quality education and
system improvements?”Opponents cite increased bureaucracy
and increase cost, but Harris said a right-sized system is most beneficial financially.
“If you have a right-sized school system you actually see an economic benefit,” she said. “There is such a thing as too large, where you lose the financial advocacy.”
GLASS plans to use donations contrib-uted to an online fundraising platform at gofundme.com to create and distribute in-formation to legislators, Wescott said. A fundraiser also is scheduled for McKend-rick’s Steak House in August.
“Across the board, people are starting to understand that business as usual in Georgia is not good business,” Harris said. “And right now education needs to be at the forefront of our policy decisions.”
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President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on Aug. 6, 1965. � e land-mark legislation remade politics in the southern United States by ensuring that members of minori-ty groups could not be prohibited from voting. � e U.S. Department of Justice says on its website that the act “has been called the single most e� ective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.”
Dr. Kendra A. King Momon, a professor of politics at Oglethorpe University, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta), who as a civil rights activist played an important role in events leading to the pas-sage of the legislation, o� er their insights on the Voting Rights Act’s 50th anniversary.
As we approach 50 years since the passing of the historic and landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, I believe it remains the best of times and the worst of times for African Ameri-cans in the U.S.
It is the best of times in that over the past 50 years an un-precedented number of African Americans have been elected to local, state and national offi ce.
It is the best of times in that African Americans are being recognized on and off the fi eld for their immeasurable eco-nomic, educational, political, social and cultural contribu-tions to the world house.
And, it is the best of times as cities like Atlanta - with a strong African American populous - continues to draw and at-tract international acclaim, businesses and residents.
It is the worst of times, however, as 50 years after the pas-sage of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans have not been fully protected, nor have their rights been fully extended.
It is the worst of times as black churches are being burned down and black lives are being shot down in houses of wor-ship.
And, it is the worst of times as racial, economic, social and cultural antipathy rises exponentially both here and abroad.
Still, I remain hopeful that positive redress will abound. In my book “African American Politics,” I detail the tenuous journey of African Americans to secure the right to vote.
From the violence-fi lled “Bloody Sunday” attack on many,
including two of our state’s beloved sons – U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Rev. C. T. Vivian - to Dr. Martin L. King Jr.’s “Give Us Th e Ballot” speech – the past 50 have not been an easy course of navigation.
Yet, the aff ects and eff ects of these collective eff orts are undeni-able. We are a better people and a better nation because of the cour-age our known and unknown lead-ers had to rewrite the law to em-power those previously excluded due to xenophobia and man-made laws.
As we take time to refl ect on this momentous occasion, I humbly submit that the time is ripe for a recommitment to the eradication of extensions of the law and full fl edge Voting Rights for all of America’s citizens.
Moreover, I humbly submit that the time is ripe to look be-yond voting rights to economic rights for the “least of Amer-ica’s children.”
Dr. Kendra A. King Momon is an associate professor of poli-tics in the division of history, politics and international studies at Oglethorpe University. She also is director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program.
Refl ect yes, but work still needs to be done
DR. KENDRA A. KING MOMON
GUEST COLUMN
DR. KENDRA A.
Across the country, there is a deliberate, systematic attempt to make it harder and more diffi cult for the disabled, students, seniors, minorities, poor and rural voters to participate in the democratic process. We must not let that happen.
Th at is why we need to repair and restore the Voting Rights Act now more than ever before. Th e burden should not be placed on citizens whose rights are violated to mount their own defense.
As leaders of this Congress, we have the power to change that. We can make access to the ballot box more simple and more fair. Th e right to vote is the most powerful, nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society.
My own mother, father, grandparents and great-grandpar-ents could not register to vote. My father died before he was ever able to cast a vote in this country. We must not slip back to that dark past. We have to throw off the burden of fear, and continue to move forward.
As leaders of this country, we have a moral obligation to repair the Voting Rights Act. It is our duty in a democratic society to open up the political process and let every citizen have a say in their own future.
Th at is something every Ameri-can and all of us here in the Con-gress can agree upon. We must do this now, and we must do it on our watch. It is what the people of this country deserve. Th ank you.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis represents the Georgia’s Fifth District, which in-cludes portions of Buckhead and Brookhaven.
Rep. John Lewis: Repair the Voting Rights Act
U.S. REP. JOHN LEWIS
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Cigar lounges offer relaxation and celebrity glamour
BY JOHN RUCHOn a quiet, early afternoon at Churchill Fine Cigars in
Sandy Springs, owner Shafi Hai showed off some of the shop’s luxurious features. Th e smoking lounge with plush dark-leather couches beneath a mural of Winston Churchill and Cuban scenes. Th e cedar-paneled, walk-in humidor stocked with hard-to-fi nd premium cigars.
He demonstrated the private lockers where regulars can store their smokes, and pointed out one with a brass name-plate reading, “Dr. Jay’s.”
“You know—Dr. J?” he asked.Yep, the Dr. J—pro basketball legend Julius Erving, a
Sandy Springs resident who frequently visits Churchill and shares a smoke with fellow cigar connoisseurs.
With this old-school social club atmosphere and occa-sional celebrity glamour, the cigar lounge business is on the rise in the metro north area.
Hai claims to have pioneered the shop-and-smoking-lounge concept in Georgia 20 years ago with his Scottish To-bacco stores in Buckhead and Rockdale County. He opened Churchill in 2013 to pick up Sandy Springs customers. And Davidoff of Geneva—a Swiss luxury brand that recently marketed a $500 cigar—is about to open a store and lounge in the Buckhead Atlanta complex.
Cigars had a renaissance as a luxury item in the economic boom of the early 1990s. Th e magazine “Cigar Afi cionado” launched, highlighting such cigar-loving superstars as Sylves-ter Stallone and Pierce Brosnan.
At the same time, health laws banning public smok-ing were on the rise, inspiring specialty cigar bars and cigar lounges that were exempt. (Th e Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to warn that ci-gar-smoking raises the risk of cancer, gum disease and other illnesses.) Such laws took a while to reach the Atlanta area, but have played a role in the cigar lounge trend.
Dantanna’s, the upscale sports bar and restaurant in Buck-head, opened the adjacent Buckhead Cigar Lounge 10 years ago in response to the smoking restrictions.
“We had many very good regulars who were cigar-smok-
ISADORA PENNINGTON
Shafi Hai, owner of Churchill Fine Cigars in Sandy Springs, opened his store in 2013. The shop features a smoking lounge with leather
couches, a cedar-paneled, walk-in humidor and private lockers.
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ers, and we were a cigar-friendly bar back in the day,” said Dantanna’s partner David Clapp.
Th e restaurant turned to a group of those custom-ers, led by Mike Turrentine, to transform the former private dining room into a stand-alone cigar shop
and lounge. It now carries a quarter-million-dollars worth of high-end cigars, and off ers special dinners and scotch-tastings. Th e lounge also operates a mem-bers’ club.
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Q&A on Perimeter offi ce space: ‘The ... submarket is very healthy’As senior vice president for leasing with Cousins
Properties, Bill Hollett is responsible for a number of the company’s Class A offi ce properties in metro At-lanta. He has more than 28 years of experience leasing, managing or operating commercial offi ce properties.
Reporter Newspapers recently posed some questions to him about the offi ce market in the Perimeter area. Here are his answers.
Q What is the current status of the o� ce market in the Perimeter area? How big is the market?
How big should it be?
A Th e Central Perimeter submarket is very healthy as a result of strong absorption of offi ce space
during the past three years. CoStar lists the submarket as a 34-million-square-foot market (with 83 Class A buildings containing approximately 22 million square feet). Th e class A vacancy rate has fallen below 10 per-cent for the fi rst time since 2000 and new speculative offi ce development could commence in the next year.
Q Is there demand for all types of o� ce space, or is the demand centered on Class A space or on
new o� ce developments, such as those for State Farm and Mercedes?
A It is a combination of both: a) demand for exist-ing class A space still signifi cantly outpaces the
other classes of existing space in absorption and b) as you noted, fi rms such as State Farm and Mercedes have chosen new developments for a campus environment on available parcels of land that are well located in prox-
imity to MARTA and/or the highway systems that ser-vice the submarket.
Q What’s happening to rents?
A Rents in the class A offi ce market have increased by approximately 25 percent in the past three
years.
Q How does the Perimeter market � t into the overall metro Atlanta market now? How has
that changed over time?
A Th e Central Perimeter market has always been a logical consideration for companies that have
larger employee bases that reside in the northern half of the metro area and also service clients on the north side of Atlanta. Examples include fi ve Fortune 1000 com-panies, plus Veritiv, Cox Communications and Mer-cedes of North America have all chosen the submarket for their headquarters location. Since the early 2000s when MARTA opened the Sandy Springs and North Springs stations, the Perimeter CID successfully worked to make signifi cant infrastructure changes on the roads leading to the highways and throughout the submarket (such as the Ashford-Dunwoody diverging diamond project, the Hammond interchange and Perimeter Center Parkway fl yover). In addition, the increased walkability from sidewalks and crosswalks has convert-ed the community into a more urban submarket that emphasizes walkability and proximity to retail, restau-rants, hotels and residential.
Q Do you think tra� c troubles – either existing problems or fears of future problems -- have an
e� ect on the demand for o� ce space in the Perime-ter?
A Th e leadership in the Perimeter (e.g. Perimeter CID, city of Sandy Springs, city of Dunwoody
and city of Brookhaven) are working in concert with public offi cials and private enterprises to address the continuing growth of the area. Th e planned I-285/Ga. 400 Interchange, Ga. 400 collector distributor system, and Ga. 400/Abernathy Road projects are much needed and great examples of continued im-provements to address traffi c congestion and mobili-ty for the area.
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CSM Bakery Solu-tions, a company with or-igins in the Netherlands, will relocate its global head-quarters to Sandy Springs, creating 120 jobs and in-vesting more than $5.5 million, Gov. Nathan Deal announced July 21. Th e company produces a broad range of bakery ingredients, products and services.
By moving its global headquarters to Sandy Springs, CSM will consolidate sever-al regional functions into one centralized location. Th e transition will generate a total employment in Georgia of more than 800. Th ese new and relocating employees will serve the company in an array of areas, including senior leadership, sales, marketing, business development, administration and other support positions.
With revenues of approximately $3 billion and more than 45,000 global custom-ers, CSM employs more than 8,500 people around the world and off ers a broad port-folio of well-recognized brands supported and developed from its eight innovation centers.
“We’re very grateful to the state of Georgia and the city of Sandy Springs for their collective eff orts and generosity in helping to bring CSM Bakery Solutions’ glob-al headquarters to the Atlanta area,” CSM President and CEO Robert Sharpe said. “Critical in our decision were the area’s transportation infrastructure, schools, cost and quality of housing and business-friendly atmosphere – all in support of our mul-ticultural workforce.”
Swiss fashion label Akris will open a new boutique in Buck-head Atlanta in September. Th e boutique will off er luxury goods for women, including accessories and handbags.
Th e Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) has announced that � omas J. Cunningham has joined the organization’s lead-ership team as chief economist. Cunningham comes to MAC following a 30-year career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as vice president, se-nior economist and regional executive.
Bennett � rasher LLP has entered into an agreement to move its operations to three fl oors of Riverwood 200, a proposed 12-story Class A high-rise in the Cumberland Gal-leria area. Bennett Th rasher currently is headquartered nearby at One Overton Park on Cumberland Boulevard. With the move, the fi rm will expand its space to 62,500 square feet from 50,000 square feet, while retaining a location near the northwest interchange of I-75 and I-285. Th e move is scheduled for May 2017.
Construction Resources has opened Buckhead Cambria Gallery at 3096 Roswell
Road, just a few doors down from Buckhead Th eatre. Th e store off ers inspiration and products for kitchen and bath projects.
Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlanta/Perimeter Center, an all-suite extended-stay hotel chain, will open later this year at 915 Crestline Road. Th e 114-unit hotel is within walking distance of the Sandy Springs MARTA station.
Eddie Bauer is planning a new store at Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, according to Tomorrow’s News Today. Th e new store will be on the upper level of the Macy’s wing in the former Sephora space. Th e store will be about 5,500 square feet and is slated to open in early 2016.
Th e Atlanta Braves and concert promoter Live Nation have announced they will resurrect the Roxy Th eatre in the mixed-used development that will surround the new baseball stadium, SunTrust Park. Th e 4,000-capacity venue will host music and com-edy acts. Th e last incarnation of the Roxy was located in Buckhead Village and is now known as Buckhead Th eatre.
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OpeningsFrom left, Brookhaven
chamber member Laura Stevenson, chamber member Jay Groundwater,
Tiffany Ryals, Jazmine Sam, Michael Lemay and
Cathy Holt help Mary Eyler and Renae Slagle, holding
scissors, Atlanta market managers for Salon Lofts,
with a ribbon cutting. Lindsay Kammer, Heath Authement, Cheryl Jones, Karen Marie, Chasity
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property Perimeter Circle, at 5470 Glenridge Drive in Atlanta, celebrated with a
ribbon cutting on July 9. On hand for the festivities,
from left, President/CEO Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber
of Commerce Tom Mahaffey, Drew Woods,
Chelsea Carrington, Joel Carmichael, Jennifer Hardy, Dave Carney, Jacque Dill, Nathan Ridgeway, Suzanne Brown, Jim
Derrick, Erica Rocker-Wills and Charlesetta Gipson.
Ace Hardware, located at 6348 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting. From left, Charlesetta Gipson, Al Stasko, Cathy Tatum, Betty Thigpen, Brittany Whitstine, with scissors, Lisa Whitstine, owner,
holding scissors, Tom Mahaffey, president/CEO, Sandy Springs/ Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, Brian Roberts, store manager, with scissors, Donna Mahaffey, Kaye Lewis, Susan Lesesne, Bill Piercy, Bobby Dansingani, Suzanne Brown and Jim Derrick.
Charles Schwab, offering fi nancial and investment services, opened its new location at 1105 Hammond Drive in Sandy Springs with a ribbon cutting on July 15. Lending a hand, from left, Charles Evans,
Rick Groff, William Clanton, Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce President Tom Mahaffey, Mark Anheier, Dan DiLuzio, Charles Schwab Branch Manager Adam Heatley, Susan Riley-Hayes, Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, holding scissors, Chris Burnett, Jermaine Brown, Karen Trylovich, Chip Collins, Chris Barfi eld, Jason Sheetz, Martin Van Der Laan, Suzanne Brown, Carolyn Axt, Kevin McQuilken, Mary Beth Spence and Patty Conway.
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Cigar lounges offer relaxation and celebrity glamour
Scottish Tobacco in Buckhead takes the club concept a step further. Its Sinan Lounge is a private area with country-club-style rates of $500 to $1,000 a year. It includes access to printers, copiers and a fax machine for business meetings.
Cigar-lovers with a more modest budget, or who lean toward more of a neighborhood-hangout atmosphere, have options, too.
Dunwoody Cigars and Lounge in Dunwoody has the laid-back vibe one might expect from a place bought by a former customer. On a recent Friday af-ternoon, owner Jay Markow-itz relaxed on a cream-col-ored leather sofa, watching golf on a giant TV. A group of lawyers came in to play some poker over cigars and cut Markowitz in.
Markowitz is a Sandy Springs res-ident whose main work is serving as a partner in a company that manufac-tures prosthetic breasts for women who have mastectomies. A longtime custom-er of Dunwoody Cigars, he bought out the owner about 3 1/2 years ago, when it seemed like it might close.
“We were a bunch of buddies who used to come here and hang out,” Mar-kowitz said. “We didn’t want to lose the clubhouse.”
He and wife Mei now operate the lounge, which includes a walk-in humi-dor, a large back room and private ci-gar lockers.
At Churchill, Hai is proud that he recently won the hard-to-earn right to carry the Davidoff brand, whose ci-
gars come wrapped in a paper-thin slice of cedar wood for freshness. He boasts of such famous customers as Atlanta-based comedian Steve Harvey and legendary actor Robert De Niro, who once spent four hours with him at Scottish Tobacco.
“You don’t make a lot of money, but you make a lot of connections,” Hai said of the cigar business.
Someone’s making money, howev-er. At Churchill, some cigars had price tags north of $20 each. Asked what a fi rst-timer can expect to spend at a cigar lounge, Hai smiled and politely shook
his head. Th is is the sort of business where if you have to ask, you can’t aff ord it.
“Most people don’t care. It’s a lifestyle,” Hai said.
On the other hand, if a cus-tomer can aff ord the luxury of
cigars, there are no picky rules about en-joying them. A lounge is selling not just a cigar, but also the sociability and pa-tience the slow-burning items require.
“It doesn’t matter how you hold [the cigar], how you smoke,” Hai said. “It’s if you enjoy your company—that’s what matters.”
For more information: Buckhead Cigar Lounge, 3400 Around Lenox Drive, Suite 304, Atlanta, dantannas.com; Churchill Fine Cigars, 5841 Ro-swell Road, Sandy Springs, churchill-fi necigars.com; Dunwoody Cigars and Lounge, 1404 Dunwoody Village Park-way, Dunwoody, dunwoodycigar.com; Scottish Tobacco and Sinan Lounge, 2625 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, scot-tishtobacco.com.
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Super Me!Tuesday, July 28, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. – Sean Driscoll of Th e Story Ship puts on a show for kids aged 3 and up. Th e performance includes anima-tion, puppetry, comedy-theater and music blended into an hour-long show. Free and open to the pub-lic. First come, fi rst serve seating; no registration re-quired. Suggested audience: toddler, preschool, el-ementary school, middle school. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 295 Mount Vernon Hwy, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, go online to afpls.org, email [email protected], or call 404-303-6130.
Toddler TimeTuesday, July 28, 11-11:30 a.m. – Bring your little ones to a storytime for toddlers aged 2-3 years old at the Brookhaven Library. Th e event in-cludes storytelling, fi ngerplaying, rhymes and songs all targeted to the developmental needs of toddlers. Park behind library and enter through the low-er level. Free and open to the fi rst 20 participants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, go online to dekalblibrary.org or call 404-848-7140.
Button ManiaWednesday, July 29, 2-3:30 p.m. – Just in time for back to school, this workshop teaches but-ton-making techniques and provides an opportuni-ty to make your own custom buttons. Participants will repurpose photographs, magazines and illus-trations into wearable art for themselves and their friends. Free and open to the public. Suggested audi-ence: middle and high school. Buckhead Branch Li-brary, 269 Buckhead Ave., N.E., Buckhead, 30305. For more information, go online to afpls.org, email [email protected], or call 404-814-3500.
The Mighty Thor Movie� ursday, July 30, 2:30-4:30 p.m. – Th e Buckhead Branch Library presents their Summer Super Movies in July series, featuring a two-hour PG-13 movie centering on the epic adventures and legends of Th or. Th e story follows a powerful and ar-rogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an an-
cient war. Free and open to the public. Suitable for all ages, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Buckhead, 30305. For more information, go online to afpls.org, email [email protected] or call 404-814-3500.
Back to School Splash Party
Saturday, August 1. – It’s nearly back to school time, and what better way to round out a humid and hot summer season than with a pool party! All Brookhaven city pools will be open and will have live music, food and children’s activities to provide one more day of fun in the sun before classes re-sume. Th ere will also be tables set up at the Lyn-wood Park and Briarwood Park locations to receive donations of back to school supplies. Everyone who brings donations will be entered into a raffl e for a prize. Free with general pool admission; rates vary per location. Murphey Candler Park Pool, 1551 W. Nancy Creek Dr., NE, Brookhaven, 30319; Briarwood Park Pool, 2235 Briarwood Way, NE, Brookhaven, 30329; Lynwood Park Pool, 3360 Osborne Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, go online to brookhavenga.gov or call 404-637-0500.
Firefl y HikeSaturday, August 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m. –Watch the last glow of summer on a night hike at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve. Catching fi refl ies, also known as lightning bugs, is a summer tradition. Th e event begins with making your own bug catch-ers and is followed by a guided hike down a wooded trail as evening falls. Night activities and cold treats will round out the evening. Tickets: adults, $10; children, $5. Space is limited, RSVP in advance by phone, in person during Monday through Fri-day visiting hours, or by mail. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30342. For more information and to download the forms for mailed registration, go online to bhnp.org or call 404-345-1008.
Teen Writing & Photography Contests� rough Saturday, August 1. – Calling all teen photographers and writers! Th e Sandy Springs Library is currently accepting entries for two contests, one for photography and one for creative writing. Pho-tography submissions must be in digital format, taken within the past two years, and be original work created by the contestant. Writing submissions must be no more than 250 words, sub-mitted digitally in Microsoft Word format, and the topic is real-life heroes. Contest is open to all Fulton County residents and students in Fulton County schools aged 12 to 18; limit
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Shop for a Cause� ursday, July 30, 4-7 p.m. – Regency Home Care and Modern Emergent Care hosts a silent auc-tion and open house with Stella & Dot and Th irty-One. Th e event raises funds and awareness for the Alzheimer’s Association, and features auction items from local businesses, and free beer and wine. Dur-ing the event there will also be opportunities to sign up for the Atlanta Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Sep-tember 26 at Atlantic Station. Modern Emergent Care, 5505 Roswell Rd., #100, Sandy Springs, 30342. For more information call 404-625-5313.
Fiesta for Wishes!Thursday, July 30, 7 p.m. – Make-A-Wish Georgia celebrates their 20-year anni-versary with an evening of Tex-Mex food at the grand reopening of Ray’s Rio Bravo. Spe-cial guest Debbie Tilman, founder of the Geor-gia Make-A-Wish Chapter, will be in atten-dance for the event. Tickets start at $25. Rio Bravo, 6450 Powers Ferry NW, Sandy Springs, 30339. For more information and to purchase tickets, go online to raysriobravo.com or call 770-580-9342.
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Sunday, August 2, 4 p.m. – Th is live dance and music performance brings to life the stories and traditions of Old Russia. Utilizing tradition-al Russian folk instruments, dances and vocals, this event is suitable for audiences of all ages. Buf-fet- style dinner follows the concert in the Fellow-ship Hall. Dunwoody United Methodist Church, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go to dunwoodyumc.org or call 770-394-0675.
Concerts by the SpringsSunday, August 2, 7-8:30 p.m. – Local band Th e Return performs, part of the Sandy Springs Concerts by the Springs series at Heritage Green. Th is Beatles tribute band is a lively throwback to original songs and is known for their resemblance to the original band members. In its 19th year, this annual concert series is held one Sunday evening each month through September. Free and open to the public. Suitable for all ages. Sandy Springs Soci-ety Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., San-dy Springs, 30328. For more information, go online to sandyspringsga.org or call 404-851-9111.
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Artists in the WildTuesday, July 28, 10 a.m. – Painters, sketchers, and pastelists will fi nd picturesque spots throughout the Chattahoochee Nature Center grounds to set up and make art. Th is weekly event allows guests to in-teract with the artists while they create original art-work en plein air. Free for members and with gen-eral admission. Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. For more information, go to chattnaturecenter.org or call 770-992-2055.
Dunwoody Sunday CycleSunday, August 2, 3 p.m. – Join the community for a 4.5-mile, mostly right turns, community bike ride through Dunwoody Vil-lage. This family-friendly ride is suitable for all ages and abilities, with a shorter route de-tour for younger riders or less mobile riders to take after the group start. Riders 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult, and all cy-clists must wear a helmet to participate. This event is weather-permitting, and will not take place in inclement weather or hazardous con-ditions. Paritipants will gather at 2:30 p.m. Village Burger, 1426 Dunwoody Village Pkwy, Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go to bikewalkdunwoody.org.
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National Night OutTuesday, August 4, 6-8 p.m. – Join the Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven Police De-partments for an annual community-building event promoting positive interactions between police and the communities they serve. Personnel and displays from the three agencies, food, games and family activities make this event an educational and enjoyable campaign to build neighborhood ca-maraderie. Free and open to the public; suitable for all ages. Perimeter Mall, 4400 Ashford-Dun-woody Rd., Dunwoody, 30346. For more information, go to dunwoodyga.gov or call 678-382-6700.
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The Magnolia Run provides funding for the crucial programming and services provided by EFGA, including medication assistance, information and referrals, camp scholarships, support groups and more. Without this event and the support of the community this would not be possible.
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A legacy of art at SpruillBY ISADORA PENNINGTON
“Everything will be OK,” proclaims the big, bold sign on the old seed house at the corner of Ashford-Dunwoody Road and Meadow Lane Road.
The simple mural was originally paint-ed by local artist Jason Kofke at the Spruill homestead for the 2009 Emerging Artists exhibit. The message has since become a staple of the Spruill ideology, an arts or-ganization which by all accounts is indeed doing just fine.
On August 8, the Spruill Gallery and Historic Home will open its doors from 1 to 4 p.m. for a party to cel-
ebrate the 40th anniversary of the Spruill Center for the Arts.
The exhibition, juried by Saskia Ben-jamin of ART PAPERS, features works made by students and faculty at the Spruill Center for the Arts. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, glass, metalwork and encaus-tics, and reflects the variety of courses available at the center.
The Aug. 8 event will feature live music, art activities, chalk murals, food, beverages and 100 works by 71 artists on display.
The Spruill Gallery is located in a quaint Victorian building known as the Spruill Homeplace in Dunwoody. Orig-inally built as a home for the Spruill family in the 1860s, the building has gone through its fair share of chang-es throughout the years. In 1993, the building was relocated to the prominent corner where it now sits and opened as an art gallery and gift shop.
Just over a mile down the road from the Gallery is the Spruill Center for the Arts. The center occupies one wing of the build-ing which also houses the Dunwoody Li-brary and Stage Door Players.
The long hallway of the center is lined with students’ artwork, and during the summer months, the walls are usually plastered with art by students in summer
camp. Groups of energetic and chattering kids file down the hall between activities while adults work studiously in quiet class-es in adjoining rooms.
Because classes are not accredited and the students don’t work toward any de-grees, there are no final exams, there’s no pressure, and the students who participate have a genuine love for making art. Classes are offered at a variety of times during the week and throughout the weekend.
The center works with the gallery to put together an annual exhibition of works by students and faculty in the Spruill home-stead.
Robert Kinsey, CEO of the Spruill Center for the Arts for nearly 12 years, has a deep affinity for the institution.
“The people who are here want to be here,” he said of the center’s students.
Kinsey himself has a fairly eclectic and varied taste in art. His office walls are cov-ered in artwork, many of which he has purchased from students.
Though his background prior to work-ing with the center was in the corporate world, art has been a large part of Kinsey’s life for many years. A client he knew who worked at IBM decided to change careers and open a gallery in Buckhead, an act
that inspired Kinsey to begin collecting. “I’ve grown to be a little bit of an art ad-
dict,” he laughed, glancing around his of-fice and all the artwork on the walls.
It is not only Kinsey who has benefited from being among artists and artwork in his career. Clare Callahan, the marketing and PR coordinator for the center, has also found artistic inspiration at work.
“It’s a wonderful place to work,” Calla-han gushed. “It’s a wonderful place to be.”
Since she started working at the cen-ter last year, she has stepped outside of her comfort zone and has taken a variety of art classes from calligraphy to glasswork. Cal-lahan’s role has expanded to include social media, catalogues, promotions and most recently, a new website.
“Most people who know about us have heard about us from someone else,” she said, but in today’s world it’s also necessary to keep with the times and modern technology.
Events like the annual Student & Faculty Juried Exhibition in August pro-vide another important avenue through which the Spruill Center and Gallery promote themselves and engage with the community.
Jennifer Price, director of the Spruill
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The famous mural on the Spruill property by Jason Kofke.
PHOTOS BY ISADORA PENNINGTON
Robert Kinsey, CEO of the Spruill Center for the Arts, is an avid art lover.
At left, Amy Rowe works on her hand-sculpted artwork in a classroom. At right, work by kids currently taking art classes is on display in the hall.
The Spruill Gallery is located at 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody and can be reached at 770-394-4019. The Spruill Center for the Arts is located at 5339 Chamblee- Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody and can be reached at 770-394-3447.
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Gallery, expressed appreciation not only for the ability to work with so many lo-cal artists, but also for the opportunity to do so within the historic building. “It is a challenge to recreate the space for the gal-lery’s various exhibits and events but when done successfully, there is no environment more inspirational,” Price said.
Other yearly events include the Jewelry Market, Pottery & Art Sale, Ceramic Bowl Sale, Holiday Artist Market, in addition to a number of gallery exhibitions.
For more information on the Spruill Center for the Arts, the Spruill Gallery, and their upcoming events go online to their website at spruilarts.org.
Student & Faculty Juried ExhibitionWhen: Through Aug. 8Where: Spruill Gallery, 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd.Admission is free.
Here are the winners of the 2015 student and faculty juried art show: • Best in Show - Lauren Adams, painting
Bottom right, the current show features works by 71 local artists.
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Two Renaissance masters’ ideas on display side by side
BY MARY HELEN KELLYUntil recently, the shopping cen-
ter storefront housed an arts and crafts shop. But this summer, it’s home to a diff erent sort of art and creation.
Th e “Discover DaVinci and Michel-angelo: Side by Side” exhibit currently on display at the Perimeter Pointe shop-ping center in Dunwoody shows repro-ductions or models of works by the two Renaissance artists side by side.
Mark Rodgers, the exhibit’s director, says many people don’t realize Michel-angelo and Leonardo DaVinci lived at about the same time. Rodgers said the idea of displaying the works of the two artists together was his idea. He said the exhibit is trying to look at the Renais-sance from a “whole artist perspective.”
“We want everyone that comes to the exhibit to not only refl ect on what these two men did in their lives, but we want to inspire each individual to discov-er their own ‘inner DaVinci and inner Michelangelo’ to bring their lives to the next level,” Rodgers said. “Th at is truly the message.”
Genius Productions, a nonprof-it company based in St. Louis, brought the exhibit to Dunwoody, which is the fi nal stop on the exhibit’s journey across North America. It has been displayed over the past 4 1/2 years at locations in Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and Bra-denton, Fla., Rodgers said.
At the end of October, the exhibit is scheduled to return to its home at the Museum of Leonardo DaVinci in Flor-ence, Italy, he said.
Included in the exhibit are licensed reproductions of the artists’ works and models of machines based on drawings. At the exhibit, visitors will see a casting of Michelangelo’s Pieta as well as one of the head of the statue of David.
Visitors also will fi nd over 60 hand-
crafted models of DaVinci’s inventions. Th e models are interactive and visitors are invited to use them and see how they work.
Th ere is also a special children’s area where kids are invited to rebuild a mod-el of DaVinci’s portable footbridge or color paintings by Michelangelo.
Th e exhibit can be experienced through a docent-guided tour or audio tour available on smartphones. Both are included in the price of admission. Vid-eos that elaborate on certain aspects of the exhibit are also played throughout the day.
Rodgers said that although the art-ists were born more than fi ve centuries ago, modern visitors could relate to their work.
“After you study their story, every-thing they said and everything they did relates to our lives today,” he said.
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These ‘buddies’ bond over a good bookBY MARY HELEN KELLY
Last spring, Les Fuchs dropped by Lake Forest Elementary School one day every week. Th e retired Delta Air Lines pilot would meet fourth grader Sair Ba-nos, and the two of them would head to the school library to read during the stu-dent’s lunch period.
Fuchs read aloud from “James and Th e Giant Peach,” by Roald Dahl, a book Sair chose at the start of the spring semes-ter. Fuchs would read as Sair ate lunch.
As they worked through the book, Fuchs would ask questions: Did Sair know the meaning of diffi cult words? Did he know the location of events from the story? If not, Fuchs would explain the words or identify the places.
“I love to read myself. And it makes a huge diff erence in a young person’s life if they develop a love of reading,” Fuchs said.
Th e two were paired through the Reading Buddies program created by the Sandy Springs Education Force. Th rough the program, a volunteer reads with a student for 30 minutes every week.
Th e SSEF brings the program to a
principal at a school, fi nds volunteers, coordinates the schedule, and works with the students the school identifi es as candidates for the program.
Th e program currently operates at Lake Forest Elementary and Ison Springs Elementary. Th e program is looking to
expand next year. To volunteer or learn more, contact the Sandy Springs Edu-cation Force at: san-dyspringseducation-force.org.
Th is year marked Fuchs’ fi rst experience with the program. He came to look forward to the weekly meetings. He said he wasn’t sure exact-ly how he and Sair had been paired, but having a granddaughter the same age as the student helped him relate to the boy.
Fuchs said the program is about more than just reading. It is also about the vol-unteers’ interactions with the students and “helping them to develop an appre-ciation and love of reading.” He said he gained as much from the experience as Sair did.
Fuchs recalls one day where part of the story took place in England. Fuchs grabbed a globe and showed Sair the re-lationship between Atlanta and England
to make the story come to life.
Th ey talked about common in-terests such as roll-er blading and ice-skating.
At one point, the pair got on the sub-ject of Australia and its indigenous ani-mals. A short time later, Fuchs traveled to Australia and mailed Sair a post-card showing some of the continent’s unique creatures.
Sair recalled the postcard when he spoke at SSEF’s an-nual breakfast in May about his ex-perience reading with Fuchs. Irene Schweiger, execu-tive director of the nonprofi t, said Sair received a standing ovation after his talk, and that for weeks she got calls from people who had been moved by what he had to say.
Fuchs said that although the pair didn’t fi nish the book, they did spend
a lot of time bonding and developing Sair’s reading skills.
At the end of the semester Fuchs bought Sair a book about soccer, a sub-ject Sair enjoyed. Fuchs said he hoped that Sair would read the book over the summer.
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Left, volunteer Les Fuchs and student Sair Banos, with Lake Forest Elementary School Principal Harvey Oaxaca. Fuchs and Banos were part of the Reading
Buddies program, created by the Sandy Springs Education Force. Through the program, a volunteer
reads with a student 30 minutes each week.
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It’s a breeze!The Sandy Springs Storm and Sandy Springs Cyclones 12U softball teams finished 1st and 2nd respectively in the ASA Rec/All-State Georgia State Championship. Members of both teams, front row, from left, Leland Eith, Amanda Foy, Averie Bielski, Katharine Linnihan, Morgan Scott, Alexandra Nava, Christian Cain, Avery Andrew, Second row, from left, Georgia Patterson, Molly Kotzin, Ashley Rohan, Caroline Chitlik, Sydney Kirksey, Mya Hassler. Third row, from left, Ella Cannon, Bella Dishman, Dani Nicholas, Jessica Hopper, Virginia Fuss, Marissa Goodman, Natalie Bernstein, Olivia Torri, Sarah Sims, Jamie Kornheiser, Kendall Slayden. Back, from left, coaches Mike Hopper, Ken Nicholas, Brian Linnihan, Morris Bernstein, Jonathan Worrell and Todd Rohan.
State champs!The Murphey Candler Blue Team won the 9- and 10-year-old Little League state championship on July 19, and next play in the Tournament of State Champions in N.C. Members include: Nate Chambers, Peyton Leonard, Leyton George, Will Hillegass, Dawson Stevens, Charlie Kapp, Dylan Reid, Adam Frederick, Tyler Sun, Tim Hillegass, Colton Jimenez, coaches Steve George, Jon LeDoyen, Tony Sun, Tim Hillegass.
She’s goldenPost Commander Loren Cook of VFW Post 10822 Dunwoody/Sandy Springs, right, presented two awards to Girl Scout Sydney Holmes of Dunwoody Troop 25403 on July 13. Sydney completed her Gold Award with a project called “Human Trafficking: Stop it HERE and THERE,” completing over 100 hours of community service.
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Local schools reopen in August. Here are their starting dates.
Aug. 5 – Atlanta Public Schools
Aug. 7 – St. Pius X Catholic School
Aug. 10 – Atlanta Jewish Academy; DeKalb County schools; Fulton County schools, St. Jude The Apostle Catholic School; Weber School
Aug. 11 – Atlanta International School
Aug. 12 – Atlanta Girls’ School; Holy Spirit Preparatory School; Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Aug. 13 – St. Martin’s Episcopal School
Aug. 17 – The Westminster Schools, grades 6-12
Aug. 18 – Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School; Lovett School; Pace Academy; The Westminster Schools, grades 1-5
Aug. 19 – The Galloway School
Aug. 24 – Brandon Hall School
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PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER
Cleaning machinesThe second annual “Georgia United Credit Union School
Crashers” event gave Woodward Elementary School a makeover on July 18. Top, Tina Tyler, left, and husband Allan, right, clean hallway walls. Above, left, local artist Melaney Bracken, right, paints a mural in the cafeteria with help from her son, Denver.
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Brookhaven police blotter: July 3-15
The following information was pulled from Brookhaven’s Police-2-Citizen Portal Event
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ROBBERY 3400 block of Buford Highway—On
July 3, a strong-arm robbery in the street was reported.
1000 block of Lenox Park Boulevard—On July 4, a strong-arm robbery in the street was reported.
3500 block of Buford Highway—On July 5, robbery of a residence with a gun was reported.
3900 block of Buford Highway—On July 7, robbery in the street with a cut-ting instrument was reported.
3300 block of Buford Highway—On July 8, robbery in the street with a cut-ting instrument was reported.
2000 block of Curtis Drive—On July 10, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.
3100 block of Buford Highway—On July 11, a robbery in the street with a gun was reported.
2600 block of Buford Highway—On July 11, an arrest was made for robbery.
3700 block of Buford Highway—On July 12, robbery of a business with a gun was reported.
BURGLARY 3300 block of Buford Highway—On
July 3, burglary was reported; On July 9, an arrest was made for burglary.
2100 block of Johnson Ferry Road—On July 3, burglary was reported.
5300 block of Brixworth Place—On July 4, burglary was reported.
1000 block of Lincoln Court Avenue—On July 6, burglary of a residence was re-ported.
2100 block of Weldonberry Drive—On July 8, burglary was reported.
1800 block of Briarwood Road—On July 9, burglary was reported.
AUTO THEFT 3000 block of Clairmont Road—On
July 3, theft by taking auto was reported.
4000 block of Peachtree Road—On July 6, theft by taking auto was reported.
1200 block of Druid Knoll Drive—On July 7, theft by taking auto was reported.
2600 block of Skyland Drive—On July 9, theft by taking auto was reported.
1200 block of Executive Park Drive—On July 10, theft by taking auto was re-ported.
3200 block of Buford Highway—On July 14, theft by taking auto was reported.
ASSAULT 2000 block of North Druid Hills
Road—On July 3, battery was reported.
4100 block of Peachtree Road—On July 4, battery was reported and an ar-rest was made.
2700 block of Apple Valley Road—On July 4, simple battery of a family member was reported.
3100 block of Buford Highway—On July 5, an arrest was made for battery of a family member.
2300 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 7, simple battery was re-ported and an arrest was made.
3500 block of Buford Highway—On July 10, simple battery was reported; On July 15, an arrest was made for battery.
1400 block of Johnson Ferry Road—On July 12, sexual assault was reported.
3000 block of Buford Highway—On July 13, battery was reported.
FRAUD 2400 block of Briarcliff Road—On
July 3, an arrest was made for forgery in the third degree.
100 block of Corporate Boulevard—On July 8, fi nancial transaction fraud was reported.
3800 block of Buford Highway—On July 8, fi nancial transaction fraud was re-ported.
2400 block of Briarcliff Road—On July 8, fraudulent activity was reported; On July 9, forgery of a check was report-ed; On July 14, an arrest was made for forgery in the third degree.
4300 block of Peachtree Road—On July 9, forgery of a check was reported.
1300 block of Briarwood Road—On July 11, fraud by worthless check was re-ported.
3600 block of Clairmont Road—On July 13, fraud by bad check was reported.
3200 block of Buford Highway—On July 14, fraud by impersonation was re-ported.
THEFT/LARCENY 3300 block of Buford Highway—On
July 3, theft was reported; On July 6, an arrest was made for shoplifting.
3800 block of Buford Highway—On July 3, theft was reported.
700 block of Brookhaven Avenue—On July 3, theft was reported.
1500 block of Lake Hearn Drive—On July 4, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported and three arrests were made for theft by receiving stolen property.
3400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 5, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.
1300 block of North Cliff Valley Way—On July 5, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.
3000 block of Lanier Drive—On July 6, theft from a building was reported.
4400 block of Peachtree Road—On July 6, theft was reported.
1800 block of Briarwood Road—On July 7, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.
1200 block of Executive Park Drive—On July 7, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported and multiple reports of en-tering auto were made.
1000 block of Lenow Park Boulevard—On July 8, theft was reported.
2200 block of Lake Boulevard—On July 8, theft was reported.
700 block of Town Boulevard—On July 8, entering auto was reported.
3800 block of Peachtree Road—On July 8, theft for a building was reported.
3500 block of Brookleigh Lane—On
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July 9, theft was reported.
2100 block of Lake Boulevard—On July 9, theft was reported.
2800 block of Clairmont Road—On July 9, shoplifting was reported.
1900 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 11, entering auto was re-ported.
3400 block of Inman Drive—On July 11, theft was reported.
3300 block of Clairmont Road—On July 12, theft was reported.
2900 block of Clairmont Road—On July 12, theft of articles from a ve-hicle was reported.
2500 block of Briarcliff Road—On July 13, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.
4200 Peachtree Road—On July 14, an arrest was made for shoplifting.
ARRESTS 3100 block of Buford Highway—On
July 3, an arrest was made for making a U-turn where prohibited; On July 4, an arrest was made for possession of con-trolled substance; On July 13, two arrests were made for prostitution.
3300 block of Buford Highway—On July 3, an arrest was made for public drunkenness.
100 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 3, an arrest was made for DUI.
700 block of Town Boulevard—On July 4, an arrest was made for public con-sumption and intoxication.
2000 block of North Druid Hills Drive—On July 4, an arrest was made for manufacturing/selling/distributing drugs; On July 10, a wanted person was located and arrested.
2900 block of Buford Highway—On July 4, an arrest was made for traffi cking illegal drugs and a wanted person was lo-cated and arrested; On July 11, an arrest was made for driving without a license; On July 14, an arrest was made for loiter-ing and prowling.
I-285 at North Druid Hills Road—On July 5 and 7, arrests were made for DUI.
1700 block of Oglethorpe Drive—On July 5, an arrest was made for possession of alcoholic beverages.
1000 block of Lincoln Court Avenue—On July 6, an arrest was made for failure to appear in court.
2500 block of Ellijay Drive—On July 7, a wanted person was located and ar-rested.
2900 block of Clairmont Road—On July 7, an arrest was made for driving on a suspended or revoked license.
1900 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 7, an arrest was made for driving without a license; On July 12, an arrest was made for DUI; On July 14, four arrests were made for marijuana pos-session.
1400 block of North Cliff Valley
Way—On July 7, an arrest was made for disorderly conduct.
Clairmont Road at Cannon Farm Hill Road—On July 8, an arrest was made for DUI.
3500 block of Buford Highway—On July 8, criminal trespass was reported; On July 11, an arrest was made for speeding.
1200 block of North Cliff Valley Way—On July 8, an arrest was made for DUI.
Windsor Parkway at Woodrow Way—On July 8, an arrest was made for DUI.
3300 block of Buford Highway—On July 10, an arrest was made for driving without a license.
1900 block of Dresden Drive—On July 10, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana.
1700 block of Briarwood Road—On July 11, a wanted person was located and arrested.
1300 block of North Cliff Valley Way—On July 11, a wanted person was located and arrested.
4300 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On July 11, arrests were made for possession of marijuana.
4000 block of Peachtree Road—On July 11, an arrest was made for driving without a license; On July 15, a wanted person was located and arrested.
1600 block of Briarwood Road—On July 11, an arrest was made for DUI.
100 block of Town Boulevard—On July 11, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana.
3200 block of Buford Highway—On July 12, an arrest was made for driving without a license.
2800 block of Northeast Expressway—On July 13, an arrest was made for failure to stop or yield at road sign.
2600 block of Buford Highway—On July 13, an arrest was made for failure to appear in court.
2000 block of Burton Plaza Lane—On July 13, an arrest was made for public consumption.
4800 block of Peachtree Road—On July 14, an arrest was made for possession of a fi rearm by a felon.
2100 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 15, an arrest was made for suspended or cancelled registration.
2200 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 15, an arrest was made for DUI.
OTHER 3300 block of Buford Highway—On
July 3, damage to private property was reported.
2400 block of Briarcliff Road—On July 3 and 9, hit and runs were reported.
1900 block of North Druid Hills Road—On July 3, a hit and run was reported.
2400 block of Ellijay Drive—On July 3, criminal trespass was reported.
1800 block of Corporate Boulevard—On July 5, damage to private property was reported.
5300 block of Brixworth Place—On July 6, damage to private property was reported.
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3300 block of Clairmont Road—On July 12, theft was
July 12, theft of articles from a ve-hicle was reported.
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