01-24-2014 Sandy Springs Reporter

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InsideConnect the dots

City seeks input on sidewalks, bike paths

COMMUNITY 2

Down to fi vePotential city center

developers narrowed down

COMMUNITY 3We sing and we celebrate

PHIL MOSIER

Front row, left, Hanna Quillen and Dani Nicholas, accompanied by Auden Taylor, back left, and Paris Penn, members of the Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School Show Choir, perform at the ninth annual

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration in Sandy Springs City Council Chambers on Jan. 20.

BY JOE [email protected]

To hear Jack McElfi sh tell it, he’ll soon be leaving the best job he can imagine.

“I love it,” he said. “It’s the coolest job. You’ll never make a mil-lion dollars, but you’ll never have as much satisfaction.”

McElfi sh, Sandy Springs’ fi rst and, so far, only fi re chief, plans to re-tire in October. When he retires, he said recently, he’ll have worked 51 years in fi re services. He’s been chief of fi re departments spread from Clayton County, Ga., to Wallingford, Conn. All together, he’s been a fi re chief for 33 years.

It was his dream job. “Ever since I was little,” he said, “I’ve want-ed to be in fi re services.”

He started hanging around the fi rehouse in his home town in


When he was a teenager, Hugo Mullins saw fi rst-hand how one person could foster a change in the life of another.

At the time, he was a 10th grader in a public high school in Brooklyn in New York City. His math teacher suggested he take a test, he said, and he ended up winning a scholarship to a private boarding school in upstate New York.

“Th at kind of changed my direction,” he said.He went from a high school where his fellow students asked one

another whether they would go to college to one where students talked about which college they would attend.

“It gives you a sense of how fortunate you are sometimes, and how one person can make a diff erence in your life,” he said.

SEE MCELFISH, PAGE 21 SEE AWARD, PAGE 19

McElfi sh retiring after 50 years fi ghting fi res

Award winner says ‘change’ affects lives

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City considering where to put sidewalks, bike paths


David Wilkes looked over the map of Sandy Springs and pointed to a spot on Dunwoody Club Drive near its intersec-tion with Roberts Drive.

He knew that place from the trips he made jogging through his neighborhood. Th at’s where the sidewalk stopped.

“If you fi xed that gap, it would be amazing,” he said. “If you fi xed that little piece, that would be a huge benefi t to ev-eryone.”

He lives nearby, he said, and his regular runs often took him up Dunwoody Club.

“I run this whole area,” he said. “Th at’s the only place I have to take my life in my hands running on Dunwoody Club.”

Ryan Healan, a landscape architect with HDR Engineering who was moni-toring the discussion on Jan. 14 at San-dy Springs City Hall, placed a small blue dot at the spot on the map that Wilkes had identifi ed as a place in need of a sidewalk.

Th e recent gathering, which drew about 40 people, was the second public meeting to discuss developing new bike lanes and sidewalks in Sandy Springs.

Over the next several months, Wilkes’ suggestion and others will be combined into a plan for building new sidewalks,

bike paths and trails to improve transpor-tation across the city.

A third meeting is planned in March to review proposals refl ecting comments from participants in the meetings and on-line surveys.

At the meeting, participants looked over maps spread across tables that showed a network of sidewalks and bike trails along major roads through Sandy Springs.

Th e network was based on technical analysis of the highest demand for walkers or cyclists headed to places such as parks or pools, consultants said.

Kristen Wescott, a transportation plan-ner for Sandy Springs, said the idea was to try to determine what cyclists or pedes-trians would need to get around the city to go to the civic center or a restaurant or work. “Th is is truly, by and large, a trans-portation study,” she said.

Chad Plumly questioned why the maps didn’t give priority to sidewalks along Brandon Mill Road.

“I’ll just throw the skunk on the table,” he said. “I’m on Brandon Mill, probably the most dangerous road in the city.”

Th e road connected two park facilities, he said. “We ought to connect the parks,” Plumly said.

JOE EARLE

John Wilkes, left, examines a map showing possible new bike path locations while Sandy

Springs City Councilman Ken Dishman, center,

and Chad Plumly talk at Sandy Springs City Hall.

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Five companies,

groups in the running for civic center developer


City offi cials are in the market for a developer for the city’s civic center project, which now is expected to cost up to $159 million.

Sandy Springs City Council on Jan. 21 unanimously approved a formal re-quest for proposals from companies that want to be the city’s master devel-oper for the project.

Th ey are: Batson-Cook/Pope & Land; Carter/Selig Enterprises; Mid-City Real Estate Partners/Morris and Fellows/John Weiland Homes/Pollack Shores Real Estate; North American Properties; and Seven Oaks Co./Orkin & Associates.

“We believe these fi rms are qual-ifi ed to move into the next phase,” City Manager John McDonough told members of the council Jan. 14.

Th e companies will be asked to sub-mit proposals on how they believe the 14-acre block of the city center should be developed. Th e area is bounded by Johnson Ferry Road, Roswell Road, Mount Vernon Highway and Sandy Springs Circle.

Proposals from the fi rms are due March 28. Th e city is expected to chose a developer by May.

City offi cials have proposed build-ing a civic building that would include city offi ces and a 400-to-600-seat the-ater, housing and parks on property located at or near the intersection of Roswell and Johnson Ferry roads.

During the council’s Jan. 14 annu-al retreat, McDonough said the city already had approved $48 million for the civic center project’s fi rst phase and that $111 million was needed. City of-fi cials have identifi ed a variety of po-

Sandy Springs Government

CalendarThe Sandy Springs City Council usually meets the fi rst and the third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at City Hall, which is located at 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500

For the most up to date meet-ing schedule, visit http://www.sandyspringsga.org/Calendars/City-Calendar

Annual Amount

Total Raised

Pay As You Go $10,000,000 $40,000,000

Lease Pledge $868,000 $10,500,000

Tax Allocation District

$250,000 $3,000,000

Bonds/Private Placement

$5,000,000 $60,000,000

Reallocation of GWCC Funding

$1,410,000 $17,000,000

Reallocation of Hotel/Motel Tax

$250,000 $3,000,000

PILOT Development Authority

$250,000 $2,500,000

Use of Fund Balance

$10,000,000

Grand Total Raised $146,000,000

Project Budget

Approved Funding

Funding Needed

Land Acquisition $33,130,281 $27,149,822 $5,980,459

City Center Parking Study 115,250

$115,250 $115,250 $0

Mt. Vernon/Bluestone Rd. Extension

$9,595,000 $7,650,000 $1,945,000

City Center Infrastructure/Green

$11,292,500 $3,295,378 $7,997,122

Utilities Program Mgmt and Design

$600,000 $600,000 $0

Utilities Relocation* $5,530,000 $1,000,000 $4,530,000

Marsh Creek Headwater

$3,484,700 $2,970,738 $513,962

Structured Parking (~ 1,000 spaces)

$35,000,000 $0 $35,000,000

Sandy Springs Circle Ph 1

$1,400,000 $1,400,000 $0

Sandy Springs Circle Ph 2

$6,188,000 $2,835,740 $3,352,260

Heritage Playground

$4,400,000 $0 $4,400,000

Civic Center Facility

$43,750,000 $0 $43,750,000

Professional Services

$4,600,000 $672,343 $3,927,657

Totals $159,085,731 $47,689,271 $111,396,460

Civic center funding options Estimated Phase I Implementation Budget

Source: City of Sandy Springs

tential sources of funds, including a tax alloca-tion district, bonds, and the city’s hotel/motel tax, that would produce a projected $146 mil-lion, he said.

Nine companies or groups of companies re-sponded to the city’s request for qualifi cations for the development job. A city committee re-viewed the responses and narrowed the recom-mended list to the fi ve approved by the council.

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City takes new look at how it funds nonprofi t groups

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

Four on stageThe Heritage Winter

Classics Concert Series continued on Jan. 19 with The Bonaventure Quartet.

Above, from left, band members Charles Williams, Don Erdman, Marla Feenen and Gabe Granitz perform.

Right, Sasha Murphy, 8, left, with her godfather Brad Olschansky, and mother

Stephanie, enjoy the concert.


City offi cials are rethinking the city’s policy on funding nonprofi t groups.

During Sandy Springs City Coun-cil’s Jan. 21 meeting, Mayor Rusty Paul asked that the city not accept any new funding requests from nonprof-it groups for two weeks so the coun-cil would have time to consider rewrit-ing its policy.

“Th e purpose is to make sure there is some objective evaluation,” Paul said. “Secondly, [we need] a full and complete fi nancial accounting of the proceeds so we can evaluate the fi nancial return on the investment the city makes.”

Paul asked city staff to examine how the city funds non-profi t groups and de-velop a “more unifi ed” city policy on the grants. He asked that the new policy be presented to the council in two weeks. Th e council unanimously approved the mayor’s proposal.

Th e city now provides $422,500 in direct appropriations to a variety of non-profi t groups ranging from $127,500 to Sandy Springs Youth Sports for mainte-nance and program support to $5,000 to the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Cham-

ber of Commerce for dues and support of special events, according to the city.

Th e city also budgets $50,000 that local nonprofi ts compete for. Th ose grants ranged from $10,000 for Act3 Productions to $2,500 for Senior Ser-vices North Fulton for a new kiln, city offi cials reported.

Paul said the city does not require the same fi nancial reporting from all non-profi t groups receiving grants from the city. Th e new policy should spell out what is required “so everybody knows what the requirements are when they ac-cept the money.”

Councilman Gabe Sterling said the city’s grant program had “sort of become a hodgepodge” over time.

Paul said city offi cials did not believe any of the money was being misused.

“Th ere’s just some ambiguity in what’s been done,” he said. “We’re not saying anybody’s done anything wrong.”

City Councilman Andy Bauman asked if the review could include non-monetary city donations, such as the use of city utility poles by nonprofi t groups to post banners.

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Offi cials scale backMorgan Falls Road project

Phil Proctor designed and built a giant metal spider for Sandy Springs’ “playable art” park because his wife and two daughters were terrifi ed by the eight-legged creatures.

“I live in a house with three wom-en,” he said. “Th ey’re all scared of spi-ders. I thought it would be fun to make a spider that wasn’t scary, that was fun and approachable.”

Proctor installed his oversized arachnid, called “Spiderwalk,” in the linear park alongside Abernathy Road. It’s the second piece of “playable art” to go up in the long-delayed Aberna-thy Linear Greenway Park. Much of the fi rst artwork, a brick dragonfl y, was built in 2012.

City offi cials say completion of the $10 million, 20-acre project now is scheduled for May. Th e “playable

art” pieces are to be installed by mid-March, city Recreation and Parks Di-rector Ronnie Young said in an email.

Th e park is to include six works of public art that have been designed so children can play on them. Th e works were donated to the city by Northside Hospital.

Proctor, who lives in Atlanta, ex-pected to spend about fi ve days set-ting up his giant spider. Once the park opens, he said, his 7-year-old daugh-ter can’t wait to climb the metal beast.

In fact, she’s already tried it out. She climbed it when he was assem-bling it in his workshop. His daugh-ters, he said, made a special trip to see the fi nished spider.

“She was the fi rst one on it.”

–Joe Earle

Not-so-scary spider latest addition to linear park


City offi cials are scaling back plans to remake Morgan Falls Road after bids for the original project proposal came in about $1 million or more over budget.

“Th e bottom line is we don’t have enough money to do this project,” City Manager John McDonough told mem-bers of Sandy Springs City Council dur-ing the council’s Jan. 14 retreat. “We’re looking at another $1 million to do this project as designed.”

Th e city had planned to spend about $3.04 million on construction work for the project, which would realign por-

tions of the road, build sidewalks and repave the road that connects Morgan Falls Overlook Park to Roswell Road.

But when construction companies bid on the job in June, their bids ranged from $3.9 million to $10.6 million, city offi cials said.

Council members indicated during the retreat they would back a plan to spend $1 million to repave the road and to add sidewalks, curbs, gutter and fenc-ing along portions of the road.

“I think it’s a travesty to repave this road and not have a sidewalk,” City Councilman John Paulson said.

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“I run [in] this whole area. Th at’s the only place I have to take my life in my hands running on Dunwoody Club.”

–Sandy Springs resident David Wilkes on the city’s study of places to add sidewalks, bike paths or trails.

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Wine making is anyoneʼs business Buying New York Stock Exchange ʻreally changed our livesʼ

By Dan Whisenhunt

Before Joe Keenan bought Beer & Wine Craft, he en-joyed making wine as a hobby.

Keenan recently took over the business, which has operated at various locations since 1969, and claims to be the Southeast’s oldest wine-making supply store. In January of 2013, Beer & Wine Craft settled into a shop off Sandy Springs Circle that smells of malted honey.

The business began its life near Piedmont Hospital. Keenan keeps photos that previous owners collected depicting a time when the store’s shelves were as likely to offer knickknacks as corks. Now the store also sells ingredients to make beer and cheese.

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lar interests. He said some customers at the store have been shopping there since the 1970s. Their business has been cultivated over the decades as the store’s owner-ship changed hands.

Customer Scott Rockhill, a local salesman, stopped by one recent day to see what was on the shelves. He’s been shopping at Beer & Wine Craft for three months, since he first tried his hand at making wine. The ap-peal? “It’s fun and it tastes good,” Rockhill said.

During Rockhill’s visit, he and Keenan chatted about the different flavors produced by the different boxes of grape juice sitting on the shop’s shelves. Keenan said what sets his shop apart from many other retailers is the clientele. Customers come in and don’t mind wait-ing if there’s a line ahead of them.

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Jeff Sprecher says he could see right away the difference buying the iconic New York Stock Exchange made for his Sandy Springs-based company.

“It’s really changed our lives,” Sprech-er said of the acquisition of the New York ex-change last year. “We’re getting attention from all over the world.”

A college friend texted him to say, “Who knew you could actually buy that thing?”

New York’s historic stock exchange is only one of 16 exchanges owned by Intercontinen-talExchange, or ICE, which calls itself the lead-ing global network of exchanges and clearing houses.

And ICE is close to buying the Singapore exchange, which would make it the first west-ern company to own an Asian market, Sprech-er, ICE chairman and CEO, and his wife, ICE senior vice president Kelly Loeffler, told more than 200 people attending the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting on Jan. 16.

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Another significant development was the advancement of the project through placement in the Atlanta metro area’s short-range Transpor-tation Improvement Plan.

Using a $2.8 million grant from the Georgia Department of Trans-portation (GDOT), the PCIDs and the cities of Brookhaven, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs took a big step toward improving traffic congestion in the Perimeter busi-

ness district through the Perimeter Traffic Operations Program.

During its first year in 2013, PTOP completed the synchroniza-tion of the majority of 99 traffic sig-nals along major, arterial corridors within and adjacent to the Perime-ter business district. Many people are traveling through several cities to reach their destinations, so we needed to coordinate the timing of traffic signals across those boundar-ies.

Travel time studies conducted before and after the PTOP improve-ments show that average vehicular delay (stopped time) has been re-duced 29 percent, and that drivers using the corridors during the morn-ing, noon and evening peak peri-ods will save 233,680 hours of travel time and 160,290 gallons of gaso-line – valued at nearly $4 million – each year because of improved traf-fic flow. The timing plans pay for themselves approximately every 3.9 workdays.

Another major goal achieved was establishment of a communications link between a central traffic control

center and 76 traffic signals with-in the PCIDs to allow active man-agement of traffic operations. This means that when traffic backs up, signal timing can be immediately adjusted to improve traffic flow.

In early 2013, the PCIDs start-ed a $4.86 million project to bring streetscape, intersection and road-way improvements to Lake Hearn Drive, Perimeter Summit Parkway and Parkside Place between Ash-ford Dunwoody Road and the Pe-rimeter Center Parkway Bridge across I-285. These improvements make the area safer and more ac-cessible for pedestrians, cyclists and cars, while promoting economic de-velopment on the south side of the Perimeter Market.

The PCIDs created and installed a distinctive landscaping design to showcase the innovative Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) at I-285 and Ashford Dunwoody Road – a major gateway to the city of Dun-woody and the Perimeter Market.

In 2013, the Ashford Dunwoody DDI was one of 10 national finalists for “People’s Choice” and “Grand

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Prize” awards in an America’s Transportation Competition spon-sored by the American Association of State Highway and Transporta-tion Officials (AASHTO), AAA and the U.S. Chamber.

The PCIDs’ “Can You DDI?” edu-cation and marketing campaign re-ceived a prestigious Award of Ex-cellence from the Georgia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Metro Atlanta TV cover-age alone for the DDI bridge clos-ing and crossover of traffic reached an audience of 7.44 million with 117 separate stories from May 21 to June 5, 2012. The Associated Press

released the story statewide, and there was coverage in every major market of the state as well as nation-al coverage from Chicago to Spring-field, Mo., site of the first DDI in the U.S.

The PCIDs’ signature landscap-ing and branding of major entranc-es to the Perimeter market now also enhances the Hammond Half-Di-amond Interchange at Hammond Drive and Ga. 400. GDOT award-ed a grant to the PCIDs to provide the landscaping. The PCIDs also in-stalled more durable, highly visible, brick-print pedestrian crosswalks.

The PCIDs’ past 13 years of work

to transform Perimeter from a sub-urban, car-dependent to a livable, walkable community was recog-nized in a major study by George Washington University School of Business professor Chris Leinberg-er that was released last year by the ARC. Central Perimeter was named one of 27 regionally significant es-tablished Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs) in metro Atlanta, and one of only four “platinum” areas in an economic success ranking of those WalkUPs.

Today, thanks to the work of the PCIDs, Perimeter is a prime exam-ple of how the creation of a walk-able, urban place is the most effec-tive economic development strategy that a CID, a city or a region can pursue.

Improvements this year will in-clude better access to the Dun-woody MARTA station through construction of the Hammond Drive mid-block crossing, which MARTA has identified as its top priority for pedestrian safety. With increasing workers in the vicinity, foot traffic is expected to soar.

The PCIDs will continue to ad-minister the PTOP program in the second of its three-year program to improve traffic congestion through

signal improvements, will begin design work on Lake Hearn Phase II streetscape, do intersection and roadway improvements on Lake Hearn Drive and Peachtree Dun-woody Road, and will develop a bi-cycle implementation strategy.

We will continue to advocate for I-285 and Ga. 400 improvements, expand and make improvements to the fiber optic network within the PCIDs, and develop a commuter trails shovel-ready design.

And, of course, the PCIDs will continue their long-standing pro-grams to maintain medians and di-rect traffic at busy rush hour inter-sections through the use of off-duty police officers.

Economic development in Cen-tral Perimeter, one of the dominant office districts and employment centers in metro Atlanta, is driven in large part by the area’s central lo-cation in the region and its access to interstates, international and re-gional airports, and multiple modes of transportation including three MARTA transit stations.

The PCIDs play a crucial role in ensuring this access. We look for-ward to another successful year as we strive to create the premier liv-able center in the Southeast.

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� e Dunwoody Chamber of Com-merce welcomed da Via, an Italian Market Eating restaurant, to the Pe-rimeter Place Shopping Center, 4511 Olde Perimeter Way, Suite 800. Enjoy-ing the festivities are, from left, Wendy Gri� n, Beth Summers, Bill Mulcahy, Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis, Pau-la Owens, Mike Muldoon, Scott Tr-zaskus, da Via general manager, City Councilman Terry Nall, City Council-man Denny Shortal, Katie Bishop, Kim Trawick, Todd Smith and Sabrina McDonald.

Blast900, a workout facili-ty o� ering personalized exercise classes, recently opened at 5521 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, in Dunwoody Village. � e Dun-woody Chamber of Commerce, along with sta� , friends and fam-ily, joined in the ribbon cutting ceremony, with owner Missi Wolf, center, left, and Mayor Mike Davis, center, right, holding the scissors.

Chambers, local officials welcome new businesses

New businesses offer-ing everything from good eats to personalized work-outs to a close shave are starting up in the Perime-ter, one of the largest com-mercial areas in metro At-lanta. Here’s a sampling of recent

ribbon cuttings formal-ly marking the opening of new businesses in the area. Photos were provid-ed by the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and the Dun-

woody Chamber of Commerce.

Renee and Ross Christen, center, owners of Rooster Men’s Grooming Center located at 4969 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, cut the ribbon in front of the Roosters’ team, representatives from the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Cham-ber of Commerce, and Sandy Springs Councilwoman Dianne Fries, far left.

Stars & Strikes marked its grand opening in Sandy Springs with a rib-bon cutting. Sta� , friends and family gathered, including, Sandy Springs/Pe-rimeter Chamber of Commerce mem-ber Jim Walsh, Chamber member Patty Conway, City Councilman John Paul-son, Jack Canouse, City Councilman Ken Dishman, Carolyn Canouse, San-dy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, Elis Ca-nouse, Mary Albana, Chris Albana, Adam Clark, Chamber member Clare Stefan, City Councilman Gabriel Sterling, Kip Lowery, Chamber member Chris Ad-ams and Chamber member Carla Sweetwood. Stars & Strikes, located at 8767 Ro-swell Road, o� ers bowling, an arcade, laser tag and live entertainment.

Marlow’s Tavern recently opened in � e Prado Shopping Center, 5590 Roswell Road, Suite A-160, in Sandy Springs. Celebrating were, front row, left to right, Samantha Barton, Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Com-merce, City Councilman John Paulson, John Metz, executive chef and co-found-er, Alan Palmieri, market partner, Keith Grant, general manager, Susan Skolnick, director of development and major gifts at Special Olympics Georgia. Back row, from left, Tom Maha� ey, Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce president, and City Councilman Andy Bauman.



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it was featured in the movie “Trading Places.” “I think, in a way that’s more iconic,” he said.

Sprecher said ICE’s business has been made possible by new technol-ogy. “We own exchanges around the world. ... [They’re] run out of an office building in Sandy Springs because of the Internet. It’s a fascinating thing to take a legacy business like the New York Stock Exchange and put the In-ternet in it.”

He and Loeffler said businesses have been willing to embrace change and find ways to capitalize on it. “I love change,” Sprecher said. “It’s very interesting. We all hate change. We all want to go home and sleep in the same bed. As humans we hate change. But busi-nesses really thrive on change.”

Sprecher said the company’s roots go back to an Atlanta-based company he bought in 1997 for $1. “Today, it’s a $25 billion company,” he said.

After buying the company, called Continental Power Exchange, he called his new employees together and, thinking they would be pleased by the news, told them they could all relocate to Los Angeles. “It took about 10 minutes,” he said. “They all said, ‘None of us is going to Los An-geles.’”

ICE now employs about 400 in Sandy Springs of the 4,000 it em-

ploys around the world, said Loeffler, who also is co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, a WNBA professional basket-ball team. “We continue to hire,” she said. “We’re in growth mode, particu-larly in technology.”

Sprecher said he has discovered that metro Atlanta wasn’t the place he thought it was. “When I was living in LA, I thought this was a place with pickup trucks and old hound dogs,” he said. “The truth is this is an unbe-lievable diverse community.”

Sprecher said his company works to update its mar-kets through use of technology. The New York Stock Exchange, he said, opened in 1792. “You go there and there are artifacts and history that are very interest-ing,” he said.

“The challenge for us is, can we take this lightweight, Internet-based company, based in Sandy Springs, and marry it with something iconic? The address [of the New York Stock Exchange] is 11 Wall Street, which is why you know ‘Wall Street.’ How do you marry this brand with this light-weight company?”

And a few perks come with own-ing a company such as the New York Stock Exchange. He’s rung the bell to start trading, he said. “I’ve got a spe-cial badge that has a little mark on it,” he said. “When I walk through, they don’t know who I am, but they know what that badge means.”

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Much Ado About Nothing

� ursday, Jan. 30- Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m. – � e Westminster Players bring the hilarious tale of Benedick and Beatrice to the stage as they present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in Kellett � eatre at Westminster. � is take on Much Ado uses Shakespeare’s language while placing the classic sto-ry in modern-day South Georgia. Admission is free. For more information, please email [email protected] or call 404-609-6344.

Galloway TheatreFriday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. – � e Galloway � eatre Company presents “She Kills Monsters,” a comedy looking into the world of role-playing games, featuring students of the Galloway commu-nity. Play suitable for audiences over 13 years of age. Tickets, $10. Additional shows, Sat. and Sun., Feb. 1-2, 2 p.m. Black Box � eatre, in the Chaddick Center, 215 West Wieuca Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30342. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.gallowayschool.org.

Spotlight on ArtMonday, Feb. 3, 6-9 p.m. – � e Trinity School hosts an Artists Market, open to the public. Browse pieces by more than 350 artists in all genres, in-cluding contemporary, realism, impressionism, folk, sculpture, jewelry and more. Children’s and youth collection also available. “Meet the Artists” on Opening Night and also during Cocktails & Can-vases, Friday, Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. Market hours: Tues-day-� ursday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission and park-ing. 4301 Northside Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Go to: www.trinityatl.org or call 404-231-8100 for more information.

Harp MusicSunday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m. –� e Atlanta Harp Center En-semble presents the music of the Renaissance to modern times. � e ensemble will play Vival-di, Franck and some surprises. Suggested donation, $10. In the Sanctuary of Dunwoody United

Methodist Church, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dun-woody, 30338. Call 770-394-0675 or visit: www.dunwoodyumc.org for additional details.

Abe LincolnSunday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. – Northwest Unitar-ian Universalist Congregation welcomes Abraham Lincoln actor, playwright and scholar, Dr. Gene Griessman, as he presents “� e Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,” for a special President’s Day ap-pearance. Griessman appears in costume as the 16th President delivering the presentation. VIP reception, 6 p.m.; performance, 7 p.m. General admission tick-ets, $50; VIP, $75. Purchase tickets and learn more at: http://NWUUC-ABE.brownpapertickets.com. 1025 Mount Vernon Highway, NW, Sandy Springs, 30327. Email: [email protected] with questions.

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Tartan TrotSaturday, Feb. 1, 8:30 a.m. – St. Luke’s Pres-byterian Church holds its eighth annual 5K/10K Tartan Trot, bene� ting outreach e� orts close to home and around the world. Race features runners in kilts, bagpipes, and baked goods for the winners. 1-mile run goes o� at 8 a.m.; Tot Trot at 9:45 a.m. Both 5 and 10K are Peachtree Road Race quali� -ers. $35; $20 for 1-mile. Awards, t-shirts, hooded shirts for entrants. Leashed dogs and strollers wel-come. Rain or shine. Vehicle parking in Dunwoody Village; shuttle buses available. 1978 Mount Ver-non Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. To register or to learn more, go to: www.tartantrot.com.

Book Sale� ursday, Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. – � e Friends of the Chamblee Library hold a book sale! Browse hardbacks, in-cluding � ction, non-� c-tion and children’s books, going for $1-2. Proceeds enhance adult and chil-dren book collections, and support programs for both. Free admission. Sale continues Feb. 7-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Monday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.,

which is Bag Day. Buy a plastic bag and � ll it for $3. Recycle your books and receive a 501(c)(3) receipt. 4115 Clairmont Rd., Chamblee, 30341. To � nd out more, call 770-936-1380.

Puppet ShowSaturday, Feb. 9, 2 p.m. – Piccadilly Puppets presents “Wish Tales,” three stories about wishing: “� e Knee High Man,” “� e Frog Prince” and “Lit-tle Orphan Animal.” All proceeds bene� t Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Recommended for ages 3-8. Tickets, $10. Reservations helpful, but not required. Go to: www.eventbrite.com and search “pup-pets.” Landmark Diner, 3652 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-636-0022 or visit: www.piccadilly-puppets.org with questions.

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Kirkin’ o’ the TartanSunday, Feb. 2, 11 a.m. – St. Luke’s Presbyte-rian Church welcomes the community to join them for their annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service. Tradi-tional music, and a Blessing of the Tartan banners. Some of the congregation will be dressed in clan tar-tans, kilts and plaids. Reception follows the service. 1978 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-393-1424 for details.

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Photography Tuesday, Jan. 28, 7-8:30 p.m. – Join David Tulis, sea-soned Atlanta news and sports photogra-pher, and learn basic photographic com-position, lighting, lenses and techniques during this � ve-week course. Class ends with hands-on � eld day at the Dunwoody Nature Center on Feb. 22. DNC members, $125; non-members, $150. Adult program; best suited for those with a good camera. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322 or go to: www.dunwoodynature.org for details or to register.

Go to CollegeWednesday, Jan. 29, 3-3:45 p.m. – Marcus Hilliard, with GAcollege411, presents information on pursuing higher education and � nding � nancial aid. Free. For those age 18 years and older. Open to the � rst 25 participants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to sign up or to � nd out more.

Bird Walk Saturday, Feb. 1, 8:30-10:30 a.m. – Join the Atlanta Audubon Society for a guided bird walk along the trails at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. Per-haps see open water duck species and eagles. Bin-oculars available to borrow. Free and open to the community. Children 16 and under must be accom-panied by adult. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Pre-registration requested by calling 770-730-5600 or going to: www.sandyspringsga.gov/registration. 200 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350.

Write Your StorySaturday, Feb. 1, 2-4 p.m. – Learn how to write the stories of your life. Workshop present-ed by a certi� ed, guided autobiography instructor. Free and open to the public. For adult audiences. Registration required by emailing: [email protected] or calling 678-386-1651. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] with questions.

How Money WorksWednesday, Feb. 5, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Check out a free, � nancial education workshop that teach-es principles on how money works so you can con-trol your � nances. Learn simple strategies to help build savings, get out of debt, protect your income and defer taxes. Open to all. Registration required by calling Nicole Fitzgerald at 404-957-6809. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] for more details.

Cokie RobertsWednesday, Feb. 5, 7-9 p.m. – � e Davis Academy presents award-winning journalist and po-litical commentator Cokie Roberts for an evening of conversation and a book signing. Copies of her books along with her new and � rst children’s book, “Founding Mothers,” will be available for purchase. Free event, and open to the community. RSVP to [email protected]. Davis Academy Lower School, 8105 Roberts Dr., Sandy Springs, 30350. For more information contact Lori Zelony at 678-527-3293.

Snakes of GeorgiaSaturday, Feb. 8, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Snakes are one of the most feared and misunderstood groups of animals, yet they provide signi� cant ben-e� ts to people. Join a reptile and amphibian ex-pert from the Georgia DNR and learn what makes snakes so special. Participants also meet some Geor-gian snakes. $10 per person. Space is limited; RSVP by calling 412-398-1101. Blue Heron Nature Pre-serve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342. To learn more, go to: www.bhnp.org.

Black HistorySaturday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. – “Strug-gles and Strides: � e Early Fight for Civil Rights,” a family program commemorating Black History Month, explores the African-American experience from the Great Migration to the Civil Rights Move-ment. Free for AHC members; included in the cost of general admission for non-members. 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. For more in-formation or to buy tickets, visit: www.atlantahisto-rycenter.com/Family or call 404-814-4000.

Turtle ToursSaturday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Her-itage Sandy Springs’ “Tur-tle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for chil-dren ages 2-5, continues. In this program, children learn about museum mascot San-dy’s “cool tools.” Free; dona-tions encouraged. No reser-

vations required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: [email protected], call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Daddy-Daughter Dance

Saturday, Feb. 8, 6-8 p.m. – � e � fth annual Daddy-Daughter Dance o� ers an evening of music, games, complimentary snacks and goodie bags for each girl. $35 for father/daughter; $10 for multiple daughters. $5 walk-in fee. Souvenir photo includ-ed. Business or semi-formal attire. Open to all girls in grades K-5 attending schools in Sandy Springs. Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School, 130 W. Spalding Dr., Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 770-730-5600 or email: [email protected] for details. Go to: https://apm.activecommunities.com/sandyspringsga to register.

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Atlanta Jewish Film Festival adds venues to accommodate fansBY COLLIN KELLEY

If you haven’t purchased tickets to the movies you want to see at this year’s Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, you might be out of luck.

More than 10,000 tickets were sold Jan. 5, the day they went on sale.

Festival executive director Kenny Blank encouraged � lm fans to keep checking the fes-tival’s website at AJFF.org for the release of more tick-ets and returns to sold-out � lms.

“If you check 24 to 48 hours before a screening, you might be able to snap one or two tickets up,” he said.

� e only way to get into some of the more popular � lms is to show up at the venue the day of the screening and add your name to a wait-ing list. Luckily, there are so many � lms on o� er that if you buy tickets now, you’ll get to see something interesting.

With 65 � lms from 20 countries, it also makes the AJFF, which runs Jan. 29 through Feb. 20, the biggest � lm festival in the city and the second largest Jew-ish � lm festival in the country. Nearly 32,000 attended screenings during last

year’s festival.“We have a very loyal and enthusi-

astic audience, and they stake out this event early on to make sure they get tick-ets,” Blank said. “We’re o� ering more screenings of the popular � lms and have secured larger auditoriums.”

To accommodate the crowds, the festival ex-panded to more venues around Atlanta, includ-ing the Cobb Energy Cen-tre, UA Tara Cinema, GTC Merchants Walk, Regal North Point, Lefont Sandy Springs, Westside Cultural Arts Center, Regal Atlantic Station and the Woodru� Arts Center.

Some of the most anticipate � lms in-clude 50 Children: � e Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, about a Philadelphia couple who saved children from the Nazi concentration camps; � e Baby, a doc-umentary about a woman recalling for-bidden memories of her past; Bethlehem, a cli� hanger about an Israeli intelligence agent and a con� icted Palestinian infor-mant; Hunting Elephants, a bank heist ca-per; the documentary Mel Brooks: Make A Noise about the comedian and direc-

tor; When Jews Were Funny, a documenta-ry about cultural identity: a 25th anniver-sary screening of Driving Miss Daisy with a panel of local actors and experts; and Omar, a nominee for this year’s Best For-eign Film Academy Award, about a young Palestinian baker living under Israeli occu-pation.

� e festivities kick o� Jan. 29 with an Opening Night Gala at the Cobb Ener-gy Centre, featuring a screening of the

Polish drama Run Boy Run.“Every year we strive to make the

festival better for our audience,” Blank said. “Festivalgoers will have more op-portunities to see the most sought-after � lms than ever before. We want every-one to experience these meaningful and entertaining � lms that might not ever play in Atlanta otherwise.”

For a complete list of � lms, venues and to purchase tickets, visit AJFF.org.

Jewish Film Festival factsWhat: Founded in 2000, the festival bills itself as the biggest fi lm event in metro Atlanta and the second largest Jewish fi lm festival in the country. Nearly 32,000 fi lm fans attended the festival’s showings in 2013. The 2014 festival presents 65 fi lms – 52 features and 13 shorts - from 20 countries. When: Jan. 29-Feb. 20 Where: Eight different venues scattered around metro Atlanta, including Lefont Sandy Springs theaters, UA Tara Cinemas, Regal North Point, Regal Atlantic Station and the Cobb Energy Centre, which is hosting the Opening Night Gala and showing of “Run Boy Run.” Tickets are available at theater box offi ces and online at www.AJFF.org.How much: Prices vary.Of special note: The festival plans a special panel discussion on two fi lms that tell similar stories, but from different sides of the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. One of the two, Omar, is the fi rst fi lm fully fi nanced and produced within the Palestinian fi lm industry, the festival says. The event, Bethlehem vs. Omar: Confl ict and Context, will take place Feb. 16 at Regal Atlantic Station.

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John Freeland, pastor at Skyland United Methodist Church in Brookhaven, tutors youngsters at Ashford Park Elementary in reading.

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“Zot” is not a word, John Freeland sadly informed Juan, a kindergartener at Ashford Park Elementary School, who had enthusiastically drawn the letter “Z” onto his white board.

But put an “H” in front of that “OT”? De� nitely a word, Freeland said.

Freeland, the pastor of Skyland Unit-ed Methodist Church in Brookhaven, is among a group of people from the church who volunteer once a week to help stu-dents at Ashford Park Elementary School with their reading skills.

“I try to � nd a creative way to work with them and help them learn new words,” Freeland said.

Ashford Park Principal LaShawn Mc-Millan said if a child cannot read by the third grade, it’s an indicator for poor fu-ture academic performance.

“Reading is critical. You have to be able to read to be able to do well in all the other subjects,” McMillan said.

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� e volunteers help students in kin-dergarten through second grade who have been recommended by their teach-ers.

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the school year, he’s been going to the school once a week. He tutors for about 30 minutes each visit.

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BY ART HUCKABEEArt Huckabee is one of Yelp’s Elite re-

viewers and a pilot, gourmet cook and food lover. Starting with this issue, he will be regularly reviewing restaurants around At-lanta for Reporter Newspapers and Atlan-ta INtown.

With the ad-dition of my food writing into the Reporter News-papers and subse-quently, additional parts of the Atlanta metro area, it only seemed appropri-ate to make a visit to one such area for this month’s restau-rant review.

We chose Town Brookhaven, a mixed-use develop-ment in the vibrant and lively city of Brookhaven. � is work, play, shop and of course, eat, development has well over a dozen res-taurants to chose from. We set our sights on restaurateur Tom Catherall’s latest cre-ation, Smash Kitchen and Bar.

We visited at lunchtime during the week. � e restaurant is decorated nice-ly in dark colors with most of the seat-ing comprised of booths. It feels more like a dinner and drinks place, especial-ly with the wall-mounted deer heads star-ing down at you.

Our server quickly approached, in-formed us of the daily specials and touted the muddled drink o� erings. Smash de-rives its name from several items on the menu, and these muddled or smashed drinks are one such item. With names like Blackburn, Capital City, Ogletho-rpe and Lynwood, they contain ingredi-ents like blackberry bourbon with mud-dled blackberries or vodka, or ginger beer and muddled pears and honeydew.

� ey were enticing, but as it was lunch and all of us were headed back to work afterward, we declined. Smash also o� ers other craft cocktails and a decent beer and wine list.

For appetizers, we ordered the pret-zel sticks and the wild mushroom � at-bread. � e pretzel sticks came upright in a butcher paper cone accompanied by grainy mustard and a Newcastle Ale cheese sauce; both accentuated the salty, warm pretzels and were quite good. � e � atbread was large, and looked delicious with the dough spending just the right amount of time in the wood-� red oven. However, the toppings of Fontina cheese, roasted peppers, baby arugula and tru� e oil made it soggy and a disappointment, given its high marks for appearance.

� e three in our party ordered the half rack of baby back ribs, the steak burger

and the kale salad with a side of grilled salmon.

� e ribs were good. � ey were fall-o� -the-bone tender and covered in a house-made, fairly-standard barbecue sauce. � e mound of thin-cut shoestring pota-toes that accompanied the ribs could eas-

ily have fed three or four diners. � ey were crispy and hot. � e South-ern slaw contained rough chopped cabbage and strips of green and red peppers; it was more of a garnish and tasted as such.

� e steak burg-er -- ordered plain, with ched-dar cheese -- was cooked to order and tasted of good quality beef. � e bun, however, was a bread behemoth, and totally over-

powered that all-important bun-to-meat ratio. Adding to the mix was a huge por-tion of � nely shredded, un-melted ched-dar cheese that was perched on the bun top. It looked as though the cook had opened a bag of Kraft and dumped it, in its entirety, onto the bun. � e burg-er also came with the mountain of shoe-string fries.

� e kale salad contained an Asian peanut dressing, mint, cilantro and � ai chilies. It was a nice combination on the front of the tongue but quickly got bit-ter on the back, begging for a little more sweetness. � e accompanying salmon was unadorned and ordinary, yet cooked properly and a nice portion.

We decide against dessert but they have several interesting o� erings includ-ing chocolate pecan pie and red velvet cheesecake.

Our server was very attentive through-out the meal, bringing multiple re� lls of tea and water.

From the looks of the well-stocked bar and lots of outdoor seating, Smash is probably a lively place on warm-weath-er weekends and after work when Town Brookhaven residents return from their workdays. Our lunchtime visit never saw more than three or four tables of diners during our hour and half stay.

Smash’s dinner menu is almost iden-tical to the lunch menu, with the addi-tion of steaks and chops, and the usual increase in prices from the $12 to $17 range to the $17 to $24 range.

Smash is located at 804 Town Bou-levard, Suite 1010, in Town Brookhav-en, and can be found at www.h2sr.com/smash.

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Chef Ford Fry’s newest restaurant, St. Cecilia (stceciliaatl.com) has opened in the former Blue-pointe space inside � e Pinnacle Building, 3455 Peachtree Road. � e European menu features � sh and pasta. Fry said he and executive chef Bri-an Horn worked together to create a menu that travels the southern European coastline, explor-ing pasta and roasted � sh served in the historic seaside towns and villages.

Rumor has it that a new Zaxby’s is coming to Sandy Springs. Tomorrow’s News Today reports that the chicken chain is working to secure two parcels at 6545 and 6555 Roswell Road for the new location.

Buckhead Atlanta has signed 10 restaurants for the mixed-use development, ac-cording to a report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle. � e restaurants include Le Bilboquet, a French bistro; American F+B, a bar and grill concept; a to-be-named pizza restaurant from Texas-based Consilient Hospitality; Lugo Ca� e, an Italian cafe; Corso Co� ee, an Italian-style co� ee bar; Doraku Sushi, a Japanese sushi and steak eatery; Georgetown Cupcake, a bakery; Gypsy Kitchen, a Spanish fusion concept; � e Southern Gentleman, a gastropub; and Shake Shack, a burger, hot dog and fro-zen custard concept.

A second outpost of Lucky’s Burger & Brew is expected to open during the � rst quarter at Town Brookhaven. � e original is in Roswell.

A Buckhead Village mainstay since 1993, � e Cheesecake Factory (thecheese-cakefactory.com) has announced it will move to Lenox Square during the � rst quar-ter of 2014. � e current location on Peachtree Road will remain open until the new location opens.

Bell Street Burritos (bellstreetburritos.com) has shuttered its Irwin Street Mar-ket location in the Old Fourth Ward after just a little more than a year in business. However, a new location of the burrito joint has opened in South Buckhead at 1816 Peachtree Road.

Beverly Hills-based Sprinkles Cupcakes (sprinkles.com) is now open at Lenox Square in Buckhead. � e new outpost includes an ice cream shop and the famed Cupcake ATM, which is constantly restocked with fresh treats available with a swipe of your charge card.

Chef Christophe Le Metayer, formerly

with the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, has found-ed Christophe’s To Go (christophestogo.com), which sells prepared gourmet meals that only need to be re-heated and served. � ere are locations in Brookhaven (4060 Peachtree Road, Suite F), Sandy Springs (6309 Roswell Road, Suite 1E) and John’s Creek (9775 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite P). � ere are more than 30 daily options to choose from, including salads, soups, sandwiches, � sh and meat.

Roots Juices (rootspressedjuices.com) is now open at the Around Lenox Shopping Center in Buckhead in Suite 202-A.

Red Pepper Taqueria (eatredpepper.com) is now open at 3135 Piedmont Road in Buckhead.

King + Duke (kinganddukeatl.com) was named one of Esquire magazine’s Best New Restaurants of 2013. “We are thrilled to have one of our restaurants recognized for the second straight year by Esquire magazine,” said Chef Ford Fry, whose � e Op-timist made last year’s list. Esquire food and travel correspondent John Mariani de-scribed King + Duke as a “can’t-miss spot.”

� e distinctive, circular former location of Trust Company Bank and the now shuttered Piebar and Ixtlan on Monroe Drive will soon become a restaurant and lounge called Cirque. Built in 1962, the new concept is from the owner of � e Dai-quiri Factory on West Peachtree Street in Midtown.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 7 p.m.Free Community Event

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Standout StudentStudent Profi le:

Mary Catherine Thomson Holy Innocents’ Episcopal

School, senior

For Mary Catherine � omson, learn-ing extends far beyond the walls of the school she has attended since sixth grade.

As a sophomore, she spent 10 days in Briey, France, as part of a foreign ex-change program.

“I really enjoyed getting to know my exchange student’s family. She had a sin-gle mother and a sister, and we just spent a lot of time sitting around their kitch-en table talking about our di� erent cul-tures,” said Mary Catherine.

From eating home-cooked escargot to enjoying daily fresh breads, Mary Catherine had the chance to experience the language which she has studied since kindergarten. � is year, she received a 2013 Outstanding Senior in French award from the American Association of Teachers of French, which honors students for their commitment to the language, and for having high academ-ic achievement. Mary Catherine was one of only nine students in Georgia to receive the 2013 honor.

“I have de� nitely developed a passion and love for French, so it was nice to be recognized for that,” said Mary Cathe-rine.

Her passion is apparent to those around her.

“From the beginning, I saw her ea-gerness and her incredible intelligence. She is a very discerning lady and can read between the lines in literature,” said her current Advanced Placement French teacher Gerard Gatoux. “She is extreme-ly professional and is a perfectionist in the classroom.”

In addition to French, Mary Cathe-rine is also passionate about English and literature, and attended the four-week Governor’s Honors Program in Valdosta, Ga., this past summer as a communica-tion arts major and theater minor. At the program, she enjoyed taking part in dis-cussion-oriented classes and exploring in-teresting topics, from stand-up comedy to modern feminism.

Before her junior year, she was selected to play for the highly competitive Geor-gia national lacrosse team at the nation-al tournament in Long Island, New York.

“I have de� nitely gained lessons in commitment, hard work and dedication from lacrosse,” said Mary Catherine, who has played lacrosse at Holy Innocents’ since eighth grade. “I am really close with my lacrosse team, and the support they give me both on and o� the � eld has been very valuable in my time in high school.”

During the school year and summer, Mary Catherine is involved in helping

other, younger students to achieve suc-cess through Horizons Atlanta. � e or-ganization hosts free, six-week summer programs and monthly Saturday school days to help underprivileged children maintain and advance academic prog-ress. Mary Catherine is currently one of two youth board members for the orga-nization, and acts as a link between the group, Holy Innocents’ and the commu-nity to help organize student volunteers for the program.

“� ese kids are so precocious and en-ergetic, and really enjoy being there. I usually � nd myself laughing almost the entire time just because of how much en-ergy they have, and how ready they are to learn and to be there,” said Mary Cath-erine. “Being able to provide support to them academically and as a role model is something I have really come to enjoy.”

As a sophomore, Mary Catherine also helped in her community as part of the inaugural Youth Leadership San-dy Springs class. � e year-long program takes a group of 30 sophomores and ju-niors for one school day each month to travel around the community and talk to di� erent professionals, from city planners to policemen.

At the end of the program, the par-ticipants work on a cumulative project. In Mary Catherine’s year, this project in-volved making voice recordings of chil-drens’ book reading, and donating the recordings and books to Lake Forest Ele-mentary School, where many students do not speak English at home.

What’s Next: Mary Catherine has been accepted to

the University of Georgia, but has not yet decided on a college. She hopes to possi-bly minor in French and continue with lacrosse. She is also interested in continu-ing her interest in science by studying bi-ology. “I think she will be one of those students that will always amaze you and will become whatever she wants to be -- whether that is an engineer or doctor or lawyer or diplomat,” Gatoux said.

� is article was prepared by Mollie Simon, a student at Chamblee Charter High School.

Corrections� e enrollment of � e Weber School was misstated in the Jan. 10-Jan. 23 editions

of Reporter Newspapers. � e enrollment is 226.An article about Robert Port’s cycling trips in Israel that appeared in the Jan. 10-

Jan. 23 editions of Reporter Newspapers misstated the location where cyclists waved to guards. It was along Israel’s Egyptian border.


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Award winner saw how one person can change another’s life

He went on to the State University of New York in Albany, where he earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in social work, he said. Th e 56-year-old now heads Family Ties Inc., a Sandy Springs-based agency that works with families in crisis.

On Jan. 20, Mullins received the city of Sandy Springs’ Humanitarian Award for 2014. He was pre-sented with the award Jan. 20 at Sandy Springs City Hall, during the city’s ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

Th e city created the Humanitarian Award to recog-nize individuals who have made signifi cant contribu-tions in the area of community service.

“Dr. King once said, ‘Faith is taking the fi rst step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.’ We honor Hugo Mullins for his tireless eff orts in helping children gain the confi dence they need to take many fi rst steps,” Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul said.

Mullins, who has worked in social services, family preservation and mental health care in the metro area for more than 25 years, said his work is based on the belief that strong children make strong adults; strong adults make strong families; strong families make strong communities; and strong communities make strong cit-ies, the city said in a press release.

“Every day we should be thinking about how we can help people less blessed than us,” Mullins said. “Many times, I look at people we work with and see myself as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn and I say, ‘My life has been blessed.’”

Mullins said it was realization of how important one person could be that pointed him toward his career. “Th at’s the reason I went into social work,” he said.

His agency, founded in 1994, now employs 125 people, he said, and works with families in 11 metro Atlanta counties. “I have a wonderful staff ,” he said.

He said Family Ties works to support children head-ing into the state’s foster care system, tries to help fam-ilies keep children from going into foster care, and works with families to have children returned from fos-

ter care. “Sometimes we want to talk about changing behavior as if it’s an easy thing to do,” he said. “It’s a dif-fi cult thing to do. We’ve got to give the extra push to make that change.”

After winning the award, Mullins was both grateful and surprised by the honor.

“It was actually very surprising and humbling,” he said. “You almost sometimes feel embarrassed for get-ting recognition for things you feel you should do. It’s humbling. It’s very humbling, is all I can say.”

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER AND JOE EARLE

Above, left to right, Rabbi Joshua Heller, Mayor Rusty Paul, Pastor Henry Bush, Monica Pearson, Pastor Sara Webb Phillips and Oz Hill

join hands to sing “We Shall Overcome” as the city of Sandy Springs honors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 20. At

right, Hugo Mullins admires the Sandy Springs’ 2014 Humanitarian Award with his wife Lisa, during the celebration. Mullins received the

award for his work with Family Ties Inc.

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The following incidents and arrests are some, but not all, of the reports fi led with SSPD over the listed pe-

riod, dated through Jan. 17.

The following information was provided by the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY � 6400 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On

Jan. 2, around 8:30 p.m., a man came into the store and bought a few items and then, while checking out, pulled a gun and robbed the clerk of an unspecifi ed amount. He left on foot.

BURGLARY � 8500 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On

Jan. 3, the victim reported jewelry was miss-ing from her home. It was taken some time between Dec. 28 and Dec. 30.

� 6200 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On Jan. 3, someone forced entry to the business by breaking the front window. Copper tubing was stolen.

� 1100 block of Lake Hearn Drive 30342 – On Jan. 3, someone pried the door to the At-lanta Cardiologists offi ce and stole a small amount of petty cash.

THEFT � 8300 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On

Jan. 1, a woman reported that while she was attending a New Year’s party, someone stole her Galaxy phone valued at $300.

� 8600 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Jan. 1, a man reported that he was taking photos of his friends with his camera/phone and at one point, set the phone on the bar. Someone swiped it.

� 7800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Jan. 1, an employee reported that two men, described as “regulars,” came in and stole a Bud Ice beer valued at $1.70.

� 700 block of Estate Way 30328 – On Jan. 1, the host of a New Year’s party reported that he had about 20 folks at his home, some he did not know, and the next morning found that someone took his iMac laptop from his basement.

� 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On Jan. 1, someone stole a 2000 VW Jetta.

� Cross Roads Manor – A man on reported that someone stole his propane tank from his grill sometime between Jan. 1 and Jan. 2.

� 4000 block of Cherrywood Lane 30328 – On Jan. 2, the victim said she invited her friend over for pizza and believes the friend stole two expensive rings that were on her kitchen counter.

� Johnson Ferry Road 30328 – On Jan. 2, a woman needed to have her door repaired after it was damaged during a burglary. She called a company who said they were booked for weeks but re-ferred her to a man who had started his own handyman ser-vice. She hired him and they agreed on a $1,000 fee which she paid half up front. He never fi xed the door and she cannot contact him now.

� 6200 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On Jan. 3, a guest reported seeing a banquet room door propped open with a fl oor mat. He saw a man just outside, load-ing something into the cab of a truck. The man appeared to be in a hurry, and the item he was loading was covered in a white blan-ket. The man was acting very suspicious and stood behind his truck in what obviously ap-peared to be an act of hiding his license plate from view. The staff found that a 46-inch TV had been stolen from the room. The ho-tel does not have video cameras on the back

side of the hotel, so no images of the truck were taken.

� 5500 block of Glenridge Drive 30342 – On Jan. 4, a man reported that his 2007 Dodge Magnum was stolen from his apartment park-ing lot.

� A man reported that he was arrested in October by SSPD while driving on I-285. His car was turned over to a man who is now said to be a suspect, and who took several things from the car. Th is includes comput-er accessories, a wallet, $90 sunglasses, ciga-rettes, a lighter and headphones.

� 5600 block of Roswell Road – Employ-ees of a discount de-partment store the re-ported that on Jan. 11, a man used a knife to cut into a package that contained a set of headphones. He con-cealed it and left in a

black pickup truck.

� 200 block of Sandy Springs Place 30328 – On Jan. 13, a woman reported that while she was shopping, someone took her iPhone from her purse. The purse was in the shop-ping cart. She tracked the phone to the area of the 100 block of Northwood Drive, but the phone was then turned off.

� 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 ¬– On Jan. 13, employees of discount department store said they observed a man remove a Samsung AT&T phone from the shelf and exit the store. He left in a black Hyundai Tiburon.

� Peachtree Dunwoody Road – A cabbie re-ported he picked up two women from down-town and took them to a hotel. They ran off and stiffed him on the $52 fare.

� 6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On Jan. 14, a woman said she and another woman were staying at an extend-ed-stay motel. Both are from Memphis. The victim said she has known the other woman about a month. When the victim awoke, the other woman was gone as was the victim’s cellphone, Social Security card, debit card, $400 cash and a backpack. She said the wom-an is probably on the way back to Memphis in her Chevy Impala.

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway – A man reported that on Jan. 14, after dinner, he left his iPhone on the table at a restau-rant. When he returned, it was gone.

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On Jan. 14, a man reported that he placed his gym bag on the fl oor of the bas-ketball court from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. while he played. Later, he found that someone re-moved his wallet from it.

� 5900 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30342 – On Jan. 15, an employee of an offi ce reported that someone accessed an “employ-ee only” door and made off with the victim’s purse and contents. A Bank of America card was used at a Dunwoody pharmacy for a total of over $400, and an attempt was made on her AMX card. The victim’s Healthcare Sav-ings Card was also used at a grocery store for $115.

�Th e victim said a suspicious woman was in the area, who said she was looking for a pay-roll company.

� Blenheim Place 30350 – On Jan. 15, a man reported his mother mailed him two Costco cards that he never received. The cards were

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ARRESTS � 5300 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On Jan. 2, officers were called to a gas

station after a guy took two bottles of Corona beer and left without paying. The suspect walked to the bus stop where the officer found him a few minutes later. He was arrested.

� 6800 block of Wright Road 30328 – On Jan. 4, cops answered a call of an assault, and in doing so, found that a large and unauthorized party took place on Stone Mill Trail. Officers found several underage kids who had been drink-ing and smoking marijuana, and spreading beer cans all over the place. The officers, looking further into the call, found that the house at the address on Stone Mill Trail had beer cans in the yard, scattered in the back of the yard and on the deck, amid the odor of marijuana. The owner of the house was not there. Officers found a contact number for the owner’s son who said his father was in Michigan but the son’s sister should be there. The officers could not lo-cate her. The son said he would respond to the home but it would take 20 min-utes. He never showed and then did not answer his phone. Some of those who were detained by the officers said the son’s sister was at home during the par-ty. Several underage drinkers were charged by police.

� Related to the above assault and party call, cops found a 17-year-old man on Wright Road surrounded by other teens. He was lying in his vomit, and appeared in and out of a coherent state. The kid said he was drinking and smoking marijuana; however he was injured after being assaulted by anoth-er party guest at the home on Stone Mill Trail. A girl, identified as the sis-ter of the guy who never showed up in the previous report, had her phone stolen, and the guest accused this victim of stealing it. They started scuf-fling. The victim then broke and ran but was caught by the other guy who punched him, knocking him out. The victim refused medical treatment and was turned over to his uncle.

� 500 block of Mt. Paran Road 30328 – On Jan. 4, an officer, making a build-ing check of St. John’s Church just before 8 p.m., saw a silver SUV pull into the parking lot of the church. This area has had complaints of loitering and under-age drinking. The officer pulled the car over and spoke with the teenage driver who had a smell of marijuana on his person. Also in the car were four plastic bags, an Altoid can with marijuana residue, two grinders, two packs of rolling papers, and so on, indicating that some use of marijuana had taken place. He was charged and turned over to his father.

� 5000 block of Green Oak Court 30342 – On Jan. 5, around 2:30 a.m., a man and his wife were awakened by a window-crashing noise. The resident confronted a man com-ing in a bedroom window. The resident and the suspect engaged in a physical confronta-tion. The suspect told the resident that this was his house and he was going to kill him. According to the report, the resident got in at least one good “haymaker,” knocking the suspect back onto some furniture. The sus-pect stumbled back through the window and fled. After the call and description was giv-en, an officer spotted a man near Burdette Road, near the incident location. The man matched the description of the intruder, so the officer secured him and put him in the police car. The man later told the officer that he used to live in the house but his par-ents moved years ago. He also told the offi-cer he had been drinking at a bar in Buck-head all night.

� Northridge Road and Ga. 400 30350 – On Jan. 8, following a traffic stop, two men were arrested for possessing 1,121 grams of methamphetamine following a K-9 check and search. $2,560 in cash was seized.

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway – One man was arrested on Jan. 9 after cops were called to a tanning salon. Officers spoke to a woman who said as she left the tanning bed, she could see a black iPhone being held over the wall from the next room. A short time later, a man, who occupied the next room, nervously left, got in a white Jeep

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McElfish retiring after a half century in fire services

Maryland when he was a kid. At 16, he began classes in fire fighting. At 18, he joined the U.S. Air Force and trained in crash rescue. In his 20s, he went to work for the fire department in Montgomery County, Md. In his 30s, he said, he was the youngest fire chief in Connecticut.

He said working in fire and emergency services is about helping people get through crises.

“Our job is to get people through the worst 15 minutes of their lives,” he said. “They may have been through a house fire. They may have had a heart attack. We get them through the worst 15 minutes of their lives. They’ve proba-bly never been through this. For us, it may be routine, but we have an opportunity to make a difference.”

Sandy Springs hired McElfish in July 2006 to set up the new city’s fire and rescue depart-ment. The department became fully operation-al on Dec. 29, 2006, the city said. It now has 90 full time and about 50 part-time employees, McElfish said. “We have sharp people,” he said.

The department has received awards such as the “Crown Community Award” by the Amer-

ican City and County magazine in recogni-tion of the start-up, and the department’s in-novative emergency medical services program, the city said. The department also received the “Heart Save Community Award” presented by the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

McElfish, who’s 69, said after he retires, he plans to spend more time with his wife and daughter.

On Jan. 17, the city issued a press release announcing McElfish’s plans to retire. He said if it were left to him, he’d have just quietly disappeared. But since the announcement, he’s been hearing from old friends and co-workers.

On Jan. 21, McElfish was sitting in the City Council Chambers in City Hall before the council’s meeting, and a

steady stream of city officials stopped by to con-gratulate him and wish him well.

“You’ve built a hell of a fire department,” City Councilman Tibby DeJulio told him. “When we met this guy, we gave him a blank piece of paper and he built the best fire depart-ment in the state with it. ... I’m sorry to see you go, Jack. We’ve gotten to see you as a perma-nent fixture in this city.”

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SANDY SPRINGSNOTICE OF VARIANCE PETITION

Petition Number: 201303931 Petitioner: Joe Card Location: 101 Mount Paran RoadRequest: Two primary variance: 1) from Section 6.4.3.B of the Zoning

Ordinance to reduce the required fifty (50) foot front yard setback to thirty (30) feet to allow construction of a detached garage, and 2) from Section 6.4.3.I of the Zoning Ordinance to allow an accessory structure to be located in a front yard.

Public Hearings: Board of Appeals February 13, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Sandy Springs City Hall Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600


Petition Number: 201303893 Petitioner: Alphonso Smith Location: 5920 Roswell Road, Suite 115Request: Secondary variance to appeal the Department’s August 6, 2013

determination regarding revocation of the sign permit. Public Hearings: Board of Appeals

February 13, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.Location: Sandy Springs City Hall

Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600


Petition Number: 201304216 Petitioner: Regency Centers Location: 6269 Roswell RoadRequest: Primary variance from Section 12B.4 of the Zoning Ordinance to

allow for a modified streetscape. Public Hearings: Board of Appeals

February 13, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.Location: Sandy Springs City Hall

Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600


Petition Number: 201303879 Petitioner: Extended Stay America Location: 1100 Hammond Dr.Request: Primary variance from Section 33.26.F.8 of the Zoning Ordinance

to allow a second ID Monument along the Hammond property frontage.

Public Hearings: Board of Appeals February 13, 2014



Petition Number: 201303978 Petitioner: Keith Sirockman Location: 5217 Long Island DriveRequest: Primary variance from Section 4.2.10 of the Zoning Ordinance to

allow the required building width to be met at a distance greater than the sum of the front and rear yard setbacks to allow for creation of a new lot.

Public Hearings: Board of Appeals February 13, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.


Police BlotterWrangler, and drove off. An employee got the tag number and description of the man. Offi -cers went to the registration address and saw the Jeep parked in the garage of the home. They spoke with the man, and asked him about the phone and why they were there. The man admitted that “he made a mistake and did hold his phone over the wall and pho-tograph the victim while she dressed.” He was interviewed at CID by detectives and lat-er charged with “Peeping Tom” and taken to Fulton Jail. A follow-up investigation is being done to see if there are more victims.

� 8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Jan. 10, offi cers were called to a grocery store, where employees detained a man who was riding in the store’s mo-torized cart. The man placed a tube of body wash and then a tube of cos-metic cleaner in his lap and then ex-ited the store without paying. The man was pulled over and then later issued a citation to appear in court on shoplifting charges.

� 5800 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On Jan. 13, offi cers were called to the Double Zero restaurant regarding a customer who did not pay for his meal, valued at $55. The man said he was waiting for his date to arrive, but she never showed. When asked to pay, the man said he had no money. He was arrested.

� 200 block of Carpenter Drive 30328 – On Jan. 14, an offi cer located a car with two persons in it just after midnight in an offi ce parking lot. The offi cer determined the two occupants were man and wife who were in the car, which smelled strongly of marijuana. They told the offi cer they were smoking the weed to relieve stress of some ongoing issues and didn’t want to be around the kids. They were cited on a copy of charges.

� 8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On Jan. 14, a man was arrested for shoplifting $18.35 in grocery items and then leaving the store without paying. Security detained him and he was later taken to jail.

�Windridge Drive – Cops responded to a do-mestic fi ght on Jan. 15. The man said he and his girlfriend live together. He said he told her that the relationship was over, but she could continue to live there. She responded by pushing and shoving him. She grabbed a hammer and threatened to damage his car with it. He then said, “At this time I became concerned with my safety.” Cops checked the

woman and found she was wanted in Marietta for failure to appear in court on a shoplifting charge as well as in Norcross on traffi c and probation charges. She was arrested and also charged with simple battery.

OTHER THINGS � A man called and said gave his debit card

to a woman named Christie at the West End MARTA station so she could put money and/or take money for the account. He has not heard from her since.

� A woman reported that she received an email from a co-worker’s ex-wife saying,

“Look out. I’m coming for you.” And, “You’re going down. Kiss that fami-ly goodbye. It’s on.”

� A 40-year-old woman called and reported that she is be-ing harassed over the phone. She told the offi cers the calls are from

a satanic cult and they call when God is about to bless her.

� Other unwanted calls are being made to a woman who said that between midnight and 9 a.m., over 20 calls were made but nothing is said when she answers. She said this is causing a problem with her marriage and wanted the matter document-ed.

� 5500 block of Lake Forrest Road 30328 – On Jan. 10, a man was cited for violating the noise ordinance after cops were called on his barking dogs.

� 5500 block of Roswell Road – Cops were called on Jan. 11 and were directed to an apartment where they found a woman, wear-ing only sweatpants, locked in a dog kennel in the bedroom. She said she and her boy-friend occasionally do a bit of role playing to spice up their love life and unfortunately that night the boyfriend, who, like the victim, had been drinking, passed out on the couch leav-ing her locked in the kennel. She showed the cops where the key was and was released un-harmed. She said she was embarrassed.

� A woman reported to police on Jan. 13 that for the past few months, persons who are unknown to her have been watching her. She said people in the apartment complex are watching and recording her as well. She doesn’t know who they are.


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Jan. 10, offi cers were called to a grocery store, where employees detained a man who was riding in the store’s mo-

5800 block of Roswell Road 30328

email from a co-worker’s ex-wife saying, “Look out. I’m coming for you.” And,

“You’re going down. Kiss that fami-

God is about to bless her.


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