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Oglethorpe University bringsawareness to colored pencil artby Carla [email protected]

For 25 years, the Colored PencilSociety of America (CPSA) hasworked to raise awareness of theolored pencil as a fine art medium.

This year, the CPSA brought thatawareness to Atlanta—partneringwith Oglethorpe UniversityMuseum of Art (OUMA) to hostts 23rd annual international

Exhibition. The exhibit, held July1 through Aug. 23, featured

more than 100 artwork pieces atOglethorpe University’s museum.All of the artwork was created witholored pencil only.

“Many of the artists in thishow are well-established and

mid-career, but some are emerging

and relatively new to exhibiting,”museum director ElizabethPeterson said. “I love when peoplehave an immediate connectionto the work on view and may beinspired in their own creativeprocess.”

Peterson said the Colored PencilSociety of America approachedthe museum in November 2013requesting that they host the 2015exhibition, which takes place duringits annual meeting.

“This is the first time OUMAhas had the pleasure of hosting theColored Pencil Society of America,”Peterson said. “We frequently hostexhibitions with local, regionalor national art societies such asGeorgia Watercolor Society or theSoutheastern Pastel Society.”

Oglethorpe University Museum of Art hosted Colored Pencil Society of America’s 23rd AnnualInternational Exhibition. The exhibit featured more than 100 artwork pieces.

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Faith leaders get taste of cops’ jobsby Andrew [email protected]

DeKalb County religiousleaders got an insidelook at the county’s

criminal justice system Aug. 26during the seventh Annual FaithLeaders Conference hosted by

DeKalb County District Attor-ney Robert James and SheriffJeff Mann.

Clergy members are “a pipe-ine to the community,” James

said. “We’re still a nation wheremost people either go to housesof worship or know someonewho] attends a house of wor-

ship.“People form their perspec-

ives and ideals…oftentimesbased on what they hear in thepulpit,” James said.

The conference includeddiscussions on police use of

force and tours of the county’sFamily Protection Center, po-

DeKalb County police ofcers, top, and faith leaders, bottom, par-ticipate in scenarios that ofcers encounter.

DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James res a gun during a simula-tion used to train police ofcers. Photos by Andrew Cauthen

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County officials celebratehealthy donationby Andrew [email protected]

An $8,000 donation willgive Gresham Park usershe opportunity to be little

healthier.DeKalb County officials

held a ribbon-cutting cer-mony Aug. 27 for the instal-ation of an outdoor fitnesstation in Gresham Park,

3113 Gresham Road, Atlanta.“I think it’s fantastic,”

aid Thomas Redmond,who lives on MeadowviewDrive near the park. “I like

t. I walk every morning andwhen I get back I can exer-ise on this after I walk.

“It’s great for the com-munity. It’s well-deserved forhe community,” Redmondaid. “They can get out and

mingle and walk the trailand come back and talk andxercise.”

The equipment, locatednear the park’s multi-pur-pose PATH trail, is the resultof a $8,000 donation by theAtlanta Retailers Foundation.

Roy Wilson, director ofhe county’s department ofecreation, parks and cultural

affairs, said the fitness stationis going to bring familiesogether and bring children

out to get them exercising so

that we all can be healthy.”“This is at the gateway to

a beautiful PATH that takesyou on to another park,” saidCommissionerKathie Gan-non. “So now when you’rewalking in the morning youcan have a place to stop, meeteverybody, do a few push-ups…and move on.”

CommissionerLarryJohnson said, “A lot of folkscan’t afford one of thosehigh-priced memberships,but we can walk in our parksfor free and enjoy activities,exercising, walking, and then

go over to our recreationcenter and help out with ouryoung people.

“You’ve got everythinghere together to make a dif-ference in our community,”he said. “That’s what I loveabout DeKalb County parks.”

The fitness center wasthe second collaboration be-tween the county and the At-lanta Retailers Foundation.

Shyna Mistry , a trusteeof the Atlanta RetailersFoundation, said, “This fit-ness cluster will remain asymbol for all of us and Ihope it benefits each andevery resident and visitorbecause it is meant to bringpeople together and bring alittle sunshine into all of our

lives.“We foresee more and

more opportunities forpartnerships in the comingmonths,” she added.

Interim DeKalb CountyCEO Lee May called thepartnership with the AtlantaRetailers Association “criti-cal.”

“We’re always excited tobuild relationships outside…county government,” Maysaid. “They have put theirmoney where their mouthis.”

Two-time Olympic gold

medalist DeeDee Trotter,who grew up in the neigh-borhood, was on hand togive demonstrations on theworkout equipment.

“I grew up right aroundthe corner from here, so thisis kind of like my backyard,”Trotter said. “This is a greatway to encourage everyonein the community to keepactive, to keep going towardsliving a healthy lifestyle.

“Childhood obesity issomething that’s been defi-nitely growing, and it’s our job as parents and a com-munity to do what we can tomake sure we keep [obesity]going down,” Trotter said.

County ofcials and community leaders celebrate the completion of an outdoor tness area at Gresham Park.Photos by Andrew Cauthen

DeKalb Commissioner Kathie Gannon said she willschedule a community walk at the park.

Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May said the county isalways excited about public-private partnerships.

Olympic gold medalist DeeDee Trotter demonstrates one of the tnessstations.

Resident Thomas Redmond works out at Gresham Park as Trotter lookson.

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by Kathy Mitchell

Allen Joyce plans to lace up his running

hoes on Labor Day morning, Sept. 7 thisyear, and dash through the street of Avon-dale Estates as runners have done for thepast 37 years.

“I don’t run every year. It depends on thehape I’m in,” admitted Joyce, who also runsome years in the much larger Peachtree

Road Race in downtown Atlanta.“The race comes right by my house so I

always tell myself that if I feel I can’t finish,can always just go home. I’ve never done

hat, but I remind myself that that’s an op-ion. Sometimes people in my family get up

and come outside to cheer me on as I runpast,” he said.

The race is a fundraiser for research forreatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,

or ALS, which is defined by the ALS As-ociation—the recipient of funds raised athe Avondale Estates race—as “a progressive

neurodegenerative disease that affects nervecells in the brain and the spinal cord.” Theres no cure for ALS, which is often called Lou

Gehrig’s Disease in recognition of the playerwho held the all-time Major League Baseballecord for consecutive games played until he

was stricken with ALS.The race originally was just a community

event, according to organizers, but after aprominent Avondale Estates resident died ofALS the race become a fundraiser.

In what Joyce calls “a horrible coinci-dence,” a friend of his and one of the Avon-

dale Estates Labor Day race’s most dedicatedunners died of ALS. She was Decatur law-yer Lora Matlaw Murphy .

“She was a very good runner,” Joyce re-called. “Most years she won the women’sdivision. She also was an extraordinary per-on. Even after she was diagnosed with theerrible disease she kept an uplifting, amaz-ng spirit. She ran in the race right after her

diagnosis—and she beat me.“When she could no longer run, she kept

coming to the races and encouraging oth-

ers,” he said, adding that in the last year ofher life, Murphy, who died in her early 50sin 2002, came to the race and spoke to the

crowd using a voice synthesizer because shewas no longer able to speak naturally.“ALS destroys the body while leaving

the mind intact,” Joyce said. “What an aw-ful irony for a lifelong athlete to become theprisoner of her own body.”

Currently no treatment reverses or sig-nificantly slows the progress of the disease,but the ALS Association says progress isbeing made and funds such as those raisedby the Avondale Estates Labor Day race arecrucial to continuing research.

Participants in the one-mile race—gearedtoward children—pay fees of $10 to $12 andthose who run the five-kilometer race pay$20 to $25, with early registrants paying thelower fee. In addition to fees, the race has

community sponsors. Approximately 20 lo-cal businesses contribute along with localresidents who donate as “friends of the race.”Last year almost $6,000 was donated to ALSresearch as a result of the race. In addition tothose who give money, dozens of volunteerswork at the event and provide other typesof support. First Baptist Church of Avon-dale Estates each year is not only a financialsponsor, but also provides volunteers and adonation of fruit and beverages for the run-ners.

Both the one-mile and the 5K races startand end by Willis Park at Dartmouth Av-enue and Clarendon Place with the one-milerace starting at 8:30 a.m. and the 5K at 9

a.m. They are run on city streets with trafficcontrol provided. Medals will be given to thetop age-group finishers and overall winnerswill receive trophies. The event is for racersof all ages and athletic levels. Between 200and 300 runners and walkers are expected atthis year’s race.

Joyce, who last year and several otheryears won his age category, said he plansto keep running as long as he’s in shape,but adds that each year he deeply missesMurphy. “It’s just not the same without hersmile.”

Labor Day run brings researchfunds, remembrance

by Carla [email protected]

Fresh produce will be onthe menu this year for thethird annual Decatur’s Din-

ner Party Sept. 19.Decatur chefs from Brick

Store Pub, Leon’s, Twain’sand other restaurants willcollaborate with Decatur’sorganic farmers to cookmeals that will benefit GlobalGrowers Network and itsDecatur’s Kitchen Garden.

Global Growers is anonprofit organization thatcreates opportunities insustainable agriculture bygrowing nourishing food,training farmers, and provid-ing economic opportunities.

Global Growers operates twoDecatur urban agricultureprojects—Decatur’s KitchenGarden and Umurima WaBurundi, where local fami-lies who came to Georgia asrefugees grow fresh food.

Robin Chanin, executivedirector of Global Growers,said the organization started

as an idea in 2009 and brokeground on its first project,Umurima, in 2010. Deca-tur’s Kitchen Garden, whichis located behind UnitedMethodist Children’s Home

on South Columbia Drive,formed after former DecaturMayor Bill Floyd decidedthat he wanted the city tohave an urban agricultureproject.

“The assistant city man-ager, at the time, had beendriving past the [UmurimaWa Burundi Garden],tracked us down and asked ifwe were interested in startinganother project in Decatur,”Chanin said. “What they re-alized was that Decatur reallydidn’t have the agriculture

expertise to be able to figureout how to start somethinglike that. So the city identi-fied this plot of land as aspace they would like to useand talked with the children’shome about coming up witha lease agreement. The cityhas an agreement with thechildren’s home to use the

Decatur to hostannual dinner party

See Kitchen on page 10A

The Decatur’s Kitchen Garden is located behind the United MethodistChildren’s Home on South Columbia Drive. Thirty families have plots atthe garden. Photo by Carla Parker

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John Hewitt

[email protected]

Chief Operating Officer

Soccer moms at Pokey Park Bringing a professional soc-

er facility to DeKalb Countyhas the potential of being anconomic boon for the county

nd particularly for the im-mediate area surrounding theomplex. On the surface, iteems like a great idea.

Bringing a professional soc-er facility to DeKalb County

with what appears to have beenero transparency, a burning

desire to lay claim to the vic-ory and not a lot of thoughtegarding the location, the

possible economic implicationsor voter support doesn’t seemo be such a great idea.

Surprising the public with deal of this magnitude has

not fared well, even though

pologies have been issued.nterim county CEO Lee May xplained the lack of transpar-ncy by saying, “Yes! We putash on the table in order to

get a major development forhat area. I don’t run from that,don’t shy from that.”

Perhaps those involved inhe decision-making process

may have thought it easier tosk for forgiveness than ask for

permission (or support). Un-ortunately, this was also not good move considering theack of confidence in DeKalb

County politics as a whole.But if all goes as planned

we will soon have a new soccer

complex and new office spacefor some employees of DeKalbParks, Recreation and CulturalAffairs.

With this new soccer com-

plex, we will have hopefullydozens of opportunities eachyear to host exhibition gamesand tournaments that willbring thousands of visitors toDeKalb County. Soccer momsof the world are likely quiver-ing with anticipation at theopportunity to have their chil-dren play in a new world-classsoccer complex.

Te online public diction-ary Wikipedia defines a soccermom as “a married middle-class woman who lives in thesuburbs and has school agechildren. She is also portrayedas putting the interests of herfamily, and most importantly

her children, ahead of her own.Te phrase derives from theliteral, specific description ofa mother who transports and

watches her children play soc-cer.”I’m thinking that perhaps,

based on the above definitionand on personal observationsof so-called soccer moms that Iknow, these moms won’t be sohappy about sending their pre-cious offspring to practice orparticipate in tournaments ata facility within shouting dis-tance of one of the largest jailsin the southeast.

As the soccer mom driv-ing a minivan of youngsters orhormone-raging teenagers en-ters the general vicinity of the

proposed facility, she wouldhowever, have an opportunityto offer the following warningsas perhaps a manner of dis-couraging undesirable behav-ior of some of her passengers.

“You see that Juvenile Jus-tice Center right there? If youget in any trouble while you’rehere, that’s where you’ll endup.”

“If things don’t go so wellat the Juvie Center, you mayend up at the county jail just toour right. And you know whathappens to bad boys and girlswhen they end up in jail, don’tyou?”

Or the sometimes-unappre-

ciated soccer mom could takean entirely different approachthat also would take advantageof the facility’s location.

“You kids go on in for yourpractice. I need some exerciseI think I’ll take a walk aroundthe perimeter of the jail andsee if I get any catcalls from theinmates. I need an ego boost.”

Tat’s enough about soccermoms.

One of the several benefitstouted by the county is revenuegenerated from naming rightsto the stadium and complex.Te Memorandum Of Un-derstanding (MOU) explicitlystates “Supplemental OperatorPayments…will be made toDecide DeKalb, which shall be

disbursed to the county, in anamount equal to 15 percent ofthe net revenue derived fromany naming rights sold for allor any portion of the head-quarters and soccer complexor for branded events held atthe headquarters and soccercomplex.”

What if Arthur Blank andcompany decide to name thecomplex Te Home Depot-Ar-thur Blank Field? As developer,Blank and company wouldhave controlling interest andtherefore, unless specificallyaddressed, the ability to namethe complex anything theychoose. Te Home Depot gets

mentioned in every press re-lease generated and every storywritten about every event everheld at the complex and the

county gets nothing. Te MOUreferences naming rights soldbut nothing about who hascontrol of naming rights.

Many sports complexesare given names that referencethe area they are located in;so if it’s not named Te HomeDepot Field, my votes go foreither Stockade Stadium orPokey Park. Both have a rathercatchy sound to them and playhomage to the setting.

Snack shops and restau-rants in the complex couldbe named Cellblock Six, TeLockup, Te Can, Up Te

River, etc., and offer cleverlynamed menu item such as De-pot dogs, slammer slaw, joint juice and reformatory ribs.Servers in these establishmentswould obviously need to wearprison-inspired uniforms suchas black and white striped jumpsuits or the more modernsolid orange version.

Te marketing opportuni-ties are as endless as the com-plaints about how it all cameto be.

Hello Ashley Oglesby,

I read your article on

Mr. Beau Hardeman on theront page of The ChampionFree Press Aug. 27, 2015. Thearticle was very informativeand many of the things youmentioned I did not knowabout Mr. Hardeman.

I worked for Mr.Hardeman in the AtlantaUniversity Computer Centern the 1980s when I was aophomore at Morehouse

College. I was a studentab assistant. He was the

person who gave me myirst computer job and an

opportunity to make somemoney. He was a good manand he took his work veryeriously. I did not keep up

with him, after he left theAUC center, until now.

I have since completed

my own education with aM.S. in computer scienceand a doctorate in education.I am currently teaching andlive in DeKalb. I currentlychair the citizens AgainstCityhood in DeKalb andConcerned Citizens forEffective Government

I wished I had a chanceto reacquaint myself withMr. Hardeman. He was aninspiration and it saddensme that he is gone. Thankyou for the article. Ed WilliamsChairman, ConcernedCitizens for EffectiveGovernment

Beau Hardeman wasan inspiration

Raising minimum wage would burden businesses

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

As an active voter whosides with the Democratic

point of view; it is extremelydisappointing to hear oftheir approval for raisingminimum wage to $15 anhour.

Considering the law ofdemand and the fact thatwhen the price of laborincreases, demand drops;this move places a burdenon businesses that wouldbe forced to expand theiroverhead, without necessarilygetting a return. Therefore,this type of legislation

disguises the fact that manybusinesses will not be able to

employ as many families asthey currently do.This concept is likely to

cause employers to raise theirstandards for entry-levelor basic positions, whichreplaces the same employeeswho fought for thislegislation with more skilled,educated workers that can justify $15 an hour. So theidea that raising minimumwage enhances the way of lifefor our nation’s impoverishedfamilies is simply not true.

We need to invest insolutions that raise the

quality of life for all of ourcitizens in order to trulymaximize our economicand social opportunities.However, simply panderingto a particular audience andgiving out more money isnot the answer to resolvingunemployment or raisinganyone’s standard of living.

Jason CorriganDecatur

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OpINION

That’s gonna leave a mark “Hunker down hairy

dawg, Hunker down for afight... When you meet theGeorgia Bulldogs, You gonna

feel the Bulldog bite,” song lyr-cs by Georgia Bulldogs fanand ad man extraordinaire,Clisby Clarke (1942-2014)n 1980.

Although I’m sure thatGeorgia’s former AttorneyGeneral and corruption bust-r, Mike Bowers, identifies

more with his days at WestPoint, he is also a UGA LawSchool grad, and few wouldprobably argue, as crusadingawyers go, few clamp theiraw harder when they bite

down into a pile of corrup-ion and malfeasance.

“We have found DeKalbCounty government to beotten to the core,” said

Bowers in a preliminary in-vestigation update letter tonterim CEO Lee May andhe DeKalb County Com-

mission.As a nearly lifelong resi-

dent of DeKalb County, andomeone who raised hisamily in DeKalb County off

of Allgood Road, I’m surehat reaching this conclu-ion pained Bowers. But not

being able to complete the

assigned work of this reviewmay cause others more pain.When interim CEO May

asked Bowers and his ag-gressive lead investigatorRichard Hyde to come doome looking around within

DeKalb County government,I wondered if they might lat-er regret what they asked for.

Remember, it was Bow-ers and Hyde, after receiving

a whitewashed review ofcheating allegations withinthe Atlanta Public Schools(APS), who quickly deter-mined they were not beinggiven the facts.

And it was Bowers andHyde who made similarfindings in DoughertyCounty Schools in southwestGeorgia.

And after Hyde becamethe lead investigator for theJudicial Qualifications Com-mission, nearly 60 judgeshave “resigned to pursue

other opportunities.”I know both men well,consider them close friends,and folks, they don’t messaround.

They found a cripplingcombination of early buy-

outs for retiring senior staffand managers; a culture ofcorruption and poor per-formance of tasks; and a

purchasing procedures andoversight structure.The county was likely

leaking at the spend rate ofthis entire investigation’scosts on a weekly or monthlybasis.

And Bowers and histeam’s expertise didn’t comecheap. Interim CEO Maysigned off at the start withBowers billing at $400 anhour and his investigators at$300.

Though DeKalb DA Rob-ert James was admittedlyamong those not a fan ofthe extra-judicial investiga-tion being requested by thecounty’s executive branch,one has to assume if May feltthat the DA’s office was upto the task, county leaderswould have simply fundedthe Public Corruption Unitwhich James had long beenrequesting.

So now May, and severalother commissioners, areoffended by the tone, harshlanguage, lack of details andinference that all of DeKalbCounty government is sink-

ing in a miasma of incom-petence, ineptitude andself-serving greed, but don’tforget, generally free park-ing and soon soccer practicefields which you can’t use.

May, and a majority of

commissioners wanted Bow-ers and company to wrapit up quickly and completetheir review/investigation by

the end of August, and morethan loosely inferred that ifBowers wants to actually getpaid, that review had bettersoften in tone.

Commissioners Gannon,Jester and Rader, perhapsnot surprisingly, would pre-fer to see the review com-pleted and let the chips fallwhere they may.

I worked for Bowers dur-ing his 1997-1998 gubernato-rial bid. I thought then, andI still think now, he wouldhave made Georgia an ex-cellent governor. He took agood bit more public shell-ing then for a different set ofreasons, and in that instancehe also did not run from orhide from his fault or thosepersonal shortcomings.

He bit down, hung inthere and rode an increasingnumber of GOP voters’ sup-port to the crest of a runoffwith the eventual losing GOPnominee, Guy Milner. ThatWest Point/Bulldog bitecombo knows how to fight.

I’m not sure which ulti-mately became more impor-

tant for Bowers and his team:wrapping things up, listeningto the client and getting paid,or doing what is right andbest for the people of DeKalbCounty. Whatever was un-covered has to be turned

over either to the DeKalbDA, GBI or the feds for po-tential prosecution. Unlikethe APS cheating investiga-

tion, Bowers and companywere not named special pros-ecutors, nor given subpoenapower.

However things end up, Ibet that bite is still going toleave teeth marks.

Bill Crane also serves as a political analyst and commen-tator for Channel 2’s Action

News, WSB-AM News/Talk750 and now 95.5 FM, as wellas a columnist for The Cham-

pion, Champion Free Pressand Georgia Trend. Crane isa DeKalb native and business

owner, living in Scottdale. Youcan reach him or comment ona column at bill.csicrane@

gmail.com.

Bill Crane

[email protected]

Columnist

ONE MAN’S OPINION

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“Wherever your pas-ion, wherever you think youan add value, with all of thealents that you have, there’s

plenty out there…to get in-volved with.

“Find a way to give back.”Those are some guiding

words of Chris Chavez, presi-dent of Leadership DeKalb’sboard of directors.

Chavez, who was in theLeadership DeKalb class of2013, is in his second yearon the organization’s boardof directors. Previously, heerved as Leadership DeKalb’sreasurer.

Leadership DeKalb is anonprofit that is “basically ahuman capital pipeline foreaders in DeKalb County,”

aid Chavez, who is presidentof DeVry University.

“Our goal is to try to at-

tract upcoming leaders andeven seasoned leaders into anine-month-long leadershipprogram,” Chavez said. “Weconnect leaders to other lead-ers. We give these leaders ex-

posure to various parts of thecounty,” such as the police andfire departments, nonprofitorganizations and county gov-

ernment.Chavez also is on the

board of DeKalb Police Alli-ance, which raises funds forlife insurance policies for thefamilies of fallen officers inDeKalb County.

“If an officer dies inthe line of duty, we havea $100,000 life insurancepolicy” for the family, Chavezsaid. “It’s one of those things[that’s] not the most lovelything to think about and talkabout” but the families “areimmensely grateful” to receivethe funds.

Chavez also is a boardmember of Technology Asso-ciation of Georgia EducationCollaborative, a nonprofitorganization that supports

science, technology, engineer-ing and mathematics (STEM)education.

“We raise funds to…help get high school studentsplaced in internships withcompanies,” Chavez said. “Itcould be in the informationtechnology field; it could bein health and sciences, or itcould be related to STEM.

The organization seeksto increase STEM awarenessby holding coding contests,supporting teachers who aretrying to get STEM-certified,and sponsoring Georgia’sSTEM Day.

Chavez said he volunteersto help people.

“Any business person, ifyou ask them, ‘Why are yousuccessful, or why is yourcompany suceessful?’ and [theanswer] always starts with

people,” Chavez said. “I knowit’s a trite saying, but there is alot of truth to that.

“When you start talkingabout the culture, your pur-pose or mission—all thosethings that are intangiblethings—none of that stuffmeans anything [without]people,” said Chavez, wholives in the Druid Hills area.

His volunteerism withLeadership DeKalb is “anopportunity to at least influ-ence leaders and make lead-ers think about…decisions,”Chavez said.

“If we’re a leader in what-ever part of our communityor our job,…at some pointwe made it to a particularlevel. We’re successful withour families. We’re successfulin our jobs,” Chavez said. “Ilook at that as an obligation.

Because of that success,…we have an obligation to giveback.”

If you would like to nominate someone to be considered as a future Champion of the Week, please contact Andrew Cauthenat [email protected] or at (404) 373-7779, ext. 117.

CHRIS CHAVEZ

Doraville policeimpersonatorsentenced

Apartments destroyed bychild playing with matches

by Ashley Oglesby [email protected]

Daniel Har-bison, a 40-year-old man arrestedon April 3, hasbeen sentencedto one year andnine months infederal prison forimpersonating anarmed agent afterpreviously havingbeen convicted ofa felony.

The im-personator was taken into custody aftertopping off-duty Doraville police officer

Edward Lowe.Harbison wore a T-shirt bearing the

etters DEA, had an identification card thatappeared to be issued by the DEA, and hada realistic-looking gold and blue badgeembossed with the letters “US.”

Harbison was arraigned on federalcharges of being a felon in possession of afirearm. Authorities said he had previouslybeen convicted of a felony and could notegally possess a gun.

At the end of his prison sentence, Har-

bison must spend three years on super-vised release, according to U.S. Attorneyohn Horn.


On Aug. 29 DeKalb Countyfirefighters, and ambulances re-sponded to an apartment fire atthe Highlands at East Atlantaapartment complex – located at2051 Flat Shoals Road near Deca-tur.

The fire started at approxi-mately 1:40 p.m. Capt. Eric Jack-son said when the f irefighters ar-rived, flames were already shoot-

ing through a quarter of the roofof the single 10-unit building.

The rapidly growing firemeant the water pressure from onehydrant wasn’t sufficient, Jacksonsaid, and crews had to use a sec-ond hydrant on the opposite sideof the building.

“The one hydrant we werepulling off of just wasn’t enough,”Jackson said. “There wasn’tenough pressure to satisfy what weneeded to put out all that fire.”

Jackson said it took firefight-

ers about 45 minutes to extinguishthe fire. Eight apartments suffered“significant” fire damage, whilethe remaining two sustained waterdamage.

The residents of all 10 unitswere displaced. Jackson said thecause of the fire was accidental buthas been attributed to a child play-ing with matches.

Two residents were taken tothe hospital to be treated for “mi-nor” smoke inhalation, Jacksonsaid.

Harbison

Snapshot from the DeKalb County FireRescue Department’s live casting ofthe re.

The 10-unit apartment that was destroyed in the blaze.

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Avondale EstatesPark improvements moving forward

The Avondale Estates Board of Mayor andCommissioners voted Aug. 24 to move forwardwith renovations. The city said there will be a meet-ng between city staff and contractors to discusscheduling and logistics. The city said constructionhould begin in September and last approximately

five months. Efforts will be made to keep The Mu-eum School accessible during renovations for stu-

dents and their families. For more information, visitwww.avondaleestates.org/willispark.html.

BrookhavenCity adds money to reserve

Brookhaven will add more than $600,000 to itseserve following the city council’s approval of its

midyear budget adjustment on Aug. 25. Accordingo city manager Marie Garrett, a budget adjustment

became necessary when the city council adopted aower millage rate earlier this year. The city said it iseceiving higher-than-expected revenues in parts ofhe 2015 budget, including the tax digest, and cur-ently has about $4 million in reserve.

ChambleeAnnual Taste of Chamblee set for Sept. 12

The ninth annual Taste of Chamblee returns todowntown Chamblee on Sept. 12, from 3 to 9 p.m.

This year’s cuisines will range from Italian to In-dian and celebrate the diverse restaurant communityn Chamblee. Beginning with an antique car show

at noon, the event will feature food, an art walk, livemusic and a family-friendly kid zone.

This year’s Taste of Chamblee is hosted by thecity of Chamblee to benefit one of the city’s largestocal nonprofits, the Georgia Lions Lighthouse.

Admission to the event is free, and tickets forastings will be sold for $1. Tickets may be redeemed

at participating restaurant booths for a wide selec-ion of tastings that will range from $1 to $5 per

ample.The band GLOW will be the headliner forhe evening’s concert and local acts will performhroughout the day.

For more information, visit www.tasteofcham-blee.net.

DecaturPAWS Atlanta to host fundraising party

On Sept. 19 from 6:30 to 10 p.m., PAWS Atlantawill entertain guest with blues and BBQ, a silentauction, craft beer tastings and a brewery tour atRed Brick Brewing Company at 2323 Defoor Hills

Road, Atlanta.Since 1966 PAWS Atlanta has found loving,permanent homes for more than 45,000 homelessanimals in Metro Atlanta.

Tickets for the event are $85 per person. To

RSVP or make a donation to the not-for-profit shel-ter visit pawsatlanta.org.

DeKalb County CASA to hold informationalmeeting

The public is invited to attend a volunteer in-formation meeting hosted by DeKalb County CourtAppointed Special Advocates (CASA) on Thurs-day, Sept. 10, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the GregoryA. Adams Juvenile Justice Center, 4309 MemorialDrive, Decatur.

This session will provide an overview of theprogram for those interested in becoming CASA

volunteers. The next training class will be held 4 to 7p.m. on Thursdays from Oct. 1 to Nov. 5.

DeKalb County CASA is a nonprofit organiza-

tion that recruits, screens and trains community vol-unteers who are appointed by a juvenile court judgeto advocate for the best interests of an abused or ne-glected child placed in foster care. DeKalb CountyCASA volunteers work with the DeKalb CountyJuvenile Court and Division of Family and ChildrenServices to ensure that all the necessary informationis collected and presented to the court allowing the

judge to make the best decision possible regardingplacement of the child.

The DeKalb County CASA Program is designedto give abused and neglected children in foster carea voice.

For more information regarding this event or toRSVP, call (404) 378-0038 or email [email protected] or [email protected].

Fraternity to hold Kotton Club fundraiser

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.’s Decatur alum-ni chapter, presents The Kappa Kotton Club on Sat-urday, Sept. 12. It includes a private VIP receptionwith exclusive access from 7 to 8 p.m. and generaladmission from 8 p.m. to midnight.

“Come join us as we journey back in time to the1920s in Harlem, N.Y., the height of the Harlem Re-naissance,” states an announcement about the event.“You will be immersed in the culture that gave birthto jazz, blues and other genres of music.”

The event will feature a live band, DJ, casinotables, dancing and more. Roaring 20s attire is en-couraged; yet, formal/semiformal attire is requested.

VIP tickets are $75. General admission tickets

are $25 in advance, and $30 at the door. Tickets canbe purchased through www.eventbrite.com or inperson at 4522 Flat Shoals Parkway, between 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. by Sept. 9.

Partial proceeds will be used for scholarshipsand to benefit the Kappa Guide Right young men’smentoring program.

For more information, or to become a spon-sor for this event please contact Samuel Patterson,(404) 702-9814.

Church breaks ground on new buildings

Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Deca-tur broke ground Aug. 23 for a new youth and edu-cation building.

The building will replace the 1950s youth build-ing, which will be demolished, and will provide anadditional 20,000 square feet of educational space.The building will connect the church’s main build-ing to the old sanctuary and education building that

stands at the corner of Fair Oaks Road and OakGrove Road.

The $10 million price tag for the building pro-gram will be paid through contributions.

The new building will meet the needs of thechurch’s large youth and children’s ministry as wellas update the existing educational wing, which wasbuilt in 1969.

“This has been a dream of the congregationsince it built the sanctuary in 1969,” said Rev. Glenn Ethridge, senior pastor. “For some of our long-termmembers, they have seen the master plan for over40 years, and now that dream is coming to fruition.There is an incredible amount of life and energyaround the building program.”

The church plans to occupy the new ministry

space in the summer of 2016.

DoravilleFood truck rally continues in Doraville

“It’s not a bad idea to spend a summer day en- joying music with family and friends and bingingon food truck treats,” states an announcement anupcoming food truck event.

On Sept. 9 from 5 to 9 p.m., the city of Doravillewill present its Doraville Food Truck Rally on ParkAvenue.

The event will be held in partnership with theAtlanta Street Food Coalition and will continue tobe held on the second Wednesday of each month.

The event will give residents the chance to meet

elected officials and enjoy food, fun and fellowshipwith friends and neighbors.

CountywideDeKalb solicits residents to serve on auditoversight committee

In the interest of fostering accountability at alllevels of the organization, DeKalb County Govern-ment is creating an Audit Oversight Committee(AOC) as authorized by the Georgia General As-sembly in House Bill 599 (signed into law May 12).This committee will function independently in

conducting performance and finance-related auditsfor all departments, offices, agencies, and programsof the County. The objective is to ensure countyprograms are effectively achieving the purpose forwhich they were authorized and funded.

County residents interested in volunteering toserve on the five-member committee are invited tosubmit their resumes to [email protected].

To be eligible for service on the committee, ap-plicants must reside in DeKalb; possess expertiseconducting performance or financial audits; have aminimum five years of experience and certificationas one of the following—public accountant, internalor performance auditor, or management accoun-tant; or 10 years relevant professional experience.

Committee members will serve a one- or four-year term.Résumés will be accepted through Sept. 11.

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County clears way for hotel at Spruill arts centerby Andrew [email protected]

A vote by the DeKalb CountyBoard of Commissioners has clearedthe way for a 128-room hotel on prop-

erty owned the Spruill Center for theArts in Dunwoody.The commissioners approved a

99-year ground lease agreement be-tween the Spruill Center for the Artsand Hotel Development Partners todevelop a seven-story Marriott or Hil-ton hotel on a portion of the Spruillproperty, located at 4681 AshfordDunwoody Road.

In addition to the hotel, plans callfor a one-story retail/restaurant spaceof up to 10,000 square feet, and a one-story retail/restaurant space of up to6,000 square feet, while maintainingthe location of the Spruill Center forthe Arts.

Although the property is locatedin the city limits of Dunwoody, itwasn’t in 1991 when members of theSpruill family deeded the property tothe Spruill Arts Center.

The deed stated that “if the SpruillArts Center ever ceases to operate orceases to provide cultural arts to thecommunity, then the property wouldbecome the property of DeKalb Coun-ty to be used as a park or recreationalarea,” Viviane Ernstes, a deputy coun-ty attorney, told commissioners.

Because the deed gives DeKalbCounty a contingent future inter-est in the property, the parties to the

ground lease were required to obtainthe county’s consent to the long-termground lease, Ernstes said.

“They needed our consent to theground lease,” Ernstes said. “We don’town the property at this point in time.

We may never come into owning theproperty, but if we did at some pointcome into ownership of the prop-erty, we are consenting to the groundlease.”

Bob Kinsey , CEO of the Spruillcenter, said, “This is a very, very im-portant gift of the property—5.25prime acres on Ashford DunwoodyRoad—that the family deeded to us in1991.

“Those strings [in the deed] havemade it impossible for us to sell off abig chunk of the property to then ben-efit from the selling of the property,”

Kinsey said.A previous ground lease plan in

2007 was “squashed by the Great Re-cession just as it was about to start sitework,” Kinsey said.

The presence of the hotel on the

property will increase traffic to thecenter, he said.“The gallery sits by itself on that

big piece of property,” Kinsey said. “Ithink some people view it as the house

from the movie Psycho. We have al-ways had a problem with driving traf-fic to that site.

“By having the hotel there, whichis an extended stay, high-end hotel, aswell as the restaurant, we will have agreat deal of traffic coming to the gal-lery and the gift shop,” he said. This“will definitely help us help get ourname out more and more in the com-

munity.”The proceeds from the 99-year

ground lease will be used to “benefitthe arts in DeKalb County and metroAtlanta,” Kinsey said.

As a nonprofit arts organization,

“we are always, always squeezing pen-nies and being creative in how we canbetter serve the community,” Kinseysaid.

“The rental revenue unlocks the value of the gift the Spruills gave de-cades ago,” he said. “That will allowus to do many more things, outreachprograms, funding out in the commu-nity and extending our arts reach intothe county.”

The county will benefit from the“wonderful property and hotel/moteltaxes,” Kinsey said. “Currently nothingis generated by that property.”

Additionally, “you will be associ-ated with doing something wonderful

for the arts,” Kinsey told commis-sioners. “DeKalb has always been awonderful supporter of the arts and ofthe Spruill Center for the Arts and wedeeply appreciate that.”

Commissioner Sharon BarnesSutton questioned the deal, saying,“We are giving up…any future possi-bility of having interest.

“For instance if they cease to…remain open, then that becomes thecounty’s property,” Sutton said. “If weconsent to this lease and they developa hotel there, it obviously won’t be apark any more or recreation center.”

‘The rental revenueunlocks the value ofthe gift the Spruills

gave decades ago.’-Bob Kinsey

by Andrew [email protected]

A DeKalb County Police officerwas critically shot by another officerwhen they responded to a 911 call athe wrong house Aug. 31, accordingo the Georgia Bureau of Investiga-

ion.The officer, who has not beendentified by the police department,ost a lot of blood after being shotn the thigh, according to Cedric

Alexander, the county’s deputy chiefoperating officer for public safety.

At approximately 7:35 p.m., threeDeKalb County officers respondedo a suspicious person call at a home

near the intersection of BouldercrestRoad and Boulderwoods Drive.

The caller, who was on a mobilephone, did not provide a street ad-dress. The home was described as agray brick house, Alexander said.

Officers responded to the rear

of the residence and noticed that thecreen door and back door were un-ocked, Alexander said.

“That, in and of itself, wouldprobably suggest to anyone that it

was possible that [there] could be in-truders inside, but it turned out notto be the case,” Alexander said.

“From what we know just verypreliminarily, the officers identifiedthemselves. Shortly after that, withina matter of moments, gunfire tookplace,” Alexander said.

According to a preliminary investigation by GBI, “Upon entry tothe residence, the officers encoun-tered a dog. Two officers fired theirweapons, striking and killing the ani-mal in the kitchen.”

The homeowner then “exited aroom off the kitchen and was alsoshot by the responding officers,” ac-cording to GBI spokesman Scott Dutton.

Both the officer and homeownerwere transported to local hospitals.The homeowner was treated andreleased and the officer underwentsurgery and is in serious but stablecondition, according to the GBI.

“Early investigation indicatesthat the injured officer was likelyshot accidentally by one of the otherofficers on the scene,” Dutton stated.

“What we also have determined

at this time is that the residence thatthese officers responded to is thewrong residence,” Alexander said.

“This is an ongoing investigation.A lot [has] yet to be determined hereas to...when shots were fired, how theofficer received injuries, [and] howthe homeowner received injuries,”

he said. “But we did respond to thewrong residence here tonight andthen these other circumstances un-folded.”

The three officers have beenplaced on administrative leave.

Alexander said he turned theinvestigation over to the GBI “so thatwe can make sure that we remain

very transparent and open duringthe course of this investigation.

“Typically, we would [investi-gate] the shooting ourselves becauseit’s not fatal, but we have made thedecision that, because of the circum-stances that involved this shooting,[it] probably would be to the best in-

terest to the community, to ourselvesand everyone here that we have anoutside investigation done so thatthere would be no question in re-gards to what took place,” he said.

Officer shot by fellow officer whenresponding to wrong house


Miller Grove High School alumand former football player ChristopherStarks was shot and killed on the cam-pus of Savannah State University Aug.28.

In a statement released by the uni-

versity, Starks, a junior at the school,was shot during an altercation at theuniversity’s student union building.He was transported to a local hospitalwhen he later died.

Cheryl D. Dozier, president ofSavannah State University (SSU), ex-pressed her condolences to Starks’ fam-ily and said the university will continueto evaluate safety measures.

“We have heightened security mea-sures on campus at this time, and untilfurther notice,” Dozier said. “You willsee that there will be public safety of-ficers at each of the gates checking theIDs of persons as they enter.”

The university announced theGeorgia Bureau of Investigation is han-dling the ongoing investigation withassistance from the SSU Police De-partment. So far, no arrests have beenmade.

Local student fatallyshot at SavannahState University

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Grand jury to review all officer-involved shootingsby Andrew [email protected]

Nearly six months afterveteran Anthony Hill was fa-ally shot by a DeKalb Coun-

y Police officer, a civil grandury will review the case.Twenty-seven-year-old

Hill, an Air Force veteranrom Chamblee, was shot

and killed by DeKalb CountyPolice Officer Robert Ol-en, who responded to aall about a man acting “de-anged,” police said during

a news conference after thencident.

Hill was naked and un-armed at the time of thehooting.

A review of officer-nvolved shootings by the

grand jury will become stan-dard operating procedure,DeKalb District AttorneyRobert James told local faitheaders during a conference

on Aug. 26.“I decided that instead

of doing a special grand jury,which is a one-time thing,o run all of our…officer-nvolved shootings through

our grand jury,” James said.This allows the grand

ury to “give us advice andheir opinion on what theyhink we should do,” James

aid.This is important be-ause it includes the public,

he said.“The biggest problem is

not always that we disagreeabout what we should andhould not do [or] that I

make a decision that y’alldisagree with,” James said.The biggest problem is that

people don’t feel included inhe decision; they don’t feelhat there is enough trans-

parency.“They feel that we go off

n a corner and the DA sort

of employs some secret tech-nique and talks to whomeverand comes back and says,This is what I have decided,’”ames said. “Then when you

disagree, there’s all types ofeelings of distrust.

“So we’ve brought thepublic in it,” James said. “You

already know the police is involved—the DeKalb County

police department. The GBIis involved. The DA’s Office is

involved.”Investigators for the DA’s

Office go to the scene ofevery officer-involved shoot-ing, he said.

“But the public, hereto-

fore, has not been involved,”James said.James said the 23 mem-

bers of the grand jury willhave access to “all of the evi-dence.”

“We give them every-thing,” he said. “We don’twithhold anything. Anywitnesses they want to hearfrom, including the policeofficer, has an opportunity tocome and talk to the grand jury. They hear everything.”

James said the grand jury

members are trained on ap-plicable laws and officer use-of-force procedures.

The jurors will “get anopportunity to ask ques-tions and at the end of that

process, they give us theiropinion about what weshould do,” James said. “Thatopinion is a public opinion.It is published in…a present-ment.

“We want to include thepublic, and we want to betransparent,” James said. “Wedon’t want people to thinkthat we’re just acting out offavoritism [or] acting secret-ly. We’re doing this publicly,and we’re trying our best tobe objective.”

DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James explains his new policyfor reviewing ofcer-involved shootings. Photo by Andrew Cauthen

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Gangster-turned-crimi-nal defense attorney DavidWindecher’s family emi-grated from Argentina to theUnited States in 1977.

In his recently publishedmemoir The AmericanDream: HisStory in the Mak-ing , Windecher shares hisstory of having been a poor,

self-described gangster in thestreets of Miami who clawedhis way out of gangs, drugsand violence to become apracticing attorney and men-tor to underprivileged teens.

Throughout the mem-oir Windecher writes aboutdropping out of school onhis 16th birthday and beingarrested 13 times before theage of 19.

Windecher details hisfirst arrest for shoplifting atage 11, joining a Hispanicgang, forming his own crimering, dealing marijuana,

stealing cars and luring busi-nessmen into robbery trapswith the assistance of an at-tractive accomplice.

Windecher said he wasarrested and jailed repeatedlyfor offenses including grandtheft, battery, assault andconspiracy.

By his early 20s Wind-echer left the gang and wasdetermined to go straight. Hegraduated from AmericanIntercontinental Universitywith a bachelor of businessadministration degree and a

3.97 grade-point average. In2009 he was accepted to JohnMarshall Law School.

Now a licensed attorneyin Florida and Georgia, Win-

decher aims to use his lifeexperiences to advocate forimpoverished youth.

Earlier this year, Win-decher started a nonprofit,RED Inc. (RehabilitationEnables Dreams), using pro-ceeds from his book sales tofund a GED program in con- junction with the county’sGaining Opportunities andLiving Smarter (GOALS)Program run by the office

of DeKalb County SolicitorSherry Boston.Boston said she met

Windecher shortly after hisbook came out. She invitedhim to attend a session ofher program, which screensmisdemeanor offenders ages17-25 and provides help inobtaining GEDs. Bostonsaid, “The participants reallyconnected with him.”

“The guest speakerturned into a partnership,”Boston said.

“Immediately we couldsee that our participants were

really listening and connect-ed with his story,” she said.“I think that they can believewhen they hear him talk thatthey have the capability tochange their lives around.”

The 12-month programworks with young adults whohave been charged with mul-tiple misdemeanors.

Through the program,defendants complete lifeskills classes, education, jobtraining and community service and have the opportu-nity to see their criminal case

dismissed and expunged.Boston said the goal is tobreak the cycle of recidivismand help individuals com-plete their education, find

jobs, and become assets tothe community.

She added, “We try to ex-pose the students to a lot ofdifferent things in the hopethat they can find a job, goback to school, get their GEDand advance themselvesso they don’t end up in thecriminal justice system in aserious way where they can’tturn back.”

Windecher maintains his

law practice, but his founda-tion and book promotiontake up a good deal of histime—he’s appeared on NPRprograms, he regularly ap-pears on Nancy Grace’s pro-gram on HLN as an analystand he’s working with TylerPerry to produce a filmbased on his book. Everymonth he mentors childrenin the youth interventionprogram.

Windecher said he workswith two youngsters one-on-one.

Windecher said one of

his participants has 18 sib-lings and a “difficult house-hold. He’s coming from abroken home, he’s trying tofind hope and I’m trying toinstill that in him. He’s mak-ing process.”

The other program

participant lives in a hotelwith his mother and sister,“He works to try and stayafloat and so I’m trying toencourage him to completethe GED process so that hecan get a better job and earnmore money,” he said.

“It’s extremely importantfor these kids to have a malementor,” he said. “The onething that I was fortunate tohave growing up was a good

family structure.”Windecher said hismother and father made hima “God-fearing man.”

He added, “I do it be-cause I understand how easyit is to get caught up in thesystem. Thankfully I’m suc-cessful, I can talk to themand say ‘Look I grew up likeyou guys. I’ve been shot. I’vebeen stabbed. I’m covered intattoos. I’ve been in a gang.I got arrested 13 times. I’vebeen to prison. I’ve been in-carcerated for eight monthsand I turned it around be-

cause I wanted to. I decidedto do something greater thanmy circumstances told me Iwas going to be.’”

To learn more about Da- vid Windecher visit hisstory-inthemaking.com.

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Doraville 2015 LMIG Paving Project Sealed Bids for the construction of the City of Doraville’s 2015

LMIG Paving Project, which generally consists of approximately

2.05 miles of pavement resurfacing, will be received by the City

at City Hall (3725 Park Avenue, Doraville, GA 30340) until 2:00

P.M. local time, September 24, 2015. At that time, the bids will

be publicly opened and read aloud. For more details, contact

Sam Serio at (678) 417‐4000 or [email protected] or visit

the City’s website to download the complete announcement at

http://www.doravillega.us/procurement‐opportunities/.

pace and they contractedGlobal Growers to manageand operate it.”

The property was aworking farm up until the1960s that was operated byhe orphanage, where they

were able to grow their ownfood to feed the childrenand families who were livinghere, as well as having a dairyoperation that sold milk topeople in Atlanta, accordingo Chanin.

Currently, there are 30families who have plots at theDecatur’s Kitchen Garden.

“We work primarily withnternational families who

were farmers in their homecountries, so the people hereeally know what they’re do-ng, they know how to grow

food,” Chanin said. “We’renot really teaching themhow to grow food. The ideaof a small 4 by 8 raised bedgarden that you see at a tra-ditional community gardens not appropriate for the

families we work with, sohere are much larger plots,

about 600-square-feet each.They grow a lot of traditionalfoods from their home coun-ry. There is a ton of foodhat is produced here.”

The produce will befeatured in the multi-coursemeals at the dinner party,

along with handcrafted cock-ails, local beer, and a wineelection. There will also be ailent and live auctions.

Chanin said part ofGlobal Growers goal for theevent is to show people howdelicious freshly harvestedproduce is.

“We also want to showthem] that vegetables were

grown with care and atten-ion by agricultural experts

and not a machine,” she said.It’s also an opportunity to

highlight not just the workhat we do but the incredibleupport for local foods that

we see here in the city.“Working with the city

has been a wonderful rela-ionship,” she said. “They areupportive of what we do,hey come to us with ideas

and support connections sohat we’re able to grow this

project. They’re really settingus up for success.”

Tickets are $150 eachand are available at www.glo-balgrowers.org. Table spon-orships are also available for

$1,200, as well as sponsor-

hip opportunities for localbusinesses.

Ex-con turned lawyer assists in

youth offender’s rehabilitation

David Windecher is a criminal defense attorney admitted to the practice of law in Georgia and Florida and is a member of the American Bar Associa -tion.

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A pastor’s sermon title evokes a recent movie with a similar title. Photo by Andrew Cauthen

On Aug. 25 the Atlanta Dream team welcomed DeKalb County students to Philips Arena for a day of fun andgames to promote science, technology, engineering, art and math programs. The collaboration between theWNBA and DeKalb County School District aims to provide students with innovative programs designed to culti-vate interest in and knowledge of S.T.E.A.M. components.

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When Juan Walton of Decatur saw aflyer about a fatherhood conference, he knewhe could not miss it.

“Although my children are pretty much

grown, I have a grandson and I still like toknow about what it takes to motivate not justmy children, but children period becausethey’re the future of this world and our na-tion,” Walton said.

Walton was one of a dozen father whoattended the third annual Fatherhood Con-ference and Resource Fair on Aug. 27 at NewLife Community Center in Decatur. Theevent was hosted by the DeKalb and FultonCounty Departments of Family and ChildrenServices (DFCS).

The theme of this year’s event was “TheFatherhood Aneurysm: It’s about life ordeath to our families and communities.” Theevent included speakers, a panel on father-hood and vendors who provided resourcesin such areas as legal, mental health, housingand child support.

Walton, who has two children, saidevents such as the fatherhood conferencegive fathers new ideas and insight of how to

raise children of this generation.“The generations change, they do things

totally differently than what we did when wewere coming up, such as social media and itkind of helps me see things from their pointof view and also gives me insight into howto deal with them, yet and steer them in the

right direction,” Walton said.DeKalb County Commissioner LarryJohnson made his third consecutive appear-ance at the event.

“I’m excited to be a part of this father-hood movement, to be going out and doingwhat we have to do to make a difference,”Johnson said. “I am proud to be a father. It isso important as fathers that we continue tonurture and be a part of their lives.”

Johnson encouraged fathers to not onlybe more active in their children’s lives, but tobe active in the community as well.

“It’s time for us to stop being silent,” hesaid. “We can’t sit on the sideline anymorebecause we have a very important electioncoming up. If you look at the political plat-forms, you don’t see [fathers anywhere] onthe agenda. You can’t assume because it’s notthere that people are not talking about you.Dads, we have to step up more than ever tobe proactive.”

DeKalb DFCS provides resourcesfor fathers at annual conference

The DeKalb and Fulton counties’ Departments of Family and Children Services hosted the third annual Father-hood Conference and Resource Fair at New Life Community Center in Decatur. The event included speakerssuch as Commissioner Larry Johnson, a panel on fatherhood experts and vendors who provided resources

such as legal, mental health, housing and child support. Photos by Carla Parker

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Band director CurtisSanders will make history inanuary.

Sanders and his elemen-ary school band from the

Stephenson cluster will per-orm at the 2016 Georgia

Music Educators AssociationGEMA) Conference in Ath-

ns Jan. 28-30, 2016. Sanders’band will be the first pre-dominantly Black elementarychool band from DeKalb

County to perform at theonference.

“It’s outstanding,” Sand-rs said. “It’s a rare feat.”

Sanders said in the 70-year history of GMEA, hisband is the fifth Black bando perform there.

“Three of them werehigh school bands and onewas an elementary band thatperformed 23 years ago,” he

aid. “It was an all-honorband from the Atlanta PublicSchool System, but my bands not an honor band. My

bands consists of children Ieach on a daily basis.”

Southwest DeKalb HighSchool and Stephenson HighSchool were the only bandsrom DeKalb to perform athe conference in previous

years.Sanders will take a

00-piece band to the confer-nce, which will consist oftudents from Pine Ridge,

Rock Chapel, Shadow Rock

and Wynbrooke elementarychools. Sanders said his stu-

dents, who are mostly fifthgraders, work hard to be-ome good musicians.

“Practice—we practice just as much as the highschools and the middleschools do, it’s no different,”he said. “Everything [thehigh school band students]do, we do it, too, except wedon’t march on the field.”

The band is seeking do-nations for the upcomingperformance as well.

Because of the low eco-nomic status of most of hisstudents, Sanders said, someof his students play with“raggedy” instruments.

“We have really poorinstruments and we needinstruments,” he said. “I buyinstruments for some of mystudents because their par-ents can’t afford them.”

Sanders said he has a$500 budget and needs atleast $20,000 to purchasenew instruments for theJanuary performance.

Sanders hopes that thisupcoming performanceshows how important musiceducation is for elementarystudents.

“While one county iskilling [its] band programs,look at how this county’sband programs are flower-ing,” he said. “Atlanta Public

School System just killed theelementary band programs, just cut it out. I think peoplemake a huge mistake by cut-ting out band.

“Music is very impor-tant. You always try to have awell-rounded child. Childrenneed English, children need

math, children need scienceand children need music.Music is important to ourculture and our society.”For more information onhow to donate to the band,email [email protected]

South DeKalb elementary schoolband to perform at GMEA conference

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DeKalb County elementary school band director Curtis Sanders will take students from the Stephenson cluster to perform at the 2016 Georgia Music Educators Association Conference inAthens.

Sanders will take a 100-piece band to the conference, which will consistof students from Pine Ridge, Rock Chapel, Shadow Rock and Wynbrookeelementary schools.

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DeKalb HistoryCenter offers specialschool programs

Cross Keys Cluster Over‐Capacity Public Meeting

The DeKalb County School District will be holding two (2) public meetings to discuss the

district’s plans to address current and future overcrowding of schools in the Cross Keys

Cluster. The schools in the Cross Keys Cluster are: Cary Reynolds ES, Cross Keys HS, Dresden ES,

Montclair ES, Oakcliff Theme, Sequoyah MS, Woodward ES.

The meetings will be held on the following dates at the locations and times shown:

Tuesday, September 15, 2015: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Cross Keys High School

1626 N. Druid Hills Road NE

Atlanta, GA 30319

Thursday,

September

17,

2015:

6:00

PM

–

7:30

PM Sequoyah Middle School

3456 Aztec Road

Doraville, GA 30340

Parents and the community are invited to attend.

The DeKalb HistoryCenter (DHC), located inhe Historic Courthouse in

downtown Decatur, is offer-ng special school programshis fall, some of which are

new programs for specificgrade levels.

On Sept. 22 the DHCwill host the Civil War Ex-perience, a special programdeveloped around fifth- andighth-grade curricula. The

highlight of this program is aplay by local playwright andactor Cathy Kaemmerlen to

each students about the warn DeKalb County and theAtlanta area. In addition tohe one-hour play, studentsake a Civil War walkingour of the downtown De-atur area, interact with an

actor portraying HarriettTubman, and hear the Get-ysburg Address delivered by

a professional historian por-raying Abraham Lincoln.

A new program for sec-ond graders will take placeon Oct. 6 at the History Cen-er’s Historic Complex at 720

West Trinity Place in Deca-

ur. Second-Grade HistoryDay allows students to spendime with living historians in

period clothing who presentames Oglethorpe, Mary

Musgrove, Chief Tomochi-chi, and Sequoyah. Studentsearn about the early days ofhe Georgia colony, how the

native people were affectedby Europeans in their midst,he friendship between

Oglethorpe and Tomochichi,and the many accomplish-ments of Oglethorpe’s Creekndian translator Mary Mus-

grove.Students will meetCherokee Indian Mark Ea-on as he portrays Sequoyah;tudents recite the Cherokee

alphabet and learn about theman who singlehandedlyreated a written language.

Later that month, Oct.20-22, students experiencehe DHC’s largest school pro-

gram, the History Adventure.At this program studentsvisit eight different livinghistory stations at the DHC’sHistoric Complex. The pro-gram uses the Benjamin

Swanton House, the MaryGay House, and two pioneerog cabins. It focuses onighth-grade Georgia history

curriculum on Oct. 20-21and then switches its focus tofourth-grade early U.S. his-tory on Oct. 22. The stationsrange from Tubman and theUnderground Railroad toMary Gay , early Creek In-dians, old-timey mountainmusic, African storytelling,Sequoyah, RevolutionaryWar, early life in Decatur,and more.

“The History Adven-ture is an intense program,”said Jenny Goldemund,programs and preservation

coordinator for the DHC,“but students create powerfulassociations with the peoplebeing portrayed, and theyuse this knowledge to build aricher understanding of his-tory and individual lives.”

The last school programthis fall is the Third-GradeHistory Day. This is a two-part program with the firstpart being held Nov. 4 at theHistoric Courthouse. Thirdgraders, who will be taughtabout the foundations of de-mocracy and freedom as partof their curriculum, hear

from individuals who madegreat sacrifices to further thecause of democracy and free-dom in this country. At theevent, students encounter anactor playing Paul Revere,who was known for his mid-night ride but who was also amastermind of the AmericanRevolution.

Students will have anopportunity to talk with anactor portraying FrederickDouglass, who engineeredhis own escape from slaveryand then wrote and spoke of

the inalienable rights of allpeople, regardless of race.A Susan B. Anthony actorrallies students to her cause,women’s suffrage, with a pas-sion that pulls them into theaction of her story. Part 2of Third-Grade History Daywill be on March 23, 2016.

For more information onthese programs, school tours,and outreach programs visitwww.dekalbhistory.org, call(404) 373-1088, extension20, or email [email protected].

Children attending History Adventure learn about Native Americans.

Harriett Tubman interacts with students at the His-toric DeKalb Courthouse.

James Oglethorpe portrays life in the early Georgiacolony.

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th chamion FRee pReSS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 Page 15A LOcAL

CPSA was founded in990 by artist and author

Vera Curnow . The society isa nonprofit organization forartists ages 18 or older, withhe purpose of promotinghe “stature and awareness

of colored pencil as a fineart medium and to serve asa forum for the education,ommunication, andecognition of colored pencil

artists,” according to itswebsite.

The society has 23 district

hapters around the UnitedStates and 1,500 membersnationally and internationally.Peterson said the society isnecessary.

“There is a longstandingperception that works onpaper which are created withsketching techniques arelesser in value,” she said. “It istrue that over many centuries,works created in this mannerand with similar mediawere typically preparatoryexercises in planning morefinished works. However,these contemporary worksin colored pencil arehighly finished, beautifullyrendered, and are complete inthemselves.”

Peterson said studentsstudying art at Oglethorpehave an opportunity towork in a variety of media,including colored pencil.

lice training center and county jail. It alsofeatured live demonstrations and varioussimulator exercises.

James said that when communities riotor work against law enforcement agen-cies, clergy members “can stand in the gapand say, ‘Listen, if someone did somethingwrong, we need to seek justice, but at thesame time I’m going to urge some patienceand let’s get all the facts.’”

Marcia Thrasher, a leader of a Chris-tian recovery program at Higher PurposeChristian Center in Decatur, said, “Onething that I’ve learned is that things aren’talways what they appear to be.

“It’s very important that citizens—everybody—get the facts before we start making judgments,” Thrasher said. “As we’ve beentold today, our officers are trained to pro-tect themselves and to protect citizens, soobviously they’re out there doing that. Anddespite what it may seem like, we have totrust that.”

Christopher Madden, a minister atDeKalb United Pentecostal Church, said heattended the conference because his church

has been vandalized and burglarized a cou- ple of times in the past year.“We’re thinking in our ministry to get as

many of our ministers armed for security purposes because of situations that have es-calated in our area like burglaries,” Maddensaid.

Gladden Courtney Williams, a memberof Christ Church in Forest Park, participatedin a simulation that allows instructors tocreate various scenarios to teach officershow to react during active shooter situa-tions.

Williams’ scenario involved a child witha gun. Williams’ reluctance to shoot thechild resulted in an officer’s death duringthe simulation.

“I can understand how a child can getkilled and the community is in an uproar.But...in that scenario, I know I tried to notshoot her and…we had an officer that waskilled because of that,” Williams said. “I

can understand how cops…have a split sec-ond to make a decision.”

James participated in a simulated domes-tic altercation call during which he shot anarmed person without ordering him to dropthe weapon.

“It was a reflex,” James recounted. “Inmy scenario there was an individual thathad left the room that…should not have

been permitted to leave the room. I wasconcerned…about the individual that leftthe room.

“He came back in the room. I saw an ob- ject in his hand, “James said. “I didn’t shootimmediately, but then he raised that objectand it was clear to me that it was a smallhandgun and he pointed it at…the individu-al that was in the room. At that point it wasa reflex for me.

“Oftentimes these officers are put in thatscenario,” James said. “They don’t think,‘Should I shoot, should I not shoot?’ Theysee a weapon pointed at someone and theyreact and they pull their weapon and dis-charge it and that’s exactly what I did. Itwould have been helpful and probably bet-

ter policy if I had said, ‘Put down the weap-on, put down the weapon,’ but at that pointmy concern was for the safety of the personthat the weapon was being pointed at. Hehad pointed that weapon at that individual,so I shot him. That’s what an officer has todeal with.

“Everybody has preconceived notionsabout what is justified in terms of officerconduct,” James said. “We see things onvideo in this age of camera phones, and wemake snap judgments, but the reality is thatthings aren’t always the way that they ap-

pear.“Before, quite frankly, we make judg-

ments of officers in the community aboutwhether or not their actions are justified,we need to first understand what they gothrough and the training they receive interms of how they should react or how theyshould not react,” he said.

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From left, John Richey, a deputy chief investigator, and DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James explain aspectsof the judicial system to faith leaders.

Faith leaders participated in the seventh annual conference hosted by the district attorney and sheriff. Photos byAndrew Cauthen

he 23rd Annual International Exhibition featured more than 100 works ofrt. Photos by Carla Parker

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Workforce Development:

Job growth in DeKalb ‘slow and steady’

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by Kathy Mitchell

As Labor Day approach-s, more jobs are opening upocally than DeKalb County

has seen for the past sixyears. Still, like most of theountry, the area has noteached full employment.

DeKalb County’s unem-ployment rate is back to pre-ecession levels, according to

data from the University ofGeorgia. In June 2015—theatest available figure—theate was 6.3 percent, theame as in June 2008 beforet started to climb sharply. Iteached 10.6 percent in 2009

and 10.8 percent in 2010, be-ore peaking at 11.1 percentn 2011. In 2012, the unem-

ployment rate dropped to 9.8percent and was 9 percentor 2013 and 7.7 percent for

2014.“The economy is growing

and the job market is slowlyecovering although we’re

not where we want to be,”aid Sheryl Stone, director of

DeKalb County WorkforceDevelopment. “Job growth inGeorgia and especially here

n DeKalb has been slow andteady, but we’re still not ata point where everyone whowants a job can get a job.”

DeKalb Workforce De-velopment, a division of theDeKalb County government,provides such career servicesas access to computers andob search related software as

well as education, counsel-ng and financial assistanceor job seekers. Workforce

Development, 100 percentederally funded under the

Workforce Investment Act,eceives approximately $5.3

million a year to assist unem-ployed and underemployedDeKalb County residentswith $1.8 million specifically

dedicated to youth employ-ment.

Even though many more jobs are available now thanwere open in the county fiveyears ago, not every job seek-er is a good fit for the vacant jobs. “Employers still can af-ford to be picky. They’re notgoing to hire whoever walksin off the street. They canafford to look for the personwho will be a perfect matchwith the job,” according toStone.

She said that matchingapplicant skills with avail-

able positions often requirestraining. “The county’sstrategic development planidentified six areas in whichemployment is available lo-cally—construction, lifeservices, tourism and hospi-tality, advanced manufactur-ing, logistics [which includessuch services as warehousingand transportation] and pro-fessional business services.We have leveraged that infor-mation and are focused onhelping job seekers get theskills necessary to fill those jobs.

“If we discover oppor-tunities emerging in someother area, it certainly willget our attention as well,”Stone said.

Periodically, WorkforceDevelopment sponsors jobsummits to spotlight op-portunities in a particulararea. In late August, for ex-ample, the department helda construction summit “todisseminate information tocontractors, job seekers, andtraining providers about thenewest trends, outlook, andhigh-demand job opportuni-

ties in the construction in-

dustry,” according to a coun-ty announcement. Earlier inthe year, it held a healthcaresummit.

Workforce Developmentalso has a variety of specialprograms to help employersand job seekers such as onein which a portion of thenew employee’s salary is paidwhile the employee gains on-the-job experience.

Stone said transporta-tion is a high-demand areanow, noting that MARTAand other companies needdrivers. Being hired for such

jobs, however, requires acommercial driver’s license.“We can help job seekers getthe training and certificationnecessary for those posi-tions,” she explained.

Healthcare, she said, isanother area where employ-ment is available to thosewho qualify. “When manypeople think of jobs inhealthcare they tend to thinkof doctors and nurses, butthere is a wide range of jobs,including technicians, physi-cian’s assistants and more.”

In some instances, a jobseeker may need what arereferred to as “soft skills” inaddition to specific job per-formance skills—and Work-force Development can helpwith those, too. “Employerswant to hire people with agood work ethic—who cometo work on time, know howto get along with others andwork as a team,” Stone said.“A person who worked manyyears at one place may needto learn how to adjust to theway things are done in a dif-ferent work place. Employersare looking for well-roundedemployees who can adapt tothe needs of the work envi-ronment.”

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