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Medlock Elementary supporters face second front against closure
by Matt Amato
For area residents and
parents at Medlock Elemen-
tary, the battle to avoid the
chopping block was already
won. At least that’s what they
assumed last year when a com-
mittee of community members
failed to reach the consensus
that would have closed the
school. The community rallied
then–waving signs, bringing
children to meetings, creating
slogans, doing what it could to
apply pressure–and prevailed.
However, the threat of closure
has re-emerged.
A classic 1950s era build-
ing nestled in a quiet neighbor-
hood of post-war bungalows,
Medlock is again the target of
a school system riddled with
debt and desperately in need
of state funds. On Jan. 4, the
school board announced that
up to 14 schools could close
to help trim a surplus 11,000
seats.
Three days later, Med-
lock’s supporters were in the
familiar surroundings of the
school’s cafeteria to plan an-
other defense strategy. But
PTA co-president Tommy
Houseworth warned of a
mightier struggle ahead. “They
won’t respond to emotional
feelings, we have to look for
an alternative solution,” he
said. “This all happened very
quickly.”
That alternative solution,
he argued, would require a lot
of number crunching: Med-
lock’s survival now hinged on
making financial sense.
According to figures pre-
sented at the meeting, the
school is at 80 percent oc-
cupancy. The consulting firm
hired by the county to draw
up a list of recommendations,
MGT America, has taken a
number of factors into ac-
count, such as square footage,
and decided that students can
be sent to other area schools–
McLendon, Laurel Ridge and
Avondale, in Medlock’s case.
Scrutinizing the consult-
ing firm’s data will be key to
making a viable case against
closure, said Houseworth.
Anecdotally, there appears to
be grounds for a credible chal-
lenge. One parent at the meet-
ing, for example, described
how one of her two children
couldn’t attend Medlock due
to overcrowding. There’s also
a waiting list.
“How can we have a wait-
ing list if we’re under capac-
ity?” asked one attendee. “It
doesn’t make sense.”
The impact on property
values in the Medlock area is
another consideration. More
than a dozen concerned ho-
meowners with no ties to the
school were at the meeting.
“This will affect their [the
school board’s] revenue,” one
long-term resident pointed out.
With the board to hear
Snow halts DeKalb for a week
by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
Thick ice covering most
roads brought normal life in
DeKalb County to a halt for
nearly a week after a winter
storm dumped four to five
inches of snow and ice on
the Atlanta area.
School cancellations,
slippery driving conditions,
road closures and empty
government offices were the
norm as frigid temperatures
and cloud cover prevented
the ice from melting off in-
terstates and roads.
Because of the inclem-
ent weather, DeKalb County
schools used an unusual five
snow days in a row.
Walter Woods, a
spokesman for the county’s
school district, said the
school calendar has four in-
clement weather days built
in. Since five days have been
used, the district will have to
convert other days to school
days such as teacher work
days and other holidays.
DeKalb, along with
the other affected school
systems, is also waiting for
direction from the state’s De-
partment of Education to see
how the excessive day must
be made up, Woods said.
“It’s early in the year,
so hopefully there won’t be
anymore,” Woods said.
Between Sunday and
Wednesday of last week, the
DeKalb County 911 center
received 13,967 calls. Of
those, 5,730 were emergency
911 calls and 8,237 were
non-emergency or adminis-
trative calls.
Jason Gagnon, a
DeKalb Police spokesman,
final recommendations Feb.
7, building a defense purely
based on economics may be
wishful thinking. The larg-
est applause of the night was
reserved for one woman who
said Medlock’s greatest asset
was its ethnic mix and that
its students would be sent to
schools dominated by one race
if Medlock closed.
Collaboration with other
PTAs is another likely strategy,
and one supported by Abdul
Stone Mountain resident Al Nunez shovels his driveway after the
snow storm. Photo by Travis Hudgons
said the weather slowed the
department’s response time
to calls only slightly.
“We still got to all the
calls,” Gagnon said. The de-
partment responded to 165
vehicle accidents on Jan. 12
alone. But there were no fa-
talities or serious injuries.
Police car tires were out-
fitted with makeshift chains
to increase traction, Gagnon
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said. No DeKalb Police of-
ficers were involved in acci-
dents during the bad weather
conditions.
One call DeKalb police
responded to was an armed
robbery at about 9 p.m. on
Jan. 10 at the Citgo gas sta-
tion located at the intersec-
tion of Rockbridge Road
and South Stone Mountain-
Lithonia Road. Officers
responded within five min-
utes and the county’s SWAT
team arrived on the scene
within about 10-20 minutes,
Gagnon said. After a few
shots were exchanged, three
suspects were taken into cus-
tody.
Mike Carlson, public
information officer for the
Dunwoody Police Depart-
ment, said Dunwoody had a
lot of accidents just as other
municipalities did. Some
people were more concerned
about making it home than
reporting the accident, Ga-
gnon said.
The city did not have
many road closures, Carlson
said. Police officers worked
with public works employ-
ees to keep the roads safe.
Carlson said one
Dunwoody Police officer
was involved in a minor ac-
cident.
The department also
used its Twitter account to
keep residents informed
about road conditions. One
update on Jan. 10 asked
business owners to stay
closed: “We know some
businesses are planning on
opening later today. Please
don’t. Road conditions are
bad and will probably get
worse.”
The snow forced the clo-
sure of the DeKalb County
Recorders Court, parks and
recreation facilities, librar-
ies and all senior citizen
centers. The Board of Com-
missioners had to postpone
its regular meeting for four
days. The county’s sanitation
department suspended resi-
dential garbage collection
for serveral days.
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200,000-plus gallons of sewer
spills so far this month
by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
Last week while most
DeKalb residents were stuck
at home because of the win-
ter storm, county workers
were called out to deal with a
20,000-gallon sewer spill.
The spill, which occurred
Jan. 11 on North Hairston
Road in the Mountain Crest
apartment complex, was
caused by grease blocking
an eight-inch line which then
forced a manhole cover to
overflow. The spill entered
Snapfinger Creek, according
to county records.
Four days earlier on Jan.
7, nearly 165,000 gallons of
sewage entered Camp Creek
from a spill on Lawrencev-
ille Highway in Tucker.
Again, the cause was grease
blocking a pipe causing a
manhole to overflow. It took
county workers nearly 48
hours to contain the spill.
Other spills include:
• A 38,220-gallon spill on
Jan. 13. The spill, on the
1500 block of Biltmore Dr.,
entered Peachtree Creek
and was caused by grease.
• A 1,200-gallon spill on Bri-
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arbridge Circle in Tucker
on Jan. 9, caused by grease
and roots.
• A Jan. 7 spill on Ripple-
water Drive in Atlanta.
This 5,125-gallon spill was
caused by a piece of broken
pipe obstructing the sewage
from flowing. Workers had
to pump sewage from one
manhole to another one to
stop the spill from entering
the Entrenchment Creek
tributary.
• A 1,240-gallon spill that
entered Nancy Creek on
Jan.7. The spill occurred
on Binghamton Drive in
Dunwoody and was caused
by roots.
So far this month, more
than 239,220 gallons of sew-
age have spilled into area
creeks.
Last month, DeKalb
County agreed to pay a
$453,000 penalty from the
federal Environmental Pro-
tection Agency after having
nearly 850 sewage spills
from 2006-10. The county
also consented to implement
a $600,000 stream cleanup
project.
Additionally, the county’s
Board of Commissioners
approved $1.345 billion in
improvements to DeKalb’s
water and sewer system,
which will be financed by
an 11-percent rate hike each
year from 2012-14.
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Dunwoody suspect
remains in jail
by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
During her husband’s
funeral in November, An-
drea Sneiderman was
understandably
distraught.
Andrea “threw
her body over the
coffin before they
placed [the coffin]
in the ground as
if she didn’t want
him to go,” said
Sivan Ariel, who
attended the Con-
gregation Or Ha-
dash synagogue
with the Sneider-
Neuman
mans.
Informa-
tion has surfaced showing
Sneiderman knew the man
recently charged with the
murder of her husband,
Russell “Rusty” Sneider-
man.
On Jan. 4, The Dun-
woody Police Department
charged Hemy Zvi Neu-
man, 48, of Buckhead, with
murder in the November
shooting of Sneiderman out-
side of Dunwoody Prep, a
daycare center where he had
dropped off his son. Police
say Sneiderman was shot
several times, but have not
released what type of gun
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was used or where the bul- down the day after he was
lets struck. arrested.
The motive for the killing On his Linked-In ac-
also has not been released. count, Neuman describes
Since late December, himself as a results-driven
friends of the Sneiderman leader with vast interna-
family were tional experience managing
planning to engineering teams in the
hold a candle- aerospace, health care and
light vigil at energy sectors.
Dunwoody Neuman earned his bach- Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman and family
Prep on Jan. 6. elor’s degree in aerospace
The vigil was engineering from Georgia METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
indefinitely Tech in 1984. In 1998, he
postponed after received a masters’ degree
word spread of in business administration NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS JANUARY 24, 2011
Neuman’s ar- from Bradford University.
rest, according In 2009, GE sent Neu- Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
to an e-mail man to Walton High School Authority (MARTA) will hold public hearings for the purpose of considering
from the Con- to use his project manage-
gregation Or ment skills to help students Proposed Bus Service Modifications for April 23, 2011
Hadash syna- optimize their time in de-
Proposed routing and or adjustments for the following bus routes:
gogue. signing, constructing and
Neuman, who remains testing a robot for a project. Route 42 – Pryor Road/McDaniel North Hairston Road and Goldsmith Park &
in the DeKalb County Jail Erik Burton, com- Street: Alternate weekday trips until 7:00 Ride Lot will continue to be provided by the
without bond, and Andrea munications director for pm to restore service along Amal Drive, Route 119.
Sneiderman are both project DeKalb’s district attorney’s Bond Drive and Ashwood Avenue.
managers at GE Electric En- office, said the case was still Route 125 – Clarkston/Northlake:
ergy in Marietta, according open and that he could not Route 56 – Adamsville/Collier Reroute from Kensington Station to
to Martin Liptrot, a com- discuss the details of it. Heights: Alternate trips to restore week- Avondale Station along North Decatur Road
pany spokesman. day peak hour service to Waits Drive, Alex and Winn Way to relieve congestion and
Neuman has three chil- Unemployed? Under employed? Drive, Alex Way and Tarragon Way. improve bus movement in and around
dren: Addie, 17; and Lee Start your own Business! Kensington Station. Service would no
Route 120 – East Ponce de Leon longer be provided along Northern Avenue
and Tom, 20-year-old twins Unlimited income potential.
Avenue/Tucker: Modify route to operate between North Decatur Road and
working on engineering de- Call Jimmy L. Cave,
Independent Associate, from Avondale Station via E. Ponce de Leon Rockbridge Road.
grees at Georgia Tech. Avenue to Tucker.
“I wonder how they even Pre-Paid Legal at
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got these ideas for careers,” or visit Route 121 – Stone Mountain/ Provide more service along the Chamblee
Neuman wrote on his Face- prepaidlegal.com/hub/jimmylcave Memorial Drive: Modify service to reflect Tucker Road to Henderson Mill Road
book page, which was shut all trips operating via North Hairston Road, segment and reduce the frequency of serv-
E. Ponce de Leon Avenue, Main Street, W. ice along the Flowers Road South and
Mountain Street and Memorial Drive termi- Mercer University segments from alternat-
nating at Goldsmith Park & Ride Lot. ing trips to selective trips only to reflect
Service along Memorial Drive between current service demand on weekdays only.
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It’s said that a good photogra-
pher has a “good eye.” One would
be hard pressed to find a better ex-
ample of one seeing an excellent
shot than the case of the Columbus
Dispatch photographer who “saw”
Ted Williams begging on the side
of the road in Columbus, Ohio.
With one video shared on You-
tube, Williams was turned into
an overnight sensation with guest
appearances on all the national
talk shows. Williams might still be
on the streets begging for a sec-
ond chance to showcase what he
describes as his “God-given gift
of voice” had not that photogra-
pher “seen” Williams and allowed
others to see his unique, velvety
pipes.
No doubt most of us have
The Newslady
I ‘see’ you
heard Williams’ story: A down
and out former radio disc jockey
with a golden voice plagued by
the demons of alcohol, drugs and
petty crimes to feed his drug habit,
estranged from his family, begging
on the side of the road. Many peo-
ple would stop and “indulge” him
by listening to his golden voice
while tossing him a few coins, but
they never really “saw” him.
He was part of the barren,
concrete cityscape, as noticeable
as the traffic light. There, but not
really. But something dramati-
cally different happened recently.
A photographer actually stopped,
looked and listened. He made
Williams do camera work for his
alms. The photographer not only
saw superior talent, but he shared
it. Almost instantly there were
millions of hits on Youtube. Wil-
liams, who until a few days ago
was living in a tent near a Colum-
bus highway, is now mulling over
dozens of job offers and hundreds
of well-wishes from all over the
world. He was also reunited with
his 90-year-old mother whom he
hadn’t seen in a decade.
As I watched him on NBC’s
Today Show I was particularly
struck by his spirit. He was so
humble and mannered and pos-
sessed a joy that the national me-
dia spotlight did not give him. It
was evident in his Youtube video.
Williams says he’s been free of
drugs and alcohol for two years.
When asked by the Today
Show’s Matt Lauer how this re-
habilitation is different from the
past, Williams said the difference
this time is God in his life, his deep
spirituality. The scriptures tell us
to wait on the Lord. The scriptures
say to humble ourselves and God
will exalt. The scriptures also in-
struct us to do unto others as we
would have others do unto us.
Williams repeated the Golden
Rule, which he said his mother
taught him long years before. His
mother told the army of news
media that God had answered her
prayers that her son would one
day make something of himself.
At 53, Williams has benefitted
from a second chance. He said
there’s no way he could have ever
imagined that he would be in the
international spotlight being of-
fered dozens of opportunities to
showcase that gift of voice he says
God gave him. He described his
experiences as “outrageous” and
cautioned us not to judge a book
by its cover. There are so many
stories out there on the street.
Among Williams’ job offers
is one from the NBA’s Cleveland
Cavaliers for a two-year contract
that could include announcing
games plus living expenses. I
loved the quote from a Cavs of-
ficial who said, “We believe in
second chances and second oppor-
tunities. When you see something
that feels good and seems right,
you just have to launch.” What
would happen in our communi-
ties if we really began to see each
other? Ah, the possibilities with
second chances and prayers for re-
demption. What was the line in the
movie Avatar? “I see you.”
Steen Miles, The Newslady,
is a retired journalist and former
Georgia state senator. Contact
Steen Milies at Steen@dekalb-
champ.com.

Haiti: one year later

by Judge Greg Mathis

It’s been a year since a violent earth-

quake shook the poor nation of Haiti, killing
hundreds of thousands of people and causing
billions of dollars in damage.
In the days that followed the
quake, nonprofits, corporations
and individuals from around the
world donated money and time
in an overwhelming show of
support. As the media marks this
tragic anniversary, we should all
be aware that, although time has
passed, there still is much to be
done to not only rebuild Haiti Mathis
but to also make it prosperous.
It’s been no secret that organizations
working on the ground in Haiti have strug-
gled to determine priorities and allocate
resources. Billions of dollars were raised
following the earthquake; Americans alone
gave $2 billion to various charities. Unfortu-
nately, less than 40 percent of this money has
actually been spent. To be fair, it would have
been irresponsible for the charities to have
gone through the donated funds too quickly.
There should, however, be a plan – one that
is made available to the public – for directing
the funds to the areas they are most needed.
One of those areas badly in need of fund-
ing is housing. Nearly 1 million Haitians
still call temporary camps set up after the
earthquake home. One of the first steps in
creating a sense of normalcy for the people
of Haiti and showing progress in the country
is to ensure that safe housing is available.
Building the homes, however, is difficult if
there is no clear space to build. To date, only
5 percent of the ruins the earthquake
left behind have been cleared away.
Not only is this a hindrance to the
rebuilding process, it is also a safety
hazard. Charities working in this area
must allocate their resources appro-
priately and make sure they have the
funds on hand to better address the
housing needs of the Haitian people.
In the days following the earth-
quake, those working on the ground
were focused on finding survivors,
treating the injured and providing emergency
services. Today, they are working to curb a
cholera outbreak that has hit the tiny nation,
while continuing to provide shelter, food and
medical care to countless people.
The work in Haiti is difficult, there is no
doubt. And everyone working in the trenches
should be commended. However, a more
concentrated and collective effort to both ad-
dress the current needs of the Haitian people
and to plan for their future is needed.
Judge Greg Mathis currently provides le-
gal advice to more than three million listen-
ers on the Steve Harvey Morning Show and
also on his website, www.askjudgemathis.
com.
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William C. Crane, 1974-1992
Pardon Billy the Kid??? Are you kidding me?
“I learned of all the rules of
the modern-day drifter. Don’t you
hold on to nothin’ too long. Just
take what you need from the ladies,
then leave them, with the words
of a sad country song. My heroes
have always been cowboys,” – Wil-
lie Nelson, 1979 (lyrics by Sharon
Vaughn)
Like many children of the early
‘60s, I played a lot of cowboys and
Indians. My interest in history came
later, but as my name was Billy back
then, I was usually “Billy the Kid.”
It wasn’t until roughly high school
that I came to know William Bon-
ney (aka Billy the Kid) as a true dirt
bag. That wasn’t even his real name.
Bonney, actually Henry McCarty,
was memorialized and brought to
fame years after his death by Sheriff
Pat Garrett, who held the honor of
putting a bullet into Bonney’s back
and ending his life.
Strangely, Bonney/Billy’s 18-
page Wikipedia entry is longer than
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
One Man’s Opinion C. William “Bill” Crane, 2009 - ?
those of nearly half of our American
presidents. There is an odd twist in
the fabric of our nation’s history and
tradition that we periodically glamor-
ize and even lionize villains, outlaws
and even the occasional sociopath.
If you doubt me on this, think of how
Bonney, John Dillinger, Al Capone
and even thugs like “Baby Face”
Nelson and Clyde Barrow became
household names, and even heroes
for some in their day.
Bonney died young, at the age
of 21, with his primary accomplish-
ments being a paid cattle rustler and
cattle thief—and having murdered
somewhere between four and nine
men, though legends of the Old West
inflate that number as high as 21.
Remember, at the time of his life and
during the many years he spent in
what is now New Mexico, much of
the American southwest were territo-
rial provinces of the United States,
and part of a long-standing dispute
over “who owned and was entitled to
what” with Mexico.
Former presidential aspirant
and outgoing Democratic governor
of New Mexico Bill Richardson
is a highly regarded governor, and
perhaps one of the most visible His-
panic elected officials in our nation.
For the past several months in New
Mexico, Richardson has sought pub-
lic thought and comment on whether
or not to honor a potential pardon
waved like a carrot by then provin-
cial Gov. Lew Matthews in 1879, in
exchange for Bonney’s testimony in
another murder case. Bonney testi-
fied, and that killer was convicted,
but Matthews never made the pardon
that had been discussed. There is no
actual proof or documentation of the
pardon offer, other than Bonney’s
own papers. The provincial gover-
nor’s considered pardon was for a
murder by the Kid during what is
known as the Lincoln County War.
Bonney instead escaped from
prison, killing two more guards on
his way out, and then spent 11 more
weeks marauding across the New
Mexico territory before being found
and fatally shot by Garrett in July
of 1881. None of these later crimes
were ever considered or potentially
covered by any pardon.
Anti-hero westerns aside—and
Billy the Kid has been the subject
of many—the fascination with this
juvenile delinquent nearly 130 years
after his death continues to mystify.
Three states currently argue over the
right to claim the Kid as being born
there.
Thankfully, on the morning of
New Year’s Eve 2010, Gov. Richard-
son finally came to his senses, or per-
haps more likely heard from a hand-
ful of skilled political consultants on
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just how “pardoning Billy the Kid”
would likely translate later into Rich-
ardson being soft on crime should
he later again seek elective office.
Richardson said on the Today Show
during his last day in office that there
were still “too many facts in dispute”
for him to issue a pardon with a clear
conscience.
I suspect just as Bonney/Mc-
Cartey always returned to rustling,
gambling and the life of an outlaw,
Richardson has not yet left the po-
litical stage. A prominent Georgia
Democratic friend of mine is often
quoted as saying that there is only
one true cure once one has been bit-
ten by the bug of politics—formal-
dehyde.
And I would suggest, for Gov.
Richardson, or any other aspirants
for higher office, that there are still
better examples to be set, including
the time and attention we pay to our
heroes versus our villains, and we
should make sure that we don’t make
heroes out of outlaws.
Bill Crane is a DeKalb County
native and business owner, living in
Scottdale, Georgia. He also serves
as chief political analyst and com-
mentator for 11Alive News and WSB
Radio, News/Talk 750. Contact Bill
Crane at Bill@dekalbchamp.com.
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Perfect: the enemy
of the happy
Wouldn't it be terrible if we had a
great president and we didn't notice?
It’s easy to find some-
one to wish you a happy
New Year. Strangers do
it. Even people who don’t
like you do it. It’s far
more rare is to find some-
one who will tell you how
to achieve it.
I am that rare some-
one. I intend, before this
column ends, to present
you with the secret of
happiness. Call it a New
Year’s gift.
But first let me tell
you about happiness’s
evil twin–unhappiness.
Unhappiness is New York
City after an 18-inch
snowfall.
It happened over the
holidays and the Big
Apple came to a dead
stop. Planes stopped fly-
ing, buses stopped busing.
And as for cars–fuhged-
daboudit.
New Yorkers took this
with the calm equanim-
ity usually reserved for
large fires in crowded
theaters. They screamed,
they wailed, they moaned.
They blamed their mayor,
a billionaire-philosopher-
statesman named Michael
Bloomberg, founder of
the eponymous financial
news and data empire.
He didn’t give them
enough warning, New
Yorkers charged. The
warning he gave them
was weak. He was slow
to declare a “snow emer-
gency.” He didn’t get side
streets cleared for days.
The mayor, after some
defensiveness, took the
fall and apologized to his
constituents. He promised
to do better in the future.
But let’s face it folks,
you can declare all the
snow emergencies you
want. Eighteen inches of
snow is still 18 inches of
snow. And in a densely
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packed city like New
York, it’s going to create a
big mess.
This is particularly true
when you’ve recently let
go of some 400 sanitation
workers (the snow re-
moval people) to cut your
budget.
But New York’s an-
ger at Bloomberg’s per-
formance is as nothing
compared to the wrath
incurred by President
Barack Obama in his
two short years in office.
Republicans have ex-
coriated him for extend-
ing health care insurance
to the poor, failing to cre-
ate more jobs and over-
regulating banks and in-
dustry, trying to stimulate
the economy and daring
to take up the agenda of
the gay rights movement.
Democrats, on the oth-
er hand, have blamed him
for coddling banks and
industry, not extending
health care even further,
failing to end the wars
he inherited and trying
to compromise with Re-
publicans who wish him
dead.
It’s as though the
whole country had an 18-
inch snowfall, all at once.
Yet, at the end of his
two-year apprenticeship,
he can point to a remark-
able list of achievements,
given the hard road he
had to travel.
His policies pulled
the economy out of its
freefall. The banks and
corporations he bailed out
with government money
have repaid much, if
not most, of it. He got a
health care bill passed,
giving at least 32 mil-
lion people a chance at
coverage they’d never
had. He extended job-
less benefits for mil-
lions of the long-term
unemployed in time for
the holiday season. He got
an arms reduction treaty
with the Russians passed
by the Senate. He cleared
the way for the end to the
“don’t ask, don’t tell” pol-
icy in our military. He got
a financial reform pack-
age passed that will do
some good in preventing
another financial melt-
down. He moved toward
withdrawal of our combat
troops in Iraq.
That’s not chopped liv-
er. OK, he also extended
the Bush tax cuts for the
rich, a lousy move forced
upon him by Senate Re-
publicans. And he had to
agree to keep throwing
money (uselessly, I think)
at our mythical missile
defense system.
That’s politics. That’s
compromise. It’s our sys-
tem of government.
Wouldn’t it be terrible
if we had a great president
and we didn’t notice?
And so at last we come
to the secret of happiness:
Lower your standards.
I don’t mean to imply
you should accept shoddy
work or failure, but less
than perfection? Oh yes,
that you should accept.
Because that’s the way
life is. Not perfect.
They say that perfect is
the enemy of good and I
think that’s right. It is also
the enemy of happy.
OtherWords columnist
Donald Kaul lives in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. www.
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The following comments are pulled straight from our Web site and
are not edited for content or grammar.
Raw sewage spills into local creeks
Could this clogging be due to the illegal disposal of
cooking oil? And if so is what are the measures being
taken to get to the root of the problem. And shouldn’t the
public have fist hand knowledge of these spill as well, by
way of a boil water alert or something. I believe throwing
increasing taxes and paying taxpayers dollars by way of
fines and penalties back to the federal government is the
solution.
–marilyn jackson-blair posted this on 1/15/11 at 11:20 a.m.
How is it they can find money for raw sewage but can’t
get the homeless off the streets? Where do they think the
homeless perform their elimination of waste?
–Lichele posted this on 1/15/11 at 7:59 a.m.
Residents still urged to stay off roads
I’ve noticed malls and some grocery stores managed to
hire people to clear their parking lots. Is there some reason
we can’t have a plan to hire private contractors to help with
roads when we don’t have adequate municipal equipment?
–Al posted this on 1/12/11 at 5:24 p.m.
The Champion newspaper closed today
Well, at least The Champion is one employer that is
considerate of its employees. Pity those employees whose
nonessential employers insisted their employees risk per-
sonal safety and come in to work and ontime or be fired.
These people won’t even be able to collect unemployment
as the Georgia Dept. of Labor will probably determine that
weather conditions aren’t the fault of the employer and
if an employee did not show up ontime - well, that’s the
employee’s fault.
–Claurence posted this on 1/10/11 at 2:11 p.m.
UPDATE: Road closings list
It’s not too hard for northerners to deal with, but here
in Atlanta, we have icy hills. Side roads are never treated
much in the north and we neighbors would work together
and dig, salt with rock salt and shovel to break up areas to
get out into main roads. Our municipalities SHOULD have
been better prepared with all of the advance notice, but
WE can help each other also. Shovel it!
–Diane posted this on 1/14/11 at 3:18 .m.
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DeKalb Sheriff under
budget for 2010
by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
As the DeKalb Board
of Commissioners begins
to wrestle with the 2011
budget, the county’s
sheriff announced that his
office had ended the year
under budget for the 10th
consecutive year.
According to a statement
released by Sheriff Thomas
Brown on Jan. 7, the
Sheriff’s Office was under
budget by $811,170 for
2010. Last year’s budget
for the Sheriff’s Office
was $74.4 million. Of that
amount, the Sheriff’s Office
did not use about $63,000.
In September 2010, the
Board of Commissioners
allotted an additional
$748,000 in funds to
be used for anticipated
overtime pay. This was
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
intended to counteract
the department’s loss of
89 employees due to the
county’s early retirement
program last year.
According a report from
the county’s chief executive
officer, the Sheriff’s Office
refilled all 89 positions. The
Sherriff’s Office has 863
positions.
Brown said the entire
$748,000 allotment will
be returned to the county’s
general fund.
“The executive staff of
the Sheriff’s Office has done
a fantastic job in managing
the resources to include
personnel assignments in
keeping overtime pay to
a minimum,” Brown said.
“I cannot express how
proud I am of this team
of professionals who has
made it their mission to
protect the taxpayers’ funds
while maintaining a safe
environment for both the
employees of the Sheriff’s
Office and the inmates
incarcerated here.”
The Sheriff’s Office was
able to pay all outstanding
2010 bills, not furlough any
employees during the fourth
quarter of the year and
return more than $810,000
to the county administration,
Brown said.
For 2011, DeKalb CEO
Burrell Ellis has proposed a
budget of $66.1 million for
the Sheriff’s Office. That’s
nearly 12 percent of the
county’s overall budget and
$8.3 million less than last
year’s budget.
“I am looking forward
to working with the board
of commissioners as we
prepare for the next budget
cycle for 2011,” Brown
said.
DIANE STUBBS
Champion of the Week
Helping those less
fortunate was a concept
instilled in Diane Stubbs
by her father.
“It’s always been a
passion of mine and my
dad taught me to give
back and do for others
who can’t help them-
selves,” Stubbs said of
her father, Ray Manget,
who passed away in
1996.
Stubbs has been liv-
ing by her father’s words
for decades. Presently
she volunteers for several
organizations, including
the Decatur Cooperative
Ministry, where her father
was the group’s first trea-
surer.
Stubbs has volun-
teered with that orga-
nization ever since her
church, North Decatur
United Methodist Church,
became involved with
Hagan’s House, which
is a homeless shelter for
women and children un-
der the auspices of the
DCM. She helps serve
meals there two weeks a
year, and two years ago
became shelter’s lead
volunteer at night.
“I help serve meals,
take supplies to the ladies
there, lend an ear to lis-
ten and help with the chil-
dren,” Stubbs said. “I just
try to make their evenings
flow more smoothly.”
She also is co-chair-
woman of two fundraising
events that helped raise
If you would like to nominate someone to
be considered as a future Champion of the
Week, please contact Kathy Mitchell at
kathy@DeKalbchamp.com or at
404-373-7779, ext. 104.
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more than $30,000 for the
shelter in 2010. The Gar-
den of Eatin’ is an event
where visitors can buy a
ticket to sample food from
25 Decatur restaurants.
There also is a silent auc-
tion. The event cleared
$25,000 last year. Stubbs
also helped coordinate
a garage sale last June
at her church that raised
$6,000 for the shelter in a
single day.
In addition to her work
with the co-op, Stubbs
volunteers for the Wom-
en’s Community Kitchen
at Grace United Method-
ist Church in Atlanta and
the Decatur Emergency
Assistance Ministry,
which is a food pantry
that also helps with utility
bills, prescription bills and
rent.
Stubbs said she helps
out at two other shel-
ters in Atlanta and helps
serves Sunday lunch to
approximately 350 home-
less people.
“I do what I do in [my
father’s] memory,” Stubbs
said. “I feel like he’s smil-
ing down from heaven
and saying ‘keep at it.’”
Stubbs taught pre-
school at Clairemont Hills
Baptist Church and re-
tired as a teacher from St.
Timothy United Methodist
Church. She has been
able to volunteer more
since retiring and also
is active within her own
church and has helped
her son raise her now-4-
year-old granddaughter
since Stubbs’ daughter-
in-law passed away three
years ago.
“My dad just wanted
us to realize how blessed
we are,” said Stubbs,
who follows the mantra
of John Wesley, the
founder of Methodism.
“‘Do as much as you can
for as many as you can
for as long as you can.’
That’s pretty much it in a
nutshell.”
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New attorneys learn the ropes in

DA’s apprentice program
by Nigel Roberts trict Attorney Don Geary and Most of the apprentices the state that have experi- Case, have deferred associ-
DeKalb County Assistant Dis- work for no salary. Some, enced major backlogs, as ates working in the program
Adam Ribner recently trict Attorney Matt McCoyd, though, have been hired by they carry the same case who will join their firms
graduated from Georgetown the program provides extensive law firms that have deferred load while experiencing with a wealth of experience
University Law School and instruction and practical expe- their employment for up to dramatic budget cuts. after completing their ap-
passed the Georgia bar. Un- rience in criminal prosecution, one year while they train in Law firms have also ben- prenticeship.
like most newly minted oral advocacy and jury trial the program. efitted from the apprentice Any law firm or recent
lawyers, Ribner will go to advocacy. This free legal help, program. The DA’s office graduate that wants more in-
his first job with lots of prac- “While running the pro- which has been approved noted that several metro formation about the appren-
tical experience through the gram creates some extra work by authorities in the state’s area firms, such as Alston + tice program should contact
DeKalb DA’s attorney ap- for our office, we are delighted court system, has been a Bird, Bryan Cave, Dewey McCoyd at mjmccoyd@
prentice program. to be able to offer this opportu- significant help to district & LeBouf, Morgan Lewis dekalbcountyga.gov.
As an apprentice, Ribner nity to these great young law- attorneys offices throughout & Bockius and White &
has done just about every- yers,” said Geary. “Our objec-
thing a prosecuting criminal tive is to offer each apprentice City of Chamblee – Public Notice
attorney does—from draft- the opportunity to participate in
ing legal memos, negotiating two to three jury trials serving Qualification Fee for Municipal Election
bond and plea deals to ap- as either first or second chair Pursuant to Section 21-2-131 (a) (1) of the Georgia Election Code, notice is hereby given that
pearing in court. “It’s been during their apprenticeship.”
an invaluable opportunity,” Ribner, 30, was a police the qualifying fee for City of Chamblee 2010 Municipal Election is $216 for the office of City
said Ribner. “The apprentice officer for about three years, Council. For additional information, contact Nancy Williams, City Clerk at 770-986-5018 or
program allows beginning serving in DeKalb and Charles-
attorneys to get hands-on ton, S.C. “Police work is re- nwilliams@chambleega.com.
experience inside a district lated to prosecution. Making
attorney’s office that doesn’t arrests is where the process PUBLIC NOTICE
normally happen.” starts,” he said. “As a police NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL OFFICE QUALIFYING FEES
The apprenticeship pro- officer, I had contact with pros- DECATUR CITY COMMISSION AND
gram started under former ecutors but wanted to be more DECATUR BOARD OF EDUCATION
DeKalb County District At- involved in the legal aspect of
torney Gwen Keyes Fleming NOVEMBER 8, 2011 ELECTION
the justice system.”
and is modeled loosely on an His apprenticeship is nearly
L.L.M (an advanced master’s over, and Ribner will soon join Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 21-2-131 the City of Decatur City Commission has fixed the qualifying fee for City
of law degree) in trial advo- the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Commission at $ 144.00 and the fixed qualifying fee for Board of Education member is $35.00. Additional
cacy. Designed by DeKalb Atlanta where he will work as information may be obtained by calling the City Clerk’s Office 404-370-4100 ext. 6503 from 8:30 A.M.
County Chief Assistant Dis- a law clerk in the civil division. until 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday.

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Boston selected as county’s
new solicitor general
by Matt Amato
Handling a hefty case
load will be one of the chal-
lenges facing new DeKalb
County Solicitor General
Sherry Boston, who recent-
ly was sworn in less than a
week after being appointed
to the post by outgoing Gov.
Sonny Perdue.
Boston, serving as a
judge on the DeKalb Re-
corder’s Court and the Dun-
woody Municipal Court at
the time of the appointment,
attended Emory University
and previously worked as a
Congressman John Lewis. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Lewis speaks at DeKalb’s MLK event
by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
Fifty years ago this year,
in 1961, civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.,
participated in the Freedom
Rides to protest against
segregation on interstate
buses and at bus terminals.
That was the same year that
President Barack Obama
was born.
“If it hadn’t been for
Martin Luther King Jr.,
there would be no Barack
Obama as the president
of the United States of
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
criminal defense attorney.
“It’s a big job,” said
Boston. “I’m bringing a
perspective that most don’t
have. I have a full-circle ex-
perience being involved in
every side [of criminal de-
fense and prosecution law].”
One of Boston’s chal-
lenges will be addressing
the department’s case load.
Annually, that number aver-
ages 13,000, handled by 25
attorneys and approximately
50 support staff.
“I’d like to implement
a standardized, centralized
program—one that takes
America,” said Congress-
man John Lewis during
DeKalb County’s 27th an-
nual Martin Luther King Jr.
celebration.
Lewis, the only survivor
of the 10 speakers during
the historical March on
Washington in 1963, was
the keynote speaker for an
employee-led celebration
on Jan. 14.
“If it hadn’t been for
Martin Luther King Jr., I
don’t know where I would
be. I don’t know where
America would be today,”
said Lewis, who has repre-
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cases off the trial attorneys DeKalb’s district
and judges by creating a attorney. Her ap-
diversion program,” Boston pointment comes
said. two months after
Such changes, though, running for the
will come after an obser- DeKalb State
vational period to assess Court.
the department’s workings “Five years
and needs. “I’m going to from now, I’d like
be spending a lot of time to be leading the
keeping my eye on things,” office with a list of
Boston said. “It’s the smart accomplishments
thing—to get a good handle for the citizens of
and make changes that are DeKalb and com-
necessary.” munity programs,”
Boston replaces Robert she said. Boston
James, who resigned to
mount a successful run for
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Lewis recalled visiting
various cities around the
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When he was 15 years
old, Lewis said he felt
called into the Civil Rights
Movement after hearing
King on a radio program in
1955 talking about people
of faith making a difference
in society.
“When I heard his voice,
I felt he was talking di-
rectly to me saying, ‘John
Robert Lewis, you too can
do something,’” Lewis said.
“I was inspired by Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr., to find a
way to get in the way.”
A year later Lewis, some
of his siblings and cousins,
went to a library in Troy,
Ala., to try to get a library
card. But they were told
that the library was for
Whites only. Lewis said he
never went to that library
again until July 5, 1998, for
a signing of his book Walk-
ing with the Wind.
Lewis said King’s mes-
sage is still relevant for to-
day: “He inspired us all to
stand up. He taught us the
way of peace. He taught us
the way of love. He taught
us the way of nonviolence.
“If Dr. King could speak
to us today he would say
there’s too much violence,
too many killings,” Lewis
said. “We need to be kind
to each other. We need
to be willing to say ‘I’m
sorry.’ We need to love and
not hate.”
During his talk, Lewis
told of how he got started
with public speaking: In
1944, when he was 4 years
old his father, a sharecrop-
per living near Troy, Ala.,
used $300 of his savings to
purchase 120 acres of land
that is still in the Lewis
family today.
Lewis’s chore on the
family farm was to care for
the chickens, and as a child,
he was interested in becom-
ing a minister.
“From time to time,
we’d gather all of the
chickens, together–and my
brothers and sisters and
cousins–in the chicken
yard and we would have
church,” Lewis said.
“They never quite said
‘amen,’ but I’m convinced
that some of those chick-
ens that I preached to in
the ‘40s and ‘50s tended
to listen to me much better
than some of my colleagues
listen to me today in the
Congress.”
Photos provided
Habitat volunteers invited to
pitch in on a smaller scale
by Chris Queen
Habitat For Humanity
DeKalb will present a new
and innovative fundraising
event with its Playhouse
Build Event on Feb. 12 in
various locations throughout
DeKalb County.
This first-of-its-kind
event allows groups and
families who may not have
the time or resources to
devote to a full Habitat For
Humanity project to get
involved in a different way.
At the Playhouse Build
Event, groups will construct
4-foot by 6-foot children’s
playhouses, which will
then be auctioned off
as a fundraiser for the
organization.
At the event, groups
will frame and build the
playhouses. The framing
portion of the event is
designed to give the groups
an idea of the camaraderie
and fellowship that takes
place at a typical Habitat
For Humanity building
site. After framing their
playhouses, groups will take
the houses to a staging area
to decorate.
Habitat For Humanity
representatives will judge
the playhouses and award
prizes in various categories.
The playhouses will then
be displayed at Perimeter
Mall before being auctioned
off as a fundraiser on April
16 to benefit Habitat For
Humanity DeKalb.
The idea for the
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
event came about in a
brainstorming session. John
Shaffer, executive director
of Habitat For Humanity
DeKalb, was discussing
ideas for fundraisers
with a member of the
organization’s fundraising
committee when the idea
to build playhouses for the
children of families who
benefit from Habitat For
Humanity was suggested.
“Habitat is all about
building houses, said
Shaffer. “Why not shape
a fundraiser around that
very concept? We designed
a small playhouse that we
thought people would be
interested in buying to put
in their backyards for their
children. We knew people
would voluntarily build
such a project, donating it
back to Habitat so that the
proceeds would benefit our
mission.”
Shaffer also credits the
Tucker High School chapter
of Habitat For Humanity for
creative inspiration. This
group of students has raised
$130,000 for Habitat For
Humanity and completed
eight builds in locations
as diverse as Taos, N.M.,
Mobile, Ala., and the Gulf
Coast. Shaffer hopes to get
other schools on board and
use the event as the catalyst
to open more high school
chapters.
The goal of the
event is to increase the
organization’s profile and
raise awareness of its
mission in DeKalb County.
Shaffer said they will repeat
the event in coming years.
In 2011, Habitat For
Humanity DeKalb is
planning on completing
12 houses. Their goal is to
renovate nine foreclosed
properties and build three
completely new homes.
“We have expanded our
operations quite a bit from
the traditional concept of
building one new home at a
time,” said Shaffer.
Shaffer, who took on the
role of executive director
in September, said he is
blessed by seeing people
step up to the plate and
help others. He said that
watching people work to
change the lives of others
benefits him as much as
it benefits the volunteers
and the families served by
Habitat For Humanity.
“It has meant so much
to me, being new to the
Atlanta area, as I have
watched individuals, as
well as churches and
businesses step forward
and give of themselves for
the betterment of others,”
said Shaffer. “When we
do a housing rehabilitation
for example, or rebuild a
burned out house, the work
is dirty. There is absolutely
nothing glamorous about it.
But after these volunteers
and our partner families
have put in a few weeks,
they experience the rebirth
of a vacant, dilapidated
property that is a burden on
a neighborhood.
“They get to participate
in the resurrection of an
eyesore that attracts crime
and vandalism, turning it
into a home for a family
that is working side by side
with them on that property,”
he said. “They experience
the joy of knowing that the
partner family appreciates
what they’ve done, and will
become strong neighbors in
an improved neighborhood.
All the volunteers come
away feeling better about
themselves in the process as
well.”
Habitat For Humanity
DeKalb is a local division
of Habitat For Humanity,
an international, non-profit,
ecumenical Christian
organization that provides
safe and affordable housing
for families. Habitat
For Humanity DeKalb
has built more than 60
houses throughout the
county through the help of
individuals and groups from
all over DeKalb County.
The deadline to be
involved in the Playhouse
Build Event is Feb. 4. The
entry fee is $200-$300,
depending on the size of
the group entering, and the
fee covers the cost of the
materials for the playhouse.
For more details on
how to become involved
with this event or other
Habitat For Humanity
DeKalb projects, visit www.
dekalbhabitat.org.
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Clarkston to get street lights where

murder occurred
by Andrew Cauthen In other business, the years ago, has been serv- and hiring rule the day,” Commissioner Larry
andrew@dekalbchamp.com board of commissioners ing as interim director since Commissioner Lee May Johnson, whom the board
approved the appointment then-director Mike Bell said as the commissioners chose for its presiding of-
Five months ago, a of Joel Gottlieb as the retired last summer during questioned Gottlieb about ficer again this year, said the
20-year-old Myanmar refu- county’s financial director in the county’s early retire- his willingness to work with commission is serious about
gee was gunned down in an what was dubbed “a semi- ment program. Gottlieb has the board. the roles of the legislative
apparent drive-by shooting confirmation hearing.” approximately 35 years of “We’re going to be push- and administrative branches
as he and his friends were Gottlieb, who was hired government experience. ing the envelope,” May said. of county government.
walking to their apartment as the county’s assistant “Long gone are the days “Are you sure you want to
complex on Jolly Avenue in finance director about 15 when political appointments do it [the director’s job]?”
Clarkston.
Now that dark half-mile
stretch of road on the border DeKalb County Wants to Hear From You
of Clarkston is getting street
lights, thanks to a vote by Regarding the Proposed Franchise Agreement Renewal
the DeKalb County Board with Comcast Cable Communications
of Commissioners last
week. Send your comments and/or concerns regarding Comcast’s current performance under
The owners of 62 percent the current franchise agreement and/or the future cable-related needs and interests of
of the property along the your community to cable@co.dekalb.ga.us.
road signed a petition ask-
ing for the street lights and The Champion Weather Jan. 20, 2011
agreeing to pay 40 cents per
lighted street-side foot per Seven Day Forecast In-Depth Local Forecast Today's Regional Map Weather History
year to pay for the lights. THURSDAY
Today we will see mostly sunny skies with a Jan. 20, 1943 - Strange vertical
In August 2010, 20-year- Mostly Sunny
slight chance of showers, high temperature of antics took place in the Black
old Pa Lee Klo, who had 55º, humidity of 62%. South wind 5 mph. The Dunwoody Hills of South Dakota. While the
High: 55 Low: 33 record high temperature for today is 73º set in temperature at Deadwood was a
been in the country less than 53/32 Lilburn
1933. Expect cloudy skies tonight with an 80% Smyrna Doraville frigid 16 degrees below zero, the
a year, was killed on the FRIDAY
54/33
chance of rain and snow, overnight low of 33º. 54/33 town of Lead, just a mile and a
street that is heavily used by Sunny
54/33
Snellville half away, but 600 feet higher in
pedestrians. High: 40 Low: 21 *Last Week’s Almanac Decatur
55/33 elevation, reported a balmy 52
And many of the pe- Date Hi Lo Normals Precip
Atlanta 55/33
degree reading.
destrians are easy targets 55/33
SATURDAY Tuesday 34 29 51/33 0.16" Lithonia
of criminals, said Adam Sunny Wednesday 28 20 51/33 0.00" College Park 56/33 Jan. 21, 1988 - High pressure
Hoyt, a Clarkston resident High: 44 Low: 24 Thursday 34 19 51/33 0.00" 56/33 Morrow over northern Nevada and low
who works for Friends of Friday 44 18 51/33 0.00" 56/33 pressure off the coast of
Refugees, a Clarkston-based SUNDAY Saturday 48 24 51/33 0.00" Union City
Southern California combined to
group that helps refugees Sunny Sunday 52 28 52/33 0.00" 56/33
produce high winds in the south-
become contributing mem- High: 50 Low: 31 Monday 47 30 52/33 0.00"
Hampton western United States. Wind
bers of society. Rainfall . . . . . . .0.16" Average temp . .32.5
57/34 gusts in the San Francisco area
About two weeks after MONDAY Normal rainfall . .1.15" Average normal 42.1
reached 70 mph.
Departure . . . . .-0.99" Departure . . . . .-9.6
Klo’s murder, 400 marchers Mostly Cloudy
*Data as reported from De Kalb-Peachtree Airport
participated in a Walk for High: 53 Low: 35
Solidarity to commemorate Local Sun/Moon Chart This Week Tonight's Planets
his life and bring to light TUESDAY Day Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset
Rise Set
the growing violence in the Mostly Cloudy Last Thursday 7:40 a.m. 5:56 p.m. 7:12 p.m. 8:02 a.m. First
Mercury 6:21 a.m. 4:16 p.m.
High: 52 Low: 34 1/26 Friday 7:40 a.m. 5:57 p.m. 8:22 p.m. 8:41 a.m. 2/11
apartment complexes where Venus 4:21 a.m. 2:39 p.m.
refugees and other immi- Saturday 7:39 a.m. 5:58 p.m. 9:32 p.m. 9:17 a.m.
Mars 7:58 a.m. 6:09 p.m.
WEDNESDAY Sunday 7:39 a.m. 5:59 p.m. 10:40 p.m. 9:51 a.m.
grants live. Partly Cloudy
Jupiter 10:40 a.m.10:37 p.m.
New Monday 7:38 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 11:48 p.m. 10:26 a.m. Full
“They are terrified every High: 52 Low: 30 Tuesday 7:38 a.m. 6:01 p.m. No Rise 11:02 a.m.
Saturn 11:53 p.m.11:36 a.m.
day when they go out,” said 2/2 2/18 Uranus 10:32 a.m.10:27 p.m.
Wednesday 7:37 a.m. 6:02 p.m. 12:56 a.m. 11:42 a.m.
Susan Pavlin, director of
policy for Refugee Family Local UV Index National Weather Summary This Week Weather Trivia

Services. Since Klo’s death,
the Clarkston area has seen
177 crimes, including 62
assaults, 23 robberies and
one murder, Pavlin said.
The lights could mean
the difference between life
and death, Hoyt said.
Clarkston mayor
Emanuel Ransom asked
the commission to approve
the special lighting district
in the memory of Howard
Tygrett, the former mayor
of Clarkston who died sud-
denly in office in December.
Tygrett, who was elected to
office last year, was a propo-
nent of the street lights.
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The Northeast will see mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with scattered snow What meteorologist made
today through Saturday, with the highest temperature of 39º in Baltimore, Md. a significant contribution
0 - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11+ The Southeast will see scattered showers and thunderstorms today and Friday, to geology?
UV Index
mostly clear skies Saturday, with the highest temperature of 79º in Hollywood, Fla. The Answer: Alfred Wegener first
0-2: Low, 3-5: Moderate, Northwest will see mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with a few showers today through theorized that the continents
6-7: High, 8-10: Very High Saturday, with the highest temperature of 56º in Medford, Ore. The Southwest will see mostly were once together.
11+: Extreme Exposure clear skies today through Saturday, with the highest temperature of 72º in Los Angeles, Calif. © 2010. Accessweather.com, Inc.
StarWatch By Gary Becker - A Sentient Universe
We live in a universe that is composed mostly of dark matter and dark energy. What we can see, about four percent, is made up of mainly hydrogen, a light, colorless,
odorless gas, that given enough time, can turn into people. The storyline is a complex series of twists and turns that has been occurring for billions of years. The universe
started with a pop, still called the Big Bang, the rifting of dimensions 14.7 billion years ago from some pinhead-sized blob—a burst of pure energy which a second later
boasted all of the laws of nature that we know today. Energy rapidly morphed into hydrogen, helium, and a tiny bit of lithium. In the turbulence of the primordial mix,
denser structures began to form galaxies which had as their basic luminous component, stars. One of these structures was the progenitor of our own Milky Way. Galaxies clustered and
grew as they cannibalized each other, moving outward in an ever expanding and accelerating universe. Within our own local area, our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies became
dominant. Hundreds of billions of stars lived and died since our galaxy’s beginning, stars that have changed their hydrogen and helium into heavier elements through thermonuclear
fusion. About one star in a thousand has gone supernova, producing in its catastrophic wake all of the naturally occurring elements and seeding the galaxy with its stardust—dust that in
one case mingled with more hydrogen and helium to form an average star with its planets and moons that today we call our solar system. On the third planet, those atoms created in the
dying bellies of stars were able to organize into replicating units about four billion years ago and evolve over eons of time into people Humanity has a tremendous responsibility to under-
stand the soul of this universe that has given so much of itself to create us. www.astronomy.org
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Health officials say too much fluoride

causing splotchy teeth
by Mike Stobbe But there are also growing
worries about more serious
ATLANTA (AP) In a dangers from fluoride.
remarkable turnabout, fed- The Environmental Pro-
eral health officials say many tection Agency released two
Americans are now getting new reviews of research on
too much fluoride because of fluoride last week. One of the
its presence not just in drink- studies found that prolonged,
ing water but in toothpaste, high intake of fluoride can in-
mouthwash and other prod- crease the risk of brittle bones,
ucts, and it’s causing splotches fractures and crippling bone
on children’s teeth and perhaps abnormalities.
more serious problems. Critics of fluoridated wa-
The U.S. Department of ter seized on the proposed
Health and Human Services change to renew their attacks
announced plans Jan. 7 to on it—a battle that dates back
lower the recommended level to at least the Cold War 1950s,
of fluoride in drinking water when it was denounced by
for the first time in nearly 50 some as a step toward Com-
years, based on a fresh review munism. Many activists nowa-
of the science. days don’t think fluoride is
The announcement is essential, and they praised the
likely to renew the battle over government’s new steps.
fluoridation, even though the “Anybody who was anti-
addition of fluoride to drink- fluoride was considered cra-
ing water is considered one zy,” said Deborah Catrow,
of the greatest public health who successfully fought a
successes of the 20th century. ballot proposal in 2005 that
The United States prevalence would have added fluoride
of decay in at least one tooth to drinking water in Spring-
among teens has declined from field, Ohio. “It’s amazing that
about 90 percent to 60 percent. people have been so convinced
The government first be- that this is an OK thing to do.”
gan urging municipal water Dental and medical groups
systems to add fluoride in the applauded the announcement.
early 1950s. Since then, it has “This change is necessary
been put in toothpaste and because Americans have ac-
mouthwash. It is also in a lot cess to more sources of fluo-
of bottled water and in soda. ride than they did when water
Some kids even take fluoride fluoridation was first intro-
supplements. Now, young chil- duced,” Dr. O. Marion Bur-
dren may be getting too much. ton, president of the American
“Like anything else, you Academy of Pediatrics, said in
can have too much of a good a statement.
thing,” said Dr. Howard The fluoridated water stan-
Pollick, a professor at the dard since 1962 has been a
University of California, San range of 0.7 parts per million
Francisco’s dental school and for warmer climates where
spokesman for the American people used to drink more wa-
Dental Association. ter to 1.2 parts per million in
One reason behind the cooler regions.
change: About two out of five The new proposal from
adolescents have tooth streak- HHS would set the recom-
ing or spottiness because of mended level at just 0.7.
too much fluoride, a govern- Meanwhile, the EPA said it is
ment study found recently. In reviewing whether to lower
extreme cases, teeth can be the maximum allowable level
pitted by the mineral—though of fluoride in drinking water
many cases are so mild only from the current 4 parts per
dentists notice it. The problem million.
is generally considered cos- Associated Press writers
metic and not a reason for seri- Dina Capiello in Washington,
ous concern. Maria Cheng in London, John
The splotchy tooth condi- Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, David
tion, fluorosis, is unexpectedly B. Caruso in New York, and
common in youngsters ages Mary Foster in New Orleans
12 through 15 and appears to contributed to this report,
have grown more common along with AP news researcher
since the 1980s, according to Jennifer Farrar in New York.
the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
www.championnewspaper.com
Winter is the season for chilled thrills
by Gale Horton Gay
The winter months in
metro Atlanta mean snow
and ice is possible, however,
certainly not a given. But
that doesn’t mean that plans
can’t be made for a variety
of fun outdoor activities
including sliding, gliding
and racing across frozen
surfaces.
Whether one stays in
DeKalb County or ventures
into neighboring territories,
one can easily find several
places where snow and ice
are practically guaranteed to
be in place—regardless of
the temperature outside.
Here are a few of our
favorites that we heartily
recommend:
Snow Mountain at Stone
Mountain Park
It’s back for the third
consecutive year. Snow
Mountain–a hillside of man-
made snow produced around
the clock despite tempera-
tures that don’t always dip
below freezing.
Young and old alike can
dash down one of 20 tubing
runs, and new this year is
a Avalanche Alley, a group
tubing experience in which
five guests can ride together
down the 400-foot tubing
hill. Also making its debut
this season is Fort Snow, an
area for children to crawl
through a tunnel of snow.
And they haven’t forgotten
about the little ones, there’s
a special area for children
ages 3 and younger called
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Little Angels. Don’t forget
about building a snowman,
throwing snowballs at tar-
gets, creating an igloo or
warming up by a fire and
toasting marshmallows for
smores—there are places for
all of this, too. Those who
just want to watch can catch
the action from an observa-
tion deck.
Snow Mountain will be
producing 320 tons of fresh
powder daily using treated
and recycled lake water un-
til it closes on March 7.
Cost ranges from $17 to
$27 for a two-hour session.
For more information, visit
www.snowmountainpark.
com or call (770) 498-5690.
Stone Mountain Park is lo-
cated U.S. Highway 78, exit
8 in Stone Mountain.
The Rink at Park Tavern
A new venue for frigid
fun is Atlanta’s The Rink at
the Park Tavern restaurant,
located adjacent to Pied-
mont Park.
Ice skating takes place
in a heated tent complete
with piped-in music and
rink-side dining. The rink is
85 feet long by 40 feet wide
and can accommodate 200
skaters at a time. Tickets
can be purchased for a skat-
ing session for $10, with an
additional charge of $5 for
skate rental.
This venue uses a sys-
tem of underground piping
of glycol, a type of anti-
freeze, with layers of water
to create the skating surface.
Rink-side treats include
a number of special drinks
such as French Hot Choco-
late for $4, Ellijay Apple
Fritters a la Mode for $8 and
several hot and cold cock-
tails such as the $7 Cinnal-
ove, made with Absolut Va-
nilla, Irishman’s coffee and
cinnamon.
The Rink at Park Tavern
is located at 500 10th St. in
Atlanta and is open through
Feb. 14.
For more information,
visit www.parktavern.com
or call (404) 249-0001.
Ice skating rink at Centen-
nial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic
Park in the heart of Atlanta
is the granddaddy of all the
local outdoor venues. It was
13 years ago when the park
opened its first skating rink
and it’s been popular ever
since.
Open daily through Jan.
30, the rink allows visitors
to take to the ice or hang
out in covered observation
seating complete with mu-
sic and theatrical lighting.
Admission is $7 per person
and $2 for skate rental for a
90-minute session. Lockers
are $1. Take note this venue
does not accept credit cards.
Discounts are available for
students with identification
and groups of 20 or more.
Centennial Olympic
Park is located at 265 Cen-
tennial Olympic Park Drive
in Atlanta. For more infor-
mation, visit www.centen-
nialpark.com or call (404)
223-4412.
Walker wants to
minimize ‘trauma’ of
school consolidation
by Robert Naddra
Robert@dekalbchamp.com
DeKalb County School
Board member Eugene Walker
is getting the message loud and
clear from parents regarding the
redistricting and consolidation
proposal presented to the board
earlier this month.
“Parents are telling me they
want us to preserve our commu-
nity schools,” he said. “They’re
telling me they want to minimize
the shock and trauma of their
children being redistricted to go
to other schools.”
Some of that trauma may be
unavoidable as the board heard a
proposal from MGT America that
calls for the closing of 14 schools
in massive redistricting effort that
is designed to make the system
more efficient and make more
schools eligible for state funding.
Seven of the 12 elemen-
tary schools recommended to be
closed are in Walker’s district.
The schools targeted for closure
in the proposal by MGT Amer-
ica are Livsey, Medlock, Rock
Chapel, Bob Mathis, Atherton,
Glen Haven, Gresham Park, Sky
Haven, Toney, Peachcrest, Wad-
sworth and Kittredge elementary
schools, Avondale High School
and Avondale Middle School.
Walker knows that closing
some schools is inevitable, but
the DeKalb County School Board
member is spreading the message
that high-achieving schools are to
be saved.
“We’re going to have to close
schools, that’s a given,” Walker
said. “But we ought not close the
ones that are performing well.”
Four of the 12 elementary
schools on the list—Medlock,
Atherton, Glen Haven and Gresh-
am Park—failed to make AYP
(Annual Yearly Progress) in 2010.
According to the proposal,
which has two options, 27 schools
in the county are at less than 75
percent occupancy and are not
receiving state funding for some
programs. Only two schools
Medlock
Akhbar, the regional repre-
sentative for eight local PTAs.
“We have to work with other
schools and come up with a
plan,” he said. “The reality is
that we have to close schools,
that’s the bottom line.”
Akhbar did note, however,
that schools would be pitted
against one another to avoid
closure.
Two days after the first
meeting, a Medlock PTA e-
mail was sent out throughout
the community detailing the
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would be left at less than 75 per-
cent occupancy in one scenario
and one in the other.
The proposal would elimi-
nate most of the 11,000 empty
seats throughout the system. Also,
the proposal calls for 12,000 to
16,100 students among the sys-
tem’s 99,000 student body attend-
ing new schools next year.
Of the 21 schools with en-
rollments of less than 450, one
scenario would leave no school
with less than 450 students and the
other would leave three according
to the proposal.
“All of our schools are not
broken,” Walker said. “We need
to keep the ones that are not
broken intact and make sure they
continue to do well. We’ve got to
make a hard decision and I don’t
believe hat every schools needs
tampering with.”
Walker said he is in favor
of keeping open Wadsworth, a
magnet school.
“There are 160 students there
and they are doing well,” Walker
said. “But there aren’t enough stu-
dents there to justify its existence.
In my opinion, we need to find a
way to fix Wadsworth to keep it
open. We don’t need to close it or
consolidate it.”
The proposal calls for the
system to be redistricted into five
super clusters.
A series of public workshops
have been scheduled to help
residents better understand the
proposal and give them an op-
portunity to voice their opinions.
The first two were scheduled for
Jan. 18 at Miller Grove and Jan.
19 at Druid Hills Middle School.
The remaining workshops are Jan.
20 at Chamblee High School, Jan.
25 at McNair High School, Jan.
26 at Bethune Middle School and
Jan. 27 at Stone Mountain High
School.
The superintendent will make
a recommendation to the board on
Feb. 7, then the board will hold
public hearings on March 1 and
March 3 before a final vote is
taken on March 7.
Continued From Page 1A
next steps: “The only way we
can create a feasible plan is to
enlist many, many volunteers
to offer their time and tal-
ents. This, quite simply, is not
a job a couple of PTA officers
can run with….What we need
is a committee of dedicated
parents who are willing to work
together over the next two to
three weeks to focus on the ac-
tion items involved in giving us
a viable presentation on behalf
of Medlock to share with the
school board.”
EducatioN
Academy concept better prepares
students for middle school
by Sarah Bakhtiari
City Schools of Decatur
is re-opening Fifth Avenue
school as the city’s sole
fourth-fifth grade school this
fall. The school will be larg-
er than Glennwood Acad-
emy, which will become
the city’s fourth elementary
school next school year and
serve students in kindergar-
ten through third grades.
According to Bruce
Roaden, the system’s di-
rector of community rela-
tions, the main reason Fifth
Avenue is being rebuilt is
the student body has out-
grown Glennwood. “It will
be 10,000 square feet big-
ger than Glennwood,” said
Roaden.
After the construction
is completed, there will be
24 classrooms and 18 to
20 teachers, according to
Glennwood’s principal, Dr.
Gloria Lee. Also, a multi-
purpose room will be added.
Fifth Avenue, which
was closed in 2004 due to
low student enrollment, is
being rebuilt to make the
classrooms and the other
instructional spaces bigger
and more fitting for students
and teachers.
Currently, Glennwood
has 17 teachers and the
classrooms and cafeteria are
small.
The 2010-11 school year
is the system’s seventh with
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 • PAGE 14A
the academy concept. Lee,
who will become principal
at Fifth Avenue, said that
she believes the students
and the teachers benefit
much from the different sys-
tem.
“We’re able to focus on
just fourth and fifth grad-
ers,” she said.
She explained that when
Decatur had seven elemen-
tary schools with grades K
through five, it was harder
to concentrate on each indi-
vidual grade level. In some
of the schools, there were
only one or two teachers
for fourth and fifth grade,
and sometimes one teacher
taught both levels.
“They didn’t have a co-
hort group to collaborate
with,” she said. With the
newer system filled with 9-,
10- and 11-year-olds, stu-
dents and teachers are able
to work together, and the
school can concentrate on
the needs and programs of
older elementary students.
“It just makes sense,”
Lee said. “They’re still in
elementary school, but we
wanted to begin thinking
about moving them to the
next experience [middle
school].”
Children in fourth and
fifth grades have a different
set of skills than younger
children, she said, and
teachers and staff are able
to set up more programs
Photo by Sarah Bakhtiari
appropriate for their age
group. For example, pro-
fessional coaches come in
to teach students how to
enhance their listening and
speaking skills, which dif-
fer from those of younger
students.
“We can build on those
basic skills taught in K
through 3,” Lee said. “We
want to enrich the overall
educational experience.”
At Glennwood, newly
appointed Dianna Herron-
Watson will be the principal
at the start of the school
year in the fall, and teachers
from the other elementary
schools in the Decatur sys-
tem will be chosen to teach
at Glennwood.
buSiNESS
New store in Avondale Estates gives
second chance to merchandise and pets
by Kathy Mitchell
kathy@dekalbchamp.com
When Tanya Mahrous
accepted a buyout package from
her corporate job she knew exactly
what she wanted her next move to
be. She wanted to start a business
that combined a favorite pastime—
bargain hunting—and a passion—
helping homeless pets. She returned
briefly to her hometown of Lincoln,
Neb., where she shadowed a friend
with a second-hand shop. Then
with her husband, Toby Tobias,
she opened her dream shop, Second
Life, in Avondale Estates earlier this
month.
The business name has a double
meaning. When customers buy the
previously owned items in the store
they help to give homeless animals
a chance at adoption. Actually a
nonprofit, the business depends on
donated items and volunteer help.
Mahrous is the only employee.
“And right now, I’m pretty much
a volunteer, too,” Second Life’s
president and co-founder said with
a laugh. Tobias, who spends most
of his time working toward a Ph.D.
degree at the University of Georgia,
works there on a volunteer basis
whenever he has free time.
Profits are donated to four
non-profit organizations that have
missions that involve rescuing
animals. One day, Mahrous said,
there may be actual adoption events
at the store, which she said offers
education on spaying, neutering and
pet adoption. The only animal in
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 • PAGE 15A
go to areas where there are several
of them. We’re right next to the
police station so we feel safe, and
it’s a nice large space.”
In fact, the owners first thought
the space might be too big. “We
were going to partition it off to
keep it from looking bare, but that
hasn’t been necessary since large
numbers of donations came in the
first week,” Mahrous said.
She noted that she’s also pleased
with the quality of the merchandise
that’s being donated. “Many of
our donors tell me that they are so
delighted with what we’re doing
that they are happy to donate high
quality items.”
Mahrous said that her experience
as a bargain hunter has helped in
pricing the merchandise. When
something really unusual is donated,
she may ask the donor for help in
Wife and husband owners Tanya Mahrous and Toby Tobias say their rescued
Dalmatian Lucky was the inspiration for starting their business. Photos by Kathy assessing its value. Second Life
Mitchell sells gently used clothing, home
décor and furniture in a boutique-
the store most days, however, is the smaller dogs and want to adopt
style environment. The owners say
couple’s Dalmatian Lucky. them as puppies. They also more
“He’s our CSO—our chief smile often want females. I can’t imagine they are striving for consignment
store quality at thrift store prices.
officer,” Mahrous said. “He makes what the last 10 years would have
“We want to give our customers
our customers smile.” The 15- or been like without him.”
good deals, but we want to make
16-year-old animal—elderly by dog After looking around a bit,
enough money to make a real
standards—comes slowly forward Mahrous and Tobias settled on the
difference,” Mahrous said.
to check out strangers who come in, space near North Clarendon and
Noting that approximately
then returns to his bed in the corner. Avondale Road, which she said
80,000 unwanted pets—about
She said that Lucky, whom they seems to be working out perfectly.
200 a day—are put to death in the
adopted just days before he was It’s near their home and has other
Atlanta area each year, Mahrous
scheduled to be euthanized, has advantages as well. “There are lots
said, “If we can reduce that number
been with them approximately 10 of other bargain shops in the area—
substantially, this will all be
years. “He was classified as hard to Finders Keepers, the Salvation
worthwhile.” The store’s mantra,
place because he was a large, older Army—and that actually helps since
dog—and male. Most people want people shopping resale stores like to she said, is “save money; save a
pet’s life.”
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AROUND
ATLANTA
Fellini film to be shown at
Emory
Emory University has an-
nounced a free showing of the
Federico Fellini film Amarcord,
Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m.
Most often translated as “I re-
member,” Amarcord is Fellini’s
loosely autobiographical, epi-
sodic account of growing up in
the Adriatic coastal city of Rimini
during Italy’s Fascist 1930s. “Al-
ternating between poignant sen-
timentality and bawdy humor, the
total was pure Fellini and one of
the biggest critical and box office
successes of the writer-director’s
career,” states the university’s
announcement. The screening
will be in White Hall 208, 301
Dowman Dr., Atlanta. For more
information, visit www.filmstud-
ies.emory.edu or call (404) 727-
6761. Parking near White Hall
is available for free starting at 7
p.m. in the Oxford Road parking
deck.
Ralston to speak at Lincoln
Day Dinner
The DeKalb Republican Party petition after the performances.
has announced that Georgia
Speaker of the House David
Ralston will be the featured
speaker at its annual Lincoln
Day Dinner on Friday, Feb. 11, at 1380.
the Druid Hills Golf Club begin-
ning at 6 p.m.
Sixth District U.S. Represen-
tative Tom Price will be a spe-
cial guest. The annual non-par-
tisan event is sponsored by the
Senator Jim Tysinger Breakfast
Forum and is open to the public
for discussion of current events.
The forum is in its 35th year.
Tickets are $50 per person
and may be obtained by visiting
the DeKalb Republican Party of-
fices in Embry Village shopping
center at I-285 and Chamblee-
Tucker Road. Tuesdays and
Thursdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or
by phone at (770) 451-4174, or
(770) 934-1635 and by mail at
the DeKalb GOP at P.O. Box
941038, Atlanta, GA 31141, with residents the opportunity to be
order forms on the web site:
www.dekalbgop.org
Reservations are required no
later than Monday, Feb. 7.
BROOKHAVEN
Author to speak at library
Author Jonathan Maxwell
will discuss his book Murderous
Intellectuals: German Elites and
the Nazi SS at the Brookhaven
Library Saturday, Jan. 29. A
nominee for the Allbooks Review
Editor’s Choice Award for 2011,
this title examines why so many
well-educated professionals
willingly joined the National
Socialist Party. The event will
be 2-3 p.m. at the Brookhaven
Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills
Road, Atlanta. For more
information, call (404) 848-7140.
CHAMBLEE
Chinese New Year
celebration announced
Community members are
invited to performances of drum-
ming, dancing and a Chinese
traditional musical instrument in
celebration of the Chinese New
Year, Jan. 29. There will also
be a shuttlecock kicking com-
The event will be 11 a.m. - noon
at the Chamblee Library, 4115
Clairmont Road, Chamblee. For
more information, call (770) 936-
CLARKSTON
Legislative delegations
to host public hearing
The DeKalb County Legisla-
tive delegations from the State
House will hold their annual pub-
lic hearing on Monday, Jan. 24,
at 7 p.m. at the DeKalb Techni-
cal Institute Clarkston Campus
Conference Center, 495 North
Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston.
The 2011 Session of the
Georgia General Assembly be-
gan on Monday, Jan. 10. The
public hearing will give DeKalb
heard on issues being consid-
ered during the legislative ses-
sion.
For more information, contact
THE CHAMPION FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
DEKALB
Rep. Howard Mosby, chair of
the DeKalb House delegation at
(404) 656-0287.
DECATUR
Russian troupe to perform
Performance company
Golden Gates will be at the
Decatur Library Thursday, Jan.
27. Golden Gates was created
in 1993 in St. Petersburg,
Russia. Students, ages 5
to 15, under the direction of
Marina Tourlygina, will show
off their skillful virtuosity, colorful
costumes, syncopation of
footwork, gymnastic leaping and
foot-stomping ferocity. Moscow
Nights, an ensemble of talented
Russian folk musicians, tours
with Golden Gates. Sponsored
by the Friends of the Decatur
Library, the event is at 7 p.m. It
is free and seating is on a first-
come, first-served basis. The
Decatur Library is located at 215
Sycamore St., Decatur. For more
information, call (404) 370-3070.
Library to show film
As part of its Friday mov-
ies series, the Toco Hill-Avis
G. Williams Library on Jan. 28
will screen Dirty Rotten Scoun-
drels, starring Michael Caine
and Steve Martin. The 1988
film is rated PG and runs for 110
minutes. Every Friday afternoon
the library presents a mix of new
releases and old favorites. When
available, movies are presented
with closed captioning to assist
those with hearing difficulties.
The films are shown 1:30-3:30
p.m. at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Wil-
liams Library, 1282 McConnell
Dr., Decatur. For more informa-
tion, call (404) 679-4404.
DUNWOODY
Photography class offered
Dunwoody Nature Center
has announced that it is offering
a six-week class on digital
photography with professional
photographer Alan Mothner.
The class will cover such topics
as what the basic settings mean,
and optimizing composition and
lighting. Each week participants
get a specific assignment and
then spend part of the next
class reviewing each student’s
pictures. A syllabus and general
photography handout will be
distributed at the first class.
Classes will be held
Thursdays from Jan. 27
through March 23, 7 - 9 p.m. at
Dunwoody Nature Center, 5343
Roberts Drive, Dunwoody. Fees
are $150 for members; $200 for
general public participants. For
more information and to register,
visit www.dunwoodynature.org.
LITHONIA
Step show proceeds to go
toward scholarships
The Kapsi Foundation
of Decatur Inc, a non-profit
organization that provides
college scholarships to
metropolitan Atlanta high
school students will host its
annual Steppers Challenge
Saturday, Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. The
event will be at Martin Luther
King Jr. High School, 3991
Snapfinger Road, Lithonia.
“Teams from local elementary,
middle and high schools are
sure to provide an entertaining
level of showmanship and
precision as they compete for
prizes and bragging rights,” the
announcement states. Tickets
are $10 at the door. Proceeds
will be used for scholarships.
For more information, contact
event chairman Clarence Wells
at (404) 214-7400.
Sushi workshop announced
Chinatsu Miyauchi of Genji
Inc. will present Sushi for You,
a sushi workshop and hands-on
demonstration, Saturday, Jan.
29. Call or visit the branch to
register. The event is 2-3 p.m. at
the Lithonia-Davidson Library,
6821 Church St., Lithonia. For
more information, call (770) 482-
3820.
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Tucker’s Cloud pushes toward another state wrestling title

by Bryan Fazio passed along to his brother I had pushed, and my mom wins, he talks to me about “He’s just been working re-
Anthony Cloud, who helped push me. I just kept what he could do better. ally hard.”
The saying goes “You wrestled in the 215-pound my trust in God and ee He’s just a student of the That work ethic has
can’t win on talent alone.” weight class at Tucker be- pulled me through.” sport.” spread to the entire Tucker
Even when that talent fore Carey. An owner of a day- This year there’s been team, the one that Cloud
gives one the athleticism The drive, meanwhile, care service, Felecia has plenty of winning. Cloud has been the captain of for
to play two sports and has comes from his mother Fe- kept Cloud going through has rolled through his op- the past two years.
been passed along through licia. school, football and wres- ponents, mainly having to During his senior year
genetics, champions still After Cloud lost the tling, constantly urging him rely on himself to keep at Cloud has been working on
have to put in a little extra. state championship his to do more, and to do what- the absolute best level on both his individual achieve-
For Tucker senior Car- sophomore year, his coach- ever he is working at better. the mat. The easy victories ments and that of his team,
ey Cloud, there is definitely es laid out a plan for him “It’s always been like have left his coach hoping getting to the point that he
enough talent. As a fresh- to become a better, more that,” Cloud said. for some more solid compe- and his co-captain Gabriel
man Cloud earned a spot offensively aggressive That effort led him to tition before the state tour- Miller run the first 35 min-
on the Tucker wrestling wrestler. That plan called a state title after defeating nament on Feb. 18. utes of each practice by
team and as a sophomore for more effort than just Joshua Lewis of Northwest “We have the north met- themselves.
he wrestled his way to a showing up at practice and Whitfield 5-4 last season. ro tournament coming up, “I continue to push my-
second-place finish in the leaving when the coaches He followed his state, per- and hopefully he can get self as well as continuing to
AAAA state championship said the team was done. formance with an eight challenged there.” Miller push my teammates,” Cloud
tournament. Following a full day at place finish in nationals said. “I really don’t want said. “Last year I focused
However, from there his school when Cloud finished held in Virginia Beach. his toughest match to come more on myself and this
personality, drive and ambi- with his homework there Cloud pushed through at state.” year I’m focused on all of
tion kicked in, helping to were plenty of times when his junior year where he While Miller may be us getting better together.”
make him a state champion he started to turn on the TV continued to do whatever concerned about it, Cloud’s Cloud’s focus is leading
in the 152-pound class his and melt into the couch. the coaches asked by put- focus has not dwindled due him to chase another state
junior season and propel- However, for someone ting in his usual 100 per- to his lack of appropriate championship. But beyond
ling him to an undefeated wanting to become a state cent effort, and continued to challengers. He has contin- that his sights are set on a
record (29-0) thus far in his champion and someone liv- get better. ued to work hard in practice loftier goal.
senior year. ing under Felecia Cloud’s “He wants to learn the and his weight has dropped “My ultimate goal is
The talent comes from roof, that wasn’t going to sport, which is really what from 152 to 145 pounds to win the state champion-
his father, Charles Cloud cut it. shows up when he goes just on training and running ship,” Cloud said. “Not
who won the 103-pound “At times I wanted to out and wrestles,” Tucker alone. only to win state but to go
state championship when he give up,” Cloud said. “But, wrestling coach Shannon “It’s not been any di- higher than that and win
was in high school, and was I knew what my goals were. Miller said. “Even when he eting at all,” Miller said. nationals.”

and is expected to feature several DeKalb

Vaughters finalist for
national award
Tucker senior linebacker James
Vaughters has been named one of five
finalists for the Franklin D. Watkins
Memorial Award. The annual award,
presented by the National Alliance of Af-
rican American Athletes, is given to the
nation’s top Black high school scholar-
athlete. Vaughters has a 4.0 grade point
average at Tucker and will attend Stan-
ford University on a football scholarship
next fall. He is a member of Habitat For
Humanity, Young Life and volunteers at
area elementary schools. Vaughters par-
ticipated recently in the Under Armour
Army All-American all-star game and
was an all-state player his senior season.
Chamblee coach to head
all-star team
Chamblee head boys basketball coach
Caesar Burgess has been chosen as
the head coach of the North team in the
GACA junior boys all-star game. The
game will be played March 26 in Augusta
County players. There also will be junior
girls all-star game as well as boys and
girls senior all-star games.
Agnes Scott guard named
conference player of week
Agnes Scott sophomore guard Gene-
fine Sapateh was named Great South At-
lantic Conference player of the week for
the week ending Jan. 9. Sapateh averaged
16.6 points, 12 rebounds and four steals
in games against Piedmont, LaGrange
and Wesleyan. Sapateh, a Greenforest
Academy graduate, had 17 points, 14 as-
sists, four steals and four assists in the
Scotties’ 64-40 win over Wesleyan.
Emory’s Lombardo sets
school pole vault record
Sophomore Anthony Lombardo set
the Emory University indoor pole vault
record with a vault of 4.45 meters last
week at the Appalachian Open. Lom-
bardo finished fourth in the meet while
breaking the old school record of 4.42
meters set by Mark Kleinhopf in 1985.
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Purple pride:
by Robert Naddra Sharman White started the
Miller Grove takes team-first
attitude into national spotlight
In addition to Parker, ing about yourself. It’s differ- to the younger players.
robert@dekalbchamp.com program when the school White has three seniors who ent this year. We’re all one. “I’ll check in on JV prac-
opened in 2005. The system have the potential to land We all revolve around each tice and they’ll be messing
From the moment a is working as the Wolverines college basketball scholar- other. If a teammate is down, around,” Brooks said. “I’ll
basketball player slips on were 14-0 before their Jan. ships. Provost and point I know exactly what is going let them know what it is and
the purple jersey at Miller 19 game against Dunwoody guard Thomas Marshall on inside his head.” that they can’t be doing that.”
Grove, the concept is and ranked in the top four form one of the top back- Said Marshall: “There’s It’s a message Brooks
drummed into his head. nationally in three differ- courts in the state. Forward no individual better than and the other seniors also
Team. ent high school basketball Henry Brooks, 6-8, is a everyone else. We all feel picked up along the way
Devon Provost first got polls—PrepNation (No. 2), versatile player who has sev- like we need each other to from former players includ-
a taste of that concept com- ESPN (No. 4) and USA To- eral scholarship offers from be successful and we’re like ing Mfon Udofia, who now
ing up from the junior varsity day (No. 4). across the country, includ- a family. Everybody knows starts at Georgia Tech, and
to the varsity as a sopho- The Wolverines have ing Georgetown, Harvard, Tony but we know he’s not Donte Williams, a standout
more. beaten teams from five other Maryland, Northwestern and our only weapon.” last season who is a fresh-
“You hear about it in states and have wins against Oregon State. In addition to focusing man at Georgia.
practice, before games, dur- former national No. 1 Milton “Nobody has the spot- on team first, White makes “Being on same team
ing games,” said Provost, a (a Class AAAAA team from light,” Brooks said. “You sure his players are account- with Mfon was a great learn-
6-foot-3 senior guard. “The Alpharetta), and Columbia, pick up the concept of want- able on and off the floor, and ing experience,” Marshall
coaches and players always the defending Class AAA ing to win instead of worry- that the message filters down said. “When the game got
talk about it.” champions. See Purple on Page 20A
For an outsider, it may be “Tony is the engine that
easy to label Tony Parker drives us but we wouldn’t be
as the superstar for the Wol- where we are without every-
verines. one else on the team,” White
After all, the 6-foot-8 ju- said. “This came from work-
nior has more than two doz- ing on the team as a whole
en scholarship offers, includ- and developing a good work
ing Duke, Georgetown, Ohio ethic. My teams have always
State, Georgia and Georgia been like that.”
Tech. Parker leads the county It starts with character
in rebounding and is one of development, which White
the top scorers in DeKalb said begins at home with ev-
for a team that has won two ery player.
straight Class AAAA state “These are high-charac-
titles. He has a 27-rebound ter kids and they’re taught
game to his credit this year to stay humble and stay
and was named MVP of a hungry,” he said. “It makes
holiday tournament. it a lot easier to establish the
But the team concept has concept I’m trying to get
been in place since coach across.”

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Richie Gordon, Western Carolina (basketball): The featuring:
senior forward from Lakeside had 16 points and nine
rebounds in a 79-78 win over Appalachian State and • Weekly highlights.
had eight points and eight rebounds in a 70-63 win
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from Columbia had 38 points and 15 rebounds in two
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Purple Continued From Page 19A ‘We’re not successful

close he took control.”
Miller Grove has never
had a losing season and has
not had more than six losses
in a season since the first
varsity team went 19-10
in 2006. Six players have
earned scholarships since the
program began.
“The kids see what hard
work looks like,” White said.
“There’s a list
of kids that
show kids
after them the way. Hard
work dedication and sacrifice
has become the standard.”
Although he has
another year left at
Miller Grove, Parker
also does his part to
set an example for the
players behind him.
“We’re not suc-
cessful without every
guy in the purple
jerseys,”
Parker
said. “We’ve tried to set an
example. We have the com-
munity behind us. We
have to have character
without every guy in the
at all times, even if
we’re just going to
Wal-mart to buy
purple jerseys.’
chips. We want to
show people we’re – Tony Parker
good young men
and more than just
basketball players.”

Miller Grove bsketball players, from left, Thomas Marshall, Tony Parker, Henry Brooks and Devon Provost have helped the Wolverines go undefeated so far this season. Photo by Robert Naddra

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