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Newspaper Page Textreporternewspapers.net JANUARY 2019 • VOL. 11 — NO. 1 Brookhaven Reporter k Section Two ►20 Under 20 ►Exceptional Educator ►Raising money for music Brookhaven teacher tackles Civil Rights legacy with Super Bowl murals DYANA BAGBY This mural painted by Yehimi Cambron depicts portraits of Dreamers, or undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children. The mural is part of the “Off the Wall” public art project organized to highlight the city’s Civil Rights legacy when visitors come to the city for the Super Bowl. COMMUNITY Super Bowl brings business excitement, traffic worries P20 COMMUNITY Legislator lends personal experience to ‘fake service animals’ study pp COMMENTARY Keeping it hyperlocal ph SIGN UP TO RECEIVE DAILY & WEEKLY EMAILS WITH LOCAL NEWS @ REPORTERNEWSPAPERS. NET/SIGNUP BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net When tens of thousands of people flock to Atlanta for the Super Bowl next month, they will be greeted by dozens of colorful murals painted throughout the city that highlight the Civil Rights leg acy. Two of the murals were painted by Cross Keys High School art teacher Ye himi Cambron, an artist willing to tack le controversy through her art by raising up the voices of undocumented immi grants. Cambron first made her mark in the world of murals in 2017 with a colorful mural featuring large monarch butter flies on the side of the Havana Sandwich Shop on Buford Highway in Brookhav en. The mural was one of many murals painted on the sides of various business es as part of a Living Walls and We Love BuHi collaboration to use public art to bring awareness to the immigrants liv ing and working on Buford Highway. Cambron was selected to participate in the public art project in part because she is a “Dreamer,” a Deferred Action See BROOKHAVEN on page 16 McDonald House planned for CHOA campus BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabayby@reiportemewspapers.net Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is seek ing to build a Ronald McDonald House — a short-term residence for patients and their families — at its new 70-acre medical cam pus at the 1-85 and North Druid Hills inter change. And with plans to open its new $1.3 bil lion hospital in 2025, state and federal offi cials are studying what to do at the crucial interchange already notorious for heavy traffic and congestion. CHOA officials say their wish is for a di verging diamond at the interchange to help with flow of traffic into the campus and sur rounding neighborhoods. CHOA is investing $10 million in local match money for the interchange improve ments. The Georgia Department of Trans portation and Federal Highway Adminis tration will have final say on what will be constructed at the interchange, but when a decision will be made is unknown, CHOA officials said at a Jan. 3 community meeting. They did say they expect work to be com pleted in time for the hospital’s opening in six years. CHOA recently announced plans to build an up to eight-story building or hotel at the site of the nearly 4-acre site of the former Executive Park apartments at 2580 Briarcliff Road. The Ronald McDonald House facility would include up to 150 rooms. The proper ty is currently zoned multifamily residential (RM-85) and CHOA is asking it to be rezoned See RONALD on page 15 SI# liuxied VO ‘eojuoiAi aivd aOeisod SOI SSMH03 aislysyd HBIAIOlSnO IVISOd I AnnaMaria ''Jl&w 'l/tCiAs Cammilli ....f t >» exclusively at FINE JEWELRY 2090 Dunwoody Club Dr Ste 107 Sandy Springs, GA 30350 770-396-0492 www. lauderltills. com

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Brookhaven reporter. (Sandy Springs, GA) 20??-current, January 02, 2019, Image 1