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WHERE YOU LIVE w. . ; ■ ~3S1 Kerry de Vallette, with his dog ’’Baer.” De Vallette and his family returned to the area 20 years ago, when his job brought him back from Florida. They chose Dunwoody Club Forest since it was an established neighborhood with homes on large lots. said. “[We have] wonderful neighbors. Now there are lots of little kids around. I just adore it.” In fact, “quiet” seems to be a word Dunwoody Club Forest residents most often employ to describe their 495-home subdivision built on the rolling hills be tween Mount Vernon Road and Dun woody Club Drive. Streets are lined with large, two- story brick homes and well-kept gar dens. It’s the kind of neighborhood where many of the mailboxes that line the streets are en cased in decorative brick structures. Like many of their neighbors, the Stewarts joined the nearby country club that gave their subdivision its name. The Dunwoody Country Club start ed building a golf course in the area in the mid-1960s, and relocated officially in 1969. Subdivisions followed. Unlike the builders of other subdivisions in the area, Dunwoody Club Forest’s develop ers didn’t bother to build a swim or ten nis club because the community was so close to the country club. These days, the Dunwoody Country Club and Dunwoody Club Forest call different cities home. The club, north of Dunwoody Club Drive, lies in Sandy Springs. The subdivision, to the south of the road, sits in Dunwoody. Dunwoody Club Forest differs from some of its neighboring large subdivi sions in subtle ways. Dunwoody Club Forest Neighbors Inc., a group that pro vides social activities such as a Hallow een party, and publishes a directory and website for the neighborhood, started not as an outgrowth of a swim-and-ten- nis club, as many other such groups did, but as a community garden club, said Tim Minton, the group’s vice president of communications. The club claims its own official flower, the daisy, and tree, the magnolia. The Mintons settled in the neigh borhood about nine years ago. Minton’s wife lived in Dunwoody as a child, he said, and they wanted to raise their chil dren near the place where she grew up. Now their home backs up to a patch of forest, and Minton watches from his open kitchen as deer appear to nibble plants in his yard and garden. “There was a big old deer here just a minute ago,” he said one re cent afternoon. “It’s nice to look at, but he eats all my toma- >5 toes. At his home in another part of the neighbor hood, Kerry de Vallette sees deer, too. And he’s watched fox and coyotes wan der through his yard. His dog, Baer, checks the deck carefully for strange vis itors before going out into the back gar den, he said. “When he comes out in the morning, he stops and sniffs because he knows other things have been around,” de Vallette said. “We have some wildlife around here.” The de Vallettes settled in the neighbor hood 20 years ago, when his job brought him back to Atlanta from Florida. His family lived in Dunwoody before, and knew they wanted to move back to the area, but “the real estate market in Dun woody was crazy. Houses were on the mar ket like three days,” he said. They chose a house in Dunwoody Club Forest because at the time it was an established neighborhood with houses on large lots. They, too, joined the near by country club and settled in. Through the years, they’ve found that through the homeowners group, their quiet neigh borhood offers plenty of things to do. “As subdivisions go, it’s pretty active,” he said. The Stewarts agree. They say resi dents of their cul-de-sac throw birthday parties for their neighbors, and now, as residents age and move on and younger families replace them, there are plenty of kids around. “I can’t imagine living anywhere else,” Lucy Stewart said. Is there something special about your neighborhood? Let us know at editor@reporternewspapers.net Need that Holiday Gift or Employee Award to say Tnank You? GET IT IN A SNAP! 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