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Inside Voter’s guide Who’s who running for City Council COMMUNITY 2-3 Public push City needs its own school system COAAMENTARY 6 Life changing Residents become U.S. citizens at river ceremony AROUND TOWN 7 Leaf blower Time to check out local autumn colors OUT a ABOUT 11 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net Dun woody Reporter www. Reporter Newspapers, net OCT. 4 - OCT. 17,2013 • VOL. 4 - NO. 20 Page 14 PHIL M0SIER Drew Outright, right, development coordinator for the city, works alongside Taylor Gherardi, a freshman at Georgia Tech, during “Clean, Fix, Shine-Up Dunwoody” at Brook Run Park on Sept. 28. Volunteers hoped to plant 300 trees in the park. More photos on page 19. Charter Commission recommends number of changes BY JOE EARLE joeearle® reporternewspapers.net Last summer, the Dunwoody Charter Commission had to move its meetings to a larger room to accommodate the crowds that gathered to watch, listen to, and comment on the commission’s work. But for its final meeting on Sept. 25, the commission at tracted an audience made up only of a pair of Boy Scouts working on merit badges, the adult who drove them to the meeting, a lone city councilman and a pair of newspaper re porters. The commissioners spent months reviewing and discuss ing Dunwoody’s charter, the city’s foundation document, to see whether they thought any changes should be made by state lawmakers as the city reaches its fifth year of operation. SEE CHARTER, PAGE 4 City may stay with asterisk logo a bit longer BE JOE EARLE joeearle® reporternewspapers.net Is Dunwoody’s logo a no-go? Not just yet, it appears. The budget that Mayor Mike Davis and City Manager Warren Hutmacher presented to City Council this year in cluded a recommendation that the city spend $40,000 for a logo redo. The reason? Well, in its short life, the city asterisk — yes, the city logo is the name “Dunwoody” with an asterisk — has had few fans and plenty of critics. Some residents just plain don’t like it. “Do I think it’s the perfect brand to represent where our citizens are today? Perhaps not,” said city spokesman Bob Mullen, director of the city’s public relations department, SEE SOME, PAGE 22 A REVOLUTIONARY HEARING AID THAT GAN HEAR LIKE YOUR EARS DO. FREE demonstration and hearing screening! See our ad on page 10 to leam about our 14 day test drivel AUDIOLOGICAL CONSULTANTS of ATLANTA “Since 1983” You Could Be Hearing From Us. Lyric can. Helena Kadyn Solodar, Au.D. Williams, Au.D.
