Inside
All aboard?
MARTA plans eastern
expansion up Ga. 400
COMMUNITY 2
Speak up
Residents can have say in
Georgetown park plans
COMMUNITY 3
Family ties
Apron strings bring
loved ones together
COAAMENTARY 9
Keep truckin’
Food ‘on wheels’
extremely popular
COMMUNITY 10
Empty shelves
Food banks feel pinch of
economic slowdown
AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 13
Center circle
Labyrinths making comeback
at local churches
FAITH 22
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NOV. 15 - NOV. 28,2012 • VOL. 4 - NO. 23
He 'digs' it!
PHIL MOSIER
Clare Smale watches as her son Marcus, 3, learns about
archaeology during an interactive “We Love Our Library Day”
program at the Dunwoody branch on Nov. 2. The annual event
helps encourage children to read. More photos on page 25.
Dog park fans
pack council
meeting
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle® reporternewspapers. net
More than 100 supporters of the dog park
in Brook Run packed Dunwoody City Coun
cil’s meeting Nov. 12 to protest plans to move
the dog park.
Dozens in the standing-room-only crowd
wore red articles of clothing to show opposi
tion toward the city’s intention to relocate the
park to a different part of Brook Run. Many in
the crowd carried signs supporting the park or
criticizing the city. Some brought dogs, which
remained in the parking lot outside City Hall
during the meeting.
Dunwoody resident Robert Moss carried a
sign that said, “The dog park isn’t broken. Do
not spend money to change it.”
Moss said he lives about a half mile from
the park and goes there regularly with his gold
en retriever, Mattie.
“I have so much enjoyment and pleasure
SEE DOG PARK, PAGE 26
Council elections
reveal
divided city
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle® reporternewspapers. net
Dunwoody s cranky 2013 election season
ended by returning two incumbents to Dun
woody City Council, where they’ll be joined
by a critic of the council.
Councilman Doug Thompson, who won
re-election to the District 3, Post 3 seat with
51 percent of the vote, said on election night
that the Nov. 5 election results showed vot
ers were sharply divided on a number of is
sues. Fellow incumbent Councilman Denis
Shortal collected 58 percent of the vote in
his race.
“It was so close that I don’t think either
side can think their platform was the con
sensus opinion of the majority of Dun-
SEE COUNCIL, PAGE 6
