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Inside
Park proposals
Board discusses North
Shallowford park facilities
COMMUNITY 3
Demographics
Proponents of a new school
system compare populations
COMMUNITY 4
Botched job
Letter writer says volunteers
saved day on Brook Run work
COAAMENTARY 8
Lawn Barbies
Pop Art aficionados share
their love of the dolls
AROUND TOWN 9-10
Police tips
Advice on how to avoid
being a holliday crime victim
PUBLIC SAFETY 30
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DEC. 13 - DEC. 26,2013 • VOL. 4 - NO. 25
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cycling
PHOTO BY PHIL MOSIER
On the first Sunday of every month at 2:30 p.m., cyclists gather at
Bruster’s Ice Cream in Dunwoody Village for a meet and greet and safety
review before starting an hourlong, 5-mile ride in the neighborhoods.
Dunwoody residents Dona Cardenas, and her son Nico Cardenas, 8,
who is a third-grader at Kingsley Elementary prepare to take off.
Council delays
dog park
decision
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers. net
Some members of Dunwoody City Coun
cil say they object to the location of the con
troversial dog park in Brook Run Park, but
they’re not too crazy about the city’s plans for
an alternative, either.
The current location “is the wrong place
for this dog park to be,” Councilwoman Lynn
Deutsch said. “[But] we don’t have a perfect
solution.”
At the council’s Dec. 9 meeting, council
members apparently decided to keep look
ing. They deferred a vote to hire a company
to build a new dog park in a different part of
Brook Run. Old Mountain Contracting Co.
bid $290,983, later reduced through negotia
tion to $255,983, for the work. The city had
budgeted $195,000.
SEE COUNCIL, PAGE 6
Parents form
GLASS to lobby
for schools bill
BV JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Ten parents gathered over coffee in a Dun
woody restaurant one morning this week to
start putting together a lobbying campaign
they hope will foster new Georgia school sys
tems.
The group, organized by Erika Harris and
Allegra Johnson of Dunwoody, hopes to con
vince the state Legislature to approve HR 486,
a proposal to amend the state Constitution to
allow new systems to be set up in cities created
since 2005 and cities adjacent to them.
“We’re still in a 1945 school system,” John
son told the group gathered at Cafe Inter
mezzo in Dunwoody on Dec. 9. “We need to
bring it up to a new century.”
Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody) last year
introduced the legislation that would al-
SEE GLASS, PAGE 5
