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Newspaper Page TextOCTOBER 2020 • VOL. 11 — NO. 10 reporternewspapers.net 1 A Dunwoody Reporter VOTERS GUIDE TO NOV. 3 ELECTION PAGE 12 PAGESt2i;29' AROUND TOWN Oglethorpe professor brings ghosts to life P19 COMMENTARY Presidential campaigns appeal to suburban fears P16 WORTH KNOWING A pastor’s quest for racial reco P18 Dunwoody Reporter is mail delivered to homes on selected carrier routes in ZIP 30338 For information: delivery@reporternewspapers.net SL# uuxied VO ‘eojuo|A| aivd e6eisod sn SSMy03 aislysyd y3i/\ioisno ivisod ERIN SCHILLING Resident Fred Wintrich poses for a photo with his RV at the storage facility where it is now parked. BY ERIN SCHILLING erinschilling@reporternewspapers.net On racial dialogue, Dunwoody takes different course from other cities BY ERIN SCHILLING erinschilling@reportemewspapers.net A mostly White audience attended the city’s first step in a racial dialogue on Oct. 1, four months after the mayor suggested it. Po lice Chief Billy Grogan gave a presentation of police procedures and policies and took ques tions, but the event was not advertised as a conversation on race, and it was up to resi dents to bring up any problems of structur al racism. Grogan said he saw no problems of struc tural racism in the Dunwoody Police Depart ment, which city officials have echoed about the city as a whole—though they said they’re willing to listen to other viewpoints. Experts have suggested that Dunwoody’s 2008 incor poration, like that of other metro Atlanta sub urbs, was rooted in racial segregation, which See ON on page 20 When Fred Wintrich and his fami ly moved into their home on Seaton Drive last year, they brought along their RV and parked it in the driveway for their month ly camping trips. But after a complaint from an unhappy neighbor and $1,500 in fines, Wintrich learned that was illegal under an obscure city code he considered unneces sary. Wintrich’s punishment could have been worse — city code violations can result in up to a $1,000 fine per citation or up to six months in jail. “A disabled veteran with not so much as a parking ticket in the state of Georgia for the last 15 years gets sent to jail?” Wintrich See CONFUSING on page 30

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Dunwoody reporter. (Sandy Springs, GA) 20??-current, October 02, 2020, Image 1