COMMUNITY
DAN WHISENHUNT
Former Sandy Springs Society President Valerie Love, left, inspects
a plaque honoring Mayor Eva Galambos, right, as Council members
Chip Collins, Dianne Fries and Gabriel Sterling look on.
Sandy Springs Society honors
Galambos with oak, plaque
BY DAK WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Mayor Eva Galambos, a towering fig
ure in Sandy Springs politics, now has
an enduring reminder of her leadership.
During a special ceremony on July
31, the civic-minded Sandy Springs So
ciety dedicated a white oak to the may
or, who is wrapping up her second and
final term leading the city.
The tree grows on a traffic island at
the intersection of Mount Vernon High
way and Hammond Drive. There’s also a
plaque noting the mayors service to the
city. Before the city incorporated in 2005,
Galambos and other civic leaders spent de
cades fighting for the right to be a city.
Valerie Love, former president of the
Sandy Springs Society, said the white oak
is the perfect symbol for what Galambos
has meant to the city and its residents.
“White oak trees radiate an aura of
quiet calm, and they also symbolize dig
nity, durability and diligence, and those
characteristics as you know definitely
represent our mayor,” Love said.
Galambos thanked the society for the
honor and its efforts to spruce up the
traffic island. In characteristically blunt
fashion she said, “This island has been
an eyesore as long as everybody can re
member.”
“I cannot thank you enough for this,”
she said to Love.
Heritage Sandy Springs
produces Civil War app
History buffs are downloading and us
ing a free phone app produced by Heritage
Sandy Springs that leads users on a driving
tour of historic Civil War sites.
Heritage, a nonprofit group focused
on local history, reported that more than
5,000 people have downloaded its “Heri
tage Civil War Tour” app.
“This driving tour will take you to
many of the historic sites around Sandy
Springs, and reveal the story of that tur
bulent time in the summer of 1864, when
Union General William T. Sherman un
leashed his army to cross the Chatta
hoochee River to take the city of Atlanta,”
the product description reads.
“The tour will take you from tranquil
National Parks along the Chattahoochee
to the bustle of downtown Sandy Springs,
where along the way you will discover his
torical homes, intact earthworks, ancient
fishing dams and memorable stories of
men fighting their way across the coun
tryside.”
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