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Commissioner claims
she was threatened
by activists
Residents debate
proposed city of
Greenhaven
DeKalbs charter school

proposal receives
pushback
Local, 3A
local, 10A
education, 16A
DeKalb mourns fallen officer

by Andrew Cauthen
andrew@dekalbchamp.com
t was a gray, rainy day

when fallen DeKalb County Master Police Officer
Kevin Toatley was remembered and laid to rest Sept.
25.
When they told me he
was gone I asked myself,
How am I going to live without my best friend? said
Charkesha Toatley, Kevin
Toatleys widow.
Toatley, a seven-year veteran of the department, was
killed Sept. 19. He was driving home in his patrol car on
South Fulton Parkway near
Buffington Road in south
Fulton County when the accident occurred.
Law enforcement personnel stand at attention beside the hearse during the funeral of DeKalb County Police Master Police
Officer Kevin Toatley. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Toatley
Fulton County police have

charged Arimentha Best, 65,
with homicide by vehicle in
the second degree and driving on the wrong side of the
roadway. Best is in critical
condition at Grady Hospital.
See Officer on page 15A
Local studio to release

independent film
by Carla Parker
carla@dekalbchamp.com
A Dunwoody film studio takes a look into the underground world of computer hacking in the independent film blackhats.
Reel One Entertainments film blackhats follows
a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter who finds
his new harmonious life as a fugitive recovery agent
threatened when he must assist a colleague, track down
her eccentric brother who is part of a group of hackers
before they are captured by the FBI or assassinated by a
rival bounty killer. Meanwhile they attempt to prevent
a massive viral attack created by a talented hacker that
could collapse Americas economic foundation.
Laron Austin is the director of the film, and it features Errol Sadler, Doris Morgado, Ted Huckabee, E.
Roger Mitchell, Neko Parham and others.
Eddie Singleton, one of the writers of the film, said
he and other writers from Reel One Entertainment
came up with the idea of the film a few years ago.
We had just sold a small film to Lions Gate called
Step Off a couple of years ago and we wanted something
that was futuristic, that we knew would be popular at
some point in time and we were thinking about the
See Blackhat on page 15A
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Page 2A The Champion FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, october 2, 2015
Stone Mountain Mayor Pat

Wheeler discusses proposed
plans for the historic train
depot.
Stone Mountain residents view the proposed plans for the depot.
A design shows existing, historic and proposed interior of north entrance.
Stone Mountain begins depot renovation campaign
by Carla Parker
Stone Mountain has taken another step in the renovation project on the historic
train depot.
The Stone Mountain
Downtown Development
Authority has assembled a
committee to oversee interior
renovations to the building.
The city wants to transform
the depot into a senior center
and welcome center. Mayor
Pat Wheeler said it is an exciting time for the city.
Weve been waiting a
long time to get started on
this and this will be the first
step to starting to raise money to renovate the depot, she
said. Its not going to happen tomorrow but hopefully
in the next couple of years

we will at least have enough
money to begin renovating
part of it and move forward.
Its going to be a great project, a great project for the
community.
The renovation project
is expected to cost approximately $1.5 million. The
committee is speaking with
potential grant funders and
donors to secure the funds
for the project. Congressman
Hank Johnsons office is
helping the city identify federal sources of funding and
writing letters of support to
boost the grant applications.
The project will be completed in multiple phases.
Exterior renovations on
the depot were completed
earlier this year. The city
received a Transportation
Enhancement Grant from
the Georgia Department of
Transportation to repair the
exterior of the old police station section of the train depot, which cost $352,150.
The city council voted
to have the Stone Mountain
Downtown Development
Authority as lead on the further redevelopment of the
building into a visitors center
and event space on one end
of the depot.
The current visitors
center is located in a 1914
Seaboard railroad cupola caboose at the walk-in entrance
to Stone Mountain Park,
said Kim Cumbie, visitors
center manager. The goal is
to have a larger space in the
depot which will more easily
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The Champion FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, october 2, 2015Page 3A
DeKalb County Commissioner Nancy Jester tells reporters she has been threatened by members of a group advocating for police accountability. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
Commissioner claims she was threatened by activists

by Andrew Cauthen
DeKalb County Commissioner
Nancy Jester is accusing members
a coalition of human and civil organizations of threatening her and her
children.
In a Sept. 23 news conference,
Jester said members of the DeKalb
County Coalition of Justice and Police Accountability made threatening
remarks during a private meeting she
attended and on social media.
Family members of residents
killed in police-involved shootings in
DeKalb County got a chance to speak
their minds in a private meeting with
county officials Sept 16.
It was during that meeting, Jester
said that coalition members hijacked the meeting and used language which included profanity and
threats and outright hostility toward
a number of people in the government.
Jester said she was threatened
with physical violence.
Jester accused coalition spokesman Makungu Akinyela, a national
organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, of allowing one of
his members to threaten my life. He
failed to disavow these comments
and the threat.
He failed to address the hate
speech and tacitly then condoned the
hate speech and threats by his silence
at that meeting, Jester said.
On Sept. 20 an alleged member
Makungu Akinyela, a member of the DeKalb County Coalition of Justice and Police Accountability, says the coalition has no interest in threatening physical harm to any board
member.
of Akinyelas organization sent a series of tweets threatening the [lives]

of two of my children, Jester said.
These threatshave not been
denounced by Mr. Akinyela, Jester
said. He has shown no compassion
to the reality that a member of his
organization has threatened the lives
of my children.
Because Akinyela is a professor
at Georgia State University (GSU),
Jester called on GSU to send an immediate and direct message that they
dont tolerate this kind of hate speech
against women by their taxpayer

funded employees.
The university should review his
actions and hold him accountable,
Jester said.
Jester said she has not pressed
any charges related to the incident
and does not intend to.
After reporting the alleged
threats, members of law enforcement
at the federal, state and local level
have enacted protocols for the safety of her children during this scary
time, Jester said.
Immediately following the meeting, law enforcement personnel

made sure to have me walked out
and they immediately began to take
action to ensure that I was secure,
Jester said.
There were no law enforcement
personnel present when The Champion talked to Jester after the meeting
in question.
When asked about the mood
during the meeting, Jester said there
was tension and frustration.
We heard the pain of the loss
in the room, Jester said following
the meeting. I was there to be in receipt of that. I was there to hear their
thoughts so that I canreflect on
that as we go about the business of
the commission in ways that we can
improve things we can controls
policies and so onat the commission level.
Im thankful for the opportunity
to have been here today, she said.
Jester described the coalition as
a small number of political activists [who] have come into DeKalb
County, not seeking to unite people,
but rather to divide our county.
The so-called DeKalb County
Coalition of Justice and Police Accountability has attempted to hijack
the dialogue and exploit the grieving
familiesto advance their extreme
anti-police anti-taxpayer agenda, she
said.
During a separate Sept. 23 news
conference held by coalition members, Akinyela said the coalition
See Jester on page 6A
OPINION
The Trump phenomenon

Love him or hate him,
Donald Trump is making
political history on an almost daily basis and is doing
everything opposite of what
most political strategists
would recommend. And, he
is winning.
The man who has made
history for decades as a highrolling real estate developer
and investor and more recently has been known for
his utterances of Youre
fired on the semi-reality
television show The Apprentice; is now catapulting to the
top of every national poll to
what appears to be presumed
GOP presidential nominee.
When I first heard that
the Donald was running for
president, I honestly thought
it was likely just another
John Hewitt
johnh@dekalbchamp.com
Chief Operating Officer
publicity stunt to increase

ratings for The Apprentice.
But Trump has proven
that he has staying power
and is in the race for the long
haul.
Along with Trumps meteoric rise, Republican Ben
Carson and Democrat Bernie Sanders also have seen

impressive rises in overall
popularity ratings on a national level. The common
thread in Trump, Carson and
Sanders is that they are not
part of the political establishment. They are outsiders and
they are being embraced.
While these political outsiders are riding high, we are
seeing career politicians who
are members of what some
would refer to as political dynasties, Hillary Clinton and
Jeb Bush fighting tooth and
nail for much smaller segments of the voting public.
Many have thought for
years that Clinton would
likely be the first female
president of the United States
and that Jeb Bush had a good
chance of being the third

Bush president. However, it
seems that traditional politicians are collectively being
tossed to the side as voters
have tired of politics as usual.
In recent years scandal,
corruption, lack of credibility and an inability to work
together have plagued both
major political parties.
Special interest groups
who make huge contributions to the candidates they
feel will be most likely to further their agendas are more
in control than the electorate.
The public apparently
has had enough and for the
first time in modern political
history is joining to let their
voices be heard loudly and
clearly.
It will interesting over the
next several months to see if

the current trend of support
of non-traditional political
candidates will continue.
Nobody knows how all this
will play out in the end and
who the presidential nominees will ultimately be, but
my guess is that that voting
public is making history now
and may forever change the
face of politics in America.
We may soon witness
a national declaration of
Youre fired to every career
politician on a national, state
and local level.
Continuing as we have for
decades and expecting different outcomes is voter and
political insanity.
OPINION
One Mans Opinion
Finding solutions in our problems

The architecture is simple.
But you have to have a business model, Dutch architect,
Koen Olthuis, designer/inventor of Floating City Apps.
Never underestimate
mans ability to create wonders from the simple cocktail of identified need, free
markets and ingenuity.Fortunately, America does not
have a monopoly on innovation, and our other brothers
and sisters across the world
are still actively contributing inventions and new uses
for old things which may yet
help us save this planet we all
share.
Nearly 600 million people
live in chronic poverty in
shantytowns and slums
around the world.A majority
of these areas, for numerous
practical reasons, are clustered on or near water, and
these often illegal settlements
suffer chronic flooding.Dysentery, human waste and
garbage are related concerns,
in part driven by the horrific economic conditions of
the residents, and their lack
of access to the most basic
infrastructure and human
necessities.
But rather than propose
another top/down, cradle
to grave government nonsolution, an architect of
Nordic ancestry has come
up with an ingenious enter-
Bill Crane
bill.csicrane@gmail.com
Columnist
prisecombining resources
contributed by multiple
problems.
The world is full of rusting, aging shipping containers, still viable for use, but in
many cases now obsolete or
replaced by their more modern refrigerated, pressurized
and even electronic inventorying counterparts.Millions
of these metal boxes are piling up in ports around the
world. At the same time,
lack of access to potable
drinking water, despite proximity to millions of gallons,
contributes to a flood of
empty plastic bottles entering
our oceans and waterways.
Add to that the lack of
access to public education,
the Internet and any regular
means of communication,
and the result can be imprisoning or building a perma-
nent underclass or maintaining a social caste system

without any real access to
upward mobility.
So, suggests Olthuis, lets
combine two of those waste
streams, layer on some sustainable energy, capitalismbased financing and start
floating our way out of misery and back towards prosperity.
Olthuis has developed a
prototype classroom from an
old cargo container which we
will be docked alongside a
waterfront in Dhaka, Bangladesh.This first demonstration unit contains 20 touchscreen computer workstations and seating for same.It
is powered by solar panels on
the roof of the container.Flotation is provided by 13,000
discarded plastic bottles, to
be gathered by local children
paid to collect same. The
children will have a day-side
classroom, and during the
evenings the same container
will be used as an Internet
Cafe for adults to take online
classes, develop and send resumes or even conduct interviews via Skype, GoToMeetings.com or another similar
application.
A typical buildout will
cost roughly $28,000 per
box, but potential uses and
applications for re-using
these cargo boxes are much
broader.A floating food

truck, tiny Starbucks, popup
seasonal retailers, and eventually perhaps a clump of
these containers building
out and retrofitting other old
containers.
Once seaworthy, much
like a simple barge with amenities, these floating apps
become sea vessels, which
can qualify for insurance,
private financing, tax credits
for certain business entities
and the like.
Olthuis firm, Waterstudios, based in the Netherlands, where they have
some experience with water
management and flood
plains, is currently building a floating resort in the
Maldives. Olthuis is putting
some of that proven know
how to work in helping and
benefiting the poor, often
significantly and logistically challenged with helping
themselves.
A tour of the companys
website (www.waterstudio.
nl) will have you thinking of
a combination of Back to the
Future and some of the far,
flung alliance planets from
Star Wars.
Turning your problems
into solutions... Perhaps we
should have thought earlier
to go to Holland for more of
that.
If you can grow some of
the worlds most beautiful

tulips in what is largely reclaimed wetlands...you can
certainly generate a lot more
creativity than those sturdy,
but uncomfortable wooden
shoes.
*As first reported on by
Carol Matlack in Bloombergs Businessweek, September 2015.
Bill Crane also serves as
a political analyst and commentator for Channel 2s Action News, WSB-AM News/Talk
750 and now 95.5 FM, as well
as a columnist for The Champion, Champion Free Press
and Georgia Trend. Crane is
a DeKalb native and business
owner, living in Scottdale. You
can reach him or comment on a
column at bill.csicrane@gmail.
com.
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Jean Haworth
Jean Haworth has always had a passion for
working with animals. For
several years she trained
dogs for competition.
After retiring, Haworth
continued to look for ways
to assist animals. She said
after watching a documentary on people who had
dedicated their lives to work
with special needs dogs it
just clicked with me. Thats
when I found PAWS Atlanta.
Haworth has been a
volunteer at DeKalb-based
PAWS Atlanta no-kill Animal Shelter for eight years.
She helps with whatever
duties are available but pri-
marily spends time teaching

basic training to shy and
overactive dogs to transition
them to be more adoptable.
She said, When I meet

a new dog, I do two things:
ignore and observe. I dont
stare. I dont approach the
dog straight on. Approaching with your shoulder
pointed towards the dog is
best. I dont do a lot of talking. I let the dog smell me.
Its important for them to
use their noses. I also give
out lots of treats.
Haworth said once dogs
are comfortable with her she
takes it outside for one-onone training.
She added, I ask them
to be courageous, and to
trust me. So, for a shy one,
we may go on the trail and
sit on a bench together. For
the overactive dogs, I ask

them to restrain themselves
a little bit. Ill team teach
them to wait and let me go
first on the trail, she said.
Haworth admitted to
having several favorite
dogs that shes worked with
through the years but said
Marvin is definitely one of
them.
Hes about 6 years old,
and a really wonderful dog.
He had a hard beginning.
His owner abandoned him.
He was shut down when he
came to us. He wouldnt interact because there was just
a lot of fear, Haworth said.
Haworth would sit by
Marvins kennel for hours
and talk with him to try and

gain his trust. She said hes
made a lot of progress.
Today, he just wants
someone to let him lay his
head in their lap, and he so
wants to please. Hes always
looking up, Am I doing this
right? Am I doing it right?
Will you give me a treat?
In addition to her love
for at-risk and special-need
animals Haworth said she
also enjoys volunteering
at the shelter because the
people and the staff are incredible. They just go out
of their way to open their
homes and their hearts to
these dogs and cats.
If you would like to nominate someone to be considered as a future Champion of the Week, please contact Andrew Cauthen
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DeKalbs planning and sustainability wins awards
DeKalb Countys Planning and Sustainability Department has been recognized with an outstanding planning
process award from the Georgia Chapter of the American
Planning Association for the DeKalb County 2014 Comprehensive Transportation Plan.
Kimley-Horn worked as the lead consultant, with project management handled by the Long Range Planning Division and DeKalb Transportation. The process included a
multitiered evaluation process in which more than 3,000
projects were considered. The 2014 Comprehensive Transportation Plan team worked together with the community to
develop a plan that is being used as the guide for transportation investments and policy decisions in DeKalb.
The countys planning and sustainability department
also has been recognized with an outstanding health planning award from the Georgia Chapter of the American Planning Association for the Medline Regional Activity Center
Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) study.
Working as the projects lead consultant firm, The Sizemore Group produced The Medline LCI Plan which consisted of a study area of 520 acres in unincorporated DeKalb
County, framed by four major intersecting corridors:
Church Street, Scott Boulevard/Lawrenceville Highway,
North Decatur Road and DeKalb Industrial Way. The study
area is approximately two miles north of Downtown Decatur, 10 miles from downtown Atlanta and two miles west of
the I-285 interchange. The plan was chosen for the award for
the plans approach to creating a wellness district, to address
quality of life health needs.
NOTICEOFSPECIALELECTIONCANCELLATION
PursuanttoO.C.G.A.Section212291,noticeisherebygiventhat
theCityofLithonia,GeorgiaSpecialElectionscheduledforNovember
3,2015iscancelled.Thefollowingcandidatehasqualifiedforofficeis
isunopposed:
CityCouncil,AtLargeDianeW.Howard
Theaboveunopposedcandidateshallbedeemedtohavevotedfor
herself.
However,theCitywillstillholdtheGeneralElectiononNovember3,
2015forthepositionofMayorandtwoCityCouncilseats,as
previouslyadvertised.
Noticeisgiventhis23rddayofSeptember,2015
LeahRodriguez,ElectionSuperintendent
CityofLithonia,Georgia
Jester Continued From Page 3A

is calling for compassion,
transparency and accountability from the DeKalb
County Board of Commissioners and the DeKalb
County Police Department
as it related to the killing of
unarmed Black people by the
police in DeKalb County.
The coalition is committed to nonviolent political
action to have demands to
this end met by the DeKalb
County Board of Commissioners and the DeKalb
County Police Department,
and holds no interest in
threatening physical harm
to any board member, police officer or their families,
Akinyela said.
We denounce such
threats or attempts to charge
us in making such threats,
Akinyela said. Attempts by
Commissioner Nancy Jester
to smear our coalition with
these charges are clearly efforts to distract public from

the callous disregard she
holds for the welfare of the
families of unarmed Black
men murdered in DeKalb
County over the last 10
months.
Akinyela called for a
public hearing on the coalitions demands, among which
are an independent citizen
review board to investigate
officers who wrongfully
harm residents; and a family
compassion and accountability protocol to communicate
with families of those injured
by police actions.
Anana Parris of coalition member SisterCare
Alliance said, Its a sad day
when we pit pain against
politics.
Parris said officials at the
meeting showed some compassion, except Jester.
As a mother myself, to
sit and watch these familiestalk about the loss of
their loved one and to see no
reaction [from Jester] was
heartbreaking for me, Parris
said.
Nathan Knight, president of the DeKalb Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, said coalition
members wanted Ms. Jester
to speak to us concerning the
families who were victims.
She had an opportunity to
address the organization.
She had no comments. This
woman had nothing to say.
We do not need people
in our community who do
not and cannot address the
feelings of men and women
who are suffering because
their loved ones have been
taken, Knight said.
NOTICEOFPUBLICHEARING
TheDeKalbCountySchoolDistrictishostingtwoPublicHearingsonthecurrentdraft
ofitschartersystemapplication.TheDistrictandBoardwelcomethepublictocome
learnaboutthechartersystemconceptandDCSDsapplicationsothatthepublicmay
providefeedbackandinputtotheBoardandDistrict.ThesePublicHearingswilloccur
onthedateandtimesbelow,at1701MountainIndustrialBoulevard,StoneMountain,
GA30083
Monday,October5,2015at1:30PM
Monday,October5,2015at5:00PM
Pleasevisithttp://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/www/documents/chartersystem
petition/chartersystemapplicationcoversheet.pdftoreviewthecurrentdraftofthe
Districtschartersystemapplication.
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AroundDeKalb
Atlanta
Museum features exhibition of the Queen of

Sheba
The myth and mystery behind one of historys
most elusive female figures is unveiled in the world
premiere of Searching for the Queen of Sheba. On
view at Fernbank Museum of Natural History from
Sept. 26 through Jan. 3, Searching for the Queen of
Sheba highlights the various tales of the legendary
queen, including her ties to the famed Incense Road
and the ancient caravan kingdoms of South Arabia.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $17 for seniors, $16
for children ages 3-12, free for children under 2, and
free for Fernbank members.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History is located
at 767 Clifton Road NE in Atlanta.
The Museum is open Monday Saturday, 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Avondale Estates
Avondale Arts Alliance to host AutumnFest
AutumnFest will be held Oct. 3-4 across from
Avondale Estates City Hall from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The free event features an artist market, KidsZone,
food trucks and vendors, live entertainment and
chef demonstrations. For more information, visit
www.autumnfestavondale.com.
Book drive to benefit Avondale Elementary

School
Friends of Avondale Elementary School (AES)
is hosting a new and used book drive to benefit
AES. the group is collecting new and used childrens
book from a variety of genres, especially books featuring African-American characters. Books can be
dropped off at Avondale Estates City Hall, 21 North
Avondale Plaza, or the home of Patti Ghezzi, 3140
Wynn Drive, by Oct. 30.
Brookhaven
City to hold chili cook off
The Brookhaven Chili Cook Off will take place
Oct. 10 at Brookhaven Park, noon-6 p.m. The free
event will include music, food trucks, arts and crafts,
a kid zone and more. Tickets are $10 in advance and
$15 at the door for an event wristband for unlimited
chili tastings starting at Noon. The park is located
at 4158 Peachtree Road. For more information, visit
www.brookhavenchilicookoff.com.
Decatur
ness and Job Fair Saturday, Oct. 3.

The Breast Cancer Awareness Walk will begin
at One Accord Community Church on Flat Shoals
Parkway and finish at Greater Travelers Rest Baptist
Church/House of Hope, Decatur. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Cost for participants is $25 for adults,
$15 for those 55 and older, and $10 for children.
DeKalb County Fire Rescue will be at both locations selling 2015 Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirts.
Proceeds from registration and T-shirt sales will
be donated to the DeKalb Medical Foundation for
Cancer programs.
The event will include a health, wellness and job
fair, activities for the children, health screenings, information and exhibitions. Free flu shots for the first
200 people older than 13 years old will be available
along with health screenings from organizations,
including DeKalb Board of Health, DeKalb Medical, Grady Healthcare and Childrens Healthcare of
Atlanta.
DeKalb County Workforce Development and
Human Resources, Georgia Piedmont Technical
College, MARTA and Atlanta and DeKalb police
departments will be among of the agencies participating in the job fair.
For registration information, call Shalon Bell at
(404) 371-3681.
Sorority to present health and wellness fair

The Lambda Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will host its annual
community health and wellness fair on Oct. 3 on
the campus of Beulah Missionary Baptist Church
Family Life Center, at 2340 Clifton Springs Road,
Decatur.
The 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. event will feature a
range of targeted health screening tests at no cost to
community members.
Attendees will be able to participate in exercise
coaching, special demonstrations, fun and games,
prizes and giveaways, and receive information from
guest speakers. Health screenings that will be offered include vision, dental, diabetes, blood glucose
and blood pressure. Also, there will be flu shots
available and administered by the DeKalb Board of
Health. Mammograms will be offered onsite as well
and four mammograms will be given away.
Church to host pet-friendly ceremony

On Oct. 3 Columbia Presbyterian Church will
hold its annual Blessing of the Pets ceremony at 10
a.m., in front of the church, 711 Columbia Drive in
Decatur.
Members of the community are invited to bring
their pets for the ceremony and individual blessings led by Pastor Tom Hagood. Families may wish
to bring a picture of a pet that is too sick to come,
who may be temperamentally unable to attend the
ceremony, or who has died in recent years. Treats for
both people and pets will be available at the event.
Breast Cancer Awareness event set
Lithonia
Super District 7 DeKalb County Commissioner

Stan Watson and ICEO Lee May, along with local churches in Decatur will hold the annual Breast
Cancer Awareness Fun/Run Walk and Health, Well-
Ousley United Methodist Churchs annual yard

sale will be held Saturday, Oct. 10 from 7 a.m. 4
p.m.
Church yard sale announced
Vending spacesare available for $35and$50.

For vendor registration forms, visit ousleyumc.org
or contact the church office at (770) 981-0180
The church is located at 3261 Panola Road in
Lithonia.
Mens day services announced

On Sunday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m., Reggie
Gay,Gospel DJ from KISS 104 and Glory 1340radio stations,will be speaking for Mens Day at Ousley United Methodist, 3261 Panola Road.
The theme for Ousleys Mens Day service is
Rise up O Men of God. Rev. McCallister Hollins is senior pastor of Ousley.Mens Day is one
of biggest annual events, according to the church
announcement. This program will showcase an all
male choir singing contemporary and traditional
gospel songs. Everybody is invited.
Stone Mountain
South DeKalb Senior Center opens doors
Balloons and a welcome sign greeted seniors as
they entered the South DeKalb Senior Center for its
soft opening Sept. 22. Members had the opportunity
to walk the halls of their new center.
The facility, located next to the Candler Road
library has a full-sized industrial kitchen, sewing
room, computer lab, fitness center and game rooms.
A formal grand opening celebration is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 12, at 9 a.m.
Countywide
Assistance League puts books in the hands of

disadvantaged kids
Assistance League of Atlanta, an all-volunteer,
charitable organization that helps improve the lives
of children and adults in need, is conducting its
childrens book drive Oct. 1-24 in support of volunteerism on Make A Difference Day, Oct. 24.
To promote and foster a love of learning, the
month-long drive aims to collect 7,500 new and unmarked gently used books for distribution to charities, low-income schools, homeless shelters, and
many other nonprofit agencies dedicated to improving childhood literacy.
Books for children through age 12 are collected
by churches, schools, businesses, scout troops, and
students doing service projects. Assistance League
will partner this year with Black Rose, a child advocacy group in South Fulton County, and ChildrenRead, a nonprofit that distributes books to preschool
children in Atlanta.
Books may be dropped off at Assistance League
of Atlanta, 3534 Broad Street, Chamblee, TuesdaysSaturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the donations
door; Tall Tales Book Shop, Toco Hills Shopping
Center, 2105 La Vista Road, Atlanta; and Alice
Cleaners, Dunwoody Village Shopping Center, 5531
Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, MondaysSaturdays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The 11 award-winning female photojournalists who are featured in National Geographics exhibition Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment, which
opened at the National Geographic Museum on Thursday, Oct. 10. From left: Erika Larsen, Kitra Cahana, Jodi Cobb, Amy Toensing, Carolyn Drake, Beverly Joubert, Stephanie Sinclair,
Diane Cook, Lynn Johnson, Maggie Steber and Lynsey Addario.
Female photographers defy gender discrimination

by Ashley Oglesby
ashley@dekalbchamp.com
Women are viewed by some to be
more sensitive, emotional and physically vulnerable; that can prove an
obstacle in certain fields, including
sports, combat and photojournalism.
Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment
is a touring exhibition of nearly 100
photographs taken by 11 female photojournalist who aim to defy those
stereotypes.
National Geographics Senior
Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist said,
Even though this is an exhibition
based upon the fact that all the photographers happen to be women the
gender is not something that I feel is
the only factor in how the photographer sees the world.
For one of the photographers featured in the exhibit, Lynsey Addario,
gender issues surfaced in March 2011
when she was abducted in Libya.
Addario told the press that
physically we were blindfolded and
bound. In the beginning, my hands
and feet were bound very tightly behind my back and my feet were tied
with shoelaces. I was blindfolded
most of the first three days, with the
exception of the first six hours. I was
punched in the face a few times and
groped repeatedly.
In November 2011, The New York
Times wrote a letter of complaint
on behalf of Addario to the Israeli
government, after allegations that
Israeli soldiers had strip-searched
and mocked her and forced her to
go through an X-ray scanner three
times despite knowing that she was
pregnant. Addario reported that she
had never, ever been treated with
such blatant cruelty.
Among the public, the question
was raised of whether women should
cover conflict, especially conflicts
taking place in cultures that regard
women differently than the Western
world.
Krist said, Its really impor-
tant especially for younger girls or

younger women to see that women
can really shine in all kinds of different situations and that theyre not
afraid to go into conflict situations
to work in subzero temperatures,
to work where there are epidemics or
work with wild animals; all of these
very dangerous situations that have
assignment stories and we found that

an extraordinary number of them
had been done by women.
Keane said, You look at an institution like National Geographic that
has had this long history in the field
of photojournalism, which has traditionally been a male-dominated field
because this is not easy work. It was
Sometimes there are fantastic single

images that dont make it into the story
because they just dont fit in as part of
the story and we would put it inthats
the luxury of the exhibition.
-Elizabeth Krist
traditionally been the province of
men.
Addarios work will be featured at
the Fernbank Museum from Sept. 26
through Jan. 3 along with photographers Erika Larsen, Stephanie Sinclair, Maggie Steber, Amy Toensing,
Beverly Joubert, Lynn Johnson,
Carolyn Drake, Diane Cook, Jodi
Cobb and Kitra Cahana.
Each artist was chosen for being
National Geographics most active
photographers since about 2001 according to Krist.
National Geographic Vice President for Exhibitions Kathryn Keane
said the exhibit is a great opportunity to celebrate the 125th anniversary
of the National Geographic Society
and photography has been such an
incredible part of the legacy of the
magazine.
She added, We wanted to do a
big, powerful photography show. We
looked back over the last decade of
really not a field or a profession that

was encouraging to women in the
beginning. We wanted to tell those
stories.
Women of Vision aims to underscore National Geographics history
of documenting the world through
photography and its ongoing commitment to supporting photographers as important and innovative
storytellers who can make a difference with their work.
For National Geographic the
important thing is not so much the
single images as it is about building
a narrative and building a sequence
of images that really enlighten the
reader about a story, said Krist.
She said she was fortunate that
each photographer had worked with
National Geographic already and
worked with other photo editors to
narrow the selection of images.
Krist said her process was to ask
the photographers about images that
they liked that may not had been

chosen by the photo editor.
Sometimes there are fantastic
single images that dont make it into
the story because they just dont fit in
as part of the story and we would put
it inthats the luxury of the exhibition. In an exhibition you have the
luxury of putting in one single image
that can completely stand on its own
from the rest of the story, she said.
Cobbs series of images on display
come from four different projects
that shes worked on over the last decade. The exhibit will include pieces
from her human trafficking project
titled 21st Century Slaves, images
about love and what it means in different cultures, pictures from Venice,
and photographs of twins.
These are huge projects. The
slavery story took a year to do. These
are projects that require an incredible
amount of time, dedication, perseverance, energy and passion.
She said the most challenging
part of the project is finding where
to put yourself to get the photographs. Doing your research and trying to understand the situation and
then finding the people who will help
take you there and show you what it
is. People who will help you get into
the brothels in Mumbai in India or
the people who will get you to the
carpet looms where children are
working or to get to the place where
human traffickers aresometimes it
seems that the photograph itself is
the last bit of a long process.
Cobb said she is honored to be a
part of the exhibit.
I hope that it will show the
incredible power of the still photograph... I think video is like living
life; it goes by just as fast as real life
does. A still photograph freezes the
moment that the photographer wants
you to look at and it really makes you
think about what the message of that
picture is. It forms an image in your
mind thats often unforgettable, she
said.
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DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson

hears testimony in the case of a gang-related killing.
Robert Rosss sisters Yolanda Ross (left) and Cassandra Riley Darrius Aderhold is handcuffed after he was sentenced to life in
read a statement from their mother.
prison for fatally beating Robert Ross in 2012.
Gang member pleads guilty to murder, sentenced to life in prison

by Carla Parker
A Bloods gang member
pled guilty Sept. 25 for murdering a gay man in 2012
and was sentenced to life in
prison.
DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Courtney
Johnson sentenced Darrius
Aderhold to life plus 25
years on counts of malice
murder, violation of street
gang terrorism and prevention act and theft by taking
in the death of 46-year-old
Robert Ross.
According to the indictment, Aderhold, along
with Christopher Foreman

and Jonathan Ray, beat
and killed Ross as part of a
gang initiation targeting gay
males. During the sentencing, Deputy Chief District
Attorney Anna Cross said
on Jan. 7, 2012, the three
suspects went to an area in
Atlanta that they believed
was frequented by gay men
with the intent to target a gay
man.
Their attempts to break
into cars or other attempts
to target other individuals
were unsuccessful, Cross
said. Eventually, they came
across the victim, Mr. Ross,
leaving friends at a midtown
nightclub and got into his car

alone.
In the early hours of Jan.
8, 2012, they approached
Ross asking for a ride to their
hotel and he agreed to give
them a ride.
The suspects lured Ross
into a motel room, where
he was bound and beaten
to death by the suspects.
According to the indictment, Ross was beaten with
a clothes iron, a chair and
a chair leg. Rosss skull was
fractured and body disfigured by the attack.
The suspects also stole
items belonging to Ross, including his car.
Ray and Foreman previously agreed to plea agreements of life and life plus 15
years, respectively.
Ross sister Cassandra
Riley said the guilty plea and
sentence brings closure to
her family.
Im not happy, but I feel
it was time, Riley said. Its
been almost four years and
we needed closure in our
family.
Aderhold apologized to
the victims family before he
was taken away in handcuffs.
They lost their family
member for a situation that
shouldnt even took place,
Aderhold said. Im not
ready to ask for their forgiveness right now because

I dont feel like they should
and they might not want to,
but at the same timeIm
sorry for my participation.
Ross other sister, Yolanda Ross, said Aderholds
apology was a bunch of
crap.
I never saw one tear,
she said. The only thing he
is sorry about is that he got
caught. I saw no remorse. He
was staring at me with a stare
that he almost wanted to kill
me for being his sister.
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From left, Al Outland of the Georgia Municipal Association; Kathryn Rice, chairwoman of the Concerned Citizens for Cityhood of South DeKalb Inc.; and Ed Williams, chairman of Citizens Against Cityhood in DeKalb debate the pros and cons of the proposed city of Greenhaven. Photos by Andrew Cauthen
Residents debate proposed city of Greenhaven

by Andrew Cauthen
The pros and cons of a
proposed new city in south
DeKalb were debated during
a public forum Sept. 23.
Hosted by Georgia Rep.
Rahn Mayo, the forum featured Kathryn Rice, chairwoman of the Concerned
Citizens for Cityhood of
South DeKalb Inc; Ed Williams, chairman of Citizens
Against Cityhood in DeKalb;
and Al Outland of the Georgia Municipal Association.
If approved, Greenhaven
would have approximately
295,000 residents, making
it the second largest city in
Georgia. It would surround
Clarkston, Pine Lake and
Stone Mountain. Its borders
would touch Lithonia and
the proposed city of Stonecrest.
The proposed city would
have a mayor, seven councilmembers and would be subdivided into six community
area planning units. These
units are modeled after the
neighborhood planning units
in the city of Atlanta.
The citys feasibility study
estimates that it initially

would have excess revenue of
$27 million.
If youre happy with
where you are then I suggest that you do not vote for
cityhood, Rice said. Im
not happy with where we
are. The county should be
equal. Are you happy with
the number of restaurants
we have here? Are you happy
with the fact were more
commercially undeveloped?
Are you happy with the fact
that we dont have many jobs
here? Are you happy with the
leadership? Are you happy
withthe corruption thats
going on? That is stat quo.
Im not happy with status
quo.
You have a choice. The
choice is to remain where we
are right now and be happy or try to do something,
she said.
Williams said he is not in
favor of the status quo, but is
not for another layer of government.
What I recommend is
that we get rid of the leaders
that we have that [are] not
doing their jobs, Williams
said. Every one of them
needs to go.
When asked about the
economic development of
the proposed city, Rice said
Greenhaven proponents
have a plan for economic
development in the proposed
city, which includes the establishment of an office for
economic development and
a development authority, a
central government center,
micro economies in each
district, improving the public
infrastructure and shoring
up local schools.
Williams said, The only
reason the city of Atlanta is
growing the way it is now is
because its the capital of the
state, Williams said. We are
not the capital of the state.
We dont have a major airport. We dont have a dome
stadium. We dont have a
skyscraper, and if a skyscraper ever comes here, it will be
the Family Dollar skyscraper.
Having cityhood doesnt
necessarily correlate with
economic development.
Outland disagreed.
If you travel across this
region, you will see the cities
are really the hotspots for development, he said.
After a decade of existence, Rice said, she expects

Greenhaven to have more
citizen involvement through
community area planning
units; greater fiscal responsibility as a result of external
audits; more responsiveness
to the concerns of residents
who will vote on salaries of
councilmembers; and less
corruption due to the twoyear terms for elected officials.
Williams said his goal
is making sure people are
informed of the issues before
the vote occurs.
I do not believe cityhood is going to change our
condition, he said. In order
to change our condition, we
need to get rid of the leaders that are not doing [their
jobs].
Weve got to make them
accountable for whats going
on in our neighborhoods.
Until we do that, adding another layer of government is
not going to change our situation, Williams said.
Mayo, who sponsored
the legislation that could give
residents a chance to vote
on the proposed city, said he
does not have a firm position

for or against Greenhaven.
We have to continue to
weigh the pros and cons,
Mayo said. And I believe in
my heart there are good reasons to support cityhood and
reasons why we may want to
pause and maintain status
quo.
Mayo said he sponsored
the legislation because of the
saying, If youre not at the
table, youre on the menu.
If we sit idly and we
dont talk about it and we
dont give ourselves an opportunity, then we will be
on the menu, Mayo said. I
would rather be at the table
than on the menu.
I would rathershape
my own destiny and determine my own future rather
than have cities and residents
from other parts outside of
the boundaries ofGreenhaven annexing and continuing to cherry-pick and take
the tax base and erode the
tax base, Mayo said.
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Each festival includes a community art project.
Hula hooping is among the festivals quirky

events.
Floatzilla (a monster of a floating parade) is

an example of how the setting inspires festival
activities.
Pine Lake prepares for its quirky annual festival

by Kathy Mitchell
During its 15-year existence, Pine Lakes LakeFest
has grown tremendously
in numbers of participants
and visitors, but its essence
has remained the same, according to Lalah Manly, this
years festival coordinator.
Its always been about bringing our community together
and celebrating who we are,
Manly said.
The festival has grown
from fewer than 500 attendees to the more than 3,000
who are expected this year.
The first year there were
25 vendors. About 10 days
before this years event LakeFest signed its 52nd vendor.
Once a one-day festival, its
now held over two days. Its
still small enough for visitors
to not feel overwhelmed by
the crowds and take in the
festival at their own pace, according to Manly. Locals like
to describe it as a Goldilocks
festivalnot too big, not to
smalljust right.
Were not one of the
huge festivals and we dont
want to be. Unlike many festivals, this one is not about
buy, buy, buy. We just get
together, enjoy this beautiful setting and have fun in
our own distinct way, Manly
said. Describing the festival
as quirky, she said there are
activities people are unlikely
to find at other festivals.
There is a sand sculpture
competition, a pet show, a
chalk art competition and a
hula hooping event.
A highlight of the festival is Floatzillaa parade
across the lake of creatively
decorated boats. Each year
theres a theme. This year
its under the sea. There are
usually tongue-in-cheek interpretations. People can enter any non-motorized boat

and prizes are given in such
categories as most creative
and best in show. Its lots of
fun, Manly said.
Floatzilla (a monster
of a floating parade) is an
example of how the setting
inspires the festival activities,
Manly explained. We let the
natural setting, especially the
lake, inspire activities for the
festival, she said.
We encourage local
people to propose activities
they would enjoy. If it fits in
with our overall mission, we
tell them to go for it, Manly
noted. Thats where our
poetry reading came from.
Someone said theyd like to
do it and now its part of the
festival.
Pine Lake is a community of artists and performers. The original festival was
about bringing residents
together to learn about their
neighbors and their talents.
We still do that, but we also
want people from outside
Pine Lake to visit and get to
know us, she said. The festivals official vision describes
it as an open-hearted sharing with visitors and neighbors, families, friends and
dogs.
LakeFest is free and has
activities for all ages. Its
my 9-year-old sons favorite
weekend of the year. He really looks forward to it.,
manly said.
One festival featured living roomsoutdoor furniture groupings between vendor stationsfor people to
sit, chat and rest between activities. The idea came from
an 8-year-old member of the
planning committee, Manly
said, adding, Actually, I hesitate to call us a committee.

Its much less formal than
that. A group interested in
planning that years festival
comes together, meets about
once a month and pulls the
festival together.
Manly recalled when she
first got involved in 2008. I
was new to Pine Lake and
I thought this would be a
good way to get to know
the community and some of
my neighbors. I saw an announcement for a meeting of
those interested in planning
the next festival. I expected
to find a room full of people.
There were about six of us
sitting around a picnic table.
She was given charge of
coordinating vendors that
same year and after the former coordinator, Kathie Denobriga, was elected mayor
and grew too busy to run
the festival, Manly was made
coordinator. She said this
likely will be her last year in
that post and added that two
or three people should now
handle what was once the
one-person coordinating job.
The small turnout at the
initial planning meeting, she
explained, does not reflect
a low level of interest in the
festival. In fact, before were
done virtually the whole
town is involved in one way
or another. Thats one of the
things I love about this festival.
This years LakeFest is
Oct. 3-4. The festival will be
open Saturday, 10 a.m.- 7
p.m. and Sunday, noon-6
p.m. on Pine Lakes Lakeshore Drive. Floatzilla is
the Sunday kickoff event.
For more information, visit
pinelakefest.com.

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Commissioner
Sutton, aide will face
ethics complaints
by Andrew Cauthen
DeKalb County Commissioner Sharon Barnes
Sutton and her aide, Judy
Brownlee, will answer for
alleged ethics violations in
final hearings later this year.
Sutton and Brownlee are
accused of misusing county
funds.
During its Sept. 22 meeting, the DeKalb County
Board of Ethics was scheduled to have a hearing for
Sutton to receive the preliminary report by its investigator. The board would have
determined whether there
was enough evidence to conduct a full investigation.
But Dwight Thomas,
Suttons attorney, asked that
the hearing be waived, saying
he had not been allowed to
review the investigators preliminary evidence.
I cant adequately cross
examine [the investigator],
Thomas said. I should not
have to cross examine in the
blind. If each of you were sitting here, you would want a
full and fair hearing.
This is just that important, he said.
The matter will go to a
full hearing, which Thomas
told ethics board members
would take more than two
days.
In the case against
Brownlee, the ethics board
heard the preliminary investigation report and decided
that there was enough evidence to proceed with a full
investigation.
There are four allegations against Brownlee. One
charge was that she was paid
as a consultant while being a

county employee.
That allegation was unfounded, said ethics board
investigator Vic Hartman.
I didnt see any double dipping. That allegation was
dismissed by the ethics
board, while three others will
the subjects of the full investigation.
Another allegation is
that Brownlee failed to keep
receipts for all of her county
expenditures.
Without receipts you
cant review the appropriateness [of expenditures], Hartman said.
During an audit, it was
discovered that Brownlee
turned in receipts for 31 percent of her county purchases,
Hartman told the ethics
board. That was increased to
more than 65 percent after
the audit.
During his preliminary
investigation, Hartman said,
Brownlee was in agreement
that 32 percent of her receipts were missing.
I find it to be a potential
violation, Hartman said.
A third allegation against
Brownlee accuses her of using her county-issued purchasing card for personal
purchases.
In one instance, she purchased gift cards that she
used to purchase fuel for her
vehicle, even though she did
receive gas money from the
county, Hartman said.
There is a policy for
how a county employee is
reimbursed for gas, Hartman said. Its not to buy gift
cards. Thats not part of the
protocol.
Brownlee is also accused
Members of the DeKalb County Board of Ethics deliberate ethics complaints against Commissioner Sharon
Barnes Sutton and her aide Judy Brownlee.
From left, Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton is represented by attorney Dwight Thomas during the ethics
board meeting. Photos by Andrew Cauthen
of using her purchasing card

for $2,300 in food-related
purchases.
She said 95 percent of
the food was for county pur-
poses, Hartman said, adding

that Brownlee reimbursed
the county $44.
Another complaint alleges that Brownlee was
being paid as an employee

while at a political fundraising event at a golf course.
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senior center on one end of it, which we desperately need for
our seniors here, Wheeler said. Were getting a new senior
living facility [in the city], so it would be good for them to
have a place to come.
The south side of the train depot was built in 1857 after
the Georgia Railroad Company completed the line from
Madison to Atlanta. The north side was built in 1914 as a
passenger office and waiting room. In the early 1960s, the
train depot served as the city hall and city jail. It remained in
use until 2012 when the new Municipal Building was completed.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Mayor and Board of Commissioners for the City of
Avondale Estates will hold a Public Hearing for the 2016 Proposed Budget on
November 16, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Final Adoption of the 2016 budget will occur in
conjunction with the Boards regular monthly meeting on December 14, 2015, at 7:30
p.m. at City Hall, 21 North Avondale Plaza.
The proposed 2016 budget is available for public review on the City website and at
City Hall during normal business hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
BUSINESS
Young restaurant patrons greet Lucky, the golden retriever the eatery is named for. Photo provided
Owners Diane and Ernie Geyer celebrate the opening of their third Luckys Burger
and Brew. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
All days are dog days at Luckys

by Kathy Mitchell
When Ernie Geyer was making frequent trips
to Jacksonville, Fla., for medical treatments his
complaint was there were large stretches of time
when he had nothing to do. His wife Diane had a
suggestion: Take the dog.
The Geyers golden retriever, Lucky, started
making the trips with his owner, even accompanying him to treatments. He really got me through
this, recalled Ernie Geyer, who is now healthy and
operating the enterprise that grew out of his time
with his canine companion.
Ernie said he wanted to honor the dog by
opening a restaurant and bar and naming it for
him, Diane Geyer said, explaining how her husband, who for many years operated a successful
construction business, came to pursue his new
dream. We wanted to build it around hamburgers
and beer, because whats better than kicking back
with a great hamburger and an ice cold beer? The
result was Luckys Burger and Brew.
The Geyers tapped into a network of friends
and acquaintances to put together what they called
an A team of industry professionals to create the
new eatery.
Chef Ted Lescher, who also is Luckys general
manager, is the food architect behind the menu.
He said that despite the simple bar food-based
menu, he wants customers to have a memorable
dining experience. We want our burgers to be the
best burgers youll find anywhere. We shape and
cook each one to order. There are lots of places
selling wings, so we want to be sure ours are the
best.
Dan Urzendowski, who for years managed a
white tablecloth restaurant in Buckhead, left there
to put on a black Lucky dog T-shirt and oversee
operations at Luckys.
A house specialty, the Grim Reaper Challenge constructed

of four pounds of meat, eight slices of cheese, 12 slices of
bacon, seven fried eggs and other ingredients, is intended
for four to 10 diners. Photo provided
Diane Geyer is a commercial and residential

interior designer and is responsible for the casual
earth-tone setting, where there are large screen
televisions for sports viewing and a jukebox with
every song imaginable. She joked that her husband was her toughest client.
The first Luckys Burger and Brew opened in
Roswell in 2010. A second in Brookhaven soon
followed. On Sept. 21, the grand opening of the
third Luckys was held in Emory Village. All three
restaurants, in addition to inside seating, feature
patio seating where dogs are welcome. The dogs
are served water and treats while their owners
choose fare from the menu.
Visitors may even see Lucky himself. The original Lucky has died, as has his successor, Lucky
II. At the time of the grand opening of the third
Luckys Burger and Brew the owners were in the
process of acquiring Lucky III, who like his predecessors is a golden retriever.
While wings, salads and other items are available, hamburgers are the signature offering. There
are 16 featured 7-ounce burgers, many with doginspired names. For example, the Greek Hare
Hound features feta cheese and Greek seasonings and the Russian Wolf Hound has sauerkraut,
Thousand Island dressing and Swiss cheese.
Theres also the Memphis Blood Hound, the Georgia Dawg Pounderwhich includes a fried pimento cheese ballthe Retriever, the Poodle Chaser
and other whimsically named burgers. Each is
offered with a choice of beef, turkey, chicken or
black bean patties.
Theres a build-your-own option that allows
patrons to put together a combination of more
than 20 toppings. A 4-ounce burger also is available as is a house specialty called The Grim Reaper
Challenge, made with four pounds of meat, eight
slices of cheese, 12 slices of bacon, seven fried eggs
and other ingredients. It requires a days notice
and is recommended for four to 10 diners.
As for the brew part of burgers and brew,
Luckys has more than 70 varieties of beer along
with a selection of wines and other beverages.
The Geyers said the restaurants also give them
an opportunity to indulge another passionhelping the community. As a construction company
owner, Ernie didnt just care about profits, he
cared about building communitiestaking communities that had become rundown and breathing
new life into them, Diane said, adding that they
help hundreds of charities through special events
at the restaurants.
As you might expect, many of the charities we
support help dogs and other animals, she noted,
but there are many others that help a variety of
causes.
Flexibility
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Two adult passengers in Bests vehicle are
in serious but stable condition, while two
children were treated and released from Childrens Hospital of Atlanta at Egleston.
There is so much that I could say about
him, but the first thing I want to say is my
husband was a good man, Charkesha Toatley said about her college sweetheart during
the funeral at Stronghold Christian Church
in Lithonia. That boy was my world for 15
years. And I loved him.
In addition to his wife, Toatley is survived
by his grandmother, Claudie Toatley; mother,
Debra Toatley; sister, Natasha ToatleyGresham and brother-in-law Norris; nephew,
Troy Gresham; and other family and friends.
Interim DeKalb County Police Chief
James Conroy, said, Theres no words. We all
owe him a great debt.
In a statement read during the funeral
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal conveyed his
deepest sympathies for the tragic loss of
Toatley.
It grieves me when we lose a brave member of our police forces, Deal wrote. The
freedom and liberties we are blessed to enjoy
are a direct result of the courage, dedicated
service and sacrifice of our men and women
in uniform. Officer Toatley upheld this duty
with the highest standards of his profession.
Officer Toatleys sacrifice renders a debt
that can never be repaid, Deal wrote.
Cedric Alexander, the countys public
safety director, described Toatleys final watch,
including responding to a Signal 63officer
down at 4 p.m. An officer had been shot during a gun battle and Toatley was one of the
first officers on the scene.
On his way home, God touched him, Alexander said. We can refer to Sept. 19 as the
end of his earthly watch, but the beginning of
his spiritual watch.
Charkesha Toatley said her husband left a
legacy of caring for his fellow man.
Now its my responsibility to continue his
legacy, she said, urging others to think of
what you can do for your fellow man.
My husbands legacy is amazing, Charkesha Toatley said. My husband left a legacy
and it is great. He imparted a part of that legacy into all of us that are here. Love each other
and check your legacy.
Motorcycle police officers proceed to the cemetery for the burial of fallen DeKalb County Police Master Police Officer Kevin Toatley. Photos by
Andrew Cauthen
From left, county Commissioners Larry Johnson and Nancy Jester, Solicitor General Sherry Boston, and Commissioners Sharon Barnes Sutton,
Stan Watson, Kathie Gannon and Jeff Rader pay their respects during
Toatleys funeral.
DeKalb officers line up for the processional in the rain.
DeKalb officers salute as the family leaves the church.
Cedric Alexander, the countys public safety director, said Toatley had
begun his spiritual watch.
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hacking world, Singleton said. We noticed that
people can rob somebody electronically instead of
robbing them on the streets and we find that kind
of fascinating.
We saw that someone can make an app to steal
someones car or they can make an app to shut
someones heart valve down, Singleton added.
We got very deep into the culture of hacking or
black hats as they call them in the hacking world.
Once we saw that type of underworld we began to
create a story around that. We wanted something
that was cool, slick but on an independent tip, and
we just wanted to tell a really good story.
This is Reel One Entertainments third feature

film.
Singleton has been writing and producing films
since 1988.
I used to do hip-hop music, he said. I had
records back in the late 80s, early 90s. You kind
of write stories when you write lyrics and I just
transitioned from lyrics to movies. Im more of a
writer and producer now.
The film premiered Sept. 19 at the Peachtree
Village Film Festival in Atlanta. It will have its theatrical release Oct. 23.
Thats big for an independent film of this size,
he said. Its very big. Were going to the theaters.

Singleton said he hopes viewers are entertained
by the film but learn something as well.
I want everyone to understand that technology
is something not to be played with, he said. Were
really not safe in a sense, and itll make you think
twice about swiping your [credit] card or leaving
your phone open because people can get into your
business and you dont even know how.
I hope they gain a sense of security and I hope
theyre entertained, he added. Even though its
about hackers its also about bounty hunters and
stuff like that.
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EDUCATION
Attendees share their concerns with DeKalb County Board of Education members.
DeKalbs charter school proposal receives pushback

by Ashley Oglesby
ashley@dekalbchamp.com
Some charter school supporters suspect the language of Dekalb

County School District (DCSD)
charter school proposal could hinder
charter approvals.
On Sept. 23 The Georgia Charter
Schools Association (GCSA) wrote
an open letter to express concerns
regarding the new charter policy adopted by the DeKalb County School
Board on Sept. 14.
In the letter, GCSA claims the
school districts new charter policy
is at odds with the State Board of
Education and could be in violation
of the state law.
Were also fearful this signals
decreasing support for start-up charter schools at a time when the district
wants to become a charter system,
GCSA President Tony Roberts
wrote.
As we have seen in the past,
districts that have included a requirement that charter schools be innovative have often used it as an excuse
to deny charter school petitions.
Unfortunately, in many of these cases
the definition used for innovative is

impossible to attain: the school must
propose something that has never
been offered or never done by anyone, anywhere. Some districts have
even reasoned that if other schools in
the district could possibly duplicate
what the charter school proposes in
its petition, then the idea is not considered innovative.
Charter schools, at their best,
may indeed be innovative. However,
the primary consideration should
not be whether the proposed school
offers some novel approach to learning, but if they have the capacity to
meet student needs and raise student
achievement and graduation rates.
he wrote.
The policy has also been criticized by DeKalb County Commissioner Nancy Jester, who served on
the board of education until she was
removed by Gov. Nathan Deal along
with five other members.
Jester wrote in her blog that the
school district administration withheld a letter sent by the Department
of Education (DOE) requesting revisions to the policy.
She writes, The DeKalb Board
On the Scene
with Dr. Green
launched in DeKalb
DeKalb school superintendent Stephen
Green will participate a series of candid conversations about what the district is doing well and
what it needs to do better.
On the Scene with Dr. Green launched on
Sept. 29 at Stone Mountain High School, where
Green leads an hour-long conversation with parents, teachers and others wanting time with him.
The next session will be held on Nov. 19 from 7
p.m. until 8 p.m. at Chamblee High School.
of Education passed the charter

policy without ever being provided
the Georgia DOEs letter containing
requested revisions and guidance on
its charter policy. DeKalb passed the
charter policy without including any
of the changes requested by the state
DOE. Of particular importance is the
very first revision that the Georgia
DOE noted in their eight-page letter.
GDOE Associate Superintendent
for Policy, Charter Schools, District
Flexibility, and Governmental Affairs
Louis J. Erste sent DeKalb County
Schools Superintendent Stephen
Green an email on Sept. 11 regarding
the policy.
The first paragraph of the DOEs
36 revisions to the proposed DCSD
charter school policy and regulation
said, Please remove unique and innovative from the initial paragraph
of the proposed DCSD policy in
which it is stated that DCSD seeks
to authorize high quality charter
schools with innovative, unique
academic programs.
The letter states there are no state
laws or guidelines that require charters to be unique or innovative.
Therefore, requiring innovative,
unique academic programs in a new

charter school or one seeking renewal places a greater burden on charter
schools than is legally required, the
letter said.
Upon reviewing the email from
Erste, Green responded Lou, I will
give your suggestions and advice due
consideration and will proceed in a
manner that is in the best interest of
students and families the DCSD.
The districts charter schools policy hasnt been updated since 2011.
Green said DeKalb officials plan
to meet with the state about the suggested changes. The school board
could revisit the issue, but has no
plans to do that yet.
The school district will hold two
public hearings to receive feedback
from parents, teachers and students
as the board submits an application
to the state to be declared a charter
district.
The public hearings will be
Oct. 5 at 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the
J. David Williamson Board Room at
the DeKalb County Schools District
headquarters in Stone Mountain.
The board has until the end of
October to vote on the matter.
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SPORTS
The team practices at local parks or trail

systems outside the perimeter.
The North DeKalb Mountain Bike team consists of six middle school students. Photos provided
The team had its first race Sept. 13

at the Georgia International Horse
Park in Conyers.
North DeKalb Mountain Bike Team formed

by Carla Parker
Football, basketball and
baseball have always been
the more popular sports with
fans and the sports that children often want to play.
There are other sports
that have gained popularity
with children over the years
such as soccer, tennis and
lacrosse; and there is another
sport that is gaining interest
mountain biking.
In 2013, the Georgia
High School Cycling League
was organized to provide
competitive mountain biking programs for students in
grades nine to 12. The league
is under the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), which oversees
all the leagues in the United
States. There are 15 leagues
in 14 states, including Georgia.
Dan Brooks, executive
director of the Georgia High
School Cycling League, organized the league to introduce
children to a sport they can
do for a lifetime.
One of the biggest attractions to me is the fact
that this is a life-long sport.
You can ride a bike for your
whole life, he said. One of
the coolest developments we
see in our league is when one
student starts riding their
brother or sister starts riding
with them and then the family gets into it. It then goes
from an activity that one of
the kids will do to an activity
that the entire family can do
together. Its just a great way
for families to spend time
together.
The league has grown
since its establishment and
now has 21 teams with 248
riders. One of those teams
is North DeKalb Mountain
Bike. The team was formed
in April by two parents,

Richard Mansker and Mike
Hatten.
We have six kids on the
team and theyre all middle
school students, Mansker
said.
The team consists of
Mansker and Hattens children as well as other children
from the Lakeside area.
Anybody from the central/northern part of DeKalb
can easily get to us, Mansker
said. We practice a couple of
nights a week and on Saturdays we go out to one of the
trail systems and do a longer
ride.
The league has four races
a season from September
to November. The first race

took place Sept. 13 at the
Georgia International Horse
Park in Conyers. The next
race will be held Oct. 4 at
Evans Private Farm in White,
Ga.
Mansker said his team is
at a disadvantage because it
is based inside the city and
does not have a nearby trail
system to practice on.
We have to be a little bit
more creative with what we
do as far as practicing goes,
he said. Weve gone to a few
local parks where there are
short trails that we can just
get the kids out and just do
skills training with them. But
we have to do our actual rid-
ing timewhere we can get

some longer distance in
just for the weekends.
Most of the teams that
are out there now are kind of
suburban teams, outside the
perimeter where all the big
trail systems are, he added.
We have to be a little creative compared to the other
teams.
Despite the lack of a
nearby trail, said this is a
good sport for children because it is not a traditional
sport.
For the kids that dont
want to be on a big team
sport like football, basketball
or baseball it gives them an
opportunity to try a different
sport and compete, he said.

Nobody is benched, there is
no tryout session and everybody gets to ride.
In the future, Brooks
said, he would like to see
mountain bike racing as part
of the athletic curriculum in
schools as other sports.
The more realistic side
of me wants to ensure that
we develop this program
with the proper approach
and the proper guidance,
Brooks said. We have to
grow the right way and make
sure we keep our programs
both interesting and fun but
also keep them safe.
Athlete of
the Week
George
Iassc
Ellis
Next Level
Each week The Champion spotlights former high school players

from the county who are succeeding in athletics on the college level.
Ryan George, Georgia Southern (football): The sophomore defensive end from Stephenson had four tackles, one tackle for a loss
and one sack in the 44-20 win over Idaho Sept. 26.
Breon Iassc, Fort Valley State (football): The junior cornerback
from Dunwoody had a tackle and an interception returned for 32
yards in the 33-3 win over Benedict College Sept. 26.
Ayauna Ellis, Fort Valley State (volleyball): The sophomore middle blocker from Southwest DeKalb led the team in blocks (9), and
had five kills in the 3-0 win over Tuskegee Sept. 25.
The Champion chooses a male and

female high school Athlete of the Week
each week throughout the school year.
The choices are based on performance
and nominations by coaches. Please email nominations to carla@dekalbchamp.
com by Monday at noon.
MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Jack Dinges, Marist (football): The
junior quarterback rushed for two touchdowns and threw two touchdown passes
in the 62-18 win over Redan Sept. 25.
FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Tessa Whitaker, Lakeside (softball):
The sophomore catcher had two hits and
one RBI in the 2-1 win over Southwest
DeKalb Sept. 23.
SPORTS
Basketball
Tucker retired MarShon Brooks No. 11 jersey on Sept. 23.
MarShons mother, Darlyn Brooks, announces that Brooks foundation is donating From left, Tucker boys basketball coach James Hartry said he is proud of the man MarShon Brooks
a scholarship fund to the boys and girls basketball program.
has become.
Tucker High retires Brooks jersey

by Carla Parker
Ten years ago, MarShon Brooks
was a talented basketball player at
Tucker High School who skipped
class a few times and gave his teachers a hard time.
That teenager turned into a successful basketball player and a giving
person, and Tucker honored him
Sept. 23 by retiring his No. 11 jersey.
Brooks family, former high school
teammates, coaches and teachers attended the jersey retirement ceremony to honor and celebrate the man he
has become. An emotional Brooks
said he was left speechless.
This is amazing, he said. For
them to put this together for me and
the way they did it, I cant really put
it into words, honestly. I cried like
four or five times. I kept getting emotional because I was just thinking
about how far Ive come since I was
17 years old. I think its a great honor.
Being on that stage, talking to all the
Tucker students is surreal to me.
In 2007, Brooks helped lead the
Tucker Tigers basketball team to the
Class AAAA state championship. As
a senior that year, he finished fifth
in the county in scoring with 18.9

points per game. The Tigers finished
with a 31-2 record that season.
Brooks, who was not a highly
recruited player, went on to be a star
player at Providence College where
he finished his senior season as a
First Team All-Big East selection at
guard while averaging 24.6 points
per game and collecting 225 rebounds and 80 assists. He was named
the Big East Conference Player of
the Week three times, including the
week he scored a Big East record of
52 points against Notre Dame (Feb.
23, 2011) while hitting another Big
East record of 20 field goals in a
game.
Brooks also scored 20 or more
points 26 times in 2011, including his
career high 52 and a 43 point, 10 rebound performance against Georgetown.
Brooks was a first-round NBA
draft pick in 2011 as the 25th overall
pick by the Boston Celtics. He was
promptly traded to the New Jersey,
Nets now Brooklyn Nets, where he
played two years. He averaged 12.6
points, 2.3 assists and 3.6 rebounds
his rookie season, earning Second
Team All-NBA Rookie honors.
He was traded three times during the 2013-2014 season to Boston,

Golden State and the Los Angeles
Lakers. He signed with the Italian
Basketball League as a member of
Emporio Armani Milan in 2014
where he averaged 12.8 points, 2.8
rebounds and 1.4 assists in 24 games.
He has recently signed a threeyear contract with the Jiangsu Dragons of the China Basketball League.
Tucker boys basketball coach
James Hartry, who worked to keep
Brooks on the right path, spoke at
the event.
I am extremely proud of this
young man because I knew him as a
15-, 16-, [and] 17-year-old, and how
far he has come as a young man is
more impressive to me, Hartry said.
I always knew the talent and the
skill level as a basketball player was
there, but the person MarShon has
become is very special to me. He still
knows where he comes from, he still
loves his family and he stays in touch
with me frequently. Hes like a son to
me and hes extremely special to me
and Im very proud of him.
Hartry said the jersey retirement
was a special moment for his current
players as well.
This is very big for them because theyre always receiving gifts
from MarShon, he said. MarShon
has been sponsoring us shoes, sweats
and uniforms for the past three or
four years. Now they get to see the
person thats doing all of this.
Brooks gave back to his alma mater again by donating a scholarship
fund. The scholarships, worth $1,000
each, will be given to a boy and girl
basketball player at Tucker who
demonstrates academic and athletic
excellence. The athletes awarded the
scholarships will be announced at the
end of each school year.
Brooks, who said he was the
most underrated player in the nation
at the time, had one message for students.
Dont judge your success off
of what everybody else is doing,
he said. At the time, when I was in
DeKalb County, we had four or five
players that were ranked nationally.
Of course I wanted that national attention but I wasnt ready, so I continued to work and it worked out for
me.
local
From left, Appearing at an awards presentation for winners of DeKalb County Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs photography contest are John Hewitt, The Champion Newspaper;
John Glenn, photographer; Al Goggins, first-place winner in nature category and second place overall; Stephanie Gilman, first-place winner in people category and third place overall;
Clay Fisher, first-place overall winner; Marvin Billups, deputy director, DeKalb County Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs; Richard Alvarez and Rochelle Callender, board members,
DeKalb County Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs; Josef Young, first-place winner in places category; and contest entrant Cymandye Russell.

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