SMOKE SIGNAL VOLUME 51, ISSUE 5 Serving the Smoke Rise Community for Fifty Years – 1968-2018 August, 2018
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SMOKE SIGNAL VOLUME 51, ISSUE 5 Serving the Smoke Rise Community for Fifty Years – 1968-2018 August, 2018 www.smokesignalnews.com The Smoke Signal wishes all of our Look inside for… Smoke Signal is going to the dogs (and cats) students, teachers, and school staff ........................ see articles on pages 6, 7, and 10 an excellent 2018-2019 school year! Who to Call About a Lost Pet? ...................pg 2 Smoke Rise Real Estate Update ....................pg 5 Prescription Pain Meds: Opiods ................. pg 10 Back to School The Way It Was by Joel Gilbert, P.E. by Jane Brown It’s been a long time since I was in school, but Reprinted from the March 1976 Smoke Signal this time of the year brings back a flood of memories The day that Bill and Anne Pritchett first drove way out to Stone Mountain from their of summer ending and a school year beginning. I Brookhaven apartment to see “Houses for Sale with TREES, TREES, TREES!”, they were sold! clearly remember being anxious about the new start, Despite Anne’s parents’ reservations that their daughter would find living in such an isolated spot new classmates, new teachers, new subjects, class- lonely (with three children and a husband who frequently traveled), the Pritchetts moved into rooms, etc. There were lots of new things too: some their home on Hugh Howell Road in April 1957. Four other newly constructed homes stood new school clothes, shoes, pencils and crayons, and unoccupied and their only neighbors were Tom Harris and his family, who lived on a 90 acre the notebooks or three-ring binders. farm nearby, and two other farm families. And they loved the woods and streams and room for We wrote our term papers in small saddle-stitch their family to grow from the very first day. bound notebooks. And, we first learned to print as Life was very different in Mountain Shadow 19 years ago. Two sheds and the newly con- if it was an art form. Then we learned cursive hand- structed DuPont plant were all that stood between here and Tucker. Phone calls to Atlanta were writing and it was graded as if it were artwork. I “long distance.” The children attended school in Tucker and Anne spoke of the closer alliance remember one teacher who became so incensed that residents felt with the town at that time. Since the area was popularly used for fox hunting, the our handwriting was not living up to her standard sounds of barking dogs in packs could be regularly heard in the distance. Children played around that she decided we all had to relearn the skill. It woods and streams and when one of the Moon’s family was drilled into children from Rosser Road got lost, a search party was me so forcefully organized to find him in the thick woods. that I became Stone Mountain Acres was a new development on very good at it the outskirts of Atlanta in DeKalb County that adver- … so much so that my wife has tised house lots of at least an acre in size for $2,000 and kept all the let- homes that were a minimum of 1400 sq. ft. in size. The ters I wrote to property, owned by Hugh Howell, for whom the road her as we first was named, was first developed by Wheat Williams. dated. Only one other development in the county was zoned As you probably know, handwriting has gone for acre-size lots. out of style. Printing still persists. But, keyboard- In two years, the houses built on Stone Mountain ing has replaced both, and text-messaging is now so Acres were sold to families who were attracted to a life widespread that it is now a language of its own. The free of the congestion and problems of city living and to graphic above is a good summary of how frustrating the unusually large properties. John and Lettie Hudson it can be to interact with today’s youth. I have to vow that even then they could see the day when Atlanta admit that texting is just not my thing. Don’t get …continued on page 5 me wrong, there are some really good uses for it, but I still like using the phone the way it was originally SRCA Board Report intended … for speaking with people. - by Michael Huerkamp It has made me a bit crazy to watch my daugh ters texting each other at the dinner table … prob- The summer months, and the effect of vacation season, have imposed ably making fun of me … holding the phone under a bit of a slow down for the SRCA board which actually gives us a chance the table, texting with just one hand as they ate with to catch-up on a few matters. Although there was no July board meet- the other. ing, we look forward to finishing out the calendar year strong beginning I don’t tweet either. And, while you are busy in August. In support of our community and association members, the classifying me as a luddite, I have never used SRCA board is at the preliminary stage of partnering again with TCA and Snapchat nor Instagram, and tried but no longer use TBA to put on a candidate forum in the fall and we are using our contacts at the Tucker precinct Pinterest. I do Facebook and LinkedIn just to keep to explore the possibility of scheduling a public safety and burglar-proofing charette. Again, tabs on my friends and colleagues, but it is hard to while early, the board is researching how we can better leverage technology, most prominently as keep up with so many communication methods. it influences our web presence, to better and more specifically support our dues-paying members. If you want to see a funny description of how On a faster track, the board seeks to exploit our mutual interest with the D1 city council mem- much things have changed, go on YouTube and bers, Pat Soltys and Bill Rosenfeld, to meet regularly on a periodic basis. We also look forward type in “Millennial Job Interview.” How many new to providing our support as the new elementary school is built. Although admittedly we don’t things do I have to learn this year to stay even a bit say it enough, we are always grateful for all of our dues-paying supporters and their investment in up to date? our community. August, 2018 Fine-Free Summer Smoke Rise Baptist Church Smoke Signal for Kids and Teens P.O.P.O. Box 763, 763, Tucker, Tucker, GA GA 30085 30084 Courtesy of Dekalb Dr. Chris George, Senior Pastor A non-profit service organization devoted to furthering Bart McNiel, Associate Pastor neighborhood cooperation with the aid of good neighborhood Public Library Tim Adcox, Minister of Missions communication. Kathy Dobbins, Minister of Spiritual Formation Editorial Committee… *Jan Mahoney ......................(470) 545-0248 Let your children check Danny Vancil, Minister of Music & Worship Becky Caswell-Speight, Minister to Families with Children Cheri Schneider ...................(770) 717-9914 out all the books and mate- Jeremy Colliver, Minister to Families with Youth AvivA Hoffmann ..... [email protected] rials they want this summer Amanda Coe Burton, Director of Nursery Ministries * This Issue’s Editor-in-Chief without worrying about Valerie Coe Lowder, Director of the Weekday School Recording Secretary .....Susan Gilbert [email protected] fines. The Library Board Telephone: (770) 469-5856 Corresponding Secretary ..Barbara Bruschi ....................(770) 934-4644 of Trustees has approved SmokeRiseBaptist.org Sundays: Treasurer ......................Harry Strack ........................(770) 365-9381 a Fine-Free Summer for Classified Ads ...............Harry Strack ........................(770) 365-9381 9:00 a.m. Worship in the Chapel 9:45 a.m. Sunday school Display Ads ..................Harry Strack ........................(770) 365-9381 materials in the children’s 11:00 a.m. Worship in the Sanctuary Church News ...............Susan Gilbert [email protected] and teen’s collections Communion: Second Sunday of each month Health News ................Cheri Schneider, M.D. ........(770) 717-9914 through August 31. Library Wednesdays: Flyer Inserts .................Barbara Luton ......................(770) 491-6711 Director Alison Weissinger 5:00-5:45 Fellowship Dinner Hodge Podge ...............Jenny Hall ............................(404) 200-4227 wants parents and care- 6:00-7:00 Programs for children, youth and adults Pet Lost & Found ........Kay McKenzie ................ (770) 491-6784 givers to encourage their 7:00-8:30 Sanctuary choir Social Media ...............Pat Soltys .............................(770) 573-9715 children to read and enjoy Nursery provided News You Can Use ......AvivA Hoffmann ..... [email protected] library resources all sum- Staff Writers .................Rene Boven ..........................(770) 905-5404 Eastminster Presbyterian Church mer. “We know children Joel Gilbert ................................................... Pastor: Rev. J. Caleb Clarke III Susan Gilbert .......................(404) 312-8328 lose ground in academics Pastor of Senior Adult Ministries: Rev. Jeanne Simpson Joyce Ray .............................(770) 491-9015 over the summer break. We Director of Mission & Youth: Mark Sauls Director of Music Ministries: Andrew Meade Pat Soltys .............................(770) 573-9715 want to take away any bar- Director of Preschool: Stacey Moura Barbara Bruschi ...................(770) 934-4644 rier to children and teens Director of School Age Program: Celeste Sears Distribution .................Laura Smith .........................(770) 934-7595 having books to read and Director of Respite Care Program: Helen Wilborn Delivery .......................Morgan Taylor and Charlie Smith enjoy over the summer.” Director of Communications: Joy Summerville-Johnson Telephone (770) 469-4881 Views and/or opinions expressed in articles, stories or letters published She adds, “We just ask that www.eastminster.us in this newspaper are not necessarily those of the Smoke Signal or its items are returned to the Respite Care Center Hours: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.