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2014-2015 PACES CIVIC ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

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President - Halsey Knapp 404-351-3319 404-467-5880 [email protected]

Executive VP - Tim Robinson 404-355-4668 [email protected]

VP/Comm. Planning - Elizabeth Tatum 404-352-3714 404351-2261 [email protected]

VP/Membership - Laurel Lucey 404-351-9141 [email protected]

Secretary - Peg Hoogs 404-609-9271 404-964-3096 [email protected]

Treasurer - Gerald Bush 678-705-1286 678-641-6254 [email protected]

Immediate Past President 404-352-9272 404-444-2105 [email protected] Debra Wathen

Director at Large - Laurel Lucey 404-842-9988 404-317-1524 [email protected]

Director at Large - Frank Doherty 404-350-5905 404-784-1296 [email protected]

Director at Large - Kim Noonan 404-351-7505 678-488-4823 [email protected]

Membership/Security Liaison - Marie Macadam

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2014 ASSOCIATION & SECURITY PATROL MEMBERSHIP

Renewal applications went out in November. If you did not going out of town, let our officers know. They will receive one please use the one below. Please help your check your home daily, put your papers near the house neighborhood and yourself by joining and/or renewing. and take in garbage cans from the street. ★ An added benefit is the Security Hotline cell phone for Membership dues enable the Association to: Security Patrol Officers to carry at all times so that Security members can call and report any suspicious ★ Inform the neighborhood of news through newsletters, activity that may not rise to the level of a 911 call. flyers, signs and e-mails ★ Publish a neighborhood directory with an alphabetical While our neighborhood has historically had a majority of and street listing neighbors who choose to support the Paces Security Patrol ★ Retain legal services or other professionals when by paying the $250 Security Patrol Fee, there are some necessary neighbors who choose not to join and cite the taxes they already pay as the reason. However, the reality is that the ★ Maintain a website at www.pacescivic.org City of Atlanta has budget shortfalls and police staffing shortages, and police patrols are limited at best. Our Security Patrol dues enable the Association to neighborhood falls into police Zone 2 and inside Zone 2 provide a team of off-duty Atlanta Police Department there are 10 police "beats". Our beat, 201, covers a very officers who patrol our neighborhood. Security Patrol large area to begin with. members receive the following benefits: Because our beat has relatively few violent crimes, the ★ Security Decals (3) provided to display on your mailbox police car patrolling our beat in the past has been pulled to & automobiles for identification to the patrol officers. other beats with higher violent crime rates. Hence, our ★ Officers have a list of all security members. neighborhood can be left unprotected. Our neighborhood is a prime target, and $250 per year (less than 69 cents per ★ Security Hotline telephone number to communicate day) is a small price to pay for this added level of security. with our officers. Only our officers know the code to retrieve hotline messages and only our Security members have access to the hotline number. When

Paces Civic Assoc. Membership & Security Patrol $295.00 per household Paces Civic Association Membership only $45.00 Membership year runs from Paces Security Patrol only $250 January 1 to December 31. Mail check made payable to Name: Paces Civic Association Spouse: Email: to this address: Address: Membership Phone: home cell Paces Civic Association Please mark any areas in which you wish to help: 2295 Mt. Paran Road Environmental Communications Signs Atlanta, GA 30327 Membership Directory Legal Newsletter Planning/Zoning Political Contacts Other Social Events Security Trafc/Streets SPRING/SUMMER 2014 PACES NEWS

MEET THE PACES SECURITY PATROL

Officer Steve Seawell is a fixture in the Paces neighborhood, having worked in our area for many years. Born in London, he arrived in Atlanta in 1968. He joined the Atlanta Police Department in 1973. Years later, while working for the Cobb County police, he met his wife, Robyn. Robyn and Steve have two girls; one is a 5th grader, while the other is a sophomore at Florida State University. Steve loves to play golf when he’s not busy watching over our neighborhood. Steve’s words sum up well the neighborly feeling we all share for this long-time officer. He wrote, “I don’t feel like an employee of your neighborhod; rather, I feel like one of your neighbors.”

A retired APD officer who served actively for more than 28 years, Officer Maury Escher retired in 2009 and is now in the Active Reserves Program. Although he still enjoys his work as a policeman, he also enjoys spending free time with family, playing softball and barbequeing.

Officer Jeff Hensal has been a police officer for 35 years, spending the last 18 years at the Atlanta Police Department. He serves as the zone two day watch commander, but he has assumed various roles during his tenure with the APD. Jeff enjoys woodworking and home renovation projects. He also enjoys traveling to new places and meeting new people any time he has an opportunity to do so. Jeff has roots in New Jersey, where two of his three children still live. One of Jeff's three children is here in Atlanta and is also a fellow police officer with the APD. Jeff's five grandchildren range in age from three months to four years old, which has led him to believe that his kids are trying to make him old before his time.

Officer George Robertson is an Alabama native hailing from Hueytown. He moved to Atlanta after graduating from Jacksonville State University and immediately began working for the APD. George has a history of faithful and steady service, having patrolled a neighborhood for 16 years before moving over to the Paces neighborhood, which he has now patrolled for 15 years. He has also been married for 42 years. George has two children. SPRING/SUMMER 2014

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FORT PEACHTREE NEWS History and Greenspace to Meet in Local Park

Paces residents will soon have convenient access to one of Atlanta’s newest historical parks. Most residents would recognize the Ridgewood Road site as a wooded area enclosed by an imposing security gate and a sign prohibiting access. However, thanks to the efforts of local residents and Yolanda Adrean’s office, the forlorn entry will be opened to welcome visitors to a site packed with historical intrigue and natural beauty.

The 15-acre greenspace and historical site is located on Ridgewood Road, near the bridge that crosses the creek. It is across from an area that is currently experiencing construction to resolve an unrelated sewer line issue. The City of Atlanta is working to implement the site plan, including safety issues, and will announce an opening date soon.

Fort Peachtree was built by Americans at the Standing Peachtree Indian village by the Americans as part of a push to secure strategic advantage points amidst the Indian nations during the War of 1812. The area was also a terminus for a supply line that ran from Toccoa to an area just south of Piedmont Hospital, enabling American soldiers to safely transport supplies between Fort Daniel in Gwinnett County and Fort Peachtree. This key route would later become Peachtree Road.

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PACES PEN

Ashley Baxter

s the heat of summer rolls in, and the calendar flips to June, one is certain to encounter articles, A commercials or advertisements appealing to the universal disdain for the boys of summer. No, not the baseball boys; I refer here to the six-legged mahogany devils that hold doorways and walkways hostage, fleeing before approaching feet with unmatched speed. Yes, I speak of the palmetto bug, the winged, villanous cousin of the similarly unpopular cockroach. Being a strong-willed female, I will dare the politically incorrect and assign them the opposite gender.

Palmetto bugs -- and that is the euphemistic botanical name for these roaches -- do not hesitate to explore indoors when sultry heat returns. Their first appearances in June activate my roach alarms and put me on red alert until late September. Of course, my pest control technician listens and nods to my concerns with practiced patience, correcting my nomenclature and reminding me with a friendly resignation that there isn’t much one can do to keep them out in the South. Fair enough, I say, as they are drop-ins every summer despite my two-pronged defense, and with six children in and out all day, doors aren’t much of a barrier anyway.

But don’t tell a born and raised Florida girl that these sable aircraft aren’t dangerous. They are, without a doubt, among nature’s nastiest combatants. I have 25 years of roach antecdotes to validate this claim, spanning a variety of southern habitats, roach species and weaponry. The flying ones fly at you; if grounded, they hustle erratically toward the nearest foot. If crawling along an entryway, they drop fearlessly in sync with the unwitting victim who dares pass under the door. What other insects make such bold-faced moves?

I could relate a few tales worthy of bar stool audiences, but my latest encounter is family fare, for instead of airing harried expletives, the encounter turned me into a wordless, electrified freak. I sat at our kitchen bar one late Saturday night, nibbling on my favorite granola, bent over the Wall Street Journal, scanning editorial pieces in the numb fatigue that sets in after 17 hours of parenting. Reaching in the granola bag, I suddenly felt something alight my upper arm. The horrific sight -- a two-inch palmetto bug perched just below my shoulder -- was breathtaking, in the deadly way, and elicited primal screams and flailing body parts, sending granola airborne and furniture scuttling. Willing my body from my chair, and flinging myself across the kitchen with stupified surprise, I sent an expensive bag of Dekalb Farmer’s Market granola spinning, blanketing my floor in delicious, wasted oats. SPRING/SUMMER 2014 PACES NEWS

The battle raged on; unfazed, the roach flittered from its new perch on the side of the refridgerator, and true to form, aimed straight for me. I sprinted backwards from the kitchen with the adrenaline and clamor of the hunted, heedless of the risk of waking sleeping children. The stumbling footwork and shrill screams brought my husband running with his glass of wine, his countenance marked by deep concern. His words, however, were measured and calm, as he quietly surveyed the crime scene before him.

“Where is it?”

He has known me for 16 years, and while a stranger would assume I’d had a drug-fueled hallucination, my husband knows that it’s just time to kill a roach for me. He dismissed me impassively, like a seasoned parent. I breathed heavily, on shaking legs, and crept sheepishly to a hidden vantage point. Mustering his twenty years of Navy training, he deftly handled the enemy critter, folding his papery carcass into a wad of tissue and dumping him unceremoniously into the roaring waves of the toilet. My body relaxed, and I felt the familiar glow of victory creeping across my skin while the commode flushed its victory song.

You will understand, then, why I don’t like nighttime strolls, dinner on the darkened dock, or late arrivals to unlit front doors. You will believe now, that I drove with windows tightly raised on a lovely vacation evening at the beach, with my children trapped in the humid Suburban, driving slowly under the spell of a fat palmetto bug that had commandeered the driver’s side outer edge of my windshield. The surprise attacker, who had obviously parachuted from a palm tree, threw a wet beach towel on their plans of hanging out their windows belting Zac Brown and Kenny Chesney tunes.

Summer, then, is full of paradoxes. Yes, it is time for bare feet, pool days, fireflies, and freedom; but it is also a time of blisters and bugs, straw hair, lightening and hoodlems -- both two-legged and six-legged. Yes, I am a summer girl, but I’m ever vigilant when the sun sets; for in the comfortable, lazy heat, the enemy never sleeps. SPRING/SUMMER 2014

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DISTRICT 8 UPDATE

Contact Information

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Blue Ribbon Efﬁciency Commission Councilmember Yolanda Adrean was recently appointed to the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Efficiency Commission on Waste and Efficiency. This team aims to strengthen the City of Atlanta’s fiscal health by bringing excellence to all city operations. The commission is comprised of city council members, business leaders, union leaders, lawyers, finance consultants and members from the Mayor’s innovation team. The main goals of this commission are to ensure fiscal stability and provide capacity for future bonds to fund the city’s aging infrastructure. To achieve this, the commission will gather recommendations and ideas from citizens, staff members and commission members. These recommendations will then be evaluated and submitted to the Mayor for his consideration.

Keep Atlanta Beautiful

Paces residents have an easy way to recycle items that are not suitable for regular trash or recycling pickup. You can can bring electronics, latex paint and other items to Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church on the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Keep Atlanta Beautiful is a nonprofit group, and all of the vendors collecting the material are for- profit. The group is mostly self-funded through community programs. For directions and a complete list of accepted items and related restrictions or fees, visit www.KeepAtlantaBeautiful.org SPRING/SUMMER 2014

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NEW SCHOOLS IN BUCKHEAD

New Classical Charter School Opening at former Heiskell Campus

A recent charter school lottery revealed that Atlanta Public School parents in the Buckhead area are eager to try a new and challenging public school option. Atlanta Classical Academy will open on August 11 with 450 students attending its campus at the former Heiskell School campus at the intersection of Northside Drive and Moore’s Mill roads.

The school is distinctive in its approach to education. It will feature curricula and teaching methods that emphasize Western civilization, traditional math, memorization and virtuous living. The school is one of several charter schools planted through an education initiative at Hillsdale College. The principal, Dr. Terrence Moore, is a Hillsdale professor and former principal of one of the nation’s top public charter schools, while the Assistant Principal, Col. Stephen Lambert, is an Air Force officer who has served at high levels in Washington, D.C.

The student body was chosen by lottery, with additional students chosen from a waitlist. In October, a new lottery will enable available spots to be filled, and a new waitlist will form. Each year, the school will add a grade to the upper school until it reaches K-12 capacity. For more information, see www.atlantaclassical.org.

New Preschool to Open at Church of the Apostles

Parents and teachers at the recently closed Heiskell School have moved to partner with Church of the Apostles in creating a new preschool in Buckhead. Redeemer Day School will be opening for the 2014 – 2015 school year at the church’s campus at 3585 Northside Parkway.

This Christian preschool will include a heavy emphasis on Biblical values, academics and teacher-directed learning. It will provide half-day two year old, three year old, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes. Redeemer Day School teachers will include experienced staff from the Heiskell School. Tuition ranges from $4200 to $6500 per year, depending on the child’s age and the number of days per week that the child will attend.

For more information, or to express interest in enrolling your child, contact [email protected]. SPRING/SUMMER 2014 PACES NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2014 CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2014

Sarah E. Allen graduated from the Westminster Luke Tassopoulos graduated from The Schools and will attend the University of Westminster Schools and will attend Colby College Pennsylvania. (Maine) in the fall.

Carlyn fox graduated from The Westminster Jack Buckelew graduated from North Atlanta High Schools and will attend Southern Methodist School, where, he was Captain of the soccer team. University. Jack will volunteer in South America for one year and then attend the University of Virginia in 2015. Susan Holmes graduated from The Lovett School and will attend The University of Georgia in the fall. Trip Rohling graduated from Woodward Academy Turner Hume graduated from the I.B. Program at and will attend George Washington University. He North Atlanta High School and will attend The will serve as an intern at Billingsley Company, a University of Georgia this fall. He was Co-Captain of commercial and residential real estate company in the NAHS Men's Golf Team. Dallas, Texas.

Emma Macadam graduated with Honors from William McClatchey graduated from the IB Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina. She will diploma program at North Atlanta High School. He be taking a gap year with Rustic Pathways, traveling will attend Belmont University in Nashville to pursue to seven countries. This will be a community service, a degree in Film Production. language immersion, and adventure experience. She will then attend college in 2015. Isabelle Babb graduated from The Westminster Schools and will attend The Naval Academy. SPRING/SUMMER 2014

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REAL ESTATE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

The ﬁgures below represent closed and pending sales as of May 2014.

Address Status Sold Price Date Closed

2022 Rivermeade Way NW Sold 1,213,754 3/28/14 2879 Rivermeade Dr NW Sold $950,000 1/16/14 3646 Cloudland Dr NW Sold $865,900 5/1/14 2170 Mt Paran Rd NW Sold $495,000 1/31/14 4422 Paces Battle NW Sold $375,000 4/15/14 7 Riverly Place NW Pending Sale List $2,500,000 3015 Rivermeade Dr NW Pending Sale List 1,895,000 1700 W Wesley Rd NW Pending Sale List $1,695,000 1985 W Wesley Rd NW Pending Sale List $1,550,000 2979 Nancy Creek Road NW Pending Sale List $1,389,000 11 W Wesley Ridge Pending Sale List $1,225,000 3442 Ridgewood Rd NW Pending Sale List $699,000 4474 Paces Battle Pending Sale List $579,500 4418 Paces Battle Pending Sale List $479,000 0 W Wesley Ridge Pending Sale List $460,000 Presorted PACES NEWS First Class Mail 1266 W. Paces Ferry Road US Postage Box 168 PAID Atlanta, GA 30327-2306 Oakland, CA Permit #2319

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