WWW.CHAMPIONNEWSPAPER.COM • FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011 • VOL. 14, NO. 4 • FREE FREEP•RESS A PUBLICATION OF ACE III COMMUNICATIONS • Secular and sacred events celebrate the coming of Easter by Kathy Mitchell welcome the spring holiday. (678) 886-8722. [email protected] Here is a sampling. Callanwolde’s aster Sunday will Family portraits and more Eggstravaganza Callanwolde’s Eggstravaganza. Photos provided dawn a little later in Decatur Eggstravaganza returns to than usual this year. Distinct Profi les Pho- Callanwolde Saturday, April advance or $12 at the door. (404) 872-5338 or visit www. In fact, the latest day tography will provide a free 23, 10 a.m. – noon. A family Adults are admitted free. callanwolde.org. Ethat Easter can come (based Easter event for children with favorite for years, Callanwol- Tickets can be purchased on a complicated calculation egg decorating, candy, door de’s Easter egg hunt features online at TicketLeap. All pro- Dinosaur Egg Hunt at Fern- involving the full moon and prizes and a professional fam- thousands of eggs, a live per- ceeds benefi t the Callanwolde bank the vernal equinox) is April ily portrait for all who attend. formance by EnzoClown, dance program. The Fernbank Museum is 25, and this year it comes in Although the portrait is free, Atlanta Braves game tickets In case of rain the event offering a day of springtime just under the wire on April there is a $9 sitting fee. This and prizes, arts and crafts and will be cancelled. No onsite family fun with its second 24. event takes place on Saturday, a chance to meet the Easter parking will be available. annual Dinosaur Egg Hunt Arriving on the fi nal April 23, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Bunny. Families are invited There will be free parking and Saturday, April 23. This Sunday in April, Easter is Sunday, April 24, 1 - 5 p.m. to bring Easter baskets and shuttle bus service beginning year’s Dinosaur Egg Hunt likely to have warm weather Distinct Profi les Photography cameras for a fun day in Cal- at 9:30 a.m. at the Emory will feature age-appropriate with lots of fl owers bloom- Studio is located at 4185-A lanwolde’s beautiful gardens University Briarcliff Campus, timed egg hunts, thousands of ing. There will be a variety of Snapfi nger Woods Drive, and grounds. 1256 Briarcliff Road, one- prize-fi lled eggs and special both festive and sacred events Decatur. For more informa- The charge for children half mile north of Callanwol- activities, including an infl at- across DeKalb County to tion, call Robert Gray at 12 and younger is $10 in de. For more information call able dragon slide, Radio Dis- See Easter on Page 13A Awards program puts spotlight on high achieving volunteers “I’m not looking to change the at the Arabia Mountain Preserve. A world; I’m just looking to change my former engineer with the military community,” said award recipient and with the U.S. Forestry Service, Luma Mufl eh in a recorded message Tom Smith has developed countless at the second annual DeKalb County projects to make the nature preserve CEO’s Community Hero Awards safer and more enjoyable. His wife, Ceremony April 10. Her statement in addition to helping with the captured the spirit of those honored. outdoor projects, has written articles Held at the Callanwolde Fine about the preserve and maintains a Arts Center in Atlanta, the event scrapbook that chronicles the history recognized community achievers of the area. selected by a committee composed Another couple, J.W. and of individuals representing a cross Althier Eady were selected for the section of the county. DeKalb County Neighborhood Empowerment Award. CEO Burrell Ellis, who hosted the After a series of break-ins in his event, called the ceremony “our way neighborhood, J.W. Eady decided he of celebrating community service in had had enough. “They were kicking DeKalb County and thanking those down doors and taking TVs right off who contribute to make DeKalb a Mistress of Ceremonies JaQuitta Williams, left, and DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis, the wall,” he recalled. better place to live, work and play.” fl ank Neighborhood Empowerment Award recipients J.W. and Althier Eady. He and his wife organized The Television news anchor JaQuitta Other organizations at which (CPACS), the fi rst, largest and Parks of Stonecrest Neighborhood Williams was mistress of ceremonies she volunteers include Greenforest longest-standing service providing Watch Program. After they rallied for the event. McCalep Christian Academy, Habitat agency focused on Asian Pacifi c their neighbors to be eyes and ears Community Service Award for Humanity, Morehouse Medical Islanders in the Southeast. Founded for community safety, crime in the recipient Ozie Jackie Adams was School, the University of Georgia on the belief that “people need area decreased signifi cantly. The recognized for her more than 40 DeKalb Cooperative Extension people,” CPACS health and social Eadys expanded their neighborhood years of volunteer service in the Service, the National Association service to clients who struggle with improvement efforts to secure a grant fi elds of education, health care and of Educators, the American Library cultural and language barriers. to support clean-up and beautifi cation community outreach. Adams, who Association, the Community The Environmental Change campaigns that included improving began volunteering in local schools Achievement Center, Golden Living Award was presented to Tom and the look of vacant lots and common when her children were young and Center and her own church, Ebenezer Killian Smith, a couple who have areas. continued to do so long after they Baptist. logged more than 4,800 volunteer Mufl eh, along with Fugees Family went to college, said, “What we do Another Community Service hours during the past 10 years to Inc., the non-profi t organization for our children today will determine Award went to the Center for Pan make DeKalb County a greener that she founded, was honored as what our tomorrow will be like.” Asian Community Services Inc. place. Most of their efforts have been the recipient of the Youth Volunteer See Volunteers on Page 13A NEWS The Champion Free Press, Friday, April 22, 2011 Page 2A City of Clarkston gets a makeover by Daniel Beauregard had to redo our bid hearing [email protected] because Howard had left out the federal guidelines, After several years so that put us back a couple of hard work the City of of weeks,” Hadlock said. Clarkston is finally seeing “So, we changed it to July 4 its efforts to beautify the and we’re going to push for city bear fruit, and what bet- [that]. It would be nice to ter time could there be for it have some kind of [celebra- than spring? tion] this year.” The city has just finished The project, which cost dredging the lake off Nor- approximately $800,000, man Road and stocking it was paid for by the city of with several types of fish, Clarkston and the DeKalb and building a public dock. County Community Devel- “We went in and put opment Department through about 3,000 little bluegill the use of the county’s Com- and then about 400 catfish munity Development Block A city employee stocks the lake with fish. Photo provided came next about a week lat- Grant Recovery Program er, and we’re going to put in (CDBG). maybe 800 or 1,000 large- The facilities will in- mouth bass,” Vice-Mayor clude a new pool and kid- Warren Hadlock said. die pool, both of which are According to Hadlock the wheelchair accessible, an lake, which is still owned by extended poolside patio area homeowners, was a public/ for receptions, bike racks private venture. DeKalb and a new separate building County owns the largest to house the pool pumps and portion of it, the city paid equipment. for a portion of it through Both Hadlock and Mayor storm water funds, and the Emanuel Ransom said that residents came up with ap- one of the reasons they think proximately $42,000. the county was so forthcom- The city wants residents ing with funding was they to wait a year before they realized people from all start fishing to allow the fish over DeKalb would use the to mature. While they’re pool, not just residents of waiting they can walk across Clarkston. the street and visit the Mi- “When we went to lam Park Pool. DeKalb County they were The city has chosen Proj- elated when we said we ect Manager Larry Kaiser wanted to build a new pool, of CIS Inc., to the oversee because our pool services construction of the new more DeKalb County resi- pool, which will begin in the dents than it does Clarkston next few weeks. residents,” Ransom said. “I don’t know what The city has also re- would be holding [construc- ceived a $10,000 grant from tion] up from starting within the Georgia Soil and Water the next week or so…we Conservation Commission may have to approve the to reintroduce native species contract in a vote by the of trees into the Friendship council but I can’t see why Forest Wildlife Sanctuary, it would be more than a and part of it will be used to week,” Hadlock said. create an outdoor classroom. The pool was originally “We’re seeking some slated to open on Memorial help on writing a curriculum Day but the date was pushed that would be appropriate back as the city dealt with for [elementary] and middle the death of former Mayor school in particular,” Had- Howard Tygrett, who died lock said.