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County’s early retirement package proving popular

Wastewater plants await funding to increase capacity

Volume 15, Number 49

Jennifer Ffrench-Parker / CrossRoadsNewsDavid Hayes, assistant plant superintendent at Snapfinger Wastewater Treatment Plant in Decatur stands alongside an aeration tank built in 1963 when the plant had a capacity of 2 million gallons a day. Today, the plant, which has a capacity of 36 million gallon, is processing 30 million gallons a day. Proposed improvements will take it to 54 million gallons daily. Once funded, the expansion will be built along the tree line at left.

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Even though the design for the expan-sion of two wastewater treatment plants in South DeKalb was completed on schedule last month, their construction is not on the fast track.

DeKalb Commissioner Lee May, who heads the Board of Commissioners’ Planning Economic and Public Works Committee, said the $755 million expansion of the Snapfinger Waste Treatment Plant in Decatur and the Pole Bridge Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lithonia can’t progress until the board approves its Capital Improvement Program.

“The improvements are part of a bigger program,” he said Thursday. “It is $1.7 billion to $2 billion with 83 projects.”

Dr. Francis Kung’u, director of the coun-ty’s Watershed Management Department, said that they are hoping the commission-ers will approve the bond funding for the construction by June so the project can go to bid in late summer or early fall.

“We hope to start construction in first quarter 2011,” he said.

Despite the administration’s aggres-sive schedule, May said he and committee members Jeff Rader and Kathie Gannon, are wading their way through the plan, program by program.

“A great many of them we just have to have,” he said. “But we can’t go for the bond until the CIP is approved.”

With population growth, the county is under the gun to expand the treatment plants. The 140-acre Snapfinger Plant o Flakes Mill Road was built in 1963 with a capacity of 2 million gallons a day. By 1983, its capacity had increased to 36 million gal-lons a day.

David Hayes, the plant’s assistant super-intendent, said the aging plant, which works round the clock, is now close to its volume limit, handling 30 million gallons of sewage daily.

“We are nearing capacity,” he said.Hayes said many of plant’s parts are no

longer available and replacements have to be custom made at great cost.

“The new facility will be half the size and will treat twice as many gallons a day using less energy,” he said Thursday.

The Snapfinger Plant’s improvement is estimated to cost $375 million. It will in-crease capacity to 54 million gallons.

If begins construction early next year, it

will be completed in 2014.The Pole Bridge Creek Plant on 690 acres

on Browns Mill Road, was built in 1973 with a capacity of 3 million gallon per day. It was expanded to 20 million gallons in 1990.

It’s proposed expansion to 39 million gal-lons a day is estimated to cost $380 million. If construction begins in 2011, Kung’u said it is slated for completion in 2015.

May said the planned improvements are to provide capacity for the future.

He said his committee is working to have the CIP approved before June but that the bond may not issued by then.

May said commissioners are also viewing the $2 billion CIP as a stimulus package for the county.

“I want to make sure that DeKalb busi-nesses have a strong opportunity to vie for this,” he said. “And that any company that gets any of it, hires DeKalb County resi-dents.”


DeKalb County’s early retirement pack-age is proving popular with county employ-ees. On Tuesday, with the April 16 deadline on the offer still 10 days away, 598 people had already said yes.

Commissioner Connie Stokes, the Board of Commissioners’ budget committee chair-man, called it “a great response.”

“We are still about protecting jobs but we are excited by the response,” she said Thursday. Commissioners were hoping that 551 of the eligible 1,217 employees would take the package at a savings of $10 million to $17.5 million.

Facing a $100 million shortfall in rev-enues, the county – which has 7,900 employ-ees – offered the early retirement program to

help balance its 2010 budget. It is offering a lump-sum cash payment and an additional two years of service on the pension of em-ployees with 10 years of service.

Eligible employees must be 50 years and older with 10 years of service, or employees of any age who have 25 years of service.

County spokeswoman Shelia Trapier Ed-wards said that 657 of the eligible employees had returned their forms through Tuesday.

With the level of the response so far, Dr. Michael Bell, the county’s finance director, said there won’t be a need for a second offer to lure employees.

“It looks like a very well-received pro-gram,” he said Thursday. “Maybe people are getting more confident about the economy.”

County officials had worried that the

program might have been a hard sell in an economy with a 10.9 unemployment rate.

“We were afraid that people might not want to leave if they feel they may not be able to find other jobs,” Stokes said. “But there is also a lot of uncertainty and they don’t know what might happen, and what we may have to do.”

DeKalb Watershed Management was leading the departments with the most em-ployees. It had 79, followed by the Sheriff ’s Office with 76, the Police Department with 71, and Fire and Rescue with 63.

Dr. Francis Kung’u, director of Watershed Management, said he knew ahead of time that he had a lot of qualified employees who might accept the offer.

“A lot of people have been here for 25 to 30 years,” he said.

Watershed Management has 750 employ-ees. When the longtime employees depart, Kung’u said they will have to ensure that they will have coverage for the county’s 5,200 miles of sewage and water lines.

Sheriff Thomas Brown has said that the loss of 76 employees will leave the jail, which has 828 people, understaffed and unsafe. He said that he will have to resort to overtime to cover the jail and other duties.

Employees who take early retirement will leave the county by May 31.

Stokes said that the county is determined to have a good transition as the employees leave.

“We are talking to the administration about how we develop a transition plan so that we do not hire everybody back as con-sultants,” she said.

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DeKalb Commissioner Larry Johnson is kicking off his re-elec-tion campaign on April 10.

Johnson, who was first elected to the DeKalb Board of Commis-sioners in 2002, is seeking a third term. The kickoff takes place 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the new McDon-ald’s at the corner of Candler and McAfee Roads in Decatur.

Johnson, who was unopposed for his second term, is active in the community. Last year, he was voted best commissioner in the CrossRoadsNews Best of East Metro Readers’ Choice Award.

Qualifying for the 2010 elec-tions is April 26 to 30. The primary will be July 20 and the general elec-tion is Nov. 2. Larry Johnson

Dr. Kathryn Rice has thrown her hat in the ring for the DeKalb Commission Super District 7 seat.

Rice, who lives in Stone Mountain, an-nounced her candi-dacy for the seat being vacated by Commis-sioner Connie Stokes on April 6.

Stokes is running for the 4th Congressio-nal District seat held by Hank Johnson.

Rice, a college professor and a past president of the Hidden Hills Civic As-sociation, says she wants to help create the communities we want and need.

“The need includes more jobs, greater business diversity, additional revenue, lower taxes, and better infrastructure,” she said.

She said her doctorate in public policy specializing in economic development from Georgia Tech and George State Uni-versity prepares her to address that need. She teachers at Georgia State University,

Rice, a 30-year DeKalb resident, says that she will work with educational lead-ers in DeKalb County to improve perfor-mance and structures.

“I will encourage homeowner-ship to build sustainable neighbor-hoods and work to limit activities that lower property values,” she said. Rice is the second candidate to declare for the seat. Willie Mosley, Jr., who ran against Stokes in 2006, has filed declaration of intention with the DeKalb Election to run for the seat as well.

Qualifying will be April 26 to 30. The primary will be July 20 and the general election will be Nov. 2.

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DeKalb County residents continue to lag the nation in returning 2010 Census forms.

On Thursday, 60 percent of DeKalb’s forms had been returned, compared to the national rate of 64 per cent.

Census Day was April 1 and county of-ficials have been urging residents to complete and return their 10-question form.

For the 2000 census, only 75 percent of DeKalb residents returned their forms which impacted the amount of feredal funds that came t the county for roads, schools and other infrastructure,

Super District 7 Com-missioner Connie Stokes, who chairs the DeKalb Complete Count Com-mittee, said last week the county has been getting reports from residents who have not received forms. She said that households that have not received a census form may obtain one from any DeKalb County Public Library or Questionnaire Assistance Centers. For a complete listing of Questionnaire Assistance Centers in your area, visit www.2010census.gov.

This week, the U.S. Census Bureau did a second “drop” of forms. Households that do not receive a census form after April 12

their census form. Not participating in the census, results in a population under-count which will cause the County to miss out on billions of dollars in federal aid.

“An accurate and complete count po-sitions DeKalb to get its fair share of the more than $400 billion of available funds to support vital local services like health care, schools, law enforcement, and transporta-tion,” she said.

For more information, visit www.census.gov.

Connie Stokes

The national participation in the 2010 Census was 64 percent on Thursday. Here’s how DeKalb and neighboring counties stack up:

County 2010 2000DeKalb 60 75Rockdale 63 78 Fulton 58 68Henry 66 79 Gwinnett 62 77

should call the Questionnaire Assistance Help Center at 1-866-872-6868. A representative from the Questionnaire Assistance Help Cen-ter will mail another form to the residence, and will even send it to a P.O. Box.

Residents who did not mail their census forms by the April 1 deadline are still urged to do so. Between May and July, census takers will begin to visit households that did not return a questionnaire by mail.

Stokes said that it is important that every resident in DeKalb County fill out and return

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Jones: Discrimination suit’s outcome a victory for county

By Deborah Alberto

A bill that activists said would have unfairly tipped the scales in the state’s favor when it comes to appealing environmental cases died in committee last week, but environmental advocates said they won’t be surprised if they see it again next year.

Senate Bill 486 would have im-pacted cases involving landfills, ma-rinas and any businesses in the state that require environmental permits to set up shop or do business.

Supporters said they were sim-ply trying to address an imbalance in the law due to historical acci-dent, but environmental attorney Justine Thompson said the bill died because “even when it comes to Republicans, there is something distasteful about trying to influence the judicial system.”

Thompson, an attorney and director of Green Law, said that under SB 486, an administrative law judge would have had to defer to state Department of Natural Resources employees during the appellate process, removing the ability of independent administra-tive judges to act as neutral finders

of fact and law. But while the judge would have

had to defer to the agency for tech-nical guidance, the judge would still have the final say.

Patricia Barmeyer, a partner with the law firm King and Spald-ing, said the state Department of Natural Resources and the Envi-ronmental Protection Division are treated differently than other agencies.

“For other agencies that have their cases heard before the Office of State Administrative Hearings, the agency has the right to revoke, reject or modify” permits in the appellate process, said Barmeyer, lead counsel for Longleaf Energy Associates, a group associated with the permitting process for a New Jersey-based LS Power company.

The proposed bill came in the wake of an appeal by Friends of the Chattahoochee of a preconstruc-tion permit issued by the EPD. The appeal would have allowed Lon-gleaf to build a coal-fired energy plant in Washington County.

Friends of the Chattahoochee, which won the appeal, is opposed to the plant, and cites research showing the long reaching effects of

acid rain and other pollutants from coal fired energy plants. LS Power and Power 4 Georgians backed the bill, which was sponsored by Ross Tolleson (R-Perry).

An administrative law judge af-firmed the issuance of a permit to build the coal-fired plant last year, but deferred to the state in evaluat-ing whether emissions limitation controls were sufficient under Best Available Control Technology Limits imposed by the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency.

Friends of the Chattahoochee appealed to the Georgia Court of Appeals, stating that under the law, the judge was not entitled to defer to the permit issuing agency. The Court of Appeals agreed.

Current rules require the ad-ministrative law judge to consider the facts anew, without deference or presumption of correctness to the EPD’s decision, and to render an independent decision. In essence, the appellate court’s opinion said the judge should “not substitute its equally reasonable determination for the [EPD] director’s reasonable determination.”

Thompson is relieved the bill stalled, but expects to see the legis-

lation again. “We saw the same bill last year,”

she said last week.If the legislation is passed next

year, it could impact businesses and others seeking review court decisions pertaining to projects potentially impacting the environ-ment including landfills, power plants or any other group seeking environmental permits.

“If you are a developer, it can hurt your chances to appeal the de-nial of a permit,” Thompson said.

Only12 percent of environmen-tal cases are brought by environ-mental activist groups, she added.

The rest are businesses, devel-opers and others who seek appellate review in permit denials.

“This is one of the most par-ticular special interest bills I have seen,” Thompson said. “It’s a small group pushing the legislation that will affect a lot of people. Congress set up the Clean Water Act because they wanted checks and balances. At some point, all government agencies need some level of over-sight. So, I guess if you are 100 percent trusting of all your govern-ment’s actions, you would be OK with this.”


Former CEO Vernon Jones and his lawyers are calling last week’s

verdict in the racial discrimi-nation lawsuit against the coun-ty “victory,” and because of the low amount of the award they are considering challenging the

punitive awards.A six-member predominant-

ly white federal jury awarded $185,000 in damages on April 1 to former parks department employ-ees Michael Bryant and John Drake, who are white. They were among

four former employees who sued the county and Jones, his executive assistant Richard Stogner and for-mer parks director Marilyn Drew.

The other two employees, for-mer parks director Becky Kelly, who is also white, and Herbert Lowe, who is black, got nothing.

Dwight Thomas, one of Jones’ lawyers, said that he considering posting verdict challenges be-cause, punitive damages are not to be awarded without com-pensatory dam-ages. He also said that the plantiff lawyers are not entitled to $2 million in fees.

He said they are only entitled to twice the amount of the damages awarded.

Thomas also said that the plan-tiffs should be liable for former assistant county administrator Morris Williams’ legal fees since he was exonerated.

“We have until May 2 to post,” Thomas said Wednesday. “If we can sit down and resolve those issues, we will, but if we can’t we will go back to court.”

Jones and Thomas said that the plaintiff ’s had sought up to $18 million in an arbitration hearing in January. Before the case went to trial, some DeKalb Commission-ers had favored settling it for $4 million.

“If they had we would have been

out more than $6 million,” Jones said. “It was clearly a victory for us. This was sympathy award.”

Jones is adding the county’s legal bill of $2.5 million to that amount.

Even if the verdict stands, Jones and Stogner are not likely to pay any money out of pocket for personal liability awarded against them.

Thomas said the county main-tains $50,000 insurance on its employees and because the award against Jones and Stogner was $27,750 each, the county’s insur-ance company will pick up the tab for the two.

Drew was found liable for $55,500 which exceeds the cap.

DeKalb County will pay $74,000 of the total.

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Johnson, a Demo-crat, is running for a third term to represent the 4th District, which includes portions of DeKalb, Rockdale and Gwinnett counties.

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The Metro Atlanta Alumni Chapter of Saint Augustine’s College is hosting its third annual Saint Augustine’s College Day on April 18.

The festivities will take place at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

The alumni chapter will worship with St. Timothy at its 10 a.m. service. Dr. Joseph Sil-ver, provost at Clark Atlanta University, will

be the guest speaker. At 11:15 a.m., chapter members will join the worship service at St. Paul where, Dr. Maria Arvelo Lumpkin of Spelman College will be the speaker.

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St. Timothy is at 2833 Flat Shoals Road in Decatur; St. Paul is at 306 Peyton Road S.W. in Atlanta. For more information, call Alma James at 678-640-4760.

Hidden Hills residents will see the final draft of the Greater Hidden Hills Overlay Code they have been working on for more than two years on April 20.

The Atlanta Regional Commission and the DeKalb County Planning and Develop-ment Department will unveil the document at a meeting at the Lou Walker Senior Center in Lithonia.

The overlay code will offer residents and property owners in the zone control over

the kinds of businesses that settle in their community and the look of their commercial areas. The 15 neighborhoods making up the proposed Hidden Hills Overlay District are home to aging infrastructures, rampant fore-closures and declining housing stock.

The area is made up of neighborhoods along Redan, Panola and South Hairston roads and Covington Highway.

For more information, contact Jan Cos-tello at [email protected].

Jamaal R. Addison, the first soldier from Georgia to die in the Iraq war, will be remem-bered on April 18 at the 7th An-nual Remembrance Celebration at Lakeside High School.

Addison, a Tucker native who graduated from Lakeside High in 1998, was killed in Iraq on March 23, 2003. The 22-year-old former honor student was killed when his military convoy was ambushed.

The remembrance, hosted by the

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NBA Hall of Famer Walt Bellamy will be the guest speaker. He will jumpstart the Foundation’s fundrais-ing efforts.

Addison’s mother, Patricia Roberts, started the foundation in October 2003 to support a learning environment for children and families to foster personal

growth and build character. Lakeside High is at 3108 Briarcliff Rd N.E. in

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Johnson, who was unopposed for his second term, is facing challenges from for-mer DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones and DeKalb Commissioner Connie Stokes.

He announced in December that he is battling hepatitis C, and completed his ex-perimental treatment in February.

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The deadline for loan fee waivers and other small business enhancements under President Barack Obama’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act is drawing close.

Obama recently signed legislation to extend the federal Small Business Adminis-tration’s ability to provide enhancements in its two largest small business loan programs – but that extension will only last through April 30, or when the money runs out.

The enhancements include a higher guarantee on some SBA-backed loans and fee relief. The SBA estimates the $40 million extension will support about $1.4 billion in small business lending. Under the new extension SBA may continue to waive loan fees and provide higher guarantee levels on 7(a) loans.

SBA sdministrator Karen Mills said that thousands of small businesses across the country have taken advantage of these Recov-ery loan enhancements to get the capital they need during these tough economic times.

“The increased guarantee and reduced fees on SBA loans helped put more than $23 billion into the hands of small busi-ness owners and brought more than 1,100 lenders back to SBA loan programs,” she said. “Average weekly loan approvals by SBA

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The SBA will continue to encourage Congress to act on other proposals the president has put forward, including higher SBA loan limits and refinancing for commercial property mortgages to help thousands of small businesses avoid potential foreclosure.

As part of the Recovery Act enacted on Feb. 17, 2009, the SBA received $730 million to help small businesses, including $375 million to increase the SBA guar-antee on 7(a) loans to 90 percent and to waive borrower fees on most 7(a) and 504 loans. The funds for these programs were exhausted on Nov. 23, and an additional $125 million was provided in December. Those funds were exhausted in late Feb-ruary, and an additional $60 million was exhausted late Friday.

Eligible small business loan applicants, in consultation with their lenders, may choose to be placed in the queue for pos-sible approval of a Recovery Act loan when funding becomes available.

For more information, visit www.sba.gov.

Prospective home buyers and homeown-ers in crisis can get help at a workshop on April 17.

The NACA workshop will be 2 to 4 p.m. at Rainbow Park Baptist Church in Decatur.

The nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, established in 1988, helps homeowners to renegotiate better mortgage terms with their lenders.

Rainbow Park Baptist Church is at 2941 Columbia Drive. For more information, call 404-377-4545 or visit www.naca.com.

Local nonprofit organizations with a fo-cus on education, job skills training, environ-mental sustainability and health can apply for Wal-Mart grants for their programs.

The Wal-Mart Foundation’s State Giv-ing Program is accepting grant applications from qualified 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt groups through Aug. 20.

The grants start at $25,000. In 2008, Wal-Mart stores, Sam’s Club

locations and the Walmart Foundation gave more than $7.8 million in cash and in-kind donations to local organizations and com-munities throughout Georgia

For more information, visit www.wal-martfoundation.org.

Real estate agent Judge Parker will discuss the Fair Housing law at an April 10 forum hosted by the DeKalb NAACP at the Stone Mountain library.

The 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. discussion will cover how to protect yourself from be-ing a victim of discrimination during your search for housing.

The library is at at 952 Leon St. in downtown Stone Mountain.

For more information, call 678-755-4661.

Soles4Souls, a national shoe charity orga-nization, is collecting new and lightly worn shoes through April 22 at Arbor Place Mall to give to children and adults worldwide who lack shoes.

The recycling campaign is an Earth Day project with Arbor Place Mall in Atlanta.

Annually, an estimated 300 million pairs of shoes end up in U.S. landfills while more than 300 million children in the world don’t own a single pair. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away more than 7 million pairs of

new and gently used shoes to people in 125 countries, including Haiti, Kenya, Nepal and the United States.

Wayne Elsey, Soles4Souls founder and CEO, said recycling shoes is a great way to observe Earth Day.

“This initiative will not only help put shoes on the feet of the millions worldwide who need them, but it also furthers the global effort to reuse,” he said.

For more information visit www.give-shoes.org.


7Job seekers who have earned a Georgia

Work Ready Certificate can share their stories and vie for a $100 prepaid card and brag-ging rights under a campaign launched this month by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

The Share Your Success initiative spot-lights individual job seekers who improved their career prospects by earning the certifi-cate. Work Ready participants can compete for job seeker of the month.

“Work Ready equips Georgians with the skills, training and the certification needed to confidently seek employment,” Perdue said. “Georgia’s workers know firsthand how involvement in the Work Ready initiative has improved their employment opportunities. The Share Your Success campaign gives them the opportunity to tell their stories.”

The Governor’s Office of Workforce De-velopment will select the most compelling success story each month to be featured on the main page of the Georgia Work Ready Web site.

Winners will receive a $100 prepaid card to assist with job search or education-related expenses to recognize their accomplish-

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FinanCe “Work Ready equips Georgians with the skills, training and the certification needed to confidently seek employment.”

Work-ready grads can share stories Webinars to teach financial literacy

Funds available to help with energy billsLow-income families can get up to $350

from the Low Income Home Energy As-sistance Program to help them pay their utility bills.

The nonprofit Partnership for Commu-nity Action Inc. is taking applications for those who have not previously applied for LIHEAP since November 2009.

Eligible applicants must meet federal poverty income guidelines and must have a picture ID; proof of income for all household members 18 years of age and older for the last 30 days, and for 90 days if they have ir-

regular income; most recent home heating bill, verification of Social Security cards for all household members, including children, or some other legal document with proof of SS number. For crisis applications, ap-plicants must have disconnection/discon-nected notice.

Funding for the LIHEAP comes from the Georgia Department of Human Services and HEAT Inc.

PCA serves families in DeKalb, Rockdale and other counties. For more information call 404-537-4300 or 404-537-4310.

ments. The first job seeker of the month will be selected in May.

To participate, certificate holders should visit gaworkready.org to submit a brief essay on how earning a Work Ready Certificate has led to improved career options and employ-ment opportunities. By sharing their stories, they can help others realize the value of im-proving their core job skills and equipping themselves for better job opportunities.

More than 100,000 Georgians have earned Work Ready Certificates. Certificate holders also can take advantage of skills gap training – personalized, online education sessions designed to help improve skill levels and assessment scores. Job seekers interested in taking the Work Ready Assessment or learning about skills gap training can visit www.gaworkready.org to find assessment and training locations near them.

In the past 10 months, more than 4,800 Work Ready Certified Georgians have found employment.

Georgia’s Work Ready initiative is based on a skills assessment and certification for job seekers and a job profiling system for

Internet-savvy small-business own-ers can take advantage of a SBA Webinar series on April 14 and 21 in recognition of National Financial Literacy Month.

Topics include the importance of finan-cial education and practical tips on money and financial wellness.

Participants will learn basic money management and financial skills for today’s business world.

On April 14 at 11 a.m., Jennifer Mat-thews, president and CEO, Creating Finan-cial Literacy LLC will speak on “Spring Is Here! Planting Seeds to Grow Your Own Money Tree.”

At 3 p.m., Starrlese Jones, a financial

management specialist with the division of financial integrity in the Office of Federal Assistance Management, will discuss “Your Money, Your Choices, Your Future.”

On April 21, Jennifer Lane, a certified financial planner with Compass Planning Associates, will speak at 11 a.m. on Personal and Business Money Management. At 3 p.m., Margo Mitchell of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling will speak on Identity Theft.

For more information, visit www.ReadyTalk.com. Click “join a meeting” and enter access code 3761101. Then dial 1-866-740-1260 and enter access code 3761101, followed by the pound key.


8 Scene “I was always of the mind that people went to sleep at night. I was surprised to find people roam all night long.”

Waffle House Museum chronicles rise from humble beginningsBy Deborah Alberto

When the first Waffle House restaurant opened in Avondale Estates in 1955, waffles were 40 cents and a Coke sold for 10 cents.

To find those prices today, you’ll have to visit the Waffle House Museum in the same building at 2710 E. College Ave. where they were first served.

The walk down memory lane – which opened in late 2008 – is re-created with rep-licas of the furniture, menus, dishes, pots and pans; the original Remington printing calcu-lator; and the notebooks and business plan of founders Joe Rogers and Tom Forkner.

History buffs and fans of the 24-hour restaurant’s waffles, pancakes, hash browns, cheese ’n’ eggs, and bacon can tour the facil-ity on April 11, or they can schedule family and group tours with 48 hours’ notice.

On the tour, visitors will find interesting and little-known facts about the popular restaurant chain.

For instance, Rogers, 90, and Forkner, 91, still go to work every day in Waffle House’s corporate offices in Norcross.

They became fast friends in the early 1950s when Rogers moved to Avondale Estates and Forkner sold him a house for $14,000. Rogers had worked for Toddle House, a 24-hour, seven-day per week break-fast restaurant based in Memphis, Tenn.

The real estate guy and the restaurant guy put their business and food acumen together and created one of America’s favorite eater-ies serving good food fast and cheap. But the initial plan was not as far-reaching as it eventually became.

Kathy Bruce, Forkner’s niece and a Waffle House communications representative, said the duo decided they would build 10 restau-rants, then go fishing.

“Now, there are 1,600 restaurants and

An original 1950s menu on display at the museum contains most of the same items on the menu today.

Kelly Thrasher, a company public rela-tions representative, said everything is simi-lar, except the prices. “The owners’ philoso-

phy is, ‘If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.’”Over the years, the menu was refined. T-

bone steaks replaced filet mignon, and they ditched the pear salad. The switch to T-bone steaks happened innocently enough. The restaurant ran out of the filets one day and an employee ran to the local grocery market and couldn’t find any. She bought T-bones instead, and the customers loved it.

An interesting fact from the tour is that in 1955, everything at the restaurant – except the Heinz ketchup and Cokes – was home-made. Bruce said the drink deal started with a handshake with Coca-Cola.

“They still have a handshake deal with Coca-Cola,” she said.

The company remained private but began selling franchises in the late 1960s.

Today Waffle House is an American icon, mentioned in movies, songs and talk shows. A museum video tells the restaurant’s story with recollections from the likes of television talk-show host Jay Leno and Kid Rock, who made the news for a fight at a DeKalb County Waffle House.

The founders also explain their concept and original thinking.

“If you can think of a single good thing, you can put a lot of people to work,” Forkner said, but admits that he wasn’t initially sure the 24-hour concept would work.

“I was always of the mind that people went to sleep at night,” he said. “I was sur-prised to find people roam all night long.”

Nine-year-old Sky Vinson from Ken-nesaw had fun flipping artificial eggs and finding out about the restaurant’s history while on a recent visit.

“It’s cool,” he said. The museum will open Sunday from

noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free. To schedule a group tour, call 770-326-7086.

As this exhibit (above) shows at the Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates, the restaurant’s breakfast menu has changed very little over the years. Founders Tom Forkner and Joe Rogers (left) still go to work every day in Waffle House’s corporate offices in Norcross.

they have never been fishing,” she said.The restaurant started with a concept –

family-friendly service and good fast food. “They didn’t want a takeout like Mc-

Donald’s; they wanted you to come in and sit,” Bruce said.


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Georgia has the third-highest percentage of obese and over-weight adolescents and teens in the country, and a coalition of metro organizations wants to turn that trend around.

The Resurgens Charitable Foun-dation and its partners have created PowerUp, a campaign aimed at combating the state’s childhood obesity epidemic through behav-ior modification with respect to physical activities and health and nutrition education.

A recent report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foun-dation found that Georgia – at 37.3 percent – has the third-highest percent-age of obese and overweight 10- to 17-year-olds in the nation.

Dr. Kay Kirkpatrick, president of Resurgens Charitable Founda-tion, said that recent statistics are startling, adding that they “call us to act now.”

“We see a public health di-saster on the horizon as all too often, overweight children become obese adults and face a lifetime of struggle with chronic health is-sues,” said Kirkpatrick, who is also co-president of Resurgens Ortho-paedics in Atlanta.

She said that the campaign is not only critical for each individual

child it will touch but also for the future of Georgia.

The first PowerUp program was launched in the YMCA After-School programs with students from seven metro Atlanta schools. It incorporates the YMCA’s Youth Fit for Life program for children ages 5 to 12. The 12-week program consists of cardiovascular exercises three times per week in the form of non-competitive activities and co-operative games. It adds resistance training twice a week using resis-

tance bands and includes health and nutrition education.

Dr. Jim Annesi, the YMCA’s director of Wellness Advancement, said that it’s no secret children are getting less active.

“We realized they need to have physical outlets that are not strictly based around athletics. By starting children down the right path early in life, our data has clearly shown dramatic improvements in health risks in those children we’ve been able to reach. After age 12, habits

gia’s youth.The PowerUp team includes the

Georgia PTA; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation; Kennesaw State University; fitAtlanta Maga-zine; the Health Education and Communication Center of Atlanta; the Georgia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; Georgia State Board of Edu-cation; and the Governor’s Office.

In its 2009 Georgia Data Sum-mary, the state Division of Public Health found that 24 percent of third-grade children are obese. The Healthy People 2010 national goal is to reduce obesity among children and youth ages 6 to 18 to 5 percent.

Recently, 52 percent of Geor-gia’s 5th- and 7th-grade students did not pass a cardiovascular health assessment.

Nationally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the prevalence of obesity has tripled among children and adolescents and more than doubled among adults between 1980 and 2004. Currently, nearly one in three children and two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese.

Resurgens Charitable Founda-tion was formed in 2001 to raise funds in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. It now focuses on youth health and fitness and raises funds to build specially designed “all abilities” playgrounds for children in metro Atlanta.

For more information, visit www.resurgensfoundation.com.

PowerUp, which promotes health and fitness in Georgia’s youth, expands metrowide in the fall. The campaign calls for behavior modification toward physical activities and health and nutrition education.

Kay Kirkpatrick

become firmly entrenched and it’s tough to break them.”

He said that training in be-havioral skills such as goal setting, progress tracking, and productive self-talk helps students increase their physical activity beyond the program.

In addition to expanding metrowide in the fall, PowerUp also will be searching for more pro-grams and affiliations as it looks to add to its roster of activities aimed at promoting total health in Geor-


10 WellneSS “We have a lot going on and we want everyone, including the teens, to come out.”

Golfer and his followers to tweet in fund-raiser for Children’s Healthcare

Prostate cancer treatment attains a major milestone

Oral cancer screenings for free at Emory

Lace up and stroll for Walk for Wishes

Arabia High to host first health fair

CEO’s hike and bike tour set

Volunteers ‘get green’

Light refreshments will be served and parking is free. Appointments required. Call 404.501.WELL to reserve your space.

Join Allen Lawhead, M.D., a board-certified gynecologic oncologist, to learn more about

the types of cancer, screenings and treatments that are of particular interest to women.

Dr. Lawhead will present the most important points every woman should consider when

dealing with the threat of cancer.

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Radiotherapy Centers of Georgia has treated its 12,500th patient for prostate cancer with its ProstRcision technique.

The company, which has centers on Law-renceville Highway in Decatur, in Conyers in Rockdale County, and in Snellville in Gwinnett County, reached the milestone this month, making its treatment database one of the most compre-hensive in the nation.

ProstRcision treatment therapy, available exclusively from RC Cancer Centers, has the industry’s highest documented cure rate of 83 percent for early, intermediate or late stage prostate cancer.

RCOG, which was founded in 1979, is a division of RC Cancer Centers. It treats men and women with different types of cancer, in-cluding breast, prostate, lung, colon and lymphatic cancer.

ProstRcision uses a combi-nation of pinpoint irradiation through seed implant and confor-mal beam irradiation.

Dr. James Benton, who has practiced at the Decatur center since 1998, said ProstRcision’s 10-year documented cure rate and its ability to pro-tect against incontinence and preserve normal sex function make it one of the most important treatment options avail-

able today.“Our highly skilled and trained

staff keeps abreast of the latest ad-vances in treatment and are able to use this knowledge to provide men with effective outcomes delivered in a caring environment,” he said.

Don Holton, RC Cancer Cen-ters president and CEO, said educa-tion is key to controlling prostate cancer and that information about prostate cancer treatment options is available at CuringProstateCancer .com.

Visitors can request a free guide and DVD “Questions & Answers to Curing Prostate Cancer” that pro-vides additional information.

For more information, visit rccancercenters.com.

Twitter fol-lowers can help local PGA Tour s t a r S te w a r t Cink “Twee Off” to raise funds for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

T h r o u g h April 27, Cink – one of the most active professional golfers on Twit-ter – will encourage his 1.2 million

followers and supporters on the so-cial networking site to help match AT&T’s $600,000 contribution to Children’s Healthcare, one of the largest clinical care providers for children in the country.

Throughout the challenge, the community is invited to “play” by donating at one of four different levels with the chance to win prizes suitable for golf enthusiasts:n Donate $72 and enter for a chance to win airfare for two, hotel

accommodations for two nights, and tickets to the Tour Champion-ship presented by Coca-Cola in Atlanta as well as a chance to meet Cink at the tournament.n Donate $36 and enter for a chance to win a set of Nike golf clubs.n Donate $18 and enter for a chance to win an autographed golf bag used by Cink during the 2010 Masters Tournament.n Donate $9 and enter for a chance

to win one of 12 dozen golf balls.Cink, the British Open cham-

pion who lives in Duluth, is con-tributing $50,000 to Children’s as well.

The total amount raised will be announced during the Spring Base-ball Classic for Kids, a collegiate ri-valry game between the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, on April 27 at Turner Field.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta manages more than half a million

patient visits annually at three hospitals and 16 neighborhood locations.

It offers access to more than 30 pediatric specialties and is ranked among the top children’s hospitals by Parents magazine and U.S. News & World Report.

Follow the Twee Off action on www.twitter.com/stewartcink or www.twitter.com/childrensatl.

For more information, visit www.choa.org/tweeoff.

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Health information, games and food will be available at the Arabia Mountain High School’s first Community and Health Fair Day on April 17.

The 10 a.m.-to-2 p.m. “Healthy People, Healthy Families, and Healthy Communi-ties” event will include screenings for dia-betes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. There also will be sports physicals and ner-vous system stress tests, and LA Fitness will offer fitness demonstrations.

Participating organizations include DeKalb Medical at Hillandale, Upper Cervical Healthcare from Alpharetta, the American Cancer Society, DeKalb Physical Therapy, Georgia Perimeter College and Sleep Solutions.

Sherry Noble, a parent volunteer at the

Lithonia school, said Jill Reich from the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office will speak on domestic violence and gangs and a teen summit led by Decatur-based STAND Inc. will discuss abstinence, STDs and peer pres-sure.

“We have a lot going on and we want everyone, including the teens, to come out,” she said.

Noble, whose son, Sean Thomas, is in the ninth grade, said the school is preparing for as many as 1,000 people to attend. Kids who want to get a sports physical must download the form from the schools Web site at www .dekalb.k12.ga.us/arabiamtnhs.

Arabia Mountain High School is at 6610 Browns Mill Road. For more information, call Sherry Noble at 770-572-4121.

Families and outdoor enthusiasts can walk and ride in DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis’ Hike and Bike Greenspace Tour at Arabia Mountain on April 17.

The bike ride, which starts at 9 a.m., is part of the events celebrating National County Government Month in April.

Participants will get on the trail near Murphey Candler Elementary School at 6775 S. Goddard Road in Lithonia. For more information, call Betty Davis at 404-371-3689.

Volunteers will be cleaning up the Power Island trail, pick-ing up trash, and planting gardens from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area on April 17 in celebration of National Park Week and Earth Day.

National Park Week and Earth Day encourage adults and children to “get green” by getting involved in their local national parks.

This year, Macy’s has teamed up with the National Park Foundation in an effort to raise $1 million for the founda-tion.

The campaign runs through April 30 in all Macy’s loca-tions and on macys.com. Customers are encouraged to make donations to the campaign at any Macy’s cash register, and Macy’s will make a matching grant up to $500,000. For more information, visit macys.com or www.nationalparks.org.

Adults, children and pets can put on their walking shoes for the seventh annual Walk for Wishes on April 17 at Atlantic Station.

The fun and healthy event will raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama to grant the wishes of metro Atlanta children with life-threatening illnesses. There will be entertainment, refreshments and testi-monials from “wish” children and families.

Participants who raise at least $100 in spon-sorships will receive a free Walk for Wishes T-shirt. Festivities and registration begin at 8:30 a.m., and the walk kicks off at 10:30 a.m. in Central Park.

For more information, visit www.walkfor wishes.org or call Ali Dunn at 770-916-9474.

Free oral cancer screenings will be available at Emory University during National Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, April 12-19.

Emory’s School of Medicine’s Department of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery and the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery are offering the screenings at various times.

For screening schedules and ad-dress, visit www.OHANCAW.com or headandneck.org.


11Three DeKalb breast care programs get grants from KomenWellneSS “With the decline in the economy, many women do not have health insurance so

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Breast health programs operated by DeKalb Medical’s Wellness on Wheels Mam-mography Project in Decatur, Boat People SOS in Chamblee, and the Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville were among 26 metro Atlanta programs receiv-ing $2.2 million in grants from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Atlanta Af-filiate. The group announced the grants on April 5.

The Atlanta affiliate also is providing $600,000 to support national research efforts to find a cure.

Kelly Dolan, Komen Atlanta’s executive direc-tor, said that providing financial support to breast cancer organizations is one of the group’s most important functions.

“With the decline in the economy, many wom-en do not have health insurance so there is an increased need and urgency for breast health services in our community,” she said.

The organizations were chosen based on their anticipated amount of impact on the community in breast health screening, education, navigation and support. Many of the recipients have more than one breast cancer program to meet the needs of its pa-tients and provide services to underserved populations including uninsured and un-derinsured women, minorities and breast cancer survivors.

DeKalb Medical WOW is a mobile health unit providing prevention education, clinical breast exams and mammography screenings

to underserved residents of DeKalb. It gets $150,000. The program partners with refu-gee agencies and community organizations to provide breast cancer screening to the community despite language, cultural and financial barriers. Follow-up is provided for any abnormalities detected.

Boat People SOS, which offers cultur-ally and linguistically appropriate breast cancer programs tailored to the needs of the Vietnamese American community of Greater Atlanta, gets $44,545. Its goal is to reduce the number of Vietnamese women experiencing adverse outcomes from a breast

cancer diagnosis by providing referrals and raising public awareness of breast cancer among Vietnamese communities throughout DeKalb, Gwinnett, Clayton, Fulton, Cobb and Rockdale counties.

The Center for Pan Asian Community Services, which got $120,625, offers support through Asian Breast Care for Asian Ameri-can Women and through Korean Cancer Alliance and Resources for Empowerment.

Other metro grant recipients include Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative, Center for Black Women’s Wellness, Family Health Enterprise, Georgia

Cancer Foundation, Good Samaritan Health Center, Georgia Cancer Center for Excel-lence at Grady Health System, TurningPoint Women’s Healthcare and YWCA of Greater Atlanta.

Komen Atlanta is the largest funding organization of breast cancer support in Georgia. It strives to bridge the gap between health care disparities in the community Since 1991, it has raised $26.7 million.

The national Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the largest private funder in the fight against breast cancer. It has invested more than $1.2 billion toward the cause.

DeKalb Medical’s Wellness on Wheels Mammography program gets a $150,000 grant from the Komen Foundation.

Kelly Dolan


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Youth Winning artwork from all congressional districts will be displayed in the tunnel leading to the U.S. Capitol building for a year.

Six from DeKalb are Nat. Merit ScholarsTianning Fan

of Lakeside High School was the District 4 winner in the 2009 Congressional Arts Competition.

Artists can vie for congressional scholarships

Avondale’s IB enrollment ends April 16

Fish fry to benefit TeaCup girls programFinger-lickin’ good fried fish and lots

of knickknacks will be available on April 16 and 17 when the TeaCup Young Ladies Ministry Inc. Girls Mentoring Program hosts its annual Fish Fry & Yard Sale fund-raiser in Decatur.

The event helps the 5-year-old faith-based nonprofit raise funds to empower and

enrich the lives of girls ages 8 to 20. It offers them educational assistance and training in etiquette and manners, among other things. The program promotes abstinence from sex, drugs, smoking and violence and helps build character and self-esteem.

Vendor space is available for $20. Call Cynthia Wright at 770-316-9013.

Parents have until April 16 to enroll their children in the International Bac-calaureate Primary Years Program at Avondale Elementary School.

The program, which began in De-cember 2007, offers preschoolers to fifth-graders standards-based instruc-tion to ensure academic success.

Avondale Elementary is located at 10 Lakeshore Drive in Avondale Es-tates. For more information, visit www .dekalb.k12.ga.us/support/ib.

College-bound seniors have until April 15 to apply for three scholarships totaling $4,500 from the KAPsi Foundation of Decatur.

The $2,000 Ernest Vicks Excellence Scholar-ship will be awarded to a student with 3.6 and above GPA. The $1,500 Chairman Achievement Scholarship will go to a 3.0 to 3.5 GPA; and the $1,000 KAPsi Achievement Scholarship will go to a student with a 2.5 to 2.9 GPA.

Scholarships awarded by the Decatur-based nonprofit can be used for books or tuition.

Applications are available at www.kapsifoun dation.org. For more information, call Neshanta Banks at 678-467-9448.

KAPsi scholarship deadline looms

Six DeKalb high school students have been named National Merit Scholars and will share in $2 million in scholarships awarded nationwide.

The college-bound students – William Bennett, Southwest DeKalb; Shaina Fuller, DeKalb School of the Arts; Camisia Glasgow, Decatur High; Aaryn Gloster, Tucker High; Kristen Johnson, Druid Hills High; and Yesuto Shaw, who is home schooled in Stone Mountain – will each get $2,500 scholarships. They are among 800 outstanding black American scholars awarded Achievement Scholarships.

More than 160,000 students entered the 2010 National Achievement Scholarship Program when they took the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as high school juniors.

In September 2009, approximately 1,600 of the highest scorers were named semifinalists on a regional representation basis.

The scholarships are funded by the nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corp. and 35 corporate organizations and professional associations.

The 2010 awards mark 46 annual competitions in which more than 30,300 participants will have re-ceived scholarships for undergraduate study totaling more than $95 million. For more information, visit www.nationalmerit.org.

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Talented high school students can compete for scholar-ships and a chance to display their work at the U.S. Capitol in the 2010 Congressional Art Competition, sponsored U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson’s office.

The deadline for original paintings, drawings, col-lages, prints, mixed media, photography and computer-generated art is April 28.

The competition is open to residents of the 4th District, which includes DeKalb and portions of Rockdale and Gwinnett counties.

For contest rules and criteria, visit hankjohnson.house .gov/services/artistic-discovery.shtml.

Winning artwork from all congressional districts will be displayed in the tunnel leading to the Capitol building in Washington for a year.

The top three 4th District winners will be eligible for $2,500, $5,000 and $10,000 scholarships from the Art Institute of Atlanta or a $1,500-a-year scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The grand prize winner will receive transportation for two to Washington for the ribbon-cutting event to unveil the 2010 winners.

More than 650,000 high school students have been involved with the nationwide competition since it was launched in 1982 to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to encourage and recognize the artistic talents of their young constituents. For more information, contact Eric Hubbard or Betty Dixon at 770-987-2291.


13Youth “Most people don’t know that soccer provides more scholarship opportunities than any other sport in college except football.”

Grant to fund programs for needy

The South DeKalb YMCA’s Jaguar Soccer Club has picked up another title: 2010 Piggly Wiggly Shootout champs. The club also won the 2009 Georgia State Recreation Soccer title.

Jaguars capture Piggly Wiggly title

Fountain of Life Community Center has received a $5,000 grant from Wachovia Bank to help fund its youth, individual and family programs.

The Decatur-based nonprofit has worked with at-risk youth and other underprivileged individuals in DeKalb, Clayton and Fulton counties and other metro Atlanta areas since 2004.

Stella Thomas, executive director, says its goal is to reduce crime, drug and alco-hol use, illiteracy, violence, incarceration, and poverty among youth by encouraging them to value themselves and freedom.

Upcoming events include a summer enrichment program, which features workshops on leadership, entrepreneur-

ship and character building. Registration begins on April 12.

The center provides after-school tutoring for grades 5-12 with an emphasis on math, reading and writing skills. Other services include life skills training such as conflict management, parenting and financial man-agement to strengthen parents and prepare them to be effective leaders of their families and contribute to their community.

Fountain of Life provides emergency food assistance to people in crisis and assists with temporary or permanent housing.

The Fountain of Life Community Center is at 3013 Rainbow Drive, Suite 200-D, in Decatur. For more information, visit www .fountainoflifecc.org or call 404-244-4161.

South DeKalb’s Jaguar Soccer Club is the 2010 Piggly Wiggly Shootout champions.

The U10 boys and U14 and U12 boys and girls teams from the club, which is based at the South DeKalb YMCA in Decatur, claimed the titles at the March 20-21 games in Charleston, S.C.

Club President Andre Deas said the tour-nament, coming on the heels of their 2009 Georgia State Recreation Soccer Champion-ship, was a great experience for the kids.

“This tournament gave our organization a chance to see how we match up against teams outside of Georgia,” he said. “I’m proud to say we competed in every match.”

The U12 boys claimed the championship and the U14 boys were runners-up in their respective divisions.

The four-year-old Jaguar Soccer Club formed in fall 2006 at the South DeKalb Y to expose children to soccer.

Led by coach Deas, himself a product of the Y, the club has grown from 25 boys and girls to more than 100 players, ranging in age from 3 to 14.

Deas said they have a lot of good, talented kids in the organization. “If they continue to make the commitment to improve their skills while maintaining good grades, many could receive college scholarship offers. Most people don’t know that soccer provides more scholarship opportunities than any other sport in college except football.”

The club is considering creating a U16 team so that area high school players can play competitively with a local organization and continue to develop their skills.

For more information on recreational soccer, contact the South DeKalb YMCA at 770-987-3500. For competitive travel soccer, visit the Jaguar Soccer Club’s website at www.sdyjaguars.com.

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The DeKalb County School System is seeking HighlyQualified CERTIFIED Teachers.

This Certified Teacher Career Fair is open to those who meet the following requirements…

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