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Welcome to the north Side Neighbor Podcast. Today is Wednesday, December fourteenth,
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and happy thirty first birthday to megos
member offset Set Who Whoo who, Recke
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Becket's on running a Running a Clue. I'm Dan Radcliffe and here your top
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stories, presented by Drake Realty,
a G. D O t Audit of
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Martha Finds a strong commitment to safety. Juneteenth and Veteran's Day were omitted from
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the Sandy Springs calendar and Sandy Springs
Performing Arts Center welcomes its interim executive director.
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We'll have these stories and more coming
up in today's edition of The north
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build equity and wealth in your business. The Georgia Department of Transportation two triennial
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safety audit of MARTA finds a strong
commitment to safety and no major safety gaps
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or concerns. According to a news
release, the audit examined MARTA's heavy and
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light rail departments, including operations and
maintenance, training and communications, and equipment
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structures and signals. As required by
the Federal Transit Administration. MARTA maintains and
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regularly updates an agency safety plan,
and that plan, along with authority safety
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procedures and practices, are audited every
three years through g d OT State Safety
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Oversight Program. This year's finding show
a significant improvement in safety practices in all
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areas, with only twenty deficiencies and
sixteen areas of concern identified compared to close
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to one hundred such findings during the
previous audit in two thousand nineteen. A
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deficiency is defined as an item that
doesn't meet the established safety criteria. An
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area of concern partially means those criteria. Marta will review the audit findings this
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month and generate a corrective plan for
each item needing attention. Despite a strong
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showing in favor of the change,
June teenth and Veterans Day will not be
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added to the Sandy Springs holiday calendar
in adoption of city calendar. Was originally
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proposed on November fifteenth, but the
matter was deferred after significant public comment in
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favor of the addition of Juneteenth and
Veterans Day. Mayor and council revisited the
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discussion. At the December sixth meeting. Human Resources Director Jennifer Emery presented two
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options for the twenty three holiday calendar, the first being to add one floating
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holiday in recognition of Juneteenth and Veterans
Day. The floating holiday must be taken
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within the calendar year. The second
option was to make no changes and keep
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the calendar as is. Mayor Rusty
Paul and city council members chose to keep
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the originally proposed ten holidays and the
floating holiday option. Many residents once againstpoke
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in favor of the Juneteenth edition.
Council person Melody Kelly spoke to the importance
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of adding Juneteenth, presenting both the
factual and personal perspective. According to Kelly,
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seventy of Georgia cities have adopted Juneteenth
and eight seven percent have adopted Veterans
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Day as a city holiday. The
cities include Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus,
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Macon, Savannah, Athens, South
Fulton, Roswell, John's Creek, Winner
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rob Albany, Alpharetta, Marietta,
and Stone Crest. Kelly also shared memories
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of her grandfather who helped raise her
correlating personal memories with the importance of June
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Tea. Michael Pawkin has been named
interim executive Director of the Sandy Springs Performing
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Arts Center at City Springs and will
join the team this month. Pawkin has
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served as general manager executive director of
the north Shore Center for the Performing Arts
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in Skokie, Illinois, since two
thousand two. The north Shore Center is
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a sixty five thousand square foot to
theater complex containing a total of eleven eighty
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five seats. Center has two resident
theater companies and partners with several other organizations.
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More than four hundred events and performances
are held at the Center in a
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typical year. During his time at
the Center, Pawkin brought programming in house
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and presented more than four hundred seventy
five international touring and Chicago based artists,
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including Al Jaro Art, Garfunkel,
bos Skaggs, Clint Black, ed Asner,
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Graham Nash, Herb Albert, and
Lonnie Hall, and the Indigo Girls,
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to name only a few, redde
Heike, Bobby Snap the ball,
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Uh, this ball is the only
thing holding me up right now. A
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number of Pace Academy and love At
players were among those selected to the All
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Region five for a football team leading
the way. Among the local contingent was
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Pace Academy junior wide receiver Terence Kyle
the Second, who was named a co
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Offensive Player of the Year, along
with Hampton senior quarterback Connor Tolly. Four
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Pace players were selected to the First
team offense. Senior offensive lineman and South
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Carolina commitment for Vaughan Ball senior quarterback
Connor Feelin, senior wide receiver Kendall Evans,
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and sophomore wide receiver Cooper Williams love
At, junior defensive lineman Christian Bell,
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senior defensive lineman Noah Claxton, senior
linebacker Hayden Bernard, junior linebacker Bianchael
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Dollar, and senior defensive back Anderson
Beaver were named to the first team Defense.
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Paced Junior defensive lineman Heaven Brown Schuler
and senior defensive back Davis Rice were
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also named to the second team Defense. Lovet sophomore kicker hunter Connor Deviney was
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a first team Special team selection.
The second team Fence included a couple of
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Loved players, sophomore running back Khalil
Towns and junior wide receiver Luke Wallace,
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along with Pace Academy senior offensive lineman
Kylan Shields Pay senior linebacker Frank Caldwell.
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The third and Loved sophomore talent Fret
were named to the second team Defense,
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while Pay senior kicker punter Andrew Swan
was a second team Special team selection.
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For a full list of players,
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warming up and the days are getting
longer, but so are the nights.
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Why fade away? In the dark
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Atlanta has dscape lighting in any lighting
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businesses, along with many homeowners to
light up their world. So go online
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at lights over Atlanta dot com to
find what you've been looking for. Lights
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Over Atlanta Atlanta's home for premium lighting
sticks. One of the two students at
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Sandy Springs Charter Middle School see the
world through new lenses thanks to Sandy Springs
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Rotary Club and Vision to Learn.
The Sandy Springs Rotary Club partnered with Los
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Angeles based nonprofit Vision to Learn to
provide prescription lenses to nearly one third of
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the students at the middle school during
the first phase of distribution. In total,
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Sandy Springs Rotary Club has purchased more
than eight hundred pairs of glasses for
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Sandy Springs students. Club members and
volunteers spent the morning of December seven and
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handing out glasses to students at Sandy
Springs Charter Middle School. Students were briefed
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on how to take care of their
glasses and when to wear them. Vision
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to Learn was founded in two thousand
twelve by Austin Buttner in Northbridge, California.
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He saw the need once he found
out that so many students in the
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Los Angeles area were struggling in school, partly due to not being able to
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see the board or read clearly.
As of two Vision to Learn has visited
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five thousand schools and boys and girls
clubs and has provided three fifty thousand children
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with glasses. You're not gonna make
the team with that kind of attitude.
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I don't want to make the team, then why are you running the optacle?
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A large contention of football players from
Marist, North Atlanta, Riverwood,
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and St. Pius X have been
honored for their accomplishments on the gridiron in
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the two season with their selection to
the All Region four six A team.
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North Atlanta won two of the three
top awards, with senior quarterback Trey Lennon
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selected as Offensive Player of the Year
and Jamie All as Coach of the Year.
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St. Pius X senior defensive back
Jack chin Chu was named Defensive Player
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of the Year. Maris had four
players named on offense, junior running back
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Joseph Piezo and senior offensive lineman Peyton
Lamb, Kevin McDonald, and Drew Prieto.
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Riverwood had three players on offense,
senior tight end Levi Leno's, senior
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running back Walter Evans, and sophomore
offensive lineman Shan Perette. North Atlanta featured
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two offensive players, senior wide receiver
Jamie O'Kelly and senior offensive lineman Tyree Miles,
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while St. Pius offensive lineman Jack
Woods was the only other
local player
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named to the team on offense.
Maris had three of its players selected on
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defense junior defensive lineman Luke Harpring,
junior defensive back Casey Comberford, and senior
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linebacker Colin Hair, while North Atlanta
also featured three defensive players, sophomore defensive
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lineman Chase Linton, junior defensive back
Zaden Benson, and junior linebacker Connor Hughes.
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For fullest of players, go to
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