2009 Dunwoody Late Harvest Run and after party at the Dunwoody Tavern on Saturday

http://www.lateharvestrun.com

What:
5K run/walk on a predetermined course through Dunwoody Begins and ends at the Dunwoody Farm House Party to follow at The Dunwoody Tavern that evening

Date: 
Saturday, October 17

Time:
Registration begins at 8:00 AM at The Dunwoody Farmhouse. Registration closes at 8.45 AM
Run begins at 9:00 AM

Where to Register:
Registration begins…October 1
Pre-registration available

Cost:
$25 per runner that includes a t-shirt and dinner. Children under 10 are free

Proceeds from the event will be donated to The Dunwoody Farmhouse and Atlanta Humane Society

Directions:
Take I-285 E to Ashford Dunwoody Rd.
Exit Ashford Dunwoody Road North, traveling outside the Perimeter
Continue until the road forks, take slight right and continue onto Mount Vernon Rd. Turn left onto Chamblee Dunwoody Rd.  The Dunwoody Farm House will be on the right.

AFTER PARTY:
Location: DUNWOODY TAVERN (Directions)
Band should start playing around 6:30 PM
We will have a fenced in area with the band outside playing until 10.30pm.
A large barbeque will be set up to roast a suckling pig to feed the runners during the evening.

Careful with your purses ladies, Dunwoody pickpockets are active.

The Dunwoody Police Department is currently investigating two thefts that occurred at 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Road. The first incident occurred around 12:00 P.M. at the Hudson’s Grill. The second incident occurred around 4:00 P.M. at Goldfish’s. These two businesses are located in the same shopping center. The 29 and 63 year old victims had their purses hung on the back of their chairs. The suspect(s) took their wallets from their purses and attempted to purchase gift cards at a nearby Target located at 100 Perimeter Center Place.

The first suspect is a black male with a medium complexion. He is approximately 5’11”-6’01” and weighs around 185 pounds. He was well dressed and wearing glasses when he committed the theft.

The second suspect is a black female in her late 20’s to early 30’s. She is approximately 5’6”-5’8” and has a light complexion. She was also well dressed.

If you have any information in this case, please contact Detective Curtis Clifton at (678)382-6912.

Community Work Day #1, Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run - Sat Oct 17. All are invited to assist.

Tending the Garden on Saturday

Why do boring chores around the house when you can be enjoying a cool fall morning helping to tend the Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run?

The Dunwoody Community Garden is the first community garden established in the City of Dunwoody. The 60 community plots are surrounded by wide open spaces, grassy knolls and shady resting areas, but they need a little TLC from folks like you! We’ve got all kinds of interesting and fun stuff to do – from spreading mulch to digging a trench to painting the pavilion - and a bunch of things in-between. You choose!

So gather up some gardening tools (wheelbarrows, rakes, shovels, gloves, paint brushes and scrapers are really needed) and join your friends on:

Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run
Saturday, October 17th
8am til 11am

For details and to sign-up contact Page Olson at gardengirlpage@bellsouth.net

Community Work Day #2, Brook Run Dog Park - Sun Oct 18. All are invited to assist.

Members of Boy Scout troop 477, who have helped maintain the Brook Run dog park in the past, are again stepping up to assist Just a Walk in the Park, Inc. the non-profit organization entrusted to maintain and operate the dog park. Trevor Alexander will manage this project in his efforts to achieve Eagle Scout status. A major work event to prevent land erosion in the park is set with volunteers needed to supplement the Scouts and help with the work.

On Sunday, October 18 they expect to work from 9:00 until 3:00 so that the park can be re-opened by 4:00. The dog park will be closed to all dogs and non-volunteers while work is being done. In order to help the Scouts, residents can provide not only physical labor for the day but also necessary tools and supplies, such as:

* Chain saws (gas/oil provided by owners), chaps, goggles, and ear protection
* Wheel barrows, garden carts
* Rakes, hoes, shovels, pitch forks
* Garden tractor with cart and gas
* Log chains
* Work gloves
* Monkey grass (liriope)
* Bottled water and snacks for the workers

If you're willing to pitch in physically, here are the general crews we're trying to gather:

* Chain-saw crew
To cut logs into moveable chunks (Chain-saw users must have goggles, chaps, and other required safety gear; this is an Eagle Scout project, so there are specific rules)

* Trench-digging crew
To prep the land for berms

* Log-moving crew
To install berms

* Gardening crew
To clear and prepare land for the monkey grass nursery AND plant monkey grass at the newly-installed berms

* Nurturing crew
To provide and prepare snacks and beverages for workers

Any assistance from the community will be appreciated.

Brook Run Dog Park
4770 N. Peachtree Rd.
Dunwoody, GA 30338

Survey for the DeKalb 2010-11 school calendar

DeKalb County School System has posted two draft calendars–one for 2010-11 and one for 2011-12. Visit this link and then click to take the survey regarding the calendars by close of business Thursday, October 22, 2009.

From the DCSS Website -

The proposed calendars:

• Include 180 student-contact days - the maximum number funded by the state
• Include 189 teacher-contract days with the final day (Day 190) being comprised of four (2 hrs. each/2 per semester) conference nights during the year as scheduled by each local school
• Include nine teacher workdays - three of which are dedicated to professional development to facilitate the meeting of requirements for annual professional learning
• Closely mirror the calendars of some of our largest neighboring school districts
• Take into account state-designated testing windows and dates
• Conclude the First Semester before the Winter Break in December - which prevents students from returning from the break with Final Exams and End of Course Tests still ahead of them
• Offer some form of break for students and teachers each month of the year (September - May)
• Schedule a spring break during the first week in April, beginning on a Sunday. This spring break is scheduled in accordance with those of surrounding school systems
• End the second semester prior to Memorial Day - which allows the district to offer a short break to both students and teachers prior to the start of summer school
  

Thanks to Cerebration at DeKalb School Watch for this item.

Mixed bag of topics: Audio, Golf, Job, Ethics, Transparency, DCSS Atty Fees & DeKalb D.A.

Monday night's 7 pm meeting started a few minutes late and the public portion was over by 7:15; in fact looking at my audio recorder, I only captured 10 minutes and 41 seconds of audio. All three items passed and we then moved into executive session to discuss real estate.

The audio is here in two parts (1 & 2) if you are interested and here was the agenda.

• In other news that interests me and maybe you, the City of Dunwoody installed the speed monitor on Womack and the others are coming soon as I believe they were back ordered?

• For you golfers, the Spruill Center for the Arts is hosting a golf outing next Monday at the Dunwoody Country Club, details here.

• Looking for work? The City of Doraville has an Athletic Coordinator position open to help run activities at their parks.

• If anyone would like to serve on the DeKalb County Ethics Committee, I believe that CEO Burrell Ellis is looking for a few good candidates. There seems to be quite a bit to oversee and according to the video below there appears to be a back log of cases pending.
  
  Please don't be confused, this is not a call to serve on the County Board of Transparency & Accountability as this board has been fully staffed since June.
  
  

Click for news story

• In reviewing other blogs that you may have missed, the DeKalb County School Watch blog exploded over the Board of Education discussions of legal contracts that were about to be divvied out along racial lines for an extra $800,000. I believe cooler heads prevailed to stop this but it is an indication of how fast they can improperly spend our money. Good thing the DCSS has an office of internal investigations to ferret out waste and illegal wrong doing and a DeKalb D.A. who will prosecute these cases, if ever discovered.