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PAGELABELTAG EGA LSI TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2017 THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CREDIBLE. COMPELLING. COMPLETE. B3 METRO Tree replanting effort gets lift and removal of trees created a major financial hardship in 2017. Our partnership with Grow Albany will allow us to add a landscaping element to storm relief projects." Meanwhile, Grow Albany will close out the current planting season with an Arbor Day event at Tift Park on Feb.

17. Bowles said 218 oaks in 30-gallon containers and 749 shrubs will be planted along the carriage trail that encircles the park. She said the project also will create a trailhead for the Rails-to-Trails path. That path is planned to stretch from Radium Springs in the south to Sasser in the northwest. second platinum sponsor for the replanting effort.

"We've lost over 10,000 trees" to the January storms, Bowles said. The trees were toppled and badly damaged when straight-line winds that clocked at more than 90 mph tore through the area Jan. 2. On Jan. 22, more storms brought high winds and a devastating EF-3 tornado through Albany and other parts of southwest Georgia.

The projects benefiting from the donation will be scheduled for fall because the tree planting season in the Albany area runs from November to February. "After that," Bowles said, Schools continued from Bl what the numbers looked like. Past experience showed him students of color across the country were being dis-proportionately pushed out of classrooms as they face criminal punishment for classroom infractions, in what is often called the school-to-prison pipeline. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, students are pushed into the juvenile and criminal justice systems at alarming rates when they could benefit more from additional education or counseling. Green said he addressed disciplinary procedures by having district officials update the system's Student Code of Conduct, which included disciplinary protocols that included getting authorities involved, often very early, without finding what triggered the behavior.

According to the International Institute for Restorative Practices, a graduate school in Bethlehem, "people are happier, more cooperative, more productive and more likely to make positive changes when those in authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them." Five schools where restorative-practices training was implemented accounted for nearly 40 percent of the district's student infractions: Oak View Elementary School, Columbia Middle School, Lithonia Middle School, Columbia High School and Lithonia High School. According to district data from the Georgia Department of Education, the number of student infractions during the 2015-2016 school year was 24,847. Last year, the number was down more than 20 percent to 19,399. Most of that change came from the schools in the restorative-practices pilot program, Green said. During the 2016-2017 school year, when the restorative practices were put into place, infractions at those five schools decreased nearly 48 percent to 5,465 from 10,375 the previous school year.

Suspensions -both in- and out-of-school dropped 76 percent, from 14,751 to 3,512. "They're constantly looking at other options," Green said. "They're not resorting to the last resort. They're looking to alternative pathways." Chronic absenteeism was also among the problems to be addressed, Green said. In the year following implementation, some schools saw double-digit drops in chronic absenteeism, where students miss more than 15 days a year.

At Oak View Elementary, for example, chronic absenteeism was down 28 percent. The biggest change so far at Ronald E. McNair Middle School, said Principal Ronald B. Mitchell, is that students are making better decisions even when they don't think they're being watched. Mostly, he said, because the students are now being rewarded "for doing the right thing." "We haven't done a good job of giving positive attention to kids other than (for) grades," Mitchell said.

"That's the big difference. I've got kids doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do, and not because it's a rule. That rubs off on other kids, too." Mitchell said most of the infractions at his school included students pushing or hitting others. In the past, punishment would range from verbal warnings to suspension. The restorative-practices model looks into the root cause for the action, and tries to address that matter before it gets further out of hand.

Parents are engaged in the process as well, he said. "Now, we counsel with the kids involved," he said. "We want to know if it's something going on here, or at home, and we get the parents involved so they can help on their end." A photo taken before the Crypt of Civilization was sealed, showing some of the items placed inside. It is scheduled to be reopened in 8113. oglethorpe university archives By Jim Hendricks Albany Herald ALBANY The Grow Albany initiative to replant trees after an estimated 10,000 were lost in January storms received a significant financial boost this month when donated $20,000 to the cause.

The donation is expected to help with projects in the fall 2018 planting season that will involve the first residential replanting effort and additional community park plantings. Judy Bowles, executive director of Keep Albany-Dougherty Beautiful, said joins Phoebe Putney Health System as the Time keepers continued from Bl Or, as he irresistibly dubbed the novel project he conceived in 1936, then spent four years turning into reality: "The Crypt of Civilization." "Thornwell Jacobs wanted to preserve things for posterity, but he was also a publicity guy," said Arnold. "News organizations all over the world covered it for years, and everyone wanted to send something to be included in the Crypt." No less an authoritative source than the Guinness Book of World Records declared the Crypt "the first successful attempt to bury a record of this culture for any future inhabitants or visitors to the planet Earth." Located in the basement of Phoebe Hearst Memorial Hall, it's encased in a reinforced concrete and granite room measuring 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and high. Scheduled to be reopened in the year 8113 yes, really it's filled with works of art (hundreds of classic books on microfilm, and an original copy of the "Gone With the Wind" script); artifacts of politics and popular culture (voice recordings of Hitler, FDR and Popeye the Sailor); beloved pastimes (Lincoln Logs, and a specially created and sealed ampule of Budweiser), plus thousands more items. "Nothing has been left to chance," The Atlanta Journal wrote the day before the Crypt was sealed up behind a massive steel door in an elaborate ceremony on May 28, 1940.

Written copies of the Crypt's history and location were being distributed around the world, the Journal reported, due to "the fact that Atlanta may be no more in the year 8113." So far, so good. It's nearly 2018 and Atlanta's still here. So is the Crypt of Civilization, although the site (actually, the outer door and a plaque) is only available for viewing on certain occasions now. Hudson's academic career eventually took him away from Oglethorpe, although he's still a sought-after speaker and expert source on time capsules, Jacobs and the Crypt. The Crypt section of Oglethorpe's website explains that the ITCS is "currently not active," but also provides a link to the registration form.

Occasionally, completed forms still arrive by mail, said Arnold, who hopes to one day incorporate all the material in those carefully maintained Archives boxes into one "nice spreadsheet" of time capsule registrations. -35f "I jj -J- I flFi irii-ii I -i yJM I- --assay "it just gets too hot to plant trees." Grow Albany had a project last month in the Radium Springs area and has one scheduled Feb. 17 at Tift Park, she said. For future residential replantings, Mission: Change and Grow Albany will provide, distribute and plant trees for local community residents who are not physically able to plant trees for themselves, the organizations said in announcing the funding. has funds specifically set aside for storm relief," co-founder LaDonna Urick said.

"For many homeowners, the loss for instance, the Minnesota middle school class that registered its time capsule in May 1996. Attached to the back of the form is a two-page list containing stu- after an investigation there determined she physically assaulted students. Green acknowledged the teacher was hired because her Georgia teaching license was verified, admitting that often in the process, his human resources staff doesn't perform simple tasks such as verifying work history and reaching out to references. In December, district offi Paul Hudson was a co-founder of the International Time Capsule Society in 1990 when he worked and taught at Oglethorpe University. He's now a history professor at Georgia State University, jill vejnoskaajc SPILL NOTICE Between 8 p.m.

on Monday, December 11 and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, December 12, the RM Clayton Water Reclamation Center (WRC), located at 2440 Bolton Road NW experienced a passive bypass of sand filters that resulted in a major spill of total suspended solids (TSS) into the Chattahoochee River. During the spill event, R.M. Clayton WRC was experiencing an ongoing hydraulic overload due to heavy flows from melting snow entering into the sanitary sewer system as a result of the snow storm the previous day. Based on analytical results, the concentration of TSS in the 24-hour composite sample collected on Monday, December 11 was 205 milligrams per liter (mgL) and on Tuesday, December 12 was 67 mgL, which exceeded the daily 25 mgL limit for TSS in the plant effluent.

The plant returned to normal operations on Wednesday December 13, 2017. It is estimated that up to approximately 42 million gallons of partially treated wastewater may have discharged at concentrations that exceeded the TSS permit limit due to this event. Upstream and downstream post-spill monitoring was initiated following receipt of the initial analytical results. Kishia L. Powell, Commissioner City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management 12-262017 0000278629-01 SPILL NOTICE Between 8 p.m.

on Sunday, December 10 and 8:30 a.m. on Monday, December 1 1 the RM Clayton Water Reclamation Center (WRC), located at 2440 Bolton Road NW experienced a passive bypass of sand filters that resulted in a major spill of total suspended solids (TSS) into the Chattahoochee River. During the spill event, R.M. Clayton WRC was experiencing an ongoing hydraulic overload due to heavy flows from melting snow entering into the sanitary sewer system as a result of the snow storm the previous day. Based on analytical results, the concentration of TTSS in the 24-hour composite sample collected on Sunday, December 10 was 150 milligrams per liter (mgL) and on Monday, December 11 was 205 mgL, which exceeded the daily 25 mgL limit for TSS in the plant It is estimated that up to approximately 44 million gallons of partially treated wastewater may have discharged at concentrations that exceeded the TSS permit limit due to this event.

Upstream and downstream post-spill monitoring was initiated following receipt of the initial analytical results. Kishia L. Powell, Commissioner City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management 12-262017 0000278627-01 INVITATION FOR BIDS METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY (MARTA) will accept Bids as follows: RFP P39863 Vending Services for MARTA Headquarters and Satellite Facilities. Proposal Submittal January 4, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

MARTA Annex. For more information contact Markisa Davis at 404-848-4448. IFB B30682 Inman Park Pedestrian Bridge Rehabilitation. Bid Submittal January 9, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

MARTA Annex. Bid Opening January 10, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. MARTA Headquarters. For more information contact Keli Davis at 404-848-4318. IFB B34375 Emergency Trip Station Replacement Group 4.

Bid Submittal January 10, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MARTA Annex. Bid Opening January 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. MARTA Headquarters.

For more information contact Jose Peraza at 404-848-6014. To obtain a Bid document or CD, contact MARTA's Contract Control Branch at 404-848-4193. You may also use a major credit card to purchase Bid documents or CDs. Bid documents should be received at MARTA's Annex Building, 2400 Piedmont Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30324 by the aforementioned date and local time and envelopes containing bids MUST BE marked with Bid Number. Contracts are subject to Federal Grant Regulations and to MARTA's Resolution on Equal Opportunity prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin.

View MARTA's Home Page About MARTA http:www.itsmarta.com 12-262017 0000277993-01 Thornwell Jacobs' hand is partially obscured by light gli nti ng off the stai nless steel door of the Crypt of Civilization on May 28, 1938. This elaborate door dedication ceremony was broadcast around the world via NBC radio. OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES The Traffic Police Department of the Singapore Police Force submitted this page to the registry in 2000. jill VEJNOSKAAJC Among the rare books at Oglethorpe University is this copy of the 1990 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, jill VEJNOSKAAJC dents' names, addresses and home phone numbers along with a neatly typed message across the top: "Please contact the following people in the year 2049." cials owned up to another blunder after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired whether Diane Clark was working for the district as a substitute teacher. Clark had been forced to retire a year earlier after students said she threatened them with deportation following Donald Trump's presidential election victory.

Scheduled to be reopened in the year 8113 yes, really it's filled with works of art (hundreds of classic books on microfilm, and an original copy of the "Gone With the Wind" script); artifacts of politics and popular culture (voice recordings of Hitler, FDR and Popeye the Sailor); beloved pastimes (Lincoln Logs, and a specially created and sealed ampule of Budweiser), plus thousands more items. "We want to be good stewards of people's information and expectations," Arnold said. Mostly, it appears they're a very patient people. Take, administrative staffers. In the fall, the district dealt with several hires that seemed to sneak through the established background-checking process, including Sandra Meeks-Speller, who was hired late in the summer to teach at Chamblee Middle School.

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DeKalb continued from Bl ted others, the district would make the final decision. Green chose three people he worked with at his previous school district for positions under the search firm's charge. District officials said other posts also went to candidates suggested by other "0000266112-01.