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Leadership Perimeter schedules Better Sandy Springs Impact Day SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Leadership Perimeter will host its 21st annual Volunteer for a Better Sandy Springs Community Impact Day from 9 a.m.-noon April 22. The free event focuses on providing community service to enhance the city’s
public sites and projects, such as nonprofit community gardens, public school playgrounds, parks and trails. Remaining volunteer sites as of press time include the Abernathy Arts Center, Island Ford, Keep North Fulton Beautiful, Lost Corner Preserve, North Greenway
Park, North Springs High School, Ridgeview Middle School, Ridgeview Park, Sandy Springs Charter Middle School, Sandy Springs Tennis Center, Solidarity Pantry and South Greenway Park. Leadership Perimeter, a nonprofit that provides leadership development
and civic engagement in Metro Atlanta, founded the annual service day in 2003. It is held the Saturday closest to Earth Day. Volunteers can sign up for a site of their choice at vbss2023.eventbrite.com. — Shelby Israel
City, schools police herald partnership for students’ safety
By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Police chiefs from Sandy Springs and Fulton County Schools stood at the podium together April 4, a show of unity to the Sandy Springs City Council. Following the school shooting in Nashville March 27, where an assailant fatally shot six people, Sandy Springs Police Chief Ken DeSimone said he and Fulton County Schools Police Chief Mark Sulborski have a “great working relationship.” “We’re constantly doing things together, training, a lot of communication,” DeSimone
said during the council work session. DeSimone referenced an incident just weeks before when a large fight broke out at a local school that triggered an active shooter alarm. “It’s stressful for police chiefs. It’s stressful for the officers on the scene. And, we handled it very quickly,” DeSimone said. FCS Police Chief Sulborski said the department presents age-appropriate educational pieces along with standard school drills. There are four types of drills: evacuation, shelter-in-place, soft lockdown and hard lockdown.
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From left, Sandy Springs Police Chief Ken DeSimone and Fulton County Schools Police Chief Mark Sulborski stand before the Sandy Springs City Council at its April 4 work session, reinforcing their partnership.