NEWS IN BRIEF: LITHONIA: DeKalb Medical to recruit at job fair on Home Services

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NEWS IN BRIEF: LITHONIA: DeKalb Medical to recruit at job fair

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DeKalb Medical will recruit for 125 full-time job openings at the Career Fair for RNs %26 Allied Health Professionals on Thursday, Jan. 17 at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale in Lithonia.

The hospital said it is expanding its clinical team with the planned expansions in 2008 of its Hillandale and North Decatur campuses.

DeKalb Medical recruiters and managers will be available to discuss jobs in nursing and clinical areas. The Hillandale campus is located at 2801 DeKalb Medical Parkway.

Interested persons may also apply online at www.dekalbmedical.com, and RNs may contact a nurse recruiter directly at 404-501-5010, or at DMRN@dekalbmedical.org.

ATLANTA: Lost man has holiday reunion

An Ohio family had a happy holiday reunion thanks to the work of some Atlanta firefighters.An elderly man driving from Cincinnati to Charlotte to visit relatives several days before Christmas became disoriented and wound up in Atlanta late on Dec. 21, said Capt. Bill May of the Atlanta Fire-Rescue Dept. Recognizing that he was lost, the man followed a fire truck to Atlanta Fire-Rescue Station #2 on Jonesboro Road. Firefighters found that the man had no money on him but did have phone numbers in his wallet of family members in Ohio. The firefighters fed the man and let him sleep on the station’s sofa until a relative who drove all night from Cincinnati came to pick him up early the next morning. “He was able to say he’d been on the road for two days and was lost,” May said. “It was a happy ending to a potentially disastrous situation.”

Atlanta schools plan adjustments

Atlanta Public Schools officials are recommending a plan to relieve overcrowding at three elementary schools on the city’s north side, including building new classrooms and redrawing attendance zones.

Under the proposal, released late last month, Smith and Brandon elementary schools would get new buildings within the next two years and first-grade students while Jackson Elementary School’s current primary center would be expanded.

Some students at Jackson and Brandon also would be shuffled between the campuses to better balance enrollments, starting with the 2009-10 school year. No changes would be made to Smith’s attendance zones.

Information on the plan can be found at the school system’s Web site: http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/content/news/hottopics/Northside_Overcrowding.pdf.

DEKALB COUNTY: Recycling event for trees, electronics

Keep DeKalb Beautiful is partnering with Home Depot and Atlanta Recycling Solutions for the 18th annual “Bring One for the Chipper” recycling event which promotes recycling of Christmas trees and electronics. On Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., people can bring Christmas trees and old electronics items to any of three Home Depot store locations in Decatur and Atlanta for recycling. Residents currently served by the DeKalb County Sanitation Division may also leave their trees at curbside for pick up. For more information about the recycling event, contact Keep DeKalb Beautiful at 404-371-2654.

- Contributing: David Markiewicz, Bridget Gutierrez

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