City employee thwarts park building burglary
SNELLVILLE – Quick thinking by a Parks and Recreation employee helped nab two would-be thieves Monday night.
Park Facility Coordinator Jillian Bouchard said she was leaving T.W. Briscoe Park at about 5 p.m. Monday night when she saw two young boys "acting kinda weird" around the new softball field concession stand. Last year, the pool area was burglarized so Bouchard decided to wait to see what the kids were up to.
"So I pulled into the soccer parking lot (across from the softball field) and stopped so I could get a good view of them," Bouchard said. "Sure enough, one of the two started throwing a huge rock and kicking the roll up concession window."
Bouchard reached the Snellville Police Department through the non-emergency line (770-985-3555) and spoke to dispatcher Jasmina Hodzic.
"I stayed on the phone with dispatch and within three or four minutes, Snellville PD was there," she said. "I had the best view. It was like watching a live-action movie."
Police went around the opposite side of the building and caught them in the act.
"Seriously, I didn't do anything," Bouchard said. "All thanks goes to Snellville PD and Snellville Dispatch. (Hodzic) was efficient. She was nice. She was personable. Just completely on top of her game."
The two juvenile suspects were charged with burglary.
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"Having worked mostly with fused glass in the past, I am excited to be concentrating on the mixed-media components that I favored with my glass pieces, in addition to the photographic images that I've either captured or come across in multiple ways," she said. "The design of my work has its beginnings from many sources, evolving as my life changes, adapting as my life sometimes complicates. 
Hamm, who grew up in upstate New York, attended both Maryland Institute, College of Art and Atlanta College of Art. Setting aside art, she moved on in the medical field but after 15 years she finally picked up her brushes again and hasn't looked back since.
She describes her art as "contemporary paintings (which) focus on the abstract and organic characteristics found in nature, combining dark and intriguing color with rich heavy textures."
Robinson is an Atlanta native and, for a brief period, was an art major in college while attending Georgia State University. Following a more than 30-year career in Computer Technology, she took to her art work once again. She is also director at Kudzu Art Zone Gallery and Studios.
"At this point in my art work I enjoy experimenting with all realms of techniques, mediums, and subject matters," she said. "For me the discovery of something new is as exciting as a beautiful finished work of art. Many of my art pieces are from photographs I have taken; so my art work is a memory of an adventure or a representation of a story or person I care about. I have created a company called Art a la Sherry in which to share my artwork with others."