Nominate your or your neighbor's yard to enter the 2009 East Atlanta Holiday Yard Decoration Contest now until Tuesday, December 15th. The contest is sponsored by East Atlanta Community Association,  East Atlanta Village Hardware and Joe's Coffee Shop. 

To enter, email a night time photo and address of the decorated house you are entering to EAVXMAS@GMAIL.COM by midnight Tuesday, December 15th. 

Voting will be held between December 16th & 23rd at both East Atlanta Village Hardware and Joe's Coffee Shop.

Photos of the houses will be available at both locations. The votes will be tallied at the end of the day on December 23rd and the winner will receive special gifts generously provided East Atlanta Village Hardware and Joe's Coffee Shop.

 

Please email all questions to EAVXMAS@GMAIL.COM

 

Please remember to shop locally as you are making your Holiday shopping lists.

 

As of January 4, 2010, EASP will officially change its phone number to 404-954-1568.  This number and the associated functionality is currently being tested, and we are having several EASP members participate in the testing.  This change is being made for a variety of reasons:

Will provide capability for calls to be routed directly to officers' cell phones during their shifts
There is no cost to our membership for these changes, and we will continue to use 100% of our money toward patrols of Beat 610 in East Atlanta.  At this time, we are not planning to implement the feature where calls are routed directly to an EASP officer's cell phone if they are on duty.  If and when we feel it will improve the EASP service, the capability will be ready to use.
 
We encourage everyone within EACA boundaries to contact the EASP for assistance with public safety issues, whether a member or not.   The geographic membership area of EACA shall have a west border of Moreland Avenue, north to I-20. The northern border shall be I-20 to Flat Shoals Road, where the border will go east of I-20 to include that portion of the City of Atlanta east of I-20. From there, the eastern border will be Fayetteville Road to Eastland Road and its intersection with Moreland Avenue.
 
If you are reporting an issue that requires an immediate police presence, always call 911 first, then contact the EASP.  The reason that the EASP is opening up to calls from all areas within EACA boundaries is that crime knows no borders.  We have worked very hard to establish relationships with Dekalb County Police that are similar to the ones we already had with APD's Zone 6.  While we can't send an EASP officer to an address in unincorporated Dekalb, we can contact officers in Dekalb and can alert APD of possible perpetrators fleeing into Zone 6, or moving their criminal activity across the border.  It's important for all police entities to work together, and this is just one more step to help facilitate that cooperation.  Hopefully one of the next steps will be a Security Patrol dedicated to the unincorporated Dekalb County area.

 

To learn more about the East Atlanta Security Patrol or to enroll, visit the EASP website (http://patrol.eaca.net). There is a 50% discount for longtime residents and those 65+. To qualify, you must have lived at the same address for 20 years or be over age 65.  We also have a 20% discount for members of an APD-sanctioned Neighborhood Watch.  Please contact us if you're interested in setting up a Neighborhood Watch on your street.
 
If you have additional questions, please direct them to securitypatrol@eaca.net, or call EACA Public Safety Chair Myron Polster at 404-429-8815.

On December 2nd, the half-year plus efforts of East Atlanta Village business employees and residents came to fruition with the kick-off of the business district's formal recycling program. Prompted by the growth of East Atlanta's bars and restaurants and relative lack of recycling across these establishments (Midway Pub was previously recycling), the group saw a need to be remedied via a free-access community recycling program for the Village.

A group of local artists who have lived and worked in East Atlanta for a number of years came together (as the Tentacled Spectacle) to vet the program, explore and finalize contract options, and to fundraise for the program's funding. The group is led by Kate Crosby and Julia Hill.

Fundraising and promotional efforts have included:

 

 

Thus far, funds have been raised to cover 5 months of the program. At current volume (8 bins with weekly pick-up), we need to raise $100 to cover each additional month.

Our initial goal was to have 2 stations of bins located in the Village.  The group was working with the Earl first, but recently the bar decided to contract Conex Recycling on their own.  This is wonderful news; as it means one of the highest volume bars in the EAV is now green, a great step in the right direction.  Now the bins are centralized to one side of the neighborhood. Eight bins are currently placed behind 529. 

The bins went up December 2nd.  East Atlanta resident John Mlade kindly donated recycling bins for the inside of participating bars.  The Flatiron also began on Dec. 2nd.  The hope is to slowly get other bars involved and eventually expand and sustain this operation through donations and fundraisers.

We would love any help the community (EABA, individual establishments, residents, etc.) would like to provide.  Any advice, money, or networking you could give us would be greatly appreciated!  Below is additional information about our group's mission and details about Conex Recycling.

Check out our progress on our Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/recycle.eavTo read all the information about the program, the Tentacled Spectacle, and Conex, click

HERE.

For several years, many residents living in the city of Atlanta have been made aware that calling 404-658-6666 is the preferred way to call Atlanta 911 from a cell phone.  This addresses the problem that when you call 911 from a cell phone, you may be routed to the incorrect 911 center, particularly if you are calling from near the Atlanta and unincorporated Dekalb County border.
 
For residents who wish to reach Dekalb County 911, there did not appear to be any solution to this problem.  The EACA public safety committee has been working on this issue for some time, and on the recommendation of the Dekalb County Public Safety Director William Miller and the head of their 911 call center, we are passing along their solution.  Until better technology is available, please use the non-emergency number of 404-294-2911 but only for calls from your cell phone that you wish to direct to Dekalb 911.  There is a slightly higher priority given to normal 911 calls, but generally there is little or no difference in response time.  And the operators answering the calls are exactly the same operators who answer 911 calls.
 
To see if this system really works, we'd like your feedback.  Just drop a note to publicsafety@eaca.net and tell us about your experience with this number, good or bad.  Try to record how long before your call is answered and whether you receive any feedback that this is the wrong number to call.  We do feel certain that no one will hang up on you and ask you to call 911, or we wouldn't support their solution.
 
In the short run, we'd like Dekalb County to adopt a similar system to Atlanta where an alternate number works exactly the same as 911, and we're still pushing for that.  In the interim, this recommendation is very close to the Atlanta solution, but we need your feedback to see how well it works.  The latest national research indicates that one of every three calls to 911 come from a cell phone, up from about 25% just two years ago.  This is an increasing problem and one that has resulted in people dying because their call was routed to the incorrect 911 center.  Many parts of the country are solving the problem by combining 911 centers, and that could be an option here in Atlanta  depending on how soon technology is expected to be able to resolve this problem.

Galish Group - Photos with Santa
Friday, December 18th - 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Santa is coming to The GALISH GROUP!!!  (Corner of Moreland and Ormewood)
Great chance for FREE Pictures  (bring your camera, or use ours)
All are welcome, but give us a ring, to set a time "no wait" line.
404-213-0007 (Say: I want to see Santa) 

If you're a Facebook member, be sure to join both the EACA group and become a fan of the East Atlanta Village page, too! Click on links below to take you directly to each.

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