East Atlanta Community Association
Newsletter
August 02, 2010 |
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| Greetings! |
Hello,
One more week before school is back in session for both DeKalb County
and Atlanta Public Schools. See below for news and events this week.
Enjoy this week's newsletter!
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School Supply Drive - East Atlanta Kids Club
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 School bells will be ringing soon and East Atlanta Kids Club will be
providing school supplies to 60 children. We ask that you consider
helping us by donating items from this school supply list.
You
may drop off items between now and Friday, August 7 at Joe's Coffee Shop in East Atlanta or at Brownwood Rec Center. Joe's is open between
the hours of 8am and 9pm, and Brownwood is open from 11 am to 6pm. All donations are tax-deductible and donation
receipts are available.
Don't have time to shop, but would like to make a donation? Visit www.eastatlantakids.org.
For more information contact (404) 627-8050, 10am-6pm M-F or email mrobey@eastatlantakids.org.
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Burgess-Peterson Community Day/Open House
|  August 7, 10AM to 1PM
Open House - To welcome students and parents
in preparation for the school year most of the teachers and school
staff will be in attendance. There will be classroom assignments and a chance
for parents and children to meet their teachers. There will also be
information about the school, chance to tour classrooms and information
about extracurricular activities and after care. BPA will also
provide information about how to get involved with PTA and/or volunteer
at the school.
Carnival - Food,
games, crafts, face painting, jumpy-house, a real fire
engine, and more. A minimal
charge for most activities and food with proceeds going to the school.
Community Day - To encourage people (both with
children and without) to get to know more about the school, and learn how you or your group can be involved with the school. Various community groups and
business will be invited to come share information about their organization/business.
If you are interested in volunteering please contact with your name, phone number, and email address.
If you know a business or organization that would be interested in
sponsoring a table, please submit the following form by Friday, July 30.
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What's Happening at Martha Brown
|  Annual Homemade Ice Cream Social
Saturday, August 7th, 3-5 pm.
Bring your favorite homemade ice cream. If you do not have a freezer, bring a cake, cobbler or anything to go with homemade ice cream. Invite your friends and neighbors!
Book Club
Are you interested in participating in a book club? The club's first book will be Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. The club will meet 1-2 times a month in EAV. Email Pastor Heather at marthabrownunite@bellsouth.net if you are interested, and she will find the best time to suit all that wish to be involved. The first meeting will be in September. The book club is open to anyone at Martha Brown or in the East Atlanta Community that is interested.
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SCAVENGE for STRUT and B*ATL
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Walking Scavenger Hunt Within Historic Oakland Cemetery
Saturday August 14th 11:00 - 4:00
Starting from Six Feet Under on Memorial
Teams of 4 - $25 entry fee per team
(All profits to the EAV Strut/B*ATL)
Please see attached flyer.
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Neighborhood
Charter School and Atlanta Charter Middle School Merger Update
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  In
mid-March, following the approval of the merger charter petition for the
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) by the governing boards of ACMS and
NCS, the petition application was submitted to the Atlanta Public Schools as the
local authorizing agency for review and approval. As a result, the
ABE unanimously approved the ANCS charter petition.
So,
what happens next? In terms of the
charter petition approval process, the application now moves to the Georgia
Department of Education for approval by the state. Preparing for the merger of the schools,
however, will take time and deliberate planning, so the governing boards of
both schools are taking steps to lay out a transition process even before the
state approves the application.
The
regular school newsletters (available on each school's website) have contained, and will continue to contain frequent updates on the progress towards the
schools' merger.
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Something Fresh at Burgess-Peterson Academy
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away at Burgess-Peterson Academy
Do you remember hearing your parents and grandparents telling you the
little folklore, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"? Well, we all
know how important fresh fruits and vegetables are to our diet and also
for our health. The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008authorized funds for a program that offers free fruits and vegetables
to students during the school day. This year the students at Burgess-Peterson Academy (BPA) along with students from 49 other school districts in Georgia
will have an opportunity to enjoy a fresh fruit or vegetable as part of
their daily routine.
In support of the school wellness policy, Coach Betty Jackson
submitted the grant to increase the consumption of fresh fruits and
vegetables to all students. The program will also support the garden and edible tree orchard already in place at the school. With the help of
the Atlanta Public Schools Nutrition Department
and local farmers, the BPA students will enjoy familiar fruits and
vegetables native to Georgia and sample fruits like figs, pomegranate
and kiwi as well as watermelon radishes, bok choi and other lesser-known
veggies. The program will start in August and continue throughout the
school year. The healthy snacks also will address an area of childhood
obesity by giving students a choice of enjoying naturally grown produce, and cut down the amount of sugary snacks that the students and parents
bring to school each day.
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Kingfisher Academy has Moved!
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building (for us) at 158 Moreland Avenue, SE (the old Southface
Building). We have more room to work with and a nice outside area to
develop. We are grateful to Martha Brown for allowing us to rent their
facility while we developed a more long-term building vision. Now, we
have room for a play yard, a butterfly garden, a worm barrel, some small
fish ponds, and a wonderful greenhouse area. As always, our mission
includes using the environment as an integrating theme and this new
space will allow us to expand that into our after-school program as
well.
Also, with the new room are some additional classrooms, so we are
opening up enrollment to several classes: kindergarten through 4th
grades each have one or two enrollment spaces open and we have one space
open in 6th
grade. We'll have an open house in August for the community and hope
to get a chance to show off our new digs before the school year begins. For us, the school year begins on August 30th. But you'll be seeing us
next week at BAT*L as we are the yellow bus that delivers soldiers to
the various tombs for the wreath-laying ceremonies. See you, then!
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East Atlanta Security Patrol
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 For the second consecutive week, there were no reported burglaries for
Beat 610. For the week ending July 24th (week 30), there were eleven
crimes reported, including one commercial burglary, five vehicle
larcenies and three auto thefts. Please see crime report below.
To learn more about the East Atlanta Security
Patrol, view updated news and notes or to enroll, visit the
EASP website. 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 easp610@gmail.com, or call EACA
Public
Safety Chair Myron Polster at 404-954-1568.
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| EACA Public Safety - Weekly Crime Report | |
The weekly crime reports for weeks 27-30 are below:
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| Upcoming Area Meetings | Atlanta City Council
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays of the
month (08.02), 1:00 pm
City Hall, 55
Trinity Ave SW, Atlanta
Neighborhood
Planning Unit, NPU-W, Land Use and Zoning Committee
Meeting: 1st
Tuesday of the month (08.03), 7:00pm
Martha Brown United Methodist Church, 468 Moreland Ave SE
East Atlanta Business Association (EABA)
Meeting: 1st Wednesday of the month (08.04), 2pm
East Atlanta Library, 400 Flat Shoals Ave. SE
DeKalb County Board of Commissioners
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the
month (08.10), 9:00 am
Maloof Auditorium,
1300 Commerce Dr, Decatur
East Atlanta
Community Association, (EACA)
Meetings: 2nd
Tuesday of the month (08.10), 7pm
Brownwood Park Rec Center, 205 Emerson St. SE
Branan Towers, 1200 Glenwood Ave., SE
South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development, Inc. (SAND)
Meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month (08.12); 7:30pm
Beulah Heights University Student Center, 892 Berne Street |
2010 EACA Membership
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Join EACA today! Annual dues are $10 per household. As an EACA member, you can vote at EACA meetings on topics of interest within our community. Additionally, there are numerous local businesses who offer discounts to EACA members. Email questions to membership@eaca.net.
You can sign up for your 2010 EACA membership and order EACA Yard Signs on-line! Pay electronically through your online banking site or via Paypal HERE.
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| East Atlanta on Facebook/Twitter |
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