East Atlanta Community Association
Newsletter
January 17, 2011
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| Greetings! | |
Hello,
Happy MLK Day! In the spirit of the holiday if you would like to get more involved in your community, EACA involvement is an excellent option. You can help with the Brownwood Park's Community Garden this morning, or you can get involved in one of the many groups of people working weekly on issues in our neighborhood. Email a Committee Chairperson, and get plugged in today!
Good reading!
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Brownwood Park Community Garden
|  We are conducting a volunteer day to expand the Brownwood Park Community Garden, and would love your assistance! We just received a grant from Park Pride, and will be collaborating with 30 volunteers from Turner Broadcasting to come and help expand the garden. Anybody interested in volunteering with us on Monday January 17, from 9am to noon to work with the volunteers from Turner Broadcasting are welcome to join! This would be a great opportunity for anyone interested in a community garden plot to get involved!
The Brownwood Park Community Garden was founded in 2005 and was the first community garden in an Atlanta City Park. We are expanding the garden due to demand and interest in individual plots and providing Atlanta community groups with fresh vegetables and fruits to feed those in need.
Please contact EACA's Parks & Green Space co-chair Mary Yetter at parks@eaca.net if your are interested in working with us on this project. . |
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EACA Chatter
|  EACA's January Meeting Canceled. Due to the snow and ice, EACA canceled its January 11th meeting. The next Monthly Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 8th, and it will include special presentations by the farmers market, the Atlanta Street Food Coalition and Burgess-Peterson Academy.
Join EACA Today!!
Annual dues are $10 per household per year. As an EACA member you can vote at EACA meetings on topics of interest within our community as well as show your commitment to East Atlanta. Email questions to membership@eaca.net.
You can sign up for your 2011 EACA membership, and order EACA Yard Signs on-line! Pay electronically via Paypal HERE
Does This Sound Like You?
EACA has an emerging Development Committee. This group of volunteers will help different EACA Committees - as well as EACA more broadly - raise needed funds for neighborhood projects. If you have a background in fundraising, donor relations, event planning or other development skills and you would like to put those to work raising money for Brownwood Park, Neighbor in Need, the Parents Network and/or other areas of EACA's work, please email development@eaca.net. |
| Martha Brown's Alternative Worship Service |  Common Grounds: An alternative worship service. Good coffee, chill music, and storytelling. Friday, January 21st at 7:00 pm in the Living Room. Bring a neighbor or friend!!
Martha Brown is located at 468 Moreland Avenue.
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Friday Food for Firefighters
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Since early November 2010, your neighbors have provided a home-cooked meal for firefighters at Station 13 every Friday night. We're calling it Friday Food for Firefighters, or FFF, since we love acronyms. If you would like to provide a meal for four to six firefighters some Friday, please check out the web-based scheduler:- Password: friday
- Click "Edit"
- Sign up for a date with your name and meal
- Click "save this version"
Please consider getting involved because the more people signed up the less effort it will take on any one person. Neighbors have already signed up through February! So, if you have the ability to provide food one Friday evening on occasion please sign up. Meals should be delivered between 5:00 and 5:30 pm, and the firefighters have requested no pork products. This new program is an easy way to literally serve your community. |
| FitWit Fitness Camp - Experience the Difference in 2011 |  Next Camp - Jan 3rd to Feb 11th- Join our fitness camp community and discover why 90% of our campers return and why 70% have never left. Every day presents a new challenge as campers push, pull, lunge, crawl, jump, run, sweat and laugh themselves into the best shape of their lives, and in the process, they meet their new best friends. AND a portion of your camp fee funds The FitWit Foundation - our own non-profit organization that provides free fitness and nutrition programs to teens in local are schools for FREE.
www.fitwit.com 1-888-534-8948 & www.thefitwitfoundation.org
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Kingfisher Academy Open House
|  Kingfisher Academy, the only secular, independent private school serving all the Southeast Neighborhoods is having open houses for enrollment on Wednesdays in January and February from 9-6. Interested parties should call for an appointment at 404-667-6951.
We serve families with children ages 3 to 8th grade, and we have a new space to show off at 158 Moreland Avenue. We're entering our 13th year and have always been honored to serve this side of Atlanta with a family friendly, affordable option for private schooling. Our children come from everywhere, and we celebrate the variety of families with which we work.
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Oakhurst Garden's Chicks in the City
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 On the wings of Oakhurst Garden's wildly popular "Chicks in the City" classes comes the full day of urban poultry-keeping. On February 26 the second annual Chicks in the City Symposium offers attendees a full plate of essentials on backyard chickens. Taught by local experts, the five sessions highlight how-to's from coop design to breeds and from chicken first aid to getting started with backyard poultry. Returning again this year and broadcasting live for his radio show, Andy Schneider, The Chicken Whisperer will participate in the Symposium.
With urban farming on the rise, and as concerns about how food is made increase, this timely full day of workshops will engage and enlighten both the committed "locavore" and the merely curious alike. New topics this year are chickens as food, predator proofing your coop and first aid. This year we will also have a silent auction to familiarize you with the best local chicken care products.
The Chicks in the City Symposium runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30pm on Saturday, February 26 and will be held at the Decatur Recreation Center, 231 Sycamore St., Decatur, 30030. Cost is $65. Oakhurst Garden members and City of Decatur residents pay just $50. Pre-registration is requested and limited to the first 100 registrants. Register at www. Oakhurstgarden.org
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East Atlanta Security Patrol
|  One of our big goals for 2010 was to develop stronger relationships with APD Supervisors working during the overnight hours (11 p.m. - 7 a.m.), as we often receive calls during that time period. We have really made great strides in achieving that goal. If you have a problem during those hours, or anytime of day, please don't hesitate to call us. Someone is assigned to answer the EASP phone 24X7, even if no EASP officer is currently on duty.
We are excited to announce a new EASP officer has been brought on board at the beginning of 2011. Thanks to your support for making that possible. We only employ new officers when we have sufficient funding to give them regular work, so it's all our longtime members and all our new members that make that happen. All of our current officers have been working with the EASP for at least two years, and we appreciate their dedicated service.
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 51-2 are below:
The significant arrests report for weeks 51-2 are below:
December 2010 Crime Report
December 2010 & YTD Crime Trends
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| Upcoming Area Meetings |
Atlanta City Council
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month (01.17), 1:00 pm
City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave SW, Atlanta, GA
Branan Towers Bingo
3rd Tuesday of the month (01.18), 6pm
Branan Towers, 1200 Glenwood Ave., SE
Grant Park Neighborhood Association
Meetings: 3rd Tuesday of the month (01.18), 7:30pm
Zoo Atlanta - ARC Building - Ford Conservation Room
800 Cherokee Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30315
DeKalb County Board of Commissioners
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month (01.25), 9:00 am
Maloof Auditorium, 1300 Commerce Dr, Decatur
Neighborhood Planning Unit, NPU-W
Meeting: 4th Wednesday of the month (01.26), 7:30pm
Martha Brown United Methodist Church, 468 Moreland Ave SE
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| East Atlanta on Facebook & Twitter |
If you're a Facebook member, be sure to become a fan of both the EACA Fan Page and the East Atlanta Village page, too! Click on links below to take you directly to each.
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