EACA Newsletter for January 24, 2010

Think it is too late to join this exciting EACA Committee that is helping to positively affect the lives of our neighbors that need emergency home repair? Well it isn't. Neighbor in Need's next meeting is January 27th, 7pm, at The Midway Pub located at 552 Flat Shoals Ave, 404.585.0335.

Topics to be discussed include existing projects on the books as well as upcoming fund raisers. Everyone is welcome to come with NiN specifically in need of volunteers with knowledge of household repair and home construction as well as anybody wishing to help with fund raising activities, grant submittals or event planning.

For additional information or questions please email the Neighbor in Need committee chair Jeff Whitehouse.

Park Pride

Please join Park Pride on January 27 for the newly scheduled January PARC meeting at Adams Park Recreation Center, 1620 Delowe Drive, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30311. You can contact the center staff for directions at 404.756.1827. The meeting will begin at 7:30am.

The New Director of the Parks for the City of Atlanta, Doug Voss, will join us for the meeting. Doug is a native of Macon and comes to the Parks Department having worked in Parks and Recreation at Miamisburg, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky.

Brownwood Park Community Garden Workday

We have rescheduled the workday for expanding the Brownwood Park Community Garden to this Saturday, January 29th, from 10am-2pm. If you can make it, we would love your participation! Please RSVP so we can determine the number of people for which we need to prepare. We will provide snacks to keep up your blood sugar! Please bring work gloves and get ready to get dirty!

For additional information, questions or to RSVP please email Parks co-chairs Mary Yetter and Laird Ruth at parks@eaca.net.

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

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.

Maximizing Your 2010 Taxes

For more information about Living Waters Bible Church and to register please visit www.livingwatersbc.org.

Oakhurst Garden's Chicks in the City

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

Friday Food for Firefighters

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"

If you have questions, please contact Beth-Ann Buitekant, who is overseeing the schedule. Beth has lived in East Atlanta since 1984. Having suffered from losing her home to a fire many years ago she would often think about the firefighters working there. After supplying treats at various times, she realized she wanted to do more with this program being the result.

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.

East Atlanta Security Patrol Update

Good News! Three major arrests this week. APD arrested two burglars on Flat Shoals related to a burglary on Bouldercrest on Monday the 17th. There was also an armed robbery of a man in the 900 block of Bouldercrest at 11:00 pm on Saturday the 15th, which may very well be tied to the burglars that were arrested on Monday. We expect to have more updates as the APD investigation unfolds. We're seeing a marked decrease in crime for the week of Jan 16-22, thus the EASP believes that these men were committing most of the recent area burglaries.

In addition, Dekalb police arrested notorious burglar Edward Hampton in the 800 block of Brownwood on Wednesday morning the 19th.

Please be alert for crimes occurring after dark! Recent burglaries and armed robberies have all been between about 7-9:30 pm, plus a couple burglaries around 3:30 am. If you see anything remotely suspicious, please call 911 and the EASP at 404-954-1568.

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.

EACA Public Safety - Weekly Crime Report

The weekly crime reports for weeks 52-3 are below:

The significant arrests report for weeks 52-3 are below: