Please join Charlie Brouwer, Flux Projects and the EACA's Arts and Culture Committee in doing our part to help Atlanta Rise Up in Freedom Park this May.

The Rise Up project is a metaphor for the hopes and aspirations of the community - made of ladders of all types, sizes & conditions, borrowed from individuals, families, businesses, churches, schools and organizations from throughout Atlanta - leaning on and tied to each other... rising up together.

We can do it, but we need to borrow your ladder! Absolutely any ladder will do-

new, old, tall, short, broken, or a stepstool.  We also encourage handmade or creatively decorated ladders, even symbolic ladders! Ladders may also express the personality or identity of the lender.

Drop off dates for ladder donations are Fri. April 15th, 7-9pm & Sat & Sun April 16th & 17th 9am-4pm at  841 N. Highland Ave (corner of North Highland and Briarcliff Place: the parking lot with a Bank of America ATM), or contact the East Atlanta ladder coordinator (Arts & Culture Committee Chair Lori) for pickup. 

The lending process is fully documented, ladders will be prominently tagged to identify lenders & they will be listed at the exhibition and on the website.

Like good neighbors, we will ensure ladders are returned. Ladders will be able to be picked up June 2-5 at the same location in Virginia Highlands. If these dates are not convenient, other arrangements can be made through Flux Projects. If a lender does not wish to have a ladder returned, it will be donated to the Atlanta Community ToolBank. 

For more information: http://www.fluxprojects.org/riseup/faq.html 

or www.charliebrouwer.com  

911 Town Hall Forum 

Kirkwood Neighbors Association presents 911 Town Hall Forum. 

When: Wednesday, April 20th

Time: 6:30pm

Where: Bessie Branham Rec Center

All residents of Zone 6 neighborhoods of the City of Atlanta are invited to attend this town hall forum with the 911 Director Lt. Brenda Ross.  Presentation of 911 Call Center and Operations followed by a moderated question and answer session.

For more information contact KNO Public Safety Liaison Margie Yondorf, 404.484.7552.

Easter at Martha Brown 

Holy Week - Self-guided Prayer Stations will be open in the Chapel/Living Room from 10 am-2 pm Tuesday, April 19th, & Thursday, April 21st, and from 6-8 pm on Wednesday, April 20th.  You are invited to send some time in quiet and prayer reflecting on Christ's life, death, and resurrection. 

Easter - A Sunrise Sunrise will be held at Sylvester Cemetery at 6:45 a.m. on Easter morning, April 24th.  This service will include some music and a short message.  Please feel free to bring a folding or lounge chair if you would like to sit.  We will have a few chairs there.

--A Pancake Breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

--Traditional Worship will begin at its usual time, 11:00 a.m.

If you have been looking for a place to worship this Easter  as well as wondering about Martha Brown, then please join us Sunday.  If you have any questions please email Pastor Heather.  

Burgess-Peterson Academy Garden to Expand!

Thanks to generous grants from Georgia Organics and the East Atlanta Farmers Market, the Burgess-Peterson garden is growing with more planting beds to fill out the courtyard space. Now that we've got the money, we could use the muscle -- yours, that is.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 30, at 9:30 a.m. We'll be constructing raised beds and then hauling garden soil into the courtyard to fill them. If you have a power saw or power drill and extension cord or a wheel barrow, please bring them along to the school at 480 Clifton St. SE, at Glenwood and I-20. Contact BPAgarden@gmail.com to let us know you're coming or if you want more details.

Burgess-Peterson Academy Tours 

New FitWit Camps

East Atlanta once again holds the dubious honor of winning Council Member Natalyn Archibong's annual Earth Day tire roundup. East Atlanta crews were responsible for more than 1,100 of the 1,675 tires collected on Saturday, April 16.

We like to think that's because our volunteers were the most organized about finding tires, and not because East Atlanta has the most dump sites. Weeks before the roundup, we hit the internet to ask about dumped tires and started combing the streets for them. Dead-end streets, abandoned houses and wooded ditches were checked for tires and many were spotted. We spent two days doing pre-roundups, stashing tires in a willing volunteer's spare space.

On roundup day, about 20 volunteers and six pickup trucks raced to get all the tires to the drop point by 1 p.m. Armor Tire generously volunteered its parking lot as a neighborhood drop point. Several young men from East Atlanta Kids Club added their muscle and enthusiasm to the volunteer crews. Volunteers rolled tires downhill, lugged tires uphill, dug tires out of ditches and heaved tires into trucks, getting soaked with "tire juice" and covered in mud.

Volunteers may never get those clothes clean and they may be sore for a few days, but the satisfaction of getting 1,100 eyesores and mosquito breeders out of the neighborhood outweighs everything. Thanks to all who participated. Here's to fewer tires next roundup.

Battle of Atlanta Call for Volunteers 

Do you love history?  Do you love meeting new people?  Do you love East Atlanta?

B*ATL is looking for people to help with this wonderful event.  Specifically they are in need of a person to Chair the Civilian Living History program, "Civil War to Civil Rights", in the East Atlanta Village in July.  The B*ATL organizing committee (a fun group) has started meeting now.   Work with and direct actors and neighbors who portray characters from history including casting, scheduling, costuming, wrangling and participating in bringing history to life.  If you think you might be interested in helping to shape this event either as chair or just as an important part of the B*ATL team  please contact B*ATL committee chair Henry Bryant, 404-377-6148 or

hbryant@mindspring.com 

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B*ATL is the annual event commemorating the historic Civil War Battle of Atlanta which happened across our area and in our neighborhood in 1864.  Thousands of people show up at various programs throughout the area.

APD Mobile Alert System 

Mayor Kasim Reed's Centers of Hope

East Atlanta Security Patrol Update

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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• Week 15                   

(Week 12, 13 and 14 were not available.)