East Atlanta Community Association
Newsletter
June 27, 2011
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| Greetings! | |
From food and football to fans and fun enjoy this week's newsletter.
Good reading!
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EACA Membership
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EACA Needs Your Support!
Without your support EACA would not exist. Please show your commitment to EACA by joining today. Annual dues are $10 per household or business per year. As an EACA member you can vote at EACA meetings on topics of interest within our community as well as show your support to East Atlanta.
You can sign up for your 2011 EACA membership, and order EACA Yard Signs on-line! Pay electronically via Paypal HERE
Email questions to membership@eaca.net.
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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. 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. |
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EAV Farmers Market Peach Jam
|  Come sample all things peach at the East Atlanta Village Farmers Market on Thursday June 30th and stick around for the grand event - a Peach Cocktail Mix-Off at the Midway Pub.
Chef Terry from Farm Burger will be grilling up Riverview Farms beef burgers on H&F buns (all proceeds go towards education programs...) with a peach compote and local goat cheese. Chef Seth Freedman will be experimenting with savory peach dishes and serving up his secret recipe for peach ketchup. And Colonel Jerry Slater from H. Harper Station will be showing us his mixing skills.
Iron Chef Style Peach Cocktail Mix-Off: Mixiologists meet at the market 6pm to receive their spirit assignment, and shop the market for other local ingredients to feature in their cocktail. Mix-off begins at 6:30pm at the Midway Pub. Contestants will submit their cocktails to a panel of celebrity judges, and guests can purchase tastes of the drink for $1. Winners are announced at 7pm. Entry into contest is $20. The winner receives $200 cash prize, a mention in the EAV e-newsletter and the Slow Food Atlanta e-news, free peaches from Pearson Farm, and their drink on the menu at the Midway Pub. Email: info@farmeav.com by Thursday June 23rd to enter.
Thank you to our event sponsors for making this event happen: The Midway Pub, Pearson Farm Peaches, Riverview Farms, H&F Bread Co, and Farm Burger.
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DeKalb County Youth Sport Summer Camps
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 In partnership with the DeKalb County Board of Education, DeKalb County Police Athletic League Plus presents its 2011 Youth Sport Summer Camps. For kids ages 8-16 camps are held at the Stephenson Middle School, 922 Stephenson Road in Stone Mountain.
- Week One, June 27 - July 1: Football and Chearleading
- Week Two, July 5 - 8: Co-Ed Basketball
- Week Three, July 11 - 15: Fast pitch softball (girls) and baseball (boys)
- Week Four, July 18 - 22: Track and Volleyball
Registration fee is $55, and hurry because camps are filling fast. For more information and to register please call 770.724.7468 or check it out on the web.
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Fans for Senior Citizens
|  The City of Atlanta has fans for Senior Citizens. Please call 404-330-6000 to register for the fans. They can be picked up or delivered. The deadline is July 1st.
Please advise any seniors you know since many might not be on e-mail. |
| Dance Truck's Shoe Planting Party at Garden*Hood |  The local non-profit performing arts group, Dance Truck, and your local independent garden center, Garden*Hood on collaborating on a unique upcoming event. In support of Dance Truck's upcoming performance of Blake Beckham's PLOT, Garden*Hood is hosting a shoe planting extravaganza on Saturday, July 16 from 10am until 3pm. Garden*Hood will provide the shoes, soil, plants, water, and a festive atmosphere as you turn the lost sole of your choice into a planter worthy of the spotlight.
For more information...
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PEDS Sidewalk Hazard Hunt Winners
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 Kate Furukawa, winner of the $100 prize in PEDS' May Sidewalk Hazard Hunt, reported 20 conditions near her East Atlanta home that make walking to the bus stop, the shops in East Atlanta Village and the park across the street difficult and dangerous. Winning the prize was a nice extra, but Kate reported all those hazards in hopes of getting them fixed!
Kate's husband Dave is visually impaired. With assistance from his guide dog Simon, Dave walks about a block from his home to a MARTA bus stop for his daily commute towork. The sidewalks are in such poor condition that Kate takes their son Will into the street for strolls. Drivers rarely slow down.
The Furukawas heard about the Hazard Hunt and PEDS' online reporting tool through their neighborhood association. "Dave was so excited when I told him there was an organization working to promote safer sidewalks," Kate reported. Dave's 94-year-old grandmother soon will be living nearby in the Branan Towers Retirement Community. He wants her to have a safe walk to their home.
Congratulations to Kate and also to Pam Aerts, who won a $75 gift card from Phidippides during our mid-month drawing. In total, 142 people in six jurisdictions reported 237 hazards in May. PEDS thanks all the volunteers who participated in the hazard hunt.
PEDS' online hazard reporting tool is available year-round. Keep up your great work reporting hazards!
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Sign up for Simone Bell Newsletter
|  Simone Bell serves in the Georgia State House on behalf of District 58, which includes portions of Fulton and DeKalb counties that are in the City of Atlanta, plus portions of unincorporated DeKalb County to the east. It includes the neighborhoods of East Atlanta, Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown, Edgewood, Gresham Park, Grant Park, Kirkwood, Ormewood Park, Boulevard Heights, Eastland Heights, Woodland Hills, Custer/McDonough/Guice and Benteen.
For those interested in signing up for her newsletter please visit here.
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East Atlanta Library Events
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East Atlanta Library
400 Flat Shoals Ave, SE
Atlanta, Ga 30316
Summer Story Time
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 10:30am
All ages!
Registration is required for large groups.
Spanish Story Time!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 10:30am
All ages!
Registration is required for large groups.
Summer Story Time
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:30am
All ages!
Registration is required for large groups.
Music with Miss Tara
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @10:30am
Registration is required.
Easy Crafts and Games Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:30am All ages! Registration is required.
Summer Story Time Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:30am All ages! Registration is required for large groups.
Easy Crafts and Games Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 10:30am All ages! Registration is required.
Registration for required events can be done at the library. |
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East Atlanta Security Patrol Update
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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 EASP Organizer Myron Polster at 404-954-1568.
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| EACA Public Safety - Weekly Crime Report |
The weekly Crime Report for week 25 is below:
The weekly Significant Arrests Report for Week 25 is below:
May Crime Report
May Trends
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| Upcoming Area Meetings |
Transportation Committee Meeting ( 06.27), 7pm
If interested please email transportation@eaca.net
DeKalb County Board of Commissioners
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month (06.28), 9:00 am
Maloof Auditorium, 1300 Commerce Dr, Decatur
Atlanta City Council
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month
Due to Independence Day this month's meeting will be 07.05, 1:00 pm
City Hall, 55 Trinity Ave SW
Neighborhood Planning Unit, NPU-W, Land Use and Zoning Committee
Meeting: 1st Tuesday of the month (07.05), 7:00pm
Martha Brown United Methodist Church, 468 Moreland Ave SE
DeKalb County Board of Commissioners
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month (07.12), 9:00 am
Maloof Auditorium, 1300 Commerce Dr, Decatur
East Atlanta Community Association, (EACA)
Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of the month (07.12), 7pm
Branan Towers, 1200 Glenwood Ave., SE
South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development, Inc. (SAND) Meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month (07.14); 7:30pm Beulah Heights University Student Center, 892 Berne Street
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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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