Urban Cannibals hosts a Local Foods Supper Club +  screening of the film GROW! about young farmers in Georgia which features purveyors from the EAV Farmers Market. 

The filmmakers will be present for the dinner and a post screening Q+A.
One lucky attendee will win a local foods basket and UC's sweet bites will be served along with Athens, based 1,000 Faces Coffee + 
Dr. Sweets Cakes Emporium's gluten free, vegan + nut free confections.

Monday, February 6

Dinner - $35 per person + BYOB - 6:45pm (by reservation only urbancannibals@yahoo.com
Public Screening - 8:15pm

For entrance to the screening, please bring 5 canned goods for the Atlanta Community Food Bank
More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/142121992569410/  

Please join us Tuesday, February 7, 2012, from 7 to 9 pm for the parents of Atlanta's Public Schools Legislative Reception, an opportunity for elected officials and their constituents to meet and discuss education issues over dessert and coffee.  The Planning Committee includes parent leaders from SNAPPS, CINS, NAPPS, SEACS, PAT, ACET and Atlanta Public Schools.

Atlanta Public Schools

 Martha Brown United Methodist Church invites parents and children to come for an evening of fun and games to kick-off our new kids program, "Little K", on Wednesday, February 15, 6:45-8:00 pm. There will be games, crafts, and contests like "Best Bed Head".  Invite your friends and neighbors.   Come early to potluck at 6:15 for Breakfast for Dinner!

Do you have an interest in seeing the Brownwood Park Recreation Center become an even better facility for the East Atlanta Community?  If you do below are two ways you can help.

A joint collaboration between EACA and the East Atlanta Kids Club, the Brownwood Recreation Center Community Committee seeks your participation in a community survey designed to help us better understand and improve the community's experience of the recreation center at Brownwood Park.  Please let us know what kinds of activities you'd like to see, how you feel about what's there now, and what you might be willing to do to make the rec center better serve community needs.  Contact Lisa Marie Welch, Brownwood Facility Manager, with any questions or comments, at 404-624-0747, and also keep up on the goings-on at the Rec center on Facebook.

Want to do even more? Come join this very worthwhile committee as it oversees the center while working to find fun, educational and entertaining ways for the community to take advantage of this wonderful facility.  If you have an interest in being part of this incredible success story that includes the unique City/Community relationship which allowed East Atlanta to reopen our Rec Center while others were closed, please email president@EACA.net.

The City of Atlanta is pleased to announce the launch of one of their initiatives - the Love Your Block mini-grants.  In partnership with Hands On Atlanta and the Neighborhood Fund, COA is inviting all groups to apply to potentially receive up to $500 or $1,000 mini-grants (in form of Home Depot gift cards).  You can learn more about the program at the newly launched, city-led volunteer web portal www.IAmAtlanta.org.  The application for the Love Your Block mini-grants can be found at http://iamatlanta.org/city-led-initiatives/love-your-block/.    

Following the merger of the Neighborhood Charter School and the Atlanta Charter Middle School last summer, the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) was created as a single school with two campuses serving students in grades K-8.  The first few months as a merged school have indeed been exciting ones for ANCS.  

The benefits of merging are beginning to be realized, including shared teaching and administrative resources, a more efficient governing board, and stronger parental involvement with families now connected to the same school for up to nine years.  ANCS is being recognized locally and nationally for its work.  The school was selected as a site visit during the national charter schools conference in June, and conference attendees from around the country came to hear more about the school's approach to teaching and learning.  ANCS was named a Title I Distinguished School by the Georgia Department of Education based on student performance on the Georgia CRCT.  As well, ANCS was recently awarded a nearly $1 million "Innovation Grant" by Governor Nathan Deal to partner with the Georgia State University College of Education in the creation of a new teacher training and support program.

ANCS is gearing up to enroll new students for next school year.  Applications for new students are now available on the school's website and in the main office of both the elementary and middle campuses.  There will be a series of information sessions for prospective students and their families on Thursday, February 23 at 6:30 PM at both campuses  and on Saturday, March 10 at 9:30 AM at the elementary campus and at 10:30 AM at the middle campus.  For more details about the enrollment process and to learn more about the school, visit its website at atlncs.org. 

It's never too early to start thinking about homegrown tomatoes and sweet basil. Why not let Burgess-Peterson Academy students grow seedlings for your spring garden? Order now for pickup or delivery the week of March 26. Each of the seven grades at BPA is planting a different variety of fruit or vegetable in 4-inch pots. Plants are $2 each. Supplies are limited so don't delay. Profits will support garden education at the school. Each student also will get to take a plant home. 

Click here for the order form or e-mail BPAgarden@gmail.com for more information. Also, don't forget to "like" the garden on Facebook!

As the leading organization that represents every community member within East Atlanta, EACA is reaching past the normal operations of your typical community association.  From helping seniors in need of emergency home repairs with Neighbor in Need and facilitating a sense of togetherness for our families through the Parents Network to creating a safer and more pleasing neighborhood under such committees as Parks & Greenspace, Beautification, Arts & Culture and Public Safety while at the same time working with the City for the betterment of East Atlanta with important issues such as transportation, land use & zoning and education, the East Atlanta Community Association is an all volunteer organization that needs the support of citizens through ideas, muscles and...money.   

As a member of the East Atlanta Community Association you are showing your support for not only EACA, but our wonderful neighborhood through a small annual $10 per household or business token of commitment.  In addition, members are given the right to vote on important issues at monthly meetings as well as receive discounts on events administered by EACA at different times during the year. While your $10 does not bring any further obligation on your part please take a look at the many different ways for all neighbors to get involved, and find something that feels right for you.

In addition, The East Atlanta Community Association is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization so all additional donations are tax deductible.   

EACA Needs Your Support!