Decatur Education Foundation invites you to the Tour deCatur Starting Block Party Jan. 30!
Runners and aspiring runners…coaches and PTA parents…track club participants, people of Decatur and
beyond…make plans to attend the Tour deCatur 5K Starting Block Party on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7 pm. at Fleet
Feet Decatur, the official running store of the 2013 Tour – located at 431 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue.
- Get expert advise on training for the Tour (for novices and more practiced runners alike)
- Take a 10% discount on running shoes from Mizuno (the Tour’s Presenting Sponsor!)
- Enjoy snacks and beverages
- Enter to win a door prize
- Preview the 2013 race course
If you’ve always wanted to run a 5K…if you’ve got a school or sports team that would like to raise funds through the
Tour…if you’re in the market for some cool new gear… if you just enjoy hanging out with friends and neighbors… this
event is your starting block!
Tour deCatur is a qualifying run/walk event of the Team Decatur Grand Slam Fitness Challenge.
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Living the Green Life Series
Kicks off Saturday, January 26
A Wylde Center, DeKalb County Public Library, and City of Decatur collaboration at the Decatur Library
Over the past few years, the interest in living a more green and sustainable lifestyle has grown tremendously. The Wylde Center, the City of Decatur, and the DeKalb County Public Library are pleased to continue their collaboration on offering you an exciting FREE series of classes in 2012 and 2013. Look for seminars and workshops that provide information that is timely and current as well as leaving with a full list of resources that can be found at your local library and online.
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NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!
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Unless otherwise noted, events take place at the Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street Decatur, Georgia 30030
For more information about this series, please contact
Andrea Zoppo, andrea@wyldecenter.org.
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Cook your Way into the New Year and Celebrate with Healthy Food!
Saturday, January, 26, 10-11am
Location: Decatur Public Library Meeting Room
Healthy eating is about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping your life in balance. Les Dames d’Escoffier International members, Kristy Cook and Nancy Lutz will guide you in the right direction. These Senior Consultants with Affairs to Remember Caterers will teach you how to host a party with bright colorful healthy foods you can feel great about. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create tasty, healthy celebrations in 2013.
Upcoming Classes:
Snapshot of Plant your First Spring Garden
Monday, February 25, 10-11:30am
Decatur Library Auditorium
This class is for first time gardeners, or those transitioning over to organic methods of vegetable gardening. Join Stephanie Van Parys, Executive Director of the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, and learn about spring and summer vegetables and herbs perfect for our region.
Why Saving Our Seeds Matters
Saturday, March 2, 10-11am
Brought to you by the Wylde Center and Park Pride, join Ira Wallace, from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and learn why is it important for gardeners to save seeds. GMOs, seed industry consolidation, and lost seed-saving skills threaten the very basis of organic agriculture. Learn more about what is happening and how you can fight back with your garden, your votes, and your dollars. Join Ira, the Wylde Center, and Park Pride at the Oakhurst Garden for a Free Seed Swap Potluck with Seed Saving Demo right after the presentation at 11:30am. If it is raining we will have the seed swap at the Decatur Library. Click here to RSVP for FREE SEED SWAP and instructions to participate.
Ira Wallace lives and gardens at Acorn Community Farm, home of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange , where she coordinates variety selection and seed growers. Southern Exposure offers 700+ varieties of non-GMO, open-pollinated, and organic seeds. Ira is a co-organizer of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello . She serves on the board of the Organic Seed Alliance and is a frequent presenter at the Mother Earth News Fairs and many other events throughout the Southeast. Her first book, The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, will be available in late 2013.
Permaculture: Common Sense Connections in the Garden
Tuesday, March 12, 10-11am
Decatur Public Library Meeting Room
Join Garden Designer Brandy Hall and learn the tools to build prosperous and resilient gardens. We will also look at practical and simple solutions to issues such as water storage and erosion control. Brandy passionately engages communities through education, design, and installation of food forests and perennial farms and gardens through her small ecological design firm, Shades of Green at shadesofgreeninc.org.
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Thank you to the 1,150 volunteers that came out this weekend for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Project. Check out this video from My Fox Atlanta. The news crew stopped by one of the houses on Monday to interview some of the volunteers.
Here’s what the City of Decatur’s Volunteer Coordinator, Lee Ann Harvey, had to say about the weekend:
Health. Safety. Affordability. Partnerships. Community. When I think of the 11 years of the Decatur Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project, these are the first words that come to mind. This is the 11th year of the three-day weekend project to help Decatur’s senior citizens by providing home repairs and yard work. It sounds like a simple idea but it takes a complex structure of people to make it happen. This year’s project was a year in planning and approximately 65 people had leadership roles in development of the project and directing the approximately 1,150 volunteers who worked one or more shifts throughout the weekend. This year’s project was extremely ambitious and included repairs on 26 homes (17 standard projects and 9 “Small Projects” that never turned out to be as small as originally thought). All but one of those homes plus 9 additional homes had extensive yardwork resulting in a total of 35 senior citizens’ households benefiting from the project.
Our Decatur senior citizens are the foundation of what our community is today. I am honored that I am able to join our community in showing our appreciation and giving back to them.
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Little Shop of Stories Super Sale is happening this weekend!
Friday, January 18th | to January 21st
We are clearing out to make room for new stuff! Select books, toys, and games will be on sale at 30% off this weekend only!
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Decatur is moving to the cloud! Our software applications will now be on servers at a secure offsite data center (rather than on computers at City Hall), and employees will access their information in the cloud through “thin clients” instead of traditional desktop computers.
We are moving department by department starting with Children & Youth Services in early January with others being phased in over the next two months.
The change enables employees to work from multiple locations, ensures data can be recovered more easily and quickly in the event of a disaster, and reduces the recurring costs of hardware replacement. Plus, there will be quicker software deployments and reduced energy consumption.
We expect internal kinks and bugs at first, but the transition should not interrupt any of the external technology services we provide to the community. Decatur WiFi, the City website, and services such as online job applications, online service requests (CRM), online tax information, online citation payments, registration for recreation and after-school programs, Open City Hall, streaming video of City Commission meetings, and GIS mapping should continue to function normally during the transition.
There are legal requirements for how public safety records should be maintained so for now, the police department will not join us in the cloud. However, the ultimate plan is to move them as well. We’ll keep you posted.
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THIS WEEKEND is the Decatur Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project – just days away! Please join us in making a difference in the lives of Decatur’s senior citizens. We can still use lots more volunteers to help with home repairs. If you can make repairs on your own home and do some light (or skilled) carpentry, we can definitely use your help! We could also use volunteers to lead simple yard work projects.
Volunteer shifts and more information is available at www.decaturga.com/mlk
Contact Lee Ann Harvey at 678-553-6548 or leeann.harvey@decaturga.com if you are interested in participating.
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If you are running out of ideas for home cooked meals, Universal Joint in Oakhurst just posted on their Facebook page that they have some new, limited-time menu items right now.
Limited time specials menu:
Marinated hanger steak with garlic mash and mixed garden vegetables. Blackened chicken with penne past and tomato basil cream sauce served with ciabatta garlic bread. Fried pork chop with garlic mash and mixed garden vegetables. Also just put on tap Decatur’s own Blue Tarp Brewery. We’re pouring their Bantam Weight, which is their Irish red ale.
I don’t know about you, but they had me at Ciabatta Garlic Bread!
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Did you know that the most common cause of fire deaths is smoke inhalation from burning materials? Or that many fires occur at night? In an effort to reduce these dangerous conditions, the City of Decatur Fire Department is now offering smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, free of charge, to City of Decatur residents. Thanks to funding received through a grant from the Fire Prevention and Safety Assistance to Firefighters grant program, our firefighters will install new detectors, test existing detectors and replace inoperable ones. And if you request it while they are in your home, they’ll point out hazards that could cause a fire if continually overlooked.
If you are a resident of the City of Decatur and need a smoke detector installed, tested or checked, please call 404-373-5092, email Fire Marshal Stephanie Burton (stephanie.burton@decaturga.com) or visit www.decaturga.com and make a service request online.
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