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Even More Decatur Fun This Weekend

September 2, 2010 by Catherine

We love how our local businesses get so involved in Decatur’s festivals. A number of local shops and restaurants are participating in the Decatur Book Festival as exhibitors on the square (see a complete list here), as locations on the interactive SCVNGR Hunt and many will have specials going on this weekend. Check out what’s going on at The Marlay and Mingei:

The Marlay House will be celebrating its 2nd Anniversary this weekend. Festivities include:

  • Multiple Casks of ale from Bell’s Brewing and other special occasion beers.
  • Friday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.: Live entertainment with Papuna and his Jazzy crew.
  • Saturday, Sept. 4 at 9 p.m.: The Marlay’s singer server performs “The Christy Lee Experience”
  • 10 percent off food for anyone who mentions attending the Decatur Book Festival and the related AJC blog post.

In honor of the Decatur Book Festival Mingei has a new shipment of its popular reading figures and is launching a new project. The shop has a limited selection of Georgia reading features which will help support the Libros Para Pueblos and The Georgia Center for the Book. Come see the wonderful Brer Rabbits, Brer Foxes, and peacocks reading Flannery that artisans in La Union have created.

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Community Workshop: Design Starts on North McDonough Streetscape Improvements

September 2, 2010 by Catherine

A community workshop to discuss the railroad crossing improvements at Candler and McDonough Streets and the North McDonough streetscape improvements will be held on Thursday, September 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the City Commission meeting room of Decatur City Hall, 509 North McDonough Street, in downtown Decatur.

In addition to the railroad crossing improvements, funding recently has been obtained to design streetscape improvements to North McDonough Street between Howard Avenue and Trinity Place.  Both projects have similar goals — to improve safety and accessibility for pedestrians, bicyclists and others using these facilities. The streetscape improvements will join the railroad crossing improvements where North McDonough meets the CSX rail crossing.

We hope you will be able to join us to learn more about preliminary plans for the railroad crossing improvements and to help start the planning for the North McDonough streetscape improvements.

These projects are based on Decatur’s 2008 Community Transportation Plan. A major goal of the Community Transportation Plan is to encourage healthy lifestyles and active living in Decatur.

The City has retained URS Corporation of Atlanta, a planning and engineering design firm, to help plan both projects.  Sprinkle Consulting of Lutz, Florida, a nationally-recognized design firm that specializes in bicycle and pedestrian planning, is assisting URS  in the work. The projects will be funded through the City’s Capital Improvements Bond program and grants from the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Atlanta Regional Commission and MARTA.

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Getting Ready for the Decatur Book Festival

August 30, 2010 by Catherine

You know it’s officially the start of Book Festival week when the Courthouse banner goes up. Start getting excited: www.decaturbookfestival.com.

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NOTICE: Defect Found in Shipment of City of Decatur’s Green (8-gallon) Pay-As-You-Throw bags

August 27, 2010 by Catherine

The City of Decatur Public Works Sanitation Division is working to resolve an issue with a defective Pay-As-You-Throw bag shipment from the bag manufacturer. It appears that the problem is isolated to the green, 8-gallon bags.  We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have received defective bags please return them to the retail store where they were purchased in order to receive replacement bags. You may also take the defective bags to the Public Works Office at 2635 Talley Street in Decatur and receive replacement bags. We are checking the bag inventory to ensure that defective bags  are not delivered to the retail stores.

If you have any questions, please call David Junger, Assistant City Manager, at 404-377-5571 or email david.junger@decaturga.com .

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Bond Projects Public Information Session

August 27, 2010 by Catherine

City of Decatur residents and property owners are invited to a public information session regarding the capital bond projects, financial options for capital improvements and future financial projections on Thursday, September 2 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in the City Commission Meeting Room, Decatur City Hall, 509 N. McDonough Street, Decatur, GA  30030.

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Listen to Decaturga.com

August 26, 2010 by Catherine

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for the past few weeks. We’ve added a new, inexpensive, ADA compliant feature to the City’s website. Any webpage within the site that has text on it now has a nifty “Listen” icon in the top right corner. Click on the icon to hear the page read out to you. Of course this feature is primarily for the vision impaired, but feel free to use it if your eyes are tired, you don’t feel like reading or if you’re suffering from digital device overload. This feature will be transfered to the new City website once it’s up and running – which will hopefully be complete by late fall.

www.decaturga.com

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Decatur Garden Tour Seeks Marketplace Vendors

August 24, 2010 by Linda

 

The 2010 Decatur Garden Tour will celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Oakhurst and most of the gardens will be in the Oakhurst area.  This year they plan to add a marketplace to the weekend.  The marketplace will take place on Sunday, September 26 from 12 noon – 5 p.m. in Harmony Park.  The marketplace will feature garden-themed vendors selling garden related items and/or services.

There are several options for Exhibitor Booths and if you are interested in participating in the market, contact Stephanie, director of the Oakhurst Community Garden Project via email director@oakhurstgarden.org or call 678-642-4977 for an application.

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The Chicken Whisperer is Coming!

August 24, 2010 by Katie

That’s right. I said Chicken Whisperer.

The Chicken Whisperer is coming to Decatur Farmers Market on Aug 28th, from 9 – 1pm with 1,000 chicks to give away!  The event is free (you know I LOVE free)  to the public but donations are suggested for the chicks.  All donations will go to East Atlanta Kids Club.

ABOUT Chicken Whisperer   www.chickenwhisperer.net

Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer™ has become the go-to guy across the country for anything chickens. Over the years he has helped a countless number of people start their very own backyard flocks. He is not only a national radio personality, but also a contributor for Mother Earth News Magazine, Grit Magazine, and Farmers Almanac. He is the owner of Atlanta Pet Chickens, Classroom Chickens, and is the Founder/Organizer of the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group that has quickly grown to over 1,000 local members!

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Memorial Celebration for Marc Reynolds (1963-2010)

August 23, 2010 by Linda

The Heliotrope family invites the community to join them in remembering and celebrating the life of Marc Reynolds, co-owner of Heliotrope.  The Memorial Celebration will be held Sunday, August 29 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Cakes & Ale.

All are welcome.

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Sally Wylde

August 20, 2010 by Catherine

Sally Wylde pictured on the left. Photo courtesy of Chickin Feed.

Yesterday evening Sally Wylde, a Decatur resident, founder of the Oakhurst Community Garden Project and an inspiring community leader, passed away. She was an amazing woman and had a huge influence on the Decatur community. Sally moved to Oakhurst in 1993 where she and her neighbor, Louise Jackson, invited school children to become caretakers of a garden they had formerly cut through every day after school. Shortly after, Sally and her husband, Britt Dean, acquired a nearby undeveloped half-acre lot and established the Oakhurst Community Garden Project.

As the Garden matured into an established grassroots nonprofit organization with Sally at its helm, the lot transformed into an urban oasis with vegetable and floral plots, a pond, art installations, beehives, animals, and restored native habitats. She inspired countless neighbors of all ages to become better caretakers of the earth, of one another, and of themselves.

In 2005 Sally retired as the executive director of the Garden and returned to her first calling as an artist. She began painting again and soon had works on display in galleries around town. She orchestrated a community-wide art project, bringing together an army of artist who created giant puppets in a spectacular array of colors, shapes and sizes to march in Decatur’s annual Earth Day parade.

Sally also began writing, playing the piano and taking part in an improvisational theater group. She volunteered with Decatur’s Farm to School initiative, bringing to that endeavor her passion for empowering children to take charge of their own health and connecting it to the health of the planet.

When Sally was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, she met the challenge with her characteristic courage and creativity. She co-created a performance art piece known as “The Lump Journey,” and continued to pursue love, life and beauty in the natural world even while going through chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and ultimately the aggressive spread of the cancer throughout her body.

Sally Wylde’s passing will be deeply felt by the community, but her energy and influence will continue to inspire for generations. For more information read Maureen Downey’s tribute to Sally in the AJC and visit Sally’s Caring Bridge page.

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