Community Meeting about School Closures
Friends and neighbors,
With recent proposed changes in some APS schools with redistricting, school closures, etc from the Demographics Survey given to APS leadership, newly elected ABE Board Member & newly elected Board Vice Chair, Byron Amos will be holding a special community meeting:
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Herndon Elementary School 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. for District 2 Selected Schools (Herndon, Bethune, White, F.L.Stanton, Kennedy, & Douglass).
This meeting is for all parents,students, teachers, staff, community residents, community leaders and education advocates to receive information on what exactly the demographic survey is, what’s going on with the various phases of the survey, how does this effect our schools,youth & communities and most importantly how we can be organized, become more educated and aware of what’s going on and get involved.
Please share this with any other educational listservs you may be apart of or other teachers, parents, staff, etc of those who live or work in the SW / NW Atlanta area.
PLEASE SEND ANY RESPONSES OR CONCERNS ABOUT THIS MEETING TO: bamos@atlantapublicschools.us
Thanks in advance,
Byron D. Amos – CEO
Capacity Builders,Inc.
West End Branch Library Program- An Evening with the Author
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on January 18, 2012
An Evening with the Author
Joseph L. Wilson (Joe),
author of “My immune System and M.S”
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (M.S) in 2000, Joe has continued his research and lifestyle changes to combat M.S. Driven by the desire to avoid M.S. drugs which cause severe side effects, Joe presents in book format his successful efforts to stave off M.S. disabling nature over a five plus year period, all while successfully maintaining full time employment as a licensed tax accountant in metro Atlanta.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
6:00 PM
West End Branch Library
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
525 Peeples Street SW
404-752-8740
All Programs Are Free And Open To The Public
West End Branch Library Program
YOUR HEALTH BEGINS WITH YOU!
Medicine and/or Natural Solutions?
“Helping you focus on Natural Solutions for Health Care using Evidence Based Medicine as your guide”
Presented by
Dr. Linzy Scott Jr., MD FAAOS
Thursday, January 12, 2012
6:00 PM
West End Branch Library
A part of the
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
525 Peeples Street SW
404-752-8740
All Programs Are Free And Open To The Public
Voter registration training this Wednesday at the Urban League!
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Public Safety on January 9, 2012
NACA Invitation to American Dream Convention
Dear Georgia Area Leaders,
We are delighted to invite you to our historic Purchase and Save-the-Dream Event in Atlanta. This event is taking place from January 8th through the 15th at the Georgia World Congress Center. This will be the largest and most comprehensive homeownership event in history. Over 500 NACA counselors will be providing face-to-face counseling in a massive exhibition hall. We will be counseling thousands of people every day to purchase a home, providing access to NACA’s Best in America Mortgage, as well as providing same day affordable solutions for at-risk homeowners.
This week long event highlights NACA’s extraordinary Purchase and Home Save programs and additional services provided by NACA. Your participation is important as we provide these programs across the country and reach out to public officials and other organizations. Please review the attached invitation and respond regarding your attendance. We look forward to seeing you at NACA’s first American Dream Convention.
Sincerely,
Bruce Marks
NACA – CEO
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Please click on the link to respond to the invitation here: NACA Event Invitation
Free Toy Giveaway and Feed a Family Food Drive – Sunday Dec. 18
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on December 13, 2011
Do you know any families in need this Christmas Season?
The Tanda Canion Foundation has partnered this year with Toys for Tots and the Assembly of Truth Family Worship Center to provide toys to parents with kids and food to families.
The Happy-Face Toy Giveaway
& Feed a Family Food Drive
December 18, 2011 at 5:00 P.M.
All participants must register and be present to receive toys or food boxes. Register for toys and register for food online at www.assemblyoftruth.com, or on-site after the 10 a.m. morning worship service, and again at 4 p.m. Toy and food distribution, Christmas trivia, games and more begins at 5 p.m. Help us, help a family!
Touching Families. Changing Lives.
WEMC Holiday Celebration
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on December 12, 2011
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West End Readers Book Club – December 19, 2011 – 6:30 p.m. – Please come prepared to share your best read of 2011
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on December 8, 2011
A BOOK DISCUSSION OF
The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she’s determined to place in good homes. AS always in life—and in Cedar Cove—there are surprises, too. More than one family’s going to have a puppy under the tree. More than one scheme will go awry. And more than one romance will have a happy ending!
Date: Monday December 19, 2011
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Place: West End Branch Library
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
525 Peeples Street SW
404-752-8740
Georgia DOT Snow/Ice Info for Metro Atlanta
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Public Safety on December 8, 2011
Dear Friends:
It’s that time of year…very soon, weather forecasts for Georgia will call for snow and ice, making road conditions and travel challenging. While many travelers and commuters may be able to delay their travel or stay off the roads, several hundred dedicated employees of your Georgia DOT do just the opposite… they work in the roadways in 12-hour shifts of pre-emptive ice treatments, snow plowing, and spreading salt and gravel to achieve safer, improved road conditions.
Please remember that Georgia DOT is not responsible for maintaining or operating local roads. Our crews focus on treating and clearing our interstates and multi-lane state routes and related bridges and overpasses. Once this is achieved, work crews then focus on two-lane state routes. Please contact your local public works office for information on clearing snow and ice from city and county roads.
For hourly updates and information on road and traffic conditions during snow/ice events in metro Atlanta, we encourage you to:
Visit www.dot.ga.gov/winterweather,
Visit www.511ga.org,
Call 511 from your cellular phone,
Listen to local radio and TV broadcasts, and
Follow us on Facebook- http://facebook.com/GeorgiaDOT and Twitter- http://twitter.com/gadeptoftran.
When you visit www.dot.ga.gov/winterweather, you will also be able to view our Winter Weather Webinar, which discusses how Georgia DOT has prepared its work crews and resources and coordinated with local governments for snow/ice removal on interstates and state routes.
The following link will take you to a set of banner ads in a variety of standard sizes that can be posted to your organization or agency website: http://www.dot.ga.gov/travelingingeorgia/severeweather/Documents/Winter/Ads/GeorgiaDOT-WinterWeatherAds.ZIP. Instructions on how to open the zip file and use one or more of the banner ads are attached below. When your members, customers, residents, etc. visit your website, they can easily click on the banner ads to the Georgia DOT website for snow/ice removal information.
Please feel free to share this email and information with co-workers, neighbors, friends and family in the metro Atlanta area.
As your Georgia DOT puts manpower, materials and equipment in gear, we appreciate you remembering that fighting Mother Nature can sometimes be a challenge. When icy conditions persist, it is extremely challenging to return our roadways to safe drivable conditions until the temperature rises. During these times, we encourage you to stay off the roads if you can, but if you must travel, drive slowly and safely and avoid our trucks and roadway workers.
We take pride in our public service and thank you for your cooperation and patience. Have a safe and happy holiday season!
Lillian Jackson
Office of Communications
Georgia Department of Transportation
600 W. Peachtree St. N.W.
Atlanta GA 30308
404-631-1823
Holiday Party at the Wrens Nest Here’s the invitation
Posted by nia in General, NPU Chair, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on November 29, 2011
You’re Invited
Victorian Holiday Open House
The Wren’s Nest
The Wren’s Nest is donning its best Victorian sparkle for the occasion!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
1 pm-4pm
(pssst – it’s also Joel Chandler Harris’s birthday – we think he’d be 166)
Bring your friends and family so everyone can
Meet
our New Executive Director, Sue Gilman, or come say hello again (she’s really looking forward to meeting you. She hasn’t even been here two whole months yet!)
Mingle
with members of our Board of Directors (they’re very nice!), our neighbors (they’re nice, too), Wren’s Nest partners, volunteers and staff (now that I think of it, all these people are really nice). You might just run into a long lost relative or friend.
Enjoy
Youth Harpists
Victorian Carolers
Storytelling & Tours
Hot Apple Cider & Treats
The Wren’s Nest House Museum
1050 R.D. Abernathy Blvd, SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
We’d love to know you can come. RSVP appreciated.
www.wrensnest.org
404‐753‐7735