Emory receives 4.25M from an alumnus' estate

Emory University's Candler School of Theology and Oxford College received more than $4.25 million from an alumnus' estate, officials announced Monday.
Oxford College received $3.35 million -- the largest cash gift in the college's history. The theology school received $903,177.

The unrestricted gift from the Charles Edwin Suber Foundation allow college officials to focus on most pressing needs.

The foundation was established by the the estate of Charles Edwin Suber, who died in 2007. Suber, a 1942 graduate of Oxford College, retired from the Fulton County Superior Court as court clerk.

Oxford College officials said $100,000 from the gift will create a scholarship named after Suber. The remaining $3.25 million will go toward the college's building plans, which include a new library and science facility.
ajc story

Some Dekalb Schools to get iPods

The system, which won $193,740, will hand out iPods and netbooks (mini laptops) to about 300 students at three high schools; Cross Keys, Stone Mountain and MLK Jr., next semester.


By Kristina Torres


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

For the first time in its history, the Georgia Department of Education this month will hand out grants for schools to pioneer the use of “handheld computing” to see if it engages students better than traditional book-and-paper methods.
The move goes beyond the use of computers and the Internet for class work, now a common occurrence in schools.

Rather, it endorses for public schools the idea of mobile learning through small devices such as an Apple iPod Touch or Microsoft Zune — devices that connect wirelessly to the Internet and have the capability for Web-based research and e-mail but heretofore have often been banned from use during school hours as distractions.

It means not just recording podcasts or e-mailing teachers, activities that a growing number of schools also sanction. As envisioned by state officials, these devices would be the primary, everyday learning tool of students in class and at home. Class projects, homework and research reports will all go digital.
ajc story
and http://dekalbschoolwatch.blogspot.com/2009/11/ipods-coming-to-dekalb.html

Atlanta Urban Gardening Leadership Association this Friday

FYI: At 11 am Friday, we are hosting the monthly meeting for the Atlanta Urban Gardening Leadership Association, which is the main organization in the metro area for community gardens. They will be co-hosting the national conference for community gardens next year in Atlanta. The meeting will last approx. 45 minutes to an hour, followed by lunch. They are famous for awesome potluck lunches. Please feel free to stop by the rec. center!

Please visit our blog! http://decaturactiveliving.blogspot.com

Decatur - a vibrant city that is clean, green, active & attractive



Dan Magee
Director, City of Decatur Active Living
Dan.Magee@decaturga.com
678-553-6541 office
404-391-3244 work cell
404-370-4130 fax

Decatur Recreation Center, 231 Sycamore St., Decatur, GA 30030

Halloween Pirates

This house is on Adair in Decatur.

Mysterious Island at The Plaza Theatre This Saturday 7/25/09

IF YOU WENT TO THIS ,TELL US ABOUT IT. PICTURES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

The Glenwood Drive-In circa 1978

This picture of The Glenwood Drive-In in Decatur was sent in by Tommy Holcombe.
He took this photo in 1978.

Enjoy The 1978 Glenwood Drive-In Pic! Tommy Holcombe
Thanks Tommy for sending it in.
To see other photo go here.
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First Waffle House now a historic property

First Waffle House now a historic property

Friday, May 01, 2009

Wichita, Kan., can claim the first Pizza Hut. San Bernardino, Cal., is home to the first McDonald’s. And Corbin, Ky., is on the map because of Colonel Sanders and the first Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Maybe fast food history buffs will flock to the strip mall-dotted byway that connects Decatur to Avondale Estates now that the DeKalb County Commission has made it official: the derelict Waffle House there has been designated a historic property.

t’s the home of the first Waffle House, and the company wants to turn it into a museum. Commissioners approved the request Tuesday after a company representative elaborated on plans to operate the facility at 2719 E. College Ave. as a center of breakfast history. The company is restoring the building to the state it was in when it opened in 1955.

— TY TAGAMI
ajc

BELVEDER PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER

Photo show it spelled as BELVEDER PLAZA

Belvedere Plaza Shopping Center, located in Belvedere Park (at Memorial Dr — S.R. 154 — and Columbia Drive), was one of the earliest malls in the Atlanta area. Opened around Labor Day in 1955, the center was an open-air strip and not an enclosed mall, but it still had many of the major mall tenants of that era and competed with Columbia Mall (later named Avondale Mall), which opened at the adjacent corner of the same intersection in 1964. The center had a two-level portion with an escalator and many of the major mall tenants of the era. The shopping center included one anchor, a two-level Rich's, and also included a bowling alley, Woolworth's and Davis Brothers Cafeteria as some of its major tenants. The Rich's was located in the front of the center and was the second suburban store built after Lenox Square. Rich's at Belevedere opened in 1959.

The area around Belvedere Plaza fell into sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s and lost its major anchor, Rich's, in 1986. The Rich's location there was the first to ever close in the chain. The center since fell into sharper decline, but has been somewhat redeveloped since that time into a smaller center, anchored by a Kroger, some small take-out eateries, and a store offering the unusual combination of wigs and beepers.

Belvedere Plaza is within the Belvedere Park neighborhood that has recently become one of Atlanta's hot real estate markets. New families, young urbanites and investors have recently discovered this intown neighborhood. The large trees, parks, new homes, and location only add to the neighborhood's intown appeal and charm. The neighborhood is located approximately six miles east of the State Capitol Building in downtown Atlanta.

Note: Visit my Belvedere Plaza site.

DeKalb’s military high school will be one of a kind.

DeKalb’s military high school ‘provides a niche’

By KRISTINA TORRES

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thursday, April 02, 2009

It will be one of a kind — Georgia’s first public military high school and the only U.S. Marine Corps public school in the nation founded on educational theory and the discipline of long-standing JROTC programs.

The DeKalb Marine Corps Institute will focus its academics on math and science, coupled with a military-style regimen. It will have a principal and a commandant. The school, scheduled to open in August, will eventually include 650 students from throughout DeKalb County.
AJC story

Easter Portraits at Hoopla April 4th

Parker Smith will be in store immediatly following the Easter Egg Hunt in the Square to do Easter Portraits. Sessions are every 15minutes (sign up for a time) starting at 11:30. Only $40 and includes a 5×7 portrait.

Stonecrest Mall Bans teens without parents on weekend nights

Mall bans teens without parents on weekend nights

By MARCUS K. GARNER

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Lithonia’s Mall at Stonecrest will soon tell teenagers to stay away on weekend nights if they aren’t with Mom or Dad.

Beginning next weekend, anyone under age 18 coming to the mall at night will have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, mall officials will announce on Friday.

AJC story

Next Stop...Decatur is 1 Year Old Today.

Today marks 1 year since I started Next Stop...Decatur. I hope you all have enjoyed my blog style. In this first year, there has been all kinds of Decatur news stories, I try to post the ones that you might have an interest. My site has a style like no other. I try to mix Decatur news along with fun stuff, videos and all kinds of photos past and present.
Decatur has a variety of different blogs Dave's Indecatur site is one, he works 24-7, slow down Dave give us others a chance to catch up.
Another is Nick's Decatur Metro,
Nick how in the heck do you get so many comments ?
and Next Stop...Decatur, a little different but you get Decatur news just the same but with fun added into the mix.

The Regator tracks the most popular blogs in the Atlanta area and as you can see Decatur blogs rule the top 5.


Can anyone tell me what Next Stop...Decatur's first Photo header was ?

Other popular blogs that I read are asian cajuns
and The Decatur Minute ( city of Decatur blog)

Comments:
Dave Kell says:
Congratulations, Dennis! Thanks for mentioning other Decatur blogs. I'd say Decatur has the best mix of blogs of any community in ATL. They complement each other, with each bringing something unique to the table.

I seem to remember your first header being the old train depot.

You are correct Dave and you should know because you posted about it 1 year ago today.

Comment:
Jeff from Whit's End says:
Congrats on your 1 year anniversary Dennis!

Thanks for all your support.
Jeff

What's That ?

That's the money you could be saving with Geico..

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ryan w fitzgerald said:
ha. that rocks.

thanks for an awesome blog!

February 20, 2009 4:28 PM

Navo Church

Navo is a new church that meets in the Oakhurst community of Decatur. Picture the best music venue mixed with unabashed honesty. We’re about doing stuff instead of just talking about it. That’s why we’re called Navo - Hebrew for “we will go”.

Back in the 1960's this was a Colonial Store which I went in often.

Navo Church
630 East Lake Drive
Suite C
Decatur, GA. 30030
678-764-2492

Facebook’s terms-of-service change has users abuzz

More and more problems with Facebook lead to danger.
Read this AJC story.
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Facebook’s terms-of-service change has users abuzz

By Wailin Wong

Chicago Tribune

Monday, February 16, 2009

Facebook knows your age, alma mater and favorite band. It’s seen your spring break photos and read the messages you sent to your friend. So, can it do anything it wants with that content?

Legally, almost. But in practice, the rules that govern Facebook’s relationship with its users are abstract and subject to constant negotiation.

The blogosphere was abuzz Monday after a popular consumer affairs blog pointed out changes to Facebook’s terms of use that the social networking Web site quietly made earlier this month. The issue of who controls the data posted to the site is a massive gray area that continues to evolve as Internet companies and consumers shape social norms of how to define trust in the digital age and share their lives through new technology.

Under both the old and new rules, members grant Facebook a license to use content “on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.” But the revised agreement eliminates language saying this license would “automatically expire” if content were removed from the site.

“They’re saying, ‘Once data gets in our database, we can do whatever we want with it,’” said Eric Goldman, associate professor and director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Suzie White, Facebook’s corporate counsel for commercial transactions, announced on the company’s official blog on Feb. 4 that the site was updating its terms of use. But Facebook didn’t send out a mass notification asking users to sign off on the changes. And White’s brief post, which didn’t call attention to the content license, went unnoticed.

Then, on Sunday, the Consumerist blog, which is owned by the publisher of Consumer Reports, warned readers of the changes by describing the revised policy as, “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”
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Facebook is like living in a glass house.

More and more people are now learning the danger of Facebook.

Decatur Self Storage

Decatur Self Storage
2915 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, GA.
404-378-3232
web site: http://www.selfstoragedecatur.com/

Check out Angela Bond Art. here.

Liberty Belle B-17 was at Peachtree Dekalb Airport this week-end

More than 12,000 B-17s were produced from 1935 to 1945; of those, 14 are still flying. The planes also flew in Korea and Vietnam, but are most famous for the bombing runs by the 8th Air Force from England deep into Germany in 1944-‘45.

My Dad was a navigator on a B-17 in World War II
This is his Flight Crew photo.
He is standing far left.

Relics & Rarities and Ice Cream Coming in March

The photo above is just my vision of what the outside "might" look like, remember it's only my vision.



Looking inside were a dozen or so old and/or classic cars.
A vintage Atlanta Police Car, Plymouth-Prowler,and what looks like a (Delorean -Back to the Future) are just a few of what I saw.
I am wondering what brand ice cream it will be ? Could it be Jakes Ice Cream. I don't know for sure but I think that's a good guess.
I guess we will have to wait and see.

Paul Anka - Smells like teen spirit

Leon’s Full Service...... Decatur GA

131 E. Ponce De Leon Ave Decatur, GA 30030 404-687-0500


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