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Buy your tickets today! for Low Country Boil no.7

Don't Wait - Buy your tickets today!






Fall is upon us and that means it is time to get your tickets for the Decatur Education Foundation's Low Country Boil! Once again this year promises to be a great party with great food prepared by Badda Bing chefs Michael Condon and Ray Allen, great beer provided by our sponsor Victory Brewing Company and great music by The Dammages featuring Tammy Dammann and all for a great cause - the children and youth of Decatur!

To purchase tickets online visit www.decaturlowcountryboil.comand don't forget to tell your friends!

To purchase tickets by mail send a check payable to:
Decatur Education Foundation
315 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue
Suite 770
Decatur, GA 30030

In order to be responsible stewards of our fiscal and environmental resources we will not be sending paper invitations this year - so please help us spread the word!!

2nd Annual Walk/Bike/Roll Pep Rally Tuesday Oct 6

Get ready for another fun time with family and friends; it's the 2nd Annual Walk/Bike/Roll to School Day Pep Rally, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Tuesday, October 6th on the Decatur Square.

Join us on the square for music, games, prizes, entertainment and special guests. The following day, Wednesday, Oct. 7th, is National Walk to School Day. Decatur Active Living staff and parent volunteers will be out that morning at Clairemont, Oakhurst and Winnona Park elementary schools and Glennwood Academy with healthy snacks for students and coffee for parents.

For more information on the pep rally, Walk to School Day, or the Decatur Safe Routes to School program, please contact Greg White, 678-553-6543.

Zombieland Starts Oct 2nd

Zombieland trailer
Some scenes were filmed right here in Decatur, GA.

Good Review for Johnny's Pizza

Nathan's on a roll..over at thedecaturminute.com check out his review.

JOHNNY'S PIZZA
340 CHURCH ST
DECATUR, GA
404-373-8511

2nd annual Park Renewal Day Nov. 7th

Park Renewal Day to Return This November

Kelly Cheek of Renewal Design-Build sends this in:



September 24, 2009, – After the success of last year’s inaugural event, participants will once again return to Decatur’s Dearborn Park on Saturday, November 7th to root out invasive plants for the 2nd annual Park Renewal Day competition. Last year, this joint effort of Renewal Design-Build, the DeKalb County Parks Department, and City of Decatur’s Active Living Division, had over 100 participants – all competing for prize money – clear more than an acre of English ivy and Chinese privet from the park. Dearborn was chosen for the competition again due to the large amount of invasive species and debris not yet cleared from the park.



This year’s participating teams will compete for big prize money with the five highest-scoring groups taking home $1,000, $500, $300, $200, and $100, respectively. Each team’s assigned plot will be scored by County Park experts and local celebrities. The judging panel for this year’s event will include Decatur’s own Mayor Bill Floyd.



Teams eligible to participate in the competition include school organizations, Boy Scout troops, religious groups, and any group of people willing to come together, help the park, and raise funds. A number of last year’s teams competed for charitable causes. The winning team, “Invasive and Persuasive,” donated their prize money to the group’s church, and third prize winner, the Decatur High School Bulldog Booster Club, handed over their winnings to a competing team of Decatur High students trying to raise funds to attend President Obama’s inauguration.


Prizes will be awarded after the competition, along with food and live music.


The 2nd annual Park Renewal Day will take place on Saturday, November 7th at Dearborn Park. For more information on Park Renewal Day and how to register, visit ParkRenewalDay.com.


Renewal Design-Build, 124 S. Columbia Dr. in Decatur, provides complete solutions for renovations, additions, kitchens, baths, porches, decks, small projects and repairs.


More pictures can be found at ParkRenewalDay.com.

2008 first prize winning team:
Invasive and Persuasive





Kelly Cheek

Marketing Manager
Renewal Design-Build
t. 404-378-6962
f. 404-378-6963

124 S. Columbia Dr., Decatur, GA 30030
Kelly@RenewalDesignBuild.com
http://www.RenewalDesignBuild.com

Fall Merchandise Now at Whit's End

Happy Fall Everyone,



Hope you are all drying out from the past weather. Our great new Fall merchandise is here, and will be continuing to come until mid October. We are adding Woolrich this year!


In the meantime, we still need to move out the rest of our summer attire. All summer shoes, short sleeve shirts, and shorts are CLEARANCE PRICED. Many items are more than 50% off! Please come take them from us. These are final sales, though. See you in soon,



Jeff and Greg



Columbia Sportswear/Levi-Strauss-Dockers/Kuhl/Prana/Woolrich/DHS Spirit Wear/City of Decatur Merchandise/Jockey/Patagonia Shoes/Yuckboy/Decatur Dad



Whit's End, LLC
431 W. Ponce DeLeon Ave, #2
Decatur, GA 30030
(404) 377-3310
(404) 377-8335 Fax
whitsenddecatur@bellsouth.net
www.whitsenddecatur.com

Creative Loafing Best of Atlanta Results

Creative Loafing Best of Atlanta Awards

Decatur won in all three general categories:

Best suburb
Best neighborhood to live in
Most down-to-earth place

The "critics" picked

* Decatur as "Best Overall Neighborhood"
* "Decatur Metro" as "Best Local Blog"


Congrats to Nick over at Decatur Metro.

Decatur Garden Tour takes place this weekend

The 21st annual Decatur Garden Tour takes place this weekend, September 26 and 27. 13 beguiling gardens across this charming intown community are featured. Fall colors, rare and native plants, fountains, koi ponds and sculpture by local artists are all in store for visitors. Highlights include a Japanese-style garden featured in Backyard Living magazine and the renowned “garden rooms” of noted author and designer Ryan Gainey’s private home. The tour features Saturday evening hours, during which visitors can explore two gardens along with music and wine.



The tour is a benefit for the Decatur Preservation Alliance, a non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to preserving Decatur’s historic structures and greenspaces, and the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, a non-profit center dedicated to preserving community greenspace and cultivating the next generation of environmental stewards.



Tour hours are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Rain or shine. Tickets are $20 in advance (through September 25) or $25 the day of the tour. Children 12 and under are free.



For details of each garden, Decatur dining destinations and online ticket sales, visit www.decaturgardentour.com.

City of Decatur's First Police Car

This photo was taken in 1924 showing the city of Decatur's first police car, it was a roadster with running boards. In the photo is Tom Ellis who was then a policeman.

Friday Night Football: Decatur 20 - Hillgrove 51

Click on Bulldog for 2009 schedule
Decatur lost their first game of the season.

Varsity Football Friday 09.18.2009
Decatur 20
(2-1)


Hillgrove 51
(4-0)

E. COURT SQUARE IN 1957

Decatur, GA.
This is a 1957 photo of East Court Square.
Tatum's Drugs and Joseph Siegel Jeweler's

Decatur Education Foundation unveils new website

The Decatur Education Foundation works to help Decatur Youth realize their full potential, not only in the classroom but also through learning experiences that contribute to personal development. MORE >

Martinis & IMAX

For a limited time, enjoy special ticket prices for Martinis & IMAX®. See below for details.

Enjoy cool cocktails, stunning films, live music and creative cuisine beneath the world’s largest dinosaurs, Fridays (January through November) from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

This one-of-a-kind Friday night experience is available exclusively at Fernbank Museum’s Martinis & IMAX® presented by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Blue Sky Concerts - Wednesdays

Enjoy a mid-week lunchtime music break every Wednesday in September at the Community Bandstand on the square in downtown Decatur. Free. Bring your lunch or purchase a special to-go lunch from a nearby restaurant and enjoy live performances from a variety of artists. Brought to you by Decatur Business Association and SunTrust Bank.

Sept. 16
Ernie Quarles & Shaun Anderson, Soul/R&B
Co-sponsors: Kaiser Permanente and Web TECHEASE

Sept. 23
The Rosin Sisters, Fiddling
Co-sponsors: Kaiser Permanente and Zucca Pizza Bar & Restaurant

Sept. 30
The Conundrums, Women's African drumming group
Co-sponsors: Kaiser Permanente


http://decaturga.com/events.aspx

Updated photo on The Decatur High School Auditorium

Decatur High School
Decatur, GA

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Decatur replacing old public housing; most tenants staying put

Allen Wilson Terrace, named for a minister, houses 200 families. When it is rebuilt, there will be public housing for 190.
ajc photo
by Ty Tagami

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Decatur, GA
The heavy equipment parked along one of Decatur’s main streets will soon tear into the city’s biggest public housing project.
Allen Wilson Terrace along Commerce Drive has sheltered some of Decatur’s poorest residents since 1941. City housing officials say they’ve done their best to maintain the buildings but that now must be replaced.

The destruction of old public housing is nothing new. For years, the Atlanta Housing Authority has garnered national attention for its policy of razing old projects and replacing them with higher-end private condos. Many of the old tenants were dispersed into neighborhoods across metro Atlanta using Section 8 vouchers, in an effort to eliminate concentrations of poverty.

But Decatur is bucking that trend. The little city — it’s only four square miles — has promised a home in the rebuilt project for every tenant.

ajc story

Relic & Rarities on FOX5 Tomorrow Morning 6:30 AM

Relics & Rarities will be featured on FOX5 morning show at 6:30 AM.
All Decatur is invited.


Relics & Rarities
409 N. McDonough St.
Decatur, Ga

Across from Decatur High School

Here for the Beer spotlights The Brick Store Pub

Decatur Metro found this video at Hereforthebeer.com that spotlights The Brick Store Pub

The Iberian Pig Giving Samples at The Decatur Book Festival