Mingei World Arts - Hurry! Help us clean our shelves!

Happiest of New Years to all our friends and wonderful customers!
From Mingei World Arts



Thanks from the bottoms of our hearts for your support and friendship during this challenging year. We really do appreciate your choosing to shop with us this holiday season. We'll be here in 2009!

Here's to a better New Year for all of us!

Come on in and help us clean out so we can bring in more goodies. Our holiday items are now marked down 50%, and a few other items around the store are discounted, too.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, January 10. We'll be hosting a sneak preview for Sweetie's Sugar Scrub, a wonderful local product that will be in the swag bags for Sundance a week later! Our friend Lisa Callens, who developed the scrub, works with Bedouin women in Morocco to source the special oils she uses in her remarkable scrub. Indulge yourself a little to start '09! Meet her and try it out from 1-4pm. Read about it here!

And, as a New Year's gift to all of you, see the coupon below! But hurry-- it's only good in 2008!

Oh-- and we'll be closed New Year's Day.

Ann and Ellen
Mingei World Arts


427 Church Street
Decatur, Georgia 30030

Save 20%
Happy New Year from Mingei!
Take 20% off the full priced item of your choice. In store only.
Not applicable to gift certificates, exchanges or any other offer.

Hurry! Help us clean our shelves!
Offer Expires: December 31, 2008

NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION AT TASTINGS

NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION AT TASTINGS, 6PM-til

RELAX - NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Drink & Food Specials
$5 Glasses of Champagne
Champagne Toast at Midnight
For Every $50 Tasting Card Purchased,

Receive a Ticket for Drawings:


Leanne Laine Art

3 Pack of Wine

1 Night Stay & Breakfast for 2 at Holiday Inn Decatur

$100 Tasting Card

Tastings
335 W Ponce de Leon
Suite A
Decatur, GA 30030
Phone: 404-373-3244


Kelly Resignola

Tastings, A Wine Experience

kelly.resignola@awineexperience.com

www.awineexperience.com

Next Stop... Decatur Time Machine. - E. Howard @ Berry St.

Decatur Market & Gallery

Click on photo for info.
The Decatur Market & Gallery opened its doors on Oct. 3, 2008 as a new co-operative venue for emerging artists and unique artisans of Georgia. The gallery is located in the former Boswell Gallery space at 153 Ponce de Leon Place, Decatur GA 30030. The location is close to Cafe Lilly, Cake & Ale, Natalie's Fish House and Sushi Ave., just one block from the Old Courthouse Square in the "walking district" of the city. Each artist and artisan works in the gallery one day per month so that visitors are constantly greeted by an artist, not a sales person. Artists share space, "floor duty" and participate in special events supporting the Decatur and metro Atlanta arts community. The Gallery has a natural theme and warmth to showcase the mostly self-taught artists and artisans. Guests will view modern abstract paintings, palette knife paintings, landscapes, mixed media, as well as handcrafted mosaic, jewelry, pottery and textiles."


"The Market operates each Friday and Saturday evening (weather permitting) in front of the gallery. Vendors offer handcrafted jewelry, artwork, even baked goods. The Market operates separately from the gallery, but the gallery remains open while the market is held. Restaurant patrons in the area enjoy shopping in the evening, and finding unique gifts handcrafted by local artists.

Artists and artisans who are interested in participating in the Market may send a message to the Gallery on the Contact Us page or call 404-377-0755. There is a nominal participation fee. Tents, weights, and power are provided. Space is limited."

Decatur Market & Gallery
153 Ponce de Leon Place
Decatur, GA 30030

Christmas Tree Recycling @ Agnes Scott College

Drop off Christmas trees any time between Dec. 26-Jan. 3.

Location
Agnes Scott College Parking Lot
186 S. Candler
Decatur, GA.

American Legion Scrap Metal Collection at Decatur Court House

circa 1940's
Special Coll. Dept.
Pullen Library.

Holiday Sales at Whit's End

Happy 2009 Everyone, Thanks for your support this holiday season, and for shopping Decatur and coming in to the store. We really appreciate it! So we had some good before the holiday sales, and here are the extra savings we are passing on to you for in store purchases. Clearance prices of 60% - 40% off the last remaining summer wear, certain winter wear, Columbia shoes, some gifts. 20% off Columbia upper body wear, Woolrich slippers & scarves, Toms Shoes, City of Decatur long sleeve tees & sweatshirts. 10% off Patagonia shoes, Kuhl/Prana/Flyshacker/Dockers upper body wear. Dockers pants and Levi's cords are discounted too! (Savings of 20%-45%) Sizes, styles, and colors are limited. Please return holiday purchased items by Jan 15, 2009 with tags intact and store receipt for store credit or exchange for in store merchandise. We are closing at 5p New Years Eve and will be closed New Years Day. See you in soon! Jeff and Greg
Whit's End, LLC
431 W. Ponce DeLeon Ave, #2 Decatur, GA
(404) 377-3310 (404) 377-8335
Fax whitsenddecatur@bellsouth.net
www.whitsenddecatur.com

You'll shoot your eye out kid.

MERRY CHRISTMAS - HO..HO..HO..

Merry Christmas from The Decatur Theatre

Check out the Christmas decorations inside the boxoffice. Priceless.
Photo's are circa 1965
Note: You can also see Scott's Pharmacy, this was one of the popular downtown drugstores, Scott's Pharmacy at Sycamore and McDonough, was a inviting place for an ice cream soda on a hot afternoon downtown or after an evening movie at The Decatur Theatre.

"Bill Pinckney's Drifters" White Christmas

ENJOY.

LOST TOY COMMERCIALS FOR BOOMERS ONLY 1950/60's

Baby Please Come Home. U2

Decatur, Ga. Street Scene

Update on Decatur Fire Station no. 2

The new Fire Station is being built on the same site as the old one on W. Hill Street.
Here is some info:
Construction of the new fire station is being funded by the City’s capital bond program. LP3 Architects of Decatur designed the building, which is expected to be the City of Decatur’s first LEED certified building. Construction is expected to begin during the week of July 21, 2008 and to last about 10 months.

Auto dealer sees opportunity in crisis

Sean Drakes / AJC Special
Darryl Ford, owner and general manager of Stone Mountain Chrysler Jeep Dodge, says it’s important to shore up his business model now to ensure he’s in business when the economy recovers
UP CLOSE / DARRYL FORD, owner of Stone Mountain Chrysler Jeep Dodge

By MICHAEL E. KANELL

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sunday, December 21, 2008

It is not the best of times in the automotive industry. But good times or bad, it has been a seven-day-a-week job for Darryl Ford.

And as an entrepreneur, Ford sees opportunity in crisis.
For four years the owner and general manager of Stone Mountain Chrysler Jeep Dodge, Ford had grown sales to $50 million last year. But that was before the recession, the credit crisis and the parade of Detroit executives arriving in Washington to plead for government assistance.

Events have changed his business and his cost structure, but not, he says, his work ethic or his philosophy.

Q: As an auto dealer, I’d expect you to have an opinion on the bailout of the auto companies. What do you think?

A: I see government intervention as something that has been going on for some time. It’s nothing new. You’ve got Georgia and Kentucky and Tennessee — incentives and tax breaks to get the companies to move in. Government has been involved in the auto business.

And a healthy auto sector is a vital part of the community, of the market. There are 3, 4, 5 million people that could be affected. If Congress could get away from the notion of the CEOs and think about what is important to all of us.
Full story @ AJC

Make Your New Year's Eve Plans at Twain's

Twain's Billiards & Tap
211 E. Trinity Pl.
Decatur, GA.

Leon's Full Service Pub Construction Update

Workers here are painting the light colored wood a darker color.
Getting ready for a 2009 early opening.

Thumbs Up Diner to Open Soon

Looks like they are ready to open now.
Wonder why they choose purple for the canopy.

Thumbs Up Diner
174 W Ponce De Leon Ave
Decatur, GA 30030

Glenlake Park Improvements comes with new Pool House

Now it's Glenlake's turn.
With the improvements comes a new pool house building for pool.
The old pool house is already history.
I guess they want the new building for summer 09

Here are the plans from City of Decatur website.

At their regular meeting on February 19, the City Commission approved a master plan and future master plan for Glenlake Park and a budget of $3,000,000 for the first phase of improvements. The approved budget provides funding for improvements to the following features in Glenlake Park:

• pool and bathhouse
• main road, parking and trail section at tennis courts
• perimeter trail
• multi-use field and pavilions
• dog park
• basketball court
• tennis court repairs
• bisecting trail
• stream bank restoration

Glenlake Park is one of Decatur’s most popular and intensively-used parks. Because of funding limits, this park has never been improved like Oakhurst, Ebster and McKoy Parks, which have benefited from numerous community development grants over the last 35 years. The recent City bond referendum provided the first funding for substantial improvements to Glenlake Park in more than 40 years.

It is anticipated that construction of the Glenlake Park improvements will take about a year and will start in September, 2008.

Christmas Time