Voice – May 2012 – Fundraising efforts and fun!
Dine-Out Saturday to Benefit New Highland Park: Be sure to stop Osteria 832 (832 N. Highland) this Tuesday May 8th from 5pm to 10pm for music, giveaways, $1.50 pizza slices and beer specials! Proceeds from their anniversary celebration will benefit New Highland Park and Fire Station 19. Be sure to bring the family! Summerfest is…
Voice – May 2012 – Meet our new volunteers
Welcome to a number of new volunteers who have joined committees and are helping get the work done that, directly and indirectly, raises funds for the benefit of the entire community. Interested in volunteering? Ida Center ([email protected]) is the webmaster of our new website that rolled out in February. She set up, and manages the…
Voice – Summer 2012
Last edition of the Voice (print edition) published! Download PDF (6.1 MB) – It’s festival time! Summerfest 2012 – New Highland Park construction to begin soon – Reflections on redistricting, by Nicole Foerschler-Horn – Dr. Leila Denmark, by Lola Carlisle, Karri Hobson Pape and Judy Potter – Graffiti in Virginia-Highland – Planning for the 2012…
Kindergarten at Morningside Presbyterian
From Morningside Presbyterian Preschool the following news: We are proud to announce registration is open for our Kindergarten Class! Beginning in the fall of 2012, we will add a half-day Kindergarten class as an expansion of our Preschool program. Our kindergarten class is a dynamic half-day program designed to use child centered learning which encourages…
Voice – May 2012 – Fundraising Efforts and Fun!
Fundraising Efforts and Fun! Dine-Out Saturday to Benefit New Highland Park: Be sure to stop Osteria 832 (832 N. Highland) this Saturday, May 5 from 5pm to 10pm for music, giveaways, $1.50 pizza slices and beer specials! Proceeds from their anniversary celebration will benefit New Highland Park and Fire Station 19. Be sure to bring the…
Voice – May 2012 – Villains on Right Side of One-Run Game with Kirkwood
VaHi Softball Team All Alone in Second Place After Victory By: John Becker After two disappointing losses earlier in the month, our Virginia-Highland Villains secured a gratifying one-run victory over rival Kirkwood last Sunday at East Lake Park. The Villains ran off a pair of wins over Reynoldstown and Lake Claire to start the spring…
Vehicle Break-ins
As most of you know by now, I have been stressing the importance of the Clean Car Campaign for years now, and, granted, we have made great strides here in VaHi as to reducing the number of such incidents every week – but they still continue to be a major crime factor here as well as…
Vacant Property Registration
To get a handle on how much residential property is vacant in the city and to have a better idea as to how many houses need to be watched for criminal activity – the city has launched a registration process. This applies to all residential property that has been vacant for 30 days or more…
Graffiti News
From Laura Voisinet, our VaHi graffiti task force leader – ” Spring brings with it an uptake in stickers and tags on traffic signs, utility boxes, benches and poles. Let’s all pitch in to clean up as they arise. Remove Stickers: Lift off new stickers using a utility scraper. Scrub old stickers off with scrapers…
Traffic Speeding
Just a word to the wise that both Zones 2 and 6 Commanders have vowed to be on the watch for speeders on our major north-south commuter routes on Briarcliff Road, Lanier Boulevard, Monroe Drive, North Highland Avenue and Barnett Street. Both of these commanders also ask you to note if speeding is abated on…
The Year of Boulevard
The massive undertaking of changing the current conditions along this major street is well under way, thanx to the cooperation of many public and private entities. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/apd-opens-new-boulevard-1424322.html I attended this event along with many, many other private citizens from the Old 4th Ward and beyond. I was also glad I was there as I had…
Thanks to those who are keeping Maiden Lane clean
After the cleanup we had on Maiden Lane two years ago now – this street has stayed remarkably clean thanx to Rad Slough of Urban Body, Doug Mongee of Squeegee Sharks T-shirt Printing, Carlton Condos, and St. Charles Avenue Street Captain Mike Boyle. If there are others who are also working to keep this street…
Crime Reports
The following reports are from our Zone 6 crime stats for the 2012 weeks of 13 and 14, with emphasis on our Beat 601, but with news from around the zone as it applies to us. Again, I state, these reports are not meant to scare anyone – but to make you aware of what…
See Something – Say Something
We all have the responsibility to make suspicious activity/person 911 calls when we see something that is just not right. Don’t assume that someone else will call. We have a training session for SPARK students this week teaching them how to make a 911 call – I’ll have a summary on this important session in…
Alternative to sidewalk repair
Bradford pear trees were installed at 1111 and 1115 Rosedale Drive some 24 years ago and the sidewalks were replaced shortly thereafter. The pear trees grew beautifully and proved stronger than the sidewalks which became a hazard for pedestrians, strollers and small children on bicycles. As an alternative to replacing the sidewalks (again), Sidewalk Solutions…
Help us plant at John Howell Park
We’ll be cleaning out and replanting in the granite planter between the playgrounds at John Howell Park this Saturday from 10 AM ’til noon. Please join us – it’ll be fun! For more info, contact [email protected].
Cheatsheet
How to get started Log in at vahi.org/wp-admin You should now be at the dashboard Select Pages from the left hand menu You will see all pages which you can edit Click on the page name to edit it Now you are editing a page There are two views – HTML and Visual Visual is…
Street repairs needed? Be our “Eyes on the Neighborhood”
Over the past four months the City has processed our list of street improvements and we are assembling a new list of trouble spots and repairs that are now needed. Please be our eyes in the neighborhood. Email Peggy Berg [email protected] with any streets issues that need attention.
“Being Mary Jane” TV Pilot filming 4/23 & 4/24
Breakdown Productions, Inc. is currently in preproduction for the television pilot entitled Being Mary Jane for the BET tv network. The one hour drama involves the professional and personal life of Mary Jane Paul, an established television news anchor living in Atlanta. The show will star Gabrielle Union (Think Like a Man, Good Deeds, Ugly…
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