Reminder about changes to the CP movie night schedule. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was previously scheduled for tonight, but was rescheduled for next Saturday (notice went out about this several weeks ago). Here's a refresher on the new dates:

• July 24: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• August 28: Princess and the Frog
• September 25: Highschool Musical
• October 30: Monsters vs. Aliens

Hey CPers. Please join us this Monday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the First Existentialist Church, 470 Candler Park Drive NE, for our monthly meeting. Everyone is welcome (so long as you live in Candler Park) and it's free. Show up at 6:30 pm for social time. Decent odds there will be some beverages and light snacks there, if history is any indication. It's fun to see the usual suspects but we'd love to see some new faces too...

Hellooooo CP neighbors! Are you out there? You must be since Google Analytics insists that 100+ of you are visiting this site every day. However, the comments on this site are eerily quiet...

Maybe there's a very talented Candler Park cat who has all your tongues. Either that or y'all are just shy. But don't be! We need your help making this site better, more interesting, more chatty, so pretty please start using the comments. If the posts aren't inspiring conversation, then hey, send us a post! We're happy to have any content submissions -- announcements, editorials, you-name-it, and will happily publish them.

Bottom line, it's getting a little lonely here and some company would be most welcome. :)

Kate aka candlerpark.org webmaster (webmistress? webmaestro?)

Are you a local artist or do you know someone who is? If so, you should be thinking about the Artists' Market at this year's Fall Fest on October 23-24. The Artists' Market includes 90 booths with great stuff ranging from jewelry to pottery to, well, you name it. 

Booths are $150 and you need to provide your own tent. Space is limited, so if interested, please hurry along and contact Cherie King at 404-786-2407.

We're on a roll with this neighborhood history stuff, thanks to a treasure trove of historical article clippings from Mary Alice Bray. Check out this history of Candler Park festivals, complete with fascinating articles from the old neighborhood rag, the BOND Community Star.

It was through reading all these articles that we confirmed that this is the tenth anniversary of Candler Park Fall Fest!

Interested in our neighborhood's history? Curious about when and how Candler Park got a neighborhood organization? Thanks to Mary Alice Bray, we have the answers. She saves all kinds of great articles and has kindly scanned many of them for us!

Take a walk down memory lane as you read all about how CPNO came to be, and what preceded it.

Newsflash! Fall Fest 2010 headliners: Francine Reed on Saturday and League of Decency on Sunday.

Rock on, Candler Park!

Submitted by Genise Spenle: The Lake Claire Community Land Trust and The Department of Watershed Management will co-host a 'Learn To Make Your Own Rain Barrel' workshop. This will be held at the Lake Claire Community Land Trust, at the gazebo, on Saturday, July 31, 2010, from 11 am to 1 pm. Participants will receive all necessary materials to assemble and paint their rain barrels, which they can take home or donate for use on the Land Trust. Donation of the barrel to the Land Trust is a tax deductible contribution and an acknowledgement letter will be supplied.

There are several subsidized free slots in the workshop available for individuals wishing to participate and willing for the resulting barrel to remain on the Land Trust. The cost is $45, of which $40 will be donated to the City’s Care & Conserve Program, to fund plumbing retrofits and bill payment assistance. The remaining $5 will retrofit Land Trust structures for the rain barrel usage.

To register, contact Genise Spenle.

Submitted by Donna Palmer: Our own Candler Park volunteer cartoonist is published in this week's Newsweek magazine. She has given her permission to post the information on the CPNO website.

Congrats Deb! What fun to have a famous cartoonist as a neighbor!

The good folks down at Candler Park Market are raffling off a fabulous Fat Tire Bicycle from New Belgium Brewery. This bike has a phat paint job and truly Fat Tires! You would instantly become at least two points cooler if you won it! So head down to and enter for your chance to win.

CPM has generously offered to donate all proceeds from the raffle to CPNO, Inc. Raffle entries will be accepted through Labor Day and then the new envy of Atlanta's cycling community will be chosen at random!

P.S. - Also check out CPM's nice write up in Atlanta Magazine.