Award-Winning Festival Features Atlanta’s Best Halloween Street Parade

(Little 5 Points – Halloween Headquarters -- ATLANTA) – August 16, 2009 – What is Halloween in Atlanta without the annual Little 5 Points Halloween Festival & Parade? This annual event is fast becoming Atlanta’s favorite Halloween tradition and returns this year with old festival favorites and new highlights. The festival opens 5pm until 10pm, Friday, October 16, featuring live music, street entertainment, outdoor beverage vendors and Little 5 Points restaurant and retail promotions. On Saturday, October 17, the festival opens at 12 noon until 10pm with live music and street entertainers in Findley Plaza, a children’s area featuring pumpkin decorating, a Halloween costume contest, outdoor beverage vendors, and the festival highlight - - the not-to-be-missed Halloween street parade, starting at 4pm. The festival is free and open to the public and is located in and around Findley Plaza at the intersection of Moreland and Euclid Avenues. For more information call 404-577-4212 or visit www.L5Phalloween.com.

From Elise Cormier: Epworth's Kids Fall Fest and BBQ is on Halloween (lots going on in the neighborhood that day!). The BBQ is eat-in or take-out, tickets on sale now at the church or purchased at the door, $8 adults $5 kids (pork or chicken with the usual sides and fixins). The Fall Fest is full of old-fashioned games and a moon walker and lots of laughs (sponsored by Epworth's Parents Morning Out Program).

Hi folks,

Fall Fest is just days away so we're spreading the word far and wide. Here's an info sheet in PDF format, and then of course you can go straight to the Fall Fest web site.

Find it here! (Link goes to a PDF.)

From Dianne Olansky, Chair, NPU-F: Just a reminder that District 6's Candidate Forum will be this Thursday, October 1st, 7p.m. at Inman Middle School's Auditorium. This event is sponsored by the 4 neighborhoods of NPU F: Lindridge Martin Manor, Morningside Lenox Park, Piedmont Heights, and Virginia Highland.

Professor Harvey Newman, Chair of the Public Management and Policy Department at Georgia State University, will be the moderator.

Candidates will be seated at tables in alphabetical order, left to
right. The forum will start with 3 prepared questions from
representatives of the neighborhoods. Each candidate will be asked
those questions. First question will go to the candidate whose name
is pulled at random. Each candidate will have 3 minutes to answer
each question, with a 1 minute follow-up by Professor Newman if he
feels it appropriate.

Then the questions will be opened up to the audience. Attendees will be asked to write down questions as they come into the forum. These questions may be to a specific candidate or to all. These questions will continue as time allows until 8:30p.m.

From 8:30p.m. - 9:00p.m., you will have an opportunity to socialize
informally with the candidates as the event winds down.

This forum has generated a good bit of interest and we expect a full
house. I look forward to seeing you all Thursday night. Come and
bring your neighbor.

Who to call for flood damange assistance

The following numbers may be used for emergencies:

- Down trees, call the Department of Parks & Recreation at (404) 817-6813

- Flooding, call the Department of Watershed Management at (404) 658-6500

- Power outages, call Georgia Power 1-888-891-0938

- Watershed for flooding emergencies, 404-954-6340

From Julian Powell: FYI your neighbors in Lake Claire are hosting a recycling event in conjunction with their neighborhood yard sale this Sat. If enough people participate we hope to make this a monthly event. See link for details - most materials are accepted at no charge but there is a $10 fee for TV's and $5 for CRT computer monitors, and a voluntary donation of $5 per vehicle to offset cost of bringing in a truck. This is a zero-export event, all materials will be locally processed, guaranteed.

http://www.zentech.org/LakeClaire.html

...due to likely rain, new date TBD.