Community Corner

Saturday Cleanups Set For Home Park and Boulevard

Grab some gloves, roll up your sleeves and come help beautiful your neighborhood

The Home Park Community Improvement Association (HPCIA) has organized a neighborhood spring cleaning event for Saturday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

To participate, meet at at 8:30 a.m. and refreshments will be available at the church throughout the morning.

Please bring your work gloves, wagons, carts, rakes and anything else you think might help you in your efforts to clean up the neighborhood. Heavy duty trash bags will be provided. 

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There is a need for a few people to step up and volunteer to be Sector Captains. No special skills needed, just a desire to help beautify the neighborhood, while meeting and volunteering with Home Park residents.

If you have any questions or you want to volunteer to head up a sector, please contact Jim Anderson at 404-259-2660 or jimandersatl@comcast.net.

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Banners featuring the Home Park logo (autumn and royal purple oak leaf) are currently being offered to neighborhood residents.

The banners, which are 18 inches wide and 24 inches long on a 15-ounce piece of vinyl, will have grommets at the top for hanging. They cost $25 each, but the May 20 deadline for ordering is approaching.

If you are interested or have questions, please contact Kathy Boehmer at boehmerk@bellsouth.net or Paul Fortson at paul_fortson@yahoo.com. HPCIA will accept check or cash or you can go to homepark.org and use Paypal (under the ‘Join’ tab).

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Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall invites Atlantans to join him, neighbors, and other volunteers on Saturday, May 19, for a grand community cleanup as part of his Year of Boulevard initiative.

“Good things are happening on Boulevard,” said Hall in a press release. “Last month, we opened the new Boulevard mini-precinct at Atlanta Medical Center. This month and throughout the summer, it’s all about community: helping neighbors know their neighbors, creating opportunities for those in need, and ensuring that everyone has skin in the game when it comes to the future of the Boulevard corridor.”

At the start of the morning, TEDx Atlanta will present $20,000 checks to the directors of two summer camps in the neighborhood: the Operation P.E.A.C.E. summer camp, for kids and youth from the Bedford Pine community, and the Truly Living Well Urban Farm summer camp at the Wheat Street Urban Farm. A third check will be presented to Operation P.E.A.C.E. from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta.

Before everyone heads out into the neighborhood for the cleanup, Hall will administer the Year of Boulevard pledge to all volunteers.

Participants will meet up at 9 a.m. and socialize over coffee, juice, and Sublime Doughnuts in the parking lot of Fort Street United Methodist Church, 562 Boulevard.

 Hall welcomes neighbors, school friends, and work colleagues to join in the cleanup. Contact Hall at khall@atlantaga.gov for additional information on how you can help make the morning a success.

Among the organizations participating in the Year of Boulevard Community Cleanup: Atlanta Medical Center, Fort Street United Methodist Church, Atlanta Police Department Zone 6, Operation P.E.A.C.E, Truly Living Well Urban Farm, Fourth Ward Alliance, Central Atlanta Neighbors/ Fourth Ward West, Fourth Ward Neighbors, Fourth and Sweet Auburn Neighborhood District, and Keep Atlanta Beautiful.


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