HENRY W. GRADY HIGH SCHOOL, ATLANTA
VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 7
April 17, 2013
Debbie livingston
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GRADY ‘GETS A KICK OUT OF’ SPRING PRODUCTION; MUSICAL IS ‘DELIGHTFUL, DELOVELY’ A large cast of students presented Anything Goes in Grady’s auditorium from March 21-23. Set in the 1930s, the show featured a young businessman on a passenger ship who teams up with a gangster and nightclub evangelist to pursue his love interest. Accompanied by the band and orchestra, the cast sang and tap danced to entertain the audience for more than two hours. Several teachers played a large role in the play, including director Lee Pope, Jake Dreiling, who designed the set, and Kevin Hill, who oversaw the music. To read more about the musical and its preparation, check out thesoutherneronline.com.
Season of festivals blooms again By Darriea Clark lossoming flowers, pouring rain and shorter shorts herald the arrival of the season of festivals. This spring marks the continuation of famous festivals around Atlanta such as the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, the Inman Park Festival and the Sweet Auburn Music Fest. All of these festivals promote arts and crafts from local, national and even international artists.
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ATLANTA DOGWOOD FESTIVAL Held at Piedmont Park from April 19-21, this free festival is now a hub for 260 artists from around the country to display and sell their work, with a special section designated for Georgia artists. Various mediums are represented at the artist market, including sculpture, paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography and many more. Walter Rich, the founder of Rich’s department store, started the Atlanta Dogwood Festival in 1936 as a means to make Atlanta internationally known for the blooming of dogwood trees. Aside from the juried market, there will also be many other activities for the whole family. There will be a Kid’s
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Physics teacher Jeff Cramer and his wife Ann Cramer hosted a fundraiser for Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on March 10 at their Inman Park home.
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Village where children can ride rides, do craft projects and engage in physical activity such as rock climbing. For man’s best friend, there will be a disc dog show in which dogs will compete in athletics such as running, jumping and catching “dog discs.” There will also be an Atlanta high school art exhibition. An international village and stage will celebrate diversity. On the stage, 300 entertainers representing more than 20 countries will perform, and a concert featuring Sara Evans with the Kurt Thomas Band will grace the main stage in the meadow on Saturday at 7 p.m. For junior Annelise Hooper, the best part of the festival is performing with her music school, Eclectic Music. “It’s a great place for the arts and showcasing your talents,” Hooper said. INMAN PARK FESTIVAL For eight months, local committees have been planning the ins and outs of this year’s Inman Park Festival, held during the last weekend of April. Unlike other festivals, it see FESTIVALS, page 13
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The Southerner takes you on a journey through the Irwin Street Market in Old Fourth Ward, a culinary compilation of restaurants and dessert cafés.
By Troy Kleber erri Vish, district manager for Starbucks Coffee Company in northeast Georgia, imagines a single day on Grady’s campus where hundreds of volunteers will work to paint and renovate the school, where local big corporations will meet and talk with students and where professional football players will host sports clinics. It will be “a day of celebration to show what coming together will actually do for a school and a community,” Vish said. Since January, Vish and other Starbucks personnel have been working with Kids & Pros, a local nonprofit organization that uses athleticism and sports clinics to promote youth character building, to organize this full day of service at Grady on April 27. The event is called “You + 2 = Project Together Grady.” Back in 2008, Starbucks gathered 10,000 volunteers in New Orleans to conduct community-service projects to support the city after Hurricane Katrina. At the conclusion of this event, Starbucks committed itself to achieving 1 million hours of community service by 2015 and named April as its global month of service. “Every April, like clockwork, our entire company, domestic and international, all works for a day of service throughout the month of April,” Vish said. Project Together at Grady is one of several service projects Starbucks will be hosting around the world this April. “When you think about doing the global month of service, you have to go in to the city of Atlanta,” Vish said. “That’s where our culture is; that’s where our heritage is, and there really isn’t a better name when you think of schools that have had longstanding tradition and heritage and culture than Grady.” Vish said she and Starbucks committed to carrying out this project following the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last December. “We just felt like there needed to be some healing and assurance that our school systems are still the best place for kids to be, and as community business partners it’s our responsibility to help,” she said. Art teacher John Brandhorst agrees a main goal should be to boost the school up in light of the recent incident at Grady GRADY’S involving a firearm. CUP “Especially in the wake OF TEA: of the gun incident and Starbucks everything else, there has paired needs to be some healwith Grady ing,” Brandhorst said. to host a “This really needs to be service event and sporting see STARBUCKS, photo illustration by Lauren Ogg clinics on April 27. page 7
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Zoo Atlanta has seen an upswing in quality and business. A look back at the zoo’s history reveals both its high and low points over the last 120 years.
On March 26, two men crashed a car into several vehicles on Charles Allen. Drive. Grady was placed on lockdown when one man tried to enter the school.