Decatur Focus, July-August 2018

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Decatur Earns 2018 ‘All-America City’ Honors

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he National Civic League named Decatur one of 10 AllAmerica Cities at its annual meeting held in June in Denver.

Decatur earned the honor in recognition of its work toward inclusive civic engagement, addressing critical issues and creating stronger connections between residents, businesses, nonprofits, and government leaders.

Applicant cities submitted their community-wide work on equity and civic engagement and three projects for consideration. Finalist communities presented their projects and their communities to a jury. Decatur’s presentation demonstrated the results of the Better Together Community Action Plan, the Police department’s intentional focus on community engagement and training, and the I Am Decatur photo portraits and stories that represent the diverse backgrounds and lifestyles of community members.

To learn more about these projects visit: • Better Together: decaturga.com/better-together-communityaction-plan • Community Policing: decaturga.com/pdstrategicplan • I Am Decatur: iamdecatur.com

The Decatur Focus is a joint publication of the City of Decatur, the Decatur Downtown Development Authority and the Decatur Business Association. It is a newsletter intended to provide announcements and information related to events, activities, and businesses in the city of Decatur. The purpose of the newsletter is to promote the city and encourage the exchange of information among residents, business owners and the school system. Letters to the editor, editorials or other opinion pieces are not published. All press releases, announcements and other information received for publication are subject to editing. Information found in the Focus is also posted on Decatur’s official website at decaturga.com. The deadline for submitting articles, announcements or advertising is the first day of the month preceding publication. Contact: Editor, Decatur Focus, P.O. Box 220, Decatur, GA 30031, 404-371-8386; fax 404-371-1593; email: decaturfocus@decaturga.com.

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DECATUR CITY COMMISSION Patti Garrett...................................................Mayor Tony Powers..............................Mayor Pro Tem Scott Drake..................................Commissioner Brian Smith..................................Commissioner Kelly Walsh..................................Commissioner

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City News Open Office Hour with Commissioners Smith and Walsh

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he August and September Open Office Hours will feature Commissioner Brian Smith (August) and Commissioner Kelly Walsh (September). The community is invited to tune in virtually, Wednesday, Aug. 22, and Sept. 26, 7-8 p.m., to watch and listen. Questions related to the topic may be submitted live via Twitter, Facebook, email or telephone. For those unable to watch the live sessions, recordings of the sessions will be available on the website for viewing at any time.

See the Decatur website, DecaturMinute blog, and other social media sites for meeting topics and details on how to tune in and submit questions. For information, contact Renae Madison, 678-553-6561, renae.madison@decaturga.com.

Brian Smith

Kelly Walsh

City Takes Over Residential Recycling Services Effective July 1, the city begins collecting comingled and glass recycling. A private contractor will no longer be used to provide this service.

What does this mean for you?

Your recycling collection will remain on the same day as your scheduled sanitation day.

Please continue to separate your glass recy-

cling from the comingled recyclables. See below for what can and cannot be recycled.

day, contact the Public Works Department, 404-377-5571, or sanitation@decaturga.com.

Potential Impacts While your collection day remains the same, the time when your recycling is collected may change. Please be patient during the transition period. If your recycling has not been picked up by 3:30 p.m. on your recycling collection

Glass Recycling Bins All glass must now be placed in red recycling bins. You may use your existing red bin or request one by contacting the Public Works Department, 404-377-5571, or sanitation@ decaturga.com.

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YES! SEPARATE YOUR GLASS! Use a red bin for glass recycling.

Don’t have one? Contact Public Works and ask for a red glass-only bin of your own.

YES! Recycle these Paper | Magazines • Catalogs Junk mail • Newspapers and inserts Cardboard • Paper (white and color) Clean pizza boxes Milk and juice cartons

All glass colors accepted.

Plastics | Marked #1-7 Clean Styrofoam with recycling logo Plastic flower pots Coffee sleeves and lids

No broken glass, ceramics or mirrors

Metal | Soda cans • Tin cans

BINS!

Nope!

Decatur does NOT recycle these Light bulbs • Straws • Squeeze pouches Compostable plastic • Plastic grocery bags (recyle them at the store) Coffee cups • Tissues • Napkins Plastic toys • Sticky notes • Batteries* Shredded paper* • Broken glass Soiled pizza boxes • Aerosol cans *Recycle at Decatur’s semi-annual electronics reycling events

Residents have access to one free 18-gal. comingled recycling bin and one red glass-only recycling bin from Decatur Public Works, 404-377-5571 or sanitation@decaturga.com. (For comingled, non-glass recycling you can provide your own bin, any type, 18 gal. or smaller. Use a red bin for glass.)

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City News City Adopts New Sidewalk Requirements

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n July 1 the city began requiring that all new structures and substantial improvements provide a sidewalk and landscape buffer.

A substantial improvement includes any combination of repairs, reconstruction, alterations or improvements to a building where the cost of the construction exceeds 50 percent of the fair market value of the structure prior to the improvement.

The table below shows the required sidewalk and landscape minimum widths. For streets that are subject to multiple requirements, the wider streetscape applies.

The city can provide an administrative adjustment to one or both of the minimum widths for single family residential, multiple family residential, professional office, or institutional zoning districts under the following conditions: 1. When the cost of the sidewalk installation exceeds 25 percent of the total project cost due to project scope as well as site factors, including but not limited to stormwater infrastructure, topography, and existing utilities.

2. To provide compatibility with existing conditions on adjacent properties.

3. To preserve existing trees and landscape materials in the landscape and sidewalk zone.

4. To provide continuity with planned public improvements.

Establishing this requirement as part of the development process for renovations, additions, and new construction will help to expand the sidewalk network throughout the city, specifically in many of the single-family neighborhoods and along Safe Routes to School routes that currently lack sidewalks.

The new sidewalk requirement supports Principle D, Task 14 A, of the Strategic Plan, which includes the longstanding goal of having at least one sidewalk on every street in Decatur.

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Residential

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Multi-family Residential, Commercial, Prof. Office, Mixed Use, Institutional

Arterial/Suburban Downtown Decatur Special Pedestrian Area

City News Keep Sidewalks Clear, Safe, and Clean

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When sidewalks are overgrown with residential landscape plants, or covered with slippery leaves, grass or landscape debris, or when tree branches from your property overhang sidewalks and impede pedestrian traffic – then it’s time (per Decatur City code) to clear the sidewalks for safe pedestrian movement.

Individual households may want to work independently to complete this project or a street or neighborhood can band together for a community-building event. If you choose the latter, here are some suggestions from one Decatur resident who organized this project successfully for her street last year: • Neighbors clearing the sidewalk areas in front of their own homes at the same time provides a good opportunity for the sharing of tools and skills.

The day of the event (or before), you can ask neighbors who are unable to participate if they would like help.

• Select a date three months ahead. Solicit input on which dates people could make and select the most popular.

• Two months ahead, send a save-the-date email to everyone.

• Two weeks before, distribute a one-page flyer to all homes in the target area.

• A porch party the evening before is a fun way to kick off the event.

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Apply now for Decatur Youth Council Applications are currently being accepted from rising 9th through 12th grade students for the 2018-2019 Decatur Youth Council (DYC). DYC is a city-sponsored, communitybased, leadership program for high school students who live within the city limits of Decatur and attend public, private, and home-based schools.

Members of the DYC will develop into young leaders through structured monthly educational programs and team-building activities.

If you would like to serve on the Decatur Youth Council, complete the Application of Interest, available at decaturga. com/dyc. For further information, contact staff liaison Lee Ann Harvey, 678-553-6548, LeeAnn.Harvey@decaturga. com. The deadline to apply is Monday, July 23.

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Superhero Back-to-School

Movie Bash Friday August

Beacon Municipal Center On the Lawn | 420 W. Trinity Place

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City News Better Together Advisory Board:

Community Partners Support Decatur’s Action Plan

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etter Together Community Partners are organizations working together on issues of equity, inclusion and engagement. They include nonprofits and civic groups, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, and neighborhood associations. They help carry out Decatur’s Better Together Community Action Plan.

The plan involves six focus areas: Community Participation and Engagement; Racially Just Community Policing; Diverse and Affordable Housing; A Welcoming and Inclusive Retail Environment; Use of Public Spaces; and Low-Cost Transportation Options.

The Better Together Advisory Board also maintains a community asset map and community partners events calendar. The asset map is a listing of all city of Decatur nonprofit and civic organizations, faith-based organizations, educational institutions, and neighborhood associations. It includes names, addresses, and contact information. The events calendar includes events submitted by community partners around equity, inclusion and engagement. The Community Asset Map and events calendar are updated regularly.

We welcome and encourage all local organizations to participate in this initiative. If your organization would like to join us, contact Renae Madison, renae.madison@decaturga.com, 678-553-6561, or Linda Harris, linda.harris@decaturga.com, 678-553-6512.

Decatur Neighborhoods Meeting Wed., July 25 • 6:30 p.m.

Clairmont Oaks Community Room • 441 Clairemont Ave. oin members of neighborhoods throughout Decatur at the next Decatur Neighborhood Alliance meeting. You are invited whether you live in a house, condominium, townhome or apartment – no neighborhood is too big or too small.

At the last meeting, attendees discovered ways to collaborate with other neighborhoods to work at solving problems and achieving goals. We will build on that discussion and find new ways to build stronger ties within our own neighborhoods and in partnership with other neighborhoods.

If you have already started planning for National Neighborhood Day on Sept. 16, please share your plans. If you have not finalized plans yet, come and get ideas. This national celebration of neighborhoods is held annually on the third Sunday in September. If another day in September works better for your neighborhood, feel free to celebrate on a day that will work best to bring your neighborhood together for fun, food, games, volunteering, arts and crafts – the ideas are endless.

Contact Lee Ann Harvey, 678-553-6548, leeann.harvey@decaturga.com, to confirm your attendance or to update your neighborhood’s listing on the Neighborhood Groups page of decaturga. com/neighborhoodgroups.

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Public Restroom Availability in Downtown Decatur Decatur City Hall 509 N. McDonough St. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. • Mon-Fri Decatur Recreation Center 231 Sycamore St. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. • Mon-Thu 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. • Fri 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Sat Ebster Recreation Center 105 Electric Ave. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. • Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Sat Decatur Police Department 420 W. Trinity Place 8 a.m.-7 p.m. • Mon-Sat Old DeKalb Courthouse 101 East Court Square 9 a.m.-5 p.m. • Mon-Fri Decatur Branch, DeKalb Library 215 Sycamore St. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. • Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-6 p.m. • Thu-Sat 1 p.m.-6 p.m. • Sun DeKalb County Courthouse 556 N. McDonough St. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • Mon-Fri Maloof Building-DeKalb County 1300 Commerce Dr. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • Mon-Fri

Holiday Solid Waste and Recycling Services

Citizen’s Police Academy The Citizen’s Police Academy (CPA) is sponsored by the police department for the benefit of Decatur’s residents and business owners. Its purpose is to increase understanding and awareness through interaction, education and training. The 10-week course focuses on the inner workings of the police department, how officers enforce laws and help keep us safe. It provides an opportunity to go on a ride-a-long with an officer as well as tour the DeKalb County Jail and Medical Examiner’s Office.

CPA classes will be held on Thursday evenings, 7-10 p.m., Sept. 13-Nov. 15. To sign up, contact Lt. Jennifer Ross, 678-553-6613, jennifer.ross@decaturga.com.

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Labor Day Monday, September 3 Regular services for Monday, Sept. 3, will be on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Regular services for Tuesday, Sept. 4, will be on Wednesday, Sept. 5.

Business & Nonprofit News Decatur Walking Superstar This month’s Walk & Roll Star is Phil Coventry. Phil likes to walk, and for him it’s a “way of life.” He sometimes takes three walks a day – just like eating meals and brushing teeth. All that walking helps him regulate his weight and cholesterol and blood sugar. Phil is also a long-time photographer – so long that his camera doesn’t make phone calls – and he frequently takes pictures as he walks, which he posts to an album on Facebook.

Decatur Craft Beer Festival

Call for Proposals The Decatur Craft Beer Festival committee is now accepting proposals from Decatur-based nonprofit organizations to be considered for funding from proceeds of the October 2018 festival. Each year, the committee donates 75 percent of festival profits to designated projects, funding the holiday Terrific Thursdays advertising campaign and providing startup funding for the next year’s festival.

The committee is interested in funding projects that contribute to the quality of life in Decatur and do not have ongoing fundraising associated with them. The committee prefers to use its funds to jumpstart a special project and provide seed capital to get a focused activity off the ground.

Organizations must be based within the city of Decatur to be considered. The grant application for 2018 is available at decaturbeerfestival.com, or email shirley.baylis@decaturga.com to request a copy.

Applications must be received by 5 p.m., Monday, Aug. 6, in the Community and Economic Development department, on the second floor of Decatur City Hall.

Amplify Decatur raises $40,000 for DCM

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he 2018 Amplify Decatur concert series raised $40,000 for Decatur Cooperative Ministry (DCM), a Decaturbased nonprofit organization that works to prevent and alleviate poverty and homelessness in Decatur and DeKalb County.

Amplify Decatur has raised and donated more than $190,000 to DCM since 2011. This year’s $40,000 gift equals the most an Amplify Concert Series has generated to date.

On April 14, thousands gathered on the downtown square for the Amplify Decatur Musical Festival, the centerpiece of the concert series. The festival – presented by Lenz, a Decatur-based marketing agency, and produced in partnership with Eddie’s Attic – featured performances by The Lone Bellow,

The Jayhawks, Amanda Shires, and Parker Millsap. Atlanta-based folk duo Dwayne Shivers also performed. Amplify Decatur also featured a three-night stand at historic Eddie’s Attic, with performances by Jared and Amber, The Weather Station, Sirens of South Austin,

and Antigone Rising. The concert series culminated with a Steve Earle vs. Townes Van Zandt tribute night featuring eight local and regional acts.

The mission of Decatur Cooperative Ministry is to help families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope, and opportunity. DCM provides families in crisis with 90 days of emergency shelter for women and children, six months of transitional housing for homeless families, permanent supportive housing for homeless families with disabilities, financial assistance for families facing eviction/utility disconnection, and emergency assistance for low-income veteran households.

More information is available at DecaturCooperativeMinistry.org.

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Business & Nonprofit News Fall QuickBooks Classes If you use QuickBooks to manage your small business, this halfday basics class teaches the foundations and offers tips and tricks to save time. The class is taught by Kristin Diver of System Happy, Inc., a certified QuickBooks Pro advisor and professional organizer, who said even experienced users will find nuggets of efficiency.

The class includes a comprehensive screenshot manual, snacks, lunch, drinks plus a face-to-face half-hour on-site visit after the class.

Desktop classes at Decatur Recreation Center, 231 Sycamore St., are scheduled dates for Sept. 27 and Nov. 15. Online classes are scheduled for Aug. 23, Oct. 18, and Dec. 20. All classes run 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and cost $147.

Visit systemhappy.com for more information and to register.

Woodlands Garden Volunteers Lend a Hand at Local Greenspaces

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Galeria Regina Exhibit and Receptions Galeria Regina presents “APARTOGETHER,” an art exhibit that includes paintings and temple sculptures by Lisa Shinault and Phoebe Maze. The exhibit is on display until Aug. 18, with receptions on Saturday, July 7, and Saturday, Aug. 11, 5 to 9 p.m. Galeria Regina is at 409 Mead Road, unit 5, next to Harmony Park in Oakhurst. For more information, visit galeriaregina.com or call 404431-7525.

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very Wednesday morning volunteers of all experience levels come together to help cultivate and improve Woodlands Garden.

Typical volunteer projects include up to 15 volunteers working alongside staff to plant native plants, remove invasive species, and maintain the extensive network of trails traveled by visitors throughout the garden. This year, these volunteer opportunities also include an educational presentation by staff and outside experts.

As Woodlands Garden prepares to begin construction on its Master Plan, the volunteers plan to take their show on the road and lend a hand at other local greenspaces. Volunteer projects are being planned at the Wylde Center, the former United Methodist Children’s Home, Olmstead Linear Park, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Blue Heron Nature Preserve and other sites in the area.

For more information join staff for a Neighborhood Open House on Wednesday, July 11, 12:30 p.m., or see the latest updates about the Master Plan construction at woodlandsgarden.org.

Business & Nonprofit News Hip Hop Comes to Decatur School of Ballet In Decatur School of Ballet’s upcoming season, Sterling McClary will teach Hip Hop on Fridays, beginning Sept. 7. For announcements about free preview sessions with Sterling this summer check decaturballet.com.

Decatur School of Ballet, 102 Church St., offers dance instruction for adults, teens, and children. Register now for classes in ballet, jazz, modern dance, tap, hip hop, ballroom, theatre dance, creative movement (ages 3-4), and Mommy and Me (age 2 with adult caregiver). Classes begin Sept. 4. To view a full schedule and to register, visit decaturballet. com or call 404378-3388.

Wellspring Health and Wellness Celebrates 10 years In July, Dr. Shelia Payton and Wellspring Health and Wellness, 235 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., celebrate 10 years in business in downtown Decatur. Dr. Payton would like to thank family, friends and the Decatur community for supporting and trusting her to be your chiropractor. Serving the community and providing health and wellness are the highlights of her day, every day. She hopes to continue to do the same for years to come.

Wellspring Health and Wellness provides holistic chiropractic, nutritional counseling and a variety of other services to help clients achieve and maintain good health.

Wellspring is at 285 E. Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 109. For more information email wellspringdecatur@gmail.com or call 404377-7263.

I CARE Finds New Home at The Church at Decatur Heights

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CARE – Volunteer Drivers for Seniors – is grateful for a new administrative home at the Church at Decatur Heights, 735 Sycamore Dr. When I CARE was notified that their previous space at Decatur First UMC was no longer available, I CARE’s director, Tom Simon, the board and staff went to work to find a new home for their office. Pastor Alan Smith and his staff have welcomed I CARE, providing office space and a lovely location for their biannual volunteer appreciation events.

With a cadre of volunteer drivers, I CARE provides rides to medical appointments for DeKalb County seniors. For more information on becoming a volunteer or a client, visit icareseniors.org or email coordinator@icareseniors.org.

Dr. Sheila Payton

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Business & Nonprofit News SideGallery at SideChick Hosts Monthly Art Event The SideGallery at SideChick, 125 Clairemont Ave., focuses on lowbrow, pop surrealist, folk-modern, and handmade art. On the first Thursday of every month SideChick hosts a Drawing Room event at the gallery, inviting anyone who enjoys making things, talking about making things or just hanging out. All creators are welcome – gardeners, needle-pointers, coloring and comic book artists have all joined in the fun. Art supplies and artists are on hand from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

The SideGallery at SideChick is a small and varied gallery space where local artists can sell their pieces with no overhead. For more information visit sidechickdecatur.com or call 404-343-2532. SideChick can also be found on Facebook and Instagram @sidechickdecatur. Their art program “SideGallery” is on Facebook and Instagram @sidegallerydecatur.

Hyperlocal Produce at Decatur Farmers Market

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ometimes it’s hard to figure out what ‘local food’ means since the phrase is used almost everywhere now, but Decatur Farmers Market farms average only 40 miles in distance from the market. This means the vegetables and meats are as fresh as possible, are grown with organic practices, and have more nutrients because they don’t degrade through shipping.

Rahul Adnand is owner and farmer at Snapfinger Farm in Stockbridge, just 40 minutes and less than 20 miles from our farmers market. At the farm, Rahul uses organic practices to grow

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10 different types of tomatoes, eight types of peppers, squash, watermelons, and more. For more than two years, he has been working the land at Snapfinger Farm and is expanding this year by adding three acres of fruit trees and perennials to bring even more local produce.

You can find Rahul’s locally grown produce at Decatur Farmers Markets: Wednesdays • 4-7 p.m.

Saturdays • 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

First Baptist Church of Decatur 308 Clairemont Ave. Rahul planting new seedlings.

Photo by Jenna Shea Mobley

Decatur Events Decatur Loves Books!

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he 13th annual Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival kicks off on Friday, Aug. 31, with keynote speaker Kenny Leon, internationally acclaimed director and actor of stage, film and television. The opening event will take place at 8 p.m. at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

Leon is releasing his first memoir this year – Take You Wherever You Go. The Tony-Award-winning Broadway director’s credits include: • The 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Washington – Tony Award Winner for Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival • The Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett • Stick Fly, produced by Alicia Keys • August Wilson’s Fences (which won three of the 10 Tonys for which it was nominated) • The 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, with Sean P. Diddy Combs • Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf • The 2014 premiere of Holler if You Hear Me, a new musical created using the music of Tupac Shakur.

Leon is a graduate of Clark Atlanta and is an honorary Ph.D. recipient of Clark Atlanta and Roosevelt Universities. He currently serves as the Denzel Washington Chair at Fordham University. He is the artistic director of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre in Atlanta.

Festival Highlights On Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2, stages throughout downtown Decatur will be filled with some of the biggest names in literature and arts.

Karin Slaughter returns to the AJC Decatur Book Festival with Pieces of Her, considered one of the most electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful novels she’s written.

In An American Marriage, Tayari Jones provides an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward.

David Joy’s The Line That Held Us brings the story about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.

V.E. Schwab returns to celebrate the update of Vicious, a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, and superpowers.

Kent Wascom provides a dramatic por-

Karin Slaughter

David Joy

Fiction

Tayari Jones

V.E.Schwab

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Decatur Events trait of young love and a family driven apart by greed, anger, and matters of the heart in The New Inheritors.

In Praise Song for the Butterflies, Bernice McFadden tells the story of how a young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of servitude in West Africa.

Rebecca Makkai brings The Great Believers, a dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris.

In Visible Empire, Hannah Pittard uses the Orly Air Crash of 1962 as the starting point of this story about a single sweltering summer and the promise and hope that remains in the wake of crisis.

International bestselling author Karma Brown brings The Life Lucy Knew, an emotionally charged story of a woman who’s about to find out that everything she believes – knows – to be true about her life…isn’t.

The Moscow Deception is the second book in bestselling author Karen Robards’ thriller series about a master manipulator known as the Guardian. But there’s only one Bianca St. Ives and don’t you dare forget it.

Heart, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O. H. “Bud” Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier’s lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in patients whose hearts are failing.

Non-Fiction

Paige Embry (Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them) and Lynn Brunelle (Turn This Book into a Beehive!) explore the importance of native bees, focusing on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture, and provide tangible ways to positively impact your local bee population.

Randi Hutter Epstein provides a guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them in Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.

In Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial

Rick Bragg returns with The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, a delectable, loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

In The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine chronicles her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Journalist Beth Macy brings Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, which charts the devastating opioid crisis in America.

Beth Ann Fennelly returns with Heating and Cooling, 52 micro-memoirs that provide a glimpse into a richly lived life.

In The Exodus, based on literary and historical detective work, the renowned Bible scholar and bestselling author Richard Elliott Friedman discovers the historical roots of the Bible’s Exodus story, which, he argues, became the foundation for the rise of monotheism and a new ethic of caring for strangers.

The Military Science of Star Wars is the first military and historical analysis of the Star Wars universe. Former army artillery officer George Beahm provides an in-depth analysis of the tactics and equipment used by the heroes and villains of that universe.

Film expert Eddy von Mueller discusses

Rebecca Makkai

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Tom Sleigh

Science

Richard Friedman

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Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley’s Creation. Mueller and co-writer Sydney Perkowitz have brought together scholars and scientists, artis ts and directors – including Mel Brooks – to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley’s marvelous creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century.

Poetry

In Oceanic, her fourth collection of poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s wonderful and terrible magic, and studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself.

Tom Sleigh’s House of Fact, House of Ruin provides a collection set very much in our present moment, ranging across the landscapes of contemporary experience.

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces – details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole.

In Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch, former Poet Laureate of Georgia David Bottoms explores otherness, the death of parents, and private spirituality.

Cooking

Champion pitmaster Tuffy Stone brings his complete guide to barbecue, from smoke to sauce in Cool Smoke, The Art of Great Barbecue.

A modern approach to grilling from Steven Raichlen, America’s “master griller,” Project Fire shows how to put the latest grilling methods to work using favorite ingredients and adding a dash of daring in flavors, technique, and presentation.

Steven Raichlen

Marti Buckley

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In Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover’s Tour of the Global South, awardwinning chef and cookbook author Virginia Willis takes you on a tour of a region rich in history and cultural diversity.

James Beard Award-nominated chef Todd Richards shares his personal culinary exploration of soul food in SOUL: A Chef ’s Culinary Evolution in 150 Recipes, which shares the message that cooks can honor tradition yet be liberated to explore.

A chance encounter with an obscure wine made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos on a quest. In Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine, Begos details his discovery of a world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor.

In Basque Country: A Culinary Journey Through a Food Lover’s Paradise, Marti Buckley offers a brilliant collection of recipes for Basque food and a definitive work highlighting the customs, ingredients, people, and culture that make this ancient region such a fertile place for excellent cuisine.

trigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources.

Lydia Kang offers a smart, morbidly humorous look at medicine’s greatest misfires through history, with vintage images and advertisements in Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.

With The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Andrew Lawler provides a sweeping account of America’s oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths – about race, gender, and immigration – exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable images, Bonnie Siegler’s Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America chronicles what truly makes America great: citizens unafraid of speaking truth to power.

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Acclaimed historian John Ferling brings Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order of America and Europe. This sweeping narrative captures the turbulent spirit of the times and the personal dangers experienced by Jefferson, Paine, and Monroe.

In Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and in-

In her book In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, acclaimed journalist Bernice Yeung investigates sexual assault against the invisible workers who are an essential part of the #metoo and #timesup movements.

Janet Dewart Bell offers Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, a groundbreaking collection of narratives based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentiethcentury fight for civil rights.

CNN law enforcement contributor Matthew Horace offers an unforgettable account of the racism, crimes, and color lines that permeate America’s law enforcement, and lays out a means for change in The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement.

Since 2014, the AJC Decatur Book Festival has offered a unique author-curated track, working with a notable author to personally curate a group of authors to present at the festival. This year, Shea Serrano, journalist, former teacher, and writer has gathered a diverse group of young voices. Serrano’s most recent title, Basketball (and Other Things), was a New York Times bestseller and was listed as one of former president Barak Obama’s favorite books of 2017.

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers need in order to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

Jonathan Abrams provides the definitive oral history of the iconic TV show The Wire, in All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire.

In The Poet X, slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo offers a novel-in-verse about an AfroLatina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Jomny Sun brings everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too, the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien.

In Electric Arches, Eve Ewing provides an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.

Tochi Onyebuchi brings Beasts Made of Night, delivering a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure . . . think Black Panther meets Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch.

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Decatur Events Children and Young Adult Program Highlights The Kidnote: Harry Potter Anniversary Event Features Best-Selling Authors Friday, Aug. 31 • 5 p.m.

Decatur High School Performing Arts Center 310 N. McDonough St.

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Decatur High School’s choral and musical theater ensemble students will kick off the school year with popular musical numbers that your whole family will enjoy on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 11 a.m. on the Community Bandstand.

DBF attendees can celebrate the 20th anniversary of blockbuster book Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone’s publication in the United States at this free event. Ticket information will be announced later. The event features

carried her and her young son in that time of transition.

Roshani Chokshi and Jennifer Cervantes join forces as part of Disney’s new Rick Riordan Presents! imprint to bring new and diverse mythologies to those readers who

Sandhya Menon presents From Twinkle, with Love, a delicious and delightful romantic comedy that will have you rooting for happily ever afters.

Perennial festival favorite Jason Reynolds shares For Every One, a poem that was

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a star-studded group of popular middle grade and YA authors, including New York Times best-seller Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited and Leah on the Offbeat); Laurel Snyder (author of the critically acclaimed Orphan Island and award-winning Charlie & Mouse series); and Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, and Tony DiTerlizzi, co-creator of the popular Spiderwick Chronicles series.

Children’s Stage What makes you special? This year’s Saturday parade theme is Let It Shine! Come out and show the world as children’s picture book author Angela Diterlizzi leads us to the Children’s Stage to celebrate her newest book, Just Add Glitter!

Calling all Jedis! The Force is with us on Sunday as we march to the Children’s Stage led by Adam Rex, creator of the new picture book Are You Scared, Darth Vader?

Caldecott Award illustrator Yuyi Morales launches her picture book, Dreamers, at this year’s DBF. In Dreamers, Yuyi tells her own story of arriving in the United States from Mexico and how books and libraries 14 | Decatur Focus • JULY / AUGUST 2018

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are ready to move beyond the Greek myths and explore Indian and Mayan folklore.

Debut middle-grade author Henry Lien presents Pea Sprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword, an adventurous tale of a young girl finding her place at an elite school that combines ice skating with martial arts.

Jeanne Birdsall returns to the festival to share Penderwicks at Last, the final volume in the much-beloved series about four charming sisters and the bond they share.

The popular wizard rock group, Harry and the Potters, will close out the festival on Sunday with a performance on the Children’s Stage. Brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge formed the group in 2002. Since then, they have performed all over the world, helped to form the Harry Potter Alliance, and were featured in the 2008 documentary, We Are Wizards.

Young Adult Young adult debut authors Alexa Donne (Brightly Burning) and Claire Legrand (Furyborn) bring two of the most highly anticipated YA fantasy reads of the year to the DBF Teen Stage.

In her sophomore follow up to the critically acclaimed When Dimple Met Rishi,

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originally presented at the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Walking Dead meets the Civil War in Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation, a novel that explores the timely topics of racism and oppression through original and fantastical world-building.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival (DBF) brings together nationally and internationally known authors, children’s and young adult writers and illustrators, and many thousands of readers for a weekend of fun and discovery.

Held every Labor Day weekend in downtown Decatur, the DBF is the largest independent book festival in the country. It hosts author events throughout the year and sponsors the Decatur Writers Studio. Find out more at decaturbookfestival.com, Facebook, or follow @DBookFestival on Twitter.

Decatur Events BBQ Blues & Blue Grass Festival Saturday, Aug. 11 • 2-9 p.m.

Harmony Park in Oakhurst • 630 Eastlake Dr. Decatur’s 18th annual BBQ Blues & Bluegrass Festival, flavored by Tabasco, has a musical lineup featuring something for everyone. Eight bands and two stages will include local, regional and national blues, bluegrass, country, and New Orleans funk acts headlined by the pure rocking Texas blues of the Chris Duarte Group. Duarte plays a ferocious style of Texas blues-rock. He won “best new talent” in Guitar Player’s 1995 Reader’s Poll. He also finished fourth in the magazine’s “best blues guitarist” category that year, behind legends Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King.

All but one of the featured artists (The Electromatics) will make their debut at the festival. This includes Preston James, a 17-year-old country, blues and rockabilly sensation and contestant on “The Voice” and “American Idol.”

Ticket Information Pre-event tickets are $15 and are now on sale through Freshtix: freshtix.com/events/ decatur-bbq-blues-2018. Tickets remain at $15 through July 14; beginning July 15 through August 10 tickets will be $20; day-of tickets are $25. Kids 12 and under are free. Visit decaturbbqfestival.com for more information or call 678-778-2000.

Decatur’s BBQ, Blues, & Bluegrass Festival is brought to you by the Community Center of South Decatur, thesolarium.com, and managed by Synertia Partners, synertiapartners.com.

Schedule: Sovereign Systems Stage 2:30-3:15 p.m Kate Coleman 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Jim White 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Miss Tess and the Talkbacks 6:15-7:15 p.m.

Cha Wa Tabasco Main Stage 3-3:45 p.m.

Tyler Porch Band 4:15-5 p.m.

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Decatur Events Tiny House Festival Returns

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The third annual Decatur Tiny House Festival welcomes 20-plus livable tiny houses to downtown Decatur for two days of motivation, education and tours. This year’s festival features food trucks, local and national vendors, a Tiny Travel area, an interactive Kid’s Corner with fun activities and games, and bicycle parking. The event is organized by Tiny House Atlanta, MicroLife Institute and the City of Decatur Visit tinyhousefestival.com for more information or to purchase tickets.

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ll Decatur residents, and everybody else, too, are invited to walk in the Decatur Lantern Parade on the evening of Friday, May 15. This is one of those “the-more-the-merrier” events, so plan now to participate and be a part of helping to make this lantern parade memorable.

Make your own lantern at home or come to a lantern-making workshop where supplies and guidance are provided. Find out where and when by visiting decaturlanternparade.com.

To participate, line up at Color Wheel Studio at 508 E. Howard Ave. after 8 p.m.

The parade steps off at 9 p.m. led by The Black Sheep Marching Ensemble and parade guru Chantelle Rytter. The parade Particpating Restaurants include will wend its way to the community • Souper Jenny • Kimball House • BrickinStore bandstand front of the Old Court• Steinbeck’s • LEON’s Full Service • Chai Pani house on the square.

• Twain’s • NO. 246 • Double Dragon The parade is sponsored by Color • Victory • Parker’s on Ponce • Farm Burger Wheel Studio, Decatur Arts Alliance, • Scout • Iberian Pig Decatur Education Foundation, and the Decatur Development Authority.

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Decatur Events Saturday, Sept. 8 • 6-10 p.m.

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ecatur’s Dinner Party is an annual fundraiser celebrating Decatur’s vibrant food community – from the multicultural growers who produce fresh, healthy food to the extraordinary chefs whose restaurants serve delicious food day after day. Touted as one of the best local food events in the city, the dinner party is a major fundraiser for Global Growers and their work at the intersection of local agriculture and refugee services.

The event includes a multi-course meal featuring fresh Global Growers fruits and vegetables, handmade cocktails, local beers, wine, silent and live auctions with one-of-a-kind products and experiences, and 150 guests and community leaders dining family-style in Decatur’s largest greenspace, the historic Decatur Cemetery.

Tickets are $150 each and will be available until July 22; $175 after. Tables and sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information on the event or on Global Growers, contact Desiree Fowler, desiree@globalgrowers. org or visit globalgrowers.org.

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School News Special Education PTA Salutes Teachers, Students, and Volunteers City Schools of Decatur Special Education PTA (SEPTA) held its annual awards night in May at the Solarium in Oakhurst.

Students, teachers and volunteers were recognized for their unique contributions to special education services in all CSD schools. More than 50 students and 40 teachers were selected for recognition. CSD awarded $2,000 in scholarships to Decatur High School graduating seniors at the event.

SEPTA would like to thank the Solarium for donating the space and Happy Tails for providing pet therapy. For more information visit csdsepta.com.

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School News A Visit to DEAM The Pre-K class at Holy Trinity Preschool finished the year with a special visit to Decatur-area Emergency Assistance Ministry (DEAM), the food pantry run by the church where the school is located.

In addition to collecting food and toiletry items, the children spent the morning sorting and organizing, while also learning about the value of giving to others. This is just one of the many activities that make this preschool special. Visit holytrinitypreschool.org to learn more or call 404-371-1310 to schedule a tour.

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fter five years in the downstairs offices of the First Christian Church of Decatur, the Decatur Education Foundation has moved its operations to the former United Methodist Children’s Home (UMCH). The new space will provide three additional offices and work spaces for the five-person staff and volunteers.

The organization moved shortly after the school year ended. Executive Director Gail Rothman says it marks an important milestone in DEF’s growth. The staff is excited about the move, but a little wistful about leaving the church.

DEF’s email and phone number have remained the same; the new mailing address is 500 S. Columbia Dr., Decatur, GA 30030. For more information, like their Facebook page at facebook.com/decatureducationfoundation.org or find them on Instagram at @decatureducationfoundation.

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Decatur makers created realistic models of houses for the Decatur Fire Department to use in community education programs. These Girl Scouts were the first to see them utilized during a recent trip to Fire Station No. 1. The model home helped illustrate how keeping your door closed in your bedroom can protect you from smoke in other areas of the house.

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