Floataway Flash

Volume 9, Issue 2

INTRODUCING

A pop-up gallery by curator Robin Bernat, featuring the work of artist Nancy Vandevender, November 14 to December 19 at 1123 Zonolite .

Road, Suite

Photo “It Looks Just Like This” by Nancy Vandevender

Fall 2015

Photo “Like a String of Pearls” by Nancy Vandevender

NANCY VANDEVENDER: THE LEFT COAST Pop-up Gallery {Poem88} presents new work November 14 through December 19 at 1123 Zonolite Road #20A.

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oin us in welcoming pop-up gallery {Poem88}, for a temporary exhibit on view November 14 through December 19 at 1123 Zonolite #20B. Under the curatorial direction of writer and filmmaker Robin Bernat, {Poem88} represents emerging and mid-career artists, and presents innovative explorations in a new artistic frontier.

Join Robin Bernat and Nancy Vandevender for an opening reception Saturday, November 14 at 6PM and for an artist conversation Saturday, November 21 at 2PM. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 11AM to 5PM and by appointment.

Learn more at poem88.net or call (404) 735-1000.

{Poem88}’s newest exhibit features the work of Atlanta artist Nancy VanDevender and presents two views of California culture: the dry, desolate, but hauntingly beautiful desert and the luxuriant and curative spa. Each promises its own allure and revitalizing nature, mirroring the attraction and pull of the counter coast. An installation of two singlechannel videos with accompanying photographs and works on paper, The Left Coast invites the viewer to consider pleasure and its absence, the oasis and the parched landscape, another state and another state of mind.

WREATH DECORATING CONTEST DEC. 18

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BOI TIPS

FLOATAWAY FACES

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JEFFREY BRUCE BAKER DESIGNS Jeffrey Bruce Baker Designs is an Architecture, Interior Design and Furnishings firm. We design custom luxury homes, restaurants and multi-family communities, provide interior design solutions and design and fabricate custom furniture. JBBD is located at 1123 #8B. jeffreybrucebaker.com

Wit and wisdom from Floataway property manager Jan McCurry’s more emotionally-evolved alter-ego, “Boi.” hen the weather changes, I find myself giving thanks for the simple things: my warm TuckerMott coat, our amazing engineer, Hernan Soler, who keeps the Floataway Community in such good repair, and our long-term husband-and-wife janitorial team, Sergio and Maria Ramirez — two of the most dependable and hard-working individuals I’ve ever had the privilege to work with.

I am especially grateful for the Floataway Community itself. It’s an enormous privilege to serve such creative and kind people. I hope you’ll be delighted by some of the small improvements underway or in the works around here. These include: • New roof coatings on the 1123 and 1075 buildings, which I’m told will offset energy costs by up to 20% •

Pavement repairs to the 1123 parking lot — Goodbye trip hazard and potholes, and hello bright white parking striping! (New seal coating for the 1145 lot has also been approved, stay tuned for more on that.)

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New picnic tables for the community. These are currently placed at the end of the mulch path, near 1075. Eventually, we’ll move some of these into Zonolite Park.

Thanks for allowing me to serve you these past 10 years! I look forward to the next 10. floatawaycommunity.com

A big welcome to our newest community members.

AMERICAN BOARD OF TEACHERS American Board is a national non-profit teacher certification program that helps communities bring qualified teachers into high-needs schools.

We work to build communities, one teacher at a time. The American Board of Teachers is located at 1123 #29. abcte.org

DREW FINCHER / STATE FARM State Farm agent Drew Fincher is excited to open his own firm at the Floataway Community, 1123 #4. He says, “We have an incredible team that is here to help you with your insurance and Financial service’s needs. Our office opens February 1st, so stop by anytime to visit us.” Contact Drew at Drew.Fincher.uxke@statefarm.com.

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LITTLE FOODIES

Garnish & Gather, Floataway Community Q4 2015 “Tenant of the Quarter,” introduces individual kid’s meals, snacks and dinners designed for families.

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arnish & Gather is an Atlanta-based company that delivers locally grown ingredients, with gourmet recipes written by Atlanta chefs, to your door.

The all new Little Foodies program is your solution to feeding your whole family organic, local food any night of the week. Garnish & Gather will help you feed your kids wholesome food, empower them in the kitchen and create a foundation for a lifetime commitment to eating healthy. The Little Foodies program includes: •

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Organic, individual kid meals and snacks packed

by Marietta-based Loveable Foods — simply grab them out of the fridge and go!

that feeds 4-5 people. Atlanta chefs have developed delicious recipes with families in mind, so they are easy, healthy & kid-friendly!

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Garnish & Gather will include an interactive game for all customers with children designed to engage kids in the kitchen and enable them to join The Little Foodies Culinary Academy! After completing a series of kitchen challenges, kiddos will earn a special prize and be certified as a Little Foodie Chef

Visit garnishandgather.com to learn more, and as a special promotion Garnish & Gather is offering all members of the Zonolite community 20% off their first order Enter code Zonolite at checkout.

Kid-approved ready-to-cook meals for the whole family. Families will save $8 each week on a meal

IMPROVED ZONOLITE PARK TRAILS - COMING SOON! Dekalb County will be making significant improvements to the Zonolite Park trails, beginning this November.

They plan to craft 1,000 linear feet of “permanent” trail (dug out, filled with gravel, & topped with mulch) from the granite steps behind 1123 Zonolite to the wooden bridge. Thanks Dekalb & South Fork!

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