Parks
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve Workday
Saturday Workday
Please join us for the monthly Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve Volunteer Workday. This Sunday March 7, 9am - Noon. Join your neighbors and friends to help mulch trails, remove invasive plants, and more. Be sure to bring work gloves and a water bottle!
For more information, please visit the Nature Preserve web site at http://www.cshepherdpreserve.org
Upcoming workdays - please mark your calendars:
Notes from Mason Mill Park Meeting
This meeting was organized by the county's Parks and Rec division and designated a "pre-construction update" meeting by project manager Revonda Moody. Following are notes from CHCA board members who attended. About 60 people attended.
Medlock Park Community Garden
Medlock Park Community Garden is ready for sign-up. We will start with twenty plots the first year with the possibility of more once we get settled in. We need 20 people to commit to a plot for 2010. The deadline to reserve a plot is February 15.
Meeting on Mason Mill Park development plans
The DeKalb County Parks and Recreation Department will hold a Public Meeting on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 to discuss construction plans for future development of Mason Mill Park. The general public is invited to attend.
Location: Avis G. Williams Library, 1282 McConnell Drive, Decatur , GA 30033
For more information, contact Revonda Moody, Project Manager, at 404-687-3708.
Workday at the Nature Preserve this Saturday
Please join us for the monthly Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve Volunteer Workday. This Saturday February 6, 1pm - 4pm. Join your neighbors and friends to help mulch trails, paint the observation deck, remove invasive plants and more. Be sure to bring work gloves and a water bottle!
For more information, please visit the Nature Preserve web site at http://www.cshepherdpreserve.org
Upcoming workdays - please mark your calendars:
* March 7 - Volunteer Day 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
* April 10 - Volunteer Day 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
* May 2 - Volunteer Day 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Civic associations to meet with new Parks and Rec Director
The Civic Association Network of District 2 neighborhood association boards has invited the new Parks and Rec Director Roy Wilson to meet with them in early March. This could be a good opportunity to create relationships with Mr. Wilson and encourage an ongoing engagement with this constituency. District 2 has the least amount of park space per capita and services for existing parks have not met our expectations. Please feel free to submit any comments, concerns, or questions to us (info AT clairmontheights.org) that you'd like to have represented to Mr. Wilson.
1983 Stone Mt Freeway plan
Thanks to MANA for pointing out the 1983 map posted to the Atlanta Time Machine site. It shows the proposed extension for the Stone Mountain Freeway and it runs from its current terminus at Lawrenceville Highway all the way to Clairmont Road through the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve, Medlock Park, and Mason Mill Park along South Fork Peachtree Creek.
South Peachtree Creek Trail Phase 2 update
The county has indicated that construction of Phase 2 could begin as early as February. Phase 1 connected Medlock Park to Mason Mill Park and terminated at the stone bridge over Burnt Fork Creek in the middle of Mason Mill. Phase 2 will extend the trail from the stone bridge, over the CSX railroad tracks, and terminate at McConnell Drive. The site plans were published here in the fall, and we also published comments on the project by commissioner Jeff Rader.
MLK work day at Nature Preserve
Monday Workday. Please join us for the monthly Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve Volunteer Workday. This Monday, MLK Service Day, January 18, 2010 from 9 am - 1 pm. Join your neighbors and friends to help mulch trails, paint the observation deck, remove invasive plants and more. Be sure to bring work gloves and a water bottle!
For more information, please visit the Nature Preserve web site at http://www.cshepherdpreserve.org
Upcoming workdays - please mark your calendars:
* February 6 - Volunteer Day 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
* March 7 - Volunteer Day 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
County Master Plan for Parks
From commissioner Jeff Rader: Master Plan Provides Guidance for Parks and Recreation, Jan 8, 2010. This month, a new director, Roy Wilson, takes the helm of DeKalb County's Parks and Recreation department. The hope is that the new director, like the New Year, marks the beginning of a new era for the department. But a new face in the same place by itself does not ensure a new direction. Rather, personnel change needs to be supplemented by a forward-looking strategy for the department that fulfills the county's goals in line with the department's resources.
