Friends of the Frazer Forest, along with Trees Atlanta, invite the community to join for a second work day of forest clean up and tree planting on Saturday, February 4 from 9 am – noon.   Sign up at www.frazercenter.org/FrazerForestFriends

There will be a public memorial service for Dr. Dana White on Monday afternoon, December 12, 2016. Everyone is invited. The time, according to Patricia, will be “fourish”. Meaning, please assemble around 4 p.m. or shortly later. The idea is to begin the service as the sun goes down over the city of Atlanta, which can be viewed from a balcony and through windows on the tenth floor of Woodruff Library. Enter Woodruff Library through doors near the statue of Robert Woodruff. At the front desk, tell the attendant you are attending the service for Dr. White and they will direct you to the Marble/Rose Library, which is on the tenth floor of the Woodruff library. The Woodruff Library is located on the campus of Emory University.

Patricia (his wife) would like the service to be a celebration of Dana, the man, the scholar, the neighborhood activist, the writer, the mentor,

The Frederick Law Olmsted Enthusiast and the environmentalist—along with all his other wonderful attributes. There will be food and music at the service.

For further information on the service, please contact Jennie Richardson at JJRichar@bellsouth.net or 404-373-1837.

More on Dr. Dana White and his link to Druid Hills:

Dr. Dana White was a co-editor of Olmsted South, a collection of essays that included - of course! - one on Druid Hills. He spoke about Frederick Law Olmsted, including at one of DHCA's annual meetings, calling him "Magic" Olmsted (DW was a big basketball fan) and describing why. He was involved with the National Association for Olmsted Parks (founded 1980) early on and knew Charles Beveridge, editor of the Olmsted Papers, who came to Atlanta to speak early in the Road Fight. One of his Emory grad students was involved in doing research as part of the linear park master plan. (That grad student is now the modern Atlanta history curator at the Emory Library archives.) So, here was an academic who was involved in Emory's neighborhood.

For those who did not know Dr. White, here is his obituary:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=182806709

On Saturday, October 22nd, our neighborhood had a wildly successful Trees Atlanta tree planting in Divisions 1 and 4. So many trees were requested by these neighbors that the volunteers could not get them all planted in one day. Forty-nine trees were planted in front yards, and another planting day will be scheduled to plant an additional 40 trees in right-of-way spaces. These 89 new trees will help replace our fallen, aging hardwood canopy and beautify and cool Druid Hills for generations to come.

The trees were a great bargain for our residents due to subsidies provided by Trees Atlanta, the DHCA and the City of Atlanta. Division 4 residents were required to pay just $50 for a planted, mulched, and watered young tree. Division 1 residents (in the City of Atlanta) were able to get up to three trees at no cost.

Thanks are due to the 40 or so volunteers from Trees Atlanta, Emory University, Georgia Tech, and our neighborhood. Their job was tough due to the recent lack of rainfall, resulting in hard and dry ground.

Next fall, this program will be offered in Divisions 3, 6 and 7. Check the website periodically for dates for the second phase of the planting, as well as next fall’s project; they will be great opportunities to volunteer with your neighbors to add to the beauty of our wonderful neighborhood. Questions can be directed to Chris Liggett (cristofer53@att.net).

“Concern about the countywide spike in water bills and the customer service related issues precipitated County Commissioners Rader, Gannon, and Jester to schedule a public forum held at Maloof Auditorium in Decatur on October 6, 2016.”

Decaturish article

“A project proposing to renovate the Briarcliff Estate into the Candler Mansion Boutique Hotel was presented at a meeting hosted by Emory University on September 28. Father and son developers Jerry and Rawson Daws of Republic Property of Atlanta are working with Smith Dalia Architects on the concept for a 54 room hotel on nine and a half acres of the property at Briarcliff and University Drive.”

AJC Article

On Saturday, October 1, at 8:30 a.m., Emory's Winship Cancer Institute will hold its annual Winship Win the Fight 5K. The Winship 5K is a family-friendly event dedicated to raising money for state-of-the-art cancer research. More than 3,000 runners and walkers are expected to participate.

The race will start and finish at Emory’s McDonough Field. Affected streets along the 5K route include: Asbury Circle, Dickey Drive, Eagle Row, Oxford Road, N. Decatur Road, Haygood Drive, Fishburne Drive, Uppergate Dr., Ridgewood Dr., and the Dowman Drive main gate entrance. Partial street closures are expected until 10 a.m. Emory and DeKalb Police will assist with traffic during the event.

Attached please find the course map. If you have questions or would like to join the fight against cancer, please go to http://winship5K.emory.edu.

Support your neighbors!

Druid Hills Yard Sale
September 17, 9am - 2pm

Map of Participating Homes & Addresses

Participating Homes:

444 Emory Dr NE	611 Ridgecrest Rd NE	1251 Briar Hills Dr NE
1602 Emory Rd NE	818 Springdale Rd NE	1348 Harvard Rd NE
505 Princeton Way NE	823 Clifton Rd	840 Springdale Rd NE
897 Springdale Rd NE	484 Durand Dr NE	1209 N Decatur Rd
1152 Oxford Rd NE	899 Clifton Rd	449 Emory Cir NE
1155 Springdale Rd NE	923 Springdale Rd NE	1154 Hancock Dr NE
1195 Clifton Rd	739 Lullwater Rd NE	1327 Harvard Rd NE
1540 Markan Dr NE	1295 Oakdale Rd NE	968 Clifton Rd
1507 Emory Rd NE	1702 Dyson Dr NE	902 Oakdale Rd NE
491 Durand Dr NE	424 Princeton Way NE	1374 Harvard Rd NE
1122 Springdale Rd NE	526 Princeton Way NE	Lion's Gate
508 Emory Cir NE	1138 Oakdale Rd NE	1083 Oakdale Rd NE
1707 Coventry Rd	534 Durand Dr NE	1010 Oxford Rd NE
1442 N Decatur Rd	1473 Emory Rd NE	1272 Oakdale Rd NE
586 Ridgecrest Rd NE	1275 Oxford Rd NE
1017 Oxford Rd NE	944 Clifton Rd

Download a map and address list.

Materials from the community meeting hosted by Jeff Radar on August 22, 2016.

Annexation Methods.pdf

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By M. Catherine McCabe

What could have been foreseen as a long and winding road to habitat certification turned out to be a short and direct shot. Recently, Patrick Fitzgerald, from the National Wildlife Federation's headquarters, announced that Druid Hills has reached its certification goal and is now officially a certified wildlife habitat community. By gaining this national certification, Druid Hills joins Chamblee, Johns Creek, Milton, and Roswell as NWF certified habitat communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area and also some 88 certified habitat communities nation-wide.

It was just last year that the Druid Hills Civic Association announced its efforts towards gaining this certification for the neighborhood, and through the efforts of its NWF Habitat Certification Steering Committee and many volunteers from among Druid Hills homeowners, this goal has come to a successful conclusion.

Fernbank School, along with several Druid Hills parks and many a Druid Hills household, were already enjoying certification when this effort began. Upon the launch of the campaign, several more parks were added to the roster. Some of the original parks and schools updated their certifications, and currently more than 135 Druid Hills homeowners are enjoying the benefits of their certified backyard habitats.

During this process, seven (yes, that's 7!) pocket parks came to the attention of the Steering Committee, one being Heaton Park, a bird sanctuary located square in the middle of the Druid Hills neighborhood. Some DH neighbors, along with the tree company ArborGuard, are generously giving of their time, expertise, and manual labor to restore this park. Once this work has been completed, its quiet stream and abundant flora will enjoy the benefits of new life and offer respite to both fauna and the many DH homeowners who live within the park's vicinity.

The excitement over the discovery of these unheralded pocket parks brought together even more DH neighbors who have been busy developing a walking tour. This tour, presented on the DHCA website, will offer both new and long-standing DH residents the opportunity to learn about the parks and their surrounding areas. With the NWF Community Habitat Certification and its designation as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places, Druid Hills continues with its original vision and tradition of providing habitat for wildlife in a lively urban setting and also with honoring Frederick Law Olmstead's vision of Druid Hills as an area "well shaded by handsome, umbrageous, permanently thrifty trees" in a neighborhood with a "pleasing rural, or, at least, semi-rural, character of scenery..."