Monday, May 21, 2012
Dany Kanso started Grow Dunwoody, touched the city with his volunteer green initiatives and graduates Thursday.
Normally, it’s the teachers who try to get the students engaged. Rare is it the student who gets the teachers engaged. Meet Danny Kanso, if you haven’t already. He is that rare student. Kanso is a Dunwoody High School senior who grew up on Roberts Drive in the shadow of the city's Nature Center. He graduates Thursday and created a program at the start of the school year called Grow Dunwoody. Student led, Grow Dunwoody has the ambitious goal of using organic gardening as an educational medium to enhance the study of science, wellness, health, physical education and to encourage the adoption of sustainable lifestyles. The program is impacting virtually all of the 7,000 K-12 students in the Dunwoody cluster of schools, as well as a number of …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Decision could come this week, city manager says, as Post Office grants vendors a 30-day reprieve
Dunwoody's Green Market has been granted a surprise 30-day stay at its Post Office parking lot site, but the city is hoping there will be a resolution to the vacate order this week that will keep the popular farmers' market in Dunwoody Village. City Manager Warren Hutmacher shared that information at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association Sunday night at the North DeKalb Cultural Arts Center. Asked after the meeting if a move to privately owned land rather than city, state or federal property would cause zoning issues for the Green Market, Hutmacher said no. Hutmacher said if the market, which operates on Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to noon from mid-April to mid-November, moves into the privately owned …
Monday, April 2, 2012
Three "founding mothers" of center join students in ceremony
The Dunwoody Nature Center announced the celebration of its 20th anniversary last Friday by unveiling a new logo and a new website. The logo was unveiled on the sign at the main entrance to the nature center at 5343 Roberts Drive by an excited group of students from nearby Austin Elementary School. Under the supervision of Alan Mothner, the nature center's executive director, the students gathered around the new sign, which was hidden from view on both sides by large brown tarps. Mothner told the students that three of the founders of the Nature Center were attending the event. “If it wasn’t for them, you wouldn’t have this,” he said. Mothner then asked the attending founders -- Pat Adams, Marilyn Dalrymple and Kathy Hanna – to join the …
Monday, March 5, 2012
More than 300 attend festivities at Dunwoody United Methodist Church
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Monday, March 5, 2012
The Dunwoody Garden Club kicked off a new year of gardening activities and service projects with a hugely successful 35th gala bridge party, luncheon and silent auction at Dunwoody United Methodist Church last week. The club’s annual fundraiser attracted 308 people, including members of bridge clubs, garden clubs, master gardeners and various other community supporters. Maria Richmond, a past-president of the club, opened the festivities in the church’s Fellowship Hall by welcoming everyone to the event and thanking them and the merchants for their support. She also handed out the first round of door prizes. After that, the bridge games and silent auction shopping began. This year’s fundraiser is one Richmond will always remember. Her …
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8:39 pm on Monday, May 21, 2012
Hey Patch -This is the kind of story we need to see more of. Kids who do well. Perhaps you could start a regular feature.... more ›