Fun Local Things To Do This Weekend!

Looking for something to do this weekend? There are a lot of options!

* This Saturday morning, from 9am 'til noon, the Decatur Farmer's Market is hosting the grand opening of its new market in downtown Decatur on the corner of N. McDonough and Trinity (across from the Chick-Fil-A).  For more info, just click here. 

* This Saturday evening, you can live on the fringe at "Art from the Fringe." This multi-media event will feature painters, sculptors, jewelry exhibits, photography, video montages, fashion designers and more.  More than 35 talented artists and vendors, including our own Dunaire neighbor Stephanie Dean, will be exhibiting their work.  You can find "Art on the Fringe" this Saturday evening from 7pm until 11pm at the Bolton Village Center, 2011 Bolton Road - at the fringe of Buckhead and the Westside.  For more information, click here. 

*  On Sunday, from 2pm to 6pm, our neighbors in Pine Lake are hosting the first Pine Lake Home & Garden Tour. Eight homes and various gardens will be featured.  Tickets will be $15 and can be purchased at the Pine Lake City Hall Annex (the blue building). Proceeds from the tour will be used for the summer theater camp and the musicians' fund for Lake Fest.  Tours start at the beach house.  For more info, just click here. 

*  Also on Sunday is our weekly Dunaire Neighborhood Walk.  Every Sunday (weather permitting) you can join your neighbors for a walk around the neighborhood.  It's a great way to get a little exercise, meet your neighbors, and make some new friends.  We meet at the entrance to the pool area at 5:30pm.  

We'll see you around!

Tell AJC Reach To Stop Littering Our Neighborhood!

Dunaire neighbors take great pride in our community. Most of us work very hard to keep our neighborhood clean and our yards looking nice - and at least once a week, AJC Reach "delivery drivers" litter our community and our private property with unwanted plastic-wrapped advertisement fliers.  

Dunaire isn't the only neighborhood being bombarded with litter and trash from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  In fact, over 1.4 million pieces of AJC Reach trash are being tossed into Metro Atlanta driveways, yards, and streets each week - 1.4 million per week!  There is a growing movement to stop the AJC Reach from trashing up our neighborhoods headed by StopAJCReach.org.  If you want to know how to stop AJC Reach from littering Dunaire, just click here.  

From Viet Nam to Dunaire - The Story of a Dunaire Family on CNN

Dunaire neighbor and journalist, Jim Kavanagh, recently did a story on a local family for CNN's look at the Vietnamese diaspora.  The story chronicles the Nguyen family's long difficult journey from Viet Nam to a better life right here in Dunaire. 

From CNN.com...

Decatur, Georgia (CNN) -- The Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon 35 years ago this week, but Hong Nguyen will never surrender.

Nguyen's story is just one among millions from Vietnam's tragic war era, but it's also one that ultimately resolves in triumph.

Nguyen was a Republic of Vietnam army major stationed in Da Nang when the port city was bombarded by the enemy North Vietnamese army in late March 1975. Commanders in Saigon, 380 miles to the south, offered no guidance or information, he said.

"It was total chaos," Nguyen, now 74 and living in Decatur, Georgia, said through an interpreter. "The only thing anyone knew was that something was wrong. Nobody knew the details, so everyone was on the run."

Nguyen gathered up his wife, Que Pham, their seven children and the family dog and headed for Da Nang's Tien Sa port, hoping to escape on a boat. Thousands of others in the city of half a million had the same idea.

To read the rest of this amazing story, just click here.