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December Advocator THE Inman Park Advocator Atlanta’s Small Town Downtown News • Newsletter of Inman Park Neighborhood Association December 2020 [email protected] • inmanpark.org • 245 North Highland Avenue NE • Suite 230-401 • Atlanta 30307 Volume 48 • Issue 12 President’s Message Goodbye 2020 By Amy Higgins • [email protected] As 2020 comes to a close, it feels as thought I have been holding my breath for months. The uncertainty of COVID-19, the economy, and the election has been exhausting. Now with 2021 on the horizon, I’m almost ready to exhale. Despite the isolation from extended family and the disruption to traditions this year, I find myself comforted by the feeling of living in a neighborhood – not just a collection of houses and streets – but an actual community. Thank you to all who have placed holiday lights on your homes – especially the hand- made Christmas light balls. Nothing says Inman Park holiday season to me more than those signature light balls. They do wonders for brightening the mood. Most likely, by the time you are reading this, our “Home for the Holidays” event will have come and gone. This event was the culmination of months of planning and I’m confident it went smoothly. I want to send a huge thank you to all the neighbors who devoted their time and talents to this effort. As much as IPNA needs the money that was raised, I feel like the real value of the event was the sense of purpose and camaraderie it provided for its organizers. 2020 has forced us to adapt and innovate. Perhaps that’s the silver lining on the storm cloud that was this past year. Neighbors have met, new friendships have been kindled, and we’ve proven that even without the Festival (in its traditional form) to unite us, we can still rally around a common goal. As we move into the new year, I hope that we can continue to build stronger connections to one another. The key to that, of course, is good communication. Identifying and prioritizing strategies for Photograph by Jenny Cohen better communication will be a priority for the IPNA Board in the coming year. That may take the form of a new website and a better coordination between our social media platforms. It may include a weekly update via e-mail to notify you of news in and around the Speak for the APC and Trolley Barn neighborhood. The details are yet to be determined but the goal has Trees Inman Park Community been set. If you have ideas about how we can better communicate, Service I invite you to share those with me. In the meantime, I wish you a Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 warm and happy holiday and a brighter 2021! Advertise in the Advocator! [email protected] Chairs & Coordinators Adopt the Beltline Anne Roberts • [email protected] • 404-242-5300 Archives Inman Park Teresa Burk • [email protected] • 404-449-3000 Beautification Neighborhood Association Barbara Leach • [email protected] • 404-521-2672 Sidewalks Officers Millie Astin • [email protected] • 404-293-9012 President, Amy Higgins Education 404-593-8253 Eric Goldberg • [email protected] • 678-467-2096 [email protected] Festival 2020 VP • Planning, Patrick Pontius Sam Bailey • [email protected] 310-403-6017 Jane Bradshaw Burnette • [email protected] [email protected] Freedom Park Conservancy VP • Zoning, Regina Brewer Philip Covin • [email protected] 404-273-5486 [email protected] Graffiti VP • Historic Preservation, Sara Wittich Nelson Ray • [email protected] • 404-561-6101 [email protected] Hospitality VP • Public Safety, Kevin Curry Patsy Fisher • [email protected] • 404-550-0790 [email protected] Inman Park Tree Watch and Arboretum VP • Communications, Melissa Miller Jim Abbot • [email protected] • 404-281-0638 [email protected] Treasurer, Kay Kirsche Lifelong Inman Park 770-309-8954 Cathie Berger • [email protected] • 678-429-5221 [email protected] NPU-N Representative Secretary, Julie Noble Neil Kinkopf • [email protected] • 404-281-0638 [email protected] Social July Fourth: Carol Mitchell • [email protected] • Advocator 404-659-2579 Holiday Party: Cristy Lenz • 404-822-3884 Porch Parties: Pat & Richard Westrick • [email protected] Editrix • 404-388-6466 Carla Jeffries Special Events Staff Karen Goeckel • [email protected] • 678-612-1776 Kathleen Busko, Susanna Capelouto, Susan Crawley, Marge Hays, Beverly Miller, Glenda Minkin, Julie Noble & Springvale Park Pat Westrick Beau Weidman • [email protected] • 770-715-3403 Amy Higgins (Master Plan) • [email protected] • 404-593-8253 Submissions [email protected] Transportation Janice Darling • [email protected] • 678-488-1925 Printed by Darcel Stewart, The UPS Store December 2020 • Inman Park Advocator • 03 Neighbor to Neighbor Inman Park neighbor volunteers are ready to assist anyone needing short- term help. For example: • Getting to medical appointments December Zorch Party! • Preparing meals or help with Friday, December 18th at 7:30 pm. pets while recovering from illness • Managing daily activities Zoom details will be posted on the IPNA website and emailed the week of the Zorch. Visit www.inmanpark.org/ lifelonginmanpark We believe especially during these difficult Contact Linda Gross (404-545-5222) or times we need to keep connected in our Jackie Lawrence (404-272-0024) community. The Zorch Party will give you a chance to catch up with old friends and meet new friends. 2021 Inman Park Book Club Meets at 7:00 pm on the last Tuesday of most months. If you have questions, please contact Stephanie All meetings to be held on Zoom. Sherman at [email protected]. Most book selections are available at our neighborhood bookstore: A Cappella Books 208 Haralson Ave, Inman Park Get your Butterfly flags 10% Discount! Shop local! (2 sizes!) and Historic Inman Park “This Tender Land“ (HIP) stickers at Jan 26 by William Kent Krueger Intown Business Center “Furious Hours: Murder, Feb 23 Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee“ by Casey Cep Welcome new neighbors Caitlin and Austin Day on Euclid Avenue If you are new to Inman Park, welcome! We’re so glad you’re here. Dog Please contact the IPNA hospitality chair of the at [email protected] Month: Also, if you have personal news or Delilah a life event to share, the Hospitality Committee would love to hear about it and recognize you in the Advocator. Get in touch! Takes frequent breaks 04 • Inman Park Advocator • December 2020 Springvale Park Update: O Christmas Tree! IPNA By Beau Weidman • [email protected] Calendar Four of Springvale’s landmark trees are our cypress, sourwood, loblolly and beech. Along with some smaller trees, they are identified by stone makers. Our friends from Treewatch had a volunteer day to maintain the markers for IPNA Meeting which we are truly thankful. Any Zoom multiple committee effort to Dec 16 7:30 p.m. benefit Springvale is something we can look forward to so as to increase beautification. Zoom Porch Party The young friends of the park Dec 18 See page 4 for details are remaining active. Julianne and Josephine Gordon can be seen planting rhododendrons. IPNA Meeting They are having lots of fun. If Zoom you would like to donate $50 to Jan 20 7:30 p.m. continue the Festival bloomtime shrub effort, email me. Book Club The Christmas tree of several Jan 26 See page 4 years ago is now our hemlock for details 2007, a great teaching place to showcase environmental NPU-N Meeting competition. The kudzu, Zoom honeysuckle,shoots, sprouts Jan 28 7:00 p.m. and volunteer tree growth severely damaged this contribution. It had graced the home of one of our volunteers who wanted a root balled tree for after holiday growth. During those years, we had cleared the steep hillside and a good planting location was found. The hemlock is a cheerful tree, covering the Appalachians and having a range as far south as Atlanta. It is now as tall as a two story building. Our preservation efforts may help it to cheer us for a long time. December 2020 • Inman Park Advocator • 05 Neighbor to Neighbor: Reading Together By Linda Gross • [email protected] The Life Long Inman Park Committee continues to seek ways to help members. For the sake of maintaining contact with our neighbors all of us live healthier and better informed lives. We have offered and finding creative ways to come together during this time, it seems rides to medical appointments and grocery stores. We have walked an idea worthy of exploring. dogs while the owner recuperated from medical events and adjusted to mobility limits. Although our efforts have been constrained While this might have been easier to mange before winter weather by the pandemic, our volunteers have remained ready to help as set in, we are thinking of creative ways to manage social distancing, needs are identified and we encourage you to remember that we are masks, and good times together with books. If you or any members available as you need us. of your family might enjoy this please contact Neighbor to Neighbor by logging in to the Inman Park website and scrolling down to the A recent committee meeting raised a novel idea for a new way to Lifelong Inman Park link. There you will find contact forms and help. With people of all ages confined to home and the stresses of information about how to reach us. We will work with any interested trying to manage work, family, schooling, and all the other daily folks to develop a personalized way to link up for this shared time. activities, it occurs to us that older and younger members of our community might enjoy reading together.
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