Meet Brionte' McCorkle....

Hello Neighbors,
I wear many hats in our community as director of the Adams Park Cultural Arts Festival, community engagement leader for Cascade Heights Business Consortium and as community maven. I love connecting people; especially in my community as we are so brilliant, clever and beautiful. 

I want to introduce you to Brionte’ McCorkle.
Brionte’ McCorkle, is a candidate for District 11, Atlanta City Council, seat Keisha Lance- Bottoms, presently holds. Brionte’ spoke to my Environmental Justice Academy class last year which was sponsored by the EPA. I was impressed with her speech on community building and liked her activism, youth and intelligence about people, community and its green spaces. Brionte’ has had a good career with the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Clubs as executive director. I personally cannot help but to believe that she will respect and preserve the lovely, green and lush communities of District 11 and that she will work hard to protect them and us.

I have been asked to serve as the campaign manager for Brionte’s run to represent Southwest Atlanta. As Brionte’s campaign manager it will be my duty and pleasure to introduce her to some of the finest people I have ever met, the residents, business owners and stakeholders of District 11. I trust Brionte’ to take great consideration and care of my beloved community. Please look forward to Brionte’ stopping by to introduce herself and via phone call. We also definitely need your financial support and volunteerism to make a successful run for city council on November 7th.

Contact and Support Brionte'

www.brionte.com

brionte4atl
www.facebook.com/brionte4atl
www.twitter.com/mbrionte

Join Brionte' for her Campaign "Kick Off" at Spice House on 4/21!

Planning for The Adams Park Cultural Arts Festival, APCAFEST 2017 takes place Saturday April 22nd at 11AM in Adams Park near the lake in old ball field. 

We need help with programmers, event managers, set up /tear down crews, greeters, clean up, social media, hosts, and signage managers for the many events planned for the day. We need 2 Special People to recruit and schedule our incredible VOLUNTEERS, whom we treat like Rock Stars! 

                            "Save The Date"
 Saturday September 23rd for APCAFEST 2017!!
That gives us five months of planning and execution.

   Looking forward to “A Great Day in Adams Park”!

Meet Atlanta's New Chief of Police...

Important community meetings taking place in our neighborhoods this week.

 And......

    Attending these meetings stating our concerns, demanding responses, inclusive follow-up and resolution is how we become the change we want to see. Remember the mayor, city council members, police chief and anybody else that we elect to run the city for us are our employees and these meetings are designed as a check in for general consensus. This is where we check in on our employees and tell them what we want as their Boss... Not attending could mean that they do as they choose... and what employer would allow that???
I hope to see you there!

Atlanta City Studio is coming to Cascade Heights!

Leslie Canaan, of the Atlanta City Studio joined us for dinner and discussed the future of our business corridor and community. The Atlanta City Studio was created by the Department of Planning and Community Development as a pop-up office that is both a work and public space where neighbors can get involved in the preservation and sustainability of our beautiful neighborhoods and green spaces. 


Leslie E. Canaan
Community Engagement Manager
City of Atlanta | Office of Design
2311 Cascade Rd.| Atlanta, GA 30311
lcanaan@atlantaga.gov www.atlantaga.gov


Most Metropolitan Atlanta neighborhoods do not have these types of vistas and green spaces due to over development. As residents we will need to work together to make sure that Southwest Atlanta stays beautiful, green and lush and does not become over developed. I always say when African Americans moved to Southwest Atlanta the city, state and government put us on an economic development diet.... and thank goodness! Buckhead, is a concrete jungle and they are trying to create a green space over 400, as I type! Let's work to restore the commercial properties we have already and keep our lovely green spaces intact and maintained so that we can play in our parks, gaze at our vistas, hike in our preserves and most of all spend our money in our community!

FYI....Adams Park has a creek, a lake with fountain with boardwalk, a swimming pool with splash pad, 4 tennis courts (4th highest used in the city) 3 baseball fields, a recreation center with conference rooms and full kitchen, an 18 hole golf course, Tup Holmes with Clubhouse, 3 pavilions with stone grills and an amphitheater with stage (Adams Park and Chastain are sister parks designed by landscape architect William Monroe through the WPA program of the 1940's).
We Live in a Country Club Community.... Residents and neighbors, Please Love, Participate and Preserve our Community because if we do not, someone else will.  


This is what Adams Park looks like in the fall, Enjoy!!!

   
Waterfall near Venetian Dr.

   
Entrance to Master Grill and Amphitheater,          
looking towards Venetian Dr. from Lagoon Lane.


  
Adams Park Lake and Fountain....

All this in your backyard!

Meet the new Director of the Young Family YMCA.....

https://www.facebook.com/YoungYMCA/posts/1346267862100163:0

Let's have Dinner and Discuss the Future of Cascade Heights!

Over the past two weeks, several of my neighbors and I have invited a couple of the candidates who want to represent us for the next four years at City Hall and Atlanta Public Schools, to dinner! We invited Brionte’ McCorkle a candidate for district 11 Atlanta City Council seat, presently held by K. Bottoms who is running for mayor. Eshe’ Collins is the Atlanta Public Schools representative for Dist. 6 (Southwest Atl.) and the incumbent. 

Our first dinner party, was held at the home of the Riley's of Beecher Hills and our guest for the evening was Brionte’ McCorkle, whom answered all questions with honesty and refreshing intelligence. Ms. McCorkle’s experience and background with the Sierra Club as assistant director of transportation and communications makes her a very attractive candidate and someone the residents of Southwest Atlanta should get to know!
brionte.mccorkle@sierraclub.org.

David Davis and Brionte' McCorkle


Adams Park neighbors, Rodney Harris and Corky Claire 

Dinner Menu, Gumbo, Jambalaya and Salads... 

Dinner and Discussions...

Our second dinner party, was held at my neighbors the Martin's of Adams Park, since 1971 and was equally interesting, our guest was Eshe’ Collins. Ms. Collins has been on the front line in helping to turn our schools around for the past four years, her first term. Let’s be clear she and the superintendent came in after the people, who were in charge were indicted on racketeering charges. That is what politicians and mobsters go to jail for. So they had a tough road ahead of them. Four years have come and gone and Eshe’, the super and other APS reps still have a long way to go. I have found Eshe’ to be honest, objective and fair.  As a former educator for APS, she knows first hand it's challenges.  Eshe’ was informative and brought stats from Therrell, Mays and Cascade schools, which are all performing very well. Eshe’ stated that we (residents) should visit, participate and know what goes on in our schools before we so quickly agree with naysayers that our schools are all bad.

Emily Giordano, Assistant Director, Economic Development
City of Atlanta | Department of Planning & Community Development


Eshe', Jerri Lee, Emily, Adrienne & Darrin Martin, David  Davis, Jennifer Amichia, Aneika McDonald and Leslie E. Canaan, Community Engagement Manager| City of Atlanta | Office of Design and staff member at the Design Studio, coming soon to Cascade Heights corridor.

Eshe' P. Collins, District 6:  
epcollins@atlantapublicschools.us

These Dinner Parties, have been informative, interesting and will make you want to get involved in your community and the elections of duties and I hope you will! 

This is how it Works...Twelve dinner guests, who can each take these messages, ideas, plans and thoughts back to 12 neighbors and plan a dinner party for 12 more neighbors. The Goal is to put the candidates in front of us in small groups, before November's election. It will be interesting to see who accepts and what their interests are!!!

Residents of Southwest Atlanta are you ready to help put the best person for the position in office to represent us for the next four years? 

Then join us and share information, spend sometime with your neighbors and become,
                          The Change, You Want To See!!!

A Special Thank You to the Riley's and the Martin's for welcoming us into your beautiful homes and hosting us and for loving Cascade Heights and Southwest Atlanta!

Sheryl Brown, Adams Park since 2003.

Adams Park...soon to undergo some major renovations!

Some great things are taking place in Adams Park!

The Master Grill Area, Amphitheater or Canyon as some call it. will have erosion remediation work completed in this area and those horrendous green picnic tables...bye bye, along with a couple big trees. I expect the ground will look a lot different and the way the water flowed into this area will be corrected.

How about a Boardwalk all of the way around the lake...Shut the front to door, AP! With a new pump house with a porch to fish from. The work should be beginning soon and completed by Spring 2016.