From the Agnes Scott Communication Office…

Agnes Scott College’s lacrosse team, the first varsity women’s lacrosse team in Georgia, will take the field for its first regular season game ever on March 2 against LaGrange College.

Agnes Scott was the first Georgia college to establish a varsity women’s lacrosse team, though other Georgia teams (including LaGrange) have followed or are preparing for their first seasons. While there are several club lacrosse teams at other Georgia colleges and universities, Agnes Scott’s team was the first school-sponsored (varsity) women’s lacrosse team.

The game will be held at Agnes Scott’s Gellerstedt Track and Field from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. The NCAA Division III team is competing in the USA South Athletic Conference, which includes seven other colleges from Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

Read the full article HERE.

Someone asked about the date of this spring’s Decatur Electronics Recycling Day in a comment yesterday.  Commissioner Patti Garrett’s website/blog provides the answer…

Mark your calendar for the City of Decatur’s next Electronics Recycling Day, slated for March 27th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Decatur High School.

More details will follow as we get closer to this event.

Emory announces this morning that the creator of the “microloan” Muhammad Yunus, will speak at the University next month.  The lecture is currently “sold-out”, but apparently you can still get on a waiting list.

Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work to reduce poverty through microloans, will present the 2010 Goodrich C. White Lecture on Wednesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

The lecture, titled “The University and Creating a World Without Poverty,” is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. 
 
Currently, the event is sold-out, but names may be added to a waiting list.

Renowned as “banker to the poor,” Yunus was an economics professor in his native Bangladesh when he began making small personal loans to destitute basket weavers more than 30 years ago. From this humble beginning, he developed Grameen Bank into the advance guard of a world movement to eradicate poverty through microlending.

Read the rest of this entry »

Angie forwards details for College Heights’ upcoming silent auction at Palate…

College Heights/Frasier Center Silent Auction Event – Friday, February 26th at Palate Café in Oakhurst

Please join us for our 3rd Annual College Heights/Frasier Center Silent Auction – Friday, February 26th at Palate Wine Bar in Oakhurst from 7-10 pm. Everyone is welcome and admission is free! There will be live music, cash bar, snack food and both a live and silent auction featuring artwork, vacation rentals, and tons of great items from local merchants and families.

All money raised at the auction will directly support the school’s PTA activities, which promote quality educational services, healthy and safe environments and artistic opportunities for our City of Decatur children.

College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center/Frasier Center is a unique public-non-profit partnership offering City of Decatur families the opportunity to start a quality educational path for their children from birth. Not just a typical daycare or pre-k, the Center promotes a safe, positive and diverse learning environment for Decatur’s tiniest citizens.

Tickets are now on sale for February 27th’s 4-7p Oakhurst Wine Crawl.

From the Oakhurst Message Board…

1000 tickets are now available in your local Oakhurst Business including Kavarna, One Step At A Time, Steinbecks, Universal Joint, and Wahoo. $20 for Advance Tickets, $25 At The Event. We will feature 20 different wines from around the world, and with over 20 participating business. Please get your tickets quick we expect a sell out!

I hope “drunk white yuppie girl” reports back like last year when she wrote “Wine crawl was AWESOOMMMMMMEEEE!!!11!! ps: so sory about the drunken spellin.g”

Ah yes…nothing says “awesome” like a couple of “1″s between five exclaimation points.

This sounds like pretty compelling stuff.  From an Agnes Scott College press release…

Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ, an American research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, will discuss “The Ethics of Exploration: Planetary Astronomy” during a lecture at Agnes Scott College Feb. 16. The 7:30 p.m. event is in Evans Hall and is free and open to the public.

A number of ethical issues arise in the field of planetary sciences ranging from the way astronomers do their work to the broader question of the nature of exploration itself. Is the study of astronomy a valid use of scarce resources, or does it make inappropriate demands on money, human talent and scarce environmental settings? Are humans “contaminating” space with their presence? Consolmagno will discuss these and many other questions during his lecture.

More info, including a short bio of Consolmagno can be found HERE.

Diane sends along this note from Emory’s Sustainability Initiative about a recycling event in the Decatur First Baptist Church parking lot this Saturday where you can recycle darn near everything!  Hence, “Your Life”.

On Saturday, February 13, 2010 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Decatur parking lot, you can recycle your unwanted junk.  Drop off your electronics, paper documents, batteries, clothing, furniture, toys and much more, and feel good about going GREEN!  For the church address and a full list of accepted items please see below.

To download the flyer and share click here http://www.southeastgreen.com/pdf/recycle_your_life.pdf.

A complete list of accepted items after the jump.

Read the rest of this entry »

Susan at the Decatur branch of the DeKalb County Library sends in this event announcement…

Friends of the Decatur Library Used Book Sale, Saturday, Feb. 27, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ground floor of the Decatur library.

A wide assortment of books on many topics, priced from $.50 to $4.

All proceeds benefit programming and events for adults and children at the Decatur library.

http://www.dekalblibrary.org/events/browse-by-event-type.html

From CSD…

REMINDER: Board of Education Special Meeting Tonight (2/9)

Tonight, from 5:30 – 6:15 p.m., the City Schools of Decatur Board of Education will hold a special meeting to address community questions and concerns in an informal setting. Due to the time constraints associated with this meeting, the number of individuals that the Board will be able to address may be limited. The meeting will take place at the Central Office at Westchester (758 Scott Boulevard, Decatur 30030).

Does it have to be called a “meeting”?  Thus far these meetings have run more like an open forums than a what I would think of as a  “meeting”.

Carlo Petrini is such a great public speaker that he easily overcomes the need to have a translator on stage with him. If you haven’t encountered Petrini before, the clip above will give you an idea of   what I mean.

The Italian founder of the Slow Food movement – who is also scheduled to give the keynote at this year’s Georgia Organics Conference the previous evening – will be part of a faculty panel and discussion session at Emory on Monday, February 22nd entitled “Food, Family and the Family Meal.”  Other featured speakers include the CDC’s Joel Kimmons and Emory Psychology Professor Marshall Duke.

The event is open to the public and will take place from 4pm-6pm at 1531 Dickey Drive on the Emory Campus.  Petrini will be on hand to sign books post-discussion.

h/t: Clairmont Heights