Category: Celebrate Clarkston
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Storytelling Cafe: Serving Up Stories for Adults – June 6, 2019
Thursday, June 6 is your chance to support the Clarkston Tell Me A Story! festival and the READY Schools at a fun, friends, and fundraising event! Join CDF Action staff, Board members, volunteers, partners, and storyteller friends from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Kathmandu Kitchen & Grille in Clarkston for a casual and fun evening of storytelling for adults. We’ll have samples…
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READY School highlighted in upcoming City of Clarkston newsletter
Are you are reader of the City of Clarkston Connection newsletter? It’s a great way to stay connected in the Clarkston community. We were thrilled that the July issue of the newsletter, featured the one year anniversary of the first READY School at Clarkston Oaks. It also highlights details from the Welcoming Mural project,…
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Clarkston Early Learning Network Honors Sondra Warren
Clarkston Early Learning Network honored Sondra Warren, Clarkston Library Branch Manager, at their monthly meeting yesterday. She will be leaving her post at the Clarkston Library for a new endeavor in Chamblee. Sondra has been a leading advocate for diversity and youth programming at the library, bringing literacy programs to early learning centers and programs,…
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Indian Creek Elementary School Mural Project
We greatly enjoyed the Indian Creek Elementary School Mural Project, a tree painting which included words in many languages to describe the school’s values. The idea for the project came from families, students, and teachers who prioritized 40 words. These words formed the trunk of the tree in the mural, words like: learning, fun, do…
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Know Your Neighbor Connects Teens to Their Neighborhood
Ten teens paired off to practice interviewing one another as part of the training for Know Your Neighbor. Know Your Neighbor is a summer initiative of CDF’s to increase connectedness among teens, their peers, and neighbors. This initiative involves walking door-to-door and asking residents how they feel about Clarkston, their gifts and talents, and generally getting…
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Welcome Community Connectors!
CDF is pleased to welcome two new community connectors: Ameena Sulaiman and Betty Hasan-Amin. The Community Connector Team will play substantial role in the process of building relationships in the community. Both Ameena and Betty are Clarkston residents and bring great skills in knowing the needs and wants of their neighbors. The Community Connector Team…
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Vote for Clarkston in the One Region Idea Challenge
Voting goes live today for the Atlanta One Region Challenge.
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Identifying Themes – Setting Goals – Moving to Action
What are “do-able” ideas and activities that would support families with young children? Several months ago, CDF partnered with Refugee Family Services (RFS) to ask this question. The partners hosted a focus group with RFS’s Parents as Teachers families. “Families need more time to be with other families who have children, to play and to…
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Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a “Lost Boy” Refugee
A long and dangerous journey from a village in South Sudan brought Majok Marier to Clarkston.
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Thanks for supporting Photovoice
As part of my dissertation research, I have been conducting a Photovoice project in Clarkston in order to study the communal dynamics in town and examine if the image- and dialogue based Photovoice methodology can be used effectively as a conflict engagement strategy in diverse communities.