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Membership is very important! Our meetings and
newsletters are always open to everyone,
but larger membership numbers strengthen MIC's standing
with county officials, developers and others.
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MIC Board Meeting for
December
The
MIC Board will not hold it's usual
monthly meeting in December.
Happy
Holidays!
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Got News?
MIC welcomes information from the community that we might
include in this newsletter.
Information must be received by the 20th to be
included in the next monthly issue.
Click here to submit information for the
newsletter.
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Mable House Barnes
Amphitheatre Survey
Click here to visit
the Amphitheatre website and take their survey about the acts you'd
like to see here in Mableton.
The survey link is in the upper right corner.
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Happy Holidays!
For
the third year, MIC is partnering with the Boys and Girls
Club of Mableton for our Secret Santa program. The Boys
and Girls Club provides MIC with a list of children and items that
they wish for this holiday season. We then distribute the
names and wish lists to great people like you in the Mableton
community who want to help brighten a child's Christmas.
Gifts
are needed during the week of December 14, so please contact Steve
Reents today.
The
target expenditure is $40 to $50 per child, but if you'd like to
help at a lower level, contact Steve; we can use your donations at
any level. If shopping is not your thing, we can do that for
you - click here to
contribute online.
Check
out our website for
more details.
Thanks in advance for your support of this great project. I
hope you all have a wonderful holiday season with your family and
friends.
Regards,
Ben
Clopper
MIC President
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Mable's Tea Room -- Help Needed!
The Christmas Arts and
Crafts Sale at the Mable House Arts Center is a long-standing
tradition in Mableton, along with Mable's Tea Room. The Tea Room, open only
during the Christmas House sale, offers soups, salads, sandwiches
and homemade desserts in a fun setting.
The South Cobb Arts Alliance partners with Mableton nonprofit groups to make
the Tea Room beneficial to all. This year, MIC has committed
to staffing the Tea Room for one day, Friday, December 11.
Thanks to all of you who have volunteered!
However,
we still need 5 volunteers to serve food and work in the
kitchen, one cake and one batch of soup.
So, if you can help by volunteering from 10:30am to 2:30pm, or by making a cake or
some soup, please contact Rob
Meglaughlin. No prior restaurant experience is required -
just a smiling face and some holiday spirit!!
In
exchange for our donations of time, soup and cake, we will raise
nearly $250 for MIC!
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Christmas Events at the Mable House
 For the 25th year, the South Cobb Arts
Alliance presents the Christmas House
Arts and Crafts Show at the Mable House Arts Center from
December 4-13. Vendors from all over the East Coast will
bring their very best to our town for a great local shopping
experience. Check out these photos!
While you are there, check out the Tea Room for lunch. New
menu items and real china tea pots make this a "must
do". Also new this year is a Mommy & Me (or Daddy
& Me) Tea Party on Sunday, December 6. Reservations are
encouraged.
Santa returns for the Candy Cane Hunt on Saturday December 5th from
10am to
noon.
For music lovers, the holiday concert series is back, with comedian
Jim Karwisch, violinist Brooke Alford,
and singer Joanna Maddox.
The
SCAA newsletter has
more details on all these activities.
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Bring One for the Chipper!
MIC has teamed up with Keep Cobb
Beautiful to operate a first-ever Christmas tree recycling
operation in Mableton.
The location will be Lions Park, 620
Lions Club Drive,
behind the old Zoom Car Wash on Veterans
Memorial Highway, east of
Floyd Road.
Mark your calendars for January 9, 2010.
(Please note this is a change from the one published in the last
newsletter.)
Volunteers
will be there to unload your cut trees between 8:30am - 4:00pm
and hand out tree seedlings as long as supplies last. If you
need to, you can drop
your tree off any day between December 26 and January 8.
Tell
your neighbors about this opportunity for a convenient and
eco-friendly event. If you are a senior citizen or are
disabled and anticipate having a problem delivering your tree, send
us an email
or call 404-323-0608 to schedule a pickup.
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Public Meeting on Veterans Memorial
Plan
Cobb County and the City of Atlanta joined forces to obtain a
Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) grant from the Atlanta Regional
Commission for Veterans Memorial
Highway in Cobb County and Donald Lee
Hollowell Parkway in Atlanta. In Cobb, the study
area begins at Buckner Road and runs to the Chattachoochee River.
The first public meeting will be at 6:30pm on Tuesday, December 8th
at Harmony Leland Elementary School at 5891 Dodgen Road in Mableton. Everyone interested
in this part of Mableton should plan to attend.
The purpose of the study is to develop strategies to encourage
redevelopment into vibrant mixed-use centers; to strengthen
existing industrial uses; to provide opportunities for housing,
services, amenities and jobs; to improve mobility within the
corridor and to minimize potential land use conflict with
industrial uses and truck traffic.
More information can be found on the MIC website.
Questions? Contact Laraine Vance at the Cobb Department
of Transportation.
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Downtown Mableton Planning Grant
Historic Downtown Mableton
will be the focus of a Lifelong Communities Grant to the Atlanta Regional
Commission (ARC). Although the study is sparked by the growth
in the senior population, the focus is on developing community
plans that allow all age groups to access transportation,
housing, healthy lifestyles and services.
This grant is a continuation
of the charrette hosted by ARC last year, which
was reflected in the updated Historic Mableton
LCI Plan recently adopted by the County. The grant is
just kicking off, so we'll share more details as we get them.
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South Cobb Arts Alliance Wins Awards
 The South Cobb Arts
Alliance was recognized last month when it was selected to receive
the Ovation Award for the Arts Organization in Cobb County!! Way to go
SCAA!!
Individual SCAA members
were also recognized: Barbara Hollis for Outstanding
Volunteer; Teresa Barnes for Outstanding Visual Artist; and Tim Milley for Outstanding Actor. To read
more click here.
Membership in SCAA is open to artists and supporters of the arts
alike.
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South Cobb Dance Team at the Sugar
Bowl
Congratulations to the
South Cobb Dance Team! They have been selected to perform at
the Sugar Bowl on January
1, 2010.
The cost of making the trip is over $17,000, so community support
is needed, especially in light of the impact of the recent flooding
in this area.
Among other fundraising efforts, the Team is presenting a preview
of their show on Monday, December 7th. Please contact Stephanie
Valentine if you would like to attend. Donations are also
welcome; please email Kimberly Snell, the Dance Team coach.
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On November 18th, the Board
of Commissioners placed a 90-day hold on the entire Parks Bond
program while they "review the bond financing".
County revenues are down, due to the lagging economy, and the bond
interest must be paid from those revenues. 29 properties were
recommended by the Citizens Advisory Committee for purchase; two of
them are in Mableton.
The larger property is a 64-acre parcel on the southeast corner of
the East West Connector and Fontaine
Road, running east to Cooper
Lake Road.
Heavily wooded with a large pond, this property connects to Heritage Park on
its west side and touches Thompson Park on
the south. The Silver Comet trail is just across the East
West Connector and the site currently provides some parking for the
trail.
The other Mableton
property on the list is located off Buckner
Road adjacent to Nickajack Park.
This 20-acre parcel includes federal army trenches and rifle pits
from the Civil War as well as streams, steep slopes and several creeks
running into Nickajack Creek. The huge trees on the parcel
and the history of the area will combine to make this a great
passive park.
Neither the Floyd/Hicks/Concord
Road property nor the Chattahoochee
Greenway made the list of recommended parcels. MIC will
continue to advocate for these potential parks.
Want to get involved? Need more information? Contact Dave
McDaniel.
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The application for a Land
Use Permit (LUP-29) for a daycare center on Graywood Circle, off Oakdale Road was heard in
November. Approval was granted for one year for up to 8
children. Click here to learn
more.
Want
to know more? Want to get involved? Email Ben
Clopper.
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