Come out Sunday for Drollery, Family Fun and Games, Hijinks and More at Brownwood Park

Bring family and friends out to rediscover the largest park in East Atlanta during the Brownwood Frolic.

EAST ATLANTA — The 30316 Zip code is known for its abundance of booze and tattoos. You don’t have to go far to find a good band or bar to belly up to for the afternoon. Until you reproduce, that is. Once you have someone who can’t vote in-tow, your options for fun in the Village shrink. This fact is not lost on the East Atlanta Parents Network. It formed in 2009 and has since been the parent of seven different age-specific play groups and a number of all-ages get togethers. Now these parents are setting their sights on making Brownwood Park more a gathering place for families than a meeting place for crack deals. They are calling it Brownwood Frolic, the newest addition to the EAPN family get togethers. One Sunday a month there will be a …

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Water Fountains at Brownwood Shut Off

Precaution taken to prevent pipes from bursting in winter.

The water fountains at Brownwood Park are off through March 1, 2013. Turning off the water is a precaution taken to prevent water fountain pipes from breaking in the event of a hard freeze. Anyone with questions is asked to e-mail: parks@eaca.net.

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Vandals Hit Brownwood Park

Slats stolen from park benches.

Remember the old adage that if it isn't nailed down, someone will steal it? Well, in the case of a couple of benches in Brownwood Park, the slats used for seating were nailed down — and they were stolen anyway. A frequent dogwalker who uses the south portion of the park informed East Atlanta Patch of the thefts and the situation was a point of concern for residents at the June 12 meeting of the East Atlanta Community Association. Police say they are investigating and urge that anyone who may have seen anything to call them. Parks across Atlanta — including the Freedom Park Trail — have been popular with thieves, lately. Fox 5 Atlanta reported last week that thieves in search of copper have done more than $1 million in damage to park …

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Festivals Aplenty This Weekend

Kirkwood has its Spring Fling, East Atlanta holds its Beer Fest.

Two Southeast Atlanta favorites — the Kirkwood Spring Fling and the East Atlanta Beer Festival — return this weekend. The Beer Fest, which aims to raise awareness about Village businesses and funds for local non-profits, will feature more than 220 craft beers, live entertainment and food. Now in its 9th year, the Beer Fest runs from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Brownwood Park on May 19. Tickets are $40 each if purchased in advance, $45 the day of. Each purchaser gets a souvenir pint glass to sample the more than 220 craft beers that will be on tap. Get your Beer Fest tickets here. The Spring Fling, which is in its 10th year, aims to raise the profile of the Kirkwood neighborhood and funds for the Kirkwood Neighbors Organization, the association …

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Patch Voices

Volunteers Sought For Brownwood Bike Rally

Annual event features bike races and bike safety tips and a health fair.

by Jill Sieder It's time for our big spring event, the 9th-annual Brownwood Bike Rally! This Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., many cool things will be happening in and around Brownwood Park — bike races for kids and adults, a bike safety rodeo, a health fair, fitness demos, a bike decorating activity, food court and more. We are currently in need of volunteers in these areas: If you'd like to help, please fill out this volunteer web form at http://bit.ly/bikerallyvolunteer and let me know what times you're available to help out on Saturday. You can also feel free to contact me directly at jsieder@eastatlantakids.org. Many of our volunteers participate in a bike race, as well as volunteer for a couple of hours, so bring your bike! (…

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Brownwood Park Vandalized

Several of the park's benches and 100-year-old oak trees were vandalized with spray paint.

East Atlanta Parks And Greenspace Group Seeks Volunteers For Brownwood Clean-Up Effort

Day of service is Jan. 16 for MLK Holiday.

by Patch Staff The East Atlanta Community Association's Parks and Greenspace Committee seeks volunteers to help beautify Brownwood Park. The clean-up efforts, which serves as a day of service in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Key goals of the beautification are cleaning up the community garden, trash pick-up from the trail along the stream in the park's southern half and laying wood chips on the new path to the bridge. Volunteers are asked to bring work gloves and all other materials will be provided. If you'd like to participate, please send an e-mail to parks@eaca.net.

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Moms Talk

Parks And Wrecks

Brownwood Park could use a little love from more of the community

When you're young you feel like you can change the world. You listen to punk rock, okay — Don Henley — and National Public Radio and vow to always be proactive. Then you have kids, a job and laundry, you become your own charity case. A clean-room activist. Sadly, I don't really have the time or energy to change anything but diapers. However after changing up our hangout spots, I hear that ol' familiar call to action. Strolling through different parks in our area brought to my attention that the needles strewn about Brownwood Park are not commonplace. The dead grass and falling gates are not to be expected at everyone’s neighborhood park. Now I am on a mission to discover why other parks get so much more love. By love, I mean more money …

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The Give

A Church That Defines 'The Give'

The Village Church of East Atlanta is a true neighborhood blessing

A church isn’t defined by a steeple, but its people. And it’s not about where or how long it’s been in the community, but what it does for the community. The Village Church of East Atlanta defines what a church is all about. The Presbyterian church was founded in September 2010 and holds services in the Brownwood Park Recreation Center. Pastor Matt Armstrong was previously at All Souls Fellowship in Decatur, but always had the mission of starting a new congregation.  “Our philosophy was to plant neighborhood churches,” said Armstrong, who lives in East Lake.  “A lot of people were suggesting East Atlanta Village as a good neighborhood. I got to know the neighborhood and just fell in love with it—the feel, the culture, the atmosphere. "What…

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Community Gets Together for Brownwood Park's Garden Expansion

Project doubles the size of community garden, adds grapevine trellises

The rhythmic shwoo—fwoop, shwoo—fwoop of the shovels sliced through mounds of rich dirt. The clink-clank of pickaxes splitting concrete coincided with the whirring hum of drills boring holes in wooden posts. These were sounds filling the air Saturday morning as members of East Atlanta's Brownwood Park Community Garden, Park Pride and Turner Broadcasting employees got together to expand the garden by adding new plots. The project which doubles the garden is part of a community-giving initiative connected to the legacy of Martin Luther King. It was originally set for mid-January but the snowstorm that blanketed Atlanta nixed it until the last two week-ends.

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