(AUGUSTA, GA) The Augusta Housing & Community Development Department is holding a series of presentations to Augusta city employees on home onwership in Laney Walker/Bethlehem. Wednesday, May 2, and May 9 from noon to 1 pm at 503 Greene Street (City Hall) in the Commission chambers. Lunch will be provided.
www.laneywalkerbethlehem.com
(AUGUSTA, GA) The Morris Museum of Art launches its 19th annual Porter Fleming Literary Competition, which recognizes outstanding fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Writers age 18 and older who reside in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina are invited to enter. The deadline for submissions is July 13, 2012. The competition awards cash prizes totaling $7,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be found on the museum website
www.themorris.org/porterfleming.html.
(AUGUSTA, GA) Laney Walker/Bethlehem is being showcased this summer in Washington, DC at the national Neighborhood Revitalization Conference. Chester Wheeler, Director of Augusta’s Housing Department, and Jesse Wiles, President of APD, which serves as the project manager for Laney Walker/Bethlehem are both featured in a presentation on regenerating the American city.
(AUGUSTA, GA) The Georgia Health Sciences Cancer Center has been granted three-year accreditation with commendation by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Accreditation followed an on-site evaluation. Medical care and continued development of the Georgia Health Sciences Center are cornerstones in Augusta’s economic development. To read more about this commendation, go to www.augustatomorrow.org and http://news.georgiahealth.edu/.
(AUGUSTA, GA) The concept of some type of work/live/exhibit space for artists in Augusta’s urban core was explored this past week in a series of community meetings with the non-profit Minneapolis developer ArtSpace. For more information:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-04-25/artspace-receives-positive-feedback-augusta-artists-community-meeting
(AUGUSTA, GA) Historic Augusta is holding its 8th annual Downtown Loft Tour, May 4 and 5 and its annual Cotton Ball dinner on May 17.
www.historicaugusta.org