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Michelle Obama visits ATL
Feb 11th
First Lady Michelle Obama came to Atlanta today to celebrate the first anniversary of her “Let’s Move” campaign to reduce childhood obesity.
Mrs. Obama arrived in Atlanta around 12:45 this afternoon. Just hours after appearing on The Today Show with Matt Lauer.
North Point Church in Alpharetta was Obama’s first stop, where crowds lined the streets to hear her speak .
She also visited Burgess-Peterson Academy, a public elementary school in East Atlanta, to tout the school’s work on promoting healthy eating.
“I’m honored,” Jackson said. “It’s exciting she knows about me and Burgess-Peterson Academy. It says what I’m doing for the children is actually working.”
Here goes a timeline of Mrs. Obama’s
12:55 p.m. — First lady Michelle Obama’s plane has reportedly landed at Dobbins.
1:10 p.m. — Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Sen. Johnny Isakson, among other dignitaries, are at Atlanta’s Burgess-Peterson Academy to greet First lady Michelle Obama. The White House, however, will not allow the press to see the first lady’s arrival and greeting. We’re being taken to a second-grade classroom, which will be Obama’s first stop.
1:35 p.m. — Michelle Obama arrives at Megan Kiser’s classroom at Atlanta’s Burgess-Peterson Academy, having been greeted by two of Kiser’s second-graders bearing a blueberry-laden fruit basket.
1:45 p.m. — The first lady is eating blueberries with the kids. It’s their snack of the day.
2 p.m. — Is now visiting with a kindergarten class, which is closed to the press. The second-graders she just visited practically tripped over each other to give her a hug, which she dispensed freely. She said President Obama loves to snack on figs. And that the kids need to read a lot and work really hard if they, too, want to be president.
2:15 p.m. — Michelle Obama just finished visiting the school’s organic garden, asking students what was growing (collard greens, potato, bok choy) and how they kept it growing (rain barrels).
2:20 p.m. — Has now left Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, and is headed to Alpharetta for a speech later this afternoon.
3:43 p.m. — Singing of National Anthem at North Point Community Church
3:46 p.m. — Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is led to his seat in front.
3:54 p.m. — Robert Franklin, president of Morehouse College, arrives along with former surgeon general David Satcher.
Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club may be coming to Atlanta
Feb 3rd
Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Desiree Gonzalez and Juan Pérez first opened the 40/40 club in Manhattan in 2003.
However the restaurant business is not what it once was, and due to financial troubles and label disputes, not all of the chains were able to survive.
With the times changing, Jay-Z and his cohorts have decided to team up with Delaware North Companies, a hospitality and food service company, to open up 40/40 bars in airports around the country where customers commute daily.
Delaware North Companies operates dozens of national and regional brand restaurants and shops at more than 20 major U.S. airports.
Alex Askew, co-founder of the Black Culinarian Alliance, explains,
“The amount of traffic present in an airport justifies the business case for operating a food establishment there.
The cost may be higher but customers are always guaranteed,” he continues.“I don’t think that is the exact same clientele you will find on the airport side. But the frequent business traveler will likely be the customer with a color blind (that it is owned by a hip hop artist) traffic flow.”
The 40/40 Club’s website hinted that Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Tokyo and Macau are some of the initial cities being targeted this year as cites for the lounge.
Jay-Z stopped by Atlanta for a visit with Mayor Kasim Reid and Young Jeezy.
Near riot breaks out in ATL over section 8
Aug 13th
A near riot took place in Atlanta after city officials staged an event to hand out applications for section 8 housing.
Police estimate that 30,000 people showed up at an East Point shopping mall in hopes of being placed on a waiting list for federal housing assistance.
The number was three times what officials expected and only 13,000 applications were handed out to those waiting.
11Alive reports that a line for the applications began two days ago and grew into hundreds of people late Tuesday night.
Officials report that some hopeful residents slept outside of the shopping mall that houses popular nightclub Central Station despite being told that the line was unnecessary and everyone would be serviced.
East Atlanta Housing Authority was stationed inside the club and on Wednesday morning when the doors did not open at 9 a.m. as promised, hundreds of people became enraged and a riot nearly took place.
Witnesses report that several children and adults were hospitalized from the heat but no one was seriously injured.
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