The Health Initiative held its 19th annual Garden Party on Sunday, May 17, at the Philip Rush Center to raise funds for the organization and also reward those in the community who are doing incredible work to serve the health care needs of Georgia’s LGBT population.
The Health Initiative programs include everything from providing support groups to breast exams to cultural training for health care providers to care for transgender individuals.
The Healing Angel Award this year went to The Equality Clinic of Augusta, which has made history as the first free LGBT clinic in the country. Their free clinics (in addition to LGBT, they have women’s and Hispanic clinics), all staffed by GRU medical students and staff, set a great example for other medical schools.
Also receiving a Healing Angel Award was Paul Plate, who is retiring as executive director of Positive Impact, an organization that offers mental health counseling and substance abuse counseling to those affected by HIV.
A Church of Scientology member wears a sticker in support of the church’s zoning application for its building at 5395 Roswell Road. The zoning change would settle a three-year-old lawsuit the church filed against the city. The City Council deferred the matter to its July 17 meeting, saying it wanted to give the public more time to review the zoning change.
Bob Adams, left, a spokesman for the Church of Scientology International and Woody Galloway, an attorney representing the church, answer questions after the Sandy Springs City Council voted to defer a zoning change for their building at 5395 Roswell Road.
Robin Beechey, a Sandy Springs Resident, asks the City Council during a June 19 meeting to delay a zoning change requested by the Church of Scientology. The zoning change would settle a three-year old lawsuit, but Beechey said residents did not have enough time to review the plan.
Supporters and opponents of a plan to change the zoning of the Church of Scientology building at 5395 Roswell Road listen to the discussion at the June 19 Sandy Springs City Council meeting. The council deferred the application to its July 17 meeting.
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City of Atlanta Department of Public Works Commissioner Richard Mendoza and Senior Public Works Manager Nursef Kedir address concerns about upcoming road projects during a June 20 meeting at the Masonic Temple in Buckhead.
Photo Courtesy Central Atlanta Progress/Downtown Atlanta
Baby elephant Gabi and his mother Tamar at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, 2007 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
A woman holds her baby at the hospital.
A drawing of a proposed plan to improve the intersection of Spalding Drive at Mount Vernon Road, presented at a community meeting on June 21.
