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BLUEBIRD HOUSES

During the community workshop process, the neighborhood requested that birdhouses be installed for educational purposes. This design element was incorporated into the original concept plan. After reviewing the conceptual plan, Georgia Power informed the Georgia ASLA CAT Team that Georgia Power was interested in installing the bird houses for Hands-On Atlanta Day. Hands-On Atlanta Day is a city wide volunteer event that incorporates community based projects.
 
In August, representatives from the CAT Team, Georgia Power, the Riverside Community and Garden Hills Elementary School gathered to formulate a plan for implementing the bird house installation. Georgia Power purchased 64 bluebird house kits and David Steward with Georgia Power's Corporate Relations Department assembled them in his spare time. While the houses were being assembled representatives from Georgia Power, AURP, and the CAT Team meet with Riverside Community Youth Group organizers to identify neighborhood children who were interested in painting and taking responsibility for the care of the houses.
 

On October 4th, volunteers came together to auger holes and install 64 post set in concrete footings.
 
While the volunteers worked on the posts, children from the Riverside
Community gathered on site to paint 14 of the bluebird houses.
 
A program has been established with the Garden Hills Elementary School to continue to monitor the progress of the bluebird houses and to educate the students about the environment and the importance of the river.

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1997 Landscape Architecture Foundation Demonstration Project 
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Last updated on 13 February 1998