Remembering by Doing at Kittredge Park

As part of Hands On Atlanta's 9/11 Day of Service, area volunteers helped clean up Kittredge Park to help bring it closer to what is envisioned in its master plan.

Perhaps it was meant to be like this: Sept. 11, 2011, a beautiful, clear, hot day in Atlanta, the kind of day that tells people to get out and do something, make something, be something. In this case, Friends of Kittredge Park, Hands on Atlanta and Emory University teamed up to spend this solemn day cleaning up Kittredge Park, getting it closer to the envisioned structure and uses of the area. Kittredge Park is hidden down a road that straddles the DeKalb International Student Center, formerly Kittredge Magnet School, on one side and Adams Stadium on the other. The bulk of the park, including a small pool and two baseball diamonds, is completely invisible from bustling North Druid Hills Road. The park is quiet, heavily forested and has a …

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St. Pius Wrestlers to Help Commemorate Fallen Sept. 11 First Responders

Several members of the team will participate in the Dunwoody-Manhattan Twenty-Six Story Memorial Stair Climb at The Manhattan Condominiums in Dunwoody on Saturday.

Several members of the wrestling team at St. Pius X Catholic High School will be participating in the Dunwoody-Manhattan Twenty-Six Story Memorial Stair Climb on Saturday at The Manhattan Condominiums in Dunwoody.  The event is in memory of the 343 firefighters and 60 police officers who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. “One of my goals for our wrestling program this year is to participate in a meaningful, charitable event as a team. I want this year to be special and memorable, not only with success in competition, but because we live out the mission of our school and Catholic faith in a tangible way," head wrestling coach David Sabino said in a statement. "Commemorating the 10th …

Emory to Remember Sept. 11 With Week of Programs

Panels will include speakers who survived or are connected to the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Remembering Sept. 11: Brittany Harper

Part of a nationwide patchwork of remembrances and thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Brittany Harper was sitting in a high school classroom in West Point, MS, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. It was the beginning of her senior year. She was headed to college the next year. She knew she wanted to work in an industry that allowed her to help people. But she said she spent that day with her classmates, watching the devastation unfold on television. "[Sept. 11] helped to, I guess, focus my desire to help people," said Harper, who lives in the Briarcliff area. "People made themselves available whether it was donating their time or donating their money or donating their goods. ... It was pretty inspirational and it was pretty heartwarming to watch and experience that.” Now, Harper works at Hands On Atlanta, an Atlanta nonprofit…

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