MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated by Congress as a national day of service - “a day on, not a day off.”  Please join us in service at the Underwood Hills Park, helping to spruce things up in preparation for a tree planting event and upcoming improvements to the playground area and lower field.  Tasks include picking up litter and broken equipment, clearing downed branches, pressure washing the playground steps and covering graffiti.  Please bring your own work gloves and water.  If anyone has a chainsaw and/or a pressure washer that you'd be willing to bring and operate, please email park@underwoodhills.org.  And if you can’t join us at the event, please consider picking up any rubbish around your house or on your street.  Any little bit helps!

“Everybody can be great - because anybody can serve.”  - Martin Luther King, Jr.  ​

The Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs is seeking feedback on the upcoming Atlanta Moving Forward Bond 2.0 Public Art Program from all Atlanta residents!
The City of Atlanta plans to commission new public artworks in all twelve council districts and need your input.
"Please answer this short survey to guide the direction of these projects. We are interested thoughts on locations, mediums, and themes for these future artworks."
 
Survey Link: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7hOqk2O99OzQLZOCZtXWzhXHVzHjtkOipU3BCfw4HJiuWmA/viewform?usp=sf_link
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Community Service Hours are a requirement for Atlanta Public Schools and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at North Atlanta High School. We LOVE having teens join in neighborhood activities! :-)
UHNA is now registered with APS on myvoluntier.com to track and verify students community service hours.
UHNA Teen Committee is for teens to propose, lead and organize projects in Underwood Hills.
Teens can join any eligible UHNA activity such as Park Cleanup, Tree Planting, to fulfill community services hours.
In addition Teen Committee exists specifically for teens to propose, organize and implement ideas THEY want to do. Do you or a teen you know have ideas for community benefit in Underwood Hills?
We'd love to hear their ideas, and can help with planning, organising, publicising, funding and implementing their vision. Contact uhadmin@underwoodhills.org or via myvoluntier.com
Previous projects include Pollinator Garden, Swing Chairs, Pavilion Cleanup, Firefly Census, Adopt a Steam.

Kilometer Kids Underwood Hills Trackstars registration is now OPEN for Coaches for Spring 2023! 
If you'd like to be an assistant coach please register now using this link, find Underwood Hills team, click "Register" and advise what days and times suit you via email. One or two days is fine.

Participant registration will open later in January. We'll confirm times by then.
The Spring 2023 season will begin the week of February 27 and run for 10 weeks through mid-May.
Note:
One big change for 2023 is that Kilometer Kids is shifting to be an elementary-only program (K-5th grade), but there are plenty of choices to customize the program to what works best for the group:

• A hybrid two-day/one-day-a-week curriculum 
• Selective mileage goal for participants (26.2 miles or 13.1 miles)
• Digital mileage tracking (Fitness Finder’s EZ Scan QR code technology)

Atlanta Track Club provides the curriculum, swag, training, coach certification etc.
If you have any questions about the program, please reach out to Madison Hafitz by phone (404-231-9064 ex. 125) or email (mhafitz@atlantatrackclub.org).

Play Group starts up this Friday, January 13, 2023 4:00pm-6:00pm
Underwood Hills Park, 1845 Harper St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA
Most Fridays during school term.
​Refreshment provided by UHNA.
Sign up at https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090d4da8ac2da5fd0-underwood1 or email play@underwoodhills.org

In the past 2-week period (Dec 17 - 30), 43 incidents were reported in Beat 204.  Of those, two occurred in the area we patrol.

• On December 24th, I stopped a juvenile walking from Ridgeway to Woodland Hills.  The city ordinance for curfew is 12:00 am - 6:00 am on Friday and Saturday.  It was 19 degrees at midnight.  The juvenile was found to have been walking home from work.  He was given a ride home to Collier Road.
• On December 26th, a resident on Woodland Hills self-reported online missing property.

From Felicia Lovick & Laquita Benton
Morehouse School of Medicine
Community Engagement Liaisons;

With the current uprising of triple threat cases of COVID-19, RSV, and the FLU my colleague Laquita Benton and I are representing, the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN) as COVID-19 Community Engagement Liaison for the state of Georgia in support of the Morehouse School of Medicine’s initiative. We are coordinating a strategic and structured national network of national, state/territorial/tribal, and local public and community-based organizations that will mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minority, and rural populations. 


For more information about NCRN visit and partner with us, at www.covid-resources.org. 
These resources are for all areas just simply input the zip codes you may need a resource for and it will populate the locations.
 
Happy New Year,
Felicia Lovick & Laquita Benton
Morehouse School of Medicine
Community Engagement Liaisons
felicialovick@gmail.com
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Did you know most APS elementary schools around Underwood Hills have Georgia Pre-K programs?  The lottery application is available 1/16-3/27.  The drawing takes place on 3/27.  Please visit https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/67411 for more information.