Making sense of Monday
Sept. 30 — Today’s 1:10 p.m. doubleheader between the Braves and Mets at Truist Park will decide both teams’ postseason fate. The Braves need one win to clinch the final Wild Card spot. (ESPN2, 93.7 FM)
🌤️ Mostly sunny and 79° today.
HELENE AFTERMATH
⚠️ Metro Atlanta continues to recover from the impact of Hurricane Helene. The death toll in the state rose to 17 over the weekend.
➡ Parts of hard-hit Western North Carolina remain cut off from rescuers as the region reels from Helene’s destruction. Asheville reported at least 30 people killed due to the storm. N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper warned that the death toll will rise with hundreds of people still unaccounted for.
“We have biblical devastation,” Ryan Cole, an emergency official in Buncombe County told the BBC. “This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen.”
🫶 If you want to help, experts say that cash donations are the most efficient, and these charities have direct operations that support victims of Helene: BeLoved Asheville, American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen, or The Salvation Army.
LOCAL NEWS
💨 A chemical fire at BioLab in Conyers prompted the evacuation of about 17,000 residents. The incident, which began early Sunday morning, closed part of I-20. Officials urged those who didn’t evacuate to shelter in place.
🚰 Atlanta issued a boil water advisory early this morning for areas south of MLK Drive and several nearby cities due to a failure at the Adamsville Pumping Station. Affected areas may experience low water pressure.
🚑 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital officially opened Sunday with the transfer of 300 children from Egleston Hospital in a 12-hour ambulance caravan.
🎩 Damsel, a cabaret supper club, closed at The Works after just six months in business at the Underwood Hills development.
🏈 The Falcons beat the Saints on a last-second, 58-yard field goal by Younghoe Koo.
🏈 Georgia slipped to No. 5 in the new AP Top 25 poll after losing to Alabama, who moved to No. 1.
ELSEWHERE
🎗️ Kris Kristofferson, the U.S. Army Ranger who became a legendary singer-songwriter and actor, died on Saturday at 88. His songs became hits for others, including Janis Joplin’s posthumous No. 1 “Me and Bobby McGee.”
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• Remembering Jenny Pruitt
• Vietnam War Memorial
• Atlanta Civic Circle
• Global Headlines
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• Look & Listen
Have a great week,
Collin & Sammie
🍷 Uncork and unwind at the Sandy Springs Wine Festival on Sun., Oct. 6.Enjoy an afternoon sampling highly rated wines from across the globe. Taste robust reds, delicate whites, and more. Small bites and live music are included. Get your tickets here. SPONSOR MESSAGE
1. Remembering real estate icon Jenny Pruitt
🎗️ Atlanta real estate giant Jenny Pruitt died Friday after a battle with cancer. She was 85.
A third-generation Atlantan, Pruitt was considered an integral player in the growth and development of metro Atlanta over the last four decades. She began her real estate career in 1968 before establishing Jenny Pruitt & Associates in 1988.
In 2007, she and her business partner, David Boehmig, opened Atlanta Fine Homes – Sotheby’s International Realty. The company’s 575 agents are among the most accomplished real estate professionals in metro Atlanta, with more than $3.7 billion in sales in 2023.
“Jenny Pruitt was a trailblazer in real estate, had a heart and compassion for all, and was committed to the best for those she led. Her family, friends, and Atlanta will miss her greatly,” Council for Quality Growth President and CEO Michael Paris said in a statement.
➳ Read more about Pruitt’s accomplishments here.
Get Your Tickets to Party on the PATH
SPONSORED BY LIVABLE BUCKHEAD
🎉 On Sun., Oct. 6, enjoy an evening of live music, delicious food, and fun at the intersection of two Buckhead landmarks – PATH400 and the Miami Circle gallery district. Make plans to attend Party on the PATH and enjoy tapas, sangria, and dancing to the sounds of 3rd Stream Big Band’s explosive mix of rock, soul, and R&B.
General admission tickets are $65 each. VIP tickets include a pre-event cocktail hour with an open bar and are $85 each. Proceeds from the event support Livable Buckhead, a nonprofit organization working to ensure the long-term viability and prosperity of the Buckhead community.
2. Vietnam War Memorial to be unveiled in Dunwoody’s Brook Run Park
🇺🇸 The Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association and the Vietnamese American Community of Georgia will dedicate a new Vietnam War Memorial on Sat., Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. in Brook Run Park
The dedication ceremony was announced at the Sept. 24 Dunwoody City Council meeting by John Butler, the project director for the AVVBA.
“There is a deep desire among the Vietnamese American people and the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam to honor both the South Vietnamese soldiers and the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives fighting for freedom from Communism in Vietnam,” said John Butler, project director for the AVVBA. “We can’t wait to unveil and share this important and meaningful memorial.”
➡️ Read more about the memorial here.
3. Cobb, Gwinnett face big-city housing problems
VIA ATLANTA CIVIC CIRCLE
🏡 In the years before the Atlanta Braves packed up and moved to Cobb County, a mammoth mixed-use development like The Battery would have struck many Cobb residents as distastefully out of scale for their historically suburban and rural community.
Mid-rise apartment blocks stacked atop restaurants and shops, some affordable housing units scattered here and there, and an audacious skyscraper jutting up from the wooded Cumberland area — in other words, real development density? Forget it.
But times are changing.
➡ Read more in this story from Sean Keenan at Atlanta Civic Circle.
3. 4. Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen; Mexico inaugurates first female president
🇮🇱🇱🇧🇮🇷 In the days after it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Israel continued to attack the terrorist organization’s outposts and operatives in Lebanon. Yesterday, Israel bombed Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen.
🇳🇵 Nepal has closed schools for three days as the death toll from historic landslides approaches 200. An airport in the Himalayan capital of Kathmandu measured nearly 10 inches of rain that caused devastating flooding.
🇦🇹 Austria’s far-right Freedom Party won the national election with 28.8% of the vote. The victory marks a significant shift in Austrian politics, but forming a coalition government may prove challenging.
🇲🇽 Mexico, which has one of the world’s highest femicide rates, will inaugurate its first female president tomorrow. Claudia Sheinbaum, a far-left populist who’s a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, is also the country’s first president with Jewish heritage.
🇯🇵 Japan swears in a new prime minister after a surprise vote that beat out the country’s first female candidate. Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s former Defense Minister, gained support by proposing an Asian version of the NATO regional security alliance.
🇬🇭 Ghana is threatened by a nationwide lockdown in response to illegal mining that’s poisoning water supplies and undermining labor unions.
🇨🇳 China celebrates 75 years since revolutionary leader Mao Zedong declared the end of civil war with Nationalist forces. Festivities come amidst growing economic woes for the world’s second-largest economy.
🇳🇿 Roughly 6,000 people in New Zealand set a new record for the world’s largest haka, an indigenous Māori war dance made famous by the All Blacks rugby team. (See if you can spot American TV host Conan O’Brien, director Taika Waititi, and boxer David Tua in the crowd.)
🇲🇽 Mexico won both the men’s and women’s tournaments at FIFA’s Homeless World Cup in Seoul, South Korea.
🗓️ Learn why adversaries of the United States are leading the charge to dethrone the U.S. dollar at a World Affairs Council of Atlanta Members Forum Salon: Crypto, De-Dollarization and the Future of Money on Tues., Oct 15 at 6 p.m.
🎉 Don’t miss Party on the PATH, an evening of live music, delicious food, and fun benefiting Livable Buckhead’s programs to create a vibrant community where people want to live, work, and play. On Oct. 6 at Eclipse di Luna, it includes tapas, sangria, and dancing to the sounds of 3rd Stream Big Band. Buy tickets today. SPONSOR MESSAGE
5. Nostalgic TV pods
If you love classic TV as much as we do, then these podcasts will help feed your nostalgia urge with remembrances, cast interviews, and more.
🎙️ NPR’s Fresh Air looks back at 25 years of “The West Wing,” the hit White House drama from Aaron Sorkin with interviews and behind-the-scenes stories.
🎧 Actor John Cato’s That’s Classic podcast talks with cast members from “Father Knows Best” and “Leave it to Beaver” to “Little House on the Prairie” and “The Waltons.”
🎙️ M*A*S*HCast takes a deep dive – episode by episode – into the beloved Korean War dramedy that was a staple of 70s television.
🎧 Two Sisters and a TV is a fond, fun, and personal look at classic TV through the years, most recently “227,” “The Bionic Woman,” and the funny game show “Match Game.”
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