📢 How Athens wants to fix homelessness

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🍔 Historic Eats at White Tiger Gourmet

Tucked away in Athens' Boulevard District, White Tiger Gourmet serves up smoked barbecue, burgers, sandwiches, and vegetarian favorites inside a restored 100-year-old neighborhood grocery store. The laid-back local spot is known for its historic charm, pet-friendly patio, and menu that offers something for both meat lovers and vegetarians.

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🌲 Choose Your Place While the Choice Is Still Yours

Most people never get to decide where they spend their later years. They wait, something happens, a fall or a hard diagnosis, and then their kids are scrambling to move them anywhere with an open bed during the worst week of everyone's life.

The Landing Senior Living exists so you never have to do it that way.

You move into your own one or two bedroom apartment while you're independent and well, on your own terms, into a place run by people who own it themselves.

The Landing is locally owned, not a corporate chain, and it staffs well above what Georgia requires.

One family member wrote about her friend: "She has blossomed! Her care is exactly that, care! The staff treat her like a treasured member of their family! Her health has improved, and we are comforted by the care she receives here every day!"

Because they grow with you, this is the only move you have to make. If your needs ever change, assisted living, transitional care, and memory care are right here in the same community, with the same people who already know you. You're never uprooted, and your family never has to pass you off to strangers.

You keep your independence and your dignity, and they keep watch. Come see for yourself whether it's the right move.

Thank you to our local sponsors who help make this publication possible!

📢 Community Forum Focuses on Homelessness

The Athens Homeless Coalition recently hosted a “Responding to Homelessness” forum at First United Methodist Church to bring the community together for a conversation about homelessness in Athens. The event highlighted current challenges, shared local data, and discussed ways the community can better support people experiencing homelessness.

Why It Matters: Addressing homelessness requires collaboration, and community forums help connect residents with local organizations working toward long-term solutions.

Read more here.

🐾 Read to Rover | Athens Library | Athens | 7/30 | More Read your favorite stories to friendly therapy dogs in this tail-wagging event!

🐍 Southeastern Snake Encounter | Sandy Creek Nature Center | Athens | 7/30 | More Learn about native snakes of the Southeast through an educational program featuring live snake ambassadors and expert presentations.

🧜 The Little Mermaid | Oconee Civic Center | Athens | 7/31 | More Dive under the sea with a live stage production of Disney's The Little Mermaid.

🎵 Swampy’s Summer Swamptacular | Hendershots | Athens | 7/29 | More Camp Amped bands take the stage for a special end-of-summer showcase!

🎶 High Note Friday with Joe Cat | Classic Citiva – Eastside | Athens | 7/31 | More Kick off the weekend with a free live performance from Athens Americana musician Joe Cat during High Note Friday.

🎸 Rick Fowler Band & Michael Guthrie | 40 Watt | Athens | 7/31 | More Enjoy an evening of live rock and blues as the Rick Fowler Band and Michael Guthrie take the stage at Southern Brewing Company.

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