Parks Coalition picks up $ award

From the "Around Town" column of the Marietta Daily Journal on Saturday, July 26, 2008 by Around Town columnists Bill Kinney, Otis Brumby, and Joe Kirby

THE PUSH for a second parks-bond referendum got two big shots in the arm this week. The first came on Tuesday, when the Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to add the $40 million proposal to the November General Election ballot.

The second came Friday with the news that the Cobb Parks Coalition is the recipient of one of six $7,500 Park Pride Community Awards handed out this year in conjunction with Turner Broadcasting's Peachtree TV (Channel 17). In addition, the Coalition's efforts will be profiled in a 30-second Public Service Announcement on Channel 17 that will air three to five times per day starting in October. The PSA will be filmed by Peachtree, probably at the Hyde Farm in east Cobb.

"This takes care of all our money concerns and then some," said Coalition spokesman Paul Paulson. "We won't need to pass the hat at any future Coalition meetings."