Dresden East Civic Association - DECA

Welcome to our Atlanta, Georgia neighborhoods!
8 Communities, 1220 Homes, 1470 Registered Voters

10th Anniversary 1998-2008

Website News
The web site has undergone serious revision, and an upgrade in functionality. If you see any errors, feel free to register, login, and fix it. Or inform the webmaster .

• Check out the National Night Out Flyer - Aug 5 - Details and Map are included!
• There’s more family fun information in the the Deca-Vent Heath Fair Swim and Field Day flyer - Aug 10
• The League of Women Voter’s Election Guide is useful to see who is running Tuesday, July 15. Vote! Note, there are errors in the election dates - July 15 is election day, August 5th is the runoff election
• Our sidebars contain automatically updated info - DECA Yahoo Group postings, the weather, etc. This is part of the new “dynamic” design. Use the top of page menu for navigation.
• Officers and neighborhood representatives, among others, received e-mail addresses tied to the web site. For Example,the president will always be president@decaonline.org.
• Techno-geeky stuff: upgrading the page away from some old HTML that is no longer used. To identify the old code, some pages may have a different background. Within a few days all that will go away as I go through and upgrade manually.

DECA’s Diners Club gatherings to help us take advantage of all the ethnic dining opportunities that Chamblee has to offer (more than 50 different ethnic restaurants within a 4 mile radius of our neighborhood!!!). Read the details and find out where we are meeting this month.

What is DECA?

DECA is a non-profit civic association created to preserve and enhance our neighborhoods. We are guided in our work by overall community interests dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of life for residents in the DECA neighborhoods and surrounding areas. Underlying our association’s existence is the importance of influencing various issues that may impact our neighborhoods, both short and long term. We are very active in DeKalb county affairs through membership on civic-minded boards, commissions, and other groups. We hope there’s a little something on our site for everyone, whether you live in a DECA neighborhood…or plan to in the near future.

Read our By-Laws.

Where is DECA?

DECA is comprised of 8 communities in Northeast DeKalb County, Georgia. We live in an unincorporated portion of DeKalb County, near the City of Chamblee. Our neighborhoods include Appling Heights, Beverly Hills, Frontier Trail, LaVenture Forest, Marlin Acres, Whispering Hills, Dresden Square, and Wakefield Forest. We are located near Dresden Elementary School. Click here to view our local representatives.

In the future, we hope to have online maps of our each of our neighborhoods, so you can see exactly where to find us. In the mean time, you can use MapQuest and type our address as “Dresden Drive and Shallowford” Atlanta, GA.

Thanks to Hasu from Blimpie at the Shallowford Exchange Shopping Center and Matthew at Papa John’s on Buford Highway for supporting our Neighborhood Watch meeting (4/12/08)

Thanks to Publix, Chocolatte, and Blimpie’s at the Shallowford Exchange Shopping Center for supporting our Islands in the Sun project. (4/27/08)

Thanks to Publix (Shallowford Exchange) , and Sam from Chevron Food Mart (Shallowford / Chamble-Tucker) for providing refreshments at the Emergency Preparedness Program, and to the Northwoods Baptist Church for providing the meeting place. (5/10/08)

DECA would like to express THANKS to the Shallowford Publix for its continued support and for the refreshments they provided for our enjoyment at each quarterly meeting. Please remember to support our local businesses, especially the new ones located in the Shallowford Exchange Shopping Center.