7th Edition: Winter 2024

Updates from our Ward 3 City Council Member, Travis Lindley.

Sixth Edition: Fall 2023 

I’m hoping this update finds you well as we wrap up a busy summer and look toward the fall and a new year. As promised, I want to update you on the many happenings for our great city.  

Ward 3 Update

Smyrna is on the move! Smyrna is great place to live; the energy in our community is all around us.

Hey WPN,Each year we hold an officer election for WPN, and it’s that time of year again.

The nomination window is open now through October 21st

Hey Neighbors,

I hope this email brings you lots of smiles and good vibes. I want to share some big news that's close to my heart.

As we near the completion of the sidewalk on Roswell St, and the removal of the curved intersection next to the cookie store, and music school I thought it was a great time to express our deepest gratitude to…

If you have passed by the Pergola in the last couple of days, you’ve likely noticed an incredible makeover and/or one of our neighbors hard at work pressure washing and cleaning the pergola, sidewalk, benches, trash cans, brick and stone. It looks great, AND, the Pergola Project is just getting started.

We are looking for volunteers to help with a small project to keep the pergola in good looking shape.

We are so excited to share that our very own Liz Davis has been recognized on a National level as a recipient of the Lady Bird Johnson award.

Would you be interested? Let us know.

Who doesn’t love a good Happy Hour with friends and neighbors? We’re bringing back quarterly Happy Hour again to Williams Park. We’ll open more dates if needed but wanted to start small.

Happy Hours have been a long standing tradition in Williams Park, dating back to the late 1800’s. No, I can’t prove that, but surely those folks liked to party too, right? Speaking of,

We’ve unfortunately made the tough decision to cancel the Chili Cook-Off that was scheduled for October 29th. Our survey respondents overwhelmingly stated that they were not going to be able to attend. October proved too difficult to schedule a get together without scheduling conflicts.

While I’m sad to have to cancel an event, I’m very proud of our social chair, Emily DeVane, and the rest of our board. Both Wine Down Wednesday’s and our Zucca night were big hits. Each of our Adopt-A-Miles were well attended, and we had good support for some of our virtual events like walk the chalk, and picture day. We may be on to something with the smaller events and will look forward to hosting more of these this coming year…..

A few of you asked for it, and we listened. We’ve had several requests to bring back the Chili Contest, and we’re excited to make that happen for you.

Unfortunately, we’ve had ZERO people sign up to bring Chili. If you’re putting two and two together, you can’t have a Chili cook-off without Chili.

Hey WPN,Each year we hold an officer election for WPN, and it’s that time of year again.

The nomination window is open now through October 24th.

What a great turnout for Adopt A Mile this morning. It was so much fun seeing some new faces and familiar faces. We cleaned the streets of Spring, Roswell, Mathews, Whitfield, Gilbert, Marston, Dixie, Highland, & our nemesis, HAWTHORNE.

Adopt A Mile - Neighborhood Cleanup, Happy Hour, and The Chili Cook-Off, are all happening in October.

Cool breeze. Long sleeves. Yes, please! Check out all the things happening in Williams Park and the City of Smyrna in the month of October.

We had a great time WPN. Thank you for coming out.

Robert enjoys making both light- hearted and meaningful pieces. Among the former, whose titles often involve word play, is a recent audience par-ticipation piece called “Fire in the Corn Hole,” pictured at bottom left. It’s very much like the common game of tossing a bean bag through a hole. In Robert’s version, though, when a player successfully targets a fire- proof “bean bag,” the modest flame atop a stand pipe explodes like a flamethrower and fire shoots out of the “hole.” Among the more meaningful pieces, “Burnt Offering,” which incorporates both fire and water, speaks to the beauty of a sincerely given and/or received gift. His most recent piece, and the largest to date, is nine feet tall and eight feet wide. “Singing Serpent” takes the form of a fire breath- ing snake rising above a peace sign and coiling around flowers. Is the beast pro- tecting these symbols or smashing and burning them? Robert leaves it to the viewer to choose one of those narra- tives, devise a third story, or do entirely without.

What do all of these things have in common? Well once upon a time, in Smyrna’s Oldest Neighborhood, the neighbors would get together often. They would host parties and get together for Happy Hours. They would hold contests for best Chili, best ‘stache, best dessert. They dressed as pirates and even had pet dragons. Did you know that Whitfield Parc was once best known as the “Pipe Farm”, and before that Valley Woods?

Check out the latest Ward 3 update from our Councilman, Travis Lindley.