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Retired veteran wants bluebirds to feel at home in Metro Atlanta
Two Bridges Park opens
By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Over the past six years, Dunwoody resident Ron Clyne has been on a mission to make the Dunwoody Georgia’s bluebird capital. There’s been no word on whether that’s officially possible or what it would require, but Clyne has singlehandedly made hundreds of bluebirds birdhouses that have been distributed in the community. A former Korean War Army aviation mechanic and retired administrator at Dunwoody High School, Clyne only got into woodworking when he began looking for a hobby after retirement.
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Dunwoody citizens celebrate with a splash By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Dunwoody resident Ron Clyne holds two examples of his handmade bluebird houses, which he’s gifted and sold in north Metro Atlanta for the past six years.
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Above: Officials, kids cut the ribbon and play at the Perimeter Center East site of Two Bridges Park on May 6.
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DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody officials held a ceremony May 6 to mark the opening of Two Bridges Park off Perimeter Center East, bringing park and trail access to thousands of underserved families in the Perimeter area. Two Bridges Park, originally planned to be built three years ago but put on hold due
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to the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first public park built in Perimeter Center and the first in Dunwoody to have a splash pad, officials said. “This is huge,” Parks Director Brent Walker said. “This is our highest-density population area in Dunwoody, there are so many families in this community that have been underserved as far as
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