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DEL.ICIO.USButterfly’s Beijing-bound
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One week from today, I’ll be on a plane to China. As part of the AJC’s Olympics coverage team I’ll be reporting on Atlantans in Beijing, whether for fun or business (or both) during the 2008 Olympic Games.
Guanming Fang, an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, will be among the Atlanta residents I’ll see there.
“I am purely going for the partying, not the sports!” she was quick to point out.
A native of southern China, Fang leads her firm’s China Initiative. she works with U.S. and international companies — particularly Chinese companies — and in 2004, co-founded the Georgia-China Alliance. The nonprofit organization promotes business exchanges between the United States and China.
Fang’s community involvement has included the boards of the National Association of Chinese Americans, Chinese Business Association of Atlanta and Zoo Atlanta.
“Georgia was a little bit behind some of the other states in cultivating a relationship with China,” she said. “We’ve done a nice job catching up.”
Fang will be there with husband Jian Ni and their sons Oliver, 13, and Preston, 8, who are the sports fans in the family. They return Aug. 15, so the boys will have to miss a little school.
“The education they’ll get from the Olympics outweighs the first week of school,” Fang said. “I really want them to experience the excitement and the pride of the Olympics.”
She says the family will cheer for both her native and adopted countries.
“If the U.S. is not playing China, it’ll be easy,” she said. “If they are, I guess we’ll alternate or maybe split the family up. I think we’ll cheer for the underdog.”
If you’re going to Beijing, let me hear from you.
David York, top, is being honored at this year’s New Leash on Life event, being chaired by Sandra Baldwin and Tony Conway. Photo by Jim Fitts.
Pet project
New Leash on Life plans a fourth anniversary cocktail-silent auction bash Nov. 5 at Mason Murer Fine Art, with a preview shopping event Aug. 27 at the Lenox Ralph Lauren.
Sandra Baldwin and Tony Conway are this year’s chairmen. Honorary chairman is David York, founder of Barking Hound Village.
NLL’s goal is reducing metro Atlanta’s homeless pet population by supporting low-cost spay and neutering and adoptions. Info: 404-863-7370, info@newleashonlifega.org or www.newleashonlifega.org.
James Frazier
He’s walking, she’s running
James F. Frazier Jr., one of the founding partners of the Frazier & Deeter CPA and Advisory firm, chairs this year’s Light The Night Walk, benefiting the Georgia chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The event will be Oct. 11 at Centennial Olympic Park. Last year’s walk was supported by over 7,000 walkers and raised $1.4 million to fund research for blood cancers. Frazier hosts a breakfast for interested leaders in Atlanta’s corporate community at 8 a.m. Wednesday at Villa Christina at Perimeter Summit. Call 678-279-2019 or see www.lightthenight.org/ga.
Meanwhile, Rachel Rosenberg and some of her colleagues at Edelman Atlanta have a fun bash planned from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Park Bench in Buckhead. The event features beer, wine and food, a live band and silent auction. Tix are $20 and benefits Team in Training, which raises money for LLS. Rosenberg’s competing in the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in October, her first endurance event. www.parkbenchbuckhead.com.
Jody Abstance and Jan Bennett
Honoring the artists
The Swan Coach House Gallery toasts the artists whose works appear in “Mining the Surface, New Sensibilities in Art Textiles,” with an Aug. 7 reception sponsored by longtime gallery supporter Dorsey Alston Realtors and president Jody Abstance.
Marianne Lambert and Junco Pollack co-curated the exhibit of works by Norma Bradley, Linda Campbel, Andrew Jackson, Bertha Jenkins, Jennifer Jenkins, Carol LeBaron, Lee Malerich, Amelia Netto, Toya Northington, Carla Powell, Margaret Quiggle, Leisa Tich, Tommye Scanlin, Judith Simmons and Whitney Stansell.
The gallery’s new chairwoman is Jan Bennett.
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By Your Yankee Friend
July 30, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this
Good luck in China Jennifer! The people of China won’t know what hit them when the Butterfly flits into town. Dana