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DeKalb hosts Family Fun Day in Lithonia

By Mark Niesse
Aug 7, 2014

A DeKalb County event featuring food, music, games and information about county initiatives is being held Saturday at the Bransby Outdoor YMCA.

The Community Education Family Fun Day, hosted by Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May and the DeKalb Board of Commissioners, will include educational information about recycling and grease disposal.

The event will be held from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 1185 Rock Chapel Road in Lithonia, and residents are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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