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Atlanta home contest to provide energy relief for winner

July 20, 2011

Atlanta is getting into the home makeover business.

SHINE, Atlanta's residential energy efficiency rebate program, will not only help homeowners become more energy-efficient, but will give one of them a $10,000 home energy makeover that will increase the overall comfort of their home and reduce their energy bills.

The 2011 Home Energy Makeover contest will run through Aug. 15. Contest entrants must be Atlanta or city of Decatur single-family homeowners.

Information: www.homeenergymakeovers.net. Atlanta 404-954-8500. Decatur 678-553-6577.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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