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The Georgia Department of Public Health reports that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stands at 29,839 and 1294 deaths as of 6:25 p.m. this evening.

Free COVID-19 testing from the Fulton County Board of Health will be available May 6 outside Buckhead’s Tuxedo Pharmacy & Gifts. The testing will be available 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at a Board of Health mobile unit at the pharmacy at 164 West Wiecua Road. The testing is available to anyone, but people are asked to call to check in first by at 404-613-8150. People who go for tests are urged to wear face masks and practice social distancing. For more information about free testing, see the Board of Health website here.

Piedmont Healthcare will participate in two new clinical trials that will investigate therapies for patients who are positive for COVID-19: one that will evaluate the efficacy of the anti-inflammatory drug Gimsilumab and another that will investigate proning, or repositioning patients to improve their oxygen levels. These studies began enrolling patients in early May. Amy Hajari Case, M.D., is Piedmont’s Medical Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Research and principal site investigator for these trials. The trial will consist of 270 participants and is expected to be complete in October. Piedmont is one of 18 sites participating in this study and is the third to be activated. To learn more about the trials, visit https://www.piedmont.org/research/research-home.

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Hospital workers and first responders put themselves at risk and work long shifts in the fight against COVID-19 so we can receive care or stay home and be safe.  We thank them with 8 p.m. cheers, hand-made window and chalk signs and now with a delicious lunch or take-home dinner.

“We started to hear that a meal that was nutritious, delicious and healthy would really mean a lot.  Also, we were seeing reports of the restaurant industry being so impacted,” said, Alex Brown, Emory University Senior Associated Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Engagement.

Emory’s Advancement team is coordinating two large-scale feeding programs that collect donations to boost the morale of health care workers and support staff in emergency rooms, plus police and fire rescue first responders, while also providing stability to the ravaged restaurant industry.

“We are like air traffic controllers – coordinating logistics with restaurants and hospital administrations, handling payments to the restaurants,” Brown said.

Feed the Frontline, which started with direction and funding from the James M. Cox Foundation, the Douglas J. Hertz Family Foundation and R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation has raised more than $900,000 from 900+ individuals, corporations and foundations.

Launched in early April,  19 Atlanta-area hospitals in the Emory Healthcare, Grady, Piedmont, Atlanta VA, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Northside Hospital, Shepherd Center and WellStar health systems plus Atlanta police officers and firefighters – receive lunches twice a week.

Participating restaurants and catering groups include Avalon Catering, Bazati Atlanta, Chez Montier Catering, DAS BBQ, Fifth Group/Bold Catering, Chef Linton and Gina Hopkins, Local Three, Southern Proper Hospitality, and Tamarind Restaurant Group with local ingredients sourced through Georgia Organics and other local producers.

“We are thankful that this critical effort is helping to keep us working while allowing us the opportunity to provide meals and comfort to caregivers on the front lines of this global pandemic,” said Judith Service Montier, Chez Montier Catering Chief Operating Officer.

Feed the Frontline is now delivering 9,500+ meals per week.

“We have funding to run this program through mid-May. We believe we will need to continue it through the end of May,” Brown said, recognizing that the end of the pandemic remains unknown.

The second program, Healthcare Heroes, supplies a take-home dinner for two. State Farm and the Atlanta Hawks Foundation teamed up with UPS and Structor Group to raise almost $500,000 to serve Grady and Emory health care workers as they finished a twelve-hour shift.

“The chefs are taking special care to make sure these meals are comforting in addition to convenient,” Brown said.

Participating restaurants include Miller Union, Storico Fresco and Antico who now provide 5,200 meals per week.

“What’s impressed us so much is how many people essentially want to hug a health care worker – that’s been uplifting,” Brown said.

To make a donation to either program, visit feedthefrontline.emory.edu.

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The storied Druid Hills home of suffragette and Emory University’s first female graduate, Eléonore Raoul, is on the market for $2.7 million.

The home at 870 Lullwater Road was built in 1914 for railroad magnate William Greene Raoul and his family. It was one of the first to be built in what was then the new neighborhood of Druid Hills, designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Sadly, Raoul would pass away before the home’s completion, but his wife, Mary Millen Wadley Raoul, and family, including daughter Eléonore Raoul, moved in upon the home’s completion.

Mary Raoul was active in many community organizations, and founded The Every Saturday Club, which developed free kindergartens in her new home city of Atlanta. Daughter Eléonore Raoul followed her mother’s lead, becoming involved in numerous causes. She served as president of the Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League and Chair of the Fulton and DeKalb County branches of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia. Among her many accomplishments, however, Eléonore is perhaps best known locally as the first woman to be formally enrolled at Emory University.

As the story goes, knowing Chancellor Warren Candler’s objection to women students at Emory, Eléonore walked to the nearby campus while the Chancellor was away and enrolled in Emory University’s Lamar School of Law in 1917. She graduated in 1920, and two years later was named president of the Atlanta League of Women Voters. She married former Emory classmate Harry L. Greene, and the two lived with their three children in the family home at 870 Lullwater Road. In 1979, Emory University established the Eléonore Raoul Trailblazer Award which is given to an Emory Law School alumna who has blazed a trail for others through her own professional and personal endeavors. Eléonore lived to be 94 and died in 1983.

“The opportunity to own this historic estate home designed by Walter T. Downing is an opportunity to own a part of Atlanta’s rich history,” said Kellum Smith of Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta, who has the property listed. “I love that this home is where Eléonore Raoul lived and worked. I can envision her in front of the library fire making plans and writing speeches late into the night to embolden the suffragettes. As a real estate professional who specializes in Druid Hills and Atlanta’s best Intown neighborhoods, I am always surprised by how many people do not know about the Druid Hills neighborhood and its gorgeous architecture and rich history. If you have been to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Fernbank Museum of Natural History or the Druid Hills Golf Club, then you have been to Druid Hills. The neighborhood is also home to the famous “Driving Miss Daisy” house, which is just three doors down from 870 Lullwater Road.”

The Raoul and Greene family home remains as gracious as it did during Eléonore’s long life. The English-style Tudor home on two acres has only had a few owners over its 100+ years, and retains its splendid architectural features. It’s situated on a hilltop with treetop views of the Lullwater Conservation Garden and Bird Sanctuary from the front terrace, library and master suite. Fortunately, the home’s owners have appreciated its many original architectural elements and left them unchanged through the years. The home also boasts seven fireplaces with original surrounds, limestone lintels in the solarium, mahogany pocket doors leading to a private suite of upstairs rooms, slate roof, copper gutters and much more. Outside, the rear of the home includes a private courtyard, guest house, fire pit, and an English-style herb and flower garden. Landscape architect Ed Castro designed the grounds in keeping with the home’s history.

For more photos and information about the home, visit this link.

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Project South, the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta  and Mutual Aid Liberation Center have partnered with Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) to offer free drive-through and walk-up COVID-19 testing at 9 Gammon Ave. SE.

The new testing site prioritize the neighborhoods in and around South Atlanta – especially low-income Black families, elders, and those who do not have access to healthcare – but is free and open to all.

The testing site will continue for four weeks. CORE, the nonprofit created by actor Sean Penn, is also operating a testing site at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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The Korn Ferry Tour announced today additional modifications and details regarding the restart of the 2020 schedule and a fall calendar of events that will be part of a one-time, combined 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour season. Included in the fall series of tournaments is the Savannah Golf Championship, which will be contested the week of September 28-October 4 at The Landings Club – Deer Creek Course.
 
The 2020 Savannah Golf Championship, which was originally scheduled for the week of March 30-April 5, was postponed on March 17 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is now one of five tournaments that will make up the Korn Ferry Tour’s new fall schedule.
 
“We are excited to announce this new date for the Savannah Golf Championship as we look to bring Korn Ferry Tour golf back to our city in 2020,” said Tournament Director Cheyenne Overby. “We appreciate the ongoing support of our partners, The Landings Club and volunteers as we work towards tournament week, knowing we will only contest this event if deemed safe to do so under the guidance of leading public health authorities.”
 
The announcement of a fall schedule comes after the PGA TOUR announced last week that, due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancelation or postponement of 13 events from the 2019-20 TOUR Season, eligibility has been extended for exempt 2019-20 PGA TOUR members for the 2020-21 season. These adjustments will result in the Korn Ferry Tour not having a graduating class in 2020; however, the TOUR has established a performance benefit for the top 10 from the Korn Ferry Tour points list following the conclusion of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance. Those players will be granted access into all PGA TOUR additional events for the 2020-21 season.
 
The newly created 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour schedule that will bridge two seasons will conclude with 25 PGA TOUR cards awarded at the 2021 WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by KraftHeinz, with an additional 25 cards awarded at the conclusion of the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Finals.
 
With six events completed through the El Bosque Mexico Championship by INNOVA, the remaining 2020 schedule – subject to change – now consists of 23 events. Korn Ferry Tour events to be contested in 2021 as part of the combined 2020-21 schedule will be announced later this year.
 
The restart to the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour season will begin as previously announced with the Korn Ferry Challenge at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The event will now be one of four new events in the first six weeks back to play that have been created by the Tour to make up for the cancelation or postponement of events affected by COVID-19.