Focus Atlanta is a locally produced community affairs program.  It airs once a week on Sundays at Noon.  The half-hour program tackles subjects that affect our community in an unobtrusive and entertaining manner. While targeting the top 10 issues concerning citizens of metro Atlanta, we explore Atlanta's concerns about health, drug prevention, crime, cultural identity, AIDS and consumer relations.

Through interviews and packages we help the viewer learn more about upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, nonprofit organizations, and ways they can become better citizens. We have featured authors, musicians, and artists as well as physicians, activists, and politicians. Some exciting past guests include Mayor Shirley Franklin, John Smoltz, Dawnn Lewis and Usher.

The Host of Focus Atlanta is Keisha Lancelin, CW69's Public Affairs Director. In addition to producing the program she maintains relationships with service organizations in an effort to establish CW69 as an ongoing venue of support to the community.


This Week On Focus Atlanta:

Spa Week Giveaway

Spa Week is giving away twenty-eight spas in twenty-eight different cities across North America. Most spa-goers say the #1 reason they go to the spa is for relaxation, so we've worked with many of our prestigious spas to create the national Wellness Giveaway campaign, seeking to remind everyone of the extensive wellness benefits of the spa, firm daily energy and heart to long-term cancer prevention. To kick-off a bright 2010 of health, balance and longevity, one of 28 winners will have the chance to represent national wellness in their region by winning a luxurious day at the spa. In Atlanta, Faceologic Spa is offering a sixty minute Elite Facial, Facial Upgrade Casmara serum, fifty minute Swedish therapeutic massage, Brow Wax, Brow Tint, and Lash Extender product. For more information, visit their website at www.spaweek.com.

Help for Adoptees-Researching Family Records

On December 4, 2009, a seventy-two year old woman met her sister for the very first time, both victims of the infamous "Memphis Baby Thief" Georgia Tann. Devy Bruch, of Peachtree, grew up in a life of privilege on a sprawling farm in Pennsylvania. She always knew she was adopted, but it would take Bruch more than seventy years to piece together the full story of her birth. Not until earlier last year did Bruch discover she was ripped from her teenage mother at birth as part of an infamous baby-snatching scheme operating out of Memphis, or that she had a sixty-six year old half sister she never knew, Pat Wikes. Bruch and Wikes reunited for the first time that day last December in Tennessee. In an emotional reunion, the two sisters caught up on decades of memories. Bruch hopes her story can help other adoptees with ties to Memphis and the Tennessee Children's Home Society as well as the many others who are searching for family members.

Grease Recycling Company

Green Grease Inc. is a full-service recycling company dedicated to keeping the environment clean through the collection and reuse of cooking oil and other recyclable products into alternative energy sources. As demonstrated in its partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency's Waste Wise Program, the company's leadership commits to effect change in the public's disposal and recycling habits one individual at a time. It is the only company in Metro Atlanta to collect used cooking oil at curb side. The company collects the oil at no charge to the homeowners, and recycles it into biodiesel, a renewable resource that is used as a clean, alternative fuel source. For more information, visit their website at www.greaseforfuel.com.

MADD Georgia

Georgia Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a non-profit organization founded in the United States which focuses on the single issue of drunk driving. Drunk driving is a major problem in many nations, resulting in serious accidents and deaths every year. The organization would like to permanently stop all drunk driving in the United States, and approaches this goal in a number of ways. (MADD) is an alcohol abuse prevention program that also seeks to educate children, teens, and adults about the dangers of alcohol abuse mixed with highway driving. The mission statement is to make preventing underage drinking a free-standing prong of the mission. For more information, visit their website at www.madd.org.







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