In December 2007, MPCS
purchased the magnificent performing
arts center adjacent to the school
property. With its 577-seat main theater,
a black box theater, dance studios,
exquisite grand lobby, state-of-the-art
recording studios, band and choral
rehearsal spaces, practice rooms,
classrooms, the building was named the
Murray Arts Center at Mount Paran
Christian School in honor of the Stuart
and Eulene Murray Family Foundation,
who made a generous donation toward
the purchase of the building for the
school and whose family owned the
property upon which the school was
built.
The athletic facilities of MPCS
continued to expand over the next few
years as well with batting cages,
baseball/softball complex, fitness center,
weight room, rubber track, and turf
field were a few of the additions. The
2015 football season kicked off in the
brand new Catherine Steele Sewell
Stadium.
In February of 2021, officials broke
ground on the new Murray Innovation
Center. The new building is slated to
open to students in the spring semester
of 2022.
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Evie Mae
Photography
Eviemaephoto.com
Instagram : eviemaephoto.
brittany@eviemaephoto.com
SECTION: Services
CATEGORY: Photographer
(1,811 votes)
Who doesn’t love a great photo of a cute
kid? Local photographer Brittany
Willingham has found her niche in
capturing childhood through a lens
with her photography company named
after her daughters, Evie Mae Photography.
Although Willingham can
photograph just about anything – and
does – her experience as a mother lends
her an extra special talent for photographing
children and babies in their
natural habitats – no awkward poses or
stiff, unnatural photos. Willingham said
she enjoys capturing children as they
are, in her photos: messy, wild and true
to themselves.
For more information on Evie Mae
Photography and Willingham, and to
peruse some of her favorite photos, flip
back to page 10.
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Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate Marietta
145 Church Street, Suite 100,
Marietta, GA 30060
(404) 480-8805
Ansleyatlanta.com
SECTION: Real Estate & Finance
CATEGORIES: Best Real Estate Agent,
Johnny Sinclair (1,728 votes)
Best Real Estate Company (1,446 votes)
Best Real Estate Team, Crowe & Turner
(1,325 votes)
In June of 2019, Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate announced the opening of
its new office on the Marietta Square,
occupying the space just at the corner of
Church and Polk Streets.
Many familiar faces in the Marietta
real estate scene left their respective
offices to join the new team and the
office has been growing ever since. No
longer the new kids on the block, the
realtors and teams of Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate Marietta have made their
marks on the Marietta real estate
industry (and, with historic low interest
rates, it was a good year for it).
For his own individual efforts,
Johnny Sinclair won Best Real Estate
Agent in a tight and competitive race
for the title.
Ansley Atlanta’s expansion
accelerated the Atlanta-based real estate
company’s presence in the Cobb,
Paulding and Cherokee county markets,
enabling the company to better serve its
client base outside the perimeter.
“Our vision as a company has
always been to serve the metro Atlanta
area in its entirety, and with the
addition of our new neighborhood
office in Marietta, we are excited to
further expand our reach outside the
perimeter,” said Bonneau Ansley, Ansley
Atlanta’s founder and CEO in a press
release at the time.
Established in 2015, Ansley Atlanta
Real Estate was recently recognized as
one of the most inspiring companies of
2018 by Inc magazine and listed as No.
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