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Mayor Shirley Franklin is urging Atlanta’s “future leaders” to submit ideas for a contest showing how to live a greener life.

The goal of the Stepping Lightly in Atlanta Awards contest is to empower students to be advocates for a sustainable environment in their own community. Students are invited to submit entries for model projects that demonstrate how they have reduced their ecological footprint in their home, class, school or community. Students can choose from a variety of environmental topics to concentrate on such as water conservation, organic gardens, waste reduction, energy and transportation.

Guidelines and submission rules are available here. Deadline for the contest is March 28.

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our first and last annual Gordon Lightfoot Singing Contest.

The response was overwhelming.

OK, maybe overwhelming isn’t the word. It was whelming. Six people participating — seven if you count the backing vocalist on the last call.

Click here to listen to five CL readers and two CL staffers singing the songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

I’m not sure who’s getting the tickets. I called three winners, but none have called me back yet. My great-grandfather used to tell me, “Andisheh, never trust a fan of Canadian folk-rock.” I finally know what he meant.

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For reasons I don’t entirely understand, there are six tickets on my desk to Gordon Lightfoot’s concert at Cobb Energy Centre Friday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m.

I can’t go to the concert, so you can have the tickets for free.

All you have to do is call my office voicemail and sing me one of the following three Gordon Lightfoot songs: “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

Sing me at least 15 seconds of “Sundown” and, bam, you qualify for two tickets. Sing me at least 15 seconds of “If You Could Read My Mind” and, bam, you qualify for two tickets. Sing me the first three verses of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and you qualify for two tickets. Sing all three and you may get all six tickets.

Be sure to tell me your name and how to reach you. You can pick up the tickets at our office.

In the unlikely event that more than one person calls me for this contest, I’ll divide up the tickets between my favorite entrants.

My office phone is 404-614-1888. The deadline is 9 a.m. Friday.

Note: I may record your singing and put it on this blog. Naturally, I will not include your contact info in the podcast.

Good luck and God speed!

(Gordon Lightfoot, you are not eligible to participate.)

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