<p>The Atlanta City Council on Monday is expected to approve recommendations centering on education, art, a public park and a music venue to honor the legacy of civil rights matriarch Coretta Scott King, .</p><p>The 23-member Coretta Scott King Commission presented the recommendations Monday morning. They include an essay and oratory contest for K-12 students in the Atlanta area; a memorial rose garden with a sculpture of King; the naming or renaming of a park; or naming a venue in the new Atlanta Symphony Hall in her honor.</p><p>King's nephew, Isaac Newton Farris Jr., said the King family was touched and humbled by the city's efforts.</p><p>"You don't look a gift horse in the mouth," Farris said when asked about the family's preferences. "Any number of these suggestions ... all of us would be happy about."</p><p>The panel met over three months and held two public hearings before making its choices, considering King's love for family, the arts and the environment, as well as her devotion to human rights issues.</p><p>Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin could execute some or all the recommendations. Franklin's chief of staff, Greg Pridgeon, said Monday the mayor will work to implement as many of them as possible, as quickly as possible.</p><p>King died Jan. 31 at age 78 of complications from ovarian cancer diagnosed after she had a stroke and mild heart attack. Following her death, her body was placed in a temporary tomb near that of her slain husband at the center she founded in his name.</p><p>Last month, the two icons of the civil rights movement were placed side by side in a single tomb at The King Center, which draws thousands of visitors each year.</p><p>Coretta Scott King started the center in the basement of the couple's home in the year following King's 1968 assassination in Memphis, Tenn. In 1981, the center moved into its multimillion-dollar facility on Auburn Avenue and next to King's Ebenezer Baptist Church.</p><p>_____</p><p>On The Net:</p><p>HASH(0x1cdc218)</p>
