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Bright Ideas Grant Awards
Small Change Makes a Big Difference in local communities. The new year is off to a great start thanks to the Sawnee EMC members that participate in the Operation Round Up program. Since inception, the Sawnee Foundation has donated over $824,030.34 to local charitable organizations, youth scholarships and Bright Ideas classroom grants and this quarter was no different...
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Household Items Needed for Local Families
Jerry Dupree needs the following household items for low-income families here in our local community. If you or someone you know has such items available for donation, please let him know asap and he will make arrangements to pick them up and deliver to the family in need...
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Dine Out in Dahlonega for Habitat for Humanity- Lumpkin County
We are asking local restaurants to donate 10% of their proceeds on March 4, 2010 to support a land acquisition fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity- Lumpkin County.  There is a dramatic need for affordable housing for qualified families and Habitat is without available land at the time to build anymore houses...
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Forsyth County Promotes EPA’S Fix a Leak Week March 15-21, 2010
Minor water leaks account for more than one trillion gallons of water wasted each year in U.S. homes. That is why the Forsyth County Water and Sewer Department is promoting Fix a Leak Week March 15 through 21, 2010. Fix a Leak Week is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) WaterSense® program as an annual reminder to Americans to check household plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems for leaks...
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Cumming Teenage Musicians Wanted for National Drunk Driving Awareness CD
13-year-old singer/songwriter Becca Levy has a plan. And so far it seems to be working out…Big-time! The Washington DC native just entered her teens a few short months ago. But even at her young age, Becca is all too aware of the dangers associated with drunk driving teenagers...
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Smart Growth Forsyth County Once Again Partnering with United Way for the Women’s Legacy Shoebox Project 2010
Smart Growth Forsyth County, Inc. is once again participating in United Way’s Legacy Project, providing personal care packages to homeless women and children throughout Metro Atlanta affected by domestic violence. Donations of the following items will be accepted at Smart Growth’s February 16th Meeting being held at the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce Event Facility, located at 513 West Maple Street in Cumming. Donations will be accepted at SGFC’s March and April meetings as well...
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Girl Scout Info on Cookies for Soldiers
For the 6th year, Girl Scout Troop 14244 is coordinating Cookies for the Troops, a service project to send Girl Scout cookies to military personnel serving overseas. Two years ago, after the project had spread county-wide, our troop paired with a Gwinnett Cookie Manager with military connections, and as a team we managed to ship just over 2,000 boxes of cookies...
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Incredible Vision Center Parent Seminar Thursday
There are so many intelligent children who are struggling in school. There is a missing link, but what is it? Please join us on, Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 pm as we discuss Vision and Learning, the Missing Link...
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Atlanta Haitian Group Galvanizing Support for Earthquake Victims
An Atlanta based nonprofit organization, The Haitian Alliance, Inc. (www.transformhaiti.org), announced today its plan to partner with 20 other Haitian organizations in the metro Atlanta area and Hosea Feed the Hungry to provide aid and assistance to the victims of the recent earthquake that shattered the lives of millions in the tiny Caribbean nation of Haiti...
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Household Items Needed for Families In Need
Here is another list of household items needed for families in need here in Forsyth County. If you or someone you know has any of the following items that you can donate to these families please let Jerry Dupree know asap and I will make arrangements to pick them up and deliver them accordingly...
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Christmas Babies Receive Special Gift Wrapping at Northside Hospital-Forsyth
Moms who delivered babies at Northside Hospital-Forsyth during the 2009 Christmas holiday received an extra-special surprise – Christmas stockings, handmade with love by three Northside Hospital-Forsyth Auxiliary volunteers. Vi Wolters, Sue Wolff and Marie Brewton handmade the stockings to give to moms who delivered on Dec. 24 and 25. In all, 10 babies were born on the two days...
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Sheriffs’ Youth Homes Honors Cumming Resident
Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton presents an Honorary Lifetime Member plaque for the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes to Georg Hessenius of Cumming...
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Holiday Thank You from Altrusa International of North Georgia
Altrusa International of North Georgia has been actively supporting charitable organizations in North Georgia since August 2005. Thanks to the many merchants who, by their generous donations, have allowed us to have a successful fundraiser each year...
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New Pool Ramp Installed at Hearthstone Lodge Community Center
Even more people will now be able to use the pool at Forsyth County’s Hearthstone Lodge Community Center, thanks to a generous donation that provided funding for a new pool ramp to be installed. The new ramp will allow for increased accessibility to the pool for those with limited mobility...
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YMCA/United Way of Forsyth County Children Clothes and Gift Donations a Success
By God's grace, along with your contributions and dedication, we were able to provide clothing and Christmas gifts to all 2200+ children this year...
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Altrusa Monthly Meeting
Altrusa International of North Georgia is a community service organization serving North Georgia communities. The Club is an international organization with membership open to both men and women...
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Dedication of New Pool Ramp at Hearthstone Lodge
A new pool ramp has been installed at the pool at Forsyth County’s Hearthstone Lodge Community Center. This ramp was donated to the county through AgeWell Forsyth to honor one of the center’s clients...
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Christmas Tree Recycling
After removing the final ornament from your Christmas tree, bring the tree to be recycled at the twentieth annual "Bring One for the Chipper" event. This statewide Christmas tree recycling program will be held Saturday, January 9, 2010. Keep Forsyth County Beautiful (KFCB) will extend local Christmas tree recycling from December 26 to January 23 at some locations. Drop off Christmas trees at the following designated locations in Forsyth County...
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Scouts Sock It Out for Needy
On December 8, over 70 Cub Scouts from Pack 109 Haw Creek Elementary celebrated the successful end to their annual sock drive for the needy by commemorating the campaign with a “Sock War: a Battle of the Briefs...
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66,342 Pounds of Electronics Recycled
Forsyth County citizens brought 66,342 pounds of electronics to be recycled during the “Recycle Your Old Electronics and Shoes” event hosted November 21 by Keep Forsyth County Beautiful (KFCB)...
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2010 Girl Scout Cookie Program kicks off on Dec. 21, 2009
Place your order for Girl Scout Cookies a little earlier this year! Girls will have their order cards in hand on Dec. 21, 2009. Beginning Saturday, Feb. 20, you can look forward to seeing Girl Scout Cookie Booths at your local grocery and retail stores and inside your local Simon Malls during the month of March...
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Boy Scouts to Recycle Christmas Trees in Forsyth County
The Boy Scouts of Troop 245 will pick up your Christmas tree for recycling for a suggested donation of only $10. This is an annual fund-raiser...
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URGENT: Need Blankets
With the recent cold spell and due to the fact that some families are with minimum or no heat in their homes, I need blankets. If you have blankets, that are clean and in good shape, that you can provide to these families please let me know asap...
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Forsyth Knitting Group Supports Northside Breast Cancer Patients
Country Gourmet Café and the Bare Knitting Ladies in Cumming recently hosted their first-ever Stitch for the Cure, benefitting the Northside Hospital-Forsyth Breast Care Center. Approximately 25 women from around the Forsyth community participated in the event by knitting and crocheting chemo hats for breast cancer patients at the hospital...
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Sawnee Woman’s Club - Providing Sacks of Love To Forsyth County Children
The Sawnee Woman’s Club is applying the Sacks of Love program to Forsyth County children. Sacks of Love involves 27 families in Forsyth County. Through the Sacks of Love program, over 50 children are being fed every week! Since food is provided on a weekly-basis for the entire school year, there is always a great demand for food donations...
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Be a Secret Santa
The Forgotten Teen program was created for teens that will be otherwise empty handed Christmas morning. Most people who want to help kids at Christmas think about the very little ones. This year, think about the ones who are in Middle School and High School and face the peer pressures of today. They need your help more than ever this year. It’s easy to help, so just call and ask how...
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First Annual Cumming Chili Cook off a Success
Dec. 5^th was a cold, windy, winter day in Cumming. It even snowed early that morning. That did not deter the six exuberant chili cooking teams from being in the Wal Mart parking lot by 9:00 am...
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Smart Growth Forsyth Supporters
As this year quickly comes to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of the many activities SGFC has been involved with this past year. In these final days of 2009, we come to you to ask for your financial support as we have been presented with a “dollar-for-dollar matching credit” opportunity from our attorney, to whom we still owe approximately $16,000, dating back to the Walmart “fight”...
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Family In Need of Help - House Burned
A family is in need of some basic living items that they lost when their house burned recently. They are living with some friends at present and are in need of the following items...
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1071 Coalition
Since the 1071 Coalition was launched just a year ago, we have made great strides in inserting our priorities of the health and prosperity of Lake Lanier into the dialogue of ongoing water issues that will have an impact for years to come. With the support of nearly 200 members, we have had presence in the news media and in the boardrooms where important policy discussions are being held. In all these discussions, we remain focused on our mission of advocating for science-based, updated management practices of Lake Lanier that are critical for the long-term, and we need your membership renewal to continue this critical work...
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