Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Heather King-Green started Survivors Outreach to help others survive and become successful in their own right.
Battle wounds cannot always be seen. Sometimes the only evidence of what someone has survived is a smile that brightens others’ day, unwavering commitment and unparalleled compassion–like that of Heather King-Green. King-Green escaped a household of domestic and sexual abuse and survived to be a success story and champion for others who are fighting to survive. She created her own nonprofit organization, Survivors Outreach, to help serve women in need, who are referred to the organization through a hotline provided by United Way. Now the organization expanded to serve a wide variety of community members and communities as well. The organization, which will celebrate its second anniversary on March 17, now serves Cobb, Clayton, Douglas and…
Monday, October 22, 2012
"We remind one another that life isn't over; life is just a little different now and nothing's impossible. You can still do it. You just have to find a new way."
- LOCAL CONNECTIONS
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Best friends and fellow Marines Michael Boucher, Tony Mullis and Zachary Stinson have always had a passion for the outdoors. And the fact that all three are double amputees isn't stopping them from hunting or fishing. It's what brought them together at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and what led them to form an organization to help other wounded warriors live normal lives. Boucher, an Atlanta area resident, was injured in June 2011 while deployed in Afghanistan. During his recovery, he and the other co-founders of "Amputee Outdoors," had the opportunity to go on outdoor excursions and discover they still can live very fulfilled lives. "We loved hunting and fishing prior to injury and we decided we didn't want to let our …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce teams up with civic organizations and the government to help reduce underage drinking.
The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce is conducting a community survey to help identify effective strategies to reduce underage and youth binge drinking. More than 2,000 participants from Acworth, Austell, Kennesaw, Marietta, Powder Springs, Smyrna and unincorporated Cobb County are needed by Sept. 30. A similar survey was previously conducted in 2009 as a requirement of the Sober Truth On Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Grant. Click here to take the survey online or access it on the Cobb Alcohol Taskforce website at www.cobbat.org. Representatives of the following community sectors are encouraged to participate: business, civic, education, faith, government, healthcare, justice, law enforcement, media, parent, non-profit and youth. For more …
Monday, August 20, 2012
Volunteers served nearly 190,000 lunches to families in need this summer.
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- Angela Chao
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Monday, August 20, 2012
The Summer Lunches Program at MUST Ministries has just ended, and volunteers handed out a total of 189,648 lunches to needy children this summer—a 34 percent increase from last year. MUST started the Summer Lunch Program in 1995 in Cobb and Cherokee Counties in an effort to fight child hunger. In 2011, MUST Volunteers delivered 103,000 lunches to hungry children in Cobb and Cherokee, and the program was expanded to Douglas, Paulding, North Fulton and Gwinnett communities this year.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
One 2012 Pebblebrook grad shares his dreams and story of being an undocumented student in Georgia.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Kiri Walton
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
There wasn’t a face in the van that looked familiar. He was riding to a place he’d never heard of surrounded by people he’d never seen before, and Rolando Zenteno began to panic. He was 7 and he began to cry. “Where’s my mom?” he asked in Spanish. It was 2001, and Rolando’s mother had been told to return to Mexico at one point during the nine-hour trip by border officials, Rolando said. He was asleep when she slipped away. “Imagine you’re 7 years old, and your mom’s not there, and you don’t know what’s going on,” Rolando said. “It was hell. I was practically traumatized. I didn’t know what was going on.” A woman in the van tried to soothe Rolando, telling him that his mother was at the store and would return in a couple of hours. After …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
This Mableton resident embodies the phrase, "To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Kiri Walton
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Every morning, except Sundays when she comes after church, Mableton resident Ivory Dorsey can be seen walking the Silver Comet Trail. She is easy to spot because she usually wears one solid color head to toe– often times it’s her favorite color, purple– and a huge genuine smile. Dorsey first moved to Mableton in 1979 and has stayed in the same house she built ever since. She moved here first for her job as a sales manager with Xerox. “I thought I’d be in Atlanta for 18 months, but God had other plans,” she said. Don’t ask her if she’s retired. “That’s a horrible word. When you have a gift, you die with it.” Dorsey still uses her gift of inspiring and motivating others. She is a motivational speaker, but doesn’t actively seek speaking …
Heather King-Green
9:03 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Hello Rich, I am so sorry you haven't been able in the past to get through the website. We have lifted the members only and now anyone can see the website without joining. I shall be doing a resume and life skills class today in Austell from 10am-2pm. Do send me a message to my personal email at mrskinggreen@gmail.com more ›