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Our Town: East Point Annual biscuit bake-off raises dough for burn victims

Break out the White Lily flour and shortening. It’s biscuit baking time in East Point. For the 26th year, the city’s Woman’s Club is hosting what’s become a delicious community event. The Biscuit Social and Firefighters Biscuit Bake-off is part party, part cooking challenge to firefighters around the metro area ...

Real People: Stacey Weiss Nonprofit director puts a leg up for charity

Stacey Weiss is dedicated to doing good. As the executive director of the nonprofit Bert’s Big Adventure, she organizes annual trips to Disney World for chronically-ill and physically challenged children in the listening area Q100, the radio station where her husband, Bert, anchors the morning drive show. But her latest ...

Mike Hladish (from left) and Tim Holahan, both members of the Just People AKtion Club, bake chocolate chip cookies Monday at the Just People village in Lilburn. The cookies and other baked goods will be sold to benefit Project Eliminate, which works to put an end to maternal and neonatal tetanus. BITA HONARVAR / BHONARVAR@AJC.COM

A chance to give back some of what they’ve been given

In a small Lilburn kitchen stocked with more love than staples, Jennie Leigh, Lauren Anthony and BobbieJo Williams busied themselves mixing and baking cookies, cupcakes and brownies, the kind of goodness they hope will one day help rid Third World countries of tetanus.For most of their lives, the three women, ...

School’s students parlay Wall Street savvy into victories

Several fifth graders at Henry County’s Smith-Barnes Elementary School recently showed they’ve got some Wall Street savvy and potential. Five teams of fifth graders from the school competed against students from across the county in the Georgia Stock Market Game program. Four of the five teams finished in the top ...

Doing Good: Law firm volunteers to help victims of trafficking

After attending a press conference that brought the problem of foreign women being trafficked into Atlanta to public awareness, Summer Chandler felt she needed to make a connection within the community to tackle this issue. A partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge, Chandler and colleague Jill Kuhn utilized the firm’s ...

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