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Allatoona High students raise money for breast cancer fight
By Ty Tagami
Oct 5, 2011Students at Allatoona High School raised $3,513.45 for breast cancer awareness and research.
The school's National Honor Society sold over 660 t-shirts at a fundraising event and raised over $500 from a bake sale at the football game between Allatoona and Dalton High, according to school system officials.
The money from the "pink-out" fundraiser will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
