Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta announced this week that The Avenue East Cobb and its merchants raised $4,266 in its inaugural holiday partnership.
A total of $3,015 came from proceeds from ticket sales the East Cobb retail center held, including Experiences with Santa and Storytime with Santa.
Another $1,251 also raised from the Kendra Scott jewelry store at The Avenue East Cobb. The Habitat chapter featured a table at each event offering more information on the organization’s mission and how to get involved.
“We are so happy the amazing team at Avenue East Cobb and Kendra Scott selected us to be the benefactor of these popular events,” said Jessica Gill, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta, said in a statement. “We look forward to a long partnership bettering our community together.”
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The Credit Union of Georgia announced this week donated more than $100,000 in philanthropic donations in 2022, supporting a number of local nonprofit organizations in Cobb County and metro Atlanta.
Credit union employees vote annually to select the local charities to support, with events throughout the year that included monetary donations, volunteerism and donations of food, clothing, toys and personal hygiene items.
Employees also donated more than 650 hours to the community, attended more than 1100 local events and sponsored over 400 local events.
“Credit Union of Georgia is dedicated to our members, communities and local charities,” said Brian Albrecht,
President/CEO of Credit Union of Georgia said in a statement. “We hope that our ongoing efforts of giving back can create a lasting impact in the communities we serve.”
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Employees of the Cobb-based Credit Union of Georgia volunteered to ring the bell for The Salvation Army at Kroger in Kennesaw for an entire week.
They raised more than $2,600 through those efforts, and the Credit Union contributed an additional $4,000 generate a donation of more than $6,500.
The Salvation Army helps communities fight poverty, addiction, and homelessness.
“Credit Union of Georgia enjoys spreading cheer and giving back to our community! We encourage not only employees to give back, but also educate our members as well. Together we can make a big difference in our community,” said Tom McNutt, Vice President of IT and The Salvation Army Marietta Corps, Board Member, said in a release.
To learn more about Salvation Army services and programs in the Marietta area, click here.
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The annual Stuff-A-Bus program will be rolling out throughout Cobb County in mid-December to collect holiday gifts for needy children.
The Cobb Christmas program includes various community partners in conducting the drive, which takes place from Dec. 13-15.
Citizens are asked to bring unwrapped toys for children ages 3-13 at the locations, dates and times indicated on the flyer.
The Cobb Linc bus will be collecting the toys to be distributed to around 1,000 children. Start shopping now and drop off your toy donations at any businesses listed on the flyer.
The two East Cobb stops on the schedule take place on Tuesday, Dec. 13.
The bus will stop at the Northeast Cobb YMCA (3010 Johnson Ferry Road) from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and at the Wellstar East Cobb Health Park (3747 Roswell Road) from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
For more information on the Stuff-A-Bus program, click here.
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The East Cobb Middle School PTSA is teaming up with the school’s social worker to sponsor what it’s calling an “Angel Tree” program to support families in need during the holiday season.
According to Monica Bright, the ECMS social worker, each “angel” has an item on a family’s wish list that typically range from $10-$20 and are personalized to student needs.
She said Walmart and Kroger gift cards in $20 increments are being accepted to help families purchase food during the winter break.
All items purchased for the Angel Tree students must be returned wrapped to the front office at ECMS (825 Terrell Mill Road) by Dec. 7. Bright says to make sure the angel is attached to the item so it can be distributed to the correct family.
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The group provided a donation of $800 as the lead gift for All Girls Forward, whose goals include raising and distributing $2.5 million over the next five years.
The Numbers Too Big to Ignore luncheon event at the Georgia World Congress Center, drew more than 1,000 business, civic and political leaders, most of them women.
The East Cobb Middle School girls also got to meet actress Rita Moreno, who was the keynote speaker.
According to Kari Love, an East Cobb native who is the Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s CEO, the East Cobb students raised the $800 by hosting a leggings day fundraiser at the school.
The luncheon event raised more than $150,000 for the All Girls Forward Program.
The foundation, which was formed in 1998, has invested more than $20 million in more than 350 Atlanta-area non-profits to assist and empower girls and women and help break the cycle of poverty.
It also provides leadership and philanthropic training for professional women and their communities.
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Clergy from various faith communities in the East Cobb area delivered reflections of “Finding Common Ground” during Temple Kol Emeth’s 18th Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service Thursday.
In the first in-person service since 2019, an audience that nearly filled the vast synagogue was told that hearing such messages and uplifting music (they all sang “This Land Is Your Land”) and sharing fellowship aren’t enough.
“This isn’t a show,” Kol Emeth Rabbi Larry Sernovitz said near the end of the two-hour service. “This is a call to action.”
In recalling the tale of Abraham smashing idols, he said that “we live in a world that still worships idols . . . and doesn’t value people like we need to.
“Our faith has to stand for something. If our faith doesn’t stand for humanity, it’s not faith, it’s politics.”
He urged the attendees to follow Abraham’s example, because “that’s how our faith has meaning. If we don’t use it, what good is it?”
Youth from the Sikh Educational Welfare Association do the Bhangra Dance before the service.
Started by now-retired Kol Emeth Rabbi Steven Lebow following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the service included many familiar components, including the Muslim call to prayer, a Bhangra dance by Sikh youth, original music and the “Give A Gobble” offering, this year to benefit Special Needs GA and other local charities for Thanksgiving meals.
Members of the participating faith communities—22 in all—also formed a choir to perform, including “Common Ground” (see video below, and you can watch a full replay of the service by clicking here).
Father Ray Cadran of the Catholic Church of St. Ann said his understanding of finding common ground is “a work of the heart.”
Temple Kol Emeth Rabbi Larry Sernovitz
Those duties include “being called to together to acting justly,” engaging in unifying dialogue and “loving tenderly all God’s people.”
Rev. Trey Phillips of St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church said “we all come from a common ground” and asked the audience to “let us cling to one another and seek God on this common ground we call Marietta.”
But Rev. Bronson Elliott Woods of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta—where Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor—injected some political references into his remarks, mentioning Black Lives Matter and women’s reproductive choice, and said that finding common ground includes “working against laws that oppress people,” especially those in what he called the “LGBTQIA” community.
“The common ground we share,” Woods said, “is through the breath of God.”
East Cobb resident Brenda Rhodes, the founder of Simple Needs GA and a long-time volunteer in the community, urged those in attendance to find ways to contribute to those less fortunate.
Rev. Bronson Elliott Woods of Ebenezer Baptist Church
“It doesn’t matter how you help,” she said. “Just think about helping. . . . Go where God leads you to help others in your community.”
Among the organizations benefitting from Give-A-Gobble include the Center for Family Resources, Families First, Family Promise, Food2Kids, Genesis Shelter, Helping Hand Foundation, Inner-city Muslim Action Network (IMAN), Jewish Family & Career Services, Jubilee Partners, New American Pathways, Must Ministries, North Fulton Charities, Pianos for Peace, and United Military Care, Inc.
The faith communities represented at the service include the Catholic Church of St. Ann, Chestnut Ridge Christian Church, East Cobb Islamic Center, Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Congregation Etz Chaim, St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Unity North Atlanta Church.
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The Cobb Library Foundation, which raises money to assist the Cobb County Public Library System, is holding a “Casino Night” fundraiser Nov. 18 at Atlanta Country Club (500 Atlanta Country Club Drive).
The event is from 6-10 p.m. and tickets start at $100 per person and include admission tickets, house money and drink tickets. Attire is black tie casual and a cash bar will be open from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
All participants must be age 21 and older.
For information and to purchase tickets click here.
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“Looking for an opportunity to make a difference during the holiday season? The Northeast Cobb Family YMCA and McCleskey East-Cobb Family YMCA are seeking items to develop hygiene kits for more than 700 families in need. From now until November 23, both Y locations are accepting shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothpaste, toothbrushes and more. Donations can be dropped at the McCleskey-East Cobb Family YMCA located at 1055 East Piedmont, Marietta, GA 30062 and the Northeast Cobb Family YMCA located at 3010 Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta, GA 30062.”
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Judy Boyce is flanked by Kim and Michael Paris of the East Cobb Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce.
Mike Boyce, the late Cobb Commission Chairman, and his wife Judy Boyce were named the 2022 East Cobb Citizens of the Year Thursday morning.
The announcement came at a breakfast of the East Cobb Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce at Indian Hills Country Club.
Mike Boyce, who died earlier this year at the age of 72, and his wife were active in the East Cobb community long before he was elected in 2016.
Their activities included MUST Ministries, Mt. Bethel Church and veterans and military organizations. He was a retired Marine Corps colonel who was a leader of a men’s ministry at Mt. Bethel and helped found a veterans support center.
Judy Boyce is a retired Delta Air Lines flight attendant who has been active with the Cobb Republican Women’s Club and other political campaigns and volunteer activities.
They include the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cobb Master Gardeners, the Chattahoochee Plantation Women’s Club, the Cobb Center for Children and Young Adults and the Cobb Library Foundation.
Also on Thursday, Cobb officials were on hand at the North Cobb Regional Library to dedicate the Mike Boyce Military Collection, including his many books on military history, and reading room named in his honor.
The Boyces were avid supporters of libraries. At the January 2018 ribbon-cutting for the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center, they contributed $5,000 and had a study room named for them.
A Republican, Mike Boyce ran for a second term in 2020 but was defeated by Democratic commissioner Lisa Cupid.
In January, he was participating in a leadership seminar in Indiana, at the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater, when he suffered two strokes and died.
“He had never been happier than he was in the past few months, participating in this program, bicycling to campus and interacting with and mentoring students,” Judy Boyce said at the time. “He was having the time of his life.”
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It’s a traveling project of Love Love Beyond Walls, and illustrates the stigma of poverty in Atlanta and around the country with interactive technology, research and storytelling.
Exhibit tours will take place Monday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 11 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the KSU East Parking Deck (305 Hopkins Drive, Kennesaw).
Admission is free but tickets for the tour are required and can be reserved by clicking here.
Terence Lester, founder of Love Beyond Walls and the Dignity Museum, explains that the “one of the most distinguishable characteristics of our organization is our focus on telling the stories of the unseen. We are committed to the people that the world passes by because we believe the people struggling with poverty and sleeping on the streets have lives and stories that are just as valuable as ours.”
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The Avenue East Cobb is donating all proceeds from special holiday event ticket sales to the Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta.
The Habitat branch announced the news on Wednesday, with the retail center set to put tickets on sale starting next week. Sales begin at 9 a.m. next Monday, Nov. 8.
Those events include Experiences With Santa and Storytime With Santa, which runs from Dec. 1-23.
“We are so grateful Avenue East Cobb selected us as its holiday giveback partner, which will help empower the families we serve during a season that can be tough for many to enjoy,” Jessica Gill, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta, said in the release.
Other ticketed events at The Avenue East Cobb include Letters to Santa on Dec. 1, Christmas Crafts With Santa on Dec. 8, Canvases + Cocoa on Dec. 15 and Milk + Cookies on Dec. 22.
The Habitat chapter will participate in each event, offering more information on the organization’s mission and how to get involved.
“Everybody loves a reason to get together for the holidays, and what could be better than celebrating the season while also supporting those in need,” Madison Murphy, marketing manager at Avenue East Cobb, said in the release. “We’re thrilled to bring these experiences back to AEC and look forward to contributing toward the wonderful work Habitat for Humanity does in the community.”
For more about The Avenue East Cobb’s holiday programming and to purchase event tickets click here.
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The Cobb-based non-profit The Center for Family Resourcesis accepting donations for its 36th annual Thanks for Giving Food Boxes drive.
The goal this year is to provide 1,000 boxes of food for families in need, and community members can participate by becoming a Smart Stuffer Packing Partner or by sponsoring or donating to this year’s“I’m Thankful For…”Giving Campaign.
The Thanks for Giving boxes provide food for family to “keep or create their own family traditions in ways that are meaningful to them.”
Families receiving the boxes are those who register through the CFR or who are supported by local schools and other non-profit partners, including Cobb Senior Services, Communities in Schools of Georgia in Marietta/Cobb and LiveSafe Resources.
“Our annual Thanks for Giving event has allowed us to feed Cobb families for more than 35 years,” said Melanie Kagan, CEO for the Center for Family Resources. “We are so grateful for the support we receive from this community and our supporters, including Genuine Parts Company, Lockheed Martin and Publix Super Markets Charities who are this year’s Presenting Sponsors.”
The food boxes are valued at between $65-$75 each using a suggested shopping list and can be delivered to the First Baptist Church Marietta (148 Church St.) until Nov. 10 or to the IAM Local Lodge #7091032 (1032 South Marietta Pkwy SE), from Nov. 14-17.
The boxes will be distributed to families the week before Thanksgiving.
For more information about how to take part in the the Thanks for Giving program, click here.
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The East Cobb-based Janice Overbeck Real Estate Team once again held an appreciation barbecue lunch to honor local police, firefighters, emergency medical personnel and military veterans.
Wednesday’s lunch included the Capital City Home Loans grilling from a food truck and serving burgers and hotdogs with a variety of sides sponsored by Arrow Exterminators.
Additional sponsors for the event included American Home Shield Warranty, Amerispec Home Inspection, and Chick-Fil-A East Lake.
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A former amateur golfer paralyzed in a traffic accident, tees off not far from the Shepherd Spinal Center on a special golf cart funded through the Georgia State Golf Association. Photo: GSGA
To say that Jim Ingram is a golf enthusiast is putting it mildly.
The East Cobb resident is a longtime avid golfer, and has served as a volunteer and executive board member of the Georgia State Golf Association for 30 years.
The president of Evans and James, an executive search firm serving the plastics and packaging industry, Ingram remains involved in GSGA events and activities, including a relatively new charity fundraiser.
He’s played a lot of golf at a lot of local courses, including Indian Hills Country Club and Brookstone Country Club in Cobb County.
He makes fun of his “lousy golf swing” (see below) but has a 9 handicap, and often is accompanied by his dog Rover.
Ingram also has played plenty of times at the nine-hole Bobby Jones Golf Course in Buckhead, where the formerly East Cobb-based GSGA now has its headquarters.
But on Oct. 21, Ingram will play Bobby Jones like he never has before—as in over and over and over again, set to make the turn many times.
Rover is Jim Ingram’s frequent companion on the golf course.
That’s because he’s taking part in the GSGA’s charity marathon fundraiser to benefit the organization’s adaptive and junior golf programs.
(You can pledge per round or make a one-time donation to Ingram’s marathon by clicking here.)
In last year’s event, he played 81 holes in one day at the Druid Hills Country Club. In a couple of weeks, he’ll likely play just as many, if not more, on the storied public course named for a Georgia golf legend.
“You just golf until you drop,” Ingram said of the marathon, which raised more than $50,000 overall. The GSGA is aiming to surpass that figure this year with around 20-30 participants having signed up.
The proceeds enable youths 16 and under from economically challenged backgrounds to play for $5 a round, and for the GSGA to purchase special equipment and provide instruction for the physically handicapped.
Among them is Chance, a former amateur golfer and a police officer who was paralyzed from the chest down in a 2018 traffic accident.
As he rehabilitated at the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta, his visitors included some who introduced him to adaptive golf.
He plays golf once again, thanks to a solorider cart provided by the GSGA with funds from last year’s marathon.
It’s a story the GSGA is encouraging its marathon participants to share as they collect pledges. The GSGA has raised nearly $100,000 in subsidies for the youth program (the GSGA makes up the greens fees to the golf courses) and is close to having enough money to purchase another adaptive cart.
“We’re trying to set good examples,” Ingram said of the GSGA’s initiatives to expand golf access.
More than 2,000 people have gotten involved in the adaptive program, and it’s something that “changes people’s lives,” Ingram said.
Like Chance and others at the Shepherd Center, “we’re trying to get them involved.”
Ingram played 81 holes in a single day at the 2021 GSGA marathon fundraiser.
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State Rep. John Carson, a Republican who represents part of East Cobb, has been appointed to the board of directors for MUST Ministries, which serves the needs of homeless people and others in need in metro Atlanta.
“I look forward to joining the MUST Ministries leadership team and serving my constituents in this new capacity,” Carson said in a release. “For half a century, this organization has effectively changed the lives of Cobb and Cherokee County residents with compassion and without judgement, and I am honored to become a part of their mission.”
MUST has been serving Cobb, Cherokee and surrounding counties for 50 years, providing emergency shelters for unhoused individuals and families and provides food to those in need. MUST also has workforce development programs and a health clinic.
According to the organization’s website, MUST encompasses more than 17,000 volunteers and typically serves 33,000 people in a year. Since March 2020, MUST has fed almost 173,000 people two million pounds of food.
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On Aug. 24 members of the Kiwanis Club of Marietta Golden K and the Lost Mountain Kiwanis Club sponsored the 27th Annual Youth Charity Golf Tournament at BridgeMill Athletic Club in Canton that raised more than $40,000 for various charitable organizations.
They support Circle K Clubs at the college level, Key Clubs in high school, Builders clubs in middle schools, K kids programs and the Silver Pen writing contest in elementary schools. Kiwanians also provide mentoring and storytime reading at area schools.
More than 100 golfers representing local counties took part in the shotgun start event, which included goodie bags, greens fees, two mulligans and a raffle ticket.
Prizes were awarded for the Longest Drive, Straightest Drive and Closest to the pin.
The buffet lunch included a live auction that raffled off 15 gift baskets ranging in value from $350 to $500.
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MUST Ministries operates a food pantry at Brumby Elementary School that includes donations from a variety of community organizations and individuals.
PORCH-Marietta, a collection of volunteer, grassroots neighborhood organizations, is continuing an ongoing food drive to stock the food pantry at Brumby Elementary School and the Center for Family Resources.
Participants leaved canned goods on their front porch on a designated day of the week that are collected by neighborhood coordinators. The items are sorted and delivered to pantries, agencies and families in need.
PORCH chapters have emerged around the country after the concept was begun in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 2010.
The East Cobb neighborhoods taking part in PORCH-Marietta include Sentinel Lake, Indian Hills, The Oaks, Heatherleigh, Paper Mill Manor, Chimney Lakes and Timberlea Lakes II.
Liz Platner, the chapter leader of PORCH-Marietta, says that in lieu of canned goods, financial donations can be made on the chapter’s website.
The link also has specific needs of items listed for Brumby and CFR, and remaining collection dates for 2022.
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Cobb County School District resource officers Kevin Brunson, William Duling and Jerry Quan hold plaques given them by teens at Congregation Etz Chaim. Photos: Jewish National Fund-USA.
Congregation Etz Chaim of East Cobb this week marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by honoring Cobb County School District resource officers.
Their presentation on Wednesday to resource officers Jerry Quan, William Marshall Duling and Kevin Brunson, thanking them for their service, was conducted in partnership with the Jewish National Fund-USA.
Teens from the synagogue’s youth group presented plaques to the officers.
“I felt inspired seeing the people who keep me safe at the synagogue I grew up in,” said Etz Chaim teen Mia Kleinman.
Said Tamar Oren, a senior at Sprayberry High School: “The officers are like our dads at school. They talk to us in the hall and are people we go to for absolutely anything. I know they have risked their lives and for that I am forever grateful.”
Etz Chaim Rabbi Daniel Dorsch said that “we continue to be grateful for our community’s partnership with Jewish National Fund-USA that enabled us to honor our law enforcement personnel in such a special and meaningful way.”
According to a release by JNF, the plaque features the JNF’s 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem, which is “the only commemorative site of its type outside of the U.S. that lists all the names of those who were killed on 9/11.
“It represents the firefighters, paramedics, and police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice and worked tirelessly to save countless lives on that infamous day, and honors first responders who risk it all to protect and serve. Established in 2009, the monument is a testament to the deep connection between the State of Israel and the U.S., and our countries’ shared values of peace, religious tolerance, democracy, and fighting terrorism.”
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Cobb Collaborative and the SAM Foundation will present Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid, at East Cobb United Methodist Church next week.
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and the ASIST program “teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety,” according to a release about the workshop.
The workshop is free, and is being made possible by Cobb Collaborative, a consortium of community non-profits, and the Alabama-based SAM Foundation (Suicide Awareness Means . . . ), which raises awareness of and provides training for the prevention of suicide.
It’s named after a young man who took his own life in 2002.
The workshop takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. next Thursday and Friday at East Cobb UMC (2325 Roswell Road).
Participants must be at least 16 years old and don’t need any previous formal health care training to attend.
The workshop will teach participants about how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, providing a skilled intervention, and developing a safety plan to keep someone alive.
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Cobb Collaborative and the SAM Foundation will present Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid, at East Cobb United Methodist Church next week.