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One of our own New Lawrenceville networkers is racing for the cure! Please support Mona Johnson as she takes an amazing journey in the fight to end breast cancer! The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. Net proceeds from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure™ are invested in breast cancer research and community programs.

She is taking this challenge in honor of MANY great women like her grandmother Dorothy Bennett, who she never had the pleasure of meeting, due to this disease, and many other family members. She also walk for many brave SURVIVORS, her aunt JoAnn Bennett as well as 2 very good friends, Dionne Ferris and Maria Hale.

Thanks so much for your support and encouragement! Check out her link below to sponsor her fight!

www.the3day.org/goto/MonaJohnson

Below is a request from a local business owner, to help children in need in our community. Please do what you can to help!

I need your help! My staff and I have decided to give away 50 backpacks to any child in our community that is in need of backpacks and school supplies.
For th e next 2 Saturdays anyone that brings a child to our office in need of supplies will receive a free backpack. Now here is where I need your help………………

We need supplies!!!!!!

We are in need of pencils, erasers, note pads, pens, magnets, book markers, crayons, calculators, copy paper, anything that a child can use in school. If you have any of these items and would like an opportunity to promote your business, as well as help a child in need, this opportunity is for you.

We will be accepting any and all donations starting Monday, August 16 through August 20. You can drop off your donations at my office or we will pick up your donations. Just call us!!

Please consider helping the kids in our community! Remember it takes a village to raise a child.

Also! Pass the word around! We want to give these backpacks away!!!

Thanks for your help!!

Mernice Oliver
American Family Insurance
“W e are the family you choose!”
678.745.9490 office

2815 Buford Drive
Ste. 105
Buford, Ga. 30519

We are proud to introduce you to the Lawrenceville Community Children’s Choir.  The choir was organized in December 2009 by Michele Wright, Founding Artistic Director, and is open to children grades K through 7.  Michele’s dream is to give young choristers the opportunity to learn, sing, and perform while sharing their gifts with the community.  During its first half-season, the choir accomplished several community performances.  They went caroling on the Lawrenceville Square in December, sang for the senior residents of Applewood Towers in March, brought down the house with their recital performance in May, and performed at Kaiser Permanente’s new Lawrenceville Facility Grand Opening in June.

Lawrenceville Community Children’s Choir Performing for Applewood Towers March 2010

The board is busy planning the choir’s first full-season, but we need your help.  We are excited to announce that we have a new choir home, the Aurora Theatre on West Pike in Lawrenceville, for the 2010-11 season.  We are very grateful to the Aurora for providing the choir such a beautiful rehearsal space, but there is so much more that we need to help make the choir a success.  At this point, our costs far exceed our resources, so we are reaching out to our family and friends for help.

Please consider a small contribution to the LCCC.  We understand that most everyone is somehow suffering from the current economic downturn, so we are only asking for a $5 or $10 donation.  We need your donation to help us accomplish the vital business required to keep the choir “singing.”  We had ten choir members for our first half-season and expect to more than double the number for the first full-season.  The choir was well accepted in the local community and several businesses are ready to donate funds to our choir, but can only do so if we are a classified as a charitable organization.  With your help, we will be able to file our 501c3 application, acquire insurance, and purchase sheet music to get the choir launched for its first full-season.  We also provide scholarships for children who cannot afford the $225 season tuition.  If you would like to sponsor a child during a season, you may designate your contribution for the opportunity.

If you would like to make a contribution to the choir, please make your check payable to LCCC, and mail to our Treasurer.

Linda Grant

Treasurer, LCCC

4035 Butler Springs Drive

Loganville, GA 30052

Thank you for your support.  We appreciate your generosity and will keep you posted on the choir’s activities for the year.

We remain gratefully  yours,

Lawrenceville Community Children’s Choir

Not too late to come to some of these events this weekend!

There is a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the LTTA scheduled for Fri 3/5/10 at 2pm at Niko’s Wine Corner.

As featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post/Gwinnett Gab on 3/4/10
LAWRENCEVILLE — The Lawrenceville Tourism & Trade Association will host its first ribbon-cutting ceremony of 2010 at 2 p.m. Friday at Niko’s Wine Corner in Lawrenceville.

Niko’s Wine Corner features a wide variety of fine wines, crystal and gourmet items, in addition to wines offered by the glass or bottle in-house. Niko’s is located in historic downtown Lawrenceville in Honest Alley Exchange at 178 E. Crogan St., Suite 210.

Niko’s Wine Corner in Lawrenceville is a second location for owner, Niko Patel. With more than 10 years of experience in the wine industry, Patel launched his first location in November 2008 in the city of Snellville.

For more information on Niko’s Wine Corner, call 770-962-0348 or e-mail nikoswinecorner@att.net.
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Honest Alley Exchange Open House – Sat 3/6/10 from 1pm – 4pm
Location: 178 E. Crogan Street

Grand Opening celebrations for Niko’s Wine Corner, Sparkle’s new location, Ty-Jay’s Handbags and Boutique, Aristeacrats Tea Shop. There will be a wine tasting, Sparkle Fun, tea & sweets tasting, drawings and more.
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NEW LTTA Service for Lawrenceville businesses -
Per LTTA Executive Director, Jay Markwalter, the LTTA has started ribbon cutting ceremonies as a part of their association benefits. This service will be offered to any LTTA member opening a business in the City of Lawrenceville.
For more information about the LTTA, visit www.visitlawrenceville.com.

This is a local fundraiser for a very worthy and important cause. Monique Germaine Miller’s 22 year old son has been diagnosed with a rare fatal heart condition.

The hospital requires a minimum of $160,000 just to put Austin on a wait list for a heart transplant. Without the transplant Austin’s chances of survival are next to none.

Please join us at Olde Towne Tavern for a silent auction to help raise funds for Austin’s transplant!

We are requesting a $20 donation to attend. Everyone will be responsible for your own food & beverage.

Please come out and show your support for Monique and her family!! Invite everyone on your Facebook friends list!

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Austin Maddox is in need of a heart transplant.

Austin needs to raise $160,000 just to get him PLACED on a donor list.

“This is a rare and fatal heart condition that is undetectable until onset of symptoms.

Two weeks ago he was a normal healthy 22 year old and now he is fighting for his life in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Intermountain Medical Center

DONATIONS TO:

Wachovia Bank
#1010269393301

If mailing a check:
Wachovia Bank
Attn: Victoria
3994 Tampa Rd
Oldsmar, FL 34677
on memo write: Austin Maddox

If writing a check make it out to: Monique Miller
Also: Austin Maddox Fund
EIN# 80-0530054

Donations online to PAYPAL:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=11320912

Information on the condition
http://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/giantCellMyocarditis.htm

Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation and the City of Lawrenceville work to bring hundreds of lights and thousands of smiling faces together for a night of entertainment and cheer on the 22nd Annual Lighting of the Tree.

Enjoy this traditional outdoor festival beginning with holiday entertainment in the gazebo by the ‘Class Act Band’, trolley rides, dancers, the arrival of Santa Claus, and of course, the giant tree presentation that makes children’s eyes light up more than the tree lights and ornaments themselves! Bring your camera for a quick visit on the lawn in Santa’s sleigh! Located on the grounds of the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse (185 Crogan St.), Lighting of the Tree will be held from 5:30 p.m until 8:30 p.m.

For more information, contact the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse at 770-822-5450.

RITA’S OF LAWRENCEVILLE AND THE AURORA THEATRE

INVITES YOU TO THE 3^RD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES

November 20 – December 13, 2009

Rita’s of Lawrenceville in conjunction with the Aurora Theatre would like to invite you to participate in the 3^rd annual Festival of Trees.  The lobby of the theatre has been filled with trees from patrons, artists, and local businesses.  These trees will live in the lobby for the entire holiday season while patrons file in to see Christmas Canteen and Christmas Carol.

The Rita’s of Lawrenceville tree will be on display also.  Here’s where the happiness begins.  Any patron who brings an unwrapped toy to our Toys for Tots Campaign or canned food items for The Lawrenceville Co-op will place their donation under their favorite tree.  The tree with the most items underneath will be the Festival of Trees 2009 Winner. We are asking our guests, friends and families to stop by the theatre to support us by also placing items under the Rita’s tree.  This is a fun contest that will ultimately help us collect toys and food for needy children and families.

If you are unable to stop by the theatre, you can bring your donation to Rita’s.  As a thank you for your donation, Rita’s will give you a 20% discount off your purchase!

Things to Remember:

Festival of Trees Event:  Friday, November 20, 2009 – Sunday, December 13, 2009

What you donate: Canned or non perishable food items or unwrapped toy

What we give:  Our sincere thanks and 20% discount

Lawrenceville Rita’s Ice
169A West Pike Street
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
678 407 4888
www.ritaslawrenceville.com

WHAT: 

OPEN HOUSE  - COME BY AND SEE OUR PLACE

GOODIE BAGS FOR PETS – INFORMATION AND TOUR

WHERE:   2160 OAKLAND INDUSTRIAL COUR, SUITE 100, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30047

WHEN: 

• Saturday, November 14^th 9am  –  3 pm
• Sunday, November 15^th 12pm  -  4pm

WHY:    NEW LEASE SIGNING, NOVEMBER 1^ST, STAYING IN OUR ORIGINAL LOCATION

• LOOKING FOR SPONSORS – WE ARE STILL SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY          
• OPEN FOR BUSINESS, NEVER CLOSED
• FINANCIAL AND FOOD DONATIONS ACCEPTED

CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION

678-725-4992

TOM WARGO