Community Spotlight: Relay for Life Comes to Smyrna-Vinings [VIDEO]

The first ever Relay for Life in the Smyrna-Vinings area is kicking off this weekend. Find out how you can participate and help fight cancer.

This week's Cobb, Douglas and Paulding Weekend & Community Spotlight features the Relay for Life Vinings-Smyrna Kickoff Party. The kickoff event will be held this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Hyatt Place Atlanta/Cobb Galleria. Learn how you and your family and friends can participate in the first ever Relay for Life in the Smyrna-Vinings community, and help support a good cause. The actual Relay for Life event will be held in May at The Lovett School in Vinings. To sign up, start a team, or donate, visit http://RelayForLife.org/ViningsSmyrnaGA. For more information, check out this Facebook page, send a tweet to @ForBirthdays, or contact Amy Haygood at Amy.Haygood@cancer.org. Got a great event coming up in your community? Upload it onto your …

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Downtown Dallas Hosting Two Fundraisers, Yard Sale

Free prescription drug disposal will be provided Saturday by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office— no questions asked.

We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This column will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line. Since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money. You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box. Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together. This week, Frugal Family reporter Carolyn Cunningham scoured our local sources to come up with fundraiser musical events for the American Cancer Society and Rescue Haiti Missions …

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Carolyn Cunningham

5:03 pm on Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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Free Easter Events on Saturday, Sunday in Paulding

Paulding Sheriff Gary Gulledge invites parents to his free annual Cyber Summit at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This column will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line; and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money. You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box. Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together. This week, Frugal Family reporter Carolyn Cunningham scoured our local sources to come up with free Easter events, a Relay for Life yard sale on Saturday, a free Cyber Summit …

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12:04 pm on Monday, March 25, 2013

Since this article was written in 2011, you may want to call the number for the event in which you are interested to check on the date and information for this year.   more ›