Author: On Common Ground News

In partnership with Fit for a Queen, the Bello Mo Group and Lynette Clove, an Independent sales director for Mary Kay, DeKalb County Solicitor-General Donna Coleman-Stribling is inviting DeKalb County high school juniors and seniors to enter the 2019 Stop Teen Dating Violence Public Service Announcement(PSA) Contest. With February being recognized as Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Coleman-Stribling and her team are encouraging DeKalb teens to promote healthy teen dating practices that prevent violence by producing a one-minute PSA. The student who creates the most impactful PSA will win a prom prize package, which includes: • Dinner for two •…

Rockdale County Public Schools (RCPS) fifth graders tackled tough questions about our society, economy, history, and more in the annual RCPS Fifth Grade Social Studies Fair, held January 12, 2019 at Memorial Middle School. Students wrote research papers, created visual presentations, and were interviewed by judges on their research, data, analysis, and conclusions. The top 16 projects (Best In Fair, First Place, Second Place) advance to the East Metro Regional Social Studies Fair on March 2, 2019 at MMS. For more information, visit www.rockdaleschools.org/academiccompetitions.  (Pictured: Some of the Best In Fair, First Place, Second Place winners at the 2019…

                                   Smith’s gift will fund scholarships, new park and outdoor study area Morehouse College has received a $1.5 million donation from Robert F. Smith, a philanthropist and the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. College officials say the donation will fund endowed scholarships and the design and creation of a park that will give students a new outdoor study area. The gift to the Atlanta college will launch the creation of the Robert Frederick Smith Scholars Program, which will be…

Gwinnett County residents will go to the polls on March 19 to vote on a referendum to expand transit services. If the referendum passes, Gwinnett’s transit system and services will expand based on Gwinnett’s plan and its contract with MARTA. The expansion will be funded through a one-cent sales tax for transit. In preparation for the Transit Referendum, the county will host a series of open house education sessions. The sessions will be held on the following dates: Tuesday, Jan. 22 – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Bogan Park Community Recreation Center Community Room, 2723 North Bogan Road, Buford Wednesday,…

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Decatur- DeKalb Chapter, Inc. will host its ” Healthy Eating and Fitness Day” event on Thursday, Jan. 31, 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the Samson Fitness Center, 6400 Woodrow Road, Stonecrest, Join the organization for exercises, healthy snacks and nutrition education to help prevent adult and child hood obesity. Wear workout gear. The event is free and open to the public.  

LifeLine Animal Project is offering free adoptions of 100 select dog and cat MVPs (Most Valuable Pets) at the DeKalb County Animal Services shelter, now through Super Bowl Sunday to help find homes for the higher-than-usual number of pets in its care.  An MVP is any dog or cat with a football sticker on their cage card.  MVPs are already spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and can leave the shelter today. All LifeLine Animal Project shelters are participating in the MVP promotion.  To adopt a shelter pet and save a life, drop by DeKalb County Animal Services, 3280 Chamblee Dunwoody Road in Chamblee; Fulton County…

Are you ready to rock? This March, get out and explore Georgia’s granite giants – Arabia Mountain, Panola Mountain and Stone Mountain – during the annual Monadnock Madness. Come celebrate these three major Atlanta-area monadnocks through hikes, workshops, classes and fitness throughout the month. The activities include the ever-popular Triple Hike Challenge, in which hikers summit all three granite mountains in a single day. A celebration of nature, wildlife and some darn big rocks, Monadnock Madness will change how you see Atlanta’s outdoors. Registration for triple hikes, photography workshop and mountaintop yoga opens on Jan. 22. Now in its…

DeKalb County School District (DCSD) Superintendent R. Stephen Green invites all students, parents, staff and stakeholders to the fourth “On The Scene with Dr. Green” event of the 2018-2019 school year on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. The event will be held at E.L. Bouie Elementary School, 5100 Rock Springs Road, Lithonia. Green will give a brief statement about the state of DCSD before answering questions from the audience. “On The Scene with Dr. Green” is an opportunity to learn more about DeKalb schools. Throughout the 2018-2019 school year, Dr. Green will visit seven total locations. To learn more, visit www.dekalbschoolsga.org/on-the-scene.

In partnership with Fit for a Queen, the Bello Mo Group and Lynette Clove, an Independent sales director for Mary Kay, DeKalb County Solicitor-General Donna Coleman-Stribling is inviting DeKalb County high school juniors and seniors to enter the 2019 Stop Teen Dating Violence Public Service Announcement(PSA) Contest. With February being recognized as Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Coleman-Stribling and her team are encouraging DeKalb teens to promote healthy teen dating practices that prevent violence by producing a one-minute PSA. The student who creates the most impactful PSA will win a prom prize package, which includes:      Dinner for two  …

Readers at every grade level in the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) are poised to compare their knowledge on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Arabia Mountain High School, 6610 Browns Mill Road, Stonecrest. Registration for the 2019 Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl begins at 8 a.m. Helen Ruffin, a library media specialist in DeKalb County, founded the Reading Bowl as a way to engage students with the Georgia Children’s Book Awards and encourage them to read. She therefore created a unique reading competition in game format, called the Reading Bowl, using books from the nominee list. Students at every grade level—elementary, middle,…