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Cambridge High School takes top honors in the cans competition.
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Constructions out of cans feed needy N.F. high schools use canned food in charity competition The family hosts a hello/goodbye party for their au pairs, Ja-Or and Mai.
‘Families don’t have to be biological’ Local family endorses adoption, au pairs By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — Like many career-oriented women in the 1980s and ’90s, Rony Ghelerter thought there would be time enough to have children. So she focused on her work in
the airline industry and as a real estate professional, married husband, Jeff, at 39 and then set about trying to start a family. “I never imagined in a million years that we would not be able to conceive,” Ghelerter, now 54, said. “There were no guaranteed options for over the age of 35. We felt like [fertility treatments] would be wasted money and wanted to look at something that was more of a sure bet.”
The couple decided to adopt, but the U.S. adoption process worried Ghelerter because, as she said, if a baby was given up and the father didn’t know about it, the child could be taken from them. So the couple took their search overseas to China and adopted then 9-month-old twins, Abbey and Katie. “Adopting my children
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By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Students from all over North Fulton participated Nov. 7 at North Point Mall in a competition to build the most creative and unique structures. The kicker was their building materials were cans of food the students collected to help fill the North Fulton Community Charities food pantry after the competition. Cambridge High School took first place. It was the third year of a project begun by the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Education Committee and featured teams
from Cambridge, Centennial, Chattahoochee, Independence and Johns Creek high schools as well as King’s Ridge Christian School and The Cottage School. The architectural/engineering firm of Goodwyn Mills and Cawood Inc. sponsored the competition with cash prizes. Using cans from food drives, the teams designed and built structures that in some way represented their school or what their school stands for. Chamber Education Committee Chairwoman Allie Neal said this was most school participation they had ever had and that the judging would be tough. It took a week of planning to collect the cans and design projects. Students then had just two-and-a-half hours to assemble their structures –
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