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Students Serve 13 Organizations During Apostolic Blitz Day
Middle School students at Pinecrest Academy, a Catholic school in Cumming, spent a day away from campus to to go out and serve others in the local community...
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Pinecrest Academy Offers Family Life Programs
Open to all, the fall schedule includes workshops and classes such as Boundaries in Marriage, MomSense, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Band of Brothers and several others...
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Pinecrest Volleyball Player Named All American at 2010 AAU National Volleyball Championships
Haley Ojeda, outside hitter and co-captain of the 2010 Lady Paladin Varsity Volleyball team at the private Catholic school in Cumming, has played club volleyball since 7th grade and has been part of the A5 Club since 2008... 
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Matthew Kelly Presents Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose
Join world-renowned author and speaker, Matthew Kelly, as he presents this dynamic one-day retreat, along with special guest, Allen Hunt, host of the Allen Hunt Show...

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Pinecrest Students Achieve 100% Pass Rate in Five AP Courses
The overall pass rate was 85% for all Pinecrest students.  The top state scores for 2009 (the last year that all national scores have been published) were New Hampshire and Massachusetts with a 72% pass rate. The pass rate for all Georgia schools was 54%...
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Pinecrest Academy Students Choose Mission Work for Senior Trip
Twenty-one boys, including four former Pinecrest graduates, and twenty girls, along with parents, a priest, and consecrated women, traveled to Nicaragua, setting out to transform society with the words of Mother Teresa, “We can do no great things, only small things with great love”... 
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Black and Unwanted: New Billboard Campaign Launches this Week
Ryan Bomberger, creator of the billboards and co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, says, “Abortion is being used as birth control and increasingly encouraged by groups like Planned Parenthood who, in 2008, aborted 65 children for every one client they referred for adoption; that’s 305,310 abortions to 4,912 adoption referrals"...
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Thousands of Catholics to Gather for 2010 Eucharistic Congress
This year’s theme, “To Sanctify the Christian People,” comes directly from the prayer of ordination for priests as the global church celebrates the Year for Priests and the indelible link between the Eucharist and the priesthood...
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National Honor Society at Pinecrest Academy Helps Fund Mission Trip
Monies raised will be allocated for the Pinecrest Senior Nicaragua Mission Trip. Senior girls from Pinecrest will be working at an orphanage for physically and sexually abused girls...
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Pinecrest Academy Student Wins “Best of Show” in Art Competition
Tesi Saker's 24” X 32” water color of her baby brother, entitled Looking into a Child’s Eyes, won Best of Show in the Inspire Life Art Competition out of all local high school work submitted...
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When You Have Done The Best You Can
Having the opportunity to be of service to families is something I hold near and dear.  But at the end of the day I can’t help but wonder; Have I done all that I could to help them get through such am emotional and difficult period in their lives?...
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Survey Shows Parents Want Less Sex, Drugs on TV
According to a recent national survey, parents are calling on the media industry to help protect children, with three-fourths saying the industry should do more, and 58% saying government should too...
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Southern Catholic College Shortens Semester
Efforts to raise money for the new school have not met expectations, making it impossible for the College to continue through the end of the semester, May 13...
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Founder of Dawsonville Humanitarian Organization Heads to Iraq
Dr. Ben Mathes, founder of Rivers of the World, a humanitarian organization based in Dawsonville, will be leaving for Iraq on April 19, serving as a journalist.  The Dawson County resident is also a motivational speaker and has received numerous awards for his humanitarian work around the world...
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The Peace, Love & Pure Fashion Show Benefits Bert’s Big Adventure
The Peace, Love & Pure Fashion Show is a great "day trip" event in Atlanta to take your tweens and young teens to.  More than 40 Pure Fashion models will be strutting down the runway, modeling fashions that celebrate a girl's innate value and authentic femininity...
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EWTN Airs Divine Mercy Mass Live on Sunday
As Our Lord told St. Faustina, the apostle who gave mankind the Divine Mercy devotion: “The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My mercy” (Diary 699)...
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First Baptist Church of Dawsonville Performs Park Spring Cleaning
Volunteers from First Baptist Church of Dawsonville spent March 20 participating in community service projects.  As a result of their efforts, Veterans Memorial Park and War Hill Park each boast new landscaping around recently completed additions to the parks and Rock Creek Park received help with an Opening Day cleanup...
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EWTN’s New Series, All Things Girl, Takes on Mean Girls, Cyber Bullying and More
Mean girls have many “tools” in their arsenal: rumors, the silent treatment, pouting, snarky comments and, of course, the Internet. How can a nice girl cope?...
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New York Times Tries to Keep Flame Alive
"Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer." That's the headline in today's New York Times piece on the pope. Yet the Times offers absolutely no evidence to support this charge...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
More than likely, you're wearing green today, along with your fellow Dawson County friends and co-workers.  You might even pinch someone who's not dressed in green and are perhaps planning St. Patrick's Day celebrations.  But you may wonder who St. Patrick really was and why we associate shamrocks with this day of celebration and green beverages...
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