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Eastside Medical Center helps make wishes come true

Eastside Medical Center helps make wishes come true

Eastside Medical Center teamed up with Make-a-Wish Georgia September 30, 2016 for the grand finale to the hospital’s Make-A-Wish campaign. Members of the Eastside Leadership team and Tim Early, CEO of Make-A-Wish Georgia, blazed through the obstacle course during the tricycle race.

Congratulations new Eagle Scout Chad Baker

Jerry Chadwick “Chad” Baker, III, son of Jerry and Charity Baker of Covington Georgia, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout on September 24, 2016.  Chad, a senior at Walnut Grove High School, worked with the Monastery of the Visitation in Snellville Georgia for his Eagle Award project. 

Excitement in WORDS!!!

Excitement in WORDS!!!

The Snellville Lions Club brought smiles to the 3rd Graders at W.C. Britt Elementary School.  Through a program called The Dictionary Project, the Snellville Lions donated a Webster Student dictionary to every student in the 3rd grade classes at W.C. Britt.

Front row: First Vice Regent Ann Story, Regent Kitty Watters, Past Regent and State CWL Chairman Lydia McGill, Georgia State Regent Joyce Patton, State of Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal, Miriam Machida, Helen Grigsby, Joyce Howard. Second row: Past Recording Secretary Judy Dyer, Librarian Becky Davenport, Past Regent Peggy Freeman, Corresponding Secretary Lee Schermerhorn, Registrar Elizabeth Jaeger, Second Vice Regent Connie Rifkind, Chaplain Linda Olson, Anne Lockhart, Jamie Parker. Not pictured: Marcia Robertson, Helen Dalton, HODARS Jim Freeman, Frank Marchese.

NSDAR celebrates Constitution Week

There are two documents of paramount importance to American history: the Declaration of Independence, which forged our national identity, and the United States Constitution, which set forth the framework for the federal government that is still in use today.  This year, the annual celebration began September 17, 2016.