Red’s Beer Garden Hosts Hurricane Ida Relief Day: Giving Soul Back To The Hospitality Industry

New Orleans-native and Katrina survivor, Caroline King, also known for her Bitch Beer Podcast, is teaming up with Red’s Beer Garden to show support for her hometown during their Hurricane Ida Relief Day benefit. On Thursday, September 30th from 6 p.m to 10 p.m., 10% of Red’s sales will be donated to the Lagniappe Krewe Emergency Relief Fund, a nonprofit organization established to help hospitality workers and their immediate families during emergency situations beyond their control, which have caused financial hardship.… Read More »

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Mindy Osler
(770) 637-2299
mindy.osler@carenwestpr.com

Adopt-a-Family Holiday Program Returns this Year!

Get ready to go shopping for holiday gifts for local children in need! CAC’s popular Adopt-a-Family for the Holidays program will return to its original format this year! Donors will be able to select families to ‘adopt” for holiday gifts from our website and be provided with wish lists for the children. Donors will be asked to deliver their gifts to CAC.… Read More »

Garden Faire

Save the Date: The Spalding Garden Club is planning a Garden Faire! The event will take place on October 16, 2021 from 9AM-4PM at All Saints Catholic Church, 2443 Mount Vernon Road, Dunwoody GA. Rain or Shine and all outdoors. Admission is free. Pass along plants from SGC members’ gardens will be for sale. Also featuring a bake sale, picnic lunch, second seasons retail shop, bird houses, garden art (13 vendors planned) and a raffle.… Read More »

Contact:

Cathy Kapsimalis

Dunwoody resident Michael Weinberg shares his family’s personal connection to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation

“I have been an ulcerative colitis patient since 1980. I was aware of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, but never participated much other than membership until around 2012,” explains Dunwoody Resident Michael Weinberg. “Then, in 2006, my middle son was diagnosed at age 2 with ulcerative colitis.”

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic autoimmune diseases characterized by inflammation of the digestive tract.… Read More »

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Contact:

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
(404) 982-0616
erichter@crohnscolitisfoundation.org

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Torch Gala to be held on October 15; Dunwoody resident Michael Weinberg shares his family’s personal connection to the Foundation

“I have been an ulcerative colitis patient since 1980. I was aware of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, but never participated much other than membership until around 2012,” explains Dunwoody Resident Michael Weinberg. “Then, in 2006, my middle son was diagnosed at age 2 with ulcerative colitis.”

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic autoimmune diseases characterized by inflammation of the digestive tract.… Read More »

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Contact:

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
(404) 982-0616
erichter@crohnscolitisfoundation.org

Be on Your Wurst Behavior and Celebrate Oktoberfest at Red’s Beer Garden

Prost! It’s that time of year again. Between September 21st and October 3rd, Red’s Beer Garden is hosting two weeks of food and craft beer specials in honor of Oktoberfest. Get into the fall feeling by pairing their limited-edition Oktoberfest hash and German potato salad with Märzen craft brews from Ayinger Brewery, Halfway Crooks Beer, Bold Monk, Arches Brewing, Jack’s Abby, Printer’s Ale Manufacturing Co.,… Read More »

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Mindy Osler
(404) 614-0006
mindy.osler@carenwestpr.com

Creative Kids Art Class at Dunwoody UMC

 

Awaken the joy of art in your child with our Creative Kids Art Class. Taught by an experienced and beloved local artist, Ms. Dawne Cueller, children will create masterpieces while exploring a variety of mediums including acrylics, watercolors, clay and pastels. All supplies are included in registration fee.

Open to children in kindergarten through fifth grade.… Read More »

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Contact:

Michelle Spitz
(770) 394-0675
michelle.spitz@dunwoodyumc.org

Travel Tuesday: Noteworthy travel news, earn up to 90,000 miles for future travel and LOW Delta SkyMiles deals!

by Danielle Garrett of PlanIt Travel Designs for The Aha! Connection 

The U.S. travel ban on vaccinated foreigners entering our country is scheduled to be lifted this November!  Do you have relatives overseas that have been waiting to visit you?  Well, it looks like they may be able to travel to the U.S. just in time for the holidays. … Read More »

National Merit Honor Scholarship Semifinalists

Please email Audra if you have National Merit Semifinalists from other schools you’d like to share!

DHS is honored to announce the following students as Dunwoody High School’s Semifinalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Competition:

  • Piranavaskanthan Abeyakaran
  • Kate Bacon
  • Olivia Bacon
  • Jacob Callahan
  • Khue Do
  • Prathmesh Joshi
  • Siddharth Mohan
  • Maisie Worley

These Wildcats entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year.… Read More »

Prep Food Junction – Literally A Hidden Gem


I was having a day that required tacos and rallied some adventurous friends to try out Let’s Taco Bout It. I dropped the address in Waze and went on my way, past that weird abandoned cylinder building at spaghetti junction, and ended on the frontage road of 85 facing the Big Green Egg building. I pulled up into what can only be described as a food hall in the form of an office park known as Prep Food Junction.… Read More »

Audra’s 4 Latest Reads!

by Audra H. Anders for The Aha! Connection

Long before we planned a trip to Italy, my family planned a beach trip.   We’ve been on the gulf coast together all week mostly watching the rain and the waves out the window of our rental house.   Being at the beach in the rain is better than not being at the beach, plus it gave me plenty of time to read.… Read More »

STAGE DOOR THEATRE PUTS A BEAUTIFUL TWIST ON THE BARD’S TEEN TRAGEDY

Stage Door Theatre’s first show of the new season is a beautiful spin on the classic Romeo and Juliet, directed by their new artistic director Willie E Jones III.   With Jones’ bold musical influences and in a 1990’s setting, in combination with the dynamic Basquiat influences by technical director, Lila Chapman, this classic will be an exciting new journey for Shakespeare veterans and newcomers alike.… Read More »