Author: Candice Dyer

Every community reels from the death of a beloved teenager. When Inda Allen died at 16 from a blood clot, Bean Creek, a historically African-American neighborhood in the mountains of northeast Georgia, lost not just a scholar, athlete, model and…

A YouTube video for the Fugees Academy went viral on the power of its message and the charisma of its young pitchman, Mohamud. The Somali refugee overcomes a fit of camera-shy giggling to explain with great dignity how he struggled…

Nature’s Child: When Emily Harrison was a little girl in the late 1800s, she so loved to explore the mossy creek banks around her home in Druid Hills that she dreamed of a “school in the woods for nature study.”…

This summer, the North Georgia Community Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary at a gala with the unusual theme of “Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, & Human Kindness.” On a hilltop in Hall County, guests trained telescopes on the surrounding mountains and…

This Organization relies on that “aha!” moment the first time a kid strums the strings. Then when fans applaud and swoon, the sounds of a guitar can drown out the other noise – taunts at school, gang violence, smooth-talking drug…

Until this camp began blazing trails, children with disabilities usually waited until the off-season at state parks to paddle a canoe, ride a horse, or shoot with a bow and arrow. Even then, though, much of the terrain was unsafe.…

In this corporate culture, those who play well with others enjoy sweet, long-term rewards. “lil’ ol’ me” is a line of colorful kiddie clothing and accessories – call it tot couture – that helps provide therapy, education and a more…

In the 1930s, a group of duck hunters in New York stopped hearing that pulse-quickening rustle of wings. They were feeling the sweep of the Dust Bowl thousands of miles away, as its winds parched the birds’ breeding grounds and…

Poundcakes are helping put Wimberley Larkey through college. “Buying books and art supplies, which can be very expensive, would have been difficult without help,” says the Kennesaw State freshman, who earned a scholarship from the Newnan Junior Service League’s cookbook…

A different drum: At 22, Nuçi Phillips wrote songs and played guitar with a grace and feeling unusual for someone so young, but then, he always had been that kind of kid – deeply affected by The Yearling, always aligned…