Super Team Summer Volunteer!

Team Summer would like to recognize 13-year old Katie Smith as a super Team Summer volunteer! Each year, her family gives her $100 to contribute to any cause, and Katie chose Team Summer! But Katie did not stop there. She recently ran a lemonade stand with her friend, Mary Gordon, and raised $21.25 for Team…

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SCHOOL FUNDRAISER NETS $2100!!!

Riverwood High School in Sandy Springs recently held an amazing fundraiser for Team Summer – Kids Helping Kids with Cancer! High school art students were asked to submit their work for entrance into a silent auction to benefit Team Summer. The well-attended event also included live performances and prizes for the young artists. We were…

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The Rose Bush

From Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom: Yesterday was six months to the day since Summer died. My heart has ached so much over the last six months that sometimes I don’t think I can bear it. Mostly, I have no idea when, or if, this sadness will ever leave me. I have no experience with grief…

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Fundraiser for Riverwood High School!

Summer Dale loved Riverwood High School, and now Riverwood is loving her right back. This Tuesday night, April 16th, the Riverwood National Honor Society is hosting an art show and silent auction from 5:30-8:30p.  The proceeds from the silent auction will be donated to Team Summer. One of Summer’s favorite classes at Riverwood was photography,…

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Music to Our Ears!

Haley is 16 years old. Last November, she was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer…so rare that she is the only child ever to have been diagnosed with this particular type. Needless to say that between surgeries and chemo, Haley’s young life has been turned upside down. Before she got sick, she played…

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Benefit Concert for Team Summer!

Please join us for a wonderful concert to benefit Team Summer to be held January 13th at 4:00pm (doors open at 3:30) at Steve’s Live Music at 234 Hilderbrand Dr. NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328! Jack Schneider is a Wunderkind of sorts, who at age 15 is already a talented singer and songwriter. He knows about…

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Vote for the Video!

The Dunwoody  High School Harry Potter Alliance has created a video about Team Summer and entered it in a contest called Project for Awesome! This is the same group, led by 11th graders Mallory Harris and Lauren Palgon, that raised $256 for Team Summer a month ago by holding a quidditch match. (Mallory’s family is…

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Holiday Jazz Concert Raises Nearly $1,000!

Through their innovative on-line concert, the fabulous duo, Godfrey and Guy, raised nearly $1,000 for Team Summer! Accompanying them were Lauran Hunt on bass and Tom Olsen on keyboards. During the holiday open house at Rev. Terry Davis’ home, minister of Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation (and the very same minister who officiated Summer’s Celebration of…

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Holiday Jazz Fundraiser!

Many of you have asked what you can do to support Team Summer. Here’s a simple way! Godfrey and Guy, the amazing jazz duo, are having a concert to benefit Team Summer! Here’s the cool part – you can be part of it right from your home because…(roll of drums) it’s an on-line concert! You can decorate…

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Yesterday was a BIG day!

Yesterday was a big day for Team Summer. Bittersweet to say the least. We gave our first Team Summer gift without Summer.  The gift recipient was a gentle 10-year old boy named Enrique who has leukemia. Diagnosed just this past summer, he has already been through so much, including four consecutive months in the  hospital….

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