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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Celebration of Life

In the sixteen short years Summer Dale graced this planet, she made more of a difference than most people do in a lifetime. Today was not a day to mourn; there would be time for that. Today was a time to celebrate Summer’s incredible life. People dressed in purple, her favorite color, and came by the…

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Summer’s Celebration of Life is Scheduled

Summer’s Celebration of Life will be held this Sunday, November 18th at 3:00p at Opera in Midtown. In the spirit of Summer’s offbeat style, we ask that her family and friends leave their black clothes and glum faces at home.  Instead, put on her favorite color, purple, and come ready to toast her extraordinary life!…

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Summer’s Obituary

Summer MacMahon Dale, age 16, passed away peacefully at home in Atlanta, surrounded by loving family and friends, on Sunday, Nov. 11. We mourn the great loss of our beautiful girl while at the same time relish the joy she brought into all of our lives during the short time we had the privilege of…

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Our Sweet Summer

We are so sorry to report that we lost our sweet Summer tonight. She was sixteen years old. She died peacefully in her bedroom, surrounded by her entire family. We are heartbroken. She was courageous to the end. She recently told a close family friend, “Promise me you will let everyone know, especially my friends,…

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WE DID IT!

Summer’s car is in our driveway! A gorgeous, red 2006 Honda CRV!! Summer is over the moon! Let me share with you how this all came about. Two weeks ago, friends and family of Summer set out make a big dream of hers come true. The Make-A-Wish people had come by a few weeks earlier….

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Update on Summer’s Car!

This is Summer’s mom: You all are really blowing us away! Donations are coming in from all over. People we know…people we don’t know…contributions ranging from $5 to $1000. So far, including generous contributions from Keller Williams agents at the end of a class led by Shaun Rawls and Jeri Moran, you all have raised…

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