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Courtesy of Girl Scout Troop 23134" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: spe</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/girl-scouts-fight-hunger-with-birthday-bags-thanksgiving-baskets/OQYBZ7ZFDVDY3P6HBJP2QHKLOI/"><h3>Girl Scouts fight hunger with birthday bags, Thanksgiving baskets</h3></a></div></div></div><div class="column-2"><div class="row"><div class="c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/inspire/determined-advocate-helping-others-with-developmental-disabilities/PN236EJWTZAARP73SQ6EHSTQ4I/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/6AJQVYOMIIWTLTH7HUVA5CXO2I.jpg?auth=fe82a4799e2dcdfb564d8983b7a5ec83f19c3f1d9e35e1803702fc1f629eb11e&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Martha Haythorn gets in the pool at the Decatur YMCA. She was recently appointed by Gov. Kemp to serve on the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities. Martha has been a recent student at Georgia Tech and has Down Syndrome. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/determined-advocate-helping-others-with-developmental-disabilities/PN236EJWTZAARP73SQ6EHSTQ4I/"><h3>Determined advocate helping others with developmental disabilities</h3></a></div></div><div class="c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/inspire/lifelong-postcard-collector-surpasses-world-record/7F4JSGCPXVHSJJ2ZAOLXCC35NE/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/LMCRWGS5YVDTD5774OQESQYP3Q.jpg?auth=b24b422e8fa013dd28470a0302bb47d1e3b82035a9a883bc619f314f21b17497&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Joe Vella talks about his collection of 52,000 postcards from around the world in his Decatur home. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/lifelong-postcard-collector-surpasses-world-record/7F4JSGCPXVHSJJ2ZAOLXCC35NE/"><h3>Lifelong postcard collector surpasses world record</h3></a></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/inspire/to-africa-with-love-former-orphan-gives-back-with-help-from-his-customers/R7PJDGAZAZBS7MSH7AAMR4FMIE/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/SSU2XOTX4VUVN2SWAVJR3LDZEQ.jpg?auth=b589eb2a23a52b9a92c9f0620308f7601a5893787318555e463b02487c2752e1&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Charles Wangondu pack boxes of clothes & school supplies for an orphange he grew up in the town TFalls in Kenya. He relocated to America from Kenya many years ago on a track scholarship. He owns TFalls pest control, the name pays homage to where he grew up in an orphange. He has been sending clothes and money back to the orphanage. But he's also been working to improve the primary schools in Kenya with things we consider essential classrooms, bathrooms, a lunch program and more. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/to-africa-with-love-former-orphan-gives-back-with-help-from-his-customers/R7PJDGAZAZBS7MSH7AAMR4FMIE/"><h3>To Africa with love: Former orphan gives back with help from his customers</h3></a></div></div><div class="c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/inspire/shepherd-sluggers-offer-chance-for-wheelchair-users-to-play-ball/WV6PEMBODFCHZII2KO3ABATQN4/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/RAC633FKUZFRFMGTNXYVPCYORM.jpg?auth=a197055f1096ec3cfde449c2c784084f8829e351f9e74e83f4004a4e715a2ac9&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="The Shepherd Sluggers placed 6th in the Division 1 bracket of the 2024 Wheelchair Softball World Series. Courtesy of Kyle Benedict" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Courtesy of Kyle Benedict</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/shepherd-sluggers-offer-chance-for-wheelchair-users-to-play-ball/WV6PEMBODFCHZII2KO3ABATQN4/"><h3>Shepherd Sluggers offer chance for wheelchair users to play ball</h3></a></div></div></div><div class="row"><div class="c-story-tease hide-description "><a href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-equestrian-community-rides-to-the-rescue/OWG67XLMVBH6FIJTZQ3UHPBDBI/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-portrait"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/ERVSDLUBEJE6LJKYHZCNFSPYXA.jpeg?auth=673bae2516cbfc936612dd78cf0cd85a572d339ac30cf730d0bc35b8957d5d7f&width=330&height=330&smart=true" alt="Volunteers from the equestrian community around Alpharetta recently mobilized and collected donations for hurricane ravaged areas of the Southeast. 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COURTESY" width="330" height="330" class=" square-image " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1;max-width:20.625rem;max-height:20.625rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: contributed</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/education/making-the-grade-dads-and-granddads-pitch-in-at-spring-hill/FK3BQ5QQGBC4ZABOVVJPXTYHAI/"><h3>Making the Grade: Dads (and granddads) pitch in at Spring Hill</h3></a><p class="description">A newsletter item from his son’s school grabbed Jonathan Graham’s interest: It offered a chance to meet other dads and to volunteer, and it threw in coffee and doughnuts.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="MP02 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><div class="RP01 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 tablet-only"></div><div data-fusion-lazy-id="f0fUnGvO2z1G3f3"><div class="c-featPfgDescription b-margin-bottom-d30-m20" data-sectiontitle="Feat Pkg Simple Descr"><div class="card-wrapper three-story with-photo"><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/alpharetta-woman-finds-purpose-in-making-lasagna-for-others/ZBEX27GWUJHRJC2KPLMK5O4ZNA/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/ALEL3MYVHL6OED373YBU3N6ACA.jpg?auth=8f4eead942bc4af4b05153a7636b17c32801acce95b07ff4b946938e17097875&width=750&height=500&smart=true" alt="Lynn Hirsch makes four pans of Lasagna in her Alpharetta home. She is the global outreach director for Lasagna Love. Hirsch and her husband Dr. Glenn Hirsch, a retired physician, make about four pans of lasagna each week and deliver them to neighbors who signed up to receive a meal from Lasagna Love. 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It wasn’t a family favorite.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/student-finds-purpose-in-his-passion/KOQCTJQ2R5GBNDQUDQIJC322CY/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/34RJELOAAKUIGYHPSE4DUUCCO4.jpg?auth=e27cc0a8c4322ea509a7d71012060fbc52821d1e8460bdffd63c6749257fdbea&width=750&height=500&smart=true" alt="Elias Kremer plays piano at Lenbrook senior living in Atlanta. 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src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/DUWSH32FQX4XMCAKP4L4HZBPKM.jpg?auth=bd4b447d644de9e4cd2bccb156e6ec4531af61bd9c4fa3d2f712d8eac83f86de&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Salon Manager Susan Perdue (right), at Great Clips in Cumming, talks with Richard Herrmann as she cuts his hair. Perdue, who was born deaf, communicates with her clients by reading their lips in the mirror as she stands behind them styling their hair. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/deaf-hair-salon-manager-realizes-lifelong-dream/B2EEYNZ27FG5HHZWRGZUE6BMBM/"><h3>Deaf hair salon manager realizes lifelong dream</h3></a></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-volunteer-project-earns-teen-scholarship/ELBEVGPBFNHZ7O4FXRLK7HIDFU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/UJRVHYIXWFGQ5CZPBRHUMYNTYI.jpg?auth=e9d47a91c0cf85876819dfe569766b57181d787387f54fc68de081ac7f32d5e6&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Faustina Barcena (left) stands with Adam Pomeranz, president and CEO of Annandale Village (center), and her brother, John, in front of a bench she created for the Suwanee assisted living facility. Courtesy" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Cont</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-volunteer-project-earns-teen-scholarship/ELBEVGPBFNHZ7O4FXRLK7HIDFU/"><h3>Doing Good: Volunteer project earns teen scholarship</h3></a><p class="description">It’s been only six weeks since Faustina Barcena became a student at the University of Notre Dame, but she’s already drawing on her background as a community volunteer.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/teen-wants-to-make-court-less-traumatic-for-foster-kids-other-children/56UAHM3EQJCXNPB7PN6SQZAMRQ/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/6XW2635F4A62QVWOALN6RJO3LU.jpg?auth=14af9262122312e868a142fa86984a78a71a3484c51e23ca42a7a39be3498d0b&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Sanjana Shah, a senior at Johns Creek High School has developed a book and activity book to help foster children navigate juvenile court and just more understand the process. So far its very popular with social workers. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/teen-wants-to-make-court-less-traumatic-for-foster-kids-other-children/56UAHM3EQJCXNPB7PN6SQZAMRQ/"><h3>Teen wants to make court less traumatic for foster kids, other children</h3></a><p class="description">Thousands of children across Georgia go to juvenile courtrooms each year, often feeling overwhelmed. But that could be changing through the efforts of one local teen.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/georgia-11-year-old-survives-cancer-and-hopes-to-help-others/7JYMGPHQEBENXD5COELUUALBIU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/K3YENR7O4NDJNIQPW7GQJ2TVEE.jpg?auth=21ab4860f909159c2e42a0604635c377ac9d70dc651e98df44127e31624fe441&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Eleven-year-old Ally Smith, of Tallapoosa, uses her cancer story to inspire people to support CURE, an organization that funds cancer research. Courtesy of Amber Smith" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Courtesy of Amber Smith</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/georgia-11-year-old-survives-cancer-and-hopes-to-help-others/7JYMGPHQEBENXD5COELUUALBIU/"><h3>Georgia 11-year-old survives cancer and hopes to help others</h3></a><p class="description">Ally Smith was just 10 years old when she shared her cancer journey with 500 people at her church.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-nonprofit-fills-an-array-of-needs/S2HVXCIM25FVLD7WLZ5ZKUWCZU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/2QTWJQ2RRBC7TGBFAHUOQD7VAA.jpg?auth=83ed6a55e4695279aec2630bdeeca69169c2702fe528ef7fdd24afe204e369d0&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Volunteers from the Assistance League of Atlanta support a variety of causes and needs, including assembling supplies for local elementary schools. Courtesy" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: contributed</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-nonprofit-fills-an-array-of-needs/S2HVXCIM25FVLD7WLZ5ZKUWCZU/"><h3>Doing Good: Nonprofit fills an array of needs</h3></a><p class="description">The Assistance League of Atlanta is a group of about 270 volunteers who to pay $75 to join so they can volunteer for the nonprofit.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/johns-creek-nonprofit-helps-close-the-digital-divide-with-refurbished-computers/PEDOLB6C55HPDK3B75B36FTDXU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/Z3N2DWGB3APCYKWYIEIGUGNJUE.jpg?auth=00aa5ff8760f922dd2caefcb112b8dc99013203c3558574b34ca847e3d8ceb6e&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Yvonne David at eCloud Recycle in Atlanta. She founded The Pippin Project to give refurbished computers and tablets to high school students in need. She also supplies technology and other help to people who have been incarcerated through partnerships with the Georgia Justice Project. PHIL SKINNER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Phil Skinner</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/johns-creek-nonprofit-helps-close-the-digital-divide-with-refurbished-computers/PEDOLB6C55HPDK3B75B36FTDXU/"><h3>Johns Creek nonprofit helps close the digital divide with refurbished computers</h3></a><p class="description">Yvonne David of Johns Creek is helping to close the digital gap for those behind in technology. She founded a nonprofit to give away refurbished computers.</p></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/teen-swims-lake-lanier-to-help-other-kids-with-cancer/6SZXLRH4BZCGFH6XGREYQHDG6Q/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-portrait"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/NZIIZRAS5FALJPGOAZ57RX5ZUY.jpg?auth=05c0809b0d9df23bf5926c3cdbcdd2ad8c8f5b4e93453777a9eeb687d13a5161&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Keren Clay, a 16-year-old two-time cancer survivor, will swim a mile across Lake Lanier for Swim Across America to raise money for the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, the place where she was treated and where she hopes more children with cancer will be cured. (Courtesy of Kelly Clay)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Courtesy of Kelly Clay</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/teen-swims-lake-lanier-to-help-other-kids-with-cancer/6SZXLRH4BZCGFH6XGREYQHDG6Q/"><h3>Teen swims Lake Lanier to help other kids with cancer</h3></a></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-nonprofit-group-helping-mamas-marks-10-years/NTHGA7QTI5DRFNNJRODW7EIZC4/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/IK3A367UQZGYBM27NJDHCKZR2Q.jpg?auth=50cc5d66a32a14a0e982fb192db831a2b05f1bf2a4e444fefb4f8568739f7e2e&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Jamie Lackey launched the nonprofit Helping Mamas 10 years ago to help families who needed diapers. Courtesy" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: cont</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/neighborhoods/doing-good-nonprofit-group-helping-mamas-marks-10-years/NTHGA7QTI5DRFNNJRODW7EIZC4/"><h3>Doing Good: Nonprofit group Helping Mamas marks 10 years</h3></a><p class="description">In her career as a social worker, Jamie Lackey saw families in dire circumstances. But the one that struck her the most was seeing moms washing used disposable diapers.</p></div></div><div class="MP10 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><div class="RP10 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/inspire/man-with-spina-bifida-to-compete-in-handball-world-championships/33AYUHVM7BGKTMPKJ4W4DB3HQY/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-portrait"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/OF3N33O3WJDAHLNFZKXGVAJZ3E.jpeg?auth=24f95c987bf30b6bacdc2952cb6af164e1c796c9732538bb9b38cee76d38b82f&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Sam Armas, of Villa Rica, is a professional wheelchair basketball player who will compete with Team USA Wheelchair Handball on Sept. 16-21 in Cairo, Egypt in the 2024 Wheelchair Handball World Championship. Courtesy of Sam Armas" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=1836" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Courtesy of Sam Armas</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/inspire/man-with-spina-bifida-to-compete-in-handball-world-championships/33AYUHVM7BGKTMPKJ4W4DB3HQY/"><h3>Man with spina bifida to compete in handball world championships</h3></a></div></div><div class="c-story-tease "><a href="/news/john-lewis-left-footprints-across-metro-atlanta/JS3FCFIDPJHZ5E2V3ZUG6ZP6D4/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/UD3PBWZKSNCBNAASKQFQE7YBOQ.jpg?auth=39651750cf74c8c74eef3e0a0c52b6781956efb12897e7173c8b88e1a436e2ab&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="John Lewis's literal footprints are included in the display at the National Park Service’s Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. The honor was created by Xernona Clayton in 2004 and includes such notable leaders as Maya Angelou, Hank Aaron and Bill Clinton. 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During those years, he was known as one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders. He spoke at the 1963 March on Washington and was one of the leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer activities in Mississippi. 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They’ve added more vehicles and equipment that players can use to enhance their experience. The players pay for these extras with Robux, the currency of Roblox. 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