Winder Salon Gives Back to the Community with Free Haircuts for Foster Children and Job Seekers

Lifelong Winder resident Shannon Walden, the owner of Head Games Salon, is making her business a part of the local community.

Since mid-January, Head Games Salon has been offering a special service to the Barrow community — free haircuts for foster children and job seekers with upcoming interviews. “There’s a need,” owner Shannon Walden, a lifelong resident of Winder, said of her motivation for offering the services free of charge. “How do you get put together and presentable when you’re unemployed to begin with? You’ve made the effort to find a job and now you have an interview and we want to get you ready for it.” Walden hopes to make the community more aware of the services — parents of foster children and those who are unemployed and have job interviews lined up can call the salon at 678-425-9603 to schedule an appointment.  “We’re not here to be a business…

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Social Services Worker Dreams Up 'Adventure Bags' for Foster Children

Tracey McMahon and her family help ensure foster kids have the essentials they need for traumatic moves.

Editor's Note: Tracey McMahon was selected as the The Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day for Jan. 11, 2012.  The feature recognizes citizens across the nation for their extraordinary efforts to make a difference in their communities. Congratulations, Tracey! For 10 years Tracey McMahon has worked for the Georgia Division of Family and Children's Services serving Oconee, Morgan, Greene and Jasper counties. She's had the unfortunate task of removing kids from their homes, sometimes in the middle of the night, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. But it wasn't until a trip mid-last year to pick up three children -- two girls and a boy, ages 3 to 13 -- from LAX Airport and transport them back to Georgia that she …

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Barrow Woman Offers a Day on the Lake for Children with Brain Tumors

Jennifer Mosher is co-founder of The Boating Bonanza, an annual event for children with brain tumors.

“It’s the small things that keep you motivated,” Jennifer Mosher says. For Mosher, those small things have motivated her for a decade to offer some special children a special day away from their normal routines: The Auburn, Ga., resident is co-founder of The Boating Bonanza, which invites children with brain tumors to spend a fall day boating on a nearby lake. Mosher started The Boating Bonanza, along with co-founder Dick Russell, after being inspired by a boat show hosted by the Children's Harbor, a nonprofit organization that offered camping trips and adventures for children with long-term illnesses and their families.  “Seeing the joy on the kids' faces from Camp Smile-a-Mile, I thought, ‘Why can't I do something like this?’ On a much …

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