Make sure you go out and support the local folks raising money for The Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia and participating in the Tri to Beat Cancer Triathlon this weekend. There is a free Expo open to the public Saturday from 2pm to 6pm at the downtown Athens Holiday Inn. There will be several vendors promoting health and fitness and there will be fun things for the kids, including a face-painting booth sponsored by Full Circle Agent Katie Throne.

The race, comprised of a 400 meter swim, 16 mile bike race and 5K run, starts Sunday at 7am at Sandy Creek Park. Good luck to all the participants! For more info, click HERE.

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The Princeton Review named The University of Georgia as one of 18 colleges on its "2011 Green Rating Honor Roll" – a list of colleges that received the highest possible score (99) in its Green Rating tallies this year.

Known for its education services helping students choose and get in to colleges, The Princeton Review just reported its third annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99.  The Company tallied the rating for 703 institutions based its institutional surveys of colleges in 2009-10 concerning their environmentally related practices, policies and academic offerings. (www.princetonreview.com)

You can read an update on UGA's Office of Sustainability and the great strides they are making on campus in this week's Flagpole Magazine or click HERE.

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Bicycles For Humanity Georgia and BikeAthens are teaming up to collect second hand bikes to redistribute to individuals in need in Athens, Georgia and Namibia, southern Africa. The Bike Drive will be held on Saturday, September 11th, from 10am to 3pm at Oneta suite 6E3, adjacent to the Chase Park Warehouses. For directions please visit www.onetaspace.com.
Bicycles For Humanity Georgia (B4H Georgia) is a non-profit organization with a mission to empower individuals to improve their quality of life by transferring mobility through the use of bicycles. B4H Georgia will be collecting mountain and all-terrain bicycles to load into a 40-foot shipping container and send to communities in Namibia.

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We're starting a new series of Builder Profiles so you can get to know some of the builders we work with at Full Circle. Several of us have worked alongside Jared York of J.W. York Homes to custom build homes for our clients and we've all been very happy with the experience. We've found him to be a progressive builder of quality homes, who is easy to work with and is on the cutting edge of energy-efficient building. It's nice to find a builder who shares our company's philosophy of sustainable development.

You can check out Jared's work HERE and view a fantastic in-town home he recently built with tons of "green" attributes HERE that is on the market for only $184,900.

Jared York, J.W. York Homes

Hometown? Originally Fayetteville GA
Family?    Wife, 14 month daughter Charlotte, twin girls on the way
Why did you become a builder?   I love designing and creating things. It was just a natural progression.

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A home listed by Full Circle Agent Michael Littleton is featured in The New York Times today in a story for their Real Estate section called, "What you get for...$210,000."

The article gives a snapshot of what you can get for that price in a few cities across the country. Click HERE to check it out!

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