An East Cobb jewelry store owner has partnered with the Cobb County School District to encourage young people to take up writing and creativity while honoring their mothers.
The Dazzling Diamonds initiative is conducted in time for Mother’s Day, with elementary students at East Cobb schools writing essays whose winners are chosen in each grade, kindergarten through fifth.
The mothers of the winners receive a 1/4-carat genuine round-cut brilliant diamond from David Douglas Diamonds and Jewelry, which began Dazzling Diamonds more than 20 years ago to honor the mother of founder Doug Meadows, who passed away from cancer in 1990,…