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Pack Lunch During Your Lunch

July 17, 2014 - Summer Term

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Chattahoochee Technical College students, faculty and staff will have the

opportunity to pack 300 lunches for toddlers to teens living in Pickens

County on Monday, July 21 from noon to 1 p.m. The lunches will then be

delivered to different locations throughout Pickens County as a part of

Service Learning Committee project with MUST Ministries Summer

Lunch program.

For 19 years the local non-profit organization has been collecting and

distributing lunches to thousands of children who normally eat free and

reduced cost lunches at school. During the 10 weeks of summer break they

are left with little or no food, as most are children of minimum wage

workers who must leave their children in the care of a neighbor or older

child.

In addition to packing lunches between noon and 1 p.m. Monday, Chattahoochee Technical College students, facul-

ty and staff are being asked to donate individually packed snacks, juice drinks and books for anyone from toddlers

to teenagers in the red barrel at the Appalachian Campus Student Center.

Chattahoochee Technical College students will be celebrating Poetry with two sessions of poetry at the Appalachian

Campus of Chattahoochee Technical College. The first session, which is scheduled for July 24, will feature Pulitzer

Prize nominated poet Charles Clifford Brooks III. Visions of Verse is scheduled to take place in the library at the

Appalachian Campus from 11 a.m. to noon. Another session is scheduled for September 25.

Known for The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, the Georgia writer has been nominated for two

Pushcarts, a Pulitzer in Poetry, and Georgia Author of the Year. He was inducted as a Master Member in the

National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in

History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature. He has been published in more than 60 magazines,

five anthologies, and printed in five foreign countries. Along with creative writing he also freelances for two

magazines and a newspaper.

Poetry Event To Feature Charles Clifford Brooks, III

Are you LinkedIn? External Affairs Director of Digital Media Cheryl Forrester recently announced that Chattahoochee Technical

College has launched a LinkedIn page (university page and company page). In the coming days CTC will be launch-

ing and integrating, Pinterest, Instagram and Vine. All will be used to connect with current and/or prospective stu-

dents through highlighting the college’s faculty, services and program offerings. Digital Media will continue to mar-

ket CTC using Facebook and Twitter.

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It’s time to beat the summer heat with an ice cream sundae for you and your students. Organized by Campus Life,

Build Your Own Ice Cream Sundae events have been held at Appalachian and Marietta campuses. Still to come:

Canton Campus - July 21 from noon to 1 p.m. in the lobby.

Mountain View - July 22 from noon to 1 p.m. in the lobby.

Austell Campus - July 23 from noon to 1 p.m. in the lobby of A building.

Ice Cream Sundaes at Select Campuses

The practical nursing senior students and the faculty from Chattahoochee Technical

College held a Service Learning event in conjunction with the staff from Bartow

Family Resources on Thursday July 10 at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in

Cartersville.

Students in the program collected and organized information on safety of infants/

toddlers/children, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, mother self-care, father/family

bonding, sleeping/swaddling, bathing/cord care, infant medical care, mother nutrition

for breastfeeding, and more that was presented to close to 100 participants at the

event. Attendees were given the opportunity to earn “Baby Bucks” for each station

that they attended. They can now redeem those Baby Bucks for supplies through the

resource center. In conjunction, the Practical Nursing program has been collecting

supplies to be donated from other CTC students and staff. They collected diapers,

formula, wipes, car seats, clothing, and other miscellaneous baby supplies.

“The generosity of CTC faculty, staff, and students filled three trunks full of donated

supplies,” Practical Nursing Program Director Shannon Ferdarko. “The students were so excited about donating the

much needed supplies to families and giving back to our community. After all, community service has historically

been a large part of the nursing profession.”

Practical Nursing Students Give Back to the Community

The Georgia Council for the Arts has selected two paintings from Adult Education Assistant Cindy Dempsey to hang

in the executive offices of the state Capitol building in Atlanta. The exhibit is called The Arts of Georgia: Celebrat-

ing Georgia’s Landscapes and People and features two-dimensional visual art exploring the theme of Georgia’s

culture, heritage, and environment were considered. The selected paintings are titled: “Hiwassee at 9a.m.” and

“Bridge in Spring”. The paintings were selected as “exceptional representation of contemporary Georgia art” by Karen

Paty, Director of the Georgia Council for Arts. The paintings will hang in the capitol building until January 2015. She

has been invited to take the paintings on Aug.5 and meet with Gov. Deal to make the presentation.

Dempsey also has other paintings on display at area venues. One of her paintings is on display at the Booth Western Art Museum, and two paintings in the Booth Gallery in Cartersville, GA. She also has two paintings at the Gadsden Museum of Art in Gadsden Alabama. It is her dream to become a professional artist full time after she retires. View some of her paintings at : www.cdempsey.com

An Artist Among Us at Chattahoochee Tech