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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Barrow it Journal
Barrow County’s Legal Organ Georgia’s Best Weekly Paper, 2012-2013
Vol. 5 No. 36
32 PAGES 3 SECTIONS plus inserts
A publication of MainStreet Newspapers, Inc. WINDER, BARROW COUNTY GEORGIA 30680
500 COPY
BCSS, Lanier Tech campus work to begin
By Susan Norman
snorman @ barrowjournal. com
Early next week, construction crews will begin
work on the $24 million joint campuses of
Lanier Technical College and the Barrow County
Schools’ College & Career Academy.
But first, some of the leaders who helped bring
to life the vision for the first simultaneously built
campuses gathered Tuesday morning with more
than 100 state and local leaders for dual ground
breaking ceremonies.
Among the speakers was Lanier Tech's new
president, Ray Perren; Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle,
who was an early champion of both charter
school systems like Barrow’s as well as the
state’s new crop of career academies; Rep. Terry
England, who as a Barrow County state represen
tative serving as appropriations chairman in the
Georgia House of Representatives obtained $16
million in bond funding for the new Lanier Tech
campus; and school superintendent Wanda Creel
and Lanier Tech dean Lisa Maloof, who have
worked behind the scenes to get their projects
ready for development.
The primary sentiment on each speaker’s mind
was thanksgiving.
Perren said he was reminded of Moses, who
after leading a couple of generations of his
people for 40 years spoke to them of a promised
land they would inherit.
See Groundbreaking on Page 2A
BREAKING
GROUND
State techni
cal college
and political
officials turn
the first shov
el of dirt at
the new cam
pus of Lanier
Technical
College.
Photo by
Susan Norman
Barrow Briefs:
Auburn hosting
independence
celebration
The City of Auburn will
host its Auburn Independence
Day Celebration Saturday,
June 29, from 5 to 11 p.m.
The event will include food,
crafts and specialty vendors,
entertainment and a fireworks
display.
Class of 2003
plans reunion
The Winder-Barrow High
School Class of 2003 will hold
its 10-year reunion Saturday.
June 29, from 8-11:30 p.m.
at Terrapin Beer Company,
located at 265 Newton Bridge
Road, Athens, Ga. 30607.
Tickets are available at
http://www.payitsquare.com/
collect-page/12744. For direc
tions. visit http://terrapinbeer.
com/contact-us/directions/.
Class of 1993
sets reunion
The Winder-Barrow High
School Class of 1993 is plan
ning a reunion Saturday, Aug.
17 at Constance Manor in
Winder. The event will be from
7-10:30 p.m. with a cost of $45
per person or $90 per couple.
Mail payment to WBHS Class
of 1993, 4962 Turk Road,
Flowery Branch, Ga. 30542.
To become
a subscriber,
call 770-867-
6397 for rates.
The Barrow
Journal is
delivered each
Thursday
by mail.
Index:
Church News
4B
Classifieds
6-7B
Legals
3-11C
Obituaries
11A
Opinion
4A
Pets of the Week
8A
Public Safety
6-7A
Sports
1B
Contact:
Phone:
770-867-6397
Fax:
678-425-1435
Mail:
77 E. May St.
Winder, Ga. 30680
Web: www.baiTowjoumal.com
PAMPERED POOCH
Amber Alton and Brandon Thibodeaux pamper their four-legged companion, Crixus, a
three-year-old pit bull with some ice cream to beat the heat.
POOCHES ON
PARADE
(TOP) Dogs of vari
ous shapes, sizes
and breeds were on
display during last
week’s event at Jug
Tavern Park. (RIGHT)
Eli, the two-year-old
Doberman is ready to
compete in the “Tallest
Dog” and “Shortest
Tail” competitions at
the Pooch party.
Photos by
Jessica Brown
BLUE EYES
Rayne, a two-year-old rescue dog,
shows off her beautiful blue eyes at
the Pooch Party last Friday.
CRCT results:
Progress shown
by local students
By Susan Norman
snorman @ barrowjournal. com
Despite the shorter calendar for the
school year that just ended, Barrow
County’s elementary school students
did better on this spring’s Criterion-
Referenced Competency Tests than
their predecessors did a year ago.
Middle school students struggled,
however, with failure rates rising in
three of five subject areas for sixth
graders and in four of five areas for
eighth graders.
The Georgia Department of
Education released statewide and
school systems’ overall scores, by
grade level, on Tuesday. Individual
school scores will be available by
July 10.
Third graders must pass the reading
portion in order to be promoted to
fourth grade. Students in the fifth and
eighth grades must pass both reading
and math to be promoted. The scores
also are a major component of the new
“report card” system for judging the
quality of school districts.
BARROW RESULTS
In Barrow elementary schools, stu
dents overall performed better this
year in the key third and fifth grades
than students did last year. In those
grades, only fifth grade English lan
guage arts and fifth grade math scores
were worse than the state average.
While still below the state average,
however, Barrow students did improve
over last year’s local fifth graders.
Barrow eighth graders, however,
overall performed worse than last
year’s students, and in three of the five
areas did worse than the state aver
age, Barrow eighth graders did much
worse in science this year with over
30 percent of Barrow students failing.
Some 20 percent of Barrow eighth
graders failed the social studies area.
The one area of improvement
among Barrow eighth graders was in
math where they did better than last
year and were better than the state
average.
See CRCT on Page 3A
WBHS student one of Georgia’s top young authors
To read Beth’s winning entry online, just go to
this link to the school system’s website at:
http://www.barrow.k12/ga/usYGAERRichmond.pdf.
By Susan Norman
snorman @ barrowjournal.com
For her short story about young love
tragically cut short by the Civil War, a
Winder-Barrow High School student
has been named one of the state's best
writers in the 2013 Young Georgia
Authors competition.
The contest is co-sponsored by the
Georgia Department of Education and
the Georgia Council of Teachers of
English.
Beth Richmond, the daughter of
John and Jill Richmond of Winder, is
the ninth grade statewide winner.
The 15-year-old said Tuesday that
she based her story on something that
her mother discovered while research
ing the family’s genealogy — a young
woman named Sarah who lived seven
generations ago during the Civil War
and lost her husband to typhoid fever.
Over a period of a few days during
the spring, the young author brought
to life a moving, fictional account of
the more than 200-year-old family
tragedy.
"This is the first short story I’ve ever
actually written for anything other
than classwork,’’ she told a reporter on
Tuesday.
She said she’s entered the state writ
ing contest every year since about the
sixth grade, but her previous entries
were poems.
But a literature teacher — Cheryl
Sauls — helped her improve her writ
ing skills enough to try something
different.
“When we had papers, she would
look at them and write down all of
her suggestions and have us do them
again, and then she would write more
suggestions and have us do them
again,” Richmond said.
Though her best subject in school
is language arts, Richmond said her
favorite subject is social studies. And
she’s thinking of a career in forensic
science. During her freshman year,
she served on the student council, and
in the upcoming school year will be
the secretary of the Future Business
Leaders of America. Academically,
she’s at the top of her class.
YOUNG GEORGIA
AUTHOR WINNER
Winder-Barrow High School stu
dent Beth Richmond is the ninth
grade winner in the 2013 Young
Georgia Author contest.
Photo by Susan Norman
