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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The Braselton News
Page 7B
FRENCH HONOR SOCIETY
This semester’s Jackson County Comprehensive High School
National French Honor Society members are shown. Membership
is based on academic excellence in French class and overall
academic achievement. Pictured left to right are: Courtney Ott,
Saul Valladares, Ashli McCone, Celeste Lemus, Sandy Thao,
Gaohly Yang, Carissa Strickland, Elise Embrick, Lauren Turner and
Amanda Seden.
Key Club holding onion sale
The Mill Creek High School Key
Club is holding its annual onion
sale. Through April 21, Key Club
members will be selling 10 pound
bags of onions for $12 each. For
three or more bags, the price is $10
each.
Last year, the onion sales help
provide over $4,000 worth of schol
arships to Mill Creek High School
seniors.
Key Club, the largest high school
service organization in the world,
is part of Kiwanis International.
The organization offers leadership
development, vocational guidance,
college scholarships and more to its
members.
To place an order, contact any
MCHS key club member or send an
email to Key Club sponsor Clyde
Wylie at Clyde_Wylie@gwinnett.
kl2.ga.us. The onions will be
delivered the first week in May.
Spring carnival set for Apr. 26
Westbrook Academy, Auburn,
will hold its second annual spring
carnival and silent auction on
Saturday, April 26, from noon to
4 p.m.
The event will feature carnival
games for children, two moon-
walks, fake tattoos, sand art and a
hayride. Chick-fil-A will provide
sandwiches and drinks.
A silent auction will take place
inside the school. The auction will
include items from the Tennessee
Aquarium, Road Atlanta and High
Museum of Art, and a membership
to the YMCA in Winder.
Westbrook Academy is a private
school with students ages two years
old in preschool to students in the
fifth grade. The school is located at
1059 Dee Kennedy Road.
The carnival and auction will
raise funds to improve and expand
the school.
STUDENTS MAKE SPECIAL TRIP
Students in Alice Sneed’s class at West Jackson Primary School
recently took a field trip to the Mall of Georgia, where they saw
the movie, “Horton Hears a Who?”. While there, the students also
visited the Easter Bunny.
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MCHS students to have art
BY KRISTI REED
Four Mill Creek High School
students have been invited to have
their artwork displayed at The High
Museum of Art as part of the Metro
Atlanta High School Art Exhibit.
The exhibit features outstanding
student art work selected by mem
bers of the Georgia Art Educators
Association (GAEA).
Seniors Tabita Birau, Ally Buker,
Carol Choe and Lauren Grainger
were chosen for the honor based on
the merit of the selected artwork as
well as the overall quality of their
art portfolios.
“All of these students have
accomplished some great things,”
said Mill Creek art teacher Mike
Lasseter. Lasseter is also a GAEA
member. He and fellow teacher
Kelly Guyotte were allowed to
choose a total of four pieces of art
for the exhibit.
Lasseter said he and Guyotte first
selected the students based on their
performance throughout the year
and then chose the students’ stron
gest pieces for the High Museum
display.
“They’ve worked really hard all
year and they’ve done amazing
artwork,” Lasseter said.
Birau, Buker, Choe and Grainger
are part of Lasseter’s advanced
placement (AP) art class. There are
19 students in the AP class, making
it the largest in the county.
“The class is very demanding,”
he said. "I ask for ten hours a week
outside time working, drawing and
painting because it is a college
level course.”
The students in Lasseter’s
advanced placement (AP) art class
have had the opportunity to par
ticipate in three major competi
tions this year: the Scholastic Art
Awards, the High School Drawing
Competition and the All-State
Festival of Art and Design. The
three competitions are juried com
petitions. Students are allowed to
submit artwork, but a panel of
judges decides which ones will be
allowed to participate in the show.
Overall, the Mill Creek art depart
ment had 13 pieces of art selected
for the three shows. Last year, the
school only had one chosen for the
competition.
“We’ve really stepped up the pro
gram,” Lasseter said.
Birau and Choe had pieces select
ed for each of the three competi
tions. Grainger’s work was select
ed for the High School Drawing
Competition. Though Buker did
not have any artwork selected for
the competitions, Lasseter said she
has worked very hard and done
some outstanding work.
For the High Museum exhibit,
Lasseter said he chose what he
felt was the best art work by each
student. Birau’s “Tea at 12” and
Choe’s “Fruits of Labor" were gold
key winners in the Scholastic Art
Awards.
Grainger’s “After the Rain" and
Buker’s “Glass Vases” were chosen
for their exceptional quality.
Lasseter said each of the four
students plan to continue their art
education beyond high school. One
of the students, Ally Buker, has
already been awarded a scholarship
to the Savannah College of Art and
Design.
“We’re very proud of them here,”
he said.
The 9th annual Metro Atlanta
High School Art Exhibit runs
from April 1 through May 4 at the
High Museum of Art in downtown
Atlanta.
displayed at High Museum
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AFTER THE RAIN
MCHS art teacher Mike Lasseter called “After the Rain” student
Lauren Grainger’s best work to date.
Jackson Co. Board of Education to meet at Gordon Street Center
The Jackson County Board of
Education will hold its first meeting in
its new location on Monday, April 14.
The board will meet in room B-16
at the Gordon Street Center, located
in downtown Jefferson, on Monday,
April 14, at 6 p.m.
The meeting will be a joint work
session and regular meeting. Spring
Break for the county school system
is this week, when the BOE would
have held its work session meeting on
Thursday, April 10.
The Jackson County BOE holds its
work sessions on the Thursday prior
to the second Monday of each month,
at 6 p.m.
Regular meetings are held at 6
p.m. on the second Monday of each
month.
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