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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
THE JACKSON HERALD
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JCCHS STUDENTS NAMED
These Jackson County Comprehensive High School seniors are in the 10 percent of the class. Shown
are: (front row, L-R) Kasey Dixon, Lila Dalton, Eric Flynn, David Serna, Christa Beth Vaughn and Susan
Diesch; and (back row, L-R) Elisabeth Dodd, Rebecca Tweedy, Menas Yang, Aaron Edwards, Lexie Miller,
Rob Williams, John Edwards, Angela Villon and Janette Gee. Not pictured: Tanya Boroday, Dana Burzo,
David Lyle, Nou Moua, Brandy Peebles, Zachary Sticher and Sandy Thao.
MINISH HONORED
Briana Nicole Minish, Commerce, has been accepted
into membership in the Golden Key International Honor
Society and was honored during a recent induction
ceremony at the University of Georgia. Minish is a 2007
honor graduate of Jackson County Comprehensive
High School. She has a double major at UGA in dietet
ics and exercise science. She is the daughter of Gerald
and Shirley Minish of Commerce. Membership into
Golden Key is by invitation only and is for top-perform
ing college students.
FBLA MEMBERS PLACE AT REGIONAL COMPETITION
East Jackson Comprehensive High School FBLA members recently attended the
Region Leadership Conference at Madison County High School, where they received
recognition for placing in various competitive events. Kegan Reichert and Josh
Chandler placed third in the region in website development. Savannah Molina placed
fifth in Word processing. Randy Fallaw and Francesca la Rosa placed second in desk
top publishing. The teams in both the website development and desktop publishing
events will advance to the state round of competition in March. Shown are (L-R): Josh
Chandler, Savannah Molina, Kegan Reichert, Francesca la Rosa and Randy Fallaw.
BROADCASTER SPEAKS AT EJCHS
Tenikka Smith, a news reporter for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, spoke
with 11th grader Sammie Homire and her class during her visit to Traci Smith’s
Broadcast Video Production Advance class at East Jackson Comprehensive High
School on Tuesday, Jan 19. Students learned about the day-to-day job requirements
of a reporter as well as the type of degree needed to work in the television industry.
Smith also gave advice to the students to help them prepare for their own news
broadcast at school.
GaDOE offers free online help for state graduation test
A FREE online remediation
course for high school students
to help them pass the science
and/or social studies portion
of the Georgia High School
Graduation Test (GHSGT) is
now available.
FreeOnline ExPreSS (Exam
Preparation for Science and
Social Studies) will be offered
by the Georgia Department of
Education (GaDOE) online to
all high school students and
certificate of attendance recipi
ents who were unsuccessful on
or who have not yet taken the
science and/or social studies
GHSGT.
The GaDOE offered the
ExPreSS program last summer
in schools throughout the state
and saw tremendous results,
according to a statement by
Georgia School Superintendent
Kathy Cox. Students in the
program had an overall retest
pass rate of 68 percent —
more than double the previous
year's pass rate on GHSGT
retests in science and social
studies.
FreeOnline ExPreSS creates
an online opportunity designed
to help students prepare for
the science and social studies
GHSGT. Science and social
studies are the two GHSGTs
that Georgia students fail most
often. It will offer self-paced
units based on the instructional
plans created for the summer
ExPreSS Program.
Students can create their
own registration account using
their Georgia Testing Identifier
(GTID) number. Detailed
instructions for creating the
account and locating their
GTID number will be provided
on the ExPreSS website at:
www.georgiastandards.
org/Resources/Pages/Tools/
ExPreSS.aspx
The summer Project
ExPreSS program is sched
uled for June 14-25, 2010.
To get more information,
visit www.georgiastandard.
org/resources/Documents/
Student_ExPreSS_Flyer.pdf.
Locals honored at GCSU
SEVERAL area students
were named to the presi
dent's list or dean’s list for
fall semester at Georgia
College and State University,
Milledgeville.
Michael Christopher
and Christy Clark, both of
Jefferson, were named to the
president's list.
Jocelyn Jones, Maysville,
was named to the dean’s list.
Visit www.JacksonHeraldToday.com.
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HUMANE SOCIETY OF JACKSON CO.
2010 Meeting dates: February 9, May 11,
August 10, November 9 at 7 p.m.
Jackson EMC Community Meeting Room
Jefferson Road, Jefferson
706-367-1111 * www.hsjc.com/
UNITY LODGE
F & A.M.
No. 36, Jefferson, GA
1st Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Dwayne Potts • 706-367-4449
Borders St. behind Tabo’s 260
BANKS COUNTY
AMERICAN LEGION
Riders Post 215
Meets each 2nd Thursday, 7 p.m.
In Homer, GA at the
American Legion Building on
Historic Highway 441 pj, 02
To Advertise Your
Public Meeting
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706-367-5233.
BANKS COUNTY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
meets first Monday each month
7:00 p.m. in the Banks Co. Historial
Courthouse at 105 U.S. Hwy. 441
North in Homer pd.07
JEFFERSON
^AMERICAN LEGION
Albert Gordon Post 56
Each 3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Harvie Lance, Commander
Phone (706) 654-1274 310
DANIELSVILLE
AMERICAN LEGION
Post 39
Meets last Thursday, 7 p.m.
JANUARY - OCTOBER
American Legion Building
Crawford W. Long Street
VETERANS OF
FOREIGN WARS
Post 4872, Hurricane Shoals Convention Ctr.
Each 4th Tuesdasy, 7:00 p.m.
Jason Mergele, Commander
Phone 706-367-7237 26?
ROCKWELL
LODGE F & A.M.
No. 191, Hoschton, GA
2nd Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. • Dinner at 6:30 p.m.
www.rockwelllodgel 91 .com
Two blocks behind Larry’s Garage
West Broad at Hall Street Pd. l/l
JEFFERSON ROTARY CLUB
Meets Tuesdays
Jefferson City Clubhouse
12:30 p.m. • (706) 335-3151
Shade Storey, President
JEFFERSON LIONS CLUB
Meets 2nd & 4th Monday
Jefferson City Clubhouse
6:30 p.m. *(706) 367-9349
Jimmy Mock, President
2.1^ Georgia Real Estate Investors
*™™ Association, Inc. - Athens
Meets the third Thursday each month
6:30 pm at the UGA Conference Center
1197 South Lumpkin Street,
Athens, GA 30601
Tom Hewlett - Chapter President
thewlettl@charter.net pj j2
NORTH EAST GEORGIA
AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
Meets the 1st Thursday
each month at the
Commerce City
Public Library
1344 South Broad Street
www.ne4ga.org Pd. 06
St. Catherine Laboure
Catholic Mission
Mass Schedule: Sat. 4:00 p.m.,
Sun. 11:00 a.m., Thurs. 12:10 p.m.
First Friday Adoration 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Website: www.stcatherinelabourega.org
706-367-7220
BANKS COUNTY
AMERICAN LEGION
Post 215
Meets each 3rd Thursday, 7 p.m.
In Homer, GA at the
American Legion Building on
Historic Highway 441 Pd.oe
“Courage, Courage”
Jefferson Alcoholics Anonymous
Open meeting - every Monday
at 8:00 p.m. in the back of
First Presbyterian Church
243 Washington St., Jefferson
For information call 706-387-0349.
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