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PAGE 8A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JANUARY 23. 2003 Beginning Feb. 4 New library card available during “Love Your Library” month The month of February is “Love Your Library” month. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 4, all residents, including current library card-hold ers, are invited to come to the library and receive a newly designed library card. The new card comes in two sizes - the familiar credit card size and a smaller card, designed to fit easily on a key ring. The kick-off celebration on Feb. 4 will be held from 2:30-4:30 and will include balloons for the children, freebies for the children and a visit from the “Cat in the Hat.” These new cards are brightly colored and easy to find in a crowded wallet or purse. Residents who do not have a library card are invited to sign up during this special time. The one item that gives you access to nearly everything on the Web and in print and provides personal assistance to help you find what you’re looking for is your library card. The Pickens County Library is available to you seven days a week. All you need to take library materials home is a library card - a FREE library card! The library card is the most impor tant school supply of all. Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learn ing. Libraries today offer more than just books - they have computers, Internet access and more. The Pick ens County Library has exhibits, special programs, story hours, com puter workshops and other interests. Visit the library on Tuesday, Feb ruary 4 and receive your very own brightly colored, brand new, and FREE library card! Teams forming up for 4th Annual Marble Capital Adult Spelling Bee By Doug Brooks Some of the buzzing you hear around town these days comes from adults forming teams to com pete in the 4th Annual Marble Cap ital Adult Spelling Bee. The 2003 contest will be held at 7 p.m. Feb ruary 18 at Jasper Middle School. Last year’s winning team from Jasper Lions Club outspelled 12 other teams to win the third annual contest sponsored by the Pickens County Progress and the Certified Literate Community Program (CLCP). Needless to say, the Lions team will be spelling hard to keep the trophy. Leslie Miller will be the pronouncer this year. The competition is open to teams of four that can be made up of bankers, educators, corporate executives, church leaders, musi cians, hospital workers, civic club members and any other groups ready to help support the literacy program in the county. Don’t expect a boring evening when you come, the contest is exciting and you may be surprised at how much fun a spelling contest can be. And that trophy will impress people who think only educators can spell! CLCP Director Camille Robin son is hard at work signing up teams ($100 for a team of four) and offering ads to be used in the pro gram brochure. Proceeds from the contest will provide funding for the Pickens County Certified Literate Commu nity Program. CLCP’s purpose is to promote and foster increased edu cation in our county through teach ing of, and aid to, non-readers, beginning readers, those whose native language is not English and those who need basic adult educa tion and/or GED preparation. The primary goal is to assist in provid ing literacy services to at least 2,400 adults over a period of 10 years. The primary resource for this is the Adult Literacy Program at Appalachian Technical College The 2002 winning team: Lions Darlene Lathem, Dr. Raza Mall- mood, Joan Ward and Dave Ward receiving the trophy from CLCP Director Camille Robinson. directed by Elaine Landrum. Free instruction in the basic skills of reading, math, English and prepara tion to take the GED test is avail able. CLCP seeks volunteer literacy tutors, serves as a community-wide informational resource for adult lit eracy efforts. CLCP will pay the $55 GED test fee for students if they are enrolled in the GED program at the Center at Appalachian Tech and if they meet certain other require ments. The new policies governing GED testing are such that the Adult Liter acy Program has only enough administrative funding to give 15 tests at a time. CLCP now provides funding to double the number of tests that can be given at a time thereby increasing the opportunities for students to receive their GED credentials. CLCP is also purchas ing special software for the pro gram. For further information call CLCP Director Camille Robinson at 253-4574. Are you feeling sad, isolating from family and friends, afraid to make daily decisions, increase in anxiety? You could be suffering from depression. 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Services are to be provided for the following Northwest Georgia counties: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Pickens, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield. The Coosa Valley/North Georgia Council of Chief Elected Officials has select ed the Coosa Valley Regional Development Center as the Grant Sub-Recipient for Workforce Investment funds. This program may begin April 1, 2003 and end June 30, 2004. An estimated $750,000-$800,000 is available to serve approximately 275-325 youth in the Youth Success Academy Program. Selected contracts may be negotiated on a cost reim bursement basis for governmental and private non-profit organizations and fixed unit performance based for private for-profit organizations. A Bidder's Conference will be held on Friday, January 31,2003 at 10:00 a.m. in the Conference Room of the Coosa Valley Regional Development Center, #1 Jackson Hill Drive, Rome, Georgia. Technical assistance in the proposal process will be provided only at the Bidder's Conference. A copy of each question/answer from the Bidder’s Conference will be available upon written request. The RFP will not be available until January 31,2003. The RFP may be picked up at the Bidder's Conference; received by mail (if you have previously requested to receive the Youth RFP and are on the Bidder's List) or downloaded from www.careerdepot.org (click on Workforce Investment Act). To obtain proposal for mat, all others may either write: WIA Section, Coosa Valley Regional Development Center, P.O. Box 1793, Rome, Georgia 30162-1793 or FAX request to the WIA Section at (706) 802-5567. All request for proposal formats, including FAXs, should be received by February 14,2003 to allow for processing. Requests for proposal for mats by telephone (except FAX) will not be accepted. Deadline to submit a proposal is 4:30 P.M., Wednesday, February 24, 2003. Local educational agencies, community-based organizations, small, minority and/or women’s businesses are encouraged to apply. The Coosa Valley Regional Development Center reserves the right to reject any and all proposals. Funding is contingent upon the availability of federal funds. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM/Employer Auxiliary aids and services available upon request to individuals with disabilities.