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The
Commerce News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
PAGE 6B
School News
Check Out College Opportunities
Commerce High School seniors
Christian Booth, Christina Booth,
Maury Atha and Camille Swain look
over information from Jacksonville
State College last Thursday during
the 2008 PROBE Fair held at the
Commerce Civic Center. Students
from Commerce, East Jackson,
Jackson County, Banks County and
Jefferson high schools could talk
with representatives of 86 colleg
es and technical schools during the
event.
SACS Team To Visit
Eight County Schools
By Kerri Testement
A team that will deter
mine if the Jackson County
School System remains
accredited will visit next
week.
An eight-member
team from the Southern
Association of Colleges
and Schools (SACS) will
visit the county school
system Sunday through
Wednesday Sept. 28-Oct.
1.
SACS last made a visit to
the county school system
in September 2003, when
each school was reviewed
for accreditation.
This year, SACS will
determine accreditation
for the entire school dis
trict.
The team’s visit will
include stops at eight of
the county school sys
tem’s 15 schools Tuesday,
Sept. 30.
The SACS team will
visit Benton Elementary
School, South Jackson
Elementary School, Gum
Springs Elementary
School and West Jackson
Intermediate School
Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday afternoon,
the team will visit Jackson
County Comprehensive
High School, East Jackson
Comprehensive High
School, West Jackson
Middle School and East
Jackson Middle School.
The team will arrive
Sunday, Sept. 28, with
the first order of business
being gatherings with
school principals, direc
tors and superintendent
Shannon Adams.
School board interviews,
an overview and interview
with Adams, and a review
of standards by system
directors will take place
Monday, Sept. 29, at the
central office.
The board of education
will hold a called meet
ing Wednesday, Oct. 1, at
noon to allow the SACS
team to give its informal
report.
The SACS team will then
take its recommendations
to the remainder of the
SACS organization, which
will provide a final report
on the school system’s
accreditation status in 6-8
weeks.
East Jackson Middle School FFA members Faith
Gilman, left, and Mason Brown are pictured with
goats they exhibit at area livestock shows and
fairs.
EJMS FFA'ers Do Well
In Area Livestock Shows
East Jackson Middle
School FFA members are
showing livestock in fairs
and shows throughout
North Georgia.
At the Jackson County
Invitational Swine Show
held at the Jackson County
Livestock Educational
Facility, Grace Williams
won fifth in weight class
with her market hog, while
Jake Tate’s hog placed
third in its weight class and
Hayley Griffith placed third
in showmanship.
At the Chattahoochee
Mountain Fair in
Clarkesville, Taylor Presley
placed fourth in swine
showmanship and her hog
placed second in its weight
class. Alexandria Sewell’s
hog placed fifth in its class.
Jordan Presley represented
the EJMS livestock team at
the show in Clarkesville.
Grace Williams’ hog
placed fourth in its class at
the Banks County Jackpot
Show.
At the Gwinnett County
Fair, Taylor Presley won sec
ond in weight class six with
her market hog. Alexandria
Sewell exhibited the sixth
place market hog in weight
class three. Hayley Griffith
and Jordan Presley repre
sented EJMS FFA at the
show.
In the Southeast Empire
Market Meat Goat show,
Mason Brown placed fourth
in showmanship and Faith
Gilman’s goat placed sec
ond in class at the Gwinnett
County Fair.
Book Sale Set At Kings Bridge
Kings Bridge Middle School will hold its fall book fair
beginning Monday, Sept. 29. The fair will be open through
out the week during the school day. The fair will close
Friday, Oct. 3.
A special parent and community night will be held
Tuesday, Sept. 30. The book fair will be open until 7 p.m.
for families to shop.
Learn Them All
These two kindergarten
students at Commerce
Primary School have
mastered all 260 sight
words. Abby Tolbert and
Mason Ward are pic
tured with the principal,
Kim Savage, wearing
the sight word T-shirts
they received for their
accomplishment.
'Cruise' To Affect Middle School Curriculum
Rachel Parr’s trip to
the bottom of the Pacific
Ocean could affect middle
school curricula for years
to come.
The seventh grade sci
ence teacher at East
Jackson Middle School
accompanied Dr. Daniela
Di Lorio, assistant profes
sor of marine sciences at
the University of Georgia,
on a 20-day cruise to the
Juan de Fuca Ridge, locat
ed in the Pacific Ocean off
the state of Washington
and off Canada.
Mrs. Parr assisted Di
Lorio with research based
on hydrothermal vent
flow and temperature fluc
tuations with the idea of
Some of Rachel Parr’s seventh grade students hold before and after ver
sions of Styrofoam cups sent down with Mrs. Parr in the vessel known a:
“Alvin.” The pressure exerted on the sub and the Styrofoam cups at th<
depth of 2,200 meters caused them to shrink. Left to right are Loni Hollis
Trent Zdunko, Justin Sears, Jordan Waddell, Latisha Brown, Grace Williams
Madison Wuertley and Savannah Barnett.
enhancing middle school
science.
The hope is to engage
students in the study
of hydrothermal vents,
including microbiology, the
diversity of life, the study
of gasses and volcanism,
plate tectonics, mapping
and the technology used
— AUV, Alvin, acoustics,
robotics, sonar, radar, etc.
Students were intro
duced to the studies to be
conducted on the cruise.
During the event, Parr
kept a blog for communi
cating with the school. She
posted research activities,
supported by pictures,
to help understanding of
the research. Each day at
school, science teachers in
Meet AR Goals
These students in Dawn Gary’s fourth grade
Language Arts class at Commerce Elementary
School met their Accelerated Reading goal for
the first six-week grading period. Left to right are
Hannah Shearer, Holden Herbert, Austin Brock
and Suyein Zapata.
Benton Fall Festival Planned
Benton Elementary will hold a Fall Festival Saturday,
Oct. 4, from 9:00 to noon.
Tickets will be on sale at four for $1. Tickets for themed
baskets are $1 each or an arm span for $10. Theme bas
kets include a movie basket, UGA baskets, baking basket
and a pet basket.
Events for the festival include a dunk tank, hay ride,
moon bounce, fingernail painting, face painting, tattoos,
cake walk, book walk, lollipop tree, sandbox dig, go
fishing, needle in a haystack, bean bag toss and cookie
decorating, among others.
Grilled hot dogs, doughnuts, nachos, etc. will be avail
able at the concession stand.
all grades, regardless of the
discipline, held a class dis
cussion on the blog con
tent of the day. Students
could respond to the blog
and ask questions, which
would be answered the fol
lowing day. The blog was
also used to ask questions
of students, and classroom
teachers kept a log of
DID YOU KNOW?
By Preacher Clint
DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD
HAS THE REMEDY FOR ALL OF
THE PROBLEMS THAT WE FACE
TODAY? (2nd Chron. 7:14) We’re
living in a time of hardship on every
hand. Politics, economics, drought,
terrorist attacks and all manner of unrest
but God is still in control of this universe
and what goes on in it. When the way
seems dark and dreary, the Bible tells us
to “Look up for our redemption draweth
nigh.” GOD has a plan for America and
for your life and that is, that we honor
HIM and give thanks for all things. Satan
and our Leaders have done every thing
that they could to deny that there is a God
in Heaven, Who rules in the affairs of
man and we have followed along ignoring
ths warnings of God. WAKE UP AND CRY
OUT TO GOD! HE IS OUR HELP IN THIS
TIME OF NEED. Ger. 33:3)
Send comments to
Clinton Sexton
ll6 Ashland Drive
Commerce, GA 30529
NEWS DEADLINE
4:00 MONDAYS
those answers to use in
further discussions.
Mrs. Parr also worked
with the scientists to
understand how field
research is conducted for
the purpose of developing
curriculum materials for
the middle school level.
Founder’s
Corner
by
Buhl Cummings
CRASH...In the past several days
we have seen two of America's
giant investment firms go into
bankruptcy and one of the
world's largest insurance
conglomerates nearly topple,
only to be saved by a huge
government loan. More trouble
could loom on the horizon
triggered by the huge debt piled
up by the American people.
Jesus tells His followers to
store up their riches in heaven
and not in this fleeting world
system. We do this by making
our lives count for the Lord as
we travel down the pathway of
life with Him as companion and
guide. No fear of bankruptcy on
this journey.
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