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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
School
Wheatley named area Teacher of Year
Angie Wheatley, a second
grade teacher at Banks County
Primary School, was recently
named Wal-Mart's Area Teacher
of the Year.
The announcement was made
Oct. 7 in a special surprise cer
emony at the school.
Wheatley was presented a
$1,000 educational grant for the
school and a $100 personal gift
from Wal-Mart. Wheatley was
selected as the Area Teacher of
the Year because of her contribu
tions to education and the positive
impact she has on her students.
Wheatley was selected from
among many nominees in the
area of Madison County, Banks
County, Jackson County and
Commerce. Mac McMillan, rep
resentative of Wal-Mart, said he
was “impressed by the many flat
tering comments written about
Ms. Wheatley and her outstand
ing teaching performance.”
Superintendent Chris Erwin
also said: “Ms. Wheatley is cer
tainly deserving of this award.
Not only is she a caring and mo
tivated teacher, she has had per
fect attendance for the past three
years. We are fortunate to have
her on staff.”
She will now be considered
for the state Wal-Mart Teacher of
the Year award, which will be an
nounced later this year.
WHEATLEY HONORED
Those present at the recent Area Teacher of the Year ceremony included Jan
ice Reiselt, principal of Banks County Primary School; Angie Wheatley; Mac
McMillan, Wal-Mart representative and Chris Erwin, superintendent of Banks
County School System.
Art
at BCES
Georgia
Farm Bureau
to award
scholarships
R&B Landfill and Banks
County Elementary School is
holding a Save The Earth Art
Contest. The purpose is to en
courage and teach students, and
grown-ups alike, about the im
portance of protecting the envi
ronment.
The curriculum at BCES will
focus on how environmental
problems could be addressed
and will encourage the students
to help find solutions to these
problems.
Art teacher Katie Harrison
started a recycling program at
the elementary school for the
collection of plastic bottles and
paper last year and it continues
on this year.
Marly materials we use every
day can be reused and recycled,
leaders said. We must teach our
children ways to reduce how
much garbage we throw away.
Students will be asked to draw
a picture suggesting ideas and
actions that the student can take
to increase awareness and pro
tect our environment.
Waste Management and R&B
Landfillis goal is to get the stu
dents thinking about the prob
lem and providing us with their
solutions in art form.
The artwork should be drawn
in color on an 8 Vi X 11 inch
piece of white paper. The draw
ings will be judged on how well
the artwork represents ideas on
protecting our environment, re
cycling or reusing and artistic
merit on each grade level.
Students will submit their
drawing to the art teacher by the
end of the school day on Nov.
14. For identification, their
name, age and grade should be
printed on the backside of the
drawing.
Winners will be announced
December 5. First, second, and
third place winners will be se
lected from each grade third,
fourth and fifth. First place win
ners will receive a $50 gift cer
tificate. Second place winners
will receive a $25 gift certificate.
Third place winners will receive
a $15 gift certificate.
FFA CHAPTER OF THE YEAR
The Banks County High School FFA chapter recent
ly was named won 2007-2008 North Region Area II
FFA Chapter of the Year. This award was announced
at the North Region Rally in Covington Sept. 6 with
more than 45 chapters competing for chapter of the
year. The award is determined by the number of
Gold Emblem winners, total student participation in
CDEs (Career Development Events) and the differ
ent number of students participating in CDEs.
QUIZ BOWLS WINNERS
Four Banks County High School students recently
competed in the quiz bowl activities at the Region
FFA Rally. Koltan Pendley was the winner of the
Forestry quiz while Faith Turk was the winner of the
Meat Goat quiz. Jenna Tankersly competed and won
the Swine Production quiz and Quinton Krieg also
competed and won the Sheep Production quiz.
Georgia Farm Bureau will
award a total of $ 14,250 in schol
arships to ten high school seniors
who plan to pursue a college
degree in agriculture or family
and consumer sciences, Henry
D. Banks, Banks County Farm
Bureau president, recently an
nounced.
The top three students will
each receive a scholarship of
$3,000. The remaining seven
students will each receive a $750
scholarship. Students are eligible
to submit an application if they,
a parent or legal guardian were a
member of Georgia Farm Bureau
as of September 1. The scholar
ships are sponsored by the Geor
gia Farm Bureau Mutual Insur
ance Company, in cooperation
with the Georgia Farm Bureau
Women's Committee.
Applicants must plan to enter a
unit of the University System of
Georgia or Berry College during
the 2009-2010 academic year to
pursue an undergraduate degree
in agricultural and environmental
sciences, family and consumer
sciences or a related agricul
tural field. All applications must
be submitted by December 12.
Scholarship recipients will be an
nounced in March.
“I would like to encourage any
of our local high school seniors
who are planning to pursue a
degree in agriculture or family
and consumer sciences to con
sider applying for the Farm Bu
reau Scholarship,” said Henry D.
Banks, Banks County Farm Bu
reau president.
Contact the Banks County
Farm Bureau office at 706-677-
2215 for more information about
the scholarship program or to
obtain an application. A copy of
the application is also available
by going to www.gfb.org and
selecting GFB Programs, then
Youth Education and finally GFB
Scholarships. All scholarship ap
plications must be approved and
signed by the Farm Bureau presi
dent of the county where Farm
Bureau membership is held be
fore submitting to the Georgia
Farm Bureau home office.
“Farm Bureau welcomes the
opportunity to assist our state’s
future agriculture leaders in con
tinuing their education,” said
Ann Gordon, Banks County
Farm Bureau Women’s Commit
tee chairman
Georgia Farm Bureau is the
state’s largest general farm orga
nization.
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