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PACE 4B 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. Ranked Highest in Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates According to a study by J.D. 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