Miriam Cousin
The class has already attended an orientation with their parents and a retreat which was held on March 6 at the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. Over the next two months, the 17 class members will participate in four class sessions and complete an individual project, all of which will address topics such as community involvement, economic and educational responsibility, personal development and team building. A graduation ceremony will be held in late April to honor the class.
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The Teen Leadership Cherokee program is made possible this year by the support of program sponsors Allegro Business Products, Chattahoochee Technical College, Cobb EMC, Delta Community Credit Union, Distinguished Young Women of Georgia, Northside Hospital Cherokee, Reinhardt University, and State Farm Insurance Jey Willis Agency.
And like many bands after a couple albums, the members are changing up their style.
On their first two releases, the jam rockers Steve Difalco, Anton Milioti, Buddy Alaimo, Ken Ditmars and Tommy Gonzales recorded goofy songs we had fun playing, said Difalco, the band s lead singer and keyboard player. This one is more serious lyrically, he added.
The nine-song, almost 49-minute album touches on experiences that band members are going through as 27-30 year-olds, like thinking you should have accomplished more by now, reckoning with bad life decisions and dealing with the pain of losing someone important to you, according to Milioti, the band s co-lead singer and bass guitar player.
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The sky shone an unbroken blue and afternoon sunshine cast sparkles on the lazy Pigeon River as a group of volunteers gathered in the mud-caked parking lot of Rivers Edge Park in Clyde Jan. 29.
“This is a marathon, not a sprint,” said Adam Griffith, director of the Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources Program at the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, holding a piece of dried river cane in his hand.
Griffith was referring to the slow growing pace of river cane, which the group was there to help plant on the banks of the Pigeon River, but the same could be said for Rivers Edge Park as a whole.
PENNSAUKEN They are tiny, with intricate details that make them beautiful. Each one is made with love, and each one is unique.
In those ways, the angel gowns in Jean Lee s garage are like the babies who will receive them: babies whose lives were all too short, babies lost to miscarriage, stillborn or who died shortly after being born. Babies whose parents named them, loved them and grieved for them.
The angel gowns help those families remember and honor them, too.
Lee is retired now, but during her 46 years as a labor and delivery nurse, she saw the joy of new parents welcoming babies into the world. But she never forgot the devastation of parents whose babies didn t make it.