*Three Rabun Gap Nacoochee-School teachers traveled to Honduras to do outreach work at a preschool through eighth-grade school February 22-29.
*Hall County Clerk of Court Charles Baker and Mike Smith, Director of communications & compliance of the Georgia Superior Court Clerk’s Cooperative Authority, are holding a free notary training March 26, 10:00-11:30 at the Hall County Government Center. RSVP to the Clerk’s Office 770-531-7025 by March 25.
*Rachel Lee, Welding and Joining Technology student at Lanier Technical College’s Barrow Campus, has been selected to be an Executive Member of the Atlanta Section of the American Welding Society. Lee will also serve as be the Atlanta Sections’ Student Member Liaison, as well as the Publicity Chairperson.
*Braselton and Barrow County will host a Rivers Alive clean-up 9:00-1:00 April 11. For more information, contact Yvette Wise, [email protected] and put Rivers Alive Event in the subject line. Or call 706-654-3915, ext. 1012.
*The Hall County Board of Commissioners recently recognized Gainesville Exploration Academy art teacher Tandy Ray and some of her students who has partnered with Katie Crumley, Hall County Government Public Information Officer, to procure an evolving art exhibit at the Hall County Government Building. Each student was presented with a Certificate of Recognition from the commission. The students honored included Geomar Marceleno & Abram Alba (second grade); Meylin Calderon & Jesus Ramirez (third grade); and Andy Rivera & Carmen Garcia-Aragon (fourth grade).
*And, it was 27 years ago this week (on March 12, 13, and 14) that the "Blizzard of the Century" struck the east coast from Florida to New England, burying Gainesville and most of Georgia and a number of other states under a blanket of several inches (feet in some places) of snow and ice, leaving behind death and destruction that claimed 270 lives and caused damages estimated $3 billion (in 1993 dollars). At least 15 of the deaths were in Georgia.
