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West Jones seventh grade students recently participated in the 2008 Reading Fair. Projects were entered based on specific categories. Judges for the event were Mary Ashford, Michelle Rogers, and Katie Collins. Seventh Grade reading teachers are Gwen Milsap and Kelly Ray. Winners were: Overall First Place Individual – Seth Harrison; Second place – Emily Davis; Third place – Kyra Wardell. Overall Group Winners: Co-Winners –Jena Robbins and Zac Clark. Overall Family: First – Brittany Matthews; Second –Wes McDonnieal. Best Use of Hand-Drawn Graphics: First – Rachel Shields. Best use of Computer Graphics: First – Matthew Hendry. Best Hand-Made Visual Aid: First – Annalee Chatham. Best Depiction of Story: First – Brittany Matthews. Best Use of Color: First – Kayla Harper. Best Use of Theme: First –Wes McDonnieal. Besh Hand Drawn Title: First – Tanner Jeffers. Pictured in top photo, in front from left are Wes McDonnieal, Emily Davis, Rachel Shields and Seth Harrision. In back from left are Tanner Jeffers, Hayla Harper, Analee Chatham, Brittany Matthews and Zac Clark. Judges pictured from left are Mary Ashford, retired from Northeast Jones after teaching for 35 years, Michelle Rogers a librarian at Ellisville Library, and Katie Collins, executive director of the Association for Excellence in Education.
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WJMS holds reading fair
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Distinguished Young Women
The Distinguished Young Woman of Jones County 2013 program will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Bush Fine Arts Building at Jones Junior College.
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JCJC’s art gallery features Hattiesburg-Hungarian artist
The oil paintings of Andrea Kostyal will be on display at the Eula Bass Lewis art gallery at Jones County Junior College through February 17. The Hattiesburg resident and native of Hungary, has been creating art since early childhood. Abstract collage paintings have been her focus since moving to the U.S. in 2001.
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HHPA Pet of the Week
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Building is only one part of expansion at LRMA
On January 25, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art held a ground-breaking ceremony for a $5 million project that includes a 5,425-square foot addition and substantial increases to the Museum’s endowment fund.
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Boundaries
Just as each of us has a need for physical safety, we also have a need for emotional or psychological safety. Boundaries is the term we use to define what helps us feel safe and comfortable in relationships. We have all had the experience of feeling like another person was closer to us physically than was comfortable. So too it is important to define for yourself how close you want to be with others emotionally. Naturally, this varies with who the other person is.
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319 Days and counting!!
Break out the credit cards and the doughnuts! Charge up to your hearts desire and eat whatever you want, don’t worry about carrying around those extra forty pounds because according to a growing population of scientists, quacks, researchers, religious dudes and guru’s the world is going to end in 2012.
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Military News: Nathan S. West and Katelyn L. West
Second Lieutenant, Nathan S. West received his U.S. Army Officer Commission at UW-L in La Crosse, Wisconsin on Dec 17, 2011 after graduating from Viterbo University in La Crosse earlier in the day.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Michael Rose
Heather Kayeleen Lowery and William Michael Rose were united in marriage at 2:30 p.m. on July 30, 2011, at Big Creek Baptist Church in Soso. Dr. John M. Adams, Jr. officiated the double-ring ceremony.
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Boone, Holland
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Stephenson Boone of Laurel announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy Lynn, to Travis Curry Holland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris Holland of Leland.
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