Chattahoochee Technical College was recently named to the list of the top 100 certificate-producing institutions in the United States among more than 1,800 two-year colleges that conferred such awards during the 2012-2013 academic year. Coming in at No. 25, Georgia’s largest technical college is one of three Georgia colleges to rank in the top 30. The rankings are determined by Community College Week magazine.
This year, the Cobb Library Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary. At a celebration this past June, Dr. Betty Ann Cook, executive director for community outreach and engagement at Chattahoochee Technical College and member of the CLF board, was selected South Cobb Citizen of the Year.
During her time at the college, she has coordinated many projects, including being responsible for developing and co-directing the “Experience America in Cobb” immersion program with South Korea. The CLF has supported Cobb County libraries by funding a portable computer lab, installing literacy stations and purchasing library materials.
Eight electric vehicle charging stations available for public use have been installed at Cobb Community Transit’s Marietta Transfer Center and Busbee Park and Ride. Each location has four chargers, and this initiative promotes CCT ridership from electric vehicle commuters.
These chargers were made possible by a grant and are part of The EV Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Local power providers Marietta Power & Water and Cobb EMC partnered to provide technical assistance and deliver power to the stations. Each station is capable of fully recharging an electric vehicle battery in two to six hours.
Leadership Cobb, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce’s premier leadership development program, has selected the participants for its class of 2014. More than 300 people were nominated for the program that starts this fall and runs through spring 2014.
Class members were selected from business, industry, education, government and other professions as well as from volunteer, civic and religious organizations. Beginning in 1983, Leadership Cobb focuses on developing and honing vital leadership skills in addition to promoting professional and personal growth via experiential learning sessions.
Whitefield Academy recently named Michael Fernandes as its academic dean. For the past 11 years, he has served in school leadership positions including middle school principal, upper school principal and assistant headmaster in the Orlando area.
Most recently, he led the division principals and academic team as the assistant headmaster of a for-profit, PreK–12 independent school of 1,080 students. “I am confident that Michael will lead our academic program to higher levels of success, even as we experience growth in enrollment,” says Dr. Kevin Bracher, headmaster of Whitefield Academy.
A new brochure spotlighting black heritage tourism sites has been unveiled. The tour, entitled “Marietta’s Black Heritage Walking Tour: Walk Together Children,” is a joint cooperative project of a group of black community leaders, the Marietta Visitors Bureau and the City of Marietta.
The tour spotlights 13 sites of historic significance to the black community, which are located within a mile radius of the Marietta Square. Some of the sites that on the tour include Old Zion Baptist Church, Cole Street Baptist Church, the original site of Turner Chapel Church, the Blue Eagle Fire Company and Lemon Street Elementary School.
For more information, please contact the Marietta Visitors Bureau at 770-429-1115.
ARTS of Cobb’s facility has recently expanded. The newly renovated 5,500-square-foot center has been redesigned to better serve as a mixed use art facility, providing a home for toddler to senior art, music and dance programs, a live theater space and a new home for artists to showcase and sell their work in the spacious lobby gallery.
“This has long been my dream,” says Lauren McBride, owner and director. “From the moment a toddler discovers how to make music to one of our talented casts completing an amazing performance, ARTS of Cobb is dedicated to helping people discover their passions, grow in their life skills and find joy through art.”
For more information about ARTS of Cobb, visit artsofcobb.com.
After the Marietta Zombie Walk stick around for a double-feature “drive-in” featuring the classic Gamera “Attack Of The Monsters” and the original “Night Of The Living Dead”.
ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS (1969)
also known as “Gamera vs. Guiron”
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Three children, two boys and a girl, stumble upon a flying saucer. The boys both step in without hesitating, and are whisked away to a planet in Earth’s orbit but on the exact opposite side of the Sun. Inhabiting this planet are two women with Midwestern accents, who hypnotize the children to find they fantasize about milk, donuts, and Gamera, our favorite hero turtle. The women simply want to eat their brains. Back home, no one will believe the little girl’s story of alien abduction, not even Officer Concha (pronounced “Cornjob”). Finally, Gamera rescues the children while fighting Guiron, a monster with a giant knife for a nose. Gamera kills Guiron while doing gymnastics on a parallel bar and takes the kids home, where the kids hope for peace, understanding, and the end of traffic accidents.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Director: George A. Romero
Barbra and her brother Johnny travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny is murdered. Barbra runs and releases the brake of Johnny’s car since the keys are in his pocket, and flees to an isolated farmhouse, where she locks herself inside. Barbra is in shock and soon she finds a man, Ben, who is also escaping from the inhuman creatures and he reinforces the doors, windows and openings in the house. He also finds a shotgun and a radio and they learn that the radiation from a satellite that was returning from Venus has somehow reactivated the brain of the dead. Then they find five humans hidden in the basement: Harry Cooper, his wife Helen and their daughter Karen that is sick; and Tom and his girlfriend Judy. Harry has an argument with Ben, since he believes that the basement is the safest place for them and Harry goes not agree. Along the night, the te!
nsion between the two men grows while the house is under siege by an increasing legion of living dead.
Date:
October 19, 2013 7:30pm-11pm
Admission:
0; bring food for the living
Address:
50 N Park Sq NE
Glover Park / Marietta Square
Marietta, GA
Parking:
around the square
The Marietta Derby Darlins present Marietta Mayhem, a double-header event debuting two home teams: Air Raid Sirens and Bombshell Brawlers and a halftime exhibition featuring the Atlanta Derby Brats. One ticket, two bouts. Doors open at 3pm.
4pm, BOUT 1: Kannapolis Rollergirls vs. Marietta Derby Darlins Air Raid Sirens 6:30pm, BOUT 2: G*Force vs. Marietta Derby Darlins Bombshell Brawlers
Tickets: $15 at the door and online at: www.MariettaDerbyDarlins.com Kids ages 6-12 are $8, Kids 5 and under are FREE!
Date:
August 24, 2013 from 4pm to 9pm
Admission:
Cost: Tickets: $15 at the door and online at: www.MariettaDerbyDarlins.com Kids ages 6-12 are $8, Kids 5 and under are FREE!
Doors open at 3pm
Address:
Cobb County Civic Center
548 South Marietta Pkwy SE
Marietta, GA 30060
Parking:
Free parking on site.
For more information, please call (770) 528-8450
Join Congregation Ner Tamid for the High Holy Days this year. Starting Sunday evening October 2, 2016 with Rosh Hashanah and concluding with Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 12. Tickets. Child care is available at most services.
All High Holiday services this year will be led by Rabbi Joseph Prass, their newly installed spiritual leader and Jewish community engagement manager at the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Kol Nidre will again feature Rachel Halverson on cello.
Date:
Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 7 pm to Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 8 pm
Admission:
$72 for non-members, must be purchased in advance
Address:
Congregation Ner Tamid, 1349 Old Hwy 41, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060
Parking:
FREE
For more information, please call 678.264.8575 or visit http://www.mynertamid.org
