|
|
|
|
GICA student Deontrye Armstrong on his way to a 2nd place finish in last week’s SkillsUSA Masonry competition. Armstrong’s base school is Brunswick High. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Fifteen GICA students qualify for State SkillsUSA competition
02.08.10
High school today is more than just books, bells and cafeteria food.
Last Thursday, Feb. 4, about 170 high school students from eight coastal Georgia counties competed for prizes and honors in 26 technical skills events in the SkillsUSA Region 8 Championships.
Sponsored by SkillsUSA and Altamaha Technical College, the event was hosted by the Golden Isles Career Academy (GICA) and included competitors from high schools in Pierce, Liberty, Wayne, Appling, Chatham, Camden, McIntosh and Glynn counties.
Students competed in trade, industrial and technical contests ranging from Advertising Design and Automotive Service Technology to Residential Wiring and Welding. Competitions were also held for Cosmetology, Computer Maintenance and Construction among others.
Based in Leesburg, Va., SkillsUSA is a national organization with 13,000 chapters in all 50 states and four territorial associations serving over 380,000 students and instructors annually.
|
|
Country Club Park under the rezoning gun again
02.08.10
Last October residents of Country Club Park, a residential subdivision on the west side of the Darien Highway (SR 17) in Brunswick, found themselves at the Glynn County Mainland Planning Commission (MPC) battling the rezoning of the 3-acre piece of mostly undeveloped property at the entrance to their neighborhood.
Last October the property owners, Charlie George and Lori Altimus, applied for a Planned Development rezoning specifically to allow a funeral home and crematorium on the property. After opposition at two MPC meetings the funeral home developer, Chris Nettles, withdrew his request for the property.
But, the residents’ victory was short lived as the property owners came back to the MPC last week with another proposal.
This time the owners dropped the Planned Development and amended their original application to have property rezoned from Single Family Residential to General Commercial (GC).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
County works to solve drainage problems
02.08.10
Glynn County's drainage problems were brought to the fore last fall with a combination of heavy rain and high tides. Several areas, residential and commercial, flooded badly and the only immediate solution was to wait for the water to recede.
"The county is on the cutting edge with technology and very capable staff," said Paul Christian, Assistant County Administrator. "The engineering and the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) departments have joined forces to attack and solve six major drainage problem in the county."
The technical tool is Lidar which, in a fly over, creates data with a laser that can be programmed into a three dimensional view of the ground surface. GIS analyst Emerson Chew is responsible for programming the data which the county engineering department then uses to analyze and pin point the drainage problems, and, more importantly, decide how to improve those problems.
The three dimensional data reveals the area's different elevations in color with the lowest areas showing up in a very pale brown to the highest areas in dark brown.
|
|
Inspired to run
02.08.10
• Boston to Key West marathoner makes Brunswick stop
"Run, Forest, run!" Freed from his shackles, Forest Gump ran just to run.
But not so for Coach Doug Merrill of the Powerup Foundation.
Running from Boston to Key West, Merrill is traveling with a message, a positive message of hope for adults and youth alike.
Running a half marathon (13.1 miles) a day, Merrill made a stop in Brunswick last Wednesday, Feb. 2 and spoke at Old City Hall and Howard Coffin Park.
About 90 kids, 5 to 12 years old, in the Recreation Dept.'s after school program were on hand to hear Coach Merrill's comments and ask questions at the Coffin Park gym.
Running on behalf of the Powerup Foundation, Merrill is promoting better health, physical and mental, through physical activity.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|