Georgia Magazine - October 2010 - (Page 8)

COMPILED BY JENNIFER J. HEWETT Georgia glimpses • Fore! Georgia’s Golden Isles will play host to the McGladrey Classic, the newest PGA Tour tournament, set for Oct. 4-6 at the Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons. Tournament proceeds will benefit Special Olympics and two local charities—the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia and Safe Harbor Children’s Center. For more on the tournament, visit mcgladreyclassic.com. • Recording history. The town of Colquitt welcomes international visitors Oct. 26-29 as it hosts the 7th Global Mural and Arts Conference. During the event, the city will showcase its Millennium Mural Project and 15 murals painted around town depicting the community’s history, heritage and arts. For more information, visit www.colquittgamurals.com. • Home run! Congratulations to the girls of the Warner Robins American Little League softball team on winning the Little League Softball World Series, in Portland, Ore., last month; this is the team’s second World Series victory. The Columbus Northern Little League baseball team won the boys Southeast Regional Little League tournament and advanced to game 26 leading up to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn., last month. • Attn: Hunters. The 2010-2011 Georgia Hunting Seasons and Regulations Guide, providing information on season dates, bag limits, hunting licenses, wildlife management areas and more is available at gohunt georgia.com. Printed copies are also available at Wildlife Resources Game Management and Law Enforcement offices and license vendors throughout Georgia. 8 Switching to semesters Beginning August 2011, Georgia’s 26 technical colleges will convert from the quarter to semester system, a change designed to enhance seamless education and improve the state’s workforce development. The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) serves 190,000 students and assists them through the conversion by offering one-on-one advisement sessions and individualized academic plans. Moving to semesters aligns the technical college academic calendar with those of the state’s K-12 school systems, the University System of Georgia and most of the state’s private colleges and universities. About 80 percent of U.S. public and private colleges and universities follow a semester calendar. Semester scheduling offers technical college students ease of transfer to other institutions and calendar alignment that better supports dual and joint enrollment opportunities for high school students. The conversion will not affect CHATTAHOOCHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE Students from Marietta-based Chattahoochee Technical College’s Environmental Horticulture program bring home top honors, scholarships and award money at the 34th annual Professional Landcare Network Student Career Days event. state or federal financial aid, including Georgia’s HOPE grant and scholarship programs, and annual tuition under the new system will be roughly equivalent to the current cost. A comprehensive new website, TCSGSemester411.com, provides ample information about the quarters-to-semesters conversion and the new academic calendar. —Jackie Kennedy Liberty notes Establishing the Bill of Rights In the July 2010 issue in “Viewpoint,” [page 5], Georgia EMC President/CEO Paul Wood suggested a program to educate citizens about our Constitution. “Liberty notes,” a regular highlight, will serve to fulfill this mission in GEORGIA Magazine. During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates decided against adding a bill of rights to the Constitution since the states already had bills of rights in their constitutions. But during the process to ratify the Constitution, those who opposed the new constitution argued that delegates should vote against ratification because the document lacked a bill of rights. The required number of states eventually ratified the Constitution, but some of the conventions that met in the states to ratMore online at www.georgiamagazine.org ify the Constitution requested that billof-rights amendments be added. The first Congress convened in 1789 and approved 12 amendments. By Dec. 15, 1791, the required threefourths of the states had ratified 10 of these amendments, which we now know as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights limits the power of the federal government and protects the rights of individuals such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to bear arms and the right to a jury trial. —Jim Jess For more about the Bill of Rights, see page 42F of the October digital edition online at www.georgiamagazine.org. GEORGIA MAGAZINE web exclusive http://www.mcgladreyclassic.com http://www.colquittgamurals.com http://www.TCSGSemester411.com http://www.gohuntgeorgia.com http://www.gohuntgeorgia.com http://www.georgiamagazine.org http://www.georgiamagazine.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Georgia Magazine - October 2010

Georgia Magazine - October 2010
Contents
Viewpoint
Mailbox
Picture This?
Georgia News
Calendar
Currents
Special Energy Report
Branching Out
Unforgettable Alabama!
Restoring Warplanes and Honoring Veterans
My Georgia
Georgia Gardens
Georgia Cooks
Cookbook of the Month
Snapshot

Georgia Magazine - October 2010