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COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHANCELLOR
COMMENDS PROGRAM'S
PARTNERSHIPS
Virginia's Community Colleges are
placing a priority on helping more people
in rural Virginia pursue and complete a
college education. After all, the good jobs
and the promising opportunities of the
21st century increasingly demand a
postsecondary credential.
Thanks to our partners in the Virginia
General Assembly and Governor
Terry McAuliffe's office, our colleges
gained some tremendous tools in
this work. The first is a public
investment in our Rural Virginia
Horseshoe Initiative, which aims to
reduce the number of high school
dropouts and increase the number of
college graduates throughout the rural
regions that make up three-fourths of
the Commonwealth.
The second is a historic investment in
our short-term training programs that lead
to industry-recognized credentials. Such
credentials represent to individuals the
fastest way out of poverty. For businesses,
they represent the educated and trained
talent they aggressively seek.
The new Power Line Worker Training
School at Southside Virginia Community
College represents what can happen
when these types of efforts and focus
come together. We are proud to stand with
WhatzIt?
Make your best guess at this photo of a
familiar but unidentified object. Send it in
writing with your name, address and phone
number to WhatzIt?, c/o Cooperat ive Living,
P.O. Box 2340, Glen Allen, VA 23058-2340; or
guess online at www.co-opliving.com under
" Contests. " Dead line for entries is June 20. All
correct entries will be put into a drawing and a
winner announced in the August 2016 issue.
The winner will re ceive a check for $25. 
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some tremendous partners, like
Virginia's electric cooperatives, to
transform a great idea into a
graduate-producing program in
about a year.
Virginia's Community
Colleges were created 50 years
ago to address Virginia's unmet
needs in higher education and
workforce training - a noblesounding
mission that creates
real-life success. Don't take my word for it.
Ask Virginia's newest power-line workers
about the nearly one-dozen credentials
they each earned over 11 weeks. Even
better, ask the businesses that can't wait to
hire them.
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- Glenn DuBois, chancellor,
Virginia's Community Colleges
I took a picture of a monarch
butterfly last year and it looks almost
exactly like this one. I really enjoyed the
butterfly issue. People need to be
educated on monarchs and their decline
in recent years. I always tell people
about them and what they can do to
help the population such as planting
milkweed, their main source of
nutrition. I found some milkweed pods
last year and planted the seeds in my
yard this spring. I've already seen a lot
of swallowtails.
I've had a love of photography all my
life but just recently got more serious
about it. Nature photography is
definitely my favorite.
- Gloria Fitzwater, Nokesville
MAY COVER A MIRACULOUS
METAMORPHOSIS METAPHOR
The beautiful butterfly on the May
BUTTERFLY COVER PHOTO
STRUCK A CHORD
I just received my Cooperative Living
magazine and almost fainted when I saw
the cover photo.
issue's cover reminds us of its
miraculous metamorphosis.
We will need a metamorphosis
even more miraculous than the
butterfly to transform our energy
economy from high-carbon to
low-carbon.
Carbon Fee and Dividend is the
cocoon we need and it works like this:
The March-April
WhatzIt? was
grains of barley,
and reader
Harry Hozier
of Louisa
was our
$25 winner.
Congratulations,
Harry!
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