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Mango Languages is the fast, easy, effective way to learn to speak a foreign language! All you need is an internet connection and your library card number. Log onto Mango by clicking on the link provided on the Rockingham County Public Library website: http://www.rcpl.org

Simply type in your library card number to sign in anonymously or create a profile with your email address and library card number. Choose the language you are interested in learning and the level at which you would like to learn.

Mango provides lessons in 38 different foreign languages and English-As-A-Second-Language (ESL) courses in 15 languages. This online language-learning system can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

Call Rebecca Smith at Rockingham County Public Library’s Eden Branch for more information about Mango Languages at 336.623.3168.

WENTWORTH, NC (Jan. 27, 2012) – Rockingham County Reads

6:30 p.m., Feb. 16, Eden Branch, 598 S. Pierce St.

6:30 p.m., Feb. 23, Reidsville Branch, 204 W. Morehead St.

Noon, Feb. 27, Mayodan Branch, 101 N. 10th Ave.

Noon, Feb. 28, Stoneville Branch, 201 E. Main St.

The 2011-2012 Rockingham County Reads selection is THE PACT  by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt; with Lisa Frazier Page. THE PACT is the true story of how three young men join forces to beat the odds and become doctors. They grew up on the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attain that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day-they are all doctors. This is a story about the power of friendship … of joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most-together.  Beside their personal stories, the doctors share practical steps that can be useful to friends making their own pact.

Copies of THE PACT are available at all library branches.

Rockingham County Reads is a community-wide reading event that encourages citizens to read the same book and to discuss the issues raised by the book. The program is a partnership between the library, the Friends of the Library, the Reidsville Human Relations Commission, Rockingham Community College, and other interested individuals and organizations in Rockingham County.

Previous Rockingham County Reads Selections

2010-2011 The Pleasure was Mine by Tommy Hays

2009-2010 The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton

2008-2009 Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan

2007-2008 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

2006-2007 Blood Done Sign My Name by Tim Tyson

For more information about Rockingham County Reads or Rockingham County Public Library, visit http://www.rcpl.org

“It’s not so much about who wins the games, as it is about learning teamwork and learning the fundamentals of basketball and cheerleading”, Pastor Randy Hester stated, “It’s also about building some good friendships. It’s a blast, the kids are having a ball.”

The Christian-based program, led by Greg Light, not only teaches basketball skills and drills, but also during the halftime of the games the youths participate in a Bible story lesson at center court.

What Parents Say About the Program:

• Jerri Manspile, whose daughter, Katie is a second year cheerleader – “I love it. It is a wonderful program, it teaches the kids to interact with other kids, as well, it teaches them good sound values.”

• Tim Kennedy, whose daughter Regan is a first year basketball payer – “She loves it, she can’t wait to come to practice and the games, she loves the devotionals.”

Registration is open to area youths K5 through sixth-grade, and for more information about registration, contact Community Baptist Church at 336-342-5991.

About Upward Sports

Upward Sports, the world’s largest Christian sports league for children, provides a fun kids sports experience based on healthy competition. Last year, more than 550,000 K5 through sixth-grade kids had a great basketball, soccer, flag football or cheerleading experience through one of their 2,400 leagues or camps

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The Grey

Rated: R … 117 min

Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney and Frank Grillo

Storyline: In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders.

Reviews:

Claudia Puig, USA TODAY ‘The Grey’: Drab, but the wolves look great

What starts as a tense and moody survival thriller fairly quickly becomes tedious, forced and far-fetched as a septet of men is preyed upon by a wolf pack in the Alaska wilderness.

Wolves are much maligned in literature and films. The Grey (* * stars out of four) takes the notion of their vicious natures to new extremes as dozens of hulking, bright-eyed beasts attack a ragtag assortment of plane-crash survivors with startling ferocity.

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Robert Denerstein – Movie Habit

In the new movie The Grey, Liam Neeson dances with wolves that, for the most part, get the best of a band of grizzled oil rig workers who are stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a harrowing plane crash.

–Full Review–

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(Rockingham County, NC) – Rockingham County Arts Council announces a second round of grant applications for Grassroots Funds. Applications are due to the Arts Council Monday, February 20, 2012.

NOTE: This is not a postmark deadline; Applications an all attachments must be submitted by the deadline in order to be considered for funding. Information and forms can be found on the Arts Council website, www.artsinrockingham.org

Submit Grants to Rockingham County Arts Council, P.O. Box 83, Wentworth NC 27375

Or in person to Rockingham County Arts Council, 1122 NC Hwy 65, Wentworth NC 27375 by 4pm

ELIGIBILITY FOR SUBGRANTS:

All organizations must have been in operation for at least one year.

Applicants must be not-for-profit organizations operating in Rockingham County with a 501(c)3 Federal tax-exempt status. (School projects are covered through their school’s status.) An organization without tax-exempt status may receive indirect funding for its arts project by having a 501 (c) 3 serve as its fiscal agent. It is the applicant’s responsibility to see that a copy of its (or its Fiscal Agent’s) IRS tax-exempt status is on file with RCAC.

All organizations must reside and carry out projects within Rockingham County.

Organizations that receive general support funds through the N. C. Arts Council are not eligible for Grassroots funds.

Individuals are not eligible to apply for Grassroots Arts funds.

Applications and support materials must be complete and received by the grant deadline.

WHAT THE GRASSROOTS ARTS PROGRAM FUNDS:

Grassroots Arts Program funds may be used for expenditures to conduct quality arts programs, or to operate an arts organization. Examples of arts programs commonly funded with Grassroots funds include: performances, festivals, art exhibitions, after-school arts programs, artist residencies in schools, arts camps, classes, workshops, art walks and studio tours. Typical uses of Grassroots money include:

Program expenses such as artists’ fees and travel, space rental, advertising, marketing and publicity, website and electronic media, scripts, costumes, sets, props, music and equipment rental or purchase.

Operating expenses such as salaries, telephone, office supplies, printing, postage, rent, utilities, insurance and equipment rental or purchase

MATCHING REQUIREMENT:

All subgrantees are required to match their grant amounts dollar for dollar. The funds must come from other public or private sources. Other North Carolina Arts Council funds cannot be used as a match.

GRANT EVALUATION CRITERIA: Subgrant applications are reviewed by a panel of community members including artists, county and public officials and board members of ACMC among others. The panel evaluates each application based on the subgrant guidelines and the following criteria:

Artistic quality of proposed project or programs

Community impact of project or programs

Ability to plan and implement project

Stability and fiscal responsibility of the organization

Panelists discuss and score the grant using an established rating system. The subgrant panel’s funding decisions are then presented as recommendations to the RCAC board of directors, who vote and give final approval to the panel’s recommendations.

For 2011 -12 Subgrant Reports, due May 30, 2012.
All projects must be completed before May 30, 2012

Grant applications can be found at: http://www.artsinrockingham.org/grants.shtml. Please call 336.349.4039 or email info@artsinrockingham with questions and to receive a printed copy of the grant.

RCAC is the focal point/umbrella organization for the arts and information about the arts in Rockingham County. Our mission is to nurture and enrich the cultural life of Rockingham County.

Celebrating 43 years of Arts in Rockingham

Last year 33 contestants in 29 acts competed for cash prizes in the Foundation’s inaugural event which raised $7,500 for patient assistance and the Best Auditorium seat replacement project.

Auditions for this year’s production will be held on Saturday, February 18, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the Best Auditorium. Audition forms are available online at www.morehead.org under “News & Events,” and at the following Eden locations:

• The Front Porch, 702 Washington Street ;

• Party Plus, 349 W. Kings Highway;

• The Small Pleasures Gift Shop at Morehead Memorial Hospital; 117 E. Kings Highway; and,

• The Morehead Memorial Hospital Foundation office, 618 S. Pierce Street (in the Wright Diagnostic Center).

 Audition forms must be turned in to the Morehead Hospital Foundation by Friday, February 10.

Jennifer Boyte, the Foundation’s Annual Fund Chairman, said the event is being held earlier this year to give talent from area dance and drama groups a chance to participate before dance competitions start in the spring. The show will be at an earlier time, a matinee at 3 p.m., so people who do not like to drive at night will be able to get home before dark.

“There will be seven (7) cash prizes ranging from $200 to $50, plus the popular People’s Choice Award,” stated Ed Holbrook, Executive Director of the Foundation. “We are looking for different types of acts for the Talent Show. If you can juggle, do magic acts, play various musical instruments, dramatic readings, comedy, ventriloquism, or puppetry—anything that is entertaining and in good taste—then you are who we are looking for to showcase in this year’s Talent Show.”

Proceeds from this year’s event will go to Morehead Memorial Hospital’s Pediatric Care Program and to help establish a Healthcare Scholarship that will benefit a graduating senior at Morehead High School.

For more information about the “Eden’s Got Talent Show” or the purchase of tickets, please call the Foundation office at (336) 627-6334. Tickets will be on sale the last week of January and will available at The Front Porch, Party Plus and the Morehead Memorial Hospital Foundation office.

This is the second major body of work by Drake since coming to Rockingham Community College in 2008. As a fine arts instructor, Drake emphasizes to his students that content drives the engine of art.

Name any art period or piece and Drake will point out its content:

Picasso’s Blue Period – “He was reacting to the death of a dear friend.”

Abstract art – “After World War II, artists delved into their feelings of war’s banality. It expressed their raw nerves and energy.”

“The Last Supper” – DaVinci’s mind was complex. In addition to light, dark, form and subject, he placed the cups so that if looked at from left to right, they create a musical score.”

After emphasizing the importance of content, Drake then leads by example. Initially, this resulted in Drake’s exhibit titled, “Esse Quam Videri: Muslim Self-Portraits,” a photographic story that looks at the complexity of the American conscious in the wake of 9/11 and its affect on practicing Muslims (currently exhibiting at Guilford College). The exhibit has been welcomed in galleries around the country and in Bahrain, a Muslim country.

Although his newest exhibit debuted at NC A&T State University on Jan. 12, Drake says the full exhibit will not be finished for three to four years.

That is because he still seeks stories to be included: stories to flesh out and complete his idea. Therefore, he is asking local citizens to contact him with stories about their work or the work of family members. He is looking for stories of those who were forced into a particular work life and brought honor to it; those who worked a job but dreamed of work they couldn’t attain; those who were exploited in the work they did; those who hid their work due to feelings of shame.

To contact him, call 342-4261, ext. 2191 or e-mail to draket@rockinghamcc.edu.

By seeking these stories and creating art from them, Drake is fulfilling his role as a teacher. By focusing his artistic eye on our society’s issues, he is directing the eyes of his students to see the potential power of the art they choose to create.

Photo: Christian Diaz, a Warren Wilson College student, peruses Todd Drake's new art exhibit at NC A&T State University, "Help: Hidden Work, Hidden Lives." At the exhibit's Jan. 12 opening, students from Warren Wilson, Rockingham Community College, University of North Carolina - Asheville and UNCG attended.

Jan. 18, 2012

Rockingham Community College

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Art unveiled

Jan. 09, 2012

Volunteer with visitors

For those looking for something more than New Year’s resolutions of diet and exercise this year, consider reshaping your life by becoming a volunteer at the North Carolina Zoo.

The zoo is seeking individuals willing to make a minimum 90-hour per-year commitment serving as exhibit interpreters, wildlife rehabilitators, Zoo hosts, retail assistants, gardeners, giraffe-deck operators and more.

Volunteers serve the Zoo in a variety of ways through sharing their knowledge, skills and talents. Last year, Zoo volunteers, unpaid interns and service groups served nearly 38,000 hours.

The typical volunteer season is April-October, although some positions are year-round. For a detailed listing of job descriptions, time commitments, required skills and more, visit the Zoo’s website at www.nczoo.org/volunteer. Just complete the online application to be notified of upcoming training dates.

Volunteers are the heart of many organizations, and the N.C. Zoo is no exception. Volunteers are an integral part of what makes the Zoo a wonderful place to visit.

To learn more about one-day opportunities for service groups, churches, businesses, clubs, fraternities, sororities, ball teams and others, contact the Zoo’s Volunteer Coordinator Toy Jarrett at 336.879.7712 or at toy.jarrett@nczoo.org.

Experience the Zoo in a way like never before; volunteer.

The zoo is an agency of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Dee A. Freeman, Secretary; Beverly E. Perdue, Governor.

Re-posted from: NC ZOO