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Voices in the Laurel Children and Youth Choirs will be holding open auditions on Tuesday, May 8th .
For more information contact Derrick Robinson at voicesinlaurel@bellsouth.net.
Children's Choir consists of 3rd-6th graders and Youth Choir is 7th-12th graders.
A Botany class for homeschooled teens at Highlands Nature Center (www.wcu.edu/hbs/Naturecenter.htm).
The speaker, Patrick Brennan, will speak on plant and flower anatomy and function and instruct students on basic plant identification and terminology while walking through the garden. It will last for 60-90 minutes and will be held at 2 pm on Thursday, May 3.
The fee is only 50 cents per person.
All older homeschoolers (and their parents, etc.) are invited. Call (828) 349-1111 or email at linda@faith-llc.com if you plan to attend.Linda Bibb
The Mountain Heritage Center presents
Nature's Tracks: A Flower Walk with Dona West
Sunday, April 22
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Meet at Pinnacle Park parking area.
From Skyland Drive take Fisher Creek Road to the top which ends in the
parking area.
Please call the Center and leave a message if you plan to attend. Thanks!
227-7129
I've arranged a Botany class for homeschooled teens at Highlands Nature Center (www.wcu.edu/hbs/Naturecenter.htm).
The speaker, Patrick Brennan, will speak on plant and flower anatomy and function and instruct students on basic plant identification and terminology as we walk through the garden. It will last for 60-90 minutes and will be held at 2 pm on Thursday, May 3.
The fee is only 50 cents per person.
All older homeschoolers (and their parents, etc.) are invited. Please forward this to anyone you know of who might be interested. Call me at (828) 349-1111 or email me at linda@faith-llc.com if you plan to attend, so I can tell Patrick how many to expect.
Linda Bibb
East Tennessee State University is opening a new museum this summer - just off Interstate 26. Soon, fans of fossils will be able to get a nearby fix, without having to go out west!
Discovered by a highway construction crew in 2000 during a road widening project, the Gray Fossil site was determined to be from the late Miocene in age (between 7-4.5 million years ago). This is the only Miocene site in Appalachia.
The road was rerouted to avoid the fossil site, and money was appropriated for a museum.
The 33,000-square-foot visitor's center will be adjacent to State Route 75 less than two miles from I-26 in an area that does not intrude on the dig site. The location of the visitors center provides easy access to the site for travelers from the region. |
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It is time once again for the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) to conduct our Spring Homeschool Day at PARI. The November program was a great success. We have developed all new programs for the session which will be held on Friday, May 4, 2007. The see a fact sheet, the schedule of classes, the curriculum and the registration form, go to http://www.pari.edu/programs/students/Homeschool on our website. You can also find direction on how to get to PARI at http://www.pari.edu/directions. We are limited to 100 students, so it is important to register as soon as possible.
We hope you and your student(s) can make it.
David E. Clavier, Ph.D.
Vice President of Administration & Development
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
One PARI Drive
Rosman, NC 28772
(828) 966-4097
Main (828) 862-5554
Fax (828) 862-5877
Cell (828) 553-9713
dclavier@pari.edu
Barbara Hart 828-488-9039 pbjhart1@verizon.net