Rutland High School Senior Tabitha Smith and Art Teachers Tamara Barfield and Brooks Dantlzer performed community service hours by volunteering to paint an 8 foot tall butterfly screen for this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival with local artist Mark Ballard. The screen will be used at the Cherry Blossom Fashion Show for the models to emerge from behind before walking down the catwalk.

According to Mrs. Dantzler, other students were inspired by the project, and they used the skills and techniques she learned from Mark Ballard to decorate the school entrance for the Cherry Blossom Festival. 

On Monday, March 14 (3.14), Alexander II Magnet fifth grade students celebrated Pi Day by presenting activities to each other that helped them discover the “magic of pi” through games, technology, and food. All activities were student-created and about the ratio of pi, circumference, or the area of a circle. Classes spent the two weeks prior to Pi Day learning how to find circumference and area of circles and on designing the activities.

“The variety of their lessons was amazing,” says Alexander II Magnet 5th grade Math Teacher Laura Bell. “One group created a mystery around a circle that commits a crime and leaves his DNA (his circumference) at the scene, and another had a quest that required a protractor. Many also created card games and activities involving food.”

Emergency Management officials in Bibb and Monroe Counties say they may have some storm damage.

Bibb EMA Dir. Donald Druitt says they sent out an assessment team to monitor any possible damages.

Druitt says several trees were reported down, including off Briar Cliff Circle off Walls Road.

A news release says they've had minor flooding and minimal power outages.  Bibb EMA deactivated the emergency operations center at 9:30 p.m on Saturday, after they completed their assessment.

Monroe County EMA Dir. Matt Perry says there's been one report of a tree down on Highway 87.

Dooly and Crawford counties say they have no reported storm damage.