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Mount de Sales Academy Junior Receives Wellesley Book Award

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Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 2:19pm
Mount de Sales Academy Junior Receives Wellesley Book Award

Mount de Sales Academy junior Gabby Rosen is the recipient of the 2011 Wellesley Book Award.

Wellesley strives to educate women to make a difference in the world. In that spirit, the Wellesley Book Award – a collection of autobiographical writings from women around the world – is meant to recognize the honoree selected for her intelligence, determination, motivation, and achievement.

 

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Mount de Sales Academy Junior Receives Brown University Award

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Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 2:15pm
Mount de Sales Academy Junior Receives Brown University Award

Mount de Sales Academy junior Reid Williams is the 2011 recipient of the Brown University Book Award. The Brown Book Award honors the junior student who best combines academic excellence with clarity in written and spoken expression. Williams was presented with an autographed copy of Brown Professor Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty.

 

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Unemployment Down In Macon and Warner Robins

Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff
Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 12:54pm

Macon's unemployment rate for April declined two-tenths of a percentage point from March,  that's according to State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler.

Butler said the unemployment rate for Macon fell from 10 percent in March to 9.8 percent in April.  He says the rate decreased because of the 400 new jobs added in the metro Macon area in April, most of them in service-related industries.

Warner Robins' unemployment rate also dropped in April. Warner Robins checked in with 7.2 percent jobless rate, which is down from 7.4 percent in March. Butler said the Warner Robins area added 500 jobs, most in the service-related area, as well as with the federal government.

The Dublin area was on the wrong side of their percentage change. Butler said the Dublin area has the highest percentage of unemployment with an 11.5 percent jobless rate.

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Former Macon Airport Director Rex Elder Dies

Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff
Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 11:44am

 

The city of Macon is mourning the loss of a longtime leader.

Rex Elder died of a heart attack Wednesday, according to his wife, Dot Elder.

Rex was director at the Middle Georgia Regional Airport for 35 years.

He was also a member of Macon City Council.

In 2006, former mayor C. Jack Ellis pulled him out of retirement to handle security concerns at the airport.

Rex Elder was 87 years old.

 

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In Case You Missed It...

Submitted by Jacqueline Harnevious, 13WMAZ Community Web Producer
Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 10:42am
In Case You Missed It...

...I was in Forsyth yesterday.

I had a great time chatting with Forsythians about blogging for their community and organization. 

One of my favorite things about blogging is how it connects individuals to each other. More on that later...

If you want to blog for your community, e-mail me at whereyoulive@13wmaz.com.

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Q&A with Futurebirds

Submitted by The Blue Indian.com on Thursday, May 26th, 7:00 am

Athens group Futurebirds are no strangers in Macon. The band has played here multiple times over the past few years and has built up a very supportive fanbase. On Monday, May 30th, they will be returning to Macon to open for the illustrious Grace Potter & The Nocturnals as part of the Bonnaroo Buzz Tour. The bands have been traveling all around the East Coast to promote the 10th anniversary of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and their featured performances that weekend. I got to talk to Payton Bradford as the band was driving from Nashville to Louisville and he filled me in on their happenings.

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'Girls Auto Know' at Hutchings Career Center

Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff
Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 1:06am

About  20 girls came out to the first annual Girls Auto Know day camp at  Hutchings Career Center today. The three-day event is devoted to helping girls fix cars.

Ashanti Macon, a student at the Hutchings Career Center says, "Today, we're changing tires, we're learning how to unscrew the bolts and take the rims off and we're learning how to screw them back on and how to lift up the car."

The high school tenth graders got a crash course in fixing a flat.

The girls caught on quickly and Kierra Jones says, "The hardest part is putting the tire back on because you have to line it up and it's hard to see it when you're trying to put it back on by yourself."  

The program also teaches girls how to change the oil in their car and troubleshoot under the hood.

Ashanti Macon says, "I love this program because now I know how to change tires by myself, I won't need anyone to help me."

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