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Ashley Laureano (center)†of Mount Pleasant, was recently†presented with the J. Travis Jackson†GED†Scholarship during the†2014†GED graduation ceremony hosted by the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Adult Education Department.†This $500 award is given by the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club in memory of Jackson, who was a long time adult educator in Titus County.†Making the presentation is Malik Latif (left), President of the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club and Carolyn Pope, GED Instructor.

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Richard Perryman, (pictured, left) recently presented a $3,000 check to Dr. Jonathan McCullough, Vice President for Advancement, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ.† The funds will be used to underwrite the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Foundation Annual Scholarship Reception.† The reception is held on the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ campus each fall and allows scholarship recipients to meet the donors who made their award possible. In addition to helping ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ with scholarships themselves, Richard and Margaret Perryman have been underwriting the Scholarship Reception for more than 10 years.

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Foundation recently received an $1,800 gift from the Lions Club of Pittsburg. The donation will provide three $600 scholarships to ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students from Camp County. Lions Club President, Allen Weatherford (right) is pictured making the donation to Dr. Jonathan McCullough, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Vice President for Advancement. For information about this or other scholarship opportunities at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ, contact McCullough at 903-434-8115.

The next ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Farmer's Market is Friday, May 16!

It seems ironic that as little as a generation ago, my grandparents managed to feed their family of eight, either by fishing, hunting, gathering and/or subsistence farming and yet most of our so-called technologically advanced people today would starve if we had to eat only what we could grow. I can remember that my grandparents hardly ever made a weekly trip to the store to purchase any food product that they could grow on their farm.