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SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER11, 2018
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your weekly connection to local news & entertainment WHERE HAVE ALL THE OYSTERS GONE?
Coweta educators study Chattahoochee’s effect on Apalachicola Bay
PHOTO BY DONALD WHITE
Summer Water Educator’s Workshop participants included, from left, Gail Herzich, Pauline Threlkeld, April Deleshaw, Jennifer Jira, Judie Beccaro and Alexsandra Diaz-Schweitzer.
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education@newnan.com For m a ny Cowet a County teachers, summertime means summer learning. That’s the mission of the Coweta Water Education Team (CW ET), which for 10 years has trained teachers to take their real-life experiences
into the classroom. CWET is a team of individua ls from Coweta Water Authority, Newnan Utilities, the Coweta County School System, UGA Cooperative Extension-Coweta County, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing, the Coweta County Stormwater Department and
Chatta hoochee R iverkeeper. The organizations work together to create programs focused on t he i mpor ta nce of water quality and water conservation. “I n Coweta Cou nt y, we know that education equ a l s economy. T he better job we do educating our students, the
PHOTO BY DONALD WHITE
Brandy Davis examines an oyster cluster in Apalachicola.
stronger our community becomes,” said Dr. Donald White, science content specialist for the Coweta County School System. T his yea r’s Summer Water Educator’s Workshop allowed 24 local teachers to expand on the 2017 program, which gave participants a hands-on,
CTCA nurse wins national award BY MELANIE RUBERTI
melanie@newnan.com C a n c e r Tr e a t m e n t Centers Of A merica Nurse Fallon Wortham has a new plaque hanging from her wa ll a nd a d e c o r a t i v e t r o p h y, c a l le d “ T h e He a le r ’s Touch ,” ador n i ng her table. Wo r t h a m r e c e n t l y received bot h awa rd s after winning the prestigious DAISY Award. DAISY, which stands for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, is a n at ion a l awa rd t h at recognizes extraordi na r y nurses who go a b ove a nd b e yond to provide care to patients a nd show compa ssion to a pat ient ’s fa m i ly, according to www.daisyfoundation.org Winners of the DA I S Y Awa rd c a n be nominated by their colleagues or patients. In this case, Wortham was nominated by the family of a patient she ca red for at CTCA i n Newnan. The nurse has wo r k e d a t C T C A fo r
two years and learned about the honor during a meeting. “My di rect ma nager st a r ted read i ng h ig hlights of a letter written by a family member of a patient … She then a n nou nced my n a me . I wa s i n tota l shock ,” Wor t h a m s a id . “ I s at w it h my m out h op en for at least 10 seconds. I was t ha n k f ul a nd i n awe t hat t he fa m i ly took ti me to say such nice things about me.” Wortha m said while her da i ly job ca n be roug h , it c a n a l s o b e rewarding. “I love t he fact t hat I can watch a patient’s journey from when they receive a diagnosis, through treatment to when t hey go i nto remission a nd a re living a normal life again,” s h e s a id . “ B ut s om e times the outcomes are not the most desirable. T h at ’s toug h bec au se you’ve developed relationships with the patient and their families and know them on a personal level.
real world overview of the Chattahoochee River watershed. Teachers in last year’s workshop were given a chance to see the “story” of the Chattahoochee from birth to life, from urban Atlanta to rural West Point. T h i s yea r ’s pa r t icipants added to the story, ex plori ng t he Chatta-
hoochee’s final destination – the Gulf of Mexico, by way of the Apalachicola River. Two dozen educators spent four days in the Apalachicola estuary studying the effects of the Chattahoochee’s water on the ecosystem, as well as
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Art Walk to include Cornbread Cook-off
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BY W. WINSTON SKINNER
COURTESY OF CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA
Cancer Treatment Centers of America Nurse Fallon Wortham shows off a plaque and trophy she recently received as a DAISY Award winner. The national prize recognizes nurses who go above and beyond to provide care to patients.
winston@newnan.com W ho ba kes t he best cor n bre ad i n C owe t a County? The Newnan TimesHerald is on a quest to answer that question. If you believe your cornbread is t he best, you ca n enter t he Coweta C o r n b r e a d C o o k- o f f by sending your name a nd phone nu mber to news@newnan.com Be sure to put “cornbre ad” i n t he subje c t line.
Then you’ll need to br i ng one batch of your cornbread to The Newnan Times-Herald on Sept. 14 prior to the Fa l l A r t Wa l k , wh ic h beg i n s dow ntow n at 5 p. m . Vi sitors to t he newspaper duri ng t he A r t Wa l k w i l l sa mple t he cor nbread ent r ies and vote for their favorite. T he win ner will get a prize, plus their corn-
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