AUG 10, 2016
Summer internship gives local student taste of journalism
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Living with Alzheimer’s Disease: For Caregivers
By REBECCA LEFTWICH becky@newnan.com
Aug 10 | 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. | $0 The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease to a loved one can be just as life-changing as a caregiver and leads to many questions. This three-part series presented by Susan Formby with the Alzheimer’s Association will empower you and help you understand their diagnosis and all the ways you can help and prepare them and yourself for caregiving. This series is for caregivers to those with middle stage dementia.This program is FREE but pre-registration is required. 770-461-0813 or email register@fayss.org (include name, phone number and event title). FSS members and non-members welcome.www.Fayss.org.
Paul Slobodzian, 18, scoops up his notebook and begins to unfold his 6-foot-7 frame from behind his desk in The Newnan TimesHerald’s newsroom. Someone has found cremains in an old house, explains Winston Skinner, and Slobodzian’s assignment is to interview the finder. “He’ll meet you there in about 15 minutes,” says Skinner, the Times-Herald’s news editor. Slobodzian will share a byline with Skinner in the finished article. Misplaced cremains may be an unusual subject, but it’s another good opportunity for the 2016 Newnan High graduate to experience what being a journalist actually entails during his eight-week internship. “I think that to do it before I get to college is going will be an advantage,” said Slobozian, who in a few days will be headed to Arizona State University to begin studying sports journalism. “Writing in the newsroom, you get to know the quality of work you need to get published in a newspaper or online.” That experience is precisely what efforts like the Georgia Press Educational Foundation internship program aim to provide – an extra level of training to educate future professionals about the realities of their chosen career field. According to U.S. News and World Report, professional experience – often gained through an internship – is becoming more and more important for prospective new hires. There’s a growing demand for interns, and requirements are becoming more specific, according to job-matching expert Matt Sigelman. “You see this surprising level of specificity,” Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a job-matching technology firm, told the magazine last year. “It really challenges the notion that an internship is something that you go off to [in order to] learn job skills. It really feels increasingly like you’re expected to have the job skills that get you the internship that gets you the job.” While internships often are aimed toward meeting specific industry-related goals – in Slobodzian’s case, “to provide students with actual newspaper experience while reinforcing their scholastic training” – those serving in internship positions can help themselves as well. To maximize an opportunity, interns should be proactive about gaining actual work experience; identify a mentor or mentors; build a network; offer to pitch in wherever they’re needed and above all, work hard and be reliable. Slobodzian, fresh from graduation, brief ly mourned one last lazy summer before college. “Initially, the summer after my senior year, I was not stoked to work 9 to 5 every weekday,” he said. “But my parents would have made me get a job anyway.” Slobodzian’s mother, Heidi, fully supported the internship because writing has been her son’s outlet his whole life. It’s been a great experience for him, without a doubt,” she said. “He’s wanted to be a writer since he was very small, and he just comes alive when he writes. He’s quiet, but he really is able to express himself with his words in writing.”
FAIRBURN
Fairburn Farmers Market Aug 12 | 4 - 7 p.m. | $0 The Fairburn Farmers Market will be Friday afternoons, June 3 – Aug. 26, 4 – 7 p.m. Offering more than two dozen vendors with locally grown produce, baked breads and pastries, artisan foods, and local crafts. The market will feature weekly live entertainment, kids games, and live demonstrations. This year’s market venue will be at the new concert stage and park at 15 W. Broad Street, Fairburn, located next to Oz Pizza. For more information visit www.FairburnFarmersMarket.com. FAIRBURN
“You see what everybody has to bring together to create a final product.”
Couples Dance Aug 12 | 8 p.m. | $20 A couple’s dance, hosted by the Moonlight Ballroom Dance Club of LaGrange, will be held at the LaFayette Christian School Gym, located at 1904 Hamilton Rd. in LaGrange. Participants can enjoy swing, slow dancing, waltz, polka, samba, chacha, tango and foxtrot. Visiting couple are welcome at $20 per couple. For more information call 706-881-2734. CHATT HILLS
Aug 13 | 8 - 10 p.m. | $0 Aug 12 | 8 p.m. | $20 Grayson Capps’ Tao-tinged, philosophical reflections-revealed deep inside songs shuddering with spit, stomp and snarl-are as potent as ever. It’s just that this time his bark and bite is more conciliatory towards the unanswered questions mucking up the universe, while country soul-tinged textures and gospel harmonies ease the raw edges. Corky Hughes brings his professionalism and expertise on guitar to accompany and enhance a most memorable live performance. Along with touring together they both enjoy performing and touring internationally with their band Willie Sugarcapps. Cherry Hollow Farm is located at 12525 Jones Ferry Rd.in Chattahoochee Hills. For more information email jazzmanron1@ gmail.com.
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