Chandler Bryant: A Summer School Success Story
Chandler Bryant was struggling through his freshman year in high school in Virginia Beach when his parents came to him with an idea.
Let’s send you to summer school at Fishburne.
“My grades were slipping a little bit, and my parents decided, Hey, how about we just send you here? It would be a good place, a good experience. So I was, like, alright. I was on the bandwagon,” said Bryant, who had such a good experience with the five-week summer-school session last summer that he decided to stay on at Fishburne for his sophomore year. Read more
Chris Graham: Days in the rasslin’ business
Kevin Nash was supposed to tear up Augusta Expo. That he didn’t is still a mystery to me.
One thing I’ve learned in my year in the pro rasslin’ business is that the other business that I commit a lot of my time to – the politics business – is a lot less political.
In politics, at least, you’ve got two main teams, the Democrats and the Republicans. In rasslin’, there’s no I in team, but there are enough Ms and Es to go around to make life difficult for anybody trying to make sense of it. Read more
Chris Graham: Sure, follow the private-school model
You’re throwing money away. Bad money after good. Schools are failing, and all we’re doing is propping them up and pretending that it’s not happening.
Here’s the solution: private-school vouchers.
Yeah, sure. That’s the solution.
Private schools take in less than 10 percent of our nation’s elementary- and secondary-school students. There is surely some excess capacity that we could tap into, but how much is a question, especially considering what makes private schools most attractive to parents isn’t size but rather the lack of size. Read more
‘WTA Presents The Sunnyside Band’
AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham interviews members of The Sunnyside Band, which will perform at the WTA’s Gateway Theatre on Friday, May 25.
‘WTA Presents Paul Reisler’
AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham interviewed Reisler for the “WTA Presents” web TV series.
Sunnyside Band, River City Boys to perform at Gateway
Two of the Radio Hour audience’s favorite musical groups are teaming up for a doubleheader at WTA’s Gateway on Friday, May 25.
Leading off the night will be The SunnySide Band. Following them will be The River City Boys. Together, they promise the evening will be a home run for Gateway audiences.
The performance starts at 8 p.m. at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro. Read more
DCCU staffers get financial-counselor certifications
DuPont Community Credit Union now has two certified financial counselors who recently completed the Credit Union National Association Financial Counseling Program. Lindsey Megginson, Marketing Manager, and Sarah Landram, Financial Educator, were recently awarded certificates from CUNA
“We are proud of both Lindsey and Sarah for their commitment in becoming certified financial counselors,” said Steve Elkins, DCCU Senior Vice President for Retail & Lending. “This certification will enhance the Credit Union’s financial education program and workshops, which we provide to our members and to the communities we serve.” Read more
