Delta Business Journal
C.A.R.E.
Group boosts economics and enhances culture of Charleston
Photography by Matthew Wood
Ray Rounsaville not only lives in the Charleston area, he wants to see it succeed. “I don’t want Charleston to end up like so many other Delta towns. So many of our towns have too many boarded up windows.”
Pleased by what he’s seeing in his hometown, Rounsaville attributes much of the town’s success to an arts program that has had far-reaching effects. The Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort (C.A.R.E.) was formed with the mission to foster the economic growth and redevelopment of Charleston through the arts and community involvement while preserving the historical significance and heritage of the town.
“It’s working,” says Rounsaville. “Charleston is holding its own.”
C.A.R.E. was the brainchild of Glenna Callender and “six to eight like-minded Charlestonians.” Callender says it all started when she and a friend of hers were planting flowers around the DAR memorial. “I wondered out loud what it would take to get a tour bus to stop in Charleston,” Callender remembers. “He said that it would take Morgan Freeman opening up his house for tours!”
DSU E-Learning
Tuning into classrooms all over the state In 1925, Delta State Teachers College opened its doors to train folks to be the best teachers and send them across the state and beyond. If those pioneers were around today, they’d see a strong building of teaching set forth on their foundation. Part of that “building” now includes E-Learning Classes. Piloted during the 2004-2005 school year, the program sought “to meet the needs of school districts by teaching courses for schools that could not offer these courses to their students.”
Voter ID
Mississippi working to avoid problems that nixed voter ID laws in other states
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