Duluth High School community honored for exemplary behavior at sporting events during 2011-12 school year.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
The sportsmanship exhibited by the Duluth High School Wildcats and their supporters during competitive sports events earned a special award from the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) and Georgia’s EMCs (Electric Membership Cooperatives). Both organizations presented the Wildcats with the Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship award. “This award is not only an honor for the individual school, but also recognition for the community as a whole,” said Mike Emory, director of athletics, student activities and community events for Gwinnett County Public Schools, in a press release announcing the award. “It reinforces the GHSA philosophy that ‘students, athletes, coaches, spectators and all others associated with high school activities programs …
Production is a milestone for the Melanie Thornton Youth Arts Foundation.
It’s fitting that the signature song in the musical debut of a local youth performing arts group is “Ease On Down the Road.” The group is certainly on the move. The Melanie Thornton Youth Arts Foundation performance of “The Wiz” Thursday through Saturday at Berkmar High School is the first full musical performance for the Duluth-based organization and its young players. Performers in the cast are between the ages of 3 and 16. The musical is a milestone point in the life of the eight-year-old group, which until this past January, when it moved into its 4,000-square-foot Creative Arts Center at the intersection of Duluth and Buford highways, did not have a brick-and-mortar home to call its own. And now, there are plans to open another …
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