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Living and Giving Photo Gallery – Dec. 9, 2012

By Staff Report December 9, 2012 1 min read

Photo Gallery

LaFayette-Walker County Library unveils unique mosaic tree created by local artists

The LaFayette-Walker County Library welcomes LaFayette High School art students for the unveiling of the mosaic tree they created for the Children's Department. From left are Summer Knight, Elizabeth Miller, LHS art teacher Heather Hawkins-Parker, Andrew Halliday and Branton Kimbell.

LaFayette High School art students Carson Kirby, Hailee Kerns and Haley Delaney, from left, hang out in the teen section of the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The teenagers helped design the entryway artwork for the library's Children's Department.

Local officials attend the unveiling of the new Children's Department awning at the LaFayette-Walker County Library. From left are architect Kenny McDade, LaFayette-Walker County Library Director Lecia Eubanks, Walker County Schools Director of Curriculum Robin Samples, Walker County Schools Preschool Coordinator Debbie Ingle, Walker County Historical Society President David Boyle, architect David Cameron and architect Jack Killian.

LaFayette-Walker County Library Cherokee Regional Library librarian Chelsea Kovalevskiy reads

LaFayette High School art teacher Heather Hawkins-Parker reads a book about birds nesting during children's hour at the unveiling of the new mosaic tree that welcomes guests to the Children's Department at the LaFayette-Walker County Library.

LaFayette-Walker County Library welcomes the LaFayette High School art students who created the mosaic tree in the background for the library's Children's Department.

This week’s events:

Auctions, talent show benefit performing arts magnet school

What: About 200 guests attended Dinner and the Arts at Center for Creative Arts performing arts magnet school. The event included live and silent auctions, dinner catered by Abuelo’s and a showcase of student talent.

Benefits: Center for Creative Arts’ technology needs, teacher training and school initiatives, said Principal Deborah Smith.

Soup-Off helps Ugandan orphans

What: Thirty-three clubs, organizations and individuals at Berry College in Rome, Ga., entered the annual Soup-Off contest sponsored by the college’s chapter of Sponsorship of Orphans in Uganda Project.