by Terry Strickland in News
For 24 years, Larry B. Johnson has watched students drive past his business, rushing to and from classes on PJC's Pensacola campus. Johnson's self-storage business, Airport Mini Warehouses, is located directly across the street from the north entrance to PJC, on Underwood Drive.
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Come learn Flamenco, a vivid and passionate Spanish dance form that stirs the blood and lets spirits soar.
The Pensacola Junior College Continuing Education dance class is 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays, May 24-July 26, at the Pensacola campus. Cost is $50 per student.
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Keep your kids active this summer with a Pensacola Junior College athletic camp.
The college offers several options for girls and boys and different age groups.
•"FUN"damentals Kids' Basketball Camp, for girls entering grades 3-7, is 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.
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The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts presents the works of sculptor Sam Nettles as part of the Lyceum series at Pensacola Junior College.
The exhibit runs May 19 through July 11 in the center's Visual Arts Gallery on the Pensacola campus. Come meet Nettles at a reception 6 to 8 p.
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Pensacola Junior College presents the 27th annual Summer Dance Workshop June 16-20 at the Pensacola campus.
Walk-in registration is 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, now through June 18, at the Bursar's Office, Building 2, on the Pensacola campus.
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Auditions are open to recent high school graduates and students in grades 9-12.
For the 2008-2009 school year for Pensacola
Junior College's Summer High School Onstage Workshop.
The 2008 production is "The Wizard of Oz."
Auditions are 8 a.m. to noon Monday and Tuesday, June 23-24, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus.
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Check out the new PJC History Dateline created by 60th Anniversary Committee members Linda Bauer, Alice Crann Good, Robin Mertins, and (the very, very, very patient) Internet Systems Guru Jason King. It will be tweaked a bit, but it's ready to read.
http://www.
by Wynonia Barrows in News
PJC's Student Leadership & Activities along with the Student Government Association are collecting Mardi-Gras beads for the ARC-Gateway Center. The ARC-Gateway Center provides services for people with developmental disabilities. Frank Wilson of the ARC Center is asking for gently used Mardi-Gras beads to be recycled and then used in local Mardi-Gras parades.
by Wynonia Barrows in News
Are you bored? Do you have extra time on your hands? Do you like to help people? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then the United Way is perfect for you!
First Call for Help is a service of the United Way of Escambia County. The focus is to provide health and human service agency information during emergency situations to the public via both a call center and Web site, said Anika Tower, First Call for Help volunteer coordinator.
by shelley austin in News
The college broke ground last week for the new Edward M. Chadbourne Library, as part of a renovation project for the Learning Resources Center. The LRC will temporarily move in May to the student center in building 5 during the renovations, expected to be completed by August 2009.
Classrooms have too much exposure to the outside, some say
by Nicole Zanetti in News
In the wake of campus shootings in Illinois and Virginia, faculty and staff in building 1 have adopted some security measures.
Signs displaying the phone numbers of police have been posted throughout the building, and the college is working on a text-messaging warning system.
by Michael Rutschky in News
Students of various studio classes at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts were honored recently with an enormous assortment of awards and scholarships for the work that they have produced in the last year. In addition to having their best work put on display in the gallery at building 15 for the Student Honors Exhibit, a total of $348,000 was awarded to students during an annual award ceremony last Friday April 25.
by Joshua Encinias in News
A current PJC student died from injuries in a single car crash Tuesday morning.
Rufus Blue, 22, was driving a 1993 Saturn at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the car, ran off the road and struck a tree.
The crash occurred near Office Woods Drive, 500 feet south of College Boulevard on 12th avenue.
by Lance Hayes in News
On Monday, April 28, the maintenance team at the PJC Pensacola campus worked diligently to remove graffiti from brick on the exterior of the Ashmore Auditorium. Vandals apparently struck during the weekend, spray painting graffiti high on the west and north walls of the building.
