WHAT’ S NEWS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY & BEYOND photo: Kyle Haught
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WHAT’ S NEWS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY & BEYOND photo: Kyle Haught
Meritus Health’ s largest group of nursing graduates to date participate in a teambuilding exercise.
JUMPING FOR JOY
The largest group of nursing graduates so far, recently began the Meritus Medical Center orientation program. Depending on their specialties, the process will last between 10 and 26 weeks. Shown is the group during a teambuilding exercise where they had to work to all be in the air at the same time for the photo— not as easy as it
looks! Left to right are Tony Toman, Karen Digman, Emily Lapp, Lynitta Ballinger, Jen Fedele, Jenny Knect, Kelly Dimmick, Leanna Hollingshead, Karis Nolen, Alyssa Rohrer, Sarah Carter, Alex Kirk, Erin Kelly, Rebecca Ly, Andrew Martin, Ericka Shirley, Taylor Guyer, Brian Bearese and Jon Snyder. Congratulations to all of the new nurses!
WINNING WORX
Worx Graphic Design had their hands full after The American Advertising Federation of Greater Frederick’ s annual ADDY awards gala in February. The Greencastle, Pa. and Hagerstown-based design firm walked away with nine prestigious awards: Gold ADDYs for the Worx Graphic Design Hi5 Self-promotion Campaign, the Worx Graphic Design Website, the 2012 AAF-GF ADDY Awards Promotion Campaign, the 2012 AAF-GF ADDY Awards Single Media, and three for the Mary Kate McKenna Packaging Campaign, Holiday Packaging and Self-promotion Campaign; a Silver ADDY for the Innovative, Inc., Advertising Campaign; and a Judge’ s Choice award for the Mary Kate McKenna Packaging Campaign. Entries that received Gold ADDYs will go on to compete at the regional level, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington D. C. Visit http:// worxgraphicdesign. com.
The Worx Graphic Design team— Junior Graphic Designer Kassie Sease( L – R), Owner / Creative Director Laura Wallace and Senior Designer Amber Buhrman— won nine prestigious ADDY awards in February. photo: Chris Jackson
An incredible number of Bester Elementary students demonstrated their love of the environment and school pride by collecting a whopping 82 pounds of crayons for the National Crayon Recycling Program, part of the 2 nd annual MLK Day of Service.
VIBRANT VOLUNTEERS
The students of Bester Elementary won the Crayon Recycling Project, held as part of Volunteer Washington County’ s( VWC) 2 nd annual MLK Day of Service. The students collected 82 pounds of crayons— more than two times the amount collected by all other schools combined! Bester teacher B. J. Lushbaugh recalls children getting off the school bus carrying a few stray crayons in their fists who were so happy to be helping the environment and pleased to be helping their school be recognized, too.“ All of these students participated in the crayon recycling project because they felt empowered and believed they could make a difference in their community by helping to protect the environment,” says VWC Co-Director Bernadette Wagner.“ Research shows the younger kids are when they have their first positive volunteer experience, the more likely they will be lifelong volunteers.” Congratulations, kids, and keep up the good work!
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