June 3, 2020 The Beacon • 5
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The Outstanding Career Center Student of the Year award was presented
to culinary art’s student and Coshocton High School graduate
Jessie Ruby by Board President Tad Johnson.
Ruby wins Student
of the Year award
The Coshocton County
Career Center announced
this year’s recipient of the
Outstanding Career Center
Student of the Year award
during the drive-thru passport
ceremony on May 20.
The 2019-20 award was
presented to culinary arts
student and Coshocton
High School graduate Jessie
Ruby by Tad Johnson, board
president.
Ruby also received the
2020 CCCC Senior Student
Award, Presidential Academic
Award and Perfect
Attendance Award for the
2019-20 school year. She
was a National Technical
Honor Society member, a
CCCC student ambassador
and a Student Council
officer for the Coshocton
County Career Center.
Ruby plans to enter the
workforce with dreams of
putting her culinary education
to use in a bakery or
restaurant.
Williamson excited to be part of the
Pomerene Center for the Arts team
Back in February (remember that
life?) Pomerene Center for the Arts
welcomed independent contractor
Belinda Williamson onto the Pomerene
team as the events manager. She
was tasked with the job of expanding
accessibility and community use
of the Pomerene facilities. Her first
tasks were helping to revamp the
website and presenting Pomerene
at the bridal expo. Then everything
closed down.
Artistic director and community
studio artist Anne Cornell likes to
quote Williamson from an early
COVID conversation: “We need a
little warm and fuzzy.”
“I’m pretty sure that wish for
warm and fuzzy led to the creation
of the virtual Pom Pom Mascot Contest,”
Cornell said.
Cornell hopes the contest helped
lift community spirits. Certainly
it helped keep the Pomerene team
spirits high as they moved through
the more uncertain work and careful
study of how to safely and comfortably
continue to bring people together
around the arts. Their current project
focuses on serving individuals who
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would welcome an art-filled alternative
to working from home.
Williamson is particularly suited
to thinking imaginatively about new
ways to move the organization forward.
She is a veteran of working
remotely, having done this for more
than seven years. Five years were
spent managing the Columbus chapter
of the National Association of
Women Business Owners.
Working virtually has led to shortand
long-term engagements with
clients from all over the country (and
world). She’s worked for a manufacturing
company based in Mumbai,
India, as well as an entertainment
entrepreneur from New York City,
an event producer in Hawaii, a hiphop
artist from LA and an attorney
from Boston. She’s done everything
from arranging international travel,
to finding an emergency dentist in
Greece, to booking African safaris.
Williamson has planned/coordinated
corporate events for the Smithsonian
Institute’s Earth Day Summit,
national conferences for National
Church Residences and state-wide
teachers’ conferences, among others.
Williamson was formerly the
executive director for the Coshocton
Convention & Visitors Bureau, an
event coordinator for The Longaberger
Company and worked in public
relations/events for the Roscoe Village
Foundation.
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