The Marlin Art Gallery hosted an artist presentation by Julia Blaukopf and Ron Tarver on September 20 as part of the ongoing Visual Art Lecture and Workshop Series funded by a grant from the Cultural and Heritage Commission of Camden County.

The Center began its fall schedule with 11 mini-courses and a six-lecture series with record enrollment. Currently, 185 people have purchased a yearly membership for $75, and 41 people have paid $30 for an individual mini-course. Annual favorites were the Haddonfield Walking Tour with Joe Haro and the Constitution Day lecture by Kelly Jackson.

Five first-place winners in Camden County’s Juried Senior Art Show have been awarded top honors at the state level in New Jersey’s 52nd Annual State Senior Citizen Juried Art Show, held this month at the Mercer County Division of the Cultural & Heritage Commission. Camden County’s winners are:

• Marilyn Weinstein, 1st Place in the Acrylic Professional category
• Marlane Uhr, 2nd Place in the Craft Non-Professional category
• Riccardo Veggian, 3rd Place in the Works on Paper Professional category
• Nancy Schmidt, Honorable Mention in the Digital Art Professional category
• Howard Shivers, Honorable Mention in the Oil Non-Professional Category

Each county in NJ holds its own Senior Art Show, and first-place winners in each county move on to the state level. Close to 300 pieces of Senior Citizens art are on display at the Meadow Lakes Senior Living facility in East Windsor, NJ. The exhibit is open to the public from September 20 to October 25, Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The artists will be recognized at a private reception and awards ceremony on October 26, 2018.

The Camden County Senior Art Show is sponsored by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College.

Congressman Donald Norcross hosted his annual Constituent Services Fair in the Atrium at our Blackwood Campus on August 6. The all-day event connected South Jersey residents with local, state and federal organizations. Special forums were available for senior citizens and small businesses.

The Center’s summer semester of diverse mini-courses just ended with a record attendance of 307 participants. Offerings included lectures on Dinosaurs, American Women during World War II, the Secret Life of Nature in Literature, the Flintstones to Family Guy: a History of Adult Animation, Shakespeare’s Comedies, and Ethics in a World of Greed to name a few. During the 2018-19 academic year, 197 people purchased $75 memberships and 165 people paid $30 for an individual mini-course.

Eighteen people attended the Readers Theatre presentation of Hamilton on the second floor of the library on February 22. Throughout the month of February, the library featured displays of various books about the Olympics, Black History and the U.S. Presidents.

Carpentry students from the Career & Technical Institute (and registered at CCC) built butterfly boxes for the South Jersey Transportation Authority in response to the state mandate to provide habitats for wildlife. Dozens of boxes were built and will be located along the Atlantic City Expressway.

Session I Mini-Courses at The Center ended with very positive reviews and a record numbers of registrations. There are currently 192 people who have purchased $75 memberships for the year, and 120 people who have paid $30 for an individual mini-course for the year representing significant increases from spring 2017.

The Naval Foundry and Propeller Center held a job fair on the Blackwood Campus on February 24. Approximately 300 people attended the event and 47 temporary job offers were made at the event. Six of those students were from Camden County College.

Learn about community programming and events held this past month, provided by several College employees.

Our Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting students participated in “Give Kids a Smile Day” on February 2. The American Dental Association celebrates a national day for free dental care to children under the age of 13 on the first Friday of February. Thirty-three children from our community received dental cleanings, fluoride treatment, dental sealants, dental x-rays and dental preventive dental care. Four area dentists came to the College dental clinic and volunteered their time providing free dental care such as: restorations, extractions and medicated fillings. In addition, nursing students offered blood pressure screenings and general health information.

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On February 21 the Camden County Mayor’s Association held its monthly meeting on our campus. Don Borden and Julie Yankanich presented ways in which the College can help the mayors serve their constituents and directed them to the website for detailed information. Several mayors reached out after the meeting and asked for a College recruitment table at upcoming community days.

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A full schedule of mini-courses has begun at The Center with a record breaking enrollment of 239, which is 54 more than this time last year. Mini-course enrollment continues to increase with each semester. The fifteen-week course, “America and the Middle East in the Age of Terrorism,” includes a five-part lecture series entitled “Terror in the Twenty First Century –Al Qaeda, ISIS and Their Affiliates.” This lecture series has sixty-four participants so far. There are currently 190 people who have purchased a $75 membership for the year and 116 people who have paid $30 for an individual mini-course for the year.

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Approximately 150 elementary school children from the Kipp Lanning Elementary School in Camden visited the College on January 27. One of their stops was the Library where they received age-appropriate bookmarks and participated in a scavenger hunt.

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Our students and Dr. Galbiati were part of a live broadcast from the Lamp Post Diner this week. Fox Good Day will do

a live remote from the College later this spring.