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- Georgia Bank & Trust Co. has created a program designed to urge Augusta schoolchildren to become regular savers and teach money management skills.
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Smith Barney's Augusta office teamed up to support the Salvation Army Fill a Stocking drive. The winning team was made up of Mike Koltz (from left), Amy Corbitt, Jamie Thomas, Frank Stone, Teri Moore, Camille Sutton, Nick Shaw and Norman Schaffer. Employees were divided into four teams to create friendly competition to help families. Smith Barney brought in more than 900 items -- enough to fill 75 stockings.
![Employees and volunteers at Sellynn Yarns in Furys Ferry Station in Martinez have knitted "covers" for soldiers deployed in Iraq to wear under their helmets for extra warmth as part of its Knitting for Others program. The yarn shop has sent enough for two platoons. Other projects include children's sweaters and hats for local hospitals and the Garden City Rescue Mission. Carolyn Tadlock (from left), Sheila Zimmerman, Rita Morrell, Jackie Bockman and Linda Severson sit around the knitting table. The store is owned by Selly Goodwin and Lynn Anderson. Special](http://chronicle.augusta.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_slideshow_thumb/editorial/images/spotted/40/401955.jpg "Employees and volunteers at Sellynn Yarns in Furys Ferry Station in Martinez have knitted "covers" for soldiers deployed in Iraq to wear under their helmets for extra warmth as part of its Knitting for Others program. The yarn shop has sent enough for two platoons. Other projects include children's sweaters and hats for local hospitals and the Garden City Rescue Mission. Carolyn Tadlock (from left), Sheila Zimmerman, Rita Morrell, Jackie Bockman and Linda Severson sit around the knitting table. The store is owned by Selly Goodwin and Lynn Anderson. Special")
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Employees and volunteers at Sellynn Yarns in Furys Ferry Station in Martinez have knitted "covers" for soldiers deployed in Iraq to wear under their helmets for extra warmth as part of its Knitting for Others program. The yarn shop has sent enough for two platoons. Other projects include children's sweaters and hats for local hospitals and the Garden City Rescue Mission. Carolyn Tadlock (from left), Sheila Zimmerman, Rita Morrell, Jackie Bockman and Linda Severson sit around the knitting table. The store is owned by Selly Goodwin and Lynn Anderson.
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The Augusta Woman's Club made a $1,000 gift to the Augusta Fisher House Foundation, which is raising funds for the construction of the $3.6 million Fisher House at the VA Medical Center's Uptown campus on Wrightsboro Road. The house will allow family members of wounded soldiers to be close during recovery. Shown are Lee Smith (from left), the president of The Community Foundation; Arlene Hally, of the Augusta Woman's Club; Cone Underwood, Fisher House volunteer; and Wadene Welch, of the Augusta Woman's Club.
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Georgia Bank & Trust Co. customer service representatives Angie Hubble (left) and Susie Crapps worked with Wheeless Road Elementary School pupil Jasmine Jones at the bank's Student Money Achieving Rewards for Tomorrow savings pilot program in October.
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Dr. Judith Salzer, the director of the Medical College of Georgia's Healthy Grandparents program, speaks after accepting a $10,000 grant from The Community Foundation for the CSRA's board Chairman Monty Osteen. The MCG School of Nursing-sponsored program assists people rearing grandchildren in parent-absent homes in Richmond and Columbia counties.
The bank's Student Money Achieving Rewards for Tomorrow savings program was started at the 482-pupil Wheeless Road Elementary School in October.
Angie Morales, the senior vice president of retail bank operations, said the bank deposited an opening gift of $1 into each child's account and provided each with a piggy bank.
Catherine Jones, an early intervention program teacher at Wheeless Road Elementary, said more than 180 pupils have signed up for the program.
"You should see the look on their faces when they line up with their piggy banks and the bankers count out their pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters," Dr. Jones said.
Bank President Dan Blanton said he hopes to expand the savings program into other area schools.
- The Augusta Technical College Foundation announced the establishment of the Gwinn Huxley Nixon Scholarship Endowment funded by a $25,000 contribution from Sally Nixon Hand, of Westport, Mass., in honor of her father. Interest earned from the endowment will fund an annual scholarship to a student in need.
Dr. Hand is a member of the Nixon family, of Augusta, and has had ties to the college for many years. The Nixon family in the 1990s gifted the land now occupied by Augusta Tech's 1300 and 1400 buildings.
The Nixon cabin, built by Dr. Hand's father, is on the main campus of Augusta Tech and is still used by members of the family.
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![Employees and volunteers at Sellynn Yarns in Furys Ferry Station in Martinez have knitted "covers" for soldiers deployed in Iraq to wear under their helmets for extra warmth as part of its Knitting for Others program. The yarn shop has sent enough for two platoons. Other projects include children's sweaters and hats for local hospitals and the Garden City Rescue Mission. Carolyn Tadlock (from left), Sheila Zimmerman, Rita Morrell, Jackie Bockman and Linda Severson sit around the knitting table. The store is owned by Selly Goodwin and Lynn Anderson. Special](http://chronicle.augusta.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/editorial/images/spotted/40/401955.jpg "Employees and volunteers at Sellynn Yarns in Furys Ferry Station in Martinez have knitted "covers" for soldiers deployed in Iraq to wear under their helmets for extra warmth as part of its Knitting for Others program. The yarn shop has sent enough for two platoons. Other projects include children's sweaters and hats for local hospitals and the Garden City Rescue Mission. Carolyn Tadlock (from left), Sheila Zimmerman, Rita Morrell, Jackie Bockman and Linda Severson sit around the knitting table. The store is owned by Selly Goodwin and Lynn Anderson. Special")
