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The Clarion \ October 2, 2019
Pastimes for climate change
History club participates in worldwide elimateprotest
By Julie Carter
Opinion Editor
On Friday, Sept. 20, Pastimes History Club
participated in a worldwide protest against
climate change. The protests across the globe
were spearheaded by students. Greta Thunberg,
a 16-year-old climate change activist, is credited
with creating the “school strikes for climate
change.”
Pastimes History Club started their protest at
12:15 p.m. at the Bell Tower before continuing
by marching down to the Transylvania County
Courthouse in downtown Brevard.
Members of the clubs held signs that read
“There is no planet B” and “The climate is
changing, why aren’t we?”
The event drew attention to climate change as
an issue and helped raise awareness.
Eleanor Flannery, vice president of Pastimes History Club (holding sign), ieads other students in a ciimate
change protest on Sept. 20. Miiiions of students around the worid protested ciimate change on that day.
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Paying it forward
By Jeff Joyce and Hannah Partridge
Contributors
Since 1987, the residents of Connestee Falls
(located up U.S. 276) have raised over $1
million to support the students of Transylvania
County and Brevard College. What started as a
golf tournament with the goal to raise enough
money for one scholarship has grown into a
year long fundraising campaign that enables the
Connestee Falls Student Scholarship Program
(CFSSP) to award more than $ 100,000 annually
to local students.
The fundraising efforts now extend beyond the
gates of Connestee Falls and the organization
has done a great deal of work to make it a
community effort. In 2019, members of the
Connestee Falls Student Scholarship Program
will receive gifts from more than 200 individual
donors and businesses. The 2019 fundraising
campaign will involve a golf tournament, gala,
casino night, concerts, bocce ball tournament
and more.
Each year, scholarship funds are distributed
equally among Brevard College, Blue Ridge
Community College and Transylvania County
Schools. The only requirement is that recipients
that apply for the funding must be residents
of Transylvania County. Brevard College first
received support from the CFSSP in 1990 and
now the organization is an integral part of BCs
scholarship initiative.
Brevard College is fortunate to exist in a
community that is actively engaged in the
success of our students. “It is an honor to work
alongside neighbors that are so passionate about
the success of Brevard College students,” said
Jeff Joyce, Director of Development at Brevard
College. This year three students at the college
are recipients of funds from the foundation.
An overlook of Connestee Falls golf course mid-fall.