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Jones-Bowman Leadership Award Program
Jones-Bowman 2011/12 community service project (:30)
The Jones-Bowman Leadership Award Program makes financial awards to undergraduate college students committed to developing their leadership skills. The program honors the memory and leadership of Principal Chief Leon Jones and Mr. James Bowman, who were founding members of the Board of Directors of Cherokee Preservation Foundation.
Each year they participate in the program, Jones-Bowman Fellows receive funding of approximately $4,000 for individual leadership learning plans they develop with their mentor.
The 2011/2012 Jones-Bowman Fellows are Corey Coggins, Savannah Hicks, Jessica Munson, Joey Owle, Kelsey Standingdeer, Cody Stubbs and Noah Wachacha. They are being mentored by Lucretia Hicks, Sky Kanott, Kristi Fuller, Kevin Jackson and Gerard Ball, all of whom were formerly Fellows. Steering Committee members who help lead the program are Roseanna Belt, Carmaleta Monteith and Ashleigh Brown.
Community service is a cornerstone of the Jones-Bowman Leadership Award Program, and the 2011/2012 Jones-Bowman Fellows will soon be teaching EBCI community members how to reduce the considerable financial and environmental cost of putting food scraps in a landfill by instead recycling food waste with the help of worms. Vermicomposting bins reduce household garbage disposal costs, produce less odor than putting food waste into a garbage container, save the water and electricity that kitchen garbage disposals consume, produce a high-quality soil amendment that’s free, require little space or maintenance, and spawn free worms for fishing. Twenty community members will be given an opportunity to learn how to construct a vermicomposting bin from materials provided by the Jones-Bowman Fellows and how to maintain the simple system. The bins have been funded by Cherokee Preservation Foundation.
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Alicia Jacobs, Jones-Bowman Program coordinator, at 828/497-5550 or at
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