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baths, pull-down stairways to large attic storage areas, skylights in bathrooms, commercial grade carpeting, solid vinyl floor tile, 20-year fiberglass roof shingles, thermal doors and windows, heat pumps, stove vent hoods which exhaust outside, intercoms with AM-FM radio, low-maintenance brick veneer exterior. wiring for telephones and cable television, firewalls between each unit and two parking spaces for each townhouse.
He explains the only exterior portions of the townhouses which would need maintenance are small front lawn areas and shrubbery, after several years the wood trim should be painted, and in some 10 years the paved parking lot should be resealed.
“We’ve done everything to keep maintenance down. The 23 property owners would elect a board of directors who would make decisions regarding- landscape maintenance
LIGHT FIXTURE—Inspecting a dining room light fixture which is casting a light pattern on a ceiling In his Sunset Place Townhomes condominium complex in Bay St. Louis is Maurice Colly. The local developer is building the first Bay St. Louis condominiums. (Staff photo by Wayne Ducomb Jr.)
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UM HONOR ROLL
Shelly V. Stewart of Pass Christian was named to the University of Mississippi Chancellor’s Honor Roll for the fall semester, and Elizabeth M. Holmes of Bay St. Louis was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll. A grade point average from 3.75 through 4.0 is required for the Chancellor’s list and a 3.5 through 3.74 average for the Dean’s list.
CLUB SPORTS
A series of club sports $11 be offered by the University of New Orleans recreation and intramural sports department during the spring semester.
Registration for the sports, which include fencing, aikido, yoga, racquetball, karate, fitness for men and women, and prenatal exercise, will begin Monday, Jan. 23 and continue for two weeks. Instruction will be offered in the afternoon and evening.
For further information, call the UNO recreation office at 286-6357 or stop by room 112 of the UNO Health and Physical Education Center.
LADNER CERTIFIED—Mississippi tax assessors gathered in Natchez recently to take ] in assessment/evaluation training provided by the Mississippi Cooperative Extension : vice. Marty Wiseman, governmental training specialist with the Extension Service Mississippi Assessors and Collectors Association President Jerry Bailey presented Assessment Evaluator I certificate to Hancock County Assessor Yvonne Ladner.
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KITCHEN—Standing in the carpeted kitchen of a Sunset Place Townhomes condominium is developer Maurice Colly of Bay St. Louis. He is developing the first condominium complex in this city. (Staff photo by Wayne Ducomb Jr.)
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OAK STAIRWAY—Admiring the finish and construction of an oak stairway banister in a Sunset Place Townhomes condominium is developer Maurice Colly of Bay St. Louis. He feels the oak stairway and several other amenities in his Bay St. Louis complex are unusual features in these housing units. (Staff photo by Wayne Ducomb Jr.)
Library institutes computer program
The Hancock County Library System has announced a new service called the Compass Project, a computer-assisted skills program for persons who want to improve basic educational skills either for self-enrichment or to pass the GED; return to high school; gain better employment; or enter college or vocational schools.
Developed by Prima Wusnack, library system director, and Rebecca Mit-chum Keefer, children’s services librarian, the Compass Project will enable the public to schedule time to use prepackaged educational computer programs on the headquarter’s library microcomputers.
With these programs, an individual can work at his own pace to improve basic skills in language arts, math, or other areas.
Language arts programs
available include letter recognition; reading comprehension;' spelling; and grammer. Programs for improving math skills include counting, addition, substrac-tion, multiplication, and division, as well as algebra, fractions, and decimals.
Also available are programs that teach how to count money and make change; United States geography; typing; speed reading; and an introduction to word processing. Additional computer programs will be added in the coming weeks according to Keefer and Wusnack, and plans are being made to offer the service at the Waveland Library in the near future.
“We’re excited about this service,” said Wusnack, “because it offers an alternative way of learning for the out-of-school young adult or adult.” “However, it can also be used as a supplement to basic education classes or col-
lege remedial courses a person may be taking.”
“We feel that computers can be a valuable tool in teaching skills for they are just, impartial, and force people to do things right,” she continued.
“Yet they are easy to operate when using a pre-packaged educational program and allow an individual to start at his own level and progress at his own pace.
To use the service, persons must be 16 or older and not enrolled in high school. They must have or obtain a valid library card and attend a one-hour Compass Project User’s Workshop. Wusnack points out that the workshop is not a computer programming class, but a training session to teach people how to use the prepackaged educational programs on the library’s microcomputers. She stresses that absolutely no knowledge of computers is necessary to
take the workshop or use the service.
After completing the workshop, participants will receive a Compass card that will allow them to schedule computer time whenever they want to work on the skills they need to improve.
Workshops have been scheduled for Monday, Jan. 23 and 30, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The workshops will be limited to 15 people and those interested in participating should pre-register by calling 467-5282.
Additional workshops will be announced at a later date.
The Compass Project is funded by the Hancock County Library System and a Library Services and Construction Act grant through the Mississippi Library Commission.