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Julie Dahlhauser, HHS Librarian; Mary Marc-antel, HES Art Teacher; and Beth Ann Smith, Anderson Early Child-hood Center Art Teacher, were selected to attend the 2010 Tennessee Arts Academy in July.

The Academy is a na-tionally-recognized flag-ship program of inten-sive teacher training in art, music, and drama/theatre sponsored by the Arts Education Program of the Tennessee Depart-ment of Education.

The Tennessee Arts Academy is a nationally acclaimed summer pro-fessional development program in arts educa-tion for teachers and ad-ministrators held on the campus of Belmont Uni-versity in Nashville. Par-ticipants, representing school districts through-out the state, are chosen from among hundreds of

art, music and drama/theatre classroom teach-ers.

The aim of the Acade-my is to present concepts, skills and materials to en-hance the teaching of art, drama and music in the classrooms of Tennessee. Celebrating over 20 years of excellence, the Tennes-see Arts Academy boasts experiences designed to meet the needs of teach-ers, including standards-based instruction, clinics by nationally-recognized experts, performances by Tennessee artists and unlimited resources and opportunities for net-working with peers from across the state.

In addition to more than 30 hours of instruc-tion each week, there are performances made pos-sible by funds from the Tennessee Arts Commis-sion, inspirational speak-ers, and other special

events.“This year’s Academy

was the first I have been invited to attend. The week was an unforgetta-ble experience. I attended the Music component of the Academy and hope I will have the opportu-nity to attend next year!" stated Ms. Dahlhauser.

Ms. Marcantel and Ms. Smith both attended the visual art section of the academy. “We were so thankful to have been selected to attend again this year. Over 500 teach-ers from across the state applied for less than 250 open slots,” Ms Smith said. “This was my sev-enth academy and Beth's fifth; each year just gets better than the last,” Mary added.

All three teachers feel blessed to have been part of such an outstanding week of in-service train-ing.

Local educators chosen to attend Tennessee Arts Academy

Local teachers attend Tennessee Arts AcademyHaywood County teachers Julie Dahlhauser, Beth Ann Smith and Mary Marc-antel attended the Tennessee Arts Academy this summer at Belmont University. The Tennessee Department of Education sponsors the in-service for art, music, and drama teachers.

Sales tax holiday coming this weekend

NASHVILLE – The 2010 Sales Tax Holiday begins this Friday, and provides three full days of tax breaks on clothing, school and art supplies, and computer purchases. Visit www.tntaxholiday.com or our new dedi-cated facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/TNTaxHoliday for detailed information on the holiday.

The holiday begins Friday, August 6 at 12:01 a.m. and ends Sunday, August 8 at 11:59 p.m. During the designated three-day weekend, con-sumers will not pay state or local sales tax on se-lect clothing with a price of $100 or less per item, school and art supplies with a price of $100 or less per item, and com-puters with a price of $1,500 or less.

“Our Sales Tax Holi-day not only helps fami-lies save on their back-to-school shopping but is a benefit for all Tennesse-ans, who are encouraged to take advantage of the timely savings," said Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr.

An audio news re-lease recorded by Com-missioner Farr about the holiday is available at the Sales Tax Holiday Web site, www.tntaxholiday.com.

Please visit www.tntaxholiday.com to learn more about the items ex-empt from sales tax. The Tennessee Department of Revenue also assists con-sumers via e-mail, Sal-estax.Holiday@TN.gov, and through its toll-free statewide telephone hot line, (800) 342-1003. Staff is available to an-swer questions Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time. (Out-of-state and Nash-ville-area callers, please dial (615) 253-0600.)

Examples of exempt items include:

• Clothing: Shirts, dresses, pants, coats, gloves and mittens, hats and caps, hosiery, neck-ties, belts, sneakers, shoes, uniforms whether athletic or non-athletic and scarves

• School Supplies: Binders, book bags, cal-culators, tape, chalk, crayons, erasers, folders, glue, pens, pencils, lunch boxes, notebooks, paper, rulers and scissors

• Art Supplies: Clay and glazes; acrylic, tempera and oil paints; paintbrushes for artwork; sketch and drawing pads; and watercolors

• C o m p u t e r s : Central processing unit (CPU), along with vari-ous other components including monitor, key-board, mouse, cables to connect components and preloaded software (Note: While the CPU may be purchased sepa-rately, other items must be part of a bundled com-puter package in order to be eligible.) iPad’s are eligible for tax exemp-tion, video games and consoles are not.

The Department of Revenue is responsible

for the administration of state tax laws and motor vehicle title and regis-tration laws established by the legislature and the collection of taxes and fees associated with those laws.

The Department of Revenue collects approxi-mately 91 percent of total state tax revenue. During the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the department collected $10.1 billion in state taxes and fees. In addition to collecting state taxes, $1.9 billion of combined local sales tax, local mineral severance tax, and local business related taxes and fees was collected by the department for local governments during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Be-sides collecting taxes, the department enforces the revenue laws fairly and impartially in an effort to encourage voluntary taxpayer compliance. The department also ap-portions revenue collec-tions for distribution to the various state funds and local units of gov-ernment. To learn more about the department, log on to www.TN.gov/revenue.

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