ADOPT A PET: Meet Mama Kitty

Submitted by Eden Godbee, Where U Live Producer

Monday, July 18th, 2011, 12:48pm

MARIETTA, Ga. – If you dream of coming home to a cool purr or a comforting meow adopt a kitten from your local pet shelter. According to the ASPCA, approximately 5 million to 7 million domesticated animals enter animal shelters nationwide, every year, and approximately 3 million to 4 million are euthanized. However, you can change those numbers but adopting a “companion” for yourself or your family. Pets are an investment but, in our opinion, an investment well worth the money.

According to the Humane Society, Mama Kitty is a domestic long hair, white-mix looking for a home.

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Chattahoochee Tech now on semester system

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Monday, July 18th, 2011, 11:07am

Chattahoochee Tech now on semester system

MARIETTA, Ga. -- Thousands of new and returning students at Chattahoochee Technical College are doing something they've never done before.

They are registering for classes under the semester system -- a first for technical college students in Georgia.

Twenty-five technical colleges statewide are preparing for the final transition from the quarter system to semesters. Their students will now take classes for two 15-week semesters and a summer term instead of four quarters.

This change will align the colleges' academic calendars with those of Georgia colleges and universities, K-12 schools and more than 80 percent of the school systems in the country.

"This is a change that will benefit students," said Trina Boteler, vice president of academic affairs at CTC.

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Police search for missing Holly Springs woman

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Monday, July 18th, 2011, 6:45am

Police search for missing Holly Springs woman

HOLLY SPRINGS, Ga. -- Holly Springs Police are asking for the public's help in locating a woman who vanished over the weekend.

Detectives said 35-year-old Kelly Mechille Temples was last seen around 11:45 a.m. Saturday at 520 Charles Drive in the Barrett Farms subdivision. She left to go for a walk and never returned home.

Temples' guardian told police that the woman has "diminished mental capacity." She frequents Internet chat rooms and may have run away with a man from Texas whom she met online.

Detectives have reason to believe Temples is traveling to Florida.

Kelly Temples is a white woman, about 5'1" and 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a red flower print dress when she disappeared.

Anyone who sees Temples or knows her whereabouts is asked to call Holly Springs Police at 770-345-5537.

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Road work ahead: How to avoid it

Submitted by 11Alive News Staff

Sunday, July 17th, 2011, 10:31am

ATLANTA -- All the road construction around Metro Atlanta this weekend may give you flashbacks to weekday rush hour traffic, particularly on the Perimeter near Spaghetti Junction.

Cherokee

I-575 NB at 1 mile South of Sixes Road (MP10)
7 a.m. Sat. - 5 p.m. Sun.
1 right lane - Traffic will be paced

Alternate: Exit onto Towne Lake Pkwy. (Exit 8) and turn right. Follow Towne Lake Pkwy. to S. Main St. and turn left. Follow S. Main St. across the Little River where it becomes Old Hwy. 5. Follow Old Hwy. 5 to to sixes Road and turn left. Follow Sixes Road back to I-575 Northbound.

Clayton

I-75 SB from Tara Blvd. (Exit 235) to Mt. Zion Blvd. (Exit 231)
9 p.m. Fri. - 5 a.m. Sat.
2 right lanes -- Traffic will be paced

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Ga. license plate contest gets do-over

Submitted by Associated Press

Saturday, July 16th, 2011, 2:24pm

ATLANTA -- Gov. Nathan Deal has delayed selecting a new Georgia license plate due to confusion over whether the motto "In God We Trust" would be on the winning design.

Deal had been set to take the wraps off the new Georgia plate at the State Capitol Friday.

More than 500 design entries were submitted by the public. A panel of Georgia college and university art professors narrowed the selection to eight. An online public vote chose the final three designs.

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3,000 students to benefit from back-to-school blast

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer

Friday, July 15th, 2011, 3:19pm

3,000 students to benefit from back-to-school blast

CHEROKEE CO., Ga. -- Nearly 3,000 children have pre-registered for this year's Give a Kid a Chance back-to-school blast.

Give a Kid a Chance is an outreach program that, with the help of more than 400 volunteers, provides filled backpacks, haircuts, new clothes and medical screenings to Cherokee County students in need.

"We want to make sure each student has everything he or she needs to have a successful school year," said Cheryl Ruffer, co-founder of Give a Kid a Chance.

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