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ASHEBORO — Havea New Year’s resolutionto spark your creativeside?

Starting next month,Randolph CommunityCollege is offeringclasses in drawing,painting, potteryand line-dancing.

■ “Basic Funda-mentals of Draw-ing and Cartoon-ing” introduces thebasic fundamentals ofdrawing and creatingcaricatures and cartooncharacters. Studentswill discover drawingmaterials, elementsof design, basic forms,simple cartoon forms/characters, naturalisticdrawing and cartoon-ing, imaginary creaturedrawing, caricaturingpeople and animals,the “gag” cartoon,the basics of super-heroes and villains,and sequential art.

Instructor BillLunsford studiedcartooning in New YorkCity and worked along-side well-known talentssuch as John Buscemaand Don Heck, bothof whom worked withMarvel Comics on suchtitles as “The Avengers,”“Daredevil,” “Iron Man,”“Silver Surfer” and“Conan the Barbarian.”After studying in NYC,Lunsford returned toNorth Carolina wherehe spent more than 25years in advertisingas a storyboard art-ist and illustrator.

The course (#68410)is from 6-8 p.m. Tues-days and Thursdays,Jan. 22-Feb. 28, in room109 of the Design Cen-ter on the Asheborocampus. The cost is $70.

■ Instructed byprofessional artist andlocal historian HenryBowers, “Painting theLandscape in Oilsand Acrylic” will helpbeginning and interme-diate students developdrawing and paintingskills in the studio.Classes will includehands-on exercises with

lectures in design, colortheory and marketing.

Bowers has beenpainting for his entireadult life, and has stud-ied with several nation-ally-recognized paint-ers, including EllenaBasa and John Seerey-Lester. His goal is tosave the ever-changinghistorical North Caroli-na landscape for futuregenerations throughhis paintings. Bowerswas recognized as the2013 North CarolinaHistorian of the Yearfor his efforts in his-torical preservation.

The class (#68302)meets from 6-8 p.m.Tuesdays and Thurs-days, Jan. 8-Feb. 7,in room 122 of theAdministration/Edu-cation Center on theAsheboro campus.The cost is $70.55.

■ “Pottery I: Basicsfor Beginners,” whichis designed to providethe student with a well-rounded understandingof the pottery-makingprocess from start tofinish, will meet from5:30-9 p.m. Tuesdaysand Thursdays, Jan.8-May 14. Upon com-pletion of the program(#67684), studentswill possess a skill setnecessary to work suc-cessfully in clay. Topicscovered include usingthe wheel, forming, fir-ing and applying glaze.

■ “AdvancedPot-

tery” is scheduled for9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdaysand Thursdays, Jan.8-May 14. This course(#67683) is designedfor individuals whohave completed Pot-tery for Beginners oralready have a basicunderstanding andexperience in pottery.The course providesstudents with theknowledge and skillsrequired to start theirown pottery busi-nesses or to work fora pottery business.Students will workon designing bowls,vases and lidded jars,and will become morefamiliar with usingthe kiln and finishingtechniques. Studentsalso will develop andexplore their own per-sonal design aesthetic.

■ “Pottery StudioLab” will be offeredfrom 5:30-9 p.m. Mon-days and Wednesdays,Jan. 7-May 15. Thiscourse (#67682) is de-signed for individualswho have completedPottery I and/or Ad-vanced Pottery, or arecurrently taking apottery class. It willprovide students withhands-on instructionthat will support andcontinue to build theirskills as potters.Demonstrations willbe given to discussnew techniques andto enhance skill build-

ing. A special focuswill be placed oncreative expressionand design methods,as well as Raku andgas-fired pottery.

The cost for each pot-tery class is $255.55,which includes insur-ance. Classes are atThe Pottery Centeron the Asheborocampus at 629 In-dustrial Park Ave.

■ If you are lookingfor a fun, low-impactexercise activity, “LineDancing” begins Tues-day, Jan. 8. Dancingfor an hour equals anaverage of 2,000 stepsand 75 calories burned.

In the class (#68456),which meets from 6-8p.m. on Tuesdays, Jan.8-Feb. 12, students willget moving to some oftoday’s biggest musichits and learn to movewith confidence andstay fit while havingfun. Students will learnseveral line dances,including “The Wobble”and the “Cupid Shuffle.”This course is for anyand all, beginners toadvanced dancers.

The class meetsin the gymnasiumin the J.W. “Willie”Plummer Vocational/Technical Center on

the Asheboro campus.The cost is $30.55.

For more informa-

tion or to register forany of these classes,call 336-633-0268.

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Sunday, December 30, 2018 4CLifestyles

DEAR ABBY: My daughter is aprofessional woman in her mid-20s. She works in a demandingfield with a lot of overtime. She

lives an houraway fromus and isfinanciallyindependent,but dependson us oftenfor favors.

She hasbeen dating aman for a yearand a halfwho doesn'teven callher his "girl-

friend." We have never met him. He

the weekend with his friends. (Weboth know what to call that.) Shehas never asked him to feed orbaby-sit her cat, help her movefurniture, pick up an item from astore or anything. She asks us.

We are in our 60s. We feelit's time for her to find a loving,considerate life partner, but she'scontent with her present "relation-ship." She has had relationshipsbefore with thoughtful, helpfulguys, so I'm not sure why she is ra-tionalizing this man's self-centeredbehavior.

He is now moving 600 milesaway, but plans to continue see-ing her. He hasn't asked her tojoin him, although she considereduprooting herself from her job and

real partner in life? — WON'T BEAROUND FOREVER

DEAR WON'T: Are you sure heisn't married or in a long-termrelationship with someone else?I don't blame you for being aconcerned parent, but this isa realization your daughter isgoing to have to arrive at in herown time. Badgering her is coun-terproductive.

Could it be your independentdaughter likes the "freedom"this relationship provides? If youare doing your daughter favorsthe "boyfriend" should be provid-ing, cut it out. It's possible thatthe move he's making will causehim to drift out of her life sothings can end naturally. Crossyour fingers.

DEAR ABBY: I am a morning

person, and my newly retiredhusband is the opposite. At nightin our bedroom, he reads on hisiPad for several hours while I tryto sleep. I am in bed by 11 whilemy husband usually stays up till1 or 2 a.m. If I wake up, he's onour couch in the bedroom with aglow of light from the iPad. But itbothers me that he is in the sameroom staying up to read.

We have been married 45years and usually went to bed atthe same time because of work,but now that he's retired, he sayshe likes reading, watching moviesor watching videos on YouTube. Ithink he should read in anotherroom (better for his eyes) andnot the room I am sleeping in. Hedoesn't want to sit in our livingroom.

Bottom line: It bothers me that

one person is doing an activitywhile the other sleeps or tries tosleep. What would be your ad-vice? — DISORDERED SLEEP INCOLORADO

DEAR DISORDERED SLEEP:Because you need a solidnight's sleep in order to func-tion properly the next day, yourhusband should move to a dif-ferent room if he wants to readso he won't disturb you. It'scalled demonstrating consider-ation for one's spouse.

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Spark creativity with Randolph Community College classes

ERHS Army JROTCcollects food for the needy

RAMSEUR — TheEastern RandolphHigh School ArmyJROTC brought food toRamseur to distributeto those who need help.

Retired Lt. ColonelMike Williams servesas instructor for theprogram and leads thegroup of cadets. Forthe past four years thecadets have collectedfood to feed families.Malt-O-Meals andKilby Farms contribute

food for the ROTC ser-vice project. Addition-ally, the “Cadets beat thebushes to get food dona-tions,” Williams said.

While some think thatJr. ROTC is a preparationfor the military, Williamssaid that only 10-15 per-cent of the cadets go intoa branch of the ArmedServices. The mission ofJROTC is to “impact themorals of young peopleand to motivate themto be good citizens.”

HELPERS — Picturedare Bret Tyson, KarrieMercado, JacobPresley, Tanner Hill,Talena Herreca, NathanCanter, Trevor Gray,Taylor Hill, RoseMelendez, Lew Sutshin,Principal Greg Batten,Kathy Vestal, HunterSmith, Danny Shaw,Charles Purvis, LoganGray and DamianGomez.