Sherry Warlick of Hiram traveled to Lackawanna, N.J., recently after winning the Cake Boss Cakes Sweet Ticket promotion to meet cake boss Buddy Valastro.

Barbara S. Calhoun of Kennesaw State University's College of Continuing and Professional Education was honored recently by the Association for Continuing Higher Education in Las Vegas.

Josie Barton, a junior at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, has been accepted into the summer session of the competitive Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy. She will study in Vermont for a month in a Spanish language immersion program.

Sarah Bock recently was recognized by Forsyth County for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.

Vernon Keenan, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has been selected as the recipient of the Fifth Annual LexisNexis "One Step Closer" award.

Three faculty members of Georgia State University's College of Education's Department of Counseling and Psychological Services, Cirleen DeBlaere, Franco Dispenza and Dennis Gilbride, have been awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration to prepare rehabilitation counselors to work with people with mental illness.