United Way of Metro Atlanta on Thursday hosts its fourth annual Coffee & Community Issues breakfast. The topic: “Early Learning Impacts Us All: Georgia's Children Need You.” The breakfast will be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Georgia World Congress Center and will feature Stephanie Blank, chair of Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students (GEEARS), as keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Bobby Cagle, Commissioner of Bright from the Start — Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning; Elaine Draeger, president/CEO of Sheltering Arms Early Education and Family Centers; and Dr. Samuel King, superintendent of Rockdale County Public Schools. NANCY BADERTSCHER
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The man who has served as the interim provost of Kennesaw State University since July 2010 will fill the job permanently, President Dan Papp announced Monday. Ken Harmon, the former business school dean, begins immediately, Papp said.
Harmon and two other finalists met with students, staff and others last week as part of the final interviews.
Harmon is the second person to be offered the job. Timothy Chandler accepted the job in February, but withdrew a month later following community debate over an academic paper he co-authored in 1998. LAURA DIAMOND
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Three Atlanta-area attorneys flew to Haiti Monday to help provide clean, safe drinking water to remote communities.
For the past eight years, Edward Buckley, of Decatur, and his supporters have raised money to drill and install lifesaving water wells throughout Jamaica and Haiti with the help of Food For The Poor, an international relief organization. The group has funded 100-plus wells. Amanda Farahany of Atlanta and Sheryl McCalla of Avondale Estates are traveling with Buckley. Follow their journey at http://www.waterlifehope.blogspot.com. MISTY WILLIAMS
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