Author: Steve Diffey

Holmes Community College and Aladdin Food Services have been busy making the facilities on the Goodman Campus safe for patrons to enjoy their dining experience.

A service project for Duck Hill playground is being spearheaded by the Holmes Community College Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) students on the Grenada Campus. The incoming freshmen select a service project during their first summer as an annual tradition. The Holmes PTA students are responsible for finding the area of need within the surrounding communities then voting as a class to confirm the project. The class is also responsible for the complete fund raising of the project and to see the project through to completion. 

Over the last few weeks, Holmes County residents and other visitors to Lexington and Holmes County have noticed the “There’s No Place Like Holmes” mural on the southeast corner leading up to the courthouse square has been restored and refreshed thanks to Holmes Community College Fine Arts Chair and Art Instructor Jay Cheatham.

All dormitories on the campus of Holmes Community College in Goodman will officially open for students to begin staying overnight at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 16.

The Holmes Community College Adult Education program will hold orientation sessions throughout the district July 7-Aug. 21. Orientation will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Holmes Community College kicked off the inaugural class for the hybrid Practical Nursing program in the spring of 2019 and celebrated that class’ graduation on June 25. The hybrid program graduates, who shared a pinning ceremony with the face-to-face track class, included: Erin Hopkins of Richland, Sherita Latiker of Carthage, Lisa Nipper of Chatham, Jennifer Potts of Water Valley, Brandy Raines of Pontotoc and Cherry Singh of Ridgeland.

Sherita Latiker got to experience a rare life event; she graduated side-by-side with her daughter, LaKenya, from Holmes Community College’s Practical Nursing program. Both women, who reside in Carthage, were honored during a pinning ceremony held at the Holmes Attala Center in Kosciusko on June 25.

Holmes Community College’s Fall 2020 full-term day and evening on-campus classes will begin on Aug. 17 as scheduled. The College has made modifications to the schedule so that students can be finished with their classes by Wednesday, Nov. 25 due to the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19.

If you visited the Goodman Campus at night over the past eight years either as a student or guest to campus, you’ve probably run into Eddie Pearce at the security building on Montague Street.

The Grenada Campus of Holmes Community College held a Pinning Ceremony for the graduating Practical Nursing Class of 2020 on June 25 outside of the Industrial Training Complex on the Grenada Campus.