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Drywall Repair meets October 6 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This class features step-by-step, hands-on instruction for repairing holes, cracks and nail heads popping in drywall. Cost is $21.Retirement Savings Time Bomb meets Tuesday, October 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. Mark Schlipman will instruct this $15 class that provides a five-step cheap tiffany money clips plan for protecting retirement plans. Participants will gain understanding of retirement plan distributions, minimizing taxes on IRAs and other retirement plans.Art Glass JewelryThe Works! meets Wednesday, October 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Instructor Linda Lucke will teach participants to design and make kiln-formed art glass jewelry. Participants will make a unique pendant, earrings and bracelet. Cost is $20 plus a $30 supply fee payable first day of class.Cake Decorating II meets on Tuesdays, starting October 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. This class features hands-on exercises in creating flowers, distinctive borders, color flow and basket weaving using several types of icing. The cost is $52 with a $3.50 charge for an instructional book at the first class.Cooperstown Stars is a new course that meets at the Mt. Sterling Learning (Buckhorn Road) on Monday, starting October 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This is an intermediate level class using little stars within larger stars to make a queen, twin or wall size quilt. Cost is $50.American cheap tiffany keys Show/Amana Colonies is a new trip to Iowas Fern Hill. Fern Hill sells a wide variety of antiques as well as the finest in home dcor, gifting and fabric. The trip begins on Wednesday, October 6, at 7 a.m. and ends on Friday, October 8, at 7:15 p.m. The $360 single/ $260 double occupancy fee includes charter bus transportation, two nights at the Hilton Garden Inn at Jordan Creek Center, and entry to the quilt show.

These Community Education/non-credit offerings are not funded with tax dollars and are self-supporting. For more information about JWCC personal interest courses visit www.jwcc.edu/communityEd/ .Joseph Muchina was a teenager living in a Kenyan slum in the early 1970s when a radical concept took shape: teach the poor skills to make them self-reliant rather than keep them eternally reliant on charity. Muchina was among the first wave of participants in a new program sponsored by a Kenyan church group. Later, he was among the first to join the international fair trade network. Some cheap tiffany 1837 years later, he is co-founder and co-owner of an international jewelry business that employs people living in Nairobi's teeming slums.Beading, painting and packing to meet a deadline to ship a large order of jewelry to a distributor in Denmark.A handful of artisans work in almost near silence to beat the clock. Workshop owner Joseph Muchina says he and his workers have the same goal:"...creating beautiful things, and making sure also we maintain our culture, our African culture of the kind of jewelry we used to have, because it is dying, slowly and slowly," said Muchina.

Such is life at Trinity Jewelry Crafts, a small workshop in Nairobi's low-income area of Kariobangi. But Trinity Jewelry Crafts is more than just a producer of bracelets, necklaces, earrings and other ornaments sold primarily overseas, mainly to customers in Canada and the United States. It is a social experiment gone right.In 1971, Joseph Muchina was one of a small group of slum-dwelling young people trained by the National Council of Churches of Kenya in a project with a radical new philosophy."The intention was, after you get training, then you have to be on your own: go and start your own business, with either your own family or join together as a partnership a number of you, and then start doing something for your own future," said Muchina.He recalls how this way out of poverty contrasted with the more widespread notion of "charity.""We were used to being given, given, given, given so many things," he added. "Yes, the majority of us could maybe not take it well coming cheap tiffany key rings that kind of life of being given so many things to, you know, going and standing on your own, doing things on your own, because it is really tough."Muchina learned how to design and make jewelry, skills that he taught for 14 years within the National Council of Churches and a subsequent organization.In 1984, he and two others created Trinity Jewelry Crafts in the low-income area of Dandora, where they worked for about a decade before moving to Kariobangi.Muchina achieved another feat: having one of the first Kenyan companies, and one of three in Africa, to join the World Fair Trade Organization in 1991.