Education Encore is back: GCSC to reinstate popular enrichment program
Education Encore is coming back to the Gulf/Franklin Campus this fall.
Gulf Coast State College is excited to offer personal enrichment courses in a wide-range of topics.
Education Encore is offered by Continuing Education twice a year during the fall and spring semesters and provides enrichment classes on a variety of topics for active senior adults. Whether you want to learn a new skill, aim to improve your quality of life or explore a new hobby, Education Encore is the place.
“We are so excited to bring Education Encore back to the Gulf/Franklin campus,” said Kristal Smallwood, director of Gulf/Franklin Campus. “There will be an exciting variety of classes offered that you don’t want to miss this fall!”
For the gardener, you can learn how to grow plants, edible and otherwise, in containers. If you want to brush up on your history, Encore will offer two classes from which to choose. Other types of classes include cake decorating, bird watching, home repairs, ukulele and wellness through Tai Chi.
The Gulf/Franklin classes are held for six consecutive Wednesdays, September 13 – October 18. Registration opens Friday, August 4, 2023. The cost for three classes is $95. For more information, visit www.gulfcoast.edu/GFEncore or call 850.227.9670.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.