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Triangle Family Services recently posted at share.triangle.com the following announcement about two classes on credit. You can check out more community events or post your own at the site. Click on "News" and then "Community." For information about community listings, call 829-4629 or send e-mail to yourtriangle@newsobserver.com

CLASSES OFFER INFORMATION ABOUT CREDIT

The Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Triangle Family Services, a nonprofit organization helping families and children in the region, is offering two credit classes in August for Triangle residents. The classes will give participants information about credit reporting, the structure and content of credit reports, the consequences of negative credit, how credit scoring works and how to repair and rebuild bad credit or establish credit.

The first class will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at the TFS Durham office, 201 W. Main St., Durham, in the second-floor conference room.

The second class will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26 at the TFS Raleigh office, 401 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. To register for either class, call 821-1770.

UTILITY OFFERS TECH GRANTS FOR TEACHERS

The deadline for teachers to apply for Wake Electric's Classroom Technology Awards grant program is Sept. 19. The nonprofit electric utility awards grants to teachers serving grades K-12 and area community colleges for the 2008-09 school year. Grants are be awarded in any discipline for specific technology such as computers, digital cameras, scanners and software. The technology must benefit students in the classroom.

Public schoolteachers in Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Vance and Wake counties are eligible. For more information or to apply go to www.wemc.com or call Angela Perez at 863-6376 or (800) 474-6300.