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'No Time to Waste,' a sculpture by Silk Hope sculptor Edwin White, was dedicated April 13 at Central Carolina Community College's Chatham County Campus. The sculpture honors North Carolina artist Ruffin Mendenhall Hobbs, who passed away in 2008. His colleagues and friends described Hobbs, who had resided in Alamance County, as a Renaissance man, someone who could talk to people about anything from gristmills and stone cutting to sculpture. The sculpture was funded through the CCCC Foundation's Chatham County Fund and the Chatham Artists Guild. Among those gathered for the dedication were (from left) Joni Pavlik, CCCC Dean of Business and Media Technologies and Public Services; sculptor Edwin White; and members of the sculpture committee that commissioned the work, Diane Pettus, Rita Spina and Louise Hobbs, sister of Ruffin Hobbs. For information about CCCC's Associate in Fine Arts program, contact Phil Ashe, 919-718-7376, pashe@cccc.edu; or Ty Stumpf, 919-718-7376; tstumpf@cccc.edu.