Last Friday, CES second-graders created portraits of Hemphill County rancher and retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. David Parnell, with help from Citadelle Art Foundation Executive Director Wendie Cook and her staff. The Veterans Day Art Project has become a treasured annual tradition, offering students the experience of working with watercolors, and learning how to mix colors and understand scale and proportion in portraiture. In addition, the students gain an appreciation of this nation’s history, and of the service and sacrifice of its veterans.

Canadian ended the regular season by sending its seniors out in a big way thanks to a 77-0 rout of Dimmitt at Wildcat Stadium on Friday. The Wildcats end the regular season on a seven-game win streak, entering the postseason at 8-2 overall and the outright champions of District 3-3A Division II.

On Wednesday, Nov. 2, these CHS Ag and FFA students participated in the District Leadership Development Event (LDE) in Borger. LDE reinforces content taught in Ag science classrooms. CHS students clinched first place in two events. The team of Teagan Ash, Keeton Githens and Karson Thompson placed first in Radio, while Tessa Ash, Macie Hansen and Tucker Landry placed first in Ag Issues. Kimora Morales, Jacy Long and Sophia Mills placed second in Skills. Canadian’s students also had multiple third and fourth places. Out of the 26 students who participated in the competition, reported CHS Ag Science teacher Brandon Meier, 10 will advance to the area competition, which will be held Nov. 17-18 at WTAMU in Canyon. In addition to the LDE competition, Meier said, a group of junior and senior students received their TCFA Feedlot and Machinery Certification. Each student had to operate a front-end loader and skid steer at Amarillo’s Warren Cat, and also learned the operations of a feedlot and lock-out tag safety at the Wheeler feedmill. The group also traveled to WTAMU in Canyon, and took a cutting torch, arc welding, and heating and bending test before undergoing a job interview scenario with feedlot industry officials.

Concrete finishers continued street repairs on Nelson Street last week as part of the TxDOT Highway 60/83 Utility Replacement Project. In these photos, taken by City Manager Joe Jarosek, concrete samples are collected in cylinders for laboratory analysis to ensure that engineering specifications are met and workers finish out concrete on Nelson Avenue in front of the Best Western Oasis Inn.