Canadian barrel racer Tamara Reinhardt and her homebred mare, Yessir Imareddie, smoked the competition at last weekend’s PRCA championship rodeo in Park City, Kansas. Reinhardt claimed first place in the barrels with a time of 13.64 seconds and a $979 payout.

In the first of a series of musicals to be presented at the Texas Crown Performance Hall, Baker Elementary School fifth-graders performed Alice’s Adventures with Idioms, to a receptive crowd of family and friends last Thursday morning. The performers are the students of Alexandra Phenix, BES music teacher. Alice’s Adventures offers an entertaining educational approach to figurative language, focusing on idioms and similes—with some special appearances by metaphors and alliteration. It begins with Alice, accompanied by her cat and dog, falling down the rabbit hole and arriving in the land of idioms. The lessons are all presented by Wonderland characters, like the White Rabbits, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter and March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the King and Queen of Hearts. Alice’s Adventures with Idioms was written by Mike Fishell and John Heath.

The Canadian Lady Cats remain unbeaten this week through District 1-3A play, thanks to a come-from-behind home win against Bushland 45-42 last Friday, before blowing out River Road by an eye-opening 99-6 score Tuesday night.

AUSTIN—The Texas Lyceum made history during its annual investiture ceremony on Friday, Jan. 14. For the first time since its establishment in 1980, the organization will swear in a woman of color to lead the statewide nonprofit organization as its new president: Dallas Citizens Council’s vice president of strategy and public affairs, Sarah Jackson.