Whatever you think about Christmas, I think you would have to agree we need one this year. Everyone I know seems determined to do as much Christmas as it is possible to do.

Ten CHS band students auditioned and were selected for All-Region Band with three advancing to Area, according to Wildcat Band Director James Edwards. The competition involved over 400 students from schools ranging in size from Class 1A-4A.

The state champion Canadian Wildcats dominated the 2020 3A Division II All-District Team honors this year, in much the same way they dominated most of their opponents. They quietly and consistently got down to business, game after game, like a well-oiled, perfectly synchronized machine.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jaquita Adcock shared this story about her grandfather, Delbert H. Harper, who was born on Christmas Day 1909. The story came from Lisa Brewer Williams, a granddaughter of Delbert’s only sister, Ruth. This story is about them and the hardship they endured as mere children on this special Christmas Day in 1924. “Again, this is a very thought-provoking time of the year for me,” Williams wrote. “I lost my maternal grandmother on Dec. 26, 2002, at 2:30 am. Every year around this time, I reflect on this story that I was told by my grandmother, Ruth.”