The Canadian Wildcat and Lady Cat basketball programs recently completed another successful summer of basketball camps over the past couple of weeks. Canadian girls’ basketball Head Coach Aaron Marks held the Lady Cats’ camp May 24-26, while the boys’ basketball camp, led by Wildcat Basketball Head Coach Brandon Wall, was held on June 1-3.

“The Fight Goes On” scholarship committee announced last week that it had selected two recipients from the Class of 2021: Gary Anderson (left) and Giovanni (Geo) Ivan Esparza (right). Both Anderson and Esparza will receive $4,000 checks to go toward their future educational endeavors. Committee member Kyle Northcott announced their decision, saying that it is made possible because of the generous contributions to the scholarship fund from members of this community. The “Fight Goes On” Scholarship is awarded each year to a senior who has overcome adversity and displays the belief that all things are possible and that hard work does overcome great obstacles. It is given in memory of Linda Anderson, whose brave and lengthy battle against cancer before her death in 2015 inspired others around her to never give up and to keep fighting.

Maybe news about reading scores. Only four in 10 Texas third-graders read at grade level. So in 2019, legislators passed a bill requiring all kindergarten, first-, second-, and third-grade teachers and elementary principals to go back to school. This fall, more than 120,000 teachers will have completed a college-level course on the science of reading. Called the Texas Reading Academy, the course features online and in-person instruction on how to teach children to read.

Amarillo College is thrilled to announce that it has received a magnanimous gift of $15 million from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift, which was unsolicited and therefore unanticipated, is by far the largest in the storied history of Amarillo College.