Spectators at this week’s first Lady Wildcat softball scrimmage of 2020 were wrapped in blankets, scarves, gloves and warm hats, and the geese that flew overhead were pointed resolutely south. But Canadian’s softball team warmed up their bats and their throwing arms and toughed it out against Sunray, buoyed a beautiful new baseball field with just-finished artificial turf, and the same sense of mission that convinced Canadian ISD school officials to make softball an official UIL sport here. In photo at top, Ashleigh Rowden got the team’s first hit of the season, and scored the first run when teammate Yazmin Jara (at left) knocked one into left field to send Rowden home. Jara stole two bases, but failed to finish the circuit and was stranded at third when the Lady Cats struck out. Canadian will scrimmage Perryton at 1 pm this Saturday, Feb. 8, here at home, and have two more scrimmages tentatively planned for Monday or Tuesday, and Saturday, Feb. 15, but not locked in on the schedule. Their first official game of the season will start at 4 pm, Monday, Feb. 17, in Sunray.

At last week’s Rotary Club meeting, members of the Canadian High School Robotics Team (aka the “806 Robocats”) shared some of their experiences from their participation in CHS Robotics.

State officers from eight Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO) gathered in Austin on Jan. 29-31. Among them was FC- CLA State Parliamentarian Lily Smith, who is also president of the local FCCLA chapter at CISD.

Bobby and Carol Cooper were honored as Outstanding Philanthropists by the Texas Plains Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals at an awards luncheon held on Nov. 14, 2019, to celebrate National Philanthropy Day, or NPD.