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Body The Canadian Wildcats (2-0) will meet the Bushland Falcons (0-2) in Friday evening’s CHS Homecoming matchup, and at halftime, the CHS Homecoming Court will be presented and the Homecoming Queen announced.

Body Students of CHS/CMS Art Instructor Karol Michelsen will be displaying their work from the 2020-21 school year at Canadian’s River Valley Pioneer Museum this month. The exhibit will open Wednesday, Sept. 8 and will be on display through Friday, Sept. 24.

Body The first monarch butterflies arrived this week. The orange beauties will keep passing through until late October on their way to Mexico for the winter. Some hummingbirds have already left, heading south of the border.

Body Last Saturday, Abi Black (CHS Class of 2021) played trumpet for the Purdue All-American Band in the Boilermakers’ football season opener against Oregon State.

Body During the summer, we started the marching for this year’s show, “Gargoyles.” Throughout the two-week period, we went over multiple topics of music and marching, ranging from walking in beat with music played over a speaker to playing while marching in step.

Body The Canadian Community Center was excited to welcome the newest member of the Canadian community this week, Cody Johnson. Cody hails from Livingston, Scotland, and is a foreign exchange student at Canadian High School, being hosted by David and Dusty Witcher.

Body CHS Class of 2018 graduate Caroline Cook was recently awarded a $4,000 Tracey Waterfield Neilson Memorial Endowed Scholarship through Oklahoma State University’s College of Education and Human Sciences.

Body AUSTIN—The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) and the Texas Cultural Trust are accepting applications for the 2022 class of Young Masters, a joint initiative that provides exemplary Texas-based arts students in grades 8-11 with the financial help they need to pursue advanced...

Body CHS Sophomore Xander Gasparlin has already made a little Wildcat history this year by being the first Willie the Wildcat to be named All-American Mascot at the National Cheerleaders Association cheer camp in Abilene’s Hardin Simmons University this summer.

Body On Aug. 1, Buffalo Wallow Young Marines of Canadian graduated eight recruits who have now earned the right to be called Young Marines. The graduation was led by Unit Cmdr. Max Monty and Unit Executive Officer Justin Dial with staff.