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This is homecoming week at Canadian ISD, and the school calendar has been filled with spirited events ranging from Adam Sandler Day to Anything but a Backpack Day.

The Canadian High School, Class of 1982 celebrated its 40-year reunion during the weekend of Sept. 9. Activities began at 7 pm on Friday, Sept. 9, at the Stumblin’ Goat, where classmates, spouses, and family members had dinner and drinks (and our waitress was the bomb!).

A car will be completely disassembled, music will be made, butter will be churned, locks will be picked, and much more during Science Museum Oklahoma’s Tinkerfest from 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Canadian Middle School students clearly enjoyed Homecoming Week events like this one: Adam Sandler Day.

WT Spirit Squad members announced for 2022-23 CANYON—A team of spirited students is ready to get loud for a new school year at West Texas A&M University.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reminds families that enrollment in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund, the state’s prepaid college tuition plan, began Sept. 1 and runs through Feb. 28, 2023.

Canadian ISD and Hemphill County will host a presentation, “Kids, Teens, and Technology,” by national internet safety expert Katie Greer, next Monday evening, Sept. 12, in the CMS Auditorium (Texas Crown). The presentation will begin at 6:30 pm.

American Community Survey, and the U-Haul National Migration Trend Report. According to the report… In 2019, between 537,000 and 582,000 people moved to Texas from other states.

Two Canadian High School students have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Programs. CHS seniors Ben Bryant and Clara Pulliam have been awarded the National Rural/ Small-Town Award.

By Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune Over the last two years, Texas’ public education system has been through the wringer, from shifting to online classes and debates about making masks mandatory to the ongoing tensions over how race and sex should be taught in schools to, most recently, the renewed...