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Body Following three days of rehearsals, CHS senior and clarinetist Leo Avila performed last Saturday, Feb. 12, with the 2022 Texas All-State Symphonic Band in San Antonio. The concert was held during the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) annual clinic and convention.

Body Kansas State University announces Fall 2021 semester honors Nearly 4,480 Kansas State University students have earned semester honors for their academic performance in the fall 2021 semester. Among those students was Canadian High School graduate Darby Cook.

Body CANYON—A William Shakespeare comedy will get twists—both classical and of-the-moment—in a new production at West Texas A&M University. WT Theatre will stage the Bard’s comedy As You Like It on Wednesday, Feb.

Body In 2022, NPEC will award six scholarships totaling $9,000. These scholarships will be available for attendance to state and private universities, junior colleges, or vocational schools. The scholarships will be administered by the Amarillo Area Foundation.

Body AMARILLO—In recognition of National Engineers Week during the last week in February, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), manager and operator of Pantex, is sponsoring $1,000 grants for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms.

Body Hemphill County 4-H and FFA students exhibited 101 animals in last weekend’s Junior Livestock Show and Sale. Sales of $70,650 were recorded for 2022, with addons and Booster Club contributions still being tallied.

Body EDITOR’S NOTE: The following feature is reprinted with permission from ROSTRUM, the official magazine of the National Speech & Debate Association. BECOMING A COACH I was a paralegal in Amarillo and needed to move home to the ranch.

Body In the first of a series of musicals to be presented at the Texas Crown Performance Hall, Baker Elementary School fifth-graders performed Alice’s Adventures with Idioms, to a receptive crowd of family and friends last Thursday morning.

Body Small towns have their own unwritten rules known only to the natives. New people who move in can wear out their welcome by crossing the invisible lines of the small-town social code.

Body “All A” Honor Roll Senior: Karen Aragon, Leo Avila, Mattie Boyd, Kennedi Cook, Maude Culwell, Pamela Escarcega, Connor Gatlin, Arthur Klein Brown, Jake Krehbiel, Briley Merket, Nathan Mondragon, Tinley Pennington, Kailey Witt.