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Molly Northcott inducted into honor society of Phi Kappa Phi Canadian High School alum Molly Northcott was recently initiated into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Northcott was initiated at Texas Tech University, and she is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff, and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.
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CHS Bruce Bryant is among three honored as Teachers on the Rise

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LUBBOCK—The United Family and Mrs Baird’s Bread® announced the February winners of the 9th Annual “Teachers on the Rise” program recently. Three Amarillo-area teachers were honored: Lorena Baca of Humphrey’s Highland Elementary (Amarillo ISD), Brittany Monds of Clarendon Junior High (Clarendon ISD), and Bruce Bryant of Canadian High School (Canadian ISD).
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THE WAR IN UKRAINE is providing some of the most disturbing TV images ever broadcast. We watch in shock and horror as the Russian forces continue their brutal, unprovoked destruction of towns, villages, apartment houses, and hospitals. The random destruction of infrastructure and killing of civilians trying to escape has evoked outrage from western democracies and the world at large. The most barbaric strategy the Russians employ is the siege. Cutting off a community’s power, heat, food, water, and medicine is an ancient and inhumane way to win.
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Three CHS art students qualify for state VASE competition

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The annual Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE) took place virtually again this year for students all over the state of Texas, with judging taking place in Amarillo on Saturday, Feb. 26. Fifteen CHS students submitted their art for consideration. In all, 11 students received the highest mark for points, and qualified for medals. Of those, three students qualified for the state VASE competition.
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CES stages ‘Awesome Animals’

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It was Canadian Elementary School students' chance in the musical spotlight Wednesday morning. Led by music teacher Amy Carter, members of CES first-grade class performed Awesome Animals to an appreciative audience of family, fans, and friends in the CES cafetorium. Clad in green shirts, and with their teacher wielding the baton, the first-graders enthusiastically celebrated all creatures great and small with story and song. The narrators for the event (shown in photo above, taken by photographer Natalie Weeks) carried the show from center stage.
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CHS one-act play cast to debut ‘The Sweet Science of Bruising’ next March 6 at the Crown

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Canadian High School’s one-act play, The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson, will debut here at the Texas Crown Performance Hall in its first public performance at 6 pm on Sunday, March 6. The performance, for which admission is free, will be their only public one before the March 9 district one-act play competition at Highland Park in Amarillo.
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CHS student Macie Hansen shows Reserve Grand Champ at San Antonio

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On Feb. 20, CHS freshman Macie Hansen showed her barrow “Snoop Dogg” at the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo and was awarded Champion Hamp. Four days later, she showed her barrow in the Grand Drive, and he was named Reserve Grand Champion of the show, out of close to 3,000 entries. The San Antonio barrow show is one of the largest and toughest barrow shows in the state of Texas. Hansen was awarded a $10,000 scholarship, and her barrow brought $45,000 in the auction on Friday. Hansen’s barrow was raised by Mike Clay with Clay Farms in White Deer, and was placed by Shane and Tatum Swenhaugen with Rival Genetics of Canadian. Pictured here (back row) are Shane Swenhaugen, Brian Arnold, Victoria Cook, Maverick Squires, and Ron Cook, and (front row) Tatum Swenhaugen, and Macie and Cinch Hansen.
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The University of Wyoming has released its list of students on the 2021 fall semester academic Dean’s Honor Rolls. Among them is Emma Waters, a graduate of Canadian High School. She is the daughter of Colby and Erin Waters of Canadian. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades.
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A kindergartener’s moment of silence

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CES kindergarten teacher Mandee Wall captured this moment with Waylon Blair during a class study of Texas history. As they concluded the unit on Friday, the students dressed like cowboys and cowgirls. During their usual moment of silence at the Friday morning meeting in the cafeteria, she snapped this touching photograph of Blair, and thought it was too sweet not to share. We did, too. PHOTO BY MANDEE WALL