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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.

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. The goal of the grants that have been designated for grades K–12 is to foster advancement of STEM activities in the classroom and to help develop Pantex’s future workforce.

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.

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.

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. The performers are the students of Alexandra Phenix, BES music teacher. Alice’s Adventures offers an entertaining educational approach to figurative language, focusing on idioms and similes—with some special appearances by metaphors and alliteration. It begins with Alice, accompanied by her cat and dog, falling down the rabbit hole and arriving in the land of idioms. The lessons are all presented by Wonderland characters, like the White Rabbits, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter and March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the King and Queen of Hearts. Alice’s Adventures with Idioms was written by Mike Fishell and John Heath.

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.

“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. Junior: Audrey Abraham, Karla Blanco, Ben Bryant, Lyndlee Coffee, Mason Drager, Dessa Hext, Emily Kauk, Sam Kendall, Trace Mitchell, Leah Moreno, Estefania Perez, Mallory Poe, Clara Pulliam, Jaxtyn Valenzuela, Ella Walser, Alli Wayne.

Midwestern State University announces fall 2021 graduates CHS alumna Bailey Brooke Bryant graduated cum laude from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, in fall 2021. Bryant received a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies.

Students of both Baker Elementary and Canadian Middle School topped the competition in the District UIL Academic Contest held on Dec. 3, 2021, at Bushland ISD.

Leo Avila, a senior member of the Canadian High School Band, will perform with the Texas All-State Band in San Antonio, on Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Henry B. González Convention Center as part of the 2022 Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention.