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As the 2020-21 school year winds down, Canadian Middle School honored its top 10 students in each grade last Wednesday at the Texas Crown Performance Hall, and presented awards to outstanding students in each subject.

The State Environmental and Natural Resources Career Development Event was held at Tarleton State University on April 29. Canadian’s FFA team placed sixth out of 25 qualifying teams. The team members were Kyler Altmiller, Peyton Dockray, Victoria Shott, and Saira Moreno. The purpose of the environmental and natural resource career development event is to stimulate student interest, to promote environmental and natural resource instruction in the agriculture food and natural resource curriculum, and to provide recognition for those who have demonstrated skills and competencies as a result of environmental and natural resource instruction.

The Hemphill County Library is proud to announce that two more of their young patrons have read 1,000 books before kindergarten! Emerson Hunter (at left), daughter of Ryan and Rosebelle Hunter, and Konner Yarnold (at right), daughter of Kade and Meredith Yarnold, have both completed the ‘1,000 Books Before Kindergarten’ program. ‘1,000 Books Before Kindergarten’ is an early literacy program hosted by the library. The program is designed to promote reading in young children. With each reading level a child completes, they are able to move their star up the leaderboard and receive a prize from the treasure box.“Sharing books and stories is important to your child’s brain development,” said April Dillon, Hemphill County library director. “Studies show that children who are read to at an early age have a bigger vocabulary when they enter school, and are more successful in school.” Congratulations to both of these young readers!

The Eyes of Texas is officially in the Twilight Zone. The University of Texas’ controversial school song is in trouble again. Two weeks ago, UT announced that the Longhorn Band is required to play the alma mater. “Oh, no we won’t,” said band members. The solution is a new band to be formed in 2022 that will not be required to play the school song.

Canadian High School’s Wildcat Robotics 1 team will compete this Saturday in the TX FTC (First Tech Challenge) West and Panhandle Regional Championships, with the hope of advancing to the state level of competition.

Canadian High School’s Wildlife Management Team of Aubrie Poe, Karson Thompson, Callie Vinson, and Cescilly Beach placed 19th at state competition out of 60 teams. The event was held at the Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest in Nacogdoches on Tuesday, April 20. “Congratulations to these Canadian FFA members,” said their coach, Tonny Hamby.

Colt Pittman had great success at the Texas Braunvieh Association State Show, April 15-18 in Wichita Falls. Colt’s Fluffy and JoJo won Champion Purebred Pair and Reserve Champion Full-Blood Heifer. Fluffy is J Bar Braunvieh of Hedley’s heifer that Colt shows and has raised her calf, JoJo. The Pittman siblings each had a big weekend with Coy finishing High-Point in the Intermediate Division and Grand Champion in the Intermediate Salesmanship Contest, and Cambree had the Reserve Grand Champion Junior Picture and News Article and also finished Reserve Grand Champion High-Point Junior Division.

Canadian High School’s One-Act Play production of Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play, took its final curtain call at the Conference 3A Region 1 competition held at Clyde High School last Thursday, April 15.