T oasts: T o the Pineywoods F air , A lpha Phi Omega and Dr agon C olin F r izzell Daily Sentinel
Toasts ... ... to the organizers, volunteers and supporters of the Pineywoods Fair for providing this community with another entertaining and successful event for our county residents, especially the youth who benefit from showing their agriculture projects every year at the fair. Hats off to the individuals and business owners who turn out every year at the premium sale and demonstrate their generosity in providing financial support to area youth. More than $128,000 was awarded Saturday night at the sale to youth who will use the money typically toward education or another ag project. This year’s fair was one of the more smoothly operating fairs in years, and organizers, county and Expo officials and local law enforcement expressed their appreciation to the many people who voluntarily and unselfishly offered time, talent, expertise and/or equipment to make it successful — people who do so each year without wanting or expecting recognition. Perhaps Commissioner Elton Milstead characterized it best in saying, “A lot of folks make this happen that no one ever knows about.” ... to the members of Alpha Phi Omega, a coeducational service organization at Stephen F. Austin State University, who volunteered to help the new owners of the Woden Grocery reopen the doors to the business that stood vacant on FM 226 for the past three years.
a 2011 HP Scholastic Junior All-American. Frizzell, who won two straight District 14-4A titles, is one of only 24 high school students in the country — 12 boys and 12 girls — selected to the prestigious scholastic list. Frizzell finished 10th in the Elbit Systems of America Junior Championship. As a student, he has a 104.40 cumulative GPA and is ranked No. 3 out of 421 students in the Class of 2013 at NHS.
T hr ee public hear ings set for school boar d BY MEAGAN O’TOOLE-PITTS mpitts@dailysentinel.com The Nacogdoches ISD will conduct three public hearings before Thursday’s meeting. At 5:30 p.m., board members will listen to suggestions for improvement plans for the district’s three campuses which were rated academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency (TEA): Brooks Quinn Jones, Carpenter and Thomas J. Rusk elementary schools. “TEA says if you have an academically unacceptable campus, you have to have a hearing so if someone wanted to come up and offer any suggestions on how to improve those campuses,” said Mike Green, NISD associate superintendent of business and operations. Improvement plans for the campuses will be presented and voted on during the regular meeting. The plans include changes to curriculum, decision-making and the use of technology.
The group volunteered its time as a community service project.
At 5:45 p.m., residents will have the opportunity to comment on the district’s Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) Report for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
... to Colin Frizzell, Nacogdoches High School junior and golf standout, who has been named
NISD, which had a general fund balance of $13.1 million at the end of the 2009-10 fiscal