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Sharing the good news about Longview Independent School District
Nikola in Texas
Foreign exchange student talks about his time at LHS Thefollowing is an interview that Nikola Jeremic did with the American Councils. Jeremic was a foreign exchange student at LHS during the 2018-2019 school year.
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hat made you want to apply for FLEX? Ever since I was a child, different cultures, foreign languages, and the mysteries of the unknown interested me very much. When I got informed about FLEX, I realized that the program offers just that. The idea of having the opportunity to engage with people who had never heard of Serbia, let alone met someone who lives there made me very excited, but equally nervous. Being a representative of a country that not a lot of people know about meant that my representation of it would be a strong influence on the way people I’ve met perceived Serbia. The thought of that intimidated me, but I’ve managed to shake that feeling
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National Night Out brings the community together Another successful National Night Out in Longview! A great block party behind Thrive 360, just across from Ware Elementary. National Night Out is a nation wide program that helps police and fire departments build better relationships with the people in their neighbor hoods. This idea was echoed by Misty Amaya from Raising Highly Capable Kids, one of the organizers of the block party near
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Ware. But she says that it goes beyond the connection between first responders and the community. “It’s also a great place for (the community) to meet their neighbors and get to know one another. It helps build a stronger community, so it helps people feel safer and more connected,” Amaya said. “That’s what we want for all of Longview.” Night|Continued to page 17
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OPINION
Answers to saving education are simple By Charles Sosnik The Learning Counsel
Recently, I wrote a piece for the Grit Daily website entitled “Technology is Overwhelming Education and That’s Why We Need More of It.” The premise for the column was that using more, sophisticated technology could take the pressure off teachers and give them more time to teach. In the column, I listed some ideas that could help guide schools and bring them more in line with the rest of the world. Traditional public education is experiencing growing pains as it transitions to more of a student-directed, on demand experience industry. The transition is inevitable. Parents are discovering education options like amazing video game-grade courseware, private, magnet and charter schools and many online and strip-mall alternatives that are just so much sexier than traditional public education. Mostly, parents want some measure of control over how their kids will be educated.
For their part, kids can be adapted by want a say-so into districts to begin to what and how they change the culture learn. They want learnand bring students ing to be fun, challengback. ing and relevant. SCHOOL IS NOT So far, over a quarA STEPPING STONE ter of all school-aged I hear it all the kids (and their partime, “The purpose of ents) have left the SOSNIK school is to prepare traditional model of students for what public education, crossing comes next,” whether that’s over to what many perceive college, a career or success in as the dark side. However, later life. Children spend 13 or unless we as educators want more years in public schooling. to hear, “Will the last one to That’s about one fifth of their leave turn out the lights,” entire lives. The idea that we should really take a look such a substantial portion of at what students need in someone’s life should be meantoday’s world. Some of the ingless except to prepare him things we do in public school or her for what comes next is that are turning parents off ludicrous. and encouraging them to look We need to see school as an for alternatives are not even amazing experience that on its intentional on our part. It is face has value. Why not make simply part of the culture of this time rewarding, fulfilling an outdated industry that and fun? Maybe you enjoyed needs to adapt to changing school. I hated it and couldn’t times. Instead of saying, wait to get out. Sadly, school “That’s the way we’ve always isn’t that different today, but done it,” let’s examine our it could be. policy and be open to new GIVE KIDS THE REINS ways of thinking. School has traditionally Here are some ideas that
been about telling a kid what he will learn. Teachers were the experts, and if a teacher didn’t know it, neither should you. Today, the world’s knowledge is available at your fingertips. Why not make school a place of exploration? Let the student’s interests determine what he learns. Let teachers be the helpers, showing students how to find what they need, showing them the relevance and helping connect what they find to their own lives.
ENOUGH TECH EQUALS LESS TECH FATIGUE
The problem in schools isn’t too much technology, it’s that there isn’t nearly enough. Schools are overwhelmed with technology because they are trying to use disparate parts of technology, badly, to manually do the things that technology should be doing overall. Look at Amazon. Netflix. Uber. Any kid can navigate those systems and get exactly what he wants. Education should be just that easy.
— Charles Sosnik is the editor in chief at The Learning Counsel
Being a good teacher is hard, so is democracy By Viet Thanh Nguyen The New York Times
My employer, the University of Southern California, requires me to teach a general education course every year. Although I sometimes resent the obligation, most of the time I am grateful for it. I have come to think of my general education classroom as both a symptom of our flawed democracy and an attempt to exercise that democracy — an effort that requires work that we oftentimes do not want to put in. “General education” is the name U.S.C. gives to the requirements that every student has to take, and which elsewhere might be called the “core curriculum.” General education, or the core, is at the heart of any university’s mission. Students may major in dozens of different things, but they are supposed to emerge from a university education with a shared core, a general body of intellectual, ethical and cultural knowledge that will guide
them even if they change veterans returned from careers. war. A few are cadets To fulfill these general preparing for war. Only education requirements, a tiny minority come students can choose diffrom my corner of the ferent courses, including humanities, where my mine: the American war elaborate appointments in Vietnam. One hunare that I am a professor dred and fifty students of English, American enroll every time I teach Studies and Ethnicity, NGUYEN it. One of the most basic and Comparative Literchallenges of any other ature. general education course is to While these titles are as speak to others who are not like meaningless to most people us, whether we are professors or as the ribbons on a soldier’s students. For many professors, breast, what they mean is the trained to be specialists, having same: commitment. Soldiers to speak to a broad audience is a have ideals, and so do proreason to dread teaching generfessors. Unfortunately, our al education. My approach is to ideals are often contaminated figure out a story that I can tell by reality, from outrageousmy students, a narrative — or ly bloated Pentagon budgets at least a set of questions — that to outrageously expensive can unite us all. private universities. Even as My students are representhese students are conflicttative of the university, meaned with real anxieties about ing that they are mostly in the their futures and their personsciences, health, business, law, al problems, their existence and so on. Like the rest of our de- reminds me of my most basic mocracy, a small percentage are function at the university:
to teach. Bad teachers waste lives and time, their own and those of their students. Good teachers competently teach their subjects. Great teachers give something from deep inside of themselves. We have a president who was elected by less than a majority of the voters. There are many other leaders in our democracy as well, in charge of politics, economics and culture. How many of these leaders can honestly say they reach and serve three-fourths of the people who fall under their sway? How many of these leaders can also claim to be teachers, sometimes in the lessons they might offer, but most of all in the examples that they set? If our leaders should be teachers, our teachers should also be leaders, understanding that what we do in our universities is not simply to research or teach but to model what a democracy should be.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen is a novelist and contributing opinion writer.
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FFA competes, has great time It was a long weekend, but the Longview FFA had a great time on Saturday, Sep. 28, at the East Texas State Fair Lamb and Goat show. Angelica Lambarria, Montayvion Craig, Cooper Mayes and Yahir Gaona all competed with their projects. Each of them had great learning experiences! Thank you Todd Mayes for hauling all the projects.
Taking a look back in time Here’s a throw back to 1950’s. David Ford (Class of 1954) shared a photo of him sporting the new uniform and instruments.
October 11 10 a.m. Hudson Fall Festival Sponsorships Due 4 p.m. Varsity Lobo Tennis District Finals 4:30 p.m. Varsity LHS Volleyball (Carthage) 7:30 p.m. Lobo Football vs Mesquite Horn (Hanby Stadium) October 12 7:30 a.m. Viewette Fall Mini Clinic (Lobo Coliseum) 8 a.m. JV, Varsity Cross Country (Tyler) October 14 Columbus Day 8 a.m. Foster Band Cookie Dough Fundraiser Ends 12 p.m. LISD Foundation Pecan Sale Forms Due 4 p.m. Varsity Lobo Tennis BiDistrict Playoffs (Oct. 14-15) 6 p.m. Board of Trustees Regular Meeting
School organizations help to end Alzheimers We can all agree we have some wonderful students at Longview ISD. It is great to see them give back to Longview and the people of this city! Thank you to Longview High School HOSA club, Anchor Club, TSA, and Viewettes for volunteering on Saturday, Sep. 28, at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s event.
Coming Events
October 15 8 a.m. Foster Fire Drill 5 p.m. Judson Football vs Lufkin (Judson) 5 p.m. Foster Football vs Tyler Moore (John Tyler High School) 5 p.m. Forest Park Football vs Nacogdoches Moses (Moses) 5:30 p.m. LHS Volleyball vs Tyler (LHS) October 16 8 a.m. PSAT for Juniors, Sophomores Freshman 8 a.m. 8th Grade Foster field trip October 17 4 p.m. Varsity Lobo Tennis Area Playoffs (Oct. 17-19) 5 p.m. Dragonette Fundraiser Night (BJ’s Restaurant) 5 p.m. Lady Dragon Volleyball vs Lufkin (Foster) 5 p.m. Forest Park Volleyball vs Judson (Forest Park) 5:30 p.m. Freshman Football vs Rockwall Heath (LHS) 5:30 p.m. JV Football vs Rockwall Heath (Rockwall HS)
Public Notice The Board of Trustees will have a regular meeting at 6 p.m. on October 14 at the ESC Board Room. ***************
The fourth and last SB 1882 town hall to discuss the district-wide charter. A TEA representative will host the town hall and administration will be available to answer questions. Final Session: November 5 at Longview High School at 6 p.m.
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City hosting photo contest for the public The City of Longview is inviting residents to submit photos of Longview for a photo contest now until Nov. 1, 2019. Photo entries will be judged based on creativity, quality, originality, and overall impact. Submitted photos may be used for the City of Longview website, Visit Longview website, or various other projects. “Our website will receive a facelift soon and the photos will play an important part of the new look” said Crystal Gable, Visit Longview Media Development Specialist. “We are looking for beauty shots of parks, downtown, food trucks, City entryways, historically designated sites, cemeteries, City buildings, museums, local events or any photo that shows off our wonderful area.” The photos may also be used on other City of Longview communication tools such as LongviewTexas.gov, CityView Municipal Television, or other print or electronic publications.
Photos must be submitted before Nov. 1, 2019 to be considered. Landscape-oriented photographs (wider than tall) are preferred. Photos must be submitted in jpeg, jpg or gif format, be at least 2,000 pixels wide and no larger than 10 MB. Each photographer may submit up to
Foster recognized for their anti-bullying commitee CBS 19 on Tuesday, Oct. 1, Foster’s amazing students from the Anti-Bullying Commitee! Thank you Tim Wolf for coming to our campus! Tune in!
Students caught doing good on campus Please help us celebrate Foster’s students caught doing good! Our campus is made up of young leaders who are going places and doing the right things!
six photos. Photos with watermarks will not be accepted. Photos may be submitted online at LongviewTexas.gov/pho tos or in person at City Hall, 300 W. Cotton St. For more information, contact Crystal Gable at 903-237-2725 or visit LongviewTexas.gov/photos.
Prizes include: Best of Show - $250 1st Place - $200 2nd Place - 150 3rd Place - 100 Honorable Mentions - $50
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LHS pep rally sees recognition handed out LHS hosted the KYKX 105.7 Pep Rally and two of our own were recognized on Friday, Sep. 27. Angelica Lambarria was named the FFA Student of the Week and Mrs. Taylor was voted Teacher of the Week. We are proud to represent Longview FFA! Congratulations to Viewette Caroline Henderson the KYKX 105.7 Drill Team Member of the week.
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NIKOLA |Continued from page 1 off quickly. Having the theme of my artwork privilege to be a part of goes, I would describe a program that builds it as conceptual. Bebridges between culcause I use my work to tures ultimately asovercome my emotions sured me that I should and to indirectly voice apply. my opinion, it can be Being that I’m a very overbearing for people. artistic person, the posI absolutely love seesibility of getting familing my work arranged JEREMIC in chronological order iar with the styles and techniques American because it reminds art has to offer was another me exactly what I was feelreason I applied. Since Euroing and thinking during the pean art differs from American making of it, and it shows art, I was excited to see which me how my personal life has new skills will I be able to progressed. bring back home. Did your time in the US, What was the biggest lesand Texas in particular, son you learned through your influence your art or your exchange experience? approach to it? Throughout my exchange During my exchange year year I’ve learned so many valuI mostly focused on the techable lessons, but the one that nical side of art. With the benefited me the most would help of my amazing visual definitely be that I’ve learned art teacher, Mileah Hall, I to properly judge the weight of a situation. What I mean by learned things like matting drawings, framing paintings, that is that I’m able to evalusetting drawings, etc. ate whether or not a problem Before coming to the US or a situation I’m dealing with my art was mostly black and is worth stressing over. white, and during my exBefore my year in the change I had an urge to exStates, whenever faced with periment with color. That is an obstacle, I would think very symbolic for me, because ‘That’s it. It’s the end of the during my exchange year I world.’ This improvement is was the happiest I have been something I discovered rein a long time, and I don’t cently, a few weeks into my think that the colorful art was arrival home. I’ve already a coincidence. Looking at the managed to get myself into art I made in the US puts a situations that would have frustrated me a year ago, but smile on my face, it reminds me of the indescribable memonow I know that stressing ries I made. over a problem won’t solve Tell us about your art show it and life has been so much in Dallas – how did that hapeasier ever since. When did you first know you pen and what was it like? One of my goals for my were an artist? What type of exchange year was to have art do you make? an art show in the US. It Since drawing and painting were the first things I ever did seemed absolutely impossible, as a child, there isn’t a specific but with the huge help of the Guck family (my host family) moment I could pinpoint. When my first “pieces” were and the Roscon Foundation, made I wasn’t even old enough I managed to accomplish my to know what art is; I was just goal. My host mother, Theresa doing it for my own pleasure. I Guck, teamed up with the would say that my better and more conceptual work was cre- Roscon Foundation which ated whenever I started taking kindly provided the space for my hobby seriously. Seeing my my show. The art show holds a work improve made me realize special place in my heart, because it bonded my host family that this is something I want and I even further. The prepato pursue as a career. The reason I started making ration process was so much fun, since I was on a budget. art was because it was always My host mom, my host brothan outlet for me. I can vividly remember countless situations er, and I turning every thrift store upside down looking for where as a child who lacked frames is one of my favorite emotional maturity, I would memories from my exchange. face my emotions by putting them on a piece of paper. Even The fact that my host family and I framed all of the pieces now, years later, I still have and that they made posters and that habit and it helps me a flyers for me made the whole lot. experience so endearing and As I said, I predominately draw and paint. As far as the special.
Nikola Jeremic says that his time in East Texas helped him improve his art. The show went great, people took lots of pictures, I received lots of compliments, and overall everyone was satisfied. I can’t put into words how happy and proud I am that I managed to accomplish something I wanted for so long. This goes to show that anything you are passionate about and willing to put in work for can be done. Don’t listen to anybody who tells you otherwise.
Do you have any advice for future students?
A piece of advice I would give to future exchange students is to go into this year with the realization that this will be real life for you, not a vacation. A misconception I had in the early stages of my exchange was that I was there just to have a good time. That partially is true, because you will and should have a good time, but considering that this is a period of almost a year, at a certain point in your exchange you become so used to everything that you start to view this as your life. When everything settles in and you feel comfortable you should start thinking about your goals. For many exchange students, being in the US provides many new opportunities and resources we didn’t have access to in our home countries. To sum everything up, don’t waste your year on just sitting around and relaxing. Go out there and blow everyone away, including yourself, with the new and improved person you have become.
About the Future Leaders Exchange Program
The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program funded by the US Department of State. FLEX students who pass multiple rounds of testing earn a scholarship to spend an academic year in the United States living with a volunteer host family and attending a US high school. FLEX students gain leadership skills, learn about American society and values, and teach Americans about FLEX countries and cultures. FLEX is a highly competitive program with over 25,000 alumni who have contributed over one million hours of community service in cities and towns across America. The students return home to active alumni networks that carry out inspiring activities. Learn more at discover flex.org.
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Longview ISD honors those who served Show your appreciation to our veterans by nominating them for our “Wall of Honor!” To thank those who have served in the U.S. armed forces, Longview ISD established a “Wall of Honor” in 2015. Since its induction, Longview ISD has honored more than 20 veterans for their brave service. The selected nominations will be honored on the wall with a plaque. The honorees will be honored at the football game on
November 1, 2019. Nominations are due on Tuesday, October 15. Criteria for Nominees: LISD Graduate (or Judson Grove, Womack High) Any amount of time served considered Living or deceas ed military persons Honorably discharged Any branch of service To nominate a veteran go to w3.lisd.org/
news. Send your completed form to: LISD Education Support Center Attn: Elizabeth Ross P.O. Box 3268 Longview, TX 75606 Emailed nomination forms will also be accepted, please email them to eross@lisd. org. For more information please contact Elizabeth Ross at eross@lisd.org or (903) 3812237.
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• Teachers and district staff to receive pay increase, totaling more than $8 million • LISD schools earned 40 total distinctions on accountability ratings, an increase from 34 earned last year • Less than 2 percent dropout rate at Longview High • Brand new partnership for innovation with East Texas Advanced Academies which will bring new funding and ideas to public education • Longview Early Graduation High School for student needing flexible hours • “Playing for Keeps” program: childcare for students with children • Summer backpack program to make sure kids get fed all year round • LISD farm-to-table program, partnering with local farmers for cafeteria produce • Meat Lab building and program- to teach kids where food comes from • Gold Standard Award yearly for financial transparency • On-staff Professionally trained Chef to watch over food prep • 2018 UIL Academic District Champions • Class 6A State Football Champion • Over 6500 hours of college by 2019 graduates • 36 students graduate with Associates Degrees (50 projected in class of 2020) • National Welding Champions • State and National Technical Student Assoc. winners • Graduates matriculating to EMT, Cosmetology, welding, Culinary Arts, Meat and Butchering programs nationally • Largest Public Montessori school for 3 to 5 year old program in the Nation. Provided free of charge to Longview area children • Totally new state-of-the-art school system • Partnerships in education with UT, SMU, Texas Tech, SFA, KC, Letorneau, and UT -Tyler • Hosted Adjunct Fair for SFA to help employ Adjunct staff in Longview and through Longview ISD • Hosted “Axe”epted East Texas meet
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and greet for area students attending SFA in Fall 2019 • Only IB program east of Interstate 45 • Only free public K-12 International Baccalaureate program in the world • IB Case project partners with “We Help Two” and sells “funky socks” to help supply legs and feet to amputees all over the world • Multiple graduates with offers to Ivy League and other prestigious universities • Purchased multiple pieces of strategic real estate, without increased debt, for future expansion • Every year of Dr. Wilcox tenure school budget has been in the black • The Longview Voice! Only District-produced community newspaper in Texas • Partnership with Eastman and Komatsu and Longview Manufacturing Academy • Privatized Custodial services to save taxpayer dollars • Went totally ‘green’ on all building projects resulting in a $200,000 award from SWEPCO for energy conservation • Three campuses with national STEM certifications (Judson STEAM Academy, Bramlette STEAM Academy, and Ned E. Wiliams) • More than 30 teachers with national STEM certifications • Bramlette STEAM Academy as National Capturing Kids’ Hearts national recognition/award • Eightweek Montessori training for other districts in Texas hosted by East Texas Montessori Prep Academy • Duke TIPS scholars in double digits every year • Perfect scores on the reading section of the ACT as part of the Duke Scholars testing at Foster Middle School • Elementary, Middle, and High School Robotics competition teams • Summer PSAT classes • Award-winning Theater Arts program with a director who has been with the district for more than 50 years • Award-winning elementary, middle
school, and high school choir programs • Award-winning high school art program • Lobo Band continuing their string of 69 consecutive first-level honors at State Sweepstakes • Lobo University to help prepare students and parents for life after high school • LIFT program paying out close to $1 million in bonuses for improved testing scores • Partnership with Longview Chamber of Commerce to help foster community partnerships and mentors for Ware students • 2018-2018 School Board of the Year from Region 7 • Orchestra offered at elementary, middle and high school • LHS students who performed at Carnegie Hall • 523 LHS students taking dual credit courses 2018-2019 • 116 incoming Freshman applying for dual credit courses • 236 unduplicated seniors with dual credit hours • 6,531 semester credit hours for dual credit • 2,601 Workforce hours earned • Culinary Arts CTE students start catering program in Fall 2018 • Horticulture Program harvests own bee hives to sell honey, wax, and wax products at FFA shows • Wall of Honor to honor Veteran graduates and their families • More than 100 teachers earned Project Based Learning certifications in Spring 2019 • May 2019 hosted first LHS CTE Signing Day for students going to college or workforce • Class of 2019 earned $8.5 million in scholarships • Raising Highly Capable Kids parenting class with Longview Chamber of Commerce • Fall 2018 LHS donated more than 400 coats to KLTV’s Coats for Kids • Signing Santa to help deaf ed students communicate with “Santa”
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Lobo FFA competes at State Fair Longview FFA had three floral students, Angela Moyer, Juan Cerda, and Jenni Barrios, and Mrs. Taylor compete on Thursday, Sep. 26, in the Floral Cup contest at the East Texas State Fair. Angela was selected as one of the top 15 finalists out of 65 youth competitors. Mrs. Taylor placed 2nd in the adult competition. We our proud of our students and their accomplishments at the East Texas State Fair.
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Friday Night Lights Since 2001, Lobos are 83-8 at home
Lobo All-American Under Armor high school game takes place Jan 2
By Callie Caplan, Dallas Morning News
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ust before Mesquite traveled to Longview for a game in the late 1980s, someone warned Mike Overton, a Mesquite assistant who’d never coached at the east-Texas stalwart, about the wolf howl. Every time Longview would get a first down, score or make a big play, the stadium’s speakers would blare with a loud, drawn-out cry of a lobo. Overton believed it, but until he arrived about 130 miles east of Dallas to the field, he didn’t realize how intimiLobos|Continued to page 13
Lobo football player Haynes King, a senior who was part of the state championship, has been presented with an honorary game jersey from Under Armor. The jersey is a part of their 2020 Under Armor All-American High School Football Game Selection Tour. Under Armor’s website for the Under Armour All-America Game states, “The top 100 players in the nation will compete in Orlando with the best coaches, players and gear in the game.” King, who has committed to Texas A&M, will be competing KING in the 13th annual event on live television on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. The game is set to take place in Orlando, Flordia, broadcast on ESPN2 at 5 p.m. With ESPN’s 300 ranking of the nation’s top senior football players, King who is ranked at 18, will be able to show the country what the Lobos can do. He’s set to show why ESPN ranked him as number 1 among dual-threat quarterbacks.
Mini majorettes show off their training The future majorettes had fun with the current majorettes on Friday, Sept. 27, at the Majorette Mini Camp Performance.
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Lobo tennis out serves Mesquite The lobos improved their district record to 5-1 defeating Mesquite at 10-0. The lobos will host the district tournament next week. The semifinals were be Tuesday, Oct. 8. The finals are set to take place today, Oct. 11. Varsity vs Mesquite: 10-0 win and 11-10 overall record
Mesquite Boys Doubles Connor Gililand/Elliot Murphy vs Dustin Ruiz/Geoffrey McNeely 6-1 6-0 Harrison Lin/Matthew Nguyen vs Josh Pich/Ulilises Torres 6-0 6-1 Jake Chamberlin/Aditya Jagarlamudi vs River Long/Gerardo Polendo 6-1 6-1 Girls Doubles Kelsey Quiett/Elizabeth Wall vs Fatima Torres/Evelyn Perez 6-3 6-1 Gowri rangu/Diana Acuña vs Makenna Eckstein/Joselyn Pich 6-3 6-1 Julia Miller/Rachna Edalur vs Zahira Ruiz/Emily Jones 6-0 6-2 Mixed Doubles Jonathan Vázquez/Delia Acuña vs Gamaliel Gilando/Lauren Rawlinson 6-0 6-0 Girls Singles Kelsey Quiett vs Fatima Torres 6-0 6-1 Rachna Edalur vs Makema Eckstein 6-2 Gowri Rangu vs Jesselyn Pich 6-0 1-0 Elizabeth Wall vs Lauren Rawlinson DNP Diana Acuna vs Evelyn Perez DNP Julia Miller vs Emily Jones DNP Delia Acuna vs Zaihra Ruiz DNP
VINTAGE LOBO FOOTBALL GAME FILMS 1937 - 1940
From the LeBus Family Collection
NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD Includes 2nd Half of 1937 State Championship Game
Boys Singles Jake Chamberlain vs Dustin Ruiz DNP Mathew Nyguen vs Ullises Torres 6-2 6-0 Elliot Murphy vs Josh Pich 7-5 6-0 Connor Gililand vs Geoffrey Mcneely DNP Aditya Jagarlamudi vs Gerardo Polendo DNP Harrison Lin vs River Long DNP Jonathon Vázquez vs Gamaliel Galindo DNP Ini Ekpenyong vs Dylan Manning 4-1 4-1
1937 State Championship Game 1938
While Jeremy Cotham was researching information for his book “Friday Night Howl,” the 100+ history of Lobo Football, he interviewed Charles LeBus whose father Frank LeBus was the starting QB for the 1937 State Championship Team. During the interview Charles mentioned that he thought he might have some old 8mm films from 1937-1940 in his family’s collection. We are excited to announce that the LeBus films have been found, preserved and transferred to DVDs. And the best news is that the DVDs are for sale for all to enjoy!
• Over an hour of game films from 1937–1940 1940
• Includes 2nd half of 1937 State Championship Game at the Cotton Bowl on Christmas Day.
Cost $20
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Perfect for All Lobos – Past & Present – And for Every Lobo Fan! More info: Call David Cotham: 903-736-4637 or email: Cotham75605@yahoo.com
THE LONGVIEW VOICE — October 11, 2019 LOBOS |Continued from page 11 dating and catchy the tradition would be. That hasn’t changed in the three decades since Overton’s introduction. Neither has the intensity of and loyalty to Longview football. Over the next seven weeks, five Dallas-area teams will face defending Class 6A Div. II state champion Longview. Rockwall, ranked in the top five of SportsDay’s 6A rankings, plays at Longview on Friday. Rockwall-Heath also heads to the Piney Woods on Oct. 18. There, they’ll face not just a physical offense that contrasts the spread and finesse of most in the state. They’ll also find an intimidating and tradition-rich environment that spans generations of support and creates an atmosphere visiting coaches compared to a Hollywood version of Texas’ passionate high school football culture. “That would be a place,” Overton said, “where you could say, ‘Yeah, this is truly Friday Night Lights.’” Longview has not lost a game at Lobo Stadium since October 2016 — 38-24 to Tyler John Tyler — and hasn’t fallen more than once in a season at home since 2003. Since 2001, the Lobos are 83-8 at home, including a 46-4 record in the last 10 full seasons. The enormity of winning in the stadium surrounded by towering pine trees and steeped in history starts from arrival. When Mesquite’s bus pulled up to Longview’s fieldhouse last year, the school day had just finished. Students weren’t disruptive — Dallas-area coaches said interactions at Longview have never been disrespectful — but Mesquite coach Jeff Fleener heard several kids bellow “Looooongview” as they dispersed. Get to game time, and the daunting reception doesn’t ease. Longview has more than 3,000 season-ticket holders, some of more than 50 years, coach John King said, and the demand outweighs the supply of chair-back seats on the home sideline. Many Longview fans, along with students and the marching band, sit in sections behind the visitors’ bench. “It’s got an aura about it that you know you’re playing at a special venue, on top of you’ve been watching them on film all week and realizing one of them might try to decapitate you on a play,” Fleener said. “It’s already a little intimidating when you get off the bus because you’re been watching these monsters
on video all week.” The contingent that fills Lobo Stadium is also one of the most loyal travel groups in the state, filling opposing sections almost every stop, perhaps because supporting the team from a one-high-school district one hour from the next closest Class 6A high school (Tyler Lee) requires an inherent commute anyway. Most throughout the state recognized Longview’s support when 48,421 people watched the team’s 35-34 state championship win over Beaumont West Brook at AT&T Stadium, marking the fourth-highest UIL state championship single-game attendance in history. But King has felt the deep allegiance even more since, as swaths of fans, including Longview graduates from the 1950s, some part of multi-generational Lobo football lines, congratulated and thanked him and the players for winning Longview’s first title in 81 years. “They told me ‘I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime,’” King said. “It put them in a different place ... knowing the Lobos truly belong as one of the premiere programs.” Should Dallas-area teams facing Longview this season find a way to ignore the fervent fandom and frequent howling, challenging the Lobos on the field won’t be simple. Longview plays from tworunning-back formations with frequent tight end use, a scheme many teams have strayed from as quick-tempo passing and five-wide-receiver sets have become more common. The throwback strategy has
produced 20 straight wins — Longview’s last regular-season loss came in Mesquite to Overton’s 2017 Horn squad — and highlights the talent of dual-threat senior quarterback and Texas A&M commit Haynes King, the reigning Texas AP Player of the Year. And it’s influenced how likely
Page 13 the strongest Dallas-area challenger in the regular season — Rockwall — operates. When Rockwall coach Rodney Webb led Horn in 2010, his air-raid, one-running-back offense fell twice to Longview, including in the state quarterfinals. Just after that playoff loss, Webb changed his offensive approach to be a more physical, forceful downhill rushing game, all while still allowing his skill players to shine at passing. Webb wanted to contend for state championships, like Longview has and like he feels Rockwall is poised to do this season. He knew that would mean matching the Lobos’ toughness, foiling the players who spent their childhoods admiring Longview football and quieting the followers — and technological wolves — that so closely align with the program’s success. “A lot of [my offensive philosophy] was born more from our interest in being able to compete with Longview,” Webb said. “They’re kind of an SEC version of a high school program. It’s blood and guts with them.” — Callie Caplan is a staff writer for the Dallas News
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2019
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FOUNDATION
Annual bash returns in October T
he Bash Before the Clash— 5th Annual Lobo Hamburger Cookout Tailgate Party, Friday, October 18, Before the Lobo Game with the Rockwall Heath Hawks. Starting at 5:30 PM, the bankers from Vera Bank, formerly Citizens National
Bank, in Longview will grill hamburgers with all the trimmings for the 5th annual hamburger cookout tailgate party to be held in the breezeway of Longview High School. Fans are invited to join the party and enjoy a hamburger, cheeseburger, chips
and a cookie for a donation of $5.00 which will benefit the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. The Longview High School Viewettes will be selling ice cold drinks for a nominal charge. Lobo fans, come out and join the fun of the evening. Get your tickets at the tailgate!
Announcing the 5th Annual Bash Before the Clash Hosted by Vera Bank and the Vera Bank Grilling Team
Benefiting the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc.
Lobo Hamburger Cookout Tailgate Party Friday, October 18, 5:30 PM in the LHS Breezeway Before the Lobos Play the Rockwall Heath Hawks at Lobo Stadium! A $5.00 donation buys you a freshly grilled hamburger or cheeseburger with all the trimmings, chips, and a cookie. The LHS Viewettes will sell cold canned drinks and water for a nominal price. The Longview ISD Foundation has returned $810,000 to LISD classrooms so that students can receive a better education! Support Bash Before the Clash and help the Foundation return even more money!
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Foundation brings freshly shelled Azalea Brand Pecans Longview has enjoyed Azalea brand pecans for many years, and now the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. is bringing them annually to you for your holiday and every day enjoyment. The Longview ISD Foundation is offering one-pound bags of fresh, golden, delicious Mammoth Pecan Halves and one-pound Azalea Gourmet Mix of toasted and salted pecan halves, cashews, brazil nuts, hazel nuts, and large almonds for delivery before Thanksgiving week. One pound packages of mammoth pecans are $15.00 each; one pound packages of mixed nuts are $13.00 each. Order forms are available at the Longview ISD Foundation’s website, www.lisdfoundation.org, or buyers may call Kay Ray, Foundation director, at 903-452-7015 or email her at gray@lisd.org. The Longview ISD Foundation is an education foundation that requests, receives, maintains, and uses funds to maximize the
Next College Fair Nov. 11TH at The next upcoming Lobo University is really the College Fair at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 11, at Maud Cobb Convention & Activity Complex. This event allows parents and students a great opportunity to find out about the excellent choices and support that exist for prospective college students.
quality of education available to all students in LISD. Since 1996, the Foundation has returned $832.000 to LISD classrooms and campuses to fund programs and learning tools that are beyond the district’s budget. Every
day students enjoy programs and equipment made possible through the fundraising efforts of the Longview ISD Foundation. Thank you for your support. Enjoy your delicious pecans!
COME ONE COME ALL! LET'S CELEBRATE FALL AT
LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY'S
OCTOBER 26, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM 2100 S MOBBERLY AVE, LONGVIEW, TX
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Speaking 2 languages to your child not enough to make them bilingual By Elizabeth Preston, Forge
There are plenty of reasons to raise a child to be bilingual. Speaking a language tied to their family origins can help a kid stay close to their heritage. It allows them to converse with relatives they might not otherwise understand. It lets them connect with a wider swath of the world. And a growing body of research suggests the way it rewires the brain may confer cognitive benefits that last into old age. Language learning begins before a baby is even born, says Ellen Bialystok, a psychology professor at York University in Canada who studies the effects of bilingualism on the brain; in one 2013 study, infants from a few hours to a few days old already showed higher interest in the sounds of the language they heard in utero. When children grow up hearing more than one language, they may learn to pay attention in different ways than monolingual children. Bialystok’s own research has shown that as early as six months old, infants from bilingual households demonstrate stronger selective attention skills, meaning they’re better able to focus on relevant information while tuning out other stimuli to focus. Bialystok thinks that these effects reverberate throughout the rest of the child’s life. Some studies have shown that bilingual adults do better on certain tests of attention, for example, and brain imaging studies have also found some differences in the physical architecture of their brains. But Bialystok thinks the biggest benefit comes much later in life — when bilingual adults seem to have greater resilience against dementia. But full bilingualism takes effort — and speaking two languages at home doesn’t guarantee that your kids will do the same. The Pew Research Center found that only 57% of U.S. adults who identify as second-generation Latinx immigrants are bilingual or Spanish-dominant. That number drops to 24% in the following generation. Despite their best efforts, many bilingual adults still end up with monolingual kids. And this isn’t only true in countries where English dominates: In a 2007 study, Annick De Houwer, a professor at the University of Erfurt in Germany surveyed nearly 2,000 bilingual families in a Dutch-speaking region of Belgium (collectively, the families spoke more than 70 other languages in addition to Dutch, but some of the more common ones were French, Turkish, English, and Arabic). In nearly a quarter of those households, children spoke only Dutch. Some parents approach bilingualism by dividing languages between family members: Maybe Mom speaks only English to the child, while Dad speaks only Spanish.
In the Belgian study, though, households using this approach were just as likely — one in four — to have monolingual children. A better strategy, if both parents are native speakers, is for both of them to exclusively use the minority language at home. Or one parent could speak that language exclusively while the other parent uses both, De Houwer says. In general, the more exposure a child has to the minority language, the better their odds of learning it. “My kids aren’t geniuses. They just had the opportunity.” Simona Montanari, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, studies bilingual and multilingual development and has conducted her own sort of experiment at home. Montanari, who’s Italian, speaks Italian to her two daughters; her American husband speaks English; and the girls had a Spanish-speaking babysitter from birth, she says. Now as teenagers, the girls are comfortable in both English and Italian, and advanced in Spanish at school. “They’re not geniuses,” Montanari says. “They just had the opportunity.” Montanari also stresses the importance of more formal education, in addition to exposure inside the home: “It is ideal to learn language from multiple speakers,” she says. She was able to start an Italian-language immersion program at her daughters’ California school district, which also offers immersion programs in several other languages. She says finding peers for her daughters who spoke Italian was a big help, as was travel to Italy and Mexico.
If those things aren’t feasible — and for many families, they aren’t — you can help your kids learn two languages the same way you help them learn one: by talking to them a lot. And while some parents worry that raising a child in two languages might set them behind in both, kids will have no problem learning the majority language where they live, Montanari says. “[In the U.S.], English will happen no matter what.” She says her own daughters were less proficient in English than in their other two languages when they started school, but quickly caught up. De Houwer agrees that fears of language delay are misplaced. “There is no evidence of a general delay in language development in bilingually raised children.” And you have to add up what the child can do across both languages, she says: For example, in a 2014 study, De Houwer and her colleagues compared 31 toddlers from bilingual Dutch-French households to carefully matched kids from monolingual homes. At 13 months old, toddlers in the bilingual group understood 71% more words, on average, than the monolingual toddlers. “So there’s no delay there,” De Houwer says. “Quite the opposite.” Even if a child doesn’t don’t become fully bilingual, smaller positive changes happen in the brain with lesser degrees of language learning, Bialystok says — and that doesn’t even include the other benefits of studying languages, like giving kids a broader experience of the world and its people. “It’s just good to learn other languages,” she says, “even if your brain didn’t change.”
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EMS Subscription Program now taking applicants The City of Longview through the Emergency Medical Services provided by the Fire Department is committed to providing quality, affordable emergency ambulance care as a service to all residents of Longview. Since 2009, the Longview Fire Department has offered an EMS Subscription Program to Longview residents in an attempt to help offset the rising cost of out-of-pocket medical expenses. With the typical cost associated with EMS transports averaging $800 - $1000 per response, the program limits any out-of-pocket EMS expenses to $70/year. For the Longview resident, that $70 annual fee is the maximum out-of-pocket expense for EMS transport to either of Longview’s two hospitals. The single fee covers those - who are eligible - living in the subscribed household. Enrollment and renewal peNIGHT |Continued from page 1 Along with coming together and feeling safe, Amaya also said, “We have a lot of educational and fun stuff here so I think that it’s great that these families can come here and get these resources.” “I like it. If you’re a dad, it’s a great place to meet new dads,” said Charles Miller who was present with his family and there for the first time. “It’s good, come out.”
riods for the EMS Subscription Program run from October 1st – December 31st annually for the subsequent year. This subscription program is an optional plan that is available to all citizens except Medicaid recipients of our community. Statistics show one in four Longview residents will need emergency care sometime in their lives. Because members are not worrying about the ambulance bill, they are calling for help sooner. Results prove that prompt emergency attention increases survival rates. Participants will pay only $70.00 per year for emergency ground ambulance service. This fee can be paid through a onetime payment by check, cash, money order or Visa/Master Card or Discover.
ELIGIBILITY
Must be a resident of Longview, Texas.
Coverage for head of household, spouse, and any unmarried dependent children under 25 years of age and a full time student. Other dependents of the household must have court documented guardianship papers.
Medicaid recipients cannot participate in this program. Authorization for the City of Longview to obtain entitled benefits from insurance carriers and Medicare will be required. EMS|Continued to page 19
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Longview ISD School Menus Montessori Breakfast 14
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Morning Sausage Honey Graham Crackers Milk Syrup Fruit Choice
Scrambled Eggs Sausage Patty Toast Honey Graham Crackers Milk Syrup Fruit Choice
16 French Toast Sticks Honey Graham Crackers Milk Syrup Fruit Choice
17 Biscuit Sausage Patty Honey Graham Crackers Milk Syrup Fruit Choice
18 Breakfast Sausage Pizza Honey Graham Crackers Milk Syrup Fruit Choice
Montessori Lunch
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Drumsticks Applesauce Whole Baby Carrots Mashed Potatoes Milk
16 Beef Tacos, Soft Spanish Rice Charro Beans Milk Cheese
17 Hot Dog Applesauce Baked Beans Colossal Crisp Potatoes Milk
Chicken Rings Honey Wheat Roll Applesauce Green Beans Mashed Potatoes Milk
18 Turkey, Cheese Sandwich Applesauce Whole Baby Carrots Broccoli with Cheese Sauce Milk
Elementary Breakfast 14 Mini Cinnamon Roll Honey Graham Crackers Milk
15 Morning Sausage Kolache Honey Graham Crackers Milk
16 Honey Graham Crackers Toast Milk Scrambled Eggs Sausage Patty
17 Breakfast Sausage Pizza Honey Graham Crackers Milk
16 Sub Sandwich Turkey Hoagie Milk Mayonnaise Fruit Choice
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18 Honey Graham Crackers Milk
Elementary Lunch 14
15 Italian Spaghetti Garlic Toast Cheese Pizza Carrots Broccoli Florets Tossed Salad Ranch Dressing Milk Fruit Choice
Beef Rotel Dip Chicken Rotel Dip Charro Beans Spanish Rice Salsa Milk Fruit Choice
18 Chicken Rings Mashed Potatoes Brown Gravy Green Beans Honey Wheat Roll Milk Fruit Choice
Hot Dog Colossal Crisp Potatoes Baked Beans Milk Mayonnaise Fruit Choice
Middle School Breakfast 14 Mini Cinnamon Roll Honey Graham Crackers Milk
15 Morning Sausage Kolache Honey Graham Crackers Milk
16 Honey Graham Crackers Toast Milk Scrambled Eggs Sausage Patty
17 Breakfast Sausage Pizza Honey Graham Crackers Milk
18 Honey Graham Crackers Milk
Middle School Lunch 14 Chicken Fried Steak Honey Wheat Roll Broccoli Casserole Carrots Roasted Potatoes Milk
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16 Taco Salad Milk
17 Chicken Rings Honey Wheat Roll Mashed Potatoes Green Beans Milk
18 Hot Dog Hot Dog with Chili Baked Beans Season Fries Milk
Beef Rotel Dip Chicken Rotel Dip Spanish Rice Shredded Romaine Lettuce Charro Beans Pico de Gallo Milk
THE LONGVIEW VOICE — October 11, 2019 EMS |Continued from page 17
BENEFITS
No out-of-pocket expenses for emergency ground ambulance use. Unlimited emergency (only) transports per enrolled member. Coverage for all eligible household members.
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
This subscription is nonrefund-
able and nontransferable. Violations of the terms of the agreement or false information entered on the subscription application may result in immediate cancellation of the subscription. For an application or for more information, please contact the City of Longview Fire Department at 903-237-1232 or visit Longview Texas.gov/ASP.
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