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Northeast Texas Community College honors students recently returned from a cultural trip to the DFW metroplex. The group toured the Heard Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, shopped in Frisco, saw one of Texas’ largest pipe organs at Stonebriar Community Church and attended an Allen Americans hockey game. The trip was sponsored by Drs. Jim and Paula Archer and other friends of Honors Northeast. The group is pictured above.

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Texas Heritage National Bank recently presented a $3,000 check to the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College to sponsor the upcoming performance of Travis LeDoyt, “the world’s best young Elvis.”

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By AUSTIN JESMORE Director of PISD Bands

Pittsburg High School students competed in the Region Band Auditions for the 2018 Association of Texas Small School Bands (ATSSB) Region 4 All-Region Band.

Twelve PISD students were selected for the All-Region Band: A’niya Davis, Elizabeth Puckett, Nikki Priddy, Katlyn Holmes, Melanie Torres, Nayelly Enriquez, Zoe Osthoff, Ivan Becerril, Angel Ortiz, Kaleb Fitch, and Yahir Avila and Sabrina Attaway.

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, January 27, 2018 - Bradon Wilkes, a member of Pittsburg FFA, caught a calf during Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo’s Calf Scramble, earning a $500 purchase certificate for a show heifer and the chance for up to $12,500 in scholarship awards. Wilkes’s parents are Brandon Wilkes and Deanna Martin. Wilkes’s award was sponsored by Lucchese Boot Co.

During 28 rodeo performances the Calf Scramble gives 16 Texas 4-H and FFA members, the opportunity to catch 8 calves, in one of the most thrilling and unpredictable events. Justin Boots and Texas Mutual Insurance Company are long time supporters of the Calf Scramble. Participants who do not catch a calf receive a pair of Justin Boots.

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Calling it a “very educational and moving tour,” Pittsburg High School dual credit and advanced placement (AP) juniors and seniors visited the Holocaust Museum in Dallas. Elizabeth Lawton, one of the sponsors of the event, said the group heard from Holocaust survivor Bert Romberg, who was on the Kinder transport

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Joe and Sue Sandlin recently gave $2,000 to sponsor a student in the Work Scholarship Program at Northeast Texas Community College. The gift will be matched by a grant program, doubling the amount to $4,000. The Sandlins are pictured presenting the check to Nita May (center), NTCC Director of Development.

To learn more about how you can support local students and have your gift matched, please contact Dr. Jonathan McCullough at 903-434-8115 or give now at www.ntcc.edu/give.

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