Harrison G. Goree was the first black principal of the colored free school in Atlanta. He moved to Texas in 1879 and finished his schooling at Bishop Baptist College in Marshall.
Students at L-K CISD Elementary find out it takes 100 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop during 100th Day activities. Courtesy Photo
This last Saturday the Atlanta Debate team went to Elysian Fields and competed in Policy and LD debate as well as Informative and Persuasive Extemp. In Informative for her second time ever competing in this event Ingrid Baizabal placed 6th overall and in Persuasive Alex Jones brought home first. Alex Jones and William Porterfield also competed in policy debate going 3 and 0 and winning second place (by a difference of two speaker points.) Jon Kennedy and Manuel Olvera won 2 out 3 rounds in LD debate and Cademon Larson won 1 out of 3. They did a great job and represented their school well. They have one more practice meet for policy this weekend and will be competing to go to State on Monday.
Recently Tony was approached by someone who needed to rehome his alpacas ASAP and we became the owners of five gorgeous alpacas! We were told when we adopted them that they were all females, but we learned very quickly that they were not all females - one was indeed a male. The previous owner had them for two years and didn’t even know their gender!
Some years after my great Aunt Gladys White (nee Hood) died in 1980 I came across a scrap of paper which simply read GA Hood, Naples, Texas,