The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris will attract spectators from all corners of the globe. Whether fans are in the City of Light for the competitions or watching at home, there will be plenty of awe-inspiring athleticism on display in Paris this summer.
Sports fans across the globe will be glued to their televisions this summer, when the historic city of Paris hosts the Olympic Games. Beginning with the Opening Ceremony on July 26, the 2024 Olympic Games is sure to feature awe-inspiring athletic accomplishments that mark the culmination of years of hard work on the part of competitors.
Forney ISD Fine Arts has launched the first intermediate school competitive dance team in the district at Smith Intermediate. The campus hosts the Advanced Academics and Fine Arts Academy, which offers a unique educational experience to students who qualify for academically gifted programming. Students are immersed in instruction that develops and challenges their unique capabilities while fostering creativity and productivity through fine arts education. The inaugural team has 11 sixth-grade dancers who participated in the AAFAA dance program during their fifth-grade year.
The world is treated to a sports-related spectacle every four summers, and in 2024 the celebration of competition and competitors known as the Summer Olympics returns in Paris. Athletes from across the globe will gather in France to compete for their home countries this summer, and fans will tune in to see who takes home the gold in a variety of sports.
What could possibly be tastier than freshly caught, fried fish fillets? In this week’s column, Luke discusses a lifetime of enjoying fish fries everywhere from the wilds of Canada to the banks of a local creek.
The Fish Fry
Playing a round of golf is a great way to spend a morning, afternoon or early evening. That’s particularly true when the weather is warm and a golf course is soaked in sunshine and cooled down by warm breezes whistling through the surrounding trees.
Coach Dustin White is set to start the position of Athletic Director at Southwestern Christian College, after serving as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at SwCC during the 2023-2024 season. He has over 18 years of coaching experience, 16 as a head coach. Most recently, as the Head Coach at Johnson High School (6A San Antonio). Prior to his time at Johnson, White was the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Pflugerville Hendrickson High School (6A/5A). White led the Boys Basketball Program to 5 consecutive play-off appearances, 3 district titles, and the ‘21 regional semifinals.
The following students have been named to the 2024 spring semester dean’s list at St. Norbert College. A minimum 3.5 grade point average is required for academic eligibility.
The final tally is 1,129 graduates for West Texas A&M University’s Class of May 2024. Overall, the University awarded 808 baccalaureate degrees and 321 master’s degrees to spring graduates at the May 13 commencement ceremonies, following procedural confirmation from the University’s seven deans.
Spring has arrived and that means catfish angling is back at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Neighborhood Fishin’ lakes across the state. The program gives friends and families the opportunity to reel in catfish close to home and participate in the Texas traditions of outdoor recreation.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission have approved hunting regulations for the 2024-25 season with the following modifications and clarifications to 2024-25 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird proclamations:
O.H. Ivie added another Legacy Class ShareLunker during the final week of the 2024 Toyota ShareLunker collection season. Angler Tery Lewis of Lubbock reeled in 13.99-pound Share-Lunker 669 to push O.H. Ivie’s season total to 12 and the statewide tally to 19. It proved to be the final Legacy Class entry for the 2024 collection season.
Crowded pickleball courts are a testament to the popularity of a sport that has taken many communities by storm. A 2023 report from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association indicates just under nine million people played pickleball in 2022, which marked a stunning 159 percent increase in participation over just a three-year period.
O.H. Ivie continued its hot streak with four more massive Legacy Class Share-Lunkers in the span of four days. O.H. Ivie has now produced 10 Legacy Class entries, and this quartet of fish bumped the state total to 17 during the 2024 Toyota ShareLunker collection season.
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