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Pamela Spann from Daingerfield, has received a Lucile Cornetet Individual Professional Development Award from The Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Foundation. She is a Pre-K teacher at West Elementary. This award will enable Spann to attend the “I Teach Pre-K! Conference.” “This award will allow me to receive information which will improve my work in the classroom. As an early childhood teacher, I find this very important,” Spann said. Jane D. Tanner, Educational Foundation Board of Trustees Chair, stated that “The Foundation awards approximately $60,000 annually to outstanding educators to enable them to attend professional activities in their respective fields.”

A bequest to The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International from the Lucile Cornetet estate was the basis for establishing the Lucile Cornetet Professional Development Fund in 2005. Miss Cornetet, a long-time educator and Society member from Ohio, died in 2001.

Two Northeast Texas Community College sophomores have been named 2016 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise by the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Ryan-Rose Mendoza of Mount Pleasant and Dylan McConnell of Pittsburg were among only 200 students worldwide to receive this honor and a $1,000 scholarship.

The purpose of the Coca- Cola Leaders of Promise scholarship program is to provide new Phi Theta Kappa members with financial resources to help defray educational expenses while enrolled in a two-year college in order to develop leadership potential through participation in Society programs.

By: J. Leslie Riseden

Special Contributor to

The Steel Country Bee

The Avinger School Board has approved purchase and installation of additional security cameras for its campus, as well as upgrading existing cameras. “We will be adding cameras inside the school as well as replacing some of the existing equipment,” said AISD Superintendent Jacqueline Smith. “This will improve our ability to monitor student activity throughout the day, and help to identify and even prevent bullying and harassment as well as address disciplinary issues.”

Additional cameras are also planned for the exterior of the campus, “so that we can know who is on or around the premises. Safety and security of our students and staff is of paramount importance, and this will give us a better picture at all times of who is on our campus and what they are doing.”

Voters in Texas wishing to cast a vote in the November elections are running out of time to register.

The final day to register to vote is October 11. This includes first-time registrations, as well as changes of residence. The individual must submit their application or change on or before October 11 in person, or the application must be postmarked on or before Oct. 11 if mailed. Registrations and changes must be filed in the county of residence.

In order to cast a ballot in the November 8 General Election, eligible Texas residents must be registered. Residents must meet the following criteria to be eligible to register. The resident must: be a United States citizen; a resident of the county in which the application is submitted; must not be a convicted felon; and must not have been declared by a court to be either totally mentally incapacitated, or partially incapacitated without the right to vote.

The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees met in their regularly scheduled meeting on Sept. 27.

Kelbi Byrd is a little closer to being able to receive the help she needs, and it is thanks in large part to the support of the community and a successful Glow Run.

According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes affects nearly 30 million children and adults in the United States today. This is equal to nearly 10% of the population. The local community has rallied around one local student who is affected by this disease.

Breast cancer is a disease that has touched many in the Steel Country area. Each story is as different as the survivors who tell them. Angel Weers’ story is no different: similar in many ways, yet strikingly different in others.

Weers’ story begins in February when she discovered a notable change during her manual breast exams. “I had had several mammograms during my 30s which came back odd. Beginning in November, I was noticing some changes, but by the end of January, I knew it was something that needed to be checked,” said Weers. Weers went in for a mammogram the first of Feb., and was scheduled for a biopsy soon after.

Police in Naples are investigating a weekend shooting that left a local teen dead.

According to a statement from the Naples Police Department, officers responded to a call in reference to a shooting on Oct. 1, at approximately 7:08 p.m. Once officers arrived on scene, they found one deceased male and one female victim who sustained injuries from gunshot wounds. The female was transported to the hospital for treatment of her injuries.

The following student received a degree from Stephen F. Austin State University during August commencement exercises: Shayvion Meshard Hatten, from Daingerfield, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the James I. Perkins College of Education.

The Daingerfield Days Fall Festival will return on the second weekend in October. One of the events that will return is the Community Stew and Style Show. This event will be held on Thursday evening, Oct. 6.

This year’s Stew and Style Show will once again be hosted by The Business and Professional Women’s Club and the Daingerfield Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is in the process right now of securing local and area businesses to provide the fashions for the Style Show.

The Style Show will once again be accompanied by the Community Stew, and both events will again be held at the Methodist Activity Center in Daingerfield.

Tickets will be available for $8 each, and take out will be available. There will also be a Cake Auction that evening, with all proceeds going towards B&PW scholarships. The Style Show and Stew will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.