Last week’s homecoming festivities capped off with Surisadai Alvarado named homecoming queen at halftime of last Friday night’s homecoming game against Dublin.
Lauren Satterwhite, the Breckenridge High School 2016 homecoming queen, crowned Alvarado during a halftime ceremony that capped off a week of activities.
“I’m pretty surprised, but excited.” Alvarado said. “I was shocked and excited that my peers and classmates thought of me. I’m very appreciative.
The Breckenridge Fine Arts Center has acquired a new festival dress and head-dress to be added to their permanent collection. The BFAC now has 30 very colorful festival dresses on display in that permanent exhibit.
The festival dresses in the BFAC collection represents the three festivals in Texas, which includes the Tyler Rose Festival, the San Antonio Fiesta Festival and the Corpus Christi Buccaneer Days.
South Elementary ventured into a well-planned reading program for all students enrolled in fourth, fifth and sixth grade.
The book is “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio and is number one on the New York Times Bestseller List.
“The whole school will read for 30 minutes each morning during breakfast,” said Abby Moore, the South Elementary librarian who spearheaded the project.
High school football boys and volleyball girls are not the only ones getting ready for two-a-day practices on Aug. 1 each year.
While football and volleyball dominate much of the attention regarding extracurricular activities, the Breckenridge High School Band has already been practicing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. since July 24.
Instructor Debbie Malone conducted two student art camps from July 11 through July 14.
The morning class was conducted from 10:30 a.m. to noon and was set for children 7 years old and above.
That class worked with mixed media to draw, paint and sculpt art of their own design. They worked with watercolors, pastels, chalk, glass and clay.
The morning students included Gabryel Moore, Mara Matheson, Aurrin Matheson, Leslee Abbott, Pretin Ezell, Providence Ezell and Taylor Champion.
In 2010, the women of the First United Methodist Church in Breckenridge, known as WinGS (Women in God’s Service) identified a need in the community after BISD ends its free lunch program in June each year, particularly for elementary age kids who received those free lunches. April Lechner picked up the program the first year. Initially, the WinGS group made 50 sack lunches and took them to the housing areas and handed them out to whoever wanted them.
