Thank you to Cooperating School Districts for sharing another great author visit with us. Our class of 8th graders truly enjoyed it. I must admit that when I heard some of the excerpt from the book, I didn’t know what to think. There was frank and descriptive language that I was not sure how the [...]

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We had our first session of Monkey Island and it was amazing! Thank you to Janine Lim for her mentoring of us in our bringing ASK to Texas and to VBrick for funding the Don Foshee memorial grant that we purchased class sets of books.
Panelists: Kenneth Moerbe, executive director of Caritas and Teri Holtkamp, homelessness [...]

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Tonight I went to the Veterans’ Celebration to see the new KWBU documentary, The War: Central Texas Remembers which is a collection of stories from our local WWII veterans which is going to be available on DVD.
It was an emotional event with some incredible stories. One that caught my attention was the story of [...]

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At the TxDLA conference in Galveston, I was awarded the Don Foshee Memorial Grant award and will be starting up the ASK Program here in Texas. To start small, I am going to begin with the “tried and true” programs that Janine and Arnie have used in Michigan. This is an exciting opportunity for our [...]

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