A woman sporting a ponytail gets ready to board her flight when she is stopped by a flight attendant. The attendant asks her why she has an elephant with her.
Valedictorian Skylar Hutchins and Salutatorian Marina Nichols
BANGS – Skylar Hutchins earned valedictorian honors while Marina Nichols will represent Bangs High School’s Class of 2021 as its salutatorian.
Bangs’ graduation is slated for 8 p.m. Friday, May 28 at Memorial Stadium.
Hutchins, the daughter of Brent and Jennifer Hutchins, said of the valedictorian accolade, “I’m very proud to represent as valedictorian. Marina and I both worked hard and competed very hard all four years. It was actually really fun to have that competition going, someone pushing you to be better. I was surprised to be valedictorian, I knew we were really close, so it did surprise me.”
I was at Pappas Seafood on the Gulf Freeway, eating lunch with Jim Henley, when I said something I’ll always regret.
Some in the Houston community will recall Jim as one of the Democrats who tried and failed to unseat Republican congressman John Culberson, before Lizzie Fletcher finally succeeded in 2018. At different times, he was also a Baptist preacher, a community organizer, a coffee farmer, and an elected trustee of the Harris County Board of Education. In between, he spent 20 years teaching at Lanier Middle School, first as a history teacher and then as the speech and debate coach.
Last week on April 15-16, OHS competed in the Regional UIL tournament at Grayson College. Many teams competed at this year’s Regional tournament, including Accounting, Calculator Applications, Computer Applications, Informative Speaking, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Literary Criticism, Mathematics, Number Sense, Persuasive Speaking, Ready Writing, and Science, as well as Spelling