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The West Texas A&M University Department of Communication celebrated 22 outstanding students during the department’s end-of-year ceremony. Faculty and students shared stories about students’ work and achievements during the April 25 ceremony, held in the Legends Room inside the Jack B.

Larson Vieth and Emma Herring both of Windthors received the Catholic Life Insurance All American Scholar Award. Vieth who is the son of Deana and James Veith, Jr., is a senior at Windthorst High School.

Archer City Head Start will be celebrating the graduation of 10 of their Pre-K students, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 18. The Pre-K students are already a part of Archer City ISD and they will be moving across the street and attending Archer City Elementary School when the new academic school year begins in August.

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Hospice of Wichita Falls has offered Camp Grin Again, a grief support halfday camp for children, for over 20 years. This June, the newly founded Teen Camp Grin Again will be offered to teens ranging from 8th grade to 12th grade.

The Sheriff’s Office received 239 calls for service this past week. As this report is being written there are 29 inmates and 3 being female in the Archer County Jail.

As we continue in the Easter season, and now just few weeks from Pentecost Sunday (May 28) where God sent the Holy Spirit down on the the Disicples and many others gathered in Jerulelem. As much as we are an Easter people (Jesus’ resurection and the promise of everlasting life), I like being a person of Pentecost because we need the Holy Spirit to get us to the day of Christs return both individually, and as the church.

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