ROSSTON – Nevada has some exciting news with the Basketball season starting this week, a student building a trailer for FHA, a student making top 5 in the Skillathon, and students showing off their animals.
The first Basketball game is the Blue/Gray game on the 15th at 6:30 at home with games at Bradford, Westside and Kirby in the following 10 days. Basketball Spirit week is this week to celebrate the start of the season. The themes are PJ, Rhyme without Reason, Wrong Crowd, and Blue and Gray Days.
Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday, October 15th at 4-6:30. School will dismiss early at 3.
Annabeth Hunt earned Top Five in the Skillathon.
Riley Wall, a member of Nevada FFA, built a trailer for the FFA to use.
The Pee Wee schedule is posted with games on the 13th and the 18th.
Nevada students showed their animals at the Arkansas Youth Expo, which took place at the Four States Fairgrounds.
Roots and Wings: alumni Paul Patton, class of 2001 have a reassuring message to students stressed about figuring out what they plan to do with their life. Rather than needing to figure everything out by graduation, he says a career is a Jungle Gym, not a ladder. He shared the evolution from his degree to various jobs he has held. Three big takeaways for students’ future were: a degree teaches you how to think, every job is a steppingstone, manufacturing is a steppingstone.
Nevada thanked WIP for their gift of $1000 to Nevada athletics.