The on-campus diamonds—baseball and softball—will be ready for 2016, and everyone is pretty excited about that. However, both of the current ball parks will be missed—for different reasons. Llano folks, who go to a lot of games, probably don’t stop and notice that the outgoing softball field probably has as much a rural touch to it as any of its sisters in the state.
UIL Concert and Sight-reading
Members of the Black (Varsity) and Orange (Non-Varsity) Bands from LJH recently competed in the Region 7 UIL Concert and Sight-reading Contest. The contest for the region was held at Llano High School. For the concert portion, each band performs a march and two selections from the UIL list, for a panel of three judges.
UIL Concert and Sight-reading
Members of the Black (Varsity) and Orange (Non-Varsity) Bands from LJH recently competed in the Region 7 UIL Concert and Sight-reading Contest. The contest for the region was held at Llano High School. For the concert portion, each band performs a march and two selections from the UIL list, for a panel of three judges.
This year’s Llano County Beef & Range Field Day is set for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the John L. Kuykendall Arena & Events Center, 2200 Ranch Road 152, about 1.7 miles west of Llano. The program will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. and there is no charge to the participant.
The following true story made the rounds in social media this fall, but I wanted to share it with you now in the spring as so many of us suffer through "testing season" and anxiously await the return of standardized test scores. An elementary school principal sent this message to all her students during the week they got their scores back:
We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique.
It is hard to imagine that this school year is almost over! It seems like yesterday that we were opening the doors on the 2014-15 school year. Now, the school year's end is arriving quickly and the Class of 2015 will soon be walking across the stage. Yes, graduation is a time to reflect, not only on our accomplishments, but also on finding that place in life after this milestone.
Making "Plant People" is one of the most popular Junior Master Gardener (JMG) activities at Llano Elementary School's 4th grade science classes," claims the lead JMG teacher, Patty Kuykendall of Llano. She and five other Master Gardeners (Gail Beckman, Gail Johnson, and Jean Bass of Llano; Sandy Kuykendall, and Debbie Shanan of San Saba), and classroom teacher, Kelly McIntosh, helped the children learn about the needs of plants.
The students then engaged in a "hands-on"
KINGSVILLE—Some of Llano High's finest athletes of the future delivered admirable performances at the Region IV Track & Field Meet, May 1-2, but junior Colton Center was all polish in the present, claiming a bronze medal in the shot put. That means he's third in Class 4A in one-quarter of a state that's as big in population as North Korea and Australia and bigger than the Netherlands and Romania.
"Three or four weeks ago,"
BURNET—A year ago, Wyatt Casey exchanged his track uniform for a 7-on-7 jersey, owning a slight edge to become the Llano High quarterback for the 2014 season. It took one night to see that Casey's arm was not as strong as his legs, and the QB job went to Holden Simpson.
On May 4, the coaches' hopes were both realistic and much higher that this time Mighty Casey would not strike out, and he would concretize his role as quarterback for the 2015 campaign.
Horseshoe Bay—In the long and storied athletic journey of the University of Texas, one of the greatest coaches was Jody Conradt. Looking like she could return to the bench she left eight years ago, Conradt told Horseshoe Bay Sports Club members, "You've got to bring a group together," to form a winning team.
