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The FHS Wind Ensemble Wins Best in Show at the Peak Music Festival

A review of the 2022 2023 Forney High School Band season shows a group of students who excelled in their craft and brought home multiple honors to their school and community. In the Fall, the Marching Band received a top ten ranking in the State UIL Marching Contest. The Percussion Ensemble was given the honor of playing a showcase concert at the prestigious Percussive Arts Society Convention in Indianapolis. At the final competition of the season, the Wind Ensemble, walked away with top honors at the Peak Music Festival in Richardson.

Play Your Hand

You have to work with what you have. You have to play the hand you have been dealt. You have to make the best of your circumstances. Complaining about your situation is unproductive and a complete waste of time.

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Linda Brinlee learns to fish in order to teach the skill to 4-H kids while volunteering with the Texas 4-H program of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. (Courtesy photo)

Texas 4-H Volunteer Believes in the Program’s Future Opportunities

Thirty-two years and going strong as a Texas 4-H volunteer, Linda Brinlee may have been trained as an electrical engineer, but her heart belonged to the 4-H program once she found it.

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A new strawberry variety being tested in the Dallas Fort Worth area has a more compact canopy with increased flower and fruit development. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Russ Wallace)

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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulturalist Russ Wallace, Ph.D., holds a test field strawberry plant’s berries in his hand. Most of the berries are large and red, but a few smaller green berries are also on the plant. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Susan Himes)

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Strawberry plants on right were protected from the cold and are farther along than those on the left that were not covered. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Russ Wallace)

Texas Strawberry Season Better Than Recent Years

Texas strawberry growers expect better yields and quality following back-toback disappointing seasons, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

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