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Sports & Schools

JAYTON GRADUATES

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JAYTON GRADUATES Eleven seniors from Jayton High School Class of 2021 received their diplomas at Friday night’s graduation exercises.

SPUR EXES

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SPUR EXES The Spur Class of 2021 was made up of 23 seniors, all graduating Friday night, who afterwards enjoyed some colorful fun—like this group.

Spur students compete in local chess championship

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For the past two months, a new club has been meeting at the Spur school to play chess. The group meets on Monday afternoons in the cafeteria for practice and over the board games. Spur Chess has upcoming matches with other teams, and plans to play in area tournaments as they reinstituted following Covid-19 shutdowns.

SPUR SENIOR TRIP

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Last week Spur seniors and sponsors headed to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida for the Spur Senior Trip.

Spur alum receives Hardin-Simmons award

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ABILENE—Spur High School graduate Julie Beth Ferguson was awarded the J.L. Cole Scholarship at the Hardin-Simmons Social Work Banquet on April 29, 2021.

JAYTON GIRL SCOUTS

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Girl Scout Troop 7115 delivered donations of cookies as appreciation for the heroes of our community last Thursday. The girls collected these “Cookies for Heroes” donations from customers during the spring sale and honored some of those community heroes that serve and care for our town and county residents. Those honored were the Kent County EMS, the Kent County Sheriff department and the Kent County Courthouse staff. Girls also plan to deliver future donations to the Kent County rural health clinic staff, the local food pantry volunteers, and the Kent County senior citizens program staff. Cadettes Lainey Baldridge and Claire McDonald, Brownie Lorabelle Smith, Daisy MaryLyle Lackey and Leader Colbi McDonald are pictured.

JAYTON SENIOR TRIP

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On Jayton’s Senior trip the soon-to-be grads went west, including Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

SPUR STATE TRACK MEET RESULTS

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Cory Hamilton, Gunnir Bateman, Le’Zhane Walker and Craig Leary competed Saturday in Austin at the State Track Meet. The Bulldogs boys 4x200 relay finished 5th, and they finished 4th in the sprint relay.

SHS names next year's cheer squad

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CHEER SQUAD NAMED 2021–22 Spur HS Cheerleaders were announced recently: Gavin Arnold, Alyssa Fulmer, Kristen Gonzales, Sam Joplin, Bucki Smith, Emily Swaringen and Tatum Walker. The Spur Mascot is Chelsea Davis.

4X CHAMPS

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4X CHAMPS The Spur girls’ tennis team were district champs—becoming four-time district champions this in 2020–21 (cross country, basketball, track and tennis). From left, Kori Swaringen, Paige Gonzalez, Brianna Robles-Vargas, Cara Paschall, Mallory Leary and Alyssa Fulmer. (Not pictured is Anna Garza.)