FISD holds graduation planning meeting, FHS students win awards

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In a meeting Wednesday, Fairfield Independent School District and Fairfield High School officials met to plan an official graduation ceremony for FHS seniors at Eagle Stadium, planned for May 29.

FISD Superintendent Dr. Jason Adams provided an update stating that administration is finalizing plans for a graduation ceremony based on plans from state, county and local guidelines.

“Be Eagle Strong and hang in there!,” Adams wrote.

In other FHS news, the FHS Eagle Production team took home several honors Wednesday in the UIL State ILPC (Interscholastic League Press Conference) Awards in Broadcast Journalism. The team submitted 19 total videos, with 11 of the videos placing. Students competed with all 1A-4A high schools and middle schools across the state.

Award winners are:

-General News Story: Rachel Lewis, Third Place

-General Feature Writing: Alyson Sanchez and Valeria Ramirez, First Place

-General Sports Writing: Ally Robinson and McKinna Brackens, First Place

-General Sports Writing: Ally Robinson, McKinna Brackens and Ellie Grissett, Second Place

-Feature Story: Valeria Ramirez and Alyson Sanchez, Second Place

-General News Writing: Rachel Lewis, First Place

-Documentary: Elida Espinoza and Ally Robinson, Second Place

-Sports Feature Story: Ally Robinson and McKinna Brackens, Third Place

-Sports Feature Story: McKinna Brackens, Third Place

-Production/Commercial/PSA: Valeria Ramirez, First Place

-Special Coverage: Rachel Lewis and Ellie Grissett, Second Place

Other Notes:

-Fairfield Elementary School locker clean-out is scheduled for next week, with students required to be accompanied by an adult. Social distancing guidelines will be followed during the day. Classrooms will be locked, with only a few volunteers on campus those days.

Clean-out times will be Monday, May 11 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Tuesday, May 12 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday, May 13 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students can also pick-up medicines and return library books during this time.

-Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick released a statement Wednesday on the completion of the “Texans Back to Work Task Force Report,” which “is a blueprint for re-opening Texas 100%.” The Task Force presented its final report to Patrick Wednesday, with the report “help[ing] leadership and business prepare for Texas once again to be the number one job creator in the nation.”

“During these enormously difficult times, businesses across Texas are looking for answers on how to rebuild and the Task Force provided them,” Patrick said. “This report will help get Texans back to work and make our economy stronger than ever. I am very proud of what they have done.”

Task Force Chair Brint Ryan handed in the report, and is confident in the team’s ability to bring back the state’s economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Using the knowledge gained since the pandemic began, the Task Force strongly believes that business owners can use their creativity and ingenuity not only to formulate safe and effective protocols for their businesses to stay open, but also to rebuild the economy that has been devastated by the pandemic,” Ryan said Wednesday.

-Governor Abbott’s “Phase One” of the Texas economy re-opening will add some additional businesses to the list of those returning to operation Friday, pending certain conditions. The Governor’s updated executive order adds establishments where licensed cosmetologists or barbers practice their trade, provided establishments ensure at least six feet of social distancing between operating work stations.

This includes establishments such as cosmetology salons, hair salons, barber shops and nail salons/shops, as well as tanning salons.