Jessie Hall and her dog CarlieHall family struggles with serious disease afflicting daughter
By Erin Cooper
The Community News
When the Hall family took one final weekend trip before school started last August, they could never have imagined that their lives were about to change forever.
While sailing on Lake Texoma with friends, the group had taken a break for a short lunch in the middle of the lake. It was then that their youngest child, daughter Jessie, suffered a sudden attack that had never been witnessed before.

FORT WORTH - The following is a schedule and teams who are scheduled to participate in the annual Hill School Tourney to be played from Friday through Saturday, Aug. 23-25. Hill School is located at 4817 Odessa Avenue, in Fort Worth, 76133:

POOL A:
Aledo Christian
Bethesda
Christian Life Prep
Hill School
Trinity Christian Academy

POOL B:
Arlington Fellowship
Christway
Happy Hill
Lucas Christian

"I solemnly swear . . ,"
Mayola Lasater

Aledo resident Mayola Lasater takes place on board

By Albert D. Villegas
The Community News
WEATHERFORD — One of Mayola Lasater’s first acts as a newly sworn-in Weatherford College Place 6 trustee recently was to approve a preliminary 2007 tax rate on behalf of the school for residents, an amount that was lowered compared to last year.

Collegiate funding
Albert D. Villegas/The Community News
NFL Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright poses with grant recipients and/or their family members during an awards ceremony at Los Vaqueros Restaurant in Willow Park Sunday, July 1 in which recent graduates received collegiate grants. Jeannette DeVader, Wright's publicist, said over $30,000 in grant money was awarded to 14 various graduates from Parker County through donations. For more information on the event, see the July 6, 2007 issue of The Community News.

Message from the President of Weatherford College,
Dr. Joe Birmingham:

We join the nation in mourning in the aftermath of the tragedy at Virginia Tech Monday. We extend our sympathy to their entire university community and, especially, to the victims themselves, and we offer our most sincere condolences to the families of those lost and injured. As college and university colleagues – and, most importantly, as human beings - we share in their grief and despair.

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Trinity Christian Academy student Carter Skaggs was among classmates promoting TCA night at McDonald's in Willow Park today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The local restaurant has pledged 15 percent of all sales during those hours to the capital funds campaign at the school. More information will be in the Feb. 23, 2007 issue of The Community News.

By Albert D. Villegas
The Community News
WEATHERFORD — The Weatherford College administration and trustees are going to develop ideas and an eventual plan on how to come up with a local policy regarding revenue from gas wells located on campus property.
The non-action item was discussed in great detail during a Wednesday noon meeting of the board of trustees. One of its own, Roger Grizzard, said he thought the administration’s stance on not being totally depended on gas revenues for college development was a sound approach.

Steven Goalen rallies Aledo fans before last week's game against Weatherford. Photo by Albert Villegas - The Community News.

By Lindsay Marshall
The Community News
It’s Friday afternoon and, for some families, their house becomes quiet respite after a long work week. But the Goalen household greets high school boys ready for action.

In an official signing ceremony May 31, Weatherford College president and the provost of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville formalized an agreement between the two institutions making it easier for WC students to transfer to SHSU.
Agreement features include online articulation, joint admission, reverse transfer for the associate degree, and joint advising (including the ability of Weatherford advisers to access Weatherford transfer transcripts and degree plans directly off the SHSU system via the Web).