If you want to be a star in the kitchen, try the food & nutrition project! You will learn kitchen and cooking safety, how to prepare nutritious meals and snacks, and meal ideas to reduce your risk of disease. Learning experiences focus on nutrition, food purchasing, food preparation, food safety, and related careers.
Daingerfield’s Jaylee Barron, third from left, and Zaylon Jeter, third from right, were named Homecoming Queen and King during pregame ceremonies Sept. 18. With Barron and Jeter (from left) are second grade crown bearer Jenna Bailey, 2019 Queen Jaime Nix, Principal Tommy Stewart and second grade crown bearer Josiah Armelin. See more on Homecoming photos on pages 7 and 8. BEE PHOTO / TONI WALKER
In collaboration with the Texas Education agency (TEA), the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) today posted on the DSHS website the statewide number of cases of COVID-19 reported by Texas public schools. The reported count of on-campus student cases of COVID-19 in the state’s public schools is 2,344 out of an estimated 1.1 million students who have been on campus for instruction or activities since the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. The total count of on-campus staff cases during the same period is 2,175.
Some business owners in Texas received good news after Governor Greg Abbott announced Sept. 17 that many businesses can increase their capacity to 75 percent.
Along with Governor Abbott’s updated capacity guidelines for many Texas businesses, new visitation guidance for eligible nursing homes, assisted living facilities, intermediate care facilities, home and community-based service providers, and inpatient hospice were announced that will be effective Thursday, Sept. 24. Residents will be able to designate up to two essential family caregivers. Those designees will be provided necessary training to allow them to safely go inside a facility for a scheduled visit, including in the resident’s room. This will help ensure their loved one’s physical, social, and emotional needs are being met. Designated caregivers will not be required to maintain physical distancing, but only one caregiver can visit a resident at a time.