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Public Hearing Notice: The Crawford City Council will conduct a Public Hearing on the City of Crawford’s Pro-posed FY 2020-2021 budget on Monday, August 17, at 6:00 p.m. at Crawford City Hall, 6719 N Lonestar Pkwy., Crawford, Texas 76638.

“This budget will raise more total property taxes than last year’s budget by $64,082.64 or 27.2%, and of that amount $35,187.63 is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.”

If you have any questions concerning this notice, please contact Alicia Chaney, City Secretary, City Of Crawford, at 254-486-2125 or email cityofcrawford@windstream.net.

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By Hope LenamonCrawford Independent

School District will host Blast-Off 2020 from noon to 8 p.m. Monday, August 17, at the elementary and high school campuses to allow stu-dents a chance to meet their teacher and have questions about the upcoming school year answered.

In order to minimize the number of people in the build-ing, elementary students at-tending classes in-person and two parents or guardians are invited to meet for a private session with the student’s teacher. After class lists are

By Charles MooneyEverything is going well

according to Head Crawford Football Coach Greg Jacobs as the Pirates prepare for their first scrimmage against Bre-mond there on Aug. 21.

“Everything is going well today,” the head mentor said. “We are just taking it one day at a time. Our first afternoon workout was scheduled Mon-day and it was also the first full contact drill.”

Varsity athletes were lift-ing weights around 3 p.m. Monday afternoon, but the af-ternoon practice for both var-sity and jayvee players was scheduled from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Pirates preparing for firstscrimmage vs. Bremond Aug. 21

Crawford ISD to ‘Blast-Off’ into New School Yearannounced, students and their guardians will be directed on how to sign up for an appoint-ment slot.

During the scheduled appointments, teachers will discuss school safety rou-tines and procedures for the day, in-school and remote learning, and provide pack-ets about attendance, sched-ules and grading. Students are welcome to bring school supplies from home and put them away. If students or-dered school supplies from the parent teacher organiza-tion, they will be waiting at the student’s desk. The lunch-

room and gym will be open to pay for lunch and learn about the library program, bus routes, after-school care and this year’s Big Kahuna Fun-draiser.

For the high school Blast-Off, students in grades 6-12 and their guardians will be scheduled alphabetically to receive locker assignments, visit with teachers and pick up supplies. Schedules will be released through Parent Portal prior to Monday. Fami-lies with elementary and high school students who wish to schedule both Blast Off visits for the same time may contact

the high school office.Monte Pritchett, princi-

pal at Crawford High School, said his students and staff are excited to get the year started, even if it looks different than normal.

“It’s been 5 months since we’ve seen these kids in the halls,” Pritchett said. “The best slogan we can have for this year is one we’ve always used… Overcome and adapt.”

All students and their guardians are asked to arrive 10 minutes before their ap-pointment time to allow for COVID-19 screening at the front door and checking of

school registration status in the office. All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a mask and must maintain 6 ft social distancing. Masks are mandatory for anyone 10-years-old and older, per state mandate. There also will be opportunities for all stu-dents and parents to sign up for PTO and Booster Club as well as purchase Pirate mer-chandise.

Students participating in remote learning are asked to call the school after August 12 to learn more about their “Blast-Off.”

“We are splitting up the varsity and jayvee groups when we lift weights,” Coach Jacobs commented. “When the varsity is lifting on Mon-day, the Jayvees will be out-side and when the Jayvees lift on Tuesday, the varsity will be working outside.”

Coach Jacobs is encour-aged at what he has been see-ing since two-a-day workouts started.

“Our athletes are ener-getic, they are motivated and they are very excited about getting ready for that first football game,” Coach Jacobs stated. “Following our Mon-day afternoon practice we will report at 8:00 a.m. Tues-

day for the morning workout.”Crawford ISD’s first day

of school is on Wednesday, Aug. 19 and Coach Jacobs said he has heard that the ma-jority of students have signed up to be there in person with some opting for the online start.

“We’ve made some progress on both sides of the football and our players are slowly getting into football shape,” the coach said. “Our full contact workouts are ag-gressive to a point. We want our athletes to hit and wrap up, but we don’t take him to the ground. Leading up to our first game our play-ers are learning concepts and

schemes and working on their conditioning.”

Coach Jacobs pointed out that the Pirates missed their first ice cream bowl scrim-mage in many years. They had originally been set to scrimmage Meridian first, but that was canceled because of Covid-19.

“Bremond will be a good test for us,” he said. “Both teams are competitive and both teams tend to expose oth-er team’s weaknesses and that is the purpose of a scrimmage. After one scrimmage it will be time to prepare for our first football game against Goldth-waite on Aug. 28 there.”

The coach is definitely

pleased with the effort of the Crawford athletes. “They are starting to pickup up new con-cepts we are installing. We will have 27 on the varsity roster so we must be able to develop depth. Many players will play on both sides of the ball, but that is the way it has been here at Crawford.”

“Conditioning will play a big role especially in the early games,” Coach Jacobs de-

clared. “We must depend on a lot of kids that step in for the starters. All of our offensive linemen will play different positions. They must know not just what their position does, but what to do in the other positions as well.”