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The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Agriculture Department will host a Trees of the Northeast: Selection, Care and Planting Workshop Saturday, Oct. 28. This informative session will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Ag Complex located across FM 1735 from the main ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ campus. Led by Dave Wall, the $10 class will cover a lecture, materials and hands-on planting at the college farm, as well as lunch. Space is limited to 20 recipients, so please RSVP to Rene? McCracken, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Ag Director, at 903-434-8267 or rmccracken@ntcc.edu.

Brenda Godoy recently became the second student in the history of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ to speak alongside professorial scholars at a meeting of a professional association. She appeared at the East Texas Historical Association on October 13 at Galveston, wedged between a prize-winning author who was a former journalist for the†Dallas Morning News and a professor at Blinn College.

The community is invited to join ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ for a Campus Dedication event as it celebrates the completion of a major renovation project. The event will be held Thursday, Oct. 26 on the main campus plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., with remarks at 12:15 p.m. Lunch will be provided and guests are encouraged to explore the campus and check out the many changes implemented over the past two years.

Voters approved the funds for the project in 2015 and work began in 2016.

Theatre Northeast, the student theatre group of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ, will present the play Killer Halloween by Dennis SneeOctober 26-29 at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. The thriller/comedy will provide the right amount of scares and laughs for the season.

Set on Halloween in the small Midwestern town of Shudderville, where for on each of the preceding seven Halloweens, one or more Shudderville teenagers has been stabbed, slashed, bludgeoned, strangled, dismembered, disemboweled or otherwise killed in a really icky way. The killer remains at large.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students Alicia Cantrell, Rachel Jordan and Cassidy Watkins are three of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2017 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.

The Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray educational expenses while enrolled in associate degree programs. Scholars are also encouraged to assume leadership roles by participating in Society programs and are selected based on scholastic achievement, community service, and leadership potential.

It?s time to put on your best Halloween costume, dust off your trick-or-treat basket and head out to ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ for the 30th annual Scare Affair.

The event is from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21st on the plaza of the main ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ campus (located on FM 1735 near Chapel Hill ISD). There will be free candy for all trick-or-treaters, low-cost games for all ages, a costume contest with cash prizes and much more! A haunted house will be open until 10:30 p.m.

?Scare Affair is ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ?s biggest community event of the year.

Rodeo fans will get to see more than 300 athletes from throughout the Southern Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) compete for points and prizes next weekend as ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ its 25th annual rodeo. The event will be held October 20-21 at the Pittsburg Rodeo Arena on HWY 271 N in Pittsburg.

Rodeo action will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Night and at 1 p.m. on Saturday Afternoon.

Honors students at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ recently traveled to Fort Worth for the program?s 21^st semester day trip. The fall experience included stops at Starbucks, the Fort Worth Zoo, the Woodshed Smokehouse, the Fort Worth Cultural district museums, the Botanical Garden and Tarrant County College. These free trips, through the ongoing support of Drs. Jim and Paula Archer and other friends of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ, have become a standard feature of the honors program since 2008.

Those attending the trip (top to right and down to right) were Dr.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Presidential Scholar, Alicia Marie Cantrell, has won the 2017†Dr. Jerry Wesson†Award.†This $200 prize, supported by an anonymous donor, commemorates the leadership and initiative of Wesson, an award-winning educator, writer, and facilitator of educational opportunities at ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ.