Allen News Roundup: Bags for Gold Cornhole Tournament slated for June 10

Join Allen Police Department to celebrate and raise money for Allen Special Olympics athletes and Special Olympics Texas at noon, Saturday, June 10 at the Courtyard by Marriott in Allen, 210 E Stacy Rd.

Team Registration is $60 through the Scoreholio smartphone app only, app.scoreholio.com/link/47f6.

Each team is guaranteed four games of play. The first two games will seed each team to the lower or upper bracket based on points per round and then a double elimination tournament.

Questions can be directed to [email protected]

Allen ISD recognizes first place winners

Allen High School students recently competed and brought home numerous awards from the State UIL Academics competition. Computer Science, Science, and Spelling teams all took home 1st place and Karoline Reeves won 1st place in Ready Writing. Allen High School also won the overall school sweepstakes for conference 6A.

Individual Awards

Team Awards

UFOs and the Ancients

The translations of hieroglyphic records from the Tulli Papyrus reveal that one winter morning around the year 1482 B.C., Thutmose III, who reigned Egypt at that time first saw a fiery disks or UFOs. Are there depictions of extraterrestrial visitations among ancient civilizations? In ancient art? Listen to Stratton Horres and Alex Macon at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8 at the Allen Public Library. Admission to the program is free, and it will be web-casted live at https://actv.org/ by clicking on the WATCH button.

Stratton Horres, trial attorney, and published author on the divine goddess mystique. He is the co-author of Showing Up: An Action Plan for Personal Growth & Following Your Bliss, author of I Am You Are Me, and Using The Legal Deposition to Find Your Own Truth.

The library is located at 300 N. Allen Dr. Call 214-509-4911 for further information.

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Winston Henvey is the reporter for the Mesquite News, Allen American and Plano Star Courier. Email him with story suggestions at [email protected].

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