The City of Austin has issued a ban prohibiting all personal and commercial use on the following waterways until noon on Monday:
🔘Barton Creek
🔘Bull Creek
🔘Lake Austin from Mansfield Dam to Tom Miller Dam
🔘Lady Bird Lake
🔘Colorado River downstream of Longhorn Dam
Join us to celebrate Dr. Barbara Herrington for a retirement reception on Tuesday, December 12 from 4-6 p.m. at the GISD Administration Building! 💜💛
Dr. Herrington's remarkable 50-year public education career includes the last 18 years as a GISD School Board trustee.
Students at Emma Roberson Early Learning Academy are collecting and crushing aluminum cans to encourage recycling. Money raised will help plant a tree on our campus. @granburyisd@emmaelem
The Texas Quote of the Day has Tom Landry, former coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Texan, describing how his B-17 ran out of gas at the end of World War II, forcing a crash landing. Great story!
“We tore up one ’17 pretty good when we ran out of gas. Our alternative airfield was in France, because at the time we didn’t have enough gas left in the tank to make it across the Channel to England. So we went to our alternate, and when we got there it was zero visibility—just totally fogged in. I don’t know how many hundreds of planes might have gone down that day trying to find their alternate field. We were skimming the treetops and the roofs of the houses, trying to find an airfield. We’d know about where it was from our navigator; he’d tell where it was, and then we’d have to drop down through the fog to find the field. Well, finally we just ran out of gas. We moved everybody to the back of the plane, cut the motors, and looked for a field to land in. But fields over there are lined with trees, not fences. We overshot the field we picked and went right into the trees. The trees knocked the wings off, and when the plane stopped, there was a tree trunk sitting about a foot in front of us where we sat as pilots. Everybody just got up and walked off the plane. Nobody got hurt because there was no gas to explode.”
------ Tom Landry in a 1981 interview with Mark Oristano
The 2023 Granbury ISD Homecoming Parade is TONIGHT at 7PM! 💜🏴☠️
The parade will start at Decker Field and will proceed from Jones Street west down Pearl Street to the high school. A spirit rally and light show display will follow at Pirate Stadium beginning at 8PM.
DID YOU KNOW: The Granbury ISD Bond Proposal includes funds that, if approved, will build a new elementary school behind H-E-B located off Old Granbury Rd and Peck Rd. Granbury ISD has not built a new elementary school since 1996.
Learn more: https://t.co/8YFQQ5p2Q8