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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Mercedes Enterprise
Superintendent’s Corner
The Second Front Page
Columns, Features, LETTERS
Walter M. Watson
Superintendent
Mercedes Public Schools
From My Perspective...
By Duke Martell
In Honor of Our Veterans
Estimado publico and all my
loyal readers. Because of our
world renowned national holi-
day, which we celebrate every
May, I thought that it would be
proper and fitting to share with
everyone the restyled copy of
Glennville Sentinel, the local niversary, my compadrito
newspaper in Glennville, Ga., Roberto Hinds and I decided
the small town, where I was to change the position of the
living at the time. American Flag on my poetic
I later sent Robert Hinds a composition.
copy of that newspaper and
later it also appeared here in
The Mercedes Enterprise.
For those who don’t know it,
my patriotic and inspirational Roberto was the first person to
Today, my loyal readers, in
observance of Memorial Day
I am pleased to share with ev-
eryone this poetic inspiration.
An inspiration which I now
Last Tuesday morning Mrs. is anticipated to be sometime
Chavez and I were invited to in mid to late June.
attend a Parental session at Esto es para los que no son
the High School that was the lectores y oradores del ingles,
brainchild of Ninfa Oviedo El martes pasado, por la ma-
and Mary Cano. nana, la Sra. Chavez y yo fui-
It was well attended by mos invitados a asistir a una
parents who are coming on a clase para los padres de fa-
scheduled basis to the High milia en la escuela secundaria,
School to learn both English que fue la idea de Sra. Ninfa
and Spanish. Oviedo y Sra. Maria Cano.
These parents are mostly Estaba muy bien atendido
non-English speaking and por los padres que estan lle-
have a tremendous desire to be gando de forma programada
Bilingual English and Span- a la Escuela Secundaria para
ish. On Tuesday, they either aprender ambos idiomas, el
read their own version of their Ingles y el Espanol.
biography or from one of the La mayoria de estos padres
Library Books that is being no entienden ingles y tienen
composition, “Let Her Fly.” get a signed copy of “Let Her officially dedicate to all our
Last year in July of 2008, Fly.”
was the 10th anniversary of its
inception, which occurred in
the little town of Belle Glade,
Fla.
It wasn’t til a year later that
To this day it still hangs in
the office of The Enterprise,
American Veterans, to all who
have served their country dur-
ing all these years -- to those
right where he placed it. He who paid the ultimate price,
once told me that his favor- In advance, I say to you, Di-
ite line was the last one; God osito los bendiga,
it made its first debut on July bless.
1,1999. And so my friends, last year,
It was published in The in observance of its tenth an-
A servant of His,
DUKE MARTELL
used to teach them English.
Both Mrs. Chavez and I
were so impressed at their ad-
vancement and their willing-
ness to learn English. Almost
all had small infants with them
and many have children in our
system. It is their spoken goal
to be able to help their children
with their homework and stud-
ies.
Now that is parental in-
volvement with an exclama-
tion point! As a District, we
need to learn from this event,
that the path to success in
un enorme deseo de ser bil-
ingue en ingles y espanol. El
martes, tenian que leer su pro-
enfoque del aprendizaje de in-
gles como su segunda idioma
para todos nuestros estimados
padres de todos los ambitos y
edades. Voy a comenzar este
plan tan pronto como me dirijo
a mi oficina y regreso a ser di-
rector de programas federates
para los padres y estudiantes
que se preve ser en mediados
a fines de junio.
Muchas gracias y que Dios
los bendiga a todos Uds.
■ *****
Lady Tigers on the prowl
Tuesday night met up with
arch rival Calallen Lady Wild-
cats in their den to decide the
Bi-District Championship.
Our very young team fought
a much bigger and more ex-
perienced Lady Wildcat team
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“LET HER FLY”
Dedicated to the American Veterans
Let her colors grace the sky,
Let the people see her fly.
Praise the colors of the red, the white, and blue,
Our soldiers died for her, for me, and you.
The flag that’s called by all, ‘Old Glory’
is now an institution, so unique with its’own story. ‘
She represents the freedom and respect she earned,
In wars so costly, now the lessons learned.
She flew in many wars, so brilliantly, so proud,
and her presence there was well felt, no doubt.
She flew in war, abroad as well as here at home,
now her honor and her pride is wide world known.
She represents America, she represents the dream.
What our forefathers had once visioned, we have slowly seen.
For her, a lot of good men gave their lives;
for freedom and for peace, that was the price.
She is the symbol of a freedom world,
still as beautiful, as when she first unfurled;
displayed in every town and city in the U.S.A.
magnificently waving ... any given day.
No other flag has ever been more recognized,
nor more respected or even idolized,
as that of our united fifty states ...
They say she even flies at Heaven’s gates.
By DUKE MARTELL
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pia version de su biograffa o all the way to the end of the
leer de uno de los libros de la game. All I can say is that ev-
biblioteca que se utilizan para eryone needs be warned that
aprender el ingles. next year, the Lady Tigers will •
La Sra. Chavez y yo es- Roar! And this was supposed
tabamos tan impresionados to be a “rebuilding year” at
por su avanzo y su voluntad best, according to the RGV
de aprender ingles. Casi todos Media at the beginning of the
de los participantes tenian sus 2009 campaign. •
ninos pequenos con ellos y The Boys Tiger Baseball
muchos tambien tienen hijos Team with a district 2nd seed
en nuestro sistema escolar. hosted the Alice Coyotes to
Tienen un objetivo de poder Game 1 of the 2009 Baseball
the classroom starts from the ayudar a sus hijos con sus tar-
home and the interventions
provided by the parents.
I was so inspired by this
event that I have already com-
mitted myself to champion the
ESL approach to learning for
eas y estudios.
jEsto es la participacion de
Bi-District Championship.
Once again, our Mercedes
High School students have
los padres de familia con sig- brought a lot of pride to the
no de exclamacion! Asf como community. This Superin-
distrito, tenemos que aprender tendent appreciates you Tiger
de este evento, que el camino
all of our non-English speak- hacia el exito en el salon de
ing parents from all areas and clase, se inicia desde el hogar
ages. I will begin this plan y en las intervenciones previs-
as soon as I turn in my office tas por los padres.
keys and return back with the Estaba yo, tan inspirado por
Federal Programs offerings to este evento, que ya estoy com-
the parents and students which prometido para defender el
fans more than you will ever
know.
Walter N. Watson, Educa-
dor Para la Vida
Educateur de la vie
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 20, 2009, newspaper, May 20, 2009; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1655767/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.