Cove Education Foundation to award highest amount in history

 Special to Leader-Press  The numbers continue to climb. Forty-three applications from educators with innovative teaching methods poured in to the Copperas Cove Education Foundation this year as compared to 30 last year. More applications means more money will be awarded.

VFW honors teachers, students

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   The Copperas Cove Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8577 honored teachers and students on Saturday, naming winners of the Voice of Democracy and Patriot Pen contests, as well as the Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher awards.

Elementary schools hold yard sales, fun runs

By PAMELA GRANT Dozens of kids and their parents showed up to participate in House Creek Elementary’s fun run, buy yard sale items, and get Kiddo Cards for their children.   House Creek’s PTA hosted the yard sale and fun run Saturday morning.

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By KATHLEEN STARLING PAR Guns held a free survival class Saturday, 11 a.m. at Ogletree Gap Park. These classes, held the second Tuesday of every month, are free and open to the public.

Five Hills Art Guild completes second mural project

The Five Hills Art Guild is having an unveiling of its newest completed mural on Saturday, Nov. 28, at 8:45 a.m.   The mural is a set of three six-by-six-foot panels and will be mounted to the front wall of Preferred Plaza, located at 2210 E. Bus. 190.

Cove VFW honors CCISD teachers, students on Saturday

By WENDY SLEDD Special to Leader-Press   Copperas Cove ISD teachers and students compete for top military honors at VFW Post #8577 on Saturday.

Veterans Day Tribute and new trustee begins tenure at CCISD board meeting

By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press   Tuesday Night at the Copperas Cove Independent School District administration building, the CCISD board of trustees met for their November meeting, only this time with a new member, Harry Byrd.

Fairview-Jewell students hold veterans parade, reception

By LYNETTE SOWELL Saturday’s Veterans Day parade might have been rained out, but Fairview-Jewell Elementary students had their own parade of veterans on Tuesday morning.

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By LYNETTE SOWELL Members of the Browning Community Garden Club along with the Killeen Garden Club gathered on Veterans Day at 11 a.m. beside the Blue Star Memorial, located on the Clear Creek Access Road near the corner of Washington St.   Ret.

Thousands give tens of thousands to hospitalized Fort Hood “hug lady”

By LYNETTE SOWELL Elizabeth Laird, known to thousands of soldiers as “The Hug Lady,” has been hospitalized for more than a week now at Metroplex Hospital.   Laird’s son, Rick Dewees of Copperas Cove, said Tuesday morning his mother was in ICU and had tachycardia.