EDC executive director resigns, set to retire

By LYNETTE SOWELL Polo Enriquez, executive director of the Copperas Cove Economic Development Corporation, tendered his resignation to the board, with his last day on the job being today. Enriquez is retiring, and he said his family has already moved to their new home in the Olympia, Wash. area.

DAWG HOUSE

  By PAMELA GRANT A flood of incoming freshmen and their parents poured into the Lea Ledger Auditorium in order to get a head start on their journey through high school. The Copperas Cove High School hosted its  annual Dawg House Welcome Monday morning.

Two more file for spots on November ballot

By LYNETTE SOWELL The city is two weeks into its fourweek filing time period when it accepts  applications for positions on the November ballot, this year for two places on the city council and the position of  mayor.

Families participate in Kiddo identification card program

By DAVID J. HARDIN On Saturday, children and their parents filled the Navy Federal Credit Union in Copperas Cove for the Kiddo Identification Card Program.

Groups ‘Stuff the Bus’ to help CCISD students

By KATHLEEN STARLING Copperas Cove Wal-Mart and Star Group- Veterans Helping Veterans kicked  off the “Stuff the Bus” school supply drive Friday morning with a ribbon cutting, balloon release and a $1,000 donation  of school supplies from Wal-Mart.

Copperettes dancing their way to new season

By LYNETTE SOWELL The 27 members of the Copperas Cove High School Copperettes had the chance to show off their newest routines to friends and family after the end of auditions and summer camp last week.

CCISD at-risk students get boost of school supplies

By WENDY SLEDD Fifty-five percent of Copperas Cove ISD students qualify for the free and reduced meal program. Many of these students’ families may find it challenging to afford school supplies.

COWBOY ARCHAEOLOGIST

By LYNETTE SOWELL   Jerry Jewell, pastor of Living Hope: Church in the Field, never expected that a summer undergraduate course seven years ago to satisfy a degree requirement would turn into a years’ long passion.

Cove FFA Chapter elects new officers, lauded for efforts

By WENDY SLEDD Special to Leader-Press   Daniel West made his senior year one to remember.  At the helm of the local FFA chapter, he led as both a role model and a peer.

Refresh-ed look for going back to school

By KATHLEEN STARLING Cove Leader-Press Ashley Lyons and Pamela Harbert Ekizian of Refresh hosted an all-day, back to school event Saturday at the spa on E. Ave. D. Three workshops throughout the day provided color matching and stepby- step make-up application education.