Gary Independent School District

We are incredibly proud of our Gary FFA members for their outstanding performance at the Panola County Jr. Livestock Show last week! 🎉🐄🐖🐐

These students represented Gary ISD with hard work, dedication, and a lot of pride. If you see them around, be sure to congratulate them on a job well done! 👏

⭐ Pen of Heifers
• Caden Young – Senior Division High Point Interview

🐓 Chickens
• Hannah Yarborough – Reserve Grand Champion
• Brodey Seals – 7th in Class
• Omar Castillo – 13th in Class

🐇 Rabbits
• Kambri Benitez – 21st in Class
• Kinsley Myron – 25th in Class
• Kyleigh Woodfin – 52nd in Class
• Korbyn Woodfin – 57th in Class

🐖 Pigs
• Emma Young – 2nd in Class
• Caden Young – 6th in Class
• Aiden Laney – 4th in Class
• Michael Kennedy – 5th in Class
• Braylon Seals – 1st in Class
• Brixon Seals – 4th in Class
• Katy Kennedy – 6th in Class
• Weston Rabon – 7th in Class
• Jayden Stephenson – 1st in Class
• Jake Stephenson – 3rd in Class
• Case Rabon – 2nd in Class
• Jolie Stephenson – 3rd in Class

🐐 Goats
• Jesse Clabaugh – 2nd in Class
• Preslea Rabon – 1st in Class & Champion Junior Showman

🐂 Steers
• Jaycee Whitby – 2nd in Class & Reserve Champion Steer
• Jackson Whitby – 1st in Class

🛠 Ag Mechanics
• Aiden Laney – Blue Ribbon
• Omar Castillo – Blue Ribbon
• Cameron Shofner – Red Ribbon
• Holden Brown – Blue Ribbon
• Hunter Brown – Blue Ribbon

We are proud of each of these students for the countless hours they put into preparing their animals and projects. Your hard work truly paid off! 💙💛 #GaryFFA #PanolaCountyShow #FFAstrong

Friday's Baseball game at Joaquin will now be both JV and Varsity, with JV starting at 4:30!

The Elementary will be offering pictures with the Easter Bunny as well as Bunny-grams! The pictures will be taken on March 18th and cost $5 per picture. Parents and families can also order Bunny-Grams starting at just $1! Order forms for both can be picked up and returned to the Elementary office.

We want to give a big shout out to the students who have completed Kindergarten Zearn and are now beginning 1st grade Zearn lessons! This is a huge accomplishment that shows their hard work and dedication to learning math. Congratulations to Shank Henigan, Jensen Johnson, Jackson Haltom, Heidi Chaffin, and Wyatt Bynum from Ms. Isbell’s Class.

Next, we want to recognize the students who can count all the way to 100! This is an exciting milestone in kindergarten math, and we are so proud of their effort and practice. Way to go to Ann-Michelle Bird, Heidi Chaffin, and Kaleb Gray from Ms. Isbell’s Class, and Sawyer Tanner from Mrs. Robyn’s Class.

Finally, we want to celebrate the students who know their first 25 sight words! Learning sight words helps students become strong readers, and these students have worked hard to reach this goal. Congratulations to Heidi Chaffin from Ms. Isbell’s Class and Myles Lopez from Mrs. Robyn’s Class. Way to go, students!

Our annual Daddy-Daughter dance will be this Saturday, March 14th from 5-7PM, and last minute tickets are still available at the Elementary office for $25 per couple! Join us for a night of dancing, games, treats and more! Open to all families with girls 6th grade and younger! It is always a great time, so we hope to see you there!

Over the break, Gary Production competed in the district one act play contest and placed 1st with "picket fences" meaning that all three judges ranked them first - something that doesn't happen very often!

Individual awards were; all-star cast went to Molly Powell, Daxton Evans, and Kobi Roehl; honorable mention all-star cast went to Dakota Martin, and honor crew tech award went to Madison Smith.

The GHS OAP company will compete again on March 30th at Panola College and we hope to see you there!

Students still have time to sign up to tryout for next year's Cheerleading squad! Just a reminder, there is a mandatory parent meeting for all prospective students tonight, with JH (current 6th and 7th grade students) meeting at 6PM and the HS (current 8th through 11th) at 6:45PM!

There is a slight change to this week's baseball games. On Tuesday, March 10th, the district home game against Chireno will be Varsity only and will begin at 6PM. On Friday, there will only be a Varsity game at Joaquin at 6PM. Saturday's home games against West Rusk remain unchanged and will start with JV at 11:30AM! Come on out this week and support our boys!

Spring Sports pictures will be held on Tuesday, March 10th. If you would like to purchase photos please check out the flyer!

Weather permitting JH has a track meet in Beckville on Monday March 9. The schedule of events are below. Some athletes will be in different events than last week's meet. If you would like to know what events your student is in, please email Coach Reed a jreed@garyisd.net. We will leave the school at 1:30.

2:45 Mile and a half

4:45 All other running events

Events include:
4X100 Relay
800 m Run
100 / 110 Hurdles
100 m Dash
4 X 200 Relay
400 M Dash
300 M Hurdles
200 M Dash
1600 M Run
4 X 400 Relay

The Varsity Boys district basketball awards are in!
Congratulations to Ben Stephens and Cooper Johnson for First Team All-District!
Congratulations to Hudson Ogg for Second Team All-District!
Congratulations to Sam Colley, Cayden Price, Brannan Stevens, and Bradley Cope for Honorable Mention!
Finally, congratulations to Kohl Woodfin for Offensive Player of the Year!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Holden Brown🌟

📚 10th Grade 📚

Holden built this beautiful table! He worked very hard on it and he’d love for you to come see it and consider placing a bid on it! Check it out this Friday

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Hunter Brown🌟

📚 12th Grade 📚

Hunter built this great roll around cooler! It’s his final project as a senior and he’d love for you to come see it and consider placing a bid on it! Check it out this Friday at the expo and make sure your bids are in by 3pm!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟 Kambri Benitez 🌟

📚 8th grade 📚

This is Kambri’s 3rd year showing rabbits! She always looks forward to getting her rabbits and spends a lot of time looking after them! Kambri wants to invite you out to come check out all the ag projects and show animals!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Omar Castillo 🌟

📚 Senior 📚

Omar built this beautiful vanity! Along with ag mechanics Omar is on the forages team, and plays tennis! Come see (and bid on) this project and many others this Friday March 6th starting at 8:00 am and ending at 3:00 pm!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Hannah Yarborough🌟

📚 11th Grade 📚

Hannah has shown chickens for several years now! She has shown at Panola County and also at the Houston Livestock Show! She would love to have you come out and support her and all the other kids! The broiler show will be Wednesday March 4th at 1pm and the sale will be on Friday March 6th starting at 1pm! Hope to see you there!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟 Kaydence Baisden🌟

📚 7th Grade 📚

Kaydence is excited to invite you to the county show! This is her 4th year showing at PCJLS and her 3rd year working with lambs. She’s put in the time, the hard work, and the heart. Her and “Woody” would love your support in the ring! 🐑✨

Congratulations to our latest Habit Hero, Brandon, for thinking win-win and making sure the classroom library was cleaned and organized so everyone can get a book to read without any issues!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Evan Shadix🌟

📚 3rd Grade 📚



Evan will be showing his pig named Joe! He says it’s been a lot of work but fun also! Please come out and support him and all of these hardworking students! The swine show will start Thursday 5arch 5th at 8am and the sale will be on Friday March 6th starting at 1pm!

🚨 Showman Spotlight 🚨

🌟Brodey Seals 🌟

📚 11th Grade 📚


Brodey is a Junior at Gary High School. He serves as President of Gary FFA and is on the Varsity baseball team. This is his 7th year showing Market Broilers at the Panola County Jr. Livestock Show and the 3rd year showing at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.