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arship Fund.On Tuesday evening, Pink

Warrior Angels volunteers and supporters gathered to cut a cake and give away door prizes, with those who made a dona-tion receiving drawing tickets for a chance to win items like Starbuck’s cards, Kendra Scott jewelry, and four passes to Schlit-terbahn.

“We are here to celebrate Connor’s third heavenly birthday, and Pink Warrior Angels birth-day. Pink Warrior Angels’ and Connor’s birthday are the same day, July 16,” said Julie Moser, founder and executive director Pink Warrior Angels. “Per mom’s wishes, there has always been a birthday party for him…I talked to Connor’s mom earlier today. (The date of) his passing was just a few days ago, and even though

he is not here, he still has a great impact on our community, so the community of Copperas Cove still continues to remember him, honor him, and to help support the scholarship fund.”

The toy donation box will re-main on site through the weekend before the toys will be delivered to Dell Children’s Hospital.

Moser announced upcoming events for the group to include the August 31 registration opening for the annual Pink Warrior Dash at Wal-Mart, September which is Childhood Cancer awareness, October for breast cancer aware-ness and the annual Pink Out night, along with an upcoming fashion show with cancer survi-vors as models.

“We are bringing New York fashion week here,” Moser said.

The nonprofit rebranded ear-

lier this year and expanded to help those battling all forms of cancer, and bears the slogan “Give More, Share More, Help More.”

Moser said that the organiza-tion presently distributes approxi-mately $4,000 in financial grants to cancer patients monthly, for which there is an application pro-cess, and that the nonprofit is 100 percent volunteer-based.

The Copperas Cove Leader-Press is also continuing its sub-scription drive along with mem-bers of the Pink Warrior Angels Youth Council. For every new subscription between now and August 16, the Leader-Press will donate $5 to Pink Warrior Angels.

For more information on the scholarships, financial grants to cancer patients undergoing treat-ment, and more, visit www.pink-warriorangels.org.

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CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELLJulie Moser, founder and executive director of Pink Warrior Angels – Central Texas, says a few words during the group’s 4th anniversary celebration held at Raising Cane’s on Tuesday. The store has been collecting new, unwrapped toys to be deliv-ered to Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin.

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press

Registration for the Cop-peras Cove Independent School District’s 2019-2020 school year will take place starting Tuesday, July 23 through Friday, July 26 at the Copperas Cove High School cafeteria, for all new and returning students entering pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

All families will be able to get assistance with Skyward Family Access, free/reduced lunch applications, check shot records or get bus passes.

Parents of new students should complete the online registration at the district’s website at https://www.ccisd.com/292614_3, then click on

“new.” This will save time at CCHS.

Parents of returning students need to log in to their Skyward Family Access account and com-plete the returning student regis-tration to save time at the high school.

The schedule next week is as follows:

• Tuesday, July 23, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., (PreK-8th grade, 12th grade)

• Wednesday, July 24, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m., (PreK-8th grade, 11th grade)

• Thursday, July 25, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m., (PreK-8th grade, 10th grade)

• Friday, July 26, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., (PreK-8th grade, 9th grade)

New students must bring the

following documents to registra-tion:

• Proof of residency (also required for returning students who need to update their ad-dress)

• Immunizations• Birth certificate • Social Security card• Enrolling person’s driver’s

license or ID cardIn addition to the above, all

parents of prekindergarten stu-dents, new or returning, must also bring the required qualify-ing documents to prove eligibil-ity to participate in the prekin-dergarten program.

A child is eligible for enroll-ment in free prekindergarten if he or she is at least three years of age and unable to speak or com-

prehend the English language, or eligible to participate in the national free or reduced-price lunch program, or homeless, or the child of an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, including the state military forces or the re-serves, the child of a member of the armed forces of the United States, including the state mili-tary forces or the reserves, who was injured or killed while serv-ing on active duty, is or ever has been in foster care, or the child of a police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder seriously injured or killed in the line of duty and received the Star of Texas Award.

Parents of prekindergarten students should bring

• Income qualifier (current paycheck stub, current tax re-turn if self-employed, or current TANF or SNAP eligibility let-ter); or

• Language qualifier (Home Language Survey provided by school); or

• Military qualifier (Veri-fication of U.S. Department of Defense photo I.D., statement of service, copy of death certificate, copy of Purple Heart orders, copy of official letter from com-mander, copy of a letter from U.S. Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs, or documentation that service member is MIA).

To learn more about eligibil-ity, visit

https://tea.texas.gov/early-childhoodeducation.aspx.

Copperas Cove ISD student registration starts next week

By MARY SANCHEZ Special to Leader-Press

Martin Walker Elemen-tary Junior Historians cap-tured the Texas Elementary Junior Historians Chapter of the Year Award for the second consecutive year at the Texas Junior Histo-rian Convention in Corpus Christi. The chapter was started in the school only two years ago and remains the only elementary chapter in CCISD.

Martin Walker El-ementary teacher serves as an advisor of the organiza-tion and encourages chapter members to research topics on state or local history and to record their findings in research projects. Students may choose a project cat-egory from individual or group performance to in-dividual historical paper to group website and others according to their abilities and interests:

“These students have a love for history and en-

joy all the projects that are included in the program,”

Gorres said. ”Through these presentations, students are

exposed to skills of formal writing, public speaking, critical thinking and public performance.”

This year’s projects in-cluded the 911 occurrence, the Bermuda Triangle, the Alamo, the Farmer’s Way, and the History of Choco-late. All five projects re-ceived a medal at the state contest.

Junior Historian Mad-eline Foster researched the sweet project of how choc-olate came to be invented.

“This year, I learned a lot about cocoa or choco-late,” Foster said. “We worked hard, long, and managed to complete our projects. I give almost all the credit to my teammates though.”

During the convention, members received a private tour of the USS Lexington and the Corpus Christi His-tory and Science Museum. The tour of the historical ship was the favorite part of

the trip for student Cecilia Chavin.

“Being on that ship is an honor,” Chauvin said. “I now get to share that experi-ence with all my friends and even people I don’t know.”

Junior Historian Daisy Hernandez’s favorite part of the trip was the competi-tion.

“We got to compete with other people and that was fun,” Hernandez said. “We won second place and had fun too.”

Junior Historians is a history and service-related organization. Some of the projects the club partici-pated in which helped in its selection for chapter of the year included National Red Ribbon Week, wreath laying and wreath retrieval at the Central Texas Veter-an’s cemetery, ringing bells for the Salvation Army, and hosting a team for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event.

Martin Walker Junior Historians win Chapter of the Year Award

Courtesy PhotoMartin Walker Elementary students and advisor Teresa Gorres take a tour of the USS Lexington during the Texas Junior Historian Convention in Corpus Christi.