Monday, December 6, 2021 Corprew Canned Food Drive Corprew Christmas store Wallace Math benchmark MPJH One Act play, MPHS auditorium, 6:00 p.m. MPHS 9th grade all region band auditions Basketball MPJH Tigers 7A, 7B, 8A & 8B @ Hallsville (away), 4:30 p.m.

The Carroll Shelby Automotive Program at Northeast Texas Community College added two “new” Mustangs to its stable this week. On Monday they took delivery of a pair of 1968 Shelbys donated by Barry Smith of Legendary GT in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Though both the same model year and convertibles, one is a GT350 (white) and the other a GT 500KR (black).

The NTCC Theatre Program has presented A 1940s Christmas Carol, written and directed by Page Petrucka, Thursday and Friday, and the last performance will be today. The play will be performed at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. Show time is 7:30 p.m. each night with an additional Saturday matinee on Dec. 4 at 2:30 pm.

For the first time, two students from Harts Bluff Early College High School are advancing to the UIL State competition in Congressional Debate. Freshmen Madison Whorton and Mia Morrow claimed first and second at the regional competition on Nov. 11. The state competition will be held in Austin on January 11 and 12, 2022. The students will be competing against 32 other competitors from around the state in the 1A division.

Electronic giant Samsung announced last week that it will build a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in the Central Texas town of Taylor, about 40 miles northeast of Austin. The $17 billion investment will be the largest foreign direct investment in Texas to date and brings the company’s total investment in the state to $35 billion.

FIVE YEARS AGO: Then-MPJH seventh grader Mackenzie Lide collected donations from the community and put together “Totes for Teens” bags. FILE PHOTO.

Michael Martin Murphey will perform his beloved Cowboy Christmas show at The Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College on Monday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m.