Time for Plan C, which is really Plan A

The important message here is that I will be taking Lady Aislinn as a protege 10 minutes after the first court of the day at Coronation ends Saturday.

 We will do it right in the vicinity of court. We will send someone to the kitchen to let folks know.

Ignore any previous notes on the topic.

I had initially thought I had to do it before court, because I thought I was scheduled for a football game Saturday.

When the boss asked for my weekend availability, I looked back at the note I sent him at the beginning of the season and discovered I had planned ot take the day off for Coronation.

Yay!

So I will be  there all day.

If you want to donate anyhting for the Royal Travel Fund auction next week at KWAR/KWCS, please bring it.

If you want to donate to the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics, i will have forms, and you can see me there.

Yay!

We're six donations short of a teapot

Here's the link to the team page -- please donate to one of us if you would.

Liam

Another goodnews high school football story . . .

See the rest of the story at USA Today

Once homeless as a player, high school assistant now giving back

 

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — Eight years ago, when Wichita Falls High School assistant football coach Marcus Shavers was a high school freshman in Allen, he asked his football coach a question that changed his life forever.

"Could I bring a blanket and pillow and live in the school's locker room?" he asked. Shavers explained his mother was moving back to some housing projects, a place where he had once lived but vowed never to return. He didn't plan to join her.

The coach, taken aback, told Shavers they'd figure something out.

When the boy left, the coach turned to his defensive coordinator and said, "I almost think that kid was serious."

His request to bunk in the locker room was overheard by the father of another defensive lineman, Tyler Francisco. Larry Francisco ran a tax accounting firm that sat behind the school's football field. He often came outside, stood in the late afternoon sun and watched his son's practices.

"I know that boy a little bit," Francisco said. Shavers had played alongside his son as a child. "And he's serious. If the UIL would agree to it, and if it doesn't break any rules, my wife and I have an extra bedroom, and we'd be more than happy to have him live with us."

Francisco and his wife, Denise — both Wichita Falls High School alums from the Class of 1971 — ultimately gave Shavers his first tie to Wichita Falls High School, long before he created his own tie when he began his teaching and coaching career there in August.

As it turned out, the family gave Shavers a home throughout his high school years, "and he still stays with us when he comes back in town," Francisco said. "Marcus is one of our kids now."