Education Aligned For A Better Outcome
the Lady Cougar Flag Football Team hosted a Youth Clinic for the schools in the WHHS pyramid. The kids were great and had so much fun. Our Cougars were awesome with the younger ones and were so patient and supportive. It was a huge success and we look forward to the next one.
Shout out to Dina Hazelwood who brought her grand-kids! It was great to have an alumni out supporting our Flag Football Team. Go Cougars!
Congratulations to three of our finest Cougars, Aaron Martin, RJ Moilan and Keyon Butler who signed with the University of Central Missouri Mules to play football. Click on the videos to watch the signing ceremony and listen to their achievements. #Mul23Brothers
On February 27, 2023, Alliance volunteers built 575 grocery bags to provide to students at WHHS, as well as Leonard, Luella Merrett and Waverly Park middle schools during Spring Break. Additionally, LVTRise built grocery bags for Western Hills Elementary and Western Hills Primary schools.
Thank you to LTVRise for financing the cost of the groceries, and the WHHS JROTC, Band members, Cheerleaders, Soccer team, student volunteers and alumni who came early at 7am to help setup the food line. Way to go Cougars!
Congratulations to Weldon Cannon, Western Hills’ first All State Choir Cougar in 13 years! Way to go, Weldon!
On January 6, 2023, The Kimbell hosted their first student show for the first time in the 50-year history of the Art Museum. Four Western Hills students, Rachel Hickey, Carlos Moran, Jimmy Rangel and Karen Rascon were selected to participate in this student show. Their art was displayed until January 29th.
In November, Patty Pressley took some students to the Kimbell for the Murillo exhibition and art-making session based on that show. The students had only 45 minutes to paint their picture and only had one color plus black, white and brown to use.
This is our 6th school year and families continue to need help feeding kids over the holidays. Again, we had the right amount of bags. We had so many helpers getting bags inside the school. JROTC, Student Council, Trainers, Athletes and Coaches. Everyone pitched in, including our volunteers and alumni volunteers. Wishing all of our Cougars, Faculty & Staff, Alumni and Community Volunteers, a wonderful holiday season.
Southern Painting of Fort Worth noticed a need and repainted the Western Hills High School Baseball Team’s Facility-Hightower Field. Our facility now proudly displays a fresh coat of paint and is ready for the upcoming season. Shout out to Southern Painting Fort Worth and their fantastic employees who gave Tower Field a a much needed makeover! Thank you so much.
The Fort Worth Report has written a heartwarming article about three WHHS football players who have been accepted to The University of Central Missouri with the help of The Cougar Price Alliance and LTVRise; two of many nonprofit organizations who are making a difference in the lives of local residents. Please click on the photo to read the article.
Executive Director Patty Pressley was recently recognized with a Community Service Award by the Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution at the society’s State Conference in Dallas.
Patty has worked tirelessly to ensure that the Alliance remains successful. Her never ending efforts to personally assist the students at WHHS is very much appreciated by students, parents, faculty and the community. Congratulations on a well earned honor, Patty! You certainly deserve it!
The CPA Operations Leadership Team is looking for a Volunteer Account/Bookkeeper, a position we need to fill to make our future financial support sustainable. CPA uses Intuit QuickBooks® as its bookkeeping software. A summary of the position is as follows:
Total time commitment for this volunteer positions is expected to be 8-10 hours per month. The position will report to Board Director Saralyn Vance Carrillo.
The CPA Operations Leadership Team is looking for a volunteer to be our lead grant writer, a position we need to fill to make our future financial support sustainable. A summary of the position is as follows:
Total time commitment for this volunteer positions is expected to be 4-8 hours per month. This position will report to Board Chair Shawn Doherty.
Our RISE Program (Special Ed) has started RISE and GRIND, their coffee delivery service for the Faculty & Staff. This will teach the students how to make coffee and tea and also intake money. The funds from this project will take the students on much needed field trips. A generous donor of the Cougar Pride Alliance made this dream come true and our hope is that they can self sustain with the support of faculty and staff purchasing drinks.
A message from their teacher, Ms Haley: Good morning! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who ordered from us and made our first day of RISE and Grind a success! I wish you all could order and see the faces of our students beaming with excitement to get to have this opportunity.
As we move into our 6th year of existence, we are on a purposeful trek to strengthen and diversify the board of directors for the foundation (now called Cougar Pride Alliance) with a particular emphasis on adding directors with deep non-profit experience. Today, we are pleased to announcehas joined our board effective September 1st. We fully expect that Schavion’s passion, energy, and know-how will make our mission more sustainable as move into the new school year.
