Waxahachie ISD celebrated its 23rd annual D.E.A.R. Day on Feb. 21 by having volunteers read to students. D.E.A.R. Day is a day where schools make time to drop everything and read. The scheduled times to read were at 8:45 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Bart Underwood came to read at his alma mater, Northside Elementary, for the 8:45 a.m. reading time. Underwood attended Northside Elementary in 1960 as a fifth-grader. He was reading to students on D.E.A.R. Day for the second time as a volunteer. This time, he read to Mrs...
