Michael Parrie, school director, had been making the rounds among the various presentations and presenters when he met Jones coming in the door. He asked Jones why he was out and about if he wasn’t feeling well.
“Because I had to be here,” said Jones. Jones had appeared as part of the school’s annual open house, a day when students and staff at the school meet others throughout their community to learn from each other.
  
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“I wouldn’t recommend politics,” he said. “Today it’s a contact sport. It’s rough.”
The open house began Tuesday morning with a breakfast buffet for participants on the elementary school campus. After breakfast a variety of business and community leaders gave presentations and manned informational displays throughout the school, in classrooms and common areas inside and out.
“The day is for sharing knowledge, information about careers and opportunities with the children,” Parrie said.
The open house started in 1999, he said, and has continued ever since, gaining in popularity.
“We have a good turnout, despite our normally being pretty quiet about what we do,” Parrie said.
One example of a popular presentation was held outdoors in a grassy area behind the new classrooms where former Youngsville physical education teacher George Hitter stood dressed in chaps and cowboy hat beside a grazing horse.
Cyrus D. Shortgrub, AKA “Grubbie,” stood on display for kindergarten teacher Angie Morris’s students. Hitter explained some of the basics of horsemanship, including their herd instincts and tendency to run.
“I’m trying to tell them what horses eat, and that because they’re flight animals, they like to run,” Hitter said. “When they can’t run they will fight, so be careful of their feet.”
He explained to the students that’s why it is important that when approaching a horse from the rear, let them know you’re there.
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