SMITHVILLE — No better way to celebrate pay day than with a good meal.Work from faculty, staff and children earned a $30,000 grant for Smithville Independent School District. They along with parents marked the occasion with an open house at Smithville Elementary School, which concluded with cooking demonstration and tasting.“The kids enjoyed it,” said Superintendent Cheryl Burns. “I think many of them were a little questioning themselves as far as whether they were going to try the spaghetti, but after taking it out of the squash and they thought that was fun and then of course when they put the ...