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It’s harder to keep in touch with people these days. Things are opening up, but it’s going to be a while before we hop in a car and visit people the way we used to.

Despite the tsunami effect of powerful northwesterly winds—mighty enough to fell a full-growth tree at the Canadian Visitors’ Center—the city swimming pool opened on schedule Tuesday afternoon. A bluelipped smattering of kids seemed determined to defy a combo-package of overcast skies, 50 mph-plus wind gusts, and temperatures that had plunged from near-triple digits just 24 hours earlier—just to be the first in the water. We hear, though, that temperatures are on the rebound already, and should be back into the mid-90s by Thursday and nudging triple digits this weekend. Meanwhile, Carlie and Landon Renfro (at left) and Sadie Boyd are among the few who can claim bragging rights in Canadian’s version of the polar bear plunge. They braved the waters briefly before sprinting to the nearby shelter of their beach towels. In additional to toppling trees, Tuesday’s winds fueled wildfires in Donley County near Clarendon and Hartley County along US 385 and SH 354; and sparked a house fire in Stinnett that threatened other structures nearby before it was contained.

Canadian barrel racer Tamara Reinhardt has teamed up and competed with nearly a dozen different horses throughout her more than 50-year career.

On Aug. 22, 1949, Life Magazine put on its cover, Clarence Hailey Long, a working cowboy on the JA Ranch. The magazine was publishing a series of Leonard McCombe photographs on ranching in the American West.

QUILTING CLASSES

June 4, 1925