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ALBUQUERQUE, NM—On Jan. 30, a fire was reported at the Lake Marvin recreation area of the Black Kettle Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands. The fire destroyed the structure known as Cabin No. 2.

The consolidated polling place in the CHS foyer will open at 7 am on Saturday for voters casting ballots in races for seats on the Hemphill County Hospital and Canadian ISD boards. Four candidates are vying for three open seats on the Hemphill County Hospital District board of directors.

THE TREES WERE ALIVE, Tuesday afternoon, as a raucous flock of yellow-headed blackbirds in the midst of migration startled residents in the relatively quiet neighborhood of Santa Fe Avenue. They flew en masse from one neighborhood tree to another, swooped down to the pavement below for a snack, then rose to seek sanctuary in the branches overhead, before a helicopter passing over town dislodged them again.

The Hemphill County’s Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is hosting the fourth beef cattle conference on April 27-28. This year’s theme, “Restoring the Roots,” was originally scheduled for April 2020 but subsequently canceled due to COVID-19. Andy Holloway, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural-resources agent for Hemphill County believes the theme will have even more meaning now, as the nation and the region restores itself after the market and logistical disruptions experienced this past year.

School trustees last Tuesday explored ways to expand the district’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and to offer students course content that not only meets rigorous academic standards but also prepares them for further education and careers in commonly practiced or emerging professions.

Following Monday evening’s meeting, CASA volunteer and advocate Ashlee Talley (center) poses with fellow city council members Gary Prater, Jonathan Frederick, Ben Needham, Wendie Cook, and Mayor Terrill Bartlett, along with City Manager Joe Jarosek and City Secretary Kimberly Sloat, following approval of a proclamation honoring Child Abuse Awareness Prevention Month. “It is sad that we have so many kids who are subjected to child abuse,” she said, adding a personal appeal to residents of Canadian to consider becoming CASA volunteers. There are currently no active volunteers here, she said, but there are two in Lipscomb County. “Most of our volunteers are out of Pampa or Wheeler,” she said, adding, “We do finally have one foster home here, which is great.” Talley thanked the city for being a huge CASA supporter, to which Councilwoman Wendie Cook added, “We assume [child abuse] doesn’t happen here, but it does.” Cook’s motion to approve the proclamation was unanimously approved.