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On Friday, Oct. 16, a 2015 Buick Encore traveling south on Third Street, entered the intersection at Main. The driver failed to yield the right-of-way to an eastbound Ford pickup, driven by a city of Canadian employee. The Buick broadsided the pickup. The collision caused minimal damage to the pickup, and extensive damage to the front of the Buick. No injuries were reported as a result of the accident. The driver, a juvenile, was cited for failure to yield right-of-way. PHOTO BY CHERI SMITH

Firefighters from several area fire departments were dispatched Sunday afternoon to provide mutual aid to a wildfire in Roberts County, which, at last report burned 11,520 acres of land, threatened 10 structures and two ranch compounds, and temporarily closed FM 283.

WHEN: Early voting began Tuesday, Oct. 13, and runs through Friday, Oct.

Just 19 days remain until absentee, early, and in-person Election Day ballots will be tallied in one of the most contentious U.S. elections since 1876. Bitterly-divided partisan voters, having staked their poles-apart positions, will determine this country’s direction for the next four years, amidst an economic crisis fueled by an ongoing public health emergency.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The loss of oilfield jobs and related businesses—combined with the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns—began to take a dramatic toll on Hemphill County in August. Canadian saw its job count drop from 1,884 in August 2019, to 1,721 in August 2020—a decline of 8.7 percent, or 163 jobs. The national average is a loss of 6.4 percent of all jobs.

Hemphill County Hospital District reported 33 new positive COVID-19 tests in this county in the last seven days, from October 8-14, and seven positives in out-of-county residents. These numbers include the results of COVID-19 testing performed by HCH’s Laboratory Department.

The following questions were submitted by The Canadian Record to each City Council candidate, with an invitation to respond. They are published here as a public service by this newspaperto help each voter cast an informed ballot in the Nov. 3 General Election.

Hemphill County reached a new milestone this week. The hospital district reported on Wednesday that the number of positive coronavirus tests in this county had reached 100. Of those cases, over a quarter were deemed active cases at midweek, with 74 recovered, 1 still pending, and 774 negatives. No COVIDrelated deaths have been reported.

The number of new COVID-19 infections remained steady last week in rural America, but troubling levels of new infections placed an additional 68 rural counties on the White House red-zone list—an indication indicating that authorities in those counties need to do more to control the spread of the virus.