Canadian River Valley Pioneer Museum board members hosted a going away luncheon last Friday for departing employees Wendy Wright, museum director, and Elizabeth Escamilla, her administrative assistant. Wright has worked at the museum since 2016—first as administrative assistant to then-director Lisa Hanbury, and for the last three years, as director.

I used to have a friend who lived in Paris. Paris is expensive. Angel bought the largest apartment she could afford, and it was tiny. But, because it was in Paris, she had a lot of visitors. Friends and family came to see her, and in order to get to her place and back, they would take the subway.

Panic buying ensued last week when word got out that there may be a shortage of turkeys and canned pumpkin this year. My supermarket’s shelves were picked clean by the time I walked in. I saw one man commandeering a shopping cart filled with three turkeys. This week, things have settled down. Today, the same supermarket was fully stocked, and customers were shopping as usual. No one was stockpiling sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, or dinner rolls. Dillard’s, Target, Walmart, and Home Depot are fully stocked and ready to sell merchandise at bargain prices long before Black Friday.

CMS sixth-grader Rankin Proffitt won the Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA) Junior Youth Cow Horse competition held last Friday, Nov. 12, at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex. The event was held in conjunction with last weekend’s 26th World Championship Ranch Rodeo, and the first-ever Youth WRCA Ranch Rodeo.