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.

Canadian will carry an impressive 15 athletes to compete at the UIL Region I-3A track-and-field meet set for Friday and Saturday at Abilene Christian University. The Wildcats qualified two relays and two individuals, for a total of nine athletes, to try and punch their ticket to state, while the Lady Cats advanced a relay and four individuals to compete.

Canadian High School’s One-Act Play production of Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play, took its final curtain call at the Conference 3A Region 1 competition held at Clyde High School last Thursday, April 15.