The Hemphill County Hospital District is now releasing COVID-19 test results on a weekly—rather than daily—basis. These reports will be published each week on the hospital’s Facebook page, and both online and in print in The Record, unless new positive test results warrant more immediate notification.

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.

A transmission-level power outage affected Xcel Energy customers from Borger to Canadian early Wednesday morning. The outage, which lasted less than an hour, affected at least three substations before power was restored to most customers around 3:32 am.

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