After announcing on March 18 that the Canadian Community Center was closing due to the coronavirus outbreak, Director Ike Julian has continued to honor the center’s mission, “to improve the health and vitality of our community.”

A terminal diagnosis awaits the High Plains in seeing “managed depletion” as the only future for the Ogallala Aquifer. A threeperson panel of Texas Panhandle residents took a much broader view of the region’s water future at the recent Southern Plains Conference last month in Canyon.

Summer in March? That’s according to mesquite trees. Mesquites are usually the last trees to put out leaves in May, signaling the end of spring and beginning of the Texas summer. Nobody here has ever seen “skeet” green up in March, but that’s what is happening. Typically West Texas has a cold snap right before Easter. Sometimes, it freezes in April. After that, native plants like lantana, hackberry, and mesquite come to life. Usually it happens like clockwork, but not this year. Timing in the year of the coronavirus pandemic is unpredictable.

Comancheria Chapter NSDAR members Katie Hill (at left with the DAR State Regent), and Pam Hill and Jeri Pundt (at right), attended the 121st annual Texas State Society Daughters of the American Revolution Conference in Dallas, March 11-13. Katie Hill was chosen to be a personal page for the state regent, Mrs. Susan Green Tillman. For more than 100 years, the Daughters of the American Revolution have carried the torch of patriotism. Love of country was the purpose; ancestors who fought for freedom was the bond that connected women from North and South to reunite the country following the Civil War. Today, the DAR continues the tradition of promoting patriotism, education, and historic preservation. From small towns to metropolitan areas, DAR members make a difference in their communities.