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CHRISTMAS FOR MY FAMILY means VACATION! Once all the kids got past the stage of waiting-for-Santa-to-bring-them-toys, we started enjoying destination Christmases. The best part of this plan is a stress-free,

The 2019 Canadian Band Christmas Concert had a little something for everyone. Traditional carols and new re-mixes were offered up by the sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade bands, topped off with

The Canadian Arts Alliance presented its 5th Annual Christmas Recital on Sunday afternoon. Twenty-eight students of music teachers Amy Woodside, Alexandra Phenix, Dana Cook, and Betty Bynum performed at the

The Texas Tech Ranch Horse Team won both the Stock Horse of Texas (SHTX) Collegiate World Championship and the SHTX Collegiate Reserve Championship at the 2019 Stock Horse of Texas

On Nov. 20, Canadian’s performance of The Audition, by Don Zolidis, won first place in the District 2-3A Junior High One-Act Play Competition. A public performance of the play was

The 2019 Texas 4-H Gold Star Award winners are Carleigh Thompson and Cody Cooke. The Gold Star is the highest award given by the Texas 4-H Youth Development Program. Gold

HOLIDAY DECORATIONS this year are a tale of two cities—make that villages—in my corner of West Texas. Some yards in the village proper are strung with a chaos of random

Students in Canadian Middle School, Baker Elementary School, and Canadian Elementary School pooled their talents on Nov. 22, and were named the District 1-3A Middle School and Elementary School, Zone

Canadian’s performance of The Audition, by Don Zolidis, won first place in the District 2-3A Junior High One-Act Play Competition held in Friona on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Friona placed second,

‘TIS THE SEASON of the cliché this year. Maybe it’s cable news trying to lull us into a trance. Maybe it’s social media using familiar jargon to suck us into