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Body The Canadian City Council will meet on Monday, Nov. 15, to canvass the votes in the successful election to legalize alcohol sales within the city limits and to adopt an ordinance revising the city codes accordingly.

Body Panhandle Gives Nov. 21-29 increases your donations to local nonprofits Report by Kim McKinney | The Record Six local nonprofit organizations will host a Kick-Off Pancake Supper next Monday, Nov. 21, marking the start of this year’s Panhandle Gives fundraiser.

Body AUSTIN—The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) today released an independent study commissioned to analyze and recommend design updates to the Texas wholesale electricity market that will strengthen current and long-term reliability reforms to the state’s electric grid.

Body AMARILLO–Coffee Memorial Blood Center is losing hundreds of Type O-negative blood units a month due to recent blood-bag shortages. Type O-negative is the only universal blood type, which means it can be transfused in an emergency to any blood recipients, regardless of blood type.

Body Over half of Hemphill County’s registered voters—nearly 57 percent—cast ballots in the Nov. 8 general election, well above the 31 percent of registered voters statewide who made it to polling places.

Body Concrete finishers continued street repairs on Nelson Street last week as part of the TxDOT Highway 60/83 Utility Replacement Project.

Body The Comancheria Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is co-hosting a barbeque luncheon in honor of our veterans and their spouses at the Wheeler Historical Museum on Friday, Nov. 11.

Body By noon on Wednesday, 540 voters—nearly 24 percent of this county’s registered voters—had already cast ballots in advance of the Nov. 8 general election.

Body Canadian’s Jones Pavilion will be the site this weekend for a threeday “We The People” event, billed as a training seminar to help attendees “break free from the corporate construct designed to enslave you.”

Body I grew up in South Texas. My dad was a cotton/grain farmer and cotton gin/grain elevator owner. He and others who worked long hours out-of-doors loved daylight saving time (DST). During the summer harvest season, the sun shone well past 9. As a kid, I loved it, as well.