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Fire Chief Scott Brewster shares harrowing and humorous tales

4 years ago By Christina Nadaway

Mike Gardiner spoke of how blessed we are by our local heroes in the volunteer fire department. Scott Brewster has been with the Canadian VFD for 31 years. He has always been interested in and watched the weather, which was a requirement of both his job with TxDOT and with the fire department.

What’s Cookin’ in Canadian: Herb-Rubbed Strip Steak

4 years ago By Kim B. McKinney

Initially seared on top of the stove, the beef is finished in the oven, producing an exterior crust that intensifies the taste of the meat. A little chicken stock added to the pan at the end melts the natural glaze and creates a simple au jus. This recipe is from Essential Pepin.

River Valley Pioneer Museum

4 years ago By News Staff

AT THE MUSEUM, we never know what stories we’ll be privy to from day to day. Luckily, today the wind brought in a gentleman who was researching some of his family history. Specifically, he had love letters exchanged between his mom and dad during the time that his father was serving the country in World War II, and this gentleman was tracing his father’s footsteps. A postcard sent in 1943 from the soldier to his family from the Killarney Café in Canadian, Texas, led to our museum for more information. Luckily, we were able to share the following:

Area Briefs

4 years ago By News Staff

Texas Panhandle War Memorial begins monthly lecture series The Texas Panhandle War Memorial kicked off a monthly one-hour lecture/seminar on topics related to military history in March. These lecture/ seminars are free to the public.

HPPR’s northeastern Panhandle station restored to full power

4 years ago By News Staff

AMARILLO—High Plains Public Radio (HPPR) is pleased to announce that its station serving the northeast Texas Panhandle, KTOT-FM 89.5-Spearman-Perryton, has been repaired and is back operating at full power. Damage to KTOT’s transmission system had limited its power to 20 percent, thereby reducing its coverage area by 77 percent and number of people served by 66 percent. The station had been operating at low power for a few years while HPPR raised the money to repair it. Thanks to donations from the Mary E. Bivins Foundation, the David D. and Nona S. Payne Foundation, other area foundations and individual donors, the repairs could be completed.

Coffee Memorial supports Ukraine through blood donations

4 years ago By News Staff

Coffee Memorial Blood Center is encouraging the community to donate blood and double their impact by saving local lives and supporting Ukrainian blood banks in a time of war. For one week, March 24 through March 31, CMBC will make a $10 donation to the Global Blood Fund, a charity supporting Ukrainian blood banks, for each donor who foregoes taking a t-shirt upon donation.

Master Diver Everett Cook is Rotary Club guest speaker

4 years ago By Christina Hadaway

Everett Cook has been scuba diving for over half of his lifetime. He started when he was 8 years old, with a program called Little Bubblers, in Turks and Caicos. This sparked a passion for environmentalism and preservation of the ocean along with its creatures and plant life. He is now a junior in high school and has 13 professional certifications: open water, advanced, rescue, marine heritage, wreck, night, deep water, wreck penetration, cave, low visibility, master diver, free diving, and scientific.

Everett Cook (center) with Collier, Thatcher, and Wendie Cook

What’s Cookin’ in Canadian: Parker's Split Pea Soup

4 years ago By Kim B. McKinney

This base recipe is courtesy of Ina Garten, as found on the Food Network website. I liked that it had potatoes and carrots in it and that half of the peas are added in the last 40 minutes of cooking time so that they are tender but not mushy. I embellished this soup by adding two cooked strips of bacon and about a cup of kale that I had sautéed in garlic the night before, both chopped. That is the wonderful thing about soups—add what is on hand and make them even better. Enjoy!

New Arrival

4 years ago By News Staff

Hayden Wyatt Swires was born at 10 am on March 18 to Johnny and Mikayla Swires, weighing in at 6 pounds, 11 ounces, and measuring 19.25 inches. Proud grandparents are Jaelynn Swires of Canadian, and Mike and Tara Sims of Lubbock.

The Postscript: Patron of the Arts

4 years ago By The Postscript By Carrie Classon

MY LANDLORD, JORGE, is a patron of the arts. When I imagine a patron of the arts, I imagine some fabulously wealthy person in the past, supporting the creation of art in Italy or New York— someone with an impossibly luxurious lifestyle, maybe with a couple of designer dogs on diamond leashes standing at attention nearby.

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