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CHAPTER 10: I Leave With Miss Viola We went outside and walked Miss Viola to her car. Slim had his hands pushed deep into his pockets and continued to rattle his coins.

CANYON—West Texas A&M University will offer more than $500,000 for first-time and transfer students beginning this fall, thanks to the Texas A&M University System Board of regents’ scholarship fund.

Habits once established become permanent. Some of the changes we are experiencing due to the 2020 pandemic may become so ingrained that we don’t go back to our pre-pandemic ways. I’ve switched to some new routines I plan to keep. The new ways have made life easier. I miss other habits with all my heart and can’t wait to go back to them. Here is an inventory of changes I like and changes I long to disappear.

Taylor S. Altmiller was among 3,700 students announced to the Wichita State University dean’s honor roll for spring 2020. To be included on the dean’s honor roll, a student must be enrolled full time (at least 12 credit hours) and earn at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. Located in Wichita, Kansas, WSU enrolls about 16,000 students and offers more than 50 undergraduate degree programs in more than 150 areas of study in six undergraduate colleges. Altmiller graduated from CHS in 2019.

More than 155 4-H members from 21 Panhandle counties submitted record books to be judged by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agents and adult volunteers on July 8 at the Tri-State Fairgrounds, Amarillo.

“How much longer are we going to have to live like this?” That was a question posed to me recently by my childhood friend Jan. It was 7:30 pm in California when she called. Jan was still in her nightgown. She said she rarely gets dressed or goes out. Crisis fatigue has hit Jan hard. Jan and her husband, Jerry, are retired. They live in a beautiful home near the beach in Southern California. Jerry has fully adjusted to a new routine that is nothing like his pre-pandemic life. Jan, however, has not.

CHAPTER NINE: Slim Gets A Haircut They stared at each other for a long moment. Then Viola said, “I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but it’s true.” Slim’s adam’s apple moved up and down.

Masks for students and teachers will be mandatory in counties with more than 20 reported COVID-19 cases when public schools resume in-person classes this fall, under new public health guidelines released by Texas state education officials Tuesday.

AUSTIN—Gov. Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is extending the application deadline for the federal pandemic-electronic benefit transfer program (P-EBT) to July 31. Extending the deadline will help ensure eligible families have time to apply for this one-time food benefit.

HOT SPOT? That’s right. I live in a remote Texas county that last week was added to The New York Times list of CO- VID-19 “hot spots.” Tom Green County, Texas is one of those big (1,541 square miles) remote counties in Texas that the state of Rhode Island fits in quite comfortably. Tom Green has one city, San Angelo, which has between 90,000 and 100,000 residents. The rest of the population lives in eight unincorporated settlements, and on farms and ranches. You have to drive over 100 miles to get to Abilene. Odessa and Midland are 150 miles away. It is 183 miles to Lubbock.