City Council members fielded hotel occupancy tax (HOT) funding requests from representatives of local organizations, whose events have been essential in bringing outside visitors to Canadian, promoting tourism, and “putting heads in beds,” as is required of those tax expenditures.

FRENSHIP— Idalou’s strong defense, mixed in with an untimely cold shooting streak, doomed No. 1 Canadian in a 52-39 loss in the Region I-3A championship at a packed Tiger Pit on Saturday afternoon.

Canadian High School’s one-act play, The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson, will debut here at the Texas Crown Performance Hall in its first public performance at 6 pm on Sunday, March 6. The performance, for which admission is free, will be their only public one before the March 9 district one-act play competition at Highland Park in Amarillo.

Once again, the Hemphill County Hospital Board tabled action on landscaping at Mesa View Senior Living (MVSL). During its Feb. 15 meeting, the board viewed plans and cost estimates for correcting issues with drainage at the site that remain unresolved. Also unresolved is how the expense will be apportioned among the entities involved: the hospital district; the architectural firm, Action Pact; and SCI, the construction contractor.