Last week’s Thursday night scramble ended in another carryover with 8-under-par. Winners of the men’s and women’s long drives were Harry Sims and Brittney Davis. Neal Crawford and Dale Schafer won honors for closest-tothe-pin on holes No. 2 and No. 8, respectively.

Canadian’s population must have gotten a significant boost, recently, from the legions of construction crews replacing haildamaged roofs on homes and businesses all over town. This scene at the First Baptist Church on Main Street caught our eye early Wednesday morning, as a team of West Texas Roofers tethered themselves with safety lines to climb the sharply pitched surface. The church sign offered prayerful words, which can’t have hurt, either: “Faith is not knowing what the future holds, but knowing who holds the future.” We drove away thinking of one our favorite old hymns, sung Ry Cooder: “Jesus is on that mainline, tell Him what you want.” PHOTO BY LAURIE EZZELL BROWN

The new buzzwords in the local medical community are “vaccine hesitancy,” a term that assumes an even more urgent undertone as the delta variant spreads, and Texas’ coronavirus test positivity rate is reported to have exceeded 10 percent, this week, for the first time since February.

Hemphill County ranchers gathered Sunday afternoon at The Last Cowboy’s Court hotel for an opportunity to burn their brands into the cedar posts on the front porch of the hotel office. Limited tours of the hotel rooms—each of which is designed as a tribute to this area’s historic family ranches—were also offered to the guests.