A one-vehicle accident involving an overturned bull wagon closed both east- and west-bound traffic on US 60 between the 60/83 Y and Miami around 3:30 am Friday morning. Traffic was diverted for several hours while crews tried to extricate the animals, both dead and alive, in order to clear the highway. US 60 remained closed between CR 3 and FM 3367, near the Roberts/Hemphill County line until 2:45 pm Saturday afternoon. According to one responder, the extrication of livestock from the overturned trailer was so complicated that none of the cattle could be saved. While cleanup was underway, law enforcement detoured traffic from Canadian onto CR 3 south, to CR W, and then west to FM 3367 and north back to US 60. Traffic from Miami was being detoured south on FM 3367 to CR W, east to CR 3, then north back to US 60. No further details were available as lines to Pampa’s DPS office were down Wednesday.

Near perfect weather was the icing on the cake for this year’s jubilant Fall Foliage Festival. The legions of visitors who always flock to this corner of the Panhandle every third weekend in October in search of the elusive turning of fall foliage, once again arrived in droves. Canadian’s colorful canopy of cottonwoods created the perfect ambiance to welcome guests to our own celebration of the season.

Indian summer has settled over West Texas. Yellow and white wild flowers carpet roadsides and pastures. Lantana is in glorious bloom, and a vine we call old man’s beard when its seed pods burst into fuzzy white puffs covers the fences. Here and there, you can see orange gourds growing wild in a bar ditch. Days are bright and mild, and nights are cool and starry.

In June of 2019, the Dumbauld family knocked off an item that had been on their bucket list since before their marriage. They took an eight-day trip to Alaska to fish and sightsee, and fish they did! In their tour package, each person was allotted 50 pounds of fish to take home.