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Beth Briant’s program this week was a family affair. Her son and daughter-in-law, David and Dusty Witcher, are currently hosting an exchange student, Cody Johnson, from Scotland. Cody is participating in this exchange through the program Foreign Links Around the Globe, or FLAG. Unlike our Rotary exchange students who rotate between up to three host families during their year stay, Cody will board with the Witchers for her full year.

The Canadian Visitors Center, 119 N. 2nd St., will be open from 9 am to 5 pm on both Saturday and Sunday during next weekend’s Fall Foliage Festival. Come by and view the impressive Longhorn photographs by Dick Wilberforce. These images will be featured in a book soon to be published by the photographer. Maps and information on all Fall Foliage events are available, and tickets to Saturday’s Tour of Homes may be purchased here.

During the Canadian Lions Club weekly meeting on Friday, Sept. 17, President Bobby Gregg welcomed Pamela Escarcega (in photo at right) as the new club sweetheart for 2021-22. Each local club selects a high school senior to serve a one-year term as their sweetheart. Club sweethearts attend weekly meetings and serve, alongside other Lions Club members, in various fundraising and service projects.

We were supposed to get the tile backsplash installed in our kitchen yesterday, but my husband, Peter, said he needed to use the kitchen so he could bake ginger cookies. “Can you work in the bathroom today instead?” I asked Meshach, the talented tiler from Kenya, who has been here so long by now that he feels like part of the family.

INGREDIENTS 1/3 cup white sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup white sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 cup milk 1/3 cup vegetable oil PREPARATION Preheat oven 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-inch-by-5-inch inch loaf pan.

Wendie Cook recently attended the “Power Hungry: The Science, Economics, and Politics of Energy in Texas,” four-day energy conference in Midland. The meeting boasted speakers like Dr. Scott Tinker, the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas; Brad Jones, interim CEO and president of ERCOT; Christi Craddick, Texas Railroad Commission chairman; and various CEOs and CFOs of oil and gas companies and electric associations.

The Canadian Arts Alliance will take to the stage at Canadian’s River Valley Pioneer Museum again this year for their annual dinner theatre. This year’s production is Murder at the Art Show, subtitled “Til death do we art.”

INGREDIENTS I whole chicken, cut into eight pieces 1 onion, cut into wedges 1 lemon, sliced 8 cloves garlic 4 sprigs fresh rosemary 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon ground black pepper PREPARATION Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine chicken, onion, lemon slices, garlic, and rosemary together in a large bowl.