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I grew up in South Texas. My dad was a cotton/grain farmer and cotton gin/grain elevator owner. He and others who worked long hours out-of-doors loved daylight saving time (DST). During the summer harvest season, the sun shone well past 9. As a kid, I loved it, as well. It meant I did not have to “clean up” and go to bed, and I could stay dirty and happy much longer. As an adult, the same holds true, dirty and happy longer… DST has been in effect in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. In an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria began saving daylight on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. Other countries immediately adopted this 1916 action, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Tasmania. Nova Scotia and Manitoba adopted it as well, with Britain following suit three weeks later, on May 21, 1916. A year later, Australia and Newfoundland began saving daylight.

Canadian’s Jones Pavilion will be the site this weekend for a threeday “We The People” event, billed as a training seminar to help attendees “break free from the corporate construct designed to enslave you.”

Early voting in the Nov. 8 General Election began on Monday at the Hemphill County Courthouse, and will continue through Friday, Nov.

create a fanfare not only for the ceremony but for the person,” Lavenda said. Moreno-Gonzalez’s bold, regal fanfare, titled New Dawn, was performed by a double brass quintet.

Amie Riverman | The Record Halloween is a holiday associated with ghosts, ghouls, and mysterious creatures of the night. Trick-or-treating and dumping your loot on the living room floor for candy swaps is a staple of many American childhoods.

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Americans will increase 8.7 percent in 2023, the Social Security Administration announced today. On average, all security benefits will increase by more than $140 per month starting in January.

In these photos, taken last Thursday by City Manager Joe Jarosek, Flores Concrete personnel prepare steel rebar for an upcoming concrete pour at Purcell Street (above), workers are compacting “fill soils” around the newly-installed manhole behind the Cattle Exchange in preparation for concrete surfacing (right), and surface replacement is underway in the alley behind Happy State Bank (below). The general contractor on the project is Amarillo Utility Contractors. The concrete repair is part of the TxDOT Utility Replacement Project.

The Texas Well Owner Network is hosting a “Well-Educated” water well screening on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Canadian for area residents. The TWON program is for Texas residents who depend on household wells for their water needs.