Opinion

ON BEHALF OF our staff, boards, members, and patrons, the Canadian Community Center, Rachel’s Little House, and the River Valley Pioneer Museum would like to thank the Hemphill County Commissioners and Judge George Briant for providing us COVID relief funding available through the American Rescue...

LEGENDARY NBC ANCHOR Tom Brokaw had just returned to work on Sept. 11, 2001, after taking the summer off.

REPRINTED FROM THE CANADIAN RECORD SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 THE STACK OF LAST WEEK’S newspapers is abandoned on my living room floor, unread during a long weekend away, and unreadable now as this day dawns.

WELL, NOW WE KNOW what it takes to remain employed at the Texas Office of the Attorney General.

I WAS 10 YEARS OLD when I got my first paying job (and my introduction to journalism). A couple hours one evening a week at the local weekly newspaper, I “caught” pages coming off the printing press to even them up in a big box.

BACK TO SCHOOL TIME is always the busy season at the CCC. We have lots going on and lots to get planned for the fall. But I wanted to take a moment to say thanks to some of the fine folks helping us keep Canadian strong.

Silas House’s essay in The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic. com/ideas/archive/2021/08/some-americans-no-longer-believein-the-common-good/619856/) perfectly voiced my own sense of melancholy this morning, as I mourned the death of yet another Hemphill County citizen whom I have long admired, and...

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN. Blame it on indifference.

I’LL BE BRIEF. The events exploding in the Middle East have shocked many of us and stirred up bitter memories for others of us.

I WAS SURPRISED to hear that the Chamber of Commerce is considering returning the Fall Foliage Festival Craft Show to the Canadian Elementary School rather than the downtown outdoor area. Did you know?