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Canadian High School seniors Ethan Flowers and Savanna Innis are the 2020 Texas 4-H Gold Star Award winners for Hemphill County. The Gold Star is the highest honor given by the Texas 4-H Youth Development Program and presented each year to the most deserving young people in a county.

WICHITA FALLS—Midwestern State University recognized 1,104 honor students for the spring 2020 semester. The president’s honor roll included 343 students, the provost’s honor roll included 341 students, and the dean’s honor roll included 420 students.

WAITING live in West Texas. Mostly, we wait for rain. We know it will rain someday, but rain doesn’t fall when we want or need it. And West Texas weather is so fickle that when it does rain, sometimes, it falls so fast and hard, we experience floods and soil erosion.

CHRISTMAS SONGS along with “Auld Lang Syne” are the only songs we hear and sing once a year. Hoping to write about the most popular carols, I discovered songs I had never heard of on the many lists of Most Popular Christmas Songs. Even when I listened to them on YouTube, they were unfamiliar.

Ten CHS band students auditioned and were selected for All-Region Band with three advancing to Area, according to Wildcat Band Director James Edwards. The competition involved over 400 students from schools ranging in size from Class 1A-4A.

Canadian Elementary School UIL Chess Puzzle 1st, Cooper Aguirre; 3rd, Remi Bartlett; 4th, Lilah Appel; Wyatt Longoria; Coach, Mrs. Esmeralda Shields.

Canadian Middle School sixthgrader, Mark Haygood garnered two top awards at the 4th Annual National Junior Hereford Association’s (NJHA) Fed Steer Shootout contest, Oct. 22, in Kansas City. He was awarded Champion Commercial Individual and Reserve Champion Commercial Individual.

Megan Ann Reed has completed her studies at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, and is graduating this month with her BSN/RN degree. While at WTAMU, she was a member of Delta Zeta and the WTAMU Nurses Association, and was an honor inductee into the National Society of Leadership and Success.

TWO CHRISTMAS EVENTS should make all of us feel better in the final weeks of 2020. The appearance of the Christmas Star is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a rare astronomical occurrence, and the reverse Christmas parade provides a little bit of “normal.”