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Andy Holloway spoke to the Rotary Club last week about the 2022 beef conference. He started by explaining that the event requires a full year of preparation, and expressing his appreciation to his wife and fellow Extension agent, Tanya Holloway, and to their assistant, Christa Perry.

THE PLAN WAS to buy everyone cake. My husband, Peter, and I are finally getting ready to leave Mexico, and we can’t say we are too happy about it.

I was looking for a recipe for Easter and found this, and have to admit I laughed out loud. Then I read the recipe. These ingredients will make a fabulous cake, bunny butt or not. So here you go. Make a bunny butt or a beautiful two-layer coconut cake. Enjoy!

On Thursday, April 7, Social Security offices will restore in-person services for the first time since offices were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person services will include those without an appointment, according to Kilolo Kijakazi, acting SSA commissioner.

David Gerhardt invited Ray and Natalie Weeks (in photo above) to speak to the Rotary Club last week. We all take the movie theatre for granted, but so much goes on behind the scenes so that we can just walk in with our popcorn and drink and lose ourselves in the story on the screen.

George A. Addison was a photographer who moved to Canadian in early 1903, and some of our most noted photographs were taken by him. The image shown here of women sitting on the bank of the Canadian River, watching a train pass, by was taken by Addison.

CANADIAN—April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and CASA of the High Plains is raising awareness of the need for more dedicated members of the community to step up and become CASA volunteers, and help end child abuse and neglect, through supporting children and their families.

Jon Dumbauld was among 300 people invited to take part in a Special Operations Command presentation at Fort Bragg. This annual event allows participants an opportunity to see the capabilities of the Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) up close.