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Welcome Mesa View residents and staff, family, visitors, and members of American Legion Post 56. Thank you for being here. American flags and flagpoles are so common that we often take them for granted. They are as common as, well, apple pie and football.

Jacey Rhea Grba, born November 2, 2023, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jason and Kelsey (Hanes) Grba; 8 lbs. 3 oz.

Members of the American Legion Zybach-Owens Post 56 met at the Mesa View Complex on Saturday afternoon, October 28, for a project to install a refurbished flagpole.

AUSTIN— In honor of the Centennial Celebration of Texas State Parks, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon will display a new traveling art exhibit Oct. 27– Feb. 18, 2024.

CANYON, Texas—An award-winning author and historian will speak Nov. 2 at West Texas A&M University for the Center for the Study of the American West’s Garry L. Nall Lecture in Western Studies.

Panhandle Community Services will be able to continue serving Veteran’s in the top 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle through funds received from the Texas Veteran’s Commission.

“The American Buffalo,” a new two-part, four-hour film directed by Ken Burns, will premiere at 7 pm, October 16 and 17, on Panhandle PBS.

AUSTIN—From Oct. 6-22, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will kick off the eighth annual Texas Pollinator BioBlitz, celebrating the bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, hummingbirds, nectar-feeding bats, and other animals that serve as pollinators across Texas.

The Hemphill County Library will host an adult craft class---String Art---this Thursday, September 21, at 2 pm. Call the library at 323-5282 to reserve a spot. Have in mind what design you’d like to do. The foam boards are 8”x10”, and the wood circles are about 7” in diameter.

AMARILLO, TX – The Mary E. Bivins Foundation has awarded High Plains Public Radio (HPPR) a $15,000 grant.