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Chamber seeks your information for Fall Foliage flyers Canadian’s annual Fall Foliage Festival weekend is scheduled—as always—for the third weekend in October, which falls on Oct. 16-17 this year.
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Landry arrested for soliciting prostitute in Amarillo sting
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Canadian ISD school trustee Landon Todd Landry was among 27 individuals who were arrested on various charges related to prostitution during an Amarillo Police Department human trafficking/solicitation operation conducted by the Special Operations Division Narcotics Unit from Aug. 10-12.
Dr. Tony Cook: No ICU beds are available now for patients requiring a higher level of care
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“We are in a bad, bad situation,” Dr. Tony Cook reported late yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, in a call to The Canadian Record.
County endorses, agrees to help fund EDC recruitment, relocation, retention plan
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Canadian/Hemphill County EDC President Remelle Farrar prefaced a funding request to the county commissioners Monday morning with what she later admitted sounded a lot like a sermon, though that wasn’t what she intended. But Farrar held the floor, and had an attentive audience, as she explained the EDC’s new recruitment, relocation, and retention plan.
HCH board reviews prelim budget and hears complaint
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The Hemphill County Hospital Board conducted a budget workshop during a called session on Aug. 3, and heard from a concerned citizen during the public comment agenda item. Bill Lehman spoke, asking for a show of hands from the board members of those who had seen the new Mesa View Senior Living facility recently. “More of you need to go,” he said, adding that he felt they had “totally failed” on the landscaping at the facility. “It’s atrocious.”
Texas A&M, DSHS to award $10m in grants for vaccination outreach
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Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) has been selected by Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) – Immunization to administer the Texas Vaccine Outreach and Education Grant program. Through this new program $10 million in federal funds will be awarded to Texas community-based organizations.
Letters from an American
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Fifty-six years ago today, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.”
Hemphill Co. grand jury returns three felony indictments
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A Hemphill County grand jury returned three criminal indictments on Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Rural vaccinations rise as COVID-19 infection rates grow
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According to an Aug. 3 report in the Daily Yonder, by Tim Murphy and Tim Marema, 19 states—including several with rising rates of new COVID-19 infections—saw gains in the pace of rural vaccinations last week.
Hemphill County Hospital urges public to get vaccinated as COVID-19 cases rise and delta variant quickly spreads
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No one has hit the panic button here yet, but local hospital officials and medical providers have some reason to be worried. Less than two weeks away from the start of the 2021-22 school year—and all that it entails— the coronavirus has re-emerged across the country in the form of the delta variant, and the debate over who and when and whether and why one should get which vaccine at what age is roiling some already muddy waters.
