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The Hemphill County Library received a bequest of $125,000 last week from the Renick Trust. The gift was made in honor of B. Coleman Renick Jr., and follows the death, last November, of his wife, Judy Walker Renick.

Heat wave prompts conservation call The Electric Reliability Council of Texas urged Texans to cut back on power usage last week when an unusually large number of power plants shut down for unexpected repairs as temperatures soared. ERCOT officials announced Friday that Texans could resume normal levels of electricity use, however.

In a nearly four-hour meeting last Thursday evening, Canadian ISD trustees covered the full gamut of schoolrelated business, from budget preparation and speculation over the newest, but as-yet unveiled school funding template, to a laundry list of capital improvement projects; from the annual Health Advisory Report by School Nurse Molly Kerrigan, to an update on the Hemphill County Appraisal District’s growing legal expenses in ongoing pipeline litigation.

Emergency responders and law enforcement officers were called to two accidents in two days at the start of the week—the first a one-vehicle rollover Monday on CR 6, south of Canadian, and the second a two-vehicle collision on US 33 near CR 21 southeast of town.

GOAT Nutrition officially opened its doors on May 24, at 908 S. 2nd St., but on Monday, co-owners Bailee Barnes and David Chavlovich cut the ribbon at Canadian’s newest business. On hand for the event were (front row) Chamber board members Betsy Alexander and Sarah Rader; Rachel Clapp; Barnes and Chavlovich; Chamber board members Tommy Wyatt, Michelle Schaef, and Lawana Pulliam; and (back row) Sheriff Brent Clapp, Tatum Swenhaugen, Jeannita Ellison, Josh Watts, and Chamber Director Jackie McPherson. GOAT sells healthy meal-replacement shakes, energy teas, pre-workout vitamins, and much more.

Commissioners endorsed an interlocal agreement on Monday allowing the Hemphill County Sheriff’s Office to handle dispatch and 911 calls for the Roberts County Sheriff’s Office—a service HCSO dispatchers have already been handling on a part-time basis, but for which it will now assume the responsibility 24/7, if officials in the two counties can agree on reasonable compensation to cover the costs.

Not typically known for its graffiti-covered walls, Canadian was the beneficiary, last month, of an almost hidden painting in The Ruins of what was once the old high school at Kingman Ave. and 6th Street.

Canadian High School alumnus Benjamin Antillon Fernandez received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School during a May 27 commencement ceremony conducted via live Zoom webcast. He celebrated this milestone event with his wife, Gabriela Lastres, who graduated last month from the Harvard Kennedy School with a master’s degree in public policy.