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Canadian ISD board seeks voter approval in special Nov. 8 tax rate election

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The Canadian ISD Board has ordered a special election for the purpose of a voter-approved tax rate election to be held on Nov. 8. CISD has set the overall 2022 tax rate at $1.1646. Even though this tax rate is reduced by almost 11 cents from the 2021 CISD tax rate of $1.2734, a voterapproved tax rate election is required because the board added three golden pennies to the maintenance & operating (M&O) portion of our tax rate.
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Canadian River Beach Club announces winners in 14th Annual Calf Fry and Cook-Off contests

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The Canadian River Beach Club’s 14th Annual Calf Fry and BBQ Cook-Off is in the books this week after a beautiful day of cooking, feasting, and festing Saturday. Nineteen teams from the tri-state area fired up their grills and cookers to compete in the International Bar-B-Que Cookers Association-sanctioned event, and shared their epicurean works with both judges and a crowd of volunteer taste-testers, who roamed the Jones Pavilion area, relaxed in lawn chairs, perused the craft and trade show booths, and enjoyed games and bouncy toys as the day grew warmer.
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News Briefs

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Canadian’s 2022 Fall Foliage Festival Weekend The Record will publish our Fall Foliage Festival Guide in next week’s edition, with information about all of the weekend’s events. One note: We were notified late last week that Dr.
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Power line-sparked fire destroys 100 bales of hay near Briscoe Saturday

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A hundred bales of hay were destroyed in a fire last weekend on FM 277 near Briscoe. Around 7 pm Saturday evening, the Hemphill County Sheriff’s Office dispatched Canadian VFD to provide mutual aid to Briscoe firefighters, who were battling a fire in a lot filled with hay bales that were located between two fuel tanks. Two Canadian units responded, and the fire was quickly contained without causing other damage. Mark Meadows said he had just baled the hay and unloaded it there three days earlier, but that fortunately, he had other bales scattered out in different lots elsewhere. Asked how he was doing, Meadows was philosophical, saying, “It could be better, but it sure could have been worse.” Meadows studied the path of the fire and thought it might have been sparked by a nearby power line. North Plains Electric Cooperative crews responded to the scene and confirmed that a large bird had flown into the line, causing it to arc and start the fire.
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TxDOT collects short-term traffic counts in Amarillo District

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AMARILLO—The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Transportation Planning and Programming (TPP) Division is collecting short-term traffic counts at 1,800 locations across the Amarillo District through Oct. 6. These 24-hour traffic counts will be collected for on-system roadways by contract personnel. Traffic counts are necessary to give TxDOT the information needed for designing new highway projects, determining where maintenance projects need to take place, and to aid in developing air-quality analyses in the district. Traffic count maps from previous years are available to the public online at: https://www.txdot.gov/apps/statewide_ mapping/StatewidePlanningMap. html.