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The Canadian Volunteer Fire Department has announced plans for its third annual tribute to the 9/11 firefighters—this one on Sunday, Sept. 11—marking the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.

In 2015, the USPS was offering a $1,000 grant incentive for post office beautification. Canadian’s postmistress, Marci Blau, called Kim McKinney to ask about the possibility of about putting in sod to make the barren post office façade a little more attractive. Her response was immediate: “No way.”

Be prepared is an excellent motto, not only for Boy Scouts, but for all of us. A quick look at the latest headlines is a reminder that we never ever know what the day has in store for us. With that in mind, Canadian’s American Legion Post 56 is resuming Stop the Bleed training. Uncontrolled bleeding is the No. 1 preventable cause of death following an injury.

Amelia Pantoja pled guilty to assault causing bodily injury in a Hemphill County Court hearing held on Thursday, Aug. 18. Pantoja was sentenced to 12 months of deferred adjudication, and ordered to pay a $750 fine and all court costs and to meet all terms and conditions of her probation.

Motions for continuance were filed in several other cases, which were passed to the next docket. Two cases were dismissed.

StateRep.KenKing(R)launchedhispre-88thLegislature tour through District 88 here in Canadian on Tuesday, speaking to a small group of about 20 at the Hemphill County Exhibition Center. “We talk a lot about the national news,” King said in his opening comments.

A cornhole tournament was held here Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Canadian Rodeo Arena, with all proceeds from the event going to benefit the Marc Crooks family. Crooks was badly burned in an Aug. 3 explosion at an Energy Transfer natural gas processing location on Lake Marvin Road, and is now undergoing extensive treatment at the UMC Health System Burn Center in Lubbock.

Mesa View hosted its first “Music at Mesa View” event Saturday evening in the center courtyard of Mesa View Senior Living. Sponsored by Mesa View Assisted Living, Mesa View Senior Living, and the Chamber of Commerce, the free concert featured the Slim Pickins band, which has played for Canadian’s Music in the Park series in years past.

A Hemphill County grand jury, meeting in the 31st District courtroom on Thursday, Aug. 25, returned three indictments.