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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.

Crews working on the highway sewer relocation along US 60 in Canadian have encountered an unforeseen problem, slowing progress on the final phase of that project. During the recent bore process on Sewer Crossing No.

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, state Rep.

The first of a series of upcoming public hearings on new tax rates proposed by elected officials will be held at 5:30 this afternoon in the offices of the Hemphill County Underground Water District. Call it a toe dipped in the water, if you will.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The account of a manhunt following a DPS traffic stop on US 83 north of Canadian Tuesday evening, Aug. 16—and published in last week’s Canadian Record—contained false information regarding the subject’s identity.

On two very hot August days, with the first day of school approaching, Kaylee Richardson, Lauren Woodrum, and Harper Spencer set up a lemonade stand on Canadian’s main thoroughfare, near the center of downtown, and launched a pop-up business.

A hearing by the city council to receive public comment on Toot ‘n Totum’s annexation request Monday evening was called to order and concluded in mere seconds. Other than the company’s Director of Real Estate, Bruce Armistead, who had filed the annexation request, no member of the public was present to comment on the issue.

This new trash truck (photo at top) is one example of the diverse efforts city officials are making to stretch tax dollars farther. The truck has more capacity for waste, and greater strength for compaction, explained City Manager Joe Jarosek. The result is fewer trips to the transfer station during their regular collection routes, lowering fuel and manpower costs. Last Thursday morning, crews baled metal waste that had collected at the city/county transfer station, saving substantially on hauling costs and earning some revenue from the metal recyclers who purchased the compacted waste, as well. On Monday, city wastewater technicians Carlos Lopez and Trey Evans (in photo below) performed required maintenance at the wastewater treament ponds, protecting and extending the life of the aerators, which promote microbial growth in the wastewater. Aeration removes constituents from the water in preparation for the next phase of treatment. Added benefits are that the process is organic, cost-effective, and environmentallyfriendly.