Opinion

The Canadian Community Center would like to send out a BIG thanks to everyone who came out and got a taco plate at our taco pile-on fundraiser on the 4th of July! Shout out to Mike and Jamie Jernigan for donating the salsa. We would also like to thank Darlene Purcell, Tiffany Aldana, Alexandra Cipollone, and Karen Bradford for all the help with the parade and pile-on, as well as Keller English, Cael and Breven Aldana, Isaac Saenz, B.J. Hernandez, Ledger Yarnold, Donnie Purcell, Morgan Bradford, Fabian Diaz, Roberto Alvarez, and Brian Mondragon for serving our awesome community. And last but not least, a big thank you to the Hemphill County Library!

We would like to thank the Canadian Volunteer Fire Department for their quick response and expertise in putting out the fire on our property east of Canadian on the 4th of July. They are always ready and always willing, and we are forever grateful!

AS A HOUSE COMMITTEE tries to awaken Americans to the seditious behavior of Donald Trump, the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the burglary that led to exposure of another president’s criminal enterprise, the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon.

IT’S TIME TO ACT on gun responsibility. I am a father, the son of a kindergarten teacher, and an American.

STARTING TODAY (Thursday, June 9), lawmakers will begin to lay out findings from their nearly year-long investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

ONCE MORE WE ARE EXPRESSING our thoughts and prayers for murdered children on social media, demanding Congress act to prevent such heinous acts. Despite most of us demanding change, this atrocity will too soon disappear from media and our consciousness with nothing substantive being accomplished, because the will of the majority will have been thwarted by the minority. (And the few who remember past such events will add “again.”)