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Dr. Mikhail Kouliavtsev (pictured above, and everyone calls him Dr. K) of SFASU – Rusche College of Business Department of Economics and Finance, presented a comprehensive list of statistics comparing Sabine County to other counties in the state.

Extreme heat is the most dangerous type of severe-weather event in the U.S., killing 12,000 people each year. Climate change is making extreme heat events more frequent, severe, and longer lasting. Moreover, extreme heat events are increasingly accompanied by power failures, increasing the number of people vulnerable to illness and death. But we can take action to prepare our loved ones, pets and communities for extreme heat events and related power outages. Learn what to do before, during, and after to help keep everyone safe and healthy. Hot cars can be deadly. Never leave children or pets in your vehicle. The inside temperature of the car can quickly reach 120 degrees.

Arthur Temple Sr. Mem Library would like to thank our supporters and volunteers of our “All Together Now” reading program. The donations and help that you gave made our program a great success. Supporters: Chance Construction, Big 4, Hammock Furniture, Starr funeral home, Lady’s auxiliary & VFW in Hemphill, Lanes, Hemphill Dairy Queen, Hemphill Subway, City of Pineland, Tracy and Martha Lane, Big Tin Barn, C & S AC Outfitters, Southside Bank in Pineland. Volunteers: Jerri Jackson, Hagen Morton, Kahlen Morton, Pat Brookshire, Frances Clark, Colton Townsend.

Littleton Fowler Masonic Lodge 305 installs new officers for 2023-2024 on June 24. Pictured from left to right JW Walter Jones, WM Michael Hudson, SW J D Olver.

I left Amarillo in 1968 to return to Hemphill, Texas to fish a couple of days with my friend Forest Ranger Lew Whitaker. Toledo Bend Reservoir was still filling up and the fishing was at its best. I had just bought a weird little car to drive along the sandy outback of The Canadian River. It was a “52 Volkswagen Beetle—29 HP Motor—no gas gauge. When the motor started sputtering, you turned a lever in the floorboard with your foot, connected to a one gallon auxiliary tank, and prayed the gallon would get you to a gas station I didn’t realize how little power the engine had and shifted to second gear to climb the steep hills between Amarillo and Bowie. But I finally made it to Hemphill and Lew and had two days of amazing fishing. On my way back home I drove to the top of a tall hill near Childress and spotted a beautiful antelope about seventy yards to my right. I’d never seen one before…only read that they were the 2nd fastest animals on earth….. and was surprised that he didn’t run off. He just stood stone still and stared.