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5:00 p.m.. TOPS Meeting, Fire Hall.
Spearman 7th & 8th Tournament.
7:00 p.m., AA & AL-ANON Meetings, (Separate), Courthouse.
12 noon, Lions Club Meeting, Fire Hall.
1:00 p.m., AA Meeting, Courthouse.
5:00 p.m., JV & Varsity Boys/Girls against Sunray, Here.
Canadian Singles Dinner, 7:00 p.m. & Dance, 8:00-11:00 p.m., YMCA
ATSSB All Area Tryouts, Sundown.
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12 noon, Rotary Club Meeting, WCTU.
5:00 p.m., JV & Varsity Boys/Girls against West Texas, There.
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ond class citizens in their own land, unfairly discrim-
inated against because their parents were born
across the border or across the world. Are these the
family values we want our country to stand for?
As those of us who are more fortunate approach
the Christmas season with a sense of happiness and
excitement, we must not forget those for whom the
season brings sadness. For the families needlessly
torn apart as a result of our strict immigration laws,
Christmas is a reminder of their forced separation
from loved ones, and the emotional and financial des-
peration that comes as a result.
It is within our power to relieve their pain. We
must reconsider these unfair and unwise immigra-
tion laws. They leave almost no room for human er-
ror. Many of these laws have absolutely no clause for
forgiveness, and completely disregard the needs of
children who are U.S. citizens.
Parsons, an immigration attorney in Austin, is
chair of the State Bar Of Texas’Committee on Laws
Relating to Immigration and Nationality. The
opinions expressed are his own.
8:30 a.m., First United Methodist Church Early Worship Service, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship 10:30 am., Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
10 am., Sunday Miss, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 10 am., CCD
Classes.
9:30 a.m., First Christian Church Sunday School, 10:30 am., Morning
Worship, 6 p.m., Evening Worship
9:30 am., Church of Christ Sunday Bible Class, 10:30 am., Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m., Evening Worship, 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Class.
9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Worship Service 11
am.
9:30 am., First Baptist Church Sunday School, 10:45 am., Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m., Training Union, 7 p.m., Evening Worship.
10 am., Assembly of God Christian Education, 6:30 p.m., Evening
Worship.
10 am., Pentecostal Church Sunday School, 11 a.m.. Morning Worship, 7
p.m., Evening Worship.
10 a.m., Central Baptist Church Sunday School, 11 am., Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m., Evening Worship.
10:30 am., Believer's Covenant Sunday Worship.
10:00 am., Hemphill County Commissioners Court, Commissioners
Courtroom at Courthouse.
12:00 noon, AL-ANON meeting, Hood Abstract Building.
5:00 p.m., Freshman, 7th, 8th Boys against Sunray, There; Girls, Here.
7:00 p.m., Wildcat Booster Club Meeting, First State Band Community
oom.
7:00 p.m., Economic Development Meeting, Community Development
Office.
10 am.-2 p.m.. Sagebrush Painters, Fire Hall.
6:30 p.m., School Board Meeting, Administration Building.
letters
to the editors
Good-bye to Canadian
HOW HARD IT IS to say goodbye to friends that have become like
family to us. We would like to say thank you to the people of Canadian
who have been our friends these many years. Friends who have stood
beside us when times were hard. Friends who have been with us as we
have raised our sons in your community. It is now time for us to go be
with our family as we watch our grandchildren grow.
Thank you for our time in Canadian. We will remember and hope
you remember us.
God Bless you all, DAVID AND PAT PARIS
State Capitol
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AUSTIN—Congress Avenue
and portions of bisecting streets
were blocked off last week as
crews set up the capital city New
Year’s Eve party for an antici-
pated 200,000 revelers.
Meanwhile, Readiness 2000, a
coalition of 31 state agencies, pre-
pared to watch and wait in the De-
partment of Public SafetyADs
emergency management center
in Austin.
Over the last two years, state
officials found nearly all comput-
ers ‘Y2K ready” at 199 state
agencies, including 30 agencies
identified as critical to health,
safety or the economy.
Don Rogers, a spokesman for
Readiness 2000, told The Dallas
Morning News his group encour-
ages Texas residents to have
enough water and other supplies
on hand to last three days.
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The new parental-notification
abortion law, sponsored in the
1999 state legislative session by
Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Piano,
goes into effect Jan. 1.
The law requires an unmar-
ried woman 17 or younger to no-
tify a parent that she intends to
have an abortion. Also, she will be
asked to produce proof of her age.
If a parent has not signed an
affidavit, a physician must send a
registered letter to a parent’s ad-
dress, then wait 48 hours before
performing the abortion.
Under the law, parents need
not approve. They only must be
told an abortion is to occur.
The Texas Department of
Health reported in 1997 that
5,523 minors had abortions.
Lawmakers estimate that 200
young women a year, even in light
of the law, will refuse to tell a par-
ent, The Dallas Morning News
reported last week.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. said it would pay $10 million
to settle a class-action lawsuit
filed on behalf of all its customers
in 400 Texas cities, the Austin
American-Statesman reported
Dec. 30.
In the preliminary settlement,
the plaintiffs, who sued over the
way the telephone company col-
lects franchise fees, will receive
no payment, and the Dallas law-
yers representing them could col-
lect $2 million.
Instead, $3 million in cash and
$7 million in service credits would
go to the state’s Telecommunica-
tions and Infrastructure Fund, the
American-Statesman reported.
Customers wishing to exercise
their right to sue individually
have until April 1 to “opt out” of
the settlement, in writing.
The Telecommunications Infra-
structure Fund was established to
help communities, libraries and
school districts get high-speed
Internet access.
Texas will take enforcement
action against Internet mer-
chants accused of selling a to-
bacco product known as “bidis” to
minors.
Attorney General John
Comyn said the sale of the small,
brown, hand-rolled cigarettes is
an illegal and predatory business
practice that “must come to an
end.”
Offices of 16 other state attor-
neys general are doing the same.
THURSDAY
HIGH: 48
LOW: 16
Partly sunny. North
wind 10 to 15 m.p.h.
FRIDAY
HIGH: 55
LOW: 25
Partly cloudy.
SATURDAY
HIGH: 56
LOW: 29
Partly cloudy.
SUNDAY
HIGH: 57
LOW: 22
Partly cloudy.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 2000, newspaper, January 6, 2000; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth737005/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.