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If memory serves, when four or five high school students gathered around a teacher at his desk, it was usually to ask for a favor — like a film be shown on Friday or some kind of open-book test. Extra work never seemed to figure into it.
“My reaction was, ‘Well, let’s get to work,’” Aaron Faver said.

Gus Walker Sr. said that his abusive and drug addicted mother’s failed attempt to take his life when he was 15 is, ironically, what set him on a path to freedom.
On the night he thinks she tried to kill him he was walking home, and he remembers having the feeling that things were going to go terribly wrong.
His premonition was dead on. Later that evening he said his mother tried to stab him in the head with a butcher’s knife.

Canyon Independent School District is seeking to become a District of Innovation, which could allow it to sidestep state regulations governing things like class size, teacher certification, student discipline and school start and end dates.
The law allowing for such a designation was created in 2015, and affords districts flexibility similar to that of open-enrollment charter schools.
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If a United Family pilot program that offers grocery home delivery goes as planned, it’s possible the service could eventually expand to other Panhandle cities, including Amarillo.
At a luncheon where United Family officials were delivering an update on the state of the company last week in Lubbock, they unveiled the new grocery delivery service called StreetSide by Market Street.
The program is planned to launch Oct. 12 in Lubbock at the Market Street store at 50th Street and Indiana Avenue.

A man from Guatemala who was detained by police Tuesday during an investigation concerning a missing 14-year-old girl has now been charged with two counts of first-degree rape and kidnapping in Texas County, according to the Guyman (Okla.) Daily Herald.
An affidavit filed Wednesday in Texas County alleges that Tomas Tino-Lorenzo, 21, also known as Israel, forced the girl to have sex with him.
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They are the unknown and the solitary. They are the homeless and the friendless. They have names like Juan and Clayton, Margaret and Cliff.
Little is known about their lives. When they died, they died broke and mostly alone.
For years, the final resting place for Amarillo’s indigent was the southeast corner of Llano Cemetery, a plot of land unlike the graveyard’s other landscape.
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It’s not enough that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are setting fire to the country, but now they’re indirectly ending friendships. Among the smoke and residue these two will leave behind after this presidential campaign farce is complete are broken relationships — or so says the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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“What you’re doing today is you’re holding the rope for somebody,” Pastor Matt Johnson told the crowded sanctuary Saturday at The Loft Church.
Johnson narrated the New Testament story of a remarkable group of friends who also held a rope, but it was for a paralyzed man as they lowered him through the roof of a crowded house and into the presence of Jesus to be healed.
Saturday morning members of the Amarillo community held the rope in support of 27 million human trafficking victims around the globe.

Father Scott Raef, rector for St. Mary’s Cathedral School in Amarillo, remembers looking forward to autumn each year because that’s when St. Mary’s held itstheir annual carnival.
“It was a big deal,” said Raef, laughing, during this year’s carnival on Saturday.
The school has been in existence for more than 100 years.
It’s difficult to track whether the Carnival has also been around for that long, said Jean Norrell, president of the school board, but the legacy of the school and it’s annual celebration has been around for decades.

Academic Spotlight
Callie Boren
17

Grade: 12th, Canyon High School
Nominated by: Principal Tim Gilliland
■ Why are you nominating this student? “She excels in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities, but more importantly she is a wonderful young lady and a leader in our school.”