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“What’s better than a car show?” asked Amarillo Police Department Cpl. Sean Slover.
“Why not hold a fundraiser? It’s a family event … that brings back memories of high school days,” he said. “A lot these cars remind people of what they once used to have, or always wanted. It’s just a fun thing to do.”
Now in its eighth year, Slover said the Crime Stoppers Car Show continues to grow and attract people across the nation.

Despite the 72nd annual Boys Ranch Rodeo + adventureFEST being cut back this year to one day, instead of the traditional two days, Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch CEO and President Dan Adams said ticket sales this year were “normal.”
Adams, who said most of the admissions for the rodeo happen at the gate, said the organization expected to take in anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 for the Saturday event.
Earlier this summer, it was announced the 72nd annual rodeo would be cut to a single day. Adams said the change was due to a multitude of reasons.

“Technology allows us to do endless things,” said Cody McGehee, founder of Ideas are Bulletproof Studios.
He was at the helm of the inaugural Pokémon Walk-a-thon along Sixth Avenue on Friday and Saturday.
McGehee wanted to partner his multimedia experience with his love of games and fundraising.
“I thought, ‘What’s a good way that I can get the community active in what I do in supporting Children’s Miracle Network, and by doing Extra Life every year and it be successful?’”

Two Amarillo siblings have invented a security cover for credit and debit cards and have launched a business to sell it.
Kendra Watkins, 23, and her brother Bryson Watkins, 19, are the entrepreneurs behind CardKix, which first became available in May.
“It’s a tamper-evident cover used to conceal all your sensitive and pertinent card information,” Kendra said. “It offers 360 degrees of protection while only allowing access to the name of the card owner and the magnetic strip.”

An authentically restored Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress dubbed the “Texas Raiders” landed at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport on Friday afternoon to kick off a three-day Labor Day weekend visit at the airfield’s Texas Air and Space Museum.
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Workers, employees and managers; blue-collar, white-collar and no collar are celebrating the long weekend without work, but a wave of local breadwinners are looking for jobs on this Labor Day weekend.
The U.S. Department of Labor released its August employment report on Friday to muted applause. The economy added 151,000 jobs in August, which kept the unemployment rate at 4.9 percent — a rate economists view as full employment.
Bars and restaurants added the largest number of jobs, 34,000, while the social assistance category added 22,000 employees.

LUBBOCK — About 40 people with connections to veterinary medicine met Friday at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock as part of a steering committee to provide insight and help shape the development of a veterinary school within the Texas Tech University System.
Veterinarians, livestock producers, experts in academia with connections to vet schools in North America and community supporters throughout the state are on the steering committee, Tech officials said.

A good friend enjoys reading the same kind of adventure novels I like to waste time with. Both of us have just about exhausted the supply of tales by Ludlum and Baldacci and Grisham and DeVille and le Carre.
Somehow she stumbled across books by best-selling author Greg Isles.
On her recom-mendation, I downloaded his two tales set in Europe during World War II. Partially, I’m sure, because this history is the first I personally experienced, I found those two volumes delightful.

The Christian Ophthalmic Surgery Expedition Network medical personnel performed advanced eye surgery on 504 indigent Mexican individuals during a five-day medical initiative organized at the Vision Institute of La Carlota Hospital in Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico from July 30 to Aug. 6.
While the eye surgeons operated, evangelists shared the gospel of Jesus Christ to patients waiting for surgery.
We also prayed for their surgeries and for their lives. This is a massive turning point in the life of a person who was once blind and can afterward see.

The stained-glass windows that lined the room were dark from the dreary weather. Light flickering from the Shabbat candles was a representation of hope as the community of Temple B’nai Israel gathered on a Friday evening in their quaint synagogue.
“Shabbat is really that weekly moment where we are able to recognize the joy in our lives, and we literally bring light into the world,” said Lexi Erdheim, the young woman standing at the front of the synagogue.