The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2008 Page: 2 of 32
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All that we lack is the will
j est Editor el by John McGarr
MONDAY S CHAMBER DF COMMERCE and
EDC-hosted meeting was headlined: "Prac-
tical Solutions to Housing Challenges." I was
frankly disappointed.
I don't fault Mr. Franco, who presented
the program. He is obviously quite success-
ful with his programs in Dimmitt. He has it
figured out for Dimmitt. If I were in Dimmitt
look ing at housing, he's my go-to guy.
There is only one problem: this isn't Dim-
mitt.
As Jim Pollard pointed out, our situation
is very different: no agricultural workers, no
large disadvantaged population, too high a
median income. For better or for worse, we
are different. Mr. Franco's programs Will.
Not. Work. In. Canadian.
If you don't believe me, ask City Manager
Colby Waters. He has run 'em and done 'em all
over the Panhandle.
With that being said, Mr. Franco did pro-
vide the answer to our nagging, chronic hous-
ng problem...and the child care problem...and
the litter problem...and the (Till in the blank)
problem: community will, or the lack thereof.
Do we, as a community, have the will to step
up and solve these problems?
No one can dispute that the financial re-
sources are available. I think we can agree
that we have the leaders! ip to deal with these
issues. But resources and leadership are not
enough if the community doesn't want to solve
the problem.
Community will stopped TxDOT in its
tracks. Community will helped propel the
football team to a State Championship. Com-
munity will can solve whatever problem we
face—or not.
We can't wait any longer for the Feds or
the State or the Tooth Fairy to come along
and sprinkle us with fairy dust and dollar
bills. It is time to cowboy up and do what has
to be done, no whining, and no excuses.
I am reminded of a story. A young ntern
asked the boss how decisions were made. The
boss said, "They are made in one of two ways:
the ordinary way or the miraculous way."
"What's the difference?" asked the intern.
"In the ordinary way, we wait for the heav-
ens to open and angels to come down and do
the work. In the miraculous way, we roll up
our sleeves and do it ourselves."
We don't need angels and we don't need
miracles: we just need to decide to do it.
When all is said and done, usually more is said
than done.
CHARITY BEGINS AT NINE: These young
citizens celebrated nine-year-old Avery Pen-
nington's birthday recently by making con-
tributions to the Lone Star Angel Project.
Instead of presents, Avery requested that
each party-goer bring a donation for the
local non-profit organization. Amy Pen-
nington said her daughter wanted to give to
other children in need, and this was her way
of doing so. The kids raised $164.
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TO OUR READERS AND ADVERTISERS:
IF YOU ARE READING THIS, it means we have once again
beat the increasingly formidable odds to deliver this week's ed i-
tion of The Canadian Record. A series of unfortunate events
over the last three weeks has made that task more difficult, and
our loyal readers and advertisers are owed an explanation—
however insufficient this one might ultimately prove to be.
It is almost 11 o'clock Wednesday morning as I write this—
deadline time n the weekly newspaper cycle—and a glance
around the newsroom reveals blacked out monitors and vacant
workstations. The network file server which is the real brains
of this operation is down, and has been since yesterday evening.
Our network administrator (and non-resident computer god)
Larry Gatlin is patiently reinstalling software and restoring
our files, after having spent a good part of the night backing
them all up and replacing faulty equipment.
He is tired. We are tired. And all of us should be pretty
grumpy by now. Instead, a strange calm and sense of nevi-
tability (or is it doom?) has descended over our office. This is,
after all, only the latest obstacle—and perhaps not even the
greatest one. We all assume our battle stances.
Losing a day in the news cycle is costly enough, but we've
struggled for most of the last week with a computer network
that runs as slow as a slug—when it runs at all. If we're back up
and running by this afternoon, we'll all scramble to churn out
the stories that normally take days to compile, and to lay out
our pages and upload them to our central printing plant's ftp
site as close to the usual 6 p.m. deadline as possible.
We'll be late, of course—but the printers owe us this one.
Why? Because last week, our newspapers arrived on local
newsstands 24 hours late, and missed Thursday's rna deliv-
ery truck altogether. A call to our office mid-afternoon last
Wednesday was the first harbinger of doom. An unfamiliar
voice from the Southwest Times (Liberal, Kansas)—which has
printed our newspaper for the last several months—delivered
the bad news.
"Our entire staff and crew walked out yesterday afternoon,"
I was told. "We're still going to print your newspaper. We're
bringing in other people now."
A news report in the Times' Friday edition filled in a few
more of the blanks. Without any warning to that newspaper's
corporate offices in Gadsden, Alabama, the Times (nowformer)
publisher Earl Watt had led an organized walkout of newspa-
per employees that week, leaving his resignation on his desk as
his only notice.
Rumors of a walkout had been circulating for several days,
according to the report. When contacted by the Times' own-
ers, Watt denied the rumors—not once, not twice, but thrice...
like Judas.
Watt took with him most of the Times' editorial and of-
fice staff, and several crew members from the central print-
ng plant which produces their newspaper as well as several
others—including the one you now hold in your hands [she
writes hopefully, if somewhat prematurely]. While still collect-
ing a paycheck from the Times, Watt had apparently started a
competing newspaper, set up new offices, and installed his own
printing press.
According to the Times report, a check of State of Kansas
business application records showed that on April 15—more
than two weeks before the walkout—a new limited liability cor-
poration had been formed called Seward County Publishing,
LLC, with Watt as the registered agent.
Watt apparently informed some of the newspapers he print-
ed of his plans—just not this one.
So The Canadian Record arrived on newsstands a day late
last week, and a couple of hundred copies short, as it turned
out. And Mr. Watt's new readers and customers have ample
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