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In the article “Childress City Council discusses benefits for volunteer firefighters,” published Friday, March 17, the statement that volunteer and part-time employees of the Childress Volunteer Fire Department do not receive benefits was incorrect.

CHILDRESS — Childress Regional Medical Center (CRMC) was recently recognized as a Chartis 2023 Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital, announced Friday, March 3. “This award is a result of the hard work by our amazing teams at CRMC,” CRMC CEO Holly Holcomb said.

By Elizabeth Tanner

The Red River Sun

CHILDRESS — The Hall-Childress Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is taking orders for field and farmstead windbreak trees. Each year, the Hall-Childress SWCD, in cooperation with the Texas Forest Service, located in Lubbock, offers the public trees for establishing windbreaks.

CHILDRESS — Welcoming a host of cattle, chicken, goat, lamb, swine and rabbit exhibitors, the 2023 Childress County Youth Project Show will be held this weekend, Friday, Jan. 13 and Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Mashburn Event Center and Arena.

CHILDRESS — New year… new books! The Childress Public Library recently announced new titles, including eight adult fiction books and two children’s books. New adult fiction titles include “No Plan B” by Lee Child and Andrew Child; “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly; “Livid” by Patricia Cornwell; “Going Rogue: Rise and Sine Twenty-Nine” by Janet Evanovich; “Hidden” by Fern Michaels; “The Perfect Assassin: A Doc Savage Thriller” by James Patterson and Brian Sitts; “A World of Curiosities” by Louise Penny; and “Starlight on Willow Lake” by Susan Wiggs.

CHILDRESS — Childress County Christmas Sharing recently received another memorial donation. This time from Renee Wyatt in memory of Janis Lawrence Davis.