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SEMINOLE – Seminole’s burgeoning community of small businesses once again took center stage at the Gaines County Civic Center for last Wednesday’s annual Seminole Area Chamber of Commerce banquet. It is one of the area’s most heavily attended indoor events of the year, and the final large civic event before attentions turn toward the winter holidays.

A week ago and with the deadline fast approaching, organizers of the Miss Merry Christmas Pageant were concerned that not enough candidates had signed up to compete for crowns, titles and a $1,000 college scholarship.

Cameras recording the Lamesa school board meetings are staying.

North Elementary School third graders Amora Rios, 8, and Celeste Gonzales, 8, enjoy a reward for collecting cans of food for distribution to local residents Sunday by the Kingdom Culture Ministries. One class each from the third, fourth and fth grades were rewarded with root beer and Coke oats with vanilla ice cream in the school cafeteria Friday afternoon for collecting the most cans in their grades. Students collected a total of 1,034 cans.