When an elderly man and his son walked into the Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC) building looking for beds after their house was flooded, they found two cots among the air mattresses. The only question they had after picking out the cots was: “When do we have to return them?”
Volunteers with a statewide Baptist organization began serving free meals to local residents Tuesday morning from an emergency relief trailer parked at Second Baptist Church in Lamesa.
Some early estimates are indicating at much of half of the young cotton crop in Dawson County may have been destroyed as a result of Saturday’s severe storm and subsequent flooding.
Public access to the west end of the Dawson County Cemetery has been closed temporarily due to flooding.
Heavy winds and rains from Saturday’s storm resulted in property damage to Lamesa school buildings and athletic facilities in addition to shutting down summer school classes for two days.
When the lights went out for two days at Northridge Retirement Center at 100 N.E. 27th Street, staff members went on the facility’s Facebook page to ask residents’ family members to pick them up.
Toppled electric poles and downed wires left residents and businesses in various parts of Lamesa without electricity for 24-36 hours or more after a heavy storm roared into town Saturday.
Cheryl Miller is expected to be named Tuesday to succeed Sylvia Ortiz as Dawson County’s tax assessor-collector.
After serving the public for almost 44 years in the county tax assessor-collector’s office, Sylvia Ortiz has decided it is time to retire.
P.O. Box 710
Lamesa, TX 79331
806-872-2177
