WEATHER: (December 5, 2024) THURSDAY – High yesterday was 60° at 2:00; this morning’s low was ° at 7:00. KPANcast: Partly cloudy with a high near 53°.
LOCAL: Hereford Whiteface Tennis player, Brandon Ysaguirre, was named to the Texas High School Coaches Association 2024-25 Team Tennis Super Elite Team in AAAA. The team has fourteen named players, and eight of them are out of district 4-4A……Texas AgriLife Extension’s Crop Production and Risk Protection workshop slated for this month will be offered both in-person and virtually. The workshop is an all-day event that will take place on December 18th and topics will range from general laws and regulations to Panhandle specific crop diseases and trends. Registration is $50 and can be done now at the Deaf Smith County Extension office at 806-363-3573. RSVP is requested by December 16th for a lunch count……Funeral services for Glena Collier, age 63, are tomorrow at 1:00 at the Nazarene Family Church. She was a lifelong Hereford resident and 1978 HHS graduate. She worked in nursing most of her life. A visitation is today from 5:00-8:00 at Mendez and Mullins Family Funeral Home. She died on Sunday in Amarillo……A quick warm-up to finish the work-week and be enjoyed this weekend will be short lived when a Pacific Northwest frontal boundary invades the area by Monday and drops daytime highs back down to the 40s and low 50s area-wide. Current forecast models predict the system to be a positively tilted, open-wave trough, which would generally be lighter on the precipitation side although talks of snow are in the forecast……KPAN salutes Katherine Alfaro as the Good Neighbor of the Day……We have roots where others have branches – First National Bank.