th and Saturday May 15
th including plans for a traditional downtown parade to celebrate Lamar’s 135
th anniversary.
Feathers is Riding High
This year’s theme is, “The Spirit of Country Comes Alive with Lamar Days, 2021”. Vendors should start thinking about contacting the chamber at 336-4379 for booth information, either downtown on Friday or at Willow Creek Park on Saturday. Downtown merchants are being asked to consider holding sidewalk sales as they had been years ago.
Car Show Entries
The parade will be scheduled to go up Main Street beginning at 10am with a route that will take the entries into the park area. Exact details are developing. The annual BBQ is set for Friday from 11am to 1pm at the chamber parking lot and a street dance and beer garden will be held in the evening, beginning at 6pm. Ron Cook’s famous Hot Rod Car Show will be held as well.
Curtis Tempel and Clint States provided updated information for the Granada Trustees on their plans to construct a packing plant west of the community, beginning sometime later this year. Tempel laid out his initial plans to the Trustees last year and secured the property adjacent to Camp Amache, west of Granada, off Highway 50.
Tempel said, “We’ve been working through the past year and we’ve gotten up to a lot of final stages at this point to move the project forward.” Some of the next steps involve getting a determination of the ground composition where a pad for the 15,000 square foot building will be located. Some other factors include the location for a fire hydrant, placement of a water line, a sewer line and probably putting electrical conduit at least five feet underground. A SECPA power line currently exists, but States and Tempel are considering going underground with it. They were granted access to the property from the Trustees in order to develop the first s
The City of Lubbock hosted their weekly press conference on March 10, for news regarding COVID-19, the city’s vaccination process and information about the recent state removal of the mask