Event Calendar

Panhandle Transit Groundbreaking

Panhandle Community Services (Panhandle Transit) Breaks Ground
on a new Transportation Facility

DETAILS:

Thursday, October 17^th, 2024, at 5:00, 10921 S. Coulter (a quarter mile south of the intersection of Sundown and Coulter on the Coulter side).  Panhandle Community Services will hold a groundbreaking celebration on the site where their new Transportation Facility is being built. Panhandle Community Services is a local 501C3 nonprofit and Community Action Agency that handles the transportation needs of the top 26 counties of Texas, stretching over 26,000 square miles. This program has been operating for 59 years since the inception of Panhandle Community Services and will be celebrating its 60^th anniversary in its new facility in 2025. 
CONFIRMED ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS include Judge Rowdy Rhoades from Moore County, who will be speaking. Confirmed attendance will include Judge Cindy Irwin from Hutchinson County, Judge Dan Looten from Carson County, Judge Glass from Hansford County, and Judge Locke from Roberts County, along with Executive Director Magi York and Transportation Director Lylene Springer.   
The facility will make it possible to bring all maintenance and operations under one roof and allow maintenance, including preventable maintenance, to be performed in-house year-round. PCS has a fleet of 92 buses and drove 150,600 trips in 2023.

This rural county transportation service is a curb-to-curb, demand-response service available to passengers who request pick-ups and/or drop-offs 24 hours in advance by calling 800-800-6162. Based on availability, the service center will schedule the rides. Each week, neighbors are taken to medical appointments, work, college, and the grocery store. Transportation is vital to those taking dialysis and coming to Amarillo for cancer and other medical treatments.

QUOTE from Lylene Springer, Transportation Director: “This facility has been almost 15 years in the making. We are excited to see this finally come to fruition and believe it will continue to benefit the Panhandle in a great way.”

 ABOUT PCS: Headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, PCS has 12 service centers to assist the top of Texas. We are a Community Action Agency and work hard, along with our partners, to change lives and lead change while bridging the gap from poverty to self-sufficiency.

OUR MISSION is to work as a community leader and partner in the Texas Panhandle to change the lives of low-income people by bridging the gap from poverty to self-sufficiency.

COUNTIES SERVED INCLUDE: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler

Maroon & White Tip-Off Classic: Supporters of West Texas A&M University’s men’s and women’s basketball programs will enjoy dinner, drinks and meet-and-greets with team members. (6 p.m. Thursday; Piehl Barn, 800 N. Farm-to-Market Road 2381; tickets $100; 806-236-7726)

Amarillo League of Women Voters presents an Educational Forum for Amarillo voters

The Amarillo League of Women Voters invites the community to join them for an Educational Forum on Amarillo City Charter Amendments & the “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” Ordinance, also known as Propositions A – E.

• Thursday, October 17th
• 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
• Virgil Patterson Auditorium
• At Happy State Bank,  701 S Taylor, Amarillo, TX 79101
• Enter through the parking garage (on Fillmore)

The panel for the City Charter Amendments (Propositions B-E) will be moderated by Dr. David Rausch, Teel Bivens Professor of Political Science at West Texas A&M University. Panelists will include Freda Powell and Gary Pitner, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Citizens Committee for the 2024 Charter Review.

The panel for the “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” ordinance (Proposition A) will be moderated by Dr. Shanna Peeples, Asst. Professor of Education at West Texas A&M University. Panelists will include those who can speak to the legal and medical aspects of the ordinance, including Attorney Ryan Brown; Dr. Richard McKay; Lindsey London, RN (representing Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance); and Christina Romero (representing the Sanctuary City for the Unborn Initiative Petition Initiating Committee).

Want to learn more about the Propositions A-E? Check out Amarillo Tribune’s in-depth election coverage of each ballot item.

This event will also be streaming live online at KFDA News Channel 10.

Amarillo voters are encouraged to attend in person if they’d like to submit a question for the panelists. Refreshments will be provided.

Questions? Please contact LWV Amarillo’s Linda Vaughn at lvaughn@lwvtexas.org.

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More about the Amarillo League of Women Voters: Our mission is simple: “Empowering voters. Defending Democracy.” We are proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing political parties or candidates at any level of government, but always working on issues of vital concern to members and the public. We encourage informed and active participation in government, work to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influence public policy through education and advocacy. Our members work to register voters, provide them with election information through our Voters Guides, Candidate Forums, and community outreach. The League of Women Voters in Amarillo envisions a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate.

“Goosebumps”: The kiddie horror movie continues a month of family-friendly Halloween film screenings at Sad Monkey Mercantile. (6:30 p.m. Thursday; 9800 Texas Highway 217; free; 806-488-2658)

Amanda Johnston: The Texas Poet Laureate offers a reading at the Texas Poets’ Corner at West Texas A&M University’s Cornette Library. (7 p.m. Thursday; free; 806-651-2215)

Fall Choir Concert: West Texas A&M University’s choirs join forces for an evening of standards, spirituals and more. (7:30 p.m. Thursday; Mary Moody Northen Recital Hall; free; 806-651-2840)