Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle
PO Box 15127
Amarillo, TX 79105-5127
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Save the Date: Amarillo International Film Festival — October 9-11, 2025 – Arts in the Sunset
Canyon Farmers Market: The summer tradition continues weekly with live music, activities, vendors and more. The market is open weekly through Sept. 27. (8 a.m. to noon; Fourth Avenue and 15th Street in Canyon; 806-567-0746)
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Join us for the Amarillo Yoga Festival! This year’s festival proudly supports nonprofit Amarillo Housing First and the Code Blue Warming Station program. All proceeds from vendor fees, raffle tickets, and our silent auction will go directly toward these programs serving our local homeless community. Enjoy a day filled with: Free yoga classes Local vendors Live music + DJ Raffle prizes Silent auction treasures Delicious eats from That Weird Place food truck Come for a class, browse the vendors, or stay and celebrate with us all day! We’re excited to collaborate this year with the Farmers Market at Shark Beach, which is held every Thursday evening and Saturday morning through Thanksgiving. Double the vendors! Together, we can strengthen our community while enjoying movement, music, and connection.
Celebrate. Remember. Honor all those affected by a cancer diagnosis. Competitive and non-competitive 5k and 1-mile FUN run/walk. Special CANCER SURVIVOR tent. Family-friendly event with food, coffee, music and kid’s area.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Amarillo League of Women Voters’ Monthly Meeting This Saturday
Features Presentation on Emergency Preparedness
In the face of an emergency, climate disaster, or major event that threatens the safety of you and your family, ARE YOU PREPARED? Most folks are not, so the Amarillo League of Women Voters invites everyone from the community to join them this for their monthly membership meeting:
- Saturday, Sept. 27th
- Meet & mingle at 9:30 AM / Program starts at 10 AM
- Amarillo Area Foundation, 919 S. Polk St, Amarillo, TX 79101
- Speaker: Max Dunlap, City of Amarillo’s Office of Emergency Management
This event is free and open to the public, and all LWV members are encouraged to attend. Refreshments, including coffee, will be provided, but attendees are also encouraged to bring snacks to share. Parking is available behind the building, and a volunteer will be at the door to allow entrance.
Reminder: This is an election year, with a constitutional amendment election scheduled for November 4th. (Early voting runs from October 20th through the 31st.) If your organization, business, nonprofit, or church is interested in having League set up a voter registration booth at an upcoming gathering, or if you’d like us to present our CIVICS 101 seminar as a refresher on local, county and state government, please contact us at amarillolwv@gmail.com or call 806-337-2148.
Interested in defending democracy and educating voters? JOIN THE LEAGUE! It’s easy. Just visit the website at www.alwv.clubexpress.com for details. Whether you want to help distribute Voters Guides around town, register new voters at high schools or community events, or join an outreach committee, reach out to LWV of Amarillo’s board president, Kimberly Anderson, at amarilloLWV@gmail.com.
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.
Blood transfusions during childbirth are the 5th leading reason that blood is needed.
1 in 83 childbirths, the mother will require a blood transfusion.
Postpartum hemorrhage affects approximately 3-5% of all deliveries.
Please share this with your friends and family and ask them to come and donate blood on this special day.
You can also schedule here https://www.yourbloodinstitute.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/678659
Misti Newsom
Director of Recruitment & Events
Coffee Memorial Blood Center
Our Blood Institute
7500 Wallace Blvd. Amarillo, TX 79124
Office (806)331-8844
Cell (806)681-3424