United marks 100th birthday with cupcakes and school drive
The United Family marks a century since its Sayre 1916 origin as United Cash Store. Now Texas based, it runs United Super Markets Market Street Albertsons Market and Amigos with 66 stores in 36 communities. Plans include 100,000 free cupcakes, Shop to Support Schools launching in January, and donating 100,000 pounds of apples to area food banks in April. The company moved headquarters to Lubbock in 1956 and expanded through 1991 to 20 Texas communities.
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Sayre
Okla
United Family
Market Street
Albertsons Market
Amigos
United Express Fuel and Convenience
West Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth
New Mexico
United
Lubbock
Jack Snell
H. D. Snell
Taylor Safeways
Jack
Robert
United Stores
Texas
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Odessa bulky item drop off event set for Saturday
Odessa residents may dispose of bulky items free of charge this Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Odessa Recycling Center on West 42nd Street. Accepts furniture appliances mattresses and other large items not fitting alley containers along with household chemicals such as cleaners antifreeze oil pesticides paints and solvents. For more information call Solid Waste at 432-368-3510.
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Odessa Recycling Center
42Nd St
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Restaurants target east side caoda com Osaka s
A local Osaka themed dining push focuses on the east side area targeting residents and visitors with new menu items and pop up events. Market buzz notes collaboration with merchants and online promotions. Public reaction mixes curiosity and cautious optimism.
Osaka steak house opens in Odessa amid slow West Texas growth
Rigoberto Manriquez opened an Osaka Japanese Steak House at 4020 Faudree Road as his third new restaurant during the regional slowdown. The 275-seat venue employs about 70 workers and opened after construction delays since 2012, with East Odessa development eyed as future growth. The city’s building department notes overall slow but steady activity, with permit values down 47 percent from 2014 but more than 2,000 active permits.
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Osaka
Faudree Road
Rigoberto Manriquez
West Texas
Manriquez
Ralph McCain
Odessa
Texas A&M students study Odessa Meteor Crater shapes
Geophysics master’s student Chase Stanford leads a team including Andrea Darrh Roy Bowling and professor Mark Everett at the Odessa Meteor Crater. Over three days they conduct ground penetrating radar measurements to refine estimates of the crater’s age and size and explore why its shape deviates from the common circular form.
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Texas A&m University Geophysics
Chase Stanford
A&m
Andrea Darrh
Roy Bowling
Odessa
Meteor
Texas A&m
Mark Everett
King Day events planned with Rev Bryant Phelps speaker
The Odessa area marks Martin Luther King Day with gospel events and a breakfast. Rev Bryant Phelps, from St Pauls United Methodist in Dallas, will deliver the keynote at the 6:30 a.m. Monday breakfast in the Odessa Regional Medical Center community room. The Black Cultural Council of Odessa sponsors the theme The Power of a United Community with Phelps drawing on Kings Letter from Birmingham Jail to urge unity and legal justice. First Baptist Church hosts a Sunday celebration at 3 p.m. with Rev James E. Brice and music by Rev RL Taylor and the Sons of the Father.
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Midland
Morehouse College
Atlanta
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Dallas
Phelps
Odessa Regional Medical Center Community Room
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Odessa
King
Birmingham
First Baptist Church
N. Lee St
James E. Brice
RL. Taylor
N. Adams St
MLK events clash and march in Odessa crowd
Una Voz Unida hosts its third annual MLK declamation at the Salvador M. Guererro Southside Senior Activity Center at 9 30 a m with local guest orators and music. A King Rally and Freedom March follows at 1 a m starting at the senior center, ending at Woodson Community Center after a route via South Dixie Boulevard Murphy Street and back.
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Salvador M. Guerrero
Southside
S. Dixie Blvd
Permian High School
Zephaniah Blaylock
Dixie Boulevard
Murphy Street
Woodson Community Center
MLK
Senior Citizens Center
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