Sixth Annual South Plains Music Festival in Denver City
The South Plains Gospel Music Association hosts the sixth annual festival October 7 at the Denver City Community Building from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Acts perform country western gospel and bluegrass, with a 3 p.m. Old Time Fiddlers Contest offering 100 dollars first prize and a best band prize of 50 dollars. A parade led by Denver City and Plains High School bands starts at 10 a.m. followed by staged country and bluegrass sets. A coronation of the Queen of the South Plains Music Festival is scheduled for 8 p.m. An Oct 5 pre-event get-together will feature the Denver City High School Band at Denver City Park from 6 p.m.
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Schedule of events at Ector County park facilities
The coming week lists activities across four buildings. Monday includes YMCA volleyball at Floyd Gwin Auditorium 6:30 to 10 p.m. and 4-H Horse Club at Slater Building 7:30 to 10 p.m., plus Interfaith Nursery at Southside 9 a.m. to noon. Tuesday features Terry Garvin at Floyd Gwin Auditorium noon to midnight and Home Demonstration at Sherwood Building 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday has Raymond Granado at Southside Building 8 p.m. to midnight. Thursday shows Floyd Gwin Auditorium 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday is Slater Building 5 to 11 p.m. for Dorados Baseball Team and Sherwood Building 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. for Midland-Odessa Singles Association. Sunday rounds out with World Missions at Floyd Gwin Auditorium 2:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday covers Dorados Baseball Team at Slater Building 5 to 11 p.m. and Midland-Odessa Singles Association at Sherwood Building 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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ENMU Adds Two Singers to Concert Choir
ENMU Portales adds Terry L. Griffith of Goldsmith and Farris Collins of Odessa to its select 35-voice Concert Choir directed by Dr. Gregory K. Lyne. Griffith, a senior music education major and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia president, is the son of J. L. Griffith. Collins, also a senior music education major, is the son of Ruth Watkins.
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Odessa
Macey Named Executive Director Of Permian Basin Planned Parenthood
Phyllis D. Macey is appointed executive director of Permian Basin Planned Parenthood Inc. She will lead community education across 17 counties, oversee 12 clinics and 45 staff, and bring experience from Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Standard and Poor's/Intercapital, and Baylor University Medical Center. Her education includes a OU business degree and UT Austin psychology studies. Executive offices are in Odessa. 40 local governors guide the agency.
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Latin America growth slows in 1977 says Inter-American Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank reports Latin America’s economy grew about 4.5 percent in 1977, down from 4.8 percent in 1976, with inflation and higher energy costs as main drags. The region’s population rises 2.8 percent yearly, and per capita output reached about $1,040 in 1976 dollars, leaving the living standard gap to industrialized nations wide.
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Former Odessan Leads Taylor University Voice Department
Odessa High School graduate Stephen J. Town, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Town, has become head of the voice department at Taylor University in Upland Indiana. Town earned bachelor and master degrees from North Texas State University and is pursuing a doctorate in voice. He studied at Graz Austria’s Summer Vocal Institute in 1973 after a scholarship from the American Institute of Musical Studies and performed with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., in 1974.
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