Clarendon Chamber of Commerce officials reported Tuesday that tickets were selling briskly for this week’s Awards Banquet, and a large crowd is expected in the Bairfield Activity Center Thursday evening.
Tickets must be purchased in advance and will not be sold at the door for the event, which features a reception and silent auction at 6 p.m. followed by the banquet, entertainment, and awards at 7 p.m.
Several table sponsors will be competing to see who has the best decorations reflecting their business and featuring the Mardi Gras banquet theme.
Texas humorist Tumbleweed Smith will be the headline entertainment, and the Chamber will honor the Business of the Year and three of Donley County’s top citizens with the Saints’ Roost Award and Man and Woman of the Year. Outstanding youth from Clarendon and Hedley high schools will also be recognized.
Smith is producer of The Sound of Texas, a radio series that began in Big Spring and became the most widely syndicated feature radio show in Texas. In doing his daily program for more than 45 years, Smith has gathered the largest private collection of oral history in the United States. Texas Highways magazine says he has probably recorded the voices of more Texas characters than anyone else.
Tumbleweed taught broadcasting and speech in the University of Texas system 34 years. He is a syndicated newspaper columnist. His one-man shows have been performed all over Texas and in six other states and four foreign countries. His honors include two CLIO advertising awards, two Telly statuettes, the governor’s award for tourism, the West Texas Chamber of Commerce Cultural Achievement Award, The (2012) DAR Texas Media Award, and two Freedoms Foundation Awards.
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