THE CLARENDON 11.10.2016 The Texas Panhandle’s First Newspaper. Established 1878. Enterprise THE CLARENDON NEWS & THE DONLEY COUNTY LEADEREADER www.ClarendonLive.com Single ɱɱ Services Copy $ɲ will honor THIS WEEK 2 Only the people can save America from the Roman veterans road to ruin. 4 The Cub Reporter journeys to Lubbock to cover Texas this week Tech football. Donley County residents will 5 St. Mary’s Church gets have several opportunities to honor ready to dedicate their new America’s veterans this week with Parish Hall. services planned in Clarendon and 7 And the Broncos prepare Hedley. for the playoffs. The Donley County VFW All this and much more as The Enterprise Auxiliary were scheduled to place reports in this week’s amazing edition! about 500 fl ags on veterans’ graves in Citizens Cemetery as the Enterprise High school troupe went to press this week. Clarendon Elementary School to present comedy will hold its annual Veterans Program Clarendon High School’s on Thursday, November 10, at 12:15 drama department will stage at the Bronco Gym. the comedy “My Son is Crazy Clarendon College’s Veterans But Promising” this weekend, Day Celebration is also scheduled Saturday and Sunday, November for Thursday, November 10, at 7 12 and 13, in the CHS Auditorium. p.m. in the Harned Sisters Fine Arts Tickets for the Saturday Center auditorium. The Honorable performance are $15 each and Ernie Houdashell, Randall County include a meal at 6 p.m. with the Judge and veteran of two tours in in show immediately following. The Vietnam, will be the guest speaker. Sunday matinee performance at Nik and Dusty Green, stars of the new PBS series “Two for the Road” with a Clarendon College pennant on top of the There will be military recognition 2 p.m. is $5 for the show only. Great Wall of China. COURTESY PHOTO / DUSTY & NIKKI GREEN and the families of active service men Tickets are available at the CHS and women will also be recognized. offi ce, or from any theatre student. The VFW Auxiliary will provide In the farce by Tim Kelly, refreshments in the foyer following eccentric Hollywood screenwriter the program. Bud Granger decides to give up On Friday, November 11, the life in the fast lane and buys a American Legion will have placed lodge in Tumbleweed , Ariz. The Two for the Road 231 fl ags on the graves of veterans inn is a termite pile, but as it’s buried in Rowe Cemetery and near the fabled “Lost Dutchman will hold its annual Veterans Day Mine,” Bud thinks he might soon From Donley County to the World! Program there at 10 a.m. Donley be a reclusive millionaire. County Judge John Howard, who What he didn’t fi gure on is By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise trying to do. then gave the couple the opportunity to start served as a Navy pilot and fl ight that the lodge is full of nuts – a “We were searching for videos about promoting the show to other PBS affi liates. ou never know where life’s road will surgeon in the Marine Corps will little old lady who is in touch with what it’s like to travel to go to Antarctica, and “Two for the Road,” as a 30-minute take you, and that has certainly been bring the address. In case of bad “space people,” outraged tourists there was nothing out there,” Nik said. television show premiered on Panhandle PBS true for Dusty and Nikki Green – a weather, the service will be moved who thought the lodge would be Y Having previously moved into a place in September with eight episodes in the fi rst Howardwick couple who decided to follow a to the Hedley Lions Hall. A veterans like the Ritz, Oysters Rockefeller owned by Nik’s parents at Howardwick, the season, and Dusty and Nik hit the road to sell dream and are now on their way to becoming program at the Hedley school will – an emotional mobster who couple returned from their Antarctic trip to the show to other PBS affi liates in Texas. national celebrities on public television. follow the Legion’s program. won’t stay dead, and aspiring what their family calls “the Camp,” and there, “Our fi rst stop was in Dallas to meet with Nine years ago, the Greens started a Also on Friday, the VFW will starlet Chi-Chi Vazoom who on a kitchen table, they started producing this guy that everybody around the state listens simple blog – an online journal – called “Two also hold a special Veterans Day thinks lizards are “cute.” Then what would become their “Two for the Road” to,” Dusty said. “And he was just like, ‘Well, for the Road” when they gave up their careers ceremony November 11 at 11 a.m. at Bud’s zany mother arrives. television series and began pitching the idea to yeah, I’m going to run the show.’” in Amarillo and started a grand adventure of the Donley County War Memorial. A The play is a fun, screwball networks. By the end of the Texas road trip, Dusty traveling the globe. What began as a whim hot dog lunch will be served at the whodunit with an outlandish plot “We talked to the Travel Channel,” Nik and Nik had nine of the 12 PBS stations in evolved into a web video series then a regional VFW Hall following the ceremony. and amusing complications. said. “They wanted a hook. Like, you take the state agreeing to air “Two for the Road,” PBS television show and is now going another couple and you have $500, but that’s and then last week, the announcement came nationwide. not what we wanted to do.” that the show will be available for national Plans set for annual “I never in a million years thought this is So Dusty took the concept to the folks at distribution to PBS stations in January. One of Robinson and what we would be doing,” Nik says. Thanksgiving meal Panhandle PBS last October, where he knew the fi rst out-of-state affi liates interested in the The annual Clarendon Dusty, a former executive with Channel the people that worked there and also knew show is in Philadelphia with an estimated 1.6 Hommel to be Community Thanksgiving dinner 7 in Amarillo, and Nik, who worked in a that PBS would allow them to have more million viewers. will be held on Thanksgiving Day, dentist’s offi ce, sold everything they had to creative control of their show. They loved it There are still challenges. Each PBS honored at CC Thursday, November 24. follow their passion – traveling. An eight- and started helping the Greens get their foot in affi liate decides on its own whether to run The dinner is free to the month adventure in South America exhausted the door with other PBS affi liates. an available show. So the Greens and their public and will be served from their savings, and they returned to Texas, homecoming “It helps when your local station is supporters must continue to lobby stations to 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the setting up shop and combining their careers to Clarendon College exes and working as a ‘presenting station,’” Dusty said. pick the show up, and they must also work to Clarendon school cafeteria. shoot testimonial videos for dentists. That led friends are encouraged to attend “They showed us how to pitch the show to secure their own underwriters for the show. Transportation service to and them to shooting videos for touring companies homecoming activities next week national PBS.” Meanwhile, Panhandle PBS began from the dinner is available along to promote vacation getaways. that will include honoring two By June, the Greens were knocking re-running the fi rst season last week in the with delivery service for the The “Two for the Road” blog really distinguished alumni and dedication on the door of the National Educational show’s regular timeslot, Thursday at 8 p.m., handicapped and by calling 874- started as a way to keep in touch with family, of a state historical marker for the Telecommunications Association (NETA) and Dusty says 13 episodes are ready for 2007 in advance. but by the time they started putting videos in Panhandle’s oldest institution of in South Carolina, trying to sell the group season two when it airs next year. Donations for the a web series, it was television that they had in higher learning. that licenses and distributes educational Even with the burgeoning success of Thanksgiving dinner can be made mind. Festivities will begin Thursday, programming in all 50 states, the US Virgin “Two for the Road” – which is still literally at Pilgrim Bank or mailed to PO “We knew when we started going November 17, with CC’s fall Islands, and Puerto Rico. produced on a kitchen table in Howardwick, Box 45. For further details or to on trips, we would have this mountain of theatre production of “Dulcitius,” “They told us, ‘don’t call us, we’ll call the couple is very happy making their home volunteer to help, please call 874- material,” Dusty said, noting that the travel at 7 p.m. in the Harned Sisters Fine you,’” Dusty said. “We just kept calling.” base in Donley County, although they did 2007. company promotions were only a few minutes Arts Center, which will also have In August, they had about given up, move out of “the camp” and bought their own long.