Volume 28, Number 4
April 2016
24 Pages
Lubbock, Texas 79401
Couple celebrates 5-year anniversary By Victoria Holloway Kent and Lanita Clark celebrated five years of marriage in the Medical ICU waiting room at Covenant on March 21. Five years earlier, Kent was a critically ill patient in Covenant. After being admitted to Covenant Hospital on March 16, 2011, the couple found out that Kent was having an adverse reaction to a medication that
In April 1st - April Fool’s Day 9th – Ranch Day 15th – Income Tax Day 16th – Kids Fish 16th - 17th - Lubbock Arts Festival 22nd – Earth Day Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month
Inside Casas for CASA ........................ 2 Watercolor exhibits, April 24 ... 2 ‘Storytellers’ April 9 .................. 5 Celebrity luncheon, April 19 .. 10 Paul’s Project, April 12 ........... 15 Kids Fish, April 16 .................. 24
eventually destroyed 80 percent of his lungs. Scar tissue in his trachea was closing off, and Kent was suffocating. He was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston for an emergency procedure that would hopefully save his life. And it did. He returned to Covenant Health where he celebrated his 70th birthday on Aug. 9, 2011. Two days before Thanksgiving, he was finally home. Unsure if Kent was going to survive, the couple decided to get married in the hospital on March 21, 2011, several months before the planned-out wedding set for July. Kent said they had already booked the venue, purchased rings, and bought decorations for the wedding ceremony. Nurses and doctors from the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Covenant put together a wedding for the couple, and hospital chaplain Barry Moynihan officiated the ceremony. Before marrying, Lanita and Kent had been neighbors and friends for 25 years. They watched each another take care of their spouses who had seth rious health conditions. Their families were friends, Kent and Lanita Clark celebrated their 5 (See Anniversary celebration, Page 22)
wedding anniversary in the Medical ICU at Covenant on March 21. Photo by Victoria Holloway
Entries sought for Post Art Show The Post Art Guild will be hosting its 52nd Arts on Main Street show in May, and invites all local artists to enter their work for judging and display. Entries can be delivered to the Post Community Center at 129 W. Main St. from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 4. All entries must be ready for hanging or display. Entry fees are $7 per entry for non-members, $5 for members; $3 for students 18 and younger.
No class work, kits, wet paint, or works deemed in poor taste will be accepted. Entries will remain on exhibit until sold or until the show closes. Post Art Guild receives 25 percent on all art sales. Ribbons and cash prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in various categories. Categories will include landscape, portrait, (See Post Art Show, Page 22)