AMARILLO, TEXAS -- All week on Pronews 7 we are taking a look back at the top headlines for the past ten years.
Here's a flashback to the year 2002.
All eyes were on the town of Happy as a major tornado ripped through the town. The tornado on May 5th, killed a husband,wife, and injured their son. Fifteen homes were destroyed. Seventeen homes required major repairs and 18 required minor repairs, along with scores of other businesses damaged in town.
Fast forward to July, the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority dropped its opposition to high-impact pumping permits. Allowing Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens and his Mesa Water Inc. group to pump 150,000 acre feet of water per year to a municipal buyer.
And hogs were a big item in 2002. In Pampa, there was a wave of protests over the application by National Pig Development USA. And in Dumas at Seaboard Farms, about a $150 million pork processing plant south of Dumas that would process more than 4 million hogs per year, drawing both support and opposition.
