Our story
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
In 2009 a Canyon family who had driven their own mother to Amarillo every week for her care bought eleven acres of hay field on Rim Rock Road. They wanted a place close to home, with big windows, where nobody had to leave town to be looked after.
The builder from Hereford had one rule: every apartment faces something worth looking at. The patios are tucked behind brick walls, because the wind out here has opinions, and the porches face east, away from the worst of it.
Rosa Delgado was the first caregiver hired and is still on the day shift. The first residents were a retired rancher, a schoolteacher and a pastor's widow who organized the domino table before the paint dried.
It started when a resident said she'd lived in Canyon all her life and hadn't seen the canyon in twenty years. The next Thursday, Rick drove her out. Now it is a standing reservation, rain or shine, and the van is always full.
Canyon Rim is still owned by a Panhandle family. Darnell answers his own phone. And the menu, the calendar and the van schedule are all decided at a monthly residents' meeting with coffee and very strong opinions.
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Call or text Darnell and pick a time. Fridays are a good bet.