Vet-mobile service halted

Moses Lake Veterinary Clinic’s mobile van has stopped its weekly visits to Odessa. Over this past summer, the van parked each Tuesday morning next to Walter Implement on Dobson Road at the eastern town limits of Odessa. Sometimes, cars were lined up waiting for the van to arrive, but on too many days, only one or two people showed up or even none at all.

With the current price of gas, the cost to the clinic’s current young animal doctors of buying the veterinary practice from the estate of their mentor Dr. Dwaine McIntosh, who died last December, as well as having to pay off student loans, it...