The city’s parks department will be getting a little helping hand with mowing the grass and trimming the trees. Lamesa City Council members agreed Tuesday to award a $125,000 contract to Pathfinder Industries of Lubbock to take care of 73.68 acres of municipal parkland, along with the Boys and Girls Club lake and pavilion, for a year. They got three bids from two out-of-town companies and a local trucking company interested in getting into the park maintenance business. A bid of almost $300,000 from Grassroot Lawn and Landscape of Rockwell was more than twice as high as its competitors. Joe Smith, owner of JRS ...