THERE HE IS – Marathon Kindergarten Teacher Deborah Raatz displayed a missing Gingerbread Man after a two-week search by her class.
Show, from left, were Collette Piñeda, Giana Gonzales, Alexya Grano, Raatz, Lawson Meiers, Margarita Briones and Russell Martin
Mustangs conquer Pirates
By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON -- The Mustang boys’ basketball team, coached by Gene Peña, defeated
coach Larry Smith’s Valentine Pirates 56-45 here Dec. 19.
The win was largely due to the fact that the Mustangs ruled at the free throw line throughout the game, shooting a whopping 79 per cent, and dominated on the boards as well, managing to grab a total of 38 rebounds.
Read more...ALPINE – Most area banks did not participate in sub-prime loans and are safe for depositors.
That was a theme at the meeting of the
2008-2009 class of Leadership Big Bend last month in the Gallego Center at Sul Ross State University.
In the first session,
moderator Kaye Langford introduced David Rogers of West Texas National Bank, Chip Love of Marfa National Bank and Lawson Allen of
Fort Davis State Bank, who discussed the current economic crisis in the US and its impact on the tri-county area and its financial
institutions.
The Marfa Bank and West Texas National are more than a century old while Fort Davis “is the youngster of the bunch,”
having been around for only 97 years, Allen said.
All three banks have reputations of being extremely fiscally conservative, which
the bankers said has put their assets and their investors at a decided advantage in these uncertain times.
“No one who has money in
any of these banks has anything to worry about,” Rogers said. “Your money is safe.”
During a question and answer session, Allen quickly
responded to a question about the greatest problem affecting banks in the tri-county area.
By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON – The students of Marathon Elementary School and Marathon Middle School presented a “Christmas Extravaganza” for the community December 18 in the cafetorium.
The elementary students performed a play entitled “Holiday Moosical” by John Jacobson and John Higgins, complete with costumes, props and scenery.
Read more...LAREDO – Traffic is still down to one lane over the historic Pecos River Bridge on US Highway 90 between Del Rio and Langtry.
Work is 30 percent complete and there are 15 months left before project completion.
The contract was awarded in a year ago to SRC Construction, Inc., of Richmond. The contractor has poured the 240-foot plate girder span and 156 feet of the 1,040-foot deck truss span.
Read more...Hill Country Music Camp
offers
eclectic fare
KERRVILLE -- The fifth annual Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp will be June 3 to 7 in
the Texas Hill Country here.
The 2009 camp at Schreiner University will offer five days with of instructors teaching guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, dobro, voice, hammer dulcimer and mountain dulcimer.
The camp features small
Read more...$5,000 conservation grant set
SAN ANTONIO - The Texas educator who has developed the best overall conservation lesson plan will be
awarded $5,000 in grant funds and additional $500 mini-grants will be awarded to the next 10 finalists.
The Texas Wildlife Association Foundation and the San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc., have partnered for the Conservation Education Challenge, which was established in an effort to continue TWA’s mission of providing Texas youth and schools the opportunity to appreciate and understand the importance of wildlife, conservation and hunting.
Read more...Volunteers provide health care
in Chihuahua
By JIM GLENDENNING
Special to the News Leader
MARFA – Five people with a lot of baggage squeezed into a Chevy Blazer here recently and set off for Santa Isabel, a small community just west of Chihuahua, Chi.
This as the first volunteer group to participate in the Sierra Children’s Health Project, a program which checks the health of local children, including Tarahumaras, with a view to changing their diet and preventing epidemics.
Read more...Training offered for oral history
ALPINE – It has been said the best way to report history for future generations is to get those
who lived through the events to record their memories for posterity.
The Texas Historical Commission, in conjunction with the Brewster County Historical Commission and the Museum of the Big Bend, will conduct a free oral history training workshop next week.
Read more...Two from Marathon graduate
ALPINE – Rosa Maria Uranga Aguilar and Roxanne Olvera-Siefken of Marathon were among 223 students, 136 from the Alpine Campus and 87 from Rio Grande College, receiving degrees from Sul Ross State University last month.
Aguilar received a certificate in office systems and Olvera-Siefken got a bachelors degree in psychology.
Read more...By ARLENE GRIFFIS
MARATHON – The staff of Marathon Clinic hosted a Christmas open house on Dec. 22 to thank the community for their support during the past year.
Throughout the day, visitors were able to sample a variety of baked goods, candy, chips, dips, hot cider, fruit punch and coffee.
Read more...Daggett remains missing
IMPERIAL – The search for missing rancher Joe Daggett east of here last month is “pretty well dead,” Pecos County Sheriff Cliff Harris said this week.
“We’ll probably do something else after the New Year,” he said. “We have other avenues.”
Read more...Sen. Uresti named
a ‘Champion for Children”
MEDINA – Texas State Sen. Carlos Uresti of San Antonio received the distinguished “Champion
for Children” Award last month from the Texas Coalition of Homes for Children.
“Carlos Uresti is well known for a positive vision for public policy that promotes safe and healthy children,”
Read more...SR employees get safety awards
ALPINE – Seventeen Sul Ross State University employees were recognized last month for five, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of safe work records.
Over the 35 years that Sul Ross has maintained safety records, the number of accidents have been reduced more than 50 percent, largely through training and emphasis on the importance of safety in the workplace, a Sul Ross news released claimed.
Read more...Enrollment on now for USDA’s DCP
FORT STOCKTON – Enrollment for the 2009 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program for farms with base acres has begun, both online and at local US Department of Agriculture service centers.
Cullene F. Heritage, USDA Farm Service Agency executive director for Pecos and Terrell Counties, said enrollment continues until June 1.
Read more...‘Controlled’ fires useful
By NIKI FRANCES McDANIEL
The Nature Conservancy
Before European expansion into the Americas, the native inhabitants
of this continent regularly used fire to renew the land and assist them in hunts. Today, the art of the “controlled” burn is being
mastered anew.
Those forest and prairie managers of old knew that one essential ingredient – fire – improved wildlife habitat and hunting opportunities, controlled pests and opened the countryside for easier travel.
Read more...Brewster County Judge
Val Beard
P. O. Box 1630
Alpine, TX 79831
432/819-2412
Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson
201 W. Ave
E.
Alpine, TX 79830
432/837-3488
County Commissioner
Ruben Ortega
P. O. Box 233
Marathon. TX 79842
432-294- J 096
Marathon
ISD Superintendent Conrad Arriola
N. 5th Street
Marathon. TX 79842
432/386-4431
Terrell County Judge
Leo Smith
P. O. Box 4810
432/345-2421
Terrell County Sheriff
Clint McDonald
P. O. Box 320
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2525
Terrell County
ISD Superintendent
Gary Hamilton
P.O. Box 747
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2515
By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON – Students in Deborah Raatz’s Pre-K and Kindergarten class at Marathon Elementary School tried to solve a mystery for two weeks before Christmas that had everyone in town perplexed.
It seems that on Friday, Dec. 5, the class made a gingerbread man and put him in the oven to bake.
Read more...YUMMY SEARCH – Jackie Boyd at the Burnt Biscuit Bakery, in back, didn’t find the fugitive Gingerbread Man at her bakery but Deborah
Raatz and her kindergarten class got to try some of the bakery’s goodies. Shown from left, were Raatz, Russell Martin, Lawson Meiers,
Giana Gonzales, Margarita Briones and Alexya Grano.
THE WORLD’S A STAGE – Marathon Elementary and Middle Schools presented a Christmas Play in the cafetorium before the holidays. The
entire cast was shown on stage during the presentation.
ONE WAY ROAD – The Pecos River Bridge near Langtry, which soars 270 feet above the legendary river, is restricted to one-way traffic
while work is under way on a rehabilitated project. The wide truck in this picture was right at the limit. Wider loads are sent on
a circuitous detour over Sonora, Ozona and Sheffield.
Eddie Collins
CHRISTMAS CHEER – Marathon Primary Care Services Board President Craig Trumbower presented bonus checks to employees, from left, Isabel
Shackelford, Amy Travis, Ruth Spitz and Joann Lister. The clinic had an open house Dec. 22 to thank the community for its support
SHORTCUT – Bryianna Valdez, daughter of Georgianna & Bryan Valdez of San Angelo, got Aunt Missy Escamilla of Sanderson to lop
off a baker’s dozen inches from her hair. She donated her tresses to “Locks of Love,” which provides wigs to children who have lost
hair through illness.
CHRISTMAS TENT – Ross Guillory and Jenn Stovall of New Orleans hitched a ride with a News Leader reporter last week on their way to
Big Bend National Park. The two were on a break from college and planned to spend their Christmas in a tent in the park.
