Opinion

A gigantic thank you to our community. We had a wonderful turn out for the 2021 Family Crisis Center benefit dance held last weekend. We would like to thank all those who helped out, and our many generous sponsors who made the dance possible. We had a wonderful time.

In a day and age where volunteers are a precious commodity, it’s important to me to thank two volunteers who took time from their busy lives to help clean Holy Angels Cemetery. The cemetery looked like it had been abandoned, with the amount of overgrown brush, graves untended, trash lined up by the fence, and no one in sight taking care of the grounds.

Although many locals are unaware, for the past several years there has been a quiet but incredible northward migration of animals from the Big Bend. Literally thousands of dogs and cats have had a second chance to live because of the continued efforts of a handful of people.

September 2021 was a strange month for Texans. The White House tried to force Texans to take CO- VID vaccines they didn’t want or need, as in young people with a high resistance and those with natural immunity. Those same vaccines were not forced on others in Texas such as the thousands of illegitimate migrants the feds allow to cross into Texas from Mexico - the same feds who restricted a drug being sent to Texas to cure COVID infections for any Texan who tested positive. Texas Doctors may now have to make difficult decisions of who not to give that cure to.

My husband and I were visiting Alpine, as we try to do several times a year from our home in Georgetown. We have a small RV. On Friday night we were returning from the Trappings of Texas opening night party at Museum of the Big Bend, and accidentally drove past the entrance to the Lost Alaskan where we always stay. We immediately turned right onto the next road and attempted to turn around, but got stuck. We couldn’t get out.