June 2022

Last month we celebrated Mother’s Day, and this month we will celebrate Father’s Day. Most of us first experienced love in the arms of our mothers and fathers. The effect of a parent’s love on the growing child cannot be overestimated.

Alpine’s 7on7 is moving into its 17th year, lead by team sponsor Felipe Fierro. This fastpaced summer football league is not associated with UIL or with any school.

After suffering a firstround playoff exit in 2021, the Alpine o6 Cowboys are set to return to Pecos League play with a rejuvenated squad that seeks to win it all. The Cowboys will bring back the majority of their roster from last summer, including RBI leader Bryce Donovan, batting average champ Calvin Graves, and surehanded third baseman James Prockish.

May 27, 2022 will be a date long remembered by the 80+ graduates of Alpine High School. It is a date of celebration and joy.

As the congressman for Texas 23rd Congressional District, I am committed to serving the needs of my constituents. I take great pride in the hard work my team and I are doing for Texas.

Being raised to be a good Democrat, I admired MLK and JFK. My parents now roll over in their graves due to what their party has become. Democrats say parents of school kids, soldiers, and police are threats to the U.S. as they push corporate, judicial, military, and DOJ corruption. They endorse National Socialism, election fraud, immigration insanity, and divisive racial rhetoric.

Big Bend Regional Hospital District was recently awarded a $5.5 million dollar Emergency Rural Health Care grant from the USDA to increase access to health care in the City of Presidio and Terlingua communities. The goal is to advance solutions and support the longterm sustainability of rural health care. It is anticipated that only 15 grants will be awarded nationwide.

On May 25 Big Bend Area Law Enforcement held its annual memorial honoring those West Texas officers fallen in the line of duty. Here, the symbolic riderless horse is led to the ceremony. Avalanche photo by Gail Diane Yovanovich

On April 29, 2022, Charles Young, the third African American to graduate from West Point, was posthumously promoted to Brigadier-General in the U.S. Army, dating to 1922. This made him the first African American to achieve that rank. It was not until 1940 that another black officer, Benjamin Davis, Sr., achieved that rank.

Marathon Chamber of Commerce met for its quarterly meeting May 18 on the patio of the French Company Grocer in Marathon. New board members were welcomed - Melee Hernandez as incoming treasurer and Shawna Graves as interim secretary, along with new social media coordinator Stephanie Winston.