April 2023

“I tried to raise my children with patience, honesty and good manners, but they still ended up being like me.” — Author unknown but the concept understood Sharing child-rearing experience is a generational responsibility. We owe the next generation fair warning.

I’ve recently noticed a few State Flags being displayed with “Proud Democrat” printed on them. I couldn’t help but wonder what was it that makes these folks so proud. Might it be an elimination of U.S. energy independence causing high gas prices? What about the selling off of U.S. Strategic Oil Supply to Chinese Communist? Could it be the uninhibited printing of money that’s causing record inflation. In case these harmful energy and fiscal policies aren’t the reasons for their deadly sin of pride I’ve searched elsewhere. 1000 babies are killed every day by Planned Parenthood while child castrations and mastectomies are performed under pretense of sex changes. Joseph Mengele would have been proud of that. There are men who pretend to be women while acting out in degrading female stereotypes who are shown more respect than actual women. There are guys pretending to be gals in sports who often defeat and sometimes injure the smaller females. Are they proud of those depravities? Then there’s the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” agendas that are divisive, unequal, and exclusive, and let us not forget the wide-open U.S. borders. Are those reasons to be proud? Maybe I’m being too harsh. These might be folks who may sometimes use the phrase “Proud as a Rooster” not realizing roosters eliminate their offspring, have relations with their mothers, and scratch around in their own crap all day long. James R. Le Blanc Fort Davis, Texas

Both the Alpine Bucks and Lady Bucks showed the 13 other area teams how to get it done, with the Runnin’ Lady Bucks bringing home the Area Championship. This past weekend, the Alpine High School track and field teams travelled to Denver City to take a shot at the area title and to try and advance to the regional competition.

The offensive juggernaut that is the Alpine Lady Bucks hit a brick wall last Friday in Stanton. The host Lady Buffs had an answer to the Lady Buck bats and held a 2-0 lead into the sixth inning before Alpine, 17-7 overall, 8-1 district tied it in the sixth and scored three runs in the 10th inning for a 5-2 victory.

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Last week, director Christelle Bois, currently of New York, descended on Alpine to film portions of her Amazon Prime series “The Story of Art in America.” Bois focused her efforts on local artists Pauline Hernandez, a ceramicist and muralist, Michael Stevens, a guitar builder, Dot Mainz, a local quilter, and printmaker Ramon Deanda. Bois’ focus for this series explores the vitality and diversity of art in America in small and medium- sized cities residing outside of the “art world” prominent in the large cities.

The City of Alpine held its’ regularly scheduled council meeting on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers.

“You put your left foot in, you put your right foot in, you let your left foot out, and you jerk the car about.” — The Hokie Pokey stick shift driving school song Renewed my driver’s license a few weeks ago. Quite a few changes since I got my first license.

Not all potatoes are created equal. In fact, while there are thousands of ways to prepare potatoes, those of us in Texas tend to do things a bit differently.

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