October 2023

Oct. 27-29 AHS Reunion Classes 1953-1964, Contact Dorothy Roberts at spikeg2@gmail.com, Jack Burgess at jkbcorr@ aol.com, or Janet Vest at janiths@sbcglobal.net for more information.

Dr. Jimmy Case, Kevin Geehan, Judy Stokes, John Smietana, and Ralph Gruebel man the service line at Alpine Elementary’s cafeteria last Thursday evening for the annual Alpine Kiwanis Club’s spaghetti supper.

Three nonprofit conservation- focused organizations located in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas are partnering on a watershed enhancement project with an emphasis on landowner participation. The Borderlands Research Institute, Rio Grande Joint Venture, and Dixon Water Foundation are teaming up to roll out the Alamito Creek Conservation Initiative.

Time to dust off and/ or create your Halloween costume and get ready for the 2nd Annual Haunted House. This will be held in the Terlingua Ghost Town at the Crisis Center on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings on October 26, 27, and 28. Doors open at 7 p.m. The fee is $10.00 per person, and you must sign a release form before entering. All money raised will be for a scholarship for TCSD and our Crisis Center. This year we will have a pumpkin carving contest, so grab a pumpkin and get those knives sharpened. Three categories will be judged: scariest, most creative, and funniest. We will start taking pumpkins when the doors open on Thursday night and don’t forget to put your name and contact info on the bottom, so when you win you will be notifi ed. Judging will be on Saturday evening and announced on Monday. We have three great prizes, so get your creative juices flowing. Last year we raised $1,830. Our goal this year is $2,000. Let’s make this happen. So, please come out and enjoy some family fun.

The Boquillas Port of Entry, located in Big Bend National Park will begin their winter hours starting Thursday, November 2. The crossing will be open five days a week, beginning on Wednesdays and going through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A bagpiper cheered on runners at this past Saturday’s M2M race as they left the highway and entered the last leg through town to the finish line. Courtesy photo .

In the early voting article printed in the October 19 edition, the address for Pcts. 2 and 8 on election day is 203 N.

Upon his graduation from West Point, Second Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke’s first assignment was Fort Davis with the Tenth Cavalry. There he met Forrestine Cooper, and a tale of unrequited love ensued. As a young second lieutenant fresh from West Point and assigned to Fort Davis, he lived upstairs in the same officer’s quarters as did the Cooper’s.

David “Dave” Vandervoort, 89, of Paradise Valley, AZ & Alpine went to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on October 9 at his residence. He was born in Texas to Henry Carl Vandervoort Senior and Velma Vandervoort. At 14, he learned to fly a tail dragger and was a distinguished varsity Panther golfer at Paschal High who caddied for Ben Hogan at Colonial Country Club. In 1947, Dave earned the Carnegie Medal for Heroism with Katie Beth Hunter for rescuing the two Ledbetter children from a capsized rowboat at a Fort Worth farm lake. Later Dave met his wife, Susie, while attending Texas A&M University at College Station. They married in the late 50’s and upon Dave’s graduation from Texas A&M in the Corps, they moved with the United States Air Force.

Bradford Rhea Mc-Guire, of Alpine, passed away October 9 at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock. Brad is survived by his wife, Karen McGuire. A celebration of life service will be held on November 11 at Hillside Baptist Church in Alpine at 1:30 p.m.