August 2024

WEEK Meet Xander! Xander has been at the shelter since late June. He was found running loose within the Alpine city limits, and no one had stepped forward to claim him.

Send your community events to kara.gerbert@alpineavalanche. August 29 David Keller, 7 p.m.

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The Tri-County Voter Promoters was formed from a long-standing voter registration effort by volunteers in Jeff Davis County. In 2020, these volunteers began to explore new options for registering voters, ultimately deciding to form the Tri-County Voter Promoters. Our group now services not only Jeff Davis but also Brewster and Presidio counties.

Airman Justin Miller, a native of Alpine, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to the Center for Naval Aviation Training Technical Unit, where sailors learn the skills needed to ensure aircraft are missionready. Miller graduated from Alpine High School in 2020. For more of the story go to https:// navyoutreach. blogspot. com/ 2024/ 08/ alpine- nativetrains- to-support-us.html

August 11 was 811Day and served as a reminder to all homeowners, professional contractors, and DIY enthusiasts alike to contact 811 before beginning any digging project. It should also bring awareness of the potential injuries, property damage, and outages if underground utilities are damaged.

I have never responded to any letter to the editor before, but last week’s lengthy letter was way too much not to respond to. Don’t judge our mayor Ms. Eaves, who is the best leader our city has, and tries very hard to keep unity. Take your complaints to where they should be directed; the state of Texas which has the last word on the Sul Ross campus (Governor Abbott). And don’t complain to Dr. Hernandez, who is also the best leader Sul Ross has had in a long time. He answers to our governor and the law of the state. Lastly, the Lions Club deserves a big thank you for all they do for our community instead of being harassed.

I would like to address some of Reagan Stone’s arguments last week and outline a different perspective. I am fully aware that this is a very complex topic and a divisive one.

Although our esteemed mayor Eaves suggested otherwise in last week’s Sentinel letter, safety from gun violence is an extremely local issue, as those of us who experienced the Alpine High School shooting in 2016, or the Uvalde shooting in 2022, understand. Eight years ago, on that September day, I didn’t know if my son was alive until he was evacuated with the other survivors and arrived at my workplace. My heart races and my hands shake at the memory. I wish I didn’t have to revisit it. I wish that no one else would have to experience that kind of day and the possible outcomes that scar a family forever.

While I am far from a constitutional scholar I did grow up in a Southern Baptist Church in El Paso. And, while not in the “Bible Belt” I remember the doctrine of “separation of church and state” being hammered into me regularly and I bought into it like it was the gospel!