July 2025

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Body Editor’s Note: Following the recent tragedy in the Texas Hill Country, the Alpine Avalanche is sharing stories of Brewster County residents, businesses, and organizations offering support.

Body Long before electricity and amplifiers, people made music with whatever they had: hollow logs, stretched skins, bones. From those raw beginnings came centuries of innovation, leading to the instruments we know today.

Body “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar (1926 – 2012), world-renowned motivational author and speaker “So,” friends ask, “How is retirement going?” “Great,” is my go-to answer.

Body Last year, scientists signed the New York Declaration, formally acknowledging that animals, including invertebrates, have consciousness. That’s right: your dog, your goldfish, and possibly even the cricket chirping behind your fridge at 3 a.m. are not only alive, but aware of it.

Body Belinda L. Espinoza, a dedicated mother and grandmother whose love knew no bounds, was born on March 9, 1967, in Alpine and left this earth far too soon on July 4, also in Alpine.

Body Becky DeLeon, 75, of Amarillo, passed away on Sunday, June 29. Celebration of life services will be at 3 p.m., Friday, July 11, at Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with Pastor Darrel Bonjour officiating.

Body Melanie Grace Musgrave Elliott passed away at Val Verde Regional Medical Center, surrounded by family, on June 21, after a brief but very brave battle with cancer.