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PET OF THE WEEK
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Meet Twofie. Twofie is a little shy at first, but he is warm and sweet within a short period of time as he gets used to you and leans into your hand for pets. He finds companionship with his brother Kid, and he is a laid-back dude who would love to hang out and watch TV with you.
Third graders do their part to Keep Alpine Beautiful
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Last week, Veydah, Madison, Brooklyn, Arabella, Maylee, Cheyenne, Olivia, and Lindley saw that trash had blown into their playground at Alpine Elementary School. They brought a trash can outside and used part of their recess time to clean up their playground. They shared with their teacher that they wanted to take good care of their school.
ROCK SLIDES
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Send your community events to kara.gerbert@alpineavalanche.com April 26 Travel Talk at Alpine Public Library, 7 p.m. featuring Valerie Naylor presenting Beyond America: Exploring the United States Territories.
Heard on the STREET
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on the Our Avalanche reporter asked, “What was a good thing about this weekend?” .
Quilts of many colors
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The annual quilt show was held this past Saturday at the Sunshine House, showcasing the talents of local quilters. The annual quilt show offers a raffle for a quilt (pictured in the background,) display quilts, challenge projects, and quilts for sale to benefit the Sunshine House or the Desert Sky Quilters, and everyone can vote on the challenge projects and the viewer’s choice.
OLP celebrates First Communion
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The First Communion celebration and Mass was held at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church on Saturday, April 13. Congratulations to these Catechism students. From left, first row, Ariana Torres, Maribel Rosas, Awanita Lujan, Ariadne Aguilar, Daniel Holguin, Leo Munoz, Catechist-Cynthia Wood. Second row, Catechist-Barbara Tucker, Aydren Macias, Maylee Galindo, Fr. Hector Chicas, Jordan Lujan, Gerard Prieto, Veydah Delao, and Catechist-Manuel Martinez
Boquillas begins summer visitation schedule
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The Boquillas Port of Entry will begin their new summer schedule on Sunday, April 28. The port of entry is located within Big Bend National Park (BBNP) and provides access to the town of Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico as well as the protected areas in Mexico of the Maderas Del Carmen and Ocampo.
Esteemed businessman John B. Poindexter honored as West Texas conservation leader
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John B. Poindexter was honored at a Houston event for his conservation contributions in West Texas. Poindexter is the owner of the acclaimed Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County, south of Marfa. The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) celebrated the third annual West Texas Conservationist of the Year award ceremony at the River Oaks Country Club on April 10, which was hosted by the Borderlands Research Foundation, the charitable arm of the Institute.
Rain or shine, it’s all about the rocks
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Everly Scanlan, River Rousselow, and Roam Rousselow show off some of the polished rocks they picked up at this year’s Gem and Mineral Show held at the Alpine Civic Center. Despite the cooler temperatures and wet weather, rock enthusiasts still came out to see what vendors had on hand.
