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GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil, My daughter’s bottlebrush tree has not bloomed since that bad cold spell four years ago. It is growing well.

Meet Tank! Tank has been at the shelter for over a year after being found running loose with his brother. The two had a history of getting out due to a fence that was improperly maintained and was not suitable for any pet.

Send your community events to kara. gerbert@alpineavalanche.com July 17,24,31 Hike with Homeless Dogs, 9-10 a.m.

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Alpine Community Projects (ACP) will be holding their first beautifi cation project at their new location at 205 E. Sul Ross Avenue on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. This is a comeand go event, with coffee and donuts. Anyone interested in helping clear the yard of weeds should bring gloves and yard equipment such as rakes and hoes. ACP is also requesting cardboard boxes and stacks of newspapers. Anyone with a pickup who is willing to get mulch from the recycling center that day should contact Kirsten Moody at kirsten@alpinecom munityprojects.org.

Search teams have recovered 103 bodies in Kerr County after the devastating July 4 floods along the Guadalupe River, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying at least 161 people were still unaccounted for.

On Friday, Jeff Davis County Judge Curtis Evans welcomed members of the community, along with health professionals from the Texas A&M Health College of Medicine and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, to celebrate the grand opening of the new Davis Mountains Clinic in Fort Davis.

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. Among them, the guitar has carved out a unique place, inspiring musicians and building connections and relationships across generations. Those connections at one local shop are the heart of the business.