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Heather Yadon, Alpine: I like best that it fills our hotels. It accomplishes our goal of the Visitor Center, to get people to Alpine. A lot of them are first time visitors, and we get so many repeats, and that lets us know people are really enjoying it and having a wonderful time in Alpine.

AUG. 4 Alpine Ambassadors Meeting, 5:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 502 E. Lockhart Ave.

Hillside Baptist and First Assembly of God churches will be hosting Vacation Bible School at the Kokernot Pavilion Monday through Friday, Aug. 8-12, from 9-11:30 a.m. Children ages five and up are invited to attend this fun time complete with music, Bible stories, puppets, games, and snacks.

Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Burke, a beautiful brown and tan Burmese mix male kitten born in April. He is outgoing, and warms up quickly. He does love to be held and snuggled. Burke could join a home with another cat or even a dog, with the right conditions to get comfortable.

As a birder, one of the perks of living in the Big Bend is the ability to easily observe certain species that birders from elsewhere must travel great distances to see. That statement is true, of course, for all of North America since each region has its birding specialties and hotspots.

August 14, 1953 Shown are Mr. and Mrs.

Dear Neil: I planted red yuccas last year, and they bloomed beautifully. Last winter when I started to prune the old bloom stalks, they were so brittle that I just pulled them out. This year I had no blooms. Will they bloom next year, or do I need to plant new plants?

What is orzo? Orzo is an Italian pasta which name means “barley” because it resembles barley in its unprocessed form. It is classified in the pastas as being a pastina, and used mainly in soups. While orzo is Italian in origin, it is a staple across Europe, primarily Greece and the Middle East.

There is a concept in physics known as the Heisenberg, or Uncertainty, Principle. This idea was conceived by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.