HONORS – Three Marathon Student Council members were honored for their fund raising efforts this week. They were, from left, Libby
Hernandez, Prissy Hernandez and Bianca Cardoza. The young ladies raised funds through a meat and fruit sale to fund council activities.
Adult Sunday School offered
By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON – The three-block stretch of North Third Street between Avenues
A and D in Marathon looks like a cafeteria line of churches, with the choices being Catholic, Methodist or Baptist.
With all
the denominations in this country, however, the metaphor might be better explained another way.
When it comes to a selection of places in which to worship, Marathon is a school cafeteria while most churchgoers have become accustomed to a “Luby’s” world.
Read more...By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON – The Marathon Chamber of Commerce is interested in establishing a cooperative relationship
between the chamber and Marathon schools with the common goal of trash disposal and recycling.
Chamber President Hal Henthorne was
the guest speaker at the meeting of the Marathon Student Council last week and reminded the group that since tourism is the major
industry in Marathon, the appearance of the town is of paramount importance, particularly Highway 90 and the blocks immediately to
the north and south.
He said the Chamber sponsors two community-wide clean-up days per year, one in the spring and one in the fall.
But
in the past, there has been little or no effort to recycle any of the debris such as aluminum cans, glass and plastic.
Since recycling
is a major project this year for the student council, Henthorne asked for help from the students in collecting items to be recycled
at the next clean-up day in April.
Henthorne said there are four types of litterers.
The “inconvenients” don’t take the time to find
a trash receptacle.
By MARK GLOVER
Contributing Editor
ALPINE – Pilot and Navy Reservist Dr. Tom Patton returned to his gynecology practice here last month
after serving a four-month tour as a flight surgeon in northern Kuwait.
“Shoot, take care of folks and fly,” Patton said, describing the experience.
Read more...‘Super Sully’ set for next week
ALPINE – Prospective students and their families will be able to explore educational opportunities
and campus life at Sul Ross State University during Sully’s Super Saturday, Feb. 7.
Check-in and registration begins at 9:30 a.m. in
Marshall Auditorium.
The opening assembly will include a greeting from the Sul Ross administration and the Student Ambassadors.
Read more...Eagle boys in playoffs after win
MARATHON – The Eagle boys of Sanderson landed in the playoffs by defeating the Mustangs 68-39
here Tuesday.
The Eagles advance to the play-offs is something they haven’t seen in about five years.
Darren Seidel scored a whopping
24 points, earning him high scorer for the Eagles.
With 13 points was J.D. Brotherton and Phillip Lascano added 12 more.
Read more...Falcon closes areas
BIG BEND – The Peregrine falcon is back on the closure program because of a shortage of the raptors in Texas.
In August, 1999, the Peregrine was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon’s comeback from the brink of extinction.
However, throughout Texas there are less than a dozen known nesting pairs and the falcon remains on the state’s endangered species list.
Read more...ALPINE – The Museum of the Big Bend’s Marty and Yana Davis Map Collection has added a New York stop to its two-year Texas tour.
Starting Monday, Feb. 2, “Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps” will take a detour from its in-state tour and be exhibited at New York City’s Union League Club until early March.
Read more...Freed featured presenter
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University Associate Professor of Music Dr. Donald Callen Freed presented at the fourth International Conference on the Physiology and Acoustics of Singing in San Antonio recently.
Freed discussed “Stroke and Voice Therapy: One Singer-Conductor’s Personal Journey” and discussed his experience from a stroke he suffered 10 years ago.
Read more...TxDOT tries four-day week
ODESSA – Workers at the Texas Department of Transportation maintenance office will work longer hours starting Sunday, Feb. 1, but that change will give them a three-day weekend every week.
It is part of an experiment designed to test whether the new work schedule can improve TxDOT’s safety record and save the state money.
Read more...The mighty creosote bush
By MARK GLOVER
Contributing Editor
With leathery hands, the shaman laid the creosote twigs across the corpse
then positioned the male cadaver in the prone position, facing north in the shallow grave.
Pottery jars of seeds and dried venison
for the afterlife were sealed by creosote lac and tucked up next to the dark dead skin of the La Junta warrior.
“Progressive Souls”
by Chet Gordon.
The creosote plant covers over 120 million acres of land in Mexico and the southwestern USA.
Native people of this region have used the plant medicinally from birth to death for centuries in the form of tea, smoked leaves or chewed raw.
Read more...Energy assistance funds available
FORT STOCKTON – The Pecos County Community Action Agency serving Pecos, Crane and Terrell Counties
is accepting applications for assistance in the Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program.
Funds are available under the program to respond
to the energy needs of low-income households.
The CEAP has four different components, energy crisis, elderly/disabled, co-payment and heating and cooling.
Read more...By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Marathon Editor
MARATHON – When Ann Urban and her husband Mark first visited the Big Bend region several years ago,
they had no idea they would fall in love all over again.
In an interview, the owner of Marathon’s newest retail store, Pitaya Verde, recalls that the couple visited Marfa a few years ago and didn’t really “get it.”
Read more... By ARLENE GRIFFIS
Library Friend
MARATHON – Last summer, the Rotary Club of Alpine hosted the “Way Out West Texas Book Festival” at Sul Ross State University.
One of the featured authors was Texan Joe Nick Patoski who spoke about his then recently-released book “Willie Nelson: An Epic Life.”
. Read more...By KIM RAPP
News Leader Production Manager
SANDERSON – Ryan Mlynarczyk and Mandy Creighton pedaled their way through Sanderson last week in a contraption they call a “bicycar,” which essentially is two bicycles welded together.
The two are on a trip across the US in search of sustainable communities. They began in San Francisco, CA, and plan to cover 12,000 miles in one year
Read more...Brewster County Judge
Val Beard
P. O. Box 1630
Alpine, TX 79831
432/819-2412
Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson
201 W. Ave
E.
Alpine, TX 79830
432/837-3488
County Commissioner
Ruben Ortega
P. O. Box 233
Marathon. TX 79842
432-294- J 096
Marathon
ISD Superintendent Conrad Arriola
N. 5th Street
Marathon. TX 79842
432/386-4431
Terrell County Judge
Leo Smith
P. O. Box 4810
432/345-2421
Terrell County Sheriff
Clint McDonald
P. O. Box 320
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2525
Terrell County ISD Superintendent
Gary Hamilton
P.O. Box 747
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2515
BROTHERS – Dr. Tom Patton, right, and his younger brother Lu rendezvoused in Kuwait at Camp Bucca, where Lu builds and maintains water
systems for military bases and prison systems. He works for KBR of Houston. Camp Bucca, Kuwait, has 27,000 Iraqi inmates."
FORMATION – A formation of Sikorsky MH-60 Sierras flew in formation for medivac operations over Iraq recently. Navy Reservist
Dr. Tom Patton of Alpine recently returned from a tour in Iraq, based in nearby Kuwait.
Rodriguez votes
for recovery program in House
WASHINGTON, DC – US Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez last week voted in the full House for the passage of HR 384, the Troubled Asset Relief Program Reform and Accountability Act, which he said bolsters transparency and accountability and addresses the foreclosure crisis directly.
Read more...BORN TO SHOP – Ann Urban, left, owner of the new Pitaya Verde clothing store, met with Marathon News Leader Editor Arlene Griffis
this week. Pitaya is the town’s newest retail establishment in the shop on Main Street formerly occupied Artesanias.
MAP TOUR – Museum of the Big Bend director Larry Francell, left, benefactor Marty Davis and curator Matt Walter reviewed the
book, “Going to Texas,” which includes portions written by the trio. A two-year traveling exhibition, organized by Texas Christian
University's Center for Texas Studies and the Museum of the Big Bend, features 64 maps from the Museum of the Big Bend's Marty and
Yana Davis Map Collection, which will open Feb. 2 at the Union League in New York City.
BICYCAR – Ryan Mlynarczyk and Mandy Creighton passed through Sanderson last week in a contraption they call a “bicycar.” It’s essentially
two bicycles welded together. The two are on a cross-country trip in search of “sustainable” communities.
‘Buck Stops’ with repentance
By T.J. Joyner
Pastor, Marathon Baptist Church
MARATHON – As children, we seem to be born with the ability
to shift the blame or “pass the buck.”
We quickly learn to blame others for our failures and it seems like some of the first sentences we learn to speak are, “I didn’t do it” or “Don’t look at me.”
The art of blame-shifting goes all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Read more...
Juan Yniguez retires from SR
ALPINE – Juan Yniguez, a groundskeeper for the Sul Ross State University Physical Plant, will retire tomorrow,
Jan. 31 after 28 years on the job.
Yniguez, an Alpine native, attended Centennial School, graduated from Alpine High School, then spent three years in
Read more...By JASON HENNINGTON
Sul Ross News Writer
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University wasted no time in becoming a joint partner on a portable wastewater treatment project.
Sul Ross is working with Texas State University System partners Sam Houston State University at Huntsville and Lamar University in Beaumont on a portable system that can be used for military, commercial and civilian emergency use.
Read more...WATER TREATER – Sul Ross graduate student Raquel Acosta prepared media bottles in the lab that will be used
with the Deployable Aerobic Aqueous Bioreactor at the Alpine Wastewater Treatment plant. The work was in connection with a project
on a portable wastewater treatment plant.
RECYCLED RESOURCES – Marathon Chamber President Hal Henthorne, right, addressed the Student Council last week. Also posing for the
picture were Superintendent Conrad Arriola, left, and Student Council President Marshall Duncan.
BOOSTERS BOOSTED – Mustang Booster Club members were honored this week for their donations to Marathon ISD. They were, from
left, Kenneth and Betty Wink, Coy Gonzales and Andrea Johnson. The donations provided new wall mats in the school gym.
PERFECTION – Five students at Marathon Elementary students received perfect attendance awards for entire first semester this week.
They are, from left, Cameden Lujan, Isaac Briones, Alyssa Olvera, Loryn Garlick and Aly Cardoza. Those not missing a day in the third
six weeks also included Logan Williams and Sean Gottschalk, not shown.
