Saturday's Internet Edition, July 31, 2010.
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| Eleanor's back home.... “Eleanor” has returned to the Clark Hotel Museum after participating in last November’s Veteran’s Day parade in El Paso. She is a beautiful 1913 Model T Ford, and one of the first cars in Culberson County. Here, she is being pushed back into the Museum viewing place earmarked just for her. (Photo by Patricia Golden) |
- The Texas Water Development Board announced this week that they will be holding a Groundwater Management Area 4 Joint Planning Meeting in Van Horn on Friday, February 12th.
The meeting will take place at the Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District Office located at 1300 W. Broadway beginning at 10 a.m.
The session is open to the public and any interested person is invited to attend. Groundwater Management Area 4 consists of the following groundwater conservation districts, who are all encouraged to attend: Brewster County Groundwater Conservation District, Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District, Hudspeth County Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, Jeff Davis County Underground Water Conservation District, and Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District.
Column One
By Dawn Simpson
I’ve heard that the Crossroads Cowboy Gathering & Talent show held here in Van Horn last weekend went over well and there were some outstanding participants. Thanks to Bob Kinford and all those who helped pull it off. This was their second year and this could grow into a nice annual event, drawing people from the area and way beyond to come here each year to participate.
Patricia Golden, who is very involved in so many things (we need about 20 of her kind) is getting together a story with all the names, etc. who participated and will have that for next week’s paper. She is all about attracting tourists to our town and was excited about the people who came to participate, as well as a couple of very talented people who only found out about it by chance after arriving in Van Horn for a stop-over. People like that will spread the word and hopefully this will be real big in a few years. Possibly even as big as Alpine’s ‘Gathering’.
Thanks, Patricia, for always being willing to help us out in covering things and lending a helping hand in so many activities in our community. Even surgery can’t keep this girl down for very long!
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I’ve kind of been wondering when we were going to start hearing more about the Jubilee 2010 that will be coming up in June. Well, Larry just told me that Lyndon McDonald, who has done a great job of organizing it in years past, is beginning work on it. I called Brenda Hinojos at the Convention Center and she verified the dates of June 18-20 for the big event. I’ve heard that Motels are beginning to get reservations already. So for sure it is time to start letting all those out-of-town family and friends know so they can be planning to be a part of all the fun that will take place. Old friends talking and laughing about the ‘good ole days’ – what a great time it will be!
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I never cease to be amazed at the determination and drive that my husband, the Editor, has. When many are slowing down, or even in full fledged retirement by the age of 67, he keeps up the pace he had 20 years ago. On Monday, he had a procedure done at Las Palmas Medical Center called Septoplasty. That’s when they go into the nasal passages and cut away some cartilage that is causing a nasal blockage. They insert splints inside both nostrils, which he’ll have for about a week while it heals. Even though he was advised to take 2 or 3 days off from work, he would not hear to that because he had a newspaper to do. So, even though feeling pretty awful and sleeping in a chair at night, he has put in a ‘schedule as usual’ this week. We’re hopeful that this will result in him being able to breath much easier. I admire his stamina!
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I am among a fast-growing segment in our country that is very worried about the future of our United States of America. The growth of big government and enormous amount of debt that we are loading up to pass along to our grandchildren and great grandchildren is alarming. Talk about taxation without representation! This has been going on for many years, but seems to be really getting out of hand with our current leaders in Washington. Many choose to take on the attitude of ignoring it and thinking that it will go away. Well, it’s not going to and we are going like sheep to the slaughter. Where will it end?
The following is just one example of big government gone way out of hand…………..
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the Department of Energy during the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? Didn’t think so!
We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency…………. the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. Ready???? It was very simple…and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate. The ‘Department of Energy’ was instituted on August 4, 1977 “to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.” Hey, pretty efficient, Huh????
And now it’s 2010, almost 33 years later……and the budget for this ‘necessary department’ is at $24.2 billion a year. It has 16,000 federal employees and approximately 100,000 contract employees and look at the job it has done!
Yes, good old bureaucracy. And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care and Auto Industry over to government, all in the name of change? MAY GOD HELP US!!!!
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Thought for the Week.... “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
February 11th - Officers and directors of the Culberson County Historical Museum Association are slated to meet this evvening at 6 p.m. at the Clark Hotel Historical Museum.
February 12th - The Van Horn Lady Eagle softball team is slated to scrimmage Ft. Stockton today in Ft. Stockton beginning at 5 p.m.
February 13th - Nothing scheduled at press time.
February 14th - Attend the church of your choice today.
February 15th - President’s Day. The Van Horn Lady Eagles will play a bi-district game tonight, in Ft. Stockton, against Forsan beginning at 8 p.m.
February 16th - The Van Horn Rotary Club will meet today at noon at Chuy’s Restaurant. The Van Horn Lady Eagle softball team is scheduled to play Crane today in Crane beginning at 5 p.m. Members of the Van Horn City Council are scheduled to meet this evening at 7 p.m. at City Hall.
February 17th - Ash Wednesday.