Friday's Internet Edition, July 04, 2008.
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- Weeks of hard work for the Van Horn Eagle Marching Band will be put to the test this Saturday, October 20th.
Since before the start of school, the band has been preparing to compete in the annual marching contest, which is a part of the route to a sweepstakes designation in the spring.
Band members will actually march in competition at the Socorro Activities Complex, in EL Paso, on Saturday, October 20th at 11:15 a.m. (MDT).
While at the contest, band members and spectators will have the opportunity to see and hear all the 3A, 4A, and 5A marching bands from our area.
The Van Horn Eagle Band will be performing its “Phantom of the Opera” show.
Admission is $5 per person.
Column One
By Dawn Simpson
To whom it concern to Miss Nancy Navarrette. I’m just writing to the Editor, about your column you made about the Eagle mascot. I grew up in this small community and I walk the halls of Van Horn High where I finish school in 1983. Van Horn is a nice community where people know everybody and half of this town is kin to me. Well I read your story that you wrote, about the performance on the day of homecoming pep rally and the Eagle performance in front of the kids and you say that’s dirty. He is there to do his job. I don’t think he harms the kids at all. All I want to say the Eagle mascot is there to make the football team get fire up. So Eagle you Rock!
Thank U,
Gabe (Bigums) Corrales
Class of 83
The Eagle Band will be performing at the Marching Contest in El Paso Saturday. Good Luck Band!! You have been sounding great and I know you’ll do good. Just give it you’re best and I know you’ll be advancing.
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I have some more information about the demolition of the old courthouse, and it’s from someone who actually was working out of the courthouse at the time the decision was made to build a new one and destroy the old one. So he might know better than all of us who are complaining.
C. E. Harlow was County Extension Agent then and had office space in that ‘beautiful old building’. Problem was - he about froze to death on really cold days and on days when the dirt blew you could have planted a garden on his office furniture. You see, there were huge cracks (plenty big enough to see lots of daylight through). The thing that probably caused the large cracks was an earth quake in the late 1920s in the area south of here. The building was condemned shortly after that, but no decision on what to do about it for many years following.
When they began razing the building, they discovered that there was not even any mortar holding the blocks - just the weight of the blocks, one atop the other. And as to the question of what happened to all those blocks. Well, they were supposed to be used to build a showbarn and the ag students were helping stack them as they were being taken down. Problem was that they were disappearing during the night, as fast as they could get a stack of them. So I imagine they are scattered around town as fences , etc.
Thanks, C.E. for giving us another side of the story. Maybe we need not be so harsh on those who made the decision to tear it down. But I’m glad now there are ways through things like the Texas Historical Commission to obtain grants to save old historic buildings.
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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
“Your son is here,” she said to the old man.
She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out and held his hand.
The Maine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.
Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited. Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.
“Who was that man?” he asked. The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.
“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”
‘Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”
“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.”
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Thought for the week....... The next time someone needs you - just be there. Stay.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
October 18th - The Van Horn Junior High volleyball teams are slated to play Ft. Hancock today in Ft. Hancock beginning at 5 p.m. The Van Horn Junior High football teams are scheduled to play Reagan County-Big Lake in Big Lake this afternoon beginning at 5 p.m. The Van Horn Eagle JV football team is slated to play Reagan County-Big Lake in Big Lake this evening beginning at 6:30 p.m. Members of the Van Horn Volunteer Fire Department are slated to meet this evening at 7 p.m. at the firehouse.
October 19th - The Van Horn Eagles are slated to play Reagan County-Big Lake this evening in Big Lake beginning at 7:30 p.m.
October 20th - The Van Horn Eagle Marching Band is slated to perform in the U.I.L. Marching Contest at the Socorro Activites Complex beginning at 11:15 a.m. (El Paso time).
October 21st - Attend the church of your choice.
October 22nd - The Van Horn Junior High volleyball teams are scheduled to play Presidio today beginning at 4 p.m. in Presidio.
October 23rd - Members of the Van Horn Rotary Club are scheduled to meet today at noon at Chuy’s. The Van Horn Lady Eagle volleyball teams are slated to play Kermit here today beginning at 5 p.m.
October 24th - Nothing scheduled at press time.