July 2021

If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan.heuer fortstocktonpioneer.com. JULY 15 Robynn Shayne will perform as a part of the Summer Off The Patio Concert Series at the Annie Riggs Memorial Museum at 6:30 p.m.

The Fort Stockton Independent School District School Board met for a special session on July 12. Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Zamora presented the board with several new ideas, explaining how each should be considered to improve the district.

Roof repairs and scope of work modifications to the Pecos County Courthouse Annex were approved at the commissioners court regular meeting on July 12. Basin Roofing was previously awarded a bid of $128,575 to repair the annex roof, which dated back to 1953 when the first building was constructed on the courthouse site before the new building was completed in 2007.

July is one of my favorite months because so many food events are happening. It is National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberry, National Hot Dog Month, and Baked Bean Month.

The Grey Mule Saloon wine tasting room at 101 E Callaghan St. has discovered its first batch of grapes produced from its small backyard vineyard. The Grey Mule planted its vines back in April of 2017, which is a testament to the patience required with growing fresh grapes.

The Comanche Creek Trail Committee invites the public to participate in a new ongoing event at its nature site, Geocaching. A geocache is like a real-life treasure hunt where participants use a global positioning system, a mobile phone, or a map and compass to find hidden geocaches, or “caches,” that have been hidden at specific locations marked by coordinates.

Mark 4:35 “On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ 39 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40 He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ 41 And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’”

July 1984 issue: WATER HAULERS – If you gotta haul drinking water, two bikes and a long stick can sure come in handy. Coyanosa residents like Omar Garcia, 7, and Lourdes Carrasco, 11, have been hauling a lot of drinking water since a high nitrate concentration was found in the community’s water supply. These two are headed for Coyanosa’s most used watering hole – a well owned by Robert Gamboa.

Dear Neil: This weed is invading our lawn. That part of the lawn, due to slope, doesn’t retain water very well.

Dear Fort Stockton, I have loved you since the day was born, I can’t picture myself I growing up anywhere other than here. My family’s roots run deep in Fort Stockton, my roots run deep in Fort Stockton and I’m glad I never have to imagine what it would be like if that weren’t the case.