October 2022

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan.heuer fortstocktonpioneer.com. OCT.

For the last several presidential election cycles, media messaging has been consistent: candidates who capture the Hispanic vote will win. The suggestion, often unstated, was that GOP candidates need to promote an illegal alien amnesty, pledge to curtail interior enforcement and promote expanded immigration. In 2022, however, Hispanics could indeed hold the key to a GOP victory, but not because they endorse amnesty.

Dear Editor, Atheistic, secular, humanist educators believe atheistic, humanist education is the cure and solution for America’s problems. May I gently and courteously remind you the atheistic, humanist non-Christian Nazis in Germany under Hitler were the most highly educated country in the world in the 1930s and 1940s.

For those of you who don’t know, my more respectable gig for the past quarter century, or so, has been teaching college English. (Scary, I know.) Teaching English is sometimes like teaching a teenager to drive a car – including the sensations of intense frustration, looking away in terror, and dreading a catastrophic pileup of letters, words, and sentences.

Sir Alec Guinness was one of Britain’s most celebrated actors. I first knew him as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. In his autobiography, Guinness described an odd event that occurred while he was walking through London.

Good nutrition is essential to lead a healthy life, and for normal growth and development. A lack of regular access to adequate and safe food may result in hunger and food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations established the World Food Day, observed every year worldwide on Oct. 16 to raise awareness and fight against hunger and poverty around the world. “We as individuals can help our communities be free from hunger by being more responsible in our choices and actions” said Dr. Sumathi Venkatesh, an extension health specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

It is important to note than an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law OCT.

Dear Neil: Trumpet vine is taking over my backyard. It’s growing up into my trees.

It took three days, but the Fort Stockton tennis team was finally able to compete in their district finale with Monahans and ultimately fell to the Loboes, 13-6. The match was originally scheduled for Oct. 4 in Fort Stockton, but lightning and rain postponed the action until Oct. 5. Again, thunderstorms put a damper on the action. The match was finally completed on Oct. 7 in Monahans.

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