April 2023

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. APRIL 14 The Fort Stockton Baseball team will host Greenwood on Friday, April 14.

An “Entire community can inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the word.” So says a proclamation from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office declaring April 1723 as National Volunteer Week in Pecos County. The Pecos County Commissioner’s Court approved the proclamation read by Extension Agent Karan Hefelfinger at the March 27 Commissioner’s Court meeting.

When Toni Espinosa bought Dickey’s Barbecue Pit last year, she had her eyes on expanding offerings at the restaurant. That came true on March 15 when Dickey’s began offering Wing Boss chicken wings exclusively online.

Jennifer L. Gonzales will become the next Fort Stockton ISD School Board Trustee of Ward 7 following the certification of unopposed candidates at the district’s regular board meeting on March 27.

GUEST COLUMNIST Having two of my semi-grown daughters in college simultaneously has truly been an adventurous journey for our family – the kind where you enjoy amazing new experiences, but your expensive designer luggage gets stolen and you have to request an extra airsickness bag. For the first few months of their college lives, our daughters called us regularly to discuss their activities and to tell us how much they missed us (or at least our pets).

To the Editor, Adding insult to injury, The USVP went to Nashville Tennessee, yet it wasn’t to console a community still grieving from the deaths of six murdered by a female “Transgender” sociopath in a Christian School. The VP visited Nashville to rally against the expulsion of State Reps who led activist in an illegal disruption of the Tennessee State Legislature.

GUEST COLUMNIST I once had a client from a country where the instability of the government led to widespread chaos. He had supported a candidate who was running against the president in a hotly contested election, and was severely beaten because of his affiliation with the perceived “enemy of the state.” He lost his job, his money, everything.

GUEST COLUMNIST Lent is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus Christ spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, before beginning his public ministry. (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13; Mark 1:913) It is said it takes 21 days to form a habit, so lent season should be a deeper life changing event.

KARAN’S KORNER Asparagus is one of my favorite vegetables. I always want Asparagus at my Easter meal because it is a sign of springtime and new beginnings.

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s meteoric career has been the subject of several books and documentary films, but none of these biographies had the cooperation of the person who knew Stevie best — his older brother Jimmie.