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LAUREN MACIAS El Paso – Two new safety rest areas in Culberson County will open to the public on Saturday, June 1. The facilities, located on I-10 both east and west, are nine miles from Van Horn and will replace current rest area locations four miles outside of Van Horn.

This summer, Treasure Island is coming to Fort Stockton. The Fort Stockton Community Theatre has announced that the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) will be coming to town for the last week of June to hold auditions and rehearsals through the week for the musical production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ageless classic.

Last Wednesday, several veteran and VA programs as well as active military programs were prioritized when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year ‘25 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies funding bill.

The Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce has organized a summer of live music for the community at Zero Stone Park, free to visitors due to the sponsorship of Big Bend Telephone. The March Divide, led by Dallas/ Fort Worth-based musician Jared Putnam, was the first concert to delight visitors on June 7.

The summer reading program opened on May 20, the theme this year is “Adventures Begin at Your Library”. The program kicked off on June 6 with the illusionist “Artist of the Impossible”. Children will receive a welcome packet and incentives during the program. Each child who completes the program will be eligible to attend the movie “Migration” at the movie theatre. The program is available to all children in Pecos County at no cost. Please come to the library to register and obtain details.

In late June 1850 three hundred and forty wagons, 1,800 mules, 500 cattle, numerous horses, oxen, and various other animals, numbering 4000, left Fort Inge on the Frio River where the road to Eagle Pass separated from the newly established road to El Paso. In addition, there were 450 civilians headed to the California gold fields and 175 soldiers. It was 585 miles to the next point of civilization, El Paso.

U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas and the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a statement recently about a Mexican national, formerly a Mexican police officer pleading guilty to trafficking methamphetamine into the United States.

Biological dads are getting scarce today as marriage seemstobeontheway out, just as living together is becoming the norm. I especially remember one man that had a great influence on my brother and I. He worked, had callused hands, leathery skin from longhoursinthesun.Hedid not have a fine suit to wear or a new car to drive. He raised his family in a small house. He did not have a job that made lots of money but somehow they made it on what he made. He was on timeforwork,ahardworker, trustworthy and honest. He hadmanyfriendsandwasn’t a drinker or fighter. On Sunday he would put on his best clothesandtakehisfamilyto Church. He tried to live the Christian life and was faithful to his wife. He prayed for each child and his wife and tried to teach them about the love of God. Many times itwasn’teasyandhewanted to give up but wouldn’t because there were mouths to feed and bills to pay. God is pleased when Husbands and Fathers try to live this way (Deuteronomy 4:9,10, Proverbs20:7,Ephesians6:14). Next Sunday say a special thanks to your Dad or give him a little gift or a hug if he is alive, if not say a prayer of thanksgiving to God for your dad. See you in Church next Sunday.

I was reading the other day about death and resurrection of our Christ. What grabbed my attention was during that week he came upon a fig tree. “Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. 20 When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they asked” (Matthew 21:18-20).

Fort Stockton Pioneer.