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The Pecos County Senior Center will have its annual Christmas Potluck Dinner on Friday, Dec. 15, at noon at the Senior Center. A spiral cut ham will be provided along with drinks. The Center’s Advisory Board for 2024 will also be installed at that time.

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The Fort Stockton Rotary Club made a donation of $2,500 and 30 gift bags to Dale Briscoe of Angel Flight to purchase airplane fuel and to provide blankets for patients he will carry to medical centers at no charge to the patient. The $2,500 came from $1,500 the club raised, plus a grant of $1,000 from the Rotary District office.

The deadline to file for the March 5, 2024 Republican and Democratic party primary election was Dec. 11. The following are candidates who have filed for the March 5 Democratic and Republican Primary election:

The city of Fort Stockton city council has been working since late summer on changing the zoning for a 0.72-acre piece of property in the Orient Park Addition and annexing the property into the city limits at the request of then-property owners Eleno Flores and Jose Gilberto Flores as part of the Property Purchase Agreement, an action which the city completed Oct. 10 after a series of public hearings.

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The five-year run of the Comanche Springs Rodeo has been a successful one for the Fort Stockton Chamber of Commerce and all of Pecos County. The Chamber and County hope to continue that trend, and mutually agreed to a five-year lease agreement on Monday morning to continue the rodeo every fourth weekend In March at the Pecos County Civic Center and Pecos County Coliseum.

Santa Claus is coming to town … our town! The Paisano Players, Fort Stockton Community Theatre’s youth troupe, will present The One and Only Santa, Dec. 7-10 at the Nelson Street Theatre.

Since 1983, Elvira “Vira” Feyry has been cutting and styling hair as the owner of Headways Beauty Salon at 318 N. Main Street in what used to be the old Webb Cafe. To celebrate Headways’ 40th anniversary, Feyry pulled out all the stops on Saturday, Dec 1. In addition to a packed ribbon cutting ceremony, Headways provided clients hamburgers and hot dogs, and hosted a block party just outside the business, complete with vendors and music. The ribbon cutting ceremony, originally planned to be held outdoors, was moved inside due to high winds.

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO Your guide to local places to go and things to do! If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail shawn.yorks@fort stocktonpioneer.com. DECEMBER 7-10 The Fort Stockton Community Theatre’s Paisano Players present “The One and Only Santa Claus,” sponsored in part by Edward Jones Investments.