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Fort Stockton gas stations had a busy weekend of spring breakers fueling up for their ride home. Amid all the RVs and travel trailers pulling in, veteran Ivan Johnson found himself marooned here with his nine-week-old puppy “Pretty Girl”.

If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan.heuer@fortstocktonpioneer.com. MARCH19-20 The Richard Reeves Memorial CookOff will take place at Rooney Park in Fort Stockton on Friday and Saturday.

Glitzy Trendz owner Sonya Vick believes that everything happens for a reason. And to never lose sight of your dreams.

In 1927, V.T. Hamlin was working as a poster designer and mapmaker for the oil industry in Iraan. He was stationed in the Yates Field, one of the largest oil fields in the Permian Basin. During this time, he thought about the dinosaurs and other ancient creatures who once roamed the area, and created the comic strip character Alley Oop.

4 SERVINGS You’ll like the creamy rich flavor of this saucepan casserole. If you like, substitute tuna for the salmon.

4 SERVINGS • 3 cups uncooked farfalle (bow-tie) pasta (6 ounces) • 2 cups cubed cooked turkey breast • ½ cup pesto • ½ cup coarsely chopped roasted red bell peppers • ½ cup sliced ripe olives, if desired Cook pasta as directed on package in three-quart saucepan. Drain.

March 3, 1983 issue: Easy Does It - Barton Miller, age six, skates “carefully” around Apache Bowl A-Rink, not caring he was the youngest skater in the “Superskate” Monday, sponsored by the Fort Stockton Jaycee Women. Barton, a kindergarten student at Alamo Elementary School, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller, had nine pledges the day of the event. Now the 21 skaters who participated are out collecting their pledges to be turned in Saturday, March 12, all for benefit of St. Judge Children’s Research Hospital.

Dear Neil: How would you landscape a long, narrow area along the side of our house? The previous owners had rock. It’s a shame it’s all so linear.

• Melissa Jo Hill, DOB 03/25/1980 (CR-24201, criminal trespass) defendant has entered into a six-month pretrial intervention program with a $500 fee. • Karissa Johnson, DOB 03/19/1993 (CR-24199, theft property) defendant has entered into a nine-month pretrial intervention program with a $500 fee.

The Fort Stockton Independent School District will keep a mask mandate is place at all their campuses for the rest of the school year according to FSISD Assistant Superintendent Gil-Rey Madrid. Madrid said at Thursday’s COVID-19 update with the Fort Stockton Pioneer on March 11 that the Texas Education Association met with school administrators the previous week after Abbott’s executive order, stating that schools need to keep mask mandates in place.