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ALPINE – Thanks to funding from the Horizon Foundation, a West Texas Water Research Center will soon be established at Sul Ross State University (SRSU) in Alpine. The Horizon Foundation has committed a $125,000 per year challenge grant over the next three years to help launch the new center, which will be incubated at the university’s Borderlands Research Institute (BRI).

Fort Stockton Pioneer Serving Pecos County.

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: I think you addressed this a year or two ago here, but I didn’t save the column. I have Texas mountain laurel seeds I would like to grow.

Years ago, my wife and I used to raise horses. One of the things I enjoyed the most was halter breaking, teaching the young colts to lead. Each one was different, and you never knew how they were going to turn out. We spent a lot of time with them and every now and then we would get an exceptional one. They would follow you wherever you would go without a lead rope or halter and were very gentle or docile and easy to train. It was fun to work with them and you could teach them many things. Those colts following us reminded me of something the Bible talks about, and it is very important in the Christian life. It is letting God lead your life and our willingness to follow, (John 10:3&4). Psalms 23 talks about the Lord God being our Shepherd or leader, (2 Corinthians 2:14). If we have not accepted Christ as Lord and Savior, we are not a part of his remuda or flock or family and we will not know His voice or be willing to follow, (John 10:26-30). A few of the colts we had were hard to work with and we could not do much with them and we did not enjoy them as much as the ones that were totally yielded to us. Are we in God’s hands and are we a joy to work with?

I was feeling overwhelmed like drowning and holding in all these emotions. Once I gave it to God, He open the flood gates like the time when He parted the red sea for Moses.

For most of mankind’s tenure on earth, predicting the weather has been local. Based on experience, one could determine the general patterns that might occur in the local vicinity. One might have general information about weather patterns in a region but understanding the “the weather” as we define it today, was beyond the capacity of local knowledge.

Texas A&M University in College Station held a four-day veterinary science camp. According to Fort Stockton High School student JJ Montoya, out of hundreds of applicants, only 40 students were chosen for the 15-18-year-old age group.