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Alpine Community Projects says registration is now open for the Far West Texas Community
Building Summit scheduled for January 17 and 18 at The Granada Theatre in Alpine.
Projects Founder Kirsten Moody said this event has been in the talking stage for several months.
The presenter will be Doug Griffiths, author of “13 Ways to Kill Your Community.”
Griffiths is founder of 13 Ways Inc., which is dedicated to fostering thriving communities where
people not only live but flourish.
Moody said they hope that a large turnout will be there on the evening of January 17 and the next
morning to discuss ways to breathe life into the Alpine economy.
The group will gather at The Granada Theatre on the evening of Friday, January 17, to hear from
Griffiths.
His book, 13 Ways to Kill Your Community, covers how to make and keep towns strong and
vibrant. Front Street Books has them in stock.
After the talk, the group will visit informally and eat together from food vendors onsite.
The next morning, the group will be back at the Granada to work on ways to act on all the ideas
discussed the night before.
Griffiths will still be there and the group will be led though this process by Liz Grindstaff,
Danelle Smith, Malinda Veldman and Kendra Jones.
Moody said they are calling this day “Bucket Sessions, also known as O.K., now what?”
This event is free because of the sponsors but space is limited.
To register, go to alpinecommunityprojects.org and scroll down to “register” at the bottom
of the page.
If you have trouble with the registration process, email kirsten@alpinecommunityprojects.org
Retired Brewster County Tax Assessor-Collector Betty Jo Rooney will go back to her former
work station as a volunteer representative for the Marathon Independent School District.
Superintendent Dr. Ivonne Durant told us that Board President Cheyenne Marta invited Rooney to
return to the County Appraisal District as Marathon’s representative.
Rooney attended Marathon Schools and later Sul Ross State University and began working in
Brewster County Tax Office in July 1979. She retired in 2020.
After the Christmas-New Year holiday, the Sul Ross Small Business Development Center has
training scheduled later this week and next.
Wednesday will provide information for payment app users, Thursday will have a class on
customer-focused marketing and next Tuesday there will have a class on filing those taxes.
For more information call Norma Martinez 837-8813.
To register for any of its trainings, log onto sbdc.sulross.edu/alpine/seminar-training-calendar/
McDonald Observatory northwest of Fort Davis will present a Live Deep Sky Tour of the life
cycle of Stars at the observatory at 7:30 Wednesday, January 15.
It will explore the birth, life and death of stars, nebulae, the colors and behaviors of stars and
what can happen when they reach the end of their life.
This event will feature live views from the 16-inch telescope at the Observatory Visitors Center,
weather permitting.
It can be livestreamed on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
And the newsletter says January is a good month to gaze at the heavens. Viewers will see Mars at
its greatest in its closest pass to Earth.
It will spend several nights near Pollux and Venus will have its own show in the western sky,
slipping by the bright planet Saturn.
Other views will include Orion and Canis Major, which features Sirius, the brightest object in the
night sky.
For more information, see skytips@mcdonaldobservatory.org
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