The Terlingua Moon
December 06, 2016 ~ VOL. 27 #49
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -  Aesop

ANTILLES IS GONE
Antilles, Gil Felts' original yellow-crowned Amazon parrot, passed away on 11/29/16. He was known by many long-time Terlinguaites since 1979 and was at least 40 years old, outliving Gil by 25 years. We will sorely miss him and his antics. Rest In Peace, Antilles. Tell Gil hello for us.
Lonnie & Sunny Glasscock

YARD SALE
Saturday December 10, Hours 10- 1
Study Butte R.V. Park, Across the street from
Cottonwood store on 118 hwy.

TERLINGUA TRADING COMPANY
Annual holiday sale
Saturday, December 10
10:00 am to 8:00 pm
20% off general merchandise
10% off books
Our Prickly Pear Syrup - the key ingredient to The Starlight's Prickly Pear Margarita as recently featured in Texas Monthly - is just one of the many fantastic items to be found at the Trading Co.  Carlton Leatherwood's latest book, Terlingua People, is also in stock. We have a wide assortment of gifts from children's educational toys to clothing, jewelry, blankets, crosses, souvenirs and more.
Don't live in Terlingua but know of items you'd like to have for the holidays? We are happy to ship - call us at 432-371-2234. Happy Holidays!

LITTLE BURRO COUNTRY STORE GRAND OPENING 
JOIN US on DEC 10TH, Legion Rd & HWY 118, Jackass Flats, Terlingua Ranch, TX
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, DEC FULL MOON POT LUCK (Early)!!!! Will have DRAWINGS all day,"Biscuit" The Christmas Burro !!!Afternoon entertainment on the porch :Olde Tyme Music by CALAMITY CREEK STRING BAND. POT LUCK SUPPER w /GEORGE DELGADO CHUCK WAGON, 6:00 PM
Welcome musicians and visiting throughout the evening at the Campfire @TerrymarPavilion

OTRA VES
Resale shop will be closed this Wednesday.

TERLINGUA COMMUNITY GARDEN
On November 30, the Garden Members hosted a Hands on School with home-schoolers from the local area and a group from Marble Falls, Texas. Gardeners discussed planting based on climate and soil, growing your own sprouts and the health benefits and production of olive oil. We then headed into the garden to plant perennials including olive trees. A tasting of premium olive oil from Texas Hill Country Olive Company, along with a fresh cucumber salad made from the garden, local made hummus and hot ham sandwiches rounded out the day. Farmers Markets on Saturdays 10 to 1 in the Ghostown. You can pick your own organic vegetables from the Community garden, buy locally raised eggs, enjoy fresh local sprouts, bulk items and get your weekly supply of homemade breads, jams and jellies. The Market is a place where artists, growers, foodies and musicians gather to share their creations and their inspirations.

WingSandWaveS! 
The paaarty starts at 6 pm, Sat. Dec. 10th at the Starlight Theatre ~ art, prose, music, dancing, costume contest & more! Honoring the life and art of Mark Kneeskern while benefiting local youth art programs & scholarships! Artists, musicians and performers: contact studio@crystalallbright.com for more info on sharing your talents! AND We will start making waves that day with a song circle on Sat. morning from 10 am - 1 pm at the Community Garden Farmer's Market. Take flight and join us! Viva eYebALL!

QUILTS BY MARGUERITE 371-2292
Across from the stables in Study Butte

THIS WEEK AT THE STARLIGHT!
The Art of Maria Blosser (My Big Bend/Portraits of the Desert) will be on display until Wednesday of this week. If you haven't had a chance to come by, please do. And don't forget that BRUNCH IS BACK!! Sundays from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.  And, any day of the week, we take reservations for parties of 10 or more.
This Saturday is the annual Mark eYeBall Kneeskern party - WingSandWaveS.  6 - 11 p.m.  If you have art to enter into the art show that also kicks off that night, Crystal will be at The Starlight on each of December 8 & 9th (Thursday & Friday) from 1 - 4 p.m. to collect the art. This week's musical lineup:
Monday 12/5: Jeff Haislip
Tuesday 12/6: Uh Clem & Jeffro
Wednesday 12/7: Chet O'Keefe
Thursday 12/8: Tim Relleva
Friday 12/9: Bruce Salmon & Hank Erwin
Saturday 12/10: Mark eYeBall Kneeskern - Art Show - WingSandWaveS
Sunday (Brunch) 12/11: Brendan Flippo
Monday 12/12: Bruce Salmon

BARTON WARNOCK CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Santa Claus is coming to town! Join us at the Barton Warnock Visitor Center for "Christmas on the Border" Wednesday, December 14  at 6:30pm.  There will be singing, School band, Folklorico Dancers, Refreshments and did we mention Santa?

DRAFTEX LLC.
Design/ Drafting for South Brewster County.  Come visit me at my office @ #1 Cinco Circle off South County Road next to Taylor Tool Rental
Jeff Gavin: 830-739-6986 or draftexllc@gmail.com.

LOST MINE TRAIL CLOSURE
Big Bend National Park has temporarily closed the popular Lost Mine Trail in the park’s Chisos Mountains area due to “increased bear activity.”
The park said in a press release the closure would begin Friday evening (October 14), and continue “until further notice.”
According to the park, recent rains have led to more abundant pine and oak nuts in parts of the Chisos Mountains, attracting bears to the area as they feed in preparation for their winter “denning” period. The central higher elevations of the park are already home to what the park calls a “healthy bear population.”
“During this period of heightened bear activity, we want to assure the safety of both park visitors and the bears,” Superintendent Cindy-Ott Jones said in a statement.
The temporary closure does not affect any other trails or areas of the park, though the park is advising visitors more broadly to “be bear aware”, and to secure all food in bear boxes available at campsites or inside vehicles.

TERLINGUA RECYCLES would like to remind all residents of, and visitors to, the Big Bend - especially our neck of the woods - that you can help keep the area "green" not only by recycling but by NOT throwing litter by the side of the road.  The number of beer cans that are being collected not only along 170 and 118 but along our backroads, too, is shameful. The natural beauty is why so many came, visit and live here.
If you're among those who go out of your way to pick up those cans, there's a bin just waiting to take them away. The Terlingua Recycling Center is located just behind the Terlingua EMS building.
Of the items that you can recycle, check it out:
on an annual basis (U.S.), we use approximately 1.6 million barrels of oil just for producing plastic water bottles. Plastic water bottles take up to 450 years to decompose. The plastic bags many of us use take up to 1000 years depending upon their composition.
aluminum cans take anywhere from 80-200 years to decompose
tin cans approximately 50 years.
We are working on the ability to recycle and crush glass. Glass is very easy to recycle mainly for the fact that glass is made of sand. Glass that goes into a landfill, however, can take millions of years to decompose. All the more reason we're anxious to get starting with the glass recycling including putting the end product to good use.
We can always use more volunteers - send us a message on Facebook or call 830-739-6986.

TERLINGUA RANCH BAD RABBIT CAFE
Friday and Saturday, 6:30 to 8:30 pm:  The Terlingua Fill-Harmonic Symphony Cooter, Charlie, and Judy playing your favorite old country songs

KATHY’S RESALE SHOP
The month of December,, Kathy's Resale Boutique will only be open on Thursdays from noon- 5. Will be revamping shop to bring in new merchandise. Stop by next Thursday December 8, to get a great buy, remember, December 9 is LADIES NIGHT OUT. Come on ladies, ya know you need a new outfit.

NEXT MOON BY GHOST RIDERS ON THE SLY!

AHS, SUL ROSS GRADUATE DR. JOHN KLINGEMANN FALL COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Alpine High School and Sul Ross State University graduate Dr. John Eusebio Klingemann will deliver the address during Sul Ross-Alpine fall commencement exercises Friday, Dec.9.          
Ceremonies will be held at 7 p.m. in the Pete P. Gallego Center, marking a transition to Friday evening ceremonies at the Alpine Campus. Rio Grande College ceremonies will be held Saturday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. in the Uvalde High School Auditorium.
Klingemann, presently an assistant professor and chair of the Department of History at Angelo State University, San Angelo, is a widely recognized scholar in Latin American and southwestern U.S. history. While at Angelo State, he has received several awards, including Distinguished Faculty Achievement Honors from the Angelo State University Alumni; Advisor of the Year for his work with the Association of Mexican Americn Students; and Distinguished Educator by the U.S. Air Force ROTC.
 In 2013, he was awarded a fellowship from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Ed Ford Foundation. That same year, Klingemann was named a Fellow to the Center for Studies in Higher Education Executive Leadership Academy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Alpine, Klingemann grew up in several different towns in West Texas.  For the first few years of his life, he and his family lived in Midland and south Brewster County before moving to Presidio, where his father served as deputy sheriff for Presidio County.  Living on the border provided him with an opportunity to grow up in a distinct culture and experience the bi-nationalism that exists in the region.
Again the family moved and lived in Alpine before ultimately settling in Terlingua, located in south Brewster County. While an Alpine High School student, Klingemann rode a bus to school that, at that time, represented one of the longest bus rides in the nation, a 160-mile round trip. With the exception of football season, when he lived with a friend in order to play for the Fightin’ Bucks, his days began at 5 a.m. in order to catch the bus and ended at 7 p.m.
Upon graduation from high school in 1992, he enrolled at Sul Ross where he obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. While at Sul Ross, he worked at the Museum of the Big Bend and also as a federal court interpreter. While an employee of the Museum, he won several awards for exhibits and papers delivered at conferences, including a Silver Award from the Texas Association of Museums.
                Klingemann enrolled at the University of Arizona in 2003, where he eventually received his Ph.D. in History with a focus on Latin America and the United States Southwest. While there, he was awarded a García Robles Fulbright Fellowship for Mexico, a Tinker Fellowship for Graduate Research in Latin America, and a Champion-Davis Fellowship for Studies in Oaxaca, Mexico.

TERLINGUA BOTTOMS GROUP
​The Terlingua Bottoms Group of AA meets Thursdays at 7:30 pm at the Big Bend Church.  AA is for people who have or think they might have a problem with drinking.

SCOOTER
Scooter was adopted from the shelter a couple of months ago by someone who wasn't able to keep him in his home. Everyone at the shelter is happy to see him back, so we can work to find him the the best forever home possible. Scooter is no worse for the wear, and has rejoined regular playgroups with the same vigor and enthusiasm, greeting his old friends the staff and volunteers happily. He adores people and loves to be held, or at least scratched on the back of the neck while he's up on hind legs gazing lovingly at you. This little sweetheart gets along well with all dogs and is neutered, microchipped and up to date on all shots. Scooter is a less-then-2 year old terrier mix. For more information about Scooter, or any dog at the Alpine Animal Shelter, email heatherthemule@gmail.com


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