Terlingua Moon🌙
Volume 36, No. 12March 24, 2025 by Blue Grama
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The Night Sky this month:
🌑 3/29 New Moon
🌓 4/4 1st Quarter
🌕 4/12 Full Moon
🌑 4/27 New Moon
3/30 The moon will reach perigee – its closest point to us in its elliptical orbit around Earth – at 4 p.m. CST on March 30, 2025, when it’s 222,530 miles (358,128 km) away.
Look west when true darkness falls each evening to see the zodiacal light. The zodiacal light looks like a hazy pyramid of light, extending up from your horizon and is most visible around the March Equinox.
Protect our dark skies! Turn out the lights at night, use warm colored, downfacing or shielded lights.
Team 11720 - Purobots will be advancing to the UIL state competition. They received the invitation last Friday and are excited to travel to Corpus Christi in early May to represent Big Bend HS.
Brewster County Cleanup Days
TERLINGUA CLEANUP: Saturday, April 5 from 9AM to 3PM
Where?
TERLINGUA: Road & Bridge Yard on FM170
What?
A chance to easily dispose of large junk and rubbish.
How?
At each location, Brewster County Trucks will accept your junk & rubbish. A separate tire trailer will also be on hand to receive old tires. County Trucks will haul your junk off to the Landfill.
Cost?
FREE to all Brewster County Residents
What items ARE acceptable?
Plain old junk, like furniture and household items, mattresses & bedding, appliances, water heaters, carpet, scrap lumber & metal, discarded building materials, yard waste, & tires.
Please keep tires separate from other junk and remove the wheel.
Appliances using refrigerants must be certified that the refrigerant has been removed and disposed of properly!
What CANNOT be received?
Commercial waste, car batteries, petroleum products, pesticides, free liquids, or hazardous waste (asbestos, etc).
APRIL 5 FOR TERLINGUA/SOUTH COUNTY
APRIL 26 FOR MARATHON/ALPINE/NORTH
Brewster County, Texas
Bravo Health: Hello Terlingua! Our health box has been delivered and is being installed! Here's a photo from last week! I will post another update later this week. We're still on track to start seeing patients on April 1 for our soft opening with the Grand Opening scheduled toward the end of April.
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Our community lost two beloved members recently~
Her parents moved to Port Isabel, Texas where they went into business together starting with Captain Buds Manufacturing, from there they opened many other businesses. In the following years Virginia quickly became a big sister, a loving caregiver and ultimate torturer (in the best way) to her 4 brothers. Robert (Bobby), Terry, Daniel, and John. Virginia Graduated from Port Isabel High School in 1970, and studied Sociology at the University of Austin, Texas. From there she went on to working with the Cameron County Housing Authority.
Virginia met her husband, Tony Viles in Port Isabel, Texas. Tony and Virginia lived in Brownsville where they had their first child together, Tony Bradley Viles in 1981, and stayed there until Tony was offered a position in Houston where they moved to and had their second child, Lisa Anne Viles in 1986. Virginia worked for the Houston Housing Authority until 1991 when the family moved to North Texas and she started her own business, Housing and Computer Resources and Development. Her years of experience and dedication in the Public Housing field led her to a life-long career that has helped many public housing authorities and is being carried on to this day by her daughter Lisa.
In 2006, Virginia moved to Terlingua, Texas to explore her Native culture. She quickly became friends and was adopted into the Lakota tribe. She was given the name "NightSun". She became a medicine woman and learned the ways of using the land, provided by the Great Spirit, to heal. Along her journey, she met so many incredible friends who became close family to her. One of her favorite stories to tell was that of the Sundance in South Dakota where she traveled with her friend Susan, and she spent the week, dancing, beating on her drums, praying to the great spirit, being one with the land, and creating lasting and loving memories for a lifetime and beyond.
Gini loved music, art, painting, and drawing. She was an avid photographer, always capturing the beauty of the west Texas and coastal skies, reminding us that our planet, and nature provide so much beauty into our lives. She shared these images with her clients daily in all her morning emails, welcoming the day with bright images and beautiful messages to her colleagues and friends.. She created a book of all her photos to share with the world that can be found on Amazon. "spirited away... the beginning.., a personal journey by Virgina "Nightsun" Viles. She loved creating native jewelry, shopping, vacationing, dining, and anything that would put a smile on her family's face. She was an incredibly strong woman, with a servant's heart of gold, and she was always looking out for everyone.
She will be deeply missed by all who knew her.
DP cable weight bench $400 heavy weights or trade
Commercial Quantum Step Up electric stepper with race program $1500
Tanning bed new bulbs exterior not so hot been on porch will trade
Mondays @ Temple of the Bird (1-5pm) &
Tuesdays @ JAF Arena Lounge (11am-7pm)
Text Kate Healy, lmt to book (731) 699-0509
These Locations service Local Residents & Seasonal Workers. Travel Massage available for visitors to the area and locals wanting a Home Visit. TX Lic #135433
ENJOY OUR SATURDAY COMMUNITY MARKET : Come see us at the Saturday Community Market from 10:00-1:00. Located at the Community Garden in the Ghost Town, we're here every Saturday with happy vendors offering an array of locally produced goods and other items.
Local art, handcrafted textile goods, goat milk soap, all natural lip balms and skin care products, essential oil perfumes, leather goods, handcrafted, creative jewelry, block printed textiles and vintage goods, both curated and up-cycled, practical and artistic items made of reclaimed steel and more -- you never know just what or who you'll find here.
We welcome new vendors. Flea market items are also welcome. After all, reusing and up-cycling already existing items is smart and green. We ask a $10 donation to the Community Garden to set up, helping us to continue to improve this space and experience for all of us. For more information, text or call 432.213.1863, email SherriTheWriter@aol.com or pop in to the market for a chat. Prepared food vendors must display a current food handling license. (A quick, easy and affordable online course can provide that).
Please help keep our market space safe and comfortable for all, two-legged and four, by keeping all dogs leashed and under control. We look forward to seeing you there.
SANTA INEZ TERLINGUA GHOST TOWN CHURCH : Wednesday service at 5:30pm with Rev. Katie Hudak of the Big Bend Episcopal Mission. Come check it out and come as you are. The Episcopal Church welcomes all.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS : ALL YOU NEED TO ATTEND AN AA MEETING IS A DESIRE TO QUIT. If you have, or think you might have, a drinking problem, we will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays, at the Big Bend church, just north of the post office.
THE BIG BEND MOBILE LIBRARY : is now open for business! Come get a library card!
HOURS: Thursdays, 3:00-6:00 PM, Canyon View Community Park, next to the Terlingua school
Saturdays, 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Community Garden in Terlingua Ghost Town
We have a large collection of local literature available for checkout, and a separate collection of books available to the public free of charge. Here is a list of other library services we provide:
· -TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES: Free WiFi, a laptop available for checkout 1 hour at a time, printing/scanning for 10 cents/page
· -EXCHANGE BOX: Clothes, kitchenware, electronics, pet accessories - you name it! Take stuff out or put stuff in as you please, all without paying a cent! *NOTE*: All exchange box donations subject to review and possible rejection by library staff. No trash! We also require large donations to be put in sturdy boxes.
· -MONTHLY CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR: Join Texas preschool teacher Alison Weiss for readings aloud of classic tales complete with funny voice acting! Bring your little readers along for enchanting tales, drama, and laughter! Next story hour: TBD
· -BOARD GAMES: Chess, checkers, Scrabble, indie board games, D&D, or whatever else you can think of! Come game with our library staff...there may even be a prize in it for you if you beat us!
· -ORIGAMI LESSONS: Learn how to make a perfect square from any sheet of scrap paper, and turn it into beautiful creations! Also be sure to check out our collection of origami instructional books. You can learn how to make birds, turtles, elephants, and much more!
· -ASK DR. GIGABYTE: Local communications expert Arick Sandman a.k.a. Dr. Gigabyte can answer your general questions on technology and communications in the Big Bend! If you would like to know which devices work best in the remote areas of Big Bend or are wondering about the Internet and AI's role in today's rapidly changing world, ask Dr. Gigabyte!
· -JUGGLING LESSONS: Never too late to learn something new! Learn a skill great for physical development and mental relaxation and impress your friends! Ask for Sam in the Circus Department.
· -FREE COFFEE: You bring the mugs, we got the coffee. Enough said."
ESPRESSO … y POCO MAS : Best coffee in Terlingua plus home-cooked breakfasts and lunches. Freshly baked pastries and more. Strong wifi, newspapers and fantastic views. 432-371-3044 for to go orders. Open at 7:30 a.m. A local landmark where both locals and visitors gather.
Thank you Terlingua!!!
