Green Scene and Local Heroes

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Created on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:43

Published on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:43

Written by Abe Connally

This Saturday, the second of April, anyone in the Big Bend Area is welcome to the third annual Green Scene Festival, at the Terlingua Ghost Town at the Community Garden. There will be arts and crafts, music, fun, food, films, theater, hands-on demos, beer garden, and The Kid's Yard.

The fiesta will begin at 11 AM and keep on rockin' until the wee hours of the morning. This is your chance to get together with the Terlingua community and throw your support in with the environment. The garden will be especially prepared, with local flowers and native landscaping. While most of the day's activities will be free (yippee!), the evening festivities will set you back a 5 dollar donation. But you do get to wear costumes!

And why would you want to pay for the evening events? Because, there will be fire dancing, and art auction, and Last Minute Low Budget Productions will be performing "recycled theatre". It won't be a dull time from 5:30 to 10—no indeed, the Green Scene has plenty of cool stuff to do and see.

The evening will end with a film festival, where local filmmakers will show there best stuff. You might know someone that secretly wants to be the next Stephen Spielberg, and you'd never know it unless you stop be and see his/her film.

Check out the Green Scene website here, for more info.

Local Heroes Save Campers

Last Friday night, while you were either in your tent, or in your bed at home, Border Patrol agents were busy saving lives. They received a phone call from a woman that was lost in the Park, with two others. Within thirty minutes, they were on the search, and it wasn't until long after midnight that they found the lost campers. They had strayed from their campsite and gotten lost. They were out of water and food. Thanks to the woman's cell phone, the local Border Heroes could come to the rescue. According to this Alpine Daily Planet report (which you should read because it tells the full story), "Agents of the Marfa Sector have rescued seven people so far this fiscal year."