Around the Basin Community Calendar Highlights
A Sunday school rally at Redeemer Lutheran Church offers games prizes and food from 9 to 10 am. Grace Christian Fellowship marks its 20th anniversary with a service and fellowship meal at 3450 Billy Hext Road. St John’s Episcopal hosts its 75th anniversary with a 10:15 am service, confirmations and lunch. A Blood Drive, Battle of the Badges, is noon to 6 pm at Midland Park Mall benefiting local heroes with trophy to winner. Septemberfest 2015 at Museum of the Southwest runs noon to 5 pm with arts, food, live music and planetarium exhibits. admission varies by age.
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Grace Christian Fellowship
Billy Hext Road
St. John's Episcopal Church
Lonestar Brass
St. John’s Episcopal Church
County Road
J Scott Mayer
Episcopal Diocese of
Northwest Texas
Laura Sheridan-Campbell
United Blood Services
Midland Park Mall Center Court
Bloodhero.com
Museum of the Southwest
W. Missouri Ave
Midland
Fredda Durham Children’s Museum
Blakemore Planetarium
Odessa Odessa rents slide as oil downturn hits market
Rents for Odessa one-bedroom units fell about 15 percent in August from 2014, with an average $850 monthly. Midland saw $920 for a one-bed, down 17 percent. Two-bedroom rates dropped over 12 percent in Odessa and nearly 14 percent in Midland, as vacancies rise amid the oil downturn. Analysts cite higher vacancies driving the declines.
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Odessa
Midland
San Francisco
Water Moves teaches teamwork at UT Permian Basin
A Basin PBS creative director Alyson Trevino led 20 volunteers in a Water Moves game for 6 to 12 year olds at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin quad. Monitors staffed tables guiding groups as they built machines to pull water from a well to fill buckets, with the first color team to win.
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Isabella Reyes
University of Texas of
Permian Basin
Alyson Trevino
Basin Pbs
Trevine
Letter Mirrors Community Impact By Food2Kids Leader
Craig Stoker the first director of the Food2Kids program keeps a note from a local elementary student on his desk. The letter honors the program and reminds him of the challenges ahead as demand grows. Food2Kids handed out 80 000 bags last year and expects a rise of about 6 000 bags amid economic downturn. It costs about 192 dollars to feed one child for a year. See FOOD27KIDS Page 2B.
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Craig Stoker
Stoker
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