A.D. Ibarra

-Eagle Pass

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world." -Margaret Mead

In what has been the culmination of the vision of a man who has only been in Eagle Pass for twenty months, the Border Hope Juvenile Rehabilitation Center officially opened its doors to an impressive amount of local dignitaries, leaders, law enforcement personnel from the federal, state and local levels as well as representatives from faith-based organizations who all came to witness the beginning of a facility which will work to change the lives of a demographic which ultimately will be the future of our community, our state and this great nation, our youth.

The Texas Department of State Health Services this week begins its annual airdrop of rabies vaccine baits over portions of southern and western Texas in the continuing effort to protect people and animals from rabies. Planes will take off from an airport in Del Rio around dawn Wednesday, Jan. 9 and from Alpine and Zapata Monday, Jan. 14. They will drop about 1 million doses of rabies vaccine over wild areas of Texas as part of the DSHS Oral Rabies Vaccination Program.