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All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
In 1955, she started to write a column called "Ranch News", for the Alpine Avalanche. [9] [10] She co-wrote a book, How Come It's Called That: Place Names in the Big Bend Country (1962, with Virginia Madison). [11] She became a justice of the peace in Brewster County in 1964. [12] In 1991, she published a memoir, I'll Gather My Geese. [10]
The Alpine Avalanche is a weekly newspaper based in Alpine, Texas, United States, and covering Brewster County. It has local news stories and advertisements, and it has almost no coverage of news outside of the area. In 1982, its circulation was 4,850, with vendor/counter/dealer sales being 2,196. [3]
Here are some of the stories the Avalanche-Journal shared about people who died in 2023 but whose impact in the Lubbock community and beyond will be felt for years to come.
Born and raised in Anton, Texas on November 12, 1935, Joaquin was a talented athlete and went on to play basketball for West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas. Jackson had two children, Michael W. Kirkpatrick and Kelly Landrith prior to marrying his wife Shirley Conder Jackson who died on February 11, 2012, after a year-and-a-half-long ...
This mountain's name remembers ski patroller Jeffery James Smith (1954–1982), commonly known as "Jake", and in honor of the other six persons who also died in an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows Ski Area on March 31, 1982. [5] This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1985 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. [5]
Werner in 1963. Werner was selected for the U.S. Olympic Team three times: 1956, 1960, and 1964.While still a teenager, he placed eleventh in the downhill in 1956 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and was the only American to finish.
A Honduras gang member who was illegally in the US “giggled” as he admitted kidnapping a young Texas woman at gunpoint and threatening to pimp her out and sell her organs, according to cops ...