Marfa volleyball girls
earn top district honors
FAR WEST TEXAS – A number of Shorthorns were among the outstanding volleyball players that were honors recently with District 2 1-A honors.
The nominations were made from coaches throughout the district.
Leah McWilliams, of Marfa, was named Most Valuable Player for the district. Her teammates Brittany Serrano, Nicole Kelly, and Cortnee White were nominated to the All-District Team.
Also honored in the area was Mayle McElroy of Balmorhea, the district’s Newcomer of the Year.
Rounding out the All-District Team was Jenna Evans, Alexis Hernandez and Alyssa Sanchez of Fort Davis; Karina Beltran and Stephanie Carrasco of Balmorhea; and Celestine Garcia and Marisol Aguilar of Marathon.
Congratulations to the girls!
Marfa Elementary posts
Perfect Attendance list
for Second Six Weeks
MARFA - Pre K - Yerania Gallegos, Hagan Miranda Livingston, Katheryn Schliskey, Parker Skelton
Kinder - Tayah Anderson, Matthew Fields, Sergio Garcia, Juan Martinez, Blu Walker
1st - Richard Guevara, Jacy Holguin, Coy Livingston, Kathryn Manzano, Dominic Martinez, Ian Martinez, Jayden Miranda, Christian Murillo, Irma Tarango, Mackenzie Urban
2nd - Joanibeth Cataņo, Liana deVaal, Rebecca Ontiveros, Adrianna Pineda, Maira Quezada, Gregorio Tarango
3rd - Andrew Briones, Steven Granado, Carolina Prieto, Nohely Ramirez, Kendra Saenz, Priscila Serrano, Ryder White
4th - Tristen Anderson, Vicente Guevara, Aimee Murillo, Abril Pineda, Alberto Ramos
5th - Hannah Kirkpatrick, Aitana Reyes
6th - Yasmine Guevara, Valeria Hernandez, Erica Muniz
Marfa students make 'ojos
de Dios' on sale at
Farm Stand Marfa
MARFA – Fifth- and sixth-grade students in the Sites-sponsored art classes of Jennifer Lane at the Marfa Elementary School have been making ojos de dios, eyes of god , to bring to the market this Saturday.
During the 1930s, while studying the Huichol of the Sierra Madres in Mexico, ethnologist Robert M. Zingg described the October Ceremony of the First Fruits, the Green Squashes: "Around the little heads of children, new, hand-woven ribbons are tied. Into these ribbons at each side of the head at least one shaman's plume and one "god-eye" is stuck. The plumes mark the children as engaged on sacred business, the "god-eye" serving as the special symbol of long life and good health for children."
The Huichol call the god-eyes tsikuli, meaning the male squash blossom. They also attach them to prayer arrows, wrote Evelyn Ely in an article for El Palacio, a magazine of the Museum of New Mexico.
"These arrows are considered as a kind of messenger to the gods. A small eye is attached to the shaft and the arrow is then stuck in the roof of a house or placed in a special shrine. Or the father of a newborn baby might hang eyes on votive arrows and take them to the caves of the birth goddess where they would be offered in payment for sacred water taken from the cave and used in a special ritual."
Visit the market and take home some of the ojos de dios the art students have been making from yarn and cottonwood sticks. During this ritualistic time of year the combination of art that nurtures the students' spirit and a ceremonial object that provides protection and good health is the "real treasure.”
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