Marfa
Runners welcome! Walkers welcome! Kids welcome! Pets welcome! Bring your strollers and wagons! Hit the streets to burn off the heavy fixings from the day before with the 2025 Marfa Turkey Trot on Friday, November 28, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The trot is a 5K (3.2 mile) run/walk event to benefit Marfa Food Pantry.
Entries are $20, and all proceeds from the event will go directly to Marfa Food Pantry to help feed the community. (You can register in advance here: https://bit.ly/47NBdIL.
The registration table will be located behind the Presidio County Courthouse on Washington Street in Marfa. Check-ins will start at 8 a.m., and shuttle service will be available from the courthouse to the race start. Registration will close at 8:50 a.m. prior to the event start.
The route will run from the Marfa Municipal Golf Course down FM 1112/Oak Street, a right onto Dean Street, a left onto Washington Street, and will finish behind the courthouse near the registration area. Two water stations will be set up: one near the middle of the route, and one at the finish.
Each entry is for a single adult or teen participant, but small children and pets are welcome to accompany an entrant for no additional cost. Costumes are also welcomed and encouraged. The hope is that the community will come out in force to show their support to help each other make it through the holiday season after recent disruptions to food support.
For any additional questions or inquiries, or to volunteer to help with the event, contact Adam at avboyd@gmail.com for more information.
Handmade ornaments to benefit food pantry
Calling all Marfans near and far! There will be a handmade ornament sale on Saturday, November 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Do Right Hall, 110 W. Dallas Street. All sales proceeds will go to the Marfa Food Pantry.
Organizers are calling on anyone and everyone to create an ornament. Gotta kid who wants to make an ornament? Is there a creative idea you have? Get working and let your holiday spirit shine for a good cause.
All handmade ornaments are due Tuesday, November 25, to Wrong at 110 N. Highland Ave. The program on November 29 will begin with a viewing and holiday punch from 6 to 6:30 p.m.
Organizers will ring a bell at 6:30 p.m. and it’s first come, first sell for ornaments. All ornaments are $20 cash or Venmo to Marfa Food Pantry. DJ Julie Bee will be spinning holiday records. Holiday attire is encouraged.
The Marfa Food Pantry was started in 1989 by Genevieve Bassham, and it currently serves 150-200 families. All money from this sale will support families for holiday meals.
For more information, or if you don’t live in Marfa and want to send an ornament or donation, please contact Wrong at 432-729-1976 or gonewrong@wrongmarfa.com.