Jan 17 2013
Special to the PRESS Partly sunny skies, mild temperatures and a record attendance marked the 29th Annual Longest Causeway Run – Fitness Walk on Saturday. The 10k event drew nearly 5,000 participants from all over the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and northern Mexico. The following are the top finishers in the male and female …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade The Ballet Folklórico of the University of Texas-Pan American will tour the Rio Grande Valley in January and February presenting their ALEGRIA Temporada 2013 concerts in McAllen, Harlingen and Brownsville. The Ballet’s former performance venue, the UTPA Fine Arts Auditorium, is under demolition to make way for a new Academic and …
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Jan 17 2013
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the Parade The South Texas Youth Stock Show in San Benito returns in 2013 with a four-day event beginning this week. The stock show will be held Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 17-20, at the San Benito Municipal Fairgrounds off FM 510. “We’re accepting entries from all four counties,” Director of …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade It seems like only yesterday that Bill and Susie Doan of B&S Kites hosted the first ever SPI Kite Fest. As the years passed by, the festival grew and in 2010 they were awarded Kite Festival of the Year by Kite Trade Association International. What started out as a mere ‘fun …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade January 22-26 is Mystery Week at Paragraphs Bookstore on South Padre Island. Four mystery writers will be on hand at the store, one each day, Tuesday, January 22, through Friday, January 25. All four will then be featured in a group discussion and signing on Saturday, January 26. The first discussion …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade The First Presbyterian Church in Brownsville will present University of Texas at Brownsville’s Mariachi Ocelotetlan at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 20. The concert will benefit the church and the Juan Treviño Music Scholarship Fund. Scholarships to eight deserving university music students are currently offered. Tickets are on sale now at …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade Madelyn Victoria Vallejo is moving on up…literally. Vallejo has a slew of performances lined up before she leaves San Benito for “Big D.” “I’ll be working with a talent agency in Dallas, it’s called Studio 92 and Alima Industries,” said Vallejo on Monday afternoon. “I’ll be a talent instructor over there, …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade Valley Star Awards winners for Comedy Show of the Year 2012, Bernie and Red, are back and will be performing throughout the Valley in the month of January until early February. The husband and wife comedy and music team are returning with a whole brand new show. Since their first visit …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade The public is invited to Island Cinema Theater on Saturday, January 19, for a free showing of the movie: “Bag It! Is Your Life Too Plastic?” presented by Surfrider South Texas Chapter and the Lower Rio Grande Valley Sierra Club. The award winning documentary “Bag it!” has garnered awards at film …
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Jan 17 2013
Special to the Parade Ann Fontanella “looks like a princess and plays like a triumphant angel,” at least that’s according to Kennett Paper, when she steps onto a stage. She will perform a program of diverse classics for solo violin at Christian Fellowship Church, located at 901 N. Loop 499 in Harlingen, on Thursday, January …
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