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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Jan 12 2013
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Jan 10 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ South Padre Parade press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The 29th Annual Longest Causeway Run and Fitness Walk is set for Saturday, January 12, and beginning at 10 a.m. at the Port Isabel Community Center on Yturria St. Over 3,000 participants have already registered with an expected 2,000 more to be added by the end of the …
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Jan 10 2013
By DEBRA WINGER Special to the PRESS “One day, when I was free diving, resting on the bottom of the bay near Catalina Island off the coast of California, I looked up at the sun’s rays reflecting rainbow colors on the fish swimming above me. I wished that I could stay longer, I felt peaceful, …
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Jan 10 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The contract between Cameron County and the City of South Padre Island for beach patrol at the county parks was cancelled last Wednesday at the Commissioners’ Court. Fire Chief Burney Baskett said the contract enabled the city to extend their beach patrol through to the county parks. He said summer …
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Jan 10 2013
Special to the PRESS Mexican national Pedro Morales-Hidalgo, 43, has pleaded guilty to failing to heave to a Coast Guard vessel, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced along with Rear Admiral Roy Nash, Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District. “Vessel operators failing to ‘heave to’ for an at-sea boarding put themselves and nearby vessels at great …
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