Jan 26 2012
By RAY QUIROGA South Padre Parade rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com Forty volunteers, 400 pounds of fish, and about 700 guests are all expected at the 12 Annual Winter Texas Appreciation Fish Fry hosted by the Rotary Club of Port Isabel. The event will be held on Jan. 28 between 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Schlitterbahn Water Park,33261 State …
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Jan 26 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ South Padre Parade paradeeditor@portisabelsouthpadre.com While some may dub them as hellcats on skates, don’t tell that to the women who make up the South Texas Rolleristas, the Rio Grande Valley’s very own roller derby league. Tough? Yes. Brutal? At times. But these derby girls, who hail from Rio Grande City down to …
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Jan 26 2012
Special to the Parade EDINBURG – The Ballet Folklorico UT-Pan American will open their Alegria 2012 concert season on Jan. 27 with an exclusive Premiere Dinner and a Show. The event will include dinner at 6 p.m. and follow with a premiere viewing of Alegria 2012, a two-hour dance concert featuring the magic, charm, and …
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Jan 26 2012
Special to the Parade Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, (better known as Woody) one of America’s most famous folk songwriter and performer was named after the 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, leader of the progressive movement. Woody’s parents were avid supporters of the president, who advocated women’s suffrage. Wilson viewed himself as a personal representative of the people …
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Jan 26 2012
By 8-BIT JAY Special to the Parade As a tech writer and experienced user of social networking tools, you’d think I’d be more aware of how cautious we should be on social networks. Unfortunately, this week I found out that things can go horribly wrong, because we can’t filter what others say to each other. …
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Jan 26 2012
By SCARLET COLLEY Special to the Parade The dolphins of the Laguna Madre are celebrating. They are happy. It seems that after months of red tide killing so much of their sea world, it is over, and life is breathing back into the bay waters. There is more food for them. They do not have …
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Jan 23 2012
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com For Dennis Doucette, it all started one day while strolling the Galveston Island beaches. It was there, some nine years ago, that on the shore, entangled in weeds, and covered in barnacles, that he discovered a curious stone of sorts. He took it home, polished it off …
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Jan 23 2012
By THERESA VASQUEZ Special to the PRESS “Here and There: Recollections of Texas in World War II (An Oral History Workshop)” was held Thursday evening at Paragraphs Book Store on South Padre Island. As history buffs waited in anticipation for tips on how to record a thorough oral history, William McWhorter of the Texas Historical …
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