Jul 24 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Are you in a rush right now? Is your mind racing with all the tasks you have yet to accomplish today? This week? This month? Are you slowly, but steadily, ticking off checkmarks on you mental to-do list while adding more and more items to the end of …
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Jul 10 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com I’ve never been a morning person. Try as I might, no matter how many alarms I set, how loudly I set them, or how early I go to bed the night before, it’s always a chore to drag myself out of bed in the morning. It’s not that …
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Jul 03 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Growing up, every major holiday was always quite the affair in my family. The Fourth of July was no exception. Traditionally, everyone would gather at my grandparents’ house in Edinburg. My mom’s parents had nine kids, so by the time you got most of them, their spouses and …
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Jun 26 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Approximately 300 people crowded near the water at Beach Access #3 Wednesday to cheer on the release of over 90 Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings. The first hatchlings of the season started emerging from their nests this week, with public releases hosted by Sea Turtle Inc. on both Monday and Wednesday. The public …
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Jun 26 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Mario Morales is more than just a muralist.The Mexico City native, who now resides in Rancho Viejo, has always had a passion for the creative. For him, art is a catalyst for conversation. “Art form is and always has been a great way to introduce people to something,” he said. So when he …
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Jun 19 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Almost as soon as registration opened for the Surfrider Foundation’s 9th Annual International Surfing Day kids’ clinic, it closed again. Just two hours after opening, all 120 slots were full. Rob Nixon, chairman of the Surfrider Foundation South Texas Chapter said he wished more slots were available. “Registration …
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Jun 19 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Friday, June 19 is the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, which marked the end of slavery in Texas. It occurred more than two months after the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia effectively ended the Civil War. Just one month prior, the last battle of the Civil War occurred near Brownsville at …
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Jun 19 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Though Father’s Day has origins dating back to the early 1900s, unsurprisingly inspired by the already established commercial holiday, Mother’s Day, it was not officially recognized until 1978, nearly 60 years after Mother’s Day was recognized as a holiday. The idea was simply not met with much enthusiasm even when pursued by President Calvin Coolidge, as gift giving …
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Jun 12 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Whether you’re working or playing, summertime seems to call for a change of tempo in more ways than one. With temperatures on the rise and the wintertime blues finally shaking off, I often find myself wanting to listen to music I can tap my feet or lip-sync to. …
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Jun 12 2015
Special to the PRESS Warm weather couldn’t stop hundreds of runners eager to participate in the first ever summertime iteration of the Longest Causeway Run and Fitness Walk. Sponsored by the Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce, the mid-year run followed a course different than that of its winter counterpart, beginning at Schlitterbahn Beach Resort on South Padre Island and ending at the Port Isabel Event and …
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