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group, but include topics such as maintaining a check register, reconciling a bank statement, and calculating compounded interest earned. Materials for students are available at no cost on ibc.com.
Two new members have joined the South Texas Food Bank Board of Directors. They are Roberto Cuellar, director of childhood nutrition for Laredo ISD, and Valerie Rubalcaba, Dimmit County commissioner. The two attended their first meeting in April. During the meeting, South Texas Food Bank interim Executive Director Erasmo Villarreal reported 736,496 pounds of product were distributed in March bringing the fiscal year total to 5,048,455 (5.04 million) pounds, which is over last year’s 4.5 million pounds in the same time span. The South Texas Food Bank, 1907 Freight at Riverside in West Laredo, serves monthly supplemental food to 27,000 families, 7,000-plus elderly, 7,000-
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IBC’s “Money Buzz” program lessons cover a range of topics such as maintaining a check register and reconciling a bank statement.
350 students taught financial management lessons SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
This spring, employees from IBC Bank-Zapata are using their professional expertise to teach financial literacy in their communities through the company’s “Money Buzz” program. This corporatewide initiative began in
2007 to provide personal finance education to youth. IBC Bank-Zapata partners with schools and community organizations throughout its footprint to host free Money Buzz classes as part of their effort to promote Financial Literacy Month and the American Bank-
ers Association’s “Teach Children to Save Day.” Market-wide, the bank will have the opportunity to inspire 377 students during 18 presentations at San Isidro Elementary, Veterans Memorial Elementary, Zapata South Elementary, and Villarreal Elementary. Corpo-
rate-wide, the banks will give 491 presentations at 57 schools and organizations from March through May in Texas and Oklahoma, in which they will reach more than 8,300 students. The lessons cover a range of financial concepts, and vary by age
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S ANNUAL AGGIE MUSTER
GUANAJUATO, MEXICO
HISTORIC GATHERING
Photo by Mario Armas | AP
Alondra Luna Nuñez smiles after attending a press conference upon her arrival to the Guanajuato International Airport in Silao, Mexico, Wednesday.
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The late Victor Manuel Rodriguez, highlighted in the third row on the right, was among the 128 men who gathered in 1946 at the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel on Corregidor Island in celebration of the time-honored Annual Aggie Muster.
Aggies mustered on Corregidor after war
Girl sent to US by mistake By PETER ORSI
By GABRIELA A. TREVIÑO LAREDO MORNING TIMES
In what is one of Texas A&M University’s most iconic historical photos, 128 men stood at the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel on Corregidor Island after World War II, in 1946, and one of those men was a Laredoan named Victor Manuel Rodriguez. The photo has been revered by all Aggies who know about the Muster tradition. The Annual Aggie Muster is a ceremonial school tradition honored by students and alumni alike to honor Aggies who have died. At every Muster, there is a roll call for those who have
passed. Those present at the event say, “Here,” for them as a way to honor and remember them. The historical photo has been commemorated on a collectible coin, and this year a monument will be dedicated to all Aggies who defended Corregidor and Bataan during the war. The monument will list almost 200 names, including Rodriguez’s. Although they were oceans away from their beloved campus, the men gathered together from their respective posts on April 21, 1946, in celebration of the timehonored Annual Aggie Muster. The significance of the 1946 Muster where Rodriguez and the
127 other men gathered was that they gathered to honor the Aggies who had lost their lives in the war. According to an article on aggienetwork.com, a bed sheet was used in the photo as an improvised Aggie flag. The article also notes that during WWII, there were more officers from Texas A&M than from any other school and more than the combined total of the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy. At the time, Texas A&M did not admit women, and all students were required to sign up for the armed forces.
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GUANAJUATO, Mexico — Alondra Luna Nuñez was a young girl when she had a mishap with a remote-control car, leaving a scar between her eyebrows. Last week, that scar resulted in the teenager being misidentified as a missing girl from Texas, and then spirited north to live with a woman who claimed to be her mother. After a weeklong saga in which Alondra was videotaped as she was dragged screaming from a Mexican courtroom, the 14-year-old is back at home with the family that a DNA test
proved is hers. Her parents place blame on the Mexican judge who refused to accept the pile of documents they presented as proof of Alondra’s identity, from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. “The other girl had a scar, but on the eyebrow, and I have one on my nose. I mean all this was stirred up over that,” Alondra told The Associated Press at an emotional reunion with her family Wednesday. “The judge said, ’No, it’s her,’ and that was that.” How Alondra came to be iden-
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