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Chess Royalty Rio Grande Valley chess team won its third consecutive national championship, defeating Webster University in April for the President’s Cup. Our June 2012 story The Kings and Queens of Brownsville told how young students made all the right moves to turn the U.S.’s southernmost border town into a chess powerhouse.
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August 22 National Tooth Fairy Day The tooth fairy forks over an average of $4.70 per visit in the U.S., a recent poll shows. That’s a far cry from the nickel
recommended more than a century ago. The Chicago Tribune carried the first
published mention of the tooth fairy— in 1908. Writer Lillian Brown advised
that parents might have an easier time
persuading children to have loose teeth pulled if a “tooth fairy” left a small gift of 5 cents under youngsters’ pillows for each tooth lost.
Members of the UTRGV chess team often mentor K-12 students in Brownsville schools. 4 T E X AS C O - O P POW ER AUG U ST 2 0 2 1
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