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Atrailblazer herself, Selena Quintanilla Pérez inspired the eponymous 1997 biopic on the Texas Classics Trail. And though it cites Corpus Christi’s Swantner Park, the waterfront backdrop for a scene in Selena, trailgoers can veer from the official path to the coastal city’s Selena Museum and bayside Mirador de la Florto learn about the singer, who was murdered at 23 in 1995.

At the bilevel mirador, whose name translates to “viewpoint of the flower,” a bronze likeness of Selena stands, accompanied by narration about the barrier-breaking Tejano artist, interspersed with snippets of Como la Flor. The song was one of Selena y los Dinos’ first U.S. hits and has inspired a swath of genre-bridging covers from artists including country performer Kacey Musgraves and indie duo Dracula. The cumbia’s effervescence almost obscures its narrator’s lament, which likens the end of a love affair to a dying flower.

A performance of Como la Florin Selena marks the sole instance in Jennifer Lopez’s portrayal of the artist in which Lopez sings, the song’s first few words only, in a scene where her

character must calm the crowd at an overcapacity outdoor venue, with the integrity of the band’s stage threatened.

A different moment in the film can be experienced vicariously at the Selena Museum. A studio in which Lopez’s Selena records in the movie—and where Selena herself recorded the song Dreaming of You—is housed at the museum. The studio’s acoustic panels are the same ones that appear in the film, in a scene punctuated with a simple request: “Hey, Dad, pizza!”

Selena’s Porsche, which has a cameo in the movie, is on display at the museum, along with her Grammy—the first awarded to a female Tejano artist for best Mexican American album. Outfits rendered iconic as markers of specific performances are displayed, along with clothing designs sketched by Selena.

A less-trafficked corner of the museum bears a collage of Selena snapshots. In many, she’s dressed casually and wears little or no makeup. Her smile radiates joy. In conjunction with Selena, the images hint at the person behind the performer. They also gesture to a lyric in Como la Flor: “Cómo me duele.”

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Art imitates life again on the Texas Classics Trail, albeit several hours north and three decades earlier. Pilot Point’s town square is home to the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, where a robbery scene from Bonnie and Clyde was filmed. To commemorate its spell in the limelight, the town north of Dallas hosts an annual Bonnie and Clyde Days Festival, which includes a reenactment of the scene.

Wayne Purser, a longtime member of CoServ, an electric cooperative in Corinth, coordinates, performs in and corrals volunteers for the scene’s annual reprise. Sometimes the wrangling requires some straight talk. In 2019 a prospective Clyde showed up to audition with long hair and a beard. Given the look’s incongruity with hairstyles popular in the 1930s, when the movie is set, Purser put it plainly: “Dude, that’s not gonna work.” The man returned, less hirsute, and clinched the role, earning praise from Purser for his acting chops.

Purser plays the town sheriff in the reenactment, which is rife with antique vehicles, weapons that fire blanks, and actors and spectators in period dress. Whereas the movie scene occurs in and outside of the bank building, the reenactment satellites the Richardsonian Romanesque structure that today appears essentially identical to how it looks in the 1967 film. Though the actual pair of outlaws never robbed Farmers and Merchants Bank, which closed during the Depression, the site doesn’t want for history. The building dates to 1896 and has been home to Farmers and Merchants Gallery, a purveyor of antiques and art, since 1975. The space’s erstwhile identity shines through occasionally. Marly McCullough, the gallery’s manager, has found century-old checks tucked away in drawers used by the bank’s tellers. “The oldest one I’ve come across was from 1906,” she says. “I have a ton of those that I have kept.” Other handwritten finds have also popped up. A visitor in her 60s came across a book from her childhood. She knew it was hers because she had written her name in it, perhaps around the time a movie about a ragtag group on the lam was leaving its imprint on Pilot Point.

The alchemy of those moments echoes the power of movies to transport. “To me, it’s magical. Like once I step inside there, it’s another world, and the outside world is almost put on hold for a while,” McCullough says. “It’s my favorite place in the world.”

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Boyhood is a different kind of movie. It follows its actors over 12 years as they age, change and crisscross the state, then distills that footage into a 165- minute panorama of a fractured Texas family, moored in love, figuring it out as they go. Though its title implies a focus on a single character, the movie offers a naturalistic depiction of the interiority and ecology of a post-divorce family, anchored by Patricia Arquette’s Oscar-winning portrayal of single parenthood. The film is included on the Texas Film Commission’s Richard Linklater Trail, which guides visitors to seven Boyhood sites in Central, Southeast and West Texas.

From its second year of production in 2003 through Boyhood’s 2013 completion, Matt Lankes worked as the film’s still photographer, capturing behind-the-scenes photos of cast and crew. As he was shooting those images, Lankes conducted a parallel photography project on the film’s set: a series of black-and-white portraits of the movie’s four main actors that culminated in his book Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film.

“It was like we became a family over the years,” Lankes says. “It was always a wonderful reunion for the three to five days that we would shoot each year.” The portraits he

made suspend time and mark its passage for each of Lankes’ subjects. “We all were watching each other get older,” Lankes says, “and it was amazing.”

The closing scenes of Boyhood were filmed in West Texas in October 2013. Originally intended to be filmed in Big Bend National Park, a 16-day shutdown of the federal government scrambled those plans and diverted the movie’s cast and crew to Big Bend Ranch State Park. Even a cursory look at the film’s final few moments, backlit by a violet and pink sky, show that the finished product didn’t suffer from the ad hoc change in locale.

“Thankfully, you know, that part of our state is so wonderful,” Lankes says. The park’s otherworldly rock formations at its Hoodoos Trail appear in the movie, along with Closed Canyon, whose soaring walls approximate hiking in a natural cathedral.

Boyhood’s protagonist, Mason, college-age at this point in the film, meanders through the canyon with a trio of new friends near the film’s end. “It’s just a beautiful scene— they’re in a real moment, and it’s just kids doing what kids do,” Lankes says. “The landscape is irreplaceable.” D

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s a n ta c l au s l i v e s i n t e x as. Actually, hundreds of Santa Clauses do, and they spread cheer all year long through a group called Lone Star Santas.

“It’s a calling,” says Gene Goetz of San Antonio, a member of Pedernales Electric Cooperative. He got his first Santa gig in 1981 for a twins club where his boys participated. “I bought a suit and a fake beard, and it was a lot of fun,” he says. “I did that for a few years and then started doing a lot of charity work.” In 2014, Goetz took his first role as a professional Santa Claus at San Antonio’s Ingram Park Mall. That’s when he heard about Lone Star Santas.

One of the organization’s co-founders, Jim Fletcher of Cypress—whose voicemail says, “Apparently, I’m off feeding the reindeer or packing toys or helping Mrs. Claus bake cookies”—became a Santa somewhat by accident. “My then-fiancée, Madge, invited me to a homeowners association meeting, where we learned that their usual Santa was ill,” Fletcher says. “I didn’t have a beard then, but I did have the girth. They asked me if I could be Santa, and I said sure, why not? I bought a suit and a book on how to be a Santa, dressed up, did the gig and fell in love with it.”

When Fletcher and Madge married the following June, Madge walked down the aisle to the tune of Here Comes Santa Claus rather than the traditional Here Comes the Bride. In 2007 Fletcher and fellow Santa Gene Clayton decided to start Lone Star Santas. They welcome any Santa, Mrs. Claus, elf, reindeer herder or other Texan with the spirit—counting more than 400 members today.

After an EF5 tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, Fletcher rounded up a bunch of members, collected toy donations and drove to Joplin to hand them out. The expedition inspired the group’s ongoing mission, Convoy of Toys.

“When disaster strikes, we bring love, hope and joy, and a big Santa hug along with trailers full of toys,” Goetz says.

“We go wherever houses get destroyed and kids are displaced and lose their toys. After the [Hurricane] Harvey flood in Houston, we went into the shelters. Everyone is sad, then a few Santas walk in and the entire mood changes.”

The group also participates in the Belton Fourth of July parade each year, with many Santas wearing countrywestern-style suits. They attend a dinner with the Temple Elks Lodge and visit the area children’s hospital and veterans facility. “The vets love us,” Fletcher says. “We give them a stuffed toy and an American flag, and it brightens their day. And it brightens our day to see their reaction.”

Karen Stagner, who works with the Elks Lodge to arrange the Fourth of July parade, says the Lone Star Santas are a hit wherever they go. “It’s just a tremendous group,” she says, “and some of the most caring people I’ve ever met.”

Goetz says it takes a special heart to be a Santa. “You can go to all the classes and conventions you want, but if being a good Santa isn’t in your heart, it isn’t going to matter,” he says. “People think it is easy, but you have to know how to talk to kids.”

Even though 8 in 10 Santas bleach their hair white, Goetz’s is naturally that way. His beard and belly are real,

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too. “The more you look real,” he says, “the more you have kids saying they met the real Santa.”

That reality is not an inexpensive proposition, says member Dennis Queen. “I have about $4,000 in each suit and have three or four of them,” he says. Queen and his wife, Jane, a Mrs. Claus, relocate from Kerrville to San Antonio in a motor home each Christmas season.

All Lone Star Santas are volunteers. They pay for their own gas, hotel stays and meals on convoys. “Every penny donated to Lone Star Santas stays in it; none of it goes to our members,” Goetz says.

Why go to all the trouble? “It’s important for kids to believe in Santa, to have something to believe in,” he says. “We try to make kids grow up too quick now. A lot of people say it is a calling, and I’m starting to believe it. I’ll probably be buried in my Santa suit.”

The organization sponsors at least one “Santa school” in Texas every year to help teach members the ropes. Jane Queen says she and Dennis also learn a lot from other participants. “Santas are so smart and willing to share their craft,” she says.

“This is who I’ve become, all year long,” Dennis Queen says. “I think I’ve become a different person because of it. Our Christmas tree is up all year long.”

Jane Queen says that when the couple goes out, people regularly call them Santa and Mrs. Claus. “We wouldn’t trade it for anything—meeting the other Santas, the friendships we’ve developed,” she says.

Fletcher agrees that being Santa is a calling. “Once I put on the red suit and walk into a store or restaurant, invariably someone stops me and wants to get a picture with Santa,” he says. When a child says “Hi,” Fletcher explains, all of the attention goes to that child. He appreciates the smiles on every face when he leaves a restaurant because those smiles mean that the people forget about things that are going on and just enjoy a moment.

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Hurricane Hanna Impacts the Rio Grande Valley

Hurricane Hanna was one of the most devastating natural disasters to impact the Magic Valley Electric Cooperative service area since Hurricane Dolly in 2008. Hanna poured up to 15 inches of rain in parts of the Valley and presented sustained winds of up to 90 mph, which caused significant destruction to certain sections of our electric system.

While Hurricane Dolly impacted the Rio Grande Valley as a Category 2 hurricane in 2008, Hanna’s impact was felt by a far greater number of MVEC members. Over 85,000 of our members, approximately 68 % of our membership, were without power at some point during or after the hurricane. Not only did Hurricane Hanna have a devastating effect on the electric service in South Texas, but it also hit during a time when our region is dealing with a spike in COVID-19 cases. For this reason, Hanna will definitely make our history books not only for the devastation it caused our members and employees, but also for the enormous amount of support it fostered from the MVEC family and the valuable lessons learned. Throughout the post-storm outage restoration efforts, the positive attitudes and encouragement displayed across our team was impressive. While we did experience some issues with our phone service, which, together with an extremely high call volume resulted in long wait times and some call disconnections, MVEC employees put in 15-18 hour workdays for 8 days to help our members. Even more impressive was the fact that many of our employees worked tirelessly restoring power, even though a number of them sustained substantial damage to their own homes, including power outages, as other utilities in the area were also dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Hanna. Putting our membership’s needs first was their priority, and that was evident. That is the type of commitment and character that our employees displayed throughout the storm and afterwards. During the first 40 hours after Hanna,

I could not be prouder of the entire MVEC staff for the dedication and work ethic they displayed during their efforts to restore power to every single member on our system, while following all safety and COVID-19 precautions. Our team began the outage restoration efforts while we were still experiencing the impact of Hanna, and continued working around the clock until every affected member’s power was restored.

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our crews had successfully restored power to over 60,000 members. Like any major restoration effort, as the number of outages goes down, the jobs themselves get harder and typically dirtier. As the days passed, our crews had to deal with mosquitoes and flooding as they continued their efforts to restore power to those that were still without it.

While I am proud of our employees’ performance, I am aware we could not have restored our system without the support of our contractors, Volt Power and Asplundh, who also brought additional crews from different parts of Texas to help with the restoration effort. Additionally, our generation and transmission provider, South Texas Electric Cooperative (STEC), was instrumental in helping us restore power to Willacy County. STEC’s system was heavily damaged when Hanna brought down approximately 45 transmission poles in the Willacy County area. These transmission lines feed two of the substations that provide service to over 2,500 members in Willacy County and the Delta Lake area.

Preparing for a natural disaster is always challenging, but doing so during a global pandemic presented even more challenges. We activated our Emergency Operations Plan the moment that the RGV was included in the potential path of Hurricane Hanna. This allowed us to begin to secure resources that would be needed in the event that the Valley was impacted by the storm. We were fortunate that many employees, call center included, had been working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This made it easier for us to quickly activate our staff to begin to field calls from our members. Additionally, most of our field crews were already being dispatched from home, and this allowed us to get to the affected locations quicker.

Finally, I would like to offer our sincere gratitude and appreciation to each one of our members for their patience and understanding in the days after Hanna. We realize it is not easy to be without the electricity that we have all come to rely on as a necessity. As with any other major outage event, our employees will come together to analyze what we did right and what we can improve on. It is our intent to continuously improve our service to our membership, and that includes restoring power after any major weather event. As a member-owned cooperative, we pride ourselves on our history of providing safe, affordable and reliable power to our membership, and we will continue to explore ways in which we can improve to continue to meet our members’ expectations.

Thank you and stay safe.

John W. Herrera General Manager

GENERAL MANAGER John W. Herrera

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Martin E. Garcia, President Reynaldo L. Lopez, Vice President Barbara S. Miller, Secretary-Treasurer Rolando Alaniz, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Doug Martin, Board Member Nila T. Wipf, Board Member Adrienne Peña-Garza, Board Member

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Refund amount: $5.5 million

Time frame: September 2020

Years refunded in current disbursement: 1998 and a portion of 2018

All-time total refunded: $73 million

Magic Valley Returns $5.5 Million in Capital Credits to Members

The retirement of capital credits is the tangible demonstration of your ownership in Magic Valley Electric Cooperative. As a member-owned cooperative, MVEC operates as a notfor-profit utility. This is accomplished through the retirement of capital credits. This year, your board of directors has approved to retire capital credits to those consumer-members who received electric service in 1998 and a portion of capital credits from 2018.

In this time of financial hardship, the board of directors was eager to return capital credits to help their fellow member-owners, and to send $5.5 million back into the communities we serve. It’s wonderful that, as your local electric utility, we are in the financial position to give back, especially during times like these. This is the power of community, and the power of cooperatives.

As a not-for-profit, all revenues MVEC receives through monthly bill payments, beyond the costs of providing electric service, remain the property of MVEC’s member-owners and are allocated to members in the form of capital credits. As financial conditions allow, capital credits are retired and returned to the members of the cooperative. The more electricity purchased, the greater the share of the margin allocation that will be made to the member’s capital credit account. We have been allocating capital credits since 1938 and have returned more than $73,000,000 in capital credits to our members.

Before distributing the capital credits, your board of directors at MVEC must first consider the financial condition of the cooperative and the needs for capital funds for the coming years. The percentage figure used to calculate the annual retirement of capital credits determined by your board of directors is set at a level that maintains the financial integrity of the cooperative.

Members with 1998 allocation on record will receive a 100 percent distribution of their remaining capital credits for that year. The total distribution is $5,030,625.

Members with 2018 allocations on record will receive a partial distribution this year, totaling $500,000. Approximately $6,900,000 that will remain on record for 2018 will be distributed in future ye ar(s).

MARTIN E. GARCIA MVEC BOARD PRESIDENT

FOLLOW US Official Notice of Capital Credit Allocation Magic Valley Electric Cooperative recently allocated 2019 capital credits to each member’s capital credit account in accordance with its Capital Credit Policy. Capital credits are the total revenues less the total expenses of the Cooperative for the year. Each fiscal year, the Cooperative determines the capital credits for that year and allocates capital credits to each member’s capital credit account based on the member’s bill for that year. Capital credits for each member in 2019 were calculated by multiplying the member’s yearly bill of 2019 by 0.097792826. To compute your allocation from the cooperative for 2019, simply multiply your total annual bill for energy (consisting of customer charges, energy charges and power cost adjustments, excluding taxes) by 0.097792826. For example, if your annual bill totaled $2,000, you multiply $2,000 by 0.097792826, resulting in $195.59 as your 2019 capital credit allocation. Magic Valley Electric Cooperative has returned to members all capital credits from 1937 to 1997 and partial capital credits from 1998 to 2018. In 2020, Magic Valley Electric Cooperative will return all remaining 1998 capital credits and a portion of capital credits for 2018. If you have any questions concerning this calculation, please contact any of the Magic Valley Electric Cooperative offices. This article is intended to serve as an official notice of capital credit allocation for 2019.

Occasionally, Magic Valley members report falling or almost falling prey to scams by people falsely posing as cooperative employees. Many utility companies across the U.S. have received calls from consumers reporting scams.

The scam is always the same story. A consumer receives a phone call from someone saying their payment was declined or never received and demands immediate payment to avoid being disconnected.

The best way to avoid getting tricked by scammers is to know the tricks they use – and the red flags that signal scams.

How to Spot a Scam In one of the most common scams, a caller may:

• Pretend to be from Magic Valley EC. (Your caller ID may even display our name).

• Threaten to turn off power to your home or business within an hour.

• Demand immediate payment – often by a prepaid debit card or gift card.

The best ways to avoid getting scammed

• Don’t respond: If you’re not 100% certain of the source of the call, email or text, then hang up the phone, don’t click on the link in the email, and don’t reply to the text message.

• Don’t trust caller ID or answer phone calls from unknown numbers: If you recognize the caller ID but the call seems suspicious, hang up the phone. Phone numbers can be easily spoofed to appear to be from a legitimate caller.

• Don’t give out your information: Do not give out any personal identifiable information unless you’re absolutely certain the person and reason are legitimate. Remember: Magic Valley will never ask you to send us personal information such as an account number or Social Security number.

• Research and validate: If the individual or organization seems suspicious, make sure the request being made is legitimate by calling Magic Valley at 866-225-5683. • If a member does not pay their bill by the due date, MVEC will mail a disconnect notice to the member’s home address, with a disconnection date listed on the notice.

• All MVEC employees carry photo identification badges, travel in company vehicles and wear MVEC uniform shirts.

• We submit aged delinquent balances on closed accounts to IC System a debt collection agency, which contacts our members by phone to collect payment. What We NEVER Do

• Call to threaten a service disconnection if payment is not made immediately. • Ask you to pay with a prepaid card. • Call from an out-of-state number.

• Instruct you not to call any other MVEC number to make payment. • Have a technician call you to say they are coming out to disconnect power. • Request a cash payment at your home or business.

• Threaten a service disconnection on holidays or weekends. • Try to sell you products or services by phone or door-to-door, including solar panels, energy audits, “important energy-saving initiatives” or more.

What You Can Do If you are contacted by someone claiming to be an MVEC employee, verify it by contacting us on our phone number 866- 225-5683, which is printed on your bill.

If you receive a suspicious call, please attempt to take note of as much as you can about the scam attempt, then hang up and contact your local law enforcement agency or the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division to file a report at https://www. texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumerprotection/file-consumer-complaint We also encourage members to then contact us with any information about the scam, so that we can attempt to have the scammer’s phone number disconnected.

If you are approached by someone claiming to work for MVEC, ask to see their identification or call our toll-free number to verify their identity. Verify calls from IC System by calling the collection bureau directly at 800-443- 4123