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Annual Community Tailgate Fun was had by all at this year's Annual Community Tailgate. The event was held at the Lions Stadium Parking lot on Thursday November 4 from 6-8 p.m. The event started off with a speech from Mayor Olga Maldonado followed by a speech from Director and Head Coach Oscar Salinas. The Community tailgate is a way to celebrate all the student athletes, cheerleaders, gold stars, band and everyone else on their accomplishments throughout the year. This year the Lion Football team celebrated as 5 time
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16-4A Division 1 District Champs. Lion fans got a chance to see our awardwinning band perform plus also had a chance to see the LFHS Cheerleaders and Gold Stars perform. Along the way everyone had a chance to enjoy some delicious food that the community provided. At the end of the night the lighting of the LF took place as everyone cheered as it was set on fire. You could definitely feel the team spirit! Photos are from the La Feria ISD Facebook page
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Eight-year-old Ociel Castillo receives his first dose of the pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday at a UT Health RGV pop-up vaccine site in Brownsville. (UTRGV Photo by David Pike) By Letty Fernandez Dr. Cristel Escalona, a pediatrician and chief of RIO GRANDE pediatrics for the UTRGV VALLEY, TX – NOV. 5, School of Medicine, said 2021 – Nine-year-old RJ she is extremely excited Valdez and his mother, and happy that these Jennifer, were among the youngsters are finally first to arrive at 9:30 a.m. getting the chance to get to get his first dose of the the vaccine. Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “We all know and at the UT Health RGV understand if we get this pop-up vaccine site in population vaccinated, Brownsville. we have a real chance UT Health RGV began of bringing down the offering the pediatric numbers and bringing Pfizer COVID-19 down the amount of vaccines on Friday for damage that COVID-19 children ages 5 through does to our communities,” 11 at UTRGV’s Casa Escalona said. Bella Apartments. Being on the front “It was pretty cool,” RJ lines and working in said. “I am happy to get the hospitals, Escalona the vaccine so I can see said, she saw firsthand my friends because right how COVID-19 affected now I only see them on children. my iPad. It’s very hard. “We had plenty of kids I am feeling very happy with COVID-19 in the now.” hospitals and some that The CDC on Nov. 2 had to be transferred approved vaccinations for when they became very the 5-11 age group. Next ill. I am really hoping week, UT Health RGV much of the community has scheduled clinics in considers vaccinating Edinburg and Harlingen. their children as an extra Children who get the first layer of protection,” dose will need a second Escalona said. dose of the vaccine three Maria Rodriguez, weeks after their first from Brownsville, said shot. she feels a sense of relief
now that her 10-yearold daughter, Jocelyn, received the pediatric vaccine. Nine-year-old RJ Valdez was excited to finally get his first dose of the pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday morning at a UT Health RGV pop-up vaccine site in Brownsville. (UTRGV Photo by David Pike) “I was very worried every day when she would go to school, always making sure she had her mask, and then sometimes she would come home without her mask,” Rodriguez said. “Her brother is a student at UTRGV, and he encouraged her to get the vaccine. He signed her up. It was important for all of us to get vaccinated.” For Jacqueline Castillo and her family, the wait is over. “I am very happy. We have been waiting for a while and my son, Ociel, was the only one who had not received the vaccine. We are still going to be careful, but he has the vaccination now and he will be protected.” UT Health RGV also
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5 Reasons a Man Should Still Carry Cash Brett and Kate McKay
Cash is no longer king. According to a U.S. Bank survey conducted last year, half of people only carry cash half the time, and among those who do carry cash, nearly 50% carry $20 or less. In another survey done just this year, only 41% of Americans said they regularly carry cash, a number that drops to 34% if you only include Millennials. 16% of respondents had no cash on them at the time they were polled. The decline of cash is easily traceable. In a world where you can pay and tip your pizza delivery guy and “cabbie” (in the form of an Uber driver) online or from an app, where restaurant and store purchases are easily taken care of by credit or debit card, and peer-to-peer transfer apps like Venmo can be used to split a dinner bill or pay back a friend, many people just don’t see much reason to continue to carry around paper money. But, there are in fact several good reasons to still keep an ample supply of
greenbacks in your wallet, including: 1. To handle/take advantage of emergencies/ opportunities that require cash. Even in this digital world, you’d be surprised (and very frustrated if you don’t have any cash) by the number of things that still require concrete cabbage. Roadside stands, super hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and food trucks sometimes only take cash, you need cash as a backup if you lose your credit or debit card, and other unexpected needs arise all the time. Here are just a few of the things I needed cash for in the last year: Paying to park in an adhoc lot created for a festival Buying fishing bait sold from someone’s house in the middle of nowhere Paying for a campsite at a state park after hours Tipping a valet Paying for a dinner when my debit chip card didn’t work It’s always good to carry cash both for handling things when they go wrong, and to be able to make sure things go right. 2. To pay and tip
service providers more generously. Sure, even small-time restaurant owners, service providers (including barbers), and store proprietors typically provide a traditional credit card machine or offer Square Payment. But, it costs them to do so: anywhere from .2%-2.9% of the purchase price, plus a fee of $.10-$.30 per transaction. (Because merchants have to pay these fees both on the transaction of the purchase itself, and on the gratuity you leave, some don’t provide the kind of receipt that offers a line to write in a tip, not because they don’t expect one, but in the hopes that customers will pay that portion in cash.) So every time you pay/tip with a card, you eat into a merchant’s profit margin a bit, which can already be low for small-time operations. Credit card transaction fees can really add up over time. Momand-pop merchants and service providers thus tend to very grateful when you pay and tip them in cash. Waiters are as well, both for the same reason — some restaurant owners
deduct the transaction fees incurred from the gratuities charged on customers’ cards from a server’s tips — and for a couple additional reasons as well. The first is that when servers are tipped in cash, they can declare less of this money as income for the purpose of taxation, whereas the record of a credit card tip is set in stone. (Whether or not this is ethical, it is certainly common practice in restaurants.) Secondly, cash tips can be taken home by a waiter that very night, and be put to use just as soon, whereas credit card tips are often added in later to a server’s bi-monthly paycheck. All in all, cash is a more generous way to pay and tip. Keep in mind though that if you don’t have enough cash on hand, it’s certainly better to tip adequately with your card than to leave a smaller amount or nothing in cash. At least in America, a gentleman always tips. 3. To tip employees/ service providers who aren’t directly involved in customer transactions. Cash may be a better way
to tip, but for the most part, employees and service providers who take credit cards in a way that allows for digital tipping — like Uber drivers and baristas — make out fine. But there’s a set of workers who have seen their tips diminish as cash has disappeared: those who aren’t directly involved in a customer transaction. Folks like doormen, hotel concierges, airport shuttle drivers, parking valets, etc. You don’t conduct an actual payment transaction with them, and thus don’t get a paper or app-created bill where you can add a tip. Carrying cash is helpful for tipping these folks, and, as you may have noticed that many of them work in the travel industry, always be sure to stick some cash in your wallet before you embark on a trip! 4. To discipline your spending habits. Numerous studies have found that people spend more when they pay with a credit card versus cash. The tangibility of cash makes the transaction, and its accompanying “pain,” feel more real, while the abstractness of plastic makes the reality of the purchase more distant; you handle and count cash before turning it over, whereas with digital payments, money just mysteriously disappears with the tap of the screen or the click of the mouse. The greater “friction” of cash slows down your spending. So if you’re trying to live on a tight budget, consider making all your purchases with cash. In the early years of our marriage, when we were barely getting by and yet serious about paying down our debt, Kate and I used the “envelope system” of budgeting. We created envelopes for different categories of our budget — groceries, entertainment, eating out, etc. — and then allocated a certain amount of funds, in cash, to each envelope. That’s
how much we had to spend in each of those categories each month. Period. It was an easy way make sure we stayed on budget, and because of its simple concreteness, it worked. 5. To protect your privacy. Credit card spending creates lots of data, and this (non)paper trail can be viewed and used by the government and corporate financial institutions. You need not be a tin-hatted conspiracy theorist or a criminal operative to not want third parties tracking all your purchases and surveilling your spending habits. As Conor Friedersdorf writes in The Atlantic, while some politicians, economists, and “technocracy-friendly journalists” have called for and praised the desirability of a future society that goes completely cashless (and 61% of Americans think this is an eventual inevitability), “Cash should remain, always and everywhere, because it allows, private, peer-to-peer transactions. In doing so, it decentralizes power in society (as well as adding a layer of resilience to the financial system—a diversification between the physical and virtual). Having stuff in society that elites can’t completely control is a good thing. Keeping a large swath of the economy away from Big Finance and Big Data is a good thing. Finally, people like cash; we shouldn’t let the elites take it away.” Anonymous and untraceable, cash not only enables one to operate outside the digital financial system, creating a check on centralized power and a bulwark for personal privacy and freedom . . . but it also, at the very least, allows you to purchase a gift for your wife without it appearing as a transaction on your shared bank account! Incognito mode, brought to you by cash. Long live the green stuff.
CHURCH SERVICE DIRECTORY 1st United methodist Church Pastor Federico Perez, 797-1393 331 S. Main St., La Feria, Sunday School 10am, Traditional Worship Service 9am, Contemporary Service 11am, UM Youth 5pm International Worship Center Bishop Ronaldo Ortiz 956-797-1204 116 W. Seventh St., La Feria Services Sunday (English) 9:30am Domingo (Espanol) 11am, Miercoles 7pm Interdenominational Worship Extreme Youth Sat. 6 pm First baptist Church of Santa rosa Pastor Harold Parker 956-636-1603 118 Jesus R. Cruz, Santa Rosa Sunday Services 9:30am Bible Study, 10:30am Morning Worship, 7pm Wednesday Evening Worship. Apostolic Faith Tabernacle Pastor Ramon Zarate 357-6384 621 South Main, La Feria Sunday School 10am Sunday Worship 4pm, Wed. Evening 7:30pm. All services are bilingual. Iglesia Oracion en Su Presencia missionary Church,Inc. Pastors Frank & Janie Gonzalez 797-0044 4th Street, La Feria,TX Sunday 10am & 6pm, Monday 7 pm Prayer Service, Wednesday 7 pm, Friday 7 pm. Church of Christ Minister MinisterRoger GeneGoodwin Head 536-9832 912 Rd.,LaLaFeria Feria, 912N.N.Parker Parker Rd., Wednesday 6:305pmpmEvening Bible Study, 10:30am Service, Service Sunday 9:30am Bible Study, Los Domingos 2:00pm Medio DiaService Los 10:30am Service, 5pm Evening Los Domingos: 12:00 Medio Dia Los Jueves: 7:00 pm Estudio De Biblia Faith Church of Christian & missionary Alliance Church Pastor Oscar Loredo 797-1739 125 W. First St., La Feria,Tx Bilingual Ministry Sunday 10am Sunday School, 11am Worship, Wednesday 7 pm Bible Study, Friday 7 pm Prayer.
Santa rosa United methodist Church 408 Main Street (Hwy. 107/506) Santa Rosa, across from High School Sunday Coffee and Fellowship 9:30 AM Worship10 AM (Communion first Sunday) Wednesday Prayer Service 9:00 AM Pastor: Carole Lahti (956) 279-3407
Living Water Church and ministry Pastor Henry and Rosie 2805 Memorial Suite B. La Feria Sunday Service 11am, 6pm Spanish Worship Service, 7pm Wednesday Service St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Fr. Rodolfo Franco 797-2666, office: 502 S. Canal Casa de church: 500 South Canal St., La Feria, Esperanza Apostolic Saturday Mass 5:30pm, Church Sunday Mass 8am Spanish, 416 W. Spruce La Feria 10am English, 12pm Bilingual. 965-639-4301 Bilingual Services Sunday at 1:00pm Christ In Our midst Daniel Martinez - Pastor missionary Church Pastor: Rev. Daniel Carrizalez St. mary’s Catholic 956-742-6311 Church 1 mile N. of FM 506, La Feria FR. Edouard Atangana, Sunday School - 9:45 a.m., 956-636-1211 Sunday Worship - 11:00 a.m., 101 San Antonio Ave., Santa Rosa Wednesday Service - 7:00 p.m., Monday Saturday Mass 5pm Bilingual, Prayer - 7:00 p.m. Sunday Mass 8am Spanish, New Hope 10am English. Presbyterian Church 208 West Central Ave, First baptist Church of La Feria,TX, 956-277-0208 La Feria Services Sunday 4:30 pm 797-1214 Sunday School 3:15 pm Main St. & Magnolia, La Feria Communion on the Wednesday 6:30pm Youth Bible Study & 1st Sunday of every month Mission Friends, 9:45am Sunday School, 11am Morning Worship Service Cowboy Church 11235 Swift Ln. Santa Rosa, Tex. Service St. Albans at 11:00am Sunday Episcopal Church 6:30pm pm Monday Reverend Scott Brown 956-975-6144 956-428-2305, www.westernoutreach.org 1417 E. Austin, Harlingen,TX Holy Communion 8am, Sunday School St. Paul Lutheran Church 9:15, Holy Eucharist 10:30am. Pastor Nathan Wendorf Sundays 8:00AM (Traditional) Hope in the Word Church HC first, third & fi fth Pastors Jose & Bertha Belmares 10:30AM (Contemporary) 797-3621, HC second, fourth & fi fth 28354 S. Bixby Rd., La Feria (956) 423-3924 Services Friday 6pm, Sunday 10am. 602 Morgan Blvd. All services are Bilingual, English & Harlingen, TX 78550 Spanish. church@saintpaulharlingen.com Templo Getsemani Primera Iglesia Pastor Julio y Claudia Mendoza bautista Phone (956) 589-5016 956-797-1740 11418 Fifth St. La Feria 519 N. Main, La Feria Servicios: Bilingual Services: Sunday 9:45am Tuesday & Thursday 7pm Sunday School, 10:45am Worship Friday Pray at 7pm Service, 5:00pm WMU, Sunday Bible Study at 10am & 6pm 6:00 pm Evening Worship Service, Immanuel Lutheran Iglesia Generacion Church & School En Conquista Rev. Ed Weber Pastor Samuel y Magda Cervantes, 956-565-1518 Office (M-F; 8-12 noon) Phone (956) 536-2215 956-565-3208 School (Grades: PK-5th 2803 W. Exp. 83 Suite A. La Feria 703 W. 3rd St., Mercedes, TX Sunday Service 10am Bible Study, 11am Sunday Worship Services 9am Worship Service, Sunday Bible Class 10:30 am 7pm Wednesday Family Service immanuelmercedes@gmail.com lutheranmercedes.com
First Baptist Church, La Feria A man was filling up at a gas station. He noticed the man next to him on pump 3 only put in $10. “Where do you think you are going on $10?” He asked. “Over to pump 4,” was the answer. The democrats blame the republicans and the republicans blame the democrats. I remember when we used to all blame the Saudis. We seem to need someone to blame for the high price of gas. Forget about the price of gasoline, the need to blame for just about anything is universal. From old Flip Wilson claiming the devil made him do it to a religious nut claiming his most recent ungodly act was actually God’s idea. Blaming distracts us from solving a problem. Knowing the reason does not always help. Walking more and driving less would help. It might even lower the price. -Mark S. Ross DMin.
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Lionettes Punch Their Ticket To Region 4 Playoffs
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The La Feria Lionettes punched their ticket to the UIL 4A Region 4 playoffs after finishing the regular season as the number two seed in District 32-4A. The Lions had early struggles in non district play. However, Roll Pride soon turned the tide heading into district play as the Lionettes only allowed three losses to set up a bi-district date with the Alice Lady Coyotes, the number 3 seed of District 31-4A. On Tuesday the Lionettes traveled to
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Port Sets Another Record Year In Shipping Tonnage The Next Chapter Poem
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HARLINGEN, TX- The Port of Harlingen reported a 29% increase in total tonnage for fiscal year 20-21 with 3,013,124 tons of cargo shipped in and out of the Port. Located 25 miles inland of the Gulf Intracoastal Water Way, The Port of Harlingen has accelerated its viability as a competitive hub for transportation in the region. Since 2017, The Port of Harlingen has experienced a 112% growth in the volume of cargo moving through the port. Making the largest impact to growth this fiscal year are the distribution of petroleum products going to Mexico and within the region and an increase in agricultural fertilizer. “Fuel constitutes a major portion of our total tonnage and has made
a significant impact on the Port’s growth,” Port Director Walker Smith said. “However, that growth is also making headway to allow us to diversify our capabilities of what we can bring into the area.” Federal support and funding for infrastructure weighs heavily on how much tonnage a Port moves annually, Smith said. “The more goods a port has moving through it, the more likely we are to get assistance to improve infrastructure and grow,” he said. “This means increasing our economic impact and not only improving our own capacity, but the entire regions. Having the ability to efficiently and affordably move goods in and out is a huge benefit
when industries are looking for a new location to do business.” Along with refined petroleum products, The Port of Harlingen also transports aggregates; liquid fertilizer; dry fertilizer; agricultural products including grains, cotton, cottonseed and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGs); and raw sugar. In February, the Port of Harlingen will celebrate 70 years in operation and 96 years since its creation as the Arroyo Colorado Navigation District of Cameron and Willacy Counties (ACND). Growing from one dock and warehouse, to a more than 2,000acre footprint connecting the area to thousands of miles of inland waterways including the
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Mississippi River, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. “For almost 70 years, we have worked to improve shipping capabilities to our region providing benefits to ensure our local, regional and state’s economical sustainability,” Board of Commission Chair Alan Johnson said. “There are many generations of members of our community we need to thank for having the foresight to see what having a water port would mean for Harlingen and its surrounding area.” For more information contact Amy Lynch, Director of Public Relations and Marketing at amy@portofharlingen. com or 956-324-0283. 42. *When will the guests be here?, acr. 43. Rejuvenate 45. Expression of agreement (2 words) 47. *What Turkey Trot participants did 48. Outdoor entertainment area 50. Messy substances 52. *It makes Thanksgiving wishes come true? 55. Half of diameter, pl. 56. Flu symptom 57. Accompanies relief 59. Leaves out 60. More than a talker? 61. Isaac's firstborn 62. Skin cyst 63. "____ my party, and I'll cry if I want too..." 64. Confederate or Union, e.g. DOWN 1. Compass dir. 2. Arctic native 3. Go yachting 4. Become enclosed in a cyst 5. Freshwater fish 6. Hop-drying kilns 7. *Pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving, e.g. 8. Sea World's performer 9. "Cheers" regular 10. Top seed 12. Like a rosebush 13. Spy name 14. *Kind of squash 19. Toils 22. Truck brand motto: "Guts. Glory. ____" 23. Lawn trimmer 24. Toe the line 25. Designs on lemur's tail 26. Purchases 27. #39 Across, pl. 28. T in Ferrari TR 29. Thai restaurant chicken staple 32. Elder's support 33. Flightless bird 36. *Thanksgiving football game host city since 1934 38. Impromptu 40. Big coffee holder 41. Choice word 44. Desert mirage 46. Makes less tight 48. Lace loop 49. "Angela's _____," memoir 50. *Raiders vs. Cowboys, e.g. 51. Scandinavian war god 52. Dry riverbed 53. Not final or absolute 54. Exclamation of surprise, archaic 55. Propel your boat! 58. Color wheel feature
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La Feria Police Department Halloween Giveaway The La Feria Police Department held its annual Halloween Event this year on October 31. They made sure to have an optional safe place for kids to trick or treat and to have fun. The Police Department gave away candy and had music playing at their event. They would like to Thank the La Feria Police Department Chief Cesar Rene Diaz, Mayor Olga Maldonado and Commissioners, La Feria Police Department, La Feria Fire Department and all who donated candy for the Halloween event. Also, a Thank you to Event Coordinators Lt. E. Vasquez and Sgt. E. Mendez. Photos provided by Sgt E.Mendez
UTRGV Awarded $2.8 Million Grant To Study Obesity-Reducing Curriculum In Elementary Schools
Dr. Zasha Romero, associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Health and Human Performance. (Courtesy Photo) By Karen G. Villarreal RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – NOV. 8, 2021 – UTRGV researchers have been awarded $2.8 million over four years by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, for a study aimed at reducing
childhood obesity in preschool children. Principal Investigator Dr. Roberto Treviño, director for the Social and Health Research Center in San Antonio, will work with four professors/ researchers from UTRGV to help educate local school districts about
physical activity and nutrition. The researchers will implement the Bienestar coordinated school curriculum and study its impact through the “South Texas Early Prevention Studies/ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education” (STEPS/ SNAP-ED) project. Dr. Zasha Romero, associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Health and Human Performance, is a coprincipal investigator on the project, along with: Dr. Lin Wang, associate professor, Health and Human Performance. Dr. Michael Machiorlatti, assistant professor, Population Health and Statistics. And Dr. Lisa Salinas, clinical assistant professor, Health and Biomedical Sciences. ENDING UNHEALTHY CYCLES The project specifically is aimed at reaching young children from low-income families, in an attempt to address
the national and local increase in early-onset childhood diabetes. “We have children as young as second grade in our elementary schools with full-blown diabetes,” Romero said. “They don’t even know they’re affected by things that could be handled, to a certain extent, by a healthier lifestyle.” Romero said that, with the right education, children can break out of an unhealthy spiral. “They can break that cycle of ailments that has plagued families for generations,” he said. TEAM EFFORT The Bienestar (wellbeing) curriculum satisfies Senate Bill 19, which requires schools to educate a coordinated health program approved by the Texas Education Agency. Through the study, the comprehensive Bienestar health curriculum will be implemented at 27 schools from the PharrSan Juan-Alamo and La Joya school districts. The program is bilingual and takes an
all-around approach that involves some 250 personnel, including administrators, teachers, and health educators from Doctors Hospital at Renaissance. Teachers incorporate the Bienestar lesson plans on healthier lifestyles, and physical education coaches receive more than100 point-by-point calisthenics, strength, or cardiovascular activities for the children. Parental liaisons will receive lessons to teach parents involved in the project. And kitchen staff will be trained on food preparation and ways to talk to the children about health-conscious choices. Romero said the proposed curriculum reaches young audiences from all directions, while making efforts to make it entertaining. “They’re getting the information all day, but in a fun way – by singing, doing activities and playing – so they don’t even realize they’re getting lessons,” Romero said. RESEARCH
DESIGNED FOR ITS IMPACT The school partners will report what they implemented to the researchers, Romero said. Data collectors will use the FitnessGram, a nationally recognized fitness test, to see if the efforts are reflected in the students’ overall fitness results over time. Students and parents involved with the pilot studies tended to be on the healthier side regarding fitness, food consumption and lifestyle, he said. By gathering data from about 2,000 children, the study can monitor the curriculum’s impact on a larger scale. The data then be compared to pilot program data to validate effectiveness. “If we have positive results, we’re hoping to create legislation to help schools incorporate this curriculum statewide,” Romero said.