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Longtime coach, Becky Woods retires
without me, they will win. Those kids are all winners.” Along with the 738 career wins, Woods collected 14 district titles, 18 bi-district titles, seven area crowns, four regional quarter finals appearances and four trips to the Sweet 16. Woods is also a member of the RGV Sports Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 2016. “After our bi-distrcit loss, I told the girls I was probably not coming back. It was hard because some of those girls I had for three years and they will be seniors next year. If I didn’t retire now, I don’t know when I would have. I would have liked to have made it to 40 years but sometimes your body just tells you.” Said Woods. Now Woods will focus
By Kevin Narro | LFN
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LOS FRESNOS-After 36 years of patrolling the Los Fresnos sideline, Becky Woods has called it a career. January 29th marked her final day at Los Fresnos High School, wrapping up a legendary career. Woods finished with a career 738 wins, making her the winningest coach in Rio Grande Valley volleyball history and ranks 21st in the state in wins according to the Texas Girls Coaches Association. “I have done this for a long time,” Woods said. “I just felt it was time. I had really battled back and forth on whether to retire or not. Someone will come in and take over, we have really great kids in the program. They are going to do OK
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Vehicles by the hundreds seen during Friday, Jan. 29 vaccine clinic held at Los Fresnos EMS. - Drone picture courtesy of LFPD. By Tony Vindell
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The Covid-19 vaccination clinics in the City of Los Fresnos have been such a success that some people are now calling this town on Texas Highway 100 a “super clinic hub.” Some 8,000 people have received the anti-virus shots in the four clinics held here so far and many more are scheduled to get the benefits of this campaign organized by city and
county officials. Ray Ortiz, a city councilman, said they couldn’t be any happier to see what has been happening since the first clinic took place on Dec. 9. “We feel very proud,” he said, referring to the past clinics held here. “I believe we have the best facility in Cameron County for this particular event.” Ortiz said Los Fresnos is contributing in a big
way with President Joe Biden’s goal to have 100 million people vaccinated by his first 100 days in office. The clinics have been so successful, resulting in an outpour of support and praise from social media and from elected officials. Among the comments include, “they did an awesome job,” “great job everyone” “I did like that we didn’t wait too long,” and “it was super organized.”
On Friday Jan. 29, more than 700 people per hour received their first vaccines. By the end of the day, 6,000 shots were administered. Although officials said people did not need to wait the day before as it has been happening where other clinics have been held, some 100 vehicles were in line the night before. Charlie Banda, the
city’s emergency management coordinator, said some 14,350 vaccines have been given to people since the first clinic took place on Jan. 13. “Everything has been going fine here,” he said. “Some of the vehicle lines have been long but the wait time to get a vaccine has not been that long.” And this Wednesday, Feb. 10, a second dose will be administered to the 2,300 people that received the shots on Jan. 13.
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