On Saturday July 2, 2022 the City of Los Fresnos held their annual Independence Day Celebration and Fireworks display at Los Fresnos Memorial Park. All the fun started at 6:00 p.m. The event started off with the Invocation by Ramon Ortiz, posting of the colors by Scout Troop 61 and National Anthem by Melody Castillo. Everyone was invited to come out to the free event and enjoy some delicious food, entertainment and fireworks. This year they had a hot dog eating contest, jalapeno eating contest and a watermelon eating contest. Some of the other fun festivities were a 3-legged sack race, waiters' race, and tortilla toss. The kids were able to enjoy free train rides, bouncers, an obstacle course, rock climbing wall & more. Not only were there food vendors but craft & home-made goods vendors as well. The night ended with an amazing firework display. Mayor Alejandro Flores also shared a few words to social media regarding this year’s fourth of July: “As we approach Independence Day, we remember that day in history, July 4, 1776. Our country issued the Declaration of Independence. At that time this document states three basic ideas: God made all men/women equal and gave them the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We endured many obstacles as a country and community over the past years. It's good to know we have overcome and continue to move our country and community forward. I’ll leave you with a quote from former President Ronald Reagan, “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something-for liberty, and freedom and fairness-and these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” The mayor would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce, Boys and Girls Club and City of Los Fresnos for such a great and memorable time. Photos are from the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce Facebook page. Juliet V. Garcia to
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things such as meat and potatoes, while we, my sisters and cousins, would handle the veggie cutting, washing and chopping. I am proud of my roots, and I am proud to have Spanish as my mother tongue.” Pamela Herring, lecturer in Departmenttheof Writing and Language Studies, chose to write about lefse, a Norwegian dessert made from potatoes, that can be used like a tortilla to hold different types of food, or eaten with just butter. The recipe was passed down to her by her father, who died when she was just 11 years old. He knew she and her siblings had a sweet tooth, she recalled, so, to entice his children to be his captive audience, he always set aside enough “dough” for dessert lefse. “The cinnamoningredientmagicalwassugar,” she wrote in her essay, which earned third place in the contest. “All that could be heard now was the noises of happy little mouths chewing and indulging in the soft, warm, sweet delight our father made just for us. Perhaps, you could also hear him smile while he watched his three pena@utrgv.edu.Peña-Olivaoneventtonarratives,tellOlivaHispanicunderstandinginteresttoencouragingSpanishpromotesummer.beTheempanadastobarbacoaandrecipesfeaturingessaysbeenMemoriesCulinarias/Culinaryyearthroughmagicallytreasurestransformedhisgiftoflove.”ThiswasthethirdtheMemoriascontesthasheld.Thisyear,12weresubmittedavarietyoffromchickendumplingsanddeBorregosweetfarelikedecajeta.winningessayswillpostedonlinethis“Wealsowanttotheloveforthelanguage,whilestudentsacquireagreateranddeeperoftheculture,”Peña-said.“Peopleustheyenjoytheandwewantcontinuetodothiseveryyear.”Formoreinformationthecontest,contactatana.Bolkcom,
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Soaring High Lady Falcon Krystal Perez represents Los Fresnos one last time
Recently, Rio Sports Live Held their inaugural STARS Softball Showcase in Raymondville Texas. For the RGV Rebels, one star athlete represented the community of Los Fresnos. Krystal Perez, who graduated this past spring, was able to represent Los Fresnos on the diamond one last representedKrystaltime.PerezLos Fresnos and the Rio Grande Valley as a member of the RGV Rebels. Perez, also was the lone Lady Falcon at the Showcase. “I felt so honored being selected to play for the first ever RSL STARS Showcase and being the only LF Player who was able to attend this event”, said Perez. “I was super excited to go out and represent my school and the Los Fresnos Community.” Although being the inaugural STARS
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Showcase, many big names from across the Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend were featured in six star-studded teams. Perez on being among some of the best of the best in the showcase: “Just being able to compete against some of the best players in the region was great! Playing alongside some of them was an honor, it just shows how much softball is growing on this side of Texas.”Inthe few weeks leading up to the showcase, The Rebels, as well as every other team were given opportunities to practice. With each team going up against the best players in the region, Perez and her team had to sharpen up their skills for the showcase. “During team practice, I just worked on the simple things to prepare for the tournament; by staying true to fundamentals on my field work, and staying true to mechanics with my batting.”Perez, had twice the practice as not only was she just competing for the RGV Rebels, but was also selected to participate in the RSL STARS Home Run Derby. The Derby, which featured eight of the best Power Hitters in South Texas, included some big names like Iliana Saucedo, Lilly Rocha, Jo Montes, Alyssa Burge, Brookelynn Meador, Evelyn Valadez, and Ava Hernandez. “To even be considered as one of the top eight power hitters in South Texas is such an Honor and a blessing. To me, it means so much personally , because it shows a lot of the dedication and failures behind the scenes in my softball journey has paid off.”Perez, who was more than deserving of being in the Home Run derby, displayed her hitting power through 2022 with a batting average of .641, 14 home runs, 46 RBIs, 12 Doubles and four triples. “I wouldn’t be here tonight without my dad and Coach Joey, who have helped me develop into the hitter that I am today.”Perez fought her way through the final rounds of the Derby, where she faced off against Harlingen’s Lilly Rocha in a final round that certainly was the icing on the cake to an amazing derby. “It was just an amazing feeling making it into the final round, my mindset was just to keep everything simple and let everything that i’ve trained for take its course.’’ Perez and Rocha combined for 43 home runs in the final round alone. Perez belted 60 home runs out of the park alone during the derby.Amemorable weekend for every athlete, parent and everyone involved in the Inaugural STARS Showcase. From the opening matchup, to the derby, to the championship trophy being presented, the Showcase was filled with great moments and memories. Perez also shared some of her favorite memories and moments. “My Favorite moment was definitely competing in the home run derby, also having the chance to create new friendships and being able to play with a great group of talented girls.”
By Ruben Rodriguez Los Fresnos With Major League Baseball nearing the all star break, we shift gears towards Minor League Baseball and look at the Texas League. The 2022 Texas League season has been competitive as we near the halfway point as well. We take a look at the team to represent South Texas, The Corpus Christi Hooks.With the Texas League split in half. The Hooks, after a slow start, managed to tie up with the Amarillo Sod Poodles for third place in the Southern Division of the TXLG. Corpus Christi finished off the first half with a record of 32-37. The second half of Texas League Play kicked off last week with Corpus sitting in fourth place with a record of 3-4. Current Standings in the Texas League Southern Division show Midland in first, Frisco in second, Amarillo in third, Corpus in fourth and San Antonio in Whenfifth. looked at Overall Standings, combining both halves of play. San Antonio is in front with a 40-35 record, Frisco in second with a record of 41-36, Amarillo in Third with a record of 36-40, Midland in fourth with a record of 36-40 and Corpus Christi in fifth with a record of 35-41. In the Texas League Northern Division, Tulsa Leads in first, Arkansas in second, Wichita in third, Northwest Arkansas in fourth and Springfield in fifth,With the second half of Texas League play just underway, the Hooks still have plenty of time to turn things around and stage a late season rally.
By Ruben Rodriguez Los Fresnos News With July now on the calendar, Volleyball season slowly starts to make its way towards the RGV. And no better way to bring in the new season with the 21st Annual Highway 83 League.WithDonna High School and Donna North playing host to this year's Highway 83 League, Some of the schools participating this year have been announced. Some teams set to compete in the 2022 Highway 83 are PSJA North, Donna, Mission, Brownsville Rivera, Weslaco East, Mercedes, Palmview, Donna North, Edinburg, Brownsville Lopez, Monte Alto, San Perlita, and Valley View. The Highway 83 League always provides an exciting taste and preview of what’s to come in the 2022 UIL Volleyball Season, featuring teams from 6A Down to 1A. Catch all the action on Rio Sports Live, who will provide the coverage for the 21st season of the Highway 83 Volleyball League.
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“This pageant started it for me…I love the world of pageants so much, I couldn’t stop,” she said. “This is when I got introduced to Debi Lou Productions in McAllen, and when other doors started opening for me. And it was the scholarship I received as Queen Citrianna that also inspired me to go to college.”Leossaid college was never in her future, coming from a family who didn’t put much emphasis on school, but she realized that she was the person who could inspire and influence her brother and cousins to follow in her footsteps toward a college education.“Ididn’t even know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I knew from watching my parents struggle to make ends meet, I didn’t want that for myself, so I enrolled at STC,” she said. “This is my chance to become the first, ever, in my family to graduate from college. That’s something I’m proudLeosof.”expects to graduate with an associate degree spring 2023 from myselfwhatandhelpedleader,”relationssomedayCommunicationdecidedSTCDepartment.RelationsholdspositionhersocialsaidSTCearnedthetimeupvaluablethatrunnerTexastitlesothersheRelations.AdvertisingwithCommunicationSTC’sprogramaconcentrationinandPublicDuringhertimeatSTC,hasparticipatedinpageantswinningsuchasMissSouth2019,amongotherupstandingsshesaidtaughtherlessonsleadingtoMissTEXASUSA.ItwasalsoduringthisthatherreputationinpageantcommunityheraspotinafewcommercialsthatshegainedpopularityonmediaandlandedthecontentcreatorshecurrentlywiththeSTCPublicandMarketing“IenjoywhatIdoatsomuch,thatI’vetopursueadegreetobecomeapublicexecutiveandshesaid.“STCmediscovermyselfhelpedmediscoverI’mgoodat.IfoundatSTCandonthe
Bryceidee Leos is a Communication student at South Texas College and the current MISS RGV USA 2022. She will be competing this weekend in Houston for the MISS TEXAS USA 2022 title.
By Amanda Sotelo (McAllen, TEXAS)Bryceidee Leos is known around the community as the “STC Tik Tok Girl,” but her other titles include South Texas College student, STC content creator, Miss Rio Grande Valley (RGV) U.S.A. 2022 and hopefully soon, Miss TEXAS USA 2022. The communicationSTC student will be competing July 1 and 2 in Houston for the title of Miss TEXAS USA 2022 against 88 other women from across the state.“I’ve prepared for months leading up to Friday, I think I’m as prepared as I can be,” said the 24-year-old. “This has been something I’ve wanted for a long time. It’s taken some time to get here, and now I hope to make the most of the experience.”Frompracticing for interviews and her speaking points to making sure she’s in shape and healthy and finding the perfect outfits, Leos said the journey this far has been inQueenhighjourneystartedthanksway.encouragedsupportersmyIandaligningfordoorsGod“I’mincredible.reallythankingforopeningalltheseofopportunityme.Everythingisintherighttimethat’sbecauseofhim.alsocan’tfailtomentionfamily,friendsandwhohavemealongtheThisisallpossibletomyvillage.”TheMissionnativeherpageantasaseniorinschoolwhenshewonCitriannathe80th2016.
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STC student, Miss RGV 2022 Set To Compete For The Miss Texas USA Title
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RGV is home to Leos, and she holds the community near and dear to her heart, inspiring her community service work and education activism, which is her platform for the Miss TEXAS USA educationalwhileresourcespeershercanadmissionssaidcollegepageant.Asafirst-generationstudent,Leossheknowscollegeandprocessesbeintimidating,butgoalistoinformherandothersaboutandservices,advocatingforopportunities
among the community. “I hope to inspire others with my journey to help them start or continue their education,” she said. “Education is key to growth and what I want for my community is to see it grow, and I think as a student and by having a voice for my community, I am in the right position to help make this happen.” Win or lose, Leos said she is already ecstatic on how far she has come with pageants and with school, and she hopes to continue breaking barriers, serving her community and continuing her education.
Bryceidee Leos is known as STC’s Tik Tok girl, but is also MISS RGV USA 2022 and will be competing this weekend for the title of MISS TEXAS USA 2022 in Houston.
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY – JULY 1, 2022 – Dr. Juliet V. Garcia, former longtime president of The University of Texas at Brownsville, will be presented with the nation’s highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, on Thursday, July 7, in Washington D.C. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. “I’ve always believed that educating the next generation of citizens was our primary mission because once educated, they would help nurture, defend, and sustain the democracy of the United States. I believe that now more than ever,” said Garcia.It’sbeen a great privilege to spend a lifetime in advocacy working with hundreds of honorable and courageous people.” Garcia, a current UTRGV
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what STC has to offer in terms of customized and hands-on training for their employees.STCrecently extended its workforce development training and roboticsrecentlyinternationally,servicesmostcustomizingandEnglish as a Second Language (ESL) courses for employees at Reynosa factories and manufacturing facilities. “STC President Ricardo Solis is the mastermind behind this initiative,” Luisa Fernanda Rodriguez, STC global
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With three CMIC Tamaulipas chapters along the U.S./Mexico border in Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo, the collaboration between CMIC and STC will greatly impact the neighboring regions.“Giving our employees access to this type of training and giving them the opportunity to gain new skills and obtain a certificate, is going to take CMIC and the work we do along the border to a new level,” said Lopez. “The overall aspect of STC expanding its training across the border will have a great impact on everybody.”STCPresident Ricardo J. Solis, Ph.D., said STC is creating bold solutions to have a global impact with its workforce development and new “Wetraining,”ourenteringpartnerships.international“WeareexcitedtobeanewphaseinworkforcedevelopmentsaidSolis.aregrowingthis department tenfold and Luisa, Dr. Carlos Margo and their team are focused on ensuring we meet the demands of industry. We are proud of the work we’re doing, the impact we’re making and we’re excited that organizations like CMIC and others along our border will have the opportunity to benefit from our customized training and all STC has to offer.” For more information on STC’s southtexascollege.edu.IndustryWorkforcecustomizedandtraining,visit
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• Enjoy the Outside: Being active is always easier on warm, sunny days. Take advantage of summer weather to reduce your personal carbon footprint and get some healthy exercise! Find ways to do this by walking or biking instead of taking a car to the store. If you need to travel a longer distance, opt for public transport or carpool instead.
Giffords,Simonearepubliccelebrities,recipientsMedaleliteBiden’shonoraredistinguishedprofessor,communicationsand16AmericansthefirsttoreceivetheunderPresidentJoeterm.ShejoinsangroupofPresidentialofFreedomthatincludespoliticians,andservants.AmongthehonoreesDenzelWashington,Biles,GabrielleMeganRapinoe, and“Julietothers.has enriched the lives of many Rio Grande Valley students, from elementary to college,” said UTRGV President Guy Bailey. “Her contributions to higher education in South Texas and beyond are long lasting and have created pathways of success among a new generation of Latino leaders. On behalf of everyone at UTRGV, I congratulate Juliet on this well-deserved national award.”
• Make Small Changes: Living sustainably can sound intimidating at first. Like any shift in habit though, changing behavior may take a while to stick, but small, consistent adjustments will mean the most over time, especially when it comes to everyday things like reducing your use of single-use plastics, and switching to reusable shopping bags and food containers. Take things one small step at a time. For example, commit to recycling one additional item each day.
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Dr. Juliet V. Garcia to Receive The Presidential Medal of Freedom
CMIC Tamaulipas and CMIC Reynosa are interested in partnering with STC for customized construction training that will take their organization to new Gerardoheights.Holguín Lopez, chairman of the CMIC Tamaulipas steering committee, said he was impressed with everything STC has to offer. “What STC has to offer is top-notch, state-of-theart. We are so impressed with everything,” he said. “What the college has, especially for construction, is everything we need.”
STC recently hosted delegates from CMIC Tamaulipas and CMIC Reynosa for a tour of the STC Institute for Advanced Manufacturing to learn more about the campus and customized training the college is now providing across the border.
Delegates from CMIC Tamaulipas and CMIC Reynosa recently toured STC’s diesel labs at the college’s Technology campus.
ABOuT DR. J ulIET V. GARCIA She was the Mexican-Americanfirst woman to serve as a college president in the United States. During her tenure as president, Garcia pioneered a partnership between UT Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, a community college where she served as president from 1986 to 1992, when she assumed the presidency of UTRGV’s legacy institution UT Brownsville. She stepped down as UTB president in 2014 when UTRGV was established.
“My job was always to thrust open doors of opportunity for students to learn, compete, and succeed in the classics, chess, physics, or the performing arts. We did this by building a campus that inpresidentsonemagazinenumerousborderlands.”issuesadvocateeconomiccommunitiescapital,potentialwayscomplexdialoguestogeographicpeoplecommittedregionanchorGarcia.dedicatedwithandenvironmentalhonorsunapologeticallyourculturalandheritage,thenbyfillingitupbrilliantfacultyandstaff,”saidServingasaforemostinstitutioninourmeantthatweweretoconveningacrosspoliticalandboundariesengageindifficulttotackletheissuesoffindingtomaximizethefullofourhumandevelopsustainabletopropelgrowthandfortheuniqueofournation’sTherecipientofawards,TIMEnamedGarciaofthetop10collegeinthenation2009andshewas named one of the top 50 world leaders by Fortune magazine. In 2008, García was selected to join President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. Garcia, a Brownsville, Texas native, received her Ph.D. in communication and linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. and B.A. in speech and English from the University of Houston.“Juliet Villarreal Garcia personifies the American dream. As the Mexican-Americanfirst woman to lead a U.S. college or university, Dr. Garcia has been the inspirational force behind countless individuals who made public service their life’s work and students who realized their academic potential,” said UT System Chancellor James B. Milliken. “I am proud to call her one of our own – as a distinguished alumna of The University of Texas at Austin and President of UT Brownsville – and I congratulate Dr. Garcia on this prestigious and welldeserved honor.”
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Dr. Juliet V. Garcia, former longtime president of The University of Texas at Brownsville, will be presented with the nation’s highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, on Thursday, July 7, in Washington D.C..
(StatePoint) You don’t have to be a sustainability expert to incorporate elements of eco-friendly living into your everyday routine. This summer, think about the small changes you can make that can add up to make a bigger difference.
By Amanda Sotelo
5 Ways to Be More Sustainable This Summer
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