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Los Fresnos, Texas — Our Mighty Los Fresnos Swim Club, which features future LFCISD Swim Team Members, participated in the Region 2 TAAF Swimming Regional Meet at the new UTRGV Natatorium in Pharr on July 8 and 9th, 2022. Over 400 swimmers participated in hopes of swimming their personal best times and an opportunity to earn a trip to the STATE TAAF Swim Meet in Corpus, from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The completion was fast and furious for the athletes, ranging from ages 8 to 17 years old. All of the athletes had a lot of fun and swam their hearts out. Our girl's team scored 668 points and our boy's team scored 863 points, having them both earn 2nd place out of 11 regional teams.
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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for an official newspaper for the City. Specifications are on file with the City Secretary and may be obtained at the City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566 or by calling 956-233-5768. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER”. CItY OF LOs FREsNOs REQuEst FOR PROPOsALs FOR VEHICLE MAINtENANCE FLAt REPAIRs, tIRE BALANCE/ROtAtION FRONt-END ALIgNMENt
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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for washing, vacuuming and other detailing of all city vehicles. Specifications are on file with the City Secretary and may be obtained at the City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566. For more information, contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 956-233-5768. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR WASHING OF CITY VEHICLES”.
The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for vehicle maintenance for tire balance and rotation, font-end alignment, and flat repairs. For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 233-5768 or come by City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FOR TIRE BALANCE AND ROTATION, FRONT-END ALIGNMENT, AND FLAT REPAIRS”.
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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for chemicals for water, wastewater, and swimming pool. For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566 or by calling 956-233-5768. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR CHEMICALS”.
The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for pest control maintenance. Specifications are on file with the City Secretary and may be obtained at the City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566 or by calling 956-233-5768. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR PEST CONTROL”.
3. An ordinance to adopt a Comprehensive Plan of the Town of Indian Lake, Texas addressing the plan of the general direction for the future of the Town, to promote sound development of the Town and public health, safety, and welfare to reflect the goals and objectives of the Town for its long-range development.
The City Council of the Town of Indian Lake, Texas will hold a public hearing on August 22, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. in the Town Hall Building located at 62 S. Aztec Cove Drive, Los Fresnos, Texas 78566. All interested citizens of the town and interested parties are invited to attend this public hearing in person and participate in same. The public hearing will be for consideration of the following:
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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for cleaning supplies. For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director, City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR CLEANING SUPPLIES”.
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1. An ordinance to adopt a “Zoning Ordinance” of the Town of Indian Lake, Texas to establish 4 districts for the purpose of zoning and classifying all lots or parcels of land within the corporate limits of the Town as A-0 Agricultural and Open Space District, R-1 Single Family Residential District, R-2 Multifamily Residential District, C-1 General Business and Commercial District, for the regulation of land use in the Town, and providing for a penalty of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) for a violation, and each violation to be considered a separate offense.
The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for mowing of weeded lots in the City that are in violation of City Ordinance. Specifications are on file with the City Secretary and may be obtained at the City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566. For more information, contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 956-2335768. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR LOT MOWING:”
The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for vehicle maintenance for general repairs, oil change, oil filter change, air filter change, lube and visual inspection on hoses and belts. For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 233-5768 or come by City Hall, 520 E Ocean Blvd., Los Fresnos, TX. 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Monday, August 29, 2022 at City Hall. Awarding of contract will be September 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm in City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR VEHICLE MAINTENANCE GENERAL REAPIRS, OIL CHANGE AND FILTER CHANGE, AIR FILTER CHANGE, LUBE AND VISUAL CHECK ON HOSES AND BELTS”.
2. An ordinance to adopt the official map of the Town of Indian Lake, Texas identifying the boundaries of the proposed zoning districts in the Town.
With the second half of the MLB in full swing, two words that are sometimes great or dreadful seem to ring, Trade Deadline. The 2022 MLB Trade deadline was full of blockbuster deals that shook the baseball world. While the San Diego Padres were in the spotlight with the acquisitions of Juan Soto, Josh Hader, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury. The Houston Astros also made some big deals in the 2022 MLB Trade Deadline. The Astros, who are in the Driver’s seat of the American League West, certainly are a star studded team with big names such as Alex Bregman, Jose Altuve, Jeremy Pena, Justin Verlander, and Yordan Alvarez. Now looking to boost the powerhouse lineup, Houston added three stars to add to their firepower.Firstly,The biggest addition at this Trade deadline was first baseman/ Designated hitter Trey Mancini out of Baltimore. Mancini, who this season is batting .268, 10 home runs and 95 hits, is truly an efficient addition for the Astros. Mancini was acquired through a three team trade deal between Houston, Baltimore and TampaHouston’sBay. next trade acquisition was Boston Red Sox Catcher Christian Vazquez. The Puerto Rico native this season has been batting .281 with eight home runs and 83 hits. Vazquez was acquired by Houston in exchange for two Astros Prospects; infielder Enmanuel Valdez and outfielder Wilyer Abreu. Both Abreu and Valdez were Key members of the Corpus Christi Hooks, Double A affiliate of the Astros. The third and final big trade of the Trade Deadline was with the defending World Series Champion Atlanta Braves. Will Smith, the lefty reliever for the Braves was acquired through a trade for veteran pitcher Jake Odorizzi. Smith, who currently holds an ERA of 4.36, looks to strengthen up the Astros’ Bullpen.Anexciting trade deadline in 2022 for MLB fans. The Astros certainly got their money’s worth with some big acquisitions on their quest to capture their second World Series title.
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2023 World Baseball Classic Pools and Venues announced
Reenforcing the ‘Stros Astros Acquire Mancini, Smith and Vasquez in 2022 Trade Deadline
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After a long pause, The 2023 World Baseball Classic will be making its long awaited return in March 2023. Originally planned to play in 2021, the Classic was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The 2023 tournament, which will be the fifth edition of the classic, has just had the pool seeding and venues announced. The Classic will be taking place from March 8 to the 21. With four venues across the world. In addition, the 2023 Classic will feature 20 teams for the first time, with 16 teams already qualified. Pool Play will be from March 8-15, Elimination play will be March 15-18, Semifinal round will be March 19-20 while the Championship game will be March 21. Pool A will be taking place in Taichung, Taiwan, and will feature Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Italy, 2017 semifinalist Netherlands and a qualifier team. Pool B will take place in Tokyo, Japan and feature 2017 semifinalist Japan, Korea, Australia, China and a qualifier team. Pools C and D will take place in The United States. Pool C will be in Phoenix, Arizona, and will feature defending champion USA, Mexico, Colombia, Canada, and a qualifier team. Pool D will take place in Miami, Florida. Being considered the “group of death”, Pool D will feature powerhouses Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic. Israel and a qualifier team. The tournament,Qualifyingwhich will feature two pools, will take place in Regensburg, Germany and Panama City, Panama, will feature 12 teams all trying to punch their tickets to the Classic. Pool A will feature Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Great Britain and South Africa. Pool B will feature Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan and New Zealand. South Africa and Panama, who appeared in the first two Classics, look to return to the WBC for the first time since 2009. Spain looks to reach their second WBC after their first and only appearance in 2013. The top two teams of each pool will qualify automatically to the 2023 WBC. The United States heads into the 2023 Classic as the defending champion, defeating Puerto Rico in the 2017 Championship game. Team Japan, who won the inaugural tournament in 2006 and the second in 2009, look to win their third WBC Title. Trying to bounce back are Puerto Rico, who have finished as the runner up in the last two Classics in 2017 and 2013. With rosters yet to be announced, Multiple Major Leaguers are expected to participate and make their debuts in the World Baseball Classic. Some names expected to make their first appearances will be Shohei Ohtani for Japan, Trevor Story and Mike Trout for the USA. Juan Soto and Fernando Tatis Jr for the Dominican Republic. Luis Urias, Alex Verdugo and Christian Villanueva for Mexico.
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By Ruben Rodriguez Los Fresnos News With the 2022 NFL Season around the corner, fans are in preparation for the Sunday Tailgates. Here in the Rio Grande Valley, Football Fever is alive and well. So, what better way to ring in the new season than a star studded tour. Former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Troy Aikman made appearances across the Rio Grande Valley as part of his tour to Promote Eight Elite Lager, a beer founded by Aikman. Aikman appearancesmadelast week across the RGV with stops in Mission, McAllen, Weslaco, Harlingen and Brownsville. Hours prior to his appearances, fans arrived in full force in Dallas Cowboys memorabilia and apparel, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Dallas Cowboy legend. The Rio Grande Valley, which has always been home to faithful Dallas Cowboys Supporters, definitely showed their love for Aikman and the Cowboys. Troy Aikman, who was drafted first overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1989 NFL Draft, spent his entire 12 season career as a Cowboy. During this Time, Aikman alongside Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin led the Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles. The Dallas Dynasty eventually led to the Cowboys to be named “The Team of the 1990s”. Aikman’s other Accolades include 1989 All Rookie team member, six Pro Bowl selections, Super Bowl 27 MVP, NFL’s Man of the Year in 1997, and an induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Aikman’s promotional tour will continue across Texas before stepping back into the broadcast booth for the 2022 NFL Season.
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How to help increase monarch populations “Nectar from flowers provides the fuel monarchs need to fly, so if there are not any blooming plants to collect nectar from during the stops in their migration, the butterflies will not have the energy to continue,” Coulson said. “Planting flowers that attract monarchs as they pass through on their migration will help them reach their destination. In addition, creating more monarch habitats will help reverse their decline. Include butterfly or pollinator plants in your garden and avoid using pesticides.”
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Coulson also reiterated the importance of there being adequate milkweed for the monarchs. “We noted there are four particular types of milkweed the monarchs prefer as they travel through Texas during springtime,” he said. “You can learn what species of milkweed grow best in your region of Texas or the rest of the U.S. and learn how to plant it so the monarch caterpillars can have food to grow into butterflies.”Kecksuggested planting a variety of flowering plants so adult monarchs have numerous food sources as they make their way to and from Mexico. “Here in Texas, you want to be sure to cut your milkweed down in October,” she said. “Otherwise, the monarchs will lay eggs before making it to Mexico. Those eggs usually hatch and then die because the food dries up, or we get a freeze before they complete their lifecycle. This is especially true when we have warm late falls or early winters, and milkweed doesn’t die back.”More information on what can be done to help restore monarch populations can be found at: www.monarchwatch. org. The monarch butterfly has been placed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List as endangered. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Laura McKenzie
of Texas during their annual migration. However, their population has been in steady decline, and recently the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, placed the monarch
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across the U.S. and Canada to their overwintering sites in Mexico. As they move southward, most of these butterflies will converge in north Central Texas and continue their flight south into Mexico. Factors affecting monarch populations “Monarchs are very susceptible to environmental changes, especially during the times in their annual cycle when millions of them collect in the same general location,” said James Tracy, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Entomology of Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.Tracysaid temperature and precipitation can influence the monarchs’ spring and fall migrations and breeding season success.“Asudden winter storm in Mexico can kill millions of monarchs overwintering there,” Tracy said. “There is also a significant amount of habitat loss from logging. Habitat loss and climate change are two major factors in the monarch’s population decline.”Another factor affecting monarch populations is the huge reduction in supplies of one of its main sources of nutrition – milkweed. “Monarch caterpillars need milkweed for nourishment so they may grow and develop, but the increased use of herbicides and pesticides, habitat conversion and adverse land management have all taken a toll on this important food source,” said Robert Coulson, Ph.D., professor and director of the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Entomology.Coulsonalso noted that “roadkill” of the monarch butterfly in Texas, primarily during the fall migration, is responsible for a 2% to 3% annual decline in the population. He said he and others in the entomology department are working with the Texas Department of Transportation to find ways to keep butterflies away from highly traveled roadways and highways. “Our research and that of many “citizen scientists” watching their migration have shown monarchs are attracted to certain particular locations due to abundant food and water,” he said. “The use of flight diversion netting has helped protect migrating Asian purple crow milkweed butterflies from roadkill on a riverine bridge in Taiwan. We are collaborating with the Texas Department of Transportation to see if something like that may work here.”
“My favorite thing about our meat science programming, specifically with barbecue, is the people,” said Jeffrey W. Savell, Ph.D., vice chancellor and dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences. “We bring together people from different walks of life to experience and learn Texas barbecue. We see relationships forged in this classroom among people who would have never met except for this camp. It is inspirational to see the walls come down as everyone shares about their unique experience with barbecue.”
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a live-fire cuisine and fire is the most recognized smell in the world. Your brain is hardwired to recognize that smell for safety, for community, for food and for protection, so if you are Turkish in Argentina eating barbecue then you have a sense of nostalgia to home because of the live-fire element.”
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Barbecue Summer Camp attracts novices, professionals from as far away as Dubai
Jeffrey W. Savell, Ph.D., vice chancellor and dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences
Meat science expertise craved across the world Barbecue Summer Camp is one event among a handful of popular experiences that has been created by the meat science expertise homed within the Department of Animal Science at the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.TheDepartment of Animal Science is one of the largest and most complex departments teaching animal science in the nation. As such, it draws people from across the world to seek out the expertise of the faculty andThisstudents.typeof program demonstrates how important food is to us as humans. We have a university dedicated to the study of animal husbandry, veterinary sciences, animal nutrition … I’m blown away by the animal science teachings at Texas A&M. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life, to be honest, and I’m not saying that because you’re here.
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Hattem Mattar “We were honored to have Hattem join us. He spoke about how food and barbecue can save the world, and his message was incredibly well-received by our attendees,” said Savell. “Every camp, we celebrate the diversity of our attendees and we listen to their individual experiences as they relate to barbecue because. By celebrating the diversity, we celebrate our similarities.”
A space for both barbecue experts and beginners This camp session boasted a healthy amount of barbecue novices and beginners while attracting a wide range of barbecue veterans, from a Food Network competitor to professional chefs. The attendees spent their time learning from the best of the industry, including listening to panels of pitmasters. For more information on the annual camp, go to barbecue-summer-camp/.https://bbq.tamu.edu/
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Gladys Porter Zoo Giraffe
Rocket the Space Giraffe New Children’s Book Features
Brownsville, Texas (July 27, 2022) – Rocket, a beloved giraffe at the Gladys Porter Zoo, is now the main character of her own children’s book, Rocket the Space Giraffe. The book was written by Suzanne Shepard, Board President of the Valley Zoological Society, and illustrated by Tilia RandBell, an comethattheylemur.MadagascanbestrocketmoonGiraffe”asAmazon.Children’sspothasRocketofZoo’sillustrator.award-winningSincethepublicunveilingthebookonJuly21st,theSpaceGiraffeskyrocketedtothe#1inNewReleasesofZooBooksonInthebook,Rocket“RockettheSpaceexplorestheandstarsinhershipwithherfriendCosmo,aring-tailedAlongtheway,havefunandlearndreamsreallycantrue.Rocket,therealgiraffe, was named by Mary Muratore, who won the honor of naming her at Zoofari 2018, the Zoo’s annual fundraiser. Rocket made her public debut in January 2019 and has since captured the hearts of many Gladys Porter Zoo visitors. She is always first in line at the Giraffe Landing Feeding Station and loves interacting with the public, especially if there are treats involved. Rocket’s curious and outgoing personality makes her easy to love, and that’s precisely what gave Shepard the inspiration for the book. “Rocket is such a friendly and amazing giraffe who really touched my heart. I hope that, in addition to enjoying the book, everyone can come out to the Gladys Porter Zoo and meet her,” said Shepard.Allproceeds from book sales will go directly back to the Gladys Porter Zoo for the care and feeding of Rocket and the animals at the Zoo. The book is available for purchase on Amazon and in the Zoo’s gift shops.
