- 1. Mission Bell – Tradewinds donates over 1,800 pounds of food
- (In The Parks)
- ... that about 1,200 pounds of food was donated, last year it was 1,400 pounds, and this year, over 1,850 pounds of food was donated to a local food bank, First Global Methodist Church in Mission. This will ...
- Created on 23 December 2025
- 2. Truckload of donated food arrives in Rio Grande Valley
- (Uncategorised)
- ... Rio Grande Valley will welcome a JustServe-branded semi-truck carrying approximately 40,000 pounds of Church-donated food for families in need across South Texas. The delivery on Wednesday, April 22nd ...
- Created on 23 April 2026
- 3. Food Bank RGV to host ribbon cutting for new facility
- (Around Town)
- ... Bank RGV is the only Feeding America member food bank in the Rio Grande Valley and works with more than 275 partner agencies to distribute over 46 million pounds of food annually. To RSVP for this event, ...
- Created on 10 December 2025
- 4. Tips to safely share the beach with nesting shorebirds
- (Around Town)
- ... in the Galveston Bay watershed. Since it began 5 years ago, nearly 24,000 volunteers and over 8,600 students helped remove over 55,000 pounds of coastal trash. If you live in the area, sign up for their ...
- Created on 23 May 2025
- 5. Mission Bell/Tradewinds hosts Advent Food Drive
- (In The Parks)
- ... article that DaLeen Markel saw and shared with fellow resorter Rick Anderson. Last year was a success, and this year was just as successful, or even more so, with over 1,200 pounds of food collected ...
- Created on 18 December 2024
- 6. Quinta Mazatlan hosts documentary screening
- (Around Town)
- ... of college students banding together to create The Farmlink Project and deliver 100 million pounds of food during the largest food crisis in a century. The goal of the film is to share the power of youth-driven ...
- Created on 28 February 2024
- 7. Harvesting Texas traditions
- (Around Town)
- ... output, producing more than 100 million pounds of pumpkins each year. This isn't just a testament to the state's fertile soil but also to its dedicated farmers and ranchers, who play a key role in Texas’ ...
- Created on 25 October 2023
- 8. February 8, 2023 - On the Road with Jo
- (Column: On The Road)
- ... how many days? Texas is also known for their chili - they say true Texas chili will not contain any beans. Leave it to the Texas Aggies to serve up a dish of chili that weighed 4,800 pounds. This dish ...
- Created on 07 February 2023
- 9. Food Bank RGV In Need of Donations
- (Around Town)
- ... pounds of fresh produce and food to Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy counties. Currently, the Food Bank RGV serves up to 76,079 people weekly through its network of 275 partner agencies. Learn more about ...
- Created on 15 November 2022
- 10. Ancient landscapes in the RGV
- (Around Town)
- ... old objects mentioned were the estimated 4.5-billion-year-old La Villa meteorite of nearly 44 pounds found by a farmer plowing his field, which now resides at the UTRGV planetarium in Edinburg, where it ...
- Created on 15 November 2022
- 11. Winter Texan Times: Looking back 35 years
- (Around Town)
- ... This is where $25 bought a 100-pound bag of beans to provide 20 families with five pounds of beans. This equaled to 50 servings for a family of five for 10 days. “Beans is the most basic food product ...
- Created on 18 October 2022
- 12. Taking the Tabs to Texas
- (In The Parks)
- ... Park with over 50 pounds of tabs collected from family and friends in their hometown. These were combined with some collected at La Floresta Park, and a total of about 68,740 individual tabs were taken ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 13. Time to Care and Share
- (Column: On The Road)
- ... has been a 7% annual increase in need. In 2019, a total of 40 million pounds of food and fresh produce was distributed to food insecure families in our three-county area. In 2020, over 60 million families ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 14. RGV Food Bank seeking holiday food donations
- (Around Town)
- ... Food Bank RGV: The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley, Inc. was incorporated in 1986 and has grown to be the largest charity in south Texas based on clients served. In 2020, over 58 million pounds of ...
- Created on 16 November 2021
- 15. Success at Winter Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup event
- (Around Town)
- ... of beach and bay area. The two-day trash cleanup event resulted in over 8,900 pounds of trash being removed, leaving our Texas beaches clean and beautiful for wildlife and the community alike to enjoy. ...
- Created on 16 February 2021
- 16. Adopt a Family with the Food Bank
- (Around Town)
- ... was incorporated in 1986 and has grown to be the largest charity in south Texas based on clients served. In fiscal year 2019, over 40 million pounds of food and fresh produce were distributed to Cameron, ...
- Created on 29 December 2020
- 17. McAllen opens recycling drop-off facility
- (Around Town)
- ... and an ID. Recycling and Citizen Drop-Off fun facts: • Over 3.6 million pounds of debris collected last fiscal year • Over 1.5 million pounds of recyclables collected last fiscal year • 67,000 bags ...
- Created on 29 December 2020
- 18. How to plant shade trees in Texas
- (Around Town)
- ... don’t want the tree to use carbohydrate reserves to grow. Instead, the tree needs those reserves to produce defensive compounds and respond to stress.” Staking a tree for support Most smaller transplants ...
- Created on 29 December 2020
- 19. One Special Evening a Cactus May Surprise You
- (Around Town)
- ... The cactus is also popular in rock gardens and can be grown from stem cuttings. The Night Blooming Cereus has a tuberous, turnip-like root weighing 15 pounds but in some specimens, they weigh over 100 ...
- Created on 18 May 2020
- 20. A three hour tour, history and dolphins
- (Around Town)
- ... for about 13 million pounds and an estimated value of $72 million. Some of those wild-caught shrimp were the basis for the buffet lunch cooked up by Ricky Martinez Jr. on the way out, plus cobs of corn, ...
- Created on 27 February 2020
