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Published: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 13:51
Children in need are being blessed this Christmas season through the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child. Individuals, families and groups have the opportunity to pack a shoebox gift filled with fun toys, school supplies, and personal care items and drop them off now during National Collection Week, which runs through November 25. There are more than 4,700 drop-off locations open around the country.
Operation Christmas Child has been collecting and delivering shoebox gifts to children worldwide for more than three decades. In 2024, Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect enough shoeboxes to reach another 12 million children. The project of Samaritan’s Purse partners with local churches across the globe to deliver these tangible expressions of God’s love to children in need. Find a step-by-step guide on the How to Pack a Shoebox webpage.
Read more: Operation Christmas Child drop-off locations are open
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Published: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 13:48
Last month, Encore Fun N Sun was all abuzz as they hosted the 41st World Shuffleboard Championship. There were participants from the United States, Canada, Germany, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The park was thrilled to welcome participants and spectators to the resort for the exciting week of shuffleboard, as well as to host so many international guests from around the world.
Daily games were held all week long the last week of October with an awards banquet at the end to celebrate the winners and participants.
Top three in Singles Men were Mark Malatt, USA; Evan Engell, Canada; and Marco Auchtung, Brazil. Top three in Singles Women was Deb Baal, Megan Grabski, and Sarah Horan, all USA.
If you’re interested in joining the Rio Grande Valley shuffleboard teams, visit rgvsa.weebly.com for their schedule of events and information.
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Published: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 13:34
Native Plant Project's guest speaker for the November 26 meeting in Weslaco will be Matt Kauffman who is a lifelong lover of nature and a native plant enthusiast. For the past few years, Kauffman has been specializing in the propagation of some of the less common and lesser available native plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
His presentation will be on native plant container gardening for smaller spaces and/or budgets. Topics covered will be select species that are suitable for containers, soil recommendations, container choices, container arrangement, and some other general maintenance guidelines.
The program will be Tuesday November 26 at 7 p.m., at the Valley Nature Center, 301 S. Border St. in Weslaco, behind Gibson Park. The public is invited. There is no charge to attend.
For more info about the Native Plant Project, visit http://www.nativeplantproject.org or visit on Facebook.
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Published: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 13:33
The 33rd Annual Ranch Hand Breakfast will be held on November 23. The event features an authentic, hearty cowboy breakfast cooked and served outdoors on the historic King Ranch. Team roping and old-time cow camp cooking demonstrations are a part of the activities, along with live music and storytelling.
Tickets are available online at King-Ranch.com, at the King Ranch Saddle Shop, the King Ranch Museum, the King Ranch Visitor Center, the Kingsville Visitors Center and at the door. Tickets are $10 each.
Ranch Hand Breakfast is always held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Read more: Kick-Off to the holiday season in Kingsville
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Published: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 13:28
Texas Master Naturalist program training registration for the 2025 new class session is open through January 3, 2025. Weekly classes are scheduled January 15 through mid-April 2025. Registration is open to Winter Texans and residents of Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties over the age of 18 to become a member of the Rio Grande Valley Chapter that meets in Laguna Vista.
Texas Master Naturalist is a unique educational volunteer program sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Sea Grant Program.
Read more: Annual Texas Master Naturalist training opens registration
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Published: Wednesday, 13 November 2024 16:31
The Senior Ambassadors are looking for singers this season. An open invitation is being issued for local and Winter Texan male singers to come and sing with the Senior Ambassadors. Don’t be shy. All skill levels are welcome. If you enjoy singing, you are welcome to attend any of the practice sessions to find out how you can join.
For over 35 years, Winter Texans and Valley men have joined voices – tenors, baritones and basses – ‘to create melodious, rich sounds, taking their audience on a trip through time,’ wrote Roda Grubb in a Winter Texan Times story published in 2013. ‘Singing show tunes and barbershop, patriotic and sacred tunes, their concerts have quite a variety of styles of music,’ she continued.
Read more: Senior Ambassadors: Voices needed, rehearsals underway
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Published: Wednesday, 13 November 2024 16:29
Enchanted Valley Ranch will be hosting a daylong music event on Tuesday, November 19, from Noon until 10 p.m. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Penitas Food Pantry.
Penitas Food Pantry is a local food pantry which currently serves over 400 families per month. The food pantry is a church operated, not-for-profit food pantry which depends 100 percent on your generous donations and volunteers to provide nutrition to people in need. Monies will be used to stock up the pantry to meet the growing needs of the community’s use of the pantry.
Read more: EVR hosts benefit for Penitas Pantry
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Published: Wednesday, 13 November 2024 16:26
The Museum of South Texas History will host the Sunday Speaker Series presentation “The Alamo Train Crash of 1940: From class podcast project to book” with Juan P. Carmona and Taylor Seaver De La Fuente at 2 p.m. November 17.
What began as a podcast project with Donna High School’s Mexican American Studies class, has now blossomed into a book project. The deadly Alamo train crash of 1940 occurred when a train collided with a truckload of farmworkers on their way to work in the fields. The crash resulted in the deaths of 29 people and the emotional scarring of all those involved. It would also result in transportation safety changes in Texas. The families affected by the crash were confronted with struggles and accomplishments as they dealt with the loss of family members and their breadwinners. Carmona—author of the “Alton Bus Crash”—and co-author Seaver De La Fuente, who narrated the podcast, will share their research and share the history of this seminal event.
Read more: Sunday Speakers Series highlights Alamo Train Crash of 1940
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Published: Wednesday, 13 November 2024 16:16
The next time you dodge a pigeon on the sidewalk, watch a sparrow eat from a feeder in a backyard, or order chicken for dinner, know that you just had an encounter with a modern dinosaur. Dinosaurs never really vanished from Earth.
Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives on all around us, in birds. The exhibition Dinosaurs Among Us will highlight the unbroken line between the charismatic dinosaurs that dominated the planet for about 170 million years and modern birds. The panels feature large-scale color illustrations of familiar and newly discovered extinct dinosaur species as they would have looked in life.
Read more: IMAS Announces Dinosaurs Among Us
