By Kathy Olivarez

Last week was Mission Service Project week in Hidalgo County and

a total of 192 people compos-ing 11 different teams came from Methodist Churches across the state, joined by one team from Oklahoma City, to spend the week re-pairing the homes of needy families in the area.

“I am proud to be serving at the church that founded this great service project 35 years ago,” stated Pas-tor Bill Duke of the First United Methodist Church in Mission. “It has made a dif-ference in the lives of many Valley families during that time.”

Mission Service Project had its beginnings so many years ago when Ardie Vance, who was youth director of the church, took a group of her students to Kentucky to work on the Appalachian Project. The group enjoyed the adventure but at the same time, they realized they lived an area with many of the same problems the people there had. Why not do some-thing at home instead of trav-eling to Kentucky?

Vance spent the next year planning a Mission Service Project with the help of her friends Betty Bundy and Sharon Gray. The ladies held interviews for needy families to determine which families would receive the help. It was a difficult procedure because there were so many

families who needed help.The project started small

with just a few local teams participating. All events took place at the FUMC in Mission. Out of town teams were sheltered at the church and the ladies of the church planned meals for each day. It began to expand with teams from the Presbyteri-an and Catholic churches joining in. The local Cath-olic Church was inspired to start a similar program of their own after a couple of years. Churches from cities further away came and took their place. The project out-

grew the church space and eventually outgrew the abil-ity of the Mission FUMC to handle. Although the name Mission Service Project was kept in honor of the church that started it, the project was taken over by the FUMC of McAllen, with larger facil-ities. Today it is a project of El Valle United Method-ist Church District, which is part of the Rio Texas Project. For the past 11 years, Susan Hellums has been project di-rector.

According to Hellums,

By Jim Brunson

Sharyland ISD trustees voted Tuesday to ap-prove teacher pay raises

of $1,000 plus an “equity” adjustment for many teach-ers. The equity adjustments, ranging from $100 to $1,185, are intended to align Shary-land ISD teacher pay with the market median when comparing pay rates with other local school districts.

The board also approved a two percent general pay increase for non-teacher employees, including ad-ministration, instructional support, clerical/technical support and auxiliary staff. The SISD pay increase pack-age includes an increase in the minimum hourly wage for auxiliary employees from the current $9.10 per hour to $10 per hour.

The new compensation plan nearly mirrors pay in-creases and adjustments recommended by a TASB (Texas Association of School Boards) study comparing teacher salaries at Sharyland with 12 other school districts in Region I. These included Mission CISD, McAllen, La Joya, Donna, Edinburg, Har-lingen, Los Fresnos, Mer-cedes, Pharr-San Juan-Ala-mo, Rio Grande City, Valley View and Weslaco.

Sharyland Superintendent Robert O’Connor told the board at a budget workshop Monday, “The TASB study is based on comparable dis-tricts and their pay rates. Our target is to be in the middle.”

Executive Director for Human Resources Rosa O’Donnell said the teach-er pay increase, combined with the additional equity

adjustments included in the proposed 2016-2017 budget bring Sharyland teacher pay roughly equal to the median pay when compared to the other local market districts. This does not take into con-sideration the possibility that other districts may give pay raises this year, which would nudge the median pay higher.

Sharyland ISD’s 2015-16 starting teacher salary is at 98 percent of market – slightly lower than the peer group. For teachers with five years experience, SISD is right at 100 percent of mar-ket, so no equity adjustment is planned for teachers with two through nine years of experience. Ten-year teach-ers will receive a small $100 equity adjustment. But as the pay gap widens, teachers

Marlins draft Eric Gutierrez

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FEMA opens disaster recovery

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The most discussed item at the La Joya ISD budget workshop held June 7 was a proposal to convert sever-al school campuses to LED lighting. However, a man-date to convert to LED light-ing cannot be verified.

Tomorrow’s Rio Grande Valley 7-on-7 football tour-nament, hosted by Mission, Sharyland, Veterans Memori-al and Pioneer High Schools, will determine which two teams will represent South Texas in the state tournament July 8 and 9 in College Sta-tion.

FEMA opened a disaster recovery center in Mission this week to help local resi-dents impacted by the May 31 storm. Residents could be eligible for FEMA grants or SBA loans.

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After 35 years, Mission Service Project is still going strong By Lea Victoria Juarez

Students from the Mis-sion area school dis-tricts recently partici-

pated in a technology camp where they learned the his-tory and function of a drone, which is an unmanned, re-mote-controlled aircraft with a camera.

The camp was co-spon-sored by Nerdvana and Border Kids Code, two Rio Grande Valley-based companies that seek to in-tegrate technology into ed-ucation. Nerdvana supplied

Students learn to pilot drones

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Students from Mission CISD and La Joya ISD play a simulated version of Battleship with the drone technology.

Photo by Lea Victoria Juarez

Sharyland approves teacher pay raises

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Mission native Eric Gutierrez, the Big 12 Player of the Year and major league baseball draft pick, hit a two-run home run for Texas Tech Tuesday as the Red Raiders defeated No. 1 seed Florida

3-2 in the College World Series. He is pictured at bat in last Sunday’s game against TCU. Photo by Michael Strong / Texas Tech Athletics.

By Bryan Ramos

Leadership is crucial to the success of every sports team. Former

Sharyland High baseball standout and current Tex-as Tech Red Raider first baseman, Eric Gutierrez, has displayed that on and off the field at both levels. Gutierrez’ hard work paid off on June 11 when he was selected by the Miami Mar-lins in the 20th round of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft.

Gutierrez credits his base-ball beginning to his family as the game of baseball sur-rounded him growing up, he followed the lead.

“My dad used to play baseball, my uncle played baseball, and my grandpa is an umpire. I just grew up around it and from there I’ve liked it since. You grow up as a little kid, you want to play major league baseball all your life,” Gutierrez ex-plained in a video interview with the Big 12 Champions for Life campaign.

After graduating in May

from Texas Tech, Gutierrez and the Red Raiders season has continued on as they ad-vanced to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska where they won their first CWS game in program his-tory. It was the Mission na-tive’s two run home run, his 13th of the season, which propelled his team to victo-ry in an elimination game against the top seeded Flori-da Gators by the score of 3-2. He has helped put the team in position to become nation-al champions as they are one of only five teams remaining in the College World Series, the biggest stage in college baseball.His four years of play while

in Lubbock have been noth-ing short of outstanding. The 5’10, 205-pound Mission native was named the Big 12 Player of the Year for his play as a senior over the past season, becoming the first Texas Tech player to win the award since 1997. Gutierrez holds the school record for games played at 244, which is the longest active streak currently in the country. The

first baseman is also a three-time All Big 12 First Team honoree in his last three years and earned Freshman All-American honors in his first year with the program.

At Sharyland High, Guti-errez played varsity ball for four years under head coach Barton Bickerton where he earned first team all-state, first team all-district, and Valley’s Most Valuable Player honors as a senior. Gutierrez played first base and pitched for the Rattlers, where he was named 30-5A District MVP and ESPNU National Player of the Week as a senior.

Tres Barrera, a former Sharyland teammate of Guti-errez who played college baseball for the Texas Long-horns, described what he saw in his former teammate back in their high school days.

“He’s one of the best players I’ve ever played with, one of the best hitters I’ve ever seen. It was an hon-or to play with him at Shary-

Former Sharyland standout enters MLB to play pro ball

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Members of the San Marcos team paint newly-installed siding of home

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La Joya ISD considers LED light

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Epifanio and Adriana Gar-cia honored their daughter, Jazmin, in celebration of her 15th birthday. A mass was held on Saturday, June 18, at San Martin de Porres Catho-lic Church in Alton followed by a reception at Diana’s Ballroom in Mission. She was escorted by her father. The honoree is a 10th grade stu-dent at Juarez-Lincoln High School in La Joya. (Austin Studio)

McALLEN – It’s time for kids, ages 8 to 18, across the

Valley to pull out their cam-era equipment to partici-pate in the Eighth Annual Southern Exposures Youth Nature Photo Contest host-ed by theValley Land Fund and Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center.

The contest is free and every entrant receives a free T-shirt, a winning image to be shown in the multi-me-dia show and free admission for family and friends to the awards ceremony. The awards evening will be held on Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. at Quin-ta Mazatlan with a show on the LED outdoor screen featuring nature through the eyes of children. There will be cash prizes for the seven different contest categories in both age divisions, ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 18.

The contest offers sev-en categories of photos that must be taken in the Rio

Grande Valley: Birds & Mammals, All Other Wild-life, Landscape & Water-scape, Plant Life, Ranches & Farms, Dusk to Dawn, Patterns in Nature.

Images should be hand delivered on a flash drive (USB thumb drive or DVD) to Quinta Mazatlan at 600 Sunset Drive in McAllen; or send via mail to the Valley Land Fund at 2400 N. 10th Street, Ste. A, McAllen, Texas 78501.

Visit either quintamazat-lan.com or valleylandfund.com to download the Rules & Guidelines and Registra-tion Form.

For students wanting tips from photography experts, participate in the Photo Fri-days at Quinta Mazatlan from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon as part of your general admis-sion. For photo workshops, check on the Quinta Mazat-lan website for Saturday classes, pre-registration is required.

Eighth Southern Exposures photo contest begins

The Valley Land Fund and Quinta Mazatlan have kicked off the 2016 Southern Exposures Youth Nature Photo Contest. Children 8 to 18 are encouraged to take nature photographs in the RGV and enter the free event by July 30. Planners, shown left to right, are DebraLee Rodriguez, Valley Land Fund director; Colleen Hook, Quinta Mazatlan manager; Kathy Detweiler, Quinta Mazatlan instructor; and the Barocio Family – Ciara Lee, Rafael and Audree Danielle.

EDINBURG –The Edinburg Scenic Wetlands and World

Birding Center invites edu-cators is hosting two WILD workshops for teachers this summer.

The first is a half-day Growing Up WILD work-shop to learn how to connect young learners with the out-doors. It is scheduled for Thursday, July 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The fee is $28 per participant – snacks included. Space is limited; registration deadline is June 30.

The workshop is de-signed to show educators how to build on a child’s sense of wonder through a wide range of activities that encourages them to ex-plore wildlife and the world around them. During the four-hour workshop educa-tors will sample activities and receive a curriculum and activity guide. The cur-riculum is designed for ages 3 to 7 and is in line with the National Association for the Education of Young Chil-dren Standards and the Head Start Domains.

The EWBC will also host a Project WILD and Aquatic WILD combination work-shop that will provide edu-cators with ideas, tools, and resources for grades Kinder through 12th.

The combination work-shop is scheduled for Thurs-day, Aug. 11, from 8:30

a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday, Aug. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The fee is $50 per participant, which in-cludes lunch on Thursday and snacks on Friday. Space is limited; registration dead-line is Aug. 4.

This workshop will fo-cus on how to teach young people about terrestrial and aquatic wildlife and eco-systems using entertaining, hands-on, educational ac-tivities. During the 10-hour training, participants will sample activities and receive both curriculum guides.

Activities are adaptable for all grade levels, integrat-ed with core subject curricu-la and aligned to the TEKS. Participating teachers will receive SBEC and TEEAC continuing education credit. Informal educators, teach-ers, youth group leaders and any other enthusiastic educators are encouraged to register.

Anyone who works with children, including teachers, day care educators, home-school teachers, informal educators, scout leaders and other educators are invited to participate. All participants must complete the length of the respective workshop to receive the WILD materials.

The EWBC is located at 714 S. Raul Longoria Road. For more information, call 956-381-9922 or visit web at www.edinburgwbc.org.

EWBC hosting WILD workshops for educators

Jazmin Garcia

June 22 – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Police Department (UTRGV PD) will offer “Below 100” training to active law enforcement and their spouses from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University Ballroom in Edinburg. It is free and open to all active law enforcement officers at local, state and federal agencies. To register, contact Of-ficer Antonio Zarzoza at 956-665-2988, or email him at antonio.zarzoza@utrgv.edu.

June 24-25 –The Mission High School Class of 1971 celebrates their 45th reunion with a mingler on Friday at Los Asados, 620 S. Ware Rd. in McAllen at 7:30 p.m. and a reunion dinner at Balli’s Event Center in Mission from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. Cost is $30 per person for the dinner on Saturday. For information, to RSVP or to help locate class members, contact Lucy Gonzalez at 240-5494.

June 28--July 1 – The Edinburg World Birding Center Aquanauts Nature Camp, for children ages 9 to 12, is the place to go for kids who love water and all things aquatic. Campers will participate in water games, walks, wetland explorations and a trip to South Padre Island. The camp runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day. Camp fee is $70 for EWBC members and $78 for non-members. The registration deadline is one week prior to the camp. Regis-tration is required as space is limited. Full payment is due two days prior to the camp. For more information or to register, call 956-381-9922. The EWBC is located at 714 Raul Longoria Rd.

June 30 – The Museum of South Texas History begins its Summer Nights at the Museum with the first installment of the three-night series at 7 p.m. The museum will come to life with costumed interpreters, hands-on activities and outdoor fun. Each night will provide a new adventure each evening. Guests who attend and play the “Find Me if You Can” game at all three Summer Nights at the Museum will have a chance to win a grand prize. The event is included in the regular admission price (passes and coupons exclud-ed). The museum participates in the Blue Star Museum for active duty military personnel and family members to receive free admission. The museum is located on the courthouse square in downtown Edinburg. Call 383-6911 for information.

JulyJuly 2 – Resaca de la Palma World Birding Center

will host “Bark in the Park” from 9 to 11 a.m. There will be contests for dog and owner look-a-like, best costume, most patriotic and best trick. A pet adoption station will be set up. Admission is $4 for adults and children 12 and under, $1. All dogs must be on a leash. The birding center is located at 1000 New Carmen Ave. in Brownsville. Call 956-350-2920 for more information.

July 2 – Learn what reptiles and amphibians have to do with crime scene investigation from 1 to 3 p.m. at Resa-ca de la Palma World Birding Center, 1000 New Carmen Ave. in Brownsville. Stan O. Sterba, retired crime scene investigator with the Portland, Ore. Police Department is the presenter. Call 956-350-2920 for more information.

(For daily events and upcoming weeks, see the full calendar at ptrgv.com.)

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Seeking competitors for

Chef’s BBQ Throwdown &

Car Show

The Greater Mission Chamber of Com-merce will again part-

ner with the Mission C.I.S.D. for the Annual Chef’s BBQ Throwdown & Car Show on Saturday, July 30, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Mission Market Square, 202 W. Tam Landry. The fundraiser sup-ports the MCISD E-STEAM programs (Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engi-neering, Arts, and Mathemat-ics) with scholarships.

The chef’s throw down will cover four categories – beef brisket, pork ribs, chick-en and chef’s specialty – with chefs from area restaurants competing. There is no en-try fee for chefs, and only 10 spots remain open for the throw down. Area chefs may sign up by calling the Cham-ber.

The overall event is free and open to the public. For $10, food connoisseurs can purchase a wristband to sam-ple the featured cuisines that day.

The car show is on a first come, first serve basis for car buffs who want to show their favorite ride, but participants may call the Chamber in ad-vance to register in advance and reserve a spot. All cars should be in place by the 3 p.m. start time on the day of the event.

The event will be round-ed out with live music, an artisan market and food ven-dors. There is a booth fee to set up to sell as an artisan or food vendor.

For more information, to sign up as a chef, to reserve a spot for the car show, or to become a vendor, call the Chamber at 956-585-2727.

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ComingAttractionsComingAttractions

June 24• The Fourth Annual McAllen Blues Night will be

held at the McAllen Creative Incubator featuring live blues artists, fine arts exhibit, food, adult beverages and a silent auction. Individual tickets are $25; tables are $400. For tickets, time and more information, contact the McAllen Chamber at 682-2871.

June 24-26• South Texas College Theatre presents “A Night with

Edgar Allan Poe” at STC’s Cooper Center Main Stage lo-cated at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. Performances start at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

General admission tickets are $5. The Sunday, June 26, matinee production will be interpreted in American Sign Language. Ticket cash purchases can be made one hour be-fore the performance at the box office or in advance online at secure.touchnet.com. For additional information or for group rates, call 956-872-2301 or email namaro1@south-texascollege.edu or jrodriguez@southtexascollege.edu.

June 24-July 2• The Pharr Community Theater presents “The Com-

plete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” with three actors, under the direction of Isidro Lerma with Rise Morris assisting. The three actors perform all of William Shakespeare’s plays in under two hours while playing all the parts. PCT is located at 213 W. Newcombe Ave. in Pharr. For more information, call 361-461-2874.

June 25• Attend the “Here Be Dragons” exhibit at the Interna-

tional Museum of Art & Science, 1900 Nolana in McAl-len, from 8 to 10 a.m. Activities include a story time, ani-mal talk and photo opportunities with the dragons. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children ages 4 to 12 who are IMAS members. Nonmember tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for children. Call 956-682-0123 for information.

June 27• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley presents

“Saxophones in Concert” at 7 p.m. at the TSC Performing Arts Center in Brownsville. The concert is a culmination of a two-week saxophone workshop. The ensemble will present a variety of music from classical to pop and fea-ture a variety of saxophones. The ensemble is composed of public school band students, college students, band direc-tors and community members. Admission is free. For more info, call Dr. Cynthia Cripps at 956-223-6370. (To see the complete Coming Attractions calendar, go to ptrgv.com)

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Some say Shakespeare, the world’s most re-nowned English play-

wright, wrote 37 plays while others say it was 38. Imagine seeing all of his plays in the same show, all in just two hours, including Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear & The Tempest, to name a few.

That’s exactly what hap-pens in the Pharr Commu-nity Theater’s latest staging of the bard, “The Complete Works of William Shake-speare Abridged.” The plays will be acted out by only three actors, playing all the parts, and presented through a series of short vignettes of each and every single play that Shakespeare wrote.

Isidro Lerma, a theatre teacher for McAllen High School and PCT artistic di-rector directs the play with, Rise D. Morris, a theatre teacher at Nikki Rowe High School in McAllen. Morris is a long-time director for Weslaco’s historic Tower Theater. The two directors wanted to stage this play individually and decided to collaborate. The play’s au-thors are Adam Long, Jess

Borgeson and Daniel Singer. “I like to make sure every

word is correct in Shake-speare and that the deeper subtext is there,” said Mor-ris. “You find Shakespeare funny and interesting in this play and you get that pointed out to you; you don’t have to be a scholar.”

“The stories to be told play homage to the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death on May 3, 1616,” said Lerma. “Known the world over and translated into nearly every language spoken, his plays have been performed, prac-tically, more than any other playwright in the world.”

Ricardo Godinez, an 18-year-old from McAllen, is one of the three actors. He has performed theater in high school, mostly in UIL one-act competition and was recently seen in the 13 0’Clock theater company’s play, “Pablo and Pedro.”

“I carefully study body and vocal interpretation and it’s helped me in this play. I’m playing a lot of the fun parts and most of the wom-en,” he laughs. “I’m the butt of most of the jokes.”

The other two actors in the play are 17-year-old Mi-

chael Morris, Rise’s son, and 20-year-old Juan Cantu.

The younger Morris start-ed doing theater when he was four months old as baby Jesus for the Tower Theater. He hasn’t stopped since.

“This play is not the usual theatrical experience for the audience, our interaction is constant and it’s funny, ex-citing and non-stop action,” he said.

Cantu added, “I love telling all of Shakespeare’s stories in one night. It’s ex-tremely fun!”

The play will be present-ed at the newly-remodeled theater in Pharr which has been renamed in honor of the theater founders, Drs. Elva and Keith Michal, as “The Elva and Keith Michal Performing Arts Center.”

The theater is located at 213 W. Newcombe Ave.

Performances are sched-uled for June 24 and 25 and June 30 to July 2 at 7 p.m. Tickets priced at $6 and $7 will be sold at the box office one hour before the curtain time; or, they may be pur-chased online W.Shake-speare.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, call 956-600-9463.

Shakespeare works condensed to two hours

Actors Ricardo Godinez, Michael Morris and Juan Cantu pose during a recent rehearsal from “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” to be presented June 23 through July 2 at the Pharr Community Theater.

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By Ed SterlingTexas Press Association

DPS asks citizens to report suspicious behavior

AUSTIN — In the wake of the widely reported June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, the Texas Depart-ment of Public Safety called on Texans to pay close atten-tion to what’s happening in their own communities.

DPS Director Steven Mc-Craw on June 17 said, “Amid today’s ever-present threat of terrorism and crime, we are reminded that members of the public can be law enforce-ment’s greatest resource.”

And, he said, “When law enforcement and communi-ties work together to com-bat crime, we are inherently more successful.” He urged individuals to report illegal or suspicious behavior they see to iWATCH or to their local authorities. “By speaking up, you could save a life,” Mc-Craw added.

The DPS-maintained iWATCH website, www.iwatchtx.org, provides citi-zens with a place to report tips related to criminal activity.

Examples of information the DPS considers reportable include: - Strangers asking questions about building security fea-tures and procedures.- Briefcase, suitcase, back-pack or package is left be-hind.- Cars or trucks are left in no-parking zones at import-ant buildings.- Chemical smells or fumes that are unusual for the loca-tion.- People requesting sensitive information, such as blue-prints, security plans or VIP travel schedules, without a need to know.- Purchasing supplies that could be used to make bombs or weapons or purchasing uniforms without having the proper credentials; and- Taking photographs or vid-eos of security features, such as cameras or checkpoints.

Aid request is grantedPresident Obama on June

11 granted the request Gov. Greg Abbott made on June 9

for individual assistance for the flood-affected counties of Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hidal-go, Hood, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Travis, Waller and Washington.

Also granted was Public Assistance Category B — emergency protective mea-sures — for local and state response costs and shelter-ing, Abbott said. “Texans can now begin the process of rebuilding their lives after ex-periencing some of the worst flooding in recent history,” he added.

Governor invites CDCGov. Abbott on June 15 in-

vited the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send per-sonnel to Texas to review the Lone Star State’s Zika Virus Preparedness and Response Plan.

Abbott urged the CDC to approve requests for three important projects to assist in funding Texas’ Zika response plan:

- $1.5 million to support Zika preparedness and re-sponse efforts;

- $360,000 to support Zi-ka-related birth outcomes sur-veillance; and

- $9.2 million to strength-en epidemiology and labo-ratory capacity and improve health information systems.

“With the benefit of the CDC assets on the ground in Texas working with the Texas Department of State Health Services and our Task Force on Infectious Disease Pre-paredness and Response, we can ensure that we are devel-oping and implementing the strongest possible Zika virus response,” Abbott said.

No borrowing necessaryTexas Comptroller Glenn

Hegar on June 14 announced that Texas, for the second consecutive year, would not have to borrow money to meet its cash flow needs.

Sound fiscal management, conservative budgeting and responsible stewardship of the state’s $9.66 billion Eco-nomic Stabilization (“rainy

day”) Fund will allow the state to manage cash-flow challenges without issuing Texas Tax and Revenue An-ticipation Notes for fiscal 2017, Hegar said.

Such notes had been used to deal with “anticipated mis-matches” in funding that came primarily from the state’s pro-viding nearly 50 percent of its payments to local school dis-tricts in the first three months of the fiscal year.

“Texas’ diverse and dy-namic economy has weath-ered this downturn in energy prices significantly better than other energy-producing states, meaning we still have the ability to do the fiscally responsible thing and avoid unnecessary borrowing,” He-gar added.

Jobless rate stays sameThe Texas Workforce

Commission on June 17 re-ported that the state’s season-ally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.4 percent in May.

While Texas has added an estimated 171,800 seasonally adjusted jobs over the past year with the addition of 200 non-farm jobs in May, the state has added jobs in 13 of the last 14 months.

According to the U.S. De-partment of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate average currently stands at 4.7 percent.

AG division leads nationTexas Attorney General

Ken Paxton on June 13 said his office’s Child Support Di-vision ranks first in the nation in child support collections.

The division collected some $3.87 billion in child support for the federal fis-cal year that ended Sept. 30, 2015.

Paxton cited the federal Office of Child Support En-forcement Fiscal Year 2015 Preliminary Data Report re-leased in April, which lists Texas first among 54 states, territories and districts for: amount of child support col-lected; amount of child sup-port collected per employee; and cost effectiveness.

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Mission HEROES, Inc. Awards ScholarshipsMission HEROES, Inc. recently presented six scholarships to family members of the Mission

Fire Department and Mission Police Department personnel. At TOP: Megan Bledsoe, daugh-ter of Deputy Chief Douglas Williams; Robert Isaac Alvarez, son of Rene Alvarez; Anthony

Garza, son of Capt. Rudy Oliva; and Francisco Chaires Jr., son of Lt. Francisco Chaires Sr. receive the Fire Department scholarships. At BOTTOM: Ramona Liza Garza and Isaac Mat-

thew Rodriguez receive the Police Department scholarships.

I know what it‛s like to be poor. I once had

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Trump thinks he knows the strugglePastel Comics by, Francisco Rodriguez

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there are 11 churches repre-sented working on 15 sites in the Pharr/San Juan/Alamo area this year. One group is from FUMC of Mission. There are 12 adults and team members who have been joined by two youth and sponsors from FUMC of Donna.

There are three teams from the Dallas Ridgewood UMC, and from Prosper, north of Dallas. Tarrytown UMC in Austin has three teams and McAllen UMC has one team. Two teams are from Colonial UMC in San Antonio. Another two teams are from San Marcos UMC. There is also a team from Quail Springs UMC in Okla-homa City.

There have been many changes along the way. In-stead of seeking applications and conducting long inter-views to see which families qualify, Hellums and the board of directors work with local community directors in organizations such as ARISE (A Resource Serving Equali-ty) in the Rio Grande Valley and Proyecto Azteca, that al-ready know the needs within their communities.

According to Ramona Ca-sas, a director with ARISE, families must be stable, long-term residents of the area. They must own their home, and they may not owe any back taxes on the property.

Another way the MSP has changed is that youth under 18 are not allowed to work on roofs due to OSHA

regulations. They may not do electrical work or plumbing. If there is a need, MSP will hire a professional, but it is very costly. Consequently, MSP tries to select projects that do not need these types of repairs.

On June 14, the two San Marcos teams were work-ing side-by-side on two dif-ferent homes in Las Milpas. The team from Mission was working on a home nearby.

Several young girls were painting the side of a home where several damaged boards had been replaced. They had already installed new windows in the wall they where they were work-ing. Emma Laffere, group sponsor has been bringing teams to Mission Service Project for 17 years.

Laffere introduced her oldest crewmember, 80-year-old “Mr. Bill” Nicholas who has been to 15 of the 17 ser-vice projects the youth of his church have attended. A for-mer teacher of 33 years ex-perience, he is also skilled in construction and has taught the youth from San Marcos many of the skills they need.

When asked why he kept coming to Mission Service Project,” Mr. Bill stopped and said, ”It is absolutely the most rewarding thing I have ever done.” He said he will continue to come as long as he can.

The group stopped and talked about what Mission Service Project meant to them.

“It is a chance to serve God and help a community

that needs help,” said Brian-na Pratt, a second year camp-er.

“It is very hard work, but it is also very rewarding,” said first time camper Mad-ison Gish. “If you want to know just how rewarding it is, come and take part your-self and you will find out.”

“It is really a lot of fun,” added Scott Allen, another first timer.

Since the teams were winding up the day to go to a community dinner provid-ed by ARISE, the Progress Times ventured over to see what was happening. Eva Soto, with ARISE, said there are other groups such as the UM Army, an offshoot of MSP, who now come into the area as well as other re-ligious denominations who

Mission First United Methodist Church team

MSP team from Quail Springs UMC in Oklahoma City traveled the farthest to participate.

Pastor Bill Duke of FUMC of Mission, where Mission Service Project started, and Susan Hellums, current director of MSP.

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with 15 years experience will receive a sizeable $1,185 eq-uity adjustment, the largest adjustment planned. Vary-ing adjustments are planned for teachers at the ten-year through 22-year mark.

Starting pay for teach-ers with no experience will increase from $44,300 to $45,750. Ten-year teachers will see their pay increase from $48,146 to $49,246, while 15-year teachers will be increased from $50,061 to $52,246

If the other districts do not increase teacher pay next year, Sharyland would move up in ranking when compared to the other 12 districts from ninth to fourth in starting teacher pay. However, the administrative staff said they could not predict what the other districts would do.

According to the study, for the 2015-16 school year La Joya had the second highest teacher pay rates in the 13-district comparison group ($46,150) and Mission was third highest ($46,000). Weslaco, starting at $46,900, offered the highest teach-er pay not only for first year teachers, but also for five- and ten-year teachers.

Stipends ChangingWhile secondary science

teachers will see an increase in their stipend from $1,000 to $2,000, new teachers with masters degrees will no lon-ger receive a $1,500 masters degree stipend if the masters is not in a field related to their subject area. Those currently receiving this stipend will be grandfathered. Still, Shary-land will continue to offer one of the area’s highest sti-pends for subject area masters degrees, pegged at $4,000 compared to $2,000 in five other districts and only a gen-eral “masters degree” stipend of $1,000 or less in most of the other local districts. The exceptions are Los Fresnos, which pays a $5,000 stipend

and Mission, which pays $3,000 for subject area mas-ters degrees.

The estimated cost of all proposed pay raises totals $1.46 million, with most of the increase ($790,464) going to teacher pay raises. Admin-istrative and professional staff pay increases total $254,704, instructional support staff raises come to $66,550, cler-ical/technical support raises will cost $86,450, and aux-iliary staff raises will total $260,797. While the raises represent a 2.7 percent in-crease, the net effect will be less, when compared to last year’s payroll costs because the district has eliminated 25 positions through attrition.

While the first draft 2016-17 budget presented to the SISD board at Monday’s budget workshop showed a possible $329,000 shortfall when comparing projected revenues versus expenditures, the administration used con-servative revenue estimates, according to Assistant Su-perintendent of Business-Fi-nance & Student Services Connie Lopez. As an exam-ple, although the projected enrollment shows a small increase in student popula-tion, the district is using last year’s ADA (Average Daily Attendance) numbers to es-timate state revenues, which are based on ADA. In addi-tion, some of the expense es-timates could come in lower than the first draft budget shows. The board will hold additional budget workshops before the final budget is ad-opted in August.

The first draft budget shows total 2016-17 revenues are estimated at $114,352,578, while total expenditures are currently estimated at $114,681,912. Revenues in-clude $51,944,932 coming from local funds (45.3%), $52,051,948 from the state (45.4%) and $10,355,698 in federal funds. The remainder would come from the fund balance.

Report The 2015 Drinking Water Quality report for City of Mission water supply customers is now available online. Starting July 1, 2016 you will be able to view the City of Mission annual water quality report on-line at http://goo.gl/RXz5Uk This report contains important information about the source and quality of your drinking water.

The web link will be available on your water bill and at City web site. http://missiontexas.us/

If you would like a paper report mailed to your home, please call (956) 580-8780.

El reporte anual de la calidad del agua del año 2015 de la ciudad de Mission estara disponible en linea a partir del primero de Julio del 2016. Enlace http://goo.gl/RXz5UkEste reporte contiene información importante sobre la calidad de agua potable para tomar. El enlace estara disponible en su recibo del agua de la CD. de Mission y en la pagina de internet. Si desea obtener por correo una copia de este reporte puede llamar al (956) 580-8780.

equipment; Border Kids Code created the curriculum.

Part of the curriculum was learning how drones came to be, what they are used for and how to operate them. The stu-dents built their own drones out of cardboard and had to come with a backstory — what the drone was needed for, the problem it solved and how they designed the drone to solve that need.

The districts – La Joya ISD, Mission CISD and Sharyland ISD – paid for the students to attend the camp from June 6 - June 17. At

the end of the weeks, each student, grades five through eight, took a drone home.

“This should be integrat-ed into the classroom so that the kids get constant, consis-tent exposure to technology,” Nerdvana CEO Hitan Patel said. “We should update the classroom to reflect the fact that kids have access to tech-nology already. Let’s bring the school districts up to par with that and figure out how to get that done.”

Drones were initially cre-ated to be used by the military when manned flight is con-sidered too risky or difficult. But the drones the students

were working with weighed less than a pound and could rest in the palm of a hand. The drones didn’t have to be registered to the Federal Avi-ation Administration and the students didn’t need a license because the equipment was too small.

Border Kids Code Co-founder Marcos Silva said when he created the cur-riculum, he drew on his own experiences from when he was a kid. Growing up a mi-grant student, Silva was able to see how students learned in northern school districts versus in the Valley. Some-times the tools he used in

the schools that he migrated to were not offered in Valley classrooms. With the drone camp, Silva said he hopes to close the technological gap.

“I got to maybe play with cool things when I was up north, but I never really had it at home and that learning stopped right there,” Sil-va said. “So at this camp, if we’re playing with a drone, you’re learning how it’s built, you’re learning all the parts, you’re going to take it home so that you can continue to do that at home and it doesn’t stop within the walls of the school.”

One of the activities during the camp was a life-size, sim-ulated version of the game Battleship. In the game, the two opponents can’t see each other’s board or where their battleships are located on the board. The players call out co-

ordinates to determine where their “missiles” are sent. They player whose missiles hit all the correct coordinates and sinks their opponent’s battle-ships, wins the game. For the camp, the students used class-room floors as their board and flew the drones to simulate missile attacks.

“These kids were pretty shy at the beginning. Now they’re completely embrac-ing the technology, to com-pete against each other and to build their own solutions to problems,” Patel said. “What I like is that the kids are get-ting the opportunity to be creative with new technology that they may have not been able to get access to through the normal school year.”

This is the first summer that Nerdvana and Border Kids Code partnered for the drone camp. Although there

aren’t more summer events scheduled, Patel said he plans to have more activities avail-able during the school year.

In 2014, Border Kids Code partnered with Sylvan Learning to bring coding to Mission CISD, La Joya ISD and Sharyland ISD with the Code the Town project, where students learn how to code.

“We hope to open the door for other districts to jump on board and just kind of see that these districts are spearhead-ing the way of technology ed-ucation,” Silva said. “We’re just super excited to get to know these districts and get to know these kids who are super pumped about learn-ing how to fly a drone, which might not have been a con-versation at the dinner table three weeks ago.”

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Mission Boys & Girls Club gets national affiliationBoys and Girls Club of Mission, Inc. received national

membership status from the Boys Club of America. Word of designation came from Alex Barrera, regional officer with the Boys Club of America, who made an on-site visit to the local center and met with the Youth Advocacy Board of Directors.

PAU cager drafted by SA SpursMichael (Bird) Anderson, a short man with a tiger’s heart,

worked his way onto an elite list at Pan American University when he was drafted by the National Basketball Association. The San Antonio Spurs picked Anderson in the seventh round of Tuesday’s NBA draft of collegiate and international stars.

Six Broncs have played in the NBA. The latest of them is Kenneth (Apple) Green, the 6-9 center who made it with the New York Knicks this year.

Other Broncs have been drafted, including big men like Pete Perry who was taken by the Los Angeles Lakers, who never made it to the NBA regular season.

Officials from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agen-

cy), together with Mission City Manager Martin Garza Jr. and Hidalgo County of-ficials, Tuesday announced a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center is now open in Mis-sion. The center has been set up in the community room located at 115 S. Mayberry, next to the Mission Food

Pantry to provide assistance to families affected by the May 31 storm that badly damaged homes and proper-ty in Madero, Granjeno and Chimney Park, as well as other areas in southern Hi-dalgo County.

FEMA and SBA represen-tatives will be available at the recovery center to assist indi-viduals and businesses who sustained damages apply for assistance – either FEMA grants or SBA low-interest loans.

President Obama declared Hidalgo County a disaster area on June 11, thereby qualifying the area for disas-ter assistance. FEMA pro-vides grants up to $33,000 for qualifying homeowners and renters. SBA (Small Business Administration) provides low-interest disas-ter loans to businesses and non-profits, as well as home-owners and renters who sus-tained damages or economic loss as a result of the storm.

Alberto Pillot, public af-fairs specialist for FEMA, said after the homeowner’s insurance coverage is con-sidered, FEMA may provide assistance with storm related home repairs and home re-placements. Personal prop-erty, such as furniture and essential needs may also be covered. Automobiles could be eligible, “but it has to be your primary vehicle,” he said. “If the insurance didn’t pick up anything, then

FEMA will look at that – as your only means of transpor-tation.”

Renters could be eligi-ble for rental assistance if they are displaced from their homes. They may also be el-igible for assistance for per-sonal property losses.

“FEMA grants are not designed to bring you back whole, but just to assist you temporarily,” Pillot said.

“So, whatever you get it might not be the same, but it will be a little bit to get you going.”

FEMA encourages those affected to contact them right away. Affected residents do not necessarily have to go in to the DRC to apply. Pillot listed three additional ways to contact FEMA to apply for assistance: Call 1-800-621-3362, submit an application online at www.DisasterAs-sistance.gov, or download the app to a mobile device.

The SBA requires appli-cants to register with FEMA first, then there are three ways to contact the SBA: 1) Apply online at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela; 2) Apply in person at any Di-saster Recovery Center and receive personal, one-on-one help from an SBA represen-tative; or 3) Apply by mail by submitting their paper application to SBA at 14925 Kingsport Rd., Ft. Worth, TX 76155-2243.

During the press confer-ence Tuesday Garza cited one of the reasons FEMA has set up the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC).

“We want to make sure the people affected by this disaster are getting the facts,” he said.

The DRC will be staffed by FEMA and SBA person-nel from 9 a.m.-6 pm., Mon-day-Friday and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays.

FEMA opens disaster recovery center

FEMA spokesperson Alberto Pillot addressed the media at a press conference held Tuesday at the Disaster Recovery

Center located at 115 S. Mayberry Rd., in Mission.

The most discussed item at the La Joya ISD budget workshop held June 7 was a proposal to convert sever-al school campuses to LED lighting. However, a man-date to convert to LED light-ing cannot be verified.

The $11.5 million conver-sion proposed at La Joya ISD would mean switching sev-en campuses to LED light-ing in the next fiscal year. Cost per campus was set at $1,346,264. The estimated payment would be $673,000 every six months.

John Phillips, president of Enviro-Lite Solutions, LLC and Jaime A. Rodriguez, vice-president Enviro-Li-te Solutions, LLC analyzed a seven-school project in another district for energy savings and sustainability. According to their report, the average LED bulb lasts 25,000 hours while the CFL bulbs (the curly bulbs) last only 8000 hours and in-candescent bulbs last 1200 hours.

Because of the longer lasting bulbs, there would be a reduction in man-hours needed to replace the lights. LED bulbs use only eight to 12 watts of power while CFL use 13 to 15 watts and incandescent bulbs use 60 watts. Energy savings would be up to 80 percent of current lighting energy savings. The presenters also said there would be a savings on HVAC equipment and energy costs.

The presenters claimed using the lights would reduce the carbon footprint, there would be no bio hazardous materials, and the improved lighting would mean security and safety for staff, students and visitors.

The board was told by staff, because of the 2020 mandate, the district needed to start considering making the change to LED lighting in the schools and also en-

LJISD considers LED light conversionsBy Kathy Olivarez joying the reduction of costs

related to the lighting.The board seemed to be

divided in the opinion of whether the district needed to rush into LED lighting by converting seven schools in 2016-2017. Some felt the board needed to move ahead.

Board member Esperanza “Espie” Ochoa, said the dis-trict should “start small” and see how the lighting program worked rather than rush ahead. She told the board she had visited local schools that already had the lighting and found several problems with the lighting in those campus-es that could have created fire hazards.

She questioned whether use of LED lighting would do all it claimed to do, or if it might have a health hazard not yet known that could be harmful to students.

After the meeting, the Progress Times asked Su-perintendent Alda Benavides about the 2020 mandate be-ing brought up during dis-cussion. Were schools man-dated to make the switch by 2020?

Benavides said she was unaware of any mandate for schools to make the change. A search of the TEA website did not offer any legislation mandating the change by 2020. There was legislation starting in 2007 where Pres-ident George W. Bush man-dated federal buildings to reduce energy consumption by 30 percent by 2020. Pres-ident Obama added addition-al mandates in 2009 with an order for federal buildings to reduce greenhouse gases in-cluding carbon dioxide and other gases poisonous to the environment and to replace them with renewable energy such as solar or wind power. However, these mandates are for federal facilities.

The Progress Times was not able to locate any specif-ic legislation stating schools in Texas were required to

comply with the mandate by 2020. The U.S. Department of Education site had infor-mation on LED lighting but no mandate could be found.

When the Progress Times contacted Rey Cedillo, ener-gy director for La Joya ISD for more information about the LED conversion propos-al, he refused to disclose any information. Instead, he said the newspaper would have to file a public information request with the district. An open records request has been submitted to the district for copies of any propos-als for conversion of LJISD campuses to LED lighting.

The Progress Times also contacted Mission CISD about a possible mandate to convert schools to LED lighting. MCISD Director of Public Relations and Market-ing Craig Verley said, “We’re not aware of any mandate to convert to LED lighting.”

He said, the district looked into LED lighting a couple of years ago and found the light to be too harsh for indoor en-vironments at that time. The district did complete campus upgrades of the older fluores-cent lighting systems to T-5 and T-8 fluorescent lighting. The retrofit conversions were

completed in 2010, creating significant energy savings for the district.

Mission CISD Assistant Superintendent for Opera-tions Rick Rivera said he is not aware of any federal mandate that would require schools to convert to LED lighting. He spoke to two of the school’s architects, his colleague in McAllen and to his staff, and nobody knew of a federal mandate. In ad-dition, he had his staff mem-bers attending the conference of South Texas Association of School Maintenance Offi-cials being held this week at South Padre Island ask about a mandate to convert to LED lighting and nobody knew of any such mandate.

Rivera said, however, LED lighting is being used in new construction projects at Mission CISD. The Mis-sion High School renovation project is 100% LED light-ing, and the Mission Junior High kitchen/dining project is 98% LED.

Improvements in LED lighting technology are be-ing made each year, accord-ing to AEP Texas Manager of Community Affairs Lee Jones, P.E.

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By Luciano Guerra

It’s a fast-paced, passing only version of the most popular sport in the coun-

try – football. And with 32 teams made up of the best high school football talent in South Texas participat-ing, tomorrow’s Rio Grande Valley 7-on-7 football state qualifying tournament is sure to have plenty of action from beginning to end.

With a total of 32 state qualifying tournaments be-ing played across the state, tomorrow’s Rio Grande Val-ley tournament will deter-mine which two teams will represent South Texas in the state tournament July 8 and 9 in College Station. And with 32 teams all vying for those two slots, the competition at all four venues is sure to be fast and furious.

Having qualified for the state tournament the past two years in a row, the Veterans Memorial team will be en-tering tomorrow’s tourna-ment as one of the favorites. However, with teams like Sharyland, Edcouch-Elsa, Harlingen High and the four Laredo teams all competing for the two available slots, they will have their work cut out for them if they’re going to make it a three-peat.

Even so, Roland de Leon, the VMHS varsity squad’s 7-on-7 head coach, likes the fact that he has several state tournament veterans on his team.

“We have a few kids that have been to the state tourna-ment before coming back,” de Leon said. “One of them is Roman de Leon. He’s our inside receiver and plays de-fensive back. We also have Jacob Guerrero and Jacob Garcia both coming back

from last year. Then there’s Diego Hernandez at quar-terback who was also there with us last year. They’re all helping us as we work to-wards making it three years in a row.”

The 32 teams participat-ing in the Rio Grande Val-ley tournament have already been assigned to four differ-ent brackets with each brack-et made up of two pools of four teams each. Sharyland High School will host Brack-et A, Mission High will host Bracket B, Veterans Me-morial will host Bracket C and Pioneer High will host bracket D.

Here is a list of the teams that make up each of the two pools within each bracket.

Bracket A – Sharyland High, PSJA High, McAllen Memorial and Brownsville Pace (Pool 1), Harlingen High, Sharyland High #2, Laredo United South and Edinburg Vela (Pool 2).

Bracket B – Mission High, Weslaco #2, Mont-wood El Paso, Edcouch Elsa (Pool 1), Laredo United, Mission High #2, Palmview High and Gregory Portland (Pool 2).

Bracket C – Veterans Memorial, PSJA North, La Joya High, Edinburg North (Pool 1), Laredo Alexander, Veterans Memorial #2, Nik-ki Rowe and Weslaco High (Pool 2).

Bracket D – Pioneer High, McAllen High, PSJA Memorial, Harlingen South (Pool 1), Laredo Nixon, Los Fresnos, Edinburg High and Pioneer High #2 (Pool 2).

While the schools’ foot-ball coaches cannot partic-ipate in 7-on-7 football in any way, several of the Big 7 teams’ head coaches were present as spectators at Mon-

day night’s games played at Mission High School. The new Mission Eagles’ head coach Koy Detmer was one of them.

When asked how hav-ing his players participate in 7-on-7 football helps him as a football coach, Detmer said, “It gets our guys do-ing something in the sum-mer. Also, it helps the skill guys with their running and catching and it gives them a chance to call their plays and run through the offense a lit-tle bit more. That’s what I see us getting out of our players participating in 7-on-7.”

Tournament play will start at 10 a.m. tomorrow at all four venues with the eight teams within each brack-et playing each other until each of the four brackets has a winner. The winner of Bracket A will then play the winner of Bracket C in one semifinal game while the winner of Bracket B will play the winner of Bracket D in the other. The two semi-finals winners will be the two teams to advance to the state tournament. All semi-final and final games will be played at Richard Thompson Stadium at Sharyland High School.

Mission and Sharyland to host 7-on-7 tournament

A Mission team No. 1 receiver evades a Veterans Memorial team No. 2 defender for a good gain during their 7 on 7 football game Monday night.

Progress Times photo by Luciano Guerra

A ball carrier from Palmview team No. 1 cuts through the Palmview team No. 2’s defense for a good gain during their 7

on 7 football game Monday night. Progress Times photo by Luciano Guerra

A Veterans Memorial team No. 2 defender keeps the Mission team No. 1 receiver from making any yards after catch during

their 7 on 7 football game Monday night. Progress Times photo by Luciano Guerra

A defender from Palmview team No. 1 deflects the ball from the Palmview team No. 2 receiver during their 7 on 7 football game Monday night.

Progress Times photo by Luciano Guerra

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DAUGHTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF MERCY: SR. ELIZABETH, SR. BIBIANA & SR. MADONNA

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THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE SPIRIT SAYS, “COME ON JUST DO IT!” (OR MAYBE, “JUST KNOCK IT OFF!”) WE GOTTA FIGURE OUT WHEN THOSE TIMES ARE AND WHAT IT IS HE’S TELLING US, AND WE CAN, IN OUR FAMILY, AND IN THE FAMILY OF THE CHURCH, WITH JUST A LITTLE

HELP FROM HIM AND EACH OTHER!

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Notices

obituariesMaria Cleofas RenteriaTUSCON, Ariz./MIS-

SION – Maria Cleofas Ren-teria, a loving aunt, a kind and generous woman, and a devout Catholic died the eve-ning of June 9th, 2016, at the age of 99.

She was born on February 12, 1917, in Mission, Texas to Gilberto Renteria and Jo-sefa Espericueta Renteria, a pioneer family of the low-er Rio Grande Valley. She grew up attending Catholic

school and was a member of Association Hijas de Maria. During her younger years, she played the violin with a local group, Banda Don Gil, whose mission was to raise funds for the local Catho-lic Church. She also volun-

teered at Santa Cruz Catholic Church in Tucson.

As she grew older, she co-owned and worked in the family’s grocery store, floral shop and nursery. In 1952, Maria relocated to Califor-nia, first living in Los An-

geles and then the San Fer-nando Valley. In 1972, she relocated to Tucson along with her extended family. Although Maria lived in a number of places, she nev-er forgot her roots and held Mission and La Grulla, Tex-as, in a special place in her heart.

Maria traveled to many states, Mexico and Canada. Among her interests were cake decorating, baking, sewing and swimming.

Maria is survived by nieces, Josefa, Carmen and Dolores Renteria, Maria E. Renteria-Villa (Jose Villa), and Gloria Griffith (Rich-ard) of Wash.; nephews, Jesse, Gilbert (Becky) and Paul Renteria. She is also survived by 10 great-nieces and great-nephews, and one great-great-niece.

Maria was predeceased by her parents, Gilberto and Josefa E. Renteria; sis-ters, Dominga Renteria and Bertha Gonzalez (Jaime); brother, Jesus Renteria (Gua-

dalupe) and nephew, Jaime Gonzalez (widow, Suzanne Schoch-Gonzalez).

The family thanks God for the very long and healthy life that Maria was given. The family also thanks care-givers, Centhea Aguilar, Olga Angulo and Cristina Rodriguez.

Maria’s funeral service was held at St. Augustine Cathedral on June 17, 2016, and she was laid to rest at Holy Hope Cemetery in Tuc-son, Ariz. A funeral luncheon was held at La Parrilla Suiza (Oracle Rd.). Arrangements were by Funeraria Del An-gel.

Farewell, kind and gentle soul.

Arnoldo Martinez CantuMISSION – Arnoldo

Martinez Cantu, 74, passed away on Sunday, June 18, 2016, at his home in Mission.

Adalberto MunguiaMISSION – Adalberto

Munguia, 85, passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at Comfort House in McAllen.

Ramiro GonzalezMISSION – Ramiro

Gonzalez, 81, passed away on Monday, June 20, 2016, at Mission Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center. A funeral service was held on June 22 at Virgil Wilson Mortuary in Mission. Burial followed at Garden of An-gels Cemetery in Abram.

Luis GutierrezPALMHURST – Luis

Gutierrez, Jr., 58, passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2016, at his home in Pal-mhurst. A funeral service was held on June 20 at Ri-vera Funeral Home in Mis-sion. Burial followed at Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery in Mission.

Ofelia HinojosaLA JOYA – Ofelia Hi-

nojosa, 81, passed away on

Thursday, June 16, 2016, at Comfort House in McAllen. A funeral mass was held on June 18 at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Peñitas. Burial followed at Lord and I Cemetery in Palmview.

Jose C. LealMISSION – Jose C. Leal,

88, passed away on Sunday, June 18, 2016, in McAllen.

Silvestra LeijaPEÑITAS – Silvestra

Leija, 65, passed away on Monday, June 20, 2016, in Peñitas. Cremation was held on June 23 at Memorial Cre-mation in Edinburg.

Raul MendozaALTON – Raul Mendoza,

63, passed away on Thurs-day, June 16, 2016, at Pax-Villa Hospice in McAllen.

John PawlikMISSION – John Pawlik,

90, passed away on Monday, June 20, 2016, at Mission Regional Medical Center.

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By Kathy Olivarez

David Bowles, profes-sor at the University of Texas-Rio Grande

Valley, was guest speaker at the Mission Historical Mu-seum on Saturday, June 18. Bowles, who was notified in January that his book, “The Smoking Mirror,” had been selected as a 2016 Belpre Honor Book by the Associ-ation for Library Service to Children (ALCS), is known for writing books that affirm the Latin culture. Bowles told the audience he is the author of nine books that are all based on the legends of South Texas and Mexican culture.

“As a teacher for 22 years in the Donna Independent School District, I looked for materials that would inspire the children of the Rio Grande Valley to read.” Bowles told the audience. “ For inspiration I had to look back no further than my grandmother who told both Southern gothic and legends of the Rio Grande Valley.”

Bowles said his grand-mother, Maria Garza, would often tell the children, “go to sleep now or the El Cucu will get you,” refer-ring to the creature that is the “baddest of the bad” in Valley mythology. It was the equivalent of the Bogey Man in English cultures.

Or she told tales of Los Duendes, green-skinned creatures with red eyes who slept in closets at night. With the Catholic tradition of baptizing babies shortly after birth, los duendes were always looking for unbap-tized children, or other chil-dren who were very naughty to turn into goblins.

Bowles began collecting these stories and writing them down to entice stu-dents who had no interest in reading literature from cul-tures with which they were unfamiliar. He collected the best known of these folk-tales such as “La Llorena,” the weeping woman, and wrote them in a book for students to read. Accord-ing to the legend, a woman

falls in love with a man who does not want her children. So she throws them into the river to drown. The man still rejects her love and she realizes what a terrible thing she has done to her children. She kills herself by throwing herself into the river where she threw her children, but her spirit often comes back and travels along the river-bank weeping and crying out for her children.

Bowles said the tale was used to warn young children to stay away from the river because the weeping woman might grab them and throw them in.

Witches are very com-mon in folklore of the Rio Grande Valley and many people believe in witchowls. Owls are frightening to the native residents along the border because many be-lieve owls are really witch-es that have transformed themselves into owls in or-der to work their evil deeds. Screech Owls in particular, are thought to be witches.

Another popular tale is that of La Mano Pachona, a disembodied hand that chokes people and drags them off. Supposedly it is the hand of a native wizard

who lived at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mex-ico. The hand periodical-ly climbs out of the grave where he is buried to cast spells. The hand particularly looks for persons of Spanish blood for his victims.

Some stories have a basis in truth such as the story of the “Devil at Boccaccio” in 2000. The story took place in a McAllen nightclub. Bowles said youth are of-ten warned the Devil vis-its dance halls and disco-theques around the world in order to tempt souls.

The story of “The Devil at Boccacio,” found in his new book, “Border Lore,” took place on Good Friday in 1979. It was also Friday the 13th. Magdalena Marez was a sixteen-year-old girl looking for a bit of fun. When a popular boy from school asked her to go to the nightclub, she knew she shouldn’t, but with the en-couragement of a girl friend, she decided to sneak out and go anyway. When she arrived she was disappoint-ed the boy was talking with someone else and decided she would leave.

But before she could leave an impeccably dressed

man came through the doors and headed straight for her, drawing her on to the dance floor. He had orange-brown glittering eyes, a leering smile and predatory teeth. She could not resist him. As they danced, other danc-ers began screaming from the smell of sulfur and the DJ stopped playing as he saw the stranger’s legs that ended in a goat hoof and a rooster claw. The demon’s hands burned black prints on her back. Magdalena’s eyes rolled back in her head and she began to seize violently. When the song ended, she fell lifelessly to the floor. The stranger left the club without a word, getting into a black car and disappear-ing. According to legend, she died telling young girls about the dangers of sneak-ing out to indulge in sinful deeds.

The mythological crea-ture most feared by those of Latin descent is the ch-upacabra, a creature with scaly-grayish-green skin, large eyes that glow red in the dark, fangs and sharp spines along their backs. They are about three to four feet tall and hop like a kan-garoo. These creatures were

first found in Puerto Rico in 1974 but by 2000 they had made their way to Latin America. They were much feared because they attacked goats and sheep making three puncture wounds on the neck or chest and suck-ing the blood dry.

In 2010 they visited the farm of Francisco Lozano, north of Mission on SH 107 along with a few neighbors. Lying in wait, on his farm many nights, Lozano finally shot the chupacabra to pro-tect his ranch. There were no more problems afterwards.

Bowles new book “Bor-der Lore” is full of accounts of the unexplained happen-ings including ghost sight-ings at Fort Brown and Fort Ringgold, sea monsters at Port Isabel, and sightings of La Llorona at local canals.

There will be a book signing at Barns & Noble later in the summer when the book comes out. He will also be releasing a book, “Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley” in September. This book talks about the ghosts of La Lomita Chapel and The Shary Mansion, both located in Mission.

Author David Bowles talks about legends of South Texas

had started their own work projects.

“The help our residents get from MSP and other sim-ilar camps is very valuable to our community members who have low incomes and cannot afford the materials they need to do the repairs their homes need. Often they do not meet the government guidelines for getting help through government proj-ects. We always have a list of people who need help be-cause when residents of an area see their neighbors get-ting help, they often come in to see if they would qualify for a similar project,” Soto said.

The most ambitious MSP project this year required replacing sheetrock dam-

aged by rains, along with bathroom and siding repairs. FUMC of Mission tackled this project.

Ceewin Louder, youth director from Quail Springs UMC in Oklahoma City, said this was her team’s first year. Rather than working on houses, they had been as-signed to ARISE to help with the children’s summer pro-grams by telling Bible stories using puppets and playing games with the children in the morning. In the afternoon they worked at the lending li-brary or joined another group and helped with painting.

A group of five from Pros-per UMC near Dallas were working on a house that needed roofing. The adult sponsors were doing the roof while the youth installed new windows and flooring in two

of the rooms. It was their first time to do MSP. The McAl-len UMC youth leader, Pat-rick Littlefield, who asked them “to come down and join the fun,” had inspired their leader.

Sara Orr, youth spon-sor from Ridgewood Park in Dallas that brought three teams, grew up in McAllen and participated with the MSP as a youth. This is her 11th year to come to MSP.

“We have gone to other work camps,” said Sara, “but our youth always want to re-turn to MSP.”

The group from FUMC Mission arrived to share their views.

“It’s a great experience, a chance to help others and share God’s word,” said Bethany Duke, a three-year veteran of MSP. The group had been tearing the exteri-or off a home and replacing

a bathroom that had water damage during a flood.

“It’s a great way to make positive changes in some-one’s life,” said Thomas Henning, a two-year camper.

Stephanie Crespo, now in her fifth and final year, loves MSP so much that she returns each summer to work even though her family moved to Houston two years ago.

Michael Hembree of Donna, has worked with the Mission team two years. His father, Kelly, is one of the sponsors. A construc-tion worker, he has taught the youth valuable skills in home repairs that they can use throughout their lives.

His wife, Carmen, said not only do you help a family, you learn from them as well, as you develop a relationship during the work week.

Another sponsor, Pete Lo-pez said the youth had been learning construction skills they can use in the future.

After talking with many of the work campers, din-ner was announced and youth lined up to get deli-cious-smelling hamburgers being cooked on an outdoor grill. All For Him, a Chris-tian Band from El Buen Pas-tor in Edinburg, was playing music while the youth waited in line for their meal. After-wards, they would return to their dormitories to get a good nights’ sleep to be ready to go out and work again on their respective projects.

First Presbyterian Church of Mission and St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church provided some of the meals for this year’s volunteers.

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Members of the Prosper UMC team from north of Dallas.

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land. We did a lot of great things together,” said Barre-ra, a 2016 MLB draft pick of the Washington Nationals. “He was the best player in our conference this year. A lot of people were counting him out because he’s small and because he’s from the Valley, but I knew all along what he could do.”

After excelling on big stages at Sharyland High and in the Big 12 at Texas Tech, Gutierrez begins his profes-

sional baseball career with the Miami Marlins looking to continue to grow his game as a complete baseball play-er.

“In baseball you have your ups and downs. I think I’m getting better on that as I grow up. You never know when you’re going to get that spot where you need to bring those runs in; you need to keep your cool,” Gutierrez told Texas Tech Athletic’s Double T Insider in an inter-view. “You work with it as you grow up and it helps a

lot on the mental side of the game.”

Gutierrez and the Red Raiders are in the thick of the College World Series and played on Thursday, June 23 versus Coastal Carolina in an elimination game at 7 p.m. in Omaha, Nebraska. The results of the contest will be final after press deadline. The remainder of the College World Series can be seen on television on ESPN.

LEGAL NOTICE

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Beer & Wine Permit by Norma Cruz dba La Mansion Ballroom & Catering, located at 507 N. Conway, Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas. Officer or Owner(s) of said corporation are Norma Cruz, Owner.

MEDC offers online selling helps Learn the tricks to selling

items online in a class offered by the Mis-

sion Economic Development Council on Wednesday, June 29, at Speer Memorial Libray, corner of 12th St. and Kika de

la Garza Loop.The class will cover top-

ics like setting up a successful online shop, product photogra-phy, getting found in searches, and customer relationships. The class is free and open to

the general public.Apply online at missionedc.

com/mission-edc-partners-with-etsy-to-launch-craft-en-trepreneurship-program.

140th state firefighters’ conference is June 24-29

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The Court may hear the said Application for Determination of Heirship at 10:00 A.M. on the first Monday after the expiration of ten (10) days from the date this citation is published, at the County Courthouse in Edinburg, Texas.

All persons interested in the aforesaid estate are commanded to appear at or before the time set for said hearing by filing a written contest or answer to the Application for the Determination of Heir-ship should they desire to oppose or contest it. Said written contest or answer shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of Hidalgo County, Texas, in Edinburg, Texas.

The officer serving this citation shall, in compliance with the law, serve it by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation in this, the county in which such proceeding is pending, for not less than ten (10) days before the return day hereof, exclusive of the day of publication and the date of publication said newspaper bears shall be the day of publication.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Palmview, Texas will hold a public meeting on July 5, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Palmview Municipal Building at 400 West Veteran’s Boulevard, Palmview, Texas, in order to consider action on a proposed zoning ordinance. The Public is invited to attend.

Bertha Garza, City Secretary City of Palmview, Texas

AUSTIN – The State Firefighters’ and Fire Marshals’ Association

of Texas will host the 140th Annual SFFMA Training con-ference and Convention at the McAllen Convention Center, June 24 to 29. Fire and EMS personnel from across Texas will network, train and conduct business.

On Saturday, from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., more than 50 exhibitors and vendors will be fill the McAllen Convention

Center Exhibit Hall displaying fire trucks, firefighting equip-ment and services provided to fire/EMS personnel. The ven-dor show is free and open to public. It will be followed by Pumper Races at the Conven-tion Center’s north parking lot.

On Sunday at 10:30 a.m. a statewide memorial service will honor those who passed away in the line of duty and non-line of duty in the last year. It takes place at the Convention Center Ballroom.

Up to 16 hours of continu-ing education can be obtained on Monday and Tuesday in eight different tracks.

Association’s business meetings will be on Sun-day from 1 – 4 p.m. and next Wednesday from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the Convention Center Ballroom.

For more information about this event, contact Chris Bar-ron, SFFMA executive direc-tor, at 512-454-3473 or via email at cbarron@sffma.org

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KINGSVILLE – Tex-as A&M Universi-ty-Kingsville has

released the names of the students who made the Pres-ident’s, Dean’s and Hon-or Roll Lists for the spring 2015 semester.

In order to qualify for the prestigious President’s List, a student must be enrolled in at least 15 semester hours and have a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the semester. Local students announced: Mission – Sergio Alan Ar-ciniega, Jackeline Garza, America Montserrat Gomez, Rosamaria Yvette Moreno, Navid Guadalupe Ochoa De Hinojosa and Brenda Lizette Salinas; Palmview – Viviana

Saenz; and Penitas – Vianey Garza.

To make the Dean’s List, a student must earn a grade point average of 3.65 on all work at-tempted for the semester with a minimum of 13 semester hours completed. Making the list: La Joya – Aziz M. Ab-dullah; Mission – Tanya Ma-rie Casas, Noel Flores, Jesus Gonzalez, Ashleigh N. Hen-ry, Leslie Astrid Maldonado, Nina Noemi Perez, Evelyn Romero and Mayra Salinas; Palmhurst – Kristina Marie Esqueda and Romeo Ricardo Reyna; Palmview – Bianca Genoveva Silerio; and Sulli-van City – Diana Cortez.

The Honor Roll requires a grade point average of

3.5 while taking at least 12 semester hours. Students placed on the Honor Roll: La Joya – Josie Rios; Mission – Jose C. Alvarado, Kassandra Balderas, Maritza Michelle Bazan, Francisco Campos, Brenda L. Candanoza, Kayla Marie Castillo, Ramon Cor-onel, Amanda Marie Garcia, Cheliza Marie Guzman, Al-exandra Yuritzi Hernandez, Robert Joseph Leyja, Claris-sa Madrigal, Lauren Raquel Moreno, Mellanie Munguia, Sofia Reyes and Michelle Tor-res; Palmhurst – Reanna R. Reyna; Palmview – Vanessa Saenz and Reynaldo Salinas; and Sullivan City – Emilia Chavero.

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