PHARR – On April 30, 2021, the Pharr EDC Foundation held their inaugural Scholarship Awards Ceremony and recognized over 120 scholarship recipients from throughout Pharr.
The City of McAllen continues to be recognized as an award-winning event producer in the state of Texas, walking away with 30 awards – 22 of which were gold –for the 2019 McAllen Holiday Parade and South Texas Book Festival at the Texas Association of Fairs and Events (TAFE) Ray Cammack Shows Award of Excellence for Marketing & Communication virtual award ceremony held earlier this week. Another big winner for the City of McAllen included the Parks & Recreation Department’s Reimagined McAllen Independence Day Celebration for 2020, earning top honors. Additionally, the City of McAllen was recognized for its Make the Most Campaign for best community outreach, under the newly created COVID-19 category, earning gold, as well. The McAllen Public Library also earned several other gold and silver awards for various other programs hosted by the department.
Quinta Mazatlán is honored to host author Jan Seale, former Texas Poet Laureate, as she presents her new book PARTICULARS: poems of smallness, Thursday, May 6th from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm on The Back Porch at Quinta Mazatlán.
This week Cinderella is featuring a dog and a cat who know each other very well. Arya, a beautiful, and very rare calico tabby, was born in September 2020 and was raised with Zadie, an adorable mama dog who had herself a passel of nine sweet puppies. Not only did they manage to co-exist, Arya loved all of “her” puppies so much, and Zadie didn’t mind at all that Arya helped out a bit with puppy baby-sitting.
EDINBURG – On April 23rd, National Lost Dog and Cat Awareness Day, Palm Valley Animal Society proudly joined forces with Petco Love, formerly known as the Petco Foundation, a national non-profit working to lead and inspire change for animals, and animal welfare groups across the country, on a shared mission to help reunite lost pets with their families should they ever go missing. According to industry statistics, sadly, one in every three pets will go missing in their lifetime.
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