The City of Edinburg is proud to announce that the Public Works Department’s Real-Time Hydrological System (RTHS) has been selected for the 2023 Exceptional Performance Award for Safety by the Texas Chapter of the American Public Works Association.
McAllen’s Quinta Mazatlán invites the community to enjoy a quarter-mile Superhero Trail through the Woods, starting with Thursday Night Live on Thursday, June 8, 2023 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Quinta Mazatlán, 600 Sunset Drive with the Superhero Trail & Superhero Vehicle Night in the Park. Rio Grande Valley artists Celerino Castillo and Gaby Rico have created over 75 life size painted wood PEGS of comic book superheroes that have been placed along the trails. Walk the trail and see sixfoot- tall famous comic book covers that will be accompanying the artistic PEGS. The trail will begin with the community’s reallife superheroes and their vehicles stationed along Sabal Palm Drive.
Note: The following story was first published in The Advance News June 19, 2013. The advice given in this story – be aware of who your neighbors are – still rings true today.
If we’re talking about birds, forget Jonathan Livingston Seagull dancing around the place like some Tibetan monk trying to discover the meaning of life. Give me the parrot instead. The bad biker on the block who likes to dominate the Valley skies. Plus, the parrot can talk. Can Jonathan do that? Don’t think so.
Last week, at the Texas Division of Emergency Management State Conference held in Fort Worth, the late Edinburg Fire Chief Shawn Snider was posthumously inducted into the esteemed Texas Emergency Management Hall of Fame.
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