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Leadership Mid-Valley Accepting Applications

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Leadership Mid Valley XV at its class fundraiser, Sabor de Weslaco, at Valley Nature Center in Weslaco. Funds from that night are going towards a mini grant program for Weslaco Chamber member businesses.

Leadership Mid-Valley is now accepting applications for its Class of XVII to begin in October. The eight-month program seeks to bring together rising professionals with a passion and willingness to use and improve their leadership skills to enrich the quality of life in Weslaco and across the Mid-Valley. Leadership Mid-Valley participants will gain inside knowledge of the region, a new network of like-minded leaders, and develop an in-depth understanding of…

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Silva Takes Top Leadership Spot At RGV Partnership

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Daniel Silva

The Rio Grande Valley Partnership has a new president and chief executive officer, and the new leader is a familiar face in the region’s economic development circles. Daniel Silva started as the Partnership’s new chief executive last week after an over three-year stint in the same role with the Mission Economic Development Corporation. Silva had a 15-years-plus stay with the Mission EDC, working his way up to the top spot.…

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News Flash!

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The Valley is going places. And places are coming to Deep South Texas! Commercial development is happening all over the Rio Grande Valley. Investors and developers have seen what we’ve known all along. Our four counties, as one, is a major hot spot, not just in Texas but throughout the great USA. Construction crews are developing travel centers, stores, restaurants and more. New home construction is happening in record numbers…

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County Improving Drainage In Flood-Weary Towns 

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Maps show a network of canals and laterals that store and move water from Mercedes.

Hidalgo County Commissioner David Fuentes pointed to red and blue lines and arrows running through his precinct. Fuentes explained where $80 million of drainage improvements are occurring or are in plans in his Precinct 1. The crisscrossing of drains, laterals, canals and ditches form a patchwork of connected corridors to store and move water. It’s a network that isn’t always streamlined, but it’s vital in getting floodwaters out of towns…

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Solis Comes “Full Circle” To Lead STC

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STC President Ricardo Solis, left, is working with his industrial training and economic development staffs to create a more skilled workforce in the Valley.

At 40, Ricardo Solis knew he needed a change.  Solis was over 15 years into a successful career in the public and private sectors in the fields of business and finance. He enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin to refresh and find a new career path. The predictable thing to do was to seek a doctorate in business administration with a master’s degree in international management earned years…

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STC Students Take First In Entrepreneur Challenge

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It was a big win for two South Texas College students at the Commodities Integrated Logistics Entrepreneur Challenge recently hosted at the McAllen Convention Center.  The competition was open to local college and university students like Gilbert Barrera and Samantha Sauri. Both are students in STC’s Operations Management bachelor’s program. The duo presented an entrepreneurial idea to a panel of six judges who are business professionals in the region and an…

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McAllen Public Library Hosts Free Community Health Fair

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McAllen Public Library will host a Community Health Fair on July 30 from 10 a.m. to1 p.m. at the Main Library at 4001 23rd Street and Nolana Avenue. Attendees are invited to take advantage of free health screenings, local providers on site, informational stations and children’s crafts. The event is free and open to the public. “The Health Fair is an opportunity for our community to receive free health screenings…

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STC and nVent Host First Cohort Graduation

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A new chapter of international partnership was cemented recently at South Texas College. Employees from nVent of Reynosa, Mexico were celebrated at the Technology Campus for being the first cohort of students to complete the college’s new cross-border training initiative.  STC has officially extended its workforce development services internationally through a unique collaboration with nVent, a global leader in enclosures, electric heat-tracing solutions, complete heat-management systems and electrical and fastening…

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TWC & STC Support Future Architects

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Texas Workforce Commission recently presented South Texas College with a $204,058 Jobs and Education for Texans grant. With the funds, STC will purchase and install equipment in the Architectural Engineering Design Technology program. It will also supply hands-on training for up to 130 students in the program. TWC Commissioner of Labor Julian Alvarez joined STC President Ricardo J. Solis and Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. at a special check signing ceremony…

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Groundbreaking Highlights Travel Center’s Possibilities

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Mohamed Sharaf, center, with Mercedes City Manager Alberto Perez, left, and Mayor Oscar Montoya, right, at the groundbreaking for the Gateway travel center.

Mohamed Sharaf found kindred spirits in Mercedes that he said reminded him of his father’s farming and agricultural homeland in Syria. The vice president for development of the Waxahachie-based Victron Energy Inc. examined various South Texas markets for a site to build a high-end travel center that would be reminiscent of a Buc-ee’s, with a look reflecting a community’s history and heritage. In visiting the Rio Grande Valley, Sharaf was…

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