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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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City of McAllen Approves New Commissioner Districts

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At a special meeting on Aug. 1, the McAllen City Commission formally adopted an ordinance redistricting the City of McAllen’s single member voting districts. Redistricting was required because the results of the 2020 federal Census indicated a 48-percent population deviation based upon current district lines. Early in the process of drawing a new single member district map, the McAllen City Commission adopted a resolution establishing criteria to ensure that the…

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Project Casts Out To Reach Special Needs

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Shane Wilson helps a special needs fishermen bring in a fish from the Laguna Madre.

The years had passed for Fito since his last fishing trip. A steady decline in health resulted in limits of his physical abilities. Once active in the outdoor life, the Brownsville resident had gone 15 years without fishing. Fito’s mother, Meg Beumel, thought those days were over for her son. Then via Facebook she heard of Fishing’s Future.  The nonprofit organization is based in South Padre Island and has chapters…

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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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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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Port of Brownsville Announces New Police Chief

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William G. Dietrich

William G. Dietrich is the new Chief of Police for the Port of Brownsville’s Police and Security Department, effective July 11. Dietrich heads a department which includes sworn police officers, security guards and administrative staff. He succeeds Carlos L. Garcia, who retired July 8 from the Port of Brownsville after 10 years of service as police chief. Before joining the port, Dietrich retired from the Brownsville Police Department as commander…

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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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STC Announces Free Class Initiative

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STC Organizational Leadership student Jisel Muñoz is one of hundreds of students who will qualify for STC’s fall 2022 $800 grant recently approved by the college’s Board of Trustees.

South Texas College Board of Trustees have approved an $800 grant for students who are registered or interested in registering for fall 2022 to use for a free class or other expenses.  In a special board meeting called to approve STC’s newest enrollment initiative, board members discussed how this recently approved grant is going to bring relief and opportunity for many students in the Rio Grande Valley.  “We are familiar…

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