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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, February 4,2009
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Weslaco Museum Guild presents program on sugar industry
Special to The Enterprise
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WESLACO—The Weslaco
Museum Guild will present a
program on “The Care, Pro-
cessing and History of Sugar”
at the Eugene A. Braught Me-
morial Theater on Monday,
Feb. 9, at 2 p.m.
The theater is adjacent to the
Weslaco Public Library at 525
S. Kansas. Admission is $3
and a reception will follow the
program..
Norman Rozeff of Harlin-
gen, a retired sugar cane scien-
tist, will present the program,
which will feature a video on
. Mule-pulled cane carts await unloading at the Donna Sugar Mill, the last mill to close, ending the Valley’s first sugar
the growing, processing and Industry jn 1922. After 50 years, today’s high-tech sugar production and processing began with the opening of the
marketing of sugar cane in the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers’ huge mill in Santa Rosa in 1973. The Weslaco Museum Guild will sponsor a pro-
The City of Mercedes is currently soliciting
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Duties will involve general maintenance in the Public
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during business hours at the Personnel Office, located
at 400 S. Ohio, Mercedes, Texas 78570, 956-565-
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The Applicants must possess a valid Texas Driver’s
License, high school diploma or G.E.D. preferred.
Benefits will include paid health insurance, sick leave
and vacation days upon completion of probation
period. Deadline to apply: Until positions are filled.
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Valley the second time around.
Rozeff will also show histor-
ical pictures about the Valley’s
first sugar industry.
Sugar was one of the first
crops to be gown in the Valley
in the early 1900s, but eco-
gram by Norman Rozeff on the industry at Weslaco’s Mayor Eugene A. Braught Memorial Theater, 525 S. Kansas,
on Monday, February 9, at 2 p.m.
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For safety reasons, tours of published a 256-page book,
the sugar mill are not avail- “Sugarcane and the Devel-
able, but the program will opment of the Lower Rio
provide a “virtual tour” by Grande Valley, 1875-1922.”
video of today’s sugar indus- The book covers much
The program is part of
the Guild’s second Monday
and fourth Saturday schedule
from October through March.
The next program will
nomic and political hardships try from planting, growing more Valley history than the be presented by artist Roel
.forced the last of the mills to
close in 1922.
With the help of Texas
A&M Experiment Station, the
USDA, and legislation helped
through Congress by long-
time Congressman Kika de la
Garza, the sugar industry was
revived after a 50-year hiatus.
The Rio Grande Valley Sugar
Growers’ $28 million sugar
mill opened in Santa Rosa in
1973, and sugar has become a
vital part of the Valley’s agri-
cultural production.
and harvesting the cane to early sugar industry.
processing it into raw sugar.
It tells about the region’s
Rozeff was agriculturist early entrepreneurs and em-
Flores at the Weslaco Mu-
seum’s new home at 500 S.
Texas on Saturday, Feb. 28 in
for the Sugar Growers’ from pire builders and has rare conjunction with an exhibit
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Myra Elizondo Contreras, Executive Administrator
Desi Contreras, Office Assistant
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1975 until his retirement.
pictures of the Valley’s early of Flores’ paintings.
When he started research- agricultural development.
ing the early sugar industry
in preparation for the Sugar
Growers’ 25th anniversary,
he found that published infor-
mation was incomplete.
Rozeff has been honored
for his contributions to sug-
While work continues on
its historical exhibits, the
museum is partially open
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 4, 2009, newspaper, February 4, 2009; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1655752/m1/6/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.