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RGCCISD honors retirees with banquet
The Rio Grande City C1SD hosted the 10th Annual Banquet for Outstanding Service and Performance
on May 16, 2007. On this evening the school district's retirees were recognized tor their years of
service. Pictured 1-r: Seated- Doris Munoz, paraprofessional: and Frances Carrion, paraprofessional;
Standing- Rogelio Canales, paraprofessional; Hilda Canales, professional: llortencia Garza,
paraprofessional; and Petra Guerra, professional. (RGCCISD photo).
Gov. Perry signs $600 million telephone
fee cut for wireless, landline users
AUSTIN Texas Governor
Rick Perry recently signed HB
735 by Rep. Joe Straus (R- San
Antonio) and Sen. Tommy
Williams (R-The Woodlands) to
eliminate the
^ Telecommunications
Infrastructure Fund (TIF) fee
that will lower costs on the
telecommunications services of
nine out of 10 Texas families
and businesses allowing them to
save an estimated $600 million.
^ HB 735 was supported by every
area member of the legislature
"Repealing the TIF fee is one
of the largest net tax or fee cuts
in Texas history and will return
hundreds-of-millions of dollars
to Texas taxpayers," said Rep.
Joe Straus. "Eliminating
unnecessary costs on the
wireless and landline phone bills
of Texas businesses and families
will help keep our state's
economy vibrant and enhance
our ability to compete globally."
Created in 1995, the TIF
provided updated technology
and broadband access for Texas
m schools, libraries and non-profit
hospitals through a 1.25 percent
fee on Texas telephone
subscriber's services The fee
was to be eliminated once the
TIF's goal was achieved.
"Seventeen million wireless
9 consumers in Texas currently
pay the fifth-highest wireless tax
and fee rate in the nation — over
16 percent in state and local
monthly taxes and fees," said
Kimberly Kuo, Executive
Director of MyWireless.org.
"Abolishing this fee beginning
in September 2008 will help
lower the costs for Texas
wireless and landline telephone
services."
The TIF reached its goal in
2003, but legislators opted to
divert TIF revenues into the
general revenue fund until 201 I
due to massive budgetary
shortfalls at the time. Positive
economic and revenue forecasts
prompted a new look at the TIT.
and ultimately elimination of the
fee, in the 80th Legislative
Session.
"Texans pay more than
enough in taxes arid fees and we
applaud the legislature and
governor for acting to eliminate
a tax that's time has passed."
said Cathie Adams, president of
the Texas Eagle Forum.
The Tee is scheduled to be
eliminated in September 2008
and will save wireless and
landline telephone users
approximately $200 million a
year
South Texas Cattlemen \v
Roundup planned July 13
Many 4-H clubs from Stan'
County, along with the
Cooperative Extension Program,
Texas Cooperative Extension,
Farmers, Ranchers, and the San
Isidro FFA Chapter have come
together to raise funds for the
Driscoll Children's Hospital.
In 2006 over 530,000 dollars
were raised through the South
Texas Cattleman's Round Up to
purchase a new ambulance to
transport children to and from
the Driscoll Children's Hospital
This year's event will take place
at the R Y I ivestock Sales
located three (3) miles north on
Farm Road 755 outside Rio
Grande City. Texas on July 13,
2007 at 11 00 a.m.
Anyone interested in donating
an auction item or willing to
pledge monetary support may
contact Cynthia Guerra Salinas
at (956) 688-1239, Nelda B.
Garza at ngarzal 8 l(«!rgv.rr.com
and Isabel Tiny" Hernandez at
(956) 735-24 I .
STC president featured
in college textbook
The Rio Grande Herald
Encourages all our
readers to
Please Recycle.
Her story is one of triumph
over adversity and creating a
business from the ground up. Il
shows how thinking like an
entrepreneur got South Texas
College going and keeps the
college on top of its game. It is
also the reason STC president
Dr. Shirley A. Reed was chosen
for a case study in the new
textbook "Small Business
Management."
Published by Thompson
Learning, the book will be used
in college classrooms across the
country by spring 2007. Book
editors saw Reed's profile in a
story entitled, "Rising Stars in
Higher Education," which was
released in the November 2006
issue of "University Business"
magazine. Reed was one of five
college presidents profiled from
across the United States. She
was recognized for tremendous
Pastor says there is only one
true 'wristband' of faith
Pastor Bob Alderman
First Baptist Church
Wristbands are everywhere.
We get them put on us at water
parks, amusement parks, arcades
and just about everywhere else
many people gather together.
We even thought about using
them at Vacation Bible School
this year.
You know the ones I am
talking about; maybe they are
paper and maybe they are
plastic, but they all serve the
same purposes.
1. They show that we have paid
2. They show that we belong
where we are
3. 'They identify us as belonging
I am glad God doesn't
require wristbands to get into
heaven. That would just be
weird. Every one would be
worried whether or not they had
the right colored wristband with
the right date on it.
A whole sub-market of
counterfeit bracelets would pop
up, fueled by people who were
not willing to pay the full price
for a real bracelet trying to get
into heaven by deception.
Of course, many less than
honorable people would be more
than willing to provide them the
fake credentials they were
looking for.
Millions of people would
show at heaven's gate only to
find out they had the wrong
wristband and be turned away.
Bummer.
Maybe our little imaginary
journey and real life are not that
far apart after all.
There are many, many people
out there today trying to sell
people a way to heaven that is
counterfeit
Maybe theirs is a false
wristband of works. They tell
you that if you work hard
enough you can earn your way
into God's House.
Some may try to get you on
the "good deeds" bandwagon.
'I hey try to sell you the
wristband with the "pull off
tabs" of good deeds and when
you get your last tab pulled off,
"POOF", it's off to heaven.
Hundreds of different
wristband manufacturers out
there wanting you to buy their
wristband to heaven over all of
the others; or they want you to
believe that all wristbands are
the same and will get you into
heaven.
Millions of people will buy
these counteifeits and be turned
away from heaven's gate.
Which ticket do you trust in?
God says there is only One
ticket that will get you into His
house; and really - He ought to
know.
Here is God's Word on the
only way to Him: John 14:6
"Jesus told him, "I am the way,
the truth, and the !ir. No one
can come to the Fat. er except
through me." NLT
See how simple and clear
God made it for us? One way
and only one way and that is His
way. God's way is through His
Son Jesus. Religion, works,
good deeds and volume of cash
given to a church are good
things; but they DO NOT get
you into heaven.
Time after time God tells us
the same thing in different way
so we can be sure. Listen to
these three.
1. John 3:16-17 "For God so
loved the world that he gave his
only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him will not perish
but have eternal life. God did
not send his Son into the world
to condemn it, but to save it "
NLT
2. Romans 3:22 and 25 a&b
"We are made right in God's
sight when we trust in Jesus
Christ to take away our sins.
And we all can be saved in this
same way, no matter who we are
or what we have done.. . For
God sent Jesus to take the
punishment for our sins and to
satisfy God's anger against us.
We are made right with God
when we believe that Jesus shed
his blood, sacrificing his life for
us." NLT
3. Ephesians 2:8 - 10 "For by
grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should
boast. For we are His
workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand that
we should walk in them." NKJV
Those who have the
wristband of Grace alone
through faith alone in Jesus
alone have God's guarantee that
they have the right ticket.
Those who have this
"wristband of faith" do not have
to worry about the cost of
admission, Jesus has already
paid it.
Those who have this
"wristband of faith" are already
marked by God to show that
they belong to Him.
Those who have this
"wristband of faith" are the ones
who have pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6 "So, you see, it
is impossible to please God
without faith. Anyone who
wants to come to him must
believe that there is a God and
that he rewards those who
sincerely seek him." NLT
Do you have your ticket yet?
T ake a look and make sure it is
the right one. Examine yourself
to see if your faith is real and
placed in the right person
Jesus Christ.
Remember that God loves
you.. .and so do I.
Action may not always bring
happiness; but there is no hap-
piness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
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accomplishments during her
career, specifically focusing on
her time at South Texas College.
" They saw an article about me
and they thought I was a good
candidate; it comes as a shock,
but also an honor," said Reed. "1
am not one to tout my own
work, but prefer to highlight the
team behind South Texas
College and that includes
thousands of people past and
present. I hope students will
understand that an aggressive
entrepreneurial attitude will help
them define their mission and
vision and get things done."
Targeted at advanced business
students, the first run of the
book will include 55,000 copies
to be issued as early as October
and November.
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Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix
(Warner Bros Pictures Distribution )
Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe.
Emma Watson, Rupert Grint,
Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for se-
quences of fantasy violence and
frightening images.
What it's about:
As his fifth year at Hog warts
School of Witchcraft and Wiz-
ardry approaches, 15-year-old
Harry Potter is in full-blown
adolescence, complete w ith
regular outbursts of rage, a
nearly debilitating crush, and the
blooming of a powerful sense of
rebellion It's been yet another
infuriating and boring summer
with the despicable Dursleys,
this time with minimal contact
from our hero's non-Muggle
friends from school. Harry is
feeling especially edgy at the
lack of news from the magic
world, wondering when the
freshly revived evil Lord Volde-
niort will strike. Returning to
Hogvvarts w ill be a relief—or will
it?
Captivity
(After Dark tilms)
Directed b\: Roland Joffe
-Special to MP
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley,
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Matthew Lewis as Neville Long-
bottom in Warner Bros Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix.
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert,
Pruin I aylor-Vince, Daniel
Gillies, Laz Alonso, Michael
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MPAA Rating: R for strong
violence, torture, pervasive ter-
ror. grizzly images, language
and some sexual material.
H hat it's about:
A fashion model and a chauffeur
are kidnapped and held hostage
in a small room by a serial kil-
ler While the madman methodi-
cally terrorizes them, the victims
draw strength from each other
and fall in love.
Transformers
(di Bonaventura Pictures. Inc.,
Paramount Pictures)
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Josh
Duhamel, Beniie Mac, John
Turturro, Tvrese Gibson
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for in-
tense sequences of sci-fi action
violence, brief sexual humor and
language
What it's about:
The l arth is caught in the mid-
dle of an intergalactic w ar be-
tween two races of robots, the
heroic Autobots and the evil De-
cepticons. which are able to
change into a variety of objects,
including cars, trucks, planes
and other technological crea-
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