Feb 11 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com On March 3, 2009, former San Benito City Commissioner, businessowner and current Veterans Advisory Board Chair Victor Garza was diagnosed with prostate cancer, charting at number seven out of nine on a Gleason scale. He was 51-years-old at the time. Today, he is cancer-free and making the most …
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Feb 11 2011
Community Corner By SCARLET O’ROURKE Special to the NEWS How many people can say they have attended the Los Fresnos PRCA Rodeo consecutively for the past 22 years? Juan Garcia is one man who can say so. Born and raised on a farm outside the city limits of San Benito, Garcia, 53, remembers his love …
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Feb 09 2011
NEWS Staff Report The District 32-5A champion San Benito Lady Greyhounds are scheduled to take on Edinburg North at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14. The game will be held inside the San Benito High School Gymnasium. On Tuesday, San Benito clinched the 32-5A title for the first time in the history of the varsity girls’ basketball …
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Feb 09 2011
By JOE R. BOWLING, JR. Special to the NEWS Last December Clarisse Arredondo took a look at the San Benito High School girls’ basketball program and thought to herself. Watching them run up and down the floor she could see that they were ready to take a step into a place the program had never …
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Feb 09 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Police Department (SBPD) and the Harlingen Area Crime Stoppers are asking the public for help locating the person responsible for a deadly hit and run that occurred on Oct. 10, 2010. “A gentleman was walking northbound on FM 2520 against traffic when he was struck …
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Feb 09 2011
Stories of Love By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com RIO HONDO – Romance, forbidden love, adversity, and triumph – the Saldañas’ tale is not unlike a movie one would see on the silver screen. And if there was such a film chronicling the marriage of Santiago Saldaña, Sr., 88, and Maria Saldaña, 85, a …
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Feb 09 2011
Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE – The Lower Rio Grande Valley Cotillion Club held its Annual Presentation Ball on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 at the Jacob Brown Auditorium in Brownsville. The Cotillion Club was founded 57 years ago in September 1954, by Mrs. Byron Campbell of Raymondville, as a social organization designed to bring together …
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Feb 09 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The water tower on Williams Road in San Benito is facing a makeover. As previously reported by the News, the water tower is to be repainted and will feature a new and larger extended Greyhound with a gold background on one side and the words “San Benito” and …
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Feb 09 2011
Community Corner By SCARLET O’ROURKE Special to the NEWS When most people look at a used envelope, they think it is trash. Gary Bonnell sees a possible treasure chest. Since 2005, 70 year old Bonnell has been collecting stamps. “I got invited to the Magic Valley Stamp Club in 2005, bought some stamps and have …
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Feb 09 2011
San Benito Consolidated Independent School District (SBCISD) School Board Trustee Manuel “Meme” Gonzales donated a check for $100 to the San Benito Food Pantry on Tuesday. The check presentation was held inside the pantry, where President Lidia Garcia and other volunteers were present to accept the check. Currently, Garcia said the pantry is in need of plastic Wal-Mart or H-E-B bags. For more information, call Garcia at (956) 399-1659. (Staff photo by Francisco E. Jimenez)
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