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Courtesy Xochitl Mora, The Laredo Public Library’s two book clubs’ April meetings are just around the corner and they are inviting Laredoans to spring into the titles selected for the upcoming meeting, set for Wednesday, April 18, 2012. If you want to figure out “who dunnit?” then the “Scene of the Crime” club’s selection is
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, Laredo, TX—Women’s Preventive and Early Detection Care and Family Planning is critical to support wellness, prenatal and post natal care as well good birth and well child outcomes. With over 600 adolescent (under 18) women pregnant each year, rise in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), a disparity in cervical cancer and increase in
Last week, City of Laredo Mayor Raul G. Salinas and the Laredo City Council had a busy day, with various proclamations and recognizing outstanding individuals in the Laredo community. Mayor Salinas first welcomed representatives from the Border Mental Health Mental Retardation clinic, to help point out that opportunities for citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities
TxDOT-City of Laredo Inaugurates Train Crossing Warning System IH-35 Railroad Advance Warning System LAREDO, TX – ,The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), in collaboration with the City of Laredo, inaugurated the IH 35 Railroad Advance Warning System made possible by STRATIS, TxDOT Laredo Districts South Texas Regional Advanced Transportation Information System. Laredo Mayor Raul G.
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, It’s time to get ready to help Laredo’s Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Rock the Cure at their 2012 Walk to Cure Diabetes event on Saturday, April 14, 2012, starting at 8:00 a.m. at Texas A&M International University. Douglas Gonzalez, HEB’s Director of Retail Operation for the Southwest is the 2012 Walk Chair
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, Earlier this month, 4-Time All-Star and World Champion San Antonio Spurs Point Guard Tony Parker recently hosted, along with his brothers T.J. and Pierre, a basketball skills camp for young Laredoans, to help promote their basketball skills to mirror the European style of the fast-paced, skilled game. Hundreds of kids came out
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, DUE TO CONTRACTOR DELAYS: On Monday March 26, 2012, from 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., ACS Constructing Services will close 1320 Lafayette Street between Juarez Avenue and Salinas Avenue to make an 8”X6” water connection and install a 6” fire protection line for future sprinkler system. For more information contact the Building Development Services
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, The City of Laredo has joined with a collection of other cities, counties and organizations in filing a “Friend of the Court” or amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of blocking sections of the controversial Arizona immigration statute as it pertains to local law enforcement. City of
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, Private contractor doing work for Webb County Jail Pantoja Construction will be working along the 1000 and 1100 block of San Agustin Avenue tomorrow March 23, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 24, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. with intermittent lane and sidewalk closures throughout the
Courtesy Xochitl Mora, Annual library poetry contest deadline nears The Laredo Public Library’s 9th Annual Poetry Festival is once again upon us. Organizers hope to receive haikus, sonnets, poems that rhyme and poems that don’t, all vying for a bevy of prizes in the annual poetry contest. “Poetry is such a beautiful and powerful way
