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Congratulations to Grulla High School, Mariachi Grulla de Plata, for placing 2nd at the 28th Annual Mariachi Extravaganza Group Competition in San Antonio on November 18, 2022. The Mariachi Extravaganza is one of the most important mariachi music festivals in the world. Grulla High School is so Congratulations to the two Roma High School Orchestra Program students who earned spots in the TMEA All-Region Orchestra! Senior proud of these students for all their hard work and dedication. Alec Vasquez-Kanhere earned 5th Chair Violin, and freshman Emma G. Escobar earned 11th Chair Cello. Both students perform with the TMEA All-Region Orchestra at a special concert at The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley on Nov. 12, 2022. “We are super proud of Alec and Emma, as the level of music they mastered for the competition is intense,” said Roma ISD Orchestra Program Francisco Hernandez. “They both showed tremendous skill and determination. The Rio Grande City Lions Club conducted its annual Vision Screening of 3-5 years old Elementary We look forward to a terrific year filled with accomplishments for our students at the Rio Grande /Grulla ISD and the IDEA School program and this is just the start!”
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RGC Lions Club Vision Screening Team. Left to Right: Simon Garza, Sylvia Garza, Ruben Saenz, Sergio Barrera, Delia Orta Barrera, and Susie Menchaca. By: Ruben Saenz A “SPOT” camera is used to do the screening. This camera is used by Lions Club throughout the United States. It sends a beam of light through the pupil of the eye and photographs the eye and provides immediate results to the camera operator. The results are two, one signals if the eyes are normal for the age of the student, normally 3-5 years old or if there are some anomalies in the eyes, i.e., MYOPIA: (Near sighted, distant objects are blurred, HYPEROPIA; (distant objects maybe seen more clearly then objects that are near), ASTIGAMTISM;
(blurred vision), GAZE: (lazy eye), ANISSOCORIA: (unequal size of the eyes’ pupil); ANISOMETROPIA; (Eyes have unequal refractive power) and GAZE ASYMMETRY; (muscle imbalance of misalignment of eyes) Also known as STRABISMUS. The students who have an anomaly are recommended to seek professional help. The respective school nurse will cooperatively work to help the students that are recommended. In most cases the professionals will prescribe glasses. With better vision it is logical that the students will see better and thus improved
schoolwork. The Lions Screening team task is to identify eye problems, it does not prescribe. The Lions Vision screening team thanks the cooperation of the school nurses and to other member of the nursing Staff as well as Mr. Rolando Barrera, Director, without their cooperation this program would not exist. The Vision Screening Team’s position is that if our efforts help one student to improve it is worth all our efforts. The following are the results: RGC/GRULLA: screened: 1058 RECOMMENDED: 339. IDEA SCHOOL: screened: 80 RECOMMENDED: 26
Congratulations to the Roma High School Mighty Gladiator Diving Team on their outstanding performance at the La Joya High Invitational Meet. Out of 16 Boys and 12 girls competing, Dayanetzy Moran took 4th place overall and Davian Hinojosa placed 9th place overall. Way to go!!
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