REUNIONS & MEETINGS!
Meet up and mingle across the Rio Grande Valley!
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Check out this week’s listings of what’s happening in the RGV!
www.welcomehomergv.com • • • March 14, 2018 1 RECIPE CONNECTION! Executive Chef Bettina Tolin shares a delightful muffin recipe for you to try!
Welcome Home See upcoming dates on page 6.
See calendar starting on page 25.
VOLUME 3 • ISSUE 21 • March 14, 2018
Try this recipe on page 37.
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WINTER TEXAN
• • • your official connection to the rio grande valley • • •
It’s hard to believe the season is
coming to an end. What fun we’ve had over the last six months! I take that back; what fun we’ve had over the last 10 YEARS!! It’s been fun reflecting on how far we’ve come in those 10 years but even more exciting thinking about what’s next. I would like to ask a favor of all of you as you make your plans to head home--HOMEwork, if you will! I’d like to ask each and every one of you to help us spread the word about how much fun the winter is in the Rio Grande Valley and try to bring some friends back with you next season! Ask your managers if they have any specials for first timers and take area literature home with you. It’s no doubt that you come to the Valley for the sunshine and great weather and because it’s so affordable, but you also come back year after year because of the people you meet and the friendships that bloom and flourish. The Valley is a wonderful place, I thank you for allowing us into your lives. For those of you getting ready to head home this week, we wish you safe travels! • We’re just connecting the dots,
Kristi
Trophy Gardens RV Resort Takes First Place in Alamo Parade
Kids Against Hunger
Food-Packaging Event Held at Leisure Valley Ranch Special to Welcome Home RGV
Taking a stand against hunger in
the Valley. This is what the Leisure Valley Ranch in Palmview hoped to do by hosting a Kids Against Hunger food-packaging event February 10, and what a success it was! Working with the KAH satellite from Corpus Christi, and with the help of donations and volunteers, nearly 34,152 meals were assembled in a few hours and distributed to eight area food pantries and churches. Ingredients were rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, and a chickenflavored vitamin formula, which supplies the optimum amount of daily nutrition for six children.
Special to Welcome Home RGV
Trophy Gardens took first place in
the Senior Division and first place in the Overall category at the Alamo Independence Parade March 3. The theme for the parade this year was Pirates. Trophy Gardens had numerous elaborately decorated golf carts in the parade, as well as their line dancers all decked out in pirate attire. Darrel Hardy, pastor at Trophy Gardens, was chosen Winter Texan of the Year, sharing the title with Joe Brayer, a Winter Texan who is 100 years young. •
TROPHY GARDENS TAKES FIRST PLACE CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 >>
KIDS AGAINST HUNGER EVENT CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >>
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