FORE! GOLFING IN THE RGV!
This week features the challenging Alamo Country Club Golf Course!
www.welcomehomergv.com • •CONNECTION! • November 15, 2017 RECIPE Check out this week’s listings of Executive Chef Bettina Tolin shares what’s happening in the RGV! her most requested fun recipe!
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Welcome Home See details on page 6.
See calendar starting on page 21.
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WINTER TEXAN
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hy wait until Thanksgiving to give thanks? At Welcome Home RGV, we are thankful for our Winter Texan friends year-round. It is such an honor to have worked with you, and for you, over the last 10 years, and we don’t need a holiday to remind us to give thanks for that. This year, we are hosting our very first Homecoming Party. This event is to celebrate all of you ‘early birds’ and to welcome you to South Texas! The event will take place Tuesday, December 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Riverside Club in Mission. Tickets are $10 and include lunch. We’ll also have live music, dancing, and, of course, DOOR PRIZES! Because we know you are all not only proud of being Winter Texans but also proud of your home state, we ask that you wear your home-state colors to the party!! Speaking of home-state pride, in this issue you will find the first article of our series ‘Your Homes away from Home.’ Each week, we’ll highlight a different state with information, trivia, and recipes. Next week we’ll be highlighting Pennsylvania! If you have a state reunion or meeting, please let us know so we can help spread the word. As I mentioned before, we are so thankful to you for choosing South Texas as your winter home. We can’t wait to see you out and about! • We’re just connecting the dots,
Kristi
America’s Team, Stars to Shine Bright at Christmas in the Park H Peña Eye Institute to bring out Dallas Cowboys memorabilia H Special to Welcome Home RGV
Residents
looking to kick off the holiday season under the stars can do that by celebrating at Christmas in the Park. Located at Municipal Park, 1921 N. Bicentennial Boulevard, right next to McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium, Christmas in the Park is a prelude to the muchanticipated McAllen Holiday Parade and features food, fun, vendors, and, thanks to sponsor Dr. Raul A. Peña and Peña Eye Institute and media partner R Communications, plenty of attractions and entertainment for the whole family. While the fun this year will kick off with a carnival winter spectacular Thursday, November 30, the excitement continues the next evening, Friday, December 1, when the familyfriendly event officially opens its doors starting at 5:00 p.m. There, attendees will get a chance to enter into the much-lauded Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame Museum, featured for the first time at Christmas in the Park thanks to the Dr. Peña. The traveling exhibit
is a fan favorite among die-hard Dallas Cowboys fans as it features a variety of Cowboys memorabilia. Entrance to the museum is free. The Dallas Cowboys On Tour is a mobile program dedicated to bringing the Cowboys experience to the fans. This one-of-a-kind attraction provides an interactive opportunity for all fans to enjoy. The Hall of Fame Museum is filled with exhibits depicting
the history of the Dallas Cowboys, including Super Bowl trophies and rings, Super Bowl MVP lockers, historic uniforms, a Tom Landry display, seven flat-screen monitors, a jumbo screen, life-size statues of Bob Lilly and Emmitt Smith, and much more! During the McAllen Holiday Parade Saturday night, be on the lookout for the Peña Eye Institute float, which is a replica of the Dallas Cowboys home stadium featuring America’s Sweethearts, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and that smiling Cowboy mascot himself, Rowdy. Fans have a chance to be entered into a drawing to be one of the lucky few who will get an autograph-and-photo session with the cheerleaders, thanks to Peña Eye Institute. Listen to the McAllen Holiday Parade media partners for chances to win. “Being a part of the McAllen Holiday Parade, which is becoming such a CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 >>
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