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Welcome Home WINTER TEXAN • • • October 30, 2019
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We’re just connecting the dots.
VOLUME 5 • ISSUE 3 • October 30, 2019 • • • your official connection to the rio grande valley • • •
hello FR O M K R I S T I
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a fun week, kicking off the season! We hosted three parties to get us in the mood, and boy did they do the trick! From seeing our RV-resort managers and activity directors to hosting our Converted and WinterTexan friends at our TASTE of Supper Club to seeing our volunteer 1st Responders from across the Rio Grande Valley, we’ve had a ball seeing so many of our dear friends. We can’t wait to see you! I hope you’ll save the date for our Winter-Texan Homecoming Party December 12 at the Mission Event Center. We’ll serve lunch, have entertainment by Jeff Gordon, and, as always, have lots of giveaways and door prizes. Tickets are just $10, so save the date and we’ll see you there! With so many upcoming events and things to do, we hope you not only find what you’re looking for in the pages that follow but also visit our website (welcomehomergv. com) or download our mobile app so you can take our calendar with you wherever you go this season! •
Two hundred twenty-five park managers and activity directors gather for the Winter Texan Kickoff Luncheon hosted by Welcome Home RGV at Hynes Event Center at Llano Grande Resort in Mercedes.
Winter Texan
Attendees line dance to Cupid Shuffle.
THANK YOU TO OUR
2019-2020
SEASON SPONSORS
LUNCHEON
All part of Valley-wide planning for winter visitors Story and Photos by Eryn Reddell Wingert
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A contingent from Restful Valley Ranch of Mission gathered after the event to visit.
We’re just connecting the dots,
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SEASON KICKOFF
Welcome Home RGV staff sport the latest lifestyle t-shirt for the 2019-2020 Winter Texan Season.
hey arrive early, ready to learn for the upcoming season, and not a how to better serve their RV-park and moment too soon. resort visitors. Two hundred twenty-five Park managers report visitors are park managers and activity directors arriving earlier this season, and attended the reservations Winter-Texan- “My husband and I have found out that it’s fun are filling Season Kickoff up. “We’re down here, it’s more economical down here, Luncheon at really going and everybody’s here to have a good time!” the Hynes to be busy. • Shirley Thurman • Event Center I have about at Llano Grande Resort in Mercedes. six or seven sites left,” says Shirley The event included lunch and dancing, Thurman, manager at Eldorado Acres as Curt James performed. Hosted in Palmview, near Mission. by Welcome Home RGV, the annual WINTER TEXAN KICKOFF LUNCHEON gathering is designed to review what CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 >> worked last season and to prepare