contempo magazine - april 2012
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A premium content magazine that focuses on fashion, culture, and the siginficance of people and places of the Rio Grande Valley.TRANSCRIPT
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a premium content magazine April 2012
MISS CENTRAL SOUTHTEXAS MISS AMERICAPRELIM
CONTEMPO PIONEERMARINA CHAiREZ
DESPERADO/WILD BOARHARLEY-DAVIDSONSPRING FASHION SHOW
RAQUEL WELCHCONTEMPO ICONA
CONTEMPO ART WALLJOHN CAIN
PHOTOGRAPHY
McALLEN’S FREAKSTORM IN PICTURES
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MISS CENTRAL SOUTHTEXAS MISS AMERICAPRELIM
CONTEMPO PIONEERMARINA CHAiREZ
VALLEY WINE MAKER’SFIRST BOTTLING
DESPERADOHARLEY-DAVIDSONSPRING FASHION SHOW
CONTEMPO ART WALLJOHN CAINPHOTOGRAPHY
CHASING McALLEN’SSTORM IN PICTURES
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Contempo is a publication of Contempo Magazine Inc. All opinions represented are of the authors & not necessarily the views of the pub-lisher. The publisher makes no representations regarding advertising content. Contempo Magazine is a trademark of Contempo Magazine Inc. All rights reserved. All content published and constructed by Contempo Magazine is the property of Contempo Magazine Inc. Per-mission for reprint shall be granted only upon written request and authorized release from Contempo Magazine Inc.
President / Ralph Magaña (956) 467-7880Fashion Editor / Marketing DirectorNatalie Bugarin (956) 569-1147
Distribution / Rosa LopezWebpage Editor / Tony Magaña
photographyJohn Cain / Fox Aguilar/R. Magaña
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IN THIS ISSUE
The cover this month features Marina Chairez, a high profile Valley model who works with her mother, Missy Vargas at Missy’s Modeling Studio. The photo was taken by professional photographer Pamela Muñoz at her studio in Weslaco. Marina appears in this issue in ward-robe by Princess Bridal of Mission, Texas. Ma-rina, now 18, has had a long modeling career and is an expert and energetic fundraiser for many worthy causes in South Texas. Read more about Marina and her incredible accomplish-ments on page 6.
About Our Cover
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MISS CENTRAL SOUTHTEXAS MISS AMERICAPRELIM
CONTEMPO PIONEERMARINA CHAREZ
VALLEY WINE MAKER’SFIRST BOTTLING
DESPERADOHARLEY-DAVIDSONSPRING FASHION SHOW
CONTEMPO ART WALLJOHN CAIN
PHOTOGRAPHY
McALLEN’S FREAKSTORM IN PICTURES
Kasandra Scharm / Gowns - photo by R. Magaña
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On Febuary 25th, at the Edin-burg North High School, the first ever Miss America Preliminary, the Miss Central South Texas and the Miss Central South Texas Out-standing Teen pageants were held. Young women from all around the Valley and from different parts of Texas came to compete and experience the thrill of pageantry.
Know for it ’s unique agenda that includes a talent portition of the competition, the Miss America net-work, and their local director, Vicky Chrysler have already scheduled a series of pageants for area con-
The Miss CentralSouth Texas Prelim
Scolarship Pageant
TitleistGeles-AnnRodriguez
photos by
Ralph Magaña
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testants to test and measure their skills in a high profile pageant with ties to the Miss Texas and Miss America events.
Contestants at this event ranged between age 13 to 24 and had to qualify to enter using national graded standards that are estab-lished by the Miss America Orga-nization. For this event 10 contes-tants qualified to compete. in the prelim that included interview, tal-ent, arobic wear, swim wear, and evening gown competition.
Winners for this first Miss America
The Miss CentralSouth Texas Outstanding Teen Pageant
TitleistAlexandraGarza
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Prelim included Geles-Ann Rodriguez/Miss Central South Texas, Allison Higginbothem/Miss Central South Texas Outstanding Teen, and Al-exandra Garza/Miss Central South Texas Outstanding Teen RGV.
Paloma Limas of Step It Up & Dance and her students per-formed the opening number for the evening. and Miss Tex-asAmerica, Kendall Morris co-hosted along with Miss TExas Outstanding Teen, Reilly Jo-hannsen. “We consider this a great honor to share such an experience in the presence of Kendall and Reilly”, says Vicky Chrysler-Pageant Director.
The Miss Texas America Pag-eant will be in Dallas at the Allen Center, Allen Texas on July 5th where the Valley title-ists will go to compete with women from around the state with the hopes of proceeding on to the Miss America Pag-eant in Las Vegas, Nevada at Planet Hollywood.
The next Miss America Prelim -the Miss Tip of South Texas and the Miss Tip of South Texas Outstanding Teen, is slated for August 4th and will be at the Edinburg North High School Fine Arts Audito-rium. The deadline to enter is open but those interested should apply as soon as pos-sible.
To learn more contact pag-eant director, Vicki Chrysler at (956) 821-1939, or visiter her site at www.TexasSelect-Productions.com
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The Miss Central South Texas OutstandingTeen Scholarship
TitleistAllison Higginbotham
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(far left) Allison Higginbothem performs customary promenade after winning the Miss Outstanding Teen.
(pictured above center) Miss Texas 2011 -Kendall Morris, Miss Outstanding Teen 201, titleists: Alexandra Garza, Geles-Ann Rodriguez, Vicki Chrysler, Allison Higginbothem, and Reilly Johannsen.
Pageant judges (below left) Rigo Montenegro, Edna De Saro, Meredith Miniat, Erika De Ochoa, and Joe Campos. (far right) Vicki Chrysler: Pageant Director - Miss Central South Texas Prelim
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PioneerMarina JoChairezWadrobe:
Princess Bridal
Hair and Make-up:
Diana Baez
Photography by:
Pamela Muñoz
Choreography:
Natalie Bugarin
Marina Jo Chairez is a senior at Donna High School and will be graduating in the top nine per-cent of her class this year. She is the senior class historian, on the student council, and has been on the National Honor Society for all four of her years in high school. Marina has been awarded the AVID PROGRAM Certificate of Academic Excellence, Superintendents Academic Exellence Award this year as a senior graduate.
Marina won Senior-Best Dressed, Little Cowgirl for the Mercedes livestock show, Little Miss Rio Grande Valley, Little Miss Riofest, Miss Spring Sweet/Weslaco Onion Fest, Miss Pre-Teen South Texas and the National American Miss Pre Teen-Texas. But, it is a passion for modeling that drives her.
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Texas State SoloDance Champion 2012
Tommy Hilfiger & GUESSNational Ad Model
4 Time NationalHonor Society
Honoree
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Marina began modeling at the early age of four and has, over the years, modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, she has appeared in nationwide ad campaigns for Guess for Kids. And, she helps her mom with fashions shows, trains for runway appear-ances, pageants, and for etiquette. She also recently won First in the Solo State Dance Champion in Austin, Texas,
Community involvement is a really big part of Marina’s life and her efforts at Missy’s Community Involvement Program which participates in the donation of toys and clothes to needy children in rural areas of the Valley. As a community service, she visits adult day care centers to provide companionship to the elderly. Each year she collects food and helps sell bracelets for the Food Bank. Marina also visits the Children’s Hospital and donates books to the Angels of the Res-ervation Program.
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Marina will be attending the University of Texas in Austin to study pre-law this fall after gradua-tion, and after she gets her mom all situated for handling the upcoming Summer and Fall sessions of modeling students at Missy’s Modeling Stu-dio. Our best wishes to Marina as she embarks on her new career in college, and to her parents for an outstanding job of raising their wonder-fully mature and talented daughter, Marina Jo Chairez.
The StudioMissy’s Modeling Studio, owned by Marina’s mother, Missy Vargas, has been leading the way in Valley modeling since 1995. And, getting to know many of the young women who have walked through her doors at La Vista & North 10th Street you know her program is “all about self esteem and confidence, not just modeling”, as Missy always says.
Missy’s is a place where eager young models and their parents know that discipline and character are the hallmarks of the studio, and their isn’t much slack on the shutter, if you know what I mean. Usually, a waiting list to join the valley’s most prestigious troop is not uncommonly the case each semester as teams of kids and young adults gather to begin lessons or learn of high profile op-portunities that may come up this season.
The studio works often with big names like Tommy Hilfiger, Apricot Lane, MelRose and Southpole
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in the fashion industry, as well as, some big na-tional publishers like Seventeen Magazine, YM, and Latina Magazine. Locally her girls are model-ing for the Outlets in Mercedes, La Plaza Mall, Valle Vista Mall and boutiques throughout South Texas on a weekly basis. Missy’s Models have performed for some chart topping celebrities like: Diana Ross, Enrique Iglesias, Donna Summers, Air Supply, Akon, the Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler and TI, and have worked recently on local music videos.
While print is their modus aparendi, a number of Missy’s models have gone on to explore careers in television and film like Mira Garcia, Shannon Sauceda, and Erika Cavasos in recent years.
They make many appearances at many local char-ity events in support of an array of needs. Some of their biggest efforts are directed towards help-ing the men and women of the military with care packages of personal items for troops serving overseas.
Missy’s success over the years is due in large part to one fundamental ingredient-her expressed at-titude about fairness, courtesy, character friend-ship, poise and professionalism are based on it, that she infuse the profoundly essential idea of self-esteem into each of her students above all else. Everyone that knows Missy knows this is true, and you can see it in the eyes of all her students, from the new starts to the veterans.
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The spoken and written words, “Harley-Da-vidson” are among the most iconic of American symbols simply because of a magnetic grassroots desire to be associated with the brand long before any ad campaign developed. And, that goes for the fashion wing of the logo as well.
It has been over 100 years since William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built their first production Harley-Davidson Motorcycle in a sideyard shed of William’s home in Minne-apolis, Minnesota. And, it didn’t take long to see homemade versions of the winged logo em-blazed on T-shirts and jackets all over America.
So began the fashion arm of the young HD brand with a signature jersey. Creative Fashion Director-Karen Davidson strives to keep the “in-ner rebel” tradition of the bike-wear alive today. Their fashion design criteria is recongized for tak-ing into account biker riding comfort and style preferences like no other in the world.
On Saturday, March 31st, The Desperado & the Wild Boar Harley-Davidson show rooms hosted their red carpet, Spring Fashion Show featuring an array of bike wear for rebels of all ages to see. Leather, jeans, belts, and headgear were featured on Missy’s Models with gleaming bikes everywhere for backdrop!
The HD fashion wear signature design process always start with looking at motorcycles first, and how the new fashion design can compliment the rider, ie: shoulder gaps in jackets for handle-bar reach, or a match-up on a tank or body style. But, in keeping with tradition, they always pull out a 50 year old piece for a side-by-side comparison just to be sure that nothing of the legendary Harley-Davidson tradition is lost.
You can visit the apparel showroom at Desper-ado Harley-Davidson on Bentsen Road in Mis-sion. Just take the Shary Rd. exit on Expressway 83 and bear right. Look for the famous winged logo just up north a bit on Bentsen.
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Jo Raquel Tejada, better known as Raquel Welch, is an American actress, author and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a "new-star" on the 20th Century-Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British film One Million Years B.C. in 1966, for which she is best known. She later starred in Bedazzled in 1967, Bandolero! in 1968, 100 Rifles in 1969 and Myra Breckinridge in 1970.
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A new Class of Oxygen UsersFreeStyle offers a uniquely efficient, ultra-compact, and flexible pulse-flow delivery system. Through this miniaturization into a wearable unit, a new class of oxygen users has emerged: Self-reliant individuals who are satisfied only when experiencing life to the fullest. For some that means travel across the country or travel around the world. For others, it’s doing the garden chores on the weekend, unrestricted by time. For still others, it is the exhilaration in attending a grandchild’s outdoor soccer match – carefree – or even trying your footwork at soccer yourself once again.
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Looking south on S. 10th Street at Hackberry in McAllen the night of the freak hail storm on Feb. 29th, 2012
Vehicles of all sizes were stranded around the Expressway/Ware interesection.
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City of McAllen staff and representatives from FEMA continued to assess damages from the hail storm on Feb 29th. Offi-cials are trying to determine if the City of McAllen and its residents are eligible for federal disaster relief funds.
Emergency Management Coordinator Kevin Pagan said an estimated 1,100 homes sustained damages from the storm's torrential rains, strong winds and hail. "The intensity and length that this hail storm lasted was just astounding to me," Pagan said.
The extreme weather event peeled back roof tops, stripped walls, toppled signs, shattered windows, defoliated trees, killed animals and flooded neighborhoods. An estimated 6 to 8 inches of rain fell in some
Giant HailExtreme Wind& Heavy RainRake NorthCentral McAllenwith High Impacton People,Property, &Nature
of the most impacted areas, overwhelming drainage infrastructure and sending water into homes.
"There was an incredibly unique aspect to this storm that was well outside the design parameters of our drainage system," Pagan said. " Is it designed to take 6 to 7 to 8 inches of rain in a 60-90 minute period? No. It simply can't absorb that amount of water in that short period of time without having the detention facilities, the inlets or the infrastructure be overwhelmed with the amount of water."
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