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addressed a room full of Los Fresnos Area Chamber members and guests, during their July 29 meeting at he Cameron County Annex buildingto discuss the long process in convinc-ing SpaceX to consider this area as a launch site for their private rocket company.

“The hardest thing was to clear Federal Aviation Administration FAA regulations”, commented Garcia who has led the way locally for this project. He said the venture will bring in new opportunities and visitors to the area and a huge economic impact to lower Valley. Boca Chica Beach is the considered location for the launch site and it was one of 10 sites considered by NASA as far back as the 1950’s. The Open Beach Act is to be amended to allow temporary closure of the public beaches at Boca Chica for each launch. SpaceX plans to publicly advertise closures prior to launches.

Commissioner Garza mentioned a round table discussion in Washington with state and national leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, to dispel the “border in crisis” images created by the media and the promotion that the area is safe for visitors and the project is welcome here.

Garcia discussed the Environmental Impact Statement EIS which has been reviewed by 60-70 agencies to assure the protection of the local environment and wildlife. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, CA and is the only commercial launch corporation to connect with the Interna-tional Space Station with payload deliveries. The company’s founder, Elon Musk is also the developer of PayPal and other ventures.

“SpaceX is sort of like the UPS of space,” Commissioner Garza humorously added.

Garcia added, “The EIS is the most important part of the process; you don’t pass, you don’t have a project”. He projected a timeline of the project dating from the beginning in March of 2011 through the scheduled first launch some-time in 2016. Various environmental impact study results were discussed and it was pointed out that Musk sits on the board of one of the largest environmental groups and is committed to protecting the environment.

Clarifying, the group was told that the Falcon 9 rocket name was derived, not from the local football team mascot, but rather from the Star Wars starship “the Millennium Falcon” which was Musk’s favorite childhood movie. The rocket has a built-in compartment specifically designed to hold school science projects to be sent into space.

The group watched a slide show presenta-tion developed by the Brownsville Economic Development Council on the project entitled

“Transforming Destiny”.New Chamber Director Val Champion intro-

duced himself to the group and shared his past history with chambers in Caracas, Venezuela and Brownsville. He is determined to provide educa-tion sessions and mixers to advance community interests. Members and guests were welcomed to the meeting.

The next chamber meeting witll be held on August 26. The location will be announced later.

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Valley Baptist Medical Center’s Vocational Nursing Program began in 1957. The program believes that nursing care is a service committed to promoting a state of wellness and at the same time educating people on the prevention of disease.

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Detail information about the RFP may be obtained from Celina Gon-zales, Finance Director by calling (956) 233-5768.

The sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the City Manager until 10:00 a.m. on August 14, 2014 and proposals will be opened at 2:00 p.m.

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This is the 16th year they have conducted “Highway 83”, and for the second year in a row, the Los

Fresnos Lady Falcons out-lasted all 30 teams entered to win the Championship on July 30th at Donna High School.

The 30 teams play a pool-play round-robin against schools for 3 weeks of play, and then are seeded into 5 separate brackets, with the Gold Bracket set with the 6 highest seeded teams. This year, Los

Fresnos, Donna, McAllen Rowe, McAllen, McAllen Memorial, and Sharyland Pioneer were the top 6. Los Fresnos had straight set victories over Donna and Sharyland Pioneer to reach the finals against McAllen Memorial. Los Fresnos won 25-18, 25-18, to defend their Highway 83 Championship.

Peyton Sales, a senior setter for the Lady Fal-cons, was named Most Valuable Player of the Highway 83 Tournament by the RGV Juniors staff.

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1. Los Fresnos CISD offers Career and Technical education programs in Ag-riculture Sciences, Business Education, Health Sciences, Family Consumer Sciences and Technical Education. Admission to these programs is based on interest aptitude, age appropriateness, and class space available.

2. It is the policy of Los Fresnos CISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

3. It is the policy of Los Fresnos CISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its employment practices as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

4. Los Fresnos CISD will take steps to assure that lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational and voca-tional programs.

5. Questions or concerns about discrimination on the basis of disability should be directed to Ada Amaro-Sibaja, at 956-254-5000.

Notificación PúblicaDe No Discriminación

Los Fresnos CISDPublic Notification of Nondiscrimination

1. El Distrito Escolar de Los Fresnos ofrece programas de la educación de la tecnología en, Ciencias Agrícolas, Educación de Negocio, Ciencias de la Salud, Economías del Hogar, y Educación Técnica. La admisión a estos programas se basa en interés, apitude, edad apropiada y espacio en la clase.

2. Es póliza del Distrito Escolar de Los Fresnos no discriminar por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, sexo o impedimento, en sus programas, servicios o actividades vocacionales, tal como lo requieren el Título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964, según enmienda; el Título IX de las Enmiendas en la Educación, de 1972, y la Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación de 1973, según enmienda.

3. Es póliza del distrito escolar de Los Fresnos no discriminar por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, sexo, impedimento o edad, en sus procedimientos de empleo, tal como lo requieren el Título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964, según enmienda; el Título IX de las Enmiendas en la Educación, de 1972, la ley de Discriminación por Edad, de 1975, según enmienda, y la Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación de 1973, según enmienda.

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5. Si tiene preguntas sobre discriminación de estudiantes de discapacidad, di-rigiese con la Sra. Ada Amaro-Sibaja al 956-254-5000.

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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for pest control maintenance. For information in reference to detail for proposals, please contact Pam Denny, City Secretary at 956-233-5768 or come by City Hall, 200 N. Brazil, Los Fresnos, Texas 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR PEST CONTROL.”



FOR WASHING OF CITY VEHICLES

The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for washing, vacu-uming and other detailing of all city vehicles. For information in refer-ence to detail for proposals, please contact Mark Milum, City Manager at 233-5768 or come by City Hall, 200 N. Brazil, Los Fresnos, Tx 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR WASHING OF CITY VEHICLES.”


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FIRE HYDRANT REPAIRS AND ANNUAL MAINTENANCE

Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Los Fresnos for fire hydrant repairs and annual maintenance until 2:00 p.m. (CST) on August 28, 2014. Copy of proposal may be obtained at Los Fresnos City Hall or by calling (956) 233-5768. Proposal shall be in a sealed envelope and plainly marked on the outside of the envelope “CITY OF LOS FRESNOS FIRE HYDRANT PROPOSAL” and address to Mark W. Milum, City Manager, City of Los Fresnos, 200 N. Brazil Street, Los Fresnos, TX 78566.

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With passage of the federal RESTORE Act, funds will be made available to the five Gulf States, including Texas, from civil and administrative penalties assessed against respon-sible parties associated with the one of the larg-est environmental disas-ters in U.S. history.

“Texas’s biological and economic resourc-es are vital to both the health of the Gulf and our nation. Texas will utilize RESTORE Act funds on coastal res-toration and economic revitalization, which will provide benefits not only in Texas, but across the Gulf Coast region and beyond,” says Texas Commission on Envi-ronmental Quality Com-missioner and Chair of the Texas RESTORE Act Advisory Board, Toby Baker.

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“Although the spill was unquestionably terribly unfortunate, the funding stemming from it now represents a critical opportunity to invest in the well-being and future of the Texas coast,” said Carter Smith, executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-ment, one of the trustee agencies overseeing the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment. “We are committed to identifying the best pos-sible coastal projects for funding, and this website will help people stay informed and in-volved.”

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FOR VEHICLE MAINTENANCE

The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for vehicle maintenance (flat repairs, tire rotation and balance, and front end alignment). For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 233-5768 or come by City Hall, 200 N. Brazil, Los Fresnos, Tx 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FOR FLAT RE-PAIRS, TIRE ROTATION AND BALANCE, AND FRONT END ALIGNMENT.”



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The City of Los Fresnos will be accepting proposals for vehicle maintenance (oil changes, air filter change, lube and other maintenance). For information in reference to details for proposals, please contact Carlos Salazar, Public Works Director at 233-5768 or come by City Hall, 200 N. Brazil, Los Fresnos, Tx 78566. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at City Hall. Please mark on outside of envelope “SEALED PROPOSAL FOR VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FOR OIL AND FILTER CHANGE, AIR FILTER CHANGE LUBE AND VISUAL CHECK ON HOSES AND BELTS.”

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oVERToN – Early aware-ness of a tiny insect could save Texas fruit growers a lot of money, perhaps even their en-tire crop, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Ser-vice entomologist.

The potential risk is from the spotted wing drosophila, a member of the vinegar fly ge-nus, said Erfan Vafaie, AgriLife Extension integrated pest man-agement specialist, Overton.

At first glance, vinegar flies look very similar to common fruit flies, he said. Crops at risk include apples, Asian pears, Asian plums, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cherries, cold hardy kiwis, elderberries, grapes, Italian plums, mulberries, nectarines, peaches, persimmons, plum-cots, raspberries, strawberries and tomatoes, he said.

Most vinegar fly species are nothing more than a nuisance, Vafaie said. They are attracted to rotting fruit, but have noth-ing to do with the fruit initially spoiling. This is because ordi-nary fruit flies don’t have the ability to break through the skin of berries, grapes, pears and other thin-skinned fruit.

But the female spotted wing drosophila has a unique attri-bute: a saw-like tubular organ, called the ovipositor, which allows them to hack into fresh fruit to deposit their eggs, he said.

The eggs and the resulting larvae are microscopic and pose no risk to anyone consuming them, but by creating small tears in the skin, the spotted wing drosophila opens up the fruit to invasion by bacteria and mold, which accelerates spoilage, Vafaie said.

“They do pose risk to the

fruit on their own as well,” he said. “By consuming the fruit, they can cause it to soften from the inside-out.”

Vafaie is relatively new to Texas and to AgriLife Exten-sion. He was hired in Decem-ber. His previous position was as a research technician at the Vineland Research and Innova-tion Center, Ontario, Canada, where he worked on biological control of whiteflies and moni-toring spotted wing drosophila populations.

In June, he found the insects in traps set as part of a high tunnel strawberry project he was working on with Dr. Russ Wallace, AgriLife Extension vegetable specialist, Lubbock.

Vafaie said he was not sur-prised to find the insect, which was introduced into the U.S. via California about 2008. He was “somewhat” surprised, however, to find relatively high numbers of the insect because there had been, to his knowl-edge, no previous reports by Texas growers of the insect or its damage.

“One trap had 26 female and three male SWD, out of about 60 flies total caught in the trap, which is a high proportion of SWD,” he said.

In Canada, as in some U.S. states, there is awareness of the pest because of the damage it can cause.

“I was surprised that no one had really noticed them here,” he said. “I thought it might have been because no one was look-ing for them.”

That no one noticed them is not unusual, because the spot-ted wing drosophila looks much like any other fruit fly to the na-ked eye, Vafaie hypothesized. Also, the holes the ovipositors make in the fruit of the skin are nearly microscopic, and the resulting fruit spoilage does not look any different than normal spoilage, except it may occur days earlier than expected.

The exception is when fly populations erupt in very high numbers, he said. In that case, a grower can lose very large amounts of his or her crop on the vine, sometimes even an

entire crop.But is the spotted wing dros-

ophila really a big risk to Texas fruit growers?

Vafaie said the first step is to more widely monitor for the insect. Fruit fly traps are easy and inexpensive to con-struct. See the YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxZVdQOHk9A for how to build a trap.

Distinguishing the spotted wing drosophila from other fruit flies is a little more dif-ficult, he said.

People with a trained eye and excellent vision will be able to see the black spot on the male fly’s first wing vein, Vafaie said. The females are distinguishable by the serrated ovipositor, but only by using a microscope.

Suspect insects can also be delivered to Vafaie for identi-fication.

Place suspect flies into a sealable plastic container with 70 percent or higher isopropyl alcohol, which will help pre-serve the flies,” he said. “No plastic bags, as they may leak. No live insects as it’s against U.S. Postal Service rules to do so.

“Include as much informa-tion as possible with the con-tainer, such as your name, date, contact information, where you found it and what are some fruit crops nearby.”

Mail the package to: Erfan Vafaie, Texas A&M AgriLife

Research and Extension Center, 1710 Farm-to-Market Road 3053 North, Overton,

TX 75684.For more information about shipping or identification of specimens, contact Vafaie at 903-834-6191 or erfan.

[email protected] .There is also more

information on Vafaie’s blog athttp://sixleggedaggie.com/

news .

Female has toothed organ to saw through fruit skin

Female spotted wing drosophila are distinguishable by the serrated ovipositor on their tails, but only by using a microscope, said Erfan Vafaie, Texas A&M

AgriLife Extension Service integrated pest management specialist, Overton. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Service photo by Erfan Vafaie)


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