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Friends Please join us Thursday, June 30, 2011 at the Frances Cooper Event Center, located within the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Grounds. Doors open at 10:00am. Speakers: 1 - IBM - Director of the Cloud Platform Project Office - Paula H. Richards 2 - AT&T- External Affairs - Sergio Contreras 3 - Stoneware Inc. - Co-Founder - Ken Quinton 4 - Attendee Management - President - Jeff Rasco 5 - The Social Being - President - Veronica Morales 30 Exhibitors www.tbtexpo.com Thank you! Ernie Arredondo

Dear Friends and Neighbors in the 28th District, I wanted to share our country's economic situation, which continues to improve as more optimistic data persists in every corner of the country. I hope you will find this information useful. According to the Labor Department, Texas was one of 25 states to have lower unemployment rates than the national average in May. Over the year, Texas added over 200,000 jobs – the largest nationwide. There is also promising news for areas in the district as hiring continues. Unemployment fell in more than 90 percent of the nation's largest cities in April, including Laredo, McAllen, Edinburg and Mission. Various business and service sectors also experience a boost in job creation. Health care employment continued to grow in May, adding 17,000 jobs and business services sectors also experience job gains by adding more than 44,000 employees to the workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In considering our economic improvemen...

Image via Wikipedia Smashburger will be introducing a Nutter Butter shake for the month of July. For those of you joining the City of McAllen's 4th of July Celebrations , this just might be the perfect compliment to a hot summer evening with the family. The shakes will combine Häagen-­Dazs ice cream with Nabisco's Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies. McAllen is currently the only city in the Rio Grande Valley to have a Smashburger, so it's only natural to tie the two together for your July 4th experience. Who knows, maybe it will be the start of a family tradition. The shakes are not available yet; but just imagining the peanut butter flavor with creamy ice cream makes my brain salivate. We'll be counting down the days. Of course, if you feel inclined to have a Smashburger while you are there, don't hold back. As you know, Smashburger uses 1/3 to 1/2 pound of fresh, never frozen beef that gets smashed on the grill and seared to seal in the flavor. To...

Habitat for Humanity ReStore is looking for lightly used purses. You can drop yours off at 412 W Ash Ave or, call 956-686-7455 to have your purses picked up.

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RGV Life is posting events on the calendar on Google Maps . If you own an Android phone, you can click on the Layers menu, the middle button on the top right of the map. You can select the Buzz layer to activate it. You'll then see conversation bubbles appear on the map. You can tap on those bubbles to read public conversations and view public photos posted by other users, including RGV Life. At the bottom right of Google Maps, you'll see the multi-colored Buzz button that you can use to create your own posts. If you do not have an Android phone, you can still use a browser to look around your area using the Nearby tab in your phone's browser. Visit the mobile version of Buzz and log in using your Google account. We are experimenting with Google Buzz as a way to announce local events and distribute blog posts visually. We think that as more people buy smartphones, location-based messaging will become more popular. Our hope is to provide something to read at as many ...

Saturday, July 9 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm McAllen Dog Park, Tamarack & 5th Street Hosted by the RGV Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic and the City of McAllen Parks and Recreation Department!! There will be doggie contests (registration required), pet related vendors, AND adoptable pets availabe from local rescue organizations and the Palm Valley Animal Center. Come out and see what's it all about! Don't miss the "Dunk the Doc" booth!! Contact the Clinic for more information at 956-687-7728 or email RGVclinic_manager@yahoo.com

Visual Arts & Music and Library Art Gallery Presents… Art Exhibition by Ron English "The Other Side of Madison Avenue" March 28 - April 15, 2011

Contact: Laura Espinoza or Martha Noell at 956-968-2102 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leadership Mid-Valley Graduates Class VI WESLACO – Leadership Mid-Valley held a graduation ceremony for Class VI on Friday, May 27 at the Business Visitors Center. Leadership Mid Valley, sponsored by the Weslaco Chamber of Commerce, is a nine-month program which seeks to identify and motivate emerging leaders and develop their potential for community leadership by exposing them to the realities, opportunities and problems of the community.  Monthly field trips were taken by the students which allowed them to see firsthand how Mid-Valley businesses, agencies and government impact the community.  Agriculture, healthcare, and local media are among the areas visited by the LMV class.  This year's class was able to visit the state capitol as part of their government lesson where they heard from several speakers from our state government and had the opportunity to visit the Texas congressional se...