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A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
Tuesday, May 21st was the date set aside to pass out scholarships to the students of CC Winn High School as Principal Jesús Díaz-Wever informed The News Gram that a total of $351,000.00 in scholarships were awarded to 126 students who will be walking the stage at the Cozel Foster Veteran's Memorial Stadium on June 7th.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the contributors for graciously providing the funds to help our graduating seniors to continue with their higher education," stated the principal of the south side high school, "I would also like to thank our board members and central office administration for always helping our students with what ever is needed. Thanks are in order for our parents and of course our teaching staff and counselors for assisting our students."
Lorena Alvarez is the liaison for scholarships at the school which awarded a total of 246 scholarships from 115 contributors before a crowd of approximately 500 people at the new EPISD Fine Arts Center's main stage.
All who attended agreed that the event was well-organized and went very smoothly in comparison with other years.
With this, along with the awards to the Top 5% and graduation, the most important night of the school year culminated in a sea of flashes and felicitations from friends and family members as the future leaders of our great nation were appropriately honored on a stage worthy of their accomplishments.
The Eagle Pass News Gram congratulates the recipients and their parents on their accomplishments and Godspeed in all their future academic goals.
Commencement will be on June 7th at 8:00 P.M. at Foster-Veteran's Memorial Football Stadium.
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
Manuel Reyes III, D.A.R.E. Officer for the Eagle Pass Independent School District, informed The News Gram of the success of the 13th Annual D.A.R.E. Graduation held at Maverick County Lake.
"We're very thankful to all of our sponsors, volunteers and charitable organizations for the use of their equipment, vehicles, boats and even motorcycles which made the event much more enjoyable for the students."
Reyes stated that over 200 participants were able to culminate a year of Drug And Resistance Education across the EPISD.
Game wardens from The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department were on hand to give the students boat rides as has been customary throughout the years.
Members of the Gypsies, Blue Knights, Reguladores, and Halcones MC Clubs were also on hand to give the students rides on their Harleys and the Maverick County Sheriff's Department had three Polaris 4-Wheelers to allow the kids to ride as well.
Pedro Guanajuato of US Costoms assisted the Sheriff's Department in giving out incentives for the kids and Alfonso Mallen of the Eagle Pass Boys and Girls Club held a beach volleyball tournament and Big Bob Flores and Adolfo Lozano of BBO Truck Center handled the cooking chores of preparing over 350 hamburger patties.
Members of the Figthin' Texas 20122nd Junior Air force ROTC were on hand to assist with crowd control and lining up students who were waiting to get rides on the vehicles as well as one of the Polaris vehicles was hooked up to a wagon graciosly provided by Rosendo Flores.
The Laredo Food bank provided all the drinks for the event and numerous volunteers were also on hand to help out this worthy cause.
"We would like to thank Maverick County Commissioner's Court and the Commissioner of Precinct 1 Gerardo Morales and his assistant, Oscar Cantú for permission to use the facility and for their assistance."
"We had four D.A.R.E. Officers including myself as Jose Regalado of the EPPD, Melissa Valdez of the KTTT PD, Charlene Alvarado of the KTTT PD and G.R.E.A.T. Officer Fernando Chacon were also very instrumental in the success of the event and throughout the entire school year," added Reyes.
"The event has gotten bigger and bigger since the days when we started and it's all due to the great support we've always gotten from our community contributors who we are looking forward to working with again next year."
A.D. Ibarra
-Eagle Pass
In what may be a case of running away from family members during an argument, 28 year-old Anthony Guerrero crossed El Indio Highway at a location where many have been hit by oncoming traffic, but not in this situation.
At approximately 11:30 P.M., police reported to the scene of an accident in which a male individual had been struck by a vehicle and passed away instantly. Guerrero was crossing El Indio from north to south when a vehicle driven by 50 year-old Juan Leandro struck him killing him instantly. Leandro attempted to take evesive action, but was unable to avoid a collision.
Guerrero, according to a report from Lieutenant Aldo Escamilla, had apparently been in a heated discussion with family members who were attempting to coax the young man into the car when he abruptly and fatefully crossed the roadway where a 2004 Ford Sports Trac was coming at no apparently elevated rate of speed, however the impact was enough to kill Guerrero instantly to the horror of his family who witnessed the accident.
Lieutenant Escamilla informed The News Gram that at the moment, the case is being treated as an accident as the driver of the Ford Sport Trac was not intoxicated and voluntarily submitted a blood sample for analysis by the Texas Department of Public Safety. No charges have been filed as the analysis results should take anywhere from 2 weeks to a month to return.
The body of the victim was sent to Laredo for an autopsy.