Staff -Eagle Pass

Monday October 8th will be the first day of the new stage of Loop 480 which will connect International Bridge II with El Indio Highway. This phase called the Outer Loop actually reaches Highway 57, which The Honorable Hope Andrade, Texas Secretary of State so proudly spoke of in her address on Thursday at City Council Chambers. Eventually the loop will reach Highway 277 to Del Rio and it shows the progress of our community and the future economic development we will surely see in the near future. Celestino Hernandez, TxDoT Representative, said that the ceremony to open the new byway will be at 9:30 A.M. at the intersection of El Indio and the new loop. Dignitaries will be on hand for the festivities then the loop will be open for business. This will aid in alleviating traffic in the immediate areas especially in terms of commercial traffic as they will no longer have to travel within the city to get to where they're going as time is of the essence in their line of business.

NATIONAL CONTEST TARGETS TEN REGIONS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

- Ten schools from across the U.S. will win $1,000 grant for drug prevention -

- Ten families will win an iPad for the home -

The National Family Partnership® (NFP) announces the national contest for its 27^th annual Red Ribbon Week®, Oct. 23-31. Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country. In 1988 after the murder of a DEA agent, parents, youth and teachers in communities across the country began wearing Red Ribbons as a symbol of their commitment to raise awareness of the destruction caused by drugs.

A.D. Ibarra

-Del Rio

The CC Winn Mavericks traveled to the Queen City to take on the Del Rio Rams at Levermann Stadium in their first District 29-AAAAA tilt of the season.

The spirit of Carl Guys had to be feeling the Friday Night Lights and he was probably wondering why Eagle Pass was donned in Silver & Black as the Rams drew first blood on a fifty yard drive that culminated in a spectacular 12 yard run by Ram QB Jorge Fernandez.