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DEL RIO, Texas –
Del Rio Sector’s Diversity and Inclusions Program Committee recently hosted an art competition intended to represent the Holocaust. “Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust” is an 8-day period designated by the United States Congress for civic commemorations and special educational programs that help citizens remember and draw lessons from the Holocaust.
Students from the Del Rio and Comstock school districts seventh and eigth grades were tasked with creating their own art exhibits to compete for top honors. Over 100 students participated in the art contest but only 17 were selected as finalist and invited to Del Rio Border Patrol Sector Headquarters for the awards ceremony to reveal the winners.
“All the students did an outstanding job with their art exhibits. Congratulations to all the winners of the Days of Remembrance contest and to all the students that participated,” said Del Rio Sector Chief Rodolfo Karisch. “In the end it was about a learning experience and awareness of a time in history that should never be forgotten so that it may never be repeated by future generations.”
The students, through their research, created magnificent art exhibits that helped bring to light the experiences the victims of the Holocaust endured. One student drew a picture of a tattoo gun, which was used to tattoo numbers issued to every person sent to a concentration camp. Another student drew a scene of an entrance to a concentration camp, depicting the outside as a peaceful place, but once inside, the camp was depicted as a terrible reality.
The judging process was a difficult task as all the entries were worthy of top honors. Unfortunately only one could be the winner. Once the art work was narrowed down by the teachers of the Del Rio and Comstock school districts, they were then turned over to Del Rio Sector Headquarters to vote on the winners.
The winners were: 3rd Place Isamar Rodriguez, Del Rio Middle School. 2nd Place Dulcinea Flores, Del Rio Middle School. 1st Place Kacie White, Comstock Independent School District. The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector is part of the South Texas Corridor, which leverages federal, state and local resources to combat transnational criminal organizations.
KINGSVILLE —
More than 1,000 prospective graduates crossed the stage to receive their degrees during four commencement ceremonies held at the Steinke Physical Education Center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville Friday, May 15 Graduating at the 10 a.m. ceremony were all degree candidates from the Colleges of Business Administration and Education and Human Performance. The graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences made up the 1 p.m. ceremony. Crossing the stage at 4 p.m. were candidates from the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences and the baccalaureate candidates from the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering. The graduate candidates from the College of Engineering graduated at 7 p.m. There were two commencement speakers. Dr. Paul Hageman, Regents Professor of Music, spoke at the 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ceremonies. Howard A. Garig, alumnus and drilling operations superintendent for ExxonMobil Development Company, spoke at the 4 and 7 p.m. ceremonies. Among the graduates were the following students from our area of Eagle Pass: Bachelor of Arts Marita Ivonne Jimenez, Veronica Isabel Moreno, Martha G. Reyes. Bachelor of Business Administration Poonam D. Bhakta, Brianne Costilla. Bachelor of Science Ana L. Garza, Claudia Martinez, Laura Rene Valdes. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Angel Mario Valdes. Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management & Technology Gustavo Morales. Master of Science Jesus Chavez.
DALLAS (AP) —
Rain that lashed a broad swath of Texas on Wednesday brought flooding to many regions, high-water rescues and new rainfall totals on pace to exceed prior years.
Areas south of Houston were swamped with up to 10 inches of rain, and emergency crews were searching Wednesday for a man they believed was swept away by flood waters in Clear Lake, southeast of Houston. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for many regions.
Streets were turned into waterways as abandoned vehicles in some places bobbed like buoys. Drivers who opted to drive through high water often ended up abandoning their vehicles. Houston fire spokesman Jay Evans said Wednesday that 20 people, most of them motorists, needed to be rescued from high water. Some intersections had 5 feet of standing water, he said, and a section of Interstate 45 was closed.
The National Weather Service says a 9-inch rainfall over a three-hour period may happen only once every 500 years; meteorologist Melissa Huffman said Clear Lake received 11 inches over three hours Tuesday evening.
"Some very impressive rain fell over a very short period of time, which is why we've had these flooding issues," Huffman said.
In North Texas, officials are taking the unusual step of releasing water from lakes to avoid banks from being breached. Parts of West Texas received heavy rain Wednesday, as did Austin and the larger Central Texas region, where a tornado warning was issued at one point Wednesday.
Huffman said a line of storms along the Interstate 35 corridor in Central Texas was moving east and would deliver another deluge of rain for the Houston area and also East Texas.
The weather also caused problems for many Gulf Coast communities. Neighborhood streets in Corpus Christi, for instance, were flooded and city officials hurried to contain a sewage overflow that resulted in the discharge of about 198,000 gallons of wastewater.
Huffman said Hobby Airport in Houston had recorded nearly 25 inches of rain for the year as of Tuesday, which is nearly 10 inches above normal.
Francisco Sanchez, spokesman for the Harris County Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said additional rain forecast for Wednesday evening is cause for concern.
"We're going to see impacts as bad or potentially worse than they were (Tuesday) night," he said.
Sanchez said the nighttime rain "caught a lot of people off guard" because it's difficult to see standing water in some areas and vehicles became quickly stranded.
Parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area have received 10 inches of rain over the past week, with more expected. Lakes long-parched by drought have overflowed with water in recent days. The Army Corps of Engineers since Sunday has increased the amount of water being released from Ray Roberts Lake north of Denton, according to Corps spokesman Clay Church.
National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop in Fort Worth said Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as of Tuesday had received more than 18 inches of rain so far this year. Normally it receives just over 13 inches by this time. Rainfall totals will only increase in the coming days, he said.
"The weather pattern remains fairly active at least through the next few days," he said.