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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1972
Page
8
School cafeteria offers daily meals from Monday to Friday. Menu items include burritos and buttered corn on May 8, whipped potatoes with ground beef on May 9, chalupas on May 10, hot dog meals on May 11, and steakette with gravy on May 12 plus standard sides and milk daily.
The Driftwood Garden Club hosted its annual flower show at the Civic Center on South Padre Island on April 21 and 22 titled Moods of Nature. The Award of Distinction went to Mrs. A K Allen for August Drouth and the Award of Merit honored outstanding horticulture across entries.
A memorial service for Zue Vance will be held at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on Sunday May 14 at 9 am. Vance, a Fort Worth lawyer and WWII veteran, semi retired on the Island, studied at Tulane Law and was active in the Texas Bar Association. donations may go to St. Andrew's Church Memorial Fund.
The Laguna Madre Business and Professional Women's Club will host a rummage sale at the Firemen's Hall in Port Isabel on Saturday May 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Items may be brought to the hall on Friday May 19.
The Girl Scout meeting opened with the president and included future plans and Mother’s Day crafts led by Secretary Mary Claudette Kock. In Michigan, Harry Denman, former head of Methodism’s Board of Evangelism, debated Calvinists about salvation noting Methodists can fall from grace.
The Driftwood Garden Club met April 19 at Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thibeaux home in Port Isabel. After reports and bill payments, members finalized plans for the Annual Flower Show. Guest speaker Mrs. G Browning Smith of Harlingen spoke on Cacti and Succulents suitable for the Rio Grande Valley. Refreshments followed for Mrs. Sue Smith and members Betty Allen Jane Etta Raymond Mildred Falconer Faye Colley Leslie Johnson Ruth Coons May Lowery Mabel Hickman and so Sawer.
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