Spanish Treasure Helpline Draws 1200 Callers In Four Months
The Port Isabel Press reports the Valley HELPLINE has received nearly 1,200 calls from December through April. Dr. Bohannon notes calls come from Brownsville, Raymondville, and Rio Grande City with bilingual volunteers and 2 pm to 2 am hours. Volunteers from diverse professions staff the service at the First Presbyterian Church in Edinburg.
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Helpline
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McAllen
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Dr. Bohannon
First Presbyterian Church
Edinburg
Bohannon
UT Austin Middle East Summer Institute Heads to Morocco
Fifty students and seven faculty members will study in Casablanca this summer under a grant from the U S Office of Education. The UT Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies sponsors the program using surplus agricultural funds pledged not to leave Morocco.
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University of Texas Center For
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U.S. Office of Education
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States
Morocco
Weekly school menu from May 10 to May 14
Meals listed for each weekday include May 10 baked ham potatoes green beans bread milk and apple cobbler. May 11 tacos Spanish rice lettuce and tomato milk gelatin with fruit. May 12 meat sauce over whipped potatoes sweet peas celery sticks corn bread milk cake honey. May 13 hamburger French fries lettuce tomato bun milk fruit salad. May 14 chicken sandwich frites lettuce tomato bread milk peach halves.
Grant Sought Home for Boys
La Esperanza Home for Boys seeks an $83,422 grant from the Texas Criminal Justice Council to fund building and operating a farm home for neglected and delinquent youths in Cameron Hidalgo and Willacy Counties. Project director Rev Jerry Frank seeks private contributions totaling about $69,000. A 34 acre site at the Brownsville airport, to be leased for $1 yearly, is planned.
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Cameron
Hidalgo
Willacy
Jerry Frank, Omi
Brownsville
Guadalupe Catholic Church
Texas Criminal Justice Council
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