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Food Town Laredo, TX Symposium: focus on City’s culinary culture and growing food tourism
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Keynote by Chef Jesse Kuykendall; panel led by podcaster and food historian Maite Gomez-Rejón
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TAMIU recipient of $100,000 Matias De Llano Charitable Trust gift for newly established Banking Academy
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Gift will jump start development of highly qualified banking and finance executives
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Tues., Sept. 17 is National Voter Registration Day
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Laredo Votes 2024 Campaign targets increased voter registration and voter turnout in November election
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LC Student Art Exhibits features best work of top tier art students; opens Sept. 6 at the Martha Fenstermaker Memorial Visual Arts Gallery
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Exhibit includes oil paintings, graphite drawings, sculptures, and ceramics; open to the public
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LC, IBC host Lotería fundraiser Fri., Sept. 6 to benefit MD Anderson cancer treatment and research
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Admission is free; great prizes on tap
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Laredo dance legend Altagracia Azios García honored at Laredo College’s FlamencoFest
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Azios García: “This has been a beautiful gift for my 90th birthday.”
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Laredo College welcomes FlamencoFest for workshops July 30 – Aug. 3; Yjastros Repertory Company performs Aug. 2
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Workshops for all levels of dance experience as well as instruction in Guitar and Cante
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Experienced, insightful, professional news anchor Ruben Villarreal named LC’s PIO/TV and Podcast Productions Director
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Homegrown talent, LC alum circles back to alma mater
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TAMIU’s Dr. Menhaaz Momen recipient of 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to Canada
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Momen will be the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digitization and Democracy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
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Newly formed El Rio Es Vida Coalition launches effort to address water crisis and for City not to consider a privately owned secondary source, which could increase water bills by 59%, according to recent Harvard University study
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Harvard assessment: a “comprehensive water management approach” to the Río Grande would reduce dependency on the need for secondary sources and increase the City’s ability to rely on the Río Grande for years to come