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In the News (Sat 25 May 13)

  
  Table of Contents and Excerpt, Reid, Rio Grande
The Rio Pecos, which heads in the stunning Sangre de Cristos, may have been the first stream to force its way to the sea, followed by the Río Conchos, which is born in the Sierra Madres Occidental; flattened on maps, the Conchos's tributaries look like the root system of a large old tree.
In the United States we learn that the Rio Grande begins with snowmelt and rapids in the Rockies of Colorado and New Mexico and then the river marks the plains with graceful lines of cottonwood and willow as it winds southward and claims its legacy as the Texas-Mexico border.
At the terminus of Highway 4, Gilberto Rodriguez and I jostled from pavement to loose sand.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exreirio.html   (3733 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Search
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 Nueces County Record Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was smooth sailing for Coastal Bend as the Aviators took their third in a row from the White Wings of Rio Grande Valley in front of 2,937 fans at Aviators Stadium with a 5-2 win.
The White Wings were quick to tie it up scoring a run in the top of the fifth, however the Aviators pulled ahead with a run in the bottom of the same inning when Knight scored on a single by Battersby.
White Wings designated hitter Oglesby broke his right ankle in his trek around the base path in the top of the first inning.
zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=9889347&BRD=1157&PAG=461&...&rfi=6   (1476 words)

  
 Rio Grande Bibliography: Contaminants and Toxicology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Contaminant exposure of willets feeding in agricultural drainages of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
Sediment and fish tissue studies on the Rio Grande, 1976-77, and on the Arroyo Colorado, 1978, in Texas (unpublished report).
Impacts of organochlorine pesticides on wildlife of the Rio Grande and Pecos River drainages of New Mexico and Texas.
www.cerc.usgs.gov /pubs/RioGrande/envcontam.htm   (2551 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/whitewingsbaseball
Rio Grande Valley White Wings is in your extended network
This is the Offical Rio Grande Valley White Wings Myspace Profile.
Rio Grande Valley White Wings is a Pro Baseball Team in Harlingen, Texas
www.myspace.com /whitewingsbaseball   (154 words)

  
 Welcome to Rio Bravo Nature Center
We were very under represented in the water birds and will need to include more of the Rio Grande where the white pelicans and many species of ducks are to be found in subsequent counts.
There are several water features in the form of sloughs, a major canal of deeply flowing water and the Rio Grande as well as several occasional creeks and minor lateral canals for irrigation.
Vegetation varies from sycamores of considerable size, mesquite, huisache, and hackberry in the river bottoms, coastal bermuda in the pastures, and the complex ecostructure of chaparal: whitebrush, guayacan, yucca and prickly pear on the sere uplands.
www.riobravonaturecenter.org /Bird_Watching/CBC12-15.html   (296 words)

  
 Managing Cotton Insects in the Lower Rio Grande Valley 2002
It is illegal to leave cotton in fields during the fall and winter months in the Rio Grande Valley and some counties to the north.
Experience in the Lower Rio Grande Valley has shown that in the heaviest infestations, yield reductions can be severe with losses of more than 500 pounds of lint per acre.
Tests conducted in the Lower Rio grande Valley during the last several years have shown that insecticidal control of SLWF populations is achievable, but is most efficacious and cost effective when used as part of an integrated management program.
insects.tamu.edu /extension/bulletins/e-7.html   (8360 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rio Grande: DVD: John Wayne,Maureen O'Hara,Ben Johnson,Claude Jarman Jr.,Harry Carey Jr.,Chill Wills,J. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Union officer Kirby Yorke is in charge of an outpost on the Rio Grande in which he is in charge of training of new recruits one of which is his son whom he hasn't seen in 15 years.
Rio Grande explores the Army officer's conflicted devotions to his family and to his uniform.
A performance of note in "Rio Grande" is that of (Col.)Peter Ortiz (USMCR) as "Captain St. Jacques", a lean, eyepatched officer of obvious French descent who shows the carraige and demeanor of a Foreign Legionnaire.
www.amazon.com /Rio-Grande-John-Wayne/dp/0782010059   (2916 words)

  
 The Brownsville Herald - Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jeffrey Loop, owner of White Wing Ranch, a 15-year-old hunting enclave on sunflowers and fields on the Rio Grande, said the season’s outlook in the Lower Rio Grande Valley was positive.
The Rio Grande Valley is part of a Special White-Winged Dove area, which extends west of Interstate 35 and south of U.S. Highway 90.
In 2005, the white wing population in Texas was estimated to be 2.8 million.
www.brownsvilleherald.com /ts_comments.php?id=72522_0_10_0_C   (519 words)

  
 Wings of Change
Spreading northward from the Rio Grande Valley, whitewings are pouring into nearly ever part of Texas.
By the 1 940s, loss of native brush and trees in the Rio Grande Valley had taken a toll — the population had dropped to fewer than a million birds.
In 1951, a severe freeze laid waste to Valley citrus groves, and the whitewing population dropped by 90 per­cent.
www.drundel.com /dove/dove.htm   (1584 words)

  
 All Info About Texas Travel: Harlingen
Sitting in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen is a popular stop for "winter Texans," those residents of northern climes in the U.S. who make the trek south every winter (see the note about Sun Country Airlines down below for proof of this).
The Rio Grande Valley White Wings are a minor-league baseball team that plays at Harlingen Field.
The Rio Grande Valley International Airport is located in Harlingen and serves the surrounding area, including the resort city of South Padre Island (to the east of Harlingen).
www.allinfoabouttexas.com /harlingen.html   (450 words)

  
 WINGS Birding Tours to Texas: The Rio Grande Valley: 2006 Tour Narrative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We traveled the length of the lower Rio Grande Valley from close to the mouth of the river at Boca Chica to above Falcon Dam at San Ygnacio.
Along the way, we encountered nearly all of the birds largely limited in the United States to the lower Rio Grande Valley.
In addition to these fine species, some of the rarer valley birds were encountered over the course of the week.
wingsbirds.com /tours/narrative/126   (617 words)

  
 WINGS Birding Tours to Texas: The Rio Grande Valley
The lower Rio Grande Valley is also well known for its butterfly, dragonfly and reptile diversity.
We’ll have a full week to explore a range of faunal regions, from the broad coastal plain with its shallow lagoons and grasslands, to the scrubby mesquite/cactus forests of the drier uplands and finally to the dense stands of sabal palm, huisache, Texas ebony and Montezuma bald cypress that line the river itself.
We will also visit the Valley Nature Center Thicket in Weslaco which often harbors migrants and parrots, and has a small colony of breeding Yellow-crowned Night-Herons; the McAllen Sewage Ponds; and Anzalduas County Park where we hope to encounter some mixed flocks and perhaps the charming Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet.
wingsbirds.com /tours/view/126   (1451 words)

  
 CSR - Riparian Vegetation of LRGV
This rare species occurs naturally only along the Rio Grande flood plain and rescue banks in Cameron County.
It is commonly cultivated in other areas of the Rio Grande Valley even though the young seedlings are difficult to transplant.
Lemmas awnless, white, lanceolate as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, glabrous.
www.csr.utexas.edu /projects/rs/valleyveg.html   (1971 words)

  
 Texas Monthly April 2000: Play Ball, Y'all
Ballpark The Dell Diamond (3400 E. Palm Valley Boulevard, 512-255-2255), which was designed based on Express president Reid Ryan's favorite parts of ten other stadiums: The outer facade is like that of the Ballpark in Arlington, the outfield bullpens are as visible to fans as they are at Camden Yards in Baltimore, and so on.
White Wings brand tortillas, available in the Valley, have proof-of- purchase stickers that can be exchanged for four tickets.
Ballpark Potter County Memorial Stadium (North Third Street west of Grand, 806-342-3455), which is across the street from the stockyards; visiting players say they always know they're in Amarillo the second they step off the bus.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2000-04-01/feature5.php   (2409 words)

  
 texnews sports
...Rio Grande Valley battled back with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings before the Prairie Dogs scored their final run in the eighth inning.
The loss dropped Rio Grande Valley to 4-6 on the season.
Jeff White and Tommy Rosales have 54-hole scores of 226.
www.texnews.com /sports/spt.may16-3196.html   (5503 words)

  
 Birdchick Blog: What Really Happens at Rio Grande Bird Fest
Okay, finally the word on what happened people-wise at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival.
It doesn't have the flight pattern a pileated does--this isn't someone speaking from behind a computer, this is someone who has considered a pileated a favorite bird since age seven and has watched it for hours in the field.
If anything you could argue that the footage is an albinistic wood duck from the way the wings flap and the speed that the bird in question leaves the tree--it doesn't have the flight pattern of a woodpecker at all.
www.birdchick.com /2005/11/what-really-happens-at-rio-grande-bird.html   (1257 words)

  
 Valley Morning Star Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While most of us don’t know the answer to that, one thing I do know is that 2006 was a good year in Rio Grande Valley sports.
The Wings did not have the season they would have liked to, but manager Eddie Dennis and the rest of the RGV staff have been hard at work to make sure 2007 is a much better year for the fl-and-white.
This year was also big for me personally, as it marked my first year with the Valley Morning Star’s sports staff, and I hope it certainly won’t be the last.
www.valleymorningstar.com /articles/2006/12/30/sports/sports2.txt   (690 words)

  
 San Angelo Colts
For the first time in 40 years, local baseball fans could once again proudly wear their team's colors and watch the boys of summer as they chased their own dreams on the diamond.
The Colts also did their part, putting together an excellent inaugural season where they finished 2nd in the regular season standings and advanced to the playoffs where they were eventually eliminated by the Rio Grande Valley White Wings who went on the win the championship.
For their efforts the Colts garnered a league-high four Post-Season All-Star selections, plus Manager, Executive and Franchise of the Year Awards from the league.
www.sanangelocolts.com /colts   (620 words)

  
 Reporter OnLine Local/Area Sports: May 1996 Archives
May 18 - Rangers Blow Big Lead: Manny Ramirez's grand slam capped a six-run seventh inning Friday night as the Cleveland Indians overcame a seven-run deficit and beat the Texas Rangers 12-10.
May 17 - Tulsa Beats Rangers: Hanley Frias hit a grand slam homer and finished with six RBI as Tulsa spanked its parent Texas Rangers 16-5 in exhibition play on Thursday.
He also spent time in the Cubs and White Sox minor league systems, advancing as far as Class Double-A Orlando in the Cubs' organizations.
www.texnews.com /sports/spt.may.html   (11998 words)

  
 News release - UT Health Science Center-San Antonio
Graduating residents say they joined the program for a variety of reasons: a desire to practice in the Rio Grande Valley, professional respect for the staff, and a belief in Christian values in healing.
Harlingen's program is one of only a few medical residencies in the United States that stress spiritual as well as scientific and medical aspects of treatment.
Dr. Oorjitham, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, plans to practice in the Rio Grande Valley.
www.uthscsa.edu /opa/releases/nrel22ajun98.htm   (847 words)

  
 Valley Morning Star Online Edition
And on the field, the Rio Grande Valley White-Wings kept scoring.
Rob Parfett was set to take the mound against the Coyotes' Ryan Harris and despite losing two straight to Edinburg and three in a row, Wings manager Eddie Dennis felt good about this one.
That's when Whiteside came up and played hero with an RBI single to left field to end the game in the most dramatic fashion possible.
www.valleystar.com /articles/2006/07/27/sports/sports1.txt   (709 words)

  
 Notes From The Nat
Well, to be honest, we’re not certain where he is right now, but Tomas pitched in two games for the Rio Grande Valley White Wings in the mostly unheard of United League in 2006.
He went 1-0 with an ERA of 3 over 3 innings for a team that came 6th out of 6 teams in the league, and played to an average of 1500 people a night.
That Cabaniel didn’t stick around to end the season with the White Wings is no surprise - the team featured some 29 hitters and 28 pitchers throughout the season.
www.notesfromthenat.com   (6035 words)

  
 CBL History
The Rio Grande Valley White Wings topped Amarillo, 3-to-1, in 2000.
The Edinburg Roadrunners won the title in their first season in 2001, 3-to-1, over San Angelo.
He has owned numerous baseball franchises and continues to own a team in Quebec City, Québec, in the Northeast League and operate the Advanced-Rookie Burlington (N.C.) Indians of the Appalachian League.
www.wfbaseballboosters.org /cbl_history.htm   (650 words)

  
 United League Baseball's Texas Winter League
To provide United League Baseball players presently under contract a winter instructional league to be able to improve their skills for the upcoming summer season.
To provide the Rio Grande Valley with a first class winter professional baseball league that is marketed directly towards local youth, Winter Texans, families, and the region's business community.
Dennis led the White Wings to the TL-L Championship in 2000 which is still Harlingen's only professional baseball championship.
www.probaseballtryouts.com /unitedleague/index.htm   (848 words)

  
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The last and least memorable of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (following Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), Rio Grande nonetheless has an interesting continuity about the gentlemanly rules of military conduct.
www.amazon.com /Rio-Grande-Col-John-Wayne/dp/1555265952   (3044 words)

  
 Coastal Bend Aviators
John began his managerial career in 1999 in LaFayette of the former Texas-Louisiana League.
He has also skippered several teams in the former Central Baseball League, including the Rio Grande Valley White Wings, Amarillo Dillas and the San Angelo Colts.
He led the Dillas to the playoffs in 2003 and 2004.
www.aviatorsbaseball.com /staff/?id=671   (129 words)

  
 TEXAS HOME SOURCE - Texas Regions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"The Valley" is not actually a valley but a flat plain that spans out from the Rio Grande River at the southern tip of Texas.
The population increases by thousands in the winter as "snow birds" from cold northern states drive their R.Vs. or fly to rental property in this land of sunshine.
We include Laredo since it is on the Western edge of this area and also borders the Rio Grande and Mexico.
texashomesource.com /rio.html   (302 words)

  
 Best Western Garden Inn & Suites - San Benito Texas Hotels - Hotels-Etc.com
Whether doing business in the upper or lower Rio Grande Valley, the Best Western Garden Inn & Suites is the perfect centralized location.
Valley International Harlingen Airport 10 minutes, Brownsville/South Padre International Airport 20 minutes, McAllen Miller International Airport 40 minutes.
Transportation: - * 10 minutes from Valley International Harlingen Airport * 20 minutes from Brownsville/South Padre International Airport * 40 minutes from McAllen Miller International Airport * Taxi
hotel.hotels-etc.com /11280827O.html   (502 words)

  
 Joe's sporting life: Brownsville, Tejas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Among the teams I failed to follow were the
Rio Grande Valley White Wings (even after telling
CricInfo's commentary team, I didn't manage to attend a single baseball game in 2001).
www.amurgsval.org /joe/hockey/RMCHA/hockey/utes/brownsville.html   (115 words)

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