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Students selected as all-state musicians
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LOS FRESNOS - Four Los Fresnos High School band students – Elaina Garza, Benjamin Ramirez, Armando Vega, and Favian Zúñiga – have earned the prestigious honor of being named a Texas All-State Musician by the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA).
The four were chosen for this impressive honor through a competitive process that began last fall and included district, region, and area levels. Garza, Vega and Zúñiga play trumpet with LFHS Band, and Ramirez plays bass guitar with the LFHS Jazz Band 1. It’s the second all-state honor for
Zúñiga. Despite the innumerable challenges encountered throughout this school year, 2021 all-staters remained committed to their personal musical development. They demonstrated the very perseverance and dedication that ongoing participation in a music program fosters.
TMEA sponsors the Texas All-State audition process to promote students’ dedication to their musical knowledge and skill and to encourage educators to support their students in this development. All-State is the highest honor a Texas music student can receive. More than 50,000
students initially entered the TMEA All-State competitive process. Of those, 1,860 students were named to 2021 All-State organizations (bands, jazz ensembles, orchestras, mariachi ensemble, and choirs).Because of the impacts of the pandemic, TMEA will not host a 2021 performance event.
Council awards students and discusses public parks status By Tony Vindell
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To open or not to open the city’s public park was a question the Los Fresnos City Council discussed at its last meeting. And after an exchange of concerns over the agenda item, a motion to reopen the four parks died after three councilmen voted to allow people to use the facilities while three others said no. Mayor Alex Flores introduced a motion for the parks reopening. “I have been talking to people,” he said, “and they have been telling us to reopen the parks.” But Councilman Andres Lopez and Polo Narvaez said the time to do so is not right because of the health and legal
Anya Villarreal of Los Fresnos Elementary gets a Elementary 1st place medal from Police Chief Hector Gonzalez. risks involved. “I am concerned about safety,” Lopez said. “I am in favor of partially opening the parks but what about having supervision?” The councilmen opposing the reopening said the pandemic has not gone away and letting large groups of people in some of the
city’s parks is counterproductive. But Flores, who repeatedly made a motion to reopen the parks, said how long it is going to take for people to enjoy the outdoors. “The pandemic began more than nine months ago,” he said. “Are we ► CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
Alondra Tefertiller of LFHS receives a Secondary 1st place medal
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