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Staff
Eagle Pass
Time Warner Cable in conjunction with County Commissioner of Pct. 1 Eliaz Maldonado, is planning to show a children's movie at Maverick County Lake for the citizens of Maverick County to bring their children to enjoy. Other activities are also planned for the children to enjoy before and after the screening. "Happy Feet Two" will be the feature which will be projected on a giant screen at the faclility. This is part of big plans to bring more people to Maverick County lake on a regular basis. Also on hand will be members of the D.A.R.E Program who will be providing information and conducting activities to go along with the event. Commissioner Maldonado asks interested persons who would like to give of their time to volunteer to assist with this and other activities to come by his office at the corner of Bibb and El Indio Highway. He is looking forward to this and many other events which can provide much needed diversions for the youth of Eagle Pass. NHS members from both high schools are also reminded that they too can benefit from this event by logging in community service hours by volunteering.
Staff
Eagle Pass
The request to solicit a $3.6 million loan was approved by City Council at their Tuesday regular meeting at Council Chambers. The loan will serve to cover several important projects including the reparation of streets, informed Mary Velasquez, City Secretary. The plan to make said request was approved at the September 11th in order complete several impending projects which include the remodeling of the public library. Plans are also in place to utilize funds to give much needed pay increase to employees.
The Director of The Eagle Pass Water Works Systems, Jorge Barrera, informed The News Gram that they are busy working on finding clients to purchase potable water from EPWW in order to increase finances to the department. He also commented that at the moment there are petroleum companies who may be interested in purchasing this type of water. At the moment this type of water is returned to the Rio Grande, but the possibility of selling it to said companies would definitely be an option for the EPWW System.