Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1993 Page: 3 of 8
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Luis Montoya has been named
director of business ventures Tor
Central Power and Light Co. In the
newly created position, Montoya
will explore ways to enhance
revenues through new business
opportunities closely aligned to the
electric utility business. These
business opportunities have been
amdr possible by recent
developments, such as the National
energy Policy Act of 1992.
Previously, Montoya was South
Texas branch manager for
International Business Machines.
He holds an MBA degree from the
Stanford Graduate School of
Business and a BS degree in
mathematical sciences from
Stanford University.
Montoya is a member of the
Corpus Christi Chamber of
Commerce board of directors and
Economic, Cultural of
Los Caminos del Rio
Luis Montoya
executive committee, United Way
of the Coastal Bend board of
directors, Texas State Aquarium
board of directors and the Texas
Scholars advisory committee.
The average commute to work in the U.S. is 22.4 minutes,
according to the Census Bureau. Workers in the New York
metropolitan area endure the longest commute-an average 30.6
minutes.
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An intellectual in u man who lak<*s more words than necessary to
tell more than he knows.
—IJwiglit I>. Eisenhower
From: Dick D. Heller, Jr.
Reporter-Starr Co. His. Society
The economic and cultural value of
the Starr County portion of Los
Caminos del Rio was told to
reprrsentatives of Los Caminos del
Rio's Roma Office in a recent
meeting in Rio Grande City with
Starr County Historical
Commission, Historical Society,
and Starr County supporters of Los
Caminos, and the Rio Grande City
Consolidated Independent School
District.
Mrs. Miriam Vale, chairman of the
commission and of the county Los
Caminos supporters group, added
the following:
"The Starr County Historic Trail, a
vital part of Los Caminos de Rio,
starts int he east at La Grulla,
where the old chapel has alicady
been reconstructed, continues west
along the old military road of
1846-50, then to La Santa Cruz,
past Dreamland and the Los Velas
tract of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley National Wildlife Refuge,
through historic villages founded by
descendants of the Escadon
settlements, to Rio Grande City,
established of Carnestolendas in
1762, to La Grotto de Lourdes,
down Britton Avenue with its many
historic markers, to where the
Henry Clay Davis: apartments and
hotel once stood, to his home, west
of Water Street to the King-Kenedy
warehouse, the oldest remaining
courthouse in Texas and the city's
first school, Samuel J. Stewart's
white house; Stewart, and
ex-member of Gen. Zachary
Taylor's army was one of four
Anglos who married into the Garza
Martinez family that owned the Rio
Grande City porciones, 79,80 of the
Camargo distribution. Then past
the LaBorde House, Salinas
building, El Patio del Rio, the old
post office, the Silverio de la Pena
building," Mrs. Vale continued.
"And of course lunch in Rio Grande
City!" she added.
The trail then runs west through
numerous small communities, each
with its own history, to historic
Roma-Los Saenz and its historic
district, on past Fronton, then the
ghost towns of Casas Blancas and
Arrieros to the old community of
Salineno, and the new community
of Falcon Heights, before
culiminating with a visit fo Falcon
State Park and Falcon Dam and
generating plants, she concluded.
Two stone homes in Los Saenz at
Roma, two of only 12 remaining
similar homes in South Texas,
should be preserved, Mrs. Vale
continued.
Mrs. Miriam Vale added that
Guillermo Trevino of Roma and
Noclla Escobar of McAllen, were
among those interested in that
project.
The homes must be moved, she
continued, and there is county
property nearby that would be an
ideal site.
Dick Heller, of Salineno and
Mission, suggested the importance
that historic preservation ordinances
could have for incorporated cities
like Rio Grande City, Roma and La
Grulla. He mentioned that working
with Arnold Vera, Jr., La Grulla
native, Rio Grande City High
School graduate, and former
Mission Main street manager, he
had written, presented, and gotton
adopted such an ordinary by
Mission.
This also permits a community to
become a Certified Local
Government, and as such eligible
for Federal matching grants and
state aid through the Texas
Historical Commission.
Another source of aid is by
becoming a Main Street
community, four or five being
chosen each year by the state.
Present at the meeting were: Rosina
Garcia, Roma Field Coordinator for
Los Caminos de Rio; Celia "Chela"
Guerrero, recently retired long-time
Rio Grande City teacher and high
school librarian; Mrs. Sue
Edgerton, county library board
member, Rome) Lopez,
Vice-President of the First National
Bane of Texas and retired Longtime
business manager of the
RGCCISD; Dr. Bruno Trevino,
President of the Starr County
Historical Society; Mrs. Miriam
Vale, Chairman of the Starr County
Historical Commission and the
Starr County Los Caminos support
group; Geroge Edgerton, Historical
Society board member with a
longtime interest in the Lee House;
Dick Heller, reporter-board member
of the Historical Society, of
Salineno,; Dr. Ruben Saenz, school
district superintendent, who called
and presided over the meeting;
Benito Trevino, historical as well
as natural preservationist of Rio
Grande City; Noe Sanchez,
chairman of the steering committee
for the incorporation of Rio Grande
City; Nate Fultz, teacher, and
immdeaite past president of the
Historical Society.
The group wil meet again at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, August 11, at the
auditorium building, Rio Grande
City schools.
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Roberts, Kenneth. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1993, newspaper, July 15, 1993; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth195401/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.