Thank you to the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Chief Admistrative Officer, Eduardo Olivarez, for presenting a Zika Virus Prevention Talk at our Speer Memorial Library. The event was free and informative. Our City of Mission Adopt-A-Pet Program has a new featured pet! If you would like to adopt this Labrador Mix, believed to be 2 months old, please call 580-8741. Our Boys and Girls Club of Mission held an award ceremony and performance to end its successful Summer Cheer Camp! The Rotary Club of Mission presented a banner of support to our Mission Police Department – thanking local law enforcement for serving our Community! Community members gathered outside our Mission Police Department as Family in Blue held a prayer vigil for our first responders. Mission City Leaders helped distribute backpacks filled with school supplies at our Mission CISD’s Annual Back to School Bash! Thanks to the many community members for their donations to ensure more than 2,000 Mission students will be ready to start the school year! A mother and daughter dancing duo from the Yucatan region of Merida is demonstrating and teaching some of the Ancient Mayan dance routines to the kids in our Mission Parks and Recreation Ballet Folkloric! We had a great time at our Mission Police Department’s 21st Annual National Night Out! National Night Out is an annual community-building event to promote police-community involvement in an effort to make our City a safer and better place to live. We would like to give a special thanks to KRGV’s Letty Garza for emceeing Mission’s National Night Out! Sisters, Mar y Sol, made a stop at our City Hall and Mission Police Department! The two boxer mixes, believed to be around two months old, are ready for adoption! If you would like to make them a part of your family, please call our City of Mission Adopt a Pet Program at 580-8741. Mission residents joined our Boys and Girls Club of Mission at its MISSION FIT BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT! Money raised at the Fun Run, Zumba and Self-defense classes helped raise money for school supplies for Mission students! Check out all of the fun we had at our Greater Mission Chamber of Commerce 2016 Chef’s BBQ Throwdown & Car Show! Our Movies on the Lawn Summer Series at our Mission Historical Museum was a great success! Thank you to all of our residents for joining us throughout the month of July! Mission Police Officers Gilberto Cano and Matthew Fernuik completed a course to get their ATV certification! The US Border Patrol held the All-Terrain-Vehicle training course this week. The use of ATV’s will allow our officers better access to remote or otherwise inaccessible areas. The City of Mission has a new Police K-9! The Mission K-9 Cop is named Ben. Officer Richard Flores will be Ben’s handler. We wish the two a safe and successful partnership! The City of Mission Media Relations Department congratulates Telemundo 40 on the inauguration of its new and improved television facilities! The City of Mission Mayor and City Council declare August 2nd as National Night Out in Mission, and invite the community to join our Mission Police Department for the “21st Annual Night Out Fight Against Crime” at our Leo Peña Placita Park (W. 8th St and Conway) from 6pm-10pm. ‹ Previous«4041424344»Next ›