BLUEBONNET GUIDE

EMERGENCY Services & Support Medical Community Local Services & Utilities Chambers of commerce Airlines & airports

Volunteer Opportunities for Winter Texans Rio Grande valley attractions Area Accommodations

A LOCAL GUIDEBOOK

The Rio Grande Valley - Mission area offers many services & support for people living at BLUEBONNET & for those who plan to visit during the various seasons.

Some of the more frequently used service & business phone numbers are listed for your information.

EMERGENCY Services & Support

Emergency Services - Local - 9-1-1 ( Includes Fire - Police - Ambulance - Poison )

Emergency Services - State of Texas

Texas Dept. of Public Safety - Mission & Hidalgo County. - (956) 984-5600

Texas One Call : Call before digging or drilling - 1-800-545-6005

Non Emergency Services - Mission

Fire Information - 580-8705 ---- Police Information - 584-5000

MEDICAL community

Members of the Medical Community serving the Mission, McAllen, Edinburg, Weslaco & Harlingen areas that may be of some interest:

Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, Edinburg, Texas - (956) 661-7100

Edinburg Regional Medical Center - Edinburg, Texas - (956) 388-6000

Knapp Medical Center - Weslaco, Texas - (956) 968-8567

McAllen Heart Hospital - McAllen, Texas - (956) 994-2000

McAllen Medical Center - McAllen, Texas - (956) 632-4000

Mission Hospital - Mission, Texas - (956) 580-9000

Rio Grande Regional Hospital - McAllen, Texas - (956) 632-6000

Valley Baptist Health System - Harlingen, Texas - (956) 389-1100

LOCAL Services & UTILITIES

These local services, utilities & businesses may be of some interest:

H.E.B. - 2206 Palma Vista Dr Palmview 585-3161

Sun Harvest Farms (specialty foods & products) - 2008 N. 10th.St. - McAllen, TX - 618-5388

Camping World - 585-8396 - 1325 E. Expwy 83 - www.campingworld.com

Kmart Stores - 1405 East Expwy 83 - 580-3353

Wal-Mart Supercenter - 3 Mile Rd and Conway- 585-4831

Hardware & Building Supplies Store - The Home Depot - 120 South Shary Road - 583-4194

McCoy Hardware -E Expwy 83 & Conway Ave

Globe & Foys General Food Stores (see newspapers for Specials)

Local TV Stations - Ch4 - Ch 5 - Ch 23 -Ch 60

Mission Speer Memorial Library - (Internet Access) - 801 East 12th. - 580-8750

(Computer Club Meets every 1st and 3rd Friday of each Month)

Library memberships allow Internet access

U.S. Post Office - Mission Main Branch - 901 North Francisco Av. - 585-1481

U.S. Postal Sub-Station - 2510 E. Griffin Parkway, Mission, TX

Animal Control - Bluebonnet Park Office - (956) 585-6730

LP Tank Refill Services to the Park - Pony Express Propane - 381-0123 --- Ochoa's Propane - 581-8940

Betts Propane (bring in tanks, small or large) 519-0622 - 401 N. Shary Rd., Mission, TX

Licensed LP System Service - Gooding RV Center - 585-4481 - 1601 E. Expwy. 83 - Mission, TX

Mobile Home & RV Air Conditioning Service & Repair - Malcom's Air Conditioning 686-7814 - 3306 N. 21st

Rose's RV Sales & Consignment - (956) 581-5755 - (1-800) 653-5841 - 2715 W. Exp. 83, Mission, TX 78572

Banks

Rio Bank @ Bentsen Palm and 495-

Bakery - Santa Fe Bakery 310 Veteran's Blvd, Palmview (RT off Bentsen Palm at lites)

Harbor Freight Tools Harvey & 10th St McAllen--931-8300

Restaurants & Dining - Refer to the Festiva section of the Monitor's Friday issue for locations & cuisine

Newspapers - Subscription Required -The Monitor - 686-4343 - www.themonitor.com - www.rgvguidebooks.com

Free newspapers delivered to RV Parks -Town Crier- Winter Texan Times - Original Winter Texan - The Coastal Current Weekly (South Padre) & Mesquite Review

chambers of commerce

Edinburg Chamber of Commerce - 383-4974

McAllen Chamber of Commerce - 682-2871 - wwwmcallenchamberusa.com

Mission Chamber of Commerce - 585-2727 - www.missionchamber.com

Pharr Chamber of Commerce - 787-1481

airlines & airports

McAllen-Miller International Airport, McAllen, Texas - American Airlines (1-800-433-7300) Continental Airlines (1-800) 525-0280

McCreery Aviation Co., Inc - McAllen Int'l Airport Air Charter - Air Ambulance - (956) 686-1774

Valley International Airport, Harlingen, Texas - Continental Express (1-800) 525-3273 Southwest (1-800) 435-9792 Sun Country Airlines (1-800) 359-6786

Volunteer Opportunities for Winter Texans

The Upper Valley offers many opportunities to be involved in volunteer activities with various organizations.

Some of those organizations are listed for your interest.

Mission Chamber of Commerce - 585-2727

International Museum of Arts & Sciences - McAllen TX - Volunteer phone line- 682-1564

Comfort House (McAllen Hospice) - Volunteer phone line- 687-7367

McAllen Heart Hospital - Volunteer phone line- 632-4297

Mission Hospital - Volunteer phone line- 580-9289

Rio Grande Regional Hospital - McAllen - Volunteer phone line- 632-6154

El Milagro & Hope Clinic (Hope Clinic is a totally volunteer facility) - McAllen - Volunteer phone 664-9416

Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley - Volunteer phone 682-8101

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge - Volunteer phone line- 784-7632

Rio Grande Valley Attractions

The area around Mission, Texas, the Valley & the popular travel tours offer residents a multitude of places to visit & enjoy.

A drive to the east will bring you to parking lots from which you can walk across the International Bridge at the Rio Grande River.

& visit Mexico's popular border town of Nuevo Progresso for a day of sightseeing, shopping & area attractions.

South Padre Island, further to the east, offers Dolphin watches, deep-sea & bay fishing, shopping or just walking the shoreline, enjoying the view.

Mission & McAllen shopping plazas & malls includes H.E.B. Foods, Wal-Mart, K Mart, Camping World, Home Depot, Walgreen's, Sears,

Dillards, J.C. Penney, Office Depot, CompUSA , Banks, ATMs & many national & local businesses.

Church & Worship services information for the area is readily available.

The McAllen & Harlingen International Airports have flights daily to major cities.

Major hospitals, Physicians, clinics, & medical care facilities are within Mission - McAllen's city limits.

The 760 acre famous World Birding Center is just a short drive down Bentsen Palm Drive.

National wildlife refuges offer tours during the winter season.

There are hundreds of national & local restaurants in the Mission - McAllen area that offer many dining choices.

Four Mission golf courses & driving ranges provide golfers with various challenges.

La Joya Performing Arts Centre at 604 Coyote Blvd in La Joya TX

The Students of La Joya ISD put on several spectacular shows annually. phone 580-5160

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AREA ACCOMMODATIONS

When you are in the Rio Grande Valley - Mission area for the winter & just want to visit friends or go out to South Padre Island overnight,

some of the better-known accommodations are listed with the following information.

All of the approximate mileage noted uses your site at Bluebonnet RV Park as a base.

Mission Accommodations (956) (Within 3 miles )

Best Western - 583-9290 - 609 East Expwy. 83

Holiday Inn - 424-7788 - 901 S. Shary Rd.

McAllen Accommodations (956) (Within 6 miles)

Drury Inn - 687-5100 - 612 Expwy. 83

Embassy Hotel - (1-800) 939-9299) or 686-3000 - 1800 S. 2nd St.

Hilton - 664-2900 - 617 Expwy 83

Marriott - 994-8626 - 220 West Expwy. 83

Motel 6 - 687-3700 - 700 Expwy. 83

South Padre Island (956) ( 70 miles to the East)
Best Western - 761-4913
Budget Host - 761-3377
Holiday Inn - (1-800) 531-7405
Howard Johnson - (1-800) 446-4656
La Quinta - 772-7000
Quality Inn - 761-4884
Ramada Inn - 761-4097
Radisson - 761-6511
Sheraton - (1-800) 222-4010
Travelodge - 761-4744
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Area Fleamarkets

The Bluebonnet Park Office has a list of area Flea Markets available free to our residents.

11/20/2009