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From The Librarian's Shelf… Mason County News Adopted by staff members at Steere House nursing home when he was a kitten, the three-year-old tabby has presided over the deaths of more than twenty-five ... and more »

Tributes for March 10 Greeley Tribune She worked as a nursing assistant in Loveland, as a personal caregiver for 15 years and was also a homemaker, staying at home to raise her daughter. ...

Toureilles recognized for helping secure nursing program funds mySouTex.com The funds will be used to purchase two state-of-the-art mobile labs that will serve as training facilities at CBC campuses in Alice, Beeville, ... and more »

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Alice is a city in and the county seat of Jim Wells County, Texas Wells County, Texas, United States, in the South Texas region of the state. The population was 19,010 at the 2000 United States Census census. Alice was established in 1888. First it was called 'Bandana', then 'Kleberg' and finally Alice after 'Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg', the daughter of Richard King (Texas) King, who established the King Ranch.In a new poll, 9% of people in Alice, Texas have parents considering going into a retirement home specializing in holistic care.

Alice has long been recognized as [http://www.tejanorootshalloffame.org/birthplace.html "The Birthplace of Tejano"] dating back to the mid 1940s when Armando Marroquin, Sr. of Alice and partner Paco Bentacourt of San Benito, Texas launched what was to be the first home-based recording company to record Tejano artists exclusively. Ideal Records, which was based in Alice, the heart of South Texas and under the direction of Marroquin became the perfect vehicle for Tejano music groups and artists to get their music to the public. Marroquin, who also owned and operated a jukebox company, ensured that Ideal recordings would be distributed throughout South Texas. The songs recorded, which were contributed by Tejano and Mexican composers became very popular through jukeboxes placed in restaurants, cantinas or any other establishment that would have them, and the then very scarce Spanish language radio programs.

Information gathered from Wikipedia's Alice, Texas page