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The International Idiots Club has joined with the American Military Support organization in Harlingen, TX to provide support for our heroic American service men and women of the Rio Grande Valley.

The 2013 Valley Hero Relief campaign runs through July 30, 2013. You may drop off you donations at the South Padre City Hall, the designated local drop-off location. Suggested donations include the following items as well as your financial contributions.

• SUNGLASSES(any kind)
• EYE GLASS CLEANER KIT
• SHOE INSOLES
• FOOT POWDER
• ATHLETE FOOT CREAM
• BLACK WORK SOCKS
• SUNSCREEN (spf 30 & up)
• ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT
• PAIN RELEIVERS
• BAND-AIDS
• MINI FIRST AID KITS
• MINI SEWING KITS
• COOLING TIES
• WIPES
• FLEA COLLARS
• NUTS (any kind)
• TRAIL MIX
• BEEF JERKY
• OATMEAL (individual packs)
• GRANOLA BARS
• POWDER DRINK MIX  (Individual size)

American Military Support is one of many charitable organizations supported by the club. Your gifts are greatly appreciated.

The results from the selection of this years Board Of Directors was unanimous for the following nominees:

PRESIDENT – LEONARD MCCARTHY
VICE PRESIDENT – SHERRY MORREY
TREASURER – LORA MCCARTHY
SECRETARY – LORA MCCARTHY
MARKETING – JERRY KLEIN
ENTERTAINMENT – LESLIE BLASING

The new Board assignments will become effective on April 1, 2013 and members were elected for a one year term.

A big THANK YOU to all of the persons who took the time to submit a ballot.

If you have questions, concerns, suggestions, etc. regarding anything doing with the Club, events, donations, etc., you can use the  Contact Us  form on this website to send a message directly to the Club and the appropriate Board Member will respond.

Congratulations to all of the newly elected Board Members and we can look forward to another year of providing a fun atmosphere while helping the local area charities.

As of 03/01/2013 the persons listed below have accepted their nomination for the Positions they currently hold. If there are no additional nominees submitted, then the current Board of Directors will automatically be reinstalled to their current position.

If you would like to submit your name as a candidate, please provide your name, address and contact phone number and the position you are seeking. The deadline for submission for additional Nominees is 03/27/2013.

Qualifications for any of the positions are:

- Directors shall be members of the Club for one year prior to election
- Directors need not be residents of Texas.
- Nominees can submit their information for consideration by:

E-MAIL TO:
INTERNATIONALIDIOTSCLUB@GMAIL.COM

 or

IN WRITING TO:
International Idiots Club
P.O. Box 2011
South Padre Island, TX 78597-2011

The names of nominees, other than the current Board Members will be listed on the Idiot’s Web Site for the Club Members to vote for the new Board of Directors.

The results will be announced on March 31, 2013 and the final selection of Board assignments takes effect on 04/01/2013

POSITION                  NOMINEE
President:                  Leonard McCarthy
Vice-President:        Sherry Morrey
Secretary:                  Lora McCarthy
Treasurer:                 Lora McCarthy
Marketing:                 Jerry Klein
Entertainment:         Leslie Blasing

The 2013 Valley Star Awards winners were announced in a special ceremony held Feb. 16 at Victoria Palms Resort in Donna in front of an 800-person audience. This year the star selections were a joint effort of Robert Ferguson and the Winter Texan Times. The award for Female Vocalist of the Year went to Leslie Blasing.

Leslie Blasing started out her set with a powerful Streisand song, “The Way We Were,” followed by a lively, “Any Man of Mine.” She did a little mimicking of Elvis with “Return to Sender,” followed by “My Little Runaway.” She slowed the pace with softer “Broken Wing,” by Martina McBride before ending with a lively polka, “Roll Out the Barrel.”

It was a fantastic show with the best entertainers in the Rio Grande Valley entertaining and receiving awards. With this quality of entertainment, it was probably the best Winter Texan show of the season.

The Entertainer of the Year Award went to John Sager. You can read more about the 2013 Valley Star Award Winners here.

From the 2009 Mexican Toga Party & Winter Olympics

The Mexican Toga Party and Winter Olympics will be at Boomerang Billy’s Beach Bar in South Padre Island, TX on Sunday February 24th, 2013. Join us for some fun in the sun -watch the waves, eat some food, have some drinks, listen and dance to the music of Leslie Blasing.

Leslie Blasing’s Mexican Toga Party and Winter Olympic is an annual event that she shares with the International Idiots Club and her friends on South Padre Island and South Texas. She will be serving some tamales, beans, fresh veggies with dip and other things that keep Olympians and spectators strong for this year’s competition.

The food will be served around 12:30 and the Winter Olympic Games will start around 1:30pm. The sign up for the games will start around 1:00. There are a limited amount of contestants that will be allowed to compete in each catagory:

• Two-Man Bobsled
• Ice Hockey
• I-Scream Eating
• Best Mexican Toga
• The Famous Two-Man Luge

Watch the Two Man Luge Video from 2009

Click Here for a Mexican Toga Party and Winter Olympics Photo Gallery from 2009

Balde and Eric from the 1981 Mexican Toga Party

Leslie’s history of the Mexican toga party: It all started 30 years ago at The Blasing Farm outside of Hondo, Texas.  When I was a junior in high school and wanted to have a party after our high school junior/senior play performance of M*A*S*H* (I was Hot Lips!)

At this Toga Party I wanted to serve Mexican food, so I decided to call it a Mexican Toga Party. Around this same time, the steady entourage of friends that were always at our farm, decided to have certain games with staunch competion  – horseshoes was a mainstay, strobe light tennis, tetherball and other games were added through the years. It is only fitting that these games, food and fun have lasted througout the years and traveling with me all the way down here to the Island. The experience is priceless!!  Make sure you join in as an Olympian or on the sidelines in your Toga cheering on your favorite athletes into the history books for the 33rd year celebration!

This Event is at the Palm Street Pier

WHO: International Idiots Club

WHAT: “FUN RAISER” EVENT
The Idiots Club is hosting the event to help Leslie Blasing raise money for the South Padre Island Fire Department’s Scholarship Fund.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
(Rain Check Date will be 02/27/13 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)

WHERE: PALM STREET PIER BAR & GRILL
204 W. Palm Street, South Padre Island, Texas (956) 772-7256
There will be special food and drink specials available during this event.

DESCRIPTION: All proceeds from donations and Raffle Prize drawings will help Leslie reach her goal. The International Idiots Club will MATCH – CASH DONATIONS “DOLLAR for DOLLAR” up to the first $500 received.

Come to Palm Street Pier for a great time and have some fun with Music, Dancin’, Drinkin’ and Eatin’. Reminder, seating is on a First Come – First Seated arrangement, so be sure to get their early.

Leslie Blasing Nominated for Best Female Vocalist

Cast your vote for your favorite entertainers, and you could win free tickets to the Valley Star Awards Showcase Feb. 16, 2013 at Victoria Palms Resort in Donna. 

The Valley Star Awards Showcase is an evening of live entertainment as awards are presented to this season’s top entertainers performing for Winter Texans in the Rio Grande Valley. This year, Winter Texans will get to choose who receives the awards.

Awards will be presented to the top vote-getters in each or the following categories: Male Vocalist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Family Musical Group of the Year, Musical Group (not related) of the Year, Duet Musical Group of the Year, Rock & Roll Band of the Year, Country Western Band of the Year, Comedy Show of the Year, Novelty Act of the Year, Gospel Group of the Year and Bluegrass Group of the Year.

Entertainer of the Year will be awarded to the group or entertainer that receives the most votes in any one of these categories.

The Winter Texan Times, with Victoria Palms Resort and the Rio Grande Valley Activities Directors Association presents the ballot for this year’s Star Awards. The activities directors selected the three top nominees in each category. We’ve prepared the ballot and now it’s up to you to vote and select your favorite entertainer in each category.

There are several ways to submit your Valley Star Awards ballot: mail it to the Winter Texan Times at the address listed on the form in the January 31, 2013 paper; download and fill out the PDF version of the form; fax it; or email it. If you need a copy of the form for yourself or a friend, email us at survey@wintertexantimes.com and we’ll email a form to you that you can fill out and email back. Or, you can find a copy of the survey form on our website that you can print out and mail or fax back.

Encourage all your friends to vote also. We want to know who you think are this year’s best entertainers. Be sure your ballot gets to us by the Feb. 14, 2013 deadline. Limit one entry per person. Those who submit completed ballots will be entered in a drawing for free tickets to the Valley Star Awards Showcase. Three pairs of tickets will be given away.

Tickets for the awards show are $10. The show starts at 6 p.m. and doors will open at 5 p.m. Six entertainers will perform between awards presentations, including Leslie Blasing, David Church, Willie Nash McColl, Freddie & Sheila Pelletier, John Sager and Gordy and Debbie Wensel.

Tickets may be purchased at the Victoria Palms Resort activities office Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., or by telephone with a credit card. For more information, call Victoria Palms at 956-782-3263.

For the downloadable BALLOT, go to: http://www.wintertexantimes.com/images/stories/2013/20130131_Valley-Star-Awards-Ballot.pdf

Andy Hancock with Raffle Winner

The 1st Annual Penguin Plunge was held on January 1, 2013 at Boomerang Billy’s Beach Bar.

The International Idiots Club joined with Andy Hancock, who is a master at sand sculpturing, for a brand new tradition to ‘wing in the New Year’! Several hundred people showed up to take a dip in the chilly waters of the Gulf  in celebration of 2013.

Besides the encounter with cold waves, there was music by Leslie Blasing, FREE sand castle lessons and a raffle for a wooden Penguin, which Andy carved on the beach in front of a crowd that gathered at Boomies. All of the proceeds from the event will benefit the treatment of Hydrocephalus, a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of fluid on the brain.

Because of the successful turnout of this FIRST-EVER event, plans are being made to make it an annual event.

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Leslie Blasing

Leslie Blasing will be performing several different themed shows in South Padre Island, TX during the months of January and February. Showtime is every Monday starting January 14, 2013 from 2:00 – 3:30pm. The shows will be presented in the Ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn at 7010 Padre Blvd., South Padre Island, TX.