Community spirit was alive and well at the Rotary Rally for Relief on Saturday July 12. Clifton Castle of Rotary Del Rio and Madison Hailey of 830 Press volunteered as two headlining musical acts, completely pro bono. Clifton Castle closed out his first set with “The Dance” by Garth Brooks and dedicated the song to the “Angels of Kerrville.” Castle said, “this song makes me remember my dad and all the people we lost.”

On Monday, an interagency — and international — swift-water training session brought first responders from both Del Rio and Acuña, Coah, MX together. The joint emergency response training had been scheduled for July 14 since mid-June, but comes just two days after the Mexican team, known as Fundación 911, returned home to Acuña after employing these very drills in the real-world emergency flood zone in central Texas in early July.