Let’s Meet!

RGVBF Volunteer: Lupita Lucio

Lupita Lucio wears many hats for the Festival – literally!  She’s our cap/t-shirt/patch person.  But she also spearheads the fun Kiskadee Kordial social, provides coffee and goodies for our vendors, and she and her husband are long-time supporters of the Festival.

A retired R.N., she was born and raised right here in Harlingen.  Both her community service and world travels are wide-ranging.  So are her interests—cooking, gardening, birding, dancing, and exercise.  She has run the Honolulu Marathon twice.

Special guests vie for her guesthouse, situated behind her lovely home that looks out over the native brush of the Arroyo Colorado, which you can see in the background of the picture.  Her yard and gardens support a variety of wildlife, including bobcats, scores of our special birds, and an interesting damselfly, the Smoky Rubyspot.

Lupita says, “Come on down to Harlingen!  We will have fun!”

For the Kiskadee Kordial, Burning Hawk Wines from California joins us, pouring red and white.  The RGVBF recently paired them up with the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, a partnership combining a percentage of wine sales and migratory bird conservation.  Just one of the significant ripple effects of the event…beyond the pure fun of it…