For at least two years, Virginia Haynie Gause, founder of ArtsRGV.com dreamed of having a robust web-based events calendar for the whole Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Her two major goals were to have a tool that would allow people to search for events happening on the days they could attend, as well as one that would permit organizers to plan well in advance so that major events would not all clump on the same date!

George Gause, a local historian and an avid collector of Mexican folk art, has been supportive of his wife getting involved in this exciting project. He will be in charge of getting nature events into the Events Calendar because the Valley is burgeoning with those events as well as pure art.