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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Welcome to the second round of playoffs on the KRIS 6 News Friday Night Fever coverage of Texas high school football. From the original 27 that had been in the first round, only 11 Coastal Bend teams made it to the Area round.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — UPDATE- Attorney Thomas J. Henry released the following statement regarding the transition from his annual turkey giveaway to his new initiative "Feast of Texas".

"While the Turkey Giveaway was a tradition I cherished, I felt it was time to expand our efforts to reach even more Texans in need. The Feast of Texas allows us to make a greater impact by feeding families not just in the Coastal Bend, but throughout Texas. It’s about reaching as many people as possible and bringing hope to as many communities as we can."

*****After nearly 30 years of handing out turkeys, Attorney Thomas J. Henry has announced he will not offer turkeys but will instead make a monetary donation to food banks across the state.

Though Henry started his law practice in Corpus Christi in 1993, he has been passing out turkeys since the mid-90s and has kept with the tradition until now. Initially, this was only in the Corpus Christi area, but it later grew to incorporate Alice, Freer and San Diego as well.

In a press release released on Tuesday afternoon, Henry's law office stated that he wanted to create a broader impact across Texas. So, Henry is launching his first-ever Feast of Texas, in which he will donate money to food banks across the state to provide meals to families across the state. Henry plans to make this an annual event.

The Feast of Texas will ensure over 3.5 million meals to people across Texas.

The Coastal Bend Food Bank Executive Director Bea Hanson said it will use Henry's donation to purchase all the trimmings that go with the turkey on Thanksgiving.

"We don't have the money to buy the turkeys. He is doing it differently this year. So, we are going to provide these generous meals to the families during our next distributions and distributions through December," Hanson said.

She said as soon as they get the meals, families can pick them up.

"The turkeys unfortunately are not a part of that meal because we cannot afford to buy all that many turkeys," Hanson said.

Hanson said she wasn't sure why Henry decided to stop the distribution of turkeys ,but felt he wanted to help the food banks across the state.

"He decided this year to give the food banks the opportunity to better serve the community by providing the funding for the meals. It's a lot of work to do all the turkeys that he was doing and I'm sure there's some limitations with his staff now," Hanson said.

KRIS 6 News has reached out to Henry's public relations team to find out what led to the transition.

The Coastal Bend Food Bank served Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, and San Patricio counties.

Hanson said the agencies in outlying communities will handle their distribution events. Those who need help, do not need to qualify. They just need to show up.

Hanson said the plan is to give two holiday meals per vehicle, where the recipient will need to provide some sort of identification.

For those who are picking up meals for those who don't have transportation, they will have to provide an identification for that person and the addresses must be different from the person who is picking up the meals.

"This is going to be a much larger distribution we have ever done, so we are going to need as many volunteers as we can get to help us manage traffic and help us move distribution as fast as possible. We don't want a lot of people having to wait," Hanson said.

For more information on the upcoming distribution event or if you'd like to volunteer, go to the Coastal Bend Food Bank's website by clicking here. Once the food the food bank has ordered, they will post the distribution dates will be posted.

For those in need of assistance or looking for a free meal for Thanksgiving, click here.

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SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA women's basketball program is back in the Convocation Center on Wednesday as they host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for Rising Stars Night at 6:30 p.m.

The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Karl Schoening (play-by-play), Carlie Heineman (analyst) and Taylor Guajardo (reporter) on the call. Neal Raphael will deliver all the action on the radio in the greater San Antonio area on The Bull 93.3 FM and worldwide on the iHeartRadio app.

The Roadrunners (3-1, 0-0 The American) picked up a pair of road wins a week ago, first besting New Mexico State, 75-61, ahead of a 78-73 win over UTEP.

Redshirt junior Jordyn Jenkins was dominant, posting 28.5 PPG at a 70.4% clip and 11.5 RPG en route to American Athletic Conference Player of the Week and Ann Meyers Drysdale National Players of the Week honors. She went 9-for-14 from the field and 8-for-8 from the charity stripe for 27 points in the win over the Aggies, ahead of a 30-point, 10-for-13 day against the Miners that featured a 10-for-12 mark from the free-throw line and 12 rebounds in just 25 minutes.

Still early in the year, UTSA tops The American in field goal percentage at 46.0%, free throw percentage at 76.3% and is second with a 38.1% mark from beyond the arc. Individually, Jenkins is tied for the national lead with three double-doubles while ranking fifth in free throws sinking 31. She is 13th in points per game, charting 23.5 with 94 total points, ranking 16th. Additionally, Jenkins is third in the AAC with 38 rebounds, and junior Sidney Love tops the conference, dishing out 5.5 assists per game.

The Islanders (3-1, 0-0 Southland) have had a hot start to the year with victories over Texas A&M, Texas State and Sul Ross State. TAMUCC's fallen only once in the 2024-25 campaign, with a 65-42 defeat at the hands of No. 17 Baylor last time out.

With a stout defense, the Islanders are 31st in the country and atop the Southland in blocks per game, boasting 5.5 and in defensive rebounds with 31.0 per game. Nabaweeyah McGill has played a major role with 11 blocks, leading the league and ranking inside the top 20 on the NCAA leader board, while Paige Allen leads the team in rebounds with 11.3 PPG, 10.3 RPG, and 3.0 SPG. Mireia Aguado matches Allen with 45 points scored on the season and paces the squad with 15 assists.

The teams went down to the wire a season ago, as UTSA erased a 15-point deficit to claim a 66-59 overtime thriller at the Dugan Wellness Center in Corpus Christi. With a win this time around, UTSA would start the season 4-1 against NCAA Division I opponents for the first time since the 2007-08 season when the squad went 23-10 and reached the NCAA Tournament.

Keep up with UTSA Women's Basketball on goutsa.com and by following the program on Facebook at /UTSAWBB, X (Twitter) @UTSAWBB, and on Instagram @UTSA_WBB.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — A free weekly fitness event launched by the City of Corpus Christi during the height of COVID-19 was designed to get people out of their homes and get moving.

While that event is free to attend, it comes at a cost to taxpayers.

Since the inception of Safe Fun-Fit over $200,000 has been paid to one local business to run these events.

6 Investigates began digging into how the city was spending taxpayer money earlier this year after city employees reached out to our team.

Though Safe Fun-Fit is marketed as a city event, most related payments go to Victor Betancourt, who operates V-Fit Training Center, an athletic training center located on South Staples St.

Texas Secretary of State records show that Betancourt registered multiple companies with variations of this name. Some of these companies were dissolved, and some were forfeited. The most recent, FitCityCC LLC, was registered with the state in May 2020 and closed by the state in July last year.

6 Investigates requested all contracts between the City of Corpus Christi and V-Fit through a public information request in July. A specialist contract, which expired in August 2020, was provided.

KRIS 6 News also learned that V-Fit has a separate contract to host similar events with the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health Department.

That contract lists the vendor as Victor Betancourt and cites V Fit Productions, a sole proprietorship filed with Nueces County in 2011, which expired in 2021.

The same public information request yielded hundreds of pages of invoices between the city and V-Fit, with Victor Betancourt listed as the vendor on all of them.

Among the recurring payments, a “Consulting and Management” fee appears most consistently. A weekly fee of $480 was paid even when classes were canceled. Of the more than 40 classes canceled over the past four years, 6 Investigates found that only four did not have a corresponding fee payment.

When we requested a list of canceled classes, the city provided only six. The remaining canceled classes were identified through social media posts and press releases.

Other costs include $200 per month for social media, $50 per session/class for instructors, and $50 per session for DJs. A separate public information request to the Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation Department revealed that V-Fit subcontracts services like these.

According to Parks and Recreation, V-Fit keeps attendance and registration records for the event.

In that July request, 6 Investigates asked for documents detailing attendance numbers for Safe Fun-Fit. We received two undated attendance sheets and a spreadsheet showing over 16,000 attendees from 2020 to August of this year. The origins of these figures are unknown.

The spreadsheet indicates that most participants attend events hosted by the city but managed and run by V-Fit. Of the many events they have hosted, Endurance Fest is perhaps the largest.

Endurance Fest is a three-day event that began in 2023 to mark Safe Fun-Fit's three year anniversary. At the time the city lauded Safe Fun-Fit as one of the state's longest-running free fitness activities.

"This is the longest-running fitness activity free to a community that any Texas city is doing, and we should be proud of that," City Manager Peter Zanoni said at a 2023 press conference.

At the same event, Zanoni described Betancourt as "the brainchild behind this."

For the past two Endurance Fests, Betancourt has received a total of $17,412 in event management fees, in addition to the regular consulting and management fees. Betancourt was also paid to provide timing services for this event and reimbursed for timing chips.

Endurance Fest attracts donors, including Valero, AEP Texas, and State Rep. Todd Hunter. For example, Valero donated $10,000 to sponsor this year’s event. According to a Valero representative, the donation was made to V-Fit, not the city.

Unlike Safe Fun-Fit, Endurance Fest charges participants fees ranging from $30 for a 5K run to $65 for a 40-mile bike tour with Zanoni. These fees are non-refundable and paid to V-Fit, not the city.

The FAQ section of the event’s website notes that the event benefits three nonprofits. During the 2024 press conference, Betancourt said a "portion of the proceeds" would "help a few organizations, nonprofits." The beneficiaries listed are Team Life Cyclers, South Texas Rollers, and Kids Get Fit.

6 Investigates reached out to all three.

Team Life Cyclers, a cycling group, is not a nonprofit and has not received any donation from Endurance Fest, according to a group organizer.

South Texas Rollers, a running club, became a 501(c)(3) in 2023, the same year they were announced as a beneficiary of Endurance Fest. The event was intended to raise funds for its Scholarship Foundation. So far, they have received $5,500, though no scholarships have been awarded. According to one of the group’s leaders, they plan to "raise more funds" before awarding scholarships.

Kids Get Fit, a nonprofit promoting healthy lifestyles for children and families, has received a total of $9,000 from the event.

Kids Get Fit shares an address with V-Fit, and Betancourt serves as its president. 6 Investigates requested the organization’s 2023 tax returns on October 28. That return was filed the same day we requested it.

With taxpayer money being spent and multiple parties involved, 6 Investigates attempted to speak with Betancourt, Zanoni, Director of Public Health Dr. Fauzia Khan, and Parks and Recreation Director Robert Dodd.

Betancourt did not respond to our multiple requests for an interview. 6 Investigates received the following statement on behalf of the city:

Safe Fun-Fit at the Bayfront is the longest-running free community health and wellness program in Texas. The innovative project was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide citizens with a safe way to exercise weekly. To date, there have been over 16 thousand participants. The City of Corpus Christi outsources the management of this program and the annual Endurance Fest to a third-party partner. As is the case with all third-party partnerships, the City monitors the program's performance to ensure that the services meet the required standards and deliver value to the community.

That statement does not address why the city does not maintain attendance records, nor does it address Zanoni's apparent personal relationship with Betancourt.

Photos posted to social media include the pair at local restaurants and show Betancourt was in attendance at Zanoni's son's wedding.

That statement also does not address whether it is common for a private business to receive taxpayer money to run events that allow those businesses to generate revenue for those companies.

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