Please watch this video and join our district in thanking Lytle HEB plus! for their amazing gifts of time, donations, and support for our public schools. Mr. Larry Contreras, General Manager at Lytle HEB Plus! has been a friend to Lytle Schools and the district for many years. He has worked for HEB for 21 years, managed the Lytle HEB Plus! for 12 years, and retired on June 7, 2020.
On behalf of Lytle HEB Plus!, Mr. Contreras supports the district by sponsoring ads in the K-12 yearbook, donating school supplies and teacher classroom supplies from the store, and he comes to speak to students at every campus and grade level. In visits to classrooms, he shares his knowledge of the grocery industry and important career readiness information. Our local HEB even allows us to bring students for field trips to visit every department in the store, hearing from experts in the butcher shop, seafood, and bakery, to name a few. He has been a guest (motivational) speaker at Lytle ISD's Community Pep Rally, and during the Christmas holidays, he invites our Lytle Pirate Band to perform Christmas tunes in the middle of the store! Lytle HEB Plus even works with our special education and life skills students to help them train for jobs in the store such as curbside pickup and has assisted our Life Skills students when they offered "grocery concierge service" and learned how to shop for, buy, and deliver groceries to our teachers and school staff. HEB has always contributed to our Pirate Track and Field Day and Christmas Dance by providing food and decorations. These two events include students in Special Education Programs from 5 area schools. In years past, when convocation welcomed district staff back to school, Lytle HEB Plus was always there with prize drawings and special giveaways. We miss seeing them this year, as we must forgo many of our traditional gatherings.
If you would like to share a personal thanks, Mr. Larry Contreras is copied on this email.
We look forward to working with the new General Manager of Lytle HEB Plus!, Mr. David Reyna who is married to one of Lytle's teachers, Tina Reyna (she is also copied on this email.)