2000-08-31 The Big Bend Sentinel

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FI. l-'AijO, TX
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West Texas Utilities Co. requests
rate increase, page 7
Rates reduced at area rural
health clinics, page 10
New Marfa arts studio opens;
October events planned, page 11 ;j
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ASSOCIATION
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August 31,2000
F e s tiv a l, A lp in e b a llo o n r a lly a r e th is w e e k e n d
Night parade,
street dance
are Friday
First launch
is Saturday
morning
MARFA - The 2000 edition of
the Marfa Lights Festival gets un
der way Friday-with a street
dance and an evening parade.
The Marfa Chamber of Com
merce sponsors the three-day
event.
Tejano entertainers Eddie
Gonzalez and Dee y Grupo
Valiente highlight the festival con
cert on Saturday evening.
And in between, there will be
fun, games and contests and food
and refreshment booths on the
Presidio County Courthouse lawn
during the day on Saturday.
Planned are a fun run, a Satur
day morning parade with state
Sen. Frank Madia as marshal, a
beard-growing contest, a water
melon seed spitting contest, a beer
gut contest and perhaps a kid’s
race. •Courthouse lawn activities con
tinue Sunday afternoon, and th e,
ALPINE - The hot air balloons
are on their way back to Alpine
with full force on Labor Day
Weekend! Put together by the
Alpine Chamber of Commerce,
the annual Alpine Invitational
Balloon Rally is set for this Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday!
With at least 30 balloons attend
ing, Alpine’s West.Texas skies will
be colorfully painted.
“Dr. Tim Brady," President of
the Tri-County Balloon Associa
tion in central Texas, “will be
serving as this year’s
balloonmeister,” says Chamber
President Johnny Carpenter.
“Tim is thoroughly versed in the
safety aspects of hot air balloons
and will be overlooking the entire
event. As a pilot he has logged
more than 1,000 hours of flying,
wagon
Tejano entertainers Eddie Gonzalez, left, and Dee Burleson are
on tap fo r the festival concert on Saturday night
festival concludes with, a finale
dance on Sunday evening.
The street dance, by the court
house, begins at 8 p.m. Friday and
features the country and western
sounds of Ken Holloway.
The night parade, entitled ‘Pa
rade of Lights,”, begins at 9 p.m.
on Highland Av-nue.
You may enter anything, you
want as long as it, or you, has
lights on. For more information,
or to,sigtr up, calL Raul Lara, at
915.729.4344.
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The 5k run and 2-mile walk is
planned for 7:30 Saturday morn
ing, sponsored by the chamber
and the Big Bend District Boy
Scouts of America. It begins at
the courthouse.
For more fun run information
contact Dawn Houy at
915.426.3567. Separate catego
ries will be held for males and
females and varying age groups.
Another great parade is ex
pected this year, with Larry
.Riven
day parade will begin at 11 a.m.
(Continued on page 19)
. « n d h a s f lo w n * n d in s tr u c te d M l,
of the major type of balloons,” he
added. This year Tim also plans
Judge gives
civics lesson
at special
court session
to hold a balloon glow and a com
munity concert.
Launchings for the hot air bal
loons will continue to be held on
the open field next to the Ramada
Limited. Scheduled time for the
balloon launches will be Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday at 7 a.m.
The Friday night registration and
reception party will kick off the
schedule of events for pilots and
crewmembers. Saturday will
continue on with a morning com
petitive flight, an afternoon recep
O th e r a c tiv itie s in c\\id in g o p e n in g *
a c o m m u n ity co m ccw . S u n t e y in
ceremonies will be held at 6:30
a.m. each morning.
cludes a post-flight basket com-
tion, an evening balloon glow, and
(Conlinued on page 19)
School taxes raised fo r
fir s t tim e in six years
grades.
By STERRY BUTCHER
Perhaps a little ominously, dis
MARFA - After six years of no
increases in the district's mainte cussion on the tax hike followed
nance and operation tax rate, the board members’ unanimous
Marfa school board members approval and adoption of the
voted Monday to raise that tax
district’s S4.8 million 2000-01 bud
rate from S1.30 to S1.35 per S100 get. District revenue this year is
valuation. The boosted tax rate • expected to bring in just under S4
is necessary, board members
million, causing the board to have
urged, because the level of ser _to dip heavily into the district’s SI
vices to students, some of them
million fund balance to pay the
state mandated, has also risen in
S881,649 deficit. In. that budget,
those six years without any ac
about
S650.000 is set aside for the
companying funding. Some ofthe
installation
of a badly needed lift
services that have seen changes
and a new heating and cooling
without additional monies include
the move to smaller class sizes system in the elementary/junior
high building.
for lower grades, the requirement
The tax hike likewise comes just
of one-to-one attention for spe
before a S5 million bond issue for
cial needs children and the push
school improvements goes to the
for advanced placement, college
preparatory class in the upper
(Continued on page .’0/
STERRYBUTCHER
By
PRESIDIO COUNTY - The
Presidio County courtroom was
full near to capacity last Friday,
as dozens of people came to ex
plain to State District Judge Ken
neth DeHart why they,had failed
to appear forjury duty earlier this
summer. Two bouts of absent
prospective jurors - once in late
June and once in August - led
DeHart to cancel two Presidio
County trials.
In both cases, the district court
sent out 250 jury summons to
Presidio County residents, but
fewer than ten percent of those
people actually appeared on the
appointed day. The cancellations
of the trials came at considerable
expense and headache for
DeHart and all the other parties
involved in the cases.
On Friday, the]udge addressed
the crowd with the help of an in
terpreter. "1 want you all to look
around at the large number of
people seated in the courtroom
.this morning,” he began. “The last
time we had citizens here for jury
duty, we only had about 22 people
show up when we have to have
36 to tiy a case. You’re consid
erably more - the no shows are
a lot more than those who showed
up."
Just before DeHart called the
prospective jurors to the bench
one by one, he gave the group
something of a civics pep talk.
“All of us lose sight o f... our fun
damental freedoms in this coun
try,” he said. “When you fail to
appear, you’ve denied all the per
sons who’ve come to court of
their right to a jury trial. We’ve
fought for those rights too many
times to lose it Jury service never
comes at a convenient time,” he
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More than 30 colorful balloons are expected in the Alpine sky
this Labor Day weekend.
Residents, school officials
discuss bond issue
(staff photo by MIRIAM HALPERrt)
Danny Seegers, S, o f Marfa and Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico, sampled the fabolous homemade /cij
cream at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church social on Sunday afternoon.
Rain falls on Marfa plain, but mainly in Alpine
ByROBERT LOllS HALPERN
FAR WEST TEXAS - Almost
every where got a little bit - even
bone dry Presidio - but the Al
pine area roped between 2.6
inches to 4.5 inches of rain Tues
day evening, depending who was
collecting the precipitation.
No serious injuries were re
ported in and around the
Brewster County seat, but there
were reports of minor street
flooding in parts of town and of
stalled and stranded vehicles.
The monsoon-like downpour sent
the Alpine creeks a’running.
Southwest Alpine residents re
ported a 4.5*inch rainfall, with
four inches on the west side and
about 3.5 inches in.central Al
pine. Radio stations KVLF-AM
and KALP-FM reported three
inches, and the official rainfall
will go down in the weather book
as 2.6 inches.
The Alpine rainstorm started
about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and
continued off and on until about
10:45 p.m. The brunt of the rain
fell for about an hour and a half,
from 7-8:30 p.m.
Reports indicated that Texas
118 between Alpine and Fort
Davis was closed for time, as
a
was U.S. 67/90 on the western
outskirts of Alpine when water
filled the roadway under the
Union Pacific railroad overpass.
In that same area. Mosley Lane
and Mosley Loop collected a
bunch of rain.
Lightning strikes took Alpine
cellular telephone servicc off the
air for a time.
-Marfa weathered an off-andon shower then a steady rainfall
Tuesday evening, amounting to
just over one-half inch.
The Presidio County seat’s
year-to-date rainfall is 7.3 inches,
By STERRY BUTCHER
MARFA • In a lively question
and answer session Monday
evening, school board trustees
and members of the public be
gan what was perhaps the first
truly substantive discussion on the
district's upcoming S5 million
school improvement bond.
The issue is set to go before vot
ers on September 30, the first
bond issue the district has pro
posed for 37 years.
Superintendent Gary Hamilton
presented a brief o v e rv ie w of
what tbe school stands to gain if
voters say yes to the project this
fall. Twelve new classrooms are
envisioned for the elementary/jun
ior high building, up to eight new
classrooms in the high school,
along with massive renovation on
both campuses and“the re-orga
nization of existing office space.
Included in the architect’s work
arc plans for the integration of
further improvements like a new
library' and technology center for
future years. Improvements to
the existing Redford campus arc
also planned.
Along with all that new paint,
new chalkboards and new lab
equipment, however, comes a fi
nancial burden to taxpayers.
Property owners who have taken
a few moments to file for a home
stead exemption with the Presidio
County appraisal district will fare
better than those who do not fill
out that form. A homestead ex
emption means that the school
district will not tax that property
for SI5.000 of that property’s
evaluation; S25.000 for property
owners over 65. For instance, a
taxpayer who has a homestead
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I ¢2) The Big Bend Sentinel. Marik. Texas. August 31. 2000
Cattle raisers, Hereford group meet in September
ALPINE • Texas and South*
western Cattle Raisers Associa
tion will conduct one of its edu
cational Outreach Meetings in
conjunction with tlie annual
meeting of Highland Hereford
Association Wednesday, Sep
tember 6, and Thursday, Septem
ber 7, in Alpine.
. A special round table discussion
beginning at 8 p.m. on Wednes
day, September, 6, will focus on
marketing problems conunon to
Hereford producers in Texas and
Mexico. Participants will include
leading Hereford breeders from
Mexico and the United States.
Moderator will be John Dudley,
first vice president of TSCRA
and a former director of the
American Hereford Association.
Arrangements for the program
were facilitated by the Texas De
partment of Agriculture and the
Southwestern Exposition Inter
national Committee.
The discussion will be preceded
by the annual business meeting
o f Highland Hereford Associa
tion from 5 to 6 p.m., followed
by dinner and visiting from 6 to 8
p.m.
The Wednesday program will be
held at the Mclntyre-Morrow
Ranch in Alpine. On Thursday,
the activities will move to the Sul
Ross Range Science Center.
Landowner rights involving the
bbrder patrol, immigration, fire
and predator control will be the
focus from 9 to 11 a.m. •
At 11 a.m., a Beef Quality As
surance program on the care and
handling of vaccines and proper
Texas Sen. Madia named as
lights festival parade marshal
MARFA - The Marfa Lights
parade ori Saturday will have a
"very special Grand Marshal this
year.
Texas Senator Frank Madia has
the honor of being the first Grand
Marshal in the millennium.
Madia has been a member of
the Texas Legislature for 27
years. He is chairman of the Sen
ate Intergovernmental Relations
Committee, Vice-Chairman of
Senate Administration, vicechairman ofthe subcommittee on
Technology and Business Growth
and serves on Health Services
and Economic Development
Committees.
Madia is also past chairman of
the Senate Hispanic Caucus. He*
has received many honors for his
service to the state including the
Lifctime Achievement Award
from the University ofTexas at
San Antonio Hispanic Research
Center.
Sen. Frank Madia
He has also been named Texas
Medicine’s Best Legislator and
received Outstanding Legislator
Award by Texas Police Chiefs
Association.
His contributions to Marfa and
to the Marfa Chamber of Com
merce has always been highly ap
preciated.
injection sites will be presented
by J. Quade of Bayer Animal
Health.
A complimentary lunch will be
provided by Hi Pro Animal
Health/followed by short presen
tations from TSCRA and the
Texas Beef Council.
A Brush Busters program for
controlling juniper will conclude
the joint meeting. It will offer one
Continuing Education Unit and
will be led by Charles Hart from
the Texas A&M Research and
Extension Center at Fort Stock
ton.
To help sponsors plan for the
correct number people, those who
plan to attend are asked to RSVP
to TSCRA’s toll-free voice res
ervation line at 1(800)242-7820,
ext. 192.
.
OPEN HOUSE
noon - 4 p.m.
Monday, September 4
CIBOLO CREEK RANCH
This Labor Day Weekend enjoy refreshments
and spend time exploring a restored
19th Century Adobe Fort.
Located 33.3 miles South ofMarfa on Highway 67.
Enter through West Gate
Lights memorabilia
on museum display
MARFA-A special exhibit of
Marfa Lights memorabilia will
be on display at the MarfaPresidio County Museum this
weekend during the Marfa
Lights Festival.
•
I t’s a good place to visit
whether you have lived here
and moved away or have just
moved to Marfa. The museum
gives you an idea of the history
*of the people who have lived
here in the past and an idea of
culture and events of this area.
Housed in the historic John
Humphries house, museum vis■iting hours arejrom 2 p.m. to 5
p.m., Mondays through Satur
days. This weekend is a good
time to come and renew “old”
acquaintances.
The museum has also received
some beautiful posters showing
the Marfa Lights, which will be
for sale.
Look for the museum float in
the Marfa Lights Festival pa
rade.
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International Folk Art, Unique Gifts
and Home Furnishings
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10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
this Saturday
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These include seconds, closeouts and discontinued products
Also Saturday only...
20% discount on anything in the store
(except red tag items. Layaways not applicable.)
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Marfa I.S.D. 2000 Bond Election
Election Day Saturday, September 30,2000.
The polls will open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Now yo u can leave hom e
w ith ou t leaving hom e.
The polling place for Precincts 1,7 and part of 6 will be located at the
Marfa Elementary School. The polling place for Precinct 3 will be
located at Redford Elementary School, Hwy. 170 South, in Redford.
Early Voting
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Early voting will be held in the district’s; central office located at 401 .
North Gonzalez-Hill St., Marfa. Early voting will begin on Wednesday.
Sept. 13 and will end on Tuesday. Sept. 26. Early voting hours will be
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Specifics of the Bond Issue
Bond amount:
Interest Rate:
Term:
Local Revenue:
Bond Tax:
$5,000,000
6%
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$8,170
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(.4.1The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31. 2000
Letters to the editor
Editor
I am not a letter writer, or even much of a complainer, but I have
to address the following to the good citizens of Marfa.
This moming, Monday, 28 August 2000, the EMS was called to
assist a subject with chest pain. The address given was 301 E.
Lincoln. The EMS people, no fault of theirs or the dispatcher,
were unable to find 301 E. Lincoln. Sheri ffy?D dispatch then
called the number back and advised, 1 assume, that EMS was
unable to find 301 E. Lincoln. Well, come to find out, the subject
did not know his/her own address and had to give directions to
that address, which, by the way, was nowhere near 301 E.
Lincoln. To make a long story short, the EMS found thtf subject,
loaded the subject in the ambulance and went to the hospital after
a lengthy delay that may have cost a life.
This is but one example of many in the past, what the City
Emergency Services (EMS, fire; police) including gas, electricity
and city employees, have to contend with. Not to mention the few
visitors we have looking for garage sales, friends, etc.
We were promised street signs in the past and I think it is high
time for the city to get with the program and get those signs up
now. I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember money was set
aside for the purchase and placement of these street signs. If I
am wrong, now is the time to apply for a grant to get this done.
This is a matter of personal safety and well being for all the
citizens of Marfa.
While I am on the subject, why can’t one or all of the high and
junior high school clubs and/or organizations, with proper
supervision, look into putting house numbers on all the houses and
businesses in the city. A fund could be established at the bank for
the purchase and placement of these house numbers (for those
unable to do so). That would be a worthwhile project that may
save a life someday.
I have been a citizen of Marfa for 22 years now and it has
always been: “Oh, John Doe, he lives two houses west of Jim
Bob’s, ya know?” Well, my friends, I don’t know. That no longer
cuts the mustard, or as they say now, “that dog don’t hunt,” or
something to that effect. As long as I have been here, I still have
trouble finding certain streets, even with the map the fire
department gave me. I do not even know where the city
administrator, or the city counsel members live, and would have to
have someone else direct me, in case of an emergency.
Therefore. 1plea to the citizens of Marfa to assist in getting new
street signs and house numbers up now.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
,
Clem Boulter
Marfa
Editor
Controversy is something! usually avoid. A wise person once said
never discuss religion or politics with friends.... but in our
• community we’re either related to one another or we’re friends
through some connections whether that be school, church, work or
community projects.
So, my friends, I’m asking you to vote for the school’s proposed
bond election set for September 30. It is a great deal of money, and
it is a large debt. It is a heavy burden for the taxpayers of the
district. I know, I’m one of them. But, what is the alternative?
How many of you have visited the school since you graduated?
Do you know it looks almost the same as it did in 1975 when I
graduated with the exception of the boiler room being remodeled
into an office? Can we continue to teach using the facilities we
. have now? Probably, but please understand that education is not
governed by the same guidelines we were 25 years ago. Did you
know students need more credits to graduate? That means more.
certified teachers to teach. These teachers need classrooms. Did
you know that we have more federal and state guidelines to follow
than we did even 15 years ago? Did you know the state ofTexas
requires public schools to educate all children regardless of any
disabilities whether those are physical, mental, or learning? Did you
know we have an increasing number of families moving from
Mexico to the United States who have children attending schools
who need special language classes in order to achieve an
education? Did you know that many of the classrooms had only
one electric outlet until computers were added two years ago? An
additional outlet was added for the computer and printer.
I think Marfa ISD has done a fantastic job managing the school’s
finances through the years. I have faith in the school’s
administrative personnel and the school board to guide us through
this must needed financial leap.
If you have questions call the superintendent Gary Hamilton or
call any of the school board members. Come and visit the school.
Call the school and talk to our new principal Steven Zipkes or
arrange to see me during my conference time. I’ll be happy to
show you around the school and explain some of what is needed.
Our school is one of the most important places in our town. It’s
where we send our children 180 days of the year to leam, so when
they graduate they can go to college, trade school or begin working
at one of the business in Marfa. It’s where I spend 10 hours a day,
because it’s the profession I chose five years ago after moving
home from New Orleans. When your “kids” enter high school they
become my “kids” in so many ways. I care about them as
individuals, so I want the best education ! can get for them.
Please, vote YES.
Allison Ryan Scott
M arfa High School teachcr
• • •
Editor.
On Thursday, August 24,1 checked into the Riata Inn in Marfa.
I wish to protest publicly the gross mismanagement of the motel
and the incompetence and gratuitous rudeness of the employees.
Neither employees or manager were able to provide the type of
rooms requested and were unable to provide proper instructions
for services offered by the motel. There was also the threatening
words and obvious shortsightedness of a person associated with
the motel who was not an employee who suggested that I “should
move on down the road" when I expressed my dissatisfaction.
Thinking ahead to the fall and the annual open house of the
Chinati Foundation, I am alarmed to think of what kind of
reception our guests will receive. Someone once wrote that the
populace of Marfa was characterized by a certain amount of
qr^pldness. Isn’t it time this change* as the time* chinge?
Sincerely,
Frederick* Haiter, Chinati Foundation President
Honston
Editor
Thanks very much for the excellent photo coverage and cover
shot of our Friends of the Davis Mountains Field Day. It was great
to have so many Marfans on the mountain that weekend and
Sentinel photographer Robert Armendariz there to cover it.
Your determination to record events that take place over the
entire tri-countyurca is remarkable for such a small staff and very
much appreciated.
Keep up the good work!
Crawford Marginot
Nature Conservancy of Texas
.
Fort Davis and Marfa
Editor:
The recent county commissioners'action for the engineering
services contract for TCDP projects was appalling. The three
commissioners' block vote against the sole application receivedls
beyond my comprehension. Not only was this application legally
advertised with clearly no other party interested in responding, but
the sole applicant acted interested and professionally in his timely
submission and in meeting all ofthe requirements of the application.
The application was properly and legally done.
The sole interested applicant, Mr. Frank Spcncer, is a native of
Presidio, owns property and pays taxes in Presidio, gives
scholarships to Presidio graduates, built the “One Main Center"
facility that serves this community's needs, is in touch with Presidio,
has Presidio’s economic development at heart and his roots in
Presidio go back to 1858.
Mr. Spencer took the time, used his resources, has excellent
qualifications and followed the legal process for his submission. To
reject such an applicant based solely on personal feelings and
agendas is a gross misuse of Presidio’s resources.
The commissioners are forgetting what is important, and that is the
issue of making water available to the people that arc in dire and
urgent need of it. This unnecessary delay will only hurt the people
of the community affected. 1would hope that the commissioners
would let the legal process take its course and award this
application to the sole applicant who meets all specifications ofthe
advertisement. This will only help those affected citizens from
having to travel seven miles to Presidio to obtain their water. Let’s
quit wasting taxpayers money and time.
Respectfully submitted,
Maria Luisa Spcncer
Presidio
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Editor:
I am writing to you in order to express my extreme disappointment
in your coverage ofthe Terlingua woman attacked in Ojinaga in
July. From reading the article*. "Terlingua Woman Allegedly
Attacked by Mexican Soldiers” by Guillermo Morales, I am puzzled
as to why you allowed such an article to be published. I found so
much of it to be poorly reported, incorrectly slanted and flat out inaccurate.
The article centers around the brutal attack of a young woman in
Ojinaga. so why was no effort made to contact the girl in any way?
Does she not have a right to say her part? It seems that Mr.
Morales abandoned any interest in completely researching the
incident. I saw no pertinent information regarding the young
woman’s account of the attack.
In terms of inaccuracies, I found many:
To begin, the date and the time of the attack were wrongly
reported. The young woman was attacked on Sunday, July 16, at 11
p.m., not Monday July 17, at 2 a.m. These arc simple details to
research and confirm. Why be shabby and miss something as basic
as a date and time?
Second, Mr. Morales wrote, “After the alleged attack, the soldiers
let her go.” If he had bothered to rally try and research the
situation, he would have found that the men most certainly did not
let her go. In fact, she had to physically escape and run to a nearby
house. She ran because she had reason to believe that the soldiers
were going to kill her.
Following the rapes and beatings, the soldiers tried to force her
from the apartment, into a car. They had taken her identification
and her car keys. During the events that took place inside the
apartment, they had threatened her with a knife to her throat while
they abused her. She thought that the soldiers meant to take her
and slit her throat - why else would they confiscate her
• identification? What they did to that woman, they would not have
, £ done to a whore. There was no reason to leave a young, white girl
away
alive to testify against them.
After running into the house, the women who lived there called the
police for her. Why were these women not interviewed? Why was
their story not told? Certainly the pol ice had their names.
I am also horrified that any hint at all could be made that this
incident did not occur or that the incident could be the young
woman’s fault! What is wrong with Mr. Morales? And how could
you allow his trash to be printed? Has your paper purposely chosen
to remain in the Dark Ages?
This woman was savagely beaten and raped over and over. Mr.
Morales took the step to include a synopsis of the medical report of
her condition. Does he perhaps think that she did all of that to
herself? It isfi9japipqn>nuwled^.thaj,j»oa rapesare.nol Deported.
In case your readers arc wondering why--Mr<.Moralcs’ article
should provide the perfect answer to that. The abused victims
become the suspects. They arc the ones on trial, Their stories art
not believed and their character is tonvaparfpicce by piece. He
was completely disrespectful to this woman by not trying to state
her side and by choosing words and phrases that poorly represent
her circumstances.
As for the information printed in the final paragraph of the article.
Shame on Mr. Morales. Shame on him. I simply do not understand
how he could insinuate that this incredible personal, physical,
emotional violation could be the fault of the young woman. I realize
that Mr. Morales was paraphrasing the idea from another person,
but why even include such a thing? And who are these “sources
close to the investigation”? Are they credible? Being that he could
not include any significant information about them, I would venture
to think not.
How would you feel if this woman were your daughter or your
mother? Would you want to read such an article as Mr. Morales’s
and know that she was the woman to whom he was referring?
Think about what you print. You owe it to your readers. In this
case, you o\ye,a great deal to this woman. She was offended
beyond any measure of understanding. I was offended, my-r^»
husband was offended, and I can name a number of womenvm
l^rlThgua wno were offended.
In oroq^to make things right, it is your duty to write another
accurate, credible article. Do it right this time. I was saddened to
read Mr. Morales’s article as I had always believed your paper to
be honest and fair. Right this wrong and gain the trust of your
readers once again.
Thank you,
Nola S. LaFayettc
Terlingua
(Editor '5 note: We attempted to contact the victim but were denied her
name by the Brewster County SherijJ \ Office and the Ojinaga police )
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Letters
The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31. 2000(5)
S
am-u-i
O f angels and education
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Backyard
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ive years ago, there was no graduating class in Sguth
B/ M .ny \
I'm Meic/ilfe Earney
Brewster County. Eighth grade was as far as most local kids
went in school. Four years ago, the Gist class graduated from the
newly formed Big Bend High School. Three years ago BBHS
graduated tbe smallest class in the state. One of tbe grads
it
Lights festival, book signing reunites
to college and is doing well. IWo yean ago, a class of five
graduated, and a couplôf the students started college. So far,
The Marfa Lights Festival always brings families home together
so good.
for fun and renewal of acquaintances. Last weekend in San Angelo
. Then came tbe class of 2000 - fifteen students. They were tbe
was that way for me. There was a book signing at the Cactus Book
first group to make it all tbe way through the new high school, the
Store, and many West Texans and former West Texans came by.
By JACK D. McNAMARA
first to beat "the longest ride" - the ordeal South County students
Nancy and Smitty Baker came with their son Ricky and their
Mexican
President-elect
Vicente
Fox
barnstormed
the
U.S.
had to endure to attend high school in Alpine. This group hoped to
nephew, Tar Rawls. Dianne Baker Leffman, their daughter, came
precincts of power with style and energy last wêk. Caught flatset tbe world on fire, and, due to the insistence of the faculty at
by later. Nancy and I grew up together, attended the University of
footed,
U.S.
politicians
trimmed
and
waffled.
President
Bill
Clinton
BBHS, each student formulated a plan to take life to tbe next
Texas together, roomed together at the Alpha Phi house and landed
and
Vice
President
Al
Gore
lamely
insisted
Fox’s
proposals
could
level: college, trade school, or military service.
together
in San Diego as young brides. We lived in the same twonot be accomplished in only 10 years. Maybe 25? Or 30?
But life is steeplechase and there are obstacles. People swerve
room apartment for a few months, all four of us, until Smitty
Given an additional day to prepare while Fox traveled to Dallas
from the course, sometimes by choice, sometimes by bad
from the nation’s capital, Gov. George Bush delivered a major policy transferred to the Coast Guard.
judgment, sometimes things get in the way.
Sherri Yomlinson Hersir came by for a visit. The Tomlinsons lived
speech promising Globalization to not jiist Mexico but all Latin
By the end of summer, five of the class of 2000 decided to go to
in Marfa a few years and Sherri was in some of my history classes.
America. Bush met with Fox in Dallas just after the speech.
work or had started families, which limited their options. They'll
Robert and Vera Dodd came also with their sister, Lou Dod
There is nothing quite like a bold new politician to stir up old and
consider higher education later. Maybe. But ten of tbe grads were
Crowder.
Robert’s mom, Catherine Posey, is in the hospital
new ideas, shake them out and run them up the flag pole. Fox’s
still eager to attend college or trade school. All had enrolled
recovering from a broken hip. She lives at Rio Concho Manor when
grand tour showcased several articulate advisers who are known in
somewhere and thought they’d be beaded to school by now.
not in hospital. Robert says she is doing well. .
Mexico as leftists, among them writer Jorge Castafieda. Another is
That was before last week. That's when four of tbe boys who
1became acquainted with Peggy Brown, mother of Frank Brown.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser. While this might seem peculiar for the prowere on their way to Texas State Technical College in Sweetwater
I knew her brother-in-law, John William Brown better than her late
business PANista leader, Fox has promised a unity cabinet
found out that due to an unforeseen problem with thei/
husband, Alanson Brown.
representing diverse points of view in his administration..
applications for Applied Workforce Investment gruts they were
John William entertained the Declamations one year because he
The good press Fox received in the U.S. was achieved in part by
ineligible for assistance. Without the grants, they wouldn't be able
refused to memorize a poem. He finally got with it the day before
the solictadvance work of the chattering classes of globalism. Chief
to attend school. Worse yet was tbe timing. School starts next
' the Declamations program, and he brought down the house with his
among the sponsors was the Center for Strategic and International
week. It's hard for a 17 year-old to come up with a couple
poem, “If You Can’t Go Over Or Under, Go Round" . . . a way to
Studies (CSIS) at Georgetown University (http://ww\v csis.orgV
thousand dollars on short notice. There were some long faces
defeat problems.
Among the numerous Washington think tanks, the CSIS scholars .
when the boys stopped by Big Bend High and told their former
. Earlier in the week Craig Harral came by and we had a good visit.
are very numerous, about 200 currently listed. Several of the CSIS
teachers they wouldn't be going to trade school this fall.
Sharon, his wife, was in Austin at a public health meeting of some
scholarly experts delivered weighty opinions and one Delal Baer,
But little did they know about angels. Some angels go through
-chief ofthe “Mexico Project” went on C-Span to instruct America — sort.
life disguised as chili cooks. Others teach school. When TerlinguaIt is funny how you leam more about your children after they are
in the proper attitudes, particularly concerning NAFTA. Dr. Baer, a
Common District School superintendent Kathy Killingsworth
grown,
and Craig told me quite a story.
young woman about 50, mffde a serious mistake — she took
found out about the boy's problem, she went to work immediately.
It seems our John Fletcher and another boy, probably Maco
questions from the C-Span viewers over open phones. For half an
She and her staff had spent four years getting the class of 2000
Fowlkes, went to Shafter and spent a day climbing mountains and
hour, Americans battered by the phony economics and devastating
ready to go on to higher education. She wasn't about to let them
exploring.
They found a cave and inside found a gunnysack with
environmental effects of the NAFTA policies heatedly instructed
off the hook.
interesting looking sticks and stuff. They brought the dynamite and
Ms. Baer on the true state of affairs in Mexico, on the border, and
They would go to school.
blasting caps home, put them in John Fletcher's footlocker and
in the U.S. Dr. Baer’s condescension crumbled and she was
By good fortune, Mel FitzHenry and Jim Stateczny of tbe Chili
probably forgot all about them.
reduced to mumbling the stock response from the globalists'—
Appreciation Society International (CASI) were in South County
The footlocker was open one day when Bill walked by. Craig
angry Americans who object to NAFTA just “don’t like
last week, getting ready for a weekend chili and barbecue cookoff.
quoted him as asking, “What is that?” I rather think he must have
international trade.”
When Kathy told them about the situation, they knew what to do.
Among the squad of CSIS globalists on the “Mexico Project" there' yelled. They disposed of the stuff at the dump, but they had to bum
CASI has provided scholarships to a number of BBHS students
it before it would react in any way.
appear to be no Mexicans.
over the years, but usually tbe money is awarded at the
No one told me a thing about it.
Prominent among the CSIS controllers is the name of the original
championship chili cookoff which is held in November. There
So, this weekend of the Marfa Lights Festival and families getting
artful dodger, Henry Kissinger. Kissinger is a “Counselor,"
wasn't time to wait for that. On an August Friday moming, Mel
together,
best wishes for good family stories and renew al of
described as a “world class strategist.” Indeed the CSIS roster
and Jim met in Kathy's office and EMailed all CASI board
acqjftatmanettK*!*''
reads rather like that of Kissinger Associates, the consulting
members, requesting approval of emergency funds to help some
(Earney is a Marfa native now living in Georgetown. She is the author o f
hustlers who have been advising the Mexicans for some time.
disappointed students.
two books and has been a school teacher and newspaper reporter.)
These guys don’t work cheap. Corporations fund CSIS at about SI7
By noon, the deal was done. A quorum of CASI board members
million in 1998. The “average” corporate contribution is S25.000responded in the affirmative. Necessary money will be put in the
$30,000 annually “depending on the corporate interaction.”
scholarship fund for the immediate use of tbe students. Frowns
The think tank battalions of the Washington chattering cjasses
turned to grins as some kids who needed a little boost got an early
were less forthcoming concerning narcotics trafficking. No matter,
Christmas present.
because President-elect Fox himself referred to drug trafficking as
We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to till our
There is an expression: People don't fail, systems fail. The same
“this great cancer.” On a stroll Thursday with Vice President Al
relatives,
friends, neighbors and everyone that in one way
thing applies to communities. Along the border, it's easy for people
Gore, Fox said, “Corruption is over in Mexico.” Fox has proposed a
or another showed their love and concern during our loss.
to settle back, watch the world go .by. Tbose other worlds
major restructuring of the criminal justice structured Mexico.
Thank you so much for the calls, visits, cards, flowers, food,
sometimes seem a long way away and maybe a little intimidating
Fox released his plan to overhaul Mexico’s system in late July. The
and prayers offered.
to high school kids. But communities can put kids in a position to
plan includes the replacement of the discredited Federal Judicial
Special thanks to Presidio County Sheriffs office. 1' S.
be successful and offer them encouragement, too.
Police with a new agency. Fox also plans to remove the Mexican
Border Patrol. Texas Dept, o f Public Safety, Marfa Police
Thanks to people like Kathy Killingsworth, Big Bend high
Army from the primary role in anti-narcotics.
Department. Mr. Danny Walts. Joe Torres. Robert Lujan.
school students are being given the opportunity to be successful.
Gilbert Montoya and Omar Guevara for doing everything
A measure of Fox’s success on the narcotTafficking front is that
Through education and training, they'll have options. And by tbe
possible. Also to Johnny & Margarita Sanchez. Rosemary
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson ofTexas proposed a one-year
grace of CASI, they can begin their joumey to the next level, now.
and Charlie, Yolanda Rojo, Eliza Melendez. Gilbert
suspension of the hated “certification" process while Fox was
Rodriguez.
Veronica Flores. Martha Watts. Beatrice Leos.
There is still the next step to be taken: registration and
making his gTand tour.
and Maria Quintana for all your support and for being
paperwork at school. We've all been through it. It can be a
None of the Fox proposals are completely new.as many
- therefor us.
nightmare. Just to make sure there are no more unforeseen snags
commentators have pointed out. But Vicente Fox is new, and a
S p ecial thanks to Maria Baeza for praying the Rosary.
or culture shocks, Kathy is personally taking her former students
Mexican president who is not a PRI hack is new for the first time in
Father Rick Ruiz for a beautiful Mass, to the choirs for the
to Sweetwater and will see that everything goes smoothly.
71 years. New also is a president who has not been schooled at
lovely music, and all the pallbearers Also. Memorial
Angels. They're out there you know.
Yale or Harvard, whose nickname at Mexico City's
Funeral Home and the ladies that helped serve the
IberoAmericana University was “The Indian."
luncheon, and all the rest who helped out in one way
Sam RichardsonTERUNGUA
or another
Indeed this is new when taken in the altogether. We are not at all
May God bless each and everyone o f you for your kindness
apologetic or reticent about our hopes for Vicente Fox’s success.
He is going to stir things up.
The Prieto Family
For almost 20 years, all the news from Mexico has been bad. If
Lilia V. Prieto
Vicente Fox and honest Mexicans cannot deliver on the promise of
Rosa P. Melendez
(Continuedfrom p*ge 4)
the July 2 election, the news will be bad again, soon enough. It is
Ana Melendez Rooke
impossible,
for
example,
to
have
relaxed
NAFTA
cross-border
Mr.
A
Mrs. Emilio Vasquez & sons
Editor.
traffic without also incre sing narcotics smuggling. Oh well, details,
Nephews & nieces
As always, its good to be home. . . particularly after a 25-day,
details.. . . Not in My Back Yard.
6,000^-mile jaunt all the way to the Canadian border and back
(Jack D. McNamara is the Alpine publisher of The Nimby News since 1988,
while taking in 12 different states en route.
now online at http:A'www.nimby news.com. His opinions arc his own and he
I have seen and done and visited so many different things,
encourages your comments at [email protected] and 9IS.837.i6l9.)
people and places, experienced so many different revelations and
new understandings, meantime becoming more and more aware
MARFA RURAL HEALTH
of what I a m . . . and what I am n o t. . . that my capacity to
describe and analyze is put to an almost impossible challenge.
Open Monday - Friday
This is my third annual trip, the last two being, in order, a 1998,
6,500-mile tour of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
8:00 a .m .- 11:30 p .m . & 1:00 p .m .- 5:00 p.m .
North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and North Texas;
1999, again New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Waahington state, Oregon,
K ate W a n s tro m , F N P
Nevada, California (Death
Arizona
back to Texas. . .
Rene H errera Pando, boy. bom August 23, 2000. to Claudia
7,100 miles.
Kansas,
Pando of Presidio; 7 lb. 0.5 oz., 20 '/. in.
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, (plus 100 miles or of Canadian
Tuesday & Wednesday August 29 & 30
Sablen Marccllus Smith-Granado, boy. bom August 24.2000. to
highways), Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Krista Granado of Fort Davis; 8 lb. 11 oz. 20 in.
Office will close at 11:30 AM
East Texas and home.
*
Madison Abigail Murrell, girl, bom August 25.2000. to Jason
I really only have our eastern and southeastern states left to
and Angela Murrell of Alpine; 6 lb. 8 oz. 19 in.
cover, many of which I have already visited or lived in as part of
Clinic hours of operation will vary throughout the
my life history. I may or may not make that trip next year.
sum m er. Hours of operation will be posted on the clinic
I think this may be enough for starters. If you can keep putting
door daily. The clinic will be open Monday - Friday
up with me, I will try to tell of a few of this year’s experiences
unless otherwise specified. Please call, should you have
next week.
any questions or concerns, if the clinic is elosed, please
Meantime, I repeat, it’s great to be back.
wait for the answering machine with hours of operation.
W e apologize for any inconvenience it may cause.
f
Fox shocks
U.S. pols
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(6) The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31. 2000
Oliver to walk to promote nuclear awareness
Marfa political activist Gary
Oliver will take part in a Citizens
for Alternatives to Radioactive
Dumping (CARD) “Walk for
Saner Solutions to Nuclear
Weapons Production, Nuclear
Power & Nuclear Dumping”
from Roswell to Carlsbad, New
Mexico, this Labor Day week
end.
CARD is focusing on the
Southwest during the walk, but
would like to make connections
to all the nuclear issues taking
place nationwide.
“I want to make contact be
Texas and New Mexico activ
ists,” Oliver said. “This is a re
gional issue. The part ofTexas
that is being targeted (for a
nuclear waste storage facilities)
(photo by ROBERT ARMENDARIZ)
Charlie Mauch, Grttn Party candidate for Railroad Commission, made a campaign stop in Marfa last Sunday.
is a tight radius around the De
partment of Defense WIPP site
near Carlsbad.
‘They keep picking a place near
the New Mexico state line to
muddy the regulatory authority,”
Oliver said.
'
The 76-mile walk, which will be
dedicated to Ed and Lily
Zaragoza and the memory of
Dorothy Purley, will begin on
Friday at the County Courthouse
lawn in Roswell. An invocation
by Father Vincent Peterson and
Carletta Garcia, daughter of
Purley, will be held at 7 a.tn.
Those participating will spend
the first night at a roadside park.
The second evening will be spent
with Our Lady of Guadalupe
Parish in Artesia while the third
night will be spent next to
Bentley Lake. On the fourth day,
those participating will walk to
Carlsbad, home of the Waste
Isolation Pilot Project, the
nation’s first permanent nuclear
waste dump. Once there, the
group will have a picnic at the
riverside park, inviting all com
munity members to participate.
CARD will provide breakfast
burritos for tbe first morning and
dinner each evening, along with
fruit snacks during the day.
The group will be walking in the
morning and evenings, ami sup
port vehicles for gear and rest,
port-a-potties, first aid assistance
and water will be available. Also,
transportation will be provided
from Albuquerque to Roswell and
back.
Railroad Commission candidate presents Green Party viewpoint to Big Bend crowd
By STERRY BUTCHER
Democrats. True to its name, the
MARFA - It’s not often that a
Green Party's platform does
state candidate for public office
pledge a pro-environment stance,
stumps through Far West texas,
but its supporters likewise claim
but that’s just what happened this
a commitment to social and eco
weekend, when Green Party can
nomic justice and non-violence.
didate Charlie Mauch stopped by
Evidently, their message has legs.
the Westenburg Gallery in Marfa
iPetition drives to get Presidential
on Sunday.
candidate Ralph Nader on state
On the ballot as a candidate for
ballots were surprisingly success
Railroad Commissioner, Mauch
ful across the cpuntry, and the
didn’t look much like a politician
party has been building up enough
as he bent over his potiuck sup
political steam that it may be able
per and occasionally mopped his
to contend for future federal
brow. But once he stood up and
funding.
began speaking to the three dozen
The party likewise needed to post
tri-county people who had gath state candidates, and after some
ered to meet him, Mauch’s mes consideration, Mauch stepped up
sage seemed to resonate among
to the plate. Candidates with less
the listeners.
than a 15 percent voter approval
It was rather a case of Mauch . rate in national polls may not par
preachifijfto the choir. Many of ticipate in the televised presiden
those present at the gallery were
tial and vice presidential debates.
affirmed Green Party enthusiasts,
But Mauch’s candidacy is impor
a party that has genuinely begun
tant in that the parties that snag
to take shape in this country only
five percent of,tê vote in No
in the last several years. The
vember will be eligible to appear.
Greens are largely a grassroots
on the next four years of ballots
organization bom from voters
without a petition campaign.
wary of the Republican Party___NowTetired, Mauch worked for
platform and disenfranchise
hised
three decades as a petroleum enfrom the sluggish moderation of gineer and for seven years as an
environmental engineer in Hous
ton. “The Green Party needed
candidates," the candidate ex
plained after his talk on Sunday.
"I had time and’with my back
ground, I’m qualified.”
The Railroad Commission of
Texas is something of a misnomeiy-since the agency actually
deals with regulating'the state’s
mining and its oil and gas indus
try.
Nine open statewide seats are
up for grabs in November. The
Democratic Party has only of
fered two candidates in those nine
races; in seven ofthe races, Re
publicans faced no opponents until
the Green Party and the Liber
tarians named candidates. Mauch
was one of two Greens to run for
the two open seats in the Rail
road Commission. “If we win,
we’ll be the majority," he joked.
Another Green. Doug Sandage,
is the third party candidate for
U.S. Senate, and Ben Levy is in
Green contention for Texas Su
preme Court. “The Greens have
• more statewide candidates than
the Democrats,” Mauch said. “If
I didn't run, we’d have to just hand
idealism “It’s a very, very long he said. “I don’t know how to run
shot,”. Mauch allowed. “But it’s a campaign. The more I’m out
not inconceivable. Even ifthere’s there, the more determined I am
a little chance, it’s worth working to get people mad. It might not
happen this time, but it could hap
your butt off.”
The trip to Far West Texas from pen," he insisted. “We’re work
Houston is one of Mauch’s first ing on it."
political junkets of the campaign,
and his speech to the Westenburg
Gallery group came off as confi
dent and well informed. But after
the talk, it is clear that politicking
is new to Mauch. He stood
around happily enough and an
swered questions, but he rather
modestly did not appear inclined
to approach any o f the small
clutches of people chatting away
MARFA - St. Mary’s Catholic
in the gallery. He looked genuinely Church will begin registering for
humbled when a young man in CCD & Confirmation Programs
tie-dye stopped to pump his hand. after each Mass on September 9
“You’ve got my vote, you’ve got and 10, in the CCD office.
my support,” he told Mauch.
If you are unable to register on
“Thanks,” Mauch said and as the .these dates you may do so the
young man walked away, the can week of September 11-15 at the
didate talked o f t ^ unexRecVe^
wnrsiaiem9?iKiKtical seateTtffis ~tferise of-gratification- that: has
'Office hours are 10 dKL to noon
election, but he tempers that sen come to him in the course of the and 2-5 p.m.
timent with a tenacious political race. “I’m not looking for a job,"
the position over to the Republi
can on the ballot. I ’ve been around
oil and I feel more qualified than
any of those people on the com
mission. It’s now dominated by
the people it was supposed to
regulate.”
'
In the past, the rhetoric from the
three-person commission has
sounded more like endorsements
and advocacy of the oil and natu
ral gas industry than regulation of
it, he said. “The oil industiy is
clever in hiding costs. Someone
needs to talk about those costs,
and talk about renewable re
sources. We need to start phas
ing out fossil fuels.”
Polls this August demonstrate
that Green Party contender Ralph
Nader’s slice of voter approval
has yet to edge into the double
digits. Mauch is well aware that
naysayers point out that there is
virtually no way that Mauch or
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CCD at
St. Mary’s
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This tax increase is OVER AND ABOVE the estimated S.41 tax increase that will
occur if the MISD Board of Trustees' S5.0 million bond issue is approved.
Considering the S6.7 million in interest for 34 years on the bonds, THIS WILL
INCREASE YOUR TAX RATE TO S I.76 per S100 of property value.
Locally owned and managed
The MISD Board of Trustees is GAMBLING on receiving monies from the State of
Texas to help pay for the $11.7 million in bond and interest payments, but they can’t
tell you that. W hy?...because THERE IS NO GUARANTEE whatsoever that the
State ofTexas will help pay for any of the indebtedness..
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With no help from The State ofTexas, the anticipated AAA bond rating could be
degraded resulting in an EVEN HIGHER INTEREST RATE that must be paid on
the bonds.
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The MISD Board of Trustees is HOPING that the State ofTexas will help; they are
HOPING fo r a AAA rating; and they arc HOPING for 6% interest rate.
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If this bond issue is based on hopes only, and not accurate financial information, we
-will be ROLLING TH E DICE on our children’s future and our family’s welfare.
For example, if the interest rate w ere to increase to 8.5%, the total amount of our
bond and interest paym ents would cost us an ADDITIONAL S3.6 MILLION. This
would bring o u r tax rate to almost S1.89 per S100 of property valuation, an
INCREASE OF OVER 45% from where we were before Monday night’s tax
increase.
© p e n 7 d a y s <i H iu 'k !
STUDENT ENROLLM ENT IS DOWN 25 students from 1999. Yet, the Board is
recommending that 20 ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS be built. We recognize that
school facilities need to be upgraded, but to what extent? The issues are not clear.
In fact, they are CONFUSING.
O u r children deserve the best facilities THAT WE CAN AFFORD. As responsible
people, WE ALL MUST BUDGET, live within our means and make tough and
balanced decisions based on facts and reality. '
PLEASE VOTE -
NO
TVe a p p re c ia te y o u r fa stn e ss.
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The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31. 2000 t n
AEP-WTU requests rate hike;
cite increased costs
as
If approved
requested the
at their power plants. When ac
ABILENE - Skyrocketing
new fiiel factors would go into
tual cost of fuel significantly exnatural gas prices have forced
effect in October and the new
American Electric Powetfa ' cecdk that which customers are
surcharge would go into effect
paying in their monthly bills,
West Texas Utilities (AEPin November. The new fuel fac
PUCT rules require the utility
WTU) to file a request with the
tor and surcharge would increase
request permission to surcharge
Public Utility Commission of
bills for typical residential cus
Texas (PUCT) to recover
the additional amount When the
tomers using 10,000 kilowattactual costs of fuel are signifi
through a surcharge approxi
hours a month by $20.53 per
mately SI9.6 million in uncol
cantly lower than what custom
month for the period from No
ers are paying in fuel charges,
lected fuel costs and interest
vember 2000through April 2001
the electric utility is required to
from retail customers. At the
with the fuel
equaling $8.69
issue a refund. And when the fuel
same time, WTU requested per
and the surcharge equaling
costs are anticipated to change
mission to increase fuel factors
$ 11.84 of that amount.
used to calculate the fiiel charge • from their current levels for an
extended period of time, the elec
AEP-WTU will publish notices
portion of customer bills in order
of tbe filing in selected newspa
tric utility must request permis
to recover a projected increase
pers with general circulation
sion to adjust the monthly fuel
of $42.6 million in fuel costs that
throughout the company’s ser
factors used to determine the
will be incurred to provide elec
vice area. AEP-WTU also will
fuel charge portion of customers’
tric service in the future.
bills.
provide individual notice to the
“The price of natural gas used
governing bodies of all incorpo
Without the increase in fixed
to generate electricity at AEPrated municipalities retaining
fuel factors, AEP-WTU projects
WTU’s power plants has in
originaljurisdiction. -------------that it would under recover fuel
creased nearly 100 percent from
and purchased power costs by
American Electric Power is a
January through August,” said
approximately $42.6 million for
multinational energy company
David Carpenter, AEP director
the period from October 2000
based in Columbus, Ohio. AEP
ofTexas regulatory services.
through September 2001. Con
is one of the United States’ larg
• “Since 60 percent ofthe electric
sequently, AEP-WTU is request
est generators of electricity with
ity produced by AEP-WTU is
ing permission to adjust the fuel - more than 39,000 megawatts of
generated using natural gas as a
generating capacity. AEP is also
factors used to calculate the fuel
boiler fuel, these price increases
one of the nation’s leading whole
charge portion of customer bills.
have a tremendous impact on
sale energy marketers and trad
Since fuel under-recoveries and
our cost of producing electricity.
ers. AEP delivers electricity to
interest already have totaled ap
“Fuel costs are an expense that
proximately $19 million for the
more than 4.9 million customers
AEP-WTU must pay to fuel sup
in 11 states -Arkansas, Indiana,
period fromAugust 1999 through
pliers,” Carpenter continued. “It’s
June 2000, AEP-WTU also has
Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan,
important to remember that
requested permission to imple
Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
AEP-WTU does not earn any
ment a new fuel surcharge in
Texas, Virginia, and West Vir
profit or return on fuel costs. In
November to collect the underginia. The company serves more
the past when fuel costs have
recovered
balance
through
June
than four million customers out
declined, AEP-WTU made rc30,2000.
side the U.S. throughout holding
. funds to customers.”
The surcharges are designed to
in Australia, Brazil, China,
Investor-owned electric utilities
collect the undfrr recoveries as
Mexico and the United Kingdom.
in Texas, like AEP-WTU, are re
of June 30, 2000, plus approxi
Wholly owned subsidiaries are
quired by the PUCT to use fuel
involved in power engineering
mately $600,000 in interest costs
factors based on cost estimates
and construction services, energy
incurred over the collection peto collect the projected cost of
management and telecommuni
fuel used to generate electricity . riod.
cations.
factor
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Ruben Molinar-of-BigBend Telephone assisted in the installation o f the Cellular One towers.
New towers improve area cell phone service
By ERICA SULLIVAN
PRESIDIO - The luminous
northeast Presidio sky now should
not be confused with the myste
rious Marfa lights phenomenon.
The blinking light is from one of
the three new Cellular One wire
less telecommunications towers
that recently have been erected
in this region. And good cellular
telephone service arrived in
Presidio on Monday evening.
The towers should “improve ser
vice dramatically, especially along
the road from Presidio to Marfa,
and in downtown Presidio,” said
Thomas Miller of T-P Wireless
a happy a n d safe
of Alpine, a sales agent from
Cellular One.
He joked that a cell phone user
inside the Presidio city limit no
longer would be able to “hide"
from the cellular service.
The.towers that were con
structed in Presidio, on Cienega
Mountain near Shafter and near
Fort Davis are expected to in
crease the sound quality of cellu
lar service for the region.
According to Carlos Nieto,
Presidio Cellular One sales rep
resentative, the towers should
provide “strong, full coverage in
this community," who for the past
five or six years has been receiv
ing “sporadic inconsistent ser
vice."
The reasons for the construction
of these new towers were the
fact that Presidio didn't have a
tower in the past, the disruption
in service due to the mountains
in the area and the cellular de
vice that was previously utilized
in Shafter was a used repeater
tower.
Miller said repeaters don’t pro
vide good cellular service, par
ticularly when refurbished equip
ment is involved, as was the case
in Shafter.
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tfl) The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31.2Q0Q
Gallego among State Reps honored
for outstanding contribution to
ru ral electric cooperatives
ing the closing debate on Senate
Bill 7, the state’s electric Utility
Restructuring law, to obtain an
Equal Access Fund.
TTtEC is a coalition of coopera
tives who operate and maintain
approximately 67,145 miles of
line, and serve 151,675 meters in
rural Texas. Those cooperatives
who are members of TREC in
clude: Big Country Electric,
Coleman County Electric,
Comanche Electric, Concho Val
ley Electric, DeWitt Electric,
Gate City Electric, Greenbelt
Electric, Karnes Electric, Light
house Electric, Medina Electric,
North Plains Electric, Rio
Grande Electric, Southwest Ru
ral Electric, Southwest Texas
Electric, Swisher Electric, .and
Taylor Electric.
Gallego is chairman of the gen
eral investigating committee, and
serves on the Appropriations and
the Elections committee. He rep
resents 10 counties in Texas,
which include Brewster,
Culberson, Hudspeth, JefTDavis,
Kinney, Maverick, Pecos,
Presidio, Terrell, and Val Verde
counties.
SAN ANGELO - On August
21, Texas Rural Electric Coali
tion (TREC) hold an apprecia
tion luncheon in San Angelo to
honor five state representatives
who serve the 16-members of
TREC, and represent more than
151,500 meters in over 102
counties across Texas.
•Among those representatives
recognized for his outstanding
contribution to the rural electric
cooperatives was state Repre
sentative Pete Gallego, District
74, of Alpine.
General Manager/CEO Dan
Laws of Rio Grande ECI said,
“I am proud to present Repre
sentative Gallego with this
award, and want to express my
sincere appreciation for his genu
ine concern and commitment for
the rural folks along the Rio
Grande. Laws further stated
that “our objective in trying to
secure an equal access fund is
to insure that all consumers have
access to lower electric costs,
and not just those living in urban
centers.”.
Gallego was among a delega
tion of rural representatives who
worked hard in the House dur
Second annual goat racing set
fo r September 9 in Alpine
ALPINE - Big Bend People
and Goats will have its second
public goat racing activity on Sep
tember 9 at the Second Saturday
Flea Market of Big Bend Wool
and Mohair in Alpine - the “wool
house,” between 10 and 11 a.m.
Youngsters racing goats are al
lowed to get sponsors for their ani
mals. Donations will be spent for
uniforms. The panels set up for
the event have been secured from
the Big Bend Livestock Associa
tion. Susan Penny will announce
the entries at the time ofthe races.
Anyone who wants to compete
must attend a training session and
qualify as a goat racer. For more
information, please call 915-8372930.
Our rocts run deep
When something good takes root, it just grows and grows. Since The
Marfa National Bank was established in 1907, we’ve branched out into
broader and better services. But we’re proud to say that we’ve always
remained the well-grounded bank that our customers have trusted for
generations. The reason for our long history in the area is simple - we
believe every customer is important. Thank you for your business, and
we look forward to giving back to the area for years to come.
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Alpine
915-837-3515
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awards, plaques, medals, ribbons,
ad specialities,
personalized jewelry and gifts,
custom embroidered caps,
shirts, and jackets,
rubber stamps and much morel
M r. a n d M rs, B o b F lin t
L o n gm an , F lin t m a rry
J u ly 1 6 in F o rt W orth
Bob Flint and Jean Longman,
both of Alpine, were joined in
holy matrimony on July 16 at a
small family ceremony in Fort
Worth.
Michelle and Rusty Ross of
Alpine served as attendants, and
two of Longman’s1daughters,
their husbands and seven grand
children who reside in the Dal
las area were present.
The service was conducted by
the Rev. Michael Waschevski,
associate pastor dt hirst Pres
byterian Church in Fort Worth.
Flint, a semi-retired graphics
artist and newsletter publisher,
moved to Alpine from Bedford
two years ago.
Longman, the former Mrs. Tom
Longman, is a long-time Alpine
resident and owner of Tom’s
Triangle.
The new couple will reside in
Alpine; both are members of
First Presbyterian Church.
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MIDLAND - Southwestern
Bell Pioneers are accepting res
ervations for booth space for their
12111annual Arts and Crafts Show
at the Midland County Exhibit
Building, 2445 East 1-20 Business
Loop Service Road, in Midland.
The show will be Saturday, Oct.
28 through Sunday, Oct. 29.
Booths are 8x10 feet and will
rent for S30 for the weekend.
Profits from the event will be
used for community projects such
as birthday parties at the nursing
homes, Red Ribbon Campaign
expenses, food baskets for the
needy at Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, Hug-A-Bears for children,
Make-A-Wish Foundation, Toys
for Tots, I Like Me Books, Adult
Cancer Survivor Camp Bluebird,
and Room Mothers for an
Adopted class at a low-income
elementary school.
For more information call, 915699-0800. .
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FORT DAVIS - The Fort
Davis Art Co-op quarterly busi
ness meeting will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday, September 9, at the
Gallery on Main Street.
The meeting will be one hour
long, and there'will be refre*ments after.
Come and leam what we have-—
done, are doing and willbedoing.
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Hollenbeck receives BPpromotion
MARFA -1 1 ½ United States
V Border Patrol announces tbrte' lection o f Loraine Hollenbeck to
N the position o f Supervisory Bor« der Patrol Agent effective imme( diately.
, C h ief Patrol A gent Simon
G a m Jr. noted that “he is proud
( to have SBPA Hollenbeck on his
£ team and that she was very dea serving o f this promotion”.
Hollenbeck is a proven agent
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Beef Production Program &Town Hall Meeting
8 a.m .-2 p.m.
September7,2000
Sul Ross Range Science Center in Alpine
Topics include:
• Landowner Rights
• Chuteside Manners & Vaccination Programs
• TSCRA Update
• Beef Check-Off Update
• Brush Management Program on Juniper
CEUs Available
Complimentary Lunch Served
For more information regarding this program
and to RSVP
W'hahas
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distinguished herself in
the
wrperforming
______ _
x Border Patrol by
flawlessly in a number o f roles
o f increased responsibility.
She also served her country in
the United States Army in Eu
rope as a MJ*.
Hollenbeck is currently
to the Marfa Sector headquar
ters and is looking forward to con
tributing to the team effort
i BP agents discover 22 Inside
tractor trailer at Sierra Blanca
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facilities and my agents are the
FAR WEST TEXAS - The
ones that rescue them,” G a m
United States Border Patrol re
said.
ports tbe August 20 rescue o f
22 at the Sierra Blanca check
A total 13 males and nine fe
point Mexican citizens from the
males were detained and four
back o f a tnctor-trailer driven
children were being smuggled.
by a legal permanent resident o f
Marfa sector agents have res
the United States.
cued more than 245 individuals
in 22 separate incidents from
Hie incident is still under inves
October 1,1999, through August
tigation by the Border Patrol.
21.
The driver is currently at the
Presidio County Jail along with
It’s Border Safety Initiative
(B SI) is a major program
three material witnesses.
launched by the Immigration and
The smuggling o f aliens into die
Naturalization Service in an ef
United States is a violation o f
fort to make the border area's
several federal immigration
safer for residents, agents and
laws and ifapcrson is convicted
migrants who decide to cross il
o f that crime, a prison sentence
legally into this country.
ranges from one to 20 years.
The sector’s 1-888-536-6204
In addition other penalties such
telephone number can be used
as fines may be imposed and
to report alien smuggling and
vehicles involved in the transport
aliens in distress or who are lost.
o f aliens may be seized.
Last month in the Sanderson
The trend toward smuggling
area, a TerTell County sheriff's
aliens in tractor-trailers rigs has
deputy responded to a call and
Border Patrol officials in the
arrived only to find the deceased
Marfa Sector concerned given
body o f an illegal entrant just
that temperatures inside con
south o f U.S. 90.
fined spaces during the summer
The Marfa sector has recorded
months can rise to as high as 140
three deaths this year under the
degrees.
BSI reporting guidelines.
The figures for this year that
The harsh and rugged terrain
involves aliens in tractor-trailers
that characterizes the southern
are up considerably in compari
son toyesw pastSm oe thestarf •' area o f the Marfa'sector seems
a natural deterrent for migrants
of the fiscal year, which began
who cross illegally, but increased
October 1,1999, Border Patrol
apprehensions in the Sanderson
agents have rescued 235 indi-.
and Sierra Blanca areas indicate
viduals in nine separate cases in
that alien smugglers are looking
volving the transport o f aliens in
toward this region.
confined spaces using vehicular
Border Patrol officials are pro
transportation.'
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--active in their planning efforts to
C h ief Patrol Agent Simon
stay ahead o f the shift in illegal
Garza Jr. has been vocal in his
crossing routes.
characterization o f alien smug
Recently, Deputy Chief Patrol
glers: “These people are moti
Agent Jose Estrada noted that
vated by greed and have no re
"our intelligence section works
gard for human life."
diligently to accurately forecast
The description o f alien smug
patterns and the Marfa sector
glers hits the mark in this par
will meet the challenges.”
ticular case given the fact that
Border-area residents are en
four children were secreted in
couraged to report alien smug
the back o f the trailer.
gling directly to the 1-888-536“Many times the aliens endure
6204 number that is operational
hours in the back without food,
24 hours a day and seven days
water and access to sanitary
a week.
S h e r i f f ’ s O f f ic e
w e e k ly r e p o r t
The following offenses, incidents,
and arrests where reported to and
investigated by the Presidio
County Sheriff’s Office for the
week o f August 21 - 27,2000.
Aagast 21
1 - Vehicle accident
1 - Suspect arrested for out
standing warrants
2 - Reports taken for aggravated
assault
A agast 22
2 - Burglar alarms at the Fort
Davis State Bank
1 - Stranded motorist assist
A agast 23
1 -9 1 1 assist
1 - Burglar alarm at the Fort
Davis State Bank
1 - Suspect arrested for out-’
standing warrants
A agast 24
2 - 9 1 1 assists
1 - Agency assist
A agast 25
1 -9 1 1 assist
A agast 26
Davis State Bank
Davis State Bank
3 - Suspects arrested for pos
session o f marijuana
A agast 27
1 -9 1 1 assist
1 - Stolen vehicle reported .
1 - Domestic disturbance
Please call, 1-800-242-7820 ext 145
........
Chase Snodgrass is the new Patrol Agent in Charge at the Presidio
station.
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Administrative personnel from throughout the M aifa Sector last
week traveled to sector headquarters to take part in a professional
growth and development training sponsored by the sector. More
than 20 people were in attendance at headquarters. The training
consists o f briefings and seminars intended to develop a better
working relationship within an office setting. Sector Chief Simon
Garza Jr. said he wants his administrative s ta ff to be fu lly
in form ed and appraised 6 f any changes involving sector
operations.
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QQ) The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31 2000
H e a lth c a re r a te s lo w e re d a t lo cal
r u r a l c lin ic s a s o f A u g u s t 25
By MIRIAM HALPERN
FAR WEST TEXAS - Out of
concern for patients' ability to af
ford costs at the five rural health
clinics o f Big Bend Regional
Medical Center (BBRMC), new
lower rates were implemented at
the health care sites as of Friday,
August 25. The rural clinics are
located in Alpine, Marfa, Presidio,
Terlingua, and Marathon.
A three-month study recently un
dertaken by JoAnn Lister, FNPC and director o f the Marathon
Rural Health Clinic, proved that
the clinics were priced out of the
reach o f most people, especially
those without insurance. A new
schedule of charges was then pro
posed for the clinics.
“I can’t tell you how frustrated
we were,” said Lister of the pre
vious pricing schedule. “We are
supposed to be here for the work
ing poor and the working poor
could not afford us. ”
For her study. Lister gathered
pricing information from Fort
Davis Family Practice, owned by
Dr. James Luecke, Medicare,
Community Health Systems, and
input from the five rural health
clinic directors. Also, in taking
certain medical procedures and
itemizing the cost and time of the
person performing them. Lister
then added the figures to see what
the clinics’ costs were compared
to what Medicare was paying.
After concluding that they were
the same as Medicare's base rate,
Lister then took that number and
added a little for overhead. How
ever, the new pricing schedule
goes with a consequence. If cost
is higher than charge, Medicare
will not reimburse the clinic.
“Medicare has, basically, what
they will allow,” said Lister. “You
have to go with that; if you go be
low you kill yourself. When we
lower (prices) we hope to get
more p atien ts,” said Lister.
‘That’s the risk we’re taking.”
Information from the study was
given to BBRMC Administrator
David Conejo and Chief Financial
Officer Brian Blessing, both of
whom approved the new sched
ule of charges. The proposal was
then sent to Community Health
Systems in Tennessee where cor
porate approval was granted
within six weeks.
“I have to give credit to Conejo
and Blessing,” said Lister. ‘The
previous CFO and administrator
wouldn’t listen to us at all - they
said people in rural areas had to
pay more. They were treating us
like a hospital and you can’t do
that. Our prices were just crazy
- we lost a lot of business.”
Examples pf previous charges
and newly established prices for
services rendered are: first-time
visit, originally $71, lowered to
$40; patient average visit, origi
nally $56, lowered to $45; com
plete physical, $113, lowered to
$95; antibiotic, $128, lowered to
$64; EKG with interpretation, $80,
lowered to $40; penicillin shot,
originally $48, lowered to $17.
“We’re ecstatic,” said Mary Jo
Spanowicz, director o f the Alpine
Rural Health Clinic. “We feel it’s
more fair. We had been getting,
complaints and had been talking
about it for, probably, a year. Even
though we all had our input, JoAnn
did the bulk of the work - she’s
amazing.”
Sister Carol Boschert, Presidio
Rural Health Clinic director,
added, “We would have uninsured
people come in and ask what
prices were and then walk out the
door. I think it’s a good idea - it
needed to be done for a long
time.”
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continued. “Everyone who ap
pears for jury service is making a
sacrifice that a free man can
make.”
This week, DeHart was rela
tively pleased with Friday’s turn
out and results. “It went well, we
accomplished some things,” he
said. “We had responses from 75
and 69 failed to show on Friday.”
Prospective jurors who can not
read, write or speak English can
be excused from jury duty and
this was the explanation DeHart
heard most often throughout the
moming. Other people had moved
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six weeks.
This class is for anyone with a
chronic illness. The benefit behind
this class is that people with any
type o f chronic disease have to
deal with the same types of prob
lems. This course is designed
therefore, to help people leam to
deal more effectively with any
type o f chronic disease.
Many different aspects o f
SI M ( I A l I S I
Darrell Parsons. M.D. Doctor of Internal Medicine
B ig Bend Regional M edical Center
is pleased to welcom e
D octor o f Internal M edicine
D arrell Parsons M.D.,
to our M edical Staff. A s a
specialist in adult medicine
and being flu e n t in the Spanish
language Dr. Parsons will
enhance the healthcare offerings
in our community. Dr. Parsons
is a graduate o f the University
o f Kansas School o f Medicine.
He com pleted his residency in
in Internal M edicine at
Kansas M edical Center. Join
us in welcom ing him to our
community.
chronic disease-are dealt with
during the course o f the class pain relief, communication, nutri
tion, relaxation, and goal setting to
name a few. Additionally, the class
is interactive so participants can
support and learn from each
other.
Anyone interested in attending
can contact Cinda or Sally at 915837-9557.
T h e P r e s i d i o C o u n t y C o u r t h o u s e in
M a rfa a n d th e
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DARRELL PARSONS, M.D.
2600 HWY 118 NORTH
ALPINE, TX 79830
915-837-7070
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
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P r e s id io C o u n t y A n n e x in P r e s id io
14th annual Marfa Lights Festival
w i ll b e c lo s e d
this Friday, Saturday & Sunday
M o n d a y . S e p te m b e r 4 .
in o b s e r v a n c e o f
The next date to select a trial
jury is September 19, and DeHart
hopes that * couple changcs to
the former routine will negate the
earlier problem with no-ahows.
“We’re going to summons a few
more people than we have been,"
he said. The presence o f so many
Spanish-only speakers has also
prompted the drafting o f a Span
ish version o f the summons let
ter.
“Hopefully, we’ll get the atten
tion o f people,” DeHart said.
“Hopefully, we’ll have a better
response."
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ALPINE - If you’re tired of.
being controlled by your illnesses
and ready to take action to con
trol your life, then make up plans
to attend the Chronic Disease Self
Management Class.
The tri-county diabetes will be
offering this class from 10 a.m.
to noon starting September 11 at
the Sunshine House in Alpine.
Class will meet once a week for
or died, some were ill or over 70
years o f age, some o f those called
were not United States citizens
and still others claimed never to
have received their original sum
mons. The names o f those called
to jury duty who have died,
moved or are resident aliens will
be turned over to the tax assessor-collector’s office so that their
names may be permanently
stricken from the computer list
ings that generate jury pools.
The folks that failed to show for
Friday's court date will be fined
$75, DeHart said.
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Two new books reflect past
Chinati Foundation symposiums
MARFA - The Chinati Foun
dation is pleased to announce the
publication o f two books docu^
meriting symposiums spbnfcred'by the museum: Art in the Land
scape in 1995, and Art and Ar
chitecture^ 1998.
The illustratedbooks include lec
tures presented by participating
speakers-Art in the Landscape:
Carl
Andre,
M ichael
Charlesworth, Hamish Fulton,
Lucy Lippard, Ann Reynolds,
Richard Shiff, and James Tunrll. *
Art and Architecture: James
Ackerman, M ichael Benedikt,
Frank Gehry, Jacques Herzog,
Roni Hom, Robert Irwin, Claes
Oldenburg and C oosje van
Bruggen, and William Stem.
The Art in the Landscape vol- .
ume brings together artists, crit
ics, and scholars to address vari
ous approaches to working with
and within the natural environ
ment. Noted art critic Lippard
begins the publication with an
overview and chronological his
tory o f Land Art projects.
Reynolds focuses on the work o f
Robert Smithson, the influential
artist known fur such site-related
pieces as Spiral Jetty, his monu
mental, coiled rock formation that
juts out into the Great Salt Lake.
Turrell discusses his work on
Arizona’s Roden Crater, an ex
tinct volcano that has been trans
forming into a platform for view
ing light phenomena and celes
tial events. The first phase ofthe
project has required extensive
digging o f underground chambers
and tunnels, and is expected to
open to the public in the fall o f
next year. Charlesworth ad
dresses landscape and the 19th
century English garden as an ar
tistic shaping ofthe natural world.
British artist Fulton, for whom
walking is an extension o f artis
tic activity, has adapted his lec
ture for publication by incorpo
rating text, design, photography,
'amTjOiunial entries irito'one co
hesive chapter that documents his
unique approach to the land and
making art.
The Art and Architecture publi
cation reflects the recent surge
o f general interest in this topic.
In the past few years new con
temporary art museums have
generated considerable press,
and the relationship between art
and architecture has never been
so widely discussed and debated.
Reporting on the symposium for
The York Times, Bruce Weber
summarized some o f the ques
tions that Chinati’s event elicited,
including “lively discussions on
subjects that tend to perpetuate
combat: whether museum design
should take a back seat to the art
the buildings will hold, or whether
the architects should make impor
tant statem ents them selves,
drawing attention to the buildings
and thus the collections within;
whether art in public spaces
should be reverential or even be
holden to the buildings in the sur
rounding environment; whether'
architects are artists, whether
architecture is a it”
H»c volume begins with distin
guished Harvard University ar
chitecture scholar, Ackerman,
who considers early examples o f
the fUsion o f art and architecture
at a time when atelier training did
little to distinguish between the
two fields. Ackerman poses the
question, “Is it possible for art
and architecture to function in
teractively, or is architecture so
commercial that art can only
comment on that?” Gehry pro
vides a highly personal account
o f his formative work with art
ists and his recent triumph ofthe .
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Herzog discusses the renovation
o f London’s enormous Bankside
Power Plant for the Tate
Gallery’s modem and contempo
rary art collection, as well as a
rejected proposal for the expan
sion o f New York’s Museum o f
Modem Art. Hom describes
site-specific projects in Spain
and Germany and discusses her
excursions to Iceland and the
photo-based work that resulted
from that experience. Irwin re
counts his often difficult collabo
ration with architect Richard
Meier on his garden project for
the J. Paul Getty Center in Los
Angeles. Oldenburg and van
Bruggen provide a humorous
*and personal account o f their
.work together on largi:-scale
projects in the United States and
abroad.
The Art in the Landscape and
Art and Architecture publica
tions are the first in a series that
the museum will continue topresent approximately every
two years. The events with their
accompanying publications have
become an integral aspect o f
Chinati’s overall program, at
tracting thousands o f interna
tional visitors to the museum.
Feature articles about the sym
posiums have appeared in The
N ew York Tim es, Houston
Chronicle, Metropolis Magazine,
Texas Architect, Architecture
Record, and many other foreign
and domestic publications.
Dutch graphic artist Rutger
Fuchs designed the books, which
are bound in soft-cover and mea
sure 5.5 X 8.25 inches. They
were printed by Becotte and
Company in an edition o f 2,000.
Art in the Landscape (retail price
$18) has 136 pages with 31
black-and-white illustrations and
was edited by Daphne Beal. Art
and Architecture (retail price
$20) has 192 pages including 86
black-and-white illustrations and
was edited by Jeffrey Kopie.
For more information or to or
der cop ies, please contact
StefTen Boddeker, Public A f
fairs
Administrator
at
915.729.4362, fax 915.729.4597,
or
em ail
at
[email protected].
New Marfa arts studio to
open with October festivities
MARFA - The Marfa Studio o f
Arts, an.emerging non-profit
artist’s organization in Marfa,
Texas, will open it s doors on
October 6,2000.
The first event o f this new in
stitution will be an inaugural ex
hibition and celebration. The stu
dio is located at the comer o f El
Paso and South Austin streets in
the building formerly known as •
the Big Bend Feed Store.
The studio will initially focus on
the use o f clay and ceramics, but
expects to grow to into other ma
terials, possibly glass, metal and
wood. These materials could be
used in combination with more
contemporary tools such as the
computer to further the possibili
ties o f the artist’s mind.
The 9,000 square foot building
will feature a 1,200 square foot
gallery, master studio, kiln yard
and a large community studio.
The Marfa community will be
offered an ongoing series o f artrelated classes that will be af
fordable and responsive to their
needs. These classes will be for
Marfa residents o f all ages and
backgrounds. The MSA also
hopes to seek private and public
funding to allow a certain por
tion o f the classes to be subsi
dized, giving scholarships to those
who need them.
The community will also have
access to free lectures, demon
strations and gallery visits.
Shared studio space and facility
use will be offered to Marfa art
ists in exchange for contributing
volunteer work to the institution.
MSA plans to invite artists o f
contemporary importance to visits
and work in Marfa from one
week up to a month. Artists se
lected will probably not have a
ceramics background but have a
notable reputation in their own
area. The MSA will allow the
artist to work with a ceramic
technician to explore the medium
in a project format. The result
ing work o f the projects will be
exhibited in the MSA gallery on
a rotating basis. These visiting
artists will be asked to share the
experience with the community
through lectures, studio tours and
casual interaction.
The opening exhibition o f the
MSA will show innovative instal
lation work.that utilizes the me
dium o f clay. The MSA has in
vited Walter McConnell, artist
and faculty member at Alfred
University, Alfred, New York to
create a unique site-specific in
stallation in the open and pre
renovated space. Known for his
ethereal works, McConnell uses
formed wet clay to mold large
baroque sculptural works in at
mospherically isolated plastic
cylinders o f light. These works
change in the brief time of exhi
bition through the drying process
producing curling, cracking and
color change.
Emily Jacir, an artist o f Pales
tinian descent, currently living in
New York, will recreate an in
stallation work originally devel
oped at Anderson Ranch Arts
Center in Snowmass Village.
Colorado. The artist used the clay
medium to fashion beautiful
lemon shaped elements that sit
in wooden boxes affixed to the
wall. The work has a deep and
poignant meaning for the artist.
As a young girl, her family culti
vated a garden on their land with
lemon trees. Now with the un
rest and unresolved political is
sues in this part o f the world,
Palestinians are by law no longer
able to own the property they
used to garden.
Malinda Beeman is an artist
and will be the Director o f the
Marfa Studio o f Arts.
Originally from California, Ms.
Beeman'spent much of her pro
fessional life in Houston and in
Colorado at the Anderson Ranch
Arts Center. Her work has been
honored with many exhibitions
and two National Endowments
for the Arts Awards.
This exhibition will use small
free standing room to create an
intensely claustrophobic yet beau
tiful installation with handprinted
lithographic wallpaper, hand
painted ceramic tile and pique
assiette mosaic. Titled “ A Seri
ously Beautiful Room” the work
investigates the human reaction
to an intensely beautiful experi
ence and its potential to trigger a
reaction o f fear or revulsion.
The exhibition will open on Fri
day, October 6 from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. with an opening celebraiion
beginning at 9 p.m. to midnight.
The event will have music by
the ‘Groobees," a contemporary
folk/pop band featuring singer/
songwriter, Susan Gibson, who
wrote and performs “Wide Open
Spaces” a featured song on the
Dixie Chicks CD.
Cover charge for the event will
be S7 a person and S10 a couple.
Marfa community members
showing proof o f their Marfa
residency will be give a special
entrance fee o f 55 per person (S7
per couple). This w ill be a
BYOB event with so A drinks and
water available for purchase.
The exhibition continues on Sat
urday, October 7 and Sunday Oc
tober 8 with viewing from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. From October 10
through the 22 the exhibition will
be open on Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appoints
ment. .
Please call Malinda Beeman at
(915) 729-3987 for additional in
formation about the exhibition and
to make an appointment to view
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Obituaries
morning at Holy Redeemer
Catholic Church with the Rev.'
Frank Chavez officiating. Burial
followed at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Tony Acosta,
Rogelio Tarango, Pete Avila,
Simon Tovar, Jessie Acosta and
Efhiin Rodriguez.
Services by Odessa Funeral
Home.
T u rk
RayHegy
Hegy
Raymond ‘Ray’ Christopher
Hegy, 96, long time resident o f
Marfa, died Saturday night, Au
gust 26,2000, at a Fort Stockton
hospital.
Rosary was at 1 p.m. Wednes
day followed by a funeral Mass
at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church in Marfa, with Father Rick
Ruiz officiating. Burial followed
at Marfa Cemetery, under the di
rection o f Memorial Funerah
Home o f Marfa.
Mr. Hegy was bom February 12,
1904, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He was an early aviator and barn
stormer during the 1920’s. Serv
ing as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force
during World War II, he was sta
tioned in Brazil. In the early
1940's, he moved to Marfa and
married Merrie Marie Burson. All
o f his career was involved in avia
tion. He
a pilot, mapping C&r
geological survey firms.
Mr. Hegy designed and built his
own airplane and it is on display
at the Experimental Aircraft As
sociation Museum in Oshkosh,
Wis. That association also named
him as one o f the 50 all time great
members. He was inducted into
the El Paso Aviation Hall o f Fame.
At the end o f his career, he was
a manufacturer o f wooden pro
pellers for experimental and an
tique aircraft. His grandson now
operates that business. He was a
member o f St. Mary’s Catholic
Church and was a lecturer. He
was preceded in death by his wife
on November 30,1996.
Survivors include a daughter,
Billie Lu Corder o f Yuma, Ariz.;
a brother, Ralph Hegy of Wiscon
sin; three sisters, Elizabeth
Vogelsang, Helen Buchanan and
Sister Maureen Hegy, all o f Wis
consin; two grandchildren, Jim
Corder and Cindy Corder, both of
Marfa; four great-grandchildren;
and two great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Fritz Kahl,
KcttMitchell Jr., Dan Dunlap, Ike
Livingston. Jerry Hart and Bill
Shurlcy.
Honorary Pallbearer was Steve
Heacock.
R in e h a rt
Georgina Ann "George”
Rinehart, 42, died Thursday, Au
gust 24, 2000, at Big Bend Re
gional Medical Center in Alpine.
Services for Rinehart were held
at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 26,
2000, at the United Methodist
Church in Alpine with burial fol
lowing at Hillcrest Cemetery in
Fort Davis.
Rinehart was bom January 17,
195 8, in Brownwood to John and
Eloise Tackett. She attended
Grandfalls-Royalty High School
where she received numerous
honors before her graduation in
1976. Some o f her outstanding
accomplishments were National
4-H Horsemanship Demonstra
tion, coached by Barbara
Bowden o f Grandfalls, Lion's
Club Pianist and Club Contestant
for “Miss Teenage Texas,” and
g\tfis salutatorian. Upon gradu
ation she attended Sul Ross State
University.
Rinehart married Larry
Rinehart on June 1, 1990. She
was first a fashion designer un
der the trademark “By George”
carrying her clothing through the
greater Southwest. She contin
ued her designing talent, but
changed from clothing to jewelry
design and created “Rinehart Sil
ver Company” in which she re
mained involved until her death.
Rinehart is survived by her
mother, Eloise Tackett, husband,
Larry Rinehart, and two daugh
ters, Kayse and Rellye Graham
o f Alpine, one step-son, Bo
Rinehart o f Dem ing,- N ew
M exico, one step-daughter,
Laura Rinehart o f Albuquerque,
New Mexico, two grandchildren,
Kenzie and Taylor, two nieces,
Angela Hegstrom o f Lubbock
and Elisa Ranking o f Uvalde. She
was preceded in death by her
father in 1993 and her brother,
Jesse Kirk Tackett, in 1997.
Sanchez
Herbert J. Turk, 89, a long time
resident o f San Antonio, died Au
gust 7,2000, at his home.
Graveside service was held at
10 a.m., August 11 at the San
Fernando Cemetery No. 3 in San
Antonio, with Rev. Dwayne
Willoughby officiating.
Mr. Turk was bom July 20,1911,
in San Antonio, to George and
Janie Seed Turk and was reared
there.
During World War II he served
in the U.S. Army as Private First
Class in Italy from August 1943
to December 25,1945.
Survivors include a his son,
Donald and wife, Margaret Turk;
three grandchildren and six great
grandchildren; a niece and her
husband, Vera and Lee Shivel; a
nephew and his wife, Glenn and
Katheryn Harris; a grand niece
and her husband, Linda and Craig
King; and Mary Lee Harper o f
Marfa, the only living cousin on
the “family side” o f his mother’s
mother, Mrs! Janie Seed Turk.
K ih I o f S e a s o n S a le !
PRESIDIO - Marfa Border Pa
trol Sector and Presidio Station ■
agents on Wednesday handed 56
‘Border Safety Initiative- signs to
Mexican government officials in
a two-nation attempt to battle the
health and safety hazards o f
Mexican residents crossing ille
gally into Texas and the United
States.
The initiative is “another chap
ter in the growing cooperative re
lationship between the two na
tions ‘en la frontera* (along the
border) and more specifically the
border communities o f Presidio,
Tcxasj and Ojinaga, Chihuahua,
Mexico,” according to a Border
Patrol news release.
The metal signs, which will be
■placed at key border crossing
points, are designed to warn mi
grants o f the dangers involved
with illegal crossings along the
Southwest border.
Those who cross and attempt to
walk through the desolate and re
mote areas o f the southern por
tion o f the TransPecos and Big
Bend area o f West Texas will
face hardship and incredibly dif
ficult conditions, according to the
Border Patrol. Whether it is sum
mer or winter, environmental con
ditions are extreme, and the jour
ney through the area is rife with
danger.
These dangers include a lack o f
infrastructure in terms o f medi
cal evacuation capabilities, lack o f
potable water points and lack o f
law enforcement - especially in
the smuggling corridors that have
been used for years.
Trusting in “coyotes, unscrupu
lous alien smugglers” often entails
terrible consequences for these
migrants, the Border Patrol noted.
Presidio Station Chief Chase Snodgrass and Victor Soteio, mayor o f
Ojinaga.
Mexican’officials in attendance
at the ceremony, held at the
Presidio Border Patrol Station,
were Ojinaga Mayor Victor
Sotelo, Gustavo Arredondo Mata
o f the border patrol; Daniel Rafael
Teran o f customs; Oscar Flott and
Dr. Fernando Gallegos o f the hu
man rights commission; Rene
Cardona, public security director,
Dr. Francisco Rafael Lopez
Lopez, a delegate o f the national
immigration institute; attorney
Gabriela Saez Albo ofthe foreign
relations commission; and new
Mexican Consul in Presidio, Juan
Roberto Gonzales.
Border Patrol agents at the event
included new Presidio station
Chief Chase Snodgrass, assistant
station Chief Vincent Lavallee,
station oflice manager Yvonne
Zubiate and Presidio station
agents.
Sector officials included Assis
tant Chief Patrol Agent Rudy
Rodriguez and public information
officer Jorge Swank.
The city o f Presidio was repre
sented by city Administrator
Bany Sullivan.
Members o f the Ojinaga,
Presidio and Marfa press corps
also attended the ceremony.
The approval process and re
view procedures for placement o f
these signs involved several gov
ernmental agencies at the high
est levels o f both countries. Both
nations realize that significant ef
forts must be made to dissuade
migrants from crossing in danger
ous areas.
“Collectively, we feel that ef
forts to save lives reflect our best
instincts and by working together
we can make a difference,” ac
cording to the Border Patrol.
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Sunday, Sept 3
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Agueda “Chita” Hemandez
Sanchez, 70, died Saturday, Au
gust 26,2000, in an Odessa hospital.
Rosary was held at 7:30 p.m.
on Monday, Augusl28,2000,-at ~\
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Marfa with funeral mass at 10
a.m. on Tuesday, August 29,
2000, at the churcluBurial fol
lowed in Merced Cemetery.
Memorial Funeral Home in
Marfa was in charge o f arrange
ments.
Sanchez was bom in Marfa on
December 7,1929. She worked
at Elite Laundry and Cleaners for
many years until it closed and
was a member o f St. Mary’s
Catholic Church. She resided in
Odessa the past seven years.
Survivors include two brothers,
Elias Sanchez ofMarfa and Jose
Sanchez o f Van Hom; four sis
ters, Eva Sanchez and Ysidora
Kirkley, both o f Silver City, New
Mexico, Olivina Sanchez o f El
Paso, and Margarita Dominguez
of Odessa; and many nieces and
nephews.
Pallbearers were Eddie
Dominguez, Mario Sanchez,
Roger Sanchez, Raul Sanchez,
Nieves Gutierrez, and Johnny
Sanchez.
T ovar
Eva V. Tovar, 50, died 24,2000,
at her Odessa residence.
She was bom March 18,1950,
in Marathon. She was a beauti
cian and a member ofthe Catho
lic church.
She is survived by her husband,
M arcos Tovar o f Odessa;
daughters, Amy Tarango and
Paz Acosta, both o f Odessa;
brothers, Jesus Villarreal, Lolo
Villarreal, Manuel VUlanreal, Jose
Villarreal and Adan Villantal, all
o f Odessa, and Tony Villarreal
o f Marathon; sister, Vicky
Aguilar o f Crane, Elodia
M artinez o f Odessa, Maria
Ellena Mondova and Elida Fierro,
both o f Alpine; grandchildren,
Zackery Noah Tovar, Arissa
Eva Acosta, Joey Acosta, Steven
Acosta and A lysu Acosta.
Rosary was recited at Odessa
Funeral Home Chapel. A funeral
Mass was celebrated Saturday
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A ctivists p ro te st anti-abortion ruling
Mexican law tojail rape victims prompts backlash
clear.
MEXICO CITY - A n e w law
aimed atjailing rape victim* who
Many Mexicans have expressed
alarm at the law. In the southern
have abortions has backfired,
triggering inatcada movcmdnMa Astatcftf Guerrero - home to the
resort city ofAcapulco - women
libcndae Mexico’s abation'laws,
and children picketed outside
tnanyof them untouched since
thcl930s.
government buildings after hear
ing about it. Women’s rights
Lawmakers from tbe rightof*
groups in the southeastern states
center National Action Party, or
o f Chiapas, Veracruz and
PAN, in the state o f Guanajuato
Tabasco called for national abor
approved the abortion measure
tion law reforms.
Aug. 3. Word o f the law spread
Even some Catholic leaders,
quickly-«nd so did the protests
against it. Political activists in
■long opposed to abortion, got into
the act Passing the Guanajuato
Guanajuato were the first to voice
law was “an inopportune decision
their concerns: Now people all
whichneeds to be reconsidered,”
over Mexico are talking about the
said Jos6 M orales Flores, a
proposal - and many are bashingit
spokesman for the Diocese o f
Querctaro in central Mexico.
“First the authorities offer
An Aug. 12 Reforma survey o f
women no protection against
570 people in Guanajuato found
rape. Then, after she gets raped
that 62 percent o f those ques
and has to have an abortion, the
tioned disagreed with the law and
authorities say, ‘We’re going to
27 percent supported it.
punish her,’” said Ofelia Aguilar,
Mexico City lawmakers agreed
manager o f social issues at the
to hold a special legislative ses
Mexican Family Planning Asso
sion to discuss reforming the
ciation in Mexico City.
capital’s abortion laws. Repre
But Gerardo de los Cobos, head
sentatives o f more than 40
o f the PAN in Guanajuato, said
women’s rights groups in the
he didn’t get the sense there was
Mexican capital announced that
much o f an outcry over the mea
they would lobby for “democratic
sure. “Certainly debate on the
and progressive” reforms.
subject is sensitive, but we aren’t
“Our wony is that conservative
seeing the clear rejection by so
forces are trying to reverse all
ciety,” he told M exico City’s
that women have achieved over
Reforma newspaper.
many, many years,” said Pilar
He and others said they backed
Muriedas, an activist who joined
the law because they believe pro
other leaders in making the an
tecting human life by preventing
nouncement.
abortion rises above all other con
State governments in Mexico
cerns, including that o f safe
rather than the'federal govern
guarding the welfare o f a woman
ment generally have the author
who has been raped.
ity to create abortion laws. Abor
But the PAN’s national leaders
tion is illegal in all 32 states, but
disagreed and in recent days
many have exceptions to the law.
asked Guanajuato lawmakers to
Twenty-eight
states allow abor
scrap the law, which has not
tions if the woman is injured, for
taken effect.
instance, or if having the baby
_ Presidentelect Vicente Fox would endanger the woman’s
a PAN member and native o f
life. Abortion is legal in 11 states
Guanajuato state - has also dis
for women whose babies would
tanced himself from the contro
probably be bom with genetic
versy.
.
defects. A jk n ti3 6 il8 4 S e M t>
“It wS&i local decisidh^he told
ted in eight states if the women’s
reporters. “My position is very
health - though not necessarily
different.’’
her life - is in danger.
Some analysts suggested that
Yucatin state has M exico’s
the most conservative elements
most liberal abortion laws. Abor
o f his party started the abortion
tions are permitted, for instance,
debate to test Fox, to see just
if a woman has at least three
how conservative - or liberal children and does not have the
he might be.
economic resources for another
Re forma reported that backers
child. Muriedas said she would
o f the law wanted the PAN’s
like to see all states adopt what
national leaders to endorse the
she referred to as the Yucat&n
measure but knew that wasn’t
model. If a mother - no matter
likely. Still, they said, they wanted
her income - doesn’t believe she
their position on abortion to be
(C»tuiiuu4/r*m page 1)
M e x ic a n p o lic e
can provide Ha good quality o f
s u s p e c te d in
life” for her child, she should be
allowed to have an abortion,
P r e s id io m a n ’s
Muriedas said.
A sked i f such a measure
r e c e n t b e a tin g
wouldn’t essentially legalize
abortion, since “quality o f life”
By GUILLERMO M.
can mean so many things, she
MORALES
replied, “Yes.”
OJINAGA, CHIH.. MEX. Traditionally, all Mexican states
Two members of the Mexican
have allowed rape victims to
Judicial Police are accused of il
have abortions. Then came the
legally detaining and brutally beat
Guanajuato law, which called for
ing Omar Barragan of Presidio.
criminal charges to be filed
Banagan has filed a complaint
against the woman in such
with the Ojinaga police.
cases.
The Judicial Police have been
After debate over that law
embroiled in controversy in that
grew heated in early August, law
members of this force have been
makers in Guanajuato came up
accused of attacks on the citizens
with a proposal that would allow
o f both Ojinaga and sister city
judges - not state officials - to
Presidio.
decide whether a rape victim
According to police reports, in
should be punished for having an
the early hours of Sunday, August
abortion.
20, Omar Barragan and his wifeUnder the proposal, women
Melissa stopped at an Ojinaga gas
who are raped and have abor
station where Barragan pro^
tions would be required to prove
ceeded to use the bathroom. Two
that they reported the sexual as
men, identified as Judicial police
sault to authorities right after it
men Jorge Carreon Valdez and
occurred. Judges deciding their
JuanCarlos Vargas Ramirez, al
punishment would be asked to
legedly entered the bathroom and
consider factors such as the
proceeded to beat Banagan and
victim’s health. That way, if the
take his wallet with about $250,
woman were in poor health, the
his hat and the jewelry he was
judge would have the power to
wearing.
fine her rather than jail her.
The suspects next reportedly
.Guanajuato lawmakers plan to
made him board their vehicle and
discuss this proposal over the
told his wife, Melissa, to follow
next three months. Guanajuato
them. She followed them but soon
Gov. Ram6n Martin Huerta has
lost them as they were traveling
said he probably would veto the
at a high rate of speed.
law if it crosses his desk or call
She called her parents-in-law in
for a referendum on the issue.
Presidio and then called the
Women’s rights activists said
Ojinaga authorities.
the law - in its original and re
Barragan was taken to the Judi
vised form - is an insult to
cial Police offices where he al
women. They say that it implies
legedly was denied a phone call
that women are “passive/inca
and water. He maintained that the
pable o f making a decision ...
two policeman were drunk and that
destined for sacrifice, submission
he eventually escaped from them.
and obedience,” said Maria
He then walked to the. Presidio
Consuelo Mejia, director o f
Port of Entry.
Catholics for a Free Choice in
Days later, Barragan led the
Mexico City. Relaxing abortion
laws in Mexico richer than tight? v liot'Trtftce.'wherehe'Mti
ening them wouldsave the lives ' held and was able to identify the
o f women who die while having
cell where he was kept prisoner
abortions at clandestine clinics,
and identified the offices in which
she and others said.
he had been interrogated.
No one knows how many abor
tions are performed in Mexico.
Estimates range from 110,000 to
850,000 a-year. In 1998, the
United Nations estimated that
clandestine abortion clinics in
Mexico take in SI00 million a
year.
(The Dallas Morning News)
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down 3.1 inches from its histori
cal rainfall to date o f 10.4 inches.
Presidio residents reported a
nice rain shower Tuesday
evening, and a Valentine resident
said the sweetheart community
got “just a, few drops.”
The Fort Davis area came in
second to Alpine’s rainfall with
“about and inch all around,” said
Bob Dillard o f the Jeff Davis
County Mountain Dispatch.
McDonald Observatory and the
Davis Mountains' Resort got
about pnejhalf inch.
O f the sue rain collection sites
monitored by Big Bend National
Park - Panther Junction, the
Chisos Basin, Rio Grande Vil
lage, Castelon-Santa Elena Can
yon, Persimmon Gap and Lajitas
- three collected some wet stuff:
.03 o f an inch at Rio Grande Vil
lage, .41 o f an inch at Casteion
and.18 ofan inch at Lajitas. The
Study Butte-Terlingua area got
about one-half inch.
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[E d u c a t i o n a n d s p o r t s
Shorthorns volleyball heads
to champ bracket at Wink
(Photo by SAM RICHARDSON)
CASI President Mel FitzHenry,L, and Treasurer Jim
Stateczny, R, presented a check fo r $5,000 to TCSD
superintendent Kathy Killingsworth during a weekend chili
cookoff in Terlingua. The emergency funding will help some
South Brewster County students attend trade school this fall.
WINK - The Marfa High
School Shorthorns volleyball
team advanced to the Champi
onship Bracket at the Wink
Tournament held Friday, August
18, and Saturday, August 19.
In Friday’s pool play, Marfa
defeated Grandfalls, 15-10 and
15-8 and Fort Davis, 15-13 and
15-9. In their third game against
Fort Hancock, Marfa lost the first
set, 5-15, but came back in a
close second set, 15-14. The
Shorthoms’s pool record was 51, advancing them to play in the
Championship Bracket.
In Saturday’s bracket play,
Marfa fell to Midland Christian.
2-15 and 1-15. Bringing in ser
vice points for the Shorthorns
were Mona Aguilar, 1; Lauren
Martinez, 1; and Leah Weimers,
1, with one kill from Lorinda.
Carrillo.
In the second game, Plains de
feated Marfa, 15-12 and 15-11.
Scrvice points were made by
Stacy Hibbitts, 7; Aguilar, 6;
Melissa Lujan, 5; Weimers, 3;
and Carrillo 2, 1 o f which was
an ace. Carrillo also had 4 kills;
Weimers, 4; Aguilar, 3; and
Martinez, 2.
The Wink Tournament left the
Shorthorns with a season record
o f 0-4.
Volleyball team competes in
consolation round at Pecos
(SRSU photo by STEVE LANG)
Sul Ross State University begins the 2000 volleyball season Sept.
1-2 at the Cora-Cola Classic tournament in Plainview. Team
m em bers include (fro n t row,, fro m left): M elody Garza,
Brownsville; Billie Brauch, Alpine; Raquel Hernandez, El Paso;
Melissa Vaclavik, Granado; Ida Ramirez, Brownsville. Middle
row, Victoria Swanson, Tucson, Ariz.; Laura Alferez, E l Paso;
Trade Payan, Crane; Lauren Knight, Marfa. Back row, Leticia
Rodriquez, San Antonio; M arisol Cervantes, Alpine; Shawna
Nations, Harper; Not pictured are Martha Molina, Brownsville;
and Mandy Fuentes, Monahans.
Lobo volleyball season opens
Friday in Plainview tourney
ALPINE - Led by a new head
coach and with a roster dotted
with new faces, Sul Ross State
University opens the 2000 vol
leyball season Sept. 1-2 in the
Coca-Cola Classic tournament at
Plainview.
Sul Ross plays the University
o f Texas Permian Basin at 3
p.m. Friday, Sept. 1. On Satur
day, Sept. 2, the Lady Lobos
meet host Wayland Baptist Uni
versity at 2 p.m. and have a re
turn match with UTPB at 5 p.m.
N ew head coach Ricardo
"Ricky” Garcia faces the task o f
restoring Sul Ross’ storied vol
leyball success. Garcia, who
holds two degrees from Sul
Ross,
succeeds
Ruth
McWilliams, who resigned to re
turn to the high school ranks.
Garcia himself enjoyed a suc
cessful prep coaching tenure,
posting a 213-98 record, includ
ing a state runner-up finish, over
10 seasons at Fort Hancock, Dell
City and Marfa.
Sul Ross finished 2-25 last sea
son, but Garcia believes the Lady
Lobos will quickly return to the
status that has produced two
national championships and sev
eral conference titles since the
sport’s inception. The Lady Lo
bos open the season Sept. 1-2 in
the Coca-Cola Classic tourna
ment at Wayland Baptist Univer
sity, Plainview.
“Sul Ross tradition and the
team’s enthusiasm can trigger a
resurgence,” said Garcia, who is
aided by student assistant Troy
Canaba. “The players are work
ing hard in the early practices and
are looking forward tb the start
o f the season.
“If wc work hard and have fun,
the winning will take care o f it
self,” Garcia said.
Much o f last year’s lineup re
mains intact, led by outside hit
ters Laura Alferez (El Paso), and
Mari Cervantes (Alpine); and
setter/defensive specialist
Raquel Hernandez (El Paso) and
setter Leticia Rodriguez (San
Antonio). Also returning is out
side hitter/m iddle blocker
Shawna Nations (Harper).
Gone from last year’s team are
outside hitters LaGwenna Mor
row, Lisa Haley, Traci Mejia and
Audrey G lasscock; middle
blocker Chrissy Seibert; and set
ter Jessica Coddington. Garcia
hopes to fill the gaps with sev
eral promising recruits.
Joining this year’s roster are
outside hitter/middle blocker
Billie Brauch (Alpine); outside
hitter M elody Garza, setter
Martha Molina and outside hit
ter Ida Ramirez (Brownsville);
setter/defensive specialist Mel
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sive specialist Tracie Payan
(Crane); and outside hitter/
middle blocker Victoria Swanson
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In Saturday’s game, Kermit
defeated Marfa, 15-10,7-15, and
15-5. For the games, serving
points were scored by Lauren
Martinez, 9, 3 o f which were
aces; Melissa Lujan, 5; Leah
Weimers, 4, 1 o f which was an
ace; Jennifer Hernandez, 2,1 o f
which was an ace; Lorinda
Carrillo, 2; Stacey Hibbitts, 2;
Adriana Villanueva, 2; Lyneta
James, .2; and Stephanie
Upshaw, 2. Kills were made by
Mona Aguilar, 5; Martinez, 3;
Carrillo, 2; Weimers, 2; and
Hibbitts, 1.
The Shorthorn volleyball team
holds a season record o f 0-5.
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to the parents/guardians and students o f the Marfa Independent
School District.
Bus Route Stops
Ernesto Chavez - 7 a.m./ leave bus bam to:
1.1101 Yale; 2. Yield sigiVEdinburg St; 3.1500 Hartford; 4. Yield
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Edinburg; 9. yield sign/Hoover; 11. yield sign/Plateau; 12.804 W.
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Alamito; 5. Quintana Housing Projects/Columbia; 6. 537 E.
Murphy; 7.619 E. Washington; 8.207 W. Oak; 9. Comer of
Russell & Texas; 10. Winchester Arms Apartments; 11. 1209 E.
Lincoln; 12.1100 E. Columbia: 13 400 N. Avenue B; 14.905 E.
Texas; 15.815 E. Texas; 16.Nevill/MoonlightGemstones Alley;
17. 107 E. Waco; 18 Corder Trailer Park/ Abbott St.
5 .4 p.m./leave MES to:
1. 809 N. Austin; 2. 1106 N. Alamito; 3. Quintana Housing
Projects/Columbia St. 4.416 W. Dwyer; 5. 318. E. Lincoln; 6.
Winchester Arms Apartments; 7. 905 E. Texas; 8. 815 E. Texas; 9.
107 E. Waco; 10 Corder Trailer Park/Abbott St.
(center), director o f Development at Sul Ross State University,
accepts a S4,000 check to the Centennial School Endowment.
Centennial School Committee members (from left) Elldia Polanco,
Kachoo Valenzuela, Rebecca Jaquez and Joseflna Iniguez made
the presentation.
Centennial scholarship fund
grows over $9,000 mark
ALPINE - A recent $4,000 con
tribution to the Centennial School
Endowment at Sul Ross State
University has increased the
fund’s total to over $9,300.
Centennial School Committee
members Elidia Polanco, Kachoo
Valenzuela, Rebecca Jaquez and
Josefina Iniguez presented the
check to Leo Dominguez, Sul
Ross director o f Development.
The contribution increased the
endowment total to $9,384.90.
“This generous contribution will
expand scholarship opportunities
for deserving students,” said
Dominguez. “Through the en
dowment, former students and
friends o f the Alpine Centennial
School have established a legacy
for contihuing education.” •" ■Ki
Established in 1996 through pri
vate contributions, the Centennial
School Scholarship Endowment
and Scholarship Fund provides
scholarships to Spanish majors or
minors at Sul Ross. Freshman
applicants must have graduated
in the upper 50 percent o f their
high school graduating class, be
unconditionally admitted to Sul
Ross and full-time students^-.
Undergraduate applicants who
are continuing studients must have
a 2.5 or higher cumulative grade
point average and be full-time
students. Graduate applicants
must be full-time students with a
3.0 or higher grade point aver- j
age.
The number and amount o f j
scholarships awarded are deter
mined by the chairman o f the
department o f languages and lit
erature bn an annual basis. Schol
arship selections are recom
mended to the University Schol
arship Committee, which selects
the recipients.'
Bustamante earns graduate
education degree from SRSU
MARFA - Lauro ‘Larry’
Bustamante, son of_Anita C.
Bustamante and the late Faustino
P. Bustamante o f Marfa, gradu
ated from Sul Ross State Univer
sity on Saturday, August 12, with
a Masters in Education Counsel
ing degree.
He also holds a Bachelor o f Arts
degree in Psychology, which he
also received from Sul Ross State
University on December 14,
1996.
W hile attending Sul Ross,
Buitamante was an active mem
ber o f Alpha Phi Sigma honor so
ciety. He also made the Dean’s
list on several occasions while en
rolled as a student.
Bustamante is seeking to further
a career in counseling by obtain
ing his L.P.C. (Licensed Profes
sional Counselor). He is presently
employed with Permian Basin
Community Centers in Alpine.
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PECOS - In tournament play
in Pecos on Friday, August 25,
and Saturday, August 26, the
Marfa High School Shorthorns
volleyball team advanced to the
Consolation Bracket.
In Friday’s pool play, Marfa
won one set against Grandfalls,
15-11, and lost one, 14-15. The
Shorthorns then played Semi
nole, losing both matches 5-15.
In their third game, Marfa played
El Paso Parkland, losing the first
match, 7-15, and winning the
second, 15-6.
Their pool record on Friday, 24, propelled the Shorthorns to the
Consolation Bracket.
(SRSU photo by STEVE LANG)
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION - Leo Dominguez
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Paso Faith Christian Academy,
8:30 p.m., Marfa time, Clint High
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freshman volleyball teams vs.
Alpine & Greenwood, 4 p.m.,
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|.E d u c a t i o n a n d s p o r t s
New Sul Ross students are
introduced toX,obo traditions
ALPINE • While traditions such
as Homecoming, painting the Bar
SR Bar and scaling Hancock
Mountain to register at the desk
are integral parts ofthe Sul Ross
State University experience,
earning a degree in four years
ranks at the top o f the list, new
students were told Monday (Aug.
28) at the annual convocation.
New students were praised for
“making the right choice” to at
tend Sul Ross, and were intro
duced to administration, faculty
deans and traditions at the con
vocation, held in Marshall Audi
torium. Sul Ross President R Vic
Morgan, in a brief address, cited
the significance o f traditions, most
importantly, the traditions o f cam
pus involvement and graduating
in four years.
‘Traditions build cohesiveness
and bring students together,” Sul
Ross President R. Vic Morgan
told members o f the Class o f
2004. “Traditions are and should
be a vital part o f the university
community, and we hope you will
begin more traditions to promote
class togetherness.
“You are the future o f Sul
Ross,” Morgan said. “Sul Ross
is lots o f things, but mostly it’s
about students. Make the riaht
choice now to get involved in stu
dent activities and make the right
choice now to get a degree in
four years.”
Eric Rodriguez, Austin, presi
dent o f the Student Government
Association, also encouraged the
new students to pursue goals o f
participation in campus life and
graduating in four years.
“Sul Ross is a university o f ex
cellent opportunities; opportuni
ties that you’ll rarely find at any
other institution," said Rodriguez.
“Consider participating in the
activities available. I invite you
to get involved in as many activi
ties as possible.”
Dr. Nadine Jenkins, vice presi
dent for Enrollment Management
and Student Services, welcomed
the new students, introduced plat. form guests and gave'the charge
to the Class o f 2004. Dr. David
Cockrnm, vice president for Aca
demic Affairs, presented a brief
history o f Sul Ross • both the
university and the namesake, and
introduced Morgan. Sophomore
Andrea Hiers, Ozona, a member
o f the Student Ambassadors,
launched a new tradition - pass
ing o f the spirit stick - to fresh
man class representative Aaron
Gabriel Saenz, El Paso.
Dr. T. Rex Wilson led the sing
ing o f the “Alma Mater” and Dr.
Shawn Pollard directed the Sul
Ross Concert Band. An outdoor
reception was held following the
convocation.
‘Casa verde’ provides welcome,
if crowded, MISD class space
(M ISD photo)
Students at work in their "casa verde” classroom.
Allison heads hew environmental
science class at Marfa High School
BY SHANNA ELMORE
MARFA-Environmental aware
ness, protection, and under
standing are just a few o f the
goals o f the environmental sci
ence class offered this year at
Marfa High School.
MHS teacher Amy Allison
was recruited last year to teach
the new course and is excited
about what the future holds.
“I hope to increase environ
mental appreciation,” she said,
“and to create critical thinkers
who make informed decisions
about issues that affect them.”
Funding for the class was re
ceived through a vocational
grant that Allison worked all
last year to receive. Although
there is a slight shortage of
books, she received two 45gallon aquariums and one 75gallon aquarium among other
supplies.
One aquarium will be set up
in the new high school career
center and counseling office.
“In the spring, I hope to do a
lot o f hands-on field work," said
Allison who has also taught in
San Antonio, Texas and Tucson,
Arizona before coming to MHS
last year.
Sul Ross football opener
pits Lobos against Air Force
ALPINE - Sul Ross State Uni
versity will pit its vaunted aerial
attack .against a team that is no
stranger to the airways • the U.S.
Air Force Academy Junior Var
sity - in the 2000 season football
opener Friday, Sept. 8 at Del Rio.
Game time is 6 p.m. at the Del
Rio High School football stadium..
Faculty, students and staff with
Sul Ross ID will be admitted free
to the game.
The Lobo-Falcon JV contest
launches a 10-game schedule for
coach Jack Waggoner’s gridders,
the last nine against American
Southwest Conference teams.
Sul Ross hosts Texas Lutheran
University in a 2 p.m. game
Sept. 16 at Jackson Field.
Waggoner’s team, 2-8 a year
ago, 1-6 in ASC play, began
workouts last week and presently
about 100 players are practicing.
He had the opportunity to see
most o f them in action in an Aug.
26 scrimmage against the Uni
versity ofCoahuila.
“Our special teams and defense
looked good," Waggoner said. “If
we can keep the defense off the
{field a bit longer during the sea
so n , we should be in good
fehape.”
| The Lobos’ passing attack,
jwhich rolled up over 2,500 yards
&nd 21 touchdowns last season,
floundered in initial contact, how
ever.
| “We dropped more passes in the
Scrimmage than we dropped all
last year,” Waggoner said. “I
jjon’t think we were mentally
prepared to play. I was also dis
appointed that we didn’t run the
ball well"
. Waggoner did praise his offen
sive line, which provided solid
protection for the quarterbacks.
“The line play was the highlight
o f our offense," he said.
The second-year coach is opti
mistic about the upcoming sea
son, however. The offense, led '
by senior quarterback Tim Will
iams (Cleburne) and a corp o f
talented receivers, including A.C.
Hood and Jesse Wells (San An
tonio), Man Horton (Red Oak),
Luis Uresti (B row n sville),
Michael Hidalgo (Van Hom) and
Tivo Gonzalez (McAllen), is a
veteran unit Williams set single
season records o f 2,439 yards
and 20 touchdowns a year ago,
while Hood, with 63 catches, nine
for scores, established another
record with 920 receiving yards.
Wells, Horton, Hidalgo, Uresti
and Gonzalez combined for 90
catches, 1,160 yards and nine
scores. Several linemen return as
well, including center Tomas
DeLaRosa (Coupland), guards
Steven Kirkpatrick (Lake Jack
son), Conde Benoist (Texas City)
and Seth Strause (George West).
Waggoner’s recruiting efforts
yielded a number o f promising
recruits on both sides o f the line.
“I think we did a good job o f
recruiting; we have a lot more
good linemen than last year," he
said, adding that improved depth
and fresh legs can be a deter
mining factor on the scoreboard.
Lobo Tracks: Sul Ross will play
its first two ASC games at Jack
son Field, Texas Lutheran Uni
versity Sept. 16 and newcomer
Louisiana College Sept. 23. Both
contests start at 2 p.m.
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Larry Sechrest, Sul Ross State
University associate professor o f
economics, was recently se
lected for membership in the
prestigious New York Academy
o f Sciences.
The Academy was established
in New York City in 1817 and
has some 40,000 members in 160
countries. Its central mission is
that o f “advancing research in
all fields o f science, engineering,
medicine, and broad areas o f
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have included knocking down
walls and cutting down the tree
that was growing through the
floor in the bathroom.
Although the space is desper
ately needed, the setting has
presented problems.
“At least there’s a ceiling,”
MHS senior James Scott said,
“And air conditioning is highly
over rated.”
While Jennings needs the
larger outer room for her art
classes, Allison teaches five
classes in the smaller inner
room.
“The students don’t have
enough space to work,” Allison
said. “The hardest thing for me
is not having space to organize
myself.”
The main complaint from high
school students is simply not
enough space, but others have
different thoughts are on their
minds.
“It’s scary to go in,” senior
Lorinda Carrillo said. “It looks
like it is going to cave in.”
Despite all the problems, Alli
son manages to look at the up
side o f having class in “casa
verde.”
“It’s the first time in 16 yean
that I’ve had windows," she
said. “After teaching in a base
ment for 8 years, anything with
sunlight will do.”
Visit us at the courthouse lawn this
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No school. Labor Day holiday
h o w can y o u keap a k id o ff d ru g s?
BY SHANNA ELMORE
MARFA- Due to lack o f class
room space, Marfa ISD pur
chased “casa verde”, as MHS
Principal Steven Zipkes likes to
call it.
The four room house, for
merly rented by the Hibbitts
family, is now being used by
Amy Allison for Algebra I,
physics, environmental science,
and academic decathlon classes,
while Blanca Jennings uses the
building for school art classes.
' Numerous renovations, which
have yet to be fully completed,
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B o n d . (Continuedfn m page 1)
exem pted property With a tended by both the architect and
550,000 evaluation will pay taxes financial advisor.
Although public input has also
on $35^000 o f the property’s
~ worth.been sought repeatedly in the
; According to figures released . project’s ongoing and extensive
Sby Hamilton, a taxpayer with a coverage in the local press, pub
lic attendance and participation in
‘ homestead exempted 542,000
- property will pay $66.69 yearly talks about the improvements
for the bond, or 55.55 per month. have been scant.
“Unfortunately you folks
Taxpayers with an exempted
$65,000 property will pay 5123.50 weren’t here five months ago,’’
yearly or S10.29 per month, while Garcia told the audience mem
bers. “It’s wonderful that you all
som eone with an exempted
are here. We needed you a long
• $90,000 property will pay S185.25
a year or $15.43 per month.
time ago.”
The need ofthe district for more
It is important, to note that the
■bond will not affect taxpayers
spacc is dire, Hamilton said. The
over 65, as their property tax
present S5 million project has
'rates are frozen.
been scaled down from a series
Some financial help«may be
o f larger, more expensive plans
with price tag o f about S7 million;
available later this year through
state funding known as instruc
“The area for speech therapy was
tional facilities allotments. The . petitioned in the hall last year in
the elementary building,” he ex
.district may not even apply for
plained. “The counselor’s office
those monies, however, until a
bond is put before voters and
is in the hallway. The nurse’s of
fice is in the restroom. We’re try
passed. Marfa’s eligibility is such
ing to be frugal with the taxpay
. that if awarded, the state would
pay for 42 percent o f the $5 mil
ers’ m oney.” At tim es, two
lion bond, but there is no guaran
teachers share the same class
tee the district will get the state
room for different classes.
monies. Should the bond pass, the
The state mandates a one-to-one
district will apply for the IFA
teacher-student ratio for children
money by the grant’s December
with special needs, board mem
15 deadline.
ber Laura Brugette added.
Deeply concerned on how tax
“They’re not getting that. They
payers will foot the cost o f the
work with the students with no
-bond on top o f newly instated
privacy. They section them ofT.
We have a secretary working out
SI.35 maintenance and opera
o
f a closet.”
tions tax rate, audience members
This week, Hamilton is busy or
honed into the board’s prepara
ganizing the scheduling o f a town
tion for the 55 million project. Is
hall type meeting, in which the
this the plan that will be best uti
public will have the opportunity to
lized by teachers, administration
post questions and suggestions to
and students, they asked. Had the
school board members, the
board explored other, less expen
board’s financial advisor on the
sive scenarios? How complete
project and the architect.
and final is the architect’s plan?
Following the suggestion o f
How will the board know that the
Marfa
resident and au dien ce.
contractors chosen to construct
member Bobby Duncan, the
the project will be the most eco
board Monday opted to form a
nomical, yet the most thorough?
publicly
driven financial advisory
How necessary is the renovation
committee. The former facilities
and new construction?
committee, which began work
The audience’s questions were
two years ago and,initially rec
certainly valid and worthy o f dis
ommended
the dramatic improve
cussion, but there was the slight
ments,
will
turn into the bond’s
est tinge o f frustration in the room
steering
committee.
Public par
from Hamilton and the school
ticipation
in
either
committee
is
board members. The project has
strongly
desired
and
encouraged
been a matter o f discussion for
by the board. Those interested in
about two years, board President
serving on those committees may
Leticia Garcia pointed out. It has
likewise been the specific subject call Hamilton’s office or steering
committee member Glenn Garcia
o f a number o f public meetings,
at 729.4344..
several o f which have been at
This notice concerns.
.property tax rates for _ j Q S ^ f lU ( I S I A .
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It presents information about three tax rate*. Lastyea/* tax rate U the actual rate the taxins unit used
to determine property taxes last year. This year's effective tax rate would topoae the same total taxes
as last year if you compare properties taxed in both yean. This year's rollback tax rate is the Nghiwr
tax rate the taxing unit can set before taxpayers can stait tax rollback procedures. In each case theae
rates are found by dividing the total amount of taxes by the tax base (the total value o f tkxable piopcny)
with adjustments as required by state law. Tbe rates are given per S100 o ( property value.
Last year's tax rate!
1134,5>7.»
Last year's operating taxes
Last year's debt taxes
Last year's total taxes
Last year's tax base
Last year's total tax rate
1 7 9 * 4 9 7 .0 0
1 2 3 4 ,0 9 4 .1 5
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This year's effective tax rate:
2 2 4 ,0 5 1 .9 3
Last year's adjusted taxes
(after subtracting taxes on lost property)
+ This year’s adjusted tax base
(after subtracting value of new property)
» This year's effective tax rate
< 3 7 ,4 2 3 ,7 3 9 .0 0 ______________
s,
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In tbefirst year a hospital district or city collects tb* additional salts tax to reduce property
taxes, it must tmert tbefollowing lints unless itsfirst adjustment was mad* last year
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Sales tax adjustment rate
$
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This year's roflback tax rate
Last year's adjusted operating taxes
(after subtracting taxes on lost property and
adjusting for transferred function)
-*• This year's adgusied tax base
■ This year’s effective operating rate
x 1j08 - this year's maximum operating rate
♦ This year's debt rate
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including one that collects tbe tax for tbefirst time this year, must insert tbefollowing lines.«
$ ____________:------------------ £1S9
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Sales tax adjustment rate
Rollback tax rate
For a taxing unit with additional rollback ratefor pollution control, insert tbefollowing lines:
+ Additional rate for pollution control
$
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$ ___________________
Rollback tax rate
.../$100
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For a taxing unit with enhanced indigent health care expenditures, insert tbefollowing lines:
+ Additional rate for enhanced indigent health
care expenditures
- Rollback tax rate ,
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Statement of Increasa/Docroasa
If
CITY OF MARFA
$100 of value, taxes would
adopts a 2000 tax rate equal to the effective tax rate o f.
.$ >59363.
DECREASE
, compared to 1999 taxes b y ____$ «27S8
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ScheduleA - Unencumbered Fund Balances
The following estimated balances will be left in the unit’s property tax accounts at the end of the fiscal year. These balances
are not encumbered by a corresponding debt obligation.
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Schedule B- 2000 Debt Service
The unit plans to pay the following amounts for long-term debts that are secured by property taxes. These amounts will
be paid from property tax revenues^ (or additional sales tax revenues, if applicable).
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Total required for 2000 debt service
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Amount (if any) paid from funds listed in Schedule A
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Amount (if any) paid from other resources
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Excess collections last year
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Total to be paid from taxes in 2000
P r e s ld l e C e u n t y
Amount added in anticipation that the unit will
A b s tr a c t C e.
collect only
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% o f its taxes in 2000
3 .9 4 1 .3 2
s 78.8Zft.32-
Total Debt Levy
Schedule C- Expected Revenuefrom Additional Salts Tax
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(For hospital districts, cities and counties with additional sales tax to reduce property taxes)
In calculating its effective and rollback tax rates, the unltestimated that it will receive S_____
in additional sales and use tax revenues. Far Countyi_The county has excluded any amount that is or will be distributed
for economic development grants from this amount of expected sales tax revenue.
Schedule D- State Criminal Justice Mandate (For Counties)
The___________________County Auditor certifies that_______
•_______ County has spent S
in the
previous 12 months beginning________________ ____
, for the maintenance and operations cost of keeping inmates
sentenced to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,
. County Sheriff has provided information
on these costs, minus the state revenues received for reimbursement of such costs.
Schedule E- Transfer of Department Function or Activity
The.
For your convienence we have:
Cold beer - ice - soft drinks - gasoline
Pay at pump, credit card, cash
100 W. San Antonio St., Marfa
• 915-729-3696
the .
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.operates this function in all or a majority of the
tSecond Year o f Transfer. Modify schedule to sbou> comparison o f
amount this year and preceding year by unit receiving tbefunction J
This notice contains a summary of actual effective and rollback tax rates' calculations. You can inspect a copy of the full
calculations a t----- httt of mabta i n b . u r a n ^ m act__________________|___________________________.
Name of person preparing this notice LluH L. C. 84 Ifl41X)
Title______________________________ tat ia m i « n » /m u j r T O »
23 AUGUST 2000
Date prepared.
The Big Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31.2QQQil7)
T H E C L R S S IF IE D S
REAL EPTATE
A L A M IT O R E A L E S T A T E
CURRENT LISTINGS
• 524 W . Third - 1,800 sq. ft. 3 BR, 2 BA, adobe home on large
comer lo t Quiet neighborhood on the edge o f town - $75,000
• 901 E. Colombia - Ranch style log home on 3.07 fenced acres.
3 bedrooms, 2 baths, big rock fireplace, nice views. This property is
in very good condition and has had many improvements. End o f the
road privacy and outside o f city limits • 5159,000
• 901 N. H ill-M odi
central heat a n d ^ J l
landscaping -
sq. ft., 3 BR, 2 BA brick home with
system, 2 car garage. Comer lot, nice
• 705 W. Bonnie - Very nkj^2 or 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on
almost 1/2 acre lot
and air, hardwood floors, shop,
storeroom, carportB j^ffsprinkler system and cellar. Near
Chinati Foundation - $67,000 __
W e also have several very nice and reasonably priced
ranch listings in the area. So give us a call.
LISTING S NEEDED!
Please call Cleat Stephens at
915-729-4424
for additional information or to request
a brochure on any of our listings.
Please visit our website:
aiamito.net
FOR SALE - Fishing cabin at
BalmorheaLake, full kitchen, full
bath, sleeps four, fully furnished,
$2,000.915.550.9068.24-3tp
HELPW ANTED
The City ofMarfa, Texas is ac
cepting applications for Chief o f
Police until 5 p.m., on September
5, 2000. Qualifications must in
FOR SALE - 160 with river
clude a minimum o f 5 years field
frontage, electricity, telephone,
experience as a peace officer or
fenced, water well, good grazing,
hunting, fishing. 1/2 minerals.. current interm ediate level
TCLEOSE certification. Suc$36,000. Financing avaiUtyg.
' cessful applicant will be required
915.229.3467.23-35-ltb
to live within the City limits o f
Marfa. Position o f chief is an uni
W INC H ESTER
formed, working shift position that
will address the daily duties ofthe
ARM S
police force and reporting to the
city administrator. It is anticipated
A PA R TM EN TS
that this position will be filled by
September 15,2000. Selection o f
the Chief o f Police may be made
without a personal interview,
based solely upon the best-quali
fied r6sum6. Submit detailed
rdsumi by fax 915-729-3158 or
other delivery means before the
Rental Assistance
deadline. Other information call
Available
915-729-4315. The City ofMarfa
is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
•All ...
City ofMarfa
•Enrwtfeari
•MoOBfflflpplvcvt
Miguel Sandoval.
• Central hMt 4 «ir
•Utfdryroom Spieytrw
C0u*l MOW*
City
Administrator
LENDER
P.O. Box 787
Offiice: 915-729-4490
Marfa, TX 79843
or 915-837-2483
COM-Aug 24 & 31
Golf Course Road,
Marfa
NEW RATES!!
T.T.Y 1-800-735-2988
FOR SALE
FOR S A LE
FO R SALE - Comm ercial
Angus bulls, 20 months old. Sired
from “Bradley 3” Angus Ranch.
Large frame, big bone, gentle.
Call 915-729-4996.
25-ltb
YARD SALES
B IG
SALE - 8 a.m. to 1 p.m..
Saturday, Sept. 2,107 W. Colum
bia St., Marfa. Round oak pedes
tal dining table enlarges to oval and
six chairs - $ 1,200; some antiques,
set o f dishes, lamps, two small
accessory tables, one desk,
clothes,'decorative items, office
supplies, and lots of odds & ends.
24-2tp
Calvin Hooker Enterprises
Buy, sell, trade, firearms and
accessories: ammunition, lasers,
scopes, mounts, sights, etc. Call:
915-729*4379, leave message.
24-tfb
FOR SALE - used furniture.
Call 915-729-4571.
tfc
H O USE FO R SALE - in
Presidio. 3 BR 2 baths, living
‘room, dining room, den, fruit and
•shade trees. Near elementary
schools. Call Tomas or Abigail
Salgadoat 915-229-3677.
FOR SALE BY OWNER - 2
bedroom, 1-bath home, 1207
Philadelphia Street, Marfa.
Needs work. Asking $12,000 ..
. make offer. 915.853.4101 or
915.650.5138.
lMfnb
FOR SALE - surplus building
straw, 256-two string poly twine
bales o f construction quality wheat
siTaw from Panhandle. $5 per
bale,
20-b ale
minimum.
915.426.2506.25-2tp
FOR SALE - beautiful 36-inch
leaded glass entry door in unfin
ished m ahogany, $425; new
Marvin clad casement windows in
three sizes, 30-40 percent off my
cost 915.426.2506.25-2tp
H ELPW ANTED
MOBILE HOM ES
FOR SALE - 18-month-old
18x80 Clayton mobile home, set
up in a Marfa trailer park: Take
up payments with approved
credit. Call 1.800.530.0018 &
ask for Julie.
23-tfnb
JOB COACH NEEDED IN PRESIDIO. High school diploma
or GED required. This is a part-time position. Train and assist
individuals with disabilities to leam and keep ajob in the
community setting. Leam the job responsibilities at the job site and
then teach them to the new employee in an atmosphere that
promotes confidence, safety and job security. Salary $5.90 per
hour, up to $6.90 in 1-year.
Fleetwood flavor of the month.
New 3 bedroom, 2 bath, double
wide, only $311.00 mo., “90 Day
No Pay” available, 5% down,
360 mos., 10.25% fixed a.p.r.
w.a.c. Call and ask for Hatfield
at A-l Homes, Odessa, 48th
and
.Andrews
Hwy.
915.363.0881
.
or
1.800.725.0881.
For details call our job line 915-570-3424 or submit application to:
PERMIAN BASIN COMMUNITY CENTERS, 401 E. Illinois,
Suite 400, Midland, TX 79701. E.O.E.
25-ltb
Big Bend Regional M edical Center
Position Vacancies
Big Bend Regional Medical Center currently has the following
position vacancies. Qualified and interested applicants may contact
Human Resources Department by calling 915-837-0247.
NURSING POSITIONS
Brand spankin' new 16 X 80
3 bedroom, 2 baths, only
$36j.00 a month for only 10 .
years with only 10% down,
11.25% a.p.r. fixed w.a.c.
Trade-ins welcome. Call and
ask for Hatfield at A-l Homes,
Odessa, 48th and Andrews
Hwy. 9 1 5 .3 6 3 .0 8 8 1 . or
1.800.725.0881.
.
A ll nursing applicants must be Texas licensed/eligible.
• Chief Nursing Officer - graduate o f an accredited MSN program
or equivalent in demonstrated nursing supervision, specialties,
executive and/or clinical certification preferred.
• Registered Nurse - obstetrics. Two (2) full-time positions
• Registered Nurse - ICU. Four (4) full-time positions
• Registered Nurse - Med/Surg. Two (2) full-time positions
• Registered Nurse - Emergency Room. One ( 1) full-time position
• Registered Nurse - Surgical services. One (1) full-time position
• Licensed Vocational Nurse - Med/Surg. Three (3) full-time.
Obstetrics experience preferred.
• Licensed Vocational Nurse - obstetrics. One (1) full-time position
• House Supervisor - one (1) weekday. Two (2) weekend
• Nurse manager - one (1) full-time position
Call J e ff “Trade K ing”
Hatfield to trade in your old
trailer house. A-l Homes, 48th
and Andrews Hwy, Odessa,
915 .3 6 3 .0 8 8 1 .
or
1.800.725.0881.
Casas
m obiles
desde
$2,600.00 hasta $10,000.00.
Hay 20 de que escojer. Llame
a M iguel Sanchez al tel.
915 .3 6 3 .0 8 8 1 . o gratis al
1.800.725.0881. Pregunte por
Miguel Sanchez.
OTHER POSITIONS
• Operating room technician - one full-time position. High
school graduate. Six (6) months healthcare experience preferred.
Currently certified as an Operating Room Technician preferred.
Successful completion o f the Operating Room skills checklist
required.
• HIM director - one full-time position. B.S. degree in Health
Information Management preferred. Two years supervisory
experience o f coding and medical records .Must possess knowl
edge o f all areas o f Health InformationManagement.
• Admissions clerk - one part-time position. High school gradu
ate. One (1) year office experience preferred. Bilingual in English/
Spanish preferred. Ability to work well with patients.
• Laboratory Director - graduate o f an accredited college with a
B.S. MT or equivalent Master’s degree preferred. Five (5) years
experience as a medical technologist and two (2) years experience
in a supervisory/management role required and/or preferred.
ASCP certification or equivalent preferred.
• Laboratory Assistant - one part-time position. High school
diploma or GED required. General one ( 1) year clinical laboratory
or hospital experience preferred. Bilingual in English/Spanish
preferred.
• Physical Therapy aide - one part-time with potential to become
full-time position. High school diploma or GED required. Two (2)
years hospital or Home Health Care experience required. Proof of
current BCLS certification. Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred.
Used home from $2,600.00.up
to $ 10,000.00. All sizes and con
ditions! Hurry! Call Miguel
Sanchez at 915.363.0881. or at
1.800.725.0¾^. Do not forget
to ask for Miguel. Se habla
espafiol.
Equal Opportunity Em ployer
B B R M C -A u g 31
HELP WANTED - Dr. Alan
Byrd is looking for an experi
enced LVN. Position is perma
nent and available immediately.
Please call 915-837-0241 or fax
your C.V. to 915-831-0392* .
23-tfb
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
The award winning Big Bend
Sentinel has employment oppor
tunities for a copy editor and ad
vertising salesperson. Send re
sume or letter to Drawer P.
Marfa, TX 79843.
HELP WANTED - housekeep
ing staff for day and night shift.
Wait staff need for moming shift.
19 years or older. Call 915-22937 37 .
24/35-2tb
H E LP W ANTED - house
keeper . The Veranda Country Inn
in Fort Davis. We are a great
place to work. Ask for Kathie.
915-426-3524.
22-tfb
Family Crisis Center o f the Big
Bend Inc., in Alpine, is now hir
ing for the position of office man
ager. For job description and ap
plication please come by 606 N.
5* Street in Alpine.
25/36-ltb
HELP WANTED - retail sales
clerk, hardware lumber and build
ing materials. Experience helpful.
Apply in person. Corder Lumber
Co., 213 South Dean St., Marfa.
915-729-4612.
25-3tb
Family Crisis Center of the Big
Bend Inc., in Alpine, is now hir
ing for a Community Educator
Specialist/Sexual Assault Vic
tim Advocate. For job descrip
tion and application, please come
by 606 N. 5* Street in Alpine.
25/36-ltb
COME EXPERIENCE
THE TOWN & COUNTRY
DIFFERENCE
We are accepting applications for
Sales Associates for all shifts.
Hours available ranging from 1040 hours weekly. Maybe you want
to work 4-5 hours per day or split
shifts. With starting pay at SS.50
perhr;S5.75perhr. for 11 p.m. - 7
a.m. shift; paid weekly. We also
have positions for a utility clerk
and food service associates,
starting pay S5.15 per hr.
Come by and talk to us. We offer
outstanding benefits, including
health-life-dental insurance,
prescription drug plan, personal
leave, 401K Plan, and college
tuition reimbursement. We are
looking for individuals that are
energetic, ambitious, dependable,
able to work in a fast paced
environment, able to communicate
effectively with people and know
what it means to give outstanding
customer service. Students and
retiree's are encouraged to apply.
Applications are available at:
- Town & Country Food Stores
Marfa A Alpine
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FOR SALE;
1973 Wayside 2-bedroom, 1-bath
mobile home. Located in Marfa
on 2-lots with carport, 2-storage
buildings, private fencing around
property. A sking $12,000
negotiable, OBO. For further
information contact: Eddie Leos
in El Paso at 915-852-4213 or
Alex Leos Sr. in Marfa at
915-729-4320.
22-4tp
Oakwood Homes, Midland
First time home buyer’s pro
gram. No credit needed, easy ap
provals. 915-520-6098.
Renter’s wanted for first time
buyer’s program. No cred it
needed. 915-520-6099.
G overnm ent housing p ro
gram for first home buyers. 915520-5999.
3 bedroom 2 bath pay moving
cost and assume loan. 915-5206099.
Why buy a repo when you can
buy a new home. Government
program E-Z terms. .915-5205999.
Single parent program, gov
ernment program, for new
homes. No credit necessary. EZ approvals. 915-520-6099.
Abandoned 16x80 pay back
taxes and move in. 915-520-5999.
Double wide 3 bedroom 2 bath
Vi acre with improvements. Fi
nancing available. 915-520-5999.
Deserted 16x80 assume loan.
915-520-6099.
Owner finance 16x80 3/2.915520-3579.
Hurry! 2 bedroom 14 X 60
1996 model only $225.00 a
month on a 10 year note, 12%
a.p.r w.a.c. with 10% down.
For details call Miguel Sanchez
at 915.363.0881 or at
1 .8 00.725.0881. Se habla
espafiol.
Save my credit. Assume my
loan. Double wide 3/2.915-5203579.24/35-2tb
Used mobile home blow out
sale starting at $ 1,795. Call and
ask for Mr. Avalos. For more
information call 915.363.0881.
or toll free at 1.800.725.0881. '
FOR RENT - 1.600 sq. ft. of
fice space. Located at 213 N.
Highland Avenue in Marfa. For
more information, please call 915358-44.(3.
9-tfb
Check this out. Just like new
1999 4 bedroom home, deluxe
kitchen, glamour bath, best
quality! Only S277.00 per
month, 5% a.p.r. fixed 300
months, w.a.c. Free installation.
Call and ask for Mr. Avalos.
1.800.725.0881
or
915.363.0881.
Just available in Marfa!
Five brand new 2 BR 2 bath
duplexes. Large kitchen and liv
ing area. Approximately 1.700
sq.ft. each. Cable hook-ups, ceil
ing fans, covered carport. & re
frigerated air. Call Alpine Realty
at 915-837-1921.
23-tfb
Atencion! Casa mobil
seminueva, 4 recamaras. cocina
de lujo y calidad. A solo 10 afios
S398 por mes, 5% de enganche.
10.25 intercs annual fijo c.c.a.
Llame y pregunte por Sr.
Avalos. 1.800.725.0881 o al
91 5 .3 6 3 .0 8 8 1 . Instalacion
gratis!
Handy man specials. I have 19
used homes in stock starting at
$2,295.00. Call Dan Watts at
915.363.0881
or
1.800.725.0881 orcomebvA1 Homes in Odessa. 48th and
Andrews Hwy.
Repo sale. We have 13 repos
on the lot to choose from. Call
Dan Watts for more informa
tion about these homes.
9 1 5 .3 6 3 .0 8 8 1 .
or
1.800.725.0881. or come by A1 Homes in Odessa. 48th and
Andrews Hwy.
New 16 X76Crestndgc, 3 bed
room. 2 baths. S298.05 per
month. 10% down, 300 months.
10.50% interest rate with 8point buy down price. Includes
set-up delivery, ac and skirting.
Call Dan Wans at 915.363.0881
or 1.800.725.0881. or come by
A-l Homes in Odessa. 48th and
Andrews Highway.
FOR RENT
HOUSE FOR RENT - 4-bed
rooms, 2 bathrooms, available im
mediately. 415 North Highland
Street in Marfa. 915.729.3493/
3571.
23-tfnb
FOR RENT - upstairs apart
ment, 3 BR. 2 bath - S350 a month
with one ( 1) year lease. S350 de
posit, water paid. For more infor
mation. call 729-3550 or 7299744.
24-4tb
FOR LFASE - large adobe
house, 4,300 sq. ft. on two acres.
Big kitchen, 3 BR, 2 bath,
washer-dryer. informal/formal
diningroom, library, carport fire
place. In Marfa, on edge o f town.
Available October 1. Call for ap
pointment 915-238-5941. leave
message.
2?-tfb
FOR RENT - Three bedroom,
two bath house in private location
in Marfa, large shade tree with
nice fenced yard. 200 E. 2^.
915.729.3282; leave message. 242tb
( LS)lhg BL8 Bend Sentinel. Marfa. Texas. August 31 2000
P u b lic
P m
F in e
By CARDINAL CUSHING
There's nothing whatever the matter with me.
I'm just as healthy as I can be.
I have arthritis in both my knees
And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze.
I
My pulse is weak and my blood is thin,
But I ’m awfully well fo r the shape I ’m in.
I think my liver is out. o f whack
And a terrible pain is in my back.
My hearing is poor, my sight is dim.
Most everything seems to be out trim.
But I ’m awfully well fo r the shape I'm in.
I have nrch supports fo r both my feet,
Or I wouldn 't be able to go on the street.
Sleeplessness I have night after night,
And in the morning I'm just a sight.
My memory is failing, my head's in a spin.
I'm peacefully living on aspirin.
But I ’m awfully well fo r the shape I ’m in.
The moral is, as this tale we unfold.
That fo r you and me who are growing old,
It's better to say, "I'm fin e " with a grin
Than to let them know the shape we ’re in.
W e lc o m e o n e a n d a l l to th e
1 4 th a n n u a l
M a r f a L i g h t s F e s t iv a l! ,
C order
lu m b e r C o.
Entries for the Marfa Lights Festival
parade this Saturday will be accepted
up to time of the parade.
All parade participants need to be in fro nt of
the Marfa Elementary School, no later than
10:45 a.m.
Saturday
Participants in the Friday night
parade need to be in fro nt of
the Marfa High School
gymnasium by
9, p . m . F r i d a y .
Information:
Larry Rivera, 729-4331 or
729-4796
Raul Lara, 729-4344
W M k W iW k 'k W iV k fk iV k
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PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF ELECTION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF PRESIDIO
MARFA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
TO THE RESIDENT, QUALIFIED ELECTORS
OF SAID DISTRICT:
TAKE NOTICE that an election will be held in said District as provided
in an ORDER CALLING AN ELECTION duly passed by the Board
o f Trustees o f said District, which Order is substantially as follows:
ORDER CALLING AN ELECTION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF PRESIDIO
MARFA. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
WHEREAS, this, Board o f Trustees deems it advisable to call the
election hereinafter ordered; and
WHEREAS, it is hereby officially found and determined: that holding
the hereinafter called election on a date other than a uniform election
date established by Section 41.001 (a), Texas Election Code, is in the
public interest; and that said meeting was open to the public, and public
notice o f the time, place, and purpose o f said meeting was given, all as
required by Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED BY THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF MARFA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT:
1. That an election shall be held between the hours o f 7:00 A.M. and
7:00 P.M. on September 30,2000, in said District, in the regular voting
precincts, at the polling places, and with the election officers as follows:
(a) Marfa Elementary School, 413 West Columbia Street, Marfa,
Texas
Presiding Judge v
Sylvia Norman
Alternate Presiding Judge Clara Castafieda
(b) Redford Elementary School, Highway 170 South, Redford, Texas
Presiding Judge
Dora Marquez
Alternate Presiding Judge Gregoria Saenz
2. That the Presiding Judges shall appoint not less than two qualified
election clerks to serve and assist in conducting said election; providing
thanf the Presiding Judge actually serves as expected, the Alternate
Presiding Judge shall be one o f such clerks.
3. That early voting shall be conducted by personal appearance and
by mail at the Marfa Independent School District Administration
Building, 401 N. Hill/Gonzalez Street, Mairfa Texas, 79843, during the
period early voting is required or permitted by law, being September
13,2000 through September 26,2000, the hours designated for early
voting by personal appearance shall be from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
on each day except Saturdays, Sundays and legal state holidays; and
the early voting clerk, shall keep said early voting place open during
such hours for early voting by personal appearance. The early voting
deputy clerk for said election shall be Victoria Sanchez, and the early
voting deputy clerks shall be Veronica Campbell, Rosalinda Gutierrez
and Irma Leos.
4. That an early ballot board is hereby created to process early voting
results, and Sylvia Norman is hereby appointed the presiding judge o f
said board. The presiding judge shall appoint at least two other members
o f the board.
5. That all resident, qualified electors o f said District shall be entitled
to vote at said election.
6. That a substantial copy o f this Order shall serve as proper Notice
o f said election, and the President o f the Board o f Trustees shall cause
said Notice to be published one time, not earlier than the 30th day or
later than the 10th day prior to the date set for the election, in a
newspaper published in said District or, if none is published in said
District, in a newspaper o f general circulation in said District. In '
addition, not later than the 21 st day prior to the date set for the election,
the President o f the Board o f Trustees shall cause said Notice to be
posted on the bulletin board used for posting notices o f meetings o f
the Board o f Trustees.
7. That at said election the following PROPOSITIONS shall be
submitted in accordance with law:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
Shall the board o f Trustees o f said District be authorized to issue the
bonds o f the District, in one or more series, in the aggregate principal
amount o f $5,000,000, for the purpose o f the construction and
equipment o f school buildings in the District and the necessary sites
therefor, with said bonds to mature, bear interest, and be issued and
sold in accordance with law at the time o f issuance; and shall the
Board o f Trustees be authorized to levy and pledge, and cause to be
assessed and collected, annual ad valorem taxes, on all taxable property
in the District, sufficient, without limit as to rate or amount, to pay the
principal o f and interest on said bonds?
PROPOSITION NO. 2
Shall the Board of T rustees of said District be authorized to levy, and
cause to be assessed and collected, an annual ad valorem tax, for the
maintenance o f public free schools in the District, o f not to exceed the
rate o f one dollar and fifty cents on the one hundred dollar valuation o f
taxable property in the District?
8. That the official ballots for said election shall be prepared in
accordance with the Texas election Code so as to permit the electors
to vote "FOR" or "AGAINST” the aforesaid PROPOSITIONS with
the ballots to contain such provisions, markings and language as
required by law, and with such PROPOSITIONS to be expressed
substantially as follows:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
FOR
)
THE ISSUANCE OF S5.000.000 OF BONDS AND LEVYING
THE TAX IN PA YMENT THEREOF
W e lc o m e t o th e 1 4 th a n n u a l
AGAINST
)
PROPOSITION NO. 2
M a r f a L i g h t s F e s t iv a l!
FOR
N
o t ic e s
DISTRITO ESCOLAR INDEPENDIENTE DE MARFA
VISTO QUE, esta Junta de Directores juzga aconsqable Ilamar la
elccci6n aqui adelante ordenada; y
VISTO QUE, por este medto, oficialmcnte se encucntra y se
determina; que Ilevando a cabo la eleccidn mas adelante Ilamada en
una fecha que no es la fecha regular de eleccidn establecida por
Seccidn 41.00 (a), Cddigo de Eleccidn de Texas, es en el interes del
publico; y que dicha reunion fee abierta al publico, y aviso publico de
la hora, lugar y proposito de dicha reunion fue dado, todo como
estipulado por el Codigo de Goviemo de Texas, Capitulo 551.
POR CONSIGUIENTE, SE ORDENA POR LA JUNTA DE
DIRECTORES DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR INDEPENDIENTE
DE MARFA:
1. Que se lleve a cabo una eleccidn entre las boras de las 7:00 de la
maflana y las 7:00 de la noche el 30 de septiembre de 2000, en dicho
Distrito, en los recintos regulares del votes, en los lugares de escrutinio,
y con los siguientes oficiales electorates:
(a) Escuela Primaria de Marfa, 413 West Columbia Street, Marfa,
Texas
Juez Actual:
Sylvia Norman
Juez Actual Suplente:
Clara Castaneda
(b) Escuela Primaria de Redford, Highway 170 South, Redford, Texas
Juez Actual:
Dora Marquez
Juez Actual Suplente:
Gregoria Saenz
2. Que el Jez Actual nombre no menos que dm oficiales de eleccidn
ealificados para servir y asistir en el conducto de dicha eleccidn; con
tal que si el Juez Actual actualmente desempefie sus funciones,
entonces el Juez Actual Suplente debera ser uno de tales oficiales.
3. Que se lleven a cabo los primeros votos hechos en persona y por
com o en el Edificio Administrative del Distrito Escolar Independiente
de Marfa, 401 N. Hill/Gonzales Street, Marfa, Texas 79843, durante
el tiempo en que los primeros votos son exigidos o permitidos por la
ley, siendo el 13 de septiembre de2000, hasta el fin de 26 de septiembre
de 2000, Ids horas designadas para los primeros votos hechos en
persona seran desde las 8:00 de la maAana a las 4:00 de la tarde cada
dia con excepto de los sabados, domingos y dias feriados oficiales del
estado; y que el oficial de los primeros votos mantenga dicho lugar de
los primeros votos abierto durante dichas horas para los primeros
votos hechos en persona. El oficial de los primeros votos para dicha
eleccidn sera Victoria Sanchez y los oficiales diputado seran Veronica
Campbell, Rosalinda Gutierrez y Irma Leos.
4. Que una junta de las primeras balotas esta por este medio nombrada
para el registro de los resultados de los primeros votos, y Sylvia
Norman esta por este medio nombrada juez actual de dicha junta. El
juez actual nombrara no menos que dos otros miembros de la junta.
5. Que todo residente, elector calificado de dicho Distrito tenga el
derecho de votar en dicha eleccidn.
6. Que una copia substancial de esta Ordenanza sirva como Aviso
propio de dicha eleccidn, y el Presidente de la Junta de Directores
causara que se publique dicho Aviso una vez, no mas que 30 dias y no
menos que 10 dias antes de la fecha fijada para dicha eleccidn, en un
periodicopublicado en dicho Distrito, o, si no se publica uno en dicho
Distrito, en un periodico de circulacidn general en dicho Distrito.
Adicionalmente, no menos que 21 dias antes de la fecha fijada para
dicha. eleccidn, el Presidente de la*Junta de Directores causara que
se fije dicho Aviso en el tablon usado para fijar los anuncios de las
reuniones de la Junta de Directores.
7. Que en tal eleccidn se presente la siguiente PROPOSICIONES
de acuerdo con la ley:
PROPOSlCIdN NUM. 1
Debera la Junta de Directores de dicho Distrito ser autorizada para
emitir los bonos del Distrito,enuna o mas series, en la cantidad principal
en conjunto de $5,000,000 para con el fin de la construccidn y cquipo
de los edificios escolares en el Distrito, y para la compra de los sitios
necesarios para los edificios escolares, con tales bonos para vencerse,
devengar interes, y ser emitidos y vendidos de acuerdo con la ley
aplicable al tiempo de cmision y venta de caulquier serie o emision de
bonos; y debera la Junta de Directores ser autorizada a gravar y
empefiar, y dar causa de avalorar y recaudar, impuestos ad valorem
annuales sobre todos los bienes imponibles en el Distrito, suficiente,
sin Iimite al porcentaje o cantidad, para pagar el principal de el interes
de dichos bonos?
PROPOSICI6N NUM. 2
Debera la Junta de Directores de dicho Distrito ser autorizada de
gravar, y dar causa para avalorar y recuadar, impuestos annuales ad
valorem, para el mantenimiento de las escuelas gratuitas publicas en
el Distrito, no sobrepasando la cantidad de un dolar y cincuenta
centavos por cien dolares de avaluacidn de propiedad imponiblc en el
Distrito?
8. Que sepreparen las balotas oficiales para dicha eleccidn de acuerdo
con el Cddigo de Eleccidn de Texas para asi permitir a los electores
votar “A FAVOR" o “EN CONTRA" a dicha PROPOSICIONES, y
que las balotas contengan dichas stipulaciones, marcas y terminologia
como estipuladas por la ley, y que se exprese dicha PROPOSICIONES
sustancialmente como sigue:
PROPOSlCIdN NUM. 1
A FAVOR )
LA EMISION DE BONOS DE S5.000.000 Y F.L GRAVAMEN
DE IMPUESTOS PARA FA. PAGO DE ESTO
EN CONTRA )
PROPOSICI6N NUM. 2
A FAVOR )
IMPUESTO DE MANTENIMIENTO
EN CONTRA )
9. Que, en todo respecto, se lleve a cabo dicha eleccidn de acuenlo
con el Cddigo de Eleccidn de Texas.
MISD 8-31-00
)
MAINTENANCE TAX
H ELPW ANTED
AGAINST )
Hava a Happy and safe
LaGot Day weekend
M e m o r ia l
F u n e ra l
o f M a rfa
H o m e
9. That in all respects said election shall be conducted in accordance
with the Texas Election Code.
AVISO. DE-ELECC16N
EL ESTADO DE TEXAS
CONDADO DE PRESIDIO
DISTRITO ESCOLAR INDEPENDIENTE DE MARFA
AL RESIDENTE, ELECTOR CALIFICADO DE
DICHO DISTRITO:
SE LES HACE SABER que se llevara a cabo una eleccidn en dicho
Distrito como se estipula en una ORDENANZA LLAMANDO UNA
ELECCldN debidamente aprobada por la Junta dc Directores dc dicho
Distrito; cuya ordenanza dice substancialmente lo siguiente:
ORDENANZA LLAMANDO UNA EI.F.CC16N
EL ESTADO DE TEXAS
CONDADO DE PRESIDIO
SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY
Half-time Clinical Instructor, Licensed Vocational Nursing Program
Job Posting #01-5.522,008. Required: Registered Nurse or
Licensed Vocational Nurse licensed to practice in Texas; actively ’
employed in nursing for the past three years. Preferred: R-N.
Half-time instructor to teach clinical courses. No weekend work
required. Submit rtsumd, transcripts, and three letters of 'eference
to Director o f Human Resources, Sul Ross State University, Box
C-13, Alpine, TX 79832.915-837-8058. Review o f applications
will begin immediately and continue until the position ia filled. For
more information contact Glenda Klassen at 837-8171 or Dr. Chet
Sample at 837-ft34. EEO/AAE. Sul R o u is a member o f the
Texas State University System. Visit our website
(http://www.tulross.edu).
*****
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P u b lic
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notification o f ^ , :
Nondiscrimination Ut
Career and Technology
Education Programs
Maria Independent School Dis
trict offers career and technol
ogy education programs in home
economics, agriculture science,
business and technology careers.
Admission to these programs is
based on age appropriateness, in
terest, aptitude, and available
class space.
It is the policy ofMarfa Inde
pendent School District not to dis
criminate on tbe basis o f race,
color; national origin, sex, or
handicap in its vocational pro
grams, services, or activities as
required by Title VI ofthe Civil
Rights Act o f 1964, as amended;
Tide IX o f the Education Amend
ments o f 1972; and Section 504
ofthe Rehabilitation Act o f 1973,
as amended.
It is the policy o f Marfa Inde
pendent School District not to dis
criminate on the basis o f race,
color, national origin, sex, handfcap, or age in its employment
practices as required by Title VI
o f the Civil Rights Act o f 1964,
as amended; Title IX o f the Edu
cation Amendments o f 1972; the
Age Discrimination Act o f 1975,
as amended; and Section 504 o f
the Rehabilitation Act o f 1973,
as amended.
Marfa Independent School Dis
trict will take steps to assure that
lack o f English language skills
will not be a barrier to admission
and participation in all educational
and vocational programs.
For information about your
rights or grievance procedures,
contact the Title IX Coordinator,
Gary D. Hamilton, at 401 North
Hill Street, (915) 729-4252.
El distrito independiente escolar de M arfa ofrece
program as yocacionalesA er\r
ec6,\'oAi&‘Uomest\ca. 'estuaios
vocacionaies agriculos, y
carreras de negocios. La
admision a estos programas se
basa en la edad adecuata,
interes, aptitud, y lugar
disponible en las closes.
Es norma de. el distrito.
independiente escolar de
Marfa no discrim inar p o r
motivos de raza, color, origen
nacional, sexo o impedimento,
en sus programas. servicios o
actividades vocacionaies, tal
como lo requieren el Titulo VI
de la Ley de Derechos Civiles
de 1964, segun enmienda; el
Titulo IX de las Enmiendas en
la Educacion, de 1972, y la
Seccion 504 de la Ley de
Rehabilitacion de 1973, segun
enmienda.
Es norma de el distrito
independiente escolar de
Marfa no discrim inar por
motivos de raza, color, origen
nacional, sexo, impedimento o
edad, en sus procedimientos de
empleo, tal como lo requieren
el Titulo, VI de la Ley de
Derechos Civiles de 1964,
segun enmienda; el Titulo IX
de las Enm iendas en la
Educacion, de 1972, la Ley de
Discriminacion por Edad, de
197S. segun enmienda, y la
Seccion 504 de la Ley de
Rehabilitacion de 1973, segun
enmienda.
„
El distrito independiente es
colar de M arfa tomara las
medidas necesarias para
asegurar que la fa lta de
habilidad en et uso de la.
h n g u a inglesa no sea un
obstaculo. para la- admision y
pariicipacion en todos los
program as erfucafivoi y
vocacionaies.
Para informacion sobre sus
derechos o procedim ientos
para quejas, comuniquese con
el Coordinador del Titulo IX,
Gary D. Hamilton, en 401
North Hill Street. (915) 729 4252.
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P u b lic N o t ic e s
Legal Notice
Request to Submit Proposal fo r
„ Building Insurance Coverage
Big Bend Regional Hospital District is seeking proposals for
Building Insurance Coverage for the Marfa Rural Health Clinic
110 E. Texas Street in Marfa, TX and the Alpine Rural Health
Clinic, 803 E. Brown Street in Alpine, TX. For Inquires call 915837-7051 Hospital District Office.
Mail in proposals to P.O. Box 1439 Alpine, TX 79831. Deadline
to submit a proposal is 5 p.m. September 22,2000. Selections will
be made at the regular scheduled meeting on September 25,2000.
' bbrhd 8 /1 7 .2 4 0 1 /0 0
Leyai Notice
Request fo r Proposals to Perform Annual Audit
Big Bend Regional Hospital District is requesting Proposals from
a Certified Public Accounting firms to prepare the Hospital District
Annual Financial and Compliance Reports for the fiscal year ending
September 30,2000.
A separate proposal for assistance with financials, forms and
reports, as they are needed throughout the year, is also being
requested.
Details o f the Audit requirements may be obtained from Elva
Torres, Executive Secretary at 801 E. Brown St. To mail in
inquires: P.O. Box 1439 Alpine, TX 79831 or call 915-837-7051.
Deadline to submit a proposal for either o f the above is 5 p.m.
September 22, 2000. Selections will be made at the regular
scheduled meeting on September 25,2000.
bbrhd 8/17-24-31/00
Southwest Texas Municipal Gas Corporation is requesting bids for
two new 2000 pickup trucks as follows:
1. One-half ton two-wheel drive
2 .5.3/5.4 liter engine
3. Automatic transmission
4. Cruise control
5.3.73 rear axle ratio limited slip
6. Cloth seats
7. AM/FM stereo with cassette
8. Air conditioner
9. Four-LT 235/75R-15 tires and space
10. White color
11; Trailer towing package
12. All other standard equipment
All bids shall include tax, tile and license, and considered
drive-away bid.
Bids will be accepted through September 11,2000, and opened as
sodn as practical ihfercaRer; Delivery and payment desired prior to
October 1, 2000. Southwest Texas Municipal Gas Corporation
reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Bids should be mailed to Southwest Texas Municipal Gas
Corporation, P.O. Box 659, Alpine, TX, or delivered inperson to
203 North Apple Street, Alpine, Texas.
SWTMGC-Aug31 &Sep7
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L o t te r y R e s u l t s
Wednesday, Aug. 30:
Jackpot $29 million
Sim** GmrzMJr., CMUfPttr»i AftMt
August 1S, 2000
Asset Id. 00-INS-038940: 1998 Olds mobile, VIN: 1G3NL52M8WM303I49, seized 07/16/00 in Marfa. TX, bond - $565.00
Asset Id. 00-INS-03925I: 1981 Nissan 310 Hatchback, VIN: INIPN03S2BM032668. seized 07/20/00 in Sierra Blanca, TX.
bond - $250.00
Asset Id. 00-INS-039305: 1979 Datsun 280ZX. VIN: HGS130119403, seized 07/22/00 in Alpine. TX, bond - 5250.00
Asset Id. 00-INS-03931!: 1987 Ford Econoline 150 Van, VIN: 1PDDE14H8HHBW262, seized 01/W OO in Marfa, TX. bond
- S250.00
*
Asset Id. 00-INS-039451: 1987 Ford F-150 Lariat Pickup, VIN: 1FTEX15NSHKB18104, seized 07/25/00 in Van Hom, TX.
bond ■ 5250.00
Asset Id. 00-INS-039605: 1991 Ford Tempo GL, VIN: 2FAPP36X4MBI09863, Seized 07/29/00 in Alpine, TX. bond ■
$250.00
Asset Id. 00-INS-039606: 1996 Pontiac Sunfirc 2 Dr., VIN: 3G2JBI2T8TS823966, seized 07/29/00 in Marfa, TX. bond «
$367.50
Asset Id. 00-INS-039826: 1991 Otdsmobile Cutlass Supreme Four door, VIN: IG3W1I54T8MD365139. seized 08/02/00 in
Alpine, TX, bond - $285.00
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August 17 ,2 4 ,3 1 .2 0 0 0
EUftLKLMQIiCE
NOTICE OF SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF PRESIDIO
BY VIRTURE OF AN
ORDER OF SALE
DATED August S, 200(), mid is
sued pursuant to a judgment de
cree o f (lie District Court ul'
Presidio County, Texas, by the
Clerk o f said Court on said dale
and to me directed and delivered
as Sheriff o f said Court, I have
on August 8,2000, seized, levied
upon, and will on the first Tues
day in September, 2000, the »ai\v
being the 5th day o f said month
at the Courthouse door o f said
County, in the City ofMarfa, be
tween the hours o f 10:00 o'clock
A.M. and 4:00 o'clock I'.M; on
said day, proceed to sell for cash
to the highest bidder all of the
right, title, and interest of the de
fendants in such suit in and lo the
following described real estate
levied upon as the property of
said defendants, the same lying
and being situated in the County
o f Presidio and (he State o f
T<l*ae
Numbers not available
Saturday, Aug. 26: 1 8 21 3 0 3 5 4 6 5 2
Jackpot $23 million
P la y L O T T O T E X A S a t
A M IG O S Convenience
Store
818 West San Antonio St. • MARFA 915-729-4541
T h e B ig B e n d S e n tin e l
Robert Louii Halpem
Rosario Salgado Halpem
Teresa Salgado Juarez
Steny Butcher
Robot Armendariz
Alberto Tomis Halpem
fiblfc Nrtta
UNITEDSTATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Immifrab** aad Nahinllzattoa Servlet
Notice i* hereby given pursuant to 8 CFR 274.9 that the conveyance* described below were seized on the date specified
at the identified location because of the alleged use in the commission oft violation of Section 274(a) ofthe Immigration
and Nationality Act(!NA). The conveyances are subject to forfeiture except as provided in 8 CFR 274.5(b). The U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service (USINS) is considering forfeiture of the seized conveyances, and sale or other
disposal if declared forfeited. Any person with an appropriate property interest in a conveyance may file a petition for
relief fromforfeiture pursuant to 8 CFR274.13-274.17. Petitions for relief fromforfeiture must be filed at Immigration
and Naturalization Service, Marfa Sector, 300 Madrid Street, P.O. Box I, Marfa, TX, 79843, and should be filed within
thirty days of the date of the first publication ofthis advertisement
Any person claiming ownership of a seized conveyance may request ajudicial forfeiture proceeding by filing a claimand
bond pursuant to 8 CFR 274.10. Such claimand bond must be filed at Immigration and Naturalization Service, Marfa
Sector, 300 Madnd Street, P.O. Box I, Marfa, TX, 79843, and must be filed within twenty days of the Hat* ofthe first
publication of this advertisement Tbe claim and cost bond must be filed on or before September 6,2000. The claimmust
set forth the basis of the claimed ownership of the conveyance and allege why the conveyance is not subject to seizure.
TTieclaimmust be accompanied by a bood in the amount specified below in the formof cash or certified check. If the bond
is in the formof a check, it must be drawn payable to the Department of Justice.
The owner of a seized conveyance who is indigent may request a waiver ofthe requirement to post a cost bond.
Pursuant to 8 CFR 103.7(cXl), the owner must establish an inability to pay the required bond and reasons for that
inability to be eligible for awaiver of the bond requirement An application for a waiver ofthe bond requirement in
affidavit formmust be filed with Immigration and Naturalization Service, Marfa Sector, 3000 Madrid Street P.O. Bo* I
Marfa, TX, 79843..
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every Thursday, 52 time* a year by La Frontera Publications Inc.. Drawer P,
Marfa, TX 79843. Annual subscription rates are S23 in Presidio, Brewster &
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CAUSE NUMBER. STYLING
AND PROPERTY DESCRU TION
4 2 iiz A
THE
COUNTY
OF
PRESIDIO, TEXAS, MARFA
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DISTRICT AND THE CITY
OF MARFA, TEXAS vs.
JESUS
TEJADA
AND
RAMONA TEJADA
Lots 7 and 8, Block 90 lo the
Original Town ofMarfa, Presidio
County, Texas being that property
more particularly described in
Volume 2R5, Page 3*2 o f the
Deed Records o f Presidio
County, Texas.
4776-A
MARFA INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT AND
THE COUNTY OF PRESIDIO
COUNTY; TEXAS vs. A. F
HITCHLER
' 40 Acres out o f Southwest
quarter o f the Northeast quarter
o f Section 13, Block 3 12, T.C. Ry.
Co. Survey, Abstract 6145,
Presidio County, Texas being that
property more particularly de
scribed by metes and bounds in
Volume 50. Page 94 ofthe Deed
Records, Presidio County, Texas
dSflSiA
MARFA INDEPLNUi.N:
SCHOOL DISTRICT AND
THE COUNTY OF PRESIDIO.
TEXAS vs. W. R. MCCLEISH
o f the Deed Records. Presidio
County, Texas
South half o f the Northeast
Quarter o f the Southeast Quar
ter (S2 NE4 SE4) o f Scction 75,
Block 12, Abstract 8523, G.H.&
S.A. Ry., Presidio County. Texas,
containing 20 acres, more or less
being that property more particu
larly described in Volume 151,
Page 302 o f the Deed Records.
Presidio County, Texas
Or upon the written request of
said defendants or their attorney.
v a sufficient po^|firi thereofto sat
isfy said judgment for delinquent
property taxes and accrued pen
alties and interest and costs of
suit and sale; subject, however,
(o the right o f redemption, the
defendants or any person having
|n interest therein, to redeem the
said property, or their interest
{herein, within the period of time
and in the manner provided by
|aw, and subject to any other and
further rights to which the defen
dants or anyone interested
(herein may be entitled, under the
brovisions o f law. Said sale to be
made by me to satisfy the judg
ment for delinquent property
taxes and accrued penalties and
interest rendered in the above
btyled and numbered cause, to
gether with interest thereon and
:^sts of suit and sale, and the
proceeds of said sale to be ap
plied to the satisfaction (hereof,
and :h: lemainder, if any. to be
applied as the law directs.
I)ATI:.I) August 8. 2()00. at
Marfa. Texas
By Danny Dominguez SHERIFF.Presidiu County, Texas
A. R. Taylor DEPUTY
McCteary, et a' Aug. 10, 17,
24.2000
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice to Creditors
Notice is hereby given that origi
nal Letters Testamentary for the
Estate of Sadie Lea Barlow, De
ceased, were issued on the 28*
day o f August, 2000, in Probate
Docket No. 1682, pending in the
County Court of Presidio County,
Texas, to Riley Michael Barlow
whose mailing address is P.O. Box
1363, Auburn, Washington 98071.
All persons having claims against
this Estate which is currently be
ing administered arc required to
present them within the time and
in the manner prescribed by law.
Dated the 28* day of August,
2000.
Riley Michael Barlow
Independent Executor
Richard. E. Bowen
Attorney for the Estate
P.O. Drawer 1440
604 East June St.
Alpine, TX 79831
REB-Aug. 31
B a l l o o n
(Continuedfrom page 1)
petition among sponsors.
“It was a blast last year...and we
are looking forward to bringing
the balloons back to Alpine,” said
Guy Combs, Executive Director
o f the Alpine Chamber o f Com
merce. “What can be better than
waking up in the moming to a
beautiful sky full o f color,” he
added. “We hope that this year
the balloon bum will be remem
bered as one of the most inter
esting parts o f the events."
F e s t i v a l
(Continuedfrom page 1)
on Highland Avenue.
If you want to be in the parade,
call Rivera at 915.729.4331 or
9 15.729.4796 so that he can plan
the order o f entries. Prizes will
be $75 for 1st place; S50 for 2nd
place, and S25 for 3rd place.
Daytime entertainment for both
Saturday and Sunday is still be
ing lined up! Ifyou would like to
perform, call Bunny Petrosky at
915.729.3551.
The music concert gate at
Vizcaino Park will open at 7 p.m.
Saturday, vvith.the music running
from 8 p.m. to I a.m. Tickets are
SI5 in advance and S20 at the
gate.
Gonzalez is one ofthe youngest
performing artists in the Tejano
music scene. His fresh sound and
delightful energy has added to his
growing number o f fans as well
as radio programmers and has im
pressed many critics.
Opening for Gonzalez is Dee y
Grupo Valiente.
Lead singer Dee Burleson, best
known as' the former co-lead
singer for the band, 'Cultures,'
has taken Tejano entertainment
one step further. Dee y Grupo
Valiente is “one of the most ex
citing stage bands in the history
of Tejano history.” said Ramiro
Bun ofthe San Antonio ExpressNews. Dee’s ability to involve the
audience makes them feel as if
they themselv es arc part of the
show which, of course, they are.
The fun begins again late Sun
day moming at the courthouse.
Entertainment for the Sunday,
September 3, dance at the Marfa
Activity Center (MAC) is Wayne
West y Grupo Indomable. Doors
will open at 6 p.m. with music
from 8 p.m. until midnight. Tick
ets are SI0 and this year there
will be table reservations on a first
come basis for an additional S10
per table.
For information on purchasing
tickets and reserving tables, call
915.729.4942 or 915.729.3551.
You may also go by the chamber
office at 200 Abbot Street or by
Dr. Petrosky's Chiropractic office
at 120 N. Austin Street, for more
information.
(2Q)Ihg Big BgnsLScnlincl. Marfa, TcKas,-Au&u5t} 1,.2009
T a x e s --------------( C o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1)
public on September 30.
On Monday night, school board
members worried that the district
had hit its financial limit. “There
have been several increases in
supplies, utilities, increases oT
stjfTinsurance,” board President
Leticia Garcia listed. “Every
year’s past administrations have
suggested one cent increases, but
they have not done it for six
years.”
The district can also take advan
tage o f a program that would
bring in two cents from the state
for every penny the district gains
in the tax .raise. The local in
crease would raise approximately
S43.000 in new funds, while the
state would kick in about S86.000
in additional money. There is no
guarantee that this state two-forone matching program will con
tinue after the next legislative
session, Garcia said.
Superintendent Gary Hamilton
pointed out the maintenance and
operation tax rate o f other area
districts. Alpine recently in
creased from S1.48 to S 1.54, Fort
Davis is looking into a significant
hike from its current rate o f SI.27,
while Presidio and Van Horn
each bumped up within the last
year from S1.35 to S 1.44.
A local hike from S1.30 to $1.35
would not affect taxpayers over
the age o f 65, as their rates would
remain frozen at the current stan
dard.
Haifa dozen audience members
questioned the board closely on
the move, asking for specific num
bers on the per-child cost o f edu
cation and how many children
were considered to have special
needs. The district spends
roughly S3.200 to S3,400 per child,
the board replied, and there are
about 32 special needs students.
Rudy Garcia pressed the matter
o f the sudden nickel increase. “I
don’t mind paying taxes if it’s well
managed,” he said. “But I’d
rather you hit me with a little ev
ery year than hit me big.”
Fellow audience member Glenn
Garcia, a former ten-year vet
eran o f the MISD school board,
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he said, "but seats on the school
board change. Last year there
was a bitter dispute over the tax
rate. Now we have to face five
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what you’ve got to do,” he told
the board. “Move away from
these political pressures.” ' '
Teachers, too, were in the audi
ence, and they attempted to as
suage some o fth e concerns ex
pressed over the school's expen
ditures. "We turn o ff lights and
computers, I bring in supplies on
my own, we don’t take many
field trips," said high school
teacher Allison Ryan Scott. “My
journalism class raised money to
buy printer cartridges. We tty to
be very careful about how we
spend money."
Elvia Agan agreed. There are
teachers who are eligible for ad
ditional stipends for various cer
tifications, such as English as a
second language, but do not re
ceive that extra money from
MISD, she said. “Some o f us are
the greatest bargain since
Walmart," Agan quipped.
The vote to adopt the new $1.35
tax rate was unanimous. Taxpay
ers with a property valued at
$25,000 will see their current
taxes increased by SI2.50 per
year. Those with a $40,000 prop
erty will see an extra $20 added
onto the current level per year,
while taxpayers with a $75,000
property should expect to pay an
additional $37.50 per year over
their current tax bill.
In other district news, school
board members:
• heard reports from both dis
trict principals regarding the re
cent Texas Education Agency’s
ratings, which named the high
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ementary and junior high campus
and Redford as acceptable. Both
David Clark and Steven Zipkes,
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lege placement
• considered compensation for
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members desire more evaluation
and investigation before making
the decision to grant or deny
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members chose to deny Clark’s
compensation request.
• accepted the district’s athletic
code with a minor language
change.
• agreed to allow a change in
policy in that teachers, nurses or
administrators who needed to
drive students in the district’s
small vehicles do not have to get
a commercial driver’s license.
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the Texas Education Agency’s
driver’s safety course. Personnel
who drive buses will be required
to maintain a CDL. .
• decided to get a second opin
ion regarding repairs needed on
the district’s large MCI bus. The
bus recently broke down and had
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check up in Odessa, Hamilton re
ported. Initial cost estimates to
repair the vehicle tally in the
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