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DELIVERED EVERY SATURDAY TO 4,000 HOMES Junior high gives Lady Hawks a boost SPORTS 1B The Zapata Times A HEARST PUBLICATION ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2009 FREE Sheriff urges awareness of border region Zapata County Fair nears File photo | Laredo Morning Times Rodolfo Requena, a member of “La Grande”trailriders, takes a break after the trail ride kicking off the 2006 Zapata County Fair ended at the fairgrounds.This year’s trail ride is set to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28. BY ERIKA LAMBRETON THE ZAPATA TIMES The Zapata County Fair, or the “Best Little Fair in Texas” as its commonly referred to, is gearing up for its first event of the year, a tea party Feb. 22 for the fair’s roy- alty: the Zapata County Fair Lit- tle Cowboy, Miss Zapata County Fair and Junior Miss Zapata County Fair. But that’s just the beginning. The fair’s trail ride and kick-off ceremony is Feb. 28, and events continue through March 14, when Zapatans and visitors alike will enjoy the annual parade and one of the liveliest street parties any- where. “I think the fair seems to be getting better and better every year,” said Jose “Paco” Mendoza Jr., executive director of the Zap- ata County Chamber of Com- merce. “The county officials and associations have worked very hard to make sure this event stays alive and continues for many gen- erations to come.” The fair is a long-standing tra- dition that, over the years, has continued to grow in popularity, and its organizers have high hopes for this year’s attendance because, for the first time, the Za- pata County Fair has its own Web site developed by Laredo ad agency Graphitiks. Zapata expects to be welcom- ing an estimated 10,000 people as a result of the Internet public- ity, almost double the size of last year’s crowd, Mendoza said. With the tough economy, fam- ilies are looking for quality en- tertainment that doesn’t break the budget and the Zapata County By JULIE DAFFERN THE ZAPATA TIMES With his latest appearance on CNN’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Zap- ata County Sheriff Sigifredo “Sigi” Gonzalez said he is “restarting his campaign on making America aware of what’s happening on the border.” Gonzalez chairs the South- western Border Coalition, an or- ganization comprised of 35 sher- iffs of counties stretching from San Diego, Calif., to El Paso. The coalition is pushing for more funding for border sheriffs. Gonzalez said O’Reilly’s show producers first approached him to speak about the border fence. “But I wanted to speak more about what is happening on the border,” Gonzalez said, adding that the violence in Mexico had al- ready spilled over into the U.S. The sheriff cited a grenade that was thrown into a bar outside of Pharr last week as an example, and said clean-cut, physically fit men carrying duffel bags were seen crossing the river in 2005. “My deputies have seen people coming across, 25 at the time, with machine guns,” Gonzalez told O’Reilly on the conserva- tive host’s talk show Thursday night. “We’ve been telling the federal government about this, and the problem has been here for a long time.” Congressman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said he’s aware of the border sheriffs’ needs and is con- tinuing his efforts to obtain fund- ing for local law enforcement. “In the last four years or so, there has been an increase in what the border sheriffs have got- ten, and we cannot forget police,” Cuellar said, adding there should WINNING WAYS See FAIR | PAGE 11A Stimulus tops agenda By ZACH LINDSEY THE ZAPATA TIMES The national economic stimu- lus package will be on the lips of the Zapata County Commission- er’s Court at Monday’s meeting. In other business, the court will hear a report from Dr. Larry Sands on the status of the Zapa- ta County Medical Group. Sands says the clinic will require more funding than initially anticipated. In regards to the stimulus package, like requests across the country, the projects that will be a priority are “shovel-ready” proj- ects. “The most important thing is to improve our infrastructure, and I’ve been preaching this,” said Commissioner Jose Vela. “If you want businesses to come to Zapata County and improve our tax base, our first priority is to ex- pand our infrastructure.” That improvement includes additional water lines and sewer lines, so that the township of Za- pata can be prepared for any big growth that comes. “If there was to be a develop- ment of new houses, we’d be ready for the infrastructure to ac- commodate them,” Vela said. “Right now, we don’t have such preparation for expansion.” In all, the county is requesting $93.53 million in projects, in- cluding “shovel-ready” and de- sign-ready projects. Competition for funding will be tough, and Vela said he’s not sure if Zapata will get nearly all the money it’s asking for. “We’d like to have everything, but it’s going to be competing with all the nation, and it’s going to be almost impossible to get all the funds,” Vela said. See STIMULUS | PAGE 11A “If you want businesses to come to Zapata County and improve our tax base, our first priority is to expand our infrastructure.” COMMISSIONER JOSE VELA L OOKING AT THE POTENTIAL Photos by Cuate Santos | The Zapata Times Zapata residents look at a PowerPoint presentation Friday morning on developing goals for the city’s future. Presentations aid residents in planning city’s future By TARYN WHITE THE ZAPATA TIMES Z apata is moving forward, and during a three-day workshop hosted by the Zapata Economic Development Council, community members heard speakers and participated in discussions on the potential growth and development of the city. “We want to adopt a vision plan with the public’s involvement,” Peggy Umphres-Mof- fett, workshop coordinator, said. “It will have ordinances and regulations that will be vital to the county’s growth.” People were treated to presentations given by city planners, historical re- searchers, architects and travel research specialists among many other profes- sionals who all gave their take on Zapata’s potential. Robert Mezquiti, an Austin architect, graduated from high school in Zapata in 1998 and attended the workshop. “I feel like there is a big momentum to move forward here,” Mezquiti said. “I wish there was more people from the town in at- tendance but I think the EDC got a lot of great speakers to come and talk to us.” According to Umphres-Moffett, one of the main aspects in this new “vision plan” will be something called form-based zoning. “This is something being adopted by many cosmopolitan cities all over the coun- try.” Umphres-Moffett said. The idea behind form-based zoning is to design a city based on how it will benefit people rather than a plan that is built around the needs of cars, according to Umphres-Moffett. “It will create livable neighborhoods that are more people oriented,” Umphres-Moffett said. “People will have the opportunity to just walk down the street to get what they need.” Umphres-Moffett added this workshop is one of the first steps in implementing the plan. “We wanted to get people’s support and let them know what we are planning and hear their feedback.” Umphres-Moffett said. “Hopefully we will be able to adopt the plan by March or April.” (Taryn White may be reached at 728- 2568 or at [email protected]) Friday's session of the Zapata County Economic Development Conference included Winter Texans, ar- chitects, educators and representatives of the community. GONZALEZ See SHERIFF | PAGE 11A
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DELIVERED EVERY SATURDAY TO 4,000 HOMES
Junior high gives Lady Hawks a boostSPORTS 1B
The Zapata TimesA HEARST PUBLICATION ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM
SATURDAYFEBRUARY 7, 2009
FREE
Sheriff urges awareness of border region
Zapata County Fair nears
File photo | Laredo Morning TimesRodolfo Requena, a member of “La Grande”trailriders, takes a break after the trail ridekicking off the 2006 Zapata County Fair ended at the fairgrounds.This year’s trail rideis set to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28.
BY ERIKA LAMBRETONTHE ZAPATA TIMES
The Zapata County Fair, or the“Best Little Fair in Texas” as itscommonly referred to, is gearingup for its first event of the year, atea party Feb. 22 for the fair’s roy-alty: the Zapata County Fair Lit-tle Cowboy, Miss Zapata CountyFair and Junior Miss ZapataCounty Fair.
But that’s just the beginning.The fair’s trail ride and kick-offceremony is Feb. 28, and eventscontinue through March 14, whenZapatans and visitors alike willenjoy the annual parade and oneof the liveliest street parties any-where.
“I think the fair seems to begetting better and better everyyear,” said Jose “Paco” MendozaJr., executive director of the Zap-ata County Chamber of Com-
merce. “The county officials andassociations have worked veryhard to make sure this event staysalive and continues for many gen-erations to come.”
The fair is a long-standing tra-dition that, over the years, hascontinued to grow in popularity,and its organizers have highhopes for this year’s attendancebecause, for the first time, the Za-pata County Fair has its own Website developed by Laredo adagency Graphitiks.
Zapata expects to be welcom-ing an estimated 10,000 peopleas a result of the Internet public-ity, almost double the size of lastyear’s crowd, Mendoza said.
With the tough economy, fam-ilies are looking for quality en-tertainment that doesn’t break thebudget and the Zapata County
By JULIE DAFFERNTHE ZAPATA TIMES
With his latest appearance onCNN’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Zap-ata County Sheriff Sigifredo “Sigi”Gonzalez said he is “restartinghis campaign on making Americaaware of what’s happening on theborder.”
Gonzalez chairs the South-western Border Coalition, an or-ganization comprised of 35 sher-iffs of counties stretching fromSan Diego, Calif., to El Paso. Thecoalition is pushing for morefunding for border sheriffs.
Gonzalez said O’Reilly’s showproducers first approached himto speak about the border fence.
“But I wanted to speak moreabout what is happening on theborder,” Gonzalez said, addingthat the violence in Mexico had al-ready spilled over into the U.S.
The sheriff cited a grenadethat was thrown into a bar outsideof Pharr last week as an example,and said clean-cut, physically fit
men carryingduffel bags wereseen crossingthe river in2005.
“Mydeputies haveseen peoplecoming across,25 at the time,
with machine guns,” Gonzaleztold O’Reilly on the conserva-tive host’s talk show Thursdaynight. “We’ve been telling thefederal government about this,and the problem has been herefor a long time.”
Congressman Henry Cuellar,D-Laredo, said he’s aware of theborder sheriffs’ needs and is con-tinuing his efforts to obtain fund-ing for local law enforcement.
“In the last four years or so,there has been an increase inwhat the border sheriffs have got-ten, and we cannot forget police,”Cuellar said, adding there should
WINNING WAYS
See FAIR | PAGE 11A
Stimulus tops agendaBy ZACH LINDSEYTHE ZAPATA TIMES
The national economic stimu-lus package will be on the lips ofthe Zapata County Commission-er’s Court at Monday’s meeting.
In other business, the courtwill hear a report from Dr. LarrySands on the status of the Zapa-ta County Medical Group. Sandssays the clinic will require morefunding than initially anticipated.
In regards to the stimuluspackage, like requests across thecountry, the projects that will bea priority are “shovel-ready” proj-ects.
“The most important thing is
to improve our infrastructure,and I’ve been preaching this,”said Commissioner Jose Vela. “Ifyou want businesses to come toZapata County and improve ourtax base, our first priority is to ex-pand our infrastructure.”
That improvement includesadditional water lines and sewerlines, so that the township of Za-pata can be prepared for any biggrowth that comes.
“If there was to be a develop-ment of new houses, we’d be
ready for the infrastructure to ac-commodate them,” Vela said.“Right now, we don’t have suchpreparation for expansion.”
In all, the county is requesting$93.53 million in projects, in-cluding “shovel-ready” and de-sign-ready projects.
Competition for funding willbe tough, and Vela said he’s notsure if Zapata will get nearly allthe money it’s asking for.
“We’d like to have everything,but it’s going to be competingwith all the nation, and it’s goingto be almost impossible to get allthe funds,” Vela said.
See STIMULUS | PAGE 11A
“If you want businesses to come to Zapata County and improve our
tax base, our first priority is to expandour infrastructure.”
COMMISSIONER JOSE VELA
LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL
Photos by Cuate Santos | The Zapata TimesZapata residents look at a PowerPoint presentation Friday morning on developing goals for the city’s future.
Presentations aidresidents in planning
city’s futureBy TARYN WHITE
THE ZAPATA TIMES
Zapata is moving forward, and duringa three-day workshop hosted by theZapata Economic Development
Council, community members heardspeakers and participated in discussionson the potential growth and developmentof the city.
“We want to adopt a vision plan with thepublic’s involvement,” Peggy Umphres-Mof-fett, workshop coordinator, said. “It will haveordinances and regulations that will be vitalto the county’s growth.”
People were treated to presentationsgiven by city planners, historical re-searchers, architects and travel researchspecialists among many other profes-sionals who all gave their take on Zapata’spotential.
Robert Mezquiti, an Austin architect,graduated from high school in Zapata in1998 and attended the workshop.
“I feel like there is a big momentum tomove forward here,” Mezquiti said. “I wishthere was more people from the town in at-tendance but I think the EDC got a lot ofgreat speakers to come and talk to us.”
According to Umphres-Moffett, one of themain aspects in this new “vision plan” willbe something called form-based zoning.
“This is something being adopted bymany cosmopolitan cities all over the coun-try.” Umphres-Moffett said.
The idea behind form-based zoningis to design a city based on how it willbenefit people rather than a plan that isbuilt around the needs of cars, accordingto Umphres-Moffett.
“It will create livable neighborhoods thatare more people oriented,” Umphres-Moffettsaid. “People will have the opportunity to
just walk down the street to get what theyneed.”
Umphres-Moffett added this workshopis one of the first steps in implementing theplan.
“We wanted to get people’s support and
let them know what we are planning andhear their feedback.” Umphres-Moffett said.“Hopefully we will be able to adopt the planby March or April.”
(Taryn White may be reached at 728-2568 or at [email protected])
Friday's session of the Zapata County Economic Development Conference included Winter Texans, ar-chitects, educators and representatives of the community.
GONZALEZ
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The annual Boys & Girls Club ofLaredo Wine Tasting Gala fundraiser istonight.The event begins at 8 p.m. at PaseoReal, behind the Laredo EntertainmentCenter. For more information, call 723-1051.
A book sale will be held in the Widen-er Room of the First United MethodistChurch in Laredo at 1220 McClelland Ave.,from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The public is in-vited, and admission is free. Donated booksand magazines are accepted.
Clark Elementary School and theLaredo Chess Club will have a chess tour-nament for all students K-12 today in theschool cafeteria in Laredo, located at 500W. Hillside Road. Students may play in ei-ther the advanced USCF-rated division or inthe non-rated beginners’ division. Regis-tration is from 11 a.m. to noon, with the firstround starting at 12:30 p.m. The entry feeis $5 if pre-registered or $8 at the door.Tro-phies, medals and certificates will beawarded by A&E Office Products. For moreinformation, visit www.geocities.com/lare-dotxchess or call tournament director DanNavarro at 722-4600.
MONDAY, FEB. 9The Zapata County Commissioners
meet at 9 a.m. at the Zapata County Cour-thouse for their regular monthly meeting.
TUESDAY, FEB. 10A photography exhibit showcasing
the abandoned city of Guerrero Viejo, lost tothe waters of the Falcon Reservoir, whichwas constructed in 1953, continues on dis-play at the Villa Antigua Border HeritageMuseum in Laredo at 810 Zaragoza St.,throughout February. The exhibit featuresthe work of noted architect W. EugeneGeorge and Everardo Castro Medellin. Mu-seum hours are Tuesday through Saturday,9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, callthe Webb County Heritage Foundation at(956) 727-0977.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11The Zapata County Independent
School District board of trustees meets to-day at 6 p.m. at the Professional Develop-ment Center, 17th Avenue and Carla Street.
American Historical Theatre pres-ents the premiere of “The Constitution –Behind Closed Doors,” a one-act play fea-turing actors portraying George Washing-ton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madi-son. In their roles, the characters willinteract with the audience. It begins at 7p.m. at the Texas A&M International Uni-versity Center for the Fine and PerformingArts. For tickets, visit www.lmtonline.com.
THURSDAY, FEB. 26The Zapata County Chamber of
Commerce will celebrate Winter Texans andlocal elders with an event at the Commu-nity Center. Planning is underway for a din-ner, refreshments, music, activities anddoor prizes. To become a sponsor, call theZapata County Chamber of Commerce at765-4871.
THURSDAY MARCH 12The Zapata County Fair kicks off to-
day at county fair grounds today at 8 a.m.Events include a livestock show, musicalperformances, a carnival and a streetdance. The fair will run through Saturday.Don’t miss out on this year’s fun. For moreinformation call 765-9920
FRIDAY, MARCH 13Today is the first day of Spring
Break. No classes will be held at ZapataCISD through March 20.
The Zapata County Fair resumes to-day at 8 a.m. For more information, call765-9920
SATURDAY, MARCH 14Today is the last day of the Zapata
County Fair.The annual parade begins at 10a.m. There is a variety of entertainmentthroughout the day at the fairgrounds.
Man gets posthumous exoneration of 1985 rape convictionBy JIM VERTUNO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A Texas judge has exonerat-ed a man who died in prison while servingtime for rape after recent DNA tests showedanother man committed the crime.
State District Judge Charles Baird onFriday also ordered Timothy Cole’srecord expunged.
Cole was convicted of raping a TexasTech University student in Lubbock in1985 and was sentenced to 25 years inprison. He died in 1999 from asthma com-plications. He was 38.
DNA tests in 2008 connected the crimeto Jerry Wayne Johnson, who is servinglife in prison for separate rapes. Johnsontestified in court Friday that he was therapist in Cole’s case and asked the victimand Cole’s family to forgive him.
The Innocence Project of Texas saidCole’s case is the first posthumous DNAexoneration in state history.
“I have his name,” Cole’s mother, RubyCole Session, tearfully said after the hear-ing. “That’s what I wanted.”
Baird called it the “saddest case I’veever seen.”
Cole and his relatives for years claimedhe was innocent, but no else believedthem until evidence the original rape kitwas tested for DNA last year.
The Innocence Project of Texas took onthe case and pressed for a hearing to startthe process of clearing Cole’s name.Armed with Baird’s ruling, Cole’s familynow wants Gov. Rick Perry to also issuea formal pardon.
Also testifying in the hearing was therape victim, Michele Mallin, who origi-nally identified Cole as her attacker. TheAssociated Press does not typically iden-tify rape victims but Mallin, who is now44, has come forth publicly to help clearCole’s name.
In dramatic testimony Friday, Johnsonread a prepared statement apologizingfor the rape and the damage to Mallin andCole and his family.
“I’m responsible for all this. I’m trulysorry for my pathetic behavior and self-ishness. I hope and pray you will forgiveme,” Johnson said.
DNA samples may ID missing Americans
SAN ANTONIO — The FBIwill collect DNA from more than100 unidentified bodies found inMexico in hopes of matchingthem to Americans who wentmissing in the country plaguedby drug violence.
Mexican prosecutors inTamaulipas have given the FBIpermission to the DNA samples,which could help solve 35 opencases of missing Americans inthe area from Brownsville to DelRio.
The samples from Mexicowill be compared with a DNAdatabase in Washington.
Conservative backon education board
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry onFriday reappointed RepublicanDon McLeroy as chair of theState Board of Education, whichsets policies for the Texas publicschool system.
The College Station dentist isknown as a conservative voiceon the board, which is in themiddle of adopting new sciencecurriculum standards.
As chairman, McLeroy helpsset the board’s agenda. The ap-pointment, which is subject toSenate confirmation, expires Feb.1, 2011.
Big-city mayors address homelessnessDALLAS — The mayors of
Texas’ largest cities said Fridaythey want the state to provide$25 million annually to helpthem provide housing and othersupport services for the home-less.
In a Friday letter to Gov. RickPerry asking for the funds, themayors said that about 44,000Texans are homeless.
Since many of the chroni-cally homeless are dealing withmental health issues, the may-ors said they support increasedfunding for mental health serv-ices.
— Compiled from AP reports
Vermont nearing legalgay marriage
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Nineyears after becoming the firststate to permit civil unions, Ver-mont moved a step toward le-galizing gay marriage Friday.
A bill that would allow same-sex unions was introduced inthe Legislature, causing a crowdof about several hundred sup-porters to gather at the State-house in celebration.
A similar bill is expected tobe introduced later in the stateSenate.
The House legislation has 59sponsors, none of them Repub-lican, though some GOP law-makers have said they’ll vote forthe bill, Larson said.
Regulators close failed banks in Ga., Calif.
WASHINGTON — Regula-tors on Friday closed First-Bank Financial Services inGeorgia and two Californiabanks, Alliance Bank andCounty Bank, marking ninefailures this year of federallyinsured institutions.
The Federal Deposit Insur-ance Corp. was appointed re-ceiver of the three banks. First-Bank Financial, based inMcDonough, Ga., had $337 mil-lion in assets and $279 millionin deposits as of Dec. 31. Al-liance Bank, based in CulverCity, Calif., had about $1.14 bil-lion in assets and $951 million indeposits as of year’s end.Merced, Calif.-based CountyBank had around $1.7 billion inassets and $1.3 billion in de-posits as of Feb. 2.
Report: Speed caused deadly tunnel infernoLOS ANGELES — A truck
driver speeding on a rain-slicked interstate in 2007 lostcontrol and crashed into a me-dian barrier, setting off chain-re-action collisions that turned atunnel into an inferno and leftthree people dead, investigatorsconcluded Friday.
A report by the CaliforniaHighway Patrol provides themost detailed account yet ofwhat led to a fiery tangle ofmore than two dozen vehicleson Interstate 5 — the majorWest Coast route betweenMexico and Canada. Thepileup closed the busy high-way for two days and cost $17million to clean up and re-pair.
Accused ex-transit cop posts $3 million bail
OAKLAND, Calif. — The for-mer California transit officercharged with fatally shooting anunarmed man was freed Fridayon $3 million bail as protestersgathered outside City Hall railedagainst his release.
Johannes Mehserle, 27, wasreleased from Santa Rita Jail inDublin, according to AlamedaCounty Sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson.
Mehserle has pleaded notguilty to one count of murder inthe Jan. 1 shooting of OscarGrant on an Oakland train plat-form.
Prosecutors said Mehserleshot Grant, 22, in the back whilethe man lay facedown and re-strained on the ground.
— Compiled from AP reports
Chinese insurer headarrested on bribery charge
BEIJING — The generalmanager of China’s state-ownedtrade insurance company hasbeen arrested on charges hetook bribes and caused heavylosses by abusing his position, astate news agency reported Fri-day.
Tang Ruoxin was fired fromthe China Export and Credit In-surance Corp. following an in-vestigation into improper lend-ing, the Xinhua News Agencysaid, citing an announcementby the country’s insurance reg-ulator.
Xinhua said Tang wasstripped of his Communist Par-ty membership.
Officials: Fire danger extreme in Australia
SYDNEY — Crews battled tocontain dozens of wildfiresacross southeastern Australiaon Saturday as temperaturessoared to record levels.
At least 40 fires were blazingin New South Wales state, andmore burned in Victoria andSouth Australia.
Most were in parks and bushland away from residential ar-eas.
Forecasters said a heat wavethat has stewed millions of peo-ple in the southeast in the pasttwo weeks would peak at theweekend with temperatures ofup to 117F.
— Compiled from AP reports
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TTooddaayy iiss SSaattuurrddaayy,, FFeebb.. 77, the38th day of 2009. There are 327days left in the year.
TTooddaayy’’ss HHiigghhlliigghhtt iinn HHiissttoorryy:: On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle
Challenger astronauts Bruce Mc-Candless II and Robert L. Stew-art went on the first untetheredspacewalk, which lasted nearlysix hours.
OOnn tthhiiss ddaattee:: In 1812, author Charles Dick-
ens was born in Portsmouth,England.
In 1857, a French court ac-quitted author Gustave Flaubertof obscenity for his serializednovel “Madame Bovary.”
In 1904, a fire began in Balti-more that raged for about 30hours and destroyed more than1,500 buildings.
In 1936, President Franklin D.Roosevelt authorized a flag forthe office of the vice president.
In 1943, the government an-nounced the start of shoe ra-tioning, limiting consumers tobuying three pairs per personfor the remainder of the year.
In 1948, Gen. Dwight D.Eisenhower resigned as Armychief of staff; he was succeeded
by Gen. Omar Bradley. In 1964, The Beatles began
their first American tour as theyarrived at New York’s John F.Kennedy International Airport.
In 1971, women in Switzerlandgained the right to vote through anational referendum, 12 years af-ter a previous attempt failed.
In 1974, the island nation ofGrenada won independencefrom Britain.
TTeenn yyeeaarrss aaggoo:: Jordan’s KingHussein died of cancer at age 63;he was succeeded by his eldestson, Abdullah. NASA launchedthe Stardust spacecraft on a mis-sion to chase a comet in hopes ofcollecting a sample of comet dust.
FFiivvee yyeeaarrss aaggoo:: John Kerrywon the Washington state andMichigan Democratic presiden-tial primaries.
OOnnee yyeeaarr aaggoo:: John McCaineffectively sealed the Republicanpresidential nomination as chiefrival Mitt Romney suspended hiscampaign. Fourteen refineryworkers were killed in a sugardust explosion near Savannah,Ga. A gunman opened fire at aKirkwood, Mo., council meeting,killing two police officers andthree city officials before beingfatally shot by law enforcers. In
Los Angeles, a man who claimedresponsibility for the deaths ofthree relatives opened fire on aSWAT unit, killing one officer;the gunman was killed by a po-lice sniper. After two months ofdelay, shuttle Atlantis blastedinto orbit with Europe’s gift tothe international space station, a$2 billion science lab namedColumbus.
TTooddaayy’’ss BBiirrtthhddaayyss:: Countrysinger Wilma Lee Cooper is 88.Author Gay Talese is 77. ActorMiguel Ferrer is 54. Reggae mu-sician Brian Travers (UB40) is50. Comedy writer RobertSmigel is 49. Actor James Spad-er is 49. Country singer GarthBrooks is 47. Rock musicianDavid Bryan (Bon Jovi) is 47. Ac-tor-comedian Eddie Izzard is 47.Actor-comedian Chris Rock is44. Actor Jason Gedrick is 42.Actress Essence Atkins is 37.Rock singer-musician Wes Bor-land (Black Light Burns) is 34.Actor Ashton Kutcher is 31. Ac-tress Tina Majorino is 24.
TThhoouugghhtt ffoorr TTooddaayy:: “A cruelstory runs on wheels, and everyhand oils the wheels as theyrun.” — Ouida (Marie Louise dela Ramee), English writer (1839-1908).
Photo by Harry Cabluck | APRecent DNA tests in a 1985 rape case point to inmate Jerry Wayne Johnson, who is escorted into a court hearing Friday, in Austin.The hearing was held in the case of Timothy Cole, whose photo is on the right. Cole died in prison while serving 25 years fora crime he didn’t commit. Johnson spoke in the legal hearing that seeks to clear Cole’s name 10 years after he died.
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Photo by Julie Jacobson | APKindergarten teachers Jane Schumer, left, and Connie Levin pose for a photo withtheir students holding up a collage they made in reference to the work of 2004Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai at Daniel Warren Elementary Schoolin Mamaronek, N.Y. Schumer and Levin incorporate famous figures from differentcultural backgrounds, to teach their students a sense of community.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER
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Two men jailed inseparate pot seizures
By NICK GEORGIOUTHE ZAPATA TIMES
Sheriff’s deputies made a sur-prising discovery Jan. 29 after a17-year-old man lost control of hisvehicle and landed in the lakenear the Veleno Bridge and Red-wood Lodge at 178 U.S. 83.
Inside the halfway-submergedChevy Tahoe, sheriff’s deputiessaid, was about 484 pounds ofmarijuana.
Also, later that day at about 5p.m., sheriff ’s deputies seizedabout 148 pounds of marijuanafollowing a vehicle pursuit.
The seizures were not related,the Sheriff’s Office said.
According to the offense re-port, authorities responded to aperson drowning at about 2 p.m.When they arrived on scene,deputies found a partially sub-merged Chevy Tahoe.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifre-do Gonzalez said two deputiesjumped in the lake and rescuedthe vehicle’s lone occupant whowas trapped inside.
“This is a heroic effort,” hesaid. “The water was very coldand they just swam in there andgot him out of the car.”
The driver was identified as17-year-old Amada Ricardo Mar-tinez, of the 800 block of LaredoStreet.
During the rescue attempt, thedeputies noticed numerous bun-dles floating in and around thesubmerged Tahoe. Upon furtherinvestigation, there were 38 bun-dles containing the 484 pounds ofmarijuana.
Martinez was charged withsecond-degree felony possessionof marijuana and later bookedand processed at the ZapataCounty regional jail.
A few hours after the rescue at-tempt and seizure, deputies re-sponded to a chase in progress,where a man was evading au-thorities in a vehicle.
The man ended up crashingthe vehicle into a creek at adead end near the corner ofCarla Street and West 11th Av-enue, the offense report stated.He continued fleeing on footinto the brush, but was soon ap-prehended by deputies givingchase.
Upon searching the vehicle,deputies found 12 bundles of mar-ijuana weighing about 148pounds, the report stated.
The man, identified as 29-year-old Miguel Angel Santos-Ro-driguez, of the 1000 block of Bra-vo Avenue, was charged withsecond-degree felony possessionof marijuana. He was laterbooked and processed at the Zap-ata County regional jail.
According to the offense report, authorities responded to a person
drowning at about 2 p.m. When they arrived on scene, deputies found a partially
submerged Chevy Tahoe.
Courtesy photo/Benavides Elementary | Special to the TimesJose Antonio “Joe” Lopez of San Antonio, author of “The Last Knight,” talks with fourth- and fifth-grade students at A.L. Be-navides Elementary School on a recent Friday. Lopez presented a PowerPoint presentation on the Texas Hero Don BernardoGutierrez de Lara Uribe. Teachers said the students had a wonderful time listening to him and getting his autograph.
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
IRS commissioner urges people to e-file returnsSPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WASHINGTON — The InternalRevenue Service is offering anexpanded IRS e-file program for2008 federal tax returns, high-lighted by new features that willallow expanded access to elec-tronic filing and help people look-ing for faster refunds.
IRS Commissioner Doug Shul-man encouraged taxpayers to ex-plore e-file this year as the best
option to file accurate tax returnsand get fast refunds during thecurrent economic downturn. Thee-file program also includes newimprovements to the Free Fileprogram that will allow nearly alltaxpayers to e-file for free.
“These are tough times, and e-file is the best way for people toget cash in their pocket quickly,”Shulman said. “Filing electroni-cally with direct deposit can getrefunds to taxpayers in as few as
10 days. Combined with impor-tant changes in the Free File pro-gram, we believe e-file is a betteroption than ever before for the na-tion’s taxpayers.”
Last year the average refundwas $2,429. The IRS realizes peo-ple need their refunds quickly.Shulman urged people whohaven’t e-filed before to considerthe e-file option this year.
IRS e-file totaled nearly 90 mil-lion tax returns in 2008.
NEW YORK TIMES
President Barack Obama’sdecision to cap senior exec-utives’ pay at bailed-out
banks addresses one of the mostoutrageous weaknesses of theBush administration’s financial-rescue package.
If anyone is feeling bad for thebankers, don’t. The banks can paymore than the figure Obamachose — $500,000 a year — butonly in restricted stock that can-not be cashed in until the govern-ment has been repaid. Thatsounds more than fair to us.
The White House also an-nounced that it is beginning a re-view of executive-pay policies inthe entire financial industry tosee if there are ways to betteralign long-term risk and reward.That, too, is overdue.
The administration and Con-gress should move quickly to de-termine whether new rules couldbe applied, using the tax code orsecurities regulations, to encour-age all banks to pay their execu-tives in a way that tempers thedestructive lust for risk that hasbrought the financial system tothis cataclysm.
Critics of pay caps and otherrestrictions claim they will makeit much harder to find talentedexecutives. But it is clear that theeconomy has not been well servedby the arms race in bankers’ pay.
The country needs bankerswhose remuneration is tied to thelong term, multi-year success oftheir strategies — not just the im-mediate payoff of their latest riskybet.
The new rules also broaden
the terms of the original bailout toban a larger number of executivesfrom receiving golden parachutesand subject more to the “claw-back” provisions designed to re-cover bonuses based on fraudu-lent information.
They also demand that corpo-rate boards establish explicit poli-cies to guide expenditures onthings such as entertainment andrenovations — including corpo-rate bathroom remodelings — andmake them public on their Websites.
The new rules contain somepotentially worrying exceptionsthat will have to be monitoredcarefully. Banks that don’t get acustom-made bailout — like thosedoled to Citigroup and Bank ofAmerica — can get a waiver fromthe caps if they disclose the salarypublicly and subject it to a share-holder vote.
Lower-level bankers, liketraders, face no remunerationlimit and could still reap millions.All top bankers getting taxpayermoney could be remunerated inother “long-term incentivearrangements.” That might openthe door to opaque financial en-gineering. Under certain circum-stances, they might be allowed tocash in their bonuses before thegovernment is paid back.
Still, the new rules are a soundmove in the right direction. If thecountry is lucky, the rules mightinstill a modicum of caution, ifnot shame, in the banking indus-try.
Perhaps they can even keepsome banks from having to re-turn to the public trough in the fu-ture.
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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU
Banker pay capmore than fair
EDITORIAL
COLUMN
COLUMN
Moving love storythrough the years
By YVONNE ABRAHAM THE BOSTON GLOBE
BROCKTON, Mass. — Theymet in 1947, at the Kresge’sstore on Main Street. Joe
Norek managed the restaurant.Dot Whiting waited tables.
She’s kind of attractive, he re-membered thinking.
He’d just spent five years as aNavy cook. He was done with warand boats and being alone. Theywere both 37. Neither of them wasgetting any younger.
At first, they used a girl whoworked at the counter as a go-be-tween, sending messages backand forth, flirting like kids.
One day, a man came to seeDot at the restaurant.
Who’s that? Joe asked. My fi-ance, Dot said.
Him or me, Joe told her. Hewas a no-nonsense kind of guy.
She told her fiance she could-n’t go with him anymore. Withinthree months, Joe proposed.
Let me think it over, Dot toldhim. She was cautious.
They married a few monthslater.
He was Catholic and she wasEpiscopalian, and neither was in-terested in going over to the otherside. So they said “till death do uspart” twice: first in a Protestantchurch, then in a Catholic one.
And every Sunday, Joe wentto Mass at St. Patrick’s and Dot at-tended services at Trinity Epis-copal in Stoughton.
They made a good life togeth-er. Even on sweltering summerdays, the house filled with thesmell of Dot’s beef stews andturkey dinners. Joe was alwaysup on ladders, fixing things. Dotliked to go out to eat sometimes.Not Joe: The son of Polish immi-grants, he’d had a hard childhood,and he was careful with money.Besides, no restaurant could comeclose to Dot’s cooking.
Dot was crazy about bowlingand bingo. Joe loved to park him-self in his beat-up turquoise re-cliner, listening to the Red Soxand Benny Goodman.
They saw Niagara Falls andAmish country together — strictlybus tours. You couldn’t get Joe ona plane, and forget about a boat.They loved salty food, andLawrence Welk, and “GuidingLight.”
In their 40s and 50s, theyraised their daughter, Laurie, herarrival a miracle after a string ofmiscarriages. In their 70s and 80s,they helped raise their grandsonBrian, after Laurie’s marriageended and she moved into theapartment upstairs.
The decades piled up, and stillJoe and Dot were walking aroundthe neighborhood, holding hands,leading Brian’s dog, Desaray,around Edgar Playground.
Their 90th birthdays came andwent. Longevity made their sweet,unremarkable relationship intosomething miraculous.
Joe knew how lucky he wasthat his wife had chosen him, but,apart from a video Brian madefor school in which they recalledtheir early days, Laurie had nev-er heard him say it out loud.
Not until a few years ago,when Dot got frail. It began with abroken hip, then came strokes,then heart congestion.
Dot moved to a nursing home.Joe went to see her every day. Ilove you, he told her, again andagain.
A year ago, Joe got frail too: hewas in and out of hospitals, recu-perating in the same nursinghome as his wife, his bed a roomaway from hers.
A few weeks ago, as Dot’s lifewas ebbing away, Joe contractedpneumonia. He died on Mondayat 6.p.m. He was 98.
Laurie and Brian went to seeDot the next day. She had pneu-monia, too. It’s OK to go be withPop, Laurie told her.
And so, on Tuesday at noon,Dot died, too.
Maybe Dot was just waitingfor Joe to go before she did, as herminister said at the service,where both Catholic and Episco-pal clergy prayed.
Maybe Dot wanted to spareher family the suffering of griev-ing twice, as Laurie believes.Maybe the way they left thisworld, just 18 hours apart, is amiracle, as Brian sees it.
Two coffins draped in whitesat side by side at St Patrick’schurch Sunday morning.
Not even in death did theypart.
(To reach Yvonne Abraham, aGlobe columnist, send e-mail [email protected])
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Texans deserve to breathe smoke-free
YOUR OPINION
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY
Show your heart some love this Valentine’s Day with healthful eating habits
TToo tthhee eeddiittoorr::Show your heart some love
this Valentine’s Day. February isAmerican Heart Month, and asa dietitian, I think it’s the per-fect time to get in shape andboost heart health.
Heart disease is the leadingcause of death for both women,and men in the United States —but it doesn’t have to be that
way. Simple dietary and lifestylechoices can play a major role inpreventing and reversing heartdisease.
Studies by Dean Ornish,VID, have repeatedly shownthat even people with advancedheart disease who adopt a low-fat vegetarian diet, stop smok-ing and engage in mild daily ex-ercise can substantially improve
their cardiovascular health. Dr. Ornish’s patients experi-
enced dramatic improvementsin their cholesterol levels, andsome actually reversed theirdisease.
Fruits, vegetables, wholegrains, and beans can help fightthis deadly disease — and theycan help reduce the risk of dia-betes, obesity and cancer.
This Valentine’s Day, have aheart-to-heart with your lovedones about protecting yourhealth by following a nutritiousand welt-balanced plant-baseddiet.
SSiiggnneedd,,Susan Levin, M.S., R.D.Staff Dietitian Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine
Secondhand smoke is thethird leading cause of pre-ventable death in the Unit-
ed States. Every year, secondhand
smoke kills 53,000 Americans,more than three times as manypeople as drunk drivers. The U.S.Surgeon General concluded in2006, “There is no risk-free levelof exposure to secondhandsmoke.”
No longer is there a debate re-garding the dangers of second-hand smoke, and Texans arecatching on. More than two-thirds of Texans — 68 percent —support a comprehensive ban onsmoking in public facilities andindoor workplaces, according to arecent poll by Smoke-Free Texas.This includes eliminating sec-ondhand smoke in bars andrestaurants, where workers are50 percent more likely to die fromlung cancer than the general pub-lic.
This year, just as we did in2007, we have filed bills to makepublic facilities and indoor work-places smoke-free.
This legislation will save thou-sands of lives, improve publichealth, reduce state spending,boost business and supporttourism. It is no wonder that 24other states already have passedsimilar legislation.
We are proud to author HouseBill 5 and Senate Bill 544 thatgive all Texans strong, compre-hensive protection from haz-ardous secondhand smoke in theworkplace. When this legislationbecomes law, Texas workers nolonger will have to choose be-tween their health and their pay-check.
We have spent the last threeyears working on this issue and sohave our opponents. Big Tobaccowould like everyone to believe twothings. First, the overwhelmingbody of scientific evidence linkingsecondhand smoke to heart attackand cancer deaths is “junk sci-ence.” Second, the right to smoke isan individual liberty second tonone.
The science is not in doubt. BigTobacco would have you believe itis, but consider the source. In 1994,tobacco executives testified underoath before Congress and statedthat “nicotine is not addictive.”
Fool me once…Now consider this. There have
been nine comprehensive studieson the effects of secondhandsmoke and the positive effects ofcomprehensive smoke-free laws.Every study conclusively linkedthese laws to significant reduc-tions in heart attack deaths.
These studies were conductedby well-respected institutions suchas the Harvard School of PublicHealth, the U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention, andthe Surgeon General, and theywere published in peer-reviewedmedical journals such as the Jour-nal of the American Medical As-sociation.
Some opponents invoke thecause of liberty. They are correctto do so, but wrong in to whomthe liberty belongs. All Texansdeserve to breathe smoke-free air,and no one should have to choosebetween their job and theirhealth.
Texas government requiresbusinesses to spend billions toclean the air outside.
Texas government also re-quires businesses to expend thou-sands of dollars to comply with alitany of health and safety coderegulations. Legislators make de-cisions all the time that limit theliberty of individuals and busi-ness owners so that the healthand safety of the patrons andworkers are protected.
This legislation does not takeaway anyone’s right to smoke.All we are asking is that smok-ers respect the rights and healthof Texas workers.
In Texas, it is not illegal todrink alcohol, but we all under-stand the dangers involved withdrunk driving. However, it is ashock for most people to realizethat secondhand smoke killsmore than three times the num-ber of people as drunk drivers.How do we rationalize that?
The debate is truly over. Sec-ondhand smoke kills. As LanceArmstrong recently stated, in 10years we will look back at this de-bate and wonder, “What were wedebating, and why did it takeTexas so long?”
(State Rep. Myra Crownover,R-Denton, and State Sen. RodneyEllis, D-Houston, are the authorsof HB 5 and SB 544.)
RODNEY ELLIS MYRA CROWNOVER
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By KIRSTEN CROWLAREDO MORNING TIMES
Becoming George Washing-ton is no easy task — andcertainly not one that un-
folds overnight.For Dean Malissa, a histori-
cal interpretive actor from theAmerican Historical Theatre, it’sbeen a lifelong process of gettingto know the enigmatic man whohe so aptly portrays. Many con-sider him the premier “GeorgeWashington.”
“It’s endless,” Malissa said ofresearching his character, notingthat Washington had writtenabout 20,000 pieces of corre-spondence in his lifetime. “It re-ally is a daunting case … there isa vast sea of information.”
Regardless, it’s of utmost im-portance for him to delve deeplyinto his character — to know notonly what Washington wrote, butwhat others wrote about him,from his personal and publicthoughts to having firsthandknowledge of his classical educa-tion and how he carried himself.
Although Malissa has gracedthe Gateway City on several oc-casions with his solo portrayal ofthe father of our country as partof the Washington’s BirthdayCelebration, this year he repre-sents one-third of the players in anew, original one-act play, “TheConstitution Behind ClosedDoors,” by William A. Sommer-field.
It will be the premiere of thehour-long re-enactment of someof the events that unfoldedamong Washington; James Madi-son, played by Ian Rose; andThomas Jefferson, played bySteven Edenbo.
The settingSet during the summer of
1787 against the backdrop of theConstitutional Convention, “TheConstitution Behind ClosedDoors” is a peek at “an interest-ing time in the nation’s history,”Malissa said.
“The American troops had de-feated the British and they weretrying to figure out what kind of
country they were going to be …(at the time) they were held to-gether by the Articles of Confed-eration,” he said. “(The articles)were written and devised by Con-gress during the war (1777), andthey were — really, truth be told —nothing more than a firm leagueof friendship. There was no tax-ing authority given by Congress.It was really almost a benigndocument.”
The essential criticism, Malis-sa said, was that the 13 states op-erated almost as sovereign coun-tries with separate militaries andeconomies, and “were strangersto each other.”
Thus, the delegates groupedin Philadelphia for a conventionin 1787 to cobble together a moresolid document — the Constitu-tion.
The playThe play follows the discus-
sions and the correspondenceamong Washington, Madisonand Jefferson, who was at thetime stationed in Paris, regarding
what direction the country oughtto go in.
Washington, Malissa said,was “gravely concerned … be-cause the interests of the indi-vidual states seemed to be takingprecedent over the interests ofthe country,” while Jefferson be-lieved there should be less of acentral government and more ofan emphasis on states’ rights.Madison, at the time, agreed withWashington, but later changedhis mind, Malissa noted.
“What you’re doing is you’rehearing the correspondence be-tween Jefferson and Madison de-livered during the play, and theconversations and thoughts ofMadison and Washington inPhiladelphia in what would be-come known as the Constitu-tional Convention,” he said. “It’san accurate depiction of theevents that would become a con-stitutional compromise or a con-stitutional settlement.”
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DEAR MISS MANNERS — Doyou have any “rules” for online dat-ing that pertain to determining theperson’s character and integrity be-fore continuing the relationship?
I got very badly burned bysomeone re-cently whoseemed to be ofsterling charac-ter, treated mewell, thendumped mewithout a word,and I had toconfront him
about it. (The precipitating issuewas he wouldn’t get an HIV test.)
The whole Internet datingthing is scary to me (I’m in my 50sand divorced), and this incidentmakes me feel like my BS detectoris broken.
What is the real deal any-more? So many men seem to bejust looking to hook up.
GENTLE READER — So MissManners has been told for the lastmillennium or two. Hardly some-thing she can be expected to re-verse with a few pithy words.
Let us therefore address only theaspects of the situation that relate toInternet dating. While undeniablymaking it easier to meet great num-bers of people looking for romance,it has, as you say, made an always-risky venture even scarier.
Before this method, peoplemet through other people, whomthey both knew.
No, wait. Miss Manners hasskipped an era, possibly because sheprefers to forget. Before the Internet, de-termined people were meeting in sin-gles bars. And complaining that thesewere, as they so elegantly put it, “meatmarkets.” What they meant was thatan awful lot of people were there look-ing for something a bit quicker (and
more quickly over) than romance. And sadly, there were some
ladies who misunderstood theconcept of the one-night stand,believing that the traditional time-line could be reversed and thatcourtship would follow.
Meeting through introductionsfrom those who knew both peoplenever precluded such unfortunatemisconnections. But it does offercertain protections.
One is reputation. The go-be-tween, knowing something ofeach person’s character and his-tory, is able to vouch for them —and, if wrong, to damage the rep-utation of anyone who behavedbadly. The online equivalent re-quires accepting the testimony ofpeople who are equally unknown,and being able to warn only otherprospects, without reaching theoffender’s own circle.
The other protection is deniabili-ty. People who frankly declare them-selves to be looking for romance arebound to encounter different inter-pretations of what may loosely betermed romance. But those whomeet socially need not seem ridicu-lously — if not fraudulently — coy ifthey make up their minds aboutprospects slowly under the guise ofmere acquaintanceship. They mayplausibly become indignant at crudeadvances. As a bonus, they lack theparadoxically unattractive aspect ofsomeone who is “looking.”
Miss Manners is well awarethat all this is little help to thosewho feel that long work hours anda demise in strictly social enter-taining have given them no choicebut to turn to strangers. She offersit only with the slim hope that itwill encourage everyone to devel-op and cherish circles in whichromance will flourish naturally,as it always has.
MARTIN
Opt out of the hook-up scene
Courtesy photos Left to right, Steven Edenbo portrays Thomas Jefferson, Ian Rose portrays James Madison and Dean Malissa portrays George Washington in the American Historical The-atre’s one-act play,“The Constitution Behind Closed Doors.”
Historical play to premiere
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While in character, Malissafrequently refers to the Constitu-tion as “an imperfect document,but the most perfect we couldcome up with. An imperfectsomething is better than a perfectnothing.”
The play features a soliloquyfrom each character, giving the“audience a glimpse into eachgentleman’s deep, personalthoughts at the time.”
Toni Ruiz, who has been col-laborating with Washington’sBirthday Celebration Associationrepresentatives to bring the playto Laredo, said it was fascinatingto see “the intricacies, the de-bates, the power struggles” be-hind the Constitution’s construc-tion.
The intention, she said, is to“bring history back to the cele-bration.”
The actorsAll three of the actors have “a
fairly unique profession,” Malis-sa said.
“We are a curious and inter-esting mix between being schol-ars and being actors,” he said.
As Malissa continues to edu-cate himself further about hischaracter, so do Rose and Eden-bo. But despite the never-endingmaterial at their proverbialdoorsteps to learn from, there isa very real frustration in the task.
“We’ll never really knowthem or be able to walk in their
shoes and understand their be-liefs,” Malissa said. “We’ll neverreally know. That’s the sting ofthe whole thing.”
Getting ‘Behind Closed Doors’
“The Constitution BehindClosed Doors” will be performedfor the general public at 7 p.m.Wednesday at TAMIU’s Centerfor Fine and Performing Arts.
Admission is free, but ticketsare required. For tickets, fill outthe coupon inside Laredo Morn-ing Times and bring it to the of-fice, 111 Esperanza Drive. Up tofour tickets may be requested perperson.
Audience members must beseated by 6:45 p.m. the day of theperformance. If not, the seats willbe given to the general public.
In addition to the perform-ance, the occasion will also serveto announce the LMT and Jeffer-son Awards for Public Service’s2009 Jefferson Award honoree,handed out annually to an indi-vidual who has made a differ-ence in the community.
“The Constitution BehindClosed Doors” is sponsored byTAMIU, Laredo Morning Timesand individual benefactors, in-cluding Ruiz, Julia Ruhlman,Fernando Zuñiga III, Ana Galo,Fred Santos, Robert Laurel, TinaCerda, Rick Valls, Tony Treviñoand Memo Benavides.
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ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFSSPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WBCA Youth Dance FestivalFor anyone who is young — or
young at heart — the WBCA pres-ents the Youth Dance Festivalfrom 2 to 5 p.m. today at the Lare-do Civic Center.
Each year, the festival bringsthe best and brightest talent to thestage in this dance and cheerlead-ing extravaganza. Admission is freeto this Macy’s-sponsored event.
Noche de CabaretPrepare for an evening of mu-
sic, dance and recognition whenthe League of United Latin Amer-ican Citizens Council No. 7 hostsits Noche de Cabaret from 7 p.m.Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday at theLaredo Civic Center Ballroom.
The event includes a gala danceto the tunes of Energy Band, aswell as a ceremony honoring phi-lanthropist Fernando A. Salinas asthe organization’s Higher Educa-tion Award recipient.
Tickets are $17.50 per personor $175 for a table of 10. Proceedsbenefit scholarships.
For more information, callJose Gonzalez at 693-7853.
Carnival crazyThe WBCA Carnival Spon-
sored By Pocket Smart Wirelessopens its gates to a ride-readycrowd in the Laredo Entertain-ment Center at 5 p.m. Thursday,the first of its 10-day run.
The carnival will be open fromFeb. 12 through Feb 22. Mondaythrough Friday, gates open at 5p.m., while Saturday and Sunday,gates open at 1 p.m.
Admission is $2 per person,while individual tickets at 75 cents.
Laugh out loudLaredo Little Theatre officials
have confirmed Comedy Centralregular Aaron Aryanpur as partof the official lineup of perform-ers for this year’s WBCA ComedyJam for George, scheduled forFriday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. and 10p.m. Also performing will be the
ever-popular Paul Varghese,andlast, but certainly not least, MarkAgee rounds out the trio.
All shows will be at the LaredoLittle Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave.
Presale tickets for $25 areavailable at Laredo Paint andDecorating, 5919 San Dario Ave.,and at the WBCA Kiosk insideMall del Norte.
Tasty timeTickets are on sale for one of
the tastiest events of the Wash-ington’s Birthday Celebration —Taste of Laredo.
The popular food sampling ex-travaganza will take place Thurs-day at the home of the event, theLaredo Entertainment Center.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.This year’s live music will be pro-
vided by local country music bandMick Cruz and Diamond Back.
Taste of Laredo will again fea-ture a chef competition, a bar-tender showdown and a blazingwing-eating contest that will beopen to all who dare to compete.
Tickets for Taste of Laredo are$22 for adults and $12 for chil-dren 12 and younger.
They are available now throughall Ticketmaster locations, includ-ing select H-E-Bs, Macy’s at Malldel Norte, www.ticketmaster.comand the LEC box office.
Love transcends languageA Texas A&M International
University alumna from Taiwan,Republic of China, has returnedto her alma mater, and she’sbringing a rare opportunity to en-joy traditional sign languageopera Sunday at 4 p.m. in theTAMIU Center for the Fine andPerforming Arts’ Recital Hall.
Admission is free, and theevent is open to the public. Agroup discussion will follow theperformance.
Through a performance proj-ect funded by Taiwan’s Ministryof Education, Tsai will bring a 17-member performance troupe andstaff for a one-time-only presen-tation at TAMIU of “Love Tran-scends the Skyline,” a sign lan-guage opera.
Sentiment mutual for ‘Not That Into You’By CHRISTY LEMIREASSOCIATED PRESS
“He’s Just Not That Into You” isn’t exact-ly a romantic comedy — at least, not in themost traditional sense. Yes, the characterswork themselves into the same sorts oftizzies over falling in and out of love — oreven finding love in the first place — but fre-quently mixed in with the fizziness is an un-expected seriousness, an attempt at injectinghonesty, realism and even failure.
All those A-list stars in the ensemblecast (Jennifer Aniston! Scarlett Johansson!)are smiling in the movie’s posters, but don’tlet that fool you. Some heavy stuff fallsupon their pretty heads. But while it’s ad-mirable that director Ken Kwapis’ film triesto shake up a typically frivolous formula,too many other elements undermine hisintentions.
Based on the best-selling relationship ad-vice book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccil-lo, the script from Abby Kohn and Marc Sil-verstein (“Never Been Kissed”) follows nineintertwined characters struggling to makesense of their love lives.
The women, especially Ginnifer Good-win’s hopeless romantic Gigi, tend to beneedy and demanding; the men, like Bradley
Cooper’s cheating Ben, are caddish and eva-sive.
And their stories are broken up with titlecards taken from the source material’s chap-ters (“... if he’s not calling you,” for example)
that make “He’s Just Not That Into You” feelan awful lot like episodic television. Maybethat’s fitting, since the title comes from a lineuttered on “Sex and the City,” for whichBehrendt and Tuccillo were writers.
Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures | APIn this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Kevin Connolly, left, and Scarlett Johansson are shown in a scenefrom the New Line Cinema film “He’s Just Not That Into You.”
ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM 7ASATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009ZentertainmentGrupo Fantasma heads to the Grammys
By KIRSTEN CROWLAREDO MORNING TIMES
Latin-funk rockers Grupo Fan-tasma plan to head to Los Angelesfor the 51st Grammy Awards cer-emony in style — meaning they’llbe shedding the stage gear forsome suits, said Beto Martinez,guitarist and one of the four Lare-do natives who founded theAustin-based group.
“That’s actually on the Gram-my invitation,” he said. “It says it’sa black-tie affair. Obviously, youalways see some of the rock starscome in and dress however theydress … but we decided we’re go-ing to look good.”
Up for music’s most presti-gious award, the Grammy, Fan-tasma beat out about three dozenother bands to secure a nomina-tion for Best Latin Rock Or Alter-native Album category for its mostrecent release, “Sonidos Gold.”The band will be competingagainst Los Jaguares, Locos PorJuana, Nortec Collective Presents:Bostich & Fussible and XimenaSariñana on Sunday.
The nomination In previous interviews, Mar-
tinez said the band hadn’t expect-ed to get the nomination, notingthat “it was cool enough” to evenget on the short list.
“This is pretty exciting,” Mar-tinez said. “This is recognition byyour peers. The Recording Acad-emy is made up of industry pro-fessionals, and it means a lot to berecognized in that sense. Obvi-ously, these are the biggest awardsas far as music goes, and it meansa lot to us. It’s a huge honor.
“Win or lose, it’s amazing.”The group boasts 10 members,
and the four founders of the su-perband are originally from Lare-do and graduates of St. AugustineHigh School and United HighSchool: Martinez; Johnny Lopez,drums; Greg Gonzalez, bass; andAdrian Quesada, guitar.
Rounding out the troupe are
Jose Galeano, vocals and tim-bales; Gilbert Elorreoga, trumpet;Kino Rodriguez, vocals; JoshuaLevy, saxophones; Matthew“Sweet Lou” Holmes, congas; andMark “Speedy” Gonzales, trom-bone.
While the band members havelong been considered hometownheroes, they gained nationwide at-tention when they backed Princeduring the 2007 ALMA Awardsand spent two months serving asthe house band for Prince’s LasVegas nightclub, Club 3121.
The group has won plenty ofAustin Music Awards and Pre-mios Musica Latino Awards, butthis is its first Grammy nomina-tion.
The album“We’re proud of all our al-
bums,” Martinez said, “They rep-resent a particular period andtime and sound of the band’sgrowth.
“But by the time we did thelive album, I thought we’d out-grown the sound of ‘Movimien-to.’ We really wanted to do some-thing that was morerepresentative of what we’re do-ing now. … We really wanted toget a definitive studio album out.”
That album, he said, was“Sonidos Gold.”
Spending three intensemonths working on it in the stu-dio, the band was able to use itsexperience and knowledge ofhome recordings to make it sound“exactly how we wanted it.”
“We walked away very happyabout it,” he said. “I think we’vematured as a band — our skill lev-el, our increased understanding ofthe music and the ability to per-form it.”
As opposed to “Movimiento,”which Martinez described as“overproduced,” “Sonidos” insteadfocuses on a more organic sound.
“(For “Movimiento”) I feel likewe tried to be ultra-modern at thattime with the hope of it being ahit,” he said. “With ‘Sonidos,’ we
were able to get a live, reallyroomy sound to it, even thoughthere is production. (It) gets intothe textures and sounds.”
The ceremonyTraveling with about a dozen
people, Martinez added, can maketravel arrangements a little diffi-cult.
“There’s a bunch of us, and wehave to pay our own way,” he said.“Being such a large band, travelcosts are pretty high. … It can addup.”
To offset the costs, Fantasmaplanned to play at a “Grammysend-off” concert in Austin onThursday, and also booked sever-al gigs to play while in Los Ange-les, Martinez said.
As for the actual ceremony, lit-tle is known about how it willwork other than the fact that thegroup will be sitting together,Martinez said.
“On Sunday, there’s a pret-elecast ceremony and then a tele-cast ceremony; we don’t whatpart we’ll be involved in,” hesaid. “I’m sure our name will be
mentioned, but I’m not sure howit will work (as far as walking)across the stage.”
They are, however, looking for-ward to some of the little luxu-ries associated with the awardceremony.
“We’re supposed to be gettinga list of parties that we’re invitedto that we’ll go to, and there’s theinfamous swag you get to pick upat these things, and we hope topartake in that,” he said.
As for any predictions, Mar-tinez isn’t making any.
“We would be really, really sur-
prised (if we won) because we’renot going over there expecting towin,” he said. “We’re the under-dog. We’re the only independentband in our category.”
Win or lose, Martinez saidFantasma appreciates Laredo’ssupport and love.
“It means a lot to have home-town support,” he said.
The Grammy Awards arescheduled for broadcast on CBSbeginning at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
(Kirsten Crow may be reachedat 728-2543 or by e-mail [email protected])
Photo by Daniel Perlaky | Special to the TimesThe 10-member Grupo Fantasma boasts four founding members from Laredo: Beto Martinez, guitar; Johnny Lopez, drums; Greg Gonzalez, bass; and Adrian Quesada, guitar.
Por MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOVTIEMPO DE ZAPATA
El Buró de Alcohol, Tabaco, Ar-mas de Fuego y Explosivos aler-taron a su oficina en Monterrey,México, acerca de un decomiso dearmas y equipamiento ocurridocerca de Nueva Ciudad Guerrero,México, el fin de semana, dijoFrancesca Perot, una vocera delburó.
Perot dijo que ella no teníaparticulares sobre el caso.
“Puedo decir que sabemos quelas armas recuperadas en Méxicoy rastreadas a través del laborato-rio de armas de la ATF que 90por ciento de las armas confis-cadas de México vienen de los Es-tados Unidos”, dijo ella.
El fin de semana, elementosdel Ejército Mexicano des-cubrieron un cargamento de ar-mas, municiones, chalecos an-tibalas y diverso equipamientobélico en Nueva Ciudad Guererro.
En comunicado de prensa de laSecretaría de la Defensa Nacional(SEDENA, por sus siglas) se dio aconocer que el equipo fue descu-bierto en el interior de un tinaco deplástico durante un reconocimien-to por las riberas del Río Bravo.
No se reportaron personas de-tenidas en el operativo de per-sonal del 21 Batallón de Infanteríaperteneciente al PrimerRegimiento de Caballería Motor-izado con sede en Nuevo Laredo.
Entre el decomiso hay armasde asalto y cortas, así como lan-za granadas, silenciadores, mi-ras telescopias con rayos infrar-rojos y chalecos antibalas,informó el comunicado.
Una camioneta pick-up de re-ciente modelo también fue ase-gurada, según el reporte. El ve-hículo tenía reporte de robo enlos Estados Unidos.
Igualmente se informó que seobservó una lancha de fibra devidrio, con motor fuera de borda,flotando en el río, misma que fuerecuperada.
En una presentación en insta-laciones del Cuartel Militar, semostraron los radios de comuni-cación, además de una planta deenergía eléctrica, así como unabomba de agua de diesel con com-presora, dos portafolios, 10 car-gadores de baterías para radio,básculas, esposas y juegos de pla-cas de Texas.
El total del decomiso es el sigu-iente, según reporte de la SEDE-NA:
9 armas largas de diferentescalibres
6 armas cortas de diferentescalibres
1 lanza granadas 1 silenciador, calibre 9
Milímetros27 cargadores de arma de
grueso calibre45 cargadores para arma corta1 mil 405 cartuchos de difer-
entes calibres 1 mira telescópica 1 chaleco antibalas y 1 aparato de visión nocturna.El equipamiento quedó a dis-
posición del Ejército Mexicano enel Cuartel Militar Macario Zamo-ra, para después quedar a dis-posición de la Procuraduría Gen-eral de la República, quien dará
continuidad a la investigación.En el comunicado se informó
que estas acciones son en el mar-co de la Campaña Permanentecontra el Narcotráfico y la apli-cación de la Ley Federal de Armas
de Fuego y Explosivos.(Puede localizar a Miguel Tim-
oshenkov llamando al (956) 728-2583 o escribiendo a [email protected]. El reportero Jason Buchcontribuyó en este artículo).
EntretenimientoLAREDO — El sábado 7 de febrero
salen a la venta los boletos para el es-pectáculo de Disney On Ice: DisneylandAdventure, que se presentará en el Lare-do Entertainment Center del jueves 30 deabril al domingo 3 de mayo. Más infor-mación en www.disneyonice.com.Puedecomprar sus boletos en la taquilla de LECy en ticketmaster.com.Los boletos varíande 13.25, 18/25 y 26.25 dólares.
LAREDO — Pase la tarde del sába-do 7 de febrero en el Planetario LamarBruni Vergara de Texas A&M Interna-tional University, explorando “The ZulaPatrol”a las 5 p.m.; “Black Holes”a las 6p.m. y“U2: Fulldome Experience”a las 7p.m. La entrada general es de 5 dólares;los niños, estudiantes, personal y exalumnos de TAMIU pagan 4 dólares. Másinformación llamando 326-2444.
LAREDO — El Departamento deParques y Servicios de Entretenimientode la Ciudad de Laredo invita a prac-ticar ‘Rock Climbinb’ en el East HacharRecreation Center, cada martes y viernesde 4 p.m. a 5 p.m. El programa es paraniños y niñas de 6 a 12 años. Personal delcentro auxilia a los asistentes.
LAREDO — El evento Taste of Lare-do,dentro de las festividades de la WBCA,será el jueves 12 de febrero a partir de las6:30 p.m. en el Laredo EntertainmentCenter. Este evento tiene costo.
LAREDO — El Comedy Jam forGeorge será el viernes 13 de febrero enel laredo Little Theatre. Habrá dos even-tos, el primer programado para las 7p.m. Este evento tiene costo.
CulturaLAREDO — El sábado 7 de febrero
es el concierto de Ballet Folklórico de TexasA&M International University a las 7 p.m.en el Center for the Fine and PerformingArts Recital Hall.Los boletos tienen costode 10 dólares. La actuación es parte deuna serie de talleres de fines de semanapatrocinado por el Ballet Folklórico deTAMIU para maestros de danza y estudi-antes de Laredo,en Texas yMéxico.Más in-formación llamando al 326-2649.
LAREDO — El sábgado 7 defebrero será el WBCAYouth Dance Festi-val de 2 p.m. a 5 p.m. en el Auditorio delLaredo Civic Center. La entrada es gra-tuita pero se requiere vestimenta casual.
LAREDO — El evento anual de re-cabación de fondos Wine Tasting Galadel Boys & Girls Club of Laredo el sába-do 7 de febrero a partir de las 8 p.m. enPaseo Real, detrás del Laredo Entertain-ment Center. Más información llamandoal 723-1051. El evento tiene costo.
LAREDO — American HistoricalTheatre presenta a una actuación noc-turna de George Washington, el miér-coles 11 de febrero. El evento “The Con-stitution Behind Closed Doors” es unacto de una hora por William A. Som-merfield, el cual presenta a un actorcon un extraño parecido al primer pres-idente de la nación, inicia a las 7 p.m. enel Center for the Fine and PerformingArts de Texas A&M International Uni-versity. Vea a George Washington,Thomas Jefferon y James Madison in-teractuar en esta obra. La entrada esgratuita, pero se requieren boletos.
LAREDO — La Noche de Cabaretde los LULAC Concilio 7,rindiendo home-naje a Fernando A.Salinas será el sábado7 de febrero de 7 p.m.y hasta al 1 a.m.deldomingo. Se realizará en el Laredo CivicCenter Ballroom. El evento tiene costo.
Servicio SocialLAREDO — Una venta de libros se
realizará en el Widener Room de la FirstUnited Methodist Church, 1220 McClel-land Ave., de 8:30 a.m. a 1 p.m. el sába-do 7 de febrero. El público en generalestá invitado y la entrada es gratuita. Seacepta donación de libros y revistas.
DeportesLAREDO — El equipo de hockey,
Junior Bucks, estarán jugando un en-cuentro de liga el sábado 7 de febrero almediodía contra los Rio Grande ValleyPenguins. Esa noche, en el juego de losLaredo Bucks, también será una nochede Junior Bucks, donde los jugadoresserán reconocidos. El juego de los Lare-do Bucks, donde reciben a los Tulsa Oil-ers será a las 7:30 p.m. en LEC.
LAREDO — El equipo de softbólde Texas A&M International Universityestará jugando el sábado 7 de febrerocontra Texas Wesleyan en el campo deTAMIU a las 11 a.m. y 1 p.m. Nuevamenteel domingo 8 de febrero los dos equiposvolverán a enfrentarse en el campo deTAMIU a las 12 p.m. y 2 p.m. La entradageneral es de 5 dólares, a 3 dólares paraestudiantes y gratis para cualquiera conidentificación de TAMIU.
LAREDO — El equipo de balon-cesto femenil de Texas A&M Interna-tional University estará jugando el sába-do 7 de febrero contra la University ofIncarnate Word en canchas de la uni-versidad a las 2 p.m.
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Decomisan armas y equipo
Foto de cortesía | SEDENAEl martes, el Ejército Mexicano mostró a medios de comunicación el cargamento dearmas, municiones, chalecos antibalas y diverso equipamiento bélico descubierto elfin de semana en Nueva Ciudad Guererro.
Se acerca Feriade Zapata
TIEMPO DE ZAPATA
La Feria del Condado de Za-pata, una de las más grandes fe-rias en pueblos pequeños enTexas se realizará del 22 defebrero al 14 de marzo.
El evento se extiende du-rante tres fines de semana ypresenta a los favoritos de laferia del condado tales como lacabalgata, el concurso de MissZapata County Fair, y el siem-pre competitivo concurso deganado.
Los participantes en losvarios eventos para calificaranimales vienen de tan lejoscomo Amarillo para competirpor el codiciado Blue Ribbon(Listón Azul).
Inclusive los más jóvenes sedivierten en la popular compe-tencia de bovinos, y concursospara el ZCF Little Cowboy, Lit-tle Miss ZCF y Jr. Miss ZCF.
La feria también atrae a
grandes estrellas en el mundoTejano, como Los Palominos,Jaime de Anda y Los Chama-cos, Siggno, El Poder del Nortey Sonny Sauceda and theStampede, el grupo country deZapata.
Por cierto, será Sonny Sauce-da and the Stampede quien ac-túe el sábado 28 de febrero a las9 p.m. en la feria y correspon-derá cerrar las festividades a ElPoder del Norte.
Por supuesto, no hay feriacompleta sin la comida, y laFeria del Condado de Zapatatiene mucho de ello. La feriasirve los favoritos tradi-cionales como piernas deguajolote, fajitas, elote des-grabado y pasteles. Tambiénhay concursos de cocinadonde los participantesmuestran sus herramientrasculinarias para ver quienserá coronado como el mejorcocinero de la feria.
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TAMAULIPAS — Están por ini-ciarse la construcción de por lomenos siete proyectos de rellenossanitarios regionales a lo largodel Estado.
El titular de la Agencia Am-biental para el Desarrollo Sus-tentable Salvador TreviñoGarza, dijo que uno de losprimeros rellenos que está porarrancar con los servicios deacopio de desechos es el de laFrontera Ribereña cuya primeraetapa de construcción está yaculminada.
Los siete rellenos sanitariosson: Frontera Ribereña, Rio Bra-vo, San Fernando, Victoria,Mante, Gonzales-Aldama y Zonaconurbada de Tampico.
Con una inversión total de132 millones de pesos para losrellenos sanitarios, la AgenciaAmbiental sirve como puentepara acercar presupuestos dediferentes órdenes desde el Go-bierno Federal a través deSEDESOL, como de organismosinternacionales como el NAD-BANK.
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By MELISSA NELSONASSOCIATED PRESS
It is a well-known risk to lackdiversity in an investment portfo-lio. Now, couples employed by thesame company are learning asimilar lesson, the hard way.
As layoffs mount across thecountry and in all sectors, cou-ples who are co-workers are in-creasingly vulnerable to losingtheir families’ twin sources of in-come at once. The lack of varietyin job skills can also make it dif-ficult to bounce back, especially ina struggling industry.
Such hard times have befallenClarkston, Mich., high schoolsweethearts Victor and Lauri Cox,who married in 1976 and soontook jobs at the General Motorsplant; Pam Podger and JohnCramer, who met as reporters atThe Fresno Bee in California in1991; and Chad and LindseyLewis, who prospered while sell-ing homes for a Tampa builderbut now face a more than 60 per-cent drop in their combined in-come.
Chad Lewis said the experi-ence “hit us really hard,” forcingthem to dip into savings in orderto afford health insurance andother necessities. But they havefound a silver lining: “There issomeone there to rely on, to gothrough this with you.”
It may seem harsh for an em-ployer to lay off both spouses si-multaneously. But companies risklawsuits and union contract vio-lations if they consider workers’family status in determining whoto eliminate.
And whatever the financialrisks, it is simply unrealistic toexpect couples who fall in love onthe job or while studying the samefield in school to be thinkingabout revenue diversification,said Stephanie Coontz, a familystudies professor at EvergreenState College in Olympia, Wash.
“I imagine that people will tryto be more thoughtful about notputting all their economic eggs inthe same basket, but I doubt ifthey will start trying to meet peo-ple outside their field just for eco-nomic reasons,” Coontz said.
People searching for a lifetimepartner say the idea of choosing
mates based on their careerswould add too much complica-tion to an already difficultprocess.
“Most of the single people Iknow are happy just to find anoth-er single person they get along withlet alone worry about what kind ofjob they have,” said Margaret War-ren, 45, a Pensacola artist and com-puter consultant who dates a re-storer of antique automobiles.
It was a shared love of jour-nalism that helped spark ro-mance between Pam Podger andJohn Cramer.
When the Roanoke Times inVirginia began cutting costs andoffering early retirements lastyear, the couple thought they hadfound safe harbor and a freshstart out West at The Missoulian,a 28,000-daily and 32,000-Sun-day circulation newspaper in Mis-soula, Mont.
Less than 10 months later, thepublisher laid them off, unsettlingthe new life they had begun withtheir two toddlers.
“Do I wish one of us had asudden yen to go into medicine,law, business? Sure, some days,”Podger said.
Podger now freelances andteaches part time, while her hus-band has a part-time job at asmaller paper owned by the samepublisher.
Such double layoffs wouldhave been extremely rare just acouple of generations ago.
Before the 1970s, familiesweathered economic downturnsby sending the non-workingspouse, typically wives, into thework force. But today roughly 53percent of all married couples,and 64 percent of married cou-ples with children under age 18,rely on two incomes, according tothe U.S. Census Bureau.
In theory that should have in-creased financial security. In-stead, couples often use the extraincome to buy bigger homes, nicercars and other luxuries, said RickHarper, director of the Universityof West Florida’s Haas Center forBusiness Research.
“In the 1980s, both spousesworked and the savings rate forfamilies went from 12 and 14 per-cent to essentially zero,” Harpersaid. “In this decade, households
smoothed over the rough spots bytaking equity out of their homes.Now there is no equity left totake.”
There are no statistics on thenumber of couples who have bothlost jobs. Nearly 3 million jobswere eliminated last year alone.On Friday, the Labor Departmentsaid 11. 6 million were unem-ployed in January.
Meeting at work is among thetop three ways people find spous-es, along with being introducedthrough friends or at school. Butworkplace relationships have in-herent risks, such as awkwardbreakups, and many companiesdiscourage co-workers from dat-ing. Large companies often havepolicies that separate spouses intodifferent departments.
But this deep and lengthy re-cession is revealing a pitfall thatcould not have been foreseenwhen high school sweetheartsVictor and Lauri Cox married in1976. They very soon landed jobsat the General Motors plant intheir hometown of Clarkston,Mich., and figured they had foundfinancial security.
For three decades, that wastrue. Victor Cox made good mon-ey pulling parts for shipment todealerships worldwide. Lauriworked at a GM supplier and lat-er at the plant. But last Augustthey were both laid off.
GM has since found positionsfor the couple at an Ohio plant,but they are the among the lowestin seniority and will be the firstlaid off if that plant cuts produc-tion. The stakes are considerable:the Coxes are still paying a mort-gage on their Michigan home,renting a town house in Ohio andworried about their children —ages 23, 20, 17 — who are back inMichigan trying to finish schooland find jobs in uncertain times.
Victor said he occasionallythinks it would might have beeneasier financially if his wife werea nurse or a teacher — somethingother than an auto worker.
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Courtesy photo/Villarreal Elementary | Special to the TimesVillarreal Elementary recently honored its Students of the Week for Jan. 30. Bottom row, left to right,Jacob Siordia, Natalee Guer-ra, Jose Gonzalez, Apolonio Vallejo, Elizabeth Angeles, Elaine Lopez, Amairany Rios and Karim Alvarado; second row, left to right,Fernando Navarro, Odalys Valadez,Valerie Ramirez, Christopher Araiza,Jennifer Gonzalez and Marc Garcia Vasquez; third row, leftto right,Jorge Perez, Laura Garza,Joel Hernandez,Julie Sanchez and Victor Gonzalez; top row, left to right, Dulce Banda,Juan Car-los Garcilazo and Jennifer Yanez.
Courtesy photo/Benavides Elementary | Special to the TimesVeronica Gonzalez, Zapata County Independent School District school board vice president, was selected to be the A.L. Bena-vides Elementary School honoree for school board appreciation month. Here, Gonzalez talks with students, encouraging themto attend school every day and to respect their teachers. The trustee was the parade marshal for the school’s 100th day cel-ebration. She presented students who had perfect attendance with a plaque and certificate.
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Photo by Michael Albans | APPam Podger, center right, and John Cramer, center left, two journalists who moved cross country to start jobs at the Missouliannewspaper and were laid off at the same time less than 10 months later, pose for a photo with their children Jack, right, and Lukeat their home in Missoula, Mont.
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Senators announce deal on stimulus billBy DAVID ESPO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — With joblosses soaring nationwide, Sen-ate Democrats reached agreementwith key Republicans Fridaynight on an economic stimulusmeasure at the heart of PresidentBarack Obama’s plan for combat-ting the worst recession indecades.
“The American people want usto work together. They don’t wantto see us dividing along partisanlines on the most serious crisisconfronting our country,” saidSen. Susan Collins of Maine, oneof two GOP senators who signaledsupport for the bill.
Officials put the cost of themeasure at $780 billion in tax cutsand new spending combined. Nodetails were immediately avail-able, and there appeared to besome confusion even among sen-ators about the price tag as floordebate continued late into thenight.
The agreement capped a tenseday of backroom negotiations inwhich Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid, joined by WhiteHouse chief of staff RahmEmanuel, sought to attract thesupport of enough Republicans togive the measure the needed 60-vote majority.
In addition to Collins, Sen.Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said hewould vote for the bill. Sen.Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, re-mained uncommitted.
Democrat Edward M.Kennedy, who is battling a braintumor, arrived in Washington incase his vote turned out to beneeded. The Massachusetts sena-tor has been in Florida in recentdays and has not been in the Capi-tol since suffering a seizure on In-auguration Day more than twoweeks ago.
Democrats hold a 58-41 major-ity in the Senate, including two
independents, but it takes 60 votesto pass the stimulus bill because itwould raise the federal deficit.
At $780 billion, the legislationwould be smaller than the meas-ure that cleared the House on aparty-line vote last week. It alsowould mean a sharp cut from theversion that has been the subjectof Senate debate for a week. Thatmeasure stood at $937 billion.
Beyond the numbers, though,any agreement would mark a vic-tory for the new president andwould keep Democratic leaderson track to fulfill their promise ofdelivering him a bill to sign bythe end of next week.
Obama said further delaywould be “inexcusable and irre-sponsible” given Friday’s worstmonthly unemployment report ina generation — 598,000 jobs lost inJanuary and the national unem-ployment rate rising to 7.6 per-cent. And late Friday, federal reg-ulators announced the closures oftwo banks, First Bank FinancialServices in Georgia and AllianceBank in California, the seventhand eight failures this year of fed-erally insured banks.
“The world is waiting to seewhat we’re going to do in the next24 hours,” said Reid who hasspent much of the week trying tobalance demands among moder-ates in both parties against pres-sure for a larger bill from liberalsin his own rank and file.
By midday, the majority leaderhad spoken once with Obama byphone and five times withEmanuel. He met with Collinsand Specter as well as Sen. BenNelson, a conservative NebraskaDemocrat who had long advocat-ed cuts in the House-passed bill.
“We’re clearly not there yet,”Collins said at one point. Shespoke with Obama at the WhiteHouse earlier in the week, though,and told reporters as she shuttledbetween meetings in the Capitol,“I’m still hopeful that we can
achieve a compromise becausethe stakes are high and the goal isimportant.”
One Republican-proposed doc-ument that circulated earliercalled for cuts of $60 billion frommoney Democrats want to sendto the states. That money is tar-geted to avoid budget cuts forschools as well as law enforce-ment and other programs.
Talk of cuts in proposed edu-cation funds triggered a counter-attack from advocates of schoolspending as well as unhappinessamong Democrats.
One, Sen. Carl Levin of Michi-gan, told reporters he and othershoped that some of the funds onthe chopping block would be re-stored next week when negotia-
tions open on a House-Senatecompromise.
At its core, the legislation is de-signed to ease the worst econom-ic recession in generations, andcombines hundreds of billions ofdollars in new spending with taxcuts. Much of the money would gofor victims of the recession in theform of food stamps, unemploy-ment compensation and healthcare. There are funds, as well, forconstruction of highways andbridges.
But the administration also de-cided to use the bill to make adown payment on key domesticinitiatives, including creation ofa new health technology industryand so-called green jobs designedto make the country less depend-
ent on imported oil. And Democrats in Congress
decided to add additional hugesums for the states strugglingwith the recession, as well as bil-lions more for favored programssuch as parks, the repair of mon-uments in federal cemeteries,health and science research andmore.
With Obama enjoying post-in-auguration support in the pollsand the economy shrinking, De-mocratic leaders in Congress haveconfidently predicted they wouldhave a bill to the president’s deskby mid-February.
But Republicans, freed of theneed to defend former PresidentGeorge W. Bush’s policies, havepivoted quickly to criticize the bill
for its size and what they consid-er wasteful spending.
The entire Republican rankand file voted against the measurein the House, effectively proddingsenators to take up the samecause.
In the intervening days, Re-publicans have appeared to catchthe administration and its alliesoff-guard, holding up relativelysmall items for ridicule and rou-tinely seizing on comments fromDemocrats critical of the House-passed bill.
At the same time, they havestressed a desire to help the econ-omy but have said they prefer taxcuts and spending that wouldhave a more immediate impact onjob creation.
Privately, Democrats in Con-gress have been critical of Obamaand his aides for failing to count-er the Republicans more effec-tively. In recent days, the presi-dent has sharpened his rhetoricagainst unnamed critics of the billwhom he accused of trying to re-establish the “failed policies” ofthe past eight years.
As Reid struggled to nail downthe necessary votes, the WhiteHouse announced Obama wouldtravel to Florida and Indiana nextweek to campaign for a stimulusmeasure. Both states have Repub-lican senators. The president alsois scheduled to hold a prime-timenews conference on Mondaywhere questions about the econo-my are likely to dominate.
Despite the struggle, some Re-publicans seemed to sense theWhite House would ultimatelyprevail, and sought politicalmileage.
Obama “could have had a very,very impressive victory early on,”said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas,who heads the Senate Republicancampaign committee. “But this isnot turning out to be an impres-sive victory. it is turning out to bea little bit of a black eye.”
Photo by Susan Walsh | APSen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Friday, following a meeting with Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid of Nev. and Republicans on the economic stimulus legislation.
Tighter conditions on TARP recipients seenBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Obama admin-istration will impose tighter conditions onbanks receiving money under the $700billion financial rescue program but fornow is not expected to ask Congress formore money in its sweeping overhaul ofthe bailout, industry and congressionalofficials said Friday.
The decision not to request more mon-ey would be a relief to lawmakers, giventhat the administration is unveiling itschanges in the midst of a debate over aneconomic recovery package that’s ex-pected to cost around $800 billion.
The program Treasury Secretary Tim-othy Geithner is scheduled to unveil in aspeech Monday could cost more than the$350 billion still unspent in the TroubledAsset Relief Program, or TARP. But offi-cials said the administration would haveroom to overhaul how the program worksbefore determining whether to seek moremoney from Congress.
“Some of the reforms can be paid for
without a new appropriation,” one officialfamiliar with the plan said.
The industry and congressional officialswho spoke did so on condition of anonymi-ty because the administration had not yetpublicly released details of the program.
Key members of Congress had urgedthe administration not to request moremoney for the rescue program. Congressapproved the $700 billion program last fall,but since then, many lawmakers have com-plained that the Bush administration im-plemented a confused and ad hoc strategy.
“Until they are successful in showingthe average American that the money isbeing used reasonably, there’s no point inasking for it, because they won’t get it,”House Financial Services CommitteeChairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., saidthis week.
The administration declined Friday toprovide any specifics of what will be inGeithner’s new plan to address the worstfinancial crisis to hit the country in sev-en decades. But the Treasury Departmentsaid the revamped plan would offer acomprehensive way to stabilize the fi-
nancial system, while strengthening ac-countability, oversight and transparencyto protect taxpayer money.
Industry and congressional officialssaid they thought the administrationwould continue to stress government pur-chases of bank stock as a way to bolsterbanks’ balance sheets and to try to getthem to resume more normal lending.
But these officials said they believed theadministration would impose tougher termson the banks receiving money than in thefirst round of spending. One official said thenew terms will include requirements thatbanks that accept the next round of moneywork to get bad assets off their books.
The industry and congressionalsources said they believed the new planwould also make broader use of govern-ment guarantees of bad assets that banksare carrying on their books. Those badassets are helping to stifle lending.
The Bush administration used gov-ernment guarantees in November when itagreed to limit Citigroup’s losses on aportfolio of $301 billion of troubled assets.
It used the same approach last month,
when it agreed to provide increased sup-port to Bank of America by covering $118billion of that bank’s troubled assets.
The administration’s new plan is like-ly to include at least a limited effort to buybanks’ bad assets. One possibility is to usea new lending facility the Federal Re-serve is developing called the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, these of-ficials said. The Fed on Friday announcednew terms and conditions for this pro-gram and said a date for it to begin wouldbe announced later this month.
But the program to buy bad assets isexpected to be much smaller than the so-called “bad bank” the administration hadconsidered creating to take some toxicassets off banks’ books.
Industry and congressional officials saidthe administration felt such an approachwould be too costly and could prove harm-ful if the purchase of toxic assets forcedother banks to revalue similar assets beingcarried on their books. Some estimates saidit could cost more than $1 trillion.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., an in-fluential voice on banking matters, had
said this week that he did not support thebad bank approach. He instead favoredhaving the government provide guaran-tees for troubled assets.
The Bush administration committedthe first $350 billion from the rescue fundthat Congress approved on Oct. 3, leavingthe second $350 billion for the new ad-ministration.
Obama’s team has said it would de-vote up to $100 billion of the remainingmoney to help combat a wave of mortgageforeclosures. That could leave only $250billion to pursue further efforts to bolsterbanks’ balance sheets and get them to re-sume more normal lending.
Mark Zandi, chief economist atMoody’s Economy.com, said he thinks theadministration will eventually need torequest another $350 billion from Con-gress — on top of the $700 billion that’s al-ready been approved, given the scope ofthe bad assets banks are carrying. Hesaid the new administration may findthat financial markets are not reassuredby its new program without the commit-ment of additional money.
Fair offers that opportunity. “(Fair prices) are not out of this
world — our prices are very af-fordable,” said Mendoza. “Wekeep them that way so that every-one can afford to come and have agood time.”
Opening ceremonies begin at 8a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, with thetraditional trail ride and break-fast starting in Bustamante. Thatnight, there’s the official kick-offdance with music by SonnySauceda and Stampede at 9 p.m.The annual queen contest isMarch 1, and the livestock exhibi-
tions and judging starts Thurs-day, March 12. There will be plen-ty of good food and dancing thatweekend.
The county fair is in its 36thyear, and has had community sup-port since its inception.
“I’ve been attending the fair foras long as I can remember,” saidMendoza, adding this an eventthat everyone can attend, old andyoung alike.
Local children create items inschool that are later auctioned off,with proceeds going to their col-lege funds, Mendoza added. That
auction takes place Saturday,March 14, the last day of the fair.
The fair plays an “importantrole in the lives of these kids (andis) an opportunity for them tolearn responsibility and makemoney for their college careers,”Mendoza said.
“Our county fair is always a lotof fun,” said Anna Holcomb, thisyear’s fair president, in a news re-lease “But, this year, it’s even moreof a special treat because ZapataCounty is celebrating the 150thanniversary of our founding.”
Mendoza and Holcomb invited
visitors to check out the Web site atwww.zapatacountyfaironline.comto get complete information on the
fair and a detailed schedule ofevents. There’s also a collection ofphotos and a blog.
(To reach Erika Lambreton,call 728-2567 or e-mail [email protected])
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be a multi-dimensional approach to pro-tecting the borders that includes law en-forcement agencies at all levels, includingsheriffs, police, the Department of PublicSafety, the Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration, U.S. Marshals and Border Patrol.
“Let’s work together because eventhough this is more of a federal responsi-bility, we understand that some of ourlocal law enforcement are burdened bythe need that we see at the border area,”
Cuellar said.While Zapata has seen some funding
over the past couple of years — the coun-ty received $1.71 million for OperationStone Garden and additional funding wassplit between the Texas Border Coalitionmembers — Gonzalez said it’s not enough.
Gonzalez said the border has receivedattention from Cuellar and other con-gressmen, such as John Culberson, R-Houston, and Michael McCaul, R-Austin.
“But they have to convince 430-something more,” he added. “We’retired of our federal legislators not pay-ing attention to what’s happening onthe border.
“We’re not talking about immigrationstuff, we’re talking about border security,”Gonzalez said. “We’re not too interestedin people that come across to work at ahotel or a restaurant.”
The economic stimulus package cur-
rently under review by Congress couldaid some of the border needs, accordingto Cuellar. The package currently in-cludes $4 billion for law enforcement — $3billion for equipment and $1 billion fund-ing for Community Oriented PolicingServices (COPS).
The federal government’s COPS pro-gram helps fund additional law enforce-ment personnel. Cuellar said funding forthe program was cut under the Bush ad-
ministration and it’s now being restored.Cuellar stressed, however, the addi-
tional funding is not based on earmarksor formulas. Law enforcement agenciesmust apply for the funds when they be-come available.
“We have to be very aggressive,” Cuel-lar said. “It is a tremendous amount ofmoney.”
(Julie Daffern may be reached at 728-2565 or [email protected])
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At the top of the list is a center forhigher education. It would cost about $2million and is planned to take 24 monthsto complete. It is “shovel-ready.”
Another priority is the Zapata CountyMuseum, which would cost about $3.5million over a 12-month period. However,the county has already budgeted $1.8 mil-lion for the project.
Sewage and drainage projects make up alarge portion of the requests, such as Zapata
County sewer improvements and sewer im-provements for the Las Palmas colonia.
One project is a planning-ready loop toallow truck traffic on Highway 83 to cir-cumvent Zapata.
“We mostly depend on gas production inZapata, and we have a lot of heavy equip-ment trucks that go down Highway 83,” saidCounty Judge Rosalva Guerra. “We want tosee if we can have them detour.”
The largest project is ready for design,
suggesting that it might not be a priority,as many members of Congress have sug-gested that only projects that are ready tobe started in three months after the mon-ey is received will get priority.
It is $38.38 million to pave six roads inthe county. The county aims to pave 38.38miles worth of road.
All the projects are projects that thecounty has already envisioned as needsover the next 10 years.
“Whatever funds are available we’llprioritize those projects,” Vela said.
At the meeting, individual commissionerswill have the option of adding more items tothe list that they think are important.
In regards to the operation of the Za-pata County Medical Group, Sands sug-gested at the last meeting he would needto alter the contract, but the court tabledthe item for research.
“He’s not making it with the amount of
money we’re paying him on the contract,”Vela said. “He’s going to be requestingsome additional funds for his operation.”
The contract was tabled at last meetingbecause the contract calls for doctors toearn a certain amount, but that numberwould be affected by changes.
Also on the agenda is a request by Vela totable the purchase a one-acre tract of landnear Chihuahua to build a park becausethe only bidder has less than an acre to give.
Kenneth J. Hayes 78, passedaway Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, atLaredo Medical Center.
Ken is preceded in death byhis wife Rhoda Ballew Hayesand siblings Lloyd Hayes, Fran-cis Hayes, Eudene Hayes andThelma Callen.
Ken is survived by his sib-lings Levon Thompson, PaulineClendenen and Arvida Jones;son J Dee (Rosalyn) Hayes fromLubbock, grandchildren Jen-nifer M. Hayes of Grand Rapids,Mich. and Bryan M. Hayes ofMilwaukee, and many friends.
A memorial service will be
held Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at10 a.m. at Rose Garden FuneralHome.
Condolences may be sent tothe family at www.rosegarden-fimeralhome. com.
Funeral arrangements areunder the direction of Rose Gar-den Funeral Home Daniel A.Gonzalez, funeral director, 2102Hwy. 83 Zapata.
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William Paul Westfall 80,passed away Sunday, Jan. 25,2009, at bis residence in Zapata.
Mr. Westfall is preceded indeath by his wife Virginia E.Westfall; parents Ray (Francis)Westfall; brother Bob Westfalland a granddaughter, Dixie.
Mr. Westfall is survived byhis son Harold (Beverly) Elmoreof Sweet Home, Iowa; daughterSandra (Jerry) Clute of WestPoint, Iowa; four grandchil-dren;two great-grandchildrenand by numerous nephews,nieces and many friends.
A memorial Mass was held at
10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009, atOur Lady of Lourdes CatholicChurch.
Condolences may be sent tothe family at www.rosegarden-fimeralhome. com.
Cremation arrangements areunder the direction of Rose Gar-den Funeral Home Daniel A.Gonzalez, funeral director, 2102Hwy. 83 Zapata.
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Amalia “Molly” Dixon, 80,passed away Sunday, Jan. 25,2009, at a hospital in San Antonio.
Amalia is preceded in deathby her parents Agustin (Juanita)Martinez; sons Juan Antonio(Paca) Martinez, Johnny Dixon,Ruben Dixon and Jimmy Dixon;daughter Blanca Estela Martinez;brothers Jose Maria Martinez,Juan Antonio Martinez and a sis-ter, Macaria Bustamante.
Amalia is survived by her sonBilly Dixon; daughters NeldaGonzalez, Rosie Salazar, EvaDixon and Brenda (Mike) Kohler;18 grandchildren; 42 great-grand-children; brothers Felipe Mar-tinez and Santiago Martinez; sis-ter Maria (Donicio) Jaramillo;cousins Luisa Creel and MayaGuzman and by numerousnephews, nieces and many
friends.Visitation hours were Satur-
day, Jan. 31, 2009, at 8 a.m, witha rosary at 9 a.m. at Rose Gar-den Funeral Home.
The funeral procession depart-ed Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, at 9:45a.m. Committal services followedat Zapata County Cemetery.
Condolences may be sent tothe family at www.rosegarden-fimeralhome. com.
Funeral arrangements areunder the direction of Rose Gar-den Funeral Home Daniel A.Gonzalez, funeral director, 2102Hwy. 83 Zapata.
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Propane gas efficient but care neededSPECIAL TO THE TIMES
AUSTIN — The Texas RailroadCommission is offering safety tipsfor Texans enjoying the cozywarmth of a propane gas log setthis winter.
As the state’s chief energyagency, the Railroad Commissionhas been in charge of propanesafety in Texas for more than 50years.
“More and more Texans are fu-eling their fireplaces with clean-burning propane gas,” said Rail-road Commission ChairmanMichael L. Williams. “And it’seasy to see why. Gas logs don’tsmoke up the neighborhood, andthey turn on at the flip of a switch.But they don’t turn off by them-selves like a wood fire, so remem-ber to switch off your gas logwhen you leave the room for anextended period and before you goto sleep.”
Even though gas log owners
no longer have to split and stackfirewood or haul ashes out of thefireplace, gas-fired logs do requiresome maintenance.
“Have a trained technician in-stall the units and schedule a reg-ular maintenance checkup at thestart of the heating season,” saidCommissioner Victor G. Carrillo.“The checkup should includecleaning the control compart-ments and burner as well aschecking all the components forproper operation.”
Gas logs may be vented or un-vented. Unvented units do not
have a chimney or flue. Accordingto the U.S. Department of Energy,unvented gas heaters are gainingin popularity because they are rel-atively inexpensive, easy to installand efficient.
“Consumers should knowwhether their gas logs are ventedor unvented,” said CommissionerElizabeth A. Jones. “If they’revented, make sure the fireplacewhere the logs are installed is de-signed for actual use, not just fordecoration. Inspect it to see that ithas adequate protective liningsand smoke ducts, and that the
chimney is clear and in good re-pair.”
Vent-free models are easierto install, but they can pose ahealth hazard because theydraw their combustion air frominside the room, which can de-plete the room’s oxygen leveland may produce some carbonmonoxide (CO). They also pro-duce water vapor, which cancause problems when they areoperated often or for a longtime, especially in a “tight”home.
Newer models of vent-free ap-pliances come with an oxygen de-pletion sensor that will automati-cally turn off the unit if the oxygendrops below a specified level.
For more information on howto stay warm safely with propanethis winter, visitwww.propane.tx.gov or call theRailroad Commission’s Alterna-tive Fuels Division at (800) 64-CLEAR.
“Have a trained technician install the units and schedule a regular maintenancecheckup at the start of the heating season.”
COMMISSIONER VICTOR G. CARRILLO
Feds offer Brownsville a fence compromiseBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
McALLEN — The Departmentof Homeland Security has offereda compromise to Brownsville thatwould erect a temporary borderfence in its downtown until aplanned riverwalk project movesahead with a permanent com-bined levee-border wall, the citysaid Friday.
If the proposal, the product ofmore than a year of negotiations,is approved, it would be a notablethaw in the government’s dead-lock with a city that has present-ed some of the fiercest oppositionto the border fence.
Brownsville Mayor Pay Ahu-mada once called the govern-ment’s short-lived proposal to of-fer property owners money foraccess to survey their land for thefence “blood money.”
And when U.S. Rep. Tom Tan-credo, a Republican from Colorado,was booed at a border fence dis-cussion in the city, he snapped backthat if people in Brownsville op-pose the fence, they should build itaround the north side of the border
city — in effect, leaving the city onthe Mexican side of the fence.
The city commission is sched-uled to hold a public hearing andvote Thursday on the proposal thathas been months in the making.
Ahumada, who was travelingin Mexico Friday and did not im-mediately return a call to his cellphone, opposed a similar com-promise proposal in July.
The city commission voted totable the offer and it was nevertaken up again. But Ahumadasaid at the time he did not want afence under any circumstances.
Peter Goodman, Brownsville’sHistoric Downtown District di-rector, said the proposal has im-proved for the city since last sum-mer, but he believes the mayor
remains opposed. “It’s my understanding that he
still feels the same way,” Good-man said.
After hours calls to U.S. Cus-toms and Border Protection,which is the part of Homeland Se-curity overseeing the border fenceproject, were not immediately re-turned Friday.
Cameron County Judge CarlosCascos has pushed for months fora compromise similar to one Hi-dalgo County reached with DHSlast year to combine a border bar-rier with needed levee improve-ments. While this proposal onlycovers a couple short stretches ofthe planned fence in the county,he said it would be positive.
“If they can work it out, the com-
mission agrees and DHS followsthrough, it is a good compromise forthe city,” Cascos said. On a recenttrip to Washington, D.C., Cascossaid he asked Customs and BorderProtection officials if the new ad-ministration had signaled any will-ingness to postpone or stop the bor-der fence and the answer was no.
Cascos said two city commis-sioners he spoke with Friday werein support of the proposal.
Rather than build an 18-footfence above the banks of the RioGrande where downtown runsinto the river, the governmentwould install a temporary, butpermanent-looking wrought-ironstyle fence, Goodman said.
That fence would stay in placefor an unlimited period until thecity installed a concrete wall intothe river side of the levee thatwould provide flood protectionand be an imposing obstacle for il-legal immigrants and smugglers.
The proposal, which was justfinalized this week, also includestemporary fencing that wouldsave the city’s Hope Park and al-low for a planned future bypassroad called the East Loop.
“If they can work it out, the commissionagrees and DHS follows through, it is a
good compromise for the city.”CAMERON COUNTY JUDGE CARLOS CASCOS
12A | THE ZAPATA TIMES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009
A GRATEFUL TRIBUTE
Courtesy photo/Villarreal Elementary | Special to the TimesVillarreal Elementary School recently welcomed ZCISD trustee Diego Gonzalez to the campus to celebrate School Board Ap-preciation Month. Gonzalez was given a tour of the campus by Student Council President Andrea Garza and Vice President DelisaRodriguez. Later he was escorted to the library where the staff came during their lunch time to visit with him. Shown knee-ing are Adrian Bugg, Pricilla Elizondo and Daniel Peña; standing are Yheyny Ledezma, Ms. Martinez, Kaitlyn Ramirez, Laura Garza,Principal Gracie Zavala, Delisa Rodriguez, Trustee Gonzalez, Rene Vargas, Andrea Garza, Rebecca Villarreal and Monique Hur-tado. Each grade level presented Gonzalez with a token of appreciation; for example, Student Council officers and fifth-graderepresentives gave him a “survival pack” that he can use to successfully overcome any obstacles.
Local school board gets recognitionBy DORA MARTINEZ
The Zapata County Indepen-dent School District Board ofTrustees is appreciative of theirstudents, employees and theircounty, according to Angel Garza,a retired elected official.
Garza said they have seen alot of progress when it comes tocapital improvement. These peo-ple dedicate themselves withoutany personal gain, he notes. Thetrustees do not get a salary of anytype — no car allowance, nomileage and no credit cards. Theydon’t use school vehicles.
He said this is true love for the
students and for education, and hethanks them for reducing unnec-essary administration and otherpositions that produce a balancedaccountability.
The retired county commis-sioner also says he is happy to seewhat County Judge RosalvaGuerra and the County Commis-sioners have produced and ap-proved for the 2008-2009 fiscalyear.
Garza, who remains active inthe community, said officials fol-lowed the 2006 ZCISD-approvedpolicies to freeze all new positionsand enforce the attrition systemfor all departments. These two
mechanisms are essential to con-troling excessive spending, Garzasaid.
Zapata residents can expectthe county judge and commis-sioners to again approve a bal-anced budget for 2009-2010.
We appreciate the daily dedi-cation of the school trustees andthe county’s elected officials to thepeople of Zapata County in pro-viding the goods and services theyso clearly deserve.
(Dora Martinez is a native ofZapata who was publisher of His-panic News in San Antonio for 21years. She can be reached [email protected])
COLUMN
THE BLOTTERUNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A FELON
A man was charged Jan. 29 with driv-ing while intoxicated, a Class-B misde-meanor, and possession of a firearm by afelony, a third-degree felony, after beingpulled near the corner of 2nd Street andTexas 16.
The man, identified as Kenneth AlanRich, of the 300 block of Riverside Drive,was booked and processed at the ZapataCounty regional jail.
According to the offense report,a deputypulled over Rich at about 1:45 a.m. for driv-ing 53 mph in a 35 mph speed zone on Texas16.The deputy found Rich,a convicted felony,to be intoxicated and in possession of a blackhandgun, the report stated.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATEDA man was charged with DWI at
about 12:45 a.m. Jan. 31 after being pulledover for a traffic violation near the corner ofU.S. 83 and 21st Street.
Juan Carlos Garcia, of the 5300 block ofCarrizo Lane, was booked and processedat the Zapata County regional jail.
A man was charged with DWI atabout 11:45 p.m. Jan. 31 after being pulledover near the corner of Guerrero and 13th.
Roberto Carlos Lopez-Romero wasbooked and processed at the Zapata Coun-ty regional jail.
A man was arrested for DWI (colli-sion) at about 1 a.m. Sunday in the 800block of Carla Street.
Feliciano Angeles-Lobaton, of the 400block of Zapata Street, was booked andprocessed at the Zapata County regionaljail.
Sheriff’s deputies at about 3 a.m.Sunday arrested a woman for DWI and an-other for public intoxication, according tothe offense report.
The two women were arrested after atraffic violation near the corner of DavisLane and U.S. 83.
Belinda Luebano was charged with pub-lic intoxication and Elia Lamar Mercado wascharged with DWI.
A man was arrested for DWI beingpulled over at about 1 a.m. Monday near 3rdand Zapata Street.
Rene Ricardo Solis, of Quadrangle Cir-cle in Laredo, was booked and processed atthe Zapata County regional jail.
ASSAULTA man arrested Jan. 31 for Class-C
misdemeanor assault was later found to bein possession of cocaine while beingprocessed at the Zapata County regionaljail, the offense report stated.
Edgar Alaniz, of the 400 block of Mi-raflores Street, was subsequently chargedwith possession of a controlled substance.
A man who allegedly assaulted hisgirlfriend at about 5:30 a.m. Monday wasarrested shortly thereafter.
Francisco Torres, of the 300 block ofValle Verde, was booked and processed atthe Zapata County regional jail.
PUBLIC INTOXICATIONFive people were arrested for public
intoxication at about 2:10 a.m.Jan. 31 nearthe corner of Jackson Street and 16th Av-enue.
Those charged were Armando Velazco,Osiel Jasso, Robert Carlos Flores, Orlando
Guerra Jr. and Eric Jasson.The offense report stated that the five
were arrested after sheriff’s deputies re-sponded to a loud noise complaint near theintersection.
POSSESSION OF ACONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
A man was charged with possessionof cocaine and marijuana Jan. 30 after be-ing pulled over for a traffic violation near thecorner of the Roma Avenue and 7th Street.
David Alvarez, who resides near the cor-ner of West 17th Avenue and Elm Street,was booked and processed at the ZapataCounty regional jail.
The offense report stated Alvarez had inhis possession about 0.1 grams crams ofcrack cocaine and approximately 1 gram ofmarijuana.
A man was arrested at about 11 p.m.Sunday after being pulled over for alleged-ly running a stop sign near 7th and LaredoStreet.
Upon searching the vehicle and driver,Jesus Guadalupe Navarro, sheriff’s deputiessaid they found about 0.2 grams of mari-juana and approximately 0.1 grams of co-caine.
He was charged with the drug offensesand later booked and processed at the Za-pata County regional jail.
BURGLARY OF A HABITATIONA residence in the 1700 block of Roma
Avenue was reported burglarized Jan. 29.The male complainant told the Sheriff’s
Office at about 10 a.m. that unknown sub-jects broke into the home and stole severalitems.
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By CLARA SANDOVALSPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Every high school coachknows the success of hisor her program starts
with a strong junior high pro-gram.
When coach Clyde GuerraJr. took over the girls basketballprogram seven years ago hecomprehended the importanceof his junior high program tohis overall success at the highschool level and quickly movedto involved the junior highschool.
“At the junior high level iswhere they develop the skillsneeded to be successful at thehigh school level and learn tocompete under pressure situa-tions,” Guerra said.
He credits the recent successthey are experiencing at thehigh school in recent years to asuccessful junior high programand its coaching staff.
“Our junior high basketballprogram has made great stridesin recent years, and the girls de-velop the fundamentals of bas-ketball in a very competitive set-ting. Our junior high coaches doa great job of keeping our girlsfocused and competitive,” Guer-ra said.
Guerra also noted the rolethe Boys and Girls Club of Zap-ata summer league plays.
“Every summer, our Boysand Girls Club has a very suc-
cessful basketball league whereour youth are developing cru-cial skills needed to be success-ful basketball players,” he said.
The seventh and eight gradeteams coached by AdreanaValadez and Gaby Montes fin-ished successful seasons.
The seventh grade team fin-ished the season with a 4-3 indistrict record (7-8 overall)while the eighth grade team fin-ished in second place in districtwith a 5-2 district record (11-4overall record).
The Zapata Junior High
teams have to hit the road for themajority of the games, and usu-ally involve much travel for out-of-town district games.
Guerra also notes the impor-tance parents play in theirdaughter’s success.
“I want to give special thanksto all junior high and highschool parents for supportingtheir daughters through thislong season, Guerra said. “Indistrict, every out-of-town tripis between 2-and-one-half to 3-and-one-half hours long. Andour athletes are expected to at-
tend school and be effective thefollowing day.”
Another part of Zapata’s suc-cess is the number of athletesthat are part of the junior highprogram. Thirty-six athletes areinvolved.
Guerra sees a bright Zapatafuture as a strong crop of eighthgraders are set to join the highschool program next year.
“They have only lost fourgames all season long. Theeighth-grade girls are a greatgroup of athletes and are in-volved in many other sports be-sides basketball. They are sim-ply very good athletes. I’mexcited about the future of ourLady Hawk Basketball Pro-gram,” Guerra said.
“I’m very proud of all ourLady Hawk and Lady Merlinathletes for their commitmentto our program. It takes avery special person to be andstudent athlete. They demon-strate ‘Hawk Pride’ on a dailybasis.”
Sports&OutdoorsThe Zapata Times
ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COMSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009
Hawks focus on playoffsBy NINO CARDENAS
THE ZAPATA TIMES
Crunch time in District 32-3Ais nearing, and the Zapata Hawksaren’t planning to throw awayeverything they have worked for.
The basketball revival hasplaced the Hawks at 8-2 in dis-trict play, and a postseason berthis a viable possibility.
A district title, although toughto get, is not out of the question,either.
Today will tell if the Hawkswere caught looking ahead to-ward their playoff-deciding week.
They playedProgreso onthe road andhost the dis-trict’s top twoopponents intheir next two games at home.
“Some are kinda looking pastthis game (Progreso),” Zapatacoach Juan Villarreal said. “Ioverheard some talking about it,but I let them know that we can’tdo that. We have to take care ofbusiness and take it one game ata time.”
Hidalgo comes calling onTuesday, and was heading into
last night’s game against La Feria(7-3) with a 10-0 record.
On Friday they welcome RioGrande (7-3) in another toughmatchup.
The top three teams in the dis-trict advance to the playoffs.
“It’s going to be a big week;hopefully, we can end up on topon both days and be playoff hope-fuls,” Villarreal said.
If La Feria beat Hidalgothen the district title is up forgrabs — setting up a key con-test on Tuesday.
The Hawks are hoping tomake the home court advan-
tage count.“My mom, wife and sisters are
trying to get the drill teams to goto the game in order to have abigger crowd,” Villarreal said.
The Hawks were coming off a66-40 victory over Port Isabelheading into last night’s game.
The win featured a healthierAndrew Magee, who is nearing100 percent just in time for thenext two contests.
“Magee is back to being him-self, not 100 percent, but he’s do-ing well,” Villarreal said.
Photo by Theresa Najera/The Brownsville Herald | APDomingo Santoyo has learned to swim without the use of his arms. He is now part ofthe Rivera High School swimming team in Brownsville.
Armless swimmer faces challenges
By ROY HESSTHE MONITOR
BROWNSVILLE — DomingoSantoyo doesn’t shy away fromchallenges.
The determined junior atBrownsville’s Rivera High Schooldidn’t let the fact that he has noarms keep him from joining theswim team.
“I don’t think of myself as lim-ited,” Santoyo, 16, said. “I wasborn like this, and sometimes, Ithink it was better this way be-cause there are some people wholose their arms in accidents and Ithink that makes it harder.”
Already a national-level com-petitor in chess as a middle-schoolstudent, Santoyo decided it wastime to learn to swim last sum-mer. It was a short trip from learn-ing to swim to joining the highschool swim team.
“Domingo always wants to dothe most he can,” said Astrid San-toyo, Domingo’s mother. “He want-ed to get into sports because heneeded credits for (physical edu-cation) at school, and he didn’twant to take adaptive P.E. He wasthinking about trying out as a kick-er for the football team, but he hadknee surgery and a dislocated hipwhen he was younger and I wasn’tconvinced about that idea.
“He tried swimming and foundout that he really liked it,” sheadded. “Since the first day, he’sbeen all excited about being inthe pool. I’m happy because hedoesn’t give up. He doesn’t mind ifhe’s the last one, although he’svery competitive. I think thecoaches would say that he’s im-proved a lot.”
Santoyo’s event is the 50-meterfreestyle — the stroke most peoplelearn when they swim. For the re-turn trip, he does a flip turn andpushes off the wall with his feet,then finishes the race by touchinga pad at the opposite wall withhis head.
He competed in his first meetfor the Raiders a couple of monthsago at Brownsville’s Margaret M.Clark Aquatic Center. He swam ata meet in McAllen last month andwill compete in the District 32-5Ameet on Saturday in Brownsville.
“I thought it was a good idea,and I wanted to help him out asmuch as I could,” Rivera swimcoach Ryan Shea said. “He startedfrom scratch a little bit because hejust began to swim in the summer.It’s been sort of an adventure.
“At both meets he’s swam in,he’s received about a three- to five-minute ovation after he’s done,”
Middle school court stars
Courtesy photosZapata Junior High eighth-grade team
Zapata JH: Part of the
Lady Hawk’s success
Zapata Junior High seventh-grade team
“At the junior high level is where they develop the skills needed to be
successful at the high school level and learnto compete under pressure situations.”
COACH CLYDE GUERRA JR.
TE Gonzalez wants to play for contender
By JAYMES SONGASSOCIATED PRESS
KAPOLEI, Hawaii — All-Protight end Tony Gonzalez is feelinguncertain about his future withthe Kansas City Chiefs.
“Do I want to be there? Ofcourse I do. I started my careerthere and I’m going on year 13there,” he said after Pro Bowlpractice Thursday. “The only rea-son I would want to leave is be-cause I only have a couple yearsleft (in the league).”
He said the Chiefs are a youngteam but headed in the right di-rection. However, he wondershow soon the team can, “turn thecorner and get to the Super Bowl.”
The Chiefs, who recently firedcoach Herm Edwards after threeseasons, are coming off the worsttwo-year span in team historywith a record of 6-26.
“I have to be realistic about it,”he said. “If it doesn’t make sensefor me to be there, maybe it wouldbe best for both sides where theycan trade me, get something forme, and I can go somewhere andtry and get a championship.”
Gonzalez isn’t the only Chiefsplayer that has indicated a desireto leave.
Running back Larry Johnsontold 610 Sports Radio on Wednes-day he thinks it’s time for himand the Chiefs to “break ties.”
“They can go on and find whatthey want. And I can try to go onand rebuild my career and findwhat I want,” said Johnson, com-ing off a problem-filled season.
Johnson expressed concernabout his role as the Chiefs areoverhauled.
For Gonzalez, selected to his10 Pro Bowl, he’s bothered by thefact he’s never won a playoff gamein his illustrious career.
“I want to make sure before thisthing is all said and done, I want tobe a part of a team that can make itall the way to the Super Bowl andwin,” he said. “I don’t want to justget to the playoffs.”
Lucky No. 92When Pittsburgh Stealers
James Harrison joined Pro Bowlpractice for the first time Thurs-day, he joined two other playerswearing No. 92, creating confu-sion among some of the photog-raphers.
The other 92 are Tennessee Ti-tans’ Albert Haynesworth andCleveland Browns’ Shaun Rogers.
Photo by Ronen Zilberman | APKansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gon-zalez runs with the ball during AFC prac-tice for the Pro Bowl, in Kapolei, Hawaii,on Tuesday.
See GONZALEZ | PAGE 2B
See SWIMMER | PAGE 2B
See PLAYOFFS | PAGE 2B
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Tulsa 12 25 6 30 112 185NNoorrtthhwweesstt DDiivviissiioonn
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Atlanta 28 20 .583 9
Miami 26 22 .542 11
Charlotte 19 29 .396 18
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New York at Portland, 6 p.m.
Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Utah at Golden State, 9 p.m.
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Toronto 19 24 9 47 152 191
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Dallas 24 19 7 55 148 161
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Boston U. at New Hampshire, 1 p.m.
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Siena at Rider, 1 p.m.
N. Illinois at Buffalo, 2 p.m.
Army at Colgate, 2 p.m.
Marist at Iona, 2 p.m.
Bryant at Quinnipiac, 2 p.m.
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Long Island U. at Sacred Heart, 4 p.m.
Binghamton at Stony Brook, 4 p.m.
St. Francis, Pa. at Wagner, 4 p.m.
Providence at West Virginia, 4 p.m.
Michigan at Connecticut, 6 p.m.
Columbia at Princeton, 6 p.m.
Vermont at Albany, N.Y., 7 p.m.
Navy at Bucknell, 7 p.m.
Yale at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
Old Dominion at Drexel, 7 p.m.
Xavier at Duquesne, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s, Md. at Fairleigh Dick-
inson, 7 p.m.
Brown at Harvard, 7 p.m.
American U. at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
Manhattan at Loyola, Md., 7 p.m.
UMBC at Maine, 7 p.m.
St. Francis, NY at Monmouth, N.J., 7
p.m.
Cornell at Penn, 7 p.m.
La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m.SSOOUUTTHH
Coppin St. at S. Carolina St., Noon
Tennessee at Auburn, 1 p.m.
Stetson at S.C.-Upstate, 1 p.m.
Longwood at Savannah St., 1 p.m.
Gardner-Webb at VMI, 1 p.m.
Mississippi at Vanderbilt, 1 p.m.
Miami at Duke, 1:30 p.m.
George Mason at James Madison, 2 p.m.
South Alabama at W. Kentucky, 2 p.m.
Arkansas at Mississippi St., 3 p.m.
Texas-Arlington at Northwestern St., 3
p.m.
Texas-San Antonio at SE Louisiana, 3
p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at ETSU, 4 p.m.
Chattanooga at Furman, 4 p.m.
Delaware at Georgia St., 4 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Howard, 4 p.m.
Jacksonville at Mercer, 4 p.m.
Florida A&M at N. Carolina A&T, 4 p.m.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Nicholls
St., 4 p.m.
Virginia at North Carolina, 4 p.m.
Appalachian St. at Elon, 4:30 p.m.
Charleston Southern at UNC Asheville,
4:30 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Jacksonville St., 5 p.m.
Tulane at Marshall, 5 p.m.
Georgia at South Carolina, 5 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama St., 6 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Davidson, 6 p.m.
Delaware St. at Hampton, 6 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk St., 6 p.m.
UAB at Southern Miss., 6 p.m.
Morgan St. at Winston-Salem, 6 p.m.
MVSU at Alabama A&M, 7 p.m.
Florida St. at Clemson, 7 p.m.
UCF at East Carolina, 7 p.m.
Troy at Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m.
Coastal Carolina at High Point, 7 p.m.
Presbyterian at Radford, 7 p.m.
The Citadel at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
Samford at Wofford, 7 p.m.
Arkansas St. at Fla. International, 7:30
p.m.
UNC Greensboro at Georgia Southern,
7:30 p.m.
North Florida at Kennesaw St., 7:30 p.m.
William & Mary at Va. Commonwealth,
7:30 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Jackson St. at Alcorn St., 8:30 p.m.
Murray St. at Austin Peay, 8:30 p.m.
Grambling St. at Southern U., 8:30 p.m.
Tenn.-Martin at Tennessee St., 8:30 p.m.
Morehead St. at Tennessee Tech, 8:30
p.m.
Winthrop at Liberty, 9 p.m.MMIIDDWWEESSTT
Kent St. at Ball St., 2 p.m.
Pittsburgh at DePaul, 2 p.m.
Texas at Nebraska, 2 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Toledo, 2:30 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at Kansas, 3:30 p.m.
Oral Roberts at IPFW, 4 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Loyola of Chicago, 4
p.m.
Indiana at Michigan St., 4 p.m.
S. Illinois at Missouri St., 4 p.m.
Valparaiso at Detroit, 4:05 p.m.
E. Michigan at Ohio, 5 p.m.
Missouri at Iowa St., 6 p.m.
Centenary at Oakland, Mich., 6 p.m.
Northwestern at Iowa, 6:05 p.m.
Bowling Green at Cent. Michigan, 7 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at IUPUI, 7 p.m.
Butler at Wright St., 7 p.m.
SE Missouri at E. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Ohio St., 8 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at W. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Wis.-Milwaukee at Wis.-Green Bay, 8
p.m.
Bradley at Drake, 8:05 p.m.
Wichita St. at Evansville, 8:05 p.m.SSOOUUTTHHWWEESSTT
Colorado at Oklahoma, 1:30 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at SMU, 3 p.m.
Kansas St. at Texas A&M, 4 p.m.
Sam Houston St. at Cent. Arkansas, 5
p.m.
Lamar at Stephen F.Austin, 7 p.m.
Denver at Ark.-Little Rock, 8 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at North Texas, 8
p.m.
Prairie View at Texas Southern, 8 p.m.
Baylor at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.
Chicago St. at Texas-Pan American, 8
p.m.
Middle Tennessee at Houston Baptist,
8:05 p.m.
UTEP at Tulsa, 8:05 p.m.
Rice at Houston, 9 p.m.FFAARR WWEESSTT
Notre Dame at UCLA, 1 p.m.
Arizona at Oregon, 3:30 p.m.
Utah at Wyoming, 4 p.m.
UNLV at New Mexico, 8 p.m.
UC Davis at UC Riverside, 8 p.m.
Arizona St. at Oregon St., 8:30 p.m.
TCU at Colorado St., 9 p.m.
Memphis at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.
UMKC at S. Utah, 9 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego, 9 p.m.
Cal Poly at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9:05 p.m.
Montana at Montana St., 9:05 p.m.
Idaho St. at N. Colorado, 9:05 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at Utah St., 9:05 p.m.
Air Force at San Diego St., 10 p.m.
Boise St. at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
N. Arizona at E. Washington, 10:05 p.m.
Pacific at Long Beach St., 10:05 p.m.
Pepperdine at Loyola Marymount, 10:05
p.m.
New Mexico St. at Nevada, 10:05 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at UC Irvine, 10:05
p.m.
Washington St. at California, 10:30 p.m.
Saint Mary’s, Calif. at Santa Clara, 11
p.m.
Idaho at Hawaii, 11:05 p.m.SSuunnddaayy,, FFeebb.. 88
EEAASSTT
St. Peter’s at Canisius, 11:30 a.m.
Seton Hall at Rutgers, Noon
Louisville vs. St. John’s at Madison
Square Garden, 1:30 p.m.
Fairfield at Niagara, 2 p.m.
Rhode Island at Temple, 2 p.m.
Saint Joseph’s at Massachusetts, 3 p.m.
Wisconsin at Penn St., 3 p.m.SSOOUUTTHH
Dayton at Charlotte, 1 p.m.
Alabama at LSU, 1 p.m.
N.C. State at Virginia Tech, 1:30 p.m.
Saint Louis at Richmond, 2 p.m.
Boston College at Wake Forest, 4 p.m.
Maryland at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m.
Texas St. vs. McNeese St. at the Lake
Charles (La.) Civic Center, 8 p.m.MMIIDDWWEESSTT
Purdue at Illinois, 1 p.m.
W. Michigan at Akron, 2 p.m.
Creighton at N. Iowa, 2:05 p.m.
Indiana St. at Illinois St., 7:05 p.m.FFAARR WWEESSTT
Sacramento St. at Portland St., 4:05 p.m.
Washington at Stanford, 5:30 p.m.
NNCCAAAA WWoommeenn’’ss BBaasskkeettbbaallll SScchheedduullee
AAllll TTiimmeess EESSTT
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EEAASSTT
Dartmouth at Brown, 7 p.m.
Penn at Columbia, 7 p.m.
Princeton at Cornell, 7 p.m.
Niagara at Manhattan, 7 p.m.
Fairfield at Rider, 7 p.m.
Loyola, Md. at Siena, 7 p.m.
Iona at St. Peter’s, 7 p.m.
Harvard at Yale, 7 p.m.
Canisius at Marist, 7:30 p.m.SSOOUUTTHH
Idaho at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.MMIIDDWWEESSTT
Detroit at Valparaiso, 8:05 p.m.
Drake at Wichita St., 8:05 p.m.
Creighton at Missouri St., 8:35 p.m.
Wright St. at Butler, 9 p.m.FFAARR WWEESSTT
Boise St. at New Mexico St., 9:05 p.m.
Fresno St. at Nevada, 10 p.m.
California at Washington, 10 p.m.
Stanford at Washington St., 10 p.m.
San Jose St. at Hawaii, MidSSaattuurrddaayy,, FFeebb.. 77
EEAASSTT
Bryant at Quinnipiac, Noon
Colgate at Army, 1 p.m.
Robert Morris at Cent. Connecticut St., 1
p.m.
Lafayette at Holy Cross, 1 p.m.
Fordham at La Salle, 1 p.m.
Boston U. at Vermont, 1 p.m.
Georgetown at Rutgers, 2 p.m.
Maine at Hartford, 2 p.m.
Long Island U. at Sacred Heart, 2 p.m.
Villanova at Seton Hall, 2 p.m.
St. Francis, N.Y. at Monmouth, N.J., 3
p.m.
Lehigh at American U., 4 p.m.
Chicago St. at N.J. Tech, 4 p.m.
Binghamton at Albany, N.Y., 4:30 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s, Md. at Fairleigh Dick-
inson, 4:30 p.m.
Dartmouth at Yale, 6 p.m.
Harvard at Brown, 7 p.m.
Princeton at Columbia, 7 p.m.
Penn at Cornell, 7 p.m.
Bucknell at Navy, 7 p.m.
St. Francis, Pa. at Wagner, 7 p.m.SSOOUUTTHH
Xavier at Richmond, Noon
Belmont at Campbell, 1 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at ETSU, 1:30 p.m.
Duquesne at Charlotte, 2 p.m.
Davidson at Elon, 2 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Howard, 2 p.m.
West Virginia at Louisville, 2 p.m.
Florida A&M at N. Carolina A&T, 2 p.m.
Coppin St. at S. Carolina St., 2 p.m.
Charleston Southern at UNC Asheville, 2
p.m.
Georgia S. at Chattanooga, 3 p.m.
Radford at Gardner-Webb, 3 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Jacksonville St., 3 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Samford, 3 p.m.
Longwood at Savannah St., 3 p.m.
Furman at Wofford, 3 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama St., 4 p.m.
Delaware St. at Hampton, 4 p.m.
Coastal Carolina at High Point, 4 p.m.
Jacksonville at Mercer, 4 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk St., 4 p.m.
Stetson at S.C.-Upstate, 4 p.m.
Appalachian St. at W. Carolina, 4 p.m.
Morgan St. at Winston-Salem, 4 p.m.
North Florida at Kennesaw St., 4:30 p.m.
MVSU at Alabama A&M, 5 p.m.
Arkansas St. at Fla. International, 5 p.m.
Troy at Florida Atlantic, 5 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at New Orleans, 5:30
p.m.
SMU at UCF, 6 p.m.
Murray St. at Austin Peay, 6:15 p.m.
Jackson St. at Alcorn St., 6:30 p.m.
Grambling St. at Southern U., 6:30 p.m.
Tenn.-Martin at Tennessee St., 6:30 p.m.
Morehead St. at Tennessee Tech, 6:30
p.m.
Memphis at UAB, 7 p.m.
Presbyterian at Winthrop, 7 p.m.MMIIDDWWEESSTT
N. Illinois at Kent St., Noon
Oral Roberts at IPFW, 1:30 p.m.
E. Michigan at Akron, 2 p.m.
Massachusetts at Dayton, 2 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Miami (Ohio), 2 p.m.
Kansas at Missouri, 2 p.m.
Bowling Green at W. Michigan, 2 p.m.
Indiana St. at Illinois St., 2:05 p.m.
S. Utah at UMKC, 3 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Wis.-Green Bay, 3 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Wis.-Milwaukee, 3
p.m.
N. Iowa at S. Illinois, 3:05 p.m.
Centenary at Oakland, 3:30 p.m.
SE Missouri at E. Illinois, 4 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at IUPUI, 4:30 p.m.
Bradley at Evansville, 5 p.m.
Loyola of Chicago at Ill.-Chicago, 5:30
p.m.
S. Dakota St. at W. Illinois, 5:30 p.m.
Connecticut at Marquette, 8 p.m.SSOOUUTTHHWWEESSTT
Kansas St. at Baylor, Noon
Stephen F. Austin at Lamar, 3 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at Sam Houston St., 3
p.m.
SE Louisiana at Texas-San Antonio, 3
p.m.
McNeese St. at Texas St., 3 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Texas-Arlington, 5
p.m.
Rice at Houston, 6 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at North Texas, 6
p.m.
Colorado St. at TCU, 6 p.m.
Prairie View at Texas Southern, 6:30 p.m.
Nicholls St. at Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi, 8 p.m.FFAARR WWEESSTT
Oregon at Arizona, 2 p.m.
San Diego St. at Air Force, 4 p.m.
Iowa St. at Colorado, 4 p.m.
Montana at Montana St., 4 p.m.
N. Colorado at Idaho St., 4:05 p.m.
Santa Clara at Saint Mary’s, Calif., 5 p.m.
San Diego at San Francisco, 5 p.m.
UC Irvine at UC Santa Barbara, 5 p.m.
Portland St. at Sacramento St., 5:05 p.m.
Oregon St. at Arizona St., 6 p.m.
New Mexico at UNLV, 6 p.m.
Cal St. Fullerton at Cal Poly, 7 p.m.
Long Beach St. at Pacific, 7 p.m.
Pepperdine at Loyola Marymount, 7:30
p.m.
E. Washington at N. Arizona, 8:35 p.m.
Houston Baptist at CS Bakersfield, 10
p.m.
UC Riverside at UC Davis, 10 p.m.SSuunnddaayy,, FFeebb.. 88
EEAASSTT
Saint Louis at Temple, Noon
William & Mary at Drexel, 1 p.m.
Niagara at Fairfield, 1 p.m.
Md.-Baltimore County at New Hamp-
shire, 1 p.m.
St. Bonaventure at Saint Joseph’s, 1 p.m.
Ball St. at Buffalo, 2 p.m.
Va. Commonwealth at Delaware, 2 p.m.
Rhode Island at George Washington, 2
p.m.
Loyola, Md. at Marist, 2 p.m.
Canisius at Siena, 2 p.m.
Rider at St. Peter’s, 2 p.m.
Hofstra at Towson, 2 p.m.
Cincinnati at St. John’s, 4 p.m.
South Florida at Syracuse, 4 p.m.SSOOUUTTHH
Wake Forest at Clemson, 1 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 1 p.m.
Tulsa at Southern Miss., 1 p.m.
Georgia St. at George Mason, 2 p.m.
N.C. State at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.
UNC Wilmington at Old Dominion, 2 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Virginia, 2 p.m.
Arkansas at Georgia, 2:30 p.m.
Auburn at Alabama, 3 p.m.
Boise St. at Louisiana Tech, 3 p.m.
Florida St. at Miami, 3 p.m.
LSU at Mississippi St., 3 p.m.
Mississippi at South Carolina, 3 p.m.
East Carolina at Tulane, 3 p.m.
South Alabama at W. Kentucky, 3 p.m.
Northeastern at James Madison, 3:30
p.m.
Tennessee at Florida, 5 p.m.MMIIDDWWEESSTT
Illinois at Indiana, 12:30 p.m.
Detroit at Butler, 2 p.m.
Ohio St. at Michigan St., 2 p.m.
DePaul at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.
Ohio at Toledo, 2 p.m.
Wright St. at Valparaiso, 2:35 p.m.
Iowa at Minnesota, 3 p.m.
Drake at Missouri St., 3:05 p.m.
Creighton at Wichita St., 3:05 p.m.
Wisconsin at Purdue, 5 p.m.SSOOUUTTHHWWEESSTT
Oklahoma at Oklahoma St., 1:30 p.m.
Texas Tech at Texas, 3 p.m.
Nebraska at Texas A&M, 3 p.m.
Marshall at UTEP, 3 p.m.
Denver at Ark.-Little Rock, 5 p.m.FFAARR WWEESSTT
Stanford at Washington, 3:30 p.m.
Portland at Gonzaga, 4 p.m.
Utah St. at Nevada, 5 p.m.
UCLA at Southern Cal, 5 p.m.
Wyoming at Utah, 5 p.m.
California at Washington St., 5 p.m.
Idaho at New Mexico St., 7:05 p.m.
Fresno St. at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
FFiigghhtt SScchheedduulleeNNaattiioonnaall TTVV iinn ppaarreenntthheesseess
FFeebb.. 66
At Wicomico Civic Center, Salisbury, Md.
(ESPN2), Yusaf Mack, New York, vs. Chris
Henry, Houston, 10, for Macks’ NABA light
heavyweight title and Henry’s NABF light
heavyweight title.
At The Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino,
Lemoore, Calif. (SHO), Andre Ward, Oakland,
Calif., vs. Henry Buchanan, Chesterfield, S.C.,
12, for Ward’s NABO super middleweight title.FFeebb.. 77
At Rostock, Germany, Andriy Kotelnik, Ger-
many, vs. Marcos Rene Maidana, Argentina, 12,
for Kotelnik’s WBA light welterweight title; Rus-
lan Chagaev, Germany, vs. Carl Davis Dru-
mond, Costa Rica, 12, for Chagaev’s WBA
heavyweight title.
At Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif. (SHO), Vic
Darchinyan, Australia, vs. Jorge Arce, Mexico,
12, for Darchinyan’s IBF-WBC-WBA junior ban-
tamweight title; Antonio DeMarco, Mexico, Al-
mazbek Raiymkulov, Las Vegas, 12, for the va-
cant NABO lightweight title; Vanes
Martirosyan, Glendale, Calif. vs. Billy Lyell,
Youngstown, Ohio, 10, light middleweights.FFeebb.. 1133
At the Roseland Ballroom, New York
(ESPN2), Alexis Camacho, Austin, Texas, vs.
Carlos Molina, Chicago, 10, welterweights.FFeebb.. 1144
At St. Quentin, France, Cristobal Cruz, Mex-
ico, vs. Cyril Thomas, France, 12, for Cruz’s IBF
featherweight title; Osman Aktas, France, vs.
Guillaume Frenois, France, 10, for Aktas’
French featherweight title.
At BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Fla. (HBO),
Nate Campbell, Tampa, Fla., vs. Ali Fuenka,
South Africa, 12, for Campbell’s IBF-WBO light-
weight titles; Sergio Martinez, Spain, vs. Kermit
Cintron, Redding, Pa., 12, for the interim WBC
light middleweight title; Francisco Palacios,
Puerto Rico, vs. Lawrence Chapman, Atlanta,
12, for Palacios’ WBA Fedlatin cruiserweight ti-
tle; Alfredo Angulo, Coachella, Calif., vs. Dan-
ny Perez, San Diego, 10, middleweights; Ray
Austin, Cleveland, vs. Alex Gonzales, Puerto
Rico, 10, heavyweights.FFeebb.. 2200
At Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (ESPN2), Jesus
Gonzales, Phoenix, vs. Richard Gutierrez, Mia-
mi, 10, light middleweights.FFeebb.. 2211
At Madison Square Garden, New York
(PPV), Miguel Cotto, Puerto Rico, vs. Michael
Jennings, England, 12, for the vacant WBO wel-
terweight title.
At Youngstown, Ohio (PPV), Kelly Pavlik,
Youngstown, Ohio, vs. Marco Antonio Rubio,
Mexico, 12, for Pavlik’s WBC-WBO mid-
dleweight titles.FFeebb.. 2277
At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino,
Hollywood, Fla. (ESPN2), Glen Johnson, Miami,
vs. Daniel Judah, Brooklyn, N.Y., 10, light
heavyweights.
At the Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.
(SHO), Tomasz Adamek, Jersey City, N.J.,
Johnathon Banks, Detroit, 12, for Adamek’s IBF
cruiserweight title; Dionisio Miranda, Miami,
vs. Giovanni Lorenzo, New York, 12, IBF mid-
dleweight eliminator.FFeebb.. 2288
At the Toyota Center, Houston (HBO), Juan
Manuel Marquez, Anaheim, Calif., vs. Juan
Diaz, Houston, 12, for Diaz’s IBO lightweight ti-
tle; Chris John, Indonesia, vs. Rocky Juarez,
Houston, 12, for John’s WBA featherweight title.
At Oaxaca, Mexico, Roman Gonzalez,
Nicaragua, vs. Francisco Rosas, Mexico, 12,
for Gonzalez’s WBA minimumweight title.
At Toluca, Mexico, Cesar Canchilla, Colom-
bia, vs. Giovanni Segura, Bell Gardens, Calif.,
12, for the interim WBA light flyweight title.MMaarrcchh 66
At Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Conn.
(ESPN2), Delvin Rodriguez, Danbury, Conn.,
vs. Shamone Alvarez, Atlantic City, N.J., IBF
welterweight title eliminator.MMaarrcchh 77
At HP Pavilion, San Jose, calif. (HBO), Vic-
tor Ortiz, Oxnard, Calif., vs. Mike Arnaoutis, At-
lantic City, N.J., 12, for Ortiz’s WBO-NABO-
USBA light welterweight titles; James Kirkland,
Austin, Texas, vs. Joel Julio, Miami, 10, light
middleweights; Robert Guerrero, Gilroy, Calif.,
vs. Daud Cino Yordan, Indonesia, 10, super
featherweights.MMaarrcchh 1122
At Tokyo, Oscar Larios, Mexico, vs. Takahi-
ro Aoh, Japan, 12, for Larios’ WBC featherweight
title.
At Hyogo, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa, Japan,
vs. Vusi Malinga, South Africa, 12, for
Hasegawa’s WBC bantamweight title.MMaarrcchh 1133
At Bell Centre, Montreal (SHO), Lucian Bute,
Canada, vs. Fulgencio Zuniga, Colombia, 12,
for Bute’s IBF super middleweight title.MMaarrcchh 1144
At Kiel, Germany, Arthur Abraham, Ger-
many, vs. Lajuan Simon, Philadelphia, 12, for
Abraham’s IBF middleweight title.
At Palms Casino, Las Vegas (HBO), Chad
Dawson, New Haven, Conn., vs. Antonio Tarv-
er, Tampa, Fla., 12, for Dawson’s IBF-IBO light
heavyweight title.
At Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, Cristian
Mijares, Mexico, vs. Nehomar Cermeno, Pana-
ma, 12, for the interim WBA bantamweight title;
Jorge Linares, Japan, vs. Josafet Perez, Mexico,
12, for Linares’ WBA super featherweight title.MMaarrcchh 2200
At TBA, Panama, Celestino Caballero, Pana-
ma, vs. Jeffrey Mathebula, South Africa, 12, for
Caballero’s WBA-IBF super bantamweight ti-
tles.MMaarrcchh 2211
Kempton Park, South Africa, Zolani Marali,
South Africa, vs. Fahsai Sakkreenin, Thailand,
12, for the vacant IBO super featherweight title;
Jake Els, South Africa, vs. Thamsanqa, Zim-
babwe, 12, for the vacant WBA Pan African
heavyweight title; Hekkie Budier, South Africa,
vs. Charitt Mukondeleli, South Africa, 12, for the
vacant African Boxing Union light flyweight ti-
tle.
At Stuttgart, Germany (ESPN), Vitali Kl-
itschko, Los Angeles, vs. Juan Carlos Gomez,
Germany, 12, for Klitschko’s WBC heavyweight
title.
At Dublin, Ireland, Ricardo Cordoba, Pana-
ma, vs. Bernard Dunne, Ireland, 12, for Cordo-
ba’s WBA super bantamweight title.MMaarrcchh 2222
At Manila, Philippines, Nonito Donaire, San
Leandro, Calif., vs. Raul Martinez, San Antonio,
12, for Donaire’s IBF-IBO flyweight titles; Ulis-
es Solis, Mexico, vs. Brian Viloria, Waipau,
Hawaii, 12, for Solis’ IBF light flyweight title.MMaarrcchh 2277
At Milan, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Poland, vs.
Giacobbe Fragomeni, Italy, 12, for Wlodarczyk’s
WBC cruiserweight title.MMaarrcchh 2288
At Tamaulipas, Mexico, Edgar Sosa, Mexico,
vs. Kompayak Porpramook, Thailand, 12, for
Sosa’s WBC light flyweight title.AApprriill 44
At Bell Centre, Montreal (SHO), Timothy
Bradley, Palm Springs, Calif., vs. Kendall Holt,
Paterson, N.J., 12, for Bradley’s WBC light wel-
terweight title and Holt’s WBO light welter-
weight title; Librado Andrade, La Habra, Calif.,
vs. Vitali Tsypko, Ukraine, 12, super mid-
dleweights.AApprriill 1100
At Morongo Casino Rresort & Spa, Cabazon,
Calif. (ESPN2), Julio Diaz, Coachella, Calif., vs.
Michael Katsidis, Australia, 10, cruiserweights.AApprriill 1111
At Osaka, Japan, Nobuo Nashiro, Japan, vs.
Konosuke Tomiyama, Japan, 12, for Nashiro’s
WBA super flyweight title.
At Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Ve-
gas (HBO), Paul Williams, Augusta, Ga., vs.
Ronald Wright, St. Petersburg, Fla., 12, for the
interim WBO light middleweight title.AApprriill 1188
At Johannesburg, South Africa, Yonnhy
Perez, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., vs. Silence
Mabuza, South Africa, 10, IBF bantamweight
eliminator.AApprriill 2255
At TBA, Puerto Rico (HBO), Juan Manuel
Lopez, Puerto Rico, vs. Gerry Penalosa, Philip-
pines, 12, for Lopez’s WBO super Bantamweight
title.MMaayy 22
At the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Ricky Hat-
ton, Britain, vs. Manny Pacquiao, Philippines,
12, for Hatton’s IBO junior welterweight title.JJuunnee 2200
At London, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukraine, vs.
David Haya, Britain, 12, for Klitschko’s IBF-
WBO-IBO heavyweight titles.
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AAmmeerriiccaann LLeeaagguuee
BOSTON RED SOX—Signed C Jason Varitek
to a one-year contract.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Signed LHP Ken
Takahashi to a minor league contract.AAmmeerriiccaann AAssssoocciiaattiioonn
EL PASO DIABLOS—Released RHP-OF
Brandon Hudson. Signed RHP David Whigham.
FORT WORTH CATS—Signed C Kelley
Gulledge.
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—
Named Vince Moore bench coach.CCaann--AAmm LLeeaagguuee
BROCKTON ROX—Released C Josh Vander-
Hey, C Joe McGhee and OF Josh Womack.
Signed RHP Jeff Long.FFOOOOTTBBAALLLL
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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Named Larry Coy-
er defensive coordinator and Ray Rychleski
special teams coordinator. Promoted wide re-
ceivers coach Clyde Christensen to assistant
head coach.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Named Todd Haley
coach.
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COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Recalled G
Dan LaCosta from Syracuse (AHL).
DALLAS STARS—Reassigned F Tyler She-
last to Hamilton (AHL) from Idaho (ECHL). As-
signed G Tobias Stephan to Bridgeport (AHL).
Recalled G Brent Krahn from Chicago (AHL).
EDMONTON OILERS—Recalled D Theo
Peckham from Springfield (AHL). Assigned C
Ryan Potulny to Springfield.
PHOENIX COYOTES—Recalled RW Steven
Goertzen from San Antonio (AHL). Reassigned
RW Kevin Porter to San Antonio.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled D Karl
Alzner from Hershey (AHL). Claimed D Staffan
Kronwall off waivers from Toronto.
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ALBANY RIVER RATS—Announced C Bob-
by Hughes has been reassigned to Florida
(ECHL) by Carolina (NHL).
SYRACUSE CRUNCH—Signed G John Mur-
ray.
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vide Somma.
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VIRGINIA—Named Chad Wilt defensive line
coach.
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The key to Hawks success has been theplayers are managing to have fun on thecourt. Despite being disciplined they getto feel at ease.
“We are gelling right now, and every-body is enjoying the ride we are on,” Vil-
larreal said. “Most are enjoying playingbasketball, so they are more relaxed andfluid on the court.”
That wasn’t always the case for thefirst-year coach, who came in having tolearn about each of his payers and his
players having to adjust to their newcoach.
“When we started it was a struggle,”Villarreal said. “I was trying to find theidentity of every player. Some I knew asfootball players or students, but not as
basketball players. I though I would’vegrown grey hairs by now.”
Luckily for the coach the “Just forMen” product hasn’t come into the pic-ture, just yet.
“Next week we’ll see if we end up in the
playoffs and start making plans,” Villarrealsaid. “But we are not looking into that yet,as I’ve said before its one game at a time.”
The Hawks finish the regular seasonon the road against Lyford and after that,it is totally up to them.
SWIMMER | Continued from Page 1B
PLAYOFFS | Continued from Page 1B
The trio not the only ones that share the samenumber. There’s several including the No. 51 worn bySteelers’ James Farrior and Baltimore Ravens’ Bren-don Ayanbadejo.
Pro Bowl blackoutThe NFL on Thursday extended the local TV
blackout deadline to Friday. About 3,000 tickets re-
main for the game that has sold out every previousyear, usually weeks in advance.
Asked about removing the NFL’s blackout rule be-cause of the slumping economy, commissioner RogerGoodell defended the policy, saying it has been goodfor the game and fans.
Goodell said the NFL has made other moneysav-ing measures that worked well, like reducing ticketprices in the postseason.
“I know we have economic factors here, but youdon’t change all your policies in light of that,” he said.“You still continue to operate a business.”
Idol at Aloha StadiumThe NFL announced “American Idol” runner-up
David Archuleta will sing the National Anthem beforeSunday’s Pro Bowl, while Grammy-award winner En-
rique Iglesias and Ciara will perform at halftime. Local recording artist Hoku Zuttermeister will
perform “Hawaii Pono’i,” the state’s song. The halftime show will include 600 dancers,
drummers and acrobats from across the country. Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet, will participate in the coin toss and willbe joined by members of the Purple Heart WoundedWarriors organization.
GONZALEZ | Continued from Page 1B
Shea added. “While he’sswimming, everyone is cheer-ing loudly and when he getsout of the pool, it gets kind ofemotional.
“Coaching Domingo andseeing how he’s progressed,it’s been an enjoyable thing towatch.”
Rivera swimmer KileyVera, also a junior, saidDomingo’s presence on theteam has been a big plus foreveryone.
“He motivates us to workharder because he reallyworks hard,” she said. “At themeets, everybody’s there,cheering him on, including thewhole crowd. It’s just reallynice. I was a little surprisedwhen I first heard he was com-
ing out for swimming, but it’sa good sport to be in. He’s im-proved a lot. He’s dropped like30 seconds in his event.
“Domingo is always thereencouraging you to do better,even in school because he’svery smart,” she added. “He’ssomeone you want to competewith to get better. That’s howhe helps all of us.”
Long before Santoyo everjumped into the pool, he wasstriving to achieve high marksin the classroom. He rankedfifth in his class academicallyas a freshman and ninth lastyear as a sophomore.
“My top two choices for col-lege are MIT (MassachusettsInstitute of Technology) andRice (University),” he said. “I
think I have the grades to getthere.”
For now, college can waitbecause Santoyo is enjoyinghis time as a Rivera studentand member of the school’sswim team.
“This just shows me thatI’m not that different,” he said.“Yes, I know I’m different, butjust being with the rest of theswimmers in the pool showsme that I can do it, too.”
Astrid Santoyo believesparticipation in swimming hasbeen a mutually beneficial ex-perience for her son and histeammates.
“I think it’s a good thing forDomingo and also good forthem because they can feel hisspirit,” she said.
Domingo Santoyo ajunior at Rivera HighSchool swims at theMargaret ClarkAquatic Center inBrownsville. San-toyo learned toswim a couple yearsback and will now becompeting with theswim team withoutcomplete use of hisarms.
Photo by Theresa Najera/ The Brownsville Herald | AP
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San Isidro Ready Mix,Ltd. Looking for fulltime Concrete MixerDriver’s Must have
class A or B License & Experienced
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Ste. 203No Phone Calls Please.
TRUCKS FOR SALE 198Dodge Ram ‘03, 4dr., a/c, 20
in. rims, good condition, $4,800 Call:(956)949-6076
Ford Aerostar ‘96, 6cyl., new tires & battery, good working
condition, $2,400 obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
Mercury Montaineer ‘98,v8, $3,000 obo.
Call:(956)237-4328.Moving truck, 26ft. box, ‘96, Ford F-series, runs great,
$10,000. Call:(956)857-8480Nissan Murano ‘04, 82k mi., blue title, leather seats, loaded, $14,200 obo.Call:(956)220-9155
Nissan Xterra ‘01,4cyl,5 speed, $5,500,
great condition,Call:(956)235-2204
Toyota Tacoma ‘04, 4dr., 6cyl., 42,670 mi., pwr. windows & locks, excellent condition,
$14,750 Call:(956)324-0002
CARS FOR SALE 2002001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S:
2dr., A/T, 3.2L VTEC, headers, intake, rims, exhaust! Black
leather interior, power everyth-ing, moon roof, H.I.D.’s and
much more! $5,500 obo.Call:(956)251-5909
2007 Jeep Wrangler, Black with 4WD, 4 doors. Only 4500
miles $25,400 or take over pmts. Call 744-2343
‘01 PT Cruiser leather, limited edition, $3500 Call 857-1095
‘87 Ford Thunderbird V8, Auto, A/C, 56K miles, new 18” rims
and tires, $3400 Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
‘96 Acura TL 5cyl.,reliable, 86K mi, A/C, beige
interior, $2,700 OBOCall 645-5093
Chevy Malibu ‘04, 4cyl.,excellent clean car. $3,250.00
Call:(956)645-7072.Dodge Neon SXT ‘02, yellow, a/c, 4dr., auto, good condtion, $3,600 Call:(956)285-8474 ;
62*15*11172.Honda Accord ‘99, a/c, 4dr., auto, good condtion, $3,600
Call:(956)285-8474 ;62*15*11172.
Mustang V6, 96K Mikes, $4100 Call 956-723-1354
MOTORCYCLES 196
‘07 Kawasaki Ninja 250 Low Miles, Good Cond. New tires
MUST SELL $2,400 Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
Italica 150CC ‘08, scooter,2 passenger, $1,350.Call:(956)401-6510
Nextel ID # 145*3*46526
TRUCKS FOR SALE 198
1999 XL Classic Freightliner 60 Series Detroit, Super 10 Speed
$15,000 Call 791-9986
2001 FLD120 Freightliner 60 Series Detroit, 10 Speed $15,000 call 791-9986
‘06 Ford 500 SE, Mint Cond., 52K miles, New Tires & Rims, $10700 795-0261, 857-1123
‘07 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 SLT, 5.9 H.O. Cummings, 6 spd
man. 46K mi. H.D. bumpers, rack, steps silver, 4dr. $26,500
Call 740-0959
‘88 Ford Bronco IT XLT, New pumps, $800 Call
724-4240Chevy Cobalt 2007, like new,
only 13k miles, 4cyl., 2dr.$5,500 w/TTL.
Call:(956)324-4224
Chevy Silverado 1500 LS 2005, 2wd, crew cab,26,500
miles, $12,500 1 owner.Call:(956)723-9027, 286-7213
Chrysler Seabring 2003, great condition, silver, 4 cyl., 71k mi.,
w/TTL $3,950.Call:(956)324-4224
Dodge Durango 2002, great condition, 3rd seat, leather,
w/TTL $4,500 obo.Call:(956)324-5589
Dodge Van ‘03, 6 door,excellent condition, auto.
$3,900 obo.Call:(956)726-0066
Mercury Mountaineer ‘02, 6cyl.,3rd seat, 40K mi, auto, all power, alarm $5,950 OBO. Call 324-1738
JEWELRY 144
Almost 6kt.(5.07kt) princess cut diamond, stone set in platinum setting with 2 kts of round cut diamonds $25,000 235-8654
TRANSPORTATION
BOATS 190
‘93 Blue Wave, center consil, Yamaha 140hp, Good runing
condition $6,000 obocall 334-4411
Skeeter Bass Boat ‘84, 15ft., 40hp., trolly motor, $2,850 OBO Call:(956)220-7665.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT 192
Back hoe 480 B Case, Good machine $7,500
call 830-370-7204
Freightliner Century ‘99, new rebuilt engine with 150,000 mi-les, geenuine Cummins parts, new rebuilt transmission, 13 speed, good rubber & alumi-num wheels. $16,500.00 or best offer. (956)857-4144
Gooseneck flatbed trailer ‘08, 40ft., double 12,000lbs. tandum
axle, 17,000 ibs. max cap.w/extras. $11,000 obo.
Call:(956)645-5099
Wells Cargo Utility trailer ‘90, , $1,200 obo.
Call:(956)744-0220
AUTOMOTIVE PARTS194
15” thru 20” Original Tires & Rims, Different Styles
Available. Starting @ $10. Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
17” wheels, very sharp, factory wheels off a 2008 Nissan
Maxima, $425 or best offer.(956)857-4144
Diesel engines Chevy 6.6 Ford 7.3 & Cummins 5.9 Remanu-factured w/warranty will de-liver, $2,950. 713-918-5811.
ARTICLES FOR SALE136
Blue Ray movies & HD,paid $30 will sell for $15ea.
Many to choose from! Call:(956)645-9650 after 3pm.
Caminadora manual para ejercicio nueva $100 857-1095
Country Club Membership for Sale
$4,000. Call 235-8654Desk & PC Acces. $40/ea.
OBO Good Cond. Call 206-6595 or 337-3607
Dining table, beveled glass top, six chairs, perfect condition, $750. Call:(956)763-9823
Doors for sale, $25ea. wood or metal. Call:(956)220-9654
Former rustic iron dining set,w/ rustic wood china.
$900 Call:(956)712-9062Genuine beads,pearls, brass,
some silver. etc.Lots of variety. Must sacrifice
$400. Call:(956)645-0720Hamburger grill combine with
two burners. $200 Call:(956)763-8226 ; 723-2116
Laredo Country Club Full Membership $3500
Call 727-7779Office Equipment for sale.Desks, chairs, cubicles,
computers, etc. Starting at $25. Call 727-7779
Ping Pong Table, Ex-cellent Condition $50
Call 489-0769Rustic wood book shelf.$150 Call:(956)712-9062
Solid Wood Dining Room Table 4 chairs $275 Call 796-9108
Television 52 pulgadas, Mitsubishi. $700omo.Call:(956)206-1531.
SPORTING GOODS 142Electric stove & refrigerator,
$40ea. obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
SKS 7.62 x 39 Riffle, $400 Call 489-0769Treadmill, good condition,
like new, $275 obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
GARAGE SALES 134
Sat 8-12, Baby, Kid, Adult clothes. Desks, Toys, PC Aces.9005 Cornell Dr, University Pk
Sun Only 8am-?, 4618 Rio Plata, Mattress, Dresser, Bed
Frames, Crib, Comforters, Misc
ARTICLES FOR SALE136
“MARIACHI POPULAR”.All Occasions. Starting @
$400 Hector Caballero 236-8905
* Dell Laptop, Windows XP, wireless internet ready
$250 Call: 220-9654
*Dell Desktop, Windows XP Pro PC, internet ready
$160 Call: 220-9654
70 Cinder block $1ea/ $70 cash for all. Call 723-2209
27” Sony TV $100 Call 333-1799 or go by
128 CatalinaBakery showcase, 8ft.x
24inches, $100.Call:(956)763-8226 ; 723-2116
HELP WANTED 122
FARM & RANCH SUP-PLIES 132
Hay For Sale,large net wrapped,Round Bales,located in Alice, $40 and up.Delivery
available.(361)219-4545
MISCELLANEOUS
GARAGE SALES 134Garage Sale Sat. Feb. 7
8am-1pm 216 Esperanza, MWC clothes, toys & more
Garage Sale Sat-Sun 9am-4pm 11146 Salado (Villas De San
Agustin) 956-242-7762 http://salado.uuuq.com/gs/
PETS & SUPPLIES 128Jack Russell pure breadpuppies 5wks, 1st shots,
dewormed, tail docked, $250 call 727-9889
Jack Russell Terriers Pups 2 Female/ 1 Male CKC Reg.$250ea Call 956-235-1150
Jack Russell Terriers, CKC Registered, 3M, 3F, 6 weeks, 1st shots, tailed, de wormed,
$300ea. (956)401-7857
Lab puppies for sale, 7wks old 1st shots , chocolate/black 5 male 1 female pups $200 ea.
good homes only!Call 956-220-9996 or 712-8277
after 5 pm
Minature Duchshunds, minature Schnauzer, Poodles, Chihuahuas, Pugs, Labs. $250
& up. Call:(956)753-0118.
MINI PINCHER’S$100 each
call 635-6819Precious Valentine Labs, 6 weeks old, dewormed, 1st shots, $250 ea. 7 yellow, 1
chocolate, 285-7537
Pure Breed Blood HoundPuppies w/ 1st shots &
dewormed. $300ea.Call 768-2136 ; 774-2623
Schnauzers 6wks old, dewormed, 1st shots, tailed
clipped. 2F/2M Great for Valentine’s! $300 call 285-4671
Se vende cachoros,Blue Healers, $125 cada uno.
2915 Chesnut, 333-8836
LIVESTOCK & SUPPLIES130
Beautiful, Gentle RegisteredPaint horse stallion for sale.
8 mths old w/perfect conformation. $1,000
Call 722-8187 or 645-1655
Registered Paint Horse Stallion for sale. 1.5yrs old,sorrel overo w/ blue eyes. Very gentle and
halter broken. Champion blood lines, $2000 Call 722-8187 or
645-1655
LOTS FOR SALE 70
4730 Madera (Los Obispos), 45 x 113,
$22,000 Call 286-7486Lot in exclusive area behind LCC South 5515 Portugal
$10,000dwn/ $300mo 754-1408, 724-1951
ACREAGE FOR SALE 765 acres @ Rancho Las Lomas for $35,000.00 Owner finance
with $10,000 down.Call:(956)645-9664
10ac. Las Lomas Fenced HWY 59 $8000 p/ac 712-4205; 774-6976
RENTALS
OFFICE SPACES FORRENT 118
All sizes available lowest rent-als in Laredo move in today
first month free mucho parking 4100 San Bernardo 237-5946
PETS & SUPPLIES
PETS & SUPPLIES 128Adorable Puppies Female
9wks. First shots, dewormed shi-tzu Registered/parents
$250 call 744-7560Adorable Purebreeds Yellow
Labradors, Mom & Dad on site.$250ea. Call 324-9577
Chihuahua Puppies for sale 6wks,dewormed,
2M/1F $100ea.Call 337-6567
Dwarf Rabbits $35 each.1820 Corpus, Call
726-0883
REAL ESTATE
HOMES FOR SALE 611316 O’Kane 2Bd/1Ba,
$54,000 including trailer in backyard. 251-0071 727-7843
2bd Condo in San Antonio Med area, High Ceiling, FP, W/D.$80,900.Call 210-378-11634bd/3ba/1cg 2story, 2 living areas, 1,850 sqft located @ Lomas Del Sur, corner lot $145,000 call 645-8298
Beautiful Brick Home in Cuatro Vientos 3603 Aguanieve Dr.
4bd/2ba, 1531sq.ft. LA, 6326sq.ft Lot. Alarm system,
block fence, w/beautiful gates.Motivated seller! MUST SEE! Reduced $145,000 Neogtiable
Call 286-5015For sale or rent, 4 year old
home,3/2.5/1cp, 1,600 sqft., 2 story stucco,new paint, huge
backyard,wool insulation,Concord Hills. $145,000.
Call:(210)559-9457.Lake front lodge, 240 Retama 14’x70’, fully furnished, mobile
home. 3bd/2ba, front porch12’x40’, 16’ awning, 2 lake front lots, 35’ barn w/ RV size doors,
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San Isidro Ready Mix,Ltd. Looking for fulltime Concrete MixerDriver’s Must have
class A or B License & Experienced
Diesel Mechanic. Apply in person at 9901 McPherson
Ste. 203No Phone Calls Please.
TRUCKS FOR SALE 198Dodge Ram ‘03, 4dr., a/c, 20
in. rims, good condition, $4,800 Call:(956)949-6076
Ford Aerostar ‘96, 6cyl., new tires & battery, good working
condition, $2,400 obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
Mercury Montaineer ‘98,v8, $3,000 obo.
Call:(956)237-4328.Moving truck, 26ft. box, ‘96, Ford F-series, runs great,
$10,000. Call:(956)857-8480Nissan Murano ‘04, 82k mi., blue title, leather seats, loaded, $14,200 obo.Call:(956)220-9155
Nissan Xterra ‘01,4cyl,5 speed, $5,500,
great condition,Call:(956)235-2204
Toyota Tacoma ‘04, 4dr., 6cyl., 42,670 mi., pwr. windows & locks, excellent condition,
$14,750 Call:(956)324-0002
CARS FOR SALE 2002001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S:
2dr., A/T, 3.2L VTEC, headers, intake, rims, exhaust! Black
leather interior, power everyth-ing, moon roof, H.I.D.’s and
much more! $5,500 obo.Call:(956)251-5909
2007 Jeep Wrangler, Black with 4WD, 4 doors. Only 4500
miles $25,400 or take over pmts. Call 744-2343
‘01 PT Cruiser leather, limited edition, $3500 Call 857-1095
‘87 Ford Thunderbird V8, Auto, A/C, 56K miles, new 18” rims
and tires, $3400 Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
‘96 Acura TL 5cyl.,reliable, 86K mi, A/C, beige
interior, $2,700 OBOCall 645-5093
Chevy Malibu ‘04, 4cyl.,excellent clean car. $3,250.00
Call:(956)645-7072.Dodge Neon SXT ‘02, yellow, a/c, 4dr., auto, good condtion, $3,600 Call:(956)285-8474 ;
62*15*11172.Honda Accord ‘99, a/c, 4dr., auto, good condtion, $3,600
Call:(956)285-8474 ;62*15*11172.
Mustang V6, 96K Mikes, $4100 Call 956-723-1354
MOTORCYCLES 196
‘07 Kawasaki Ninja 250 Low Miles, Good Cond. New tires
MUST SELL $2,400 Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
Italica 150CC ‘08, scooter,2 passenger, $1,350.Call:(956)401-6510
Nextel ID # 145*3*46526
TRUCKS FOR SALE 198
1999 XL Classic Freightliner 60 Series Detroit, Super 10 Speed
$15,000 Call 791-9986
2001 FLD120 Freightliner 60 Series Detroit, 10 Speed $15,000 call 791-9986
‘06 Ford 500 SE, Mint Cond., 52K miles, New Tires & Rims, $10700 795-0261, 857-1123
‘07 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 SLT, 5.9 H.O. Cummings, 6 spd
man. 46K mi. H.D. bumpers, rack, steps silver, 4dr. $26,500
Call 740-0959
‘88 Ford Bronco IT XLT, New pumps, $800 Call
724-4240Chevy Cobalt 2007, like new,
only 13k miles, 4cyl., 2dr.$5,500 w/TTL.
Call:(956)324-4224
Chevy Silverado 1500 LS 2005, 2wd, crew cab,26,500
miles, $12,500 1 owner.Call:(956)723-9027, 286-7213
Chrysler Seabring 2003, great condition, silver, 4 cyl., 71k mi.,
w/TTL $3,950.Call:(956)324-4224
Dodge Durango 2002, great condition, 3rd seat, leather,
w/TTL $4,500 obo.Call:(956)324-5589
Dodge Van ‘03, 6 door,excellent condition, auto.
$3,900 obo.Call:(956)726-0066
Mercury Mountaineer ‘02, 6cyl.,3rd seat, 40K mi, auto, all power, alarm $5,950 OBO. Call 324-1738
JEWELRY 144
Almost 6kt.(5.07kt) princess cut diamond, stone set in platinum setting with 2 kts of round cut diamonds $25,000 235-8654
TTRRAANNSSPPOORRTTAATTIIOONN
BOATS 190
‘93 Blue Wave, center consil, Yamaha 140hp, Good runing
condition $6,000 obocall 334-4411
Skeeter Bass Boat ‘84, 15ft., 40hp., trolly motor, $2,850 OBO Call:(956)220-7665.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT 192
Back hoe 480 B Case, Good machine $7,500
call 830-370-7204
Freightliner Century ‘99, new rebuilt engine with 150,000 mi-les, geenuine Cummins parts, new rebuilt transmission, 13 speed, good rubber & alumi-num wheels. $16,500.00 or best offer. (956)857-4144
Gooseneck flatbed trailer ‘08, 40ft., double 12,000lbs. tandum
axle, 17,000 ibs. max cap.w/extras. $11,000 obo.
Call:(956)645-5099
Wells Cargo Utility trailer ‘90, , $1,200 obo.
Call:(956)744-0220
AUTOMOTIVE PARTS194
15” thru 20” Original Tires & Rims, Different Styles
Available. Starting @ $10. Call 337-0509 or 145*131543*3
17” wheels, very sharp, factory wheels off a 2008 Nissan
Maxima, $425 or best offer.(956)857-4144
Diesel engines Chevy 6.6 Ford 7.3 & Cummins 5.9 Remanu-factured w/warranty will de-liver, $2,950. 713-918-5811.
ARTICLES FOR SALE136
Blue Ray movies & HD,paid $30 will sell for $15ea.
Many to choose from! Call:(956)645-9650 after 3pm.
Caminadora manual para ejercicio nueva $100 857-1095
Country Club Membership for Sale
$4,000. Call 235-8654Desk & PC Acces. $40/ea.
OBO Good Cond. Call 206-6595 or 337-3607
Dining table, beveled glass top, six chairs, perfect condition, $750. Call:(956)763-9823
Doors for sale, $25ea. wood or metal. Call:(956)220-9654
Former rustic iron dining set,w/ rustic wood china.
$900 Call:(956)712-9062Genuine beads,pearls, brass,
some silver. etc.Lots of variety. Must sacrifice
$400. Call:(956)645-0720Hamburger grill combine with
two burners. $200 Call:(956)763-8226 ; 723-2116
Laredo Country Club Full Membership $3500
Call 727-7779Office Equipment for sale.Desks, chairs, cubicles,
computers, etc. Starting at $25. Call 727-7779
Ping Pong Table, Ex-cellent Condition $50
Call 489-0769Rustic wood book shelf.$150 Call:(956)712-9062
Solid Wood Dining Room Table 4 chairs $275 Call 796-9108
Television 52 pulgadas, Mitsubishi. $700omo.Call:(956)206-1531.
SPORTING GOODS 142Electric stove & refrigerator,
$40ea. obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
SKS 7.62 x 39 Riffle, $400 Call 489-0769Treadmill, good condition,
like new, $275 obo.Call:(956)285-2724.
GARAGE SALES 134
Sat 8-12, Baby, Kid, Adult clothes. Desks, Toys, PC Aces.9005 Cornell Dr, University Pk
Sun Only 8am-?, 4618 Rio Plata, Mattress, Dresser, Bed
Frames, Crib, Comforters, Misc
ARTICLES FOR SALE136
“MARIACHI POPULAR”.All Occasions. Starting @
$400 Hector Caballero 236-8905
* Dell Laptop, Windows XP, wireless internet ready
$250 Call: 220-9654
*Dell Desktop, Windows XP Pro PC, internet ready
$160 Call: 220-9654
70 Cinder block $1ea/ $70 cash for all. Call 723-2209
27” Sony TV $100 Call 333-1799 or go by
128 CatalinaBakery showcase, 8ft.x
24inches, $100.Call:(956)763-8226 ; 723-2116
HELP WANTED 122
FARM & RANCH SUP-PLIES 132
Hay For Sale,large net wrapped,Round Bales,located in Alice, $40 and up.Delivery
available.(361)219-4545
MMIISSCCEELLLLAANNEEOOUUSS
GARAGE SALES 134Garage Sale Sat. Feb. 7
8am-1pm 216 Esperanza, MWC clothes, toys & more
Garage Sale Sat-Sun 9am-4pm 11146 Salado (Villas De San
Agustin) 956-242-7762 http://salado.uuuq.com/gs/
PETS & SUPPLIES 128Jack Russell pure breadpuppies 5wks, 1st shots,
dewormed, tail docked, $250 call 727-9889
Jack Russell Terriers Pups 2 Female/ 1 Male CKC Reg.$250ea Call 956-235-1150
Jack Russell Terriers, CKC Registered, 3M, 3F, 6 weeks, 1st shots, tailed, de wormed,
$300ea. (956)401-7857
Lab puppies for sale, 7wks old 1st shots , chocolate/black 5 male 1 female pups $200 ea.
good homes only!Call 956-220-9996 or 712-8277
after 5 pm
Minature Duchshunds, minature Schnauzer, Poodles, Chihuahuas, Pugs, Labs. $250
& up. Call:(956)753-0118.
MINI PINCHER’S$100 each
call 635-6819Precious Valentine Labs, 6 weeks old, dewormed, 1st shots, $250 ea. 7 yellow, 1
chocolate, 285-7537
Pure Breed Blood HoundPuppies w/ 1st shots &
dewormed. $300ea.Call 768-2136 ; 774-2623
Schnauzers 6wks old, dewormed, 1st shots, tailed
clipped. 2F/2M Great for Valentine’s! $300 call 285-4671
Se vende cachoros,Blue Healers, $125 cada uno.
2915 Chesnut, 333-8836
LIVESTOCK & SUPPLIES130
Beautiful, Gentle RegisteredPaint horse stallion for sale.
8 mths old w/perfect conformation. $1,000
Call 722-8187 or 645-1655
Registered Paint Horse Stallion for sale. 1.5yrs old,sorrel overo w/ blue eyes. Very gentle and
halter broken. Champion blood lines, $2000 Call 722-8187 or
645-1655
LOTS FOR SALE 70
4730 Madera (Los Obispos), 45 x 113,
$22,000 Call 286-7486Lot in exclusive area behind LCC South 5515 Portugal
$10,000dwn/ $300mo 754-1408, 724-1951
ACREAGE FOR SALE 765 acres @ Rancho Las Lomas for $35,000.00 Owner finance
with $10,000 down.Call:(956)645-9664
10ac. Las Lomas Fenced HWY 59 $8000 p/ac 712-4205; 774-6976
RREENNTTAALLSS
OFFICE SPACES FORRENT 118
All sizes available lowest rent-als in Laredo move in today
first month free mucho parking 4100 San Bernardo 237-5946
PPEETTSS && SSUUPPPPLLIIEESS
PETS & SUPPLIES 128Adorable Puppies Female
9wks. First shots, dewormed shi-tzu Registered/parents
$250 call 744-7560Adorable Purebreeds Yellow
Labradors, Mom & Dad on site.$250ea. Call 324-9577
Chihuahua Puppies for sale 6wks,dewormed,
2M/1F $100ea.Call 337-6567
Dwarf Rabbits $35 each.1820 Corpus, Call
726-0883
RREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE
HOMES FOR SALE 611316 O’Kane 2Bd/1Ba,
$54,000 including trailer in backyard. 251-0071 727-7843
2bd Condo in San Antonio Med area, High Ceiling, FP, W/D.$80,900.Call 210-378-11634bd/3ba/1cg 2story, 2 living areas, 1,850 sqft located @ Lomas Del Sur, corner lot $145,000 call 645-8298
Beautiful Brick Home in Cuatro Vientos 3603 Aguanieve Dr.
4bd/2ba, 1531sq.ft. LA, 6326sq.ft Lot. Alarm system,
block fence, w/beautiful gates.Motivated seller! MUST SEE! Reduced $145,000 Neogtiable
Call 286-5015For sale or rent, 4 year old
home,3/2.5/1cp, 1,600 sqft., 2 story stucco,new paint, huge
backyard,wool insulation,Concord Hills. $145,000.
Call:(210)559-9457.Lake front lodge, 240 Retama 14’x70’, fully furnished, mobile
home. 3bd/2ba, front porch12’x40’, 16’ awning, 2 lake front lots, 35’ barn w/ RV size doors,
2 boats, fruit trees, & palm trees, $100,000 956-765-5624;806-965-2387 or 806-727-4141
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