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The difference between antiques andjunk depends on who’s selling what towhom.

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Fireworks warningThe July 4th holiday is almost upon us andthe El Paso Fire Department will begin set-ting up checkpoints at all entrances in theCity of El Paso starting Monday June 25,2007. Fire Officials would like to remindthe citizens of El Paso that fireworks areillegal inside the City of El Paso. If youare caught with fireworks inside the citylimits, which include 5,000 feet beyondthe city limits, your fireworks will be con-fiscated and you will be issued a citation.Fines can go as high as $500.00. El PasoFire Officials are asking the public to at-tend one of the many professional fireworkdisplays throughout the city. Fireworkfacts:• Nearly 70 percent of all fireworks-relatedinjuries take place around the 4th of Julyholiday.• More than 50 percent of those injuriesoccur to children and teenagers.• The top three injury-causing fireworksare firecrackers, sparklers, and rockets.• Children most often suffer burns, lacera-tions and eye injuries.• 9,600 emergency room-treated injuriesassociated with fireworks in 2004. 6,600of the injuries occurred in a single month(June 19 — July 19, 2004).

Crime StoppersEl Paso has three recent unsolved bankrobberies, and you could have the tip tohelp Crime Stoppers and local law en-forcement solve one of them. On Satur-day, May 19, at 2:30 P.M. two masked menrobbed the Chase Bank at 11391Montwood with black handguns. They arepossibly black males, early to mid-twen-ties, 5'-8" inches in height, thin builds,wearing hooded sweatshirts. They madetheir escape in a dark gray or black, me-dium-size vehicle, with no other descrip-tion. On Monday, June 11, there were twomore bank robberies. The first, at 11:45a.m., took place at El Paso EmployeesFederal Credit Union, 909 MagoffinStreet. The lone suspect displayed a hand-gun and fled down the alley in back. He isdescribed as an Hispanic male, 5'-6" to 6'in height, wearing blue jeans, a long-sleevenavy blue t-shirt, and a mask. The secondrobbery on June 11 occurred at 4:30 p.m.at United Bank of El Paso, 9801 GatewayWest. The lone suspect fled on foot and wasdescribed as an Hispanic male in his early20’s, 5'-8" tall, thin build, blue Nike base-ball cap, long sleeve Ralph Lauren shirt,with blue jeans, white tennis shoes, carry-ing a black backpack. If you know anythingabout these cases, call Crime Stoppers at566-TIPS (566-8477) or on-line atwww.crimestoppersofelpaso.org. You canremain anonymous and, if your tip leads toan arrest, you can qualify for a cash reward.

In other news� Small businesses account for 99percent of U. S. employers, employ 50

CLINT — Agendas for the June meetingsfor the Town of Clint and the San Elizario In-dependent School District (SEISD) had onething in common — parks in progress.

Puddle Duck Park in Clint came closer toreality in Clint’s June 12 town council meet-ing. On June 13, trustees of the SEISD tookaction regarding the naming of a park underconstruction to honor a pioneer San Elizariofamily.

Puddle Duck Park is a pet project of SandraReinhardt, wife of Clint Mayor Dale Reinhardt.

She told council members that El Paso Elec-tric had come in and topped off dangerouslytall trees on the quarter-acre site near the rail-road tracks. She said about $5,000 has beendonated to the project which began about 18months ago. Of that sum, $3,500 was donatedby AT&T, and $300 was donated recently byCEA Engineering.

(The name of the park comes from a BeatrixPotter children’s book featuring Jemima Puddle

Duck. Grandfather Dale read about the adven-tures of Jemima Puddle Duck to his grandsonCash Day, now 18 months old, soon after hewas born.)

In recognition of park project progress,Reinhardt handed out little rubber ducks tocouncil members.

With trees topped off, the next steps are put-ting up fencing around the park and the pur-chase of playground equipment. She hopes tohave the area, once known as Hobo Park, openby the spring of next year.

The SEISD board of trustees was asked thata community park, now nearing completionbehind the school district’s Excell Academy,be named in honor of Jose Jorge Perez.

In a letter to the board, County Commis-sioner Miguel Teran recommends that the parkbe named for Perez who was the second teacherhired in the school district in 1895.

Descendants of Perez also spoke to trustees,asking the board to name the park for him.

After discussion, the board approved trusteeVicente Delgadillo’s request that a committeebe formed to get input from the communitybefore taking action on naming the park.

By Don WoodyardCourier Staff Writer

Town of Clint, San Eli ISD move forward with parks

The Tornillo ISD Board of Trustees recentlygave presentations on parent involvement attwo separate conferences in San Antonio. Thefirst presentation was given for the Texas As-sociation of School Boards (TASB) during theirSummer Leadership Institute (SLI). The sec-ond presentation was given at the SummerConference held by the Texas Rural EducationAssociation (TREA). The Tornillo presentationteam consisted of TISD Board President JoeTittle, Board Secretary Rachel Avila, BoardMember Ofelia Bosquez, Superintendent PaulVranish, TISD parent Antonia Alonso andTISD employee Estela Pacheco.

TISD representatives had given a similar pre-sentation in April at the 67th annual confer-ence of the National School Boards Associa-tion in San Francisco.

The Tornillo team had presented at the SLIConference before, and because of the out-standing response to their presentations, theywere invited to present again. Tornillo ISD hashad great success with their “Parent Chats”,which are parent meetings held each month andsponsored by one of the district’s four cam-puses. School district board members and em-ployees across the state were eager to hear thepresentations, as parent involvement can be a

— Photo courtesy Tornillo ISD

CHATTING — Tornillo ISD Superintendent Paul Vranish addresses attendees during theTISD “Parent Chat” presentation at the Summer Leadership Institute Conference in SanAntonio.

Tornillo ISD ‘Parent Chats’ gain state attentionBy Rudy Barreda

Special to the Courier

critical issue for school districts. The “stand-ing room only” crowd at both conferences wasalso quite impressed with the fact that the chatsare simultaneous translated into Spanish byTISD employee Estela Pacheco. The Tornilloteam was pleased to have such a tremendousturnout, especially at the SLI conference, where320 people attended Tornillo’s presentation,

which was given on June14th. “We ran out of busi-ness cards,” statedPacheco. “It was very ex-citing to be able to re-spond to the audience’sinterest regarding our Par-ent Chats, and to haveschool people across thestate congratulate us forour success.

The next morning, theTornillo group gave their

presentation for TREA. Superintendent Vranishwas pleased with the response from both audi-ences. “The Tornillo ISD Board believes thatgiving back to the education community is animportant part of their service,” stated Vranish.“Presentations such as these two, and the re-cent offering at the National School Board con-ference, serve to showcase not only our Dis-trict, but the high levels of support and the out-standing partnership between the school andthe parents of our community.”

Paul Vranish

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare — an In-ternal Revenue Service (IRS) audit findssome issues with your past tax returns andyou must go before the IRS to argue yourcase.

Or maybe you’ve fallen behind on tax pay-ments or overlooked a requirement that hasattracted the attention of the IRS.

What do you do? What are your rights?How do you clear your name?

Members of the National Society of Ac-countants (NSA) Federal Taxation Commit-tee have some advice.

“First of all, don’t freak out,” advises PaulThompson, EA, ABA, ATA, ECS, of PremierTax & Accounting, LLC, in Alexandria, VA.“Second, do not ignore the correspondence anddon’t wait until the last day to respond. Thekey to resolving issues expeditiously is to com-municate with the IRS and be truthful.”

Thompson says if the IRS is raising onlyone small issue and you feel comfortable ad-dressing it, then do so. However, if you areconfused and don’t understand the letter, youshould contact your tax professional and lethim/her handle it.

“You are entitled to be represented by yourtax professional, and that person should beexperienced enough to get it resolved,” Th-ompson says. “If you don’t have one, get one.Unless you know the tax laws, it could costyou a substantial amount of money and time.A good tax professional can possibly helpwith the penalties that are being assessed.”

If you choose to have your tax professionalrepresent you, you will need to sign a powerof attorney (Form 2848) unless the noticedeals with the most recent tax year com-pleted and you checked the box on yourreturn to allow the IRS to discuss that taxyear’s issues.

“Navigating complex issues with the IRStakes experience and knowledge,” Thomp-son says. “The IRS can make mistakes, buta taxpayer not experienced in the tax lawsand dealing with the IRS will probably notcatch a mistake.”

NSA advises that if you can’t get past thelocal IRS agent, you can request a confer-ence with the person’s supervisor. If you arestill in disagreement, then ask for an appealsconference. The individual assigned to dothe appeal is supposed to be unbiased.

If you are having trouble getting issues re-solved in a timely manner and the delay isdue to the IRS, then you can contact the IRSTaxpayer Advocate’s Office. This office isstaffed with individuals who can interveneon your behalf when dealing with the IRS.

The IRS has free publications available toexplain the rules and regulations such as yourrights as a taxpayer (Publication 1), the IRScollection process (Publication 594), inno-cent spouse relief (Publication 971), and theTaxpayer Advocate Service (Publication1546).

NSA offers these five tips for dealing withan IRS audit:

1. You can minimize the risk of an IRS

Special to the CourierBy Al Rickard

Respond to IRSaudits promptly,knowledgeably

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One perspectiveBy Francis Shrum

I’ve been wondering lately aboutwhat is going to become of us.

I know a lot of people worry aboutwar and fuel prices and the rising costof medical care and corruption ingovernment. Those are all very validthings to worry about but what I’mmost concerned about is what we arebecoming.

What kind of people are we andwho are we raising?

I started thinking about this awhileback when I realized that the biggestand most important thing a kid cando to get noticed and rewarded inschool — next to being a star ath-lete, of course — is to be successfulat fundraising.

Schools and other youth organiza-tions are all about raising money. Andwe don’t care how they do it, just as

The greatestconsumersin the world

long as a kid makes the bucks andputs them in the bucket.

An enterprising spirit is a veryworthwhile attribute. Unfortu-nately, if it isn’t coupled with asense of hard work and a desire toactually produce a valuable serviceor product, a willingness to go forthe bucks becomes little more thana self-serving attitude.

I don’t blame the kids. They arejust connecting the dots the quickestand easiest way possible, with thehighest possible yield and the leastamount of effort.

You know, just like we taught themto do.

We were once a mighty agricul-tural nation with a work ethic and agross national product that stunned(and often fed) the world.

But we wanted more, which wasn’tnecessarily a bad thing, so we startedproducing other things, too. We be-came a mighty industrial giant, witha work ethic and creative genius thatstunned the world.

But we wanted more, which wasn’tnecessarily a bad thing, except wewere getting lazy about it and beganfarming out the sweat and labor partsto people who were still hungry. Westarted looking for ways to “worksmarter, not harder” and we led thecharge into a technological age thathas stunned the world.

Unfortunately, nowadays when Ihave a technical problem with mynewest electronic device, the voiceon the help-line is hardly under-standable because we’ve out-sourced this job to some companyin India.

Along with our work ethic, our cre-ative genius and our adaptabilitywe’re now abandoning even our will-ingness to sit on our butts and tap ona keyboard — if we’re doing it as ajob.

If it’s for fun and entertainment,well, that’s a whole other story.

My question remains — what isgoing to become of us?

I’ve been listening to a lot of young

people lately, first in a vocationaltraining program and now in theworkplace.

I’m frightened and ashamed to saythat the greatest common goal amongmost of them is to do expend the leastpossible amount of effort, with ex-pectation of being compensated at themaximum level, and to have as much“free” time as possible away fromanything that even remotely smacksof obligatory requirement.

You know, like work.Well, recently I have seen the fu-

ture, as demonstrated by our best, ourbrightest, our most promising youngpeople. They were engaged infundraising efforts to finance theirtravels to other places to play games.It was the sort of thing that shouldstun the world.

They were begging on streetcorners.

And why not? It’s the oldest andmost efficient way to raise moneywith the least possible amount ofeffort.

In the past, you’d expect to seeonly the most poor and unfortunateamong us — or their representatives— asking for handouts. And therewas a time when a healthy, strongindividual would have been ashamed

to ask for a handout without work-ing for it.

Welcome to our brave new world.So I sat there in my car at the street

light and watched these healthy, smil-ing, intelligent young men andwomen dressed in clothing designedto show off their considerable physi-cal attributes, carrying their plasticcontainers from window to window,asking people to just give themmoney so they could go play.

I’ve never experienced a hungryday in my life, but I remember thesummer jobs we used to do to raiseextra cash when we were young. Mybrothers hauled hay and did all kindsof strenuous labor. My sisters hoedweeds in a cotton field. We got jobsas ranch hands, building fence andworking livestock.

A smiling young man shook hisbucket at me as he passed my win-dow and I thought that maybe this iswhat we will finally become — asociety that wants something fornothing, feeding off each other with-out giving anything substantial inreturn until finally there is nothingleft to consume.

After all, aren’t Americans knownas the greatest consumers in theworld?

Por la Gente By State Rep. Chente Quintanilla

In light ofrecent Senateactions to res-

urrect discussions on immigration re-form, members of the U.S. - MexicoBorder and Immigration Task Force,a delegation of border communityleaders, could not have arrived toWashington at a more opportune timeto advocate for this important issue.The diverse array of Task Forcemembers who arrived last week in-cluded elected officials, religiousleaders, academics, and advocatesfrom El Paso, Southern New Mexico,and Arizona.

As their representative and as aleader on border security and immi-gration issues, the El Paso delegatesreached out to me for guidance inplanning their visit, and I was happyto work with them and help facilitatehigh-level meetings and events. Iconsider it of paramount importancethat Members of the U.S. House haveaccess to the perspectives of peoplewho live on the border and are im-

Immigration reform mustremain a congressional priority

pacted by the immigration issue on adaily basis.

The delegation included: SusieByrd, El Paso City Council Repre-sentative; Veronica Escobar, El PasoCounty Commissioner Court;Fernando Garcia, Executive Director,Border Network for Human Rights;Iliana Holguin, Executive Director,Diocese for Migrant and RefugeeServices; Trinidad Lopez, Mayor ofSocorro, Texas; Cristina Morales,University of Texas at El Paso, Pro-fessor, Sociology Department; JoséRodriguez, El Paso County Attorney;Ruben Segura, Mayor of SunlandPark, New Mexico; and Chief Rich-ard Wiles, El Paso Police Depart-ment.

To ensure the best use of the TaskForce’s time, I arranged a meeting forthem with influential Members of theU.S. House and the Administration,including House Majority LeaderSteny Hoyer and El Pasoan AlMartinez-Fonts, Assistant Secretaryfor the Private Sector at the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security.Martinez-Fonts works regularly withHomeland Security SecretaryMichael Chertoff. I also organized ameeting with Congressman JohnConyers, the Chair of the House Ju-diciary Committee, which is the pri-mary committee of jurisdiction forimmigration reform legislation in theU.S. House. Due to the votes on thefloor of the House, which occurredat the scheduled time of their meet-ing, Task Force members met withhigh-ranking committee staff whoChairman Conyers selected for themeeting.

In addition to facilitating thesemeetings, I was able to assist the TaskForce in expressing its message to thepublic. I arranged a press conferencewith the Task Force and my col-leagues, Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona,Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona,and Rep. Luis Guiterrez of Illinois,which was successful in relaying the

Hola, migente, al-ready this

year we have seen hints of the up-coming monsoon season. I hope thatnone of you has forgotten the impactlast year’s monsoons had on El Paso,particularly in east El Paso County.

The intense rainfall, considered tobe a 100 year event, caused a lot ofdamage and created a lot of stress forthe residents in the Mission Valleyarea. I will never forget the impactthat the first storm, on July 28, hadon the residents on Mankato Road

Improvements may not beenough if East County floods

and those just below the City of ElPaso Landfill.

Both areas were overwhelmed bythe huge amounts of storm water thatflashed through the arroyos and trans-ported tons of mud. I was amazed,and grateful to God, that no one waskilled by either flood.

Many of you will also recall thedevastation in Socorro around theValley Ridge subdivision. The imageof the short patch of roadway de-stroyed was indicative of how dan-gerous flood waters can be. It is alsoindicative of the possible conse-

quences when arroyos are altered byamateur engineers.

Because of the monsoon seasonarrival, on Friday, June 22 I enlistedthe assistance of the Department ofPublic Safety (DPS) to inspect theareas most vulnerable to the flashfloods. I flew in the DPS helicopterover the areas in my district whichwere severely impacted by the 100year flood event last year.

I was impressed by many improve-ments that were evident. The City ofEl Paso landfill, in particular, hadapparent improvement to its storm

water retention dams. The dams thatfailed last year appeared to be clearedof silt and deepened. In addition, twowalls of dirt were created between thelandfill and I-10 further preventing amassive flood into the Clint area.

I am, however, very concernedwith two areas in particular. The newdevelopment just west of HorizonCity on Eastlake appeared to be lack-ing in the required ponding areas forthe resulting runoff. This runoff runsdirectly into the arroyo which flashesthrough Sparks and then into Socorro.While the City of Socorro has modi-fied the flow of flash flood waters, Iam not certain the consequences of thechanges will be totally beneficial.

The other area that I am extremelyconcerned with is the arroyo abovethe Mankato Road area. It still seemsvery vulnerable.

In the last legislative session, I

passed a bill allowing the Public Ser-vice Board the authority to impactflood areas outside the City of ElPaso. I was assured by PSB GeneralManager Ed Archuleta that they willbe addressing the flood potential ona regional basis. I hope that he andthe Board will do that soon. I don’tanticipate changes this year, but per-haps within a year some impact canbe made in the east county areas.

The best advice I can give you isto be prepared for the worst. To helpyou, I recommend that you visit http:// w w w. c i . e l - p a s o . t x . u s / f i r e /emergency_management_division.aspon the City of El Paso webpage orcall the El Paso Fire Department andask for the Emergency ManagementDivision.

Gracias, mi gente, and I remainyour friend and public servant,Chente for la gente.

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View from here By Bill Peacock and Margo Thorning

Price-gouging laws will onlycause more pain at the pump

HORIZON — Lillard Stuart Thompson,82, a long time resident and a founding forceof Horizon City, passed away gently on Fri-day, June 22, 2007 at his home.

He was born Feb. 23, 1925, in Denver,Colorado, the only child of Catherine StuartThompson and Lillard McKinley Thompson.

He was veteran of World War 11, havingfought with the U.S. Army Infantry in Eu-rope in 1944-45. A self-effacing man, he wasproud of his service to his country but hisfamily said he was not outspoken about it.He was awarded the Bronze Star.

He was educated at Eastern New MexicoUniversity and the University of Coloradoafter the War. He spent the first half of hislife as an educator, teaching economics,coaching, and serving as athletic director, butfound his real calling as a principal andcoach.

In his career as an educator, he taught inColorado, Kansas, New Mexico and in Al-pine and Fabens, Texas. After retiring fromthe public schools in 1989, he taught coursesat Park College at Fort Bliss.

A bachelor into his late forties, he believedthat he would never marry. Then he met EraSharpley Sprecher, a typing teacher justdown the hall. They were married May 31,

1972. During Era’s final illness in 2005,Lillard was right at her side. They were mar-ried 33 years.

Lillard led an active and busy life in Hori-zon City. He was influential in the incorpo-ration of the municipality in 1988 and wasappointed to serve on council. He waselected mayor in 1995, and was again electedto council in 1998. He later served on thePlanning and Zoning Committee contributedinnumerable hours in other volunteer capaci-ties to his chosen home town.

He most recently served on the RegionalMunicipal Utilities District Board of Direc-tors, ending his life-long public service onlywhen forced by injuries suffered in a auto-mobile accident in May 2006. He was amember of St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church

Thompson is survived by son Robert H.Sprecher II and his wife Sharon, of Denver,Colorado; and daughter Sara Sprecher andlife partner, Carolyn Anderson, of Dallas,Texas.

A memorial service celebrating his life washeld June 25 at St. Christopher’s EpiscopalChurch in El Paso. The family requested thatin lieu of flowers, memorials be made toClinica Guadalupana near Horizon City, orSt. Brendan’s Episcopal Church.

Lillard Thompson, foundingforce in Horizon, dies at 82

With the summer travel season underwayand Texas consumers watching the cost of fill-ing up their gas tanks steadily increase, theymay believe that oil companies are getting richat their expense. This is an understandable butcommon misconception whenever prices seemto inflate inexplicably.

Unfortunately, some federal policymakersare all too eager to seize on this frustration andpropose so-called solutions like price controlsto stop so-called “price gouging.” Phrases likethese should raise red flags, because no matterhow well-intentioned or politically motivated,history and basic economics teach us that pricecaps ultimately produce harsh unintended con-sequences, including supply shortages and un-necessary economic hardships for consumers.

Anyone who remembers the long lines, gasshortages and inflation from the 1970’s pricecontrols on gasoline knows that this is not alegacy to fall back on.

Despite previous lessons learned and theoverwhelming evidence that price controls sim-ply do not work, Congress is again looking toshelve the requisite leadership needed to imple-

ment sound energy policies based on supplyand demand. Rather than helping to increasedomestic refining capacity and reduce our de-pendence on foreign oil, they instead have cho-sen a purely political strategy void of economicfundamentals.

Of course, there is no sense in taking the hardroad to address increasing gas prices or thenation’s broader energy challenges when point-ing fingers is so much easier.

Consumers should note that while such law-makers seem preoccupied in their misguidedpursuit to label “culprits” in the court of pub-lic opinion, they might ask their elected offi-cials to look in the mirror. On average, Ameri-can consumers already pay 42 cents per gallonin combined federal and state taxes on gasoline.

Spikes in fuel prices during the devastating2005 hurricane season have been the primarymotivation for “price gouging” legislation andinvestigations, including here in Texas. Suspi-cions hold that producers were profitingfrom tragedy, but the economic reality is that

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CANUTILLO — Canutillo Alumni Foundation forEducation (CAFE) awarded $12,500 in scholarships toCanutillo High School Class of 2007 during its gradua-tion ceremony held in May.

During the ceremony, Armando Rodriguez, CAFEvice-president, announced the selection of nine gradu-ates who will receive $1,000 each and another sevengraduates who will receive $500 each.

This year’s CAFE scholarship recipients are: CarlosCarrasco, Marcus Maldonado, Oscar Trillo, RichardSapien, Anja Kruger, Mayra Contreras, Erik Pavia,Mayra Navarrette, Bernny Apodaca, Maria Luisa

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SERVING UP BENEFIT — CAFE Scholarship recipients, shown seated from left are Mayra Navarrette, AnjaKruger, Julio Martinez, Christina Cereceres, Tahlia Leyva, Veronica Howell, Daisy Guerrero, Mayra Contreras,Maria Luisa Vasquez; and standing, from left, are Bernny Apodaca, Erik Pavia, Richard Sapien, CarlosCarrasco, Oscar Trillo, Francisco Ambriz.

Canutillo Alumni Foundation awards scholarshipsBy Alfredo VasquezSpecial to the Courier

Vasquez, Violetta Duran, Tahlia Leyva, ChristinaCereceres, Francisco Ambriz, Julio Martinez, andVeronica Howell.

“We started with plans to award nine $1,000 scholar-ships only, but after the scholarship committee reviewedthe students’ CAFE scholarship applications, we decidedto add seven $500 scholarships to help more students,”said Rodriguez.

CAFE is a non-profit foundation initiated in 2003 byCHS alumni to establish a scholarship fund that wouldassist CHS students with their post-secondary educationexpenses. The group has awarded more than $30,000 inscholarships since its inception.

Major funding for CAFE scholarships is raised throughits annual golf tournament. For more information aboutCAFE, call 877-7482.

For at-risk students wanting toearn a high school diplomaSocorro Independent School Dis-trict is offering a new option. Forthe 2007-08 school year, theSocorro ISD Options High School(SOHS), 12380 Pine Springs, willopen its doors on July 19, 2007 tohelp students earn a diploma in aninnovative educational program.

Options High School assists at-risk and drop out students in earn-ing high school credits in a non-traditional setting by offering tra-ditional courses such as English,Math, History and Economics in aself-paced learning environment.Evening classes will be offeredbased on student demand. To beeligible for this school, potentialstudents must:

• Be at least 16 years of age andless than 21 years of age on or af-ter September 1st;

• Be eligible for enrollment at anSISD campus; and

• May have previously droppedout of school.

Socorro campus willtarget at-risk students

“We will have individual instruc-tion plans for each student based ontheir needs,” says Ramon Aguilar,Options High School Administrator.“We will have a computer basedprogram, a self-paced module andteacher instruction for students whoneed more involvement.”

Students will also have to com-plete a SOHS application, andschedule and attend an entranceinterview with parents. The schoolis also geared to help students whoneed to work and cannot completeschool coursework under the tra-ditional school schedule. Eligibil-ity is extended to students who arehomeless students, teen parents,pregnant or have a parent who isincarcerated or have passed way.

“This school offers a flexible forstudents who want to be in schoolbut are working 8 to 5 jobs to sup-port their families,” says Aguilar.“The students who come to thisschool are serious about gettingtheir diploma.”

The school will enroll 150 stu-dents for the upcoming school yearand house 42 classrooms and 10labs. For more information, pleasecall 937-0000 or 860-7206.

By Irma FloresSpecial to the Courier

fluctuations in fuel prices serve asbasic signals to producers to eitherincrease or decrease supplies. Thisholds true both in times of crisis andnormal operations. Because of themassive damage that occurred in theGulf Coast, where 30 percent of pro-duction was estimated to be knockedoffline, energy supply and distributionwas severely interrupted throughoutthe nation. In response, gasolineprices rose to most efficiently allocatethe available supplies to the areas theywere most needed.

Following these hurricanes, theFederal Trade Commission (FTC)investigated allegations of price ma-nipulations, but found no evidenceof widespread “price gouging.” Infact, over the last several decades,the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) and the FTC both have in-vestigated numerous instances of re-

gional price spikes. The conclusionshave been the same: gasoline priceincreases were due to basic supplyand demand economics and thatprice variances corresponded di-rectly to available supplies.

Yet, had “price gouging” legisla-tion now being supported in Con-gress been in place during Hurri-canes Rita and Katrina, the ultimateresult would have been higher costsfor consumers and tighter supply. Arecent American Council for CapitalFormation (ACCF) economic studyreviewed investigations of past gaso-line price increases. In every case, theprice increases were due to the op-eration of supply and demand and notfrom withholding supplies.

The study also estimated costs as-sociated with price controls as definedunder current legislative proposals.Had they been implemented duringthe supply disruptions caused byKatrina and Rita that occurred be-tween September and October 2005,the cost would have totaled $1.9 bil-lion. Price controls would have made

shortages worse by reducing suppliesavailable to consumers. Imposingcriminal charges for price increaseswould discourage suppliers fromseeking replacement supplies ̂ whichmight cost more — therefore limit-ing consumers’ access to gasoline sup-ply. Further, the very expectation ofprice controls would tend to discour-age refinery investment, resulting intighter capacity at all times.

No one likes to pay more at thepump. Yet, while such misguided andineffective “price-gouging” laws mayplay well for politicians in the short-term, they will ultimately harm thevery consumers they are purportedlymeant to protect.______________________________________________________Bill Peacock is Director for the Cen-ter for Economic Freedom with theTexas Public Policy Foundation, anon-profit, free-market research in-stitute based in Austin. Dr. MargoThorning is Senior Vice Presidentand Chief Economist of the Ameri-can Council for Capital Formation(www.accf.org).

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PUBLIC NOTICEVillage of Vinton, Texas

Texas Community DevelopmentBlock Grant Program

The Village of Vinton will hold a public hearing at 6:00p.m. on July 5, 2007, at Village of Vinton City Hall inregard to the submission of a Disaster Relief Fund appli-cation to the Office of Rural Community Affairs for aTexas Community Development Block Grant Program(TCDBG) grant. The purpose of this meeting is to allowcitizens an opportunity to discuss the Citizen Participa-tion Plan, to obtain citizen comments on the develop-ment of a Disaster Relief application to address damagescaused by August 2006 floods, and inform the citizens ofTCDBG funding available, all eligible TCDBG activi-ties, and the use of past TCDBG funds. The City encour-ages citizens to participate in the development of thisTCDBG application and to make their views known atthis public hearing. Citizens unable to attend this meet-ing may submit their views and proposals to Jessica Garza,Village Clerk, at the City Hall. Persons with disabilitiesthat wish to attend this meeting should contact City Hallto arrange for assistance. Individuals who require auxil-iary aids or services for this meeting should contact CityHall at least two days before the meeting so that appro-priate arrangements can be made.

Madeleine Praino, Mayor Published:Village of Vinton, Texas 06/28/07

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percent of all private sector work-ers and provide nearly 45 percentof the nations’ payroll, accordingto the Small BusinessAdministration’s Office of Advo-cacy. But 40 percent of smallbusinesses never reopen after adisaster. The Institute for Eco-nomic Development’s San Anto-nio Small Business DevelopmentCenter, El Paso Community Col-lege Small Business Develop-ment Center and the El PasoMayor’s Office hopes to alterthose odds by hosting a confer-ence on July 30, to assist smallbusinesses in the development ofemergency preparedness businesscontinuity plans. “The WorkplaceEmergency Preparedness forSmall Business Conference” willbe held at the Embassy Suites,6100 Gateway East, El Paso, TX(79905) 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Registration and Breakfast willbegin at 7:00 a.m. The cost for at-tending is $75. Breakfast, lunchand breaks included along withthe book “Contingency Planning

and Disaster Recovery; A Smallbusiness Guide” Co-Authored byDonna Childs; a Manhattan smallbusiness owner whose business didsurvive after the 9-11 attacks, andcredits her risk management as-sessment and prior contingencyplanning as the keys to why shewas able to return her Wall Streetbusiness to operational capacity inless than a week. The book nor-mally retails for $60.00. Partici-pants will also receive an Emer-gency Preparedness CD. Theconference’s featured speaker’s areMayor Cook and Deputy ChiefDon Berger, Emergency Manage-ment Coordinator for the city of ElPaso. Keynote Speakers at Lunchwill be Chief Grijalva, Police Chieffor El Paso Community Collegeand Peg Callahan; Director of theHuman Capital Program of Uni-versity of Texas, San Antonio.Callahan will be leading a paneldiscussion with small businessowners in El Paso who survivedthe recent flood.

� Career Centers of Texas – ElPaso will host a combined healthand career fair open to the generalcommunity on Friday July 6, 2007from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Health professionals fromFEMA, Mission Valley PoliceDepartment, National MarrowDonor program, Planned Parent-hood, Stars-Rape Crisis Center,United Blood Services, VisitingNurse Association, Vital CareHome Health and various localemployers will attend. Healthprofessionals from each of thegroups will provide informationto the public about their services.FEMA will focus on their workwith 2006 El Paso flood victims.United Blood Services will col-lect blood donations and the Na-tional Marrow Donor programwill collect buccal (mouth) swabsfor bone marrow donations. Mis-sion Valley police officers will beavailable to take children’s finger-prints, which will be entered intoa database and could be used forchild identification. In addition,medical assistant students andfaculty from the school will helpto conduct blood glucose screen-ings free of charge. Various localemployers will also attend theevent to speak about full and part-time employment opportunities.Location: Career Centers ofTexas, 8360 Burnham Road, Ste.100, El Paso, TX 79907.

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Highlights of the June meetings ofthe Canutillo Independent SchoolDistrict, San Elizario IndependentSchool District and the Town of Clint.________________________________________________

Canutillo ISD: June 12Reporting on the results of recent

TAKS scores, Dr. James Steinhauser,executive director for school improve-ment, had good news for the board.All campuses’ ratings were acceptable.

Alfredo Vasquez, public informa-tion officer, gave a breakdown on theoverall, cumulative TAKS test scoresfor third- and fifth-graders. They rep-resented only a slight change fromlast year. This is after administeringthe test twice. The third testing is thisweek.

The exit tests for high school stu-dents will be held July 11-13.

Scores are:• Reading/English Language Arts:

84 percent, an increase of two overlast year.

• Writing: 91 percent, same as lastyear.

• Social Studies: 80 percent, up twopoints from last year.

• Science: 56 percent, same as lastyear.

Tony Reza, executive director forbusiness services, updated the boardon the district’s preliminary budgetwhich stands at more than $43 mil-lion for the coming school year. Thisis an increase of approximately $3million.

Highlighting Reza’s report,Vasquez said the state legislaturemandated a cutback in the tax ratefrom $1.37 per $100 property valua-tion to $1.00. At the same time, thestate also approved an increase offour cents to $1.04. This representsan additional $1.13 million in in-come.

Preliminary property valuationsfor the school district topped $1 bil-lion by $67 million. After the appealsprocess, it is estimated that propertyvaluations will be in the $992 mil-lion range.

The board of trustees honored thevaledictorian and salutatorian forCanutillo High’s Class of 2007. Theyare valedictorian Carlos Carrasco andsalutatorian Erik Pavia.

Also recognized for her achieve-ment was teacher Connie Trujillo,who was named 2007 Teacher of theYear by the South West Associationof Bilingual Educators.

Town of Clint: June 12Mayor Dale Reinhardt reported

that he is working with the SocorroCity Council to establish more easilyand more clearly identifiable bound-aries between the two communities.This he explained, deals with the ETJ,extra-territorial jurisdiction of themunicipalities. The purpose is to findcommon landmarks, such as drainageditches, to identify boundaries—andnot go by a red line on a map.

Reinhardt said Tuesday that he’dbe presenting a boundary plan to hiscouncil at their July 10th meeting fortheir approval. He would then presentit to the Socorro City Council.

He also reported on efforts to cleanup the Clint cemetery and make itmore presentable—out of respect tothose who are buried there.

The council also approved JaimeAlvarado as the town’s attorney.

T h r e ecouncil mem-bers weresworn in.They areL i n d aCandelaria,R i c h a r dSepulveda and Jesus Oropeza.

San Elizario ISD: June 13George Luevano, the district’s sup-

port services coordinator, updatedtrustees on construction projects.

He reported that work on the $3.1million cafeteria/gym project atAlarcon Elementary is 40 percentcomplete. Unexpected delays werecaused by unearthing old septic sys-tems and retention tanks. It haspushed back the completion date tomid- or late October of this year.

At Alarcon, the old cafeteria will bethe new gym. The old kitchen will betraining for food services personnel.

The work on the new 18-roomclassroom wing and library at Garcia-Enriquez Middle School, he said, is60 percent complete. It is expectedto be completed by mid-September.The cost is $5.2 million.

Judge Ruben Lujan swore in IreneJacquez to her new term on the boardof trustees.

Government highlights By Don Woodyard

The Socorro Independent SchoolDistrict Board of Trustees voted innew officers during a special meet-ing held on June 5 at the District Ser-vice Center. Three Board memberswere also sworn in after winning theirelection races in May.

Karen Blaine, Guillermo Gandara,and George Salas were sworn in atthe start of the meeting. Followingthe swearing in ceremony, the Boardof Trustees unanimously elected theBoard President, Vice President andSecretary.

“It was good to see a unanimousvote for all three officer positions,”says Blaine who will serve her firstfull term on the board. “I’m verypleased that the constituents of mydistrict wanted me to continue thework I’m doing for them.”

“It feels good that the people re-elected me because it shows I’m do-ing a good job,” says Gandara whowill serve his third term.

“The board is moving in the right

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REPEAT AFTER ME — Notary Public Lupe Lujan oversees the swearingin of SISD Board of Trustees members George Salas and Karen Blaine.

Socorro ISD Trustees takeoath, officers voted in

By Irma FloresSpecial to the Courier

direction,” says Salas who was re-elected to serve another 3-year term.“We have developed a good relation-ship and I am confident in thedistrict’s leadership.”

Serving the Socorro ISD as newBoard President is Charles Garcia,serving as Vice-President is Karen

Blaine and serv-ing as Secretaryis BarbaraPerez-Pena. Theremaining fourboard membersare TrusteesCraig A. Patton,G u i l l e r m oG a n d a r a ,R a y m u n d oRodriguez andGeorge Salas.

“I’m very honored to get the 7-0vote from the board,” says Garcia,SISD Board of Trustees President. “Itshows we are on solid ground and weare going to work together.”

“It’s a vote of confidence on be-half of my colleagues,” Perez-Penawho elected as secretary and servingher 14th year on the SISD board.

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Is anyone out there really surprised thatformer NMSU coach Reggie Theus left LasCruces for the millions of dollars and unlim-ited prestige the NBA can offer?

When it was announced that Theus wasnamed the new coach of the Sacramento Kings

last week, I was a little disappointed because Iwas looking forward to his return to El Pasonext season.

If you’ll remember, it was Theus who spentmore of his time arguing with the El Paso fansthan coaching his team when the more talentedAggies outlasted UTEP last season.

Theus has never been one to shy away froma fight, or a camera, and he let everyone knowafter the game that he was upset with the an-

tics of some of the El Paso fans and embar-rassed that the locals didn’t even fill the DonHaskins Center for the I-10 rivalry.

He was right about the low attendance, but heshowed a lack of class and restraint by pointinghis finger at the crowd and shouting at the fans.

Although his ego sometimes turned peopleoff, there’s no doubt that he did a remarkablejob bringing winning and respect back to theAggies’ basketball program.

The Aggies were just 6-24 prior to his ar-rival. Last season they were 25-9 and playedin the NCAA Tournament.

His flash and flare was made for the brightlights of the NBA. He loves the camera andthe camera loves him. He’ll be right at home.

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Seems UTEP and NMSU have seen the lastof the Don Haskins and Lou Henson kind ofloyalty. The sad fact is that the Miners and theAggies are programs great young coaches willcome to — on their way to some place better.

The Miners seem to be headed in the rightdirection under Tony Barbee, and the Aggieswill find some bright young coach to replaceTheus.

Only problem is, as soon as they flourish,both coaches will be gone in an instant — tobigger and better things.

GiambiGateSome time in July, New York Yankees slug-

I mean. However, it did wonders for his over-all muscle mass.

So while everyone in the country knows whatGiambi was talking about, what are he andMitchell going to talk about? Is he expectingGiambi to do his best Joseph McCarthy im-pression and name names? Is Giambi going topay a hefty price if he doesn’t name names?

All these questions should be answered af-ter the two gentlemen speak. But in my humbleestimation, absolutely nothing substantial isgoing to come out of this meeting.

There is too much time between now andthen.

Lawyers, coaches, opposing players, team-mates and family members are going to talk toGiambi and remind him about the conse-quences of incriminating himself and otherplayers.

And of course everyone knows that the big-gest fish they want to catch, figuratively andliterally, is Barry Bonds, who is edging evercloser to Hank Aaron’s all-time home run mark.

But I have a feeling that the only way thereal truth will ever come out is when these play-ers are brought before Congress to testify un-der oath.

Until then, all this George Mitchell stuff iswindow dressing.

It sounds great, it looks like somethingis being done, but like Rosie O’Donnell— it’s all big talk with nothing substan-tial behind it.

It’s like when I cook something for mykids — it looks pretty impressive from adistance, but the taste never quite lives upto the hype.

Thankfully, there’s Pizza Hut.

Theus leaves NMSU for the bright lights of the NBA

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ger Jason Giambi is sched-uled to speak with GeorgeMitchell, the man headingprofessional baseball’s in-vestigation into the steroidsand human growth hor-mone scandal.

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AMBER WAVES By Dave T. Phipps

THE SPATS By Jeff Pickering

R.F.D. By Mike Marland

By Don FloodA recent news story told how

Dutch scientists were experi-menting with growing meat in alaboratory.

I don’t know what the big dealis. Our college cafeteria ladies pro-duced a meat-like substance backin the mid-1970s.

Discussing exactly what kindof meat it was constituted a largeportion of our intellectual life atcollege.

Some said it was beef; some saidit was a pork product of some kind.Still others argued the collegechefs were displaying their culi-nary skills with horsemeat.

Looking back, however, I’m rea-sonably certain the college had per-fected the art of growing its ownbrand of “mystery meat.”

While today’s scientists are de-cades behind our cafeteria ladies,I thought the experiments wereharmless enough — until I read thefollowing:

“Then they stimulate the cells todevelop, give them nutrients andexercise them with electric currentto build bulk.”

Are they out of their minds?If you run an electric current

through tissue to make it grow,monsters develop. This is justbasic science.

When I was growing up, we ben-efited from a well-rounded educa-tion that included a solid founda-tion in the science and history ofWestern Civilization.

This meant learning not onlyabout Batman and Superman, butalso Dracula and Frankenstein and,most important, disembodiedbrains.

Sitting in a laboratory tank withelectrodes attached to them, disem-bodied brains look harmlessenough. Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth.

As documented in horror mov-ies, they quickly acquire the abil-

ity to force others to do their will.Unfortunately, disembodied brainsrarely lean toward the happy-go-lucky type.

If they simply willed someoneto take up juggling, there’d be noharm done. But instead of lookingon the bright side — they don’thave to cut the grass, for example— disembodied brains often retaina bitter outlook on life, possiblybecause they wind up losing theirgirlfriend, and meeting a new oneis always hard, even with onlinedating services.

(Magazine articles often say sexappeal is all in the mind. Don’t be-lieve it. Even an out-of-shape bodyis better than no body.)

Sooner or later, disembodiedbrains always turn to murder.

Experimental meat will proveto be just as dangerous, and notjust because it makes for a lousycasserole.

Here’s what will happen. It’squarter to five, and the scientistsmove the clocks up so they canhead out early for Happy Hour.

Back in the lab, the meat sitsthere, pulsing to the electricshocks. Suddenly, the spookymusic begins.

Spooky music, for reasons notcompletely understood (except bymyself, but I don’t feel like ex-plaining it), signals the electrifiedtissue that it’s time to turn into amonster.

Overnight, it grows and grows,and next morning the returning sci-entists get eaten — which is onlyfair — but soon the monster es-capes and begins destroyingnearby towns. It never ends well.

The moral: If you want to createmonsters that will destroy yourcity, by all means continue yourinsane experiments. If you wantthe secret to mystery meat, checkout the college cafeteria.______________________________________________________(c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

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— declare your own independencethis Forth of July by doing it your-self — using Social Security’s onlineservices. For more information, visitwww.socialsecurity.gov or call us at1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778).______________________________________________________For more information on any of thequestions listed above, visit ourwebsite at www.socialsecurity.gov orcall us at 1-800-772-1213. If youhave any questions that you wouldlike to have answered, please mailthem to the Social Security Office,11111 Gateway West, Attn: Ray Vigil,El Paso, Texas 79935.

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immediate importance of this issueand the opinions of the Task Force. Ialso invited some of the Task Forcemembers to join me on the BarbaraPerez Radio Show and had the plea-sure of having others appear as guestson my television show, Congress onthe Border, which will air on TimeWarner cable channel 14.

Comprehensive immigration re-form must remain a top priority forthis Congress. We must strengthenborder security, ensure earned legal-ization for those who qualify, andcreate a guest worker program withtough employer sanctions.

The opportunity still exists forimmigration reform, and I continueto assert the need to pass these re-forms as soon as possible. As a 26∏ year veteran of the U.S. BorderPatrol and Chairman of the HouseIntelligence Committee, I considerimmigration reform a national se-curity issue, and have advocatedfor reforms throughout my ten-yeartenure on Capitol Hill.

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tax audit by working closely withyour accountant to ensure you aremaintaining accurate records.

2. An IRS tax auditor will mail youthe list of questions to respond to dur-ing the audit. Work closely with a taxaccountant to prepare the answers tothese questions. Gather all receiptsfor tax deductions, invoices for in-come, and any other documentationused when preparing the return. Itwill then be a matter of presentingyour case to the IRS.

3. If the IRS insists on an in-per-son meeting, you have the right tosend your tax accountant in yourplace. You don’t need to be present,if you choose not to be.

4. Keep your answers simple andstick to the questions the IRS askedin your audit letter. Don’t bring docu-ments that are unrelated to those is-sues. That will just give the IRS anopportunity to start asking differentquestions. Sticking to the list keepsboth you and the auditor focused onthe main issues.

5. Keep detailed records of yourconversations and correspondencewith the IRS so it will be easy toreview past communications ifnecessary.

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Canutillo High School officials announced recentlythat they have named varsity head coaches for GirlsVolleyball, Boys Basketball, Girls Soccer, Tennis, andWrestling for next school year.

Yesenia Alarcon was named Girls Varsity Vol-leyball head coach. She was Junior Varsity headcoach and Varsity Assistant for El Paso HighSchool, last year.

David Ortega was named Boys Basketball headcoach. He was Junior Varsity head coach and Varsity

Canutillo High School names new coachesAssistant for Chapin High School.

Claudia Martinez was named Girls Soccer headcoach. She was Junior Varsity Girls Soccer coach forCanutillo High School, last year. She is currently ateacher at Alderete Middle School in the CanutilloSchool District.

Hevila (Billy) Ramos was named Tennis coach.She is currently teaching Science at Canutillo HighSchool. This is Canutillo High Schoolís first yearto offer Tennis.

Carlos Saucedo was named Wrestling coach. He wasAssistant Varsity Wrestling coach for Riverside HighSchool. Wrestling is also being offered for the firsttime this coming school year.

By Alfredo VasquezSpecial to the Courier

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