Greenwald to Speak About Find Near Tularosa NM of EPCC Said

VOL. 45, No. 19 SERVING ANTHONY, VINTON, CANUTILLO, EAST MONTANA, HORIZON, SOCORRO, CLINT, FABENS, SAN ELIZARIO AND TORNILLO MAY 10, 2018 NEWSBRIEFS Short lived The Cashier comic strip, after just two months in the Courier, has been cancelled by our syndicate. – Rick Shrum

EPCC expansion El Paso Community College (EPCC) began its next campus expansion project with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Rio Grande campus on May 4, 2018. As part of its Master Plan, developed in 2013, EPCC is adding six buildings on its five campuses to enhance student experiences and to prepare for future growth. “These campus expansions illustrate our values, our – Photo by Dave Greenwald (2017) strategic intentions and our steadfast DIGGING HISTORY – Above is a profile of Feature 56, which is part of the main ditch from the reservoir to the agricultural terraces surrounding the ruins of Creekside Village near Tularosa, NM. commitment to improving educational opportunities for students in our region,” Dr. William Serrata, President Greenwald to speak about find near Tularosa NM of EPCC said. EPCC’s Master Plan volunteers continue to unearth evidence Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301 recommended multiple phases of By Alfredo Vasquez of the complexity of the village that once Transmountain Road. The meeting is free construction to expand facilities. Special to the Courier These important projects will address thrived near Tularosa, New Mexico- about and open to the public. campus improvement needs and a two-hour drive from El Paso. Greenwald’s presentation, titled “The make sure EPCC has the capacity EL PASO COUNTY – Ongoing Greenwald will share his findings at Rio Tularosa Project: Current Research to serve students with additional investigations at Creekside Village by the El Paso Archaeological Society’s and Latest Discoveries”, will shed light on classroom and laboratory space, archaeologist David Greenwald, president (EPAS) next monthly meeting, scheduled state-of-the art learning experiences of Jornada Research Institute (JRI), and for 2 p.m., Saturday, May 19, at the El See FIND, Page 2 and improved technology. These projects will enhance student life and experience while providing new and Valenzuela finds success innovative learning opportunities. The Rio Grande campus expansion with EPCC commitment will add additional classrooms to More scholarships, education earned enhance its healthcare programs. This building will also enable the growth By Alejandra Hinojosa of Emergency Medical Technician Special to the Courier (EMT) and Echocardiography programs. Visit http://buildthefuture. epcc.edu to learn more about the EL PASO COUNTY – With graduation just around the EPCC projects. corner Merari Valenzuela’s future in cross-country and – Jim Heiney therefore college – was uncertain. In 2016, during her senior year at El Paso High School Tree booklet she had torn her ACL during basketball season and split her The Arbor Day Foundation is meniscus. offering a handy tree-care booklet Valenzuela was faced with the decision to either go through designed to help people plant and surgery with the challenge of learning how to walk again care for trees. Anyone can receive before she could tie up her laces again and race competitively Conservation Trees, a user-friendly in a 5k or wait until basketball season was over. booklet featuring illustrations, With a full cross-country scholarship at El Paso Community colorful photos, and easily College (EPCC) on the line she chose surgery in the hopes of understood descriptions, by making being better by the start of the cross-country season. Then, a $3 donation to the Foundation this the healing process began and that takes time. month. “Conservation Trees is an “Most institution usually opted to drop the student athlete, ideal resource for tree planters,” said which is within the bounds of the National Junior College Matt Harris, chief executive of the Athletic Association policies,” said Cross Country Coach Arbor Day Foundation. “Taking care Felix Hinojosa. “However, our program takes a different of existing trees is just as critical as approach. We would rather work with the student athlete.” planting new ones, and proper care For the first 6 months, Valenzuela could not run, but EPCC honored her scholarship and she was able to complete her See BRIEFS, Page 5 education, while being red-shirted on the cross-country team for her first season. “It was frustrating at times because you want to be with Rejecting things because they are your teammates,” she said. “It’s like you see them running old-fashioned would rule out the and you want to go but your leg doesn’t let you because sun, the moon, and a mother’s love. it’s still trying to recuperate and heal. I had to learn how to – Photo courtesy EPCC — Quips & Quotes NEW MEXICO BOUND – Merari Valenzuela has earned scholarships to See VALENZUELA, Page 3 attend New Mexico State University. Page 2 West Texas County Courier May 10, 2018

Budget, and even more took his amazing detour into Buying democracy damagingly, has been appointed remarkable candor: Speaking by the president, on an interim of his days as a congressman, Let’s face it – the United States I have to say I appreciate it basis, to head the Consumer he said that, when it came to of America’s government is not when someone is so honest about Financial Protection Bureau. scheduling meetings: “If you’re a democracy like the textbook his or her own dishonesty. Rarely, The CFPB was formed out of the a lobbyist who never gave us propaganda claims. No matter however, is someone so candid rubble of the economic debacle money, I didn’t talk to you. If the intent of the founders, we as Mick Mulvaney. He now in 2008 to, as the name suggests, you’re a lobbyist who gave us have evolved into a pay-to-play heads the Trump administration’s protect the consumer, particularly money, I might talk to you.” oligarchy, where money rules. Office of Management and against the excesses and outright There’s no “might” about Agency, where after being thievery of the financial industry. it, actually. Like just about barely confirmed by the U.S. Village, according to Greenwald; Over consistent Republican every American politician who Senate, he has been hellbent on and, although restricted by limited objections, the agency issued wishes to get elected and re- gutting rules long established to access, some surface observations regulations that would offer some elected, a huge amount of time protect the planet from corporate indicate that the Twin Kiva ditch federal protections against these is spent fundraising – which is profiteering. system extended as far as the behemoths whose executives ran to say groveling for campaign He also has been hellbent on reservoir at Creekside Village, he the monetary system into the contributions, which is another living a cushy life in Washington, stated. Greenwald explained that ground with their greed. way to describe legalized bribes. financed by these same fat cats researchers currently are focused Until Trump. Donald Trump This corruption saturates our (think of his low-cost condo on the Twin Kiva irrigation came into office demonizing political system. It is bipartisan; accommodations) and more community, a sophisticated ditch regulation, and he certainly Democrats are as guilty of selling egregiously, the taxpayers (think system that tapped the Rio Tularosa has lived up to his campaign their souls as Republicans. It’s of prohibited first-class airfare, – Photo by Heather Blanton (2008) near Bent, NM and carried water rhetoric by gutting the rules just that the Trumpsters are more etc). ON THE JOB – Dave Greenwald downstream from the Twin Kiva that were set out to create a blatant about it. Again, Pruitt and the other has participated in numerous archaeological excavation Village. greed shield. Mulvaney is a Scott Pruitt is the latest one to Trumpsters’ conduct is not projects throughout the “Studies of the ditches that willing executioner. He had wallow in the self-created muck. unique and certainly not limited Southwest U.S. including being supplied water to the agricultural already established a harsh His public life has been lavishly to Republicans. The Clintons on a surveying project in Arizona terraces provide increasing support record as a South Carolina GOP subsidized by energy companies have faced similar accusations. It where this photo was taken. for the presence of the- as yet congressman, a tea party favorite that don’t want to be bothered was Will Rogers who described unconfirmed- reservoir through for his limited-government by government limitations. Congress as the “best that money Find examination of the sediments extremism – except when it came In Pruitt’s native Oklahoma, can buy.” Regrettably, that From Page 1 within the ditches and our efforts to protecting the rich, particularly where he was a state senator stain covers our entire political to trace them toward the reservoir those who threw crumbs of their and later attorney general, he system. the intricate irrigation systems, location,” Greenwald stated. “Over ill-gotten gains at politicians like had a reputation of opposition ______terraced fields, and distribution time, mapping has been completed him. to anything his private-industry of houses and residential areas in greater detail regarding Loci 2 Now in his new role, there benefactors disliked. Naturally (c) 2018 Bob Franken. that are now being explored in and 3 (excavation sites to the west he was, speaking to a group of Donald Trump picked him to head Distributed by King Features the rolling hills of southern New of the reservoir’s main ridge.),” he bankers (what else?) when he the Environmental Protection Syndicate, Inc. Mexico’s Mesilla valley. asserted. Several EPAS members take “If such associations can be part in archaeological tours and defined, it would demonstrate the volunteer field work organized by occurrence of inter-community R.V. calls the non-profit JRI. According to interaction and cooperation organizers, JRI’s mission is to study between contemporaneous the archaeological, ethno-historic, villages, further indicating the it a day historic and natural resources of level of settlement, land-use, and the northern Chihuahuan Desert socio-political complexity during By Rick Shrum of Arizona, New Mexico, West the Mesilla phase in the Tularosa Texas and adjacent regions. Canyon,” Greenwald claimed. Neither Dick nor I can In recent years, JRI’s research EPAS’s guest speaker said that remember what exact year we efforts have been expanded to met – whether it was 1993 or 94. include areas upstream of Creekside See FIND, Page 6 At the time he had a windshield repair business called Jiffy Glass Repair. He’d set up shop at busy intersections and fix your glass dings. 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About six or seven weeks – Photo by Rick Shrum Phone: 852-3235 ago, and into his 3rd car on the OFF THE JOB – R.V. “Dick” Harshberger delivered the Courier for 25 years. E-mail: [email protected] job, Dick said it was time to Website: wtxcc.com find a new man. And then he had all of his windshield repair papers out there.” I did a little Publisher actually found a young go-getter equipment. Hmm. math and figure he delivered H Rick Shrum Contributors Homesteader to take over. His last delivery I talked to Dick this week. “I around 11 million papers over Alfredo Vasquez Est. 1973 was a month ago. R.V. “Dick” loved every minute of it. I loved the years for the Courier. Member Texas Community Steve Escajeda Newspaper Association News, Inc. Harshberger called it a day at age meeting the people,” he said. Thanks Dick, for a job well 81 – although he did say he still He added that he’d “put a lot of done. May 10, 2018 West Texas County Courier Page 3

walk again and learn all the basics,” Valenzuela Valenzuela said. Trump’s Nobel can wait From Page 1 “We incorporated multi-joint Who would have guessed that a selling us the same fake concessions movement training patterns, water Trump crowd 15 months into his in exchange for sanctions relief and running, woodway curve treadmill intervals and sport specific presidency would be chanting, economic benefits. strength training,” Hinojosa said. With this additional strengthening “Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!” Inspiring talk with the South and conditioning exercises from Cross Country Coach Felix As in Alfred Nobel, the Swedish Koreans about a breakthrough to Hinojosa, Valenzuela was able to make a full recovery and run inventor and philanthropist who a new era of peace? To paraphrase high-wire summit with Soviet with her teammates in the women’s half marathon in 2017. created the prizes, including one Barack Obama’s famous put- leader Mikhail Gorbachev The team placed second at the National Junior College Athletic for peace. The prize was on the down of Mitt Romney – 1992, at Reykjavik in 1986. They Association Championship in Topeka, Kansas. minds of Trump fans thanks to 2000 and 2007 all want their audaciously discussed eliminating Throughout her training and healing process, Valenzuela also developments on the Korean foreign policies back. High-flying all nuclear weapons, before the maintained a 4.0 GPA, which has earned her an Out of State peninsula, where Kim Jong Un joint declarations in each of those Soviets demanded an end to the Competitive Award of $15,579 per academic year at New Mexico has stopped testing missiles and years proved meaningless. SDI missile-defense program. State University. Additionally, she was awarded the 1888 Leadership started love-bombing the South. Mothballing nuclear facilities Reagan walked away. The summit Transfer Scholarship which amounts to $2,500 per academic year. Donald Trump has a typically as a sign of good faith? Kim is was considered a failure, but “EPCC has helped me maintain a high GPA because our coach modulated view of how much he inviting the press to witness the Reagan had convinced the Soviets emphasizes the fact that we are students before athletes,” she said. “He had to do with this. “Everything,” shuttering of a tunnel complex that we weren’t going to give up expects us to maintain a high GPA because it opens up opportunities he told his Michigan rally. If used to test nuclear weapons. our technological advantage over to receive academic scholarships. Having a high GPA allows us to be that’s too boastful, the president His father destroyed a cooling them. noticed more when it comes to honor societies as well.” deserves credit for breaking tower in front of the international Trump should conceive of Valenzuela said since she started at EPCC, she decided to major with Barack Obama’s policy media in 2008. his meeting with Kim as a in Biology in preparation for becoming a Neonatologist, or a of “strategic patience” that Promises to the U.S. to disarm? continuation of his campaign of doctor who works with newborns. effectively meant accepting Pyongyang said it was ending coercive diplomacy. Should it In 5 years she hopes to be finished with medical school and North Korea’s march toward a its illicit plutonium program in (in all likelihood) fail to elicit a starting her residency. Valenzuela credits her success as a runner nuclear-tipped ICBM. the 1994 Agreed Framework. It credible decision by the North and as a student to her coach and EPCC. “Here at EPCC, you Trump tightened up on a said it was giving up “all nuclear to give up its nukes, it should be are close to home, but you are also independent, and athletically sanctions regime. And he undertook weapons and existing nuclear the pivot toward an even harsher it helped me become a new runner and find out what are my a Trumpian pressure campaign programs” in 2005 as part of the clampdown on the North. strengths and weaknesses.” consisting of insults, fiery rhetoric, so-called Six-Party Talks. It said None of the great and good extreme ambiguity about his true in 2007 that it was agreeing to are going to shower Trump with intentions and braggadocio about specific steps to follow through accolades for being clear-eyed the size of his nuclear button. If on its 2005 commitment. All and tough-minded, but that’s many in the United States were came to naught. what his negotiations with Kim freaked out, it stands to reason that This is why the ultimate test of require. The Nobel can wait. Kim took notice. Trump’s mettle isn’t getting Kim ______This is all to the good, but nothing to the negotiating table, but being we have seen so far from Kim is willing to walk away from it. Rich Lowry is editor of the inconsistent with the decades-long He’d do well to familiarize National Review. (c) 2018 by North Korean diplomatic pattern of himself with Ronald Reagan’s King Features Synd., Inc. Page 4 West Texas County Courier May 10, 2018

• It was noted Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel who made the following sage observation: “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”

• You might be surprised to learn that we call coffee beans aren’t actually beans – they’re the pits of the coffee beans.

• Would you believe me if I told you that there were parachutists (better known now as skydivers) before there were airplanes? Yep, it’s true! In Paris in the year 1900, a man leaped from the Eiffel Tower and made a safe descent using a parachute. It wasn’t until December 17, 1903, that the Wright Brothers made the first controlled, sustained powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

• According to statisticians, about 200 people a year die while watching – not playing – football.

– Photo courtesy San Elizario ISD TOP PERFORMERS – San Elizario ISD’s top teachers and employees gathered together on May 4. They are, back row from left, Diana Loya, Brenda • Of all the stamps that have Jara, Sandra Tinajero (Elementary Teacher of the Year), Guadalupe Sanchez, Soledad Gonzalez and Luz Estela Martinez (District Employee of the been used by the U.S. Postal Year). The middle row representatives, from left, are Janie Fernandez, Service, more have featured Maria Serrano and Guadalupe Flores. In front from left are Miguel George Washington than Mendez and Andrew Avila (Secondary Teacher of the Year). any other person; so far there have been 305 with the likeness of the nation’s Tinajero, Avila and Martinez first president.

receive top SEISD honors • If you ever make a trip to Alaska, you might want to of the Year. Tinajero and Avila By Hector Gonzalez keep in mind the fact that will advance to the next level in Special to the Courier it is illegal there to wake a which they will represent SEISD sleeping bear for the purpose in the Region 19 Teacher of the of taking its picture. SAN ELIZARIO – San Elizario Year selection process to take Independent School District place over the summer. • We don’t often associate (SEISD) held its 2018 Teacher Tinajero has been teaching at museums with beverages, but it seems that they’re fairly & Employee of the Year Awards Sambrano Elementary for the past popular throughout the world. Ceremony to honor six teachers three years. She is grateful to be For instance, museums and six employees nominated by working at the school that received dedicated to coffee and/or their campuses for district-wide her with open arms when she was tea can be found in London, honors for their outstanding a child; she is proud to be from the Moscow, Paris, Sao Paolo, performance and commitment San Elizario community. Zurich and Kyoto, as well throughout the school year. Avila has a total of five years as in China, South Korea, The winners were announced working at San Elizario High Colombia and Angola. Friday evening, May 4th, at the School. He had the privilege Germany has three of them. Wyndham El Paso Airport Hotel. to work with the Algebra One Coffee and tea must be quite popular in the Netherlands; Sandra Tinajero from Sambrano team, in which they collectively museums dedicated to the Elementary was chosen as the endeavored to earn the Academic beverages can be found Elementary Teacher of the Year, Achievement in Mathematics there in five different cities. Andrew Avila from San Elizario State Accountability Distinction High School was selected as from T.E.A. in 2017. Thought for the Day: “Testing the Secondary Teacher of the Martinez has been working can show the presence Year, and Luz Estela Martinez of errors, but not their was named District Employee See HONORS, Page 8 absence.” – Edsger Wybe Dijkstra To Advertise Call 852-3235 • Archives: www.wtxcc.com (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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To see how much starchy grain a country is using, would you calculate its consumer rice index? May 10, 2018 West Texas County Courier Page 5 Edwards, Hinojos, honored by Socorro ISD The annual event included Teacher of the Year and the Elite By Christy Flores-Jones attendees from all over the 8 finalists were recognized at the Special to the Courier district, including the SISD gala. • On May 21, 1927, Board of Trustees, teachers, Texas State Rep. Mary American pilot Charles EL PASO COUNTY – Over principals, family members and Gonzalez was the master of A. Lindbergh lands at Le 1,000 people attended the staff members. Each school’s ceremonies for the gala. Bourget Field in Paris, Socorro Independent School successfully completing the District (SISD) 2018 Teacher first solo, nonstop trans- Send Your Newsbrief To: of the Year Gala on May 5 at Atlantic flight. The flight of the Spirit of St. Louis the Judson F. Williams Hall in [email protected] between New York and the El Paso Convention Center. Paris took 33-1/2 hours. Six The annual event honored its 46 men had died attempting Campus Teachers of the Year the same flight. and named its top two Teachers San Elizario Independent School District of the Year. • On May 22, 1958, Tammy Edwards, from PUBLIC NOTICE American singer Jerry Lee Horizon Heights Elementary Public Meeting to Review Lewis arrives in England School, was named the 2018 as a newly married man, Federally Funded Programs SISD Elementary Teacher of with his pretty young wife The San Elizario Independent School District will the Year. Edwards is a special – Photos courtesy Socorro ISD in tow. Within days, it was conduct a public information meeting to review revealed that his new wife, education teacher and the Gifted Tammy Edwards Myra Gail Lewis, was and Talented coordinator at her the following SEISD Programs funded by Federal actually only 13 years old school. She has been teaching funds: and was his first cousin for 15 years. • Title I, Part A – Improving Basic Programs once-removed. “This is a validation of everything I have been doing for • Title I, Part C – Migrant Program • On May 23, 1934, famed the past 15 years,” Edwards said. • Title II, Part A – Improving Teacher and fugitives Clyde Barrow and “This reignites my passion.” Principals Quality Bonnie Parker are killed Eduardo J. Hinojos, from • Title III, Part A – Limited English Proficiency (LEP) when police ambush their car near Sailes, Louisiana. Americas High School, was • Title IV, Part A – Subpart 1 They died in a two-minute named the 2018 SISD Secondary The meeting will be held: Teacher of the Year. A teacher for fusillade of 167 bullets. Thursday, May 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 10 years, Hinojos is the Libertas • On May 24, 1991, the Academy coordinator. Public review of the Federal Application for critically acclaimed road “What an extreme honor it is to Educational funding for San Elizario ISD will be in movie “Thelma and Louise” represent Socorro ISD,” Hinojos the San Elizario ISD Administration Board Room debuts in theaters, stunning said. “This means everything. In at 1050 Chicken Ranch Rd., San Elizario, Texas. audiences with a climactic looking at the other finalists, it’s scene in which its two tough. They all do great things. SEISD does not discriminate against any heroines drive off a cliff individual with regard to race, color, national into the Grand Canyon They all deserve it.” The district elementary and origin, age, religion, sex, marital or veteran status, in a vintage 1966 Ford Eduardo J. Hinojos Thunderbird convertible. secondary winners will go on to the presence of a medical condition, disability, represent SISD in the Region 19 teachers,” said Dr. José Espinoza, or any other legally protected status. 42 U.S.C. • On May 25, 1935, at 2018 Teacher of Year competition SISD Superintendent. “They 2000e-2(a); 20U.S.C. 1681: Labor Code 21-051. Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, in August. educate and treat our students as Babe Ruth hits his 714th “Team SISD has the best if they are our very own!” home run, a record for career San Elizario Independent School District home runs that would stand for almost 40 years. the burden on Women Who AVISO PÚBLICO Briefs Work, particularly moms, From Page 1 La Junta Pública para Revisar los Programas • On May 26, 1897, the first WalletHub compared the copies of the classic vampire attractiveness of each of the de Fondos Federales novel “Dracula,” by Irish ensures communities are able 50 states and the District El Distrito Escolar Independiente de San Elizario writer Bram Stoker, appear to fully enjoy the diverse of Columbia for a working in London bookshops. In llevará a cabo una junta pública para revisar los 1890, Stoker published his benefits of urban forestry.” mother based on 15 key siguientes programas, fondos federales: The booklet provides details metrics. 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CALL 888-852-6250 Moms. In order to help ease – Diana Popa WTCC: 05-10-18 Page 6 West Texas County Courier May 10, 2018 Witten leaves a large hole on and off the field

By Steve Escajeda money with a lot less bruises. missing games with suspensions for drug and he will be sorely missed on the field Special to the Courier Now I wouldn’t call Witten, who has and domestic abuse. and in the locker room. always avoided the limelight, the most At times over the years, the drug thing So the question is raised, how are charismatic person in the world. Believe had gotten so bad in Dallas that the the Cowboys going to replace a legend It’s inevitable, every young player who me, I’ve seen his post-game interviews Cowboys were jokingly referred to as – especially on the heels of releasing is thrilled and scared to death on their first and his Albertson’s commercials. “South Americas’s Team.” another star receiver in Dez Bryant. day walking through the doors of their But like everything else in his life, I Instead of going with the negative flow, They were both huge on the field though new NFL team, will endure a difficult and wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up joining Witten stayed true to his values and set a Dez wasn’t exactly the team leader that tearful goodbye on their way out. his former teammate Tony Romo by hitting good example for players to follow. Witten was. Some will do it right away, some will this announcer gig right out of the park. But he didn’t just lead with his words; While Dallas is hoping to fill Bryant’s very do it on unhappy terms, and some very While Witten leaves a tremendous he let his play on the field do the talking. talented shoes, it’ll be almost impossible fortunate ones will do it after a long and legacy with all the crushing blocks, There was that 53-yard reception in to replace Witten’s leadership and poise. successful career. the clutch third-down catches and the 2007 against the Philadelphia Eagles Something every sports locker room needs The Dallas Cowboys said goodbye to a touchdowns he scored, his actions off the when Witten was hit so hard that his when things are looking bleak. very fortunate player last week. field are just as legendary. helmet flew off his head. While most The Cowboys have been very lucky Jason Witten called it quits after 15 In 2012, Witten received the Walter other players would have gone down right with the tight end position over the years; years of wearing that white and blue star Payton NFL Man of the Year award, there, Witten just kept running fearlessly guys like Jay Novacek, Billy Joe Dupre on the side of his helmet. which has absolutely nothing to do with down the field, head exposed, until he and Doug Cosbie have starred there. The 11-time Pro Bowl tight end finished any touchdowns or catches. was tackled. Even the legendary Mike Ditka caught his career with 1,152 catches for 12,488 He won it for the humanitarian work If that kind of effort doesn’t fire up a a touchdown pass in the 1972 Super yards and 68 touchdowns. He is fourth on his SCORE Foundation does by creating team, not much more will. Bowl during his four-year stint with the the NFL’s all-time list for total number of outreach programs and projects for Then there was the time in 2012 when Cowboys. receptions. victims of domestic abuse in Texas and he played a game with a lacerated spleen. Maybe there’s someone out there who All that remains is his eventual induction his native Tennessee. I’m not sure I’d be able to get up and will soon step in and take over for the into the NFL Hall of Fame. And let’s be honest, the Cowboys have make pancakes with a lacerated spleen. I next decade. Witten will take his career in a new certainly had their troubles in the “bad feel a little queasy just saying lacerated Not only will it be difficult to fill those direction as a commentator on Monday boy” department over the years. Heck, spleen. huge shoes, it’ll be almost impossible to Night Football broadcasts. It’s good they had it last year with several guys But that’s the kind of person Witten is fill that enormous heart.

future plans for conducting investigations at the reservoir Find will be outlined in his talk including confirmation of its From Page 2 existence, function, and associated tie with the Twin Kiva community ditch. “There are far-reaching implications regarding not only the overall organizational elements of Creekside Village but the manner and degree of community development that existed along the Rio Tularosa some 1,400 years ago,” Greenwald maintained. Greenwald, who has been engaged in the archaeology of the Southwest for over 45 years, related that he spent much of his early career in excavation projects at numerous Hohokam sites in the Salt-Gila Basin in and around Phoenix, Arizona. There, he said that he studied settlements from the household level to entire communities, including extensive documentation of canals and water management systems. In addition to conducting surveys over vast areas of New Mexico and Arizona, Greenwald also worked for several years in the Mesa Verde region on Basketmaker III and Pueblo I settlements in the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado drainages of Arizona. He stated that these sites represent the shifting frontier between the Mogollon and Anasazi tribes in the southern Chuska Valley of New Mexico. Greenwald’s upcoming presentation is part of EPAS’s lecture series that is part of its monthly meetings. The non-profit group, which was founded in 1922, is open to individuals and organizations interested in anthropology, archaeology and in the preservation of prehistoric and historic cultural resources. More information may be found on the EPAS website, http://epas.com/membership.htm. Super Crossword

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Gastroesophageal reflux disease can have no symptoms, AMBER WAVES By Dave T. Phipps or many. Sour taste is, in fact, a common symptom. This is the “reflux” of the condition’s name, since it refers to the backward movement of stomach acid – all the way into the back of the throat or even into the mouth. Heartburn is perhaps the most common symptom, but so is difficulty swallowing. This is more common in people with longstanding symptoms. Antacids neutralize the acid in the stomach but do not prevent the reflux of stomach contents. Widely prescribed medications, including H2 blockers like Zantac or Pepcid (“H2” is a type of histamine receptor, a stimulus for acid production) and proton THE SPATS By Jeff Pickering pump inhibitors (like Prilosec or Nexium, which directly reduce acid secretion), also act on the acid in the stomach, and do not reduce reflux. In order to reduce reflux, I recommend eating smaller meals, not reclining for two to three hours after eating, losing weight if appropriate and avoiding products that weaken the lower esophageal sphincter, the valve-like muscle at the bottom of the esophagus. Alcohol and tobacco are the biggest offenders. Raising the head of the bed (traditionally with a brick, but foam wedges also are good) uses gravity to help the refluxed acid get out of the esophagus. Reducing reflux or acid at night is most important. While the body is in a horizontal position, the R.F.D. By Mike Marland acid can stay longer in the esophagus and cause damage.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am very concerned about my 81-year-old sister. She is 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 78 pounds. This is a new low weight for her. She recently had bloodwork done and was told she has an underactive thyroid and should take medication for it. She also has a colon problem and COPD. I thought that with an underactive thyroid, you gained weight, not lost. Can you explain the difference between underactive and

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for the district as a bus monitor for the past four years. She has a great connection with district faculty and staff, but what she loves most about her job is the children. She believes that working with children is her true calling. Presenting the winners with their awards the night of the banquet were SEISD Board President, Irene D. Jaquez; Board Answer Page 4 Trustee Sandra Licon; Board Trustee, Becky Romero, Board Trustee, Armando Martinez; Answer Page 4 Associate Superintendent, Ruben Cervantes; and Superintendent, Dr. Jeannie Meza-Chavez.