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SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS APRIL 29, 2011 PAGE 2 The La Vina Spring Wine Fest: By Joe Olvera ©, 2011 To arrive at the winery, lo - t’s basically a cel - I cated at 4201 S. Highway 28 ebration of the coming of in La Union, NM, one may spring, but to wine lovers, the take the Vinton Exit No. 2 in La Vina Spring Wine Fest, Texas, away from the moun - April 30-May 1, 2011 in La tains, drive approximately Union NM celebrates more four miles to Highway 28, than the arrival of a new sea - then, turn right one mile to son, it also provides an op - the winery. No pets or picnic portunity to taste a wide baskets are allowed. variety of wines culled from Among other the vineyards that grace the events at La Vina are the The wine festival, vineyards. 2011 Music on the patio con - although it’s primarily for cert series; the 11th Annual adults, does welcome chil - Proprietors Ken 4th of July Country Picnic; and Denise Stark are expect - dren and non-wine drinkers. the 2011 La Vina Harvest ing more than 10,000 people The grounds provide plenty Festival (October 8-9-2011, over the weekend where for of entertainment for the kids, the 7th Annual Pets Alive $15 admission they will be where they may frolic and ca - Howl o’ Wine Walk, and the able to taste more than 20 dif - vort among the greenery. ferent wines, and will receive 2011 Alzheimer’s Associa - Children under 12 years of a souvenir glass to remember tion Memory Walk – which age are admitted free, but, for their great experience. “This takes place on Saturday, Sep - those older than 12, the price is the oldest continuous wine tember 24, 2011 and which, of admission is $15. For non- festival, which started about since 1989, has raised more wine drinkers, they may 11 years ago,” Ken Stark than $200 million to help said. “We wanted to have a enjoy a soft drink, plus their those battling Alzheimer’s fiesta, but, we also wanted free glass. Also, a variety of disease. for people to partake of our foods will be offered by food And, of course, delicious and wide variety of vendors, and they may also there’s the La Vina Blues & wines. It’s all built around enjoy the arts and crafts from jazz and blues music, which Jazz Festival, which, this about 15 creative artists. goes great with a glass of fine year will feature Mike wine.” Hamilton & Friends, PT & the Cruisers, The Kat Crosby Band, Big Easy, and Frank Zona Urban Edge. Ken Stark said that the Festival will keep the people entertained, and enjoying fine wines, but, of course, “everything de - pends on the weather.” Stark said that the recent winter weather, in which many vineyards suf - fered tremendous losses, his vineyards suffered only a five percent loss. “We’re happy that the grapes are coming up on our 25 acres, with our 22 varieties of grapes. We were lucky that we didn’t have more loss.” SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS APRIL 29, 2011 PAGE 3 Sierra Providence Health Network to Offer New State-of-the-Art Med Flight Air Transport Program El Paso, Texas, April 26, will be based here at our fa - 2011 Sierra Providence cility, Sierra Medical Center. Health Network (SPHN) This will offer air medical proudly announced this services to Southern New week during a press confer - Mexico and West Texas ence a new partnership with communities for patients Native Air, an Omni Flight that need to be transferred to o Company by officially c one of our network facilities s a R launching the Sierra Provi - R for higher level hospital a c dence Med Flight Air Med - care. Now, physicians and y k c ical Transport Program. i hospitals in these communi - R y This is the first of its kind in b ties will be able to rely on s o the region and will expand t the support of SPHN during o h our reach of service and the P times of critical need. That delivery of highly special - John Harris, Sierra Providence Health Network president means a critically ill pedi - ized care for critically ill and atric patient in Deming, or a injured adults, children and A state-of-the-art twin en - save someone's life," said fragile neonate in Alam - premature babies in the re - gine American Eurocopter Marvin McLellan, the proj - ogordo, or an adult stroke gion. BK-117 helicopter will be ect manager. patient in Ruidoso, that oth - used to provide rapid and erwise doesn’t have access Sierra Providence Med safe transport and care for “Sierra Providence Health to specialized medical care, Flight will serve communi - these critical patients. This Network is excited to launch will now have immediate ac - ties within a 150-mile radius helicopter is designed and one of the first private sector cess to Sierra Providence of El Paso. It will transport fully equipped as a flying in - hospital based, air medical Health Network facilities, patients to any hospital tensive care unit. "In min - program in El Paso and the doctors and staff,” said Ed - within the Sierra Providence utes, they will be skids off surrounding region. I’m mundo Castaneda, CEO for Health Network and to other the helipad and en route to honored to announce that it Sierra Medical Center. hospitals in the area if a higher level of service is needed and as deemed by the first responders on scene. A team consisting of a pilot, flight nurse and flight para - medic will be staffed-ready to respond in minutes from Sierra Medical Center. It can also include other spe - cialists such as neonatal nurses, pediatric critical care nurses and respiratory thera - pists, as necessitated, de - pending on the patient’s condition. Expanding The Level Of Healthcare In The Community • First bedside to bedside helicopter pediatric and neonatal transport system in the region. • First High Risk Maternal transport program in the re - gion to provide specialized care for both mom and her unborn baby to include fetal monitoring capabilities, .. Continues on page 6 SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS APRIL 29, 2011 PAGE 4 Texas Forest Service partners with Texas Military Forces A love of reading can open (Battling Texas wildfires from the air and the ground) wondrous worlds Camp Mabry, Austin, Texas By Joe Olvera ©, 2011 (20 Apr 2011) – At the re - quest of Governor Rick El Dia de los Ninos/El Dia de at Takhli Royal Thai Air Perry, the Texas Military los Libros is a great event, Force Base, in Thailand. I Forces have been assisting which, each year, makes it worked the midnight shift at the Texas Forest Service and possible for parents to share a the Data Processing Depart - firefighters from across the love of reading with their ment, and, often, when I state, in efforts to suppress an children, and, of course, vice- would finish my work early, I unprecedented number of versa – children sharing their was free to go. But, where wild-fires. love of reading with their par - could I go because the buses ents. This year marks the 15th didn’t start running to Takhli The Texas Forest Anniversary of the event village until 6 a.m., where I Service has deployed four In - which, as always, will feature had my own bungalow. cident Management Teams my good friend and lover of I would go to the with the assistance of numer - children’s books – Pat Mora. base library where I became Since Wednesday, Three ground sup - ous agencies to battle 810 Not only does Mora love familiar with Shakespeare new large fires have erupted port packages consisting of fires that have burned a total reading children’s books, she and his great works. My fa - in Stephens and Garza coun - personnel operating eight D- of 1.4 million acres. In addi - even writes them and is one vorite was Hamlet – I even ties in addition to existing 7 dozers, five tractor trailer tion to personnel, the Texas of the most prolific authors of the fabled park, partake in a memorized his soliloquoy so fires near Possum Kingdom combos, two HEMMT Army National Guard has children’s books. I’m not sure day of swimming and cavort - that I could impress my Lake, Caddo, Strawn, and tanker/wreckers, one also responded with four if Pat will be in El Paso, but, ing in the watery pleasures, friends. I also memorized Bunger. Additionally hun - HMMWV, and two 77F refu - UH-60 helicopters battling whenever she does visit her then, after burning myself other passages from the Bard. dreds of homes and apart - elers and two mechanics are blazes in Tyler and Stephens natal city, be sure to catch darker than I already was, I Not only that, but I became ment complexes were assisting from the ground. counties, and a large fire near her. would saunter to the library acquainted with Miguel de threatened near Sheppard Air Three medical personnel are the city of San Angelo. When I was grow - to pick up my share of read - Cervantes Saavedra and his Force Base in Wichita Falls. providing care for those bat - ing up I developed a love for ing delights. My favorite giant book, Don Quixote de tling..CONT./P. 6 reading that has followed me book at that time, believe it or la Mancha. I perused the to my old age. Of course, way not, was a somewhat girlish great philosophers, Kant, back then, there was no such book called “A Tree Grows in Miguel de Unamuno, and thing as Dia de los Libros, Brooklyn,” written by Betty many others.

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