SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 2 Providence East Medical dence. The Network also offers a health care services company Sierra Center this honor, and I can wide range of outpatient services whose subsidiaries and affiliates say without a doubt that it is including Sierra Providence To - own and operate acute care hos - well deserved.” talCare, Sierra Providence Urgent pitals, ambulatory surgery centers Providence Sierra Providence East Med - Care Centers, Sierra Providence and diagnostic imaging centers. ical Center is part of the Trawood Center and ER, Sierra Tenet’s hospitals and related Sierra Providence Health Teen and Women’s Center, health care facilities are commit - East Network that includes the Wound Care Centers and Sierra ted to providing high quality care hospitals of Sierra Medical Providence Sleep Disorders Cen - to patients in the communities Medical Center, Providence Memorial ter. they serve. For more informa - Hospital and the Regional tion, please visit Center Children’s Hospital at Provi - Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a www.tenethealth.com. Receives Tenet Circle of Excellence Award

EL PASO, Texas. – March 13, 2012 – Tenet Healthcare Corpo - ration [NYSE: THC] announced late last month that Sierra Provi - dence East Medical Center has been named to the company’s 2012 Circle of Excellence. A hospital based celebration for physicians, staff and key partners was hosted; allowing public recognition of this accomplish - ment.

The Circle of Excellence honors Tenet hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of quality, service and operational performance. Key metrics used to evaluate the hospitals were pa - tient, physician and employee satisfaction scores, clinical qual - ity and financial performance.

“The hard work, determination and commitment of the employ - ees at Sierra Providence East Medical Center made 2011 a great year for the hospital,” said Stephen L. Newman, M.D., Tenet’s vice chairman. “The staff and physicians at Sierra Provi - dence East Medical Center con - tinue to build on their high-quality care and outstanding patient satisfaction. I’m proud of everything they have accom - plished and am delighted to honor them with Tenet’s Circle of Excellence Award.”

Sierra Providence East Medical Center CEO Sally Hurt added, “The dedication to providing high-quality care by our nurses, physicians and staff earned Sierra SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 3 Saint Patrick’s Day:

A celebration for all Americans? By Joe Olvera ©, 2012 the existence of the poisonous folklore tells us that he used the drinking green beer, by holding green, something green, or take in New York hold a parade that wo guys are sitting inside an T adder, there is no evidence that Shamrock, a three-pronged leaf parades, and by going to the chance of being pinched? lasts for two hours. Leading the Irish pub drinking green beer. there were ever snakes in Ire - to explain the Holy Trinity that church. Catholics aren’t the parade are two Irish wolf- One is an Irish guy, the other is land – hence, Saint Patrick did includes in Catholic theology only ones who honor the Saint. Irish guy: The wearing of green hounds, the mascots of the New a Mexican guy. not, as folklore has it, banish the existence of the Father, the Other religions include the is to remind the wearer of the York National Guard Infantry the snakes from Ireland. He Son, and the Holy Spirit. After American Communion, the beautiful green countryside of Regiment, or the “Fighting Irish guy: Drink up, buddy, be - couldn’t have. evangelizing for 30 years, he Eastern Orthodox Church and Ireland. Although St. Pat’s is 69th.” It includes more than cause, you know, Saturday is died on March 17. the Lutheran Church. Saint not a legal U.S. holiday, it is 100 marching bands, with over Saint Patrick’s Day. Mexican guy: So, tell me, why Patrick’s Day was made an of - still observed by millions of 100,000 people following the do we celebrate this guy, this ficial feast day in the early 17th people whether Irish or not. It two mascots. Hundreds of thou - Mexican guy: Saint Patrick? Is saint? What’s so special about Mexican guy: So, in essence, century, and has quickly be - is mainly a celebration of Irish sands of spectators line the pa - it already March 17? Wait a him? we are not celebrating his birth, come a secular celebration by and Irish-American culture. rade route. Not even the parade minute, isn’t Saint Patrick the but, his death – March 17? Irish culture in the U.S. Celebrations include prominent in Dublin, Ireland, matches the man who rid Ireland of all its Irish guy: The Irish in the Why do Mexicans and other displays of the color green, one in New York City. It’s re - snakes? United States have been here ethnic groups also celebrate? feasting, consumption of large ally a big deal. for a long time. Much like your We’re not Irish. Mexican guy: Okay, so tell me, quantities of alcohol, religious Mexican ancestors, they why are we drinking green observances, ad numerous pa - Irish guy: Well, yes, and no. brought to these shores their Irish guy: For some strange rea - beer? It tastes good, actually rades. In El Paso, we do have Mexican guy: Okay, I’ll buy. Yes, it’s already going to be traditions and their culture. As son, everybody wants to be the same as regular beer, but, parades, but, none is bigger Let’s celebrate. A toast to St. March 17 on Saturday, and, no, you know, the United States is Irish on that special day. Here, why dye it green? And, why do than the one held in New York. Patrick. You know, I really like he didn’t really rid Ireland of comprised of people from virtu - in El Paso, we celebrate by people say you have to wear The many Irish people who live this green beer. all its snakes. For your informa - ally every nation on earth – I tion, many people, especially believe there’s 137 nations rep - religious ones, use the snakes resented here. Irish-Americans, as a metaphor. That is to say, much like your Mexican-Amer - when Saint Patrick began to icans, celebrate Saint Patrick’s evangelize about Christianity, Day because he was a deity that there were many religions – transformed the Emerald Isle. Ireland was Polytheistic – Just as you Mexicans venerate which means there was the La Virgen de Guadalupe – al - worship of many gods. though she’s a Mexican icon - Through the influence of Saint so do we Irish venerate Saint Patrick, Ireland became Patrick. Catholic, or Christian, honoring only one God. Mexican guy: Okay, I’ll give. So tell me more about this Mexican guy: Wait a minute. Saint Patrick guy. Who is he, I’d heard that Saint Patrick did where did he come from and drive all the snakes out of Ire - why should everybody cele - land. That he chased them into brate his birth? the sea after they had attacked him during a 40-day fast he was undergoing. Did he or did - Irish guy: In the first place, he n’t he? wasn’t just a guy. He was a Saint. Legend tells us that he was born in the fourth century Irish guy: I already told you, in Roman Britain to a wealthy the snake story is a metaphor. Romano-British family. He was In other words, he drove other kidnapped by Irish raiders and religions out of Ireland. In taken captive to Ireland as a those days, pagan religions slave. According to his confes - often used a snake as a symbol. sion, he was told by God in a No snake is known to have suc - dream to flee from captivity to cessfully migrated across the the coast. In 432, he was called open ocean to their new home back to Ireland as a bishop to on dry land – Ireland’s. Despite Christianize the heathen. Irish SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 4

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF LINCOLN Mars Bugs, Killer Asteroids & Spy TWELFTH JUDICIAL Equal College DISTRICT COURT Satellites Highlight Summer Camp

BYRON L. AIKEN, JR., Activities Opportunities Petitioner, v. Program Features New Director and Curriculum MARIA L. AIKEN Whether its hunting Mars two years as curriculum de - can be found on the museum’s If there is any one issue that has been picked apart for its impor - Respondent. bugs, building a spy satellite veloper for U.S. Space Acad - website or at the museum’s tance to the future of Texas, that issue is education. Elected offi - or trying to stop a killer aster - emy. He also is one of the few education offices inside the cials, political pundits, party leaders and teacher groups have all SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF oid, it’s all on the list of reporters to make a two-hour, IMAX Theater. repeatedly stated that educating all of our students equally well “things to do this summer” at underwater spacewalk simula - SUIT PENDING means a better economy in the future. the NM Space Academy’s tion and ride NASA’s KC-135 Mars Base One features as - It would be impossible for anyone to win an argument supporting summer science camps. For “Vomit Comet.” trobiology and how scientists a different opinion. Our future does depend on a well educated TO: MARIA L. AIKEN twenty six years, summer He is author of The Christmas hunt for life on other worlds, younger generation taking entering the workplace. camp at the New Mexico Mu - Planet (2010) and co-author including the illusive Mars If we all agree on that issue, then why is it not translated into fact? GREETINGS: seum of Space History has of three books, Space Travel: bug. Cadets will learn how An editorial piece in the San Antonio Express-News articulated You and each of you are thrilled and inspired thou - A History (with Wernher von New Mexico helped put that there are still barriers in the “equal” part of our education pro - hereby notified that there has sands of students from all Braun and Frederick I. Ord - Americans on the Moon and gram. The article pointed out that minority students in Texas are been filed in the District over the world. This summer, way III, 1985), Engineering get to know their local star at not entering a level playing field when it comes to college or uni - Court of Chaves County, New with new management on Tomorrow (with Trudy E. the National Solar Observa - versity admissions. Mexico, a certain cause of board and a curriculum that’s Bell, 2000), and Huntsville: A tory. When I address college or university, I am referring to the estab - action wherein, Byron L. out of this world, camp prom - Pictorial History (with Sharon lished institutions such as the University of Texas system or Texas Aiken, Jr. is the Petitioner, ises to be on every kid’s “to Dooling, 1980). He has writ - Spy Camp covers the basics Tech. and you and each of you are do” list. ten for national and interna - of covert operations and espi - There has been in the past few years a growth of new colleges the Respondent, the same tional magazines, including onage—and how spy satellites whose marketing appears to be aimed exclusively toward minority being Cause No. DM-2011- The new Education Director, Spaceflight and IEEE Spec - work. Cadets will build a students. While I feel that any post high school education is impor - 160 on the Domestic Docket. Dave Dooling, comes to the trum. His worked has been working model of the famous tant, I fear that minorities will suffer a great disparity of income museum from the National recognized with press and his - KH-9 Big Bird spy satellite compared to non-minority graduates who attend the established in - The general object of said Solar Observatory in nearby tory awards from the National and launch rockets with small stitutions. The marketing of these fledgling colleges may create a action is to grant the petition Sunspot where he was educa - Space Club, the American So - cameras on board. new glass ceiling that relegates Hispanics and African Americans to for dissolution of marriage. tion officer for more than nine ciety of Mechanical Engi - lower paying positions for their lifetime. years. neers, and the American Dino Camp will show cadets I have mentioned in the past another greater disparity in education You and each of you are Society of Civil Engineers. how the dinosaurs lived and that has been in the works for almost a decade now. The equal dis - further notified that unless “This is going to be a fun and died. They will learn about tribution of education funding has been completely eliminated by you enter your appearance or challenging job,” Dooling He holds a master’s degree in Coelophysis, the state di - the conservative leadership of the last legislative session. That plead herein within twenty said. “Besides being an im - space studies from the Uni - nosaur, and how telescopes in change is supposed to be for only one session; but once the genie is days after the date of the last portant part of America’s his - versity of North Dakota, and New Mexico watch for the out of the bottle, how do you get it back. publication of this Summons tory and future, especially at is working on a master’s in Big Rock that might have our The subject to which I refer is the commonly known concept of and Notice of Suit Pending, Spaceport America, space is a science education at Montana names on it. They will make a “robin hood” funding. That is, extracting dollars from property Petitioner will make great way to teach students State University. He also big splash creating craters, wealthy school districts in order to equalize that wealth with prop - application to the Court for the basics of science, technol - teaches astronomy part-time then launch rockets to save erty poor districts such as the ones we have in El Paso County. Judgment by default, and ogy, engineering and math. through New Mexico State Earth from an asteroid. Instead, the conservative leadership allowed funding to go into judgment by default will be The principles are the same, University. Eight, one-week camp ses - place for educating our children that rewarded some districts with rendered against you, and and space is an engaging, nat - sions will be held from June 4 per student of funding of up to $11,000. The students in El Paso each of you, as prayed for in ural way to get students inter - Under Dooling’s direction, through August 3 on the cam - County were only funded per student approximately $5400. said Complaint. The name of ested and prepared for any the New Mexico Space Acad - pus of the New Mexico Mu - As I have pounded upon in the past, the reason that this was able the attorneys for Plaintiff is career.” emy will offer three different seum of Space History. No to happen is because the voters in districts (like those in El Paso) Sanders, Bruin, Coll & programs this summer for camp will be held the week of failed to vote in the 2010 elections. Worley, P.A., (Clayton S. Previously, Dooling was proj - kids entering grades K the Fourth of July. Camps are The next two elections (especially the 2014) will have an enor - Hightower) P.O. Box 550, ect manager for the micro - through 12. These build on offered as day camps and mous impact on the education of our students in El Paso County. Roswell, New Mexico 88201. gravity education contract at popular programs offered in overnight camps. Discounts We will produce more Hispanic candidates entering the realm of NASA’s Marshall Space past years and add exciting are available for multiple higher education and we need to change the conservative leadership WITNESS my hand and seal Flight Center in Huntsville, new activities. Summer camp reservations or military fami - so that there will truly be equal education. of the District Court of AL, for almost three years. themes for 2012 will be lies. I intend to continue to pound and pound the importance of voter Lincoln Country, New While there he led develop - “Mars Base One”, “Spy The New Mexico Museum of participation in this media and any other venue available. We have Mexico. ment of a wireless free-fall Camp”, and “Dino Camp”. Space History is a division of to engage the Hispanic community in consistent and heavy voting demonstrator for educators. All camp activities include the NM Department of Cul - behavior. KATRINA WATSON He also worked eight years as building and launching rock - tural Affairs. For more infor - DISTRIC COURT CLERK science editor of The ets and a field trip to local fa - mation, call 505-437-2840 or Huntsville [AL] Times, cover - cilities, based on availability. toll free 1-877-333-6589 or Chente Quintanilla ing Space Shuttle develop - Registration for the camps is visit the website at State Representative By:______ment and early missions, and underway and information www.nmspacemuseum.org. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 5 By: “Doppler” Dave Speelman Start of a New Season Spring officially arrives this Tuesday, March 20th. It is hard to believe we are in a new season. For many folks, this is their favorite time of the year, minus our wind, blowing dust & sand.

We now know the forecast for this Spring, courtesy of NOAA (National Oceanic & At - mospheric Administration). The computer models are indicating that in El Paso and all of southern New Mexico rainfall amounts will be below normal for this time of year while temperatures are anticipated to run a little hotter than normal.

What about the sunshine forecast for the Spring or even up - coming year? I had one person ask me that question jokingly, but I though it was an interest - ing question, albeit unusual. Did you realize that this area is one of the sunniest across the country? In fact, El Paso is the 6th sunniest city in the United States! The average annual amount of sunshine here is 84%! That’s a lot. Below you will find the sunniest cities:

CITY, STATE ANNUAL % AVG POSSIBLE SUNSHINE 1. YUMA, AZ 90% 2. REDDING, CA 88% 3. LAS VEGAS, NV 85% 4. PHOENIX, AZ 85% 5. TUCSON, AZ 85% 6. EL PASO, TX 84% FRESNO, CA 79% RENO, NV 79% FLAGSTAFF, AZ 78% SACRAMENTO, CA 78% Weather Trivia: What is the cloudiest city in the United States? ALBUQUERQUE, NM 76% A. Astoria, Oregon C. Elkins, West Virginia

KEY WEST, FL 76% B. Seattle, Washington D. Kalispell, Montana

. r a e y r e p s y a d y d u o l c 0 4 2 s a h t I . n o g e r O , a i r o t s A – A : r e w s n PUEBLO, CO 76% A MIDLAND-ODESSA, TX 74% “Doppler" Dave Speelman is the chief meteorologist at KVIA-TV in El Paso. You can watch his fore - casts at 4, 5, 6 and 10 pm on ABC-7 (channel 6 cable). If you would like Doppler Dave to address (explain) any weather issues you can email him at [email protected].

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Mostly Sunny Partly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Sunny Windy Windy Windy Windy Breezy High: 81º Low: 58º High: 78º Low: 54º High: 77º Low: 55º High: 75º Low: 45º High: 74º Low: 47º High: 76º Low: 52º High: 79º Low: 55º SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 6 MISSION TRAIL ART MARKET “The Sin Fin Column” San Elizario Historic District - Main Street, San Elizario, TX 79849 by Joe Olvera ©, 2012 The 4th Season of the Mission Trail Art Market kicks off on SUNDAY, March 18, 2012.

All held amoungst the Galleries in the San Elizario Historic Art District. Los San Patricios: Irish men who

Discover the Mission Trail Art Market, The Mission Valley's premier art and craft sale. Professional artisans from across the region present an amazing selection of helped Mexico in a time of war quality art and craft. Choose from delicate pottery, vibrant jewelry, timeless home ac - cents, and seasonal decorations. Painting, sculpture and photography for the connois - I’ve always felt that the Irish and the Mexican people 20, 1847. Many from Los Patricios Battalion lost their seur. Sweet and savory treats for the gourmet. Enjoy the Food concessions and have had an affinity for each other in ways that have lives in battle. An Irish-born deserter led the battalion Entertainment. The event is Pet Friendly. See it, believe it! Be there. helped each group. From the earliest experiences with of Irish deserters rather successfully, at least until the each other the two groups have intermarried and shared final battle.” Abelardo asserts that the Irish joined the FEATURED EVENTS: remnants of historical ramifications. Even today, the Mexicans rather than fight for the U.S. because, “…the Irish and the Mexicans continue to be great friends and San Patricios Battalion had much more in common Unveiling of the Life-sized Sculpture of Billy The Kid by local sculptor, Guadalupe compatriots – albeit, they are both from different na - with the Mexican Catholics than they did with the Jacquez Calderon. High Noon at the Old El Paso County Jail. This will be the first tions, from different worlds. Tied together through Anglo Saxon officers leading the war. They resented unveiling of a series of historic sculptures that will be placed throughout the Historic Catholicism, the two groups have supported each other. the treatment of priests and nuns and acts of desecra - District. A sculpture in tribute to the Old Grist Mill will be presented in June. Why do you think that a former Mexican President em - tion the U.S. troops committed. They also viewed the igrated to Ireland? Bolstered by the millions of dollars war as an unjust one.” Billy The Kid Breakout, reenactment by “The Pistoleros De San Elizario” reenact - that he pilfered from Mexico’s coffers, he lives a life of ment troupe. Two Shows: 1 & 3 PM at the Old El Paso County Jail. luxury and maybe some guilt for what he did. Anyway, that’s the way the story goes. Yes, I agree with Abelardo, as I have often written Book Signing, “Billy The Kid Breakout: San Elizario” by Maria Pilar Munoz, 11am- about the illegal war that the U.S. foisted upon Mexico 2pm at Café Madrid on Main Street. all in the horrendous name of Manifest Destiny. Two Live Music at El Bandido Restaurant and Cantina, next to the jail on Main Street. But, nowhere in history is the support for each other other writers have also described the atrocities commit - more evident than during the U.S. war for expansion ted by the U.S. Robert Miller shed light on what hap - against Mexico in 1846 - in a war that was called ille - pened in his book, “The Shamrock and the Sword,” gal by such U.S. leaders as Ulysses S. Grant and Abra - while Chicano historian Rodolfo Acuna, one of the Carolina Recreation Center ham Lincoln. Consumed by a greed for land into which banned authors in Arizona, further described the saga the U.S. could expand westward, a plan was concocted of these Irish deserters who joined hands with the Mex - hosts Skate Park Event by then-President James K. Polk to wrest more than icans in what turned out to be a lost cause. To honor The City of El Paso Parks and Recreation Department will host a free Skate Park one million square miles of Mexican territory under the Los San Patricios, Mexico has erected memorials, Demonstration and Skate Contest on guise of Manifest Destiny – in essence, the U.S. was monuments, and other honors in Mexico City and in March 29, 2012 at Carolina Skate Park, 563 N. Carolina Dr. proclaiming that God had willed that the U.S. deserved other parts of the nation. Each year, on September 12, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to own that land by hook or by crook, mostly by crook. the anniversary of the execution of many of these brave hearts, Mexico puts out a welcome wagon so that Mex - The event will have nationally known World Industries from California as special icans can help to celebrate their bravery. guests, well-known in the skating community. Lest we forget what happened back then, it’s impor - tant that we be reminded so that this vital bit of history Sponsor of the event is Crooks Skate Shop and the event is open to not be forgotten by our young people, so that they can One such memorial to Los San Patricios lies across individuals of all ages. be reassured that Mexico has not always been the way from San Jacinto Plaza in the Mexico City suburb of it is today. Called Los San Patricios by the Mexican San Angel. The Memorial lists the names of the men Army, hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish men deserted from the Batallion de San Patricio who died fighting the U.S. Army to join the fight, albeit, on the Mexican for Mexico – either in battle or by execution at the side. They considered that the U.S. was the bully hands of U.S. troops. During that commemoration, the against a weakened Mexican nation – Mexico had just Mexico City Symphony plays the national anthems of finished a war for independence from Spain, so that the both countries. So, for Chicanos and Mexicanos in El U.S. considered that Mexico was ripe for the picking. Paso and across America, St. Patrick’s Day – on Satur - Concocting a dispute over the boundary between the day, March 17 – should mean more than just wearing U.S. and the Aztec Republic, Polk took advantage of Irish green or drinking green beer – it should be seen as the situation to create his unjust war. a reminder, a celebration of bravery at the time when two distant and disparate nations joined forces to fight a common enemy. We should do no less. A moment of The late, great Chicano writer, Abelardo Delgado, in silence, please! his essay, “To a Different Drum: Walker Lindh and the San Patricios,” wrote: “The San Patricios proved to be a great asset. The last battle which led to the total de - Sin Fin feat of Mexico was fought at Churubusco on August Going Green! SHARON MOSLEY

Green in all its many shades -- from mossy ferns to menthol mints to ocean teals -- is a lucky color to wear this spring. One of nature's favorite hues, the greens this year are balanced with cool pastels. Pantone, the color expert, predicts that we will be drinking up an icy "margarita" for our spring wardrobes and for fall 2012 -- celebrate by wearing a warm rich ultramarine -- a favorite on the fashion runways for the next season.

One of the freshest ways to go a little green this spring is to wear the cooler hues from head to toe, according to fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff. "I like tones of one color," she says, "like the spectrum of a bright green with a soft fading jade. It's a feeling like fragile vintage colors, and it is interesting to place these into modern shapes."

The ocean greens are riding the waves in collections like the ones from Ella Moss where "crystal clear Caribbean" green is the signature color. Designer Pamela Protzel Scott at Ella Moss pairs this shade of green with a neutral light oatmeal. "This feels fresh and new for spring and pairs well back to the palette of bright colors and muted tones," she says. Her must- have item for spring? An Ella Moss midi green dress: "It has the perfect hint of femininity for spring," she says. "It's easy and playful, but also has an elevated sense of casualness."

Other designers weave green into abstract floral prints like the palm printed dresses from Baby Phat or the fern greens inspired by tulips in Todashi Shoji's spring collection. The graphic prints in designer Tracy Reese's spring collection contrast her "amazon greens" with navy, orange and yellow.

The paler icy mint greens are another way to give a spring closet a refreshing bite. These cool hues showed up in spring collections at Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Yves Saint Laurent and Prabal Gurung. A touch of mint -- try a pair of jeans -- is one of the easiest ways to pop a little "cool" into your spring and summer wardrobe.

Since I've collected various shades of green -- from an emerald cashmere wrap to a minty silk scarf from Banana Republic to a bold turquoise pendant -- over the years, I like the look of combining several shades of these analogous greens all together. Think peacock feath - ers -- one of my favorite inspirations when it comes to color. Check out the "Talithia" peacock paisley blouse at J. Crew (jcrew.com).

My personal favorite shades lean to the bluer side of green rather than the yellow side, so I tend to stick to the cooler tones. I also like to team up separates in complementary hues. Remember that color wheel from elementary school days? Complementary colors are those colors immediately opposite each other on the color wheel. Green complements the red colors, and this spring many designers use this complementary theory to make green come alive with all shades of pink. White is a great way to lighten up any shade of green this spring, too.

The warmer yellow greens also promise to be hits for this year. Pantone has named The Baby Phat "bright chartreuse" as one of the hot colors of the fall 2012 season. Watch for designer Nanette collection gets Lepore's collection, which artfully combines chartreuse with intense blues and purples. graphic and goes green with palm prints in the And you'll also get lucky this spring and summer with green in accessories -- lus - spring collection. cious dollops of mint in ladylike handbags, floppy turquoise green straw hats, color-blocked Dress available strappy sandals and floral-inspired earrings. Take your pick, and go green. Macy's and Macys.com. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 8 EvEryday ChEapskatE by Mary hunt DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren Your Teens Will Love DOCTOR FAILS TO EARN CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH These Healthy Snacks FROM PATIENT caring for him, my mother and myself. I just What do your teens do the fruit shakes are packed with 11. Popcorn sprinkled with DEAR ABBY: I recently began going to a minute they get home from nutrients, and they're trendy. Parmesan cheese instead of new doctor after the one I had been using re - don't have the strength to do it all, and my hus - school? If they're typical, they Use yogurt, milk, fresh or butter. tired. I like her. She shows a genuine interest in band does nothing except lie around on his bed raid the refrigerator and pantry frozen fruit and fruit juices. A my well-being, seems to diagnose well and I watching TV or sleeping all day. looking for their favorite great way to give the kids their 12. Red grapes and string get good results from her treatments. She does - I know when my mother passes, peo - snacks: chips, soft drinks, chocolate fix is to add a few cheese. n't keep me waiting and has a charming, warm ple will want to come here to visit or bring cookies, candy, pizza, burgers, chocolate chips or M&M's to a personality. food. My house is so dirty and deplorable I 13. Rice cakes with peanut but - fries and ice cream. shake or smoothie. So what's the problem? She's not don't want anyone to come here. What should I ter. very clean. There is sometimes dirt under her do? I have thought about hiring a service, but Here's the problem, according Mini bagels, crackers with a lit - fingernails. Her white coat is tattered and filthy, I'm not sure I can afford it. Any other sugges - 14. Almonds and dried cranber - and when she gets close there's an odor that's tions? -- OVERWHELMED AND TIRED IN to the nutrition experts at tle bit of cheese, leftovers, bur - ries or blueberries. www.WebMD.com: All of ritos and healthy breakfast less than pleasant. Once after touching me, she TEXAS washed her hands by sticking her fingertips those high-calorie snacks and cereals with milk all make ex - 15. Cheese or veggie pizza. processed foods can cause cellent snacks. under cold water for a few seconds -- no soap DEAR OVERWHELMED AND TIRED: weight gain. When teens notice 16. Bagels with low-fat cream or scrubbing. She had not washed before touch - Please accept my sympathy for the impending that they've put on a few Here are 25 teen-friendly cheese. ing me. loss of your mother. Even when death is ac - pounds, many stop eating alto - snacks that will keep your There are so many good things about cepted as inevitable, it is nonetheless heart gether. Unhealthy eating pat - kids and their friends happy 17. Soy nuts and string cheese. her I hate to lose her as a doctor. She'll be in - wrenching. I'll offer two suggestions: terns are born. and satisfied: sulted if I say anything. If I cancel an appoint - The first is to talk to your religious 18. Soy milk smoothies. ment, it will raise questions and lead to hurt adviser about your concerns, because it's possi - What's a parent to do? You 1. Apple slices with peanut but - feelings. What do I do? -- FREAKED OUT IN ble some volunteers from your mother's church ter and raisins. 19. String cheese and whole- ALBANY -- or your own -- might be kind enough to help don't want to forbid snacking. grain crackers. In fact, nutritionists say that you get your house in order to receive guests 2. Bananas sliced in half and DEAR FREAKED OUT: Find another doc - after the funeral. The other would be to request snacking between meals en - 20. Trail mix. sures that your teen's body will spread with peanut butter. tor. (I was tempted to say, "Run for your life!") that guests meet afterward at the church recep - not run out of fuel. The secret As warm, charming, caring and attentive as tion hall or funeral home for refreshments. 3. Bean burritos. 21. Tuna on whole-grain bread. is to steer your teens toward your doctor may be, her poor hygiene is a dan - ** quick and healthy snacks that 22. Turkey and cheese on ger to your health. That she would present her - DEAR ABBY: I find it hard to deal with my 4. Black bean dip with whole- self to patients in the condition you have P.E. teacher. She is rude, mean and she always will provide a steady supply of grain crackers. whole-grain bread. glucose to their brains, keep described and practice such poor hygiene calls me out. When you need to make a correc - makes me wonder how qualified she is to prac - tion on your test, she throws the quiz at you them from having ugly mood 5. Cheese toast (whole-grain 23. Vegetable soup with whole- swings and reduce the chances bread spread with low-fat grain crackers. tice medicine. and then you have to pick it up. She is very im - of binge eating. Teens will eat cheese). One other thing you should consider patient also. Do you have any advice on how to 24. 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Smoothies and EnErgy ExprEss by Marilynn prEston SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 9 Fight the Fat 101: Tweet It Before You Eat It If suddenly one evening you got a tweet, tion, can you name the five food groups fiddled with by technologists is just an - and it's a photo from a friend who wants We know social media, well managed that form the basis of the 2010 Dietary other way of saying processed, fake you to see exactly what he's eating for and virally sound, can stir outrage and Guidelines for Americans?" Take your food, which are on the "No Fly" list of dinner that night, would you care? start revolutions. Can it also inspire us to time. Clue: Pizza is not one of them. most honest health brokers. Many of make cleaner, better, more mindful food these manufactured foods — I won't Picture this: You're about to veg out in choices? ANSWER: Fruits, vegetables, grains, pro - name names, but if it has more than five front of "The Biggest Loser" with your tein and dairy. I am not saying these are ingredients, it's not a real food — are so own dinner plate —a half-pound burger With out-of-control obesity flattening the best five food groups you could filled with chemicals, additives, dyes, on a bun the size of a frisbee and a hill our potential as a healthy, hardworking name. I read the blogs; there is nuance and toxins that they have a shelf life of hash browns, with a banana-caramel country, I do know this: People need to and injustice and Big Food money at longer than Willy Nelson. cupcake for dessert — when a pal sends become more conscious of what they're work. But I am saying these are the five you a snapshot of what she's digging eating. It's as simple as that. Just wake food groups that made it to the MyPlate But I digress. Back to the MyPlate cam - into: a palm-sized portion of grilled up to what's really on your dinner plate icon that replaced the Food Pyramid last paign, which does sound like a good chicken breast (skinless) with the or - — the amount and quality of the food, year, and they are very likely to be on idea, if it catches on, which is impossi - ganic label left on, four stalks of per - fat, protein and carbs you're putting in your final exam. ble to predict. It begins with fectly steamed broccoli, an arugula salad your body. you and your willingness with a smattering of omega-3 walnuts March 8, 2012, has been officially de - to snap a picture of your and, for dessert, two plump dates. And that's what the new MyPlate public clared "What's on My Plate?" Day. healthy breakfast, lunch awareness campaign does. It makes you (Check your local paper for parade and dinner — and then Is a #MyPlateYourPlate picture worth focus. And it makes the recipient of your times.) It marks the launch of a new so - share it on Twitter a thousands words ... from your picture focus, too: Is this a dinner plate cial media campaign, a co-venture of the with the hashtag heart doctor? Would seeing the dinner I'm proud of? Are my portions too big? U.S. Department of Agriculture and the #MyPlate. An alter - plate of your friend or Sting or Supreme Does my plate have a life-affirming as - Institute of Food Technologists, a non - native hashtag is Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stop sortment of all five USDA-approved profit scientific society with a name #MyPlateYour - your mind for a moment and make you food groups? George Orwell might have invented. Plate. think twice about what you're eating, and why. And what it might feel like to And what would those five basic food Food Technologists? Isn't that an You can also share photographs of eat smarter, smaller, healthier? Let us groups be, by the way? Surprise! Pop oxymoron? Food you want to eat comes your success on the USDA Flickr pray. quiz! Just for fun, and a taste of humilia - out of the ground, not laboratories. Food ..Continues on next page SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 10 déCor sCorE by rosE bEnnEtt gilbErt 37 Espied 25 Ms. Davis All Play 38 Soon 26 Hunter in the sky A Room With Too Much View? 40 Big van 27 Ms. Lupino Q: Our vestibule is just a few 41 Vends 28 Usher's beat steps wide, but there is a window 43 Jack 29 Russian range that faces the street. 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Propped on a author of "Manhattan Style" which wouldn't be a problem if we CANCER (June 22-July 22). More direction, and you'll see it once you ways work out, but it only has to and six other books on weren't so consciously aware of it all. than any other factor, attitude will de - calm down and get a better perspec - work out once to make a huge differ - lovely old chest, it draws attention Compassion and forgiveness are the termine your success or failure. Take ence in your life. One relationship will interior design. tive. from inside observers but thwarts COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM remedies to discord. The equinox will the time to get into a good mood. help you do something remarkable, help balance out hot emotions. Maybe that means going for a walk, SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You are like change your relationship with reading comics or talking to your fa - so clever and mischievous this week food or find your passion. ARIES (March 21-April 19). There vorite person. Before, you may have that it would be a shame to waste will be key moments during the considered these kinds of efforts su - any energy scheming for others. Use PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). People week, most likely on Wednesday and perfluous, but now you will know their your wit to trick yourself instead! Trick around you will be mighty distracted Continued from page 9...Photo Thursday, in which all eyes are on critical impact. yourself into getting started on a big this week, so you'll have to use spe - Group (keep it clean) and tell "Our studies show that the av - you. Hopefully, you'll like the way it project and thinking of it as fun in - cial tactics to get through. For in - stories on Facebook about your erage person makes around 250 feels to be the most important per - LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). As the sign of stead of work. 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Keep writing, as opposed to keyboarding, that help you survive and thrive in July. Travel is featured in August and ING ON REMOTE CON - can be sent to MyEnergyEx - your goals challenging, but not so will work in your favor. the human family, not bad habits to November. You'll be honored and TROL [email protected]. challenging that you are daunted by be ashamed of. You're normal, tal - awarded at the end of 2012. COPYRIGHT 2012 ENERGY EXPRESS, LTD. thE savagE truth on MonEy by tErry savagE SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 11 Debt: Can't Put It Off Forever What do we do about A very similar scenario is un - higher fees and rates on these money lost and dreams lost. The Savage Truth. 4:30 p.m. newscast, and can be the debt? It's making head - folding here at home, with our loans? Or the blind greed of reached at lines — whether we're talking mortgage debt. It's a problem homebuyers who walked into Until everyone can agree that Terry Savage is a registered in - www.terrysavage.com. She is about Greek debt, or our na - that remains unresolved, and it the trap? "the emperor has no clothes" vestment adviser and is on the the author of the new book, tional debt, or America's mort - threatens America's future and the debt can't be repaid, board of the Chicago Mercan - "The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Re - gage debt. There's just too much as the future of Greece is There is plenty of blame we're just fooling ourselves in a tile Exchange. She appears weekly on WMAQ-Channel 5's ally Need to Retire?" much debt — and some bad threatened by its debt. to go around. The ques - very expensive way. And that's COPYRIGHT 2012 TERRY SAVAGE PRODUCTIONS ideas about what to do with it. tion now before us is what What should we do to do about it. sustainablE living by shawn dEll JoyCE Let's start farthest away from about the mortgage home, where it is easier to see debt? The acting head of the Federal things from a dispassionate Housing Finance Agency Over-fishing Imperiling Our Oceans point of view. Greece needs to The answers depend on which (FHFA), which is supervising Ocean fish are the last wild refinance an estimated 400 bil - side of the deal you're on — the mortgage giants Fannie Mae creatures that people hunt on a lion (euros) of outstanding debt borrower, or the lender — or and Freddie Mac (now in con - large scale. We used to think of as it comes due, not to mention just a homeowner who is strug - servatorship and supported by the ocean's bounty as endless, borrowing more to keep its gling, but managing to pay the taxpayer dollars), has been until recently, when we discov - government afloat. mortgage, only to watch others asked by politicians to create a ered its limits. Between 1950 demand — and get — a better program of loan forgiveness. and 1994, ocean fishermen in - The European banks that hold deal. the debt — and the European creased their catch 400 percent Some see it as a better alterna - Central Bank — are demanding by doubling the number of A new report shows that hous - tive to ending the housing col - tough measures before lending boats and using more effective ing prices in 20 major cities are lapse than the current Greece more money. But re - fishing gear, according to still at the lowest levels since unworkable plan for refinanc - member, the banks are on the Seafood Watch from the Mon - the crisis started. There are ing underwater homeowners at hook for all that money. If they terey Bay Aquarium. calls for the government to "do lower rates and deferring prin - must write off the loans in a de - something" about loan forgive - cipal payments. In 1989, the world's catch lev - fault, they too might be in a ness. It's a cry that politicians eled off at just over 82 million Oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico are an environmental catas - dire financial situation. certainly understand. But to actually "write off" the metric tons of fish per year. We trophe, but overfishing is causing greater devastation. loans, to forgive them, would have reached "peak fish," and In effect, there is a stand - "The impact we have had on threaten the very solvency of no amount of boats will help us off. The borrowers can't ocean ecosystems has been Some seafood can be sustain - Fannie and Freddie — the own - catch more fish. Today, only 10 afford to repay, and the vastly underestimated," said ably farmed. Clams are raised ers or guarantors of more than percent of all large fish — both lenders can't afford to co-author Boris Worm. "These in special beds on sandy 60 percent of outstanding mort - open ocean species including foreclose. are the megafauna, the big shores, where their harvest gages! And would that really tuna, swordfish and marlin and predators of the sea, and the does little to disturb the help the housing market — or large groundfish such as cod, Shakespeare wisely said: species we most value. Their ecosystem. Oysters and mus - just force mortgage rates higher halibut, skates and flounder — "Neither a borrower nor a depletion not only threatens the sels are often raised in bags or as lenders take that risk into ac - are left in the sea, according to lender be." Could Shake - future of these fish and the cages suspended off the count? research published in National speare possibly have antici - fishers that depend on them, it seafloor, doing little damage as pated the current situation, with Geographic. In fact, we might trace the start Now do you see comparison? could also bring about a com - they're harvested. Many farmed both sides caught in the trap of of the current housing debt plete reorganization of ocean fish, such as salmon, are grown Just as the Europeans want to "From giant blue marlin to bad debt? mess right back to Congress, ecosystems, with unknown in net pens, like cattle in a feed stretch out the process of deal - mighty bluefin tuna, and from which as part of a social agenda global consequences." lot. This is as environmentally ing with the Greek loans to tropical groupers to Antarctic Europe's solution has been to encouraged the banks to make damaging in the ocean as cattle avoid having to acknowledge a cod, industrial fishing has demand that Greece put into ef - loans in communities they Marine biologist Sylvia Earle feed lots are on land. Addition - default, our Federal housing au - scoured the global ocean. fect ever-tougher austerity pro - might otherwise have avoided. says: "I don't blame the fisher - ally, mangrove forests have thority wants to avoid actually There is no blue frontier left," grams — to slow government How did that positive policy men for this. We, the con - been cut down and replaced declaring a default on the part lead author Ransom Myers told spending and raise taxes so at initiative, extending home own - sumers, have done this because with temporary shrimp farms of millions of homeowners who National Geographic. "Since least some of the money can be ership and the American dream, we have a taste for fish and that supply shrimp to Europe, are unable to pay their mort - 1950, with the onset of indus - repaid. As a result, Greece is in go wrong? 'delicacies' such as shark-fin Japan and America until the gages. trialized fisheries, we have rap - a depression. soup. Our demand for seafood water becomes polluted. idly reduced the resource base Was it the push from Congress Just as lenders to Greece keep appears to be insatiable ... There is chaos in government to less than 10 percent — not to have Fannie and Freddie coming up with creative solu - driven by high-end appetites. Shawn Dell Joyce is an award- and on the streets of Greece, as just in some areas, not just for guarantee loans (with taxpayer tions to delay the day of reck - I've always believed that even winning columnist and founder the citizenry rebels against pay - some stocks, but for entire dollars) to even more borrowers oning, there is pressure in when there is only one bluefin of the Wallkill River School in ing back the debts their banks communities of these large fish (voters) who were even less America to "do something" cre - tuna left in the sea, someone Orange County, N.Y. You can and government incurred, while species from the tropics to the creditworthy? Or was it the ative to avoid recognizing the will pay a million dollars to be contact her at Shawn@Shawn - they enjoyed life. poles." profit motive on the part of mortgage disaster for what it is: able to eat it." DellJoyce.com. lenders who could charge COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 12

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY wITH JIM DALY AND Dr. JULI SLATTErY vidEo gaME rEviEws by JEb haught Facebook and teenages Portable Gaming Excels With Q: Our teenage daughter spends hours late at among young people in recent decades. The 'Uncharted: Golden Abyss' night on Facebook with her friends. She's not teenage years can be full of anxiety already. If doing anything inappropriate, but we feel like the you add sleep deprivation to the mix, the results DEVELOPER: Naughty sheer amount of time wasted in the wee hours is can be disastrous. Some experts believe that this Dog/Bend Studio problematic. What do you think? combination can even contribute to major depres - PUBLISHER: Sony Jim: It's encouraging to know that sion and bipolar disorder long after adolescence is SYSTEM: PS Vita your daughter isn't doing anything inappropriate over. PRICE: $49.99 during those late nights, but that's always a risk, The most straightforward solution is to ESRB RATING: Teen even for compliant teens. Even if they don't go place limits on your daughter's computer time. REVIEW RATING: 4.0 stars looking for trouble online, trouble may find them, Make sure she's getting plenty of sleep every (out of 5) in the form of a predator or an offensive link. So night. Let her know that, for her own sake, using remain vigilant. the computer into the early morning hours isn't Naughty Dog's PS3-exclusive Regardless of her activity online, you permissible. The same goes for smartphones and "Uncharted" series made other devices. She may be surprised at how much tremendous advances from RE have reason to be concerned about the hours your VIEW the first game to the SCORIN daughter's keeping. A study of 20,000 youths in better she feels! SYSTEM G third — ad - the PS Vita is a the journal Sleep found that those who slept ** 5 stars = Mus fewer than five hours a night were three times (Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family, slight step back 4 sta t-Have rs = Ve host of the Focus on the Family radio program, for the series, 3 st ry Goo more likely to become psychologically troubled ars = A d it's still one 2 bove A in the next year. And much of that lack of sleep and a husband and father of two. stars = verag of the best Barga e can be attributed to late nights on the computer, Dr. Juli Slattery is a licensed psychologist, co- 1 star = in Bin Don't instant messaging, gaming and Facebook. host of Focus on the Family, author of several games avail - Bother Less sleep was also associated with books, and a wife and mother of three.) vances able on the new longer-term mental health problems, especially (Submit your questions to: that dramatically in - hand-held system. depression, later in life. Researchers think a lack [email protected]) creased its popularity. Al - COPYRIGHT 2012 FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80995 though "Uncharted: Golden Abyss" on Continues on next page of sleep may explain a rise in mental illness INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT SECURED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 13 vidEo gaME rEviEws by JEb haught Continued from page 12

Set before the events of the first game, "Uncharted: Golden Abyss" follows every - body's favorite treasure hunter, Nathan Drake, as he explores the South American jungle. He teams up with archeologist Marissa Chase and, not surprisingly, soon finds himself embroiled in a complex, life-threatening ad - venture.

While the visuals are superb for a hand-held game, don't expect any of the console ver - sions' massive sequences, such as escaping from sinking ships or crashing cargo planes. However, the lush backgrounds and expansive vistas are far superior to any other hand-held game. In fact, several times, I almost got my character killed while stop - ping to admire the scenery!

Cover-based combat is very similar to what's found in the PS3 'Uncharted' games, thanks to the inclusion of two analog sticks on the PS Vita. Too bad they don't have the same range of motion as con - sole controllers, but a handy addition takes care of that. Players can tilt the PS Vita in any direction to fine-tune their aim, and this extra bit of control makes a huge differ - ence!

Sadly, some additions to the series aren't so welcome. For instance, why do hanging strips of cloth have to be chopped with a machete using touch-screen controls during action scenes? Not only does it dramatically slow the pace of the game, but it's also un - necessary and annoying!

"Uncharted: Golden Abyss" may be toned-down from it's console brethren, but it's still a great action-packed, portable adventure.

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Spring and fall dog camps offer off-leash joy to man and beast El Paso, Texas – The City of El Paso Environ - By Gina Spadafori dogs.com), founded a couple Even my 14-year-old mental Services Department and the Humane Universal Uclick decades ago and still a popular deaf Sheltie enjoyed just walk - Society of El Paso will be offering low-cost destination for dog lovers from ing around off-leash, and he re - adoptions on St. Patrick’s Day. all over the country. The idea ally enjoyed getting a massage, was quickly picked up by other one of the few modestly priced hile I like the great The adoption fee on March 17 will be $60 W entrepreneurs, including the options that weren’t part of the for pets, a year of age and older. The fee in - folks behind Camp Unleashed all-inclusive cost (which varies cludes spay/neuter surgery, age-appropriate outdoors well enough in theory, (campunleashed.com), whose by camp, but is typically less vaccinations, microchip with registration and ra - I don’t like mess-hall dining, California camp was my home than a nice hotel per night) for bies certificate. Accepted payment methods are community toilets and showers, for a few days last fall. Camp meals, simple lodging (some cash or credit/debit cards (only Visa or Master - or sleeping on cots. And yet, Unleashed has three locations camps offer upscale options for Card). Checks not accepted. last fall, I signed up to go and is scouting for more, with a higher fee) and a wide array camping — because of my established camps in the Berk - of classes and activities. Animal Services and the Humane Society of El Paso together offer the public the largest se - dogs. shires of Massachusetts, in The happiness I took Our destination was a Asheville, N.C., and the new away from Camp Unleashed lection of potential pets. Event adoptions hours will be from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. camp specifically planned for camp near Sequoia National lasted for weeks. Even now, at the City’s animal shelter, at 5001 Fred Wilson. the happiness of dogs and those Forest, in the mountains east of months later, I can’t think of who love them. Despite my re - Fresno, Calif. those days without smiling. For more information, please call the shelter at (915) 842-1000. luctance to go (I was talked Dog camp activities And while I am signed up for into it by friends), I now look can typically be as organized or Camp Unleashed (campun - back on the experience as four as relaxed as you choose. There leashed.com) again this fall, I’ll of the happiest days of my life. are classes taught by experts in also be looking at other opera - Joyful dogs, relaxed people and everything from trick-training tions to add more exposure to lots of clear, pine-scented air in to agility to reliable recalls, my newfound love of dog a drop-dead gorgeous lakeside short rambles for dogs who camps, such as Camp Win - setting, And while my cabin aren’t all that fit (or people in naribbun (campw.com) at Lake wasn’t fancy, it was more than the same category) or long, Tahoe, Calif., and the new Yel - comfortable enough, and the brisk hikes for those who can lowstone Dog Camp (yellow - food wasn’t bad at all. handle them. stonedogsports.com) in Red What did my dogs For the more contem - Lodge, Mont. (Other camps can think of being off-leash with plative, there are plenty of be found advertised in maga - other friendly, well-socialized benches near meadows or the zines, such as The Bark.) dogs? Of nonstop swimming in lake for thinking or reading And yes, I do find my a crystal-clear alpine lake? Of while enjoying the view. My enthusiasm surprising. I guess massages, hikes, games and dogs and I mixed classes with now that I’ve been bitten by the even crafts? You wouldn’t have lake time, and I doubt my re - dog camp bug, I just can’t wait to know canine body language trievers were ever fully dry the to ruff it with my happy pack to have read the joy in their entire time. again. bouncy steps, or the nonstop doggy grins on their faces. While retrievers So what, exactly, like McKenzie is a “dog camp”? Nothing prefer to spend less than the perfect blend of most of their time dogs (and people) who don’t swimming, dog get near enough exercise and camps offer ac - campground owners grateful to tivities for all get a little extra income at the sizes, types and beginning or the end of their ages of dogs. normal summer season. The first dog camp was Vermont’s Camp Gone to the Dogs (camp-gone-tothe-

SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 16 Now Showing 21 JUMP STREET JOHN Open Nationwide 03/16/12 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Runtime 109 min CARTER Open Limited 03/09/12 MPAA Rating R for crude and sexual Runtime 107 min content, pervasive language, drug mate - MPAA Rating R for sexual rial, teen drinking and some violence. Open Nationwide 03/09/12 content and language. Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Runtime 135 min Starring Adam Scott, Jennifer Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle MPAA Rating PG-13 Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Genre Action/Adventure Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Wiig, Maya Rudolph Synopsis Schmidt and Jenko are more Collins, Samantha Morton, Genre Comedy than ready to leave their adolescent Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds Synopsis Friends With Kids is a problems behind. Joining the police Genre Action/Adventure, daring and poignant ensemble force and the secret Jump Street unit, Drama comedy about a close-knit cir - they use their youthful appearances to Synopsis The film tells the story cle of friends at that moment in go undercover in a local high school.As of war-weary, former military life when children arrive and they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and captain John Carter who is inex - everything changes. The last Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug plicably transported to Mars two singles in the group ob - ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic pro - serve the effect that kids have just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have portions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars had on their friends' relation - to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and Tarkas and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris. In a world on ships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a all the issues they thought they had left behind. the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he re - kid together - and date other people. alizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands. A THOUSAND WORDS Runtime 91 min DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX SILENT MPAA Rating No Rating Starring Eddie Murphy, Allison Jan - Open Nationwide 03/02/12 HOUSE ney, Clark Duke, Jordan-Claire Green, Runtime 86 min Philip Pavel MPAA Rating PG Open Limited 03/09/12 Genre Comedy, Drama Starring Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Runtime 85 min Synopsis Fast-talking agent JACK's Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Rob Rig - MPAA Rating R insincere patter is his chief weapon, gle Starring Elizabeth Olsen, but it irritates his assistant AARON, Genre Animation, Family Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer threatens his marriage to CAROLINE Synopsis An adaptation of Dr. Stevens, Julia taylor Ross, and gets him into trouble repping Seuss' classic tale of a forest crea - Haley Murphy guru/author DR. SINJA. Jack suffers ture who shares the enduring power Genre Horror karmic repercussions from Sinja's of hope. The animated adventure Synopsis Trapped inside her magical Bodhi tree, which sheds one leaf for each word Jack follows the journey of a boy as he family's lakeside retreat, a speaks. After one thousand words, Jack will die. searches for the one thing that will young woman is terrorized. enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. PROJECT X

Open Nationwide 03/02/12 CASA DE MI PADRE Runtime 88 min 03/16/2012 MPAA Rating R for crude and sexual Rated: R content throughout, nudity, drugs, Genre: Comedy drinking, pervasive language, reck - Armando Alvarez has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire less behavior and mayhem - all in - life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul volving teens. shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia. It seems that Raul's success as an interna - Starring Jonathan Daniel Brown, tional businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all Miles Teller, Alexis Knapp, Thomas debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's busi - Mann, Martin Klebba ness dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find them - Genre Comedy selves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza. Synopsis Three high school seniors attempt to make a name for themselves by throwing one unforgettable house party. As word Starring: Will Ferrell,Gael García Bernal,Nick Offerman,Diego Luna,Efren spread, the party takes on a life of its own and before the night is Ramirez,Genesis Rodriguez,Adrian Martinez,Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,Mariann over, dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are Gavelo,Alejandro Patino born. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 17 Premiere Cinemas 6101 Gateway West S.15 CINEMARK CIELO VISTA Schedule good for Fri March 16th - March 22nd *21 JUMP STREET (R) 2D JOURNEY 2: Gateway West Blvd/Cielo Vista Mall 10:40a 11:05a 1:30p 2:00p 4:15p THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) 4:55p 7:10p 7:45p 10:05p 10:35p 11:25a 2:00p *2D JOHN CARTER (PG-13) SAFE HOUSE (R) Schedule good for Friday March 16th 10:30a 1:45p 5:00p 8:15p 10:35a 12:30p 1:35p 3:30p 4:35p *3D JOHN CARTER (PG-13) 6:35p 7:35p 9:35p 10:35p The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani Project X R 88 min Digital Cin - 10:05pm 12:40p 3:55p 7:10p 10:15p THE ARTIST (PG-13) Schedule good for 3/16- 3/22 Encore No Rating 235 min Digi - ema [cc]10:30am | 11:30am | Star Wars: Episode I - The *3D JOHN CARTER 10:50a 1:35p 4:25p 7:15p 10:05p DOBLADA EN ESPANOL (PG-13) THE DESCENDANTS (R) 1:35p 7:25p SUPER STIMULUS TUESDAY: $1 tal Cinema 6:30pmFriends With 1:30pm | 2:30pm | 4:30pm | Phantom Menace PG 131 min 11:30a 2:45p 6:00p 9:15p THE GREY (R) DRINK, $1 POPCORN, or $5.00 OFF KidsR107 min Digital Cinema 5:30pm | 7:30pm | 8:30pm | RealD 3D 11:00am | 2:10pm *3D JOURNEY 2: 10:35a 1:40p 4:35p 7:35p 10:35p ANY REGULAR COMBO THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY 10:25am | 1:25pm | 4:25pm | 10:30pm The Vow PG-13 104 min Digital 11:00a 1:40p 4:20p 4:50p 7:00p (G) 11:10a 1:50p 4:30p 7:10p 9:50p ALL SEATS ALL SHOWS $5.00 7:25pm | 10:25pm Act of Valor R 101 min Digital Cinema [cc]10:20am | 1:20pm | 7:40p 9:40p 10:10p THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13) EVERY TUESDAY!! R 85 min Digital Cinema [cc]10:00am | 1:00pm | 4:20pm | 7:20pm | 10:20pm *3D UNDERWORLD AWAKENING (R) 11:00a 1:45p 4:30p 7:15p 10:00p “THE HUNGER GAMES” TICKETS ON SALE Silent House 11:30a 2:10p 4:50p 7:30p 10:15p VIAJE 2: LA ISLA MISTERIOSA NOW! Cinema [cc]10:40am | 1:40pm | 4:00pm | 7:00pm | 10:00pm Big Miracle PG 107 min Digital *A THOUSAND WORDS (PG-13) SUBTITULADA EN ESPANOL (PG) 21 JUMP STREET R 10:30 11:20 1:10 2:00 4:40pm | 7:40pm | 10:40pm Tyler Perry's Good Deeds PG- Cinema [cc]10:35am 11:05a 1:40p 4:20p 6:55p 9:30p 10:30a 1:10p 3:50p 6:30p 9:10p 3:50 4:40 6:30 7:20 9:15 10:10 (12:00 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax PG 86 min 13 110 min Digital Cinema Chronicle PG-13 84 min Digital *DBOX 3D JOHN CARTER (PG-13) WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13) FRI/SAT) 12:40p 3:55p 7:10p 10:15p 11:20a 2:05p 4:45p 7:20p 10:10p CASA DE MI PADRE R 10:30 12:30 2:45 *WANDERLUST (R) 10:45a 4:45p 10:20p * -- denotes Pass Restricted features RealD 3D 10:15am | 12:15pm | 1:35pm | 4:35pm | 7:35pm | Cinema [cc]10:45am | 1:45pm | 5:00 7:15 9:30 (11:50 FRI/SAT) 1:15pm | 3:15pm | 4:15pm | 10:35pm 4:45pm | 7:45pm | 10:45pm JOHN CARTER 3D PG-13 *3D SUR - 6:15pm | 7:15pm | 9:15pm | Ghost Rider: Spirit of A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader CHARGE APPLIES* 1:00 4:10 7:15 10:15 10:15pmDigital Cinema Vengeance PG-13 95 min RealD az Simin) PG-13 123 min Digital EAST POINTE MOVIES 12 JOHN CARTER 2D PG-13 11:00 2:05 5:10 8:15 (11:20 FRI/SAT) [cc]11:15am | 2:15pm | 5:15pm | 3D 1:05pm | 7:05pmDigital Cin - Cinema 10:10am | 1:10pm | I-10 & Lee Trevino Schedule good for 03/16 - 03/22 SILENT HOUSE R 10:30 12:50 3:10 5:25 8:15pm ema [cc]10:05am | 4:05pm | 4:10pm | 7:10pm | 10:10pm ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS (G) 11:10a | MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R) 2:25p | 7:20p 7:45 10:05 (12:15 FRI/SAT A THOUSAND WORDS PG-13 11:00 1:30 12:00p | 1:40p | 2:10p | 4:00p 4:35p | 6:20p | 8:30p PUSS IN BOOTS 2-D (PG) 11:40a | 4:20p 4:00 6:30 9:00 (11:30 FRI/SAT) CINEMARK 14 - EL PASO CONTRABAND (R) 11:05a | 1:35p | 4:10p | 7:10p | PUSS IN BOOTS 3-D (PG) 2:00p | 6:40p THE LORAX 3D PG 10:30 12:40 2:50 5:05 9:55p SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE GAME PG-13) 7:20 9:35 EXTREMELY LOUD INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG- 11:15a | 4:15p | 9:25p THE LORAX 2D PG 11:40 1:50 4:05 6:20 West side of El Paso at Mesa & I-10 13) 6:45p | 9:35p THE DARKEST HOUR 2-D (PG-13) 8:35 (10:50 FRI/SAT) HAYWIRE (R) 11:30a | 1:45p | 4:30p | 6:50p | 9:15p 11:20a | 4:25p | 9:10p PROJECT X 10:30 12:45 3:05 5:25 7:45 JACK AND JILL (PG) 12:10p | 2:35p | 5:10p | THE DARKEST HOUR 3-D (PG-13) 1:55p | 7:00p 10:05 (12:00 FRI/SAT) Schedule good for Friday March 16th 7:30p | 9:45p THE DESCENDANTS (R) 11:35a | 4:45p | 9:40p ACT OF VALOR R 10:30 1:15 4:15 7:15 MAN ON A LEDGE (PG-13) 11:00a | 1:50p | 4:40p THE GIRLWITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) 8:50p 10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Er - 12:15pm | 12:45pm | 3:45pm | Vengeance PG-13 95 min GHOST RIDER 2D PG-13 2:00 9:30 | 7:25p | 9:50p THE SITTER (R) 2:05p | 7:05p nani Encore No Rating 235 6:45pm | 9:15pm | 9:45pm Digi - RealD 3D 1:45pm | 7:10pm GHOST RIDER 3D PG-13 11:30 4:30 7:00 min Digital Cinema 6:30pm tal Cinema [cc] 9:15am | Digital Cinema [cc] 11:10am | MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 11:50a | 2:55p | 5:55p | (12:00 FRI/SAT) (PG-13) 11:25a | 3:00p | 6:00p | 9:00p 8:45p THE VOW PG-13 12:00 2:35 5:10 7:45 10:15 A Thousand Words PG-13 91 3:15pm | 6:15pm 4:30pm | 9:50pm JOURNEY 2D PG 11:00 1:40 4:15 min Digital Cinema [cc] 9:35am Project X R 88 min Digital Cin - This Means War PG-13 120 SAFE HOUSE R 11:15 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:15 | 12:50pm | 3:55pm | 7:00pm | ema [cc] 9:05am | 11:50am | min Digital Cinema PREMIERE MONTWOOD 7 2200 N. Yarbrough (There will be no 4:45 7:30 10:15 will not play Schedule good for 3/16 - 3/22 on 3/20/12) 10:05pm 2:35pm | 5:15pm | 8:05pm | [cc] 10:55am | 1:50pm | 4:45pm CHRONICLE PG-13 7:00 9:15 (11:45 ALVIN & CHIPMUNKS 3 (G) 3:30p 8:30p John Carter PG-13 135 min 10:50pm | 7:40pm | 10:30pm 12:05p 1:55p 3:45p 5:35p 7:25p 9:15p THE GREY (R) FRI/SAT) BIG MIRACLE (PG) 12:00p 2:20p 4:40p 7:00p 9:20p Le Corsaire will play on 3/20 @ 7:00pm Cinemark XD-RealD 3D Act of Valor R 101 min Digital Journey 2: The Mysterious Is - 12:15p 2:25p 4:35p 6:45p 8:55p WAR HORSE (PG-13) Romeo and Juliet – Royal Ballet 3/22/12 @ HUGO (PG) 12:30p 3:20p 6:05p 8:55p 1:30pm ONLY! 9:00am | 12:10pm | 3:30pm | Cinema [cc] 10:00am | 1:10pm | land PG 94 min RealD 3D 12:20p 2:50p 5:20p 7:50p WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 7:15pm | 10:45pm RealD 3D 4:20pm | 7:30pm | 10:40pm 12:35pm | 3:35pm Digital Cin - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 (PG-13) 1:00p 6:00p 9:30am | 4:00pm | 11:10pm Gone PG-13 95 min Digital ema [cc] 9:50am | 6:30pm Digital Cinema [cc] 12:40pm | Cinema [cc] 10:35pm Safe House R 115 min Digital 7:45pm | 9:35pm Tyler Perry's Good Deeds PG- Cinema [cc] 10:15am | 1:25pm | Silent House R 85 min Digital 13 110 min Digital Cinema 4:35pm | 7:55pm | 10:55pm Cinema [cc] 11:30am | 2:25pm | 11:05am | 4:55pm The Vow PG-13 104 min Digi - 5:20pm | 8:15pm | 11:05pm Wanderlust R 98 min Digital tal Cinema [cc] 10:20am | Dr. Seuss' The Lorax PG 86 Cinema [cc] 2:00pm | 7:50pm 1:20pm | 3:50pm min RealD 3D 9:45am | Ghost Rider: Spirit of TINSELTOWN Las Palmas i-10 @ Zaragosa Schedule good for Friday March 16th 21 Jump Street R 109 min [cc] 10:20am | 1:25pm | 4:30pm RealD 3D 10:50pm Cinemark XD 10:00am | | 7:50pm | 10:45pm This Means War PG-13 120 12:40pm | 3:35pm | 6:50pm | Silent House R 85 min Digital min Digital Cinema 9:45pm Digital Cinema 11:15am Cinema [cc] 12:30pm | 2:55pm | [cc] 10:55am | 1:35pm | 4:40pm | 2:05pm | 4:35pm | 7:45pm | 5:40pm | 8:25pm | 11:30pm | 7:40pm | 10:25pm 10:35pm Midnight Showtimes Dr. Seuss' The Lorax PG 86 Journey 2: The Mysterious Is - (Late Friday Night) 12:02am min RealD 3D 11:25am | land PG 94 min Digital Cin - Casa De Mi Padre R 84 min 1:10pm | 1:45pm | 3:40pm | ema [cc] 10:30am | 1:15pm | Digital Cinema 10:45am | 4:10pm | 6:10pm | 6:35pm | 3:55pm | 7:00pm | 9:40pm 2:10pm | 5:15pm | 8:10pm | 8:30pm | 9:00pm Digital Cinema Safe House R 115 min Digital 10:30pm [cc] 12:20pm | 2:45pm | 5:10pm Cinema [cc] 10:05am | 1:00pm | A Thousand Words PG-13 91 | 7:35pm | 9:50pm 4:00pm | 8:15pm | 11:00pm min Digital Cinema Project X R 88 min Digital Cin - The Vow PG-13 104 min Digi - [cc] 11:50am | 2:30pm | 5:00pm ema [cc] 11:10am | 2:00pm | tal Cinema [cc] 10:00am | | 7:30pm | 10:05pm 4:45pm | 7:55pm | 10:55pm | 12:45pm | 3:30pm | 6:45pm | Friends With Kids R 107 min 12:03am 9:30pm Digital Cinema 10:40am | Act of Valor R 101 min Digital Chronicle PG-13 84 min Digi - 1:55pm | 4:55pm | 8:00pm | Cinema [cc] 10:25am | 1:20pm | tal Cinema [cc] 11:35am | 11:05pm 4:20pm | 7:15pm | 10:10pm 3:00pm | 5:50pm | 9:15pm | John Carter PG-13 135 min Tyler Perry's Good Deeds PG- 11:40pm RealD 3D 11:20am | 12:10pm | 13 110 min Digital Cinema The Woman in Black PG-13 2:25pm | 3:20pm | 5:35pm | 11:30am 96 min Digital Cinema 6:40pm | 8:45pm | 9:50pm | Ghost Rider: Spirit of [cc] 2:15pm | 4:50pm | 7:15pm | 11:50pm Digital Cinema Vengeance PG-13 95 min 10:00pm SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 18 Calendar of upcoming events for El Paso/ Southern New Mexico are from March 16th - March 22nd, 2012 Out & About If you want your upcoming event listed in SPOTLIGHT’S Out & About section, please send all your relevant data by e-mail to: [email protected]

NORTHEAST/ CENTRAL German Spring Bazaar — The German Catholic Church of Fort Bliss hosts its annual bazaar 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 17 , at the German Community Center (Soldatenstube), Building St. Patty’s Day 6-Mile Race — The Fort Bliss race is 8 a.m. Saturday, March 17 , at the 5095 at Fort Bliss. Hobby craftspeople will display and sell their various decorations, handmade greet - fort’s Soto Gym, 20751 Constitution. Race is free for active duty military; $20 for civilians. First 200 ing cards, quilts to woodcraft products. registrants receive race t-shirt. Information: Aaron Jones, 744-5790 or blissmwr.com. German bratwurst, waffles, beer, coffee, cakes, pastries and cookies also available. Admission is free. Information: 568-0259, 568-7522 or betreuunginelpaso.com. El Paso Santos — The team, part of the new Pecos Soccer League, will host Alamogordo at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 17 , at Cohen Stadium, 9700 Gateway North. Tickets: $5 (ages 6 and younger free). Information/tickets: 755-2000, (575) 680-2212 or PecosSoccer.com. EASTSIDE ‘Trip to Bountiful’ — El Paso Playhouse, 2501 Montana, presents the play by Horton Foote Gospel Extravaganza — Houston’s Attractions’ inaugural gospel event is 6 to 10 p.m. Satur - March 16-April 7 . Directed by Jean Ames. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sun - day. Tickets: $10 ($8 seniors, $7 military/students with ID). Information: 532-1317, day, March 17 , at El Buchanan, 11540 Pellicano. Area gospel groups compete for cash prizes. Each elpasoplayhouse.com. group will perform three songs. Tickets: $20; available at All That Music and ticketbully.com.

StoryCorps — The groundbreaking oral history organization will visit El Paso March 7-17 to House of Rock East — 8838 Viscount. Tickets: $10 ($20 age 18-20), unless otherwise listed. help record the stories of local residents as part of its cross-country MobileBooth tour. StoryCorps, a Advance tickets available at ticketbully.com. national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of Ameri - • Adema, Years of Cold, Voyeur, Alodex perform at 8 p.m. Friday, March 16 . cans from all backgrounds and beliefs The “MobileBooth” Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording • Michael Schenker Group — The German rock guitarist’s Temple of Rock U.S. Tour is 8 p.m. Sun - studio will be parked at Loretto Academy, 1300 Hardaway, in partnership with The University of Texas day, March 18. Tickets: $20 in advance; $25 at the door (21 and older only). at El Paso and KRWG in Las Cruces. Donation of $25 is requested. Information/reservations: 1-800-850-4406 (24-hour line) or at sto - John Digweed — SMG Events presents the British DJ at 9 p.m. Friday, March 16 , at Nova rycorps.org. Luna Ultra Bar, 2270 Joe Battle. Tickets: $26, available at All That Music and Video, the Headstand and groovetickets.com.

Bassett Place — The mall at 6101 Gateway West celebrates its 50th anniver - sary this year. Information: 772-7479 or bassettplacemall.com. Dallas Cowboys legends Bill Bates, Everson Walls, Nate Newton and Mickey Spagnola will be in the mall Saturday, March 17 , and broadcast Cowboy Radio live from Bassett Place. Guests can win a trip for two to any Dallas Cowboy Game in 2012. A Jay Ratcliff signed pro bowl jersey will be given away.

El Paso Psychic Fair — The fair is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18 , at the Hawthorn Inn, 1700 Airway (at Boeing). Admission: $5 for both days (private readings not included with admission). Free admission with active duty military I.D. Information: 345-6245 or elpasopsychicfair.com. MISSION VALLEY

Pasion Flamenca — Gallegos y Baile Flamenco, one of the Southwest’s pre - miere Flamenco troupes, performs traditional flamenco guitar, song, and dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17 , Chamizal National Memorial, 800 S. San Marcial. Tickets: $15 (cash at the door). Information: 755-1414.

St. Patrick’s’ Shamrock 5K — St. Patrick’s A.C.T.S. will host the 2nd annual competitive 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 17 , at St. Patrick Cathedral, 1118 N. Mesa. Registration: $20 ages 15 and older; $15 ages 10 to 14 and per person teams of 10 or more; free for age 9 and younger. Green beer and food available at end of race. Online registration at raceadventuresunlimited.com. Packet pickup is noon to 6 p.m. Friday, March 16, at Up and Running, 3233 N. Mesa. Race day registration and packet pickup is 7 to 7:45 a.m. at the race site. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 19

DOWNTOWN/WESTSIDE Mountain Living Home & Garden Show — The 9th annual show is March 17-18 at the Ruidoso Convention Center. More than 200 experts and retailers from four states present new St. Patrick’s music festival — The Hoppy Monk, 4141 N. Mesa, will host an all-day bash 1 products and ideas. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, March 17 . Entertainment includes Hillside Gamblers, Hypocrite Orchestra, (under 12 free with adult). Information: (575) 808-0655 or nmmtnliving.com. Ribo Flavin, Biscuit Roller and Bumpstreet Fonanza. Cover charge is $10. Information: 307-3263. The show features handcrafted furniture, accessories and art, educational seminars and workshops, building and design, gardening and landscaping, architects and remodeling experts, professionals in Tricky Falls — 209 S. El Paso. Doors open at 7 p.m.; showtime at 8 p.m. for most shows. All home sales and financing and demonstrations on the latest tools and materials, including “living shows are all-ages, unless listed otherwise. Information: 351-9909. Tickets for most shows available green.” at All That Music, Bowie Feathers and Maria’s Closet, and online at holdmyticket.com. • The Sick Tour — The hardcore tour featuring Chelsea Grin, Attilla, For the Fallen Dreams, Chuck! Spencer Theater for Performing Arts — Airport Hwy 220 in Alto, N.M. Information: No, Captain Chuck, The Crimson Armada and Vanna is 7 p.m. Monday, March 12. Doors open at 6 (575) 336-4800, (888) 818-7872 or spencertheater.com. p.m. Tickets: $15. Cuntry-rockabilly star Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives perform at 7 p.m. Friday, March • of Montreal — The indie rock band’s “Paralytic Stalks” Tour is Sunday, March 18 , with guests 16 . Barn-burning honky-tonk and hillbilly rock is the hallmark sound of Stuart, a four-time Grammy- Deerhoof and Kishi Bashi. Tickets: $15 in advance; $17 day of show. Also available at winning star who first made his mark on the charts in the 90s. His 14th studio album is “Ghost Train: ticketbully.com. (The Studio B Sessions).” Tickets: $76 and $79.

Afternoon of Ballroom Dancing — Desert Dancers Chapter host and afternoon of dance 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 18 , at El Paso Ballroom Dance Academy, 7220 N. Mesa, with waltz, fox - trot, tango, rumba, cha-cha, bachata, swing, cumbia, country, salsa and merengue. Dance lessons of - fered. Admission: $10 ($5 for USA Dance Members). Bring a canned good donation for the West Texas Food Bank. Information: Diana, 487-9396 or desertdanceusa.com. ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ — El Paso Opera presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s saucy comic tale of love, marriage, infidelity and the stupidity of aristocracy March 15, 17 and 18, at UTEP’s Magoffin Auditorium. The story, which also includes a little incest mixed with deception and misdirection, was initially banned for ridiculing European nobility. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20-$90. Information: 581-5534 or epopera.org. The role of Figaro is performed by international opera star Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone. He re - cently directed Cavalli’s “La Calisto” at Krannert Center and sang the role of El Porteño and directed Maria de Buenos Aires for the Obra Salesiana in El Paso and Juarez.

Spring Wine Art Market — Art and Framing Mfg. and Sunland Winery, 1769 Victory in Sunland Park, host a St. Patrick’s Day weekend celebration 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 16-17, with wine tastings, painting, tasting and wine making classes and a local arts market. Information: (575) 589-1214. To get there: Turn West on Sunland Park Drive, right on Futurity at 4-way stop (across from casino entrance), left on Trifecta then right on Victory Lane.

Rockin’ Rolla — The “Downtown Music & Sports Fest” begins at noon, Saturday, March 17 , along Prospect, from Stewart to Corto Way (Sunset Heights area just north of I-10). Headliners are “Livin’ On A Prayer” Bon Jovi tribute band and “Never Stop Believing’” Journey tribute band. Also performing are Frontera Bugalu, Radio La Chusma, Brown Betty, Fixed Idea, Exilio and the Joe Bar - ron Band. Sports events include a Texas vs. New Mexico Golden Gloves boxing battle. Admission: $15 (ticketbully.com). Information: rockinrollaep.com. The event also will honor St. Patrick’s Day with green beer sales, along with other food and beverage vendors. SOUTHERN NEW MExICO Las Cruces Arts Fair — Doña Ana Arts Council’s 2012 regional juried fine arts event is 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 17-18 , in the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 University, with more than 80 artists from around the county, artists’ demonstrations and children’s activities. Admission; $5. Information: (575) 523-6403 or las-cruces-arts.org/events/las- cruces-arts-fair. A VIP Preview Night Gala is 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 16, to view the fair before the general public. Admission: $35. The Arts Fair is for artists producing original work in acrylics, pastels, pencil, pen and ink, oils, water - colors, fabric, leather, weaving, glass, jewelry, metals, mix media, photography, porcelain, pottery, sculpture, and wood. Mass-produced or factory-produced work in any category is not permitted.

Cowboy Days — The 13th annual celebration of Southwest pioneer heritage is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18 , at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Drip - ping Springs Rd., Las Cruces. Admission: $4. Information: (575) 522-1232 or nmcowboydays.com. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 20 Select’s DJ Spotlight | John Dig Weed

things: a record label, a promotions company and a Upcoming Tour: studio production partnership with Nick Muir. Mar 14 Wild Knight His management and creative direction for the Bedrock Scottsdale, AZ record label spans over 12 years with the vision and cre - ative insight to seek out mixes and remixes from the Mar 15 Knitting Factory Con - worlds best producers . To have a record released on cert House Reno, NV Bedrock serves as the global stamp of production qual - ity, ingenuity and integrity for underground producers Mar 16 Nova Luna El Paso, TX worldwide. In fact, the name John Digweed is synony - mous with those very qualities. From the nights he has Mar 17 NOS Events Center San Bernardino, CA either created or been a part of (Bedrock, Northern Ex - posure) to his world renowned mix cd’s (Renaissance, Mar 20 Spy Bar Chicago, IL GU, Northern Exposure, Transitions and Bedrock compila - tion album`s 10 ,11 12 and Structures) he has consis - Mar 25 Ultra Music Festival, ASOT 550 Stage Miami, FL tently produced characteristic products that stay in demand, himself included. Apr 06 TBA Manchester, United Kingdom

Apr 13 Melkweg The Max Amsterdam, Netherlands As one half of Bedrock the production duo he has landed two tracks in the top 40 (“Heaven Scent” and May 06 Old Fire Station, Bournemouth Bournemouth, “For What You Dream Of”) the latter of which made it United Kingdom into the hit movie “Trainspotting”. He has even tried a bit of acting himself (“Groove”). He and Nick Muir as May 11 Circus After Hours Montreal, Canada Bedrock the production team also scored a Hollywood film (“Stark Raving Mad”) as well as the animated re - May 12 The Guvernment Toronto, Canada lease of “Spider-Man” for Sony / MTV. He’s toured every If you’re not an avid follower of dance music but are corner of the planet including bus tours in the USA (Delta May 17 Beta Denver, CO tuned into popular culture at all you’ve likely experi - Heavy and Area 2 (with David Bowie and Moby) , The JOHN DIGWEED at Nova Luna enced music touched by the hands of John Digweed. legendary Big Beach Boutique in Brighton with Fatboy Originally hailing from England but having clearly arrived slim had him gladly performing to 250,000 and most re - Friday March 16, 2012, on the global scene well over a decade ago John has cently selling out the O2 Brixton Academy for Bedrock`s 18+ long since cemented his name in the pages of dance 12th Anniversary. Tickets at www.groovetickets.com music history. His list of achievements is groundbreaking to say the least. Highlights of which would be the first proper dj mix compilation (“The Mix Collection”, done His Transitions Radio show is now it`s 10th year and is with Sasha), being the first British dj to hold a residency at still one of the most successful dance music shows, what was then the world’s most well known club in NYC being broadcast to over 30 countries across the (Twilo, also with Sasha) as well as having remixed music world to a weekly audience of over 12 million. by William Orbit, Underworld, Quincy Jones, Mr Fogg and New Order. As a person John’s lack of pretense is enveloped in imagination and invention. Good reason for John John Digweed is a DJ’s DJ. The beauty of what he does being one of the most respected, analyzed and imi - lies in just how different he really is from his contempo - tated dj’s in the world. Digweed is both solid and raries. From his early beginnings in Hastings, England at durable with unyielding precision. His sinuous dj’ing the age of 15 in the blossoming scene of acid house to and production sound has become its own convinc - the apex of the international dj’ing world he has created ing dance ethic. He is centered to the principles of and maintained a level of integrity that is the benchmark life, living and friends in such a way that he gener - for both dj’s and producers globally. In fact, he has ates an aura of self-explanatory excitement and en - reached the very top of his profession, being voted #1 thusiasm. Without heroic pretensions his sets are filled in a voter’s poll. John Digweed has become the peo - with moodiness and musical mystery but held down ple’s choice while maintaining his longstanding pres - with a punchy distinctiveness and earthly rhythm. Al - ence in underground dance culture. His popularity as ways emanating a sense of boundlessness he over - both a dj and a person seems to have no limits, but his laps dream events that spill into reality with an efforts transcend dj’ing alone, he is as much a producer enormous certainty. and promoter. His moniker “Bedrock” is actually three SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 21 SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 22 SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 23 SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 24 Hoppy Monk | March 10, 2012 Tag Yourself at facebook.com/SelectElPaso Photos by: Eddie Lopez Nightlife calendar SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 25 April 21st March 18th SUPERNITE W/ MATTHEW DEAR (GHOSTLY INTERNA - SETH TROXLER Sun.Mar.18 at Nova Luna Pre - TIONAL/NYC) sented by SMG Events & Insomniac LNSC & THE LOWBROW PRESENT SETH TROXLER MATTHEW DEAR (GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL/NYC) Crosstown Rebels/Spectral/Wagon Repair 18+ 21 + $8 W/RSVP VERY LIMITED SPACE ON LIST 2270 Joe Battle Blvd, Suite J, El Paso, TX 79938 EMAIL FIRST AND LAST NAME TO 915.329.4511 [email protected] TICKET ENSURES YOUR ENTRY //TICKETS $10 PRE-SALE $12 AT THE DOOR AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING: www.groovetickets.com, All that music, The Head - stand 9pm TO 2am line starts at 8pm 18 & over Wel - come Dress Code Enforced

March 30th SUPERNITE with TIGER & WOODS - LIVE (RUNNING BACK/ENTERTAINMENT) ALONG WITH LNSC DJS DJ JOE N SLOWHANDS JASON OH! 18+ 21 + $10 DOOR Lowbrow Palace SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 26 SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 27 NEW MUSIC Artist Spotlight | Chairlift March 20th The Shins - Port of Morrow Caroline Po - Spring”, “Turning”, “Cool as a Fire”). lachek and Patrick Wim - In contrast to Chairlift’s debut album’s berly made Does you Inspire You pop-dreamscape, Something, created in the dark, after school and their sopho - work, the band uncovered the songs on more record, Something in the daytime, drinking cof - over 18 fee. months be - tween the Producer Dan Carey’s studio is part of the back of an antique store in Brooklyn and world of Something, full of giant plate-re - the basement of a family home in verb boxes, mint green reel-to-reels sal - Streatham, London. The world and char - vaged from dismantled BBC studios, acters of Something, slowly emerged- plastic human heads which are used to Various Artists- overtones of manic revenge contrast with record and simulate the listeners location Soundtrack The Hunger Games a dark brooding guilt (“Sidewalk Safari”, in approximation to the sound. The head “Amanaemonesia”, “Take it out on Me”, was sitting in the back seat of Carey’s Esperanza Spalding - “Guilty as Charged”); pastoral, almost car, a microphone on each ear, while Radio Music Society psychedelic love meets its own in - Caroline drove, screaming the “I’m evitable, blue future (“Met Before”, “Frigid gonna hunt you down… I’m gonna run you down” lyric of “Sidewalk Safari”. with Nite Jewel for two months, beginning Perhaps this inci - with a stop in Austin, TX for SxSW. dent lends itself to the fact that Some - Current Tour: thing recalls the an - themic driving Mar 26 Brighton Music Hall Boston, albums of the mid- Mar 27 il Motore Montreal, 90’s (Weezer’s ‘Blue’ Mar 28 The Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, album comes to Canada Melanie Fiona - MF LIFE mind). Larry Fitz - Mar 29 Magic Stick Detroit, MI maurice (Pitchfork) Mar 30 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL Odd Future - The OF TAPE vol 2 says that Mar 31 Triple Rock Social Club Min - neapolis, MN Casey James - Casey James ”...Chairlift go for Apr 03 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO Apr 04 The Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, ‘big’ – like, really big Paul Van Dyk - Evolution – and succeed on UT every level”. Apr 06 ELECTRIC OWL Vancouver, Canada Brooklyn-based Apr 07 The Crocodile Seattle, WA Chairlift recently re - Apr 08 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR leased a choose- Apr 10 The Independent San Francisco, your-own-path CA video for “Met Be - Apr 11 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA fore,” allowing fans Apr 12 Casbah San Diego, CA to determine the Apr 14 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ fate of band mem - Apr 16 Club Dada Dallas, TX bers Caroline Po - Apr 17 Mohawk Austin, TX Apr 18 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA lachek and Patrick Soulfy - Enslaved Wimberly with the Apr 19 The EARL Atlanta, GA click of an arrow. Apr 20 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC Apr 21 U Street Music Hall Washington, Unsane - Wreck After finishing an ex - DC AntiFlag - General Strike tensive overseas Apr 22 Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PA tour, the duo take May 08 Webster Hall New York, NY to North America SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 28 SPRINT CUP NATIONWIDE SERIES CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS NEXT Race: Food City 500 Race: Ford EcoBoost 300 Race: Kroger 250 Where: Bristol Motor Speedway Where: Bristol Motor Speedway Where: Martinsville Speedway When: Sunday, 12:30 p.m. (ET) When: Saturday, 1:00 p.m. (ET) When: March 31, 1:00 p.m. (ET) TV: FOX TV: ESPN TV: SPEED UP ... 2011 Winner: Kyle Busch (right) 2011 Winner: Kyle Busch 2011 Winner: Johnny Sauter

BByy RRIICCKK MMIINNTTEERR // UUnniivveerrssaall UUcclliicckk Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Stewart hits jackpot in Perhaps more important for the big picture, it was his first win with crew chief Steve Addington, who Vegas race was put in the difficult position of taking over for a Tony Stew - crew chief, Darian Grubb, who had led Stewart to art motored five Chase victories and the Cup championship last away from the year after being told he would be fired at season’s pack through end. one late-race “It’s a big relief, to know you’re the [only] differ - restart after ence in the race team right now,” Addington said. another in the “Nobody put the pressure on me except myself. I re - Kobalt Tools ally didn’t realize how much I’d put on myself going 400 to score to work for the championship team the very next his 45th year. Tony Stewart on pit road at Las Vegas Sprint Cup “It’s been a lot of pressure. I think that even when Motor Speedway . (NASCAR photo) victory, his sixth Tony feels good about the car, I’m still questioning. in the last 13 He’s just like, ‘Relax, dude, it’s going to be all Cup races dating back to last year, and his first win at right.’”

Racing action at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2010 (above) and 2009 (below). (Photos courtesy Bristol Motor Speedway) ‘Volcano’ For fans, drivers, Bristol offers one-of-a-kind race experience

any a race fan, upon stepping into the giant cent appearance at Bristol, which hosts this week - stadium-like seating area at Bristol Motor end’s Food City 500. “It’s pretty intimidating.” MSpeedway for the first time, has marveled at seeing a NASCAR race track in the space typically Despite the differences in perspectives, drivers occupied by a grassed football gridiron. On the other and fans tend to agree that Bristol’s high-banked hand, drivers entering from the lower side of the half-mile oval track, with its 165,000-seat grand - grandstands see the place from a totally different per - stand, is a unique and special place. spective. “Watching a race at Bristol is like putting 43 cars “The first time you go there and you’re in the in - in a blender; it’s just nonstop action,” Stewart said. field and you see how steep the banking is and how “There’s no track on the circuit that fans are as close high the grandstands are up above you, you just feel to action as they are at Bristol. like you’re in the middle of a volcano,” 2001 Sharpie 500 winner Tony Stewart told reporters during a re - Continued on next page. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 29 can win at Daytona, [but] an aver - age race car driver just doesn’t Gordon rolls with it: win at Bristol. “Everybody has to be on it at ‘The actual wreck was fun’ Bristol, and the winners there are typically hard racers. And if you “I wish I had waited, because I can win there, you feel like you tried to get out and that was the only can win anywhere. I look at Bris - time I was scared,” he said. “I was tol as the ultimate test of where stuck inside the car when I tried to un - you are as a driver.” hook. That was the part that wasn’t much fun.” He said that overall, the most dis - It also can be the ultimate test appointing aspect for him was that he of a race car, since many of them felt he caused the wreck. “They are literally sitting right wind up battered and bruised after “I got impatient with Kyle Busch,” at the edge of the track, and “Watching a race at Bristol 500 laps. Tony Stewart, who is a he said. “His car was terrible, and yet there’s not a bad seat in the house. is like putting 43 cars in part owner of his own and Ryan he wins the race. He was just so loose Every seat is a great seat. And it’s a blender.” – Tony Stewart Newman’s Chevrolet, doesn’t that every time I tried to push him by a fun place, whether you’re in the seem to mind the repair bills – if the car in front of us, he just kept get - track watching the action or over pointed out. he can prevail at the finish. ting out of control. at the campgrounds, everybody “I pushed him too hard at a bad just has so much fun.” point in the corner, and then I had to “Bristol, in my eyes, is one of “I don’t care if my car is up - try to avoid the three or four race tracks on the side down, on fire, or in a hundred Jeff Gordon signs autographs for fans last week. (NASCAR photo) him as he But for the drivers, it’s also a circuit where you don’t have a pieces as long as we’re the first to started to sparks flying everywhere. serious racing place, as 2008 fluke winner,” he said. “Guys cross the finish line there,” he wreck, and Jeff Gordon provided some insight “I was more concerned with if Food City 500 winner Jeff Burton who don’t run well anywhere else said. then I end up in while discussing his flip during the those sparks turn into fire, and I need the wreck and Budweiser Shootout at Daytona last to get out, how am I going to go cause an - month. through the other window?” he said. other “You hold on tight, and you just “I knew some cars had gotten into me, wreck. hope that it ends soon,” he said. “You and I thought the car might be stuck That was basically just brace yourself for any like that.” the thing impact that may be coming.” Then he said he began to worry that got me He said the difficult part is not that the car would land upside down, mentally being able to tell what’s coming next. which it did. more so, and “You can’t see,” he said. “You’re “When it landed upside down, that was just spinning around, and you’re seeing everything was fine. I was like, ‘That making sure I the sky and the track and the sky and didn’t hurt so bad, and I’m not in - don’t get my - the track, and it’s all happening pretty jured,’” he said. self in that fast. You’d be surprised at how fast it Still, it took some time for rescue same position. goes by.” workers to decide whether to right his “The actual Even though things happen fast, car first or get him out and then get the wreck itself Gordon said drivers do have time to car back on its wheels. Gordon said he was fun.” get nervous, like at Daytona, where he got impatient and tried to get out on was sliding along on his left door with his own. SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 30 Nissan’s Sentra Makes Economic Sense With gas prices on the rise, fuel trunk holds about 13 cubic feet pected – it accelerated just fine, features like cruise control and economy is once again a big of storage- and the rear seats usually with enough power. It the CVT transmission. The factor to consider when shop - can be folded flat when the still makes a droning sound 2.0SL really gets nice with ping for that new car. Now may time comes to haul odd-shaped when accelerating quickly; re - leather interior, alloy wheels, not be the time to buy that gas- things. minding me why I don’t care keyless start, and satellite radio. guzzling dream car you have for them. But the real letdown And the fancy SL can still be always wanted or the huge Nissan equips the Sentra with a is that with the CVT, the Sentra had for under $20,000. So as SUV to haul the soccer team 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine – just isn’t very exciting to drive. you can see, the Sentra remains around in. However, if you see good for 140 hp. The standard That issue is resolved some - affordable no matter how op - a compact car in your future, transmission for the Sentra is a what by ordering a Sentra with tioned out you want to go. now is the time and you may six-speed manual with a contin - three pedals and a stick – at a want to set your sights on Nis - uously variable transmission savings of $1100. The Sentra isn’t a very exciting san’s Sentra. (CVT) automatic available as car. Not even close. But as a an option – something that Nis - While not a rocket, I doubt simple commuter car – to get The Nissan Sentra, which un - san is really trying to push in Sentra buyers will be wishing you to and from work or derwent its sixth makeover its big-brother, the Altima and The cabin may not be the most their smaller vehicles. for more. But if they do want school, it does a great job. It is back in 2007, is actually con - even the Maxima, the Sentra attractive, but there is no ques - more, a sporty SE-R version is a solid economical sedan that sidered a midsize car by the sports a stubby nose and tail. tion that it is functional. There A reason Nissan maybe trying available that uses a 2.5 liter makes a lot of sense if you EPA and hardly feels compact. And while not everyone fa - is tons of room and as stated to encourage the CVT is be - engine and makes 177 hp. need a car on a tight budget. Adults are capable of sitting in vored the styling – some before, there really isn’t a bad cause unlike a typical auto - Even more, Nissan makes a comfort in any of the five seats, thought the wheels and wheel- seat in the house. Controls are matic transmission, the CVT very special Sentra called the -Christopher A. Randazzo and with its small, put peppy wells looked too small for the simplistic and there is a lot of brings in better fuel economy SE-R Spec V, which rings 200 four-cylinder engine, it won’t car – most agreed the Sentra storage space, including the than the manual transmission. hp out of the 2.5 liter engine. take advantage of you at the looks modern and current. biggest glovebox I have ever The EPA rates the CVT gas pump. seen in a car – it easily is capa - equipped Sentra at 27 mpg Of course, one of the main fac - Enter the Sentra, and again, ble of swallowing a laptop city/34 mpg highway, while the tors that will attract buyers to Sharing many styling cues from there will be mixed thoughts. computer - and did mine. The manual gets 24/31 – both sets the Sentra is its price. The 2.0, of numbers are a nice welcome which is the base Sentra can be Laps led by Kyle these days. had for $16,250. That gets you 1,375 Busch in the in a car with steel wheels, A/C, past 14 Cup races at Bristol, top Nonetheless, I am not a huge a CD stereo, and power acces - fan of CVTs, but that’s how my sories. For just a few thousand among drivers Sentra was equipped, so I made dollars more, you can get the do with it. Actually, the CVT 2.0S which gets bigger wheels, Nationwide Series didn’t perform as bad as I ex - keyless entry, and a few other 368 drivers who have started all three races so far this By The Numbers: season 2012 Nissan Sentra 2.0 S Cup drivers who have won 5 more than $1 million this Base Price: $17,990.00 season (Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Price as Tested: $19,870.00 Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Layout: front-engine / front-wheel drive and Tony Stewart) Engine: 2.0 liter inline-4 cylinder Transmission: CVT automatic Active Cup tracks where Horsepower: 140 hp 2 T on y Stewart has yet to win Torque: 147 ft/lbs (Kentucky Spdwy and Darlington EPA Fuel Economy: 27 city / 34 highway mpg Raceway) [Visit me at www.carsbycar.blogspot.com or email me at [email protected]] SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 31 NOTEBOOK Former Diablo Bids for Earnhardt takes blame for loss NASCAR’s “Junior Nation” had plenty to cheer about in the opening laps of the Kobalt Tools 400 at Las SPRINT CUP Padres Catching Job Vegas Motor Speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. blasted into the lead on the start and led all but three of the first 73 laps. His 70 laps led in that race were 18 more than the 52 he led all of last year. EL PASO, TX – Eddy Rodriguez, 26, who only three summers But Earnhardt was unable to keep his car at the front of the pack as track conditions changed, and he POINTS ago was the catcher for the El Paso Diablos, is one of seven catchers wound up 10th at the finish and shouldering much of the blame for falling out of contention. in the San Diego Padres’ major league camp. He said he just didn’t do a good job of communicating the information on his car’s changing handling 1. Greg Biffle characteristics to crew chief Steve Letarte. “I’m pretty confident in what I bring to the table, but you never “Our car was tight at the start of the race,” he said. “We were fast, and I knew before the end of the race 125; Leader know,” said Rodriguez. “All you can do is show up and work hard.” we were going to have to free my car up, and I never let Steve [Letarte] do it. The 6-foot, University of Miami (FL) product spent four seasons in “I just never told him enough and never gave him enough freedom today that he felt like he needed to 2. Kevin Harvick the Cincinnati farm system, then played for El Paso, TX (American free the car up. When we got in traffic, the car was just really tight, and it’s a lesson that you learn a long, Association) before landing in Sioux Falls to anchor the catching for long time ago ... 115; behind -10 the record-setting 63-win season. “It was more my fault than anything, really. I didn’t give him enough information.” Still, Earnhardt heads to one of his better tracks, Bristol Motor Speedway, fourth in the Cup standings, 18 3. Denny Hamlin Known largely for his defense, Rodriguez is continuing to prove points behind leader Greg Biffle. he also has some offensive skills, hitting 13 home runs and driving in 113; behind -12 55 runs in 80 games at Sioux Falls and delivering another 10 round- ‘Double dippers’ winning less trippers while covering all three classifications in his first season in After several years in which double-dipping Sprint Cup drivers won about all the Nationwide Series 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr. the Padres’ system. “I’m a lot more confident after a couple of me - races, the trend seems to be reversing. Last year, five races were won by drivers who were essentially Na - chanical changes, and I have a better mental plan at the plate,” he tionwide only, and a sixth was won by Trevor Bayne, who runs a limited Cup schedule. 107; behind -18 said prior to spring training. This year, the first three Nationwide races have been won by Nationwide regulars, with James Buescher winning at Daytona, Elliott Sadler at Phoenix and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at Las Vegas. 5. Matt Kenseth “An invitation to big-league camp is not something that is given For Stenhouse, the defending series champion, the Las Vegas victory was his first-ever on an intermediate out lightly, so we’re very excited about him having the opportunity,” track. 102; behind -23 praised Sioux Falls Manager Steve Shirley. One can only imagine “To win on a mile-and-a-half is big for me,” said the driver of the No. 6 Ford. “I feel like our cars are bet - the pride that showed up in the Pheasants’ office when the newspa - ter than I am at some mile-and-a-halves, and I feel like I drive really hard at the short tracks. I think we’ve 6. Carl Edwards per arrived Wednesday to show that Eddy Rodriguez, despite an 0- got a really good package going right now and to get that win on a mile-and-a-half feels good.” for-1 day, had gotten into his initial spring training game for a couple Veteran Mark Martin, who finished second, was among those impressed with Stenhouse’s performance. 102; behind -23 of innings, a 7-4 loss to Kansas City. “That was one serious beat down Ricky Stenhouse just put on me there at the end,” he said. 7. Tony Stewart The Diablos 2012 season starts May 17th. The new schedule Earnhardt adds to ‘boneyard’ 100; behind -25 boasts 9 Fridays, 9 Saturdays, and 8 Sundays. The Diablos will once It seems the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is true, at least for Dale Earnhardt Jr., again be hosting El Paso’s biggest and most exciting fireworks show who is now the proud owner of the No. 42 Chevrolet that Juan Pablo Montoya drove into the back of a jet 8. Martin Truex Jr. for Independence Day with a homestand spanning from July 3 to dryer during the Daytona 500. July 10. Mark your summer holiday calendars since the Diablos will Earnhardt recently added what’s left of Montoya’s car to his personal race car boneyard on part of his 98; behind -27 be home for both Memorial Day weekend (May 24-26 & 28-30), North Carolina property. and Labor Day weekend to finish the season right (August 31 - Sep - “I’ve got about 50 or 60 cars out there, and I didn’t buy any of them,” he told reporters at Las Vegas, 9. Joey Logano tember 3). adding that a friend in the business has helped him amass his collection. He said the Montoya car ranks high in his collection, right up there with a car Dennis Setzer flipped at 98; behind -27 Discounted Season Ticket, Weekend Ticket, and Flex Pack Ticket Talladega. Specials are on sale now for the 2012 season. For more information “It’s one of the top two or three,” he said. 10. Mark Martin on these or on our upcoming season, please visit diablos.com or call (915)755-2000. Earnhardt also said he’d like to have the remains of the jet dryer. 97; behind -28