NEWS Local news and entertainment since 1969 Gadsden student reels in scholarship page 3 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 I Volume 53, Number 7 I lascrucesbulletin.com NEWS Birth near Cookies for community heroes ‘A’ Mountain page 11 NEWS Clarence Fielder remembered on radio page 15 A&E PHOTO COURTESY NEW MEXICO FARM AND RANCH HERITAGE MUSEUM LIVESTOCK MANAGER GREG BALL Area photographers This Hereford, born in January at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (FRHM), is among several calves that hit the dirt while the museum was closed. take awards The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has re-opened the state’s eight museums — including the FRHM at 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces — and seven historic sites in accordance with COVID-safe practices and public health measures to protect the well-being of patrons. Hours at FRHM are page 20 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 | 3 Gadsden student reels in prestigious scholarship By JESS WILLIAMS hands-on. It's a job I know Las Cruces Bulletin ‘“I’m deeply honored to receive I will be happy with, be- the Horatio Alger scholarship, cause it's something I am Damian Trevino, a very passionate about. All Gadsden High School because it will help me continue my hard work is so I can student from Berino, is be able to get paid doing one of 106 students from my education after high school, what I love, and that's across the country to what will happen.” receive a $25,000 college which is something not many He said his newfound scholarship from the motivation has a lot to do Horatio Alger Association people get the chance to do.’ with a challenging family of Distinguished Ameri- life. cans, Inc. “My life at home is kind According to a HAADA — DAMIAN TREVINO of tough, living with my press release, the scholar- dad, brother and sister. ship program recognizes showing the motivation “I plan on using the My parents are divorced, students who have re- I had toward becoming funds for all necessary which is why it’s just mained committed to con- successful in my educa- expenses required for the four of us,” Trevino tinuing their education tion,” he said. “I once was school. Every single bit of said. “My father tries his and giving back to their a student who didn't care it will be helpful, as it will hardest to take care of us, communities while over- COURTESY PHOTO about school because, be needed in my journey spend time with us and coming great personal I had nothing to prove. of receiving my master's provide for us, but it’s DAMIAN TREVINO adversities and navigating Beginning in high school, degree in mechanical hard for him to do all of the challenges presented the chance to do,” he said. who fund the scholarship I was doing nothing for engineering,” he said, this when he's working by the COVID-19 pan- HAADA said awarded programs — prominent myself and disappoint- adding he plans to attend full time every day just to demic. scholars come from civic, corporate and cul- ing my family. I realized NMSU. be able to keep the house. Trevino said the schol- households with an av- tural leaders including I wasn’t going to let my He has plans for what It's hard for us as his kids arship changes the land- erage income of $18,871 Rob Lowe, Reba McEntire, past define me, and I to do with his education not having the ideal child- scape of his future. per year yet maintain an Jewel Kilcher and others. used it as my motivation. after it’s complete. hood and unfair for my “I’m deeply honored to average GPA of 3.88. In ad- Out of thousands of I went from barely pass- “My career goals are dad not being able to help receive the Horatio Alger dition to the $25,000 schol- applications submitted, ing my classes with Ds to to find a job with Tesla it. I’m trying to get a little scholarship, because it arship, when it is safe to Trevino said he thinks he getting straight As in all and work with their engi- weight off his back by try- will help me continue do so, they will travel to knows what set his apart. advanced classes.” neering team,” he said. “I ing to be the best son I can my education after high Washington, D.C. to meet “What I think set my Armed with the scholar- want to help them come be, and one day, I hope to school, which is some- their fellow scholars and application apart from so ship, Trevino said he has up with creative ideas and be able to return the favor thing not many people get the HAADA members many others was my story his sights set high. work with the technology to him.” WE SPECIALIZE IN: Ceramic UV Protection Film and Safety & Security Film Systems 4 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Brother can never ‘get over it’ Bowling alley Every time the movie is He went into Senac’s of- week. “We have got a lot shown, some new bits of fice and stumbled onto the of feedback on theories. massacre remains information surface and crime scene. The gunmen The three most prevailing unsolved after 31 the police receive tidbits then shot all seven vic- is it was some kind of hit years on the case, Teran said. tims multiple times in the that came down. One min- On the morning of Feb. head at point-blank range. ute I think it’s a mob or By ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH 10, 1990, 34-year-old Steph- Then they set the office drug hit, and then maybe Las Cruces Bulletin anie C. Senac, the bowl- on fire before leaving the not.” It is the worst unsolved something my brother did ing alley manager, was building. Anthony said there crime involving children or said.” It was 31 years ago, Feb. in her office preparing to Houser, Steve Teran were two “nobodies” who in U.S. history, he said. It “At this point, I am at 10, when two children, open with her 12-year-old and his two daughters had been living nearby, haunts him that the girls a total loss of words,” their father and four oth- daughter, Melissa Repass, were killed. Repass, de- squatting with another probably witnessed every- Minn said, “I will just ers were shot in cold blood and Melissa's 13-year-old spite being shot five times, local, and thinks its possi- thing happening before throw out the question: at the Las Cruces Bowling friend, Amy Houser. The called 911 on the office ble they just decided they they were shot. ‘What should we do?’ Alley. The murders re- alley's cook, Ida Holguin, phone, allowing emer- needed that money and “My brother and his The city has to do more main unsolved. was in the kitchen when gency services to respond knew when it was going to daughters had every to help solve this for the Anthony Teran, brother two men entered through immediately and saving be taken to the bank. right to be somebody and families. After 31 years, I of Steve Teran, who died an unlocked door. One her life, along with her “I had aerial photos do something with their don’t think I’m out of line that Feb. 10 with his pulled a .22-caliber pistol mother’s and Holguin’s. taken,” Anthony said. lives,” Anthony said. here. Maybe the city lead- daughters, still wrestles on Holguin and ordered Senac died in 1999 due to “The bowling alley is sit- “Every day, it affects my ers in Las Cruces need with his knowledge and her into Senac’s office, complications from her ting in a dirt lot. You are life. We have pictures on to come together and try memories of that day. where she, Repass and injuries. talking a Saturday morn- the walls — every day, I new things. There has to “A Nightmare in Las Houser were already “There are a lot of theo- ing, and if money was the see them, and it doesn’t go be something to go on to Cruces,” a movie made being held by another ries as to what happened,” main objective, somebody away. Every conversation give the police department by director Charlie Minn gunman. Anthony Teran said last knew [the routine].” always comes around to some hope.” about the 1990 bowling Soon after, Steve Teran, alley shooting in Las Cru- the alley’s 26-year-old me- ces is back at the Bassett chanic, entered with his Place Mall theater in El two daughters, two-year- Paso, continuing through old Valerie Teran and six- Virgin Galactic ready to aim for space once more Feb. 18. year-old Paula Holguin. By ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Virgin Galactic CEO Mi- Preparations have evaluating elements of the Las Cruces Bulletin chael Colglazier. included rigorous steps customer cabin, testing The flight, originally to prepare the vehicles, the live-stream capability A flight window for attempted Dec. 12, 2020, pilots, teams and facilities, from the spaceship to the SpaceShipTwo Unity to from Spaceport America, with safety procedures as ground and assessing the complete its delayed flight was aborted when an a top priority. In addition, upgraded horizontal sta- Give your home to space opens Feb.