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HEALTH CARE ZAPATA

SPORTS SCENE

Clinic facing exodus

INFRASTRUCTURE

Tech center begins

By JULIE DAFFERNTHE ZAPATA TIMES

ZAPATA — Familiar faces were seen at theZapata Medical Clinic this week, but theywon’t be there for long.

Several employees who walked out in lateJuly returned to work Aug. 21 as volunteersfor Dr. Ernesto Cabrera, co-partner of ZapataMedical Group, which runs the clinic.

Cabrera, who employees said submittedhis resignation effective Aug. 31, asked theemployees to fill in until his last day. Cabrerawas with patients and could not be reachedfor comment.

Dr. Larry Sands, Cabrera’s partner, will beout of the office until Tuesday. The doctorstake turns running the clinic, working 24-hour shifts for weeks at a time.

Zapata Medical Group’s contract with thecounty is up at the end of September, andcounty officials have opened the contract upfor bidding. Several proposals have been re-ceived, including one from the medical group.

The employees originally walked out inJuly when they heard they would not be paidas scheduled on July 31, leaving behind just acouple of employees to run the clinic.

They learned Aug. 10 that they would bepaid, but the money was coming from Cabr-era’s personal account. That same day, the Za-pata Commissioners Court approved an extra$36,000 for the clinic that was to be used to re-imburse Cabrera.

At the time, Manuel Pelaez, attorney forZapata Medical Group, said all of the servicesat the Zapata Medical Clinic were available.

However, the clinic’s volunteers said Fri-day several patients have said they wereturned away over the past few weeks and told

THE ZAPATA TIMES

Construction of the $3.1 million ZapataCounty Higher Education and AdvancedTechnology Center is officially underway,with completion of the new structure still setfor March 2010.

“I believe education is the greatest gift thateach generation gives to the next,” said stateRep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, whorepresents Zapata in the Texas Legislature.“It is how we preserve our history and cul-ture. It is how we ensure that new generationscan meet the new challenges they must face.

“Success of the individual also leads to thesuccess of the community,” he added.

The center will be at U.S. 83 and 7th Av-enue. Previously, the center opened in spaceprovided by the Zapata County IndependentSchool District, but funding and administra-tion issues prompted a change in plans.

Guillen and state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, who represents Zapata in the TexasSenate, sponsored legislation that allowed thestate’s Office of Rural Community Affairs toset up a grant program to pay for technologycenters in counties such as Zapata.

As vice chair of the House AppropriationsCommittee, Guillen helped secure $1.5 mil-lion for a new building. The rest of the fundscame from local and federal sources.

Guillen and Congressman Henry Cuellarwere among the many officials who attendedthe groundbreaking ceremony Thursdaymorning.

County balances budgetBy JULIE DAFFERNTHE ZAPATA TIMES

A cut in rates for workers’ compensationhelped Zapata County officials balance theproposed 2009-2010 fiscal year budget.

County Treasurer Romeo Salinas saidthe county has been doing a lot better whenit comes to workers’ compensation cases.

“We’ve been working with all the depart-ments to try and tell them safety comesfirst,” he said. “In the past (the rate) was su-per high; we were paying a larger amount.”

The cut in rates was very evident in theFire Department’s budget where there wasalso a cut in Social Security and unemploy-

ment insurance. The cost of benefits for theFire Department in the proposed budget is$402,390 as compared to $513,540 in budget-ed expenditures in the current budget.

Salinas said he makes a point of talkingto county supervisors about basic safetyprocedures, such as wearing safety beltsand wearing steel-toe boots when required.

“That’s my main concern,” he said. “Ifwe don’t do that, then everything is going toskyrocket.”

Royalty checksSalinas expressed concern at a Commis-

sioners Court meeting Aug. 10 that the

county would come up short on the revenueside of the proposed budget when it comesto royalty checks for oil and natural gas.

“Royalty checks are getting smaller andsmaller,” Salinas told the court.

The proposed budget projects $1.2 mil-lion in revenue, but Salinas estimated thatif the amount received stays at the currentfigure, the county would come up $634,000short. The county budgeted $700,000 for the2008-2009 fiscal year.

“Those royalty checks have been declin-ing because the cost of gas is so low,” Sali-nas said Friday. “It continues to drop.

A TREE IS PLANTED

Photo by Julie Daffern | Laredo Morning Times

A crew works toplant a tree onthe corner of U.S.83 and SeventhAvenue, next tothe Zapata Coun-ty Courthouse, onFriday.

TREATMENTPLANT

PROGRESS

Photo by Cuate Santos | Laredo Morning TimesConstruction of the new Zapata water treatment plant progresses as workers set rebar and platforms to pour concrete Thursday morning.

Officials: Water works may open ahead of scheduleBy JOE RUTLANDTHE ZAPATA TIMES

Workers are busily constructingthe new Zapata County watertreatment plant and, from thelooks of things, it could be

completed ahead of schedule.Carlos Treviño, Zapata County water

and wastewater utilities director, said Fri-day mostly all of the new project’s con-crete has been poured.

“I see the project and it is coming alonggreat,” Treviño said. “We’re on schedule.We’re on budget. The concrete for tanksand clarifiers has been poured. The officebuilding is being put up as we speak.”

Zapata County Precinct 3 Commission-er Joseph Rathmell agreed with Treviño’ssummation.

“We’re probably looking at finishing itby mid-summer or late summer next

year,” Rathmell said.He added this new plant will help meet

Zapata County’s continual, expandingneeds.

“We will be able to keep up as our coun-ty continues to grow,” Rathmell said.“This plant will increase our productionup to 7 million gallons a day more. Thatwill be the capacity of the new plant.

“Right now, we’re producing about 3million gallons per day,” he said. “Our de-mand is right about there and if we haveany breakdowns or power outages, then ithurts us to catch up. So we’re really look-ing forward to the day we can have that ex-cess capacity.”

Treviño said the new plant will mean “ashot in the arm” to water capacity.

“Right now, like many South Texastowns … like many across our state, we arebeing hurt by this drought,” he said. “Ourailing water plant is just not producing

enough for every customer’s needs. So wehave periods of extreme demand and wealso have low pressure in some areas thatwe deal with on an individual basis.”

The older county water plant is exceed-ing its 2.5 million gallon-per-day output be-cause of demand, Treviño said.

“When this plant was built, our popu-lation was less,” he said. “Demandsgrew, though, as our population in-creased. If everything was working fineand total demand equaled the millionsper day that plant produces, we’d be onthe margin line.”

Treviño said he’s heard Corpus Christihas had problems, too, with more than 100water leaks that cannot be dealt with rightnow.

“Because the earth is shifting due to thedry spell, there are a lot of water breaks,”he said. “Our water plant crews are work-ing 24 hours, seven days a week.”

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AROUND THE NATION

AROUND TEXAS

TODAY IN HISTORYCALENDAR

Men convicted in Fla. home invasion gang rape

Gadhafi won’t stayin Englewood, NJ

NEWARK, N.J. — U.S. Rep.Steve Rothman said late Fridayhe’s been given assurances from arepresentative of the Libyan gov-ernment that Moammar Gadhafiwon’t stay in Englewood, N.J.,when he visits the United Statesnext month to address the U.N.General Assembly, a visit that hassparked angry protests.

Billboards help FBIname robbery suspect

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Thebrazen bank robber didn’t botherto hide his face as he threatenedtellers with a gun in at least 10heists from Kentucky to the Car-olinas to Tennessee.

Now the FBI has named a sus-pect after bank surveillance pho-tos from holdups dating to Maywere flashed on electronic bill-boards across the South.

Ethics probe of gov’stravel under way

CONWAY, S.C. — The head ofthe South Carolina Ethics Commis-sion is confirming that an investi-gation of Gov. Mark Sanford’s trav-el has been going on for 10 days.

The confirmation Fridayevening comes after the Repub-lican waived confidentialityand allowed the probe to be-come public.

— Compiled from AP reports

Troopers seize morethan $275,000

LAREDO — Texas highwaytroopers have seized more than$275,000 from a traffic stop northof Laredo.

Texas Department of PublicSafety officials said Friday theydiscovered $276,130 bound forMonterrey, Mexico, from Houstonearly Thursday.

Troopers found the cash con-cealed in the spare tire of a vehi-cle during a 4:35 a.m. traffic stopfor failing to maintain a singlelane.

Police arrest 2 in slaying of doctor

HOUSTON — Two Houstonbrothers have been arrested in theAug. 22 slaying of a prominentHouston doctor, and a third manis being sought.

Jorge Mario Gonzalez, a pul-monary specialist and the chief ofcritical care at The MethodistHospital, was shot to death at his30-acre ranch about 60 milesnorthwest of Houston.

Hutchison says deficitunder Obama is scary

DALLAS — U.S. Sen. Kay Bai-ley Hutchison says the budgetdeficit building under PresidentBarack Obama is the scariestthing she’s seen in her Senate ca-reer.

Speaking to a business groupFriday in Dallas, Hutchisonsaid the Obama administrationis academically and politicallysmart but lacks the real worldbusiness experience needed tolead the country in the right di-rection.

Hutchison said Congress needsto scrap Obama’s proposal onhealth care reform and start over.

Metal concert drops‘Bloody Holly’ name

LUBBOCK — A heavy metalconcert organizer says his showhas dropped the name Bloody Hol-ly Festival, but not because thefamily of late rock star BuddyHolly objected.

A concert official said Thurs-day the change had more to dowith one of the event’s perform-ers withdrawing because he washospitalized with blood clots.

The show is now called the Ped-al To The Metal Tour 2009.

NASA solves problem,aims for night launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forthe third time this week, NASA fu-eled space shuttle Discovery for aFriday night launch to the interna-tional space station after resolvinga fuel valve problem.

Thunderstorms, however, weremoving in and posing a growingconcern.

Liftoff was scheduled for 10:59p.m. Zapata time.

Forecasters said, overall, therewas a 60 percent chance of accept-able weather.

Judge’s wife cleared of arson charges

HOUSTON — Arson chargeshave been dropped against thewife of a Texas Supreme Courtjustice in the fire that destroyedtheir home in suburban Houston.

The Harris County District At-torney’s Office dismissed felonyarson and felony criminal mis-chief charges Thursday againstFrancisca Medina, the wife ofJustice David Medina, after ex-perts couldn’t rule out the possi-bility an electrical problem for the$1 million fire in Spring.

— Compiled from AP reports

SATURDAY,AUG. 29The Laredo Food for Thought

Foundation, along with health stu-dents, will be conducting a food drivefrom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the H-E-Bplus! parking lot, 1911 Bob BullockLoop. Five donated nonperishablefood items will get you a voucherthat partially qualifies you to receivea ticket to listen to Sonia Nazario, au-thor of “Enrique’s Journey,” at theLaredo Civic Center on Sept. 24.Blood pressure and other health-re-lated tests will be available free.

MONDAY,AUG. 31The Zapata County Fair mem-

bership meeting is today at 6:30p.m. at the Holiday Restaurant.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2There’s a Zapata County fever

tick eradication meeting at 6 p.m. to-day at the Zapata County Pavilion.Discussion will center on the deerpopulation and a possible deer sur-vey as well as strategies to help erad-icate fever ticks in wildlife. For moreinformation, call 765-4911.

The 3rd Annual Lilia MartinezLecture is tonight at the Laredo Cam-pus Extension, 1937 Bustamante St.,in Laredo,with a reception starting at5:30 p.m. and the address starting at7 p.m.The speaker is Dr.Carlos Rober-to Jaén, the Dr.John M. Smith Jr. Pro-fessor and Chair, Family and Commu-nity Medicine at UT Health ScienceCenter at San Antonio. His topic is“Preparing for the Flu: H1N1 (swine)and Seasonal.” For auditorium seat-ing, call (210) 567-2056

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5There will be a book sale today

from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Widen-er Room of First United MethodistChurch, 1220 McClelland Ave. Thepublic invited, and there is no admis-sion fee. Call 722-1674 if you havebooks or magazines to donate.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8The Zapata County Retired

Teachers Association meets todayat 11 a.m. at the Holiday Restaurant.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10The Texas A&M International

University presents drawings andsculptures by Brian Row.An openingreception will be held today from 5-7:30 p.m. at the Art gallery locatedinside the Center for the Fine andPerforming Arts. The exhibit will beon display through October 8th. Formore information call the Center forFine and Performing Arts at (956)326-2654.

A Wine Tasting Gala to bene-fit KLRN – Public Television, featur-ing excellent wines and delectabledishes, begins at 7 p.m. at La Posa-da Hotel and Suites in Laredo. Tick-ets are $100. For more information,call (800) 627-8193 or visitklrn.org/wine

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12The first South Texas Bow

Hunter Shootout is today at the Os-waldo H. and Juanita Ramirez Ex-hibit Hall, 2312 Glenn St. in Zapata.The all-day archery competition of-fers numerous divisions. Spaces areavailable for vendors. Call the Zapa-ta County Chamber of Commercefor more information at 765-4871.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16The 16th Annual Manufac-

turing and Logistics Symposium“South Texas and Northern Mexi-co’s Global Positioning in Today’sEconomy” will be held at the TAMIUStudent Center in Laredo from 6 to8 p.m. The symposium is a compre-hensive three-day agenda crucialfor companies seeking new markets,developing logistic platforms or ex-panding operations. For more infor-mation, contact the Laredo Devel-opment Foundation at 722-0563 orvisit www.ldfonline.org.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 17The 16th Annual Manufactur-

ing and Logistics Symposium “SouthTexas and Northern Mexico’s GlobalPositioning in Today’s Economy con-tinues today at the TAMIU StudentCenter in Laredo from 7:30 a.m. to7:30 p.m. For more information, callthe Center for Fine and PerformingArts at 326-2654.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18Today is the last day to par-

ticipate in the 16th Annual Manu-facturing and Logistics Symposium“South Texas and Northern Mexi-co’s Global Positioning in Today’sEconomy,” which will be held at theTAMIU Student Center in Laredofrom 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For moreinformation, contact the LaredoDevelopment Foundation at 722-0563 or visit www.ldfonline.org.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, Aug. 29, the241st day of 2009. There are 124 daysleft in the year.

TTooddaayy’’ss HHiigghhlliigghhtt iinn HHiissttoorryy:: On Aug. 29, 1944, 15,000 American

troops marched down the ChampsElysees in Paris as the French capi-tal continued to celebrate its libera-tion from the Nazis.

OOnn tthhiiss ddaattee:: In 1009, the Mainz Cathedral in

Germany burned down the sameday it was inaugurated.

In 1533, the last Incan King ofPeru, Atahualpa, was executed onorders of Spanish conqueror Fran-cisco Pizarro.

In 1809, American author OliverWendell Holmes, Sr., was born inCambridge, Mass.

In 1877, the second president ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-Day Saints, Brigham Young,died in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age76.

In 1943, responding to a clamp-down by Nazi occupiers, Denmarkmanaged to scuttle most of its navalships.

In 1957, the Senate gave final con-gressional approval to a Civil RightsAct after South Carolina Sen. StromThurmond (then a Democrat) endeda filibuster that had lasted 24 hours.

In 1958, pop superstar MichaelJackson was born in Gary, Ind.

In 1965, Gemini 5, carrying astro-nauts Gordon Cooper and Charles“Pete” Conrad, splashed down inthe Atlantic after 8 days in space.

In 1966, the Beatles concludedtheir fourth American tour withtheir last public concert, at Candle-stick Park in San Francisco.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hitthe Gulf Coast near Buras, La.; theresulting floods devastated the cityof New Orleans. More than 1,800people in the region died.

TTeenn yyeeaarrss aaggoo:: Hurricane Denniswallowed along the coast toward theCarolinas, prompting evacuationorders for the fragile Outer Banksbarrier islands.

FFiivvee yyeeaarrss aaggoo:: Tropical StormGaston made landfall in South Car-olina at near-hurricane strength.Protesters filling 20 city blockspeacefully swarmed Manhattan’sstreets on the eve of the RepublicanNational Convention to demandthat President George W. Bush beturned out of office. A car bomb atthe office of a U.S. security contrac-tor in Afghanistan killed about 10people, including three Americans.Closing ceremonies were held inAthens, Greece, for the Olympicgames.

OOnnee yyeeaarr aaggoo:: In a politicallystartling move, Republican JohnMcCain picked Alaska Gov. SarahPalin, a maverick conservativewith less than two years in office,to be his vice- presidential run-ning mate.

TTooddaayy’’ss BBiirrtthhddaayyss:: Actor-direc-tor Lord Richard Attenborough is86. Movie director William Fried-kin is 74. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is 73. Actor Elliott Gould is71. Movie director Joel Schumach-er is 70. TV personality RobinLeach is 68. Actor G.W. Bailey is 65.Actor Ray Wise is 62. Actress Debo-rah Van Valkenburgh is 57.Dancer-choreographer Mark Mor-ris is 53. Country musician DanTruman (Diamond Rio) is 53. Ac-tress Rebecca DeMornay is 50.Singer Me’Shell NdegeOcello is 40.R&B singer Carl Martin (Shai) is39. Actress Carla Gugino is 38.Rock musician Kyle Cook (Match-box Twenty) is 34. Actor JohnHensley is 32. Rock musicianDavid Desrosiers (Simple Plan) is29. Rapper A+ is 27. Actress Jen-nifer Landon is 26. Actor JeffreyLicon is 24.

TThhoouugghhtt ffoorr TTooddaayy:: “Don’t be‘consistent,’ but be simply true.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894).

By BRIAN SKOLOFFASSOCIATED PRESS

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two menwere convicted Friday in the brutal gangrape attack on a woman and her young son ina South Florida housing project and could besentenced to life in prison.

Tommy Poindexter, 20, and Nathan Walk-er, 18, were tried together but with separatejuries. Poindexter’s panel found him guilty ofrape, kidnapping, assault and burglary.Walker’s jury returned less than two hourslater, also convicting him on similar charges.

Poindexter now faces eight life sentences.Walker could be sentenced to 11 life terms.

A third defendant, Avion Lawson, 16,pleaded guilty and testified against Poindex-ter and Walker. A fourth defendant, 17-year-old Jakaris Taylor, is set for trial next month.

The defendants made limited admis-sions to the attack, but also tried to deflectblame. Lawson claims he raped thewoman once, then left soon after. Poindex-ter’s attorney says her client raped thewoman, but didn’t participate in any oth-er crimes. Walker’s attorney didn’t ac-knowledge any guilt.

They were all teens at the time of crime,but were charged as adults.

Authorities say fingerprints and DNAfound on clothing and condoms inside theapartment identified the defendants. Theyare still seeking additional suspects.

Poindexter showed little emotion as theverdict was read, occasionally bowing hishead and resting his chin on his claspedhands. Deputies say he asked to be hand-cuffed during the reading because he wasn’tsure he could control himself.

Photo by Pat Sullivan | APVietnam veteran Bill Callahan teaches his service dog Tailor sign language Friday, athis home in Baytown. Callahan, a paraplegic, is working to get service dogs like Tailorfor other injured servicemen.

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CCOONNTTAACCTT UUSS

Photo by Lannis Waters, Pool | APAvion Lawson points out Jakaris Taylor’s apartment on a photograph of Dunbar Village during the trial in West Palm Beach, Fla.,for the assault and rape of a Dunbar Village resident and her son. Nathan Walker Jr. and co-defendant Tommy Poindexter are be-ing tried together, but each with his own jury.

BY DORA MARTINEZ

It all started with the Zap-ata High School Band play-ing under the direction ofAmado Martinez, band di-rector, and then the presen-tation of colors by AmericanLegion Post 486, followed bythe singing of our nationalanthem, “The Star-SpangledBanner” and the reciting ofthe Pledge of Allegiance.

The day was sunny ascivic leaders and local-,state- and federal-electedofficials gathered Thurs-day morning for the for-mal groundbreaking cere-mony of the new ZapataCounty Higher Educationand Advanced TechnologyCenter.

Dignitaries present allgave speeches, starting withRomeo Rodriguez Jr., masterof ceremonies and superin-tendent of the Zapata Coun-ty Independent School Dis-trict.

County Judge RosalvaGuerra talked about whenshe had to commute back

and fourth to Laredo for hereducation and having towake up two hours before toget there on time for collegeand how fortunate these stu-dents will be to have this fa-cility here in our own back-yard.

She noted that withoutthe help of Guadalupe andLilia Martinez and JoseMaria Ramirez trust fundsas well as federal funds, thisnew center would not be pos-sible.

We had all the Commis-sioners Court present: JoseEmilio Vela, Gabriel Villar-real, Joseph Rathmell andNoberto Garza.

Peggy U. Moffett, presi-dent of the Zapata CountyEconomic DevelopmentCenter, spoke about Con-gressman Henry Cuellar be-ing one great humanitarianand a tremendous leader,willing to help his districtand bringing federal fundsto our people. She also

praised state Rep. RyanGuillen, referring to him asa catalyst for economic de-velopment.

Cuellar spoke of how Zap-ata could be transformedand change economically,not just because of its suc-cess in oil and gas produc-tion, but because of other in-tangible factors.

He encouraged us to staytogether as a team of playersand make this town a suc-cess and be proud of whatwe all have accomplished incollaboration with each oth-er.

Pedro Garza, Austin re-gional director of the U.S.Department of Commerce,Economic Development Ad-ministration, talked about$1.5 million in federal fund-ing from his agency for theproject. Charlie Stone, direc-tor of the Texas Office of

Rural Community Affairs,spoke of wearing a yellowshirt for the brightness forour future.

Blas Castañeda talkedabout how his students atLaredo Community collegecomplained about living sofar from the college, butwhen he told them abouthow he would get to collegein those days — it was a realstruggle — the students said,“Never mind, sir.”

Leticia Flores was thereon behalf of Gov. Rick Per-ry, who could not be pres-ent. She read a letter fromthe governor, wishingeveryone success in thisundertaking.

(Dora Martinez is a nativeof Zapata who was publisherof Hispanic News in San An-tonio for 21 years. She can bereached at thezapata-times@att.net)

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Choose actions, words wisely

Summer vacation isover. With the start ofthe academic year,

parents or guardians ofstudents throughout ourarea and at every grade lev-el have been busy filling outforms, reading guidelinesand signing agreements.

Most of these guidelinesaddress appropriate schoolattire and school behavior.

Everyday, our childrenexercise and bear the greatresponsibility of makingwise decisions.

Similarly, parents andguardians provide guid-ance to make the rightchoice and to help them un-derstand the consequences,especially with the youngerchildren who lack the wis-dom to know otherwise.

Just as parents, guardians,teachers and administratorsexpect students to be on theirbest behavior, we are also re-minded that living as a follow-er of Jesus Christ also calls usto choose our words and ouractions wisely.

Why is this?Because the decisions

each of us makes not onlyhelp to shape our own lives,but often affect the lives ofothers. Even what may seemlike small choices can have asignificant effect upon othersand upon society, as a whole.

For example, if one choosesto eat a diet consisting mainlyof high caloric and fatty foods,there is a great likelihood onewill develop a serious healthcondition. This may be a con-dition such as coronary arterydisease or diabetes, whichplagues many in South Texas.

Bearing these things inmind, common sense seems

to indicate that it is impor-tant to take the time to choosewisely. In the Bible, we readhow Joshua summoned to-gether the tribes of Israel andasked them to make a choiceas to whether they were tru-ly willing to commit them-selves to serve the Lord.

When many of the disci-ples left and returned totheir former ways of lifebecause they found it toodifficult to follow the teach-ings of Jesus, the 12 Apos-tles remained by His side.

When Jesus asked whythey did this, Peter re-sponded, “Master, to whomshall we go? You have thewords of everlasting life.”

Our decisions are impor-tant. They not only shapeour lives and affect thelives of others in society.

So, each day let us makethe conscious and deliber-ate choice to live as a fol-lower of Jesus, being trueto His teachings and imi-tating His actions. Theyare the words of eternallife that will lead us oneday to perfect happiness.

In this way, our lives willtruly help make the world abetter place in which to live,especially, when these actionsare done Todo Con Amor.

(Bishop James A.Tamayo heads the RomanCatholic Diocese of Laredo.The diocese covers Webb,Zapata and five other areacounties.)

GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY

Photo by Cuate Santos | Laredo Morning TimesNumerous officials gathered in Zapata for the official groundbreaking ceremony for the Zapata County Higher Education and Advanced TechnologyCenter. Shown left to right in the front row are Leticia Flores, representing Gov. Rick Perry; County Commissioner Jose E. Vela, civic leader Hildegar-do Flores, Juan Lira, Rogelio Treviño, Blas Castañeda of Laredo Community College, Commissioner Gabriel Villarreal (center, in dark suit with shov-el), County Judge Rosalva Guerra, Charlie Stone, an official with the Zapata County ISD, Commissioner Norberto Garza, Commissioner Joseph Rath-mell and Peggy U. Moffett. Standing in the back on the left side are ZCISD Superintendent Romeo Rodriguez and County Treasurer Romeo Salinas.

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Trash Islanddooms ocean

YOUR OPINION

NEW YORK TIMES

Until recently, theearth had seven con-tinents. To that num-

ber, humans have added aneighth — an amorphous,floating mass of waste plas-tic trapped in a gyre of cur-rents in the north Pacific,between Hawaii and Japan.

Researchers have esti-mated that this garbagepatch may contain as muchas 100 million tons of plas-tic debris and is perhapstwice the size of Texas, ifnot larger.

Across the world’s oceansthere are still many moremillions of tons of floatingplastic, most of it originat-ing from land, not ships.

All of this solid waste isbad news. It traps as manyas a million seabirds everyyear, as well as some 100,000marine mammals.

More bad newsNow comes what could be

more bad news. A new study,announced at a recent meet-ing of the American Chemi-cal Society, suggests thatplastics in seawater breakdown faster than expected.

As they do, they appar-ently release contaminants,including potentially harm-

ful styrene compounds notnormally found in nature.

This was not merely alaboratory finding. The au-thor of the study, KatsuhikoSaido, a scientist at NihonUniversity in Japan, foundthe same chemical com-pounds in seawater samplescollected near Malaysia, thePacific Northwest, and inthe northern Pacific.

Not a good thingThe effects of these bro-

ken-down plastics on ma-rine organisms is as yet un-known, and they will beharder to measure than thedamage that plastic refusedoes to sea-life.

But adding to the contam-inant load of the oceans can-not be a good thing.

What we are seeing hereis yet another of the large-scale, potentially tragic, un-controlled experiments thathumans have conducted ontheir environment withoutintending to.

And though we cannot domuch about the millions oftons that have already beensent to sea, we can at leastbegin to ask ourselves, whenwe get ready to pitch a plas-tic container, where is thislikely to end up?

Think before you throw.

ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009

TToo tthhee eeddiittoorr::America lost an icon this

week with the passing ofSenator Edward M.Kennedy, not just a fixturein American politics or apart of a great family thathas always strived to makethe promise of Americatrue to all its citizens. Welost a true representative ofthe people, not just those ofhis home state of Massa-chusetts but of all Ameri-cans.

We think of him as a lib-eral lion that fought on oneside all his career — buteveryone benefited fromhis wisdom, charity, diver-sity and openness tochange. He representedeveryone in his nearly 47years in the U.S. Senate.There were more than 300bills from his office thathad a positive effect on theU.S.A. and internationally.

The National Cancer Actof 1971 was the first bill toput public research in cur-ing and researching cancer.The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act which calledfor the end of Apartheid inSouth Africa. The Immigra-tion and Nationality Act of1965 ended quotas on whocould enter the U.S.A.; thisis a substantial change tothe country – because itopened the doors to theU.S.A. to become a more di-verse nation. If we just lookat those three items Sena-tor Kennedy was a manwho changed this nation.

Teddy Kennedy, as hewas known to everyone inthis world, lived throughsome of the country’sroughest times and cameout a man who cared aboutthe citizens of this nationand the world. He repre-sented to me a true spirit ofAmerica that giving wasmore important than re-ceiving – that the “haves”have a responsibility to the“have nots.” The measureof a country is not by howmany millionaires we havebut by how many millions

we can feed and shelter. This does not mean giv-

ing handouts and welfarefor the people not working –but this means giving op-portunities to those work-ing hard to improve theirlife. This means the govern-ment ensuring that fair ed-ucation and equal opportu-nities exist not only for thepeople with access – butthose without access.

His speeches when I was14 years old still ring in mymind as I recall his desirenot to bring down the world— but to lift the world. Themoney we easily spend forwar we struggle to spendfor education and healthcare; the ease with whichwe put people in prisonsand the struggles to givepeople access to librariesand books.

The nation would be bet-ter served if everyone inCongress took a lessonfrom his book of life — it isbetter to serve the peopleand the needs of the nationthan to serve yourself andself-interest of lobbyists.

Finally, it cannot be saidthe sadness we felt as wewatched him experiencedthe losses in his familyfrom JFK and RFK publiclyand the other personaltragedies. However, it madehim stronger in my eyes tosee a man develop strengthfrom adversity and couragefrom fear.

Teddy Kennedy inspiresme each day and will al-ways be my fondest memo-ry of meeting anyone. Heshowed me that the truecourage of a leader is notin the followers, but in ac-tually taking a stance.

I salute his countlessyears in service to Massa-chusetts and his absolutededication to improving thelives of all Americans. Hewill be remembered by meas he died on my birthday— and will always be a heroof mine.

SSiiggnneedd,,Dale E. Woodfork

Keep wary eye out for trains

COLUMN

TMC works to help young kids

By SALLY TINGLESPECIAL TO THE TIMES

In recent weeks, a womanwalking her dog and ayoung man out for a stroll

were tragically killed. Theseincidents had two things incommon: the victims were inthe 18-34 age range, and theyinvolved pedestrians andtrains.

Last year, according to fed-eral statistics, nearly 36 per-cent of the 870 pedestrianswho were injured or killed bytrains nationwide were inthat age group. Unfortunate-ly, Texas is among the stateswith the highest number ofpedestrian rail trespassdeaths last year, with 29 tres-pass fatalities and an addi-tional 51 trespass injuries, ac-cording to preliminarystatistics.

Sadly, these fatalities wereall preventable.

Many Texas residents

don’t seem to realize thatrailroad tracks are privateproperty, and that people whowalk, hunt, fish from, rideall-terrain vehicles, or at-tempt to cross railroad tracksat places other than designat-ed highway-rail grade-cross-ings are breaking the law bytrespassing.

The odds are against you ifyou choose to walk on, orclose to, train tracks and gethit by a train. More than halfthe time you end up dead; thesecond most common out-come is loss of a foot or a leg.

Injuries and fatalities as-sociated with trespassing onrailroad property are a sig-nificant — and growing —problem. According to theFederal Railroad Adminis-tration, the casualty rate forall trespassers rose in 2008.More than 9,000 trespassersdied or were injured in rail-road-related trespassing inci-dents in the last 10 years.

Educating the public iscritical to our efforts to re-duce rail pedestrian trespassincidents in Texas. It’s im-portant to know that beingon or around train tracks atplaces other than a designat-ed crossing area is not only areally bad idea, it’s illegal. InTexas, rail trespassers aresubject to a fine.

This summer, Texas Oper-ation Lifesaver — part of anational non-profit safetygroup — starts a new safetycampaign aimed at reducingthe number of people killedand injured while illegally onthe tracks. Partnering withthe major U.S. railroads andthe U.S. Department ofTransportation, led by theFederal Railroad Adminis-tration, the Common Sensecampaign includes an inter-active website and internet-based advertising in areaswhere these incidents fre-quently occur.

Why are we launching thiscampaign now? Summerbrings more people outside,and some may be tempted touse train tracks as a short-cut or as a place to ride theirATV. Other activities, such astalking on a phone, texting orlistening to MP3 players, aredistractions that can be dead-ly around the tracks. Thecampaign’s message is sim-ple — use your commonsense, especially aroundtrains.

Texas Operation Life-saver’s trained safety speak-ers give free presentationsthroughout the state, and tellpeople of all ages to stay offand stay away from thetracks — and stay alive.Learn more at www.Com-monSenseUseIt.com

(Sally Tingle is state coor-dinator of Texas OperationLifesaver, www.oli.org. Shecan be reached attxol@hot.rr.com)

School children are head-ing back into the class-rooms, many for the

first time. But schooling must start

far before the first day ofkindergarten to ensure thatyoung people are armed withbasic social and learningskills necessary to succeed.Preschool programs play anintegral role in providingkids with these tools, but areoften cost-prohibitive formany families just strug-gling to put food on the table.

Children from low-incomeand disadvantaged familiesshouldn’t be left behind be-cause of financial and/or mi-gratory constraints, and atTMC – Teaching & Mentor-ing Communities, we put ac-tion behind that belief.

TMC — Teaching & Men-toring Communities, former-ly known as the Texas Mi-grant Council — has beendedicated to helping SouthTexas families and their chil-dren for nearly four decades.Since 1971, TMC has provid-ed emerging communities

and low-income familieswith programs and servicesto ensure their kids areequipped with the tools theyneed to succeed in school andin the workplace.

I am pleased to say thatwhat began right here alongthe Texas-Mexico border hasevolved into a multi-state andmulti-service organization,helping families from NewMexico to Ohio.

At the heart of our work atTMC is the Migrant SeasonalHead Start program, one ofthe largest community-basedservice programs in the na-tion that every year providesa wide range of services suchas family literacy, consumereducation, and prenatal careto nearly 8,000 youngstersand their families.

And I am proud to note

that many of the studentswho have received their edu-cation through TMC’s HeadStart Program went on toearn college degrees and be-come active and contributingmembers of their communi-ties.

To supplement the goodwork being preformed by theMigrant Seasonal Head Startprogram, TMC has imple-mented numerous other com-munity programs aimed athelping local residents. Forinstance, at TMC’s ChildCare Services and GoldenCrescent Workforce Solu-tions, parents can pursuetheir own educational andemployment advancementgoals as well.

We also recognize that ed-ucation combined with ahealthy family is paramountto a child’s success. And ourprograms such as Safe Havenand Healthy Marriage Devel-opment work to make the“home” life strong.

But all of these worthwhileprograms come at price.

Countless donations and

grants provided by the pri-vate sector make these effec-tive services possible. For in-stance, with the generoushelp of employers such asAT&T, we have been able todramatically increase thenumber of families we serve,particularly in our MigrantSeasonal Head Start pro-gram.

Working with AT&T andother employers like them,TMC continues to serve ourcommunities. In fact, the suc-cess of our programs is de-pendent on the commitmentof our partners in the corpo-rate world. We are gratefulfor our partners and support-ers.

We succeed when our kidssucceed and families arehealthy and prepared for thechallenges of every day life.And that is what TMC is allabout.

(Mary G. Capello, J.D., isthe Chief Executive Officer ofTeaching & Mentoring Com-munities, a nonprofit agencyproviding multiple family-oriented services.)

MARYCAPELLO

Senator Kennedy is a loss to all of America;he promoted rights for everyone

Think twice before consideringthe late Ted Kennedy a ‘fine leader’

TToo tthhee eeddiittoorr::Senator Ted Kennedy —

what a fine leader and ex-ample-setter for the coun-try.

I remember him singing“Guadalajara” in down-town Laredo. A slap in all

our faces!And leaving a young

girl, Mary Jo Kopechne, todrown in a car he drove offin to a muddy creek.

What a fine man!SSiiggnneedd,,Jim Winch

A healthy hand: Courses teachnutrition, lifestyle changes

By ZACH LINDSEYLAREDO MORNING TIMES

Angel Sanchez’s 11-year-old daughters Ashly and Jen-nifer are twins, even if theydon’t look alike.

But they do have one thingin common: a desire to behealthier.

“First of all, we want tochange our eating habits as afamily,” Angel Sanchez said.

He said that he also wantsto start taking a daily walkwith his children in the after-noons. Angel and his daugh-ters are learning weight-lossmethods from an educationalprogram about weight loss atthe Gateway CommunityHealth Center.

An economic correlationAt the center, many fami-

lies are low-income. “They don’t have that

much money,” said ArturoMartinez, health promoterand trainer at Gateway Com-munity Health Center. “Theytend to buy foods that areprocessed and cheap.”

When the clinic screensindividuals, Gateway some-times finds children withhigh cholesterol or lipid lev-els, high blood pressure, hy-pertension or acanthosis ni-gricans, a blackening of theskin on the back of the neckwhich is an indicator of theonset of diabetes.

These children are recom-mended for the childhoodweight management program.

“We teach somethingabout nutrition, somethingabout physical activity andexercise,” Martinez said.

Each class has 10 sessions,with one two-hour sessionper week.

Family mattersThe program may be

aimed at children, but thatdoesn’t mean parents getaway with sitting back andwatching.

“Parents participate inevery single activity,” Mar-tinez said.

He said the program is

“holistic” in nature.The children may have

weight problems, but the par-ents are doing the cooking.

Illustrating intakeThe teachers of the pro-

gram show children first-handwhat’s in the food they eat.

For example, the childrenare shown a can of soda.Then they are shown theeight teaspoons of sugar thatthat soda contains.

A plate is set out with thecontents of a Happy Mealhamburger: 15 teaspoons oflard, as well as the sugars andother substances in the burger.

Every week, the instruc-tors have the students setgoals for themselves.

“It has to be measured,”Martinez said.

Goals can include cuttingdown on foods, getting moreexercise or adding fruit toyour diet at least three daysout of the week, but theyhave to be tangible.

Nipping it in the budThe program also teaches

youths about health compli-cations that can result frombeing overweight.

“If you don’t address thisproblem, this is what canhappen,” Martinez said. “It’snot to scare them. It’s to edu-cate them.”

Martinez remembers oneboy who lost 24 pounds in theprogram.

Another child lost eightpounds, but his parent lost 16.

“You see that the par-ents… make that lifestylechange as well,” Martinezsaid.

Everything related to theclass is free. Labwork is free,and three months after theclass is completed, the clinicperforms more labwork.

Martinez said that there isa waiting list for participa-tion in the courses.

For more information, callthe Gateway CommunityHealth Center at 718- 6226.

Photo by Ulysses S. Romero | Laredo Morning TimesLinda Gray measures Ashely Sanchez height during the Gateway Com-munity Health Center Nutrition Program.

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Vince Neil to headline AutMus Fest

By KIRSTEN CROWLAREDO MORNING TIMES

The Texas A&M Interna-tional University AlumniAssociation kicked off itsAutMus season officiallyWednesday, making its for-mal announcement of Lare-do’s premier music festivalat Hal’s Landing.

Among the groups con-firmed to play the show Sat-urday, Oct. 10, are — does hereally need any introduc-tion — Vince Neil of MotleyCrue fame, the everlastingToadies, L.A.-based genre-mixers Nico Vega, hard-rockin’ youngsters CrookedX and Austin’s Love At War.

However, an original actin the lineup, ‘80s pop-rockking Billy Idol, has with-drawn from the show, saidMike Cortez, TAMIU Alum-ni Association entertain-ment chair.

And while the “Rock theCradle of Love” songsterwon’t be making an appear-ance this year, the alumniassociation is preparing toannounce some surpriseacts in September, he added.

“We’ve gotten bigger andbigger every year, and basi-cally the idea is to have anice, family-safe place to gowhere you can eat, havesome drinks, enjoy yourselfand watch a premium enter-tainment (show),” Cortezsaid. “We’re between Aver-

age Joe’s and the Laredo En-tertainment Center. Butthat’s what we’re workingup to — the LEC’s caliber ofentertainment.”

Additionally, film crewsfrom VH1 will be on site tocapture the goings-on, in-cluding interviews with thebands and possibly, someaudience members.

“It’s a chance for every-one in Laredo to come andbe at a festival that will bebroadcast on national TV,”Cortez said. “We want to beknown as a top festival inthe United States.”

In addition to the musiclineup, the festival will fea-ture, as always, a kids’ area,

plenty of games, tons offood vendors and the ever-popular Brontosaurus ribscooking contest. To register,visit www.autmusfest.com.

Last year, the festivalraised about $20,000, Cortezsaid. But the goal is $100,000.

The TAMIU Autumn Mu-sic Festival, best known asAutMus Fest, begins at 3 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 10, and laststhrough about midnight.

Tickets for the show willbe available at Pocket Com-munications locations be-ginning in September. Pre-sale tickets are $15, andadmission at the gate is $30.

Proceeds benefit TAMIUstudent scholarships.

Photo by Danny Moloshok | APVince Neil performs at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in Santa Moni-ca, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004.

‘The Hurt Locker’ strongestIraq war film yet

By CHRISTY LEMIREASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — De-spite their admirable in-tentions and acclaimednames on both sides ofthe camera, the vast ma-jority of movies madeabout the Iraq war havefailed to hit the mark. Ei-

ther they felt too preachy,like “Rendition” and “Inthe Valley of Elah,” orthey were rather stan-dard action pictures like“The Kingdom.”

“The Hurt Locker” is byfar the most effective filmyet on this subject — andwhat’s ironic about that is,it doesn’t even feel all that

specific to the Iraq war. Itsinsights and reach extendfar beyond what’s hap-pened there over the pastseveral years.

The film follows the ef-forts of an elite U.S. Armybomb squad, whose mem-bers have 38 days left beforethey can leave Baghdad inthe summer of 2004.

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EL CENIZO - En cuatromeses esta comunidadhabra visto cambios en suvida urbana con la primerafase del sistema de drenajepluvial que podra evitar in-undaciones y deterioro desus 18 calles.

La calle Hernández, úni-ca vialidad con una líneade drenaje que construyo elCondado de Web resulta in-suficiente para desfogarlas lluvias que se precipi-tan, creando un remanentey acumulación de agua ensus áreas influencia.

Crecimiento“Estamos optimistas

porque continuamos cre-ciendo, mejorando la in-fraestructura y calidad devida de nuestros habi-tantes”, dijo el alcalde RaúlReyes, el miércoles. “Se tra-baja en dos etapas con in-versión de $1.6 millones. Laprimera fase quedaríafiniquitada en la segundaquincena de noviembre”.

Eliud Saucedo, superin-tendente de la obra, de laconstructora Klosner, dijoque el proyecto general sebasara en 4,840 pies lin-eales de tubería de 42 pul-gadas hdcd.

Los trabajos iniciaron elpasado 13 de agosto y con-firmo que entregarían laobra en noviembre.

“El proyecto conceptualse basara en la calle Cade-na, Jiménez, Morales, asícomo en interseccionescomo Emmy y Hernández”,dijo Saucedo. “El trabajo deEmmy se desplazara hastala calle Morales”.

Reyes dijo que al tomarla responsabilidad de gob-ierno su proyecto de gob-ierno enfoco insertar eldrenaje pluvial a la ciudadque daría seguridad en susbienes y propiedades a loshabitantes.

Estudios“Desarrollamos un estu-

dio de factibilidad que nospermitido buscar fondos ycumplir las demandas delos contribuyentes deacabar con este riegos deinundaciones”, dijo el al-calde Reyes.

Durante un prolongadotiempo cuando llueve de-spués del trabajo que reali-zo el conddo en la calleHernández, el 90 por cientodel agua de desplaza poresta vialidad.

Ahora con el sistema dedrenaje, en cada esquina ymediación de la calle Ro-dríguez, Hernández,Morales y Cadena las al-cantarillas absorberán laprecicipitacion de agua yse distruibiran para evitarlas inundaciones.

Reyes dijo que en laprimera etapa se cubriríaexclusivamente el 30 porciento del proyecto.

También se insertaría eldrenaje las áreas elevadaspor la Calle Espejo Molina,conde odran solicitar la co-operación del Condado deWeb.

“Web nos ha favorecidocon mejoras por EspejoMolina, pero han dejadoefectos en el deterioro en lacalle Rodríguez, dejandoagua estancada”, dijoReyes... “Deben pasar tiem-po para que se seque o in-ducir esta agua estancada”.

Las inundaciones pasadashan dejado deterioro encalles de esta comunidad quenos obligara después que seinserte el drenaje resaltarlas.

El ramal de calles queintegra la comunidad de ElCenizo se basa en 18 calles.

Las cuatro fases deldrenaje pluvial de esta co-munidad estarían consid-eradas en concluirse parael 2012. La inversión globalseria de $3.2 millones.

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CIUDAD MIGUELALEMÁN. TAMPS –En laprimera quincena de sep-tiembre habrán de iniciar laconstrucción del rellenosanitario regional, informóEl Banco de Desarrollo deAmérica del Norte.

La frontera ribereña en-vuelve a cinco municipiosque producen como 85toneladas de residuos sóli-dos diariamente.

Los residuos son deposi-tados de manera inadecua-da en cinco tiraderos ile-gales a cielo abierto, lo queha ocasionado la contami-nación del suelo y de lasaguas freáticas de la región,así como la existencia de

sitios infestados de vectoresy criadero de enfermedades.

Se estima que 645,000toneladas de residuos han sidoacumuladas en estos tiraderosdurante más de 50 años.

De acuerdo a NatBank es-tos lugares están expuestosa incendios recurrentes, nocontrolados que emiten sus-tancias nocivas a la atmós-fera, tales como dioxinasgeneradas por la quemadu-ra de materiales plásticos yllantas. El humo de los in-cendios afecta la calidad delaire de las comunidades delValle del Río Grande, entrelas que figuran como RíoGrande City, Texas.

Por otra parte, la falta deinstalaciones adecuadaspara la disposición de resid-uos durante muchos años

ha dado lu-gar a variost i r a d e r o sclandestinosdentro de loslímites delos municip-ios, lo que haresultado enaún más sitios infestados deroedores y otros vectores,incrementando el riesgo deenfermedades respiratorias,parasitarias y gastrointesti-nales por toda la región.

En un principio cada mu-nicipio tenía la intención deconstruir su propio rellenoa fin de cumplir con las nor-mas federales. Sin embargo,se determinó que eso nosería factible desde el puntode vista económico, por loque los cinco municipios de-

cidieron construir un solorelleno regional. Para talmotivo, compraron el ter-reno.

Después de haber encon-trado respuestas y cumplidonormatividades interna-cionales

El 16 de diciembre de2008, el Banco autorizó re-cursos no reembolsables porhasta US$1.54 millones parala ejecución del proyecto. Elcontrato correspondiente sefirmó el 13 de abril de 2009.

El terreno para el rellenosanitario fue adquirido porel organismo operador re-gional, Servicios de Limpiade la Frontera RibereñaTamaulipeca.

BDAN otorgo recursosque cubren el 45% del costototal, mientras que el 55%

será cubierto con aporta-ciones del Gobierno del Es-tado de Tamaulipas.

La zona fronteriza con-tinúa avanzando en el pro-grama de desarrollo sus-tentable, implica rellenossanitarios como el regional.

En 16 municipios deTamaulipas, dice SalvadorTreviño Garza se impulsarun Tamaulipas más limpio

Treviño Garza Titular dela Agencia Ambiental parael Desarrollo Sustentableaseguro que serán que losnuevos rellenos sanitariosse sumaran a los cinco exis-tentes en Reynosa, NuevoLaredo, Matamoros, Victo-ria y la zona conurbada deTampico enfrentando deesta manera el problema delos tiraderos clandestinos.

TREVIÑO

Invitan aterminarestudios

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LAREDO, TEXAS -En solo 15 diaspodria concluir su educación pri-maria y secundaria en el idiomacastellano (Español).

El Condado de Webb, el Institu-to Tamaulipeco para la Educaciónde los Adultos de Nuevo Laredo,el Programa de Colonias Texas A& M, el Instituto Cultural Mexi-cano de Laredo y el ConsuladoGeneral de México, extienden lainvitacion.

De acuerdo a un comunicado delConsulado de Mexico, en Laredo,Texas, a mayoresde 15 años odran in-scribirse al Programa de Escuelapara Adultos.

Tendra la opcion de iniciar o con-tinuar con sus estudios de primariay/o secundaria en español y termi-narla en tan sólo 15 días.

En efecto, con tan sólo acudir du-rante quince sábados consecutivos,los interesados podrán obtener sucertificado con validez oficial de laSecretaría de Educación Pública enMéxico, expone el comunicado delConsulado de Mexico.

El material didáctico, así como lasclases son gratuitas. El único requi-sito consiste en presentar una copiadel acta de nacimiento. Las inscrip-ciones se efectuarán hoy Sábado 29de Agosto de 2009 en el Centro deRecreación Largavista, en 5401 Cis-neros St. Laredo, Texas.

Podra comunicarse al (956) 712-3500, de 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. La metaprincipal es elevar su capcidad deconocimiento y acreditar su edu-cación bajo el Programa de Escuelapara Adultos.

Es un royeco dirigido a los his-panos y particularmente mexicanos,cuenten con la educación básica ter-minada y que el alto índice de anal-fabetismo que existe en la poblacióninmigrante se reduzca.

Se busca dar bases a los adultospara que los miembros de la comu-nidad migrante puedan integrarsemás rápido a la sociedad, ya que conestos programas se facilitará la com-prensión de las leyes y la cultura deeste país.

Para obtener mayor informaciónsobre el Programa de Escuela paraAdultos, puede comunicarse al Con-sulado General de México al teléfono(956) 723-0990 ext. 214 y 215, con Rey-na Arzate o Karla Meseguer.

Foto Cortesía | Gobierno de Ciudad GuerreroLa alcaldesa Olga Juliana Elizondo Guerra encabezó varias actividades que benefician a la ciudad de Guerrero.

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NUEVA CIUDAD GUERRERO –La Alcaldesa Olga Juliana Elizon-do Guerra encabezó varias activi-dades durante el mes de agosto, en-tre las cuales destaca el inicio delciclo escolar y la inauguración deobras.

Biblioteca.El 10 de agosto, el titular de la

Biblioteca Municipal José Bernar-do Gutiérrez de Lara recibió aniños y funcionarios para dar unreporte sobre el programa “Mis Va-caciones en la Biblioteca”.

“Se impartieron clases diversaspermitiendo a los niños aprovecharsu tiempo libre durante el verano”,dijo Gutiérrez. Principalmente sedestacó el tema de la Independenciay Revolución Mexicana, ante la cer-canía del Centenario y Bicentenariode las celebraciones.

El 14 de agosto, Elizondo realizóla inauguración de las rejas reciénconstruidas en la Unidad Deporti-va. En ese lugar, la Alcaldesa sostu-vo que ya se trabaja en la construc-ción de una cancha de frontón yuna cancha para actividades multi-disciplinarias.

“El objetivo es promover la con-vivencia de la comunidad”, dijoElizondo.

PisosEl 14 de agosto representantes

de ITAVU llevaron a cabo la entre-ga de pisos de concreto a nivel esta-do. En esta ciudad, el Delegado Re-gional del ITAVU Rafael FaraónGarza Varela y Elizondo en-cabezaron el evento organizado enel Salón de Los Presidentes delAyuntamiento.

Ciudadanos beneficiados reci-bieron los pisos de manera simbóli-ca, entre ellos Adela Carpio Serece-

do y Lidia Sarahi Hernández.Elizondo igualmente realizó un

recorrido por las casas de las famil-ias beneficiadas para verificar eltrabajo efectuado.

Fiesta CívicaEl 20 de agosto se llevó a cabo la

ceremonia oficial en celebracióndel natalicio de Don José BernardoMaximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara,primer gobernador constitucionalde Tamaulipas originario de Villade Revilla, hoy Ciudad Guerrero.

Con tal motivo las autoridadesmunicipales, encabezadas por Eli-zondo colocaron una ofrenda floralen la plaza que lleva el nombre deGutiérrez de Lara, a la vez que semontó guardia frente a su monu-mento.

El cronista Jaime GonzálezGonzález dio lectura a una reseña dela vida de Gutiérrez de Lara, al cele-brarse los 235 años de su natalicio.

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NUEVO LAREDO -La Ju-risdicción Sanitaria, la Sec-retaría de Educación ypadres de familia crearacomités escolares y filtrospara desterrar la aparicióndel virus de la influenza A-H1N1 en las aulas educati-vas hasta Ciudad MiguelAlemán.

Los filtros detectarían aestudiantes con síntomas degripe, tos y ojos llorosos, alo largo de la JurisdicciónSanitaria que incluye Ciu-dad mier. Y Ciudad Guer-rero...

El Dr. Jaime EmilioGutiérrez, dijo que elcomité quedaría integradopor padres de familia, maes-tros y una enfermera.

Mientras el doctor JuanGuillermo Mansur Arzola,Secretario de Salud en laTamaulipas dijo que se

cuenta con un plan estatalpara la prevención y miti-gación de la influenza en elestado, en donde se consid-era a la población escolarcomo un grupo vulnerablepara el contagio de esta en-fermedad.

“No escatimaremos re-cursos para hacer frente aeste padecimiento”, dijo elsecretario de salud enTamaulipas. “, Se protegeráa este grupo de población ya la comunidad en general”.

El plan estatal para laprevención y mitigación dela influenza considera es-trategias para proteger a lapoblación mediante la vigi-lancia epidemiológica, aten-ción médica, diagnóstico delaboratorio, promoción dela salud, capacitación y vig-ilancia sanitaria.

El Dr. Gutiérrez, dijoque se ha pedido a edu-cadores en los diversosplanteles mantener con-

stante limpieza enpupitres y aulas, se fijarauna supervisión de la Sec-retaria de Salud para lle-var control y darlecumplimiento a las dis-posiciones estatales...

“Recomendamos a edu-cadores que entren en con-tacto con padres de familia.Les orienten como protegera sus hijos y la familia”, dijoel Dr. Gutiérrez. “Se estaasumiendo una acción di-recta cuando se detecta a unniño son síntomas de in-fluenza”.

El padre de familia de-berá trasladar a sus hijoscon síntomas de gripe almedico que corresponda,puede ser al ISSSTE, Hospi-tal, medico particular obien al Centro de Salud.

A los hospitales se les in-struirá para que asignen unmodulo especial de influen-za para darle seguimiento acada paciente.

Proyecto constade cuatro etapas

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009 THE ZAPATA TIMES | 7A

Gregorio Delgado, 69,passed away Wednesday,Aug. 19, 2009, at his resi-dence in Hebbronville.

Mr. Delgado is preceded indeath by his parents, JuanFacundo (Rita) Delgado.

Mr. Delgado is survived byhis wife, Alicia R. Delgado;son, Ricardo (Mayra) Delga-do; daughters, San Juana(Daniel) Quintana, Claudia(Jose Omar) Lozano; grand-children, Alice, Daniela, Na-talie Quintana, Maria, AbelLozano, Esmeralda, Ricardo,Jr. and Jessica Delgado;brothers, Mario (Rosa) Del-gado, Lucas Delgado, Fer-nando Delgado, DomingoDelgado, David (Isabel) Del-gado; sisters, Dominga (Vi-cente) Garcia, BernardinaVillarreal, Maria (JoseManuel) Peña; and by nu-merous nephews, nieces andmany friends.

Visitation hours wereheld Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009,from 6 to 9 p.m. with achapel service at 7 p.m. atRose Garden Funeral Home.

A chapel service washeld Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, at10 a.m. at Rose Garden Fu-

neral Home. Committalservices followed at ZapataCounty Cemetery.

Condolences may be sentto the family atwww.rosegardenfuneral-home.com

Funeral arrangementswere under the direction ofRose Garden FuneralHome, Daniel A. Gonzalez,funeral director, 2102 U.S.83, Zapata.

GGRREEGGOORRIIOO DDEELLGGAADDOO

A joint project spearhead-ed by the Zapata EconomicDevelopment Center, the newfacility brings together theZapata County IndependentSchool District, Texas A&MInternational University,Laredo Community College,Workforce Solutions forSouth Texas and the TexasWorkforce Commission,among others.

“The center will serve theZapata community as a re-source for small businessstart-ups and entrepreneur-ial skills development,” saidPeggy U. Moffett, presidentof the Zapata Economic De-velopment Center.

“Our goal for the future isto supply our communitywith this center as a corner-stone for community andbusiness leaders, assistingthem in their efforts in se-curing direct investments,funding and reducing the un-employment labor force of10.4 percent,” she said.

Moffett said the plan is to“empower Zapata Countyresidents within the next fiveyears” to increase the coun-ty’s per capita income of $17,637.

According to a news re-lease, the “state-of-the-art fa-cility” will include fourclassrooms and computerlabs, administrative offices,a career center and an audi-torium/conference centerwith video teleconferenceability for distance learning.

A variety of courses andjob training will be providedat the center, live and onlineas well as through distancelearning. There will be op-portunities for two-year andfour-year academic degreeprograms, GED and Englishas a Second Language class-es, continuing education,one-year and two-year cer-tificate programs, and indus-trial and technical programsas well as adult education,among other classes.

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they could not be treated because therewere no supplies because the countyhad not paid the clinic.

Commissioners at the Aug. 10 meet-ing pointed out the clinic had alreadyreceived its $140,000 monthly payment.

Sands said Friday night the Au-gust payment had already been spenton bills, and there was nothing leftover to pay for supplies because theclinic’s account has been frozen by

the county.A random survey of records showing

clients served between Aug. 2 and Aug.20 indicated the clinic served betweenfive and 10 clients a day.

One employee said Cabrera sent herout Saturday to buy some of the basicsupplies for the clinic with his personalcredit card.

Since then, the clinic has servedabout 20 patients a day on average.

Sands noted that until a month ago,the clinic not only offered physical ther-apy and lab services, but it also had anall-night pharmacy and billed about $3million annually.

“It’s a sad occasion,” he said. “It’sfrustrating to see an operation go from$3 million to not having enough moneyto be able to see patients.”

(Julie Daffern may be reached at 728-2565 or jdaffern@lmtonline.com)

Hopefully, the price of gas gets better.”County Treasurer Doroteo Garza

said Friday he expects the royaltychecks to pick back up by November.

He added that a healthy fund balancehelped the county balance this year’sbudget.

“All these are just estimates,” Garzasaid. “Hopefully, everything turnsaround. We go very conservatively not tocome out on the short end of the stick.”

The proposed budget projects morethan $2 million less in property tax rev-enue from the current fiscal year. It

shows $17.5 million in revenue while the2008-2009 budget projected $19.6 million.

Commissioners Court is expectedto take action on the budget in Sep-tember.

(Julie Daffern may be reached at 728-2565 or jdaffern@lmtonline.com)

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Laredo gets a bit of rain Friday nightBy JOE RUTLANDTHE ZAPATA TIMES

It was a rather strangesound heard throughout Lare-do on Friday night. Yes, indeed,rain and thunder found theirway to the border once again.

The right mix of ingredi-ents clustered in order forthese storms to occur, saidPro8News meteorologist Vic-toria Marshall.

“There is a weak bound-ary draped across SouthTexas right now; plus, we’vehad the influence of a seabreeze boundary off the Gulf

of Mexico into this region,”Marshall said.

As of 8:30 p.m. Friday, Lare-do International Airport hadrecorded two-hundredths ofan inch of rain, Greg Wilk,National Weather Service me-teorologist in Corpus Christi,said. However, Wilk addedthat other areas of Laredo andWebb County might have re-ceived more than that.

“As some of the thunder-storms have dissipated, they re-leased a cooler wind, which firedup other storms,” Marshall said.“We’ve also seen a line of stormsmove in, and they have been

moving in very slowly.”Local radar showed

storms fading away late Fri-day afternoon, only to flareup again. By 7:30 p.m., thun-derstorms were getting bet-ter organized and movedthrough the region.

With Friday’s storms, it’shard not to be greedy for moretoday. Marshall said a similarweather setup is possible.

“There could be a straythunderstorm around, andthat’s also going to be thecase for Sunday and Mon-day,” Marshall said. “Sundaymorning, another cold front

will approach the area. Ifnothing else, it will give ustemperatures in the lower90s, so we will see a cooloff.”

Wilk believed Friday’sstorms might temper anyfurther activity today.

“It will depend on how allthese boundaries pan out be-cause what’s developing is anorganized area of showersand thunderstorms,” he said.

In any case, Laredo neededrainfall. Now we can onlyhope for more.

(Joe Rutland may bereached at 728-2529 or jrut-land@lmtonline.com)

Hutchison: Budget deficit is scaryASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — U.S. Sen. Kay BaileyHutchison said Friday that the federaldeficit that’s building under PresidentBarack Obama is the scariest thingshe’s seen in her Senate career.

The Republican senator told a groupof business and civic leaders in Dallasthat said the economy is at the top ofher list of major Washington issues.Hutchison said the nearly $1.6 trillionstimulus-induced debt — which she pre-dicted might go as high as $10 trillion in10 years — can’t be sustained.

“The debt that we are looking at is

unconscionable,” said Hutchison,who is challenging Gov. Rick Perry inthe Republican primary for the 2010governor’s race. “It is the scariestthing that I’ve seen since I was elect-ed to the United States Senate 15years ago.”

She said she fears the economy is“going to collapse” if changes aren’tmade in the budget, and that foreignbuyers of the U.S. debt will become skit-tish and raise interest rates.

Federal Reserve Chairman BenBernanke said last week the economyappeared to be “leveling out,” and waslikely to begin growing again soon.

Obama appointed Bernanke to anoth-er four-year term Tuesday. Hutchisonalso called Obama’s health care pro-posal “wrong-headed” and said itshould be scrapped so Congress couldstart anew.

She said polls show that 85 percent ofpeople are happy with their health care.Instead of “tearing down” the existingsystem, “we ought to be fixing the 15percent,” she said.

The senator said she also takes issuewith the administration’s handling ofenergy issues, including its plan to lim-it greenhouse gases with a controver-sial cap-and-trade approach.

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

LAREDO – Law enforce-ment officials from the U.S.and Mexico are investigatingan incident in which LaredoSector Border Patrol agentsperforming their duties onthe U.S. side of the RioGrande were fired upon fromthe Mexican riverbank.

The incident began lateWednesday night when twoBorder Patrol agents wereconducting ATV patrols atFather McNaboe Park. Theyobserved two subjects at-tempting to enter the UnitedStates by wading across theRio Grande from the Mexi-can riverbank.

As the agents maneuveredin an attempt to intercept the

two subjects, someone on theMexican side of the river be-gan shooting at them. Theagents returned fire, tookcover and called for assis-tance.

More Border Patrol agentsarrived at the scene a fewminutes later. They were ableto safely extract the pinned-down agents from the area.

Mexican military mem-bers responded to the sceneon their side of the river toconduct an investigation.

Two individuals were tak-en into custody, one by Bor-der Patrol agents and the oth-er by Laredo PoliceDepartment officers. Bothsubjects are being ques-tioned as to their possible in-volvement with or knowl-

edge of the source of theshots that were fired.

No injuries or damagewere reported on either sideof the river.

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BP agents find marijuana on San Ygnacio-area ranch

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Border Patrol agents as-signed to the Zapata stationseized 273 pounds of mari-juana earlier this week.

Agents patrolling aranch north of San Ygna-cio on Tuesday spotted a

cellophane-wrapped bun-dle lying in a patch ofbrush. The agentssearched the immediatearea and found three moresimilar bundles. There wasno one in the immediatearea when the illegal drugswere discovered.

The four bundles con-tained marijuana with a totalweight of 273.7 pounds andan estimated street value of$218,960, according to BorderPatrol.

The marijuana wasturned over to the Drug En-forcement Administration.

Courtesy photoU.S. Border Patrol agents confiscated marijuana weighing 273.7 pounds with an estimated street value of$218,960 Tuesday on a ranch north of San Ygnacio. No one was arrested in connection with the incident.

Traffic stop results inchase; man Tased, arrested

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

A routine traffic stop turned into a four-block chase on Third Street Thursdaymorning.

It ended when Raul Valadez-Valadez wasarrested at 3:47 a.m. at the intersection of 3rdAvenue and Miraflores Street and chargedwith evading arrest and resisting arrest.

Zapata County Sheriff ’s DepartmentDeputy Sheriff Robert Lee Longoria no-ticed the suspect’s vehicle did not have taillamps.

Longoria said he signaled the suspect tostop, but he sped off.

He said Valadez-Valadez eventually gotoff the road to avoid a speed bump. The

driver stopped and got out the vehicle totake refuge in a residence, Longoria said.

The chased started at the intersection ofThird Avenue and Roma Street and stoppeda few blocks later at Third Avenue and Mi-raflores Street.

Longoria and Valadez-Valadez struggledfor about two or three minutes, Longoriasaid.

Longoria had handcuffed one hand uponarrival of backup deputies, but Valadez-Valadez kept resisting and was Tased bydeputies to subdue him.

Valadez-Valadez said the trailer housebelonged to his cousin, but the owner didnot recognize the suspect, Longoria said.

(César G. Rodriguez may be reached at728-2568 or cesar@lmtonline.com)

ASSAULTGuadalupe Gonzalez, 33, was

arrested on Aug. 22 around 1:54a.m. for assault causes bodily in-jury. Gonzalez used a cell phone as aweapon to strike the victim on theleft side of her head.The victim wasreported in stable condition. Gon-zalez was transported to the ZapataCounty Regional Jail.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEFA 20-year-old woman report-

ed Aug. 22 around 10 p.m. that a fe-male juvenile threw an egg at com-plainant’s vehicle.

BURGLARYA 21-year-old man reported

unknown subjects entered his vehi-cle and stole the radio on Aug. 21around 1:35 a.m.

A 33-year-old woman arrivedat her home Aug. 21 around 11:41

p.m. and noticed the backdoor toher residence was open. Unknownsubjects used an ax to break in.

A 37-year-old woman report-ed her home was burglarizedthrough the backdoor Sundayaround 1:07 p.m.

Maureen Lea McKee, 30, wasarrested Wednesday at 11:21 p.m.for burglary of vehicle. McKee at-tempted to siphon gas from a vehi-cle and was caught in the act by theowner. McKee was transported tothe Zapata County Jail. No bond hasbeen set yet.

THEFTA 47-year-old woman reported

unknown subject(s) stole her vehicle li-cense plates Mondayaround 1:27 p.m.

A47-year-old woman reportedTuesday around 12:25 p.m. unknownsubjects stole a company pick uptruck and a gooseneck trailer filled

with oil-filled equipment from S and SSpecialties, 3000 block of U.S. 83.

A vehicle was stolen from aresidence and was later recoveredTuesday around 5:21 a.m.

THEFT BY CHECKAn employee of 83 South Dri-

ve Inn at the intersection of U.S.Highway 83 and Davis Lane report-ed Wednesday around 12:29 p.m.four checks were used at the storebut the account was closed.

DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATEDOn Aug. 21 around 10:35 p.m.,

Jose Guadalupe Zuñiga-Sanchez, 26,was arrested at the intersection ofFourth Avenue and Lincoln Street. Hewas charged with driving while intoxi-cated with a child less than 15 years ofage,a state jail felony.Zuñiga-Sanchezwas later transported to the ZapataCounty Regional Jail.

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Authorities investigate shots fired at Border Patrol agents

GAO report faults BP on checkpoints

By JACQUES BILLEAUDASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX — A draft gov-ernment study found theBorder Patrol isn’t measur-ing how its checkpointsalong the border affect thequality of life in surround-ing communities.

One of the findings of aGovernment AccountabilityOffice draft report was thatthe Border Patrol hasn’t doc-umented how many agents itneeds to confront smugglerssneaking around a proposedpermanent checkpoint on In-terstate 19 in southern Ari-zona.

Residents near a southernArizona checkpoint havecomplained that illegal im-

migrants and smugglers areflooding their community asthey sneak around the road-block. The Border Patrol op-erates a checkpoint at anoverpass in Tubac, Ariz.

The report is scheduledfor release Monday. The As-sociated Press obtained itshighlights on Friday from acongressional source whoasked not to be named be-cause the report hasn’t beenofficially released.

The Government Ac-countability Office, the in-vestigative arm of Congress,examined the performanceof checkpoints and the ex-tent to which Border Patrolconsidered the effect ofcheckpoints on nearby com-munities.

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Hawksdrop

openerPalmview wins firstnon-district game

THE ZAPATA TIMES

The Zapata Hawks opened their 2009 seasonwith a non-district loss to the La Joya PalmviewLobos at home on Friday night.

Palmview won the game 19-7 to avenge its 34-13loss to Zapata in the teams’ season opener lastyear.

The Lobos returned 20 of their 22 starters fromlast season for the 2009 school year, their second ofexistence.

The Hawks’ lone touchdown on Friday came ona 40-yard pass from junior quarterback Luis Gon-zalez to junior receiver Andrew Magee.

Friday night’s game was the first of three non-district games for the Hawks, who will face theDistrict 31-4A LBJ Wolves next Friday in Laredoand the District 32-4A Roma Gladiators on Friday,Sept. 11, in Zapata.

The Hawks will open their second District 32-3Aseason with a game against the Rio Hondo Bobcatsin Zapata on Friday, Sept. 25.

Rio Hondo was a Division II regional semifinal-ist last season, finishing the year 10-3 (6-1 32-3A),while the Hawks are looking to recover from a 2-5district campaign in 2008.

Ogletree toget another

chanceBy JAIME ARON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Roy Williams is fresh offa hard hit to his shoulder that probably will costhim some valuable time with Tony Romo. His back-up, Sam Hurd, is waiting for a leg bruise to heal.

Boy, things sure are working out well for KevinOgletree.

An undrafted rookie from Virginia, Ogletree al-ready had impressed teammates and coaches onthe Dallas Cowboys during training camp, thenturned more heads by making a one-handed-while-getting-interfered-with touchdown catch in thepreseason home opener. Now, with Williams andHurd likely to miss the preseason game againstthe San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night, Ogle-tree should get his best chance yet to prove howwrong teams were by skipping him on draft day.

“Oh man, that’s my little candle I’m keeping lit,and it’s burning inside,” Ogletree said.

He gave up his final year of college eligibilitybecause he thought he was ready for the NFL, onlyto watch 34 other receivers get taken.

“That was a tough period for me, but I’m not evenlooking at that now,” he said. “Being here with theCowboys and playing for this team means the mostto me. ... I couldn’t have asked to be in a better placeand a better position on a better team.”

Even before the injuries, the Cowboys were aperfect place for Ogletree to try snagging a rosterspot, and not merely because they need to replaceTerrell Owens.

Dallas opened training camp with four re-ceivers likely to make the squad. Teams usuallyhave five, or even six, so Ogletree knew there prob-ably was a job available, especially for a receiverwho could prove himself on special teams, too.

Then there was the team’s recent history ofloading up on bargain-bin receivers.

Other than Williams, who was acquired for abundle of draft picks and a $45 million contract ex-tension, consider the pedigree of the rest of Dal-las’ mainstays: Patrick Crayton, seventh-roundpick; Hurd, undrafted; Miles Austin, undrafted.

“That’s something I look at,” Ogletree said. Another thing in Ogletree’s favor is the presence

of tight ends coach John Garrett, the brother of of-fensive coordinator Jason Garrett. John coachedOgletree for two years at Virginia and promisedhim a fair shake; that was a big reason he signedwith Dallas instead of the other 20-plus teams thatoffered him the chance to try earning a job.

“I trusted that he had my best interest in mindwhen he told me that I would have a good chance toplay here,” Ogletree said.

Ogletree caught 117 passes for 1,332 yards andnine touchdowns at Virginia. A knee injury costhim a season, but rather than use that medical red-shirt he decided to turn pro. Of the 46 underclass-men who entered the draft, he was among ninewho weren’t selected.

REACHING FOR THE BALLLady Hawks drop to 6-7; playing in Laredo tourney

By CLARA SANDOVALSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

LAREDO — Inconsistency has beenthe underlining theme of the Zapatavolleyball team early in the seasonas it has posted a 6-7 record.

The team has continued to struggle in theback row, keeping them from attacking at thenet.

Zapata is playing at the second annualAlexander volleyball tournament in Laredo.

The Lady Hawks dropped its tournamentopener to United South 25-15 and 25-23. Thisis the second consecutive loss this year toSouth.

United South beat Zapata on its homecourt Aug. 18 in four games 25-21, 25-23, 15-25and 25-17.

The Lady Hawks got on the board earlyand often and enjoyed an early lead beforeUnited South started to mount a comebackmidway through the game.

“We had the early lead and let it slip awayfrom us,” Zapata coach Rosie Villarreal said.

United South slowly started to chip awayat Zapata’s lead and eventually took gameone.

Zapata’s back row problems became moreevident as United started to gain the lead.

“Our passing was not there,” Villarrealsaid. “We could not start our attack on of-fense.”

The Lady Hawks only bright spot was theplay of Brandi King and Kat Garcia, whowere brilliant on different aspects of thegame.

King was dynamic on the net with herusual arsenal of offensive power.

Garcia was playing a position that shenormally does not play but was called to dutyafter an injury to Zapata’s middle blocker.

“Give credit to Kat,” Villarreal said. “Oneof the girls got hurt and she came in andplayed the middle and did a great job forpicking it up quickly.”

Despite Zapata’s battle United South tookgame one 25-15.

Photo by Ulysses S. Romero | The Zapata TimesZapata’s Brandi King (3) jumps up to spike the ball as United South’s Samantha De La Cruz (5)and Lillian Lopez (1) prepare to block her shot during their match in the tournament at Alexan-der High School on Friday.

Boys in 3rd at x-country meetBy CLARA SANDOVALSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

The Hawks are off to a fast start as theyplaced third at the South Texas Stampedebehind Eagle Pass and La Joya Palm View,which ran as the Rio Grande Striders, arunning club.

The junior varsity boys placed thirdwith freshmen Jose “Horse” Garcia andRomy Morales leading the team.

The Hawks captured the freshmen divi-sion behind Jesus “Polo” Aranda’s fourth-place finish.

Zapata as a team has improved its over-all time. Last year the top five averaged18:59 and had a two minute, 12 second gap;this year, the top five averages 17:23 andhas a one minute, five second gap.

Keith Cobb placed fifth overall. His de-but was a 16:50, which broke the courserecord.

However, the overall winner, Ivan Vil-lanueva of RGV Striders, finished in 15:36.

“Keith was expected to be our top run-ner but what matters most is how our teamperforms,” Zapata coach Luis Escamillasaid. “He could have placed first and ourteam would have still placed third. Theteam understands that we win with ourfifth man not with our one-two punch.”

The course offers a little bit of every-thing. Despite the arid terrain, the per-formances were respectable for a seasonopener in August, Escamilla said.

“It’s amazing how the team has raisedits standards and expectations from last

year’s team,” he said. “The ‘08 team willalways remain in my heart. Last year’ssuccess has motivated this team to keepthe tradition alive in experiencing thepromise land, state.”

The Hawks expected Eagle Pass and theRGV Striders were going to be the teamsto beat.

“Eagle Pass has a summer track pro-

gram which rounds their runners intogood shape, but let’s see how they look inthe postseason,” Escamilla said. “Techni-cally speaking, I believe EP has intro-duced specific training, while we have juststarted phase two. We’ll see them againright before district.”

Courtesy photoMembers of the Hawks cross-country team hold their third place trophy earned at the South Texas Stam-pede at Zapata High School last Saturday. The meet opened the season for the boy’s team.

Point puts Lady Hawks in 2ndBy CLARA SANDOVALSPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Pharr-San Juan-AlamoNorth edged out the LadyHawks cross-country team byone point at the South TexasStampede at Zapata HighSchool last week.

PSJA-North, of District 31-5A, scored 29 points to Zapata’s30 to captured the team cham-

pionship.Third place went to San

Diego High School with 67points.

“We lost by only one point toa five-A school so I’m not disap-pointed with our finish,” Zapa-ta coach Mike Villarreal said.“All the girls improved theirtime over last year’s time at thesame meet.”

PSJA-North’s Brittany

Garza captured the individualchampionship in 12:43.

Marlena Garcia who ran 13:14to capture third place, recordedZapata’s highest finish.

Teammates Maritza Garcia(sixth place, 13:45), Gloria Jau-regui (eighth place, 14:02), andKristy Garcia (ninth place,14:03) finished in the top 10.

Melissa Martinez (18thplace, 14:32) and Alba Jasso

(19th place, 14:40) rounded outthe top 20.

The Lady Hawks are slight-ly ahead of last year’s pacethat saw the team make a runat the state meet.

“Marlena had a great runalong with Kristy and Gloriawho are way ahead of their ‘08pace,” he said. “The road to the

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Zscores SATURDAY,AUGUST 29, 2009PAGE 2B

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WWeesstt DDiivviissiioonnWW LL PPcctt GGBB

Los Angeles 75 51 .595 —Texas 71 55 .563 4Seattle 66 62 .516 10Oakland 56 71 .441 19½

TThhuurrssddaayy’’ss GGaammeessTexas 7, N.Y. Yankees 2Cleveland 5, Baltimore 4Chicago White Sox 9, Boston 5Kansas City 8, Seattle 4Oakland 2, L.A. Angels 0

FFrriiddaayy’’ss GGaammeessChicago White Sox at N.Y. Yan-

kees, 7:05 p.m.Cleveland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Texas at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeessChicago White Sox (Undecided) at

N.Y. Yankees (Mitre 2-1), 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Price 6-6) at Detroit

(N.Robertson 1-0), 4:10 p.m.Cleveland (Sowers 5-9) at Baltimore

(Tillman 1-2), 7:05 p.m.Texas (Feldman 13-4) at Minnesota

(Pavano 11-9), 7:10 p.m.Toronto (R.Romero 11-5) at Boston

(Buchholz 2-3), 7:10 p.m.Oakland (Mazzaro 4-9) at L.A. An-

gels (Jer.Weaver 13-5), 9:05 p.m.Kansas City (Meche 6-9) at Seattle

(Snell 2-1), 10:10 p.m.SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeess

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yan-kees, 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Cleveland at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 1:35 p.m.Texas at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.Oakland at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.Kansas City at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

MMoonnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessTampa Bay at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05

p.m.Toronto at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Minnesota,

8:10 p.m.Kansas City at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

BBCC--BBBBNN——NNaattiioonnaall LLeeaagguueeGGllaannccee,,00112233

NNaattiioonnaall LLeeaagguueeAAllll TTiimmeess EEDDTTEEaasstt DDiivviissiioonn

WW LL PPcctt GGBBPhiladelphia 73 52 .584 —Atlanta 67 60 .528 7Florida 67 60 .528 7New York 58 71 .450 17Washington 46 82 .359 28½

CCeennttrraall DDiivviissiioonnWW LL PPcctt GGBB

St. Louis 74 55 .574 —Chicago 64 62 .508 8½Houston 62 65 .488 11Milwaukee 61 66 .480 12Cincinnati 55 71 .437 17½Pittsburgh 53 72 .424 19

WWeesstt DDiivviissiioonnWW LL PPcctt GGBB

Los Angeles 76 52 .594 —Colorado 72 56 .563 4San Francisco 69 59 .539 7Arizona 56 72 .438 20San Diego 54 75 .419 22½

TThhuurrssddaayy’’ss GGaammeessN.Y. Mets 10, Florida 3Cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 5Houston 4, St. Louis 3Washington 5, Chicago Cubs 4L.A. Dodgers 3, Colorado 2Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2Atlanta 9, San Diego 1Arizona 11, San Francisco 0

FFrriiddaayy’’ss GGaammeessChicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 2Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 7:10

p.m.San Diego at Florida, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 8:05 p.m.Washington at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Houston at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15

p.m.SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeess

L.A. Dodgers (Haeger 1-1) atCincinnati (Maloney 0-2), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Parnell 3-6) at ChicagoCubs (Dempster 7-7), 4:10 p.m.

San Diego (LeBlanc 0-1) at Florida(Nolasco 9-8), 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta (D.Lowe 12-8) at Philadel-phia (Cl.Lee 5-0), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (K.Hart 4-3) at Milwau-kee (Gallardo 12-10), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Stammen 4-6) at St.Louis (M.Boggs 1-2), 7:15 p.m.

Houston (Norris 3-2) at Arizona(Garland 7-11), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (Marquis 14-8) at SanFrancisco (Zito 8-11), 9:05 p.m.

SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessL.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 1:10

p.m.San Diego at Florida, 1:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.Washington at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, 2:20

p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 4:05

p.m.Houston at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 8:05 p.m.

MMoonnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessPittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.,

1st gameAtlanta at Florida, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.,

2nd gameHouston at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.Washington at San Diego, 10:05

p.m.Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

TTeeaamm--bbyy--TTeeaamm DDiissaabblleedd LLiisstt((PPrroovviiddeedd bbyy MMaajjoorr LLeeaagguuee BBaasseebbaallll))

((xx--6600--ddaayy aallll ootthheerrss aarree 1155--ddaayy))TThhrroouugghh AAuugg.. 2277

AAMMEERRIICCAANN LLEEAAGGUUEEBBaallttiimmoorree

RHP Brad Bergesen, July 31LHP Rich Hill, July 29OF Luis Montanez, May 23RHP Dennis Sarfate, May 2RHP Alfredo Simon-x, April 15RHP Koji Uehara, June 24

BBoossttoonnRHP Miguel Gonzalez-x, March 27C George Kottaras, July 30SS Jed Lowrie, Aug. 7RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka-x, June 20

CChhiiccaaggooRHP Bartolo Colon, July 25INF Chris Getz, Aug. 12RHP Jake Peavy, June 9OF Dewayne Wise, Aug. 15

CClleevveellaannddOF Trevor Crowe, Aug. 17RHP Anthony Reyes-x, May 23RHP Jake Westbrook-x, March 26

DDeettrrooiittRHP Jeremy Bonderman, June 9RHP Alfredo Figaro, June 28LHP Nathan Robertson, June 27C Matt Treanor-x, April 24LHP Dontrelle Willis, June 15RHP Joel Zumaya-x, July 18

KKaannssaass CCiittyySS Mike Aviles-x, May 24OF Coco Crisp-x, June 13RHP Juan Cruz, Aug. 8OF Jose Guillen, July 23RHP Doug Waechter, Aug. 12

LLooss AAnnggeelleessRHP Kelvim Escobar-x, June 7RHP Dustin Moseley-x, April 18C Scott Shields-x, May 27

MMiinnnneessoottaaRHP Boof Bonser-x, March 27LHP Francisco Liriano, Aug. 18RHP Pat Neshek-x, Feb. 21LHP Glen Perkins, Aug. 9RHP Kevin Slowey-x, July 4

NNeeww YYoorrkkOF Brett Gardner, July 26OF Xavier Nady-x, April 15RHP Chien-Ming Wang-x, July 5

OOaakkllaannddLHP Dallas Braden, Aug. 13B Eric Chavez-x, April 25SS Joey Crosby, Aug. 18RHP Joey Devine-x, April 4RHP Justin Duchscherer-x, March

27RHP Dan Giese-x, May 16LHP Josh Outman-x, June 20

SSeeaattttlleeLHP Erik Bedard-x, July 263B Adrian Beltre, Aug. 13OF Endy Chavez-x, June 20LHP Ryan Feierabend-x, March 15LHP Cesar Jimenez-x, March 29RHP Carlos Silva-x, May 7

TTaammppaa BBaayyRHP Jason Isringhausen-x, June 14INF Akinori Iwamura-x, May 25RHP Troy Percival-x, May 22CF Fernando Perez-x, March 27

TTeexxaassRHP Joaquin Benoit-x, April 5INF Esteban German, Aug. 14LHP Eddie Guardado, Aug. 15LHP Matt Harrison-x, June 24RHP Eric Hurley-x, April 5OF Andruw Jones, Aug. 24RHP Brandon McCarthy-x, June 5C Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Aug. 15

TToorroonnttooC Michael Barrett, April 183B Edwin Encarnacion, Aug. 21RHP Jesse Litsch, April 14RHP Shaun Marcum, March 27RHP Dustin McGowan, March 27RHP Robert Ray, May 22

NNAATTIIOONNAALL LLEEAAGGUUEEAArriizzoonnaa

OF Eric Byrnes, June 261B Conor Jackson-x, May 12LHP Scott Schoeneweis, Aug 11RHP Brandon Webb-x, April 7

AAttllaannttaaRHP Jorge Campillo-x, May 29RHP Tim Hudson-x, Feb. 24OF Nate McLouth, Aug. 17

CChhiiccaaggooSS Andres Blanco, Aug. 4RHP Chad Fox, May 10OF Reed Johnson, July 30RHP David Patton, July 5

CCiinncciinnnnaattiiOF Jay Bruce, July 12C Wilkin Castillo-x, June 21RHP Johnny Cueto, Aug. 16OF Chris Dickerson, Aug. 24C Ryan Hanigan, Aug. 24RHP Aaron Harang, Aug. 21C Ramon Hernandez, July 17RHP Mike Lincoln-x, June 13INF Danny Richar, July 2CF Willy Tavares, Aug. 19RHP Edinson Volquez-x, June 2

CCoolloorraaddooRHP Taylor Buchholz-x, March 27RHP Aaron Cook, Aug. 22RHP Manuel Corpas-x, July 21LHP Alan Embree-x, July 11OF Dexter Fowler, Aug. 25LHP Jeffrey Francis-x, March 27

FFlloorriiddaaSS Alfredo Amezaga-x, May 17RHP Burke Badenhop, Aug. 2LHP David Davidson-x, May 23RHP Brendan Donnelly, Aug. 231B Nick Johnson, Aug. 17RHP Scott Proctor-x March 27

HHoouussttoonn3B Aaron Boone-x March 27RHP Doug Brocail, Aug. 5LHP Mike Hampton, Aug. 14LHP Wesley Wright, Aug. 12

LLooss AAnnggeelleessRHP Hiroki Kuroda, Aug. 161B Doug Mienkiewicz-x, April 17LHP Eric Milton-x, June 28LHP Will Ohman-x, May 28OF Xavier Paul-x, May 21RHP Jason Schmidt-x, Aug. 6

MMiillwwaauukkeeeeRHP Jesus Colome, Aug. 18OF Corey Hart, Aug. 2

RHP Seth McClung, July 25RHP David Riske-x, April 102B Rickie Weeks-x, May 18

NNeeww YYoorrkkOF Carlos Beltran, June 22INF Alex Cora-x, Aug. 131B Carlos Delgado-x, May 11RHP John Maine, June 7OF Fernando Martinez, July 9INF Ramon Martinez-x, June 3LHP Jonathon Niese-x, Aug. 6RHP Fernando Nieve, July 20LHP Oliver Perez, Aug. 24RHP J.J. Putz-x, June 5SS Jose Reyes, May 21LHP Johan Santana, Aug. 253B David Wright, Aug. 16

PPhhiillaaddeellpphhiiaaLHP Antonio Bastardo-x, June 26RHP Clay Condrey, July 233B Greg Dobbs, Aug. 22RHP Brett Myers-x, May 28LHP J.C. Romero, July 20

PPiittttssbbuurrgghhRHP Jose Ascanio, Aug. 12RHP Craig Hansen-x, April 20RHP Jeff Karstens, Aug. 25RHP Evan Meek-x, Aug. 12LHP Don Veal II, Aug. 4RHP Tyler Yates-x, May 16

SStt.. LLoouuiiss3B Troy Glaus, March 27RHP Todd Wellemeyer, Aug. 5

SSaann DDiieeggooRHP Mike Adams, Aug. 22RHP Cha Seung Baek-x, March 30OF Cliff Floyd-x, June 19OF Brian Giles-x, June 19INF Edgar Gonzalez, July 19RHP Shawn Hill-x, April 26RHP Jake Peavy, June 9RHP Mark Worrell-x, April 1RHP Chris Young-x, June 15

SSaann FFrraanncciissccooINF Rich Aurilia, July 21LHP Randy Johnson-x, July 6LHP Noah Lowry-x, March 26RHP Kelvin Pichardo-x, June 282B Freddy Sanchez, Aug. 18RHP Henry Sosa-x, Aug. 5OF Andres Torres, July 31

WWaasshhiinnggttoonnCF Roger Bernadina-x, April 19C Jesus Flores, May 10OF Austin Kearns, Aug. 4LHP Scott Olsen, July 111B Dmitri Young-x, April 1RHP Terrell Young-x, March 27RHP Jordan Zimmermann, July 19

NNFFLLPPrreesseeaassoonn GGllaannccee

AAllll TTiimmeess EEDDTTAAMMEERRIICCAANN CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEE

EEaassttWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

Miami 3 0 0 1.000 49 32New England 1 1 0 .500 33 32Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 66 72N.Y. Jets 0 2 0 .000 43 47

SSoouutthhWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 58 68Indianapolis 1 1 0 .500 26 28Houston 1 1 0 .500 30 48Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 65 68

NNoorrtthhWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

Baltimore 2 0 0 1.000 47 23Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 27 27Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 33 27Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 35 47

WWeessttWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

Oakland 1 1 0 .500 51 31San Diego 1 1 0 .500 31 26Denver 0 2 0 .000 29 44Kansas City 0 2 0 .000 23 33

NNAATTIIOONNAALL CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEEEEaasstt

WW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAAWashington 1 1 0 .500 17 36Dallas 1 1 0 .500 40 41N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 27 34Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 73 82

SSoouutthhWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

New Orleans 2 0 0 1.000 55 21Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 46 40Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 50 60Carolina 0 2 0 .000 34 51

NNoorrtthhWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

Green Bay 2 0 0 1.000 48 21Minnesota 2 0 0 1.000 30 16Chicago 1 1 0 .500 37 30Detroit 1 1 0 .500 37 53

WWeessttWW LL TT PPcctt PPFF PPAA

San Francisco2 0 0 1.000 38 36Seattle 2 0 0 1.000 47 27St. Louis 2 1 0 .667 60 61Arizona 0 2 0 .000 16 37

TThhuurrssddaayy’’ss GGaammeessPhiladelphia 33, Jacksonville 32St. Louis 24, Cincinnati 21Miami 10, Tampa Bay 6

FFrriiddaayy’’ss GGaammeessNew England at Washington, 8 p.m.Green Bay at Arizona, 10 p.m.

SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeessIndianapolis at Detroit, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Oakland, 4 p.m.Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Tennessee at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.San Diego at Atlanta, 8 p.m.N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 8 p.m.San Francisco at Dallas, 8 p.m.Seattle at Kansas City, 8 p.m.Baltimore at Carolina, 8 p.m.

SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessChicago at Denver, 8 p.m.

MMoonnddaayy’’ss GGaammeeMinnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.

TThhuurrssddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 33Detroit at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m.Baltimore at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Giants at New England, 7:30

p.m.Washington at Jacksonville, 7:30

p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.Green Bay at Tennessee, 8 p.m.Kansas City at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Pittsburgh at Carolina, 8 p.m.Arizona at Denver, 9 p.m.Oakland at Seattle, 10 p.m.

FFrriiddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 44Houston at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 10 p.m.

WWNNBBAAEEAASSTTEERRNN CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEE

WW LL PPcctt GGBBIndiana 20 7 .741 —Atlanta 15 13 .536 5½Connecticut 14 14 .500 6½Detroit 13 14 .481 7Chicago 13 15 .464 7½Washington 13 15 .464 7½New York 11 16 .407 9

WWEESSTTEERRNN CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEE

WW LL PPcctt GGBBPhoenix 19 9 .679 —Seattle 17 11 .607 2Los Angeles 14 14 .500 5Minnesota 11 16 .407 7½San Antonio 11 17 .393 8Sacramento 9 19 .321 10

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeessNo games scheduled

TThhuurrssddaayy’’ss GGaammeessIndiana 77, San Antonio 66Detroit 87, Atlanta 83Seattle 86, Connecticut 74Phoenix 98, Los Angeles 90

FFrriiddaayy’’ss GGaammeessSacramento at Minnesota, 8 p.m.New York at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeessDetroit at San Antonio, 3 p.m.Sacramento at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Seattle, 10 p.m.Connecticut at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessChicago at New York, 4 p.m.Minnesota at Washington, 4 p.m.Connecticut at Los Angeles, 9:30

p.m.

MMLLSSAAllll TTiimmeess EEDDTT

EEAASSTTEERRNN CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEEWW LL TT PPttss GGFF GGAA

Columbus 10 3 9 39 34 24Chicago 10 5 8 38 33 27Toronto FC 8 8 6 30 30 33New England 8 6 6 30 24 25D.C. 6 511 29 34 34Kansas City 5 9 6 21 20 28New York 316 4 13 19 41

WWEESSTTEERRNN CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEEWW LL TT PPttss GGFF GGAA

Houston 11 6 7 40 31 21Los Angeles 8 411 35 27 23Seattle 8 6 9 33 29 23Chivas USA 10 8 3 33 23 23Colorado 8 7 6 30 34 27Real Salt Lake 8 9 6 30 34 27FC Dallas 611 5 23 31 35San Jose 511 5 20 26 38

NOTE: Three points for victory,one point for tie.

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeessReal Salt Lake 4, Chivas USA 0

SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeessToronto FC at Seattle FC, 4 p.m.San Jose at New England, 7:30 p.m.D.C. United at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Kansas City, 8:30

p.m.Chivas USA at Los Angeles, 11 p.m.

SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessHouston at Colorado, 3 p.m.Columbus at New York, 6 p.m.

SSaattuurrddaayy,, SSeepptteemmbbeerr 55Kansas City at New England, 7:30

p.m.D.C. United at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.Toronto FC at Colorado, 10 p.m.

WWoorrlldd CCuupp 22001100 QQuuaalliiffyyiinngg GGllaannccee

AAllll TTiimmeess EEDDTTNNOORRTTHH AANNDD CCEENNTTRRAALL AAMMEERRIICCAA

AANNDD CCAARRIIBBBBEEAANNFFIINNAALLSS

TToopp tthhrreeee qquuaalliiffyyFFoouurrtthh--ppllaaccee tteeaamm aaddvvaanncceess ttoo ppllaayy--

ooffff vvss.. SSoouutthh AAmmeerriiccaa ffiifftthh--ppllaacceetteeaamm

GGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttssCosta Rica 6 4 0 2 9 9 12Honduras 6 3 1 2 11 7 10United States 6 3 1 2 11 8 10Mexico 6 3 0 3 8 9 9El Salvador 6 1 2 3 7 9 5Trinidad 6 1 2 3 7 11 5

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeessAAtt MMeexxiiccoo CCiittyy

Mexico 2, United States 1AAtt PPoorrtt--ooff--SSppaaiinn,, TTrriinniiddaadd

Trinidad and Tobago 1, El Salvador0

AAtt SSaann PPeeddrroo SSuullaa,, HHoonndduurraassHonduras 4, Costa Rica 0

SSaattuurrddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 55AAtt SSaannddyy,, UUttaahh

United States vs. El Salvador, 7:57p.m.

AAtt TTeegguucciiggaallppaa,, HHoonndduurraassHonduras vs. Trinidad and Tobago,

9:30 p.m.AAtt SSaann JJoossee,, CCoossttaa RRiiccaa

Costa Rica vs. Mexico, 10 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 99

AAtt SSaann SSaallvvaaddoorr,, EEll SSaallvvaaddoorrEl Salvador vs. Costa Rica, 9 p.m.

AAtt MMeexxiiccoo CCiittyyMexico vs. Honduras, 9 p.m.

AAtt TTBBAATrinidad and Tobago vs. United

StatesEEUURROOPPEE

WWiinnnneerrss qquuaalliiffyyTToopp eeiigghhtt sseeccoonndd--ppllaaccee tteeaammss aadd--

vvaannccee ttoo EEuurrooppeeaann ppllaayyooffffssGGRROOUUPP TTHHRREEEEGGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttss

Slovakia 6 5 0 1 17 6 15N. Ireland 7 4 1 2 12 6 13Slovenia 7 3 2 2 10 4 11Poland 6 3 1 2 18 7 10Czech Rep. 6 2 2 2 6 4 8San Marino 8 0 0 8 1 37 0

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeeAAtt MMaarriibboorr,, SSlloovveenniiaa

Slovenia 5, San Marino 0GGRROOUUPP FFOOUURRGGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttss

Germany 7 6 1 0 20 4 19Russia 6 5 0 1 12 3 15Finland 6 3 1 2 8 10 10Wales 7 3 0 4 5 7 9Azerbaijan 6 0 1 5 0 7 1Liechtenstein 6 0 1 5 1 15 1

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeeAAtt BBaakkuu,, AAzzeerrbbaaiijjaann

Azerbaijan 0, Germany 2GGRROOUUPP SSIIXX

GGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttssEngland 7 7 0 0 27 5 21Croatia 7 4 2 1 15 7 14Ukraine 6 3 2 1 9 6 11Belarus 6 3 0 3 15 10 9Kazakhstan 7 1 0 6 7 22 3Andorra 7 0 0 7 2 25 0

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeeAAtt MMiinnsskk,, BBeellaarruuss

Croatia 3, Belarus 1GGRROOUUPP SSEEVVEENNGGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttss

Serbia 7 6 0 1 15 5 18France 6 4 1 1 8 6 13Lithuania 7 3 0 4 6 6 9Austria 6 2 1 3 7 8 7Romania 6 2 1 3 7 10 7Faeroe Islands60 1 5 1 8 1

WWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammeeAAtt TToorrsshhaavvnn,, FFaaeerrooee IIssllaannddss

France 1, Faeroe Islands 0GGRROOUUPP NNIINNEEGGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAA PPttss

q-Netherlands7 7 0 0 16 2 21Macedonia 6 2 1 3 4 7 7Scotland 6 2 1 3 4 10 7Norway 6 1 3 2 6 5 6Iceland 7 1 1 5 6 12 4

q-qualifiedWWeeddnneessddaayy’’ss GGaammee

AAtt OOssllooNorway 4, Scotland 0

CCOONNCCAACCAAFF CChhaammppiioonnss LLeeaagguuee

AAtt AA GGllaanncceeAAllll TTiimmee EEDDTT

PPRREELLIIMMIINNAARRYY RROOUUNNDDFFiirrsstt LLeegg

TTuueessddaayy,, JJuullyy 2288D.C. United (United States) 1, Firpo

(El Salvador) 1Pachuca (Mexico) 3, Jalapa

(Guatemala) 0WWeeddnneessddaayy,, JJuullyy 2299

Toronto FC (Canada) 0, Puerto RicoIslanders 1

San Francisco (Panama) 2, SanJuan Jabloteh (Trinidad and Tobago) 0

Liberia (Costa Rica) 3, Real Espana(Honduras) 0

TThhuurrssddaayy,, JJuullyy 3300W Connection (Trinidad and Toba-

go) 2, New York Red Bulls (UnitedStates) 2, tie

Cruz Azul (Mexico) 6, Herediano(Costa Rica) 2

Olimpia (Honduras) 2, Arabe Unido(Panama) 1

SSeeccoonndd LLeeggTTuueessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 44

Puerto Rico Islanders 0, Toronto(Canada) 0, Islanders advanced on 1-0aggregate

Jalapa (Guatemala) 1, Pachuca(Mexico) 7, Pachuca advanced on 10-1aggregate

Firpo (El Salvador) 1, D.C. United(United States) 1, OT; 2-2 aggregate;D.C. United advanced 5-4 on penaltykicks

WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 55W Connection (Trinidad and Toba-

go) 2, New York Red Bulls (UnitedStates) 1, W Connection advanced on 4-3 aggregate

Cruz Azul (Mexico) 0, Herdiano(Costa Rica) 0, Cruz Azul advanced on6-2 aggregate

TThhuurrssddaayy,, AAuugg.. 66Arabe Unido (Panama) 1, Olimpia

(Honduras) 0, Arabe Unido advancedon 1-0 away goals

San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad and To-bago) 3, San Francisco (Panama) 0,San Juan Jabloteh advanced on 3-2 ag-gregate

Real Espana (Honduras) 6, Liberia(Costa Rica) 0, Real Espana advancedon 6-3 aggregate

FFIIRRSSTT RROOUUNNDDGGRROOUUPP AA

GGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAAPPTTSSArabe Unido 2 1 1 0 5 2 4Houston 2 1 1 0 2 1 4Pachuca 2 1 0 1 6 4 3Metapan 2 0 0 2 0 6 0

WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 1199Houston Dynamo (United States) 1,

Metapan (El Salvador) 0Arabe Unido (Panama) 4, Pachuca

(Mexico) 1TTuueessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 2255

Pachuca (Mexico) 5, Metapan 0WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 2266

Arabe Unido (Panama) 1, HoustonDynamo (United States) 1

TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1155Metapan (El Salvador) vs. Arabe

Unido (Panama), 10 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1166

Pachuca (Mexico) vs. Houston Dy-namo (United States), 10 p.m.

TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2222Houston Dynamo (United States)

vs. Arabe Unido (Panama), 10 p.m.Metapan (El Salvador) vs. Pachu-

ca (Mexico), 10 p.m.TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2299

Arabe Unido (Panama) vs. Meta-pan (El Salvador), 10 p.m.

WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 3300Houston Dynamo (United States)

vs. Pachuca (Mexico), 10 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, OOcctt.. 2211

Pachuca (Mexico) vs. Arabe Unido(Panama), 8 p.m.

Metapan (El Salvador) vs. HoustonDynamo (United States), 10 p.m.

GGRROOUUPP BBGGPPWW DD LL GGFF GGAAPPTTSS

Marathon 2 2 0 0 6 2 6Toluca 2 2 0 0 4 1 6San Juan 2 0 0 2 1 4 0D.C. United 2 0 0 2 2 6 0

TTuueessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 1188Marathon (Honduras) 3, D.C. Unit-

ed (United States) 1TThhuurrssddaayy,, AAuugg.. 2200

Toluca (Mexico) 1, San JuanJabloteh (Trinidad and Tobago) 0

WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 2266Toluca (Mexico) 3, D.C. United

(United States) 1Marathon (Honduras) 3, San Juan

Jabloteh (Trinidad and Tobago) 1TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1155

San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad and To-bago) vs. D.C. United (United States),8 p.m.

TThhuurrssddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1177Toluca (Mexico) vs. Marathon

(Honduras), 8 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2233

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TThhuurrssddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2244D.C. United (United States) vs.

Marathon (Honduras), 8 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 3300

D.C. United (United States) vs. SanJuan Jabloteh (Trinidad and Tobago), 8p.m.

TThhuurrssddaayy,, OOcctt.. 11Marathon (Honduras) vs. Toluca

(Mexico), 10 p.m.TTuueessddaayy,, OOcctt.. 2200

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TThhuurrssddaayy,, OOcctt.. 2222San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad and To-

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TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1155Puerto Rico Islanders vs. Cruz Azul

(Mexico), 8 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 1166

Saprissa (Costa Rica) vs. ColumbusCrew (United States), 10 p.m.

TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2222Puerto Rico Islanders vs. Saprissa

(Costa Rica), 8 p.m.WWeeddnneessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2233

Columbus Crew (United States) vs.Cruz Azul (Mexico), 8 p.m.

TTuueessddaayy,, SSeepptt.. 2299Columbus Crew (United States) vs.

Saprissa (Costa Rica), 8 p.m.Cruz Azul (Mexico) vs. Puerto Rico

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Saprissa (Costa Rica) vs. Cruz Azul(Mexico), 10 p.m.

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Pumas UNAM2 2 0 0 6 1 6Com 2 1 0 1 2 2 3Real Espana 2 1 0 1 2 5 3W Connection 2 0 0 2 1 3 0

TTuueessddaayy,, AAuugg.. 1188Pumas UNAM (Mexico) 1, Comuni-

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TThhuurrssddaayy,, AAuugg.. 2277Comunicaciones (Guatemala) 2, W

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Robins, Ga. (3-0); MID-ATLANTIC,Staten Island, N.Y. (2-1); MIDWEST,Urbandale, Iowa (1-2); NORTHWEST,Mercer Island, Wash. (0-3).

POOL B — SOUTHWEST, San An-tonio (3-0); WEST, Chula Vista, Calif.(2-1); NEW ENGLAND, Peabody,Mass. (1-2); GREAT LAKES, Russel-lville, Ky. (0-3).

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stad, Curacao (3-0); JAPAN, Chiba City(2-1); MEA, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (1-2); LATIN AMERICA, Maracaibo,Venezuela (0-3).

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At Halle, Germany, Victor Emil-iano Ramirez, Argentina, vs. MarcoHuck, Germany, 12, for Ramirez’sWBO cruiserweight title; Karo Murat,Germany, vs. Lorenzo Di Giacomo,Italy, 12.

At Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, BrianViloria, Waipahu, Hawaii, vs. JesusIribe, Mexico, 12, for Viloria’s IBF lightflyweight title.

At Quik Trip Park, Grande Prairie,Texas, Jesus Soto-Karass, Mexico, vs.Edvan Dos Barrios, Miami, 10, welter-weights; Mikey Garcia, Oxnard, Calif.,vs. Carlos Rivera, Oldsmar, Fla., 10,featherweights.

SSeepptt.. 55At Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico (PPV),

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Mexico, vs. Ja-son LeHoullier, Portland, Maine, 10,super welterweights; Manuel Vargas,Mexico, vs. Donnie Nietes, Philippines,12, for Vargas’ WBO mini flyweight ti-tle.

SSeepptt.. 1122At MCH Messecenter, Herning,

Denmark (SHO), Mikkel Kessler, Den-mark, vs. Gusmyl Perdomo,

Venezuela, 12, for Kessler’s WBA supermiddleweight title.

At Pechanga Resort and Casino,Temecula, Calif. (SHO), Andre Ward,Oakland, Calif., vs. Shelby Pudwill,Mandan, N.D., 10, super mid-dleweights.

At San Juan, Puerto Rico (PPV),Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rico, vs. RodelMayol, Philippines, for Calderon’s WBOand Ring Magazine titles; Roman Mar-tinez, Puerto Rico, vs. Michael Lozada,Mexico, 12, for Martinez’s WBO juniorlightweight title.

SSeepptt.. 1199At MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Floyd

Mayweather, Las Vegas, vs. JuanManuel Marquez, Anaheim, Calif., 12,welterweights; Chris John, Indonesia,vs. Rocky Juarez, Houston, 12, forJohn’s WBA featherweight title; Vi-cente Escobedo, Woodland, Calif. vs.Michael Katsidis, Thailand, 12, for va-cant interim WBO lightweight title;Zab Judah, Las Vegas, vs. AntonioDiaz, Coachella, Calif., 10, welter-weights.

At Neubrandenburg, Germany, Gio-vanni Lorenzo, New York, vs. Sebast-ian Sylvester, Germany, 12, for va-cant IBF middleweight title.

SSeepptt.. 2266At Staples Center, Los Angeles, Vi-

tali Klitschko, Los Angeles, vs. ChrisArreola, Riverside, Calif., 12, for Kl-itschko’s WBC heavyweight title.

At UIC Pavilion, Chicago, DavidDiaz, Chicago, vs. Jesus Chavez,Austin, Texas, 10, lightweights.

SSeepptt.. 33At Tokyo, Nobuo Nashiro, Japan,

vs. Hugo Cazares, Mexico, 12, forNashiro’s WBA junior bantamweighttitle.

OOcctt.. 1100At Madison Square Garden, New

York (PPV), Yuriorkis Gamboa, Mia-mi, vs. Whyber Garcia, Panama, 12,for Gamboa’s WBA featherweight ti-tle; Odlanier Solis, Miami, vs. KevinJohnson, Atlanta, 12, heavyweights.

At Tokyo, Toshiaki Nishioka, Japan,vs. Ivan Hernandez, Mexico, 12, forNishioka’s WBC junior featherweighttile; Jorge Linares, Tokyo, vs. JuanCarlos Salgado, Mexico, 12, for Linares’WBA junior lightweight title.

OOcctt.. 1177At TBA, Germany (SHO), Arthur

Abraham, Germany, vs. Jermain Tay-lor, Little Rock, Ark., 12, super mid-dleweights.

At Trent FM Arena, Nottingham,England (SHO), Carl Froch, Britain,vs. Andre Dirrell, Flint, Mich., 12, forFroch’s WBC super middleweight title.

NNoovv.. 77At XL Center, Hartford, Conn.

(HBO), Chad Dawson, New Haven,Conn., vs. Glen Johnson, Miami, 12, forvacant interim WBC light heavyweighttitle; Harry Joe Yorgey, Bridgeport,Pa., vs. Alfredo Angulo, Mexico, 10,junior middleweights.

At TBA, Nikolai Valuev, Russia,vs. David Haye, Britain, 12, for Val-uev’s WBA heavyweight title.

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MLB—Announced minor leaguepitcher Jonady Nunez from Los AngelesDodgers, has received a 50-game sus-pension after violating the MinorLeague Drug Prevention and Treat-ment Program.

AAmmeerriiccaann LLeeaagguueeCLEVELAND INDIANS—Acquired

RHP Yohan Pino from Minnesota tocomplete the Aug. 7 trade for RHP CarlPavano and assigned Pino to Columbus(IL)..

MINNESOTA TWINS—AcquiredRHP Jon Rauch from Arizona for aplayer to be named. Assigned RHPPhilip Humber outright to Rochester(IL).

OAKLAND ATHLEITCS—RecalledOF Eric Patterson from Sacramento(PCL). Optioned INF Tommy Everidgeto Sacramento.

NNaattiioonnaall LLeeaagguueeHOUSTON ASTROS—Placed RHP

Alberto Arias on the 15-day DL. Re-called RHP Wilton Lopez from CorpusChristi (Texas).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Placed CF Nyjer Morgan on the 15-dayDL. Purchased the contract INF PeteOrr from Syracuse (IL). TransferredRHP Jordan Zimmermann to the 60-day DL.

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DEFENDERS—Signed INF MorganBrown, OF Steve Pinto and RHP GregFord.

QUEBEC CAPITALES—ReleasedINF Eddie Lantigua.

WORCESTER TORNADOES—Ac-quired INF Greg Lemon from NewHampshire for cash and a player to benamed.

BBAASSKKEETTBBAALLLLNNaattiioonnaall BBaasskkeettbbaallll AAssssoocciiaattiioonnNBA—Suspended Denver G J.R.

Smith for seven games without pay forpleading guilty to reckless driving. andPhoenix F Jason Richardson for twogame without pay for pleading guilty todriving under the influence.

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CHICAGO BEARS—Placed DTDusty Dvoracek on injured reserve.

DENVER BRONCOS—SuspendedWR Brandon Marshall for unspecified``detrimental’’ conduct.

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TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Re-signed D Matt Lashoff to a two-yearcontract.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Ac-quired D Christian Ehrhoff and D BradLukowich from San Jose for D DanielRahimi and F Patrick White. Signed DMathieu Schneider to a one-year con-tract.

CCOOLLLLEEGGEEMASSACHUSETTS—Named John

Conlon and Vanessa Patry women’s as-sistant soccer coaches.

NORHTERN ARIZONA—Named Wi-ley King assistant track and field coach.

RICHMOND—Named Joey Haugvolunteer assistant baseball coach.

STATEN ISLAND—Named RobertRusso-Vikos men’s and women’s cross-country coach.

UNLV—Promoted Andy Grossmanfrom director of media relations to as-sistant athletics director for media re-lations and communications and MarkWallington from associate director forsports information to director of mediarelations.

GIRLS | Continued from Page 1B

BOYS | Continued from Page 1B

LADY HAWKS | Continued from Page 1B

In the following game Za-pata started out fast andjumped out to a 6-0 lead onpassing errors by UnitedSouth.

The Lady Panthers start-ed to punch their way back

into the lead and the gamebecame a mental game, morethan physical and Southtook advantage.

“When United South wentahead we could not keep upwith them,” Villarreal said.

The Lady Hawks contin-ued to have back row prob-lem and did not utilizeKing’s offensive outbursts totheir advantage.

“We could not utilize Bran-di because the back row was

not passing very well,” Villar-real.

The Lady Hawks playedits second game last nightand if they won will play at11 a.m. If they lost they willnot play.

Zapata will travel toMartin on Tuesday for atri-match against theTigers and St. Augustine.First game begins at 5p.m.

ZZAAPPAATTAA SSTTAATTSS:: Brandi

King (eight kills, two blocks,10 digs, one assist), Kat Gar-cia (three kills, three digs,one block), Adriana Peña(three kills, seven digs, oneassist), Lexi Garcia (12 as-sists, seven digs).

state meet started in June with our summertraining. This is the midway point to RoundRock.”

The future looks bright as the freshmencaptured the team title.

“Our freshman girls won their divisionconvincingly, so it was a good sign that the

training is paying off and seeing all the girlswith a medal was refreshing,” Villarreal said.

The Lady Hawks are competing at the Ed-inburg North meet this morning and are hop-ing to put on a repeat performance of lastyear’s finish.

Zapata won last year by one point over Ed-

inburg High.“Once again Edinburg High, Sharyland

and host Edinburg North will be formidablefoes,” Villarreal said.

The Lady Hawks, for a second week in arow, will be without the services of MichelleGarcia and Jasso, who are nursing minor in-

juries and illnesses.“We compete against some of the top

schools in the valley hoping that the competi-tion will drive our times lower and lower,”Villarreal said. “We are a little banged up butwe are still working hard day in and day outto our goal of a state medal.”

The sophomore class has made abig statement this year as its pres-ence was felt in every division.

In the varsity, Edgar Hernandez,Rafer Benavides, Juan Rangel andJose Resendes all placed in the topseven.

“They were eighth graders whenI arrived in Zapata,” Escamillasaid. “All of them were my studentslast year in the same classroom. Ilove these boys.”

“They’re the core of our team,encourage the younger kids and fol-low the front runners. The team’schemistry is already there, which I

believe makes it easier to train ef-fectively. “

Another big surprise at Satur-day’s performances was the Hawk’snumber two man, Juan Alvarado.

Alvarado has been on a lighttraining regiment due to pain in hisleft leg.

“He has the potential to run atthe next level, and plans to attendTexas A&M-Corpus,” Escamillasaid.

The next meet on the Hawk’sagenda is the Edinburg meet Satur-day.

“We are not the weekend war-

riors who toe the line every week-end,” Escamilla said. “Trainingwill get you to the starting line, notracing every weekend. One of mycardinal rules is, ‘train to race,don’t race to train.’ I only expect forthe team to give it their best to im-prove our team gap.

“If we win, we win as a team. Ifwe lose, we lose as a team. Afterthat, the varsity will travel to SanAntonio to see where we stand inthe region.”

VVaarrssiittyy rreessuullttss::Keith Cobb 16:50, fifth placeJuan Alvarado 17:20, 11th place

Daniel “Wolf” Garica 17:23, 12thplace

Edgar Hernandez 17:29, 14thplace

Rafer Benavides 17:55, 21st placeJuan Rangel 18:39Jose Resendez 18:58Omar Hernandez 19:12Albert Chapa 19:36

JJVV rreessuullttss::Jose “Horse” Garcia (12:09)

fourth placeRomy Morales (12:47) 15th placeJustin Cobb (12:57) 17th placeMartin Pacheco (13:11) 19th place

Jossue Velasquez (13:33) 20thplace

Jaime Tejada (14:09)Augie Velasquez (14:21)Tony Gutierrez (14:32)

Freshmen results:Jesus “Polo” Aranda fourth

(9:31)Jerome Cabugos sixth (9:48)Climon Galunza eighth (9:54)Alex Garcia 10th (10:26)Luis Lerma 14th (10:34)Memo Paredes 18th (10:58)Felipe Medina 20th (11:07)Mo Olvera 21st (11:11)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009 THE ZAPATA TIMES | 3B

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Dear Heloise: You mentionedin a past column that you onceowned ferrets. I am thinking ofgetting one (or two) for my chil-dren. Can you tell me any FER-RET FACTS that I should knowbefore I go to the pet store? —Maria, via e-mail

Ferrets are so sweet! My firstadvice is to do your research.Ferrets can live eight to 10 yearswith good health, but they getinto LOTS of mischief, so theymust be cared for diligently.

They are very social critters,so many experts suggest gettingthem in pairs.

They will chatter to each oth-er and their human family. Note:Males are TWICE as large as fe-males, which weigh about 2pounds.

Ferrets are weasels; owningone is NOT like owning a cat.They eat kitten food or dry fer-ret food. Feed them fruit andsweet vegetables as treats. NEV-

ER feed ferrets breads, nuts,grains or dairy products. A goodferret breeder will spay orneuter and de-scent the babiesbefore selling them to you.(Even after de-scenting, mostferrets still have a distinct odor.)

You will need to “ferret-proof ”your house, as they are VERY hy-peractive — especially just beforesunrise and sunset; but they dosleep 18-20 hours a day. They chew,like other small animals, so guardpower cords!

Kids and ferrets can be excel-lent companions, but any animalcan be nippy, so proper socializa-tion is important. Here are sometips to remember when you bringa ferret home.

ADVICE | HELOISE

“HELOISE

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES — Here’s how to work it: DENNIS THE MENACEFAMILY CIRCUS

By JOY LINDSAYTHE ZAPATA TIMES

Expectations are high asthe Zapata Hawks begin their2009 season with their sightsset on a district title and along playoff run.

Injuries caught up to theHawks last season, keepingthem winless in their last fivegames, but head coach MarioArce believes this year can bea different story for his team.

With 15 starters returning,including dynamic seniorrunning back Sergio Quin-tanilla, Zapata is looking for areturn to its glory days.

Title hopesThe last time the Hawks

brought home a district title wasin 2006, when they won theirfourth straight 31-3A champi-onship and fifth in six seasons.

Zapata’s dominant run be-gan in 2001, when the teamcaptured its first title in 34years during Arce’s last sea-

son as an assistant coach.The Hawks moved to their

current, larger district priorto last season and is hoping tostart a whole new streak of ti-tles this year.

“Just like everybody else atthis time of year, we want towin the district title,” Arcesaid. “That’s our goal, ourmain goal, to win the title. It’llbe a tough road, but that’s ourfocus, and everything else af-ter that will be sweet.

“We want to get that dis-

trict title back in Zapata.”

Tough competition“Our district in the Valley

is, in my opinion, one of thetoughest in the whole statejust because of the competi-tion,” Arce said. “Theseschools are big-time football,and we’d like to be included inthat. We’re not going to shyaway from anyone; we’re go-ing to come up, line up and dothe best we can to beat you.”

Arce noted Rio Hondo asone of Zapata’s toughest op-ponents in its quest for a title,but knows the Bobcats are notthe only team standing in theHawks’ way.

“Port Isabel has beenpicked by the Valley Associa-tion, Lyford was in the play-offs last year and went a cou-ple rounds, La Feria wentthree rounds,” he said.“Everybody’s tough, but thoseteams are the top teams rightnow until somebody beatsthem.”

Playoff aspirationsWith a district title comes

an automatic postseasonberth, but Zapata is hoping toearn the latter with or with-out the former.

“It’d be nice to get a districtchampionship this year, but Ithink we should strive to gofar into the playoffs,” seniorguard Marco Regalado. “Ithink we have the potential togo far … we’re the kind ofteam that will just go out thereand pop people in the mouth.

“We’re hard-hitting. Wedon’t have the speed or thesize, but have the strength.

“We’ll go out there andpack a punch.”

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009 THE ZAPATA TIMES | 4B

Hawks searching for 32-3A success

Photos by Ulysses S. Romero | The Zapata TimesAATT LLEEFFTT:: A Zapata defender (57) sacks United South backup quarterback Fabian Palacios (42)during their scrimmage at the United South practice field last week. The scrimmage served asthe Hawks’ final warmup before they began their non-district season Friday night. AABBOOVVEE:: TheZapata Hawks are looking to come out on top in a district that has proven to be one of the tough-est in the area in recent years.

FAST FACTSHHEEAADD CCOOAACCHH:: Mario Arce, 14th year, ninth as head coach. (At right)CCOOAACCHHIINNGG SSTTAAFFFF:: Offensive Coordinator: Blake Garza, Defensive Coordinator:Clyde Guerra, Offensive Line: Robert Alvarez and Rene Alvarez, Receivers: LupeHernandez, Defensive Backs: Fred Lujan, Defensive Line: Gabe Perez, Lineback-ers: Jaime Garcia and John Jackson.

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