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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 2000
Page
3
The Most Rev. Bishop James A. Tamayo conducted his first mass Sunday at the Cathedral of San Augustin after being installed as bishop on Wednesday in the newly designated Diocese of Laredo.
North Texas will see extensive light rail work after voters backed a $2.9 billion bond for DART expansion. In the first bond election in 12 years, about 77 percent of 25,928 voters approved, while 7,675 opposed. Officials predicted a closer result and noted strong supporter confidence.
About 560 soldiers from Fort Hood left for Missoula Montana and Lolo National Forest to join roughly 1,200 fellow troops already deployed. They relieve 6,154 workers including 1,800 students battling 19 fires that have burned 352,000 acres. Total firefighting costs exceed 62 million dollars as fires rage across Montana and Idaho.
West Texas residents at weekend saw the Perseid meteor shower along with an aurora borealis display. Scientists say coronal mass ejections from the sun sparked the geomagnetic storm reaching as far as El Paso and Fort Davis observers. Local experts described the lights as ghostly pillars across the dawn sky with notable sightings near Angeles and along park areas.
In Abilene and surrounding Texas areas, residents turn to well drilling to combat water rationing and drought. Sammi Ruth Fowler spent 1500 dollars on a private well, hoping it rains soon. Bruce Showalter of Jack Leonard Irrigation reports hundreds of wells drilled in five months, with backlogs across firms as demand surges. Texas law allows property owners to pump groundwater from under their land.
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