Newhouse to Speak at Ram Boosters Banquet
Former Dallas Cowboy Robert Newhouse will be guest speaker at Thursday's Ram Boosters Football Banquet. Tickets cost 5 dollars and are available at the News-Herald front desk. A special 1990 football season highlights issue appears in today’s newspaper. The Queen City Belle Booster Club monthly meeting is canceled and will resume in January. Boosters are urged to bring canned goods to the tree at tack. Del Rio Utilities Commission meets at 7 30 p.m. in the council chamber to discuss fluoridation status and central purchasing expansion. The city offices phone line remains down since Tuesday. call 774 2781 for messages.
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Dallas
Robert Newhouse
Ram Boosters
News-Herald
Queen City Belle Booster Club
del Rio Utilities Commission
del Rio City Hall
del Rio
Jayne Douglas
Villafranca
United States
Council opposes border user fees
Del Rio City Council passes a resolution opposing proposed border crossing user fees tied to a pilot program. INS officials describe options including free and paid lanes, cards, or individual charges, with testing slated for future border sites.
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Council
Congress
Austin
Readers pick new books from RIF program at migrant council
Students at the Texas Migrant Council on Gunner Street chose new books from a Reading Is Fundamental collection. In the photo, Priscilla Leyva, Fernando Castro, and Clara Shaffer sit on the bottom row with Able Vargas, Laura Rodriguez, and Gabriel Santos on the top row.
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Texas Migrant Council
Gunner Street
RIF
Priscilla Leyva
Fernando Castro
Clara Shaffer
Able Vargas
Laura Rodriguez
Gabriel Santos
First-Graders Present Christmas Program at North Heights PTO
At North Heights Elementary the first graders staged a Christmas program during Tuesday night’s Parent Teacher Organization meeting. The program included a poem the story of Christ birth and many Christmas carols.
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Parent Teacher Organization
Christ
Police Association warns residents of phone scam in Texas
The Texas Police Association warns Del Rio area residents about a telephone scam soliciting money for a Slain Police Officers Benevolent Fund. The association has no link to the solicitations and clarifies its tie to CLEAT and the Texas Police Star. A local group, Val Verde 100 Club, is the only benevolent unit in the area, offering information at 774-5553.
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The
Texas Police Association
del Rio Area
CLEAT
Combined Law Enforcement Associations of
Texas
Steve Webb
del Rio Police Officers Association
Texas Foundation
Webb
Texas Police Star
del Rio
Val Verde County
Val Verde 100 Club
City pushes for census correction in Del Rio
Del Rio moves to overturn the 1990 census count asserting undercount. City Manager Florencio Sauceda promotes a “Where You Counted” drive while a council resolution asks Congress and Commerce to permit Census Bureau statistical correction. Sauceda estimates Del Rio was undercounted by 7100, impacting school, county and city funding.
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Florencio Sauceda
Sauceda
U.S. Congress
Department of Commerce
Census Bureau
Congress
Eulalio Calderon
John Miller
Houston-Galveston
Never Give Up Spirit Drives Del Rio Boy Scouts
Val Verde County closes in on a motto as Troop 271 of Del Rio climbs Los Maples peak known as Mount Everest in Texas Hill Country. Josh Overfelt, 11, carried a 40 pound pack that felt like 70 on the last stretch while Albert Williams lauds the troop’s no quit ethic and merit badge pursuit.
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Boy Scouts of America
del Rio
Josh Overfelt
Los Maples State Park
Texas
Albert Williams
Los Maples
Mount Everest
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Josh
Amistad
Charles Fields
Mike Deaton
Concho
George Whitehead
Gary
Kyle
Frank Newton
School of
Texas Tech
Jimmy Bradly
United States Foreign Service
Mexico
Robert Palmer
Val Verde Memorial Hospital
Thomas Cole
Methodist Church
City of
Boy Scout Troop Reaches Peak in Los Maples Park Outing
Troop 271 members completed an overnight climb to the highest peak in Los Maples State Park. The journey was challenging but the scouts persevered and reached the summit.
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Los Maples State Park
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