Local firms fund toys for Odessa children
Ninety seven youngsters at Odessa Day Nursery will receive gifts from a charitable effort led by Graham Central Station and KayBee Toys with United Way support. Contributors funded via Friday cover-charge donations and a 10 percent KayBee discount funded three wish list presents per child. Volunteers delivered presents Tuesday morning, with managers praising the community and noting additional aid for 20 more children.
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Odessa Day Nursery
Odessa United Way
Graham Central Station
United Way
Sue McEwen
KayBee Toys
McEwen
Laura Dominguez
KayBee
Dominguez
Carrie Robertson
Robertson
Myra Carvajal
Kay-Bee Toys
Waste approved for WIPP near Carlsbad
More than 100 drums of plutonium contaminated waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory may be the first to be disposed of at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad New Mexico after a DOE analysis found the barrels contain no hazardous chemicals The drums would move without state approval though future cases will be evaluated individually and a federal lawsuit could delay opening for two years The WIPP facility was completed in 1988 to dispose of defense related radioactive waste from the Cold War era
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Carlsbad
N.M
Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
Dan Balduini
WIPP
Los Alamos
Balduini
DOE
New Mexico
Environment Department
Tom Udall
Udall
John Garrett Penn
Penn
U.S
Christmas story lives on By Kathy Gilbert Odessa American
In Crescent Park Baptist Church annual Live Nativity performers braved mid teens temperatures to share the birth of Jesus. Mary actor Angie Gollett wore blue jeans and robes and endured sleet and freezing drizzle while volunteers rotated out to cope with the cold.
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de Virgin Mary
Crescent Park Baptist Church
Angie Gollett
Mary
Gollett
Jesus
Clemency appeal questions secrecy of Texas pardons board
A federal judge in Austin calls the Board of Pardons and Paroles secrecy appalling as two death row inmates Faulder of Canada and Barber of California challenge the panel’s constitutionality. The judge notes minimal hearings since 1990 and weighs whether due process was afforded while the board votes by fax or phone without public explanation.
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Pardons Board
Sparks
Joseph Stanley Faulder
Canada
California
Danny Lee Barber
Faulder
Barber
Sandra Babcock
Woman Makes Her Own Christmas Wish List Tradition
Neva Bird of Odessa pioneers a homemade Christmas tradition crafting a towering wooden stocking listing family, friends, and church members to save on stamps. Her yard at 1426 East 35th Street blooms with candy canes, elves, reindeer, and windmill lights as she plans to return to more handmade decorations next year.
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Neva Bird
E. 35Th St
Bird
Texas Highways Magazine
Brenda Dial
Ex-deputy sues over firing in Reeves County
Alfred Saldana, a former Reeves County deputy, files Friday suit in 143rd District Court accusing Sheriff Andy Gomez, County Judge Jimmy Galindo and Attorney Walter Holmcombe of firing him after he reported that a Reeves County Detention Center guard had used an inmate to paint a county employee's pickup. The complaint notes involvement of an inmate, jailer, and guard, and names District Attorney Randy Reynolds.
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PECOS
143Rd
Reeves County
Saldana
Walter H. Holcombe
Jimmy B. Galindo
Andy Gomez
Gomez
Randy Reynolds
Reeves County Detention Center
Pecos City Council Enacts Earlier Teen Curfew
The Pecos City Council unanimously adopts a teen curfew to improve safety. Under the ordinance, youths under 17 must be home by 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and by midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Exemptions apply for accompanied minors and those in late night school activities.
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Pecos
Kenneth Neal
Neal
Danny Rodriguez
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Alfred Saldana
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