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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 2009
Page
4
UTPB plans to sell the historic Ellen Noel house as the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center will receive proceeds. President David Watts says the mansion is too costly to maintain and no longer fits the university mission. The Noél family supporters left a lasting arts legacy in Odessa.
Martinez and Vickie Gomez each left hospital and university roles, then found retirement unsatisfying. Martinez embraced a new job back in her department, while Gomez, after 34 years at UTPB, returned as interim director of admissions. Both describe retirement as tedious and return to work as rewarding, revealing shifts in work identity and stress. Gomez recalls boredom without an assistant and managing her own schedule.
Texas Senate adjourned the 2009 session without passing $2 billion in transportation bonds or sustaining key agencies including the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. House and Senate blamed each other, signaling possible summer special session to authorize agency operations and bond funding. The session did approve TWIA reform and a $182 billion two year budget with $12.18 billion in stimulus funds.
A Putnam Investments study finds seven million American seniors who retired have returned to work, mostly by choice rather than necessity. Among 40 plus, 54 percent work part time, 36 percent full time, and 10 percent seek work. Martinez, 58, plans to work to 62 or 63, while Gomez intends to stay as long as employers want her.
The Texas House approved a last minute correction to keep key state agencies including the Texas Department of Transportation functioning until the next regular session, but the Senate adjourned without passing the measure. If unresolved in a special session, agencies face closure under sunset law.
Three men identified as Kenneth Arreola aged 33 Hector Machuca 23 and Auden Hernandez 28 were arrested Friday evening at Love’s Truck Stop on Interstate 20 in Ector County. They face narcotics possession charges for 256 grams of cocaine and 178 grams of heroin with a street value of 61200. Officers seized 995 in cash and all suspects remain in custody.
Odessa Police Corporal Roy Celaya is back at work after a minor injury crash while responding to a disturbance. He collided with 20 year old Krista Oliver at Andrews Highway and 52nd Street as her car and her boyfriend Gage Davila witnessed a fishtail turn. No citations were issued.
Kevin Howard, 46, a former Enron Corp. executive, pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying books and records and agreed to a plea deal that could bring up to 12 months of home confinement. He admitted to creating fake earnings for the failing broadband unit in 2000 through a sham sale of future revenue in the video-on-demand venture Project Braveheart.
A Big Spring man died from a Saturday morning shooting. Justin Hernandez, 16, was shot at 1:30 a.m. in Big Spring and transported to Scenic Mountain Medical Center before being moved to Lubbock for an autopsy. ESPD Detective Tony Everett said. Police continue the investigation.
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