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Newspaper
Rio Rancho Observer
Location
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1997
Page
1
Principal Linda Plank-Sink reports about 20 students were sent home or required to change during the first two days of CHS classes this week for dress code violations. On Tuesday a tougher stance led to 15 more students sent home for sagging or baggy pants and very short shorts.
Gateway 2000 plans a ground breaking ceremony at 10 a.m. at the Business Tech Center in River's Edge near the Intuit building to announce Rio Rancho as the site for a 50,000 square foot call center funded by eight million in industrial revenue bonds. The project aims to employ 400 people by 1998 with city council indorsing the bond inducement.
City of Rio Rancho and its nine month old AFSCME union are in contract talks. Workers represented include 120 eligible city employees, with 72 voting to unionize last November. Negotiations have focused on details, with wage demands and working conditions to come.
Department of Public Safety Association faces end of its agreement with Rio City and negotiates a new contract. Negotiators doubt a new deal will be in place before the sealing agency deadline. DPSA President Steve Harvey says talks focus on economic issues amid stalled progress.
Joseph William McCaffrey founder and first publisher of The Observer died Monday in Fort Myers Florida at age 78. He and Rosalie launched The Observer on June 8 1973 from a Corrales bank back room. He helped form Rio Rancho and served in World War II. He is survived by a brother four children and 13 grandchildren.
Rio Rancho officials and First Baptist Church reach an open-ended yearly-renewable deal to use the church parking lot as a SunTran park-and-ride site. The city will pave part of Roskos Field and pay $1 annually, indemnifying the church for damage.
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