Bronc rider showing progress after broken neck

Optimists bring feast to East Side firefighters

Socorro District 1 Council Candidates Plan to Get Grant Funds

Donald Davisson, 85, has his eye on Socorro’s funds.

If elected, “hopefully I could get something done about seeing where our money is going,” he said.

“There should be more visible signs of improvement in Socorro for the money that’s being spent,” the Navy veteran, El Paso Natural Gas Company retiree, and Lions Club member said.

He said he’s like to see what grants are available once in office, and would argue “that any city expenditures would be voted on by the people.”

Stan Nemec, EPNG Retiree, is Life-Saving Hero in Tucson

Here's a story you may or not have heard.  I understand it was on National News February 23, 2006.  I have abbreviated the Arizona Daily Star here in Tucson and added "Rusty...." and try to shorten.

Stan's wagon was carrying 10 people:  reporters and anchor crews from KOLD-TV and their families, including four children.  Barbara Grijalva, KOLD-TV anchor-woman said "the streetside audience were screaming, some were four and 5 deep and the wagon was swerving.  I was afraid for us and that we were going to run over someone."  One of the wagon's wheel broke and it was dragging instead of rolling, she said.

Betty Marcus-Randle is an epidemiologist. She doesn’t fit the pattern of the intellectual “nerd” but she has the education and the interest in science to back up what she does. The slim blonde is vivacious and vocal when she speaks about her prize book “Vegetarian Melting Pot.” Her goal in life is to help people through her knowledge in order that they can really live life and not just survive.

“I give seminars all the time on vegan and vegetarian subjects. Every time I did, people would ask for recipes and stress that they were having difficulty finding tasty foods to eat that were vegetarian,” Randle said.

She says she is a vegan, a vegetarian who does not eat animal products. Vegetarians sometimes do eat those products but mainly do not eat meat, fish or fowl.

Randle was educated at the University of Arizona, University of California, Riverside; University of Texas in El Paso and Universidad de Las Americas, Mexico. She owned and managed health food stores for 25 years, having three different locations at different times. She closed her stores so she could do the other things she wanted to do. At the top of her list was writing a cookbook as well as short stories. She has won awards for her stories and is in the process of writing a new book about her adventures as a student at the University of Arizona when she went to North Africa, Morocco, Algeria and Libya to do nutrition research.

Her book is a compilation of ethnic recipes she says are “easy, look good, taste good and are good for you.” The book includes recipes for many varieties of foods, including Mexican, Italian, Indian, American, Cajun, Jewish, Greek and Asian creations. Randle believes the recipes are “just for fun.” Contents include foods for all meals and utilize many spices and herbs to give them the flavor of the country they represent.

The author maintains a health-information database summarizing scientific health research. Although she has researched many subjects in her long career in the field such as immunization, student illness, mortality and the impact of poverty on community health, she offers varied information to those she works with.

Her path has also included stints as an Instructor in the University of Arizona and El Paso Community College. She holds memberships in the Texas and El Paso Writers Leagues, the International Association of New Science, Vegetarian Society of El Paso and Union of Concerned Scientists. She has served as speaker and presenter of health seminars in many of the health-related associations.

This active senior is up at 6 a.m. and goes to bed around 1 a.m. She had arthritis at a young age but claims with healthful eating and exercise to have completely gotten rid of it. She takes Tai Chi lessons twice a week and keeps busy doing what she loves to do. It would be hard to follow in his tracks and she shows no sign of slowing down.

Optimists bring feast to East Side firefighters

Firefighters at two East El Paso stations received Christmas cheer and a little relief from stove duty on Christmas Day when members of the Cielo Vista Optimist Club delivered a home-cooked turkey dinner.

"It's tough being away from your family on Christmas Day," said Lt. Aaron Inman of Fire Station 19 at 2405 McRae. "But it really helps when people come to you like that and let you know you're appreciated."

The Can't Be Home for the Holidays program, which has fed the firefighters on Chrustmas Day the past two years, also satisfied some hearty appetites at Station 20 at 8301 Edgemere.

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