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Campus criminals concern cops
Some students found toting knives, drugs
MEGHANN GARCIA
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Though it seems that
students at Uvalde Junior
High School are more
unruly this year than in
recent times, Chief Robert
Mac Donald of the Uvalde
Police Department thinks
the increased criminal
activity is not gang related.
Mac Donald said that
during the month of October, a total of 18 seventhand eighth-grade students
were referred to the juvenile probation office for
infractions.
The unfortunate behavior
is not necessarily beginning at the junior high
UVFD
honored
for ‘selfless
dedication’
campus, however, with the
police chief explaining that
students as young as 10
have been removed from
class for disorderly conduct and class disruption,
assault and possession of
marijuana.
Mac Donald credits
Ruben Ruiz, Uvalde Consolidated Independent
School District’s current
resource officer, with doing
a good job of getting the
junior high school situation
under control. And while
he maintains that October
is always one of the most
hectic months, the chief
said children are becoming
more rambunctious and, in
turn, disorderly.
Mac Donald has heard
similar comments from
teachers and parents.
Former school resource
officers Wayne Seiple and
Emmanuel Zamora emphasized the importance of
parental involvement and
the need for more than
Goal for facility at
UMH to make care
more accessible
ASSISTANT EDITOR
MEGHANN GARCIA
PLEASE SEE UVFD, PAGE 24
PLEASE SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 18
Fundraiser focuses
on imaging center
Cadre of carolers
MEGHANN GARCIA
Uvalde firefighters were
honored for 120 years of
service on Dec. 7 at noon
during the annual meeting of Community Health
Development Inc. held
at the First Presbyterian
Church.
Rachel Gonzales-Hanson, chief executive officer,
presented a plaque to fire
chief Gene Ayala in honor
of the Uvalde Volunteer
Fire Department’s years of
service and for the “selfless
and unwavering dedication” displayed by its members.
The department was
established in 1892.
“What makes our fire
one police officer for the
entire school district.
Zamora said that during
his tenure, between 2010
and 2012, he spent a lot of
time dealing with sixthgrade students and that
to prevent such problems
parental involvement is
key.
“Parents have got to do
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Fundraising is under
way for the creation of a
Women’s Imaging Center
at Uvalde Memorial Hospital with a $300,000 goal
set for Dec. 31 and $50,000
raised thus far.
The plan is to renovate space located near
the emergency room
entrance and turn it into a
more private area geared
toward increasing comfort of women undergoing routine exams while
replacing outdated analog
equipment with digital
options.
The fundraising venture follows the successful $5.4 million Saving
KIMBERLY RUBIO|LEADER-NEWS
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District students sing Thursday morning
during First State Bank of Uvalde’s annual Christmas open house. For video footage of the students’ performance, please visit the Leader-News website.
Lives Close to Home campaign that resulted in the
Kate Marmion Regional
Cancer Medical Center.
The Saving Lives Close
to Home through Digital
Mammography fundraising campaign is overseen
by Sheri Rutledge, development coordinator at
UMH.
The hope is that the
center, which is projected
to have an October 2013
opening, will be more
accessible to women in
the hospital’s five-county
service region.
Construction documents must first be
approved by the hospital’s board of directors,
which meets monthly, but
plans currently include
spaces for bone density
testing, ultrasound, mammograms, stereotactic
surgery, waiting area and
PLEASE SEE WOMEN, PAGE 24
Anacacho Wind Farm work winding up
Almost one year after
beginning construction
on a wind energy project
in Kinney County, E.ON
Climate and Renewables
expects to have turbine
blades whirling and electricity flowing just as 2013
rolls around.
“We’ve got all the turbines
erected, but we’re still working on the last details of
commissioning them before
operation begins,” said Matt
Tulis, communications
manager with E.ON. “That
means testing the turbines
to ensure that they are func-
Project has potential to power 30,000 homes
tioning correctly and generating electricity and that
it’s flowing through the grid
properly.”
Known as the Anacacho
Wind Farm, the $100 million project is located 20
miles southwest of Brackettville and features 55 turbines, which were supplied
by Vestas American Wind
Technology Inc., based in
Portland, Ore.
According to Andrew
Longeteig, communications
specialist with Vestas, the
CONTACT US
Phone
830-278-3335
Fax
V-100 1.8 megawatt turbines will make the farm a
100-megawatt site, which he
estimated is enough electricity to power approximately 30,000 homes once it
is up and running.
“I think we just put the
last blade on the last turbine,” he said, explaining
that while E.ON is leasing the land from a private
owner, Vestas is providing equipment and service.
“We have a five-year service
agreement with them right
AREA DEATHS, PAGE 6
Dr. Duncan Blades
Jesus E. Flores
Jesus 'Chuy' Flores
Aaron Luevano
830-278-9191
Web
www.uvaldeleadernews.com
READINGS FOR the Uvalde J-27 well are subject to revision by the Edwards Aquifer
Authority.
now, which means that
once it opens we’ll be providing the maintenance and
keep it running smoothly.”
During the construction
phase, between 200 and 300
jobs were created. Once
the farm is up and running
Tulis said six to 10 permanent positions will remain.
“We’ll need personnel
for operations and maintenance,” he said. “There
will be wind technicians
monitoring and repairing
equipment as well as a site
PLEASE SEE WIND, PAGE 24
RAINFALL
2012 to date
2011 same period
2010 same period
108 year average
Edwards Aquifer
Previous level
2011 same period
E.ON CLIMATE AND RENEWABLES
The Anacacho Wind Farm will utilize 55 turbines when it
begins operations in the next few weeks.
14.53
12.17
18.30
23.43
842.8
842.9
847.9
WEATHER
HighLow Rain
Sunday 77590.00
Monday 57370.00
Tuesday 52320.00
Wednesday62 27 0.00
Thursday 60350.00
INSIDE
Classifieds . . . . 21-23
Farm & Ranch . . . . 11
Lifestyles . . . . . . . 4-6
Leakey . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sports . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Viewpoint . . . . . 14-15
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2630 E. Main, Uvalde • Under the huge American flag
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When the products are similar,
the dealer makes the difference.
FINAL SERVICE: Willet moving on from First Presbyterian. Page 4
LOCALLY OWNED INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER—SINCE 1879 A LEADER IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012
ONE SECTION, 24 PAGES
VOL. 132 NO. 78 75 CENTS
Campus criminals concern cops
Some students found toting knives, drugs
MEGHANN GARCIA
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Though it seems that
students at Uvalde Junior
High School are more
unruly this year than in
recent times, Chief Robert
Mac Donald of the Uvalde
Police Department thinks
the increased criminal
activity is not gang related.
Mac Donald said that
during the month of October, a total of 18 seventhand eighth-grade students
were referred to the juvenile probation office for
infractions.
The unfortunate behavior
is not necessarily beginning at the junior high
UVFD
honored
for ‘selfless
dedication’
campus, however, with the
police chief explaining that
students as young as 10
have been removed from
class for disorderly conduct and class disruption,
assault and possession of
marijuana.
Mac Donald credits
Ruben Ruiz, Uvalde Consolidated Independent
School District’s current
resource officer, with doing
a good job of getting the
junior high school situation
under control. And while
he maintains that October
is always one of the most
hectic months, the chief
said children are becoming
more rambunctious and, in
turn, disorderly.
Mac Donald has heard
similar comments from
teachers and parents.
Former school resource
officers Wayne Seiple and
Emmanuel Zamora emphasized the importance of
parental involvement and
the need for more than
Goal for facility at
UMH to make care
more accessible
ASSISTANT EDITOR
MEGHANN GARCIA
PLEASE SEE UVFD, PAGE 24
PLEASE SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 18
Fundraiser focuses
on imaging center
Cadre of carolers
MEGHANN GARCIA
Uvalde firefighters were
honored for 120 years of
service on Dec. 7 at noon
during the annual meeting of Community Health
Development Inc. held
at the First Presbyterian
Church.
Rachel Gonzales-Hanson, chief executive officer,
presented a plaque to fire
chief Gene Ayala in honor
of the Uvalde Volunteer
Fire Department’s years of
service and for the “selfless
and unwavering dedication” displayed by its members.
The department was
established in 1892.
“What makes our fire
one police officer for the
entire school district.
Zamora said that during
his tenure, between 2010
and 2012, he spent a lot of
time dealing with sixthgrade students and that
to prevent such problems
parental involvement is
key.
“Parents have got to do
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Fundraising is under
way for the creation of a
Women’s Imaging Center
at Uvalde Memorial Hospital with a $300,000 goal
set for Dec. 31 and $50,000
raised thus far.
The plan is to renovate space located near
the emergency room
entrance and turn it into a
more private area geared
toward increasing comfort of women undergoing routine exams while
replacing outdated analog
equipment with digital
options.
The fundraising venture follows the successful $5.4 million Saving
KIMBERLY RUBIO|LEADER-NEWS
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District students sing Thursday morning
during First State Bank of Uvalde’s annual Christmas open house. For video footage of the students’ performance, please visit the Leader-News website.
Lives Close to Home campaign that resulted in the
Kate Marmion Regional
Cancer Medical Center.
The Saving Lives Close
to Home through Digital
Mammography fundraising campaign is overseen
by Sheri Rutledge, development coordinator at
UMH.
The hope is that the
center, which is projected
to have an October 2013
opening, will be more
accessible to women in
the hospital’s five-county
service region.
Construction documents must first be
approved by the hospital’s board of directors,
which meets monthly, but
plans currently include
spaces for bone density
testing, ultrasound, mammograms, stereotactic
surgery, waiting area and
PLEASE SEE WOMEN, PAGE 24
Anacacho Wind Farm work winding up
Almost one year after
beginning construction
on a wind energy project
in Kinney County, E.ON
Climate and Renewables
expects to have turbine
blades whirling and electricity flowing just as 2013
rolls around.
“We’ve got all the turbines
erected, but we’re still working on the last details of
commissioning them before
operation begins,” said Matt
Tulis, communications
manager with E.ON. “That
means testing the turbines
to ensure that they are func-
Project has potential to power 30,000 homes
tioning correctly and generating electricity and that
it’s flowing through the grid
properly.”
Known as the Anacacho
Wind Farm, the $100 million project is located 20
miles southwest of Brackettville and features 55 turbines, which were supplied
by Vestas American Wind
Technology Inc., based in
Portland, Ore.
According to Andrew
Longeteig, communications
specialist with Vestas, the
CONTACT US
Phone
830-278-3335
Fax
V-100 1.8 megawatt turbines will make the farm a
100-megawatt site, which he
estimated is enough electricity to power approximately 30,000 homes once it
is up and running.
“I think we just put the
last blade on the last turbine,” he said, explaining
that while E.ON is leasing the land from a private
owner, Vestas is providing equipment and service.
“We have a five-year service
agreement with them right
AREA DEATHS, PAGE 6
Dr. Duncan Blades
Jesus E. Flores
Jesus 'Chuy' Flores
Aaron Luevano
830-278-9191
Web
www.uvaldeleadernews.com
READINGS FOR the Uvalde J-27 well are subject to revision by the Edwards Aquifer
Authority.
now, which means that
once it opens we’ll be providing the maintenance and
keep it running smoothly.”
During the construction
phase, between 200 and 300
jobs were created. Once
the farm is up and running
Tulis said six to 10 permanent positions will remain.
“We’ll need personnel
for operations and maintenance,” he said. “There
will be wind technicians
monitoring and repairing
equipment as well as a site
PLEASE SEE WIND, PAGE 24
RAINFALL
2012 to date
2011 same period
2010 same period
108 year average
Edwards Aquifer
Previous level
2011 same period
E.ON CLIMATE AND RENEWABLES
The Anacacho Wind Farm will utilize 55 turbines when it
begins operations in the next few weeks.
14.53
12.17
18.30
23.43
842.8
842.9
847.9
WEATHER
HighLow Rain
Sunday 77590.00
Monday 57370.00
Tuesday 52320.00
Wednesday62 27 0.00
Thursday 60350.00
INSIDE
Classifieds . . . . 21-23
Farm & Ranch . . . . 11
Lifestyles . . . . . . . 4-6
Leakey . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Utopia . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sports . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Viewpoint . . . . . 14-15
877-469-3643
2630 E. Main, Uvalde • Under the huge American flag
W W W . C E C I L M O T O R S U V A L D E . C O M
When the products are similar,
the dealer makes the difference.
24
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UVALDE LEADER-NEWS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012
WIND: Texas leads technology WOMEN: Latest mammography technology coming to UMH
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supervisor.”
As far as scale, Longeteig
said that the Anacacho is a
“good-sized” farm, by American standards, and that
Texas has more wind turbines than any other state in
the country.
“Texas has a lot of space,
great wind resources and
very good transmission” he
said. “A bunch of places have
good wind resources, but
their infrastructure is not
that great so there’s no way
to transmit the electricity to
where it needs to go.”
According to the American
Wind Energy Association,
Texas is home to seven of the
nation’s largest wind farms,
including four of the top
five, and was the first state
to reach 10,000 megawatts of
wind energy installations,
with 10,929 currently online.
The association said in 2011
wind energy supported close
to 7,000 direct and indirect
jobs and resulted in about
$115 million in annual property tax payments by wind
project owners.
“The infrastructure is good
and the wind resources are
good,” Longeteig said.
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offices.
Overall, the project is
expected to cost $868,418
with the hospital funding renovations and the
fundraising campaign
striving to cover new
equipment costs.
Statistics provided
by Rutledge show that
between 2005 and 2009, 72
percent of women who
were diagnosed with
invasive cancer, or 444,
received their diagnosis
locally.
That is coupled with
2010 statistics that show
32.6 percent of women
over the age of 40 had
not received a mammogram during the prior
two years when the procedure is recommended
yearly for all women over
40.
Rutledge said the
only digital mammography provider in the
region including Uvalde,
Dimmit, Frio and La
Salle counties in addition to parts of Maverick,
Medina and Val Verde
counties, is in Eagle Pass.
Using recent numbers,
Rutledge said Uvalde
Memorial Hospital performs 1,659 mammograms per year and, with
the new center, hopes to
increase that number by
20 percent each year.
The current analog
mammography unit in
the hospital’s Imaging
Department is a Lorad
Mark 4 that was manufactured in 2001.
This unit will be
replaced with the latest
technology in mammography, a digital unit with
Computer-Aided Detection, CAD, and a Stereo-
tactic Core Breast Biopsy
Table.
The digital unit uses
half the radiation dose
of standard units, lowering the risk of radiation
induced cancers.
Uvalde Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary and
the corporate office
of Walmart have each
donated $25,000 to the
campaign.
To contribute, contact
Rutledge at 830-278-6251,
etx. 1616.
MGARCIA@UVALDELEADERNEWS.
COM, 278-3335
UVFD: Community Health Development Inc. honors department’s service during annual meeting
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department extra special,
among other things, is that
most of them are volun-
teers,” Gonzales-Hanson
said, adding that firefighter
help people out of burning cars and houses all the
while saving property to the
fullest extent possible.
“I don’t know how many
volunteers would do that,”
she said.
“It certainly meant a lot to
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a traditional Company
me several years ago when
my house was in a situation
where it was on fire and my
kids were in there, and they
helped make sure they were
safe,” Gonzales-Hanson
said.
She said local firefighters
rush to the rescue of fellow
citizens even when it means
interrupting family dinners,
holiday celebrations and
their own annual banquet.
“That’s commitment,” she
said.
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the honor included Howard,
a 47-year member of the
department; Dalrymple,
45 years; Potter, 16 years;
Ayala, 15 years; Juan Maldonado, 5 years; and Mario
Rangel, 3 years.
Following the presentation, Ayala expressed his
gratitude to the employees
of CHDI, comparing the
service they provide to the
job performed by the fire
department.
“...you guys do things to
help families, to help people
in need, to make sure they
get the proper care. You
guys are the same thing that
we do out there,” Ayala said.
“We volunteer, we get
paid... we’re all doing it for
one reason, to help,” he continued. “You know at the
end of the day you go home
and you’ve helped somebody
and that’s all that matters.”
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830-278-3335