Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 269, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Page: 3 of 10
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Sweetwater Reporter
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 ■ Page 3
Donations sought for
Sweetwater Good e ows
Sweetwater Rifle & Pistol Club
Mrs. Lera Jeane Lee
Highland Heights United Methodist Church Friendship SS Class
In honor of “Maryemma and Clayton Williams” by Robert S. Williams
First United Methodist Church Young Outlooks SS Class
First Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Women
Subtotal as of Nov. 25
$200
$50
$150
$100
$200
$300
$1000
Toys and food needed for Sweetwater
Goodfellows, boxes placed around town
It is that time of year again and the
Sweetwater Goodfellows are getting
ready to help Nolan County families
in need have a better Christmas.
Sweetwater Goodfellows provides
food and toys to families with chil-
dren and individuals in need dur-
ing the Christmas season.
Sweetwater Goodfellows boxes
for the food and toy drive can
be found at KXOX Radio, First
Financial Bank, Nolan County
Courthouse, Higginbotham (Radio
Shack), Sweetwater TA, Sweetwater
Reporter, Oak Street Salon, SLJ
Embroidery and Gifts, Texas State
Technical College and all local
schools.
Donation of food and toys can also
be dropped off at the fire station on
Broadway. Financial donations can
be sent to Sweetwater Goodfellows,
P.O. Box 1148, Sweetwater, TX,
79556.
Firemen will be picking up the
donations as needed and the boxes
will be out until Wednesday, Dec.
5-
The annual Sweetwater
Goodfellows toy drive at Wal-Mart
is set for Saturday, Dec. 1, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Last year, Sweetwater
Goodfellows helped more than 700
individuals in Nolan County. If you
would like to make a donation to
the Sweetwater Goodfellows, send
it to P.O. Box 1148, Sweetwater, TX
79556. To volunteer or for more
information, call 236-9712.
Cuomo likens Katrina
Sandy as damage total soars
MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press
Obituaries
EDELMIRO (POPS) GUTIERREZ
Edelmiro (Pops) Gutierrez, age 88, of Sweetwater,
Texas, passed away on Monday, Nov. 26, at Rolling
Plains Memorial Hospital.
A Rosary will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.
28, at Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel.
Holy Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10a.m.
on Thursday, Nov. 29, at Immaculate Heart of Mary
Catholic Church with Rev. Charles Okonkwo officiat-
ing. Interment will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer
& Trent Funeral Home.
WILLIE HANLEY
Willie Hanley, age 90, of Sweetwater, Texas, passed
away on Monday, Nov. 26, at Hendrick Medical Center.
Funeral Services are pending at Cate-Spencer & Trent
Funeral Home.
PROSPER CATHY MORENO
Holy Mass of Christian Burial for Prosper Cathy
Moreno, 78, of Sweetwater, will be held at 10 a.m. on
Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Immaculate Heart of Mary
Catholic Church. Father Charles Okonkwo will offici-
ate and interment will follow at
Loraine Cemetery under the direc-
tion of McCoy Funeral Home.
A Rosary will be said by Lupe
Medellin and Ester Rodriguez at
7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at
McCoy Chapel of Memories.
Moreno died Monday, Nov. 26,
2012, at her home.
She was born June 19, 1934
in McKinney, Texas. She was a
member of Immaculate Heart of
Mary Catholic Church and Holy
Family Catholic Church. She was a
Licensed Vocational Nurse and had
worked at Rolling Plains Memorial
Hospital, Mitchell County Hospital,
Sweetwater Healthcare and Nolan
Nursing.
Survivors include her husband, Estanisiado Moreno of
Sweetwater; daughter, Cathy Cabrera of Mesquite; sons,
Pete Cabrera of Abilene, Manuel Garza of Sweetwater
and Matt Garza and wife Melinda of Sweetwater; seven
grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; and numerous
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Pallbearers will be Lee Alvarez, Rene Alvarez, Miguel
Garza, Matthew Snell, Manuel Garza and Matt Garza.
SISD, continued from Page 1
ing program in Sweetwater. Immediately, they began
working jointly to plan for professional development,
supplies and revamp the school schedule to include a
daily, ninety-minute protected—meaning nothing else
can interfere during this learning time—reading block in
each classroom.
Over the summer, all kindergarten and first grade
teachers completed extensive training in the Balanced
Literacy approach as well as the use of the Daily 5 struc-
ture of differentiated instruction, which includes high-
quality teaching of Reading to Self, Reading to Someone,
Listening to Reading, Word Work and Writing along
with meeting with the teacher. Listening centers, leveled
readers, computer software and literacy supplies were
also purchased for each class.
In order to increase the students' reading ability,
increasing CAFE is a top priority at Southeast. The school
hopes to instill into students the joy of reading while
improving skills and test scores by eliminating practices
that make reading hard.
One program that is continuing at Southeast at the
kindergarten level is Certified Learning/SOI as a ninety-
minute block on a daily basis.
Certified Learning offers three components—comput-
er, workbook and group, which increases perceptual
skills of vision, audio and sense integration. By develop-
ing these skills early, general learning abilities of cogni-
tion, memory, evaluation, problem solving and creativ-
ity can be sufficiently founded through the program to
increase students' learning abilities.
In addition to the Certified Learning, the Bridges lab
focuses on sensory integration and visual proceedings
for first graders that need a continuation of the SOI
program. In October, a consultant visited the school
and reported that students are at a farther rate—almost
three months ahead—in the program than expected at
this time.
In addition, the Imagine Learning Language and
Literacy computer program is included at the school
inside the computer lab. Holding up to 44 students for
thirty minutes per day, the program strengthens pho-
nemic awareness and sight work recognition, which is
beneficial to English language learners through listening
and speaking components.
Other extra activities at the campus include a 30 min-
ute block of reading at the libraiy each week for each
class. Each student also has 30 minutes of daily Physical
Education and fifteen minutes of health instruction
from the state's Healthy and Wise curriculum.
PBIS—the Positive Behavior Intervention Support—is
a district-wide training effort that teaches procedures
for the hallway, cafeteria, bathroom and bus to promote
positive behavior. And with this year's addition of a
school counselor to the Southeast staff, Courtney Martin
teachers Character Education and Guidance lessons to
students.
Successes are celebrated on the campus with regu-
lar assemblies honoring perfect attendance and honor
roll students on their achievements. Also, an incentive
adopted for PBIS is STARS, or Students Achieving Real
Success.
Students can earn StarBucks for good behavior which
is entered into a drawing to win a prize from the prin-
cipal's treasure box. Each week, a STAR student of the
week is recognized.
Music is also taught at Southeast, as the second grad-
ers will hold their Christmas program. This year, first
graders will offer a First Grade Fandango toward the
end of February.
The PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization) is a vital and
active part of the campus, as they involve students in
Box Tops for Education, Juice Box Brigades, Campbell's
Labels for Education and the Elmer's Glue Crew recy-
cling programs.
They also offer pickles and popcorn on Fridays and
on Mustang Spirit Fridays, they will sell Spirit Decals.
The PTO additionally organizes and holds the Southeast
Fall Festival, Christmas classroom parties, the Easter
Egg Hunt while volunteering in classes and creating the
school yearbook.
Technology is strongly evident, as each class has a
Mimio Smart Board, an Elmo projector, five computers
for students and a teacher computer. Teachers also have
an iPad to be used for TPRI (Texas Primary Reading
Inventory) testing and other educational apps.
Currently at Southeast, there are 191 kindergartners
and 197 first graders. In total, the school boasts 389 stu-
dents and an ethnically diverse campus. Concluding the
campus report was a video highlighting the year so far at
Southeast with photos and videos of different programs
and events, which was created by Martin and Southeast
parent Jeremy Wilks.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
declared Superstorm Sandy in some ways worse than
2005's Hurricane Katrina as he said his state would
need $42 billion to recover from the damage wreaked in
late October and prevent future catastrophe.
The figure includes more than $32 billion for damage
and restoration and an additional $9 billion to head off
damage in future storms, including steps to protect the
power grid and cellphone network.
As he and other political leaders in his state conferred
on how much federal aid to seek, he said New York tax-
payers can't foot the bill.
"It would incapacitate the state," he said at a news
conference Monday. "Tax increases are always a last,
last, last resort."
Comparisons of Sandy to Katrina, which swamped
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, put the East
Coast's recovery "in focus," he declared, saying Sandy
hit a more densely populated region and caused more
costly damage than Katrina.
Katrina killed more than 1,800 people, flooded nearly
the entire city of New Orleans and caused some $108
billion in damage. Sandy killed more than 100 as it
swamped coastal areas, toppled trees and dumped snow
inland, and the most recent estimates indicate damage
totaling more than $62 billion in several Eastern states,
with New York and New Jersey accounting for the lion's
share.
Previous estimates, which often fluctuated, had put
Sandy's damage at around $50 billion. That already
made it the second most destructive U.S. storm in his-
tory, after Katrina.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who announced
Monday that he couldn't abandon the state during its
recovery and would seek re-election next year, has put
the preliminary damage estimate in his state at $29.5
billion.
"It would be wrong for me to leave now," said Christie,
a Republican who controversially lauded President
Barack Obama for his attentiveness after the storm. "I
don't want to leave now. We have a job to do. That job
won't be finished by next year."
States typically get 75 percent reimbursement for
Volunteers to plant seedlings
at burned Texas park
BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Volunteers wanting to help
restore trees to a wildfire-ravaged state park in Central
Texas will get the chance this weekend.
Tree experts have spent the past year nurturing thou-
sands of seedlings for Bastrop State Park, about 30 miles
east of Austin. Historic wildfires claimed about 95 percent
of the area's trees, including most of the 6,600-acre park's
signature "Lost Pines."
The Texas A&M Forest Service says drought-hardy lob-
lolly pine seedlings plus other associated varieties are being
delivered this week to the park.
The first volunteer planting workday is Saturday. Forestry
officials say a total of 550,000 seedlings will be planted in
Bastrop State Park over the next few months.
The nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation will help fund
the planting process in support of the Lost Pines Forest
Recovery Campaign.
No apparent survivors in
East Texas plane crash
WELLS, Texas (AP) -
Investigators will exam-
ine the charred wreckage
of a twin-engine plane that
crashed in an East Texas
field while flying from
Houston to Oklahoma.
The Federal Aviation
Administration says nobody
on board apparently sur-
vived. FAA spokesman
Lynn Lunsford said Tuesday
that the wreckage is badly
burned and officials aren’t
sure how many people were
on the Cessna 421.
Searchers located the
wreckage Monday night
near Wells, about 140 miles
northeast of Houston.
The FAA says the plane
was en route from West
Houston Airport to Tulsa
Riverside Airport when con-
trollers lost contact with the
aircraft around 9:30 p.m.
Monday. Officials believe
the pilot was trying to avoid
bad weather.
Further details on the
plane’s owner were not
immediately available. The
the cost of governments to restore mass transit and
other services after a disaster. The Federal Emergency
Management Agency has paid out nearly $248 million
already in New Jersey.
In New York, Cuomo, a Democrat, met with his state's
congressional delegation to discuss the new figures and
present "less than a wish list." The delegation, Cuomo
and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will now
draw up a request for federal disaster aid.
Bloomberg had announced earlier in the day that
Sandy caused $19 billion in losses in New York City —
part of the $32 billion estimate Cuomo used.
Most basic recovery costs for roads, water systems,
schools, parks, individual assistance and more total
$15 billion in New York City; $7 billion for state agen-
cies; $6.6 billion in Nassau County and $1.7 billion in
Suffolk County, both on suburban Long Island; and
$527 million in Westchester County and $143 million in
Rockland County, both north of New York City, accord-
ing to a state document used in the private briefing of
the delegation and obtained by The Associated Press.
Hard times were already facing the state and city
governments that were staring at deficits of more than
$1 billion before Sandy hit in late October. State tax
receipts have also missed projections, showing a con-
tinued slow recovery from a recession that could hit
taxpayers in the governments' budgets this spring. And
there's the looming fiscal cliff, the combination of expir-
ing federal tax cuts and major spending cuts that could
rattle the economy.
"Make no mistake, this will not be an easy task, par-
ticularly given the impending fiscal cliff, and a Congress
that has been much less friendly to disaster relief than
in the past," said Sen. Charles Schumer, a powerful New
York Democrat.
"We will work with the (Obama) administration on
supplemental legislation, to be introduced in the upcom-
ing December session of Congress, that will set us on the
road to meeting New York's needs," he said. "This will be
an effort that lasts not weeks, but many months, and we
will not rest until the federal response meets New York's
deep and extensive needs."
Contributing to this report were Associated Press
writers Jennifer Peltz and Meghan Barr in New York
City and Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, N.J.
Couple found slain in his
Northeast Texas home
ATLANTA, Texas (AP) — Investigators say a man and
his girlfriend have been found slain in his Northeast
Texas home after he did not show up for work.
The Cass County Sheriffs Office says the bodies were
discovered Monday by a co-worker of the man. Capt.
Scott Sartain says nobody has been arrested and the
bodies have been sent to Dallas for autopsies.
Sartain identified the victims as 49-year-old Doyle
O’Neal Pollard and 42-year-old Dyrika Jones.
Sartain told the Texarkana Gazette that evidence at
the home near Atlanta indicated Pollard and Jones were
homicide victims. He declined to describe their wounds.
Investigators believe the victims were slain on Sunday.
Further details on the investigation were not immedi-
ately available Tuesday.
Atlanta is about 170 miles northeast of Dallas.
MIDDAY ON WALL STREET
Today’s Trading
Change
DOW
12,916.38
-50.99
NASDAQ
2,967.52
-10.43
S&P
1,400.92
-5.37
General Motors
25.02
-0.21
Ford Motor Co.
11.13
+0.03
AT&T
33.71
-0.26
Pepsico, Inc.
70.03
+0.03
USG Corp.
27.06
+0.28
Archer-Daniels
26.66
-0.05
GE
20.99
-0.07
Deere & Co.
84.27
-0.19
McDonalds Corp.
85.98
-0.26
Chevron Texaco
104.28
-0.71
Exxon Mobil
87.81
-0.81
Fst. Fin. Bnkshs.
37.70
-0.08
Coca-Cola
37.58
+0.22
Dell
9.78
-0.17
SW Airlines
9.39
-0.01
Microsoft
27.16
-0.23
Sears Holdings Co.
46.61
-0.30
Cisco
18.98
+0.06
Wal-Mart
69.92
+0.01
Johnson & Johnson
68.82
-0.27
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PROPSPER CATHY
MORENO
ircraft is capable of car-
ying six passengers and a
wo-person crew.
The family of
Oddie B. Williams
would like to
express a heartfelt
thank you for your
expressions of
sympathy during
our loss, the floral
.arrangements, cards,,
food and visits were
so meaningful to
the family.
Your kindness shall
never be forgotten.
The family of
Oddie B. Williams
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