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SDISD trustees respond to Cazvsuits
Say they will pursue action against plaintiffs, Page 1
Wednesday, July 27. 1994
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Vol. 9 No. 90
Sail Diego, Texas
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Rural garbage collection
still nags county officials
Becky De Leon
Elisa Moody
Two compete for
Miss San Diego
Two San Diego High School
juniors will be competing for the
title of Miss San Diego as part of
the 17th Annual Fiesta de San Di-
ego/Pan de Campo festivities. The
new queen will be crowned Satur-
day. July 30.
The reigning Miss San Diego
is Jessica Anguiano.
This year’s contestants are
Rebecca “Becky" De Leon and
Elisa Ann Moody, both 16 years of
Becky is the daughter of Juan
and Cynthia Villarreal and is spon-
soredby Villarreal Grocery & Feed
Store. Elisa is the daughter of
Jimmy and Adelmira Moody and
is sponsored by Bianca Rae Licht-
enberger of Lichtenberger’s
Exclusives.
The pageant will also name a
Little Mr. and Little Miss San Di-
ego. Two five year old kindergar-
ten students at Collins Primary
school are vying for the Little Mr.
title and five young girls are seek-
ing to become Little Miss San Di-
ego.
The current Little Mr. San Di-
ego is Robbie Casas. Competing
for the title this year are Saul Aaron
Santos, son of Roy and Christina
Santos, and Eddie Trevino, son of
Maricela Garza.
Roxanne Cantu will end her
reign as Little Miss San Diego when
someone from the five contestants
listed below is selected.
Among the contestants is Lisa
Marie Garcia, a five year old kin-
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The question of what to do
with garbage continues to nag Du-
val County Commissioners. The
court was approached by the city
of Benavides on Monday, July 25,
for help in providing gaibage col-
lection services for the rural areas.
They went away with a prom-
ise that the county will get its con-
sultants to study the problem to see
what the best solution may be.
“We really got nothing,” said a
disappointed Benavides City Coun-
ci I woman Estella Saenz. Thecoun-
ci I woman and Mayor Cynthia Ol-
iveira made the appeal for help.
“We’re here because we need
help with the rural area pickups,”
Oliveira told commissioners Nestor
Garza Jr. and Alejo Garcia and
County Judge Gilberto Uresti.
The mayor told the court that
the City of Benavides is currently
providing garbage pick-up to 93
rural residents. They include, 31 in
Realltos; 24 in Concepcion; 16 in
Ramirez; 11 in San Jose; eight in
Rios; two in La Roslta; and one in
Capita. Oliveira pointed to the
case in La Rosita where the city
made $20 and it cost them $221 in
landfill costs.
“What’s happening is we’re
not collecting enough to cover our
costs." said Oliveira. She said that
Benavides Mayor Cynthia Oliveira asks county commissioners for
help with rural garbage collections. In background are Benavides
City Council woman Estella Saenz and former Mayor F. H. Canales
Jr.
the city’s cost for rural collections
are running between $600 to
$1,000.
Uresti brought out his now fa-
miliar chart listing what other area
cities charge for garbage collec-
tion services. He repeated the point
that garbage collection is not a lo-
cal problem but one that has na-
tionwide implications.
The judge said he would con-
tact representatives from the
Coastal Bend Council of Govern-
ments to seek their help in analyz-
ing the problem and proposing a
solution. He also said he would
contact the county’s solid waste
consultants to look into the matter.
“I think we should help Bena-
vides,” said Commissioner Garza.
“Would the county consider a
subsidy to the City of Benavides?”
asked Mayor Oliveira. “We’re here
to help everybody but you must
meet us half way.”
Former Benavides Mayor F.
H. Canales Jr., who was in the
audience, told Oliveira that the
budget for the rural collections
called for 250accounts. Moreover,
said Canales, the council’s deci-
sion to lower the rate for commer-
cial users was having an adverse
affect on the service’s financial
stability.
“Residential customers are
subsidizing the business commu-
nity,” said Canales.
“The budget estimates did not
come through like they should.”
said Oliveira
Commissioners took no action
on the mayor's request. On a re
lated matter, the court did agree to
take monthly payments on a gar-
bage truck the county had sold the
city. The city of Benavides will
pay $400 down and $200 a month
on the $2,000 truck.
SDISD trustees say lawsuits are frivolous
wBUmmi
An 18-yearold San Diego man,
Rickey Gonzalez, was stabbed to
death in a trailer park south of
Alice on Sunday, July 24. Jim Wells
County authorities have detained
his 16-year old brother.
Gonzalez provided star testi-
mony in the widely publicized gang
rape case of several years ago. He
was a juvenile at the time and con-
firmed the victim's testimony of
forced sexual assault by as many a
10 defendants.
A hearing on whether to grant
a temporary injunction against the
San Diego ISD will be held on
Monday, Aug. 1. in 229th District
Court. Four Jim WellsCounty resi-
dents are seeking the injunction to
prevent the school district from
taking any action to sell $9 million
in bonds approved by the voters in
June
The Duval County Grand Jury
will meet again today, July 27. The
grand jury has not yet resolved the
alleged ballot tampering which re-
portedly occurred in the March
Democratic Primary.
The grand jury's indictments
of two weeks ago are still waiting
District Judge Ricardo H. Garcia's
signature before they are filed for
record.
Local public schools received
results of TAAS tests several weeks
ago. Benavides and Freer schools
have reviewed them with their
boards of directors but San Diego
superintendent Braulio Ruelashas
not “had an opportunity to review
them" and has withheld them from
public disclosure.
by Alfredo E. Cardenas
Editor/Publisher
San Diego ISD trustees have
served warning that they are not
going to take recent law suits lying
down. At least two board members
have indicated that they will pur-
sue action against those who they
claim have filed “frivolous law
suits” to invalidate the recent bond
election.
“I want people to know that we
will ask for damages from the plain-
tiffs who have filed these frivolous
law suits,” said trustee Rene Perez
at a board meeting held Thursday.
July 21.
Perez said that the suits would
add to the district’s interest costs.
“We will recover this for each tax-
payer. parent and student .in the
district." said Perez.
Two lawsuits filed earlier this
month seek to invalidate the re-
sults of the June 11 election in
which voters approved a $9 mil -
lion bond issue to build two new
schools and an athletic complex. In The Code allows the superin-
the first suit, four Jim Wells County tendent to release any employee
residents allege the bond election found in violation of its tenets,
was called at an improperly called Trustee Albert Martinez expressed
meeting and thus is voidable.In the a concern that the penalty for vio-
second lawsuit, a fifth Jim Wells lating the code was somewhat am
County resident, claims that 150to biguous.
200 individuals were allowed to “It reads that an employee may
vote who did not reside in the dis- be released.’That also means that
trict. they may not be released,” said
Board President Tommy Mo- Martinez. “What happens then?”
Una also has indicated that state
law allows school districts to pur-
sue recovery of costs from com-
plainants who bring frivolous law
suits. “We intend to pursue this
matter,” said Molina.
In other business, the school
board approved a “Code of Con-
duct” for all employees. The code
was developed by superintendent
Braulio Ruelas with input from
school attorney Mark Paisley.
“We’ve had problems in the
past with the conduct of some em-
The board amended the Code
to include “other disciplinary ac-
tion at the discretion of the super-
intendent.”
The code sets out a number of
“ethical” standards as they relate
to an employee’s conduct towards
his colleagues, parents, students
and the community. Among the
standards are:
• an employee shall not use
alcoholic beverages in an exces-
sive manner;
an employee shall abide by
pioyees.” said Molina. “While we the moral standards expected from
objected as individuals, we could the community and from the school
not no anything as a board." district;
• an employee shall behave in
a professional manner to his fellow
employees at all times; and
• an employee shall not in-
clude or exclude a student from
participation in a program .. .on
the basis of... personal relation-
ships.
In other personnel matters, the
board went into executive session
to hear an appeal from high school
principal Alvaro Garza who had
been subject of a reprimand by
Ruelas. No action was taken on
this matter.
Garza also went into executive
session during the board’s hearing
of a complaint by Clara Morin. She
filed a complaint over “an
administrator’s handling of her
grandson.” No action was taken on
that issue either.
The board accepted the resig-
nations of Jose Mlreles and Linda
Gonzalez and announced the re-
tirement of Belen Valadez. They
hired the following teachers for the
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Honorees started in county's rural schools
Diana L. Gonzalez
Diana L. Gonzalez was born
and grew up in San Diego. She
attended Ana Norma Collins El-
ementary School and graduated
from San Diego High School. She
had a long and successful teaching
career as an elementary school
teacher.
She taught the elementary
grades, first through sixth grade
levels in Cruz Calle and Ramirez
Communities in the Duval County
Rural School District for several
years. She attended college on Sat-
urdays and during the summer
months to obtain her teaching de-
gree.
Gonzalez graduated from
Texas College of Arts and Indus-
tries (now Texas A A M Univer-
sity at Kingsville) with a Bachelor
of Science degree in education.
She joined the faculty of the San
Diego Independent School District
under the late superintendent Fer-
nando de Pena.
With the exception of one year
when she taught for the Benavides
Independent School District and
the few years of rural teaching.
Gonzalez dedicated her entire
teaching career to San Diego ISD.
Her other teaching experiences
include teaching at Archie Parr
Elementary School where riie was
transferred to become teacher for
the Tide VII bilingual program.
The last years of her teaching ca-
reer were as a classroom teacher at
Bernarda Jaime Junior High
Hail of Honor
School. She retired in 1986.
Gonzalez has participated in
many religious, civic and profes-
sional organizations Among them
are:
St. Francis de Paula Catholic-
Church. AlegroClub. UnitasCluh.
Duval County Library Board of
Directors, Duval County Museum.
Duval County Historical Commis-
sion. Texas Stale Teachers Asso-
ciation and Tri-County Retired
Teachers Association
Edna I. Rios
Edna I. Rios was the oldest of
seven children, born and raised in
Kingsville. She spent all of her
precollege days In this community
where she participated in the Choir,
Pep-Squad. Spanish Club, Girls
Volleyball. Basketball. Track and
softball. She graduated from
Henrietta M. King High School in
1944.
Her inspiration to become a
teacher came at a very young age
when two young college students
lived In her home while attending
Texas A A I College pursuing a
degree in the Education field Rios’
desire to become a teacher was
enhanced when these students prac-
ticed their teaching techniques on
her.
After graduating from high
school. Rios attended Texas A AI
College striving to acquire a de-
gree in the teaching profession. In
1945. during the war years, she
received an emergency teaching
certificate and taught in the small
ranching community of LaCopita.
In 1948. during her senior year at
Texas A A I, and after teaching
three years at La Copita School,
she was recruited by Superinten-
dent Fernando de Pena and tints
started her tenure at the San Diego
Independent School District.
In 1950 she graduated from
Texas A AI receiving a Bachelor
of Science Degree, majoring in
Elementary Education with minors
in Health and Physical Education.
Geography and Spanish. That same
year she married Mike Rios Jr. and
moved to reside in Alice, where
she taught in the Alice Indepen-
dent School District for three years.
During her short stay in Alice she
served as Treasurer for the PTA
Association.
In 1953, she was reempk>yed
with the San Diego schools when
her husband rekreated to start the
family business. Furthering ifer
education, in 1957 she received a
Master of Science degree in Edu-
cation with a mi nor in English from
Texas A AI.
While living in the San Diego
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