tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88887040464983859832024-03-14T01:54:34.630-06:00Newman Park BlogThe Newman Park blog provides information of interest to people and businesses in the Newman Park neighborhood of El Paso, their friends and all other interested persons. The mission of the Newman Park Neighborhood Association is to improve the quality of life in the Newman Park neighborhood through care and attention to the park and surrounding areas, and to build a community network of care, watchfulness and concern for each other and our beautiful desert environment.Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.comBlogger525125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-52546121777440242542014-12-04T15:45:00.000-07:002014-12-04T15:45:21.844-07:00Time to Order Luminarias<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time again to order luminarias from your Newman Park Neighborhood Association. While you are at it, make a donation to the Association online (yellow donate button in right side column) or by filling out the form and following the mailing instructions.</span><br />
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<br />Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-57316949424056018862014-12-04T08:13:00.000-07:002014-12-04T08:13:27.713-07:00Attend Public Meeting about EPISD Proposed School Closures<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Capital Facilities Master Plan meeting is on Monday, December 8 at 6 PM in the Austin High School Gym. We need our Central area folks to come out for this meeting and weigh in on the issues that matter to us. The Board of Managers commissioned a study of the facility needs and issues throughout the district, including the fact that we have too many classrooms for too few kids. Based on that analysis, they have developed several options for the public to weigh in on. Options including closing schools, improving schools, changing school boundaries...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The options document can be found at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be forewarned that it is a lot of info to digest and it is put together by engineers who don't seem particularly concerned if the public understands the information. For our area, the options being presented can be found in the following sections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Planning Area B.H.1: (High schools)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One proposal is to close Alta Vista Elementary. It is not because there are too few students there but because the condition is not great, which in my opinion is more a function of decades of neglect rather than a poor quality building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have served on the steering committee. The public process has been clunky at best but I think this is a good opportunity for us to weigh in about the following issues:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. the condition of our historic schools and the need to maintain them,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. any other facility needs that we think need to be addressed in our area,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. the need to really work to make Austin High shine again, including improving their magnet program, and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Anything else that we think should be a priority for the district as it pertains to our area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Susie Byrd</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-78881554972027559582014-11-27T08:41:00.000-07:002014-11-27T08:41:00.127-07:00Reawakening!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After almost a year of hibernation, the Newman Park Neighborhood Association is reawakening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A General Meeting was held at the Friesenhahn home on November 15 and new board members were elected: Lynn Coyle (NPNA's founding President), Orlando Arriola, Andy Baca, Becky Friesenhahn, Robert Taylor and Jim Tolbert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past Tuesday the new Board met at the Tolbert home and officers for 2015 were elected: Andy Baca (Secretary), Robert Taylor (Treasurer), Becky Friesenhahn (Vice-President) and Jim Tolbert (President). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Board made plans for the annual luminarias fundraiser. Expect a sales flyer soon at your front door. Along with the information about the fundraiser, the flyer will ask for donations from members of the Newman Park Neighborhood Association. Who is a member? President Jim Tolbert said that all people in the Association boundaries should be considered members. There is no membership fee. Instead, there is a suggested donation of $20 per household. But less is okay and certainly more will be appreciated. So give what you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, donations can be made online at any time. Just go to <a href="http://www.newmanpark.blogspot.com/">www.newmanpark.blogspot.com</a> and click on the yellow donate button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-49418493123684864692014-06-04T13:52:00.000-06:002014-06-04T13:52:02.500-06:00FREE Check Up Calls Helps Senior El Pasoans During Extreme Heat<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EL PASO, TEXAS – These past few days we have encountered SEVERE temperatures in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Sun City and we are urging the public to take action to protect themselves and others </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during these extreme weather conditions. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The City of El Paso’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) – Calling All </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RSVP is a FREE program aimed at making sure a senior living alone is safe. Seniors </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(55 years and older) in the program will receive a friendly phone call from a volunteer to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">make sure they are safe. Each program volunteer is paired up with the senior based on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">similar interests – hobbies, education, background, etc. so that they may have things in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">common to talk about during the check-up call. The phone calls will be made at the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">senior’s convenience (mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekdays, weekends). The phone </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">calls can be made daily or even once a week, whatever they prefer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This free phone call is a great way to ensure the safety of a senior living alone who is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">homebound, isolated and in need of a check-up call or somebody to talk to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Calling All Seniors depends on public awareness for its success. We hope that the public </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will identify and report seniors who need this service. Currently over 75 volunteers </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">registered with the RSVP are calling over 75 seniors that have been referred by agencies </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and residents. The service is free of charge. It is essential that the community look out </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for one another, especially the seniors in our community – many of them do not have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anybody to care for them and are in desperate need of assistance. A friendly telephone </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">call, that will make sure they are safe, may be their life saver. </span><br />
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Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-44299023721560759492014-06-02T15:16:00.001-06:002014-06-02T15:16:47.203-06:00Park and Ride from 5 Points to the Chihuahuas Games<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-26669993460718875212013-12-13T12:00:00.000-07:002013-12-13T12:14:05.515-07:00Time to Order Luminarias<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's that time again to order luminarias. Get those orders in before December 22nd. The order form is below and gives instructions for ordering your beautiful 2013 Christmas Holiday Luminarias from your Newman Park Neighborhood Association. You do not have to be a member of NPNA or even live in that neighborhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also mark our Annual Christmas Story Telling and Caroling Party on your calendars: Sunday, December 22nd at Casa de Friesenhahn, 2405 Altura Avenue at 6:30 p.m. (<a href="http://binged.it/1c1uo5g">Map</a>)</span><br />
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Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-91478604618664208722013-10-29T17:27:00.001-06:002013-10-29T17:27:23.484-06:00Vote for Ho!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newmanistas - in fact - ALL El Pasoans: Vote for Ho! The City/El Paso Magazine is taking a vote for Best in Culture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the message from surrealist sculturist and Newmanista Ho Baron:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Hi all! The City Magazine's nominated me, the Ho Show, for you guessed it, the Best in El Paso Culture. If ya gotta sec, vote for me ... pleeeeez!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My show gets 1000s of passersby daily. It's a gallery without walls, open air at Piedras & Aurora featuring <i>The Distortionists</i> bronze sculpture, <i>The Water God</i>, <i>The Kid</i>, <i>Chac Mol</i>, <i>Indignant</i>, <i>Mother and Child</i>, <i>The Classic Work</i>, <i>The Dysfunctional Family Tree</i>, <i>The Scarecrow Kids</i> and many more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A Ho vote is a go vote so do it today ... and tomorrow ... and tomorrow ... and tomorrow (the City lets you vote daily). And I thank you." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go here to vote and remember that you can vote every 24 hours:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are so lucky to have Ho Baron in the hood!</span><br />
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<br />Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-92202367267869157622013-10-29T16:30:00.000-06:002013-10-29T16:30:53.478-06:00Little Free Library Suffers from Neglect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's so sad to see our Little Free Library at Newman Park in disrepair for so long. It has been about a year since the doors went missing. What was once so beautiful and so useful, is now a receptacle for French Fries. Although a promise was made to repair the box, time has passed. It's obviously not a priority nor should it be for any volunteer. Your Newman Park Neighborhood Association has over $2,500 in the bank according to Association Treasurer, Robert Taylor. It's time to hire a carpenter.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sue! Contact Stephanie T.A. That call alone will strike terror in the corporate hearts of this baseball consortium.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call City Representative Lily Limon. Ask her to wait until there are enough absences on City Council so she can do to the Triple-A Chihuahuas what she did to Tripper Goodman. After all, it's not the name we object to but the <i>way</i> they went about picking the name.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make an Open Records Request. Find out how often Joyce Wilson even used the word "Chihuahua" in her private email.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have not one but many Newman Park Neighborhood Association Days at the park. There will be free beer and hot Chihuahuas - I mean - dogs for all Newmanistas.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Publish our logo in each and every game program so that people around the world will not think that all Chihuahuas look like their mascot with blood shot eyes obviously after an all-night Tequila bender.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Name the stadium after us: Newmanistas Baseball Stadium - Home of the "Other Chihuahuas".</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June Hensley sent out this alert on Monday: "An adorable but emaciated young boxer appeared in my backyard and seems to want to stay. He is brindle black and brown colored. His tail is undocked. He has no collar or any form of identification. He is very gentle and friendly. I would appreciate it if you would pass this on, so we might find his owner."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-6887634082682639052013-10-03T12:07:00.000-06:002013-10-03T12:07:08.883-06:00Pride Day Means Roll-Off at Newman Park<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EPPD Neighborhood Relations Coordinator, Leslie Canada emailed: "We are having our annual Pride Day Clean up on <span style="color: red;"><b>Saturday, Oct 12th from 7AM to 12 Noon. A roll-off will be placed at Newman Park at Louisiana and Altura</b></span> for volunteers so it can be filled with trash and debris. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The day before (Friday, Oct. 11th at 5:30PM) we will have our Pride Day Kick Off BBQ at Memorial Park for volunteers to meet and greet some of the staff involved in organizing this event. Environmental Services will also hand out trash bags to those that do not receive a roll off. Hope to see you there."</span><br />
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Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-43998741247231465332013-09-27T10:19:00.000-06:002013-09-27T10:19:07.418-06:00Rain Brings Falls<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rains of two weeks ago were described as a 10 year flood by some and a 20 year flood by others. Whatever, our neighborhood got nearly 5" of rain as measured by the official NOAA <a href="http://cocorahs.org/">CoCoRaHS</a> rain gauge at 2701 Frankfort Avenue. 4.32" of that fell over 3 days - September 11, 12 and 13.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way, our Red Rock Canyon is a 1.126 billion year geological treasure. Read this fascinating online article: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/piece-of-antarctica-related-to-texas/">Piece of crust stolen from Texas found in Antarctica</a>. Portions of that billion year old plus rift include the red bluff granite and Thunderbird formation on both sides of the Franklins. <a href="http://www.celebrationofourmountains.org/">Celebration of Our Mountains</a> has scheduled as hike up the canyon for <a href="http://www.celebrationofourmountains.org/2013-calendar/">September 28th</a> to the July 1944 B-24 crash site. Take the hike: you will be going back in time over a billion years and you will see “pieces” of what scientists call the super-continent, <a href="http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/geo_history_wa/Dance%20of%20the%20Giant%20Continents.htm">Rodinia</a>.</span></div>
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Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-41805915324963781662013-08-30T15:09:00.004-06:002013-08-30T15:09:43.852-06:00Additional Charges for Manhattan Heights Rapist<div class="MsoHeading7">
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El Paso, TX –
The El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Person’s Unit has charged Arturo
Valtierra-Payan, who is suspected of committing several sexual assaults in the
Manhattan Heights subdivision, with six additional charges. These charges
include 3 Burglary of Habitation counts and 3 counts of Aggravated Sexual
Assault. This brings the local total to 7 charges, which includes the
original Burglary of Habitation that he was booked on back on July 2,
2013. Valtierra-Payan was re-booked on the new warrants on Thursday,
August 29, 2013. These cases involved four adult female victims who were
attacked inside of their homes. Detectives have advised that there are no
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September of 2012. This link was established through DNA evidence that
was recovered here in El Paso and entered into the Combined DNA Index System
(CODIS). That DNA sample ultimately linked Valtierra-Payan to the Fort
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sunset High School (formerly Houston School) Auditorium</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thursday, May 9, 2013</span></div>
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<br />Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-66966748993697295572013-05-01T15:05:00.000-06:002013-05-01T15:05:27.245-06:00Crime of the Week Map<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jim Tolberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703631083625071050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888704046498385983.post-43097264440221024312013-04-30T14:21:00.001-06:002013-04-30T14:21:40.218-06:00Great American Cleanup a Huge Success Thanks to Hanks ROTC<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, Great American Cleanup was a huge success in our neighborhood. This year members of the Hanks High School ROTC pitched in to cleanup in and around the park and three neighborhood homes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NPNA President, Becky Friesenhahn praised the Hanks group: "Wow what an incredibly successful cleanup we had this past Saturday! The Hanks High School ROTC and Ms. Eileen Williams made this event the success that it was. This group of kids cleaned the park, the playground area, assisted with trash pick up from neighbors, cleaned the front yard of three neighbor's homes and all done with a smile!!!! What an incredible group! Thanks hanks high school ROTC. We could not have done this without you!!!!! </span><br />
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