Mexico Friends: Travelers play Santa
Bring holiday cheer to kids in
Mexico
In just 11 years, the Christmas party in this border city has grown from a few hundred to several thousand. Winter Texans - senior citizens from the northern United States who migrate each year to the balmy Rio Grande Valley - flocked to Nuevo Progreso on Tuesday to play Santa for poor Mexican children. The event is called Amigos de los Ninos de Mexico, friends of the children from Mexico. Gene Knecht and his wife, Sammye, of Paola, Kan., joined seven years ago, after...
Mexico Friends: ADVOCATES OF SCHOOLS JOIN FORCES
Educators Energized By Attacks on N.M. System Public education needs defenders, not constant criticism, University of New Mexico professor and former state Democratic Party chairman Fred Harris said Thursday. Joined by Ted Martinez, former head of Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, Harris announced formation of New Mexico Friends of Public Education. The groups will fight voucher legislation and push to raise teacher pay, reduce class sizes and increase early childhood education,...
Mexico Friends: OBITUARIES
Moreno Valley Harvey Walter Memorial services for Harvey Lewis Walter Jr., 72, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Acheson and Graham Garden of Prayer Mortuary in Riverside. He died Feb. 8 from complications of diabetes in Mexico. Friends may call from 4 until 9 p.m. Friday at the mortuary.Burial will be in Riverside National Cemetery.Mr. Walter, who was born in Cleveland, had lived in Moreno Valley 10 years. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree...
Mexico Friends: Missing FW man was jailed, says U.S. consulate in Mexico
MATAMOROS, Mexico -- Friends and family worried about the two-day disappearance of a Fort Worth man on spring break until they found him in jail accused of entering a home and terrorizing a family in this border city. "I remember going to a bar,' Tony Gross told the Brownsville Herald, "but I don't remember breaking into a house.' Friends said Mr. Gross, 20, had been drinking tequila shots Saturday in Matamoros, then took a walk after...