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Thursday, August 07, 2008

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      Your Support Is Much Appreciated
THE FAMILY OF IVA FRONABARGER wishes to thank everyone for your support during Mom's illness and ultimate death. We deeply appreciate your prayers, the cards, the phone calls and visits, the food and the contributions to the Stanley Union Church Building Fund.
       May God bless each of you.
       DAN AND NANCY SOWLE
       JERRY AND ROSEMARY FRONABURGER
       JUDY ALDERSON
       Stanley
       
       Recent Fundraiser A Major Success
THE EAST MOUNTAIN BLIZZARDS girls soccer team, members of the Albuquerque Girls Soccer Club (AGSC), would like to thank East Mountains residents for their generous support of our recent fundraiser. We would also like to thank the King Ranch for donating the quarter of a beef to the raffle. The Fingleton family was the lucky winner and will be looking forward to BBQ steaks soon!
       COACH TODD ALAM
       Tijeras
       
       Thanks For Help Through Incident
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE for all their wonderful, much appreciated help during and since the “incident” at our house on Skyline Drive on the evening of July 30:
       The Edgewood Fire Department (firemen, paramedics, EMTs) — we could never do without them.
       The employees of Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative — they were here right behind the fire department and worked all night, and returned the next day to finish up.
       Our new Edgewood Police Department — on the scene right away and staying the whole time.
       Country Gas for coming out late and handling a very dangerous job for hours.
       The electrician from ADGE Electric and Pumping Service who came to our house within a half hour, drove to Albuquerque, returned late in the evening and was here again early the next morning completing his work quickly and efficiently.
       We haven't mentioned specific names of anyone even though we knew many of those who were here. However, I have to mention our neighbor, James Davis (a National Guardsman) who reacted quickly, took charge, put out a fire near our spewing propane tank, helped my disabled husband out of our property to safety, (even James' father who was visiting helped in this endeavor), and helped everyone and everywhere he could. Without James Davis our neighborhood and our lives probably wouldn't be here now.
       THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL. It makes us proud to say we live in this neighborhood in Edgewood.
       GEORGE AND NANCY RILEY
       Edgewood
       
       Sales From Annual Event Raised a Lot
THE ANNUAL TORRANCE COUNTY 4-H POLITICAL DINNER/PIE AUCTION was held on July 19. Sixty-three pies were sold at an average of $50 each — with a total of $3,150 raised from the sale of the pies and a total $3,382 was raised including the meal sales.
       The 4-H members and their families would like to thank all of the buyers for supporting this great local, youth organization: Kris McNeil, US Representative Heather Wilson's Office, Commissioner LeRoy Candelaria, East Mountain Equine, Adkin's Farms, Ross Plumbing, Rick Lopez, Art & Dixie Swenka, Wilbanks Family, Taylor Smythe, Stephanie Chavez, Sheryl Kelly, Wayne & Randi Metzger, Brandon Fryar Family, Brian Austin Family, Mountainair Meds & More, Warren Metzger, Leonard Corliss Family, Eastview Electric, Estancia Small Animal Clinic, Corliss Show Lambs, Mark Covell Family, Vanessa Chavez, Gustin Hardware, Bruce Warren Family, Jerry & Rowena Metzger, Ronald Riley, Todd & Michelle Dunlap, Haley & Kayla Cook, Aday Farms, Joe Bishop, Carlos Chavez Family, Top House Trucking, Patsy Fitzgerald, and Metzger Show Pigs. Thanks to all of the families who provided pie!!!
       TORRANCE COUNTY 4-H
       Estancia
       
       Summer Fun Trips Necessary to Kids
WE JUST WANT TO SEND A HUGE THANK YOU out to everyone who is responsible for the reduced cost Summer Fun Trips that the Estancia Teens Need Teens program puts on every summer for us kids.
       This year they included Mountainair and Moriarty with the assistance of the Torrance County 4-H Office. These trips have been put on with the support and hard work of Audrey Rodriguez who started this tradition 10 years ago. Thanks Audrey!
       There are so many people to thank: Estancia Schools and the bus drivers; Shauna Branch, Estancia Middle School Principal; Tracey Master, Torrance County DWI Coordinator; the Torrance County Project Office, Norma, Norm and Gerri; Sudie in the 4-H Office; Alfonso Rodriguez; Alpine Alley Coffee Shop; Janera, Director of the Summer Food Program, and all of the parents and school staff who serve as chaperones. These trips wouldn't be possible without everyone's help.
       Thanks for giving us kids something to do during the summer. We are truly grateful and look forward to the fun activities during the school year and next summer!
       JOSEPH MOSELEY AND T'LAYNA WELLS
       Mountainair
       
       Reporter's Opinion Evident in Story
I TAKE EXCEPTION TO SEVERAL STATEMENTS and bias in the article “Regulator Says CNME Refunds May Be Illegal” (July 17, 2008). The article was about a PRC meeting on July 9 concerning complaints against CNMEC, our electric co-op.
       For example, this appeared: “some customers were sold specialized heating units to reduce their bills along with what seemed like the co-op's pledge not to raise its rates for electricity...”. Mr Snyder, a CNMEC customer at the meeting, handed out to everyone in the audience copies of three different documents written by CNMEC, at least one in their promotional literature to sell the units, which all stated, in print, that the co-op would raise rates only in a certain proportion. How can your reporter conclude that three printed co-op statements “seemed like the co-op's pledge...”? If you saw a company's ad which stated you would get a free iPod if you bought some product, would you read that as a definite promise or would you think giving you the iPod was optional on the company's part? Who, except perhaps your reporter, would think the latter?
       Next we read: “In the bills, it appeared that the co-op was overcharging those customers, violating the agreement, so the refunds were made.” How can your reporter say it “appeared” that the co-op overcharged? Mr. Snyder gave him all the documentation he needed to calculate, using only multiplication, not calculus, that the co-op charged rates which greatly exceeded what the co-op advertised to unit buyers that it would charge. Why else do you think that the customers who protested were given refunds of the overcharges which incredibly continued for two full years after the co-op CEO conceded that the rate was very incorrect? And next, we see the word overcharged put in quotes, which is tantamount to saying “so-called overcharges.”
       Finally, your reporter makes much of the level of attendance. Did he mention that this was the second meeting in Moriarty that the PRC conducted which addressed this issue? No. Did he mention the PRC had been asked by CNMEC customers to please have the next meeting on the same issue start after normal working hours so people would not have to take off from work to have their voices heard? No. Did he report that there was a second meeting because the first was standing room only? No. And that this second meeting started even earlier than the first? You can guess the answer.
       I do not understand why there was so much of the reporter's opinion in this piece. It contained so much slant against co-op customers that it should have appeared on an op-ed page.
       HONORIO ANDRES
       Edgewood
       
       Was That a Typo Or Something More?
“FROM OUT OF THE PAST, COMES THE THUNDERING HOOVES . . . . .” Ms. Walsh made an apparent faux pas in opening her recent letter (Telegraph, July 31, 2008) with the phrase “Mr. Johnson . . .” when obviously she meant “Mr. Thompson.” This may have been taken by readers as an unexplainable mental lapse or a Telegraph typo.
       I, on the other hand, was somewhat flattered by the fact that I am apparently still on her mind as a consequence of our (in)famous Walsh-Johnson political debates that appeared on these pages in 2006. It is possible she had that unsent diatribe of hate in her 'Drafts' folder from that time and missed changing all the “Mr. Johnson”s to “Mr. Thompson.” In any event, as I said in my final rebuttal then: “Sometimes the truth hurts.” (Telegraph Letter, 10/19/06).
       And, my closing rebuttal quote today is more up to date: “When the whole nation's law-making process is controlled by a single maniacal undemocratic Democrat (Pelosi), that is a dictatorship.”
       KEN JOHNSON
       Sandia Park
       

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