The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from April 2000

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from April 2000

Memories of war.
April 29, 2000... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 For South Vietnamese who have settled in Albuquerque, this weekend's 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War brings a flood of memories, both painful and bittersweet Hieu...

Police union agrees to third contract offer.
April 29, 2000... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 Albuquerque police have voted to accept the city's third contract offer, saying that it's not all they had hoped for but that it's also time to move on for now. Officers...

Kicked back in cowboy boots, Gore answers passel of questions.
April 29, 2000... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 Most of those gathered outside of Albuquerque's Jackson Middle School gym waiting for Al Gore's town-hall meeting had come to hear what the vice president and presidential candidate had...

Memorial bike ride to honor organ donor.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A memorial bike ride to commemorate a 12-year-old Albuquerque girl who saved the lives of numerous other children when she died will be held Sunday. Quinn Sky Grano's parents decided to...

UNM sells sacred ground to Cochiti Pueblo.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com The University of New Mexico is negotiating the sale to Cochiti Pueblo of more than half of a 9,600-acre ranch UNM was given in 1964. The eastern portion of the Young Ranch, to be retained...

Changes to school ratings postponed.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 The state Board of Education has delayed a decision on how it would rate schools under a new statewide ranking system. The board met Friday in Los Lunas and debated the matter,...

Killer of NMSU coed sentenced to 92 years.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS CRUCES Jesse Avalos, convicted of the brutal 1998 murder of a New Mexico State University student, will spend the rest of his life in prison. A judge Friday sentenced Avalos, 27, to life in prison...

Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh added to Mesa Del Sol's inaugural season.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez tmobley@abqtrib.com / 823-3673 It's going to be a rocking and country summer at the yet-to-be-built Mesa Del Sol Amphitheatre. Administrators for the venue announced Friday that the long-rumored Bob...

Reunion plans ease pain after Vietnam exodus separated sisters.
April 29, 2000... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 Memories of war "I am just so excited to find them. And it is just so strange that we find them now, almost exactly 25 years later." Sarah Cochran, the former Thanh Nguyen who...

Lobos are loaded with talent, college analyst says.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Edgar Thompson ethompson@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 The longest-reigning college basketball recruiting analyst in the country said coach Fran Fraschilla has put together one of the best classes in the country. Bob Gibbons, who...

Starting QB vows to keep his job against challengers.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 Spring football practice is over for the University of New Mexico, but the quarterback questions will linger throughout the summer. Sean Stein and Rudy Caamano were the No. 1 and No. 2...

History not kind if Scorpions lose Game 2.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: STAFF REPORTS WPHL playoff history says the New Mexico Scorpions have to win tonight if they want to recover from a Game 1 shellacking and win a league title. In three previous league championship series, the team that won...

Giambi hits on Dukes in effort to play his way back onto A's roster.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 It's not just that Jeremy Giambi is happy to be swinging the bat well. He's actually happy just to be swinging the bat at all. Giambi began the season with the Oakland Athletics....

A few races like Long Beach and Castro-Neves will be out of the shadows.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Charles Googe Helio Castro-Neves has always been in someone's shadow. First, it was Tony Kanaan in Indy Lights. The two were teammates at Tasman Motorsports and battled during the 1997 season for top honors before Kanaan won...

Cooper leads Lobos to Rebel rout.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE University of New Mexico pitcher Chris Cooper threw a complete game and was aided by three home runs by the offense as the Lobos won 12-2 over UNLV on Friday at Lobo Field. The win improved...

Urlacher says he felt 'lost'on first day of minicamp.(Sports)
April 29, 2000... Byline: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Brian Urlacher could have used a map for his first day on the job for the Chicago Bears. Urlacher, the No. 1 draft pick of the Bears who already has been penciled in as the starter at linebacker, said...

Ruling:Fees on mutual-fund sales taxable.(Business)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Barry Massey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE Commissions or fees from the sale of mutual funds by a brokerage firm to customers in New Mexico are subject to the state's gross receipts tax, according to a potentially far-reaching...

N.M. 4 close to being closed by pueblo.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff and wire reports IN BRIEF LOS ALAMOS An Indian Pueblo's governing body is expected to decide Sunday whether to close N.M. 4, one of few roads providing access to Los Alamos. San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. Perry...

CRIME STOPPERS.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Fugitive of the week: Manuel Baca, 25, is wanted on charges of failure to comply with conditions of probation, which stems from previous charges of aggravated assault with a deadly...

CRIME STOPPERS.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff and wire reports Crime of the week: A Dunkin Donuts was robbed by a man who implied he had a weapon and forced the cashier down to the floor while he took the money and ran. The incident occurred Sept. 14 at the...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... *A story Thursday about the arrest of Ramon Baca, the suspect in a recent attempted murder, should have said that Baca is accused of stabbing another man in the chest at Brewster's Pub, 312 Central Ave. S.W. The Bernalillo County Sheriff's...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... *A quotation pulled out of a story about critical habitat in Wednesday's editions incorrectly listed the job title of Nancy Kaufman. Kaufman is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southwest Region director in Tucson. See story 04/26/00...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
April 29, 2000... *A story Thursday about a new hot line set up by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department that people can call with information on the May 29 East Mountain triple homicide should have given that number as 768-4087. The number printed...

New Mexico's vote more important than people may think, experts say.
April 29, 2000... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos GGALLEGOS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3670 The strategy map hanging in presidential candidate Al Gore's Tennessee campaign headquarters now has New Mexico in a different category a battleground to be reckoned with...

APS would consolidate offices under Allison plan.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 The superintendent has proposed buying the City Centre building in Uptown for $12.5 million. Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent Brad Allison needs four votes to...

Gore visit highlights wide circle of swing votes.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos GGALLEGOS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3670 Here's the target, the elusive "undecided" voter, that Vice President Al Gore is wooing while in Albuquerque tonight: It could be your neighbor, your kid's teacher, your boss or...

City Council weighs budget for police overtime.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 During Albuquerque police Lt. J.A. Schauer's 13 years on the graveyard shift, he worked numerous long nights, only to be told sometimes he would have to testify in court the next day. ...

Remembering Vietnam, a quarter century later.
April 28, 2000... CAPTION(S): PHOTO CAPTION PHOTO: Color PHOTO BY: Toby Jorrin/Tribune Philip Dixon, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, passes his hand over the 378-foot-long "Moving Wall," a traveling version of the Vietnam War Memorial in...

Landfill gas gives city a costly headache.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 An underground heap of old shoes, newspapers, batteries and diapers along Alameda Boulevard has city officials worried. The rotting junk buried in the Los Angeles landfill since 1978 is...

Kirtland laser project now ready for battle testing, officials say.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Lawrence Spohn lspohn@abqtrib.com / 823-3611 The U.S. Air Force's top project, the $1.4 billion anti-missile Airborne Laser Aircraft program based at Albuquerque's Kirtland Air Force Base, has passed its final internal technical...

Methane gas can be converted to energy.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 The methane gas seeping out of the Los Angeles landfill has caused an expensive settlement and a costly remediation project for the city. But it also has the potential to create a source...

Program would enforce gun penalties.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Beth Jergenson BJERGENSON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3671 A program that would enforce strict penalties for gun-toting criminals, first suggested to U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson by a Rio Rancho man, is gaining interest from law enforcement...

Prison expert to fix classification plan.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS LUNAS A national prison expert hired to revamp the state's system for deciding which inmates should be jailed at which prisons said he has never seen a classification system in such disarray. "I would...

Wackenhut prison in Hobbs passes federal review.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBBS A privately run Hobbs prison has been given a favorable review in an environmental assessment required for the housing of federal prisoners. A draft copy of the environmental assessment concluded...

State may take over schools that lag behind.
April 28, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS LUNAS Schools that have been placed on probation by the state as part of a new grading system would have to improve or face state control under a state Department of Education proposal. Failure to...

Santa Fe County drug cases on the rise.
April 28, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE While Rio Arriba County has received the most attention for its illicit drug problem, Santa Fe County saw its drug-related deaths nearly double from 1998 to 1999. Santa Fe County recorded 14...

Scorps see speed over brawn against their icebound siblings.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Sean McAfee smcafee@abqtrib.com / 823-3662 They share an owner, but little else. The New Mexico Scorpions and Shreveport Mudbugs begin their best-of-seven series for the WPHL President's Cup tonight in Shreveport knowing...

Lobos' new game plan.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 UNM will build its offense to fit the playmakers, not the other way around,says coordinator Dan Dodd, who'll design the system after tonight's Cherry-Silver game Rather than embedding...

Rio Rancho's 'program' has the look of a dynasty.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Richard Stevens The word dynasty did not roll off the tongue of Ron Murphy. The Rio Rancho High baseball coach chose the term "program." But when you consider the special circumstances, the tight-knit community, the one-horse...

Aside from irksome school, little keeps Stuart from court.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 School and tennis have been an odd pairing for Eldorado High School senior Eric Stuart. It's not that he isn't good at both he is. As a sophomore, Stuart didn't have trouble...

Lobos advance in MWC tennis.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE LAS VEGAS, Nev. The 46th-ranked New Mexico women's tennis team cruised past Wyoming and into the semifinals of the inaugural Mountain West Conference tournament. The second-seeded Lobos...

Slam to acquaint themselves with Las Vegas turf.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 The New Mexico Slam will try to get comfortable in the Thomas & Mack Center tonight. In addition to tonight's regular-season game, that's where the Slam will begin their IBL...

Cats walk to victory, thanks to distracted Dukes.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 It was fitting that the Sacramento River Cats scored the winning run against the Dukes after drawing a walk to lead off the ninth. The Dukes pitchers were giving away free passes the...

Oil and gas firm lays off 20 workers in Farmington.(Business)
April 28, 2000... Byline: OTHER BUSINESS NEWS By The Associated Press FARMINGTON A Texas-based oil and gas company that employs hundreds of workers in northwestern New Mexico has laid off nearly 20 workers due to reorganization. Mark Ellis, vice...

New artist makes music from and for the soul.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Trilby Davis tdavis@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 Eighty weeks on the top 25 of the charts. More than 200 shows a year. Lilith Fair appearances. Multiple awards. Christian artist Jennifer Knapp earned all this in response to her...

Healer learned how to absorb health from Earth.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Trilby Davis tdavis@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 On the face of it, to some, it sounds far-fetched. But Warren Grossman says it saved his life. Grossman was healed by the Earth. When Grossman and his wife returned home to Cleveland...

Oral traditions imbue performance by Magnifico! youth and seniors.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Trilby Davis tdavis@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 Believe it or not, there was life before video games, camcorders, CDs and books on tape. People talked with one another. People shared. But today, we don't often take advantage of...

Teen country singer isn't ready to give up her youth.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Trilby Davis tdavis@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 Part Dolly Parton, part Shania Twain, Jessica Andrews has a whiplash-sweet voice that slides easily between world-weary and wide-eyed. "In my blue world," she sings with a hard line...

Interim director named for Museum of N.M.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF Thomas H. Wilson has been named interim director of the Museum of New Mexico system. Wilson will take over May 1, replacing Thomas Livesay who resigned in April after 15 years as director of...

EDITORIALS.(Insight and Opinion)
April 28, 2000... Stick to real issues in APS superintendent dispute School board member Aggie Lopez demonstrated anew this week just why the board of which she is a member has difficulty winning broad-based community support for Albuquerque Public...

Albuquerque Academy will enter DOE contest.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A team of students from Albuquerque Academy will compete in the Department of Energy National Science Bowl on May 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C. They are one of 60 teams participating in the...

School bomb viewed as prank that went wrong.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF TUBA CITY, Ariz. Two students were charged today in two explosions at a Navajo Reservation high school that injured five people, an FBI spokesman said. Authorities characterized the explosions...

Allison delays decision on accepting or declining $10,000.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent Brad Allison said he's still not ready to accept or decline a $10,000 gift from anonymous business executives. He said he'll likely...

JC shooter picks Baylor over UNM.(Sports)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE The University of New Mexico women's basketball program lost out on the junior college player it was hoping to sign for next season. Carla Mathisen, a 3-point specialist from Grayson County...

Filmmakers win land, gear at Taos film festival.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF The Taos Talking Pictures Festival gave awards to two filmmakers at this year's event. Daniel Yoon won the 2000 Land Grant Award which has been called the art world's oddest prize for his film...

Anderson named director of state Indian museum.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF Duane Anderson has been named director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. The facility is part of the Museum of New Mexico system. Anderson was...

O'Keeffe Museum parts ways with state museum.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF After July 17, you won't be able to buy those nifty passes that you get into both the Museum of New Mexico and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. That's when a three-year deal that pooled the...

Catlett named head of Southwest Arts Festival.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF Patsy Catlett has been named executive director of the Southwest Arts Festival. Catlett was previously executive director of the Albuquerque Arts Alliance. She also owned an art gallery in...

Target gives $100,000 to theater company.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF The Target Foundation has given $100,000 to Shakespeare in Santa Fe, the state's only professional Shakespeare company. Target will give the theater company a $50,000 grant for two years to...

AT A GLANCE.(The Arts & Entertainment)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff reports ARTS IN BRIEF State rep: Taos artist Melissa Zink will represent the state of New Mexico at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Some of her mixed media assemblages will be exhibited in...

Trial delayed for teen accused in baby's death.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF The trial of a 15-year-old girl charged with suffocating her newborn infant and leaving it in a trash can has been rescheduled for June 21. The trial of Crystal Gebler was scheduled to...

Officer pleads no-contest in drug charge.(Local News)
April 28, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF ROSWELL A former Roswell police detective has pleaded no contest to two counts of drug possession. Michael Cooper entered the pleas Monday in state district court. A no-contest plea means...

Two board members want donors identified.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Two school board members are demanding that the anonymous donors who offered Superintendent Brad Allison a $10,000 annuity identify themselves to the public. Aggie Lopez and...

FROM LAGUNA FIELDS, A ROLE MODEL GROWS.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Susie Gran sgran@abqtrib.com / 823-3682 Sifting soil through her fingers has led the 1997 Miss Indian World on a humble mission Shayai Lucero of Laguna Pueblo didn't like getting her hands dirty until her mother took her...

Budget priorities revolve around dropout programs.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Preliminary discussion put the emphasis on more money for counselors and alternative schools, more school-level control and departmental reorganizations. Early indicators...

Fiber-optics-cable company protests city right-of-way fee.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 A company trying to put high-speed Internet access through New Mexico has hit another financial hurdle. The city of Albuquerque required Pathnet Inc. to pay $105,721.75 a year...

Downtown prepares for 10-day Six Flags festival.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib. com / 823-3623 Two dozen carnival rides have been erected in Downtown Albuquerque for Friday's beginning of a 10-day festival called Celebracion 2000. Produced as what they hope will become...

Judge shakes off state in disabilities lawsuit.(Local News)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A judge has rejected a state attempt to toss out a lawsuit alleging disabled New Mexicans are waiting up to nine years for some services they're legally entitled to. U.S. District Judge...

Census dodgers can expect home visit.(Local News)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 The truth is out there and starting today 3,400 people in New Mexico will be going door to door to find it. They are Census 2000 enumerators, and they hope, insofar as it's...

Gore to court undecided voters in visit to Albuquerque on Friday.(Local News)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Gilbert Gallegos GGALLEGOS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3670 VOTE 2000 Friday's presidential campaign stop in Albuquerque is being billed as a chance for undecided voters to get to know Vice President Al Gore, the likely Democratic...

Absentee voting begins today.(Local News)
April 27, 2000... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF While the primary election is more than a month away, the official start to voting starts today for people who want to use absentee ballots. The Bernalillo County Clerk's Office will start mailing absentee...

Vietnam memorial to be on display at Veterans' Park near Kirtland.(Local News)
April 27, 2000... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF The Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall will be on display at Albuquerque's Veterans' Park Friday through Sunday. The exhibit, which is a tribute to the 58,000 Americans who lost their lives during the Vietnam War,...

Firefighters get an early jumpon suspicious fires along bosque.
April 27, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A trio of suspicious fires popped up along the Rio Grande near Tingley Beach on a day when the high temperature tied the city record. Firefighters said they got a good jump on the fires Wednesday and were...

Two critics rarely vote, board member says.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 An Albuquerque Board of Education member has pointed out that voting records show two critics of the board and of the board election process rarely voted in recent school-board...

District expects final count to show drop in enrollment.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman The unit value is up, but student enrollment is down. That's the quick version of the 2000-01 APS budget, which is scheduled to come together in the next few weeks. For the 1999-2000 school year, the...

Supercomputing challenge.
April 27, 2000... The 2000 New Mexico High School Supercomputing Challenge held at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Wednesday attracted 350 entries from around the state. Competitors were judged in a variety of categories as they ran original programs on the...

Lee gets clearance to review evidence.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Leslie Hoffman LHOFFMAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3610 The most important person helping to build a defense for Wen Ho Lee is the defendant himself. After waiting some four months to review evidence in the government's case against...

Slain teens buried while accused shooter spends birthday in jail.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Pete Herrera The Associated Press LA VILLITA Next to a small grove of cottonwood trees in a valley filled with the sounds and signs of spring, Good Friday pilgrims Ricky Martinez and Karen Castanon are buried side-by-side. ...

Class of 2000.(Neighborhood Trib)
April 27, 2000... Years of hard work, of getting up and showing up.They earned their success. Tribune reporter Jan Jonas brings you . . . DELNORTE Kindness, deafness are his reality Phil Choneska doesn't spend time looking back. The future is...

JAN'S MAILBOX.(Neighborhood Trib)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Jan Jonas It's more good news about students today. Danielle Gonzales was named a Truman Scholar for the 2000-01 school year at George Washington University. She is the daughter of Jimmy Gonzales and Patricia A. Silva,...

Animal abuse, neglect can be a felony in New Mexico.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Jen Barol and Pasha In October 1997, in Pearl, Miss., Luke Woodham stabbed his mom to death, then shot and killed two classmates and injured seven others. In his diary, Woodham wrote that he and a friend beat, burned and tortured...

Bank of America buying electronic billing service.(Business)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports LOCAL & REGIONAL Bank Of America Corp. announced today it will acquire a 16 percent stake in CheckFree Holdings Corp. under an electronic billing and payment-services alliance between the companies. ...

Customers sue US West over service delays.(Business)
April 27, 2000... Byline: TODAY'S TOP STORY By The Associated Press SANTA FE A group of US West customers have filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against the company for allegedly failing to provide new and additional phone service in a timely...

Tourism bureau recognizes 'friendly city' achievers.(Business)
April 27, 2000... Byline: Sue Vorenberg SVORENBERG@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3678 The Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau this week honored outstanding service and support in the tourism industry. Each year, the Hospitality Awards recognize an...