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Wedne esday
NEWS
Alt Time
SCRIPTURF
bate over debts and child ushered • ugh the Statehouse
POLICE i OG FOR JULY 3 5
Arrests
Monday
Soy milk ? Even federal agencies can’t agree on terminology
See MILK
Tuesday
STATE BRIEFS
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2ml
slain sherifl s deputy
CONTACT US
US schools rethink meal-debt
policies that humiliate kids
appointed time
show even gov.....nt ager
haven’t always agreed on what to
call such drinks
The U.S Department of
Agriculture “fervently" wanted
to use the term “soy milk" in
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1 21 a.m . Burglary,
14 E Commerce St
5:56 a.m., Ambulance
service 2600 Cedar
Creek Drive
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M idents
Monday
By Candice Choi
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Samantha I ucero
failure to stop and
remain at the scene of
in accident
Wednesday
Jesus Mic hael Perez,
40 first degree burglary
Gary Don Smith, 58
speeding.
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Isaac James Hughes
2 failure to pay or
appear.
( arlos Alberto Saldi
var, 23, damage to prop
erty
porary grace per id for students
to keep eating cafeteria food while
debt payments are nt gotiated
with parents
has been proposed for next year s
House appropriations bill that
would set minimum standards
to prote ! hildren from public
embarrassment and leave them
out f payment discussions
New Mexico’s Hunger-Free
Students Bill f Rights Act was
$4 000
seholds with slightly
higher incomes that are more like
Children often bear the brunt
id meal accounts A 2014
fe al report found 39 percent
its nationwide hand out
ternative meals with no
nutritional requirements and up
to 6 percent refuse to serve sti
dents with no money
Me anwhile, some states are
taking matters into their own
hands, with New Mexico this
year becoming the first to outlaw
school meal shaming nd several
others weighing similar laws
Free and reduc ed pric ( meals
funded by the Agric ulture Depart
ment’s National S hool Lunch
Pre gram shield the nation’s poor
est hildren from st called lunch
shaming Kids can eat for free it
.i family of four earns less than
about ' 32,000 a year or at a is
count if earnings are
and requires that hildren get a
healthy, balanced meal regardless
of whether debts are paid on time
Elsewhere, the ( California Sen
ate in May unanimously approved
a bill that prevents v hools from
for the
public according to emails
recently released in response to a
lawsuit. That irked the Food and
bite. 1200 E Pecan St
7 38 p m.. Fireworks
illegal, Jacksor and
Hightower streets
7:57 p.m., Warrants
203 Victory St
8:02 p.m., Ambulance
service, 2810 Cedar
Creek Drive
- 4 p.m Fireworks
illega 512 Peacock
8:16 p.m.. Assault and
batter; I N Mair
St
8:24 p.m., Reckles
driving Olga and \lar
tha streets
9:58 p.m Fire 1601
S Park I an
10:23 p.m., Fight,
1601 S Park Lane
10:35 p.m., Accident
with no injurie 2728 N
Main St.
Wednesday
The Gospel of Matthew 8 28 34
When Jesus came to the territory of the
Gadarenes,
two demoniac s who wen coming from the
tombs met him
They wer so .one could travel
by that road
They crie n you to do with us
Son of God
Have yi nt us before the
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3:32 a.m., Domestic
disturbance, 1300 block
Springheld Street
1 39 a.m., Domestic
disturbance Altus Nir
Force Base
9:09 a.m., Animal
stray dog, 1404 Inis St
9:35 a.m Burglary,
1501 S Park Lane
12 p.m Fireworks
illegal, 509 \ Jac kson
St
1:13 p.m l arceny,
13 N Grady St
2 22 p m., K 9 vehicle
earch, 509 S. Main St
4:02 p.m., Warrants
08 N Forrest St
4 5 p.m., Lar en
. ■ * N Main St
7:14 p.m Missing
person, 2600 Cedar
C ret k Drive
43 p.m Par tan
dling 00 N Main St
9:16 p.m., Fireworks
illegal, 1000 block Box
St rer
10:07 p.m., Loud
inusual noise, 500 block
North Jackson Street
Tuesday
8:00 a.m .( heck
welfare, 1412 Vicksburg
Circle
10:13 a m., Animal
stray dog 1009 Dollar
St
10:45 a.m., Domestic
disturbance, 1000 block
Fast Sycamore Street
1 43 p.m Hara
ment, 303 E Pe an St
1 59 p.m . Fire, Davis
and Springfield street
2:58 p.m., Larceny,
509 S Main St
6 40 p.m Fireworks
illegal East Stephanie
Lane
6:42 p.m Animal
delinquent ac ounts and ensure
YOU ULVC US OUI, 04 US UI1(O herd O1
And he said to them, Go then!"
They came out and entered the swine,
and the whole herd rushed down the steep
bank into the sea
w here they drowned
T he swineherds ran aw
and whe 1 th town they reported
everything
- i to the demoni
aCS
There pon hole town one out to meet
Jesus.
and when they saw hir they begged him to
lease their district
Thresa Thomas, a I os Ange
les Unified School Distr it food
service worker for students with
severe pt ■ sic al and learning d
abilities grinds up complimen
tary cheest sandwiches in a food
processor to serve through feed
ing tubes to students wh ion’t
bring lunch and whose parent
have n it paid
"They’re not able to complain
too much " she sai I. “We sh
give them all the same food and
we should collect the money as
much s possible
Texas recently adopted a ten
mit has spilled into stall
legislatures and reached Capitol
Hil hild advocacy groups
question whether schools should
be allowed to single out, in any
way, a ( hild wh se family has not
paid tor meals
There s no limit to the bad
behavior a school can have They
just have to put t in writing
said Jennife r R "jo exec utive
director of New Mexico Apple
seed, an advocacy group on pov
erty issues We live in a credit
society I think schools should
handle debt like everybody else
does You don’t take away t ood
from hildren You feed the and
you settle the hill later '
Spurred by Appleseed and oth
ers. New Mexico in April passed
its anti meal shaming law which
dm • ’s s. hools to work dire . tly
by Democrati Ser Michael
Padilla, who was raised in foster
he i d vivid n alls having
weep and p the lunc hroom
to earn meals at an Albuquerque
public school
“It’s shouldn’t be that way,"
Padilla said. This should not
t be a thought lor a i hild
O subsidies feed two
.....dents statewide
t meals st go unpaid, X hool
administrators say
The pic • that is really differ
legislation is that you
t turr hild away no mat
said Nancy
A' versees food servid
■ at Las Cruces Public Schools
at provision is likely to drive
p the district’s unpaid meal
accounts which recently totaled
$8 00 I said The district
declined to serve high
school students who cannot pay
and extended a $25 credit to
middle S( hoolers
Most districts aim to keep meal
osts close to $3.20, the typical
federal reimbursement rate for
The Albuquerque district is still
we . . whether it can afford F>
erve the same hot meal to all stu
lents and do away with an alter
native cold meal that has been
nicknamed derisively the “cheese
sandwich of shame
Sian McC ull g 1 Albuquer
que said her stepdaughter was
confronted in first grade with an
alternative brown bag lunc h wher
their meal i. unt went unpaid
The intent was We do this
because the kids will go home
embarrassed and send the
money, she said "It just didn’t
sit well with me
encouraging schools to work mon with parents to addre s payments
losely with parents to address
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By Morgan Lee
in ( Oklahoma speaks out
GUTHRIE, Okla (AP) — The family of a slam
sheriff s deputy in central I Oklahoma has spoker
mt about their loss and announced their support
in seeking the death penalty for the man ac used
of killing him
David James Wade 40 was shot while serving
an eviction notice in Mulhall on April 18. 1 he
Oklahoman (http bit.ly 219mK6s ) reported He
died from his injuries that day
Forty five year old Nathan Lar n I eForce is
charged with first degree murder, first degree
robber; and larceny of a motor vehicle. Logan
Count; District Attorney Laura Austin Thomas
says shes seeking the death penalty in the case
Let there he no question that we full; support
District Attorney Thomas’s decision to pursue
the death penalty," said Jerry Wade David
Wade’s brother "I have every faith that the justice
system will deliver what my brother and those
left behind missing him rightfull; deserve The
se ales Will be weighed and evil will reap what it
has sowed
About two dozen of Wade’s family members
attended a news conference outside the sheriff s
offic e Sunday morning
"I can speak for my entire family when I
tell you the last couple of months have been
tremendously difficult for us," Jerry Wade said
"We ve been so inc redibly shocked by the loss
of David that most of us have been unable to
publicly talk about it "
David Wade enlisted in the Oklahoma National
Guard shortly after high school, and the brothers
were members of Company C of the 1st Battalion
179th Infantry Regiment They eventually served
together on a deployment to Bosnia in the 1990s
of a cafeteria line during breakfast
in Killeen, Texas as if trying to
hide
I he cash register woman says
to this 4-year-old girl, verbatim
You have no fl o ey. said Hob
1 scribing the in dent last year
\ milk carton was taken away, and
thee ’ nod was dumped in the
trash. "She did not protest, other
than to walk awa; in tears ’
Holt has joined a chorus of out
ge against nchroom practices
that can humiliate hildren as
ubli school districts acr ss the
ited St Jes rethink how they
ope with unpaid student lunch
debts
1 "> I S Agriculture Depart
ment is requiring districts to
adopt policies this month for
addressing meal debts and to
inform parents at the start of the
academic sear
The agency is not specific ally
barring most of the embarrass
ing tactics, sue h as serving cheap
sandwiches in place of hot meals
or sending students home with
onspic uous debt reminders,
such as hand stamps But it is
Shootout at Tulsa
fireworks stand
TULSA, Okla. (AP) The Tulsa County Sheriff’s
Office says one person is de ad after a shootout at I
fireworks stand on the Fourth of July
Ihe sheriff s office says the shootout happened
after two young males' tried to rob the fireworks
stand Tuesday in west Tulsa Deputy Justin Green
sass both the suspec ts and the owners of the fire
works stand bad guns, and shots were exc hange d
before the suspects drove off in a truck
Green says that moments later a 911 caller report
ed seeing a mail slumped over in a green true k not
far from the fireworks stand Green says deputies
found a young man who’s believed to be one of the
robbery suspects - dead from a gunshot wound
Authorities are sear thing for the sex ond suspec I
involved in the robbery
Water leak prompts shutdown
of ( Oklahoma City shopping mall
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An Oklahoma City
mall was shut down Tuesday after a water leak flood
ed parts of the shopping center’s lower level
Ihe water leak happened Tuesday at Penn Square
Mall The Oklahoma Cits Fire Department says
about 3 to 5 inches of water was on the ground in a
Marvs department store
I rews searched the mall to find the source of the
leak, and the department says the water was shut off
at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday The mall was shut down
so crews could clean up the mess
• Oklahoma C its television station KFC )R reports
(http bit ly 2tJceDR ) that many shoppers posted
photos online that showed water throughout much of
the mall's lower level.
children don’t go hungry
"Rather than a hand stamp on
a kid to say, I need lunch money,
send an email or a text message
t' ■ I ire ’ said Tinai V cni.li it nyinglunch if a parent ,
who oversees the federal agency’s guardian has not paid
s hool meals policy branch
NEW YORK Dairy farmer
want l S regulators to banish the
term "soy milk " but documents
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