Mexico Friends: Officers search for UT student who disappeared in Matamoros
U.S. and Mexican officers continued the search Thursday night for a University of Texas student from Galveston County who disappeared early Tuesday after a spring-break drinking foray in Matamoros, Mexico. Friends of premed student Mark Kilroy - a 1986 honors graduate of Santa Fe High School who turned 21 this month - told authorities they lost track of him as they headed toward the Gateway International Bridge back to Brownsville, The Associated Press reported.``We had come out of (the...
Mexico Friends: CHELSEA
Maria T. Alcazar,28, died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, in a auto-truck accident on Highway 30 north of Belle Plaine. Services and burial will be at a later date in Tizapan el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. today at Hrabak Funeral Home, Belle Plaine. Survivors include her husband, Miguel; a son, Miguel, at home; her parents, Jose and Maria Chavarria of Mexico; four brothers, Jorge Chavarria of Chelsea and Javier, Antonio and Federico Chavarria, all of Tizapan el Alto,...
Mexico Friends: MARGARET SPATES, POWERHOUSE MOM,
TIRELESS BENEFACTOR OF UNDERPRIVILEGED IN MEXICO ALSO HELPED FOUND LOCAL SCHOOL
Margaret Eliza Spates was a gentle, reserved woman, but friends say her quiet manner belied her energy. The devoutly religious mother of five was a powerhouse, home-schooling her five children, helping to found King's Academy in Cupertino, opening her home to teen gatherings and cooking for hundreds of volunteers during the annual school mission trips to Mexico. Friends say Mrs. Spates' death on Monday from leukemia, at 47, has left a huge void in both her home and...
Mexico Friends: Lunches launch Mexican relief effort
It started as a way for men from an Antioch church to get together as friends for potluck Taco Tuesday lunches. But three years later, the group is no longer just church-based, or male-based, and has evolved into the Mexico Friends Forum aimed at helping disadvantaged children in Mexico. "We decided we wanted to have a cause, so we weren't just talking about `us' and `we,'" said Dave Wennstrom, 78, of Antioch, a retired...
Mexico Friends: Book on Sandias Expected in 2005
News Briefs New Mexico Friends of the Forest recently raised $3,300 in a fund-raising raffle to help with the cost of publishing the "Field Guide to the Sandias." The comprehensive book, to be co-published by Friends of the Forest and UNM Press, is expected to be ready in spring 2005. It will be the first-ever single guide to provide an overview of the diverse features specific to the Sandia Mountains, with complete sections on flora and fauna,...