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TRAFFIC

Accident involving livestock

halts Hwy 90 intersection
BY RUBÉN CANTÚ
ruben.cantu
@delrionewsherald.com
Traffic backed up
Courtesy photo Wednesday night on
From left to right: Robert Martinez, Bradley Barrera, U.S. Highway 90 East,
Micaela Cabello, Clarissa Ponce, Stefania Alarcon and near the Bowie Street
Timmothy A. Sanchez attend the Austin Film Festival intersection, at the
and Screenwriting Conference held Oct. 25-26. railroad underpass.
The traffic jam was
EDUCATION caused by an accident
involving vehicles and
Media tech students livestock.
The city of Del Rio
issued a Nixle alert,
warning drivers of the
closed lanes and slow
moving traffic at 8:35
p.m.
“Due to accident, cit-
izens are advised lanes
closed and traffic mov-
ing slowly on Highway
90 East and the rail-
road underpass,” the
alert reads.
The accident, ac-
cording to the notice, The intersection
involved several vehi- is the same where a
cles and livestock, and two-vehicle collision
encouraged drivers to occurring on May
find alternatives to this 21 left one man dead
intersection, and to and two individuals
use caution if passing injured. That night,
through. a 1998 Isuzu Rodeo
Some eastbound coming out of the
drivers took U.S. High- underpass was trying
way 277, then State to incorporate to U.S.
Loop 79, and continued Highway 90, did not
on U.S. Highway 90
East. See ACCIDENT Page 3A

learn from film experts CEMETERY

BY ATZIMBA MORALES
atzimba.morales
@delrionewsherald.com

The San Felipe Del

and Roberto Rodriguez
accompanied the stu-
dents.
According to the
press release, the stu-
Keeping history alive
Rio Consolidated Inde- dents attended panels
pendent School District on screenwriting, struc-
Media and A/V Produc- ture, plot and character
tion students attended development. The stu-
the Austin Film Festi- dents also participated
val and Screenwriting in the Young Filmmak-
Conference to learn tips ers Pitch session.
from experts in the film On Oct. 25, Clar-
industry. issa Ponce, Robert
The students attend- Martinez, Timmothy
ed through the Austin Sanchez and Stefania
Film Festival Young Alarcon each pitched
Filmmakers Scholar- a script they had been
ship Program. Each developing to industry
student applied to the writers, James V. Hart,
festival and was award- Cindy McCreery, Emily
ed a conference badge Zulauf and Charmaine
to attend panels and DeGrate.
screenings at the festi- The pitch sessions
val, the school district gave the students the
announced in a release. opportunity to receive
The film festival took feedback and learn
place from Oct. 25-26. more about the art of
Career and Techni- selling a screenplay,
cal Education media according to the press
instructors and Media release.
Tech Club sponsors, Photo by Karen Gleason
Jessica Guanajuato See FILM Page 3A Mario Vazquez is a volunteer who has been working on recording all of the marked graves inside the San Felipe
Cemetery. But Vazquez said he needs help and is asking prospective volunteers to meet him at the cemetery
at 9 a.m. Saturday.
HOLIDAYS
Feast of Sharing expected Graves registration project volunteer needs help
to serve over 6,000 meals BY KAREN GLEASON
karen.gleason
A cool autumn
breeze blew through
shaking his head.
Vazquez said he
in south Del Rio, is still
being used.
STAFF REPORT ago, and it’s really at @delrionewsherald.com the cemetery as believes the San Felipe For many years, the
news the heart of who we Vazquez began his Cemetery was first cemetery had a dedi-
@delrionewsherald.com are as a company,” Mario Vazquez looks cataloging session on used in the 1930s. cated caretaker, Jesus
said Linda Tovar, up from the clipboard Wednesday, soughing “I think it was 1934, “Jesse” Cardenas, who
The holidays are H-E-B senior manager he’s holding and stares through the upright when they stopped us- took care of the grounds
a precious time for of public affairs, bor- out over the fields of branches of the cy- ing the old cemetery,” and whose knowledge
H-E-B. It’s a time to der region. graves in Del Rio’s presses and ruffling the he said, referring to an about who was buried
give thanks to our cus- “The Feast of Shar- historic San Felipe fabric petals of flowers even older cemetery to where was encyclope-
tomers, and a time to ing gives us a won- Cemetery. left on gravesites from the south, El Cemente- dic. But much of that
bring family, friends derful opportunity to For two years, the recent Día de los rio De La Loma De La knowledge died with
and neighbors bring the Del Vazquez has labored, Muertos observations. Cruz, the Cemetery of Cardenas, and Vazquez
together for Rio communi- mostly alone, to try and He gestured in the the Hill of the Cross. said there is no perma-
what’s become ty together to catalog all of the marked direction of the graves. The San Felipe nent record of who is
a beloved break bread, graves in the cemetery “There’s no record Cemetery, located off buried where.
annual tradi- 27th FEAST enjoy one an- but now, he said, he of people that are Brodbent Avenue in
OF SHARING
tion and Del other’s compa- needs some help. buried here,” he said, the Barrio San Felipe See GRAVES Page 3A
Rio’s highlight ny, and get the
of the Holiday Season holiday season off to a
– the H-E-B Feast of beautiful start here in IMMIGRATION
Sharing. South Texas.”
This year’s event During the free com-
will take place on Sat- munity event, hun-
Border Patrol agents disrupt seven smuggling attempts
urday, Nov. 16, from dreds of volunteers STAFF REPORT 11 smugglers and 27 Patrol Agent farther into the
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the serve a feast to more news illegal aliens were Raul L. Ortiz. United States.”
Del Rio Civic Center than 6,000 Del Rio res- @delrionewsherald.com arrested. “Our agents, On Nov. 3,
located at 1915 Veter- idents and surround- “Human smugglers through supe- Brackettville
ans Boulevard. ing communities. The U.S. Border Patrol demonstrate a com- rior commu- Station agents
“Giving back to the menu includes turkey agents assigned to the plete disregard for the nication and encountered
community is what with gravy, cornbread Del Rio Sector dis- welfare of those they teamwork, were a 2019 Dodge
H-E-B was founded on rupted eight separate smuggle in their selfish able to stop these Caravan on
more than 114 years See FEAST Page 3A smuggling attempts quest for profit,” said smugglers and illegal
last weekend, in which Del Rio Sector Chief aliens from going See SMUGGLING Page 3A

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GRAVES HOMELESSNESS
From Page 1A
Texas governor opens homeless
Vazquez never met
Cardenas, as Vazquez
left Del Rio after gradu-
campsite amid feud with Austin
ating from high school. BY PAUL J. WEBER about a “war on the $14 million for a news
He lived and worked in AND CLARICE SILBER poor.” shelter that could sleep
California for 71 years, Associated Press President Don- up to 300 people.
and his adventures, ald Trump began a “Our goal is to make
including a meeting AUSTIN – Texas’ trip to California in Austin safer while also
with the President of Republican governor September saying he providing better alter-
the United States in the said Thursday he is would do something natives to the home-
Oval Office, are re- creating a homeless about homelessness less,” Abbott tweeted
counted in his autobi- campsite on state land but offered no spe- Monday, when he
ography, “Mario From in the capital of Aus- cifics. He said cities directed crews to begin
the Barrio.” tin, escalating a battle like Los Angeles and clearing out homeless
Vazquez returned with the city’s liberal San Francisco can’t encampments under
to his hometown two leaders over people “destroy themselves Austin bridges and
years ago and began living on the streets. by allowing what’s overpasses.
working on the graves Greg Abbott’s an- happening.” Austin’s homeless
registration project nouncement was met But in Texas, Abbott population is more
soon after. He said the with a mix of muted has turned his attacks than 2,200, a number
project is important to welcoming and ac- on his own backyard. that has ticked up
him for a number of cusations of political The homeless in Aus- slightly over the past
reasons. posturing from Dem- tin grew more visible two years. Austin
“People come in from ocrats who run the after Mayor Steve Mayor Steve Adler
out of town. They may Photo by Karen Gleason state capital around Adler and city leaders said the state’s tem-
have moved from here Mario Vazquez checks his map of the sections in the the Texas Governor’s decriminalized camp- porary camping area
long ago. Their parents San Felipe Cemetery before he begins his work on a Mansion, where Ab- ing in public places, “can be construc-
or grandparents lived comprehensive registry of the gravesites located there. bott has spent months which Abbott slammed tive” but emphasized
here, then they died, lashing out at the city’s as reckless and a that the focus would
and they were buried in the Pacific theater, as the date of birth and homelessness problem threat to public safety remain permanent
here. Now they come Vazquez said. the date of death. on Twitter. downtown. housing.
back from California He also has family So far, Vazquez has The plans to convert He shared videos on State Rep. Eddie
or Illinois or wherever members buried in recorded information 5 acres of state land on Twitter that he said Rodriguez, a Democrat
to see the graves, and the cemetery, includ- for 1,682 graves from 12 the outskirts of down- captured the dangers whose Austin district
there’s no record. No- ing his grandparents, of the 23 sections, but town into a campsite of the city’s new policy, includes the new
body recorded where who came to Del Rio he said he needs help in also drew the attention some of which were homeless campsite,
people were buried,” he during the Mexican completing the work. of national advocates old and criticized said he welcomed the
said. Revolution; his mother “People do not seem for homeless, who as misleading. One state’s help but saw no
Vazquez, 91, knew and father, two of his interested, but what I couldn’t recall another video Abbott tweeted long-term solution.
many of the people brothers. have done has proven state ever making such featured a man whose “I know politics
buried in the cemetery. For Vazquez, the very valuable to date,” a move. attorney later said when I see it, and that’s
He said he remembers graves registration he said, noting the “Outside of the na- wasn’t homeless and what it seems like to
many of their stories. project is a labor of love work he has done so far tional disaster context, suffered from mental me,” Rodriguez said.
He recounted the and homage to the San is archived at the Val I’m not aware of any illness. “There’s no love lost
horrific tale of the Felipe neighborhood Verde County Library state setting up an en- Abbott spokes- between the governor
murder of two sisters,
a teacher and a nurse.
where he was born and
raised.
and at the Whitehead
Memorial Museum.
campment like this,” man John Wittman
said Eric Tars, legal di- said the campsite
See
and the city of Austin.”

He also touched on the He began by creating But, he admits, there rector for the National in on the city’s east something
See something
story of a San Felipe a rough map of the cem- is still much to do, and Law Center on Home- side will have por- interesting?
interesting?
teenager who was etery and sectioning it he is asking for help lessness & Poverty in table restrooms and
somehow able to enlist into lettered segments. from the public. Washington. hand-washing stations.
in the Navy at the start He further divided the Vazquez is asking for Like other fast-grow- He said it will also pro-
of World War II. By segments into num- anyone interested in ing cities in the U.S., vide access to home-
the time authorities bered grids. helping him with the Austin has struggled less case workers and
discovered he was only Vazquez is now in project to join him at with homelessness as healthcare providers Call to
We want thehear
Delfrom
Rio you
15 and shipped him the process of going the cemetery at 9 a.m. housing costs skyrock- until a new permanent regarding ideas for the
News-Herald at
back to his family in through each of the Saturday. For more et. On Wednesday, Las sheltering opens. Crime Page.
the barrio, the young grids and painstakingly information about the Vegas made sleeping City business lead-
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us an email at
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FILM
Turkey Basket
morning news show, screened at the Galaxy
as well as heard pro- Highland Theatre.
From Page 1A fessional interviews According to the

Giveaway!
conducted on set at the press release, the stu-
Writers, directors InterContinental Ste- dents commented on
and producers such as phen F. Austin Hotel, the different insights
Craig Mazin, Hannah according to the press and lessons, while
Leder, Zak Hilditch, release. hoping to return the
Jon Cozart and Sofia The group also had following year.
Alvarez shared person- the opportunity to The Media and A/V
al stories and industry see what other high Production program
challenges with the school filmmakers, is a part of Career and
students. from across the nation, Technical Education.
The students also had produced this The students’ work can
viewed and experi- year during the Young be found online in the
enced a live taping of Filmmakers Showcase. school district’s You-
the “We Are Austin” The productions were Tube page.

FEAST sive, large-scale feast

of this size is no easy
medley, 12,000 slices of
pumpkin pie and 12,000
From Page 1A feat. It takes an army of rolls.
volunteers to prepare The H-E-B Feast of
dressing, mashed 3,000 pounds of turkey Sharing dinners were
potatoes, a vegetable breast, 2,500 pounds of founded in 1989 and
medley and dessert. cornbread dressing, today, 35 dinners across
Guests enjoy live enter- 140 gallons of gravy, Texas
tainment and a variety 380 gallons of mashed and in Mexico, with
of activities throughout potatoes, 95 gallons of more than 250,000
the day. jellied cranberry sauce, meals, are served to
Preparing for a mas- 220 gallons of vegetable communities.

SMUGGLING Springs Station agents,

assigned to the immi-
fraudulent statement.   
Additionally, agents
From Page 1A gration checkpoint on arrested a total of
Highway 277, encoun- seven smugglers and 21
Ranch Road 674, near
Brackettville. Two U.S.
tered a 2010 Chevrolet
Impala driven by a
illegal aliens from the
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ACCIDENT GMC Yukon, according

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