PAGE 2A Saturday, June 8, 2002 Laredo Morning Times Car clubs work to help local children BY JAVIER BARROSO Times staff writer Orphaned Nuevo Laredo children living at the Ministerios De Amor shelter will benefit from a recent donation granted by two Laredo racing car clubs. Members of two local car clubs, Extreme Motor Sports and Street Warriors Racing Team, raised funds to help the children at the home. Ministerios De Amor, a Mexican non-profit organization dedicated to help orphaned children across the nation, will also hold a telethon at McAllen that will be broadcast live by Telemundo on June 16. Oasis of Love Ministries, a non-denominational church in Laredo, works with Ministerios De Amor so people on this side of the border can also help. Luis Fernando Ramirez Pesina, public relations officer for Ministerios, and Carlos Garza, Oasis’ pastor, received a donation of $1,700 from Extreme Motor Club and Street Warriors, two local racing car clubs. Garza said that the clubs’ donation will make a difference for the children at the orphanage. “They had some races the past weekend, and they called us because they wanted to do a fundraiser for the Ministerios De Amor,” he said. Ramirez said officials decided to open a Ministerios De Amor in Nuevo Laredo because there are many homeless children in this region. Children at the shelter receive education, food and clothes, and they stay there all year long. Ramirez said the facility is only accepting boys because there currently is not enough money to build a facility for girls, but acknowledged that it is very DAILY CALENDAR Saturday, June 8 The Kiwanis Summer Festival, sponsored by the Laredo Kiwanis Club, will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Texas A&M International University on the Campus Green. All family members are invited and the event is free. There will be food booths, stage dancers, arts and crafts, musical performances and children’s entertainment. For more information, call 7123338. Texas A&M International University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts (Dance Program) will offer an intermediate/advanced flamenco dance workshop with Rogelio Rodriguez, free and open to the public, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Center. Participants must be at least 13 years old. The event is provided in part by funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts. For more information 326-2625. Take a walk on the wild side. Visit the Lamar Bruni Vergara Environmental Science Center on the Laredo Community College campus and explore the various education and native specimen exhibits of the Rio Grande ecosystem. The center, located on the north side of the campus, is open Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 for children and senior citizens and $4 for adults. For more information, call 764-5701. Sunday, June 9 Texas A&M International University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts (Dance Program) will continue the intermediate/advanced flamenco dance workshop with Rogelio Rodr’guez, free and open to the public, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Student Center. Participants must be at least 13. The event is provided in part by funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts. For more information, 326-2625. Monday, June 10 The Blessed Sacrament Church Altar Society will meet at 3:30 p.m. at the Parish Hall. Hostesses include Angela Bruni, Thelma Cantu, Chelo Gallego, Berta Garza, and Enriqueta Perales. The National Association of Retired Federal Employees will hold their monthly social meeting at 11:30 a.m. in the Holiday Inn, 800 Garden St. Laredo Community College launches early registration for Summer Session II through June 20. Students who are eligible to self advise for classes can register through LCC’s telephone enrollment system by dialing 721-5100 on a touch-tone phone. The SS II class schedule is available online at www.laredo.edu. For more information, call 7215109. Laredo Community College will hold late registration for Kids and Teens College today and Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Eloy Garcia Building, room 3. Parents can register their children, ages 4 to 15, in a variety of academic and personal enrichment courses, including a new mural painting class. Course fees vary. The three-week session will be from June 10-28. For more information, call 721-5374. The Laredo Community College Kinesiology Department invites parents to enroll their children in the first annual Palomino Sports Camps for ages 5 and up. The second two-week session begins June 17. The camp fee is $55 per participant. For more information, call 721-5326. needed. “Our mission is to give shelter to as many children as possible. We would like to have an orphan house for girls, too, but our funds here on the border do not allow us to do so,” he said. Ramirez said the telethon is yet another effort to raise money for the organization. “The telethon is going to be hosted by Jonny Canales, and all the bands that are going to participate will give a donation for our organization. The funds will be taken to all the Ministerios De Amor across the country,” he said. Garza said there are already many interested in helping the organization, but still want more people and other organizations are needed. “We are trying to get other entities that are already involved in missions to come and see (Ministerios De Amor), and hopefully they will want to get involved with it,” he said. “We would be more than glad to show people what we do in Nuevo Laredo before they get involved.” Garza said a lot of people do not know that donors will be able to deduct their donations from their taxes. For more information on Ministerios De Amor or other services that Oasis of Love offers, call 744-7775 or visit Oasis’ offices at 1000 Tesoro Lane. (Times staff writer Javier Barroso can be reached at 728-2582 or by e-mail at javier@lmtonline.com.) Times staff photo by CUATE SANTOS LOVE DONATION: Members of two local car clubs, Extreme Motor Sports and Street Warriors Racing Team, held a fund-raising event and raised $1,700 for the Oasis of Love Church and the Ministerios de Amor Orphanage in Nuevo Laredo. From left, are Carlos Garza, Gerardo Maldonado, Christoper Cremar, Dan Cremar and Luis Ramirez. Donato Cantu is president of the Street Warriors Racing Team. DAILY ACCESS PUBLIC ACCESS TV FRIDAY’S WINNING NUMBERS TEXAS 2-STEP CASH 5 PICK 3 9, 12, 28, 33, 15 6, 10, 22, 24, 28 5, 3, 5 By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, June 8, the 159th day of 2002. There are 206 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 8, 632, the prophet Mohammed died. On this date: In 1845, Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn. In 1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union. In 1876, author George Sand died in Nohant, France. In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1942, Bing Crosby recorded “Adeste Fideles” and “Silent Night” in Los Angeles for Decca Records. In 1967, 34 U.S. servicemen were killed when Israeli forces raided the Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel called the attack a tragic mistake.) In 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery. In 1982, President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. In 1995, U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose F-16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2. Ten years ago: Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev met in Washington to try to pave the way for a new round of strategic arms cuts. Five years ago: Irish Prime Minister John Bruton conceded narrow defeat in national elections to opposition leader Bertie Ahern. One year ago: A knife-wielding man killed eight children at a Japanese elementary school. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party swept to a second term, winning re-election by a crushing margin. Today’s Birthdays: Former President Suharto of Indonesia is 81. Former First Lady Barbara Bush is 77. Actor-comedian Jerry Stiller is 75. Actress Dana Wynter is 72. Comedian Joan Rivers is 69. Actress Millicent Martin is 68. Actor James Darren is 66. Actor Bernie Casey is 63. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 62. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 60. Musician Boz Scaggs is 58. Actor Don Grady is 58. Rock musician Mick Box (Uriah Heep) is 55. Actress Sonia Braga is 52. Actress Kathy Baker is 52. Country musician Tony Rice is 51. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 49. Actor Griffin Dunne is 47. “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is 45. Actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans is 44. Singer Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) is 42. Musician Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) is 40. CHANNEL 3 Rio Grande: La Frontera 8 p.m. United High School Graduation Pt. 1 9 p.m. United High School Graduation Pt. 2 CHANNEL 8 7 p.m. Colonel Santos 5th Grade Graduation Pt. 1 7:54 p.m. Colonel Santos 5th Grade Graduation Pt. 2 8:30 p.m. U.I.S.D. 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