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Progress times Vol. 47 - #28
Friday, March 8, 2019
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Palmview Crime Stoppers
Photo courtesy of La Joya ISD Public Relations.
District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez with some Juarez-Lincoln students following his talk with them about the warning signs of teen dating and domestic violence. Citing a lack of a stable relationship with them, the Palmview city council announced they will start looking into developing a new Palmview Crime Stoppers Program.
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Agua SUD vehicle spotted in game room
A director with the Agua Special Utility District admitted to being the man responsible for parking a vehicle with the utility district in a game room in Zapata County.
DA Rodriguez returns to Juarez-Lincoln High School to speak on teen dating violence By Jamie Treviño Four years after starting Young Hearts Matter at Juarez-Lincoln High School, Criminal District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez returned to give a new group of students some insight about the warning signs of teen dating violence. Rodriguez began the Young Hearts Matter campaign with Rosie Martinez, a Victims Coordinator with Hidalgo County. It was created in order to bring awareness on the issue of teen dating violence to young people
across the Rio Grande Valley. “Just last month, we were able to go to 32 schools,” Rodriguez said. “That all started here.” The first Young Hearts Matter 2K Walk, held four years ago, was hosted at Juarez-Lincoln High School in the La Joya Independent School District. Rodriguez and Martinez were happy to bring the campaign back to the school this past Tuesday morning after Santos Palomo, the T-STEM Academy principal, called. “It’s necessary to create
awareness,” Palomo said. “Sometimes the community is not as informed as we are in the school.” Palomo added that the district takes any opportunity they can to educate their students on these issues. “The students need to understand the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy relationship,” Palomo said. “Their young hearts matter, they’re important, when they say no, it’s no. So it’s a great opportunity for them to hear it from someone else other than the people they normally work around
with.” This event followed this year’s fourth annual Young Hearts Matter presentation, which was held at Lamar Academy in McAllen on Feb. 9. Several local community leaders spoke on the prevalence of teen dating violence. This week, the DA came back to Juarez-Lincoln to speak to a whole new group of students, which included those in the T-STEM Academy, Law Enforcement Academy and the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC).
An informational sheet was handed out to students, along with a pamphlet from the Hidalgo County Criminal Victims Unit. The pamphlet included several support services offered by the department, the rights of victims in Texas and prevention services. Rodriguez and Martinez got more personal during this talk, citing different environments and circumstances that led them to where they are today.
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Mission resident thanks first responders, neighbors and ADT Security Dispatcher for saving his life
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SPORTS Big 7 powerlifters THE
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Becky Mingie, an ADT dispatcher in Tennessee, holds an award for saving Bob Hensley’s life last year.
By Jamie Treviño As a dispatcher for ADT, Becky Mingie was just doing her job: saving Bob Hensley’s life. Several weeks ago Hensley, who lives at his residence on Fair Oaks Drive with his wife, Laurel McLeaish, was at home alone with their pets when a fire started. Because he was sleeping, the smoke
detector in his house alerted him. Unable to answer ADT Security Services, who was alerted of the fire, dispatcher Mingie called the local first responders for Hensley from a monitoring center in Knoxville, Tennessee. They promptly arrived on the scene and put out the fire, saving the home. McLeaish was not home
at the time, and Hensley was overcome with the amount of smoke filling his house. Four neighbors (the Garzas and the Overlys) heard the alarm and managed to get Hensley, their two dogs and one of their cats outside to safety before the fire department arrived on the scene. “Tragedy was avoided due to the ADT alarm system doing its job,” Todd Dern-
berger, with ADT Security Services, said. “We’re all here today to celebrate that success.” ADT, along with the Mission Fire Department, the Border Patrol and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) all participated in a press conference last Friday. During the event, Hensley and McLeaish described their experience and
expressed their gratitude for making it out during an emergency. “Unfortunately, we did lose two cats,” McLeaish said. “But because of everything the firefighters did, they did save one of our cats and our two dogs. So we’re very thankful for that.”
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