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SATURDAY JULY 6, 1991 Road Marker Raises Spirits, Uproar: See Bosque Beat on Page 3 Lr Bernalillo Placitas Rio Rancho Corrales Alameda Los Ranchos de Albuquerque Paradise Hills Taylor Ranch Bosque Farms Los Lunas Belen ID) oara aer iravei Consi To report, there are 80 acres near the Central140 interchange that were approved in June 1990 for a truck terminal. Salazar said he understands that Flying had investigated the 80-acre parcel, owned by Westland Development but felt it was too far out of the city. Flying had been interested in a site near the Unser140 intersection MORE: See BOARD on PAGE 3 By Michael Hartranft JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The Bernalillo County Planning Commission is considering a zone change for about 24 acres to allow a proposed travel plaza near the 98th Street140 intersection. Attorney John Salazar, who represents the applicant GRP Investments said the plaza would be operated by Flying which has a network of plazas across the said. It contends in a staff report to the commission the change would create a spot zone and precipitate similar requests.

The staff also contends it isn't justified under county policies that govern when changes are warranted. Connors noted there are over 100 acres of undeveloped light industrially zoned properties nearby, covered by the West Route 66 Sector Development Plan. In addition, according to the staff construction late this year. The site lies south of 140, west of 98th Street and is zoned rural agricultural, which allows one dwelling an acre. The applicant seeks light industrial zoning.

98th Street is the first exit west of the Unser Boulevard exit. The Planning Commission deferred action Wednesday after considerable discussion, senior planner Susan Connors said Friday. It wants more documentation addressing utilities, access and traffic concerns raised by West-Side City Councilor Alan Armijo. The commission also had a question about title to a portion of the proposed site. Armijo, in an interview Wednesday, said he spoke against the zone change because of concerns about truck impacts on 98th Street and the surrounding area.

The planning staff recommended against the change also, Connors country. "The proposal is for a travel plaza with fueling capability for automobiles, trucks and recreational vehicles and would include a restaurant and convenience store, as wet as a second phase which would include a motel," Salazar said. It would be open 24 hours a day and ultimately employ about 15C people, he said. Pending county approval, Salazar said, the project could be under Parents Retain Hope Daughter 11 i i I A Remains Alive i i H-rX v. Si -J 1 7 I 1 Tara Calico's Been Missing Nearly 3 Years By Tracy Dingmann JOURNAL STAFF WRITER RIO COMMUNITIES Just about every month Tara Calico's mother gets pictures of girls from law enforcement agencies across the country seeking their identity.

Some are dead, some alive. But none are Tara. For nearly years Pat Doel and her husband John have been looking for Tara, 22, who disappeared on Sept. 20, 1988, while riding her bike on a lonely stretch of NM 47 near Belen. The Doels have never wavered in their belief that Tara is alive.

Because police agencies in response to the 36,000 flyers they've mailed routinely send her pictures, Pat Doel's search has exposed her to the sad stories of other children still missing or dead. "I've looked at literally hundreds of photos of girls, some alive, some dead," she said in a mtanltmiMM ALEXANDRIA KING JOURNAL disappeared. On the bed are presents from the holidays and birthdays Tara has missed. Pat and John Doel of Rio Communities have left their daughter, Tara Calico's, room exactly as it was the day she This photo of Tara is one of her mother's favorites. recent telephone interview from her Rio Communities home.

"This goes on all the time. Rarely a month goes by that (police) don't find a body someplace. These girls are all over and (the police) don't know who they are." Doel says she can usually tell right away from police descriptions that the girls are not Tara, but she never turns down a chance to view a picture. "It's just something you do to of Michael Jr. was found last summer about six miles from where he disappeared.

Police believe he succumbed to hypothermia. Sometime between July 1989 and July 1990 the Doels obtained two more pictures they believe are of Tara. Current Affair" and "Oprah." The Doels went on those shows saying they believed the girl in the photo was Tara. Another New Mexico couple, Marty and Michael Henley, also appeared on the programs saying they thought the boy could be their son Michael who disappeared while camping in the Cibola National Forest. The body John, Tara's stepfather, believe actually show Tara.

One was discovered in a parking lot by police in Florida in 1989. The snapshot, which showed a brown-haired girl and a little boy bound and gagged in the back of a white van, received national attention after it was shown on the television programs "A eliminate it and get it out of your mind," she said. "But you don't get it out of your mind because it's someone's daughter." (The Doels said Friday they do not believe a skull and jawbone found near Rio Communities Wednesday are Tara's because the dental records do not match.) Over the years there have only been three pictures that Doel and MORE: See PARENTS on PAGE 3 dentity Sought Sk ma Skull Un il uman I 1 t4if i 'I I I La Found in Valencia By Arley Sanchez 'iuSX: iir" t- 8 tislk JOURNAL STAFF WRITER ALEXANDRIA KING JOURNAL Town Councilor Emily Velarde's produce stand is at left and the present location is at market on NM 44 in Bernalillo. The old chile right. Town Councilor Charges 'Harassment' Show Airs Valencia Burning Death Case By Arley Sanchez JOURNAL STAFF WRITER LOS LUNAS Police hope a suspect wanted in the burning death of an Albuquerque man is flushed out by a Friday night segment on the television program, "America's Most Wanted." The segment was to have highlighted the Feb.

22 death of 29-year-old Francisco whose beaten and unconscious body was doused with gasoline while lying in a dry drainage ditch near Los Lunas and burned to death. Vance Wyrostek, 21, formerly of Los Lunas, is being sought on a murder warrant in connection with the death. "We're hoping it will result in his capture," Valencia County Sheriffs spokesman Anthony Scazzero said Friday. Two other men are in jail and awaiting trial on various charges in connection with the case. Larry Lyannas, 21, of Las Cruces, was indicted by a Valencia County grand jury on one count of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence.

I Eddie Wyrostek, Vance's brother, was indicted on one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence. Scazzero said detectives have leads on Vance Wyrostek's where- MORE: See 'MOST WANTED' on PAGE 3 Expressway and about 3V2 miles east of Rio Communities, Scazzero said. Calico, then 20, disappeared while riding her bicycle on NM 47 south of Rio Communities on Sept. 20, 1988. Scazzero said that after the skull was found at about 8 a.m.

Wednesday, officers combed a half-mile radius. He said they found no other bones, but found some unspecified evidence that could help determine what happened to the body. Scazzero said the skull was partially buried and the top was bleached by the sun, but the interior of the skull still had some flesh. He said the skull also had a hole in it and police are trying to determine whether it could have been made by a bullet. Scazzero said that based on the' size of the skull, it probably belonged to a small man or woman.

"It was out there for quite some time," Scazzero said of the skull, adding it could have been there from between IVi years to up to four years. LOS LUNAS A cow-skull hunter found the remains of a partial human skull east of Rio Communities Wednesday, but police don't believe it belongs to missing Rio Communities woman Tara Calico. "Based on a preliminary comparison with her dental records, we don't think it's Tara," Valencia County Sheriff's spokesman Anthony Scazzero said Friday. He added, however, that police have sent the skull to the state Crime Lab and won't rule anything out until results are back. Scazzero said detectives are checking whether the skull could belong to several other missing persons in Valencia County or statewide, including Belen nurse Debra Lansdell, who disappeared on Sept.

21, 1985. She was 29. A man hunting for bleached cow skulls found the skull, which included the lower jawbone, about a quarter-mile east of the Manzano By Donna Jones JOURNAL STAFF WRITER "It's just a switch," she said. "Now I'm using the other building for storage." "You would think, that logically, if my business improves, it would generate more gross-receipts taxes for the town and would therefore be welcomed," Velarde wrote in a prepared statement. "However, their posture on this issue is one of malice, envy and vindictiveness.

This shows that these people don't truly care about the town or the MORE: See TOWN on PAGE 4 BERNALILLO Town Councilor Emily Velarde said she doesn't understand why anyone would complain about her chile stand remodeling. "It's a pattern of harassment," she said Friday in an interview at her produce market. Velarde has moved the operation of her business from a wooden stand into a remodeled mobile home she previously had used for storage. Thursday Is Deadline for Corrales Absentee Ballots threatened to cancel the policy on its old building. Mayor John Callan has said the village has looked into renovating the existing building, but a rough estimate showed it would cost about $23,000 to bring the building in line with what the insurance company MORE: See DEADLINE on PAGE 4 Formerly a wholesale nursery, the property has a number of buildings that would house the village's administrative offices, including the police department, public works, animal control, finance and dispatch About $175,000 would be used to renovate the firehouse.

New offices are needed because the village's insurance company has By Velinda Trujillo JOURNAL STAFF WRITER CORRALES The final day to request absentee ballots for the village's July 16 general obligation bond election is Thursday, a village official said. Village ClerkAdministrator Linda Jeffers said voters have until 5, p.m. Thursday to either come in or call in requests for a ballot. Registered voters who live in the village, whether property owners or not, can vote in the bond election, she said. Polling places for precincts 12 and 13 will be at the San Ysidro Parish.

Voters in Precincts 003 and 11 will vote at the Corrales Community Center. The two polling places will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Two separate questions will be on the ballot in the special municipal election. The village is asking residents for $665,000 in bond money to buy Los Patios property, a site for a new village office complex, and to renovate the firehouse.

About $500,000 would be used to buy and renovate the 8.3-acre Los Patios property on Corrales Road..