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Missing in action: Command center a no-show in phone book Page 2 Thursday June 6, 1996 Zones editor Ed Shugert, This edition serves the Upper Valley, Downtown and El Paso's entire West Side Sumrall, telles meeting: Joyce remberg, interim direc tor ot the bun Bowl Associa tion, will be the guest speaker at West bide city Rep. Jan Sumrall's and South-West city Kep. Raymond Telles break fast meeting at 6:30 a.m. Mon day at Bryar Restaurant, 5801 N. Mesa.

Information: 541-4886 or 54M123. Sumrall's television pro library grows with support gram; Rodolfo Ramirez, Adult Protective Services operations support director, will be the guest on West Side city Rep. Jan Sumrall's weekly television show at 6:30 today on cable Channel 15. Information: 541-1886. West Side Recreation for summer: The West Side Recreation, C50 Wallenberg, will i Anthony! NKW (Jil jf MLXIUJx El Paso Times By Kim Baca El Paso Times The little volunteer library in Anthony, N.M., which was on the verge of closing last summer, is now growing and will hire its first employee.

"We are pretty happy this year," said Eleanor Beddo, president of the Valley Communities Library Association. "We've received some grants and we've received a lot of donations and we have a lot more people who are volunteering." The association, a non-profit organization made up of volunteers who take care of the library, had ex-perienced Read up: some trouble Library hours, last year be-events Page 2 cause of lack hhbihhh of funding and the building they were in for four years was put up for sale. But because of community donations and help from the Gadsden Independent School District, the group was able to move the library into three classrooms in the Anthony Elementary School. Now a year the association is looking to hire its first part-time staffer. The association received a grant from the McCune Charity Foundation in Santa Fe.

Members were also able to expand their 9,000 book Photos by David Derrick El Paso Times Visitors tour the extensive collection of aircrafts at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa. The museum recently added a library. NM aircraft museum grows have open gym for the summer from 1 to 3 p.m. and open basketball court for ages 14 and under. Children are asked to bring their own basketball.

Officials will also have registration for children ages 4 to 7 for the Gus and Goldie Mini-indoor soccer program June 15. Games will be played July 20. Cost is $20 a player. The recreation center will also have a gymnastics class Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. for children ages 3 to 6, and classes from 4 to 5 p.m.

for children ages 7 and up. Cost is $18 a month. Information: 581-5182. T-ball registration: The West Side Family Branch YWCA, 313 Bartlett, is offering co-ed T-ball for children ages 4 to 10 at the YW Camp at 4400 Boy Scout Lane starting Saturday. Cost is $25 for YWCA members and $30 for non members.

Volunteer members are welcomed. Information: 584-4007. La Fe Father's Day run: La Fe Clinic will have a Father's Day 5K walk and run June 15. The race will start at 7:30 a.m. at the clinic at 700 S.

Ochoa. Cost is $10 and $15 the day of the race. Top finishers in each age group will be given awards. Information: Robert Gonzales, 534-7979. selection by 1,000 with more do-, nations and state funding.

And now that everything seems to be coming along, organizers are worried that all their hard work has paid off but not enough people are aware of their services. "Our financial affairs look a lot better than last summer," Beddo said. "But there are still a lot of people who don't know the library is here and we are the only public library right in the middle of Las Cruces and El Paso People come out from Canutil-lo and the northern part of the Upper Valley of El Paso looking for our library and ask directions Please see Library Page 2 New library adds to war knowledge j- adds to remnants of the past. What The War Eagles Museum. Where: Santa Teresa Airport Go west on Country Club Road and turn right on McNutt (NM 273) at the intersection.

Take a left on Airport Road. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The library is open by appointment only.

Cost $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and free for children under 12. Information: 589-2000. Public housing, police join forces Volunteers will manage offices NM The collection, including a Willy's Jeep used in the war and a 1908 Overland buggy, has taken up much of the additional hangar space. Also on display is a Vulcan tank recently donated by Fort Bliss. The museum is not just for veterans and pilots, said museum curator Skip Trammell.

"It's kind of a walk through the past for aviation enthusiasts or just for people who like airplanes. We have lots of people who come through who are not pilots and are interested about history and seeing what's left of the war," he said. "I like all of it," said Las Cru-ces resident Leona Poncho about a recent visit. "We took our 2-year-old son and he was astounded by the size of the airplanes. I didn't know a lot about airplanes so I learned a lot." The War Eagles is a nonprofit organization whose members are dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Many of the members are veterans who have served in WWII, the Korean or Vietnam wars. TEXAS El Paso Santa Teresa International West Side Welcome Club meetings: The West Side Welcome Club will have its monthly brunch from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. June 12 at Monte Vista, 1575 Belvidere. Cost is $9. Reservation deadline is Fri- 'ilav Tnfnrmntinn; S3.V1757.

Airport I Juarez West Side Cmdr. Charles Skanes said details of how the program will operate have not been completely worked out yet. However, the focus of the project will be community-oriented. "(Volunteers) will give advice and maybe help people contact po- 1 i fct Qlonao QQirl "Wo usill lrnnur Air Museum fanta jM Country Club By Kim Baca El Paso Times Planes used in World War II, uniforms from the period and other relics of the past at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa have reminded many about the era. Now volunteers at the museum dedicated to collecting restoring and displaying historic aircraft of WWII and the Korean War have more to share.

The museum recently completed a foot expansion of its hangar and will debut its new library. "We're still busy cataloging the books," said volunteer Bob Magruder. "The whole purpose of it is research." The library also has magazines and videotapes about aviation and U.S. wars. Some items may be checked out but museum volunteers will decide that on a case-by-case situation.

Visitors can also view firsthand a T-33 Starfighter, the first Air Force jet to exceed 500 mph, and the MiG-15, a Soviet-made jet which had three cannons and was the biggest enemy U.S. airmen faced 40 years ago in the Korean War. People can also crawl inside the DC-3 airliner, a small plane used to fly passengers up to 50 years ago. What makes this museum unique is that 22 out of the 27 planes can fly despite their age. Members volunteer their time to restore aircraft, often rebuilding engines and gathering parts.

It takes anywhere from two to four years to get them running again. "We don't fly them like we used to," Magruder said. "The reason we don't is because insurance is quite costly. But many of the aircraft are in good shape." An antique car collection also 0 14 Club fePiA El Paso Times 5k -rmmm i By Kim Baca El Paso Times Police and some West Side public housing residents will team up to offer information and help in finding police services. Officers of the West Side Regional Command Center and residents of the Sandoval and Ma-chuca housing complexes are creating a police information office.

The Community Involvement Centers will work much like police storefronts where an officer has a computer and phone line. But these centers will be staffed by resident volunteers instead of officers. "We suggested that we wanted them (police) here. Lately, the kids have been out after curfew and getting into some trouble," said Linda Ramos, president of the Sandoval Residents Council. "With them being here, the (kids) will have a little more attention.

We can also get programs like drug-free programs and family counseling. They have a lot more resources that we couldn't get a hold of." Offices will be set up within the next two weeks both at the 224-unit Sandoval complex at 5353 Ridge and at the 70-unit Machuca complex at 1039 Sunland Park. (callers) are getting to the right place and won't, hopefully, be getting a runaround. They will also be there right in the community and help pass along information to us." Pat Esparza, director of housing management at the El Paso Housing Authority, said the agency is looking forward to the partnership. "It hinders crime in the area by having the officers out and it also teaches sensitivity to the police officers as they are working with residents.

It really works for both of us," she said. Letty Bernal, a Machuca resident, likes the idea of officers at the complex. "I think it will be much better because there have been a lot of robberies," Bernal said. "There will be more protection." Other sites for centers throughout the jurisdiction of the West Side Regional Command Center from North Schuster to the city limits are being considered. if l.v..

Bob Magruder, admissions and gift shop manager at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, sits atop a newly renovated M-163 Vulcan tank. YWCA fitness instructors course: The YWCA Joyce James Branch, 1600 Brown, will have a fitness instructors training course for beginning instructors at 10 a.m. Saturday. Cost is $60 per person. Information: 533-7475 or Mary Compton, 539-5015.

Book mobile fund-raiser: An "Evening of Gala" book mobile fund-raiser dance is scheduled from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. June 28 at the International Hotel Ballroom at 113 W. Missouri. The event is sponsored by the Sun City Jaycees, the International Hotel, the River City Band, Budwiser and Casa Ford to raise money for a new city bookmobile.

Cost is $20 per person and includes beer and snacks. Door prizes will be awarded. Tickets can be purchased at Casa Ford, 5815 Montana. Information: Chris Acosta, 543-5474 or Jon Hernandez, 860-1223. Dance camp: The International Dance Theatre will have a summer dance camp June 17-27 at the theater conservatory, 7100 Westwind, suite 160.

Dancers ages 7-12 will learn ballet, modern, jazz, tap, cheerleading, and stage makeup. Tuition is $85. Limit 20. Information: 585-9122 or (800) 735-2989. Yoga classes: Hatha yoga and feldendrais classes will be offered from 12:10 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Chi-Ho-Tzu School of Chinese Martial Arts at 906 N. El Paso. Cost is $2 per class. Information: 584-1517. Times staff reports This Eagle Scout knows 'difference' can lead the way kids who are different and helps them along.

Andrew demonstrates leadership in a different way than is typical." "Typical" is probably the way to describe Andrew Grunwald Ed Shugert rental motivation, they fall away (from scouting)." The last motivator for his Eagle award? Michael Grunwald told his son he had to complete his Eagle requirements before he could take driver's education. Andrew will start his classes in July right after he gets back from summer scout camp which includes a white-water rafting trip down the Arkansas River in Colorado. Andrew says, "I want to help the younger kids in the troop reach first class," a required step before pursuing higher honors like Life or Eagle Scout. There are some kids who still have trouble fitting in. There are kids who don't like the answers they get and they start getting upset and get really frustrated." Maybe they'll listen to Andrew.

It always helps to talk to someone who's been there. By Ed Shugert El Paso Times Sit down with Steven Andrew Grunwald and there's nothing that strikes you as being remarkable about this 15-year-old An-dress High School student. His short hair and glasses indicate he's conservative; his manner ia somewhat shy, at least until he warms up to you; he likes fishing and baseball; he's eager to take driver's education this summer. The visit would paint a typical picture of a teen-ager. But he's atypical in a couple of ways.

First, Andrew became an Eagle Scout last month, something only one to two percent of boys who ever start out in the Boy Scouts accomplish. Second, Andrew made Eagle despite being born with a lesion on the right parietal lobe of his brain that has given him a number of challenges to overcome: fine motor dysfunction on the left side of his body; a seizure disor- that Michael Grunwald was also a scout leader, though he bent over backward to remain impartial at troop functions. Grunwald says Andrew and the troop's other scouts often learned the hard way: on one backpacking trip, they ended up burning food on the trail because they took more than they could carry on the long trip. Failure, he says, teaches better than success. "The last thing in the world we wanted someone to say is, 'He got that merit badge because his father is involved in Grunwald says before adding, "Now, there may have been some parental motivation along the way." Motivation isn't short in a house with a former tank driver for a father and a mother who is a nurse and retired command sergeant major.

"His last Eagle merit badge (in environmental science) took two years to get," says mom Margaret Grunwald. "Unless they're devoted to the program and have pa the way the other scouts first treated Andrew when he joined Troop 2 at age 11. Anyone who has worked with youth groups of mixed ages or lived in a large family knows who gets picked on: anyone new or different. "It was kind of hard to fit in with the other kids," Andrew says. "Every time I tried to do something, they wouldn't let me.

I kept saying, 'Let me and they finally broke down and said OK." Sellars remembers Andrew had trouble controlling his temper at first and it probably didn't help der; speech problems that required therapy; and severe dyslexia. "His medical impairment has had an impact on him but it has not impaired him," says Andrew's father, Michael Grunwald, a tough former Army tank captain, who has a hard time hiding his pride in his only child. The pride extends to those who have watched Andrew's progress. "Andrew was picked on all through scouts because he's different," says scout leader Pete Sellars. "Now, he picks out other The West Side reporter is Kim Baca, 546-6151.

Send press releases and announcements to West Side edition, El Paso Times, P.O. Box 20, El Paso Texas 79999. Our deadline for news is Friday of the week before publication. Ed Shugert is the El Paso Times zones editor. His column appears twice a month..