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West Side Eastlake and Oarrington could get traffic signal by November Coming Thursday Times Neighborhoods, city desk. 546-6352. neighbors a elpasotimes com www.elpasotimes.com 3B Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Quest to save little Hbraiy triumphs bbbbbbbbbbbbbbtbIPIIIW i ''bbSbbbm lil VL Yard treasures Franklin High band plans sale By Adriana M. Chavez El Paso Times EL PASO Bargain hunters are invited to take advantage of great deals while helping a local high school band this weekend. The Franklin High School band will host a yard sale at 6 a.m.

Saturday at 1159 Pine Ridge Way. Items for sale include clothes, shoes, electronics, sports equipment and seasonal items, organizers said. Prices will start at 5 cents. All proceeds will benefit Franklin's Star of the West band. Information: Yadira Pcrales, 202-8958 or Library assistant Pedro Mascorro re-shelves books at the Westside branch Fnday afternoon.

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Those fears were renewed last week when EastridgeMid-Val-ley city Rep. Steve Ortega proposed to consolidate the Westside and Dorris Van Doren libraries and close the Museum of History for six months, to reach the $857,420 in cuts needed to avoid a tax increase. However, other City Council members decided to keep the Westside Branch Library open because hundreds of people contacted their offices in protest. Gretchen Trominski, a board member of the Friends of the Westside Libraries group, said the libraries serve two varying demographics. Many users of the Westside Branch tend to be older, while most people who 1 Shreya Tahillani, 11, and her brother, Krishn Tahiliani, 8, used the computer at El Paso Times i clpasotimes.com SSaSSbSlilattBl 14 mile Detail 1 area El Paso Times The Star on the Franklin Mountains may be lighted in honor of an El Pasoan or an El Paso business.

Tonight, the star is lighted: In recognition of Western Refining Co. The Greater Chamber and the El Paso Community thank you for sponsoring the re-vitalization efforts in keeping our Star shining brightly each night. The cost to light the star is $50 a night. To light the star, call the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce, 534-0500, one week in advance. Center.

"People (who use) the Westside Branch now are saying that they love their little branch," Trominski said. "It draws an older population in some ways, and it's more of a neighborhood library, but it still has very vibrant children's programs." Trominski said that Dorris Van Doren herself was the one who proposed raising money to build the Westside Branch, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. "She was the catalyst for the branch library," Trominski said. El Paso Public Library Director Carol Brey-Casiano said the Westside Branch ranks sixth out of the library system's 11 libraries in the number of visitors. The branch is also one of the smallest in the city's library system.

"I think that it's a well-established branch in a well-established neighborhood," Brey-Casiano said. Brey-Casiano also pointed out that in reviewing library systems nationally, many city libraries are located within two miles of each other. In El Paso, examples of libraries in close proximity include the Armijo Branch and Main libraries in Downtown El Paso, and the Es-peranza Acosta Moreno Regional and Irving Schwartz Branch libraries in East EI Paso. "We did some looking at guidelines used nation Click on Communities, Neighborhoods for helpful links to city representatives visit the Dorris Van Doren Regional Library tend to be younger families. The two libraries also serve different neighborhoods.

Trominski said many people who use the Dorris Van Doren Regional Library live in the immediate area, Canutillo and New Mexico, while Westside Branch users come from neighborhoods along Mesa Street from Belvidere to Executive wide and typically having libraries located within a two- to -four-mile radius is not uncommon," Brey-Casiano said. "In this case, (the Westside and Dorris Van Doren Regional) libraries are two to three miles apart depending on which direction you're coming from, and the two neighborhoods are very different." Adriana Chavez may be reached at achavezelpaso times.com; 546-6117. Viva Los Ninos will be Aug. 1-3. The incorrect date was published in Tuesday's El Paso Times.

Neighborhood Talk St Vincent de Paul Society to open new thrift store Food pantry thrift store Want to change something about your neighborhood? Or maybe you would like to celebrate something about it instead. Talk to us; we want to hear from you. E-mail me at achavez elpasotimes.com or call 546-6117. 4 iw bb a bbbbbL i MJm 1 Pvtt I I LbbbV bbh HBiBiHi BhmI lil hpbIbbIHI LsyJ Lr on, LI elpasotimes.com By Adriana M. Chavez El Paso Times EL PASO The St.

Vincent de Paul Society will celebrate its newest thrift store this weekend with a special Mass and grand opening celebration. The society will celebrate the opening of its food pantry and thrift store at 6950 Third in Canutillo with a Mass beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 7045 Second. Following the Mass, refreshments will be served at the new store.

Bob Emmett of the St. Vincent de Paul Society said that unlike the organization's two other thrift stores, which are located at 2104 Piedras and 6018 Doniphan, sisting families during the historic floods of 2006, the society has wanted to open a Canutillo-area store. The society eventually raised $100,000 to build the store and received donations and grants from El Paso Electric, the El Paso Community Foundation, the Robert E. and Evelyn McKee Foundation, Chase Bank and other businesses and organizations. "It's really been a community effort," Emmett said.

"It's all paid for and we're real happy about it." Emmett said families who request assistance take part in an interview process and home visit by members of the society, which helps needy families with food, clothing and utility pay- lira A 14 mile I Detail i alca El Paso Times Visit elpasotimes.com neighborhoods the Canutillo store and food pantry will mainly serve underprivileged families in the Canutillo area. Emmett said that since the society became involved with FEMA in as Times file photo Nestor Tovar, right, and Jesse Gomez, background, carried boxes of donated office supplies Tuesday into the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store at 2104 N. Piedras. Store officials said to save gas, the trucks are going out only three times a week to collect donations.

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