Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 17

Kathleen Sullivan: Dumped as co-host of This Morning" in February 1990 Sewing program students give back to the community by teaching others Extension Service clothing master volunteer program helps people realize they have something to offer and teaches them how to share their experience By Scott Williams OF THE CALLER-TIMES Carmen Costante seldom ventured into the world outside her Westside home before graduating in spring 1992 from the clothing master volunteer program administered by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service A native of Mexico Costante moved to Corpus Christi 10 years ago with her husband Ricardo and despite repeated attempts to learn English she still feel comfortable speaking the language So she felt scared whenever she had to hazard into the English-speaking world That and the responsibility of raising Kathleen gets back on track News anchor-turned-weight watcher puts troubles behind her By Maureen Dowd NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE The arc of Kathleen story cries out for a collaboration between Edith Wharton and Paddy Chayefsky a double helix of irony and satire glamour and ruin Two parts one part of The stunning brunette burst onto the television scene at the 1984 winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo as a sports reporter for ABC and a modern successor to famous Ignoring advice to wear boring blouses and blazers she decided to go with bright sweaters instead She became an instant network star and even put out her own sweater collection for awhile She switched to CBS in 1987 and became a co-host of This Compared with the usual perky blondes who populate morning television Sullivan was more like a double espresso Unlike her counterparts she always looked like she had been up very late doing something very-interesting Her graying hair looked a little wild and she always smiling Stories suggesting that she was temperamental and insubstantial began to surface and in February 1990 with ratings in a slump the tart Sullivan was dumped for a perky blonde Paula Zahn Then she disappeared When she popped up again on network television last week it was something of a shock The Please see Sullivan66 Recognition of postpartum problems key to treatment At age 21 Mrs was delighted to be having a baby Although her pregnancy went smoothly nine days after giving birth she became upset disorganized and was unable to recognize people she knew After her third child was bom Mrs 24 became so depressed she touch or go near her in- JAV JANNERSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Maria Molina (left) and teacher Georgina Mortera cut out a pattern for a dress during a clothing master volunteer program sewing class at TG Allen Elementary School For Women Only three children is why she has never worked since moving to Corpus Christi But now Costante 33 is looking for ways to earn money from sewing skills learned in the clothing master volunteer program She recently finished teaching a beginning sewing class and she and her former students belong to a volunteer group at Crockett Elementary School not the same person as said Costante speaking through an interpreter more sure of myself got a lot more confidence in myself and my interpersonal relationships have been enhanced as a Costante paid back the 25 hours of training she received by teaching a three-month beginning sewing class Although terrified at first she said she eventually felt at ease with her class and now she considers them her compadrajes a Spanish word usually used to describe the relationship between parents and godparents Costante who had no sewing experience when she enrolled in the program uses her newfound skills to make clothes for herself and her children She recently made a set of kitchen curtains and earlier this year made 23 costumes for the Crockett Christmas parade She and her former students have considered making decorative pillows to sell and Costante has applied for a job at the Haggar Apparel Co plant in Robstown learned a lot in class and what I liked Please see SewingB6 Participants give time back to program indicates an event that's free These are the highlights of and upcoming events in and around Corpus Christi Today PJ Storytime is at 6:30 pm at Bookstop in Moore Plaza Children are encouraged to bring their favorite stuffed bear and hear bear stories The Coastal Bend Business and Professional Chapter of the John Birch Society presents a film on gun control at a noon luncheon at the Holiday Inn-Airport Padre Island Drive and Highway 358 Cost: $10 Information: 991-2689 The Coalition of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement Education Networking Agencies membership drive and open house is at jlnoon and 7 pm at 3833 Staples Suite 31 Information: i857-6222 i Nueces County Junior Show and Sale continues through Saturday in the Nueces County Memorial Agri- cultural Center show barn in ji Robstown Coastal Bend Quilt and Needlework Guild meets at 10 am at the Eyerly Community Center 6243 Graham Road Topic: Spiral Patchwork Information: 949-9303 Nightlife attractions include Lee Liscano Jazz Trio at Top Hat Restaurant and Lounge 601 Chaparral Ric Higher at Crabhouse and Restaurant under the JFK Bridge Bill Powell at the Atrium Lounge Quality Hotel Glenn White Show at Pub 4650 Kostoryz Roy Tipton at Bar and Grill Travelodge Hotel 910 Corn Products Road Tumbleweed at The Blue Whales Tail at 701 Chaparral Michael Elwood and Beth Gallagher at the Executive Surf Club 306 Chaparral Dad-dios at Yucatan Beach Club 208 'N Water Blues Farm at Doctor 709 Chaparral Steve McCloud at Chelsea Street Pub and Grill 5858 Padre Island Drive and Box at Cantina 1011 Santa Fe To submit items to Up send details in writing one week prior to publication to Living Department the Caller-Times PO Box 9136 Corpus Christi Texas 78469 Compiled by Cindy Garcia TCI plans to add new networks to system on Feb 1 From staff reports Subscribers to TCI Cable-vision will have several new cable networks to choose from beginning Feb 1 Dennis Moore general manager said TCI added the networks because of consumer demand He said viewers were able to preview programming like Country Music Television The Cartoon Network and (an entertainment network) in October and November and expressed a desire to have them added to the cable lineup Moore said TCI also will add KAJA (a local Telemundo affiliate) The Learning Channt Starz (a premium movie chan- nel) and FX (a second network of Fox programming scheduled to begin June 1) Moore said TCI will not drop any networks it currently offers KAJA will be available to basic cable subscribers Country Music Television The Cartoon Network The Learning Channel and FX will be available to subscribers with expanded basic service and Starz will be available to premium subscribers Some existing networks will move from one channel to another to make room for the additions TNT will move from channel 25 to channel 30 The Family Channel from 30 to 41 and CSPAN from 23 to 42 trying to give our customers a greater variety to select Moore said From staff reports skills a portable sewing machine and The clothing master volunteer program began in the Rio Grande Valley in 199! thanks to a $10000 grant from the Levi Strauss Foundation to the Texas Agricultural Extension Service Talma Benavides Nueces County home economics extension agent said the program is designed to refine the sewing skills of low-income residents so they can earn money and teach other low-income residents to sew Participants go through 25 hours of training and pay back their training by volunteering to teach at least 15 families to sew They must have some sewing try not to let lack of resources keep us from training or having a student Benavides said She said she hopes the program which now is open to all Nueces County residents will encourage women to use their skills to make money whether sewing for the public teaching classes or working for a clothing business Benavides said the clothing master volunteer program also develops leadership skills and self-esteem To sign up for the program call Benavides at 767-5216 Ultimate Cover Girl Roseanne Arnold strikes celebrity pose for Vanity Fair and tells all about her life By Tom Maurstad DALLAS MORNING NEWS Its Demi-centrism notwithstanding Vanity Fair demonstrates why Roseanne Arnold is the ultimate celebrity subject Vanity Fair is ever desperate to provoke and Roseanne Arnold is always on the lookout for another way to make jaws drop And when it comes to making with the provocations Arnold is the high priestess Demi Moore? Sly Stallone? Small potatoes Painted pumped or pregnant they have to strip to shock us but Roseanne? She just has to get comfortable Sprawled in a chair with a assurance Arnold sits in her heels hose and black corsetted teddy It is a statement to which she adds the exclamation point of her posture (in case you miss the point the photo includes a toy train chugging between her outstretched legs) In keeping with its subject the feature is a jumble of confrontations and contradictions Anne photographs are warmly shaded but coolly formal studies in confrontation as negligee-clad Roseanne works through her bedroom poses The tensions running through the photos Roseanne doing her version of a Secret catalog culminate in a two-page shot that has Roseanne sprawled across an unmade bed in a frilly white baby-doll outfit hiked high on her splayed legs The raven tangle of her hair covers her face like a mask while her deadpan expression dares a response In a sense she is merely showing off her newly reconstructed self the way one might unveil a newly purchased sculpture as Kevin article quickly notes Arnold has undergone breast reduction tummy tuck a nose job a facelift and a new Cleopatra Sessums feels all this has left her looking like Elizabeth though these photos suggest more a hard-living Annette Funicello But whatever the association you make it is yet another instance of that utterly modem experience (call it the Michael Jackson phenomenon) of seeing someone once familiar who now thanks to plastic surgery looks strangely artificial shadow also moves Please see Roseanne86 Leslie LAURENCE Her Health fant for a week She experienced crying jags and had thoughts of suicide Six weeks after the birth of her child Miss 16 became tired and uninterested She had trouble sleeping and couldn't concentrate on her school work All of these women patients at the obstetrics and prenatal clinic at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City were suffering from a form of postpartum depression Although 30 percent of depressions in women are associated with reproductive events little research has been conducted on the psychological aspects of Please see HealthB6 ASSOCIATED PRESS Roseanne Arnold shows off her newly reconstructed self on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair.