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News | | November 12, 2012
The Imperial Irrigation District's rank-and-file employees have spoken: The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 465 will continue to be their sole representative in negotiations with the district. IBEW 465 was the target of a decertification campaign by IID employees who claimed the union did not represent them fairly nor was transparent in how it allocated its funds. Some said they wanted a choice in who represents them. A vote of 50 percent plus one was needed to unseat IBEW 465. By the time polls closed Thursday, 677 employees had cast a vote, with 421 voting to keep IBEW 465 as sole representative and 256 voting against, said Sally Butler, IID work order scheduler and organizer of the campaign against IBEW 465. IBEW 465 business representative George Moses said he was happy with the outcome, and hoped the union can go back to negotiating a three-year contract with the district on behalf of rank-and-file employees.
NEWS
| May 31, 2002
Salton Sea fishing guide Ray Garnett reported good corvina fishing most days last week while guiding customers along the west side of the Salton Sea from the Navy base all the way north to the snag off Avenue 81 at the extreme north end of the sea. Garnett, who mainly uses live tilapia for bait, also reported some customers limiting out with soft plastic baits. Coachella Valley fishermen Joe Kitagawa and Jose Aguiar launched from Johnson's landing Sunday and boated nine corvina up to 10 pounds using live tilapia.
NEWS
| May 18, 2013
WESTMORLAND - Brandon Walker, from Seeley, believes fishing is part of the Imperial Valley environment and for that reason Walker decided to participate in a catfish tournament last weekend. “I have been fishing since I was a little boy,” said Walker. “It is just something you do in the Valley.” This was Walker's first year competing in the sixth annual Catfish Tournament. Adults and juniors throughout the Imperial Valley took to canals May 11 morning in search of channel and flathead catfish.
NEWS
| January 24, 2006
HOLTVILLE ? A man who admitted to killing 14-year-old Andrea Hines in 1994 when he was 13 has been released from the California Youth Authority and is reportedly back in Holtville. Adan Garcia, now 25, was released from CYA in Chino after serving 12 years for a secondndegree murder plea he made before Superior Court Judge Juan Ulloa. Garcia admitted to strangling and stabbing Andrea multiple times in the family?s backyard on Sept. 17, 1994. Garcia was tried as a juvenile.
NEWS
August 14, 2002
SAN JOSE (AP) ? The confession of a man who told FBI agents he and two others were responsible for the killings of three tourists will not be allowed as evidence in the trial of Yosemite killer Cary Stayner, a judge ruled Tuesday. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas Hastings turned down the request of Stayner's defense lawyer, Marcia Morrissey, who sought to present the alleged confession of Eugene ??Rufus" Dykes, 35, to undercut the reliability of Stayner's admissions.
SPORTS
| July 27, 2007
For youth baseball players who love to participate in America?s past time, Little League Fall Ball is getting ready to hit the diamond next month. ?We started Fall Ball a couple of years ago,? said Tony Ojeda, California District 22 administrator. ?We wanted to have this for those kids who want to play baseball more than other sports.? Teams from Brawley, Calexico, El Centro, Heber, Holtville, Imperial, Seaview and Sunbeam will be competing in the fall baseball league. District 22 has been registering girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 12 since July 2 and will stop online registration July 31. Individual league registration will be posted online when information becomes available at www.eteamz.
SPORTS
| October 28, 2012
The 2012 World Series came down Sunday night to a one-run extra-innings lead being held by Brawley native Sergio Romo and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera batted .330 on the regular season, but it didn't phase the San Francisco Giants' closer. Romo froze Cabrera for the called strike three and his team's second World Series championship in three years. “It brings chills,” Romo's former coach and current Brawley Union High baseball coach Pedro Carrranza said. “They can take a lot of things from you in this life, but they can't take this memory away,” he said.
NEWS
| May 24, 2012
A brush fire near Anza-Borrego Desert State Wilderness and Highway 78 is headed east, a state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection firefighter said today. “We have absolutely no idea about containment,” said Cal Fire Firefighter Blanca Mercado. She said so far 40 engines, eight fire crews, six helicopters, five bulldozers and four water tenders have responded to the fire. The Banner Grade Fire has burned at least 1,000 acres near the Shelter Valley area in eastern San Diego County, she said.
NEWS
| October 2, 2007
HOLTVILLE ? Kathie Morris could scarcely believe her ears when she heard the news from her husband at 6 a.m. Sunday. Joshua Ayon, 22, had been shot once in the head and once in the heart on the sidewalk that borders her house at the corner of Olive and Wooldridge avenues here. A yellow carnation and three dried patches of blood, one trailing from the street, marked the spot where the attack ended. Morris said that despite being within 30 feet of the shooting, the gunshots did not wake her; absent, too, were any loud arguments between Ayon and the two suspects.
NEWS
| November 21, 2009
Balloons filled two courtrooms in the Imperial County Superior Courthouse as dozens of adoptions were finalized Friday. The Imperial County Department of Social Services celebrated National Adoption Day by finalizing 28 adoptions. ?Today, 28 children leave the foster care system and join permanent families that are loving,? said Mickey Castro, deputy director of children services. ?This is a day of celebration.? Though adoptions are usually confidential, these 28 were publicized to promote the day and encourage others to adopt, said Judge Juan Ulloa.
NEWS
| May 15, 2013
CALEXICO - Dippy Duck wiggled and waved to hundreds of students at Cesar Chavez Elementary School on Wednesday as part of the Imperial Irrigation District's water safety awareness campaign. The district's “Stay Active, Play Safe, Be Cool” campaign will be presented to just under 25,000 students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade at 45 schools all over the Valley in coming weeks. Students giggled and enthusiastically responded to questions for prizes as presenters taught them safety information such as staying away from canals or calling for help if they see someone or something in a canal.
NEWS
| October 10, 2008
An arraignment hearing is scheduled in federal court today for the airman facing a single count of possession and distribution of child pornography. The criminal complaint against 20-year-old defendant Matthew Coston was not ready Thursday. Dressed in a red jumpsuit, Coston, who is stationed at Naval Air Facility El Centro, was ushered out of the U.S. District courtroom in El Centro when it was learned the proceedings weren?t going to happen. Coston was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who seized two computers from the airman?
NEWS
| July 9, 2002
Imperial Irrigation District's Water Safety Poster Contest, which celebrates Dippy Duck's 36 safe years, has concluded and the winners have been selected. The poster contest was open to children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The contest asked students to celebrate Dippy Duck's 36 safe and successful years by drawing colorful posters to illustrate a water safety rule. The winning posters will be published in a full-color calendar to be used by teachers in Imperial Valley schools.
NEWS
| May 23, 2013
Newborn 8-pound, 4-ounce Xennessis Yssabella Lizardi made her debut into this world Monday in the unlikeliest of places: an Imperial Valley Mall women's restroom. The sudden arrival of the strapping baby surprised her mother, Carmen Lucia Garcia, not to mention mall shoppers. Xennessis came unannounced, about 15 days prior to her due date and after less than two minutes of labor, Garcia said. “In the time it took me to lower my pants, the baby's head was already out,” the 27-year-old Mexicali resident said in Spanish.
NEWS
| April 23, 2012
CALEXICO - Dirt began flying for the much-anticipated Gran Plaza outlet center Monday as the $94 million project five years in the making held its ceremonial groundbreaking. Gran Plaza project director Ron Holley said construction will begin in May, and the first phase of the project by Charles Company is anticipated to be completed by April 2013. The outlets are being built in two phases on about 52 acres of land on Second Street west of the Calexico Downtown Port of Entry. Stores such as Ann Taylor, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, American Eagle and more have already expressed interest in being part of the project.
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