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              New food stamp
regulations enforced
XII food stamp recipients are
now subject to new regulations
passed as part of the federat wel-fare
reform legislation.
Starting Oct. 1, all new and
continuing recipients were notified
of requirements for certification.
Ail cases are being reviewed for
compliance with the new bees,
The new regulations affect non-citizen
residents, able-bodied
adults without dependents, and
children younger than 21. They
also impose stronger sanctions
against those found committing
food,atamp fraud.
Recipients with questions
should call the Department of
Economic Security at l-800-352-
8401.
New shopping center
may locate in city
South Tucsonans may soon be
able to shop for groceries, buy
new clothes and pick up a video
ail in one shopping center.
The city has been working on
plans over the last five years to
develop the area of South Sixth
Avenue and Interstate 10 to
include a grocery store and shop-ping
mail complex.
City manager Rene Gastelum
said while plans are not finalized,
the development would help to
provide new jobs, spur growth
and provide services not previous-ly
available to South Tucson resi-dents.
Tortilla factory
regains permit
The La Buena Tortilla Factory
has regained its regular health per-mit
after being cited for numerous
"critical violations" in August.
A conditional permit was issued
to the business, located at 4540 5.
12th Ave., until an inspection in
September showed improvement
Javier Leon, supervising sanitar-ian
inspector for the county health
department, said the restaurant will
here-inspected every SOto 40 deys
until its scores stabilize.
La Buena's violations had
included ifies in the bakery area,
eggs stored at room temperature
and sinks that were not accessible
to workers.
ElmSouth Tucson'a *Engliah/Spanish Newapaper
PROJECT YES:
Tom Neiman plans
to pedal and pedal
and pedal bis way
mross Arizona to
raise money for
Project YES. 'Page 6
BY TRIGlE EALEY
Staff Writer
On
Oct 4, she would
have been 16 years
old.
She was like most teenagers. She
loved music, dancing, talking on the
phone and being with her friends.
She went to Sunnyside High School
for her freshman year until she
was too ill to attend.
She was Crystalina Brito, who
died March 24, 1996.
BY MELISSA PRENTICE
Ciudod Editor
Teen dies when no donor match found;
drive seeks to save other minorities
Hundreds
of children crowded into the Ochoa
Elementary School courtyard to remember a
young friend who died too soon.
None of the small students could understand why
Oscar Gastelum was killed by a gang member's stray bul-let
tastJuly, while celebrating his 11th birthday on his front
patio.
But their tear-streaked laces showed that Oscar's for-mher
aclasvsmaetes alhl kneaw tphat tphe veiolenncee nevder s.ho-uld
"We want peace in the world," the classmates sang
together in Spanish. "For all the children of the world we
want peare and liberty."
Several of the children scattered around the Peace
Patio held up hand-made signs: "No mas pistolas;' "We
See MEMORIAL, Page 5
clienté
CROSS
COUNTRY:
Pueblo coach
Armando Gonzalez
faces the challenge of
beginning a new pro-gram
. .Page 9
Crystal, as she was called by her
family and friends, was diagnosed
with aptastic anemia in May 1994.
The condition causes the bone mar-row
to stop producing red and white
blood cella and platelets.
To survive, Crystal needed abone
marrow transplant
But it was not to be for Crystal,
who was part Hispanic and part
Yaqui
Donors need to be matched for
tissue types, which vary by race,
And racial and ethnic minorities
make up less than one-fonrth of the
potential donor list
But under anew program linking
the University Medical Center's Donor
Registry and Kino Community
Hospital, program organizers hope to
give the more than 30,000 people
each year who are diagnosed with dis-eases
like aplastic anemia and
leukemia a better chance,
Kino Community Hospital workers
are seeking minority donors among
the patient population and the sur-rounding
community.
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Pr. Above. at Ochoa
ty School sing songs in honor of
Oscar at a peace ceremony
last month.
Classmates commemorate life of murdered friend
Compañeros recuerdan
la vida de amigo muerto
POR MEUSSA PRENTICE
La Redue*oru de tu C,odc,d
Cientos de itiiioc llenó dentto el!
primarIa Othoa para recorda
1996
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AQUA STAR:
A new business is
making cold hard
rash off machines
dispensing Ice cold
water .Page 10
Minority donors can now hase
their blood tested and added to the
national registry for free. The test
usually costs up to $75.
"We need as many minority
donors as possible to increase peo-ple's
chances of survival," said
Kalosha Beton, spokeswoman for the
National Marrow Donor Program.
"The grant provides nnlimited
resources to continue (outreach) as
long as needed."
Crystal's father, Steve Brito, never
See DONOR, Page 5
Kids offered
spook options
BY KIMBERLY NIELSEN
Stuff Wriler
This
ttalloween you may not
see many costumed kids
running the streets of Sosith
Tucson trick-or-treating.
Bnt that doesn't mean they'll miss
out on candy and inn,
The South Tucson Police and the
John A. Valenzuela Youth Center are
teaming opto offer children a fun und
safe Halloween night alternative. The
10th annual children's Halloween
party will be held at the renter, 1550
S. Sixth Avenue, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.,
followed by a dance for teen-agers
beginning at 7 p.m.
"ksour commnnity we don't sees
lot of trickor-treating," said commu-nity
resource officer Michael J.
Cadillos. "That's why we developed
the party and dance."
Children aged 5to 14 who attend
the party can expect an evening of
ganses, festive activities, plenty of
candy and maybe even a
scary movie. Musical
chairs, dress-up games
and pin-the'
tail-on-the-witch
will be among
the evening's festivi-ties.
And after the
party the cen-ter
will
transform
See HALLOWEEN, Page 2
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