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We received this note from Helen Marshall:

This notification of a FREE event was sent to us. 

The Border Youth Athletic Association is one of the unsung success stories in El Paso.  They are a not for profit organization that helps youngsters both athletically in academically.  Take some time to learn about them by following the link below.

Evidently space is limited so register early at www.elpasoborderyouth.org

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Border Youth Athletic Association is pleased to announce Major League Baseball will be visiting El Paso to hold a special event for children from across the Borderlands.

The event is called PLAY BALL and it is part of MLB’s effort to reach a more diverse audience. It is made possible by BYAA’s affiliation with MLB Youth Programs through the RBI initiative. The MLB Baseball and Softball Development staff held over 30 PLAY BALL activations in 2017, but ours will be their first ever bi-national PLAY BALL event. 

PLAY BALL is a free, 90-minute celebration of baseball and softball for kids ages 5 to 13. Games and activities will be staged on the Southwest University Park field, thanks to the generosity of the El Paso Chihuahuas. There will be two PLAY BALL sessions. The morning session is dedicated to Border Youth’s RBI program participants and select Canutillo and Gadsden schools. It will run from 10am to 11:30am.  The afternoon session is open to the public and we are expecting children from El Paso, New Mexico and Juarez. This session will be from 12:30 to 2pm. We estimate we will have 250-300participating in each session, or 600 for the day.

MLB’s New York office is sending a prestigious group out to participate in our Cinco de Mayo PLAYBALL. We will have:

          David James, Sr. V.P., Baseball & Softball Development, MLB

          Chris Haydock, Director, Baseball & Softball Development, MLB

          Destinee Martinez, Team USA Softball Player and Event Manager, USA Softball

           Renee Tirado, V.P., Talent & Acquisition, MLB 

           Kerline Battista, Coordinator Business Communication, MLB

           Sandy Charles, MLB Network, Talent/Producer

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This is better!

Brutus               

We’ve been told that the school yard (edited: was year) fence at Parkland middle school is a rock wall.

Does anyone know how tall it is?  Obviously it was scalable by a 6th grader.

We deserve better

Brutus

Did you know that in Texas you can buy medical quality injection syringes at a local pharmacy without a prescription?

Let’s discuss this.

We deserve better

Brutus

It was disappointing to read the Ysleta Independent School District’s superintendent’s comments in the Times the other day:

“I think what’s being irresponsibly promoted is the idea that this district and Parkland Middle school endorsed or promoted a walkout.  Nothing could be further from the truth”

Really?

The superintendent told the Times that the district’s crisis management response team was on hand in anticipation of the event.

The students were allowed to leave their classrooms and congregate on the school grounds.

How can students just get up en masse and be allowed to leave their classrooms without permission from the school?  Shouldn’t we think that the students would be disciplined if they left without permission?  They won’t be disciplined because they were allowed to leave.

An earlier Times article wrote of the superintendent:

He said there were walkouts at almost all the district’s secondary schools — mainly to the football fields or ending in moments of silence.

Irresponsible

The dictionary definition of irresponsible is not showing a proper sense of responsibility.  There is no question that the district did at least facilitate the walkout.  Claiming that the public is irresponsible is ludicrous.

Corrective action

Time will tell if anyone did anything wrong that they should be held responsible for.

What we have not heard from the superintendent is that he will take steps to see to it that this cannot happen again.

We deserve better

Brutus