Read in the “whispers” section of the El Paso Inc. that the Corner Bakery Cafe is thinking about opening up on 
the West Side….I am all for this! I will go to the location over on the East Side if I’m in that neck of the woods but I love the possibility of seeing this place open off Sunland Park.
See you there.
My name is David and I am living El Paso.
I find this discussion very interesting and perhaps an opportunity for El Paso to jump on early in areas where what appears as blight now because of vacancy/bad planning could be transformed into something pretty special in the future.
My name is David and I am living El Paso.
My mom sent me this article from the El Paso Times this morning and I wanted to share it with all of you….some of you may have already read it today.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15554706
Update: Donations for Brittany Adair, who lost everything she owned when her stuff was stolen from a moving truck, can be made at the Army Community Service building on Fort Bliss.
The 21-year-old Army wife’s husband, William Adair, is deployed in Iraq.
The Army Community Service building is located on Fort Bliss at 2494 Ricker Road.
Family Readiness liaison Thuy Depew said people can contact her for directions to the building at 569-7742.
Original story: EL PASO — Brittany Adair’s possessions consist of a box of clothes and an air mattress.
The 21-year-old Army wife said she lost everything she owned when her stuff was stolen from a moving truck on Sunday.
Adair, whose husband, William, was deployed to Iraq, said she could not stop crying Monday once she realized that she was on her own without the financial means to replace the items she lost during the move. Her 18-month-old son’s crib, most of her clothes, her television and her furniture are all gone, she said.
Adair said she and William first moved to El Paso in November 2008. She said William was deployed a year later. Adair moved back to Houston not long after he left.
“I moved back home with my parents because I had a newborn that year and I didn’t have any friends here,” she said.
Adair said she returned to El Paso because she expects William to return from Iraq in November. She said she wanted to have their house, located in the 4700 block of Loma del Rey Circle, and life settled before he arrived.
Adair said Aztec Moving and Shipping of El Paso was moving her belongings from a locked storage unit that she and her husband had kept since he was deployed in 2009. The truck was parked in an East Side parking lot when the items were stolen.
“They put all my stuff into a truck on Saturday at noon or so I’ve been told … and then it sat locked in the truck until last night until it got stolen,” she said.
Larry Arellano, owner of Aztec Moving and Shipping, filed a police report Sunday, according to police records.
Arellano said his attorney instructed him not to talk about the report because the theft might become a legal issue between him and Adair.
“I’ve gotten some threatening words from her,” Arellano said.
Adair said she only informed Arellano that she would find legal representation if they could not come to an agreement on what he should pay her for the lost belongings.
“I’ve never threatened him,” she said. “I told him that I would be contacting a lawyer.”
Adair said Arellano offered to pay her 60 cents a pound for the stolen items. That offer is unfair, she said.
“I’m trying to fight him because I didn’t get insurance on any of my stuff,” she said. “I’m completely uninsured. He told me that this area was really safe so I didn’t really think about it.”
The experience of having her possessions stolen during the move to El Paso has left Adair feeling lonely and afraid, she said.
“The only people I know right now are my neighbors. I don’t know a soul, and then this happens and I don’t have anything,” she said. “We’re sitting in this empty house with an air mattress and that’s about it.”
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My name is David and I am living El Paso.
Driving home from the airport last night, a thought came to me…When UTEP wins…do they light any part of campus up? Here some examples of places that light it up after a win….when I say light it up, I mean electricity.
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So where are some prominent places on UTEP’s campus where the this could be done? UT’s and Baylor’s lighted towers are both visible from I-35 so everyone knows when the schools won. If they decided to keep the stacks at Asarco…maybe those could be lit up to signify a UTEP victory?
What are your thoughts on this idea?
My name is David and I am living El Paso.
Ok….it has been almost 25 days since I last posted. That is the longest stint away since I started this blog almost two years ago.
I’ll admit, I got a little burnt out. I wanted some change and I felt like I wasn’t giving you, the reader, enough quality content. It is really easy not to write a blog post every day…super easy…but not fun.
I’m not sure how many of you are still checking out the blog since it hasn’t been updated but to those who still check and those who will hopefully come back…my goal is to offer you a more fulfilling site and follow through on what I preach.
I really talked up the Asarco meetings but ended up not going because I didn’t plan for them. I want to back up what I write…not just be a talking head.
Be looking for small changes over the next few months and more in depth posts. Until then, keep living El Paso!
My name is David and I am living El Paso.
