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Valley Meat dealt another blow THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
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Valley Meat Co. was forced to launch another offensive against a regulatory agency Monday, this time against the New Mexico Environment Department, after the company was denied a temporary water discharge permit. The latest hurdle comes just before the horse meat processing plant expects to open Aug. 5. Citing unfair treatment, Valley Meat’s attor ney asked the state department to explain why the horse meat processing plant’s permit was denied when other permits were granted in similar situations.
Valley Meat’s attorney, A. Blair Dunn, told the Record the denial of the state’s discharge permit will not stop the plant from opening, but will cost Valley Meat “another expense.” The department denied issuing Valley Meat a temporary per mit in part because the Water Quality Board had received more than 450 public comments concerning the company’s draft discharge permit. The plant, which has sat idle as it waited nearly 15 months for the USDA to issue its grant of inspection, is now accused of allowing its ground-water permit to lapse. “We have now identified dairies across the state that have a similar lapse in their
permit and have been waiting for years for the NMENV to do its job. Nobody has come and shut them down,” Dunn wrote to Kevin Powers, assistant general council at the department. “Why the inequality?” The NMENV’s Water Quality Bureau could not be reached for comment late Monday afternoon. The Water Quality Control Commission, the board that oversees the department’s Water Quality Commission regulations, is comprised of 14 members — including one appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez and Assistant Attor ney General Sean Cunniff. The gover nor and AG have spoken out repeatedly
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against the Valley Meat opening. AG Gary King announced Monday he had asked a federal judge to unite with animal protection activists to “stop a plant in Roswell from slaughtering horses for meat.” King said Monday his motion raises concer ns about more costly regulatory burdens for the state to “ensure that waste discharge does not threaten area water supplies and environmental quality.” Martinez has also petitioned the USDA in the past against issuing the permit and has consistently voiced her opposition against the practice of horse slaughter in New Mexico.
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The United Methodist Church is hosting Kingdom Rock Vacation Bible School this week at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 915 W. 19th St. The program is a combined effort between Aldersgate and the First United Methodist Church, 200 N. Pennsylvania Ave. The program is open to children from the age of 3 up to the fifth grade. Each morning starts with a skit and then the children go to various activities, including the Imagination Station, Games and Crafts Station and the Kingdom Snack Station where “the children wait on others to learn servitude,” said Sherrie Goff, program director. Monday’s featured guest was Emma the CASA service dog who demonstrated a canine high-five. She will make a reappearance at Kingdom Rock VBS on Friday.
Valley Meat’s immediate future awaits a federal ruling in Albuquerque on Aug. 2. A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by animal protection groups will decide whether to halt operations for another six months to a year.
The Humane Society of the United States, Front Range Equine Rescue and other groups and individuals filed a suit against the USDA to halt operations at the Roswell plant and a facility in Iowa, claiming the federal government did not follow proper environmental reviews before issuing grants of inspections to the facilities.
Crime leads to soulsearching
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — The soul-searching has begun in and around Cleveland — again — as the chilling details emerge from the latest missing-women case to send a shiver through the metropolitan area. A registered sex offender was charged Monday with murder and kidnapping in the slayings of three women whose bodies were found in plastic trash bags in a rundown East Cleveland neighborhood. It is the third major case in four years of multiple killings or abductions to haunt the Rust Belt metropolis. “I do think we have to ask ourselves as a community the larger question: Why here, and what can we do to better understand the conditions that fostered this savage behavior?” said Dennis Eckert, a political and urbanpolicy consultant and former Cleveland-area congressman.
It’s a boy! A royal heir is born Morsi’s family denounces military
LONDON (AP) — Champagne bottles popped and shouts of “Hip! Hip! Hooray!” erupted outside Buckingham Palace on Monday as Britain welcomed the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate’s first child, a boy who is now third in line to the British throne.
Hundreds of Britons and tourists broke into song and dance outside the palace gates as of ficials announced that the future king was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces (3.75 kilograms), at
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The large waiting crowds cheer at the announcement of the birth of a baby boy to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at St. Mary's Hospital in west London, Monday.
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CAIRO (AP) — The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi furiously denounced the military Monday, accusing it of “kidnapping” him, and European diplomats urged that Egypt’s first freely elected leader be released after being held incommunicado for nearly three weeks since being deposed by the army. The fate of Morsi, who has been held without charge, has become a focus of the political battle between his Muslim Brotherhood and the new military-backed government. The Brotherhood has tried to use Morsi’s detention to rally the country to its side, hoping to restore its badly damaged popularity. The interim government, in turn, appears in part to be using it to pressure his supSee EGYPT, Page A3
Brazilian crowds delight Pope Francis, frustrate security See HEIR, Page A3
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A wrong turn sent a humble Fiat carrying Pope Francis into the thick of a frenzied Rio crowd Monday, in his first minutes back in South America since becoming pontiff. It was a nightmare for security officials, but for the clearly delighted pope just another opportunity to connect. Ecstatic throngs forced his motorcade to repeatedly come to a standstill, weeks after violent protests against the government paralyzed parts of Brazil. Francis’ driver had turned into the wrong side of a boulevard at one point, missing lanes that had been cleared. Other parts of the pope’s route to the city
center weren’t lined with fencing, giving the throngs more chances to get close, with uniformed police nowhere in sight to act as crowd control. The three dozen visible Vatican and Brazilian plainclothes security officials struggled to keep the crowds at bay. Francis, however, not only looked calm but got even closer to the people. He rolled down his back-seat window, waved to the crowd and touched those who reached inside. He kissed a baby a woman handed to him. The pope is here on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. That task
has grown more challenging as Roman Catholics stray, even in strongholds of the religion such as Brazil, yet it seemed to come easily to Francis even on the drive from the airport to an official opening ceremony.
As many as 1 million young people from around the world are expected in Rio for the Catholic youth fest, a seemingly tailor-made event for the Argentine-born pope, who has proven enormously popular in his four months on the job. But the fervor of the crowds that regularly greet Francis in St. Peter’s Square was nothing compared with the raucous welcome in Rio.
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A member of the security detail holds up a baby to Pope Francis as he makes his way in the popemobile into central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday.