Video: APS cheese fight continues

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:06:56 +0000

The Albuquerque school board took more heat over cold cheese Wednesday night without resolving concerns about only serving cheese sandwiches to kids whose parents are behind in lunch payments.

Video: APS to construct soccer complex

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:43:15 +0000

EXTENSIVE ENOUGH. 200-THOUSAND DOLLARS. THAT'S HOW MUCH MONEY A-P-S SPENDS EACH YEAR ON STUDENTS FOR THEIR SOCCER GAMES. THE COSTLY BILL IS BLAMED ON A-P-S BEING FORCED TO DRIVE ATHLETES TO BERNALILLO ... BECAUSE THE DISTRICT DOESN'T HAVE ITS OWN SOCCER FACILITY. BUT THAT WILL SOON CHANGE. JEFF MAHER IS HERE TO EXPLAIN. JEFF. ON THE WESTSIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE, A-P-S IS GETTING READY TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION WORK ON A SIX- MILLION DOLLAR SOCCER FIELD COMPLEX. THE COMPLEX WILL SAVE A-P-S A GOOD CHUNK OF CHANGE IN THE LONG RUN -- BECAUSE UP TO THIS POINT THE DISTRICT HAS HAD TO GO FAR OUT OF ITS WAY TO GET KIDS TO THEIR GAMES. 'to put a buffer between the middle school and the elementary school, we are building a soccer complex which is going to have four artificial turf mondo soccer fields which are going to be lighted' NOT FAR FROM VOLCANO VISTA HIGH SCHOOL NEAR PASEO DEL NORTE AND UNIVERSE SITS AN EMPTY FIELD THAT WILL SOON BE TRANSFORMED INTO A BIG SOCCER FIELD COMPLEX WITH SEATING FOR 200, AND A CONCESSION STAND. SOMETHING A-P-S HAS NEEDED FOR A LONG TIME. 'most of our soccer teams right now have to travel to Bernalillo to play soccer, so these will hopefully be completed in August and we will no longer have our soccer teams go to Bernalillo because we will be at the new soccer complex' A-P-S HAS PAID THE PRICE FOR USING BERNALILLO'S FACILITY. THE 200-THOUSAND DOLLAR ANNUAL BILL COMES FROM TRANSPORTATION COSTS FOR ROUGHLY ONE-THOUSAND STUDENT ATHLETES AND THE COST FOR RENTING THE FIELD ON A REGULAR BASIS. A-P-S WILL STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR MAINTAINING ITS OWN FACILITY, BUT DISTRICT OFFICIALS ESTIMATE THEY'LL END UP SAVING ABOUT 40-THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, POSSIBLY MORE IF GAS PRICES GO BACK UP. ALL A-P-S HIGH SCHOOLS WILL USE THE NEW SOCCER COMPLEX FOR GAMES AND TOURNAMENTS, BUT YOUTH SOCCER TEAMS WILL BE ABLE TO USE IT AS WELL. 'the westside, as people already know, we don't have enough recreation fields out there as it is, and so this was also built with the community in mind' AGAIN, THE COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED IN AUGUST. A-P-S OFFICIALS SAY ONCE IT'S DONE, THEY MAY CONSIDER EXPANDING THEIR SOCCER PROGRAM FROM JUST HIGH SCHOOL --- TO MIDDLE SCHOOL AS

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Video: APS cheese fight continues

Video: APS to construct soccer complex