Blasita
Lopez to oversee City's communications office;
Jesse Bogan assumes E-N's border post
The big news this
month is the appointment of City of Laredo Public
Information Officer Blasita Lopez to the position
of communications manager for the Office of Public
Information Office and the Office of Telecommunications/Public
Access Center. The announcement was made recently
by City Manager Larry Dovalina, who lauded Lopez's
contributions to the City's PIO office.
Lopez said she looked forward to the challenge of
overseeing both entities and to continuing her work
in the public information office, which is the division
charged with disseminating news to the local media,
as well as receiving, monitoring, and processing all
open records requests as prescribed by the Texas Public
Information Act.
The division of Telecommunications handles all City
of Laredo business with complying with regulations
set by the Federal Communications Commission when
dealing with local cable and satellite companies,
for rental and lease agreements. It also houses the
Public Access Center facilities, the City-owned public-access
channels, which regularly show City Council, Webb
County, school board, and other municipal board meetings,
among other local features.
Lopez, a journalism graduate of the University of
Texas in Austin, began her career as a reporter with
local television outlets, where she honed her media
skills in reporting, investigating, interviewing,
producing, and editing, among other journalistic skills.
Lopez joined the City of Laredo as the PIO in 2000.
Bogan Takes Border
Chief Post
Welcome to Laredo, Jesse Bogan, the new Border Bureau
Chief for the San Antonio Express-News. Bogan, a native
of Rolla, Missouri and a journalism graduate of the
University of Missouri, has spent the last month getting
to know the region and has made fast friends along
the way. He has worked for the Express-News for the
last year and a half covering spot news and police
stories. He comes to field of journalism from an earlier
career in agribusiness.
Arce joins WBCA
Adriana Arce, formerly of the Laredo Morning Times,
has joined the media relations staff of the Washington's
Birthday Celebration Association.
At Pro 8 News
Among the new faces on KGNS's Pro 8 News is Steve
Lyerly, the station's morning and noon anchor. He
is a native of Rockwell, North Carolina. Best wishes
to Mariela Alasi who co-anchors with Tim Gutierrez
on the 5 p.m. Pro 8 broadcast. She brings a good measure
of professionalism and interest to the broadcast and
appears not to be just another on-air reader of news.
Best wishes likewise to Spanish translator Leonar
Narvaez, who now makes the station's news broadcasts
accessible to thousands of Spanish speaking Laredoans.
New Issue of La Fe
La Fe's Goyo Lopez has another beautiful issue out
and circulating. Lopez has consistently managed to
give the four-color publication a very recognizable
local slant. Among the local news stories are the
profile of Sr. Mary De Lellis Treviño and Casa
de Misericordia Women's Shelter.
Why You Can't Taste
Food
With Your Pallet
Sorry, Erin Taylor (LMT, 10/19/03, Re: Tack Room).
That with which you taste food is your palate. That
slatted wood object on which you store goods in transit
is a pallet.
