Deming Public School Bus Schedules in the mail.

07/31/2012

 
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(Deming) – Deming Public Schools  Transportation Department officials have sent most students’ bus schedules home  by mail.

Parents who have not  received their student’s bus pass by next Tuesday, August 7th, are asked to stop by the transportation office or call.
 
The transportation  department will hold pre-registration next week for all eligible bus students,  including students new to the district, students attending a new school or  students who have had a change of address.
 
Bus passes will be  issued for these students Tuesday through Thursday of next week – August  7th through the 9th – at the transportation office, 501 West Florida,  just west of the Hofacket building.

To be eligible to be  transported by school bus, elementary and intermediate school students must live  more than a mile from
their home school… 7th through 9th  grade students must live more than a mile and half  from school… and sophomores,  juniors and seniors must live more than two miles from school.

Ray Trejo will be John Krehbiel's guest intervew on Monday August 6th at 7:30am on KOTS and KDEM radio.  Mr. Trejo will be talking about the transportation issues concerning DPS.  Contact transportation  officials at 546-8841 for more information.
 

LOCAL RADIO HOST SCOTTY MCKINNON PASSES

04/30/2012

 
(DEMING) --  Beloved local radio personality Scotty McKinnon died early Monday morning at the V-A hospital in Albuquerque.  He was 81. 
McKinnon's wife, Rose, said he was being treated for a heart attack, congestive heart failure and pheumonia.  McKinnon was a Thursday morning favorite on KOTS for 5 years with his "Spinnin' with McKinnon Show," billed as, "Radio the way it used to be." He played a variety of songs - many from artists whom he had personally met during his decades in radio in many Canadian and US markets.  His show also focused on personality - something critics say has been lost in this area of satellite delivered radio.   
McKinnon stopped being able to do his show in March due to his declining health. 
McKinnon's son, Nick, said his father, a Korean war veterran, will be buried in the veteran's cemetery in Santa Fe with military honors.  He will be missed.