The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1985 Page: 1 of 8
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very nice hybrids being
caught down there. To get
there, you have to go to
Lewisville first. Go past the
nut factory on Main until
you get to Kealy Street,
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Candy was tossed from Christmas parade units Saturday on Blair Oaks
Road and youths scrambled for it. The annual parade featured floats,
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marching units, the North Texas Twirlers and scouts. “A Child’s First
Christmas” was the parade’s theme.
the night of Dec. 6.
put at $23.
Theft—A driver
$6.32 worth of gasoline
in a vehicle the morning
of Dec. 8 at the Seven-
11 market at 5010 Main
Street and drove away with-
out paying.
Theft—Someone took a
jacket and credit cards of
a Brookshire’s market em-
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touches now, and still have stringent inspections to pass,” he said. “We
won’t move before Jan. 15, and possibly later,”
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I’d try while bank fishing
would be below the dam.
Since the great floods a few
years ago, the corps recon-
structed the spillway below
the dam, and you can en-
joy some fairly good fish-
ing sometimes. They built
a real nice walkway kind
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film series
The Colony Public Li-
brary will conclude its free
December films with the
showing of “Big Business”
and “The Steadfast Tin
Soldier” on Saturday from
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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and also if you’re real
careful, you can walk along
the rocks and cast your
bait up towards the point
where the water is coming
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ingredients. She would sample a spoonful
before giving a youngster his dose. It
worked, and was tasty.
Granny had a couple of canaries, and
Dec. 6.
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Workmen have poured driveways and are putting finishing touches on the
Colony’s new Post Office. Postal Director Charles Perkins expects the
facility to be completed in late January. “They are doing finishing
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ploye the night of Dec. 6.
Loss put at $135.
Theft—A bicycle was sto-
len from the front yard
of a home in the 5500
block of Russell Drive Dec.
5. Loss put at $139.
Theft—A tube of Fixo-
dent was taken and put
in her purse by a shop-
lifter at a grocery store
at 5000 Main Street the
afternoon of Dec. 7. Re-
tail price $3.56.
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Someone smeared a white
sticky substance on a car
parked at a home in the
4900 block of Wheeler
mon.
The changes included
eliminating a three-meter
diving board, reducing the
height of a fence, delet-
ing two spaces in the park-
ing lot, deleting glass
blocks in dressing rooms,
removing tile in the deck
area, and changes in the
outdoor electrical system.
After Welty outlined the
proposed changes Council-
man Don Amick reviewed
each one and asked ques-
tions.
City Manager Janice
Carroll said the changes
would not affect the atmos-
phere or water area.
The object is to build
a pool, Councilman Mar-
lene Poole said.
The council hopes to
have the pool open by May
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Mayor Larry Sample said
Monday that the Colony’s
request for Extended Area
(telephone) Service had
been docketed by the state
Public Utilities Commission
for a hearing. He added
; that no hearing date had
been set.
Sample said that a Col-
ony telephone traffic study
had been done, and the
Colony was third on the
PUC list. More than 50
cities have sought EAS.
EAS would mean that
Colony residents could
place calls to Dallas without
a long-distance charge. The
PUC adopted new EAS
rules in May.
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Earlier in the meeting
the council annexed 127
acres south of Highway 121
and east of the Burlington
Northern Railroad. Then it
changed the zoning from
Agricultural to Planned De-
velopment. The request
to annex and change the
zoning came from J. O.
White.
Mayor Tarry Sample
noted that the 127 acres
was “a popular tract,” and
that the Colony was the
second city in a week to
annex it. The other city is
Plano.
Early in November the
Plano City council took its
first steps on annexation.
The Colony council had
called annexation public
hearings Oct. 28.
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in’ shows and reading cata-
logs and magazines. And
finally, between cold
fronts, we get one half
decent day where it’s warm
enought to get out and go
fishin’ for a little while.
Forget the boat, just go.
One of the first places
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Gone fishin ’
Winter
By CHARLIE PARKER
Courier Fishing Editor
This is the time of year
that many of us can get
out and do some explor-
ing for new fishing waters.
You know how it is;
you’ve been cooped up for
three weeks watching fish-
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The Colony City Council
approved changes Monday
at Colony Aquatic Park that
will bring the cost down to
$850,000. That’s the
amount approved in a bond
election.
Five bids to construct the
park were received in No-
vember, and the lowest was
$1,053,862 submitted by
Telamon Construction of Ir-
ving. The council decided
to negotiate to reduce the
cost overrun.
Bob Welty of Rawls-Wel-
ty architects, proposed
changes Monday that
would reduce the cost by
$203,000. The council ap-
proved the changes and
accepted the Telamon bid.
Changes will be made in
the contract and then it
will be awarded to Tela-
when they weren’t feeling too chipper they
got a dose of the medicine after she sipped
it to make certain the secret mixture wasn’t
too hot. Sometimes it was tangy enough to
make a bird fall off his perch.
Then there are today’s grannys. Many
are professional women wearing tailored
business outfits, not aprons. They stay
trim and wear tight slacks. They don’t sip
homemade cough medicine, but do have an
occasional martini at business lunches.
There’s little time for grandchildren when
she is an executive.
Grannys with comfortable bosoms are
gone with the good ole days.
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Residents are continuing their fight to
prevent an airport being built in Frisco
that would send low flights over Colony
homes.
Mayor Larry Sample has vowed to battle
the present location of the proposed
airport, in court if necessary. About 10
days ago Kay VanAlstyne, a Colony
resident, had collected 345 signatures
opposing the airport.
She showed up Tuesday at City Hall with
1,102 signatures on petitions. They will be
forwarded to the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration.
Do you have a blank spot left on a
petition, I asked Kay. She did. There are
now 1,103 signatures.
From time to time I drop in to see Zane
Kennedy, an optometrist in Colony Square
Shopping Center, seeking a few words of
wisdom.
“I climbed to the top of the mountain,
seeking your wisdom, o’ wise one,”
I told him Monday.
“Let’s hear your wisdom,” Zane coun-
tered.
I quickly thought up some wisdom:
“Damp birds never fly at night,” I said,
“think about that a few days.”
Obviously, he had given years of thought
to one thing: “Have you noticed how
grandmothers have changed in the last 40
years?” Zane asked. I hadn’t. But, by
golly, it was something to think about.
He remembered his ole granny in
Alabama. She always wore a dress and hat
anytime she went downtown to shop. She
liked to cook and make candy for the
grandkids. When she went to the market
she didn’t buy a package of chicken.
Granny raised her own, and she had a
chopping block and axe in her backyard.
She picked feathers and cooked hens.
When Zane and the other grandchildren
came down with bad colds she made the
Drive the night of Dec. 4.
Damage put at $50.
Theft—Christmas* light
bulbs valued at $6.85 were
reported stolen from a
home in the 5000 block
of Watkins Drive the night
of Dec. 6.
Theft—Someone un-
screwed five-dozen large
blue Christmas light bubs
at a home in the 4900
block of Wheeler Drive
Burglary—Colony police
were told that a window
of a vehicle parked in the
4600 block of Nervin Drive
was broken between 5:30
and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 8 and
a radar detector taken.
Loss put at $400.
Burglary—A boy’s bicyc-
le was reported stolen the
night of Dec. 6 from an
open garage at a home in
the 5200 block of Ragan
Road. Loss put at $110.
Criminal Mischief—
Someone knocked out two
slats of a wood fence in the
6800 block of Curry Drive
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