The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1998 Page: 3 of 14
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Wednesday, October 28, 1998
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The Colony has had a lot of Dallas Cowboys visitors lately. At far left, defensive tackle Chad Heraiings (center) talks
with KXAS sportscaster Brian Jensen and receiver Billy Davis during Hennings' KTCK-AM radio show that was
taped the past two weeks at Street Talk Cafe. In the middle photo, fullback Daryl Johnston (center) takes a caller's
question on his KLIF Monday-night show at Nich's Sports Grille as hosts Wally Lynn (right) and Leon Simon look
on. At right, former Cowboys defensive lineman Randy White signs some autograph's last Wednesday at
Brookshire's, where he appeared to promote his line of sausages.
Wal-Mart
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Mart once they've found their food-
stuffs, they can walk down the aisle
to find plenty of general merchan-
dise.
"The extra floor space means a
greater assortment," Caplinger said.
"It's more variety for the customer.
The customer can find things he or
she never saw at the old Wal-Mart
and can find things here he or she
never saw elsewhere before."
Among the offerings are ex-
panded apparel lines, a large, multi-
product hardware department, a sew-
ing department featuring an abun-
dance of fabrics, a very self-respect-
ing toy product area and another
pride of Caplinger's - a lawn and
garden center featuring a covered
patio area for plants.
"When I came to the old Wal-
Mart more than a year ago, I ex-
panded the lawn and garden depart-
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14 edition, the Colonial Times fea-
ture did not accurately identify the
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son. The 1992-93 team was 31-2
and reached thkYe'gioTial final, and
the 1991 -92 team was 28-3. Coach
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in one five-year span.
ment," Caplinger said, with a laugh.
"I expanded it right into the parking
lot. This is better - the shrubs will be
better protected."
And lest folks get lost in this par-
ticular Wal-Mart, the SuperCenter
offers clearly marked aisle signs as
well as colorful triangular signs on
the merchandise shelves to identify
the products.
"These are the types of things you
normally see in a food store,"
Caplinger said. "Customers can iden-
tify an aisle by number or see the
name of the product."
Another area that Caplinger
pointed out is the cigarette and to-
bacco area where the customer can
be waited on - and where he or she
can check out the product right there.
"I like the fact that the tobacco area
and reading center are together,"
Caplinger added. "It's very much like
what you'd see in magazine shops in
airports."
Meanwhile, the health and beauty
department has also undergone a lay-
out change; instead of cosmetics be-
ing lumped along with Band-Aids,
folks will find lipstick and eye
shadow across the store in its own
special department.
Though Caplinger is pleased with
the layout of The Colony
SuperCenter, one change he ac-
knowledges he isn't too thrilled with
is that the Wal-Mart photo lab is at
the back of the store, rather than near
the front.
"If the customer has to drop a roll
of film off, he has to travel all the
way through the store to get to the
lab," Caplinger said. In an effort to
provide more customer convenience,
Caplinger said that photo drop boxes
would be located throughout the store
for customers who needed to run in
and out to drop off film.
Even with the expanded depart-
ments, The Colony SuperCenter still
offers enough room to lease space to
other tenants. Five of the spaces are
already being leased by the Radio
Grill, a Wal-Mart Vision Center, a
Guaranty National Bank branch, a
Smart Style hair salon and a
portraitstudio.
According to Caplinger, two
other spaces are still available for
lease and could attract "anything
from a travel agency to an employ-
ment service," Caplinger said.
The major name of the game with
The Colony SuperCenter is conve-
nience. But Caplinger noted that the
convenience didn't necessarily come
with a price.
"Even with the diversity of prod-
ucts, we still stand by our guarantee
of low prices," he said.
Simulation
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"Jews" around. "They could tell them
to carry their books," Kirk said, "and,
if they were in the cafeteria at the
same time, they could tell them to
carry their lunch tray and sit with
them." After the simulation was fin-
ished, the students and teachers dis-
cussed their impressions.
Kirk said six students volunteered
to play the role of the Nazi block
leaders; Avery said the number was
18.
"They are being taught the wrong
side of the story," said Avery, who
is not Jewish. "They are teaching
these [block leaders] to be racist.
They are not learning the bad side of
history."
Avery said he asked school offi-
cials, '"Next year, are you going too
have slavery week?' They said, 'No.
We're not going to do that."'
Though Griffin won't do it in
terms of slavery, Kirk said, "These
kinds of simulations are very typi-
cal. It wasn't like it was required."
She said other simulations have been
less fact-base, such as a situation in
which brown-eyed children can boss
around blue-eyed children.
"It helps the kids understand what
prejudice is," Kirk said. She added
that as the simulation progressed, the
students were able to relate it to news
of the ethnic war in Bosnia that they
learned about while viewing the
Channel 1 news program the school
subscribes to.
After talking with Kirk, Avery
talked with Harrison Crenshaw, the
LISD executive director of second-
ary education. Crenshaw said he sent
a curriculum specialist to Griffin to
look at the activity, "to see what was
required and not required and
whether it was appropriate or not.
We're still looking into it."
The primary criteria, he said, is
"did it have a curriculum base? Pend-
ing further review, I didn't think that
was out of line."
Said Avery: "I've done all I can
do. I have not talked to any other
parents. If he [Crenshaw] doesn't do
anything, there's nothing more I can
do. If I'm in the minority who be-
lieves this is wrong, then I am." How-
ever, he said, his son didn't see the
simulation as history. "He thinks it's
a play," Avery said.
Kirk said no other parents had
complained. In fact, she said, "I've
been in education for 27 years and
never had anybody disagree until
now" with the simulations. "But that's
one of the great things about America:
You have the right to question."
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Arrests
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in the same way. "Those homes were
at the stages where appliances were
being brought in," Wallace said, and
whomever set the fires used "ordi-
nary combustibles" to ignite them.
On the other hand, lighter fluid was
used in the Cedar Ridge Road blaze.
Investigations and interviews
with contractors showed that the fires
were not started by faulty electrical
wiring or a bad water heater, as
firefighters originally thought,
Wallace said. Meanwhile, investiga-
tors with The Colony Police Depart-
ment reported that the three who were
arrested had been seen driving around
in the general vicinity of the fires be-
fore they occurred, Wallace said.
The suspects became the sole fo-
cus of the investigation, Wallace said,
after Willoughby and Walton, in in-
terviews with police detectives, gave
information that was inconsistent
with other information investigators
had received.
"Then, we started staking out both
areas (Ridgepointe and Stewart Pen-
insula), hoping to catch more activ-
ity," Wallace said. Because the fires
all occurred at a certain time on cer-
tain days of the week, the stake-out
was limited to those times.
However, "over a six-week pe-
riod, there was no other activity, so
we decided last Thursday to go
ahead." TCPD detectives Chris
Plemens and Bill House arrested the
trio.
Wallace said investigators con-
sidered the possibility that the people
who set the house fires might also
have set the huge September 1 grass
fire east of Paige Road, but there was
no evidence at all that the incidents
were related. That fire remains un-
der investigation.
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Sorter, Dave. The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1998, newspaper, October 28, 1998; The Colony, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth403411/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Colony Public Library.