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Page 2«Cedar Hill Today»Thursday, April 29, 1999
CEDAR HILLTODAY
Growth
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School district seeks certified teachers at fair
think they are starting to ask some
questions about where they can go
and not face as much traffic."
A steady number of new housing
starts over the last 18 months has
pushed Lancaster’s population to an
unofficial level of 24,250 - a 10 per-
cent rise since 1990.
“Our estimate has us even higher
at 25,000,” said City Manager Biff
Johnson. “We have realized a higher
rate of growth among cities in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area over the last
two years “
Lancaster’s 10 percent population
increase mirrors Dallas County’s 10
percent hike - from 1,852,810 in
1990 (based on the final U S. census)
to 2,042,944 in 1999.
“W'e have developers wanting to
build here,” Johnson said. “They are
building the same type of homes you
see in McKinney and Allen - 1,500-
2,200 square feet that are good prod-
ucts.”
Neighboring Kllis County is up 27
percent as a whole to 107,858 from
85,167 in 1990.
Hutchins has virtually no increase
in its population, from 2,710 in 1990
to 2,750 today while Wilmer has
shown a 7 percent increase from
2,479 to 2,650.
The cities that have shown the
biggest percentage of growth are
located in the northern part of the
Metroplex, along State Highway 121.
Topping the pack is Frisco at 327
percent (6,138 to 26,200), Flower
Mound at 205 percent (15,527 to
47,300), Southlakc at 197 percent
(from 7,082 to 21,050), McKinney at
104 percent (from 21,283 to 43,500)
and Allen at 102 percent (from
19,315 to 39,000).
Collin County has seen a popula-
tion growth of 75 percent in the past
decade, from 264,036 to 462,042.
Coppell is growing at an annual
rate of 10.7 percent and Baugh said it
must be taxing that community’s
infrastucture.
By DAVID D. WALLER
Today Staff_
Cedar Hill educators screened for
certified teachers in their fourth
annual job fair Thursday evening and
Saturday afternoon.
School staff and administrators
gathered in the cafeteria next to the
administration building and talked to
applicants. The district has 22 teach-
ing positions to fill before the 1999-
2000 school year begins.
Holly Teague, assistant superin-
tendent for Personnel and Student
Finances, said the job fairs have
always been very successful.
“Quite a few of them look promis-
ing,” said Teague, who coordinated
the event. “We hire most of our new
teachers with the fair. It’s open
screening interviews, so anyone who
wants to, can apply.”
Their main focus this year has
Would-be teachers attend the 4th annual Teacher Job Fair
sponsored by the Cedar Hill ISD Saturday.
been for general elementary and
math teachers, with math being the
problem area. By law they are re-
quired to look for certification first.
“We were looking for someone
who can provide a positive learning
environment,” Teague said. “We
want them to be a positive role
model.”
Categories of questions asked
included learning environment, com-
municating with parents and other
teachers, how they use assessment in
class and instructional necessity
(handling diversity in the classroom).
Announcements were sent out to
previous applicants to advertise the
fair.
District Ombudsman Kenneth
Ervin sent flyers to area churches and
radio stations and took them into uni-
versities.
Teague said there is a shortage of
qualified math teachers. This may be
due largely to the fact that many
mathematics majors graduate college
and opt to join the business world for
higher pay, she said.
“You could call anyone around
the area and ask them what they need
most and they’ll probably say math
teachers,” Teague said.
Fire
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Pepsi Summer Slam 3-on-3 tourney planned
from the fire.
E Z Nails and the vacant Cox
Video, which are located on each
side of the store, suffered some
smoke damage. Officials estimate
the damage to be about $750,()()()
for the three businesses.
Five departments assisted
Duncanville with the fire including
Dallas, Cedar Hill, Lancaster,
DeSoto and Grand Prairie.
The fire follows the Jan. 14 blaze
at Family Dollar on Camp W isdom
Road, which was one of the biggest
in Duncanville’s history.
Both were classified as three-
alarm fires and covered about
10,000 square feet, Webb said.
Investigators are studying the
tapes from the Jan. 14 fire to see if
there are similarities. Family Dollar
and Dollar General are owned by
different companies.
“At this time, we do not think
they are connected,” Webb said.
‘Fill the Boot’ begins today
The Cedar Hill firefighters will
join more than 60 fire departments in
the North Texas area to fill their
boots today through Saturday to ben-
efit the Muscular Dystrophy Associa-
tion (MDA) in their fight against 40
neuromuscular diseases.
Firefighters will volunteer their
time and stand at FM 1382 and
Highway 67; Belt Line and S. Clark
Road between the hours of 8 a m.-5
p.m. to accept contributions from
passing motorists.
Firefighters across the nation have
been performing “Fill the Boot” for
MDA since 1950.
Last year, the Cedar Hill fire-
fighters raised $2,569.18 in this cam-
paign.
For more information concerning
the Fill the Boot campaign, contact
Paul Gaddy at 972-480-0011.
to "C'Oitmp 972-298-4211
By TONYA L. JOHNSON
News Editor_
For those who got game and those
who think they got game, there is a
contest that will dispel all rumors -
the first ever Pepsi Summer Slam.
The Pepsi Summer Slam is a
three-on-three basketball tournament
that will be held May 13-15 at the
Trinity Christian Sehool gym in
Cedar Hill.
Entry fee is $30 per team. Dead-
line to register is May 6. The winners
of the tournament will each receive
Foot Locker gift certificates worth
$100.
Competing schools will be
DeSoto East and West junior high
schools, Byrd and Reed junior high
schools in Duncanville, Permenter
Junior School in Cedar Hill and
Trinity Christian.
Although the DeSoto, Duncan-
ville and Cedar Hill schools are the
primary focus of the tournament,
Robby Simmons, junior high sponsor
and assistant youth pastor at Trinity
Church said organizers would love to
have participants from Midlothian as
well.
“This is for Midlothian six, seven
and eighth grades too. We’d love for
them to come,” he added.
Depending upon the number of
participating teams, the tournament
will be single-elimination in the first
round. Skills competitions will also
be held for free-throw shooting,
three-poinj shooting and dribbling.
Simmons said the church decided
to sponsor the event to give young
people from area communities an
opportunity to come together.
“Let them see each other and have
fun with each other, especially in this
day and age,” he said. “We were
wanting a way just to do something
for the kids.”
Simmons said event organizers
believe now is the perfect time for
the children to "cut loose and have
fun” in a wholesome and safe envi-
ronment.
“If we look at what happened at
the school in Colorado, that wasn’t
the initial reason for this, we’ve had
this idea for a while, but I was read-
ing about kids being scared of our
schools, this is just a reassurance that
everything is OK in our schools,” he
said. “We want to just have an enjoy-
able day.”
Simmons said organizers would
like to attract 60 or more teams to the
round-robin style tournament. He and
others are trying to get the word out
about the tournament but so far it has
been tough going.
Organizers have sent out flyers
and visited some of the area schools
but so far they’ve gotten little re-
sponse. Although the Slam is being
held at Trinity Christian, Simmons
said he wants to reassure parents that
they are not trying to recruit parish-
ioners.
“This is not religious in any fash-
ion. We are holding it here because it
is the only facility we had that was
open to us,” he said.
In addition to the three-on-three
tournaments and the skills competi-
tions, there will be plenty to do for
the whole family. A carnival-type
environment will be set up in the
church parking lot, complete with
concession stand and live music.
The live music will consist of “a
little bit of everything” from Chris-
tian music, to pop, rock and rap.
Besides Pepsi, organizers have
lined up assistance from Oshman’s
Sporting Goods and other local busi-
nesses to ensure that all participants
receive a little something for their
efforts.
“We have the balls and the music
in place and the gift certificates, but
we are lacking the little extras so that
we have something for everyone,” he
said.
As the tournament draws nearer,
Simmons said he and the others have
tried to learn the dos and don’ts of
planning a tournament. After wit-
nessing a tournament in which only
four teams showed up, Simmons said
they are doing all they can to increase
awareness of the event and are hop-
ing for the best come game day.
“The first year is not usually what
you want, but we’re playing it by ear
and by faith,” Simmons said.
To make the competition more
exciting, organizers have planned an
exciting show for the final competi-
tors.
“We’ll do light effects and smoke
for the championship game. We’ll
really play it up big,” he said.
Public admission will be free.
For more information, call 972-
291-2501, ext. 370.
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