The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 2007 Page: 1 of 18
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Volume 17, No. 47 publisher@dublincitizen.com www.dublincitizen.com Thursday, July 26, 2007 50 cents
Cleaning up our environment
CLEANING UP- Extra Environmental Inc., out of San Antonio digs up contaminated dirt across the street from the
Dublin Public Library. A gas station used to be on the site and unacceptable levels of lead were found in die soil two
years ago. Extra Environmental Inc. is the second consultant to come by and take care of the dirt
Release of lake water delayed
Release of water at the rate of
5000 CFS at Lake Proctor was
interrupted last week when it was
decided that a map of seepage
around the lake needed to be
completed.
Seepage, which amounts to pin-
size holes with water leaking out
around the "toe" of the dam, was
discovered around July 4 and since
that time, release of water has been
stepped up in order to get the lake
back to its normal level as quickly as
possible.
Release of water had to be limited
due to the flooding of the Leon River
downstream as well as other lakes
along the Leon and the area where
the Brazos and Leon connect.
Another problem that limited release
of water is that roads and bridges that
cross the Leon in Comanche,
Hamilton and Coryell Counties
would get inundated if too much
water was released.
The release.of water was slowed
to a trickle last Thursday in order to
make a map of the seepage,
prohibiting the release of water.
Although the release was resumed
Monday the delay will mean a delay
in uncovering the Sowell Creek
Bridge and the return of the lake to
normal depth.
Officials with the Army Corps of
Engineers stressed that the seepage
did not pose a threat to the integrity
of the dam but work will be done to
prevent seepage in the future once
the lake level returns to normal.
Now it will probably be the first of
August before the bridge is
uncovered, and it will have to be
examined before it is open to traffic.
Proctor Lake reached a level of
1192 plus, where it stayed for a week
or so even though it was being
released. This is mainly due to the
fact thatt water was coming into the
lake from the upper Leon and other
watersheds faster than it was being
released.
This is the longest time period
that the lake has been this high, even
though in I990and I992itwaseven
higher, however, water could be
released faster as there was not
flooding downstream.
The extended time of high water
was also said to be a threat to the
pecan crop along the creeks and
rivers. Damage to recreational
facilities as well as roads around the
lake is expected to exceed $2
million.
City Manager says farewell
Carrothers resigns
D'LEESA KEYS
StafTWriter
After three years of. service,
Dublin City Manager David
Carrothers will be resigning in order
to go to school at Tarleton State
University full time and complete
his Master's degree and later his PhD
in criminal justice. He plans on
teaching after receiving his
doctorate.
During Carrothers' tenure the city
of Dublin has finished the water well
project (a project that started before
he arrived), finished the water
storage tank project, gotten a brush
trimmer, started updating its
equipment, has gotten the beginning
of a grant to do modifications on the
waste water treatment plant and has
received $700,000-$800,000 in
grants.
"We've done pretty well and
you're going to always wish you
could do more," Carrothers said
"We have a big focus on customer
service here and the staff does a very
good job of that. Any success I have
is because of them."
Before coming to Dublin,
Carrothers was the city manager for
Kerns City for 10 years and later for
Presidio for 2 years.
"I came to Dublin after my son
graduated high school and was
attending college at Texas Christian
University. I wanted to finish my
degree at a school that was close by
and I received my Bachelor's this
past December," Carrothers said
’Teaching on a university level is
something that I’ve always wanted
to do and Tarleton has a good
Master's program."
"The city of Dublin has a lot of
potential and a lot of things that are
happening that most people don’t
see.
see CITY, page A6
David Carrothers
Expert offering tourism workshops
Space is still available for a series
of free tourism workshops with
world-renowned tourism expert Dr.
Peter Tarlow.
The workshops are sponsored by
the Dublin Economic Development
Corporation and the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce and will be
held on Monday and Tuesday at the
Dublin Rotary Building, 126 E.
Patrick Participants may attend any
or all sessions.
Dr. Peter Tarlow
Monday sessions include:
• 8 a.m.-U :30 a.m. - Rolling Out
the Red Carpet for Visitors -
Tourism is Customer Service!
• 1 p.m.-3 p.m. - Rural Tourism -
Developing New Resources to
Create a Viable Tourism Industry
• 5:30 p.m.-7:30 pan. - Greater
Successes for Retailers Through
Tourism (A light supper will be
served beginning at 5 p.m.)
Tuesday sessions include:
• 8 a.m.-ll:30 a.m. - First Line
Responders - Tourism for Law
Enforcement, City & County
Employees
• 2 p.m.-5 p.m. - Creating a
Cohesive Team to Market Your
Community
Please register your attendance
so we will have a count for handouts
and snacks by calling Sandy Reed at
254-445-1919 or Jeanette Ward at
254445-3422
Protecting Texas turtles, one boy's plight
BY AMANDA KIMBLE
Staff Writer
Some of us search our whole
lives for our true calling, the passion
that will sustain and fulfill our
dreams, making our days more
rewarding. In our individual quests,
many may become lost, may never
truly find what it is they were
looking for, while others will resolve
to simply do what they have to do to
make it, and often loose the spark
that once fueled their desires.
There are those who are more
fortunate, those who know from an
early age who they want to be,
where they want to go and how it is
they will get there.
Jordan McNutt, 12, is one of the
fortunate, he believes at this early
stage, he has already found the path
that will lead him; he has found his
calling.
For the last three months, McNutt
has worked day and night at
perfecting his dream and has plans to
keep working.
That dream requires a whole lot
of determination mixed with an
equal amount of hard work. It relies
on compassion, fueled by insight,
caring, and understanding not
common to the typical 12-year-old,
and a simple desire to make the
world a better place for all creatures.
Nestled neatly in one comer of
the yard of his family's home on FM
1702 outside of Dublin, on the same
land settled by his ancestors in the
late 1800s, McKlutt has carved out a
small place that offers solace to
turtles.
The habitat is bordered by fences
to help protect the inhabitants, lined
with cool mud floors and smooth
beaches for basking in the summer
sun, pools for swimming and a
newly built nesting area that
provides adequate space and sand
for females to lay their eggs.
"I feel bad that 1 didn't really think
about that part sooner," McNutt said
pointing to the nesting area. "I was
scraping the bottom of the pool and'
found an egg, I realized I did not
have anywhere for them to lay their
eggs, so I added the sand. I am also
planning to set up a nursery for the
babies once they have hatched, to
keep them out of harm's way until
they are ready to join the others."
McNutt's passion goes far
beyond typical childhood interest
He is operating a non-profit
business. He does all the work, with
a helping hand from his little sister
Carleigh, 9, and added support from
his mother, Carolina, and father,
Tim. McNutt finances the project
100% with his own hard work by
mowing lawns and doing odd jobs.
• "This is his thing," Carolina said.
"He has to keep busy to earn the
money to keep things going; he puts
all his money back into the animals.
He pays for the cost of feeding and
maintaining and constantly
upgrading their accommodations.
He has recently saved enough
money for a submersible pump. His
dad found some plans and they are
going to get started on a filtration
system."
With a proud smile, Carolina
talked of Jordan's determination
including the hours (^research and
work her son has put into habitat and
explained his love of animals and
turtles, a love that began at a young
age.
"1 think Steve Irwin (The
Crocodile Hunter) was one of the
biggest influences, (outside of his
own interest) we started watching
his program in the beginning."
Much like Irwin, McNutt's approach
to the animal world is about
education, preservation and
protection. If they were able to talk,
each of the 26 turtles, now thriving at
the little sanctuary, they would have
a story to tell. Those stories, though
each as individual as the animal,
would have a few things in
common, most importantly, if not
for the intervention of McNutt, they
would have never made it
"This guy is a rehabilitator,"
McNutt explained holding a red ear
slider at eye level. He pointed to the
back legs of the turtle, "When we
found this one, something had gotten
a hold of him, his legs were gone. It
was easy to see that the turtle has in
fact been rehabilitated, once back on
the ground, he pulled himself with
ease, nibbled a bite to eat and
continued back to the pool.
Like the turtles he helps, McNutt
has also found some assistance
along the way. Once he realized that
feeding the increasing population
was becoming costly, he took it upon
himself to approach management at
a local grocery store. No doubt
impressed by the boy's efforts, he
was granted first rights at the store's
outdated fruits and vegetables,
see TURTLES, page A10
DRIVEN- Jordan McNutt, 12,
shows two of the 26 turtles that
currently reside at the sanctuary he
established at his family's home
outside of Dublin. Pictured above is a
soft shell turtle, to the left is the
smallest of the red eared sliders.
Photos by Amanda Kimble
100 YEARS AGO
August 2,1907
Northcutt-Utterback Company
purchased Jordan Dry Goods and
were having a clearing sale.
W. J. Rosamond sold his
remaining gin property in Dublin
known as 0k Rosamond big gin, to
C. H. Bencini of Brownwood W. T.
Stephenson Jr. and B.F. Stone of
Proctor purchased the little gin.
Loraine Maloney, Charlie Hurt,
Vera Neel, Dollie Perkins, Ethel
Nellie, Fay Shafer, Ruth Harris,
Lena Roberts, Alma Ray, Etta
Pinson, Salena Moore were among
the crowd who enjoyed the skating
rink.
T.E. Bishop and WM. Parker
bought the Red Wagon Yard from
L. Carlisle.
75 YEARS AGO
August 5,1932
Officers and committees were
chosen to head up the 10th annual
Free Fall Fair. J. S. Little, president;
T. E. Hughes, secretary; and D. R
Franks, secretary-treasurer. Walter
Hamilton was finance chairman; A.
G Macy, music chairman and W.B.
Whitehead, concessions chairman.
Mrs. Z. R. Dolahite, daughter of
pioneers, died at the age of 93.
Dublin voters gathered at the
M. K. & T. to hear Governor
Sterling.
Alma Barrett, Laura Jeanette
Utterback, Inez Whisenant, Mae
Evelyn White, Barbara Whitehead,
Margaret Little, Mary Lou Sikes,
Margaret Sikes, Virginia Littlepage,
Wilma Henry, Blanche Hennessee,
Lila Fay Shafer, Mamie Pilgrim and
Vnginia Ayers of the young social
set all had a crowded week
attending a succession of slumber
parties, sunrise breakfasts, dinners,
lunchtons, midnight suppers, bridge
parties, tennis games, dancing and
picnicking.
50 YEARS AGO
August 7,1957
Showing at the Majestic Theatre
was "Island in the Sun," starring
James Mason and Joan Fontaine.
Rev. Henry E. Smart, former
pastor in Missouri, was called as
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church.
T.H. Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Duncan were planning to
attend the 78th Annual Texas
Pharmaceutical Association
Convention in Dallas.
A Vacation Bible School at the
First Methodist Church was to get
underway August 5 according to
Mrs. Vernon Gibson.
Morris Radio and T.V. closed to
re-open their business in a new
location at 304 West O'Neil Street
25 YEARS AGO
August 4,1982
Members of the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce gathered to
help cut the ribbon on the newest
business in Dublin, Eka's Hair
Fashions.
Jo Ann Glenn, chamber manager
and Jack Pratt, chamber president,
announced a street dance to be held
on September 4.
Henderson Sales was the victim
of a break-in and robbery.
10 YEARS AGO
August 4,1997
The Dublin High School class of
'87 held their ten year reunion at the
home* of John and Hilda
Underwood. Pictured were Tammy
Greenway Shelton, Michael
Copeland, Ladonna Foreman, Steve
Callaway, Jay Cortez, John Mark
Underwood, David O'Bannon,
Gerry Kendall, Michael
Underwood, Pam Starnes
Yarborough, Vicki Kellers,
Stephanie Salyer, Jeff Salyer,
Jennifer Hathaway Flanagan, Cindy
Jones Garrison, Michelle Pyror
Hurst, Julie Hancock, Sammy
Moore, Judy Johnson Taylor, Mike
Eoff Eric Quirl, Laura Locke Isbell,
Lynn Thomas, Alan Burney, Craig
Reeder, Glen Stephen, Andy Blain,
Roy Tyus, Alton Conner and Todd
'dir ■+ *
The Dublin
1X81DK TODAY
• Small town boy makes it big, A10
Buckles and Bibles Youth Rodeo, B1
• Senior Living, B2
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