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Argyle seeks to aid worker’s family
in Thursday morning’s structure col-
lapse on the campus of Argyle Middle
School and High School.
Three others were injured in the col-
lapse but all have since been deter-
mined to be OK, according to fire offi-
cials.
hind me,” she said. “It wasn’t until my
son texted me a minute later that I
Residents raising funds
to help children of man
who died in accident
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heard about the collapse.”
Wilson said that after following the
news all day Thursday, the community
was “just devastated” and wanted to
help.
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By Megan Gray-Hatfield
and Britney Tabor
Staff writers
mgray @ dentonrc.com
btabor@dentonrc.com
Argyle community members are
working together to support the family
of a construction worker who was fatal-
ly injured Thursday after a structure
collapsed while he was in a lift at least
30 feet in the air.
The man killed was 36-year-old Ju-
lio Ledesma, according to NBC 5. The
station reports he was a single father
who left behind daughters ages 16, 12
and 10.
Troy Taylor, chief death investigator
for Denton County, said the office has
yet to officially identify the worker killed
Taylor said the man who was killed
did not have an official U.S. government
ID, and his staff is still working to prop-
erly identify him.
What was to be an indoor activity
center for the Argyle school district
quickly became a heaping mound of
metal at approximately 7:45 a.m.
Thursday, just minutes after Lacey Wil-
son dropped her son off at the field
house.
While sitting on the bleachers at her
son’s baseball game Thursday night,
Wilson started a GoFundMe page at
www.gofundme.com/argylecares.
In about 24 hours since the page
started from her cellphone in what she
said “took all of two minutes,” $7,000
had been raised.
The money, she said, will go to the
man’s children who have been affected
the most.
“Their dad was doing something for
us — building a facility for our school —
so this is the least we can do as a com-
munity,” Wilson said. “His girls are now
our girls and we will treat them as they
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Wilson, a resident of Argyle for eight
years, said she wasn’t aware at the time
what had just happened in the commu-
nity.
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Argyle ninth-grade English teacher Jeanna Sutton’s class made a poster
for a memorial to the worker who died and the ones who were hurt that she
attached to a fence where others have placed flowers Friday in Argyle.
“I saw the coaches standing out
there looking, but I didn’t know what
they were doing; the structure was be-
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Some students upset
Abbott will speak at
UNT commencement
By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
Soon after University of North Texas
President Neal Smatresk posted on Twit-
ter that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would be
the university’s commencement speaker,
students quickly responded.
Senior Cortney Pace was one of several
who responded nega-
tively, tweeting: “How
can we bring in a speak-
er for commencement
that does not support lo-
cal control?”
“The day after Den-
ton passed the fracking
ban, [Abbott] said he
was dedicated to repeal-
ing that,” Pace explained. “I don’t under-
stand how he could repeal local control,
and I can’t support that.”
Abbott, who took office in January, is
drawing criticism from students for his
stance on Denton’s ban on hydraulic frac-
turing in city limits, his views on gay mar-
riage and other issues that students say
they care about.
An online petition had acquired more
than 600 signatures within 24 hours of
the announcement, asking Smatresk to
Adrift on the ocean, the
mast of his 35-foot sail-
boat torn away, Louis
Jordan says he was able
to survive more than two
months at sea by catch-
ing rainwater in a bucket
and scooping up fish.
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Loretta Ray, manager of the Lincoln Park Manor mobile home park and mayor of the town of Lincoln Park, is shown
at her desk Tuesday in the park’s office, which also serves as Town Hall.
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Lincoln Park mayor wants straight talk on town issues
Abbott
“I used to tell people when they said,
‘Oh, you’re the mayor’: ‘B-O-L-O-G-
N-A. Bologna. It’s not anything like
that,”’ Ray said.
A small woman with graying hair
and a pleasant demeanor, Ray is the
daughter of a mountain man. She grew
up surrounded by the Rocky Mountain
wilderness of southern Colorado. She
calls it “a simple life.” She doesn’t consid-
er herself worldly or educated.
But she knows her Bible and practic-
es what it preaches.
Ray didn’t know the first thing about
politics when her boss, Nat Parker, the
town manager, appointed her mayor of
the mobile home community in the late
1980s. But after two decades, she’s finally
learning how to wield that power when
she met with the City Council a few
weeks ago and voted unanimously to fire
Parker and Rider Scott, the city attorney,
By Christian McPhate
Staff Writer
dmcphate @ dentonrc. com
Being a manager of a mobile home
park is all Loretta Ray has ever known.
At 59, she’s been managing Lincoln Park
Manor for 28 years. It was her first job —
her only job, as far as she’s concerned.
And she learned to do it well.
She never considered herself the
mayor of a town, although she has held
the title for more than two decades.
Whovians rejoice, it’s
your day in Denton.
Thanks to the work of
local comic book store
owner Tim Stoltzfus,
Doctor Who, the fiction-
al time lord from the
popular running BBC
television show of the
same name, will spot-
light the city of Denton
on an upcoming comic
book cover.
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Civil War buff’s epic
campaign nears end
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own epic march at the place where the
curtain fell on the Civil War, with his
spouse Jamie and 2-year-old son Carter
accompanying him.
“There are worse hobbies,” Orrison
said, while acknowledging his wife’s occa-
sional impatience.
Orrison estimates he’s spent well over
$10,000 and logged “thousands and thou-
sands” of miles on the road, plus a couple
of flights to his farthest destinations.
Name a Civil War battlefield, and he’s
By Steve Szkotak
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. - Hitting 60-plus
battlefields in four years during the Civil
War’s 150th anniversary takes as much
passion and commitment as getting mar-
ried or having a child.
Rob Orrison has squeezed in all of that
since 2011, albeit not without some marital
compromises, such as a wedding day on
the anniversary of Confederate Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
Court House, Virginia.
Next week, Orrison will conclude his
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Rob Orrison takes a photo of the inscription on the statue of Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee, during a tour of the Old House chambers at the Capitol in Rich-
mond, Va., on Thursday.
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