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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Public, private
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NEW YORK — During years
of going to Ground Zero every
Sept. 11, Tom Acquavivahas seen
crowds diminish at the ceremo-
nies commemorating the terror-
ist attacks. But his determina-
tion to participate hasn’t.
‘As long as I’m breathing, I’ll
be here,” Acquaviva, 81, said Fri-
day as he arrived to pay tribute
to his late son, Paul.
More than 1,000 victims’ rel-
atives, survivors and recovery
workers marked the 14th anni-
versary at Ground Zero with
grief, gratitude and appeals to
keep the toll front of mind as
years pass. “It’s a hard day. But
it’s an important day. I’ll come
every year that I can,” recovery
worker Robert Matticola said.
But if the private ceremony is
smaller than in its early years,
the date also has become an oc-
casion for the public to revisit
Ground Zero, where the memo-
rial plaza now opens to everyone
on the anniversary.
Around the country, the date
was marked with what has be-
come a tradition of lowered
flags, wreath-laying, bell-tolling
and, in New York, reading the
names of the nearly 3,000 peo-
ple killed in the terrorist strikes
at the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and a field near
Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Family members praised first
responders, thanked the armed
forces and prayed for unity and
security. They also sent personal
messages to their lost loved ones.
‘You are the reason that I
wear this uniform and stand
here today,” Air Force Technical
Sgt. Sparkle Thompson said of
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Seventh-grader Lauren Patton, left, reads a poem during Myers Middle School’s 9/11 ceremony on Friday in Shady Shores.
her uncle, Louie Anthony Wil-
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In Washington, President
Barack Obama and first lady
Michelle Obama stepped out of
the White House for a moment
of silence at 8:46 a.m., when the
first of four hijacked planes hit
on Sept. 11, 2001, striking the
World Trade Center’s north tow-
er. Later Friday, the president
told troops at Fort Meade in
Maryland that he hoped Sept. 11
would inspire thoughts of what
binds the country together,
while Vice President Joe Biden
praised New Yorkers’ resilience
in remarks to bikers and police
officers taking part in a 9/11 me-
morial motorcycle ride.
The Flight 93 National Me-
morial near Shanksville marked
the completion of its $26 million
visitor center, which opened to
the public Thursday. At the Pen-
tagon, Defense Secretary Ash
Carter and other officials joined
in remembrances for victims’ rel-
atives and Pentagon employees.
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“The other thing we do is we
honor those people who protect
and serve us every single day.
Guys, you are safe because
there’s a group of people that
take care of us and the Lake Cit-
ies area every day, every night,
when we’re sleeping, when we’re
awake, and today we want to re-
member them and we want to
honor them.”
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more than 30 city officials, po-
lice officers and firefighters from
its Lake Cities agencies with
blue balloons and green gift
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Flags representing all the victims of 9/II are planted in the Texas Woman’s University free
speech area behind Mary Eleanor Brackenridge Student Union on Friday.
Among the officers recog-
nized was Andrew Chmiel. On
Sept. 11,2001, he was a New York
narcotics detective called to re-
spond to the Twin Towers. For
three months, Chmiel, 46, was
part of the rescue/recovery team
at Ground Zero of the World
Trade Center and on Staten Is-
land.
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with a Corinth
Elementary
School student
on Friday.
A Bronx native, Chmiel re-
tired after 20 years and moved
to Texas in 2011. He joined the
Corinth Police Department
shortly afterward and has been
with the department almost
three years.
Chmiel said he tries not to re-
member much of the terrorist
attacks that changed this coun-
try 14 years ago.
“I just try to keep everything
buried up. I don’t really talk
much about it,” he said. “[What]
I remember most is the devasta-
tion ... the destruction that it
caused, the two towers coming
down.
energy production is important
to national security.
“The oil and natural gas in-
dustry looks forward to con-
tinuing to responsibly partner
with our fellow Texans as we
grow our economy and protect
our environment,” he wrote.
“Strict rules such as requiring
multiple layers of cement and
steel for well casing, along with
air monitoring, are working to
ensure we are protecting our
water and air.”
Both city officials and some
local activists hinted during
public hearings that settlement
talks were contentious. The
Denton Drilling Advisory
Group and Earthworks joined
the lawsuit briefly, serving as co-
defendants alongside the city.
Both stepped away from the
case after the Texas Legislature
passed House Bill 40 in May.
HB 40 effectively nullified
Denton’s ban and greatly re-
stricted the ability of cities and
other local governments to
write local rules for the oil and
gas industry.
The city’s legal moves remain
controversial among some local
activists who claim the City
Council should not have re-
pealed the ban and instead
should have allowed the popu-
lar citizens’ initiative to be chal-
lenged in court.
The Denton Drilling Adviso-
ry Group, which campaigned
for the ban, called its repeal
“tragic in many ways.”
“However, it has brought us
to this point and we, and many
others in the state, continue the
struggle to repeal HB 40, a law
that still has no legitimizing le-
gal precedent,” the group said in
a prepared statement.
Sharon Wilson, the Texas or-
ganizer for Earthworks, was
among those who said the city
was backed into a comer by HB
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dent Council had an integral part
in planning the theme for “Red,
White and Back the Blue Day”
district officials say. Cassie Ri-
chey, the council’s historian and a
high school junior, said the day
was about showing appreciation
for local officers and firefighters.
“They were really apprecia-
tive of us, but I wanted them to
know we were appreciative of
them just as much as they were
for us,” she said. “It was just awe-
some to see them all happy.
“I was really happy that we
got to honor them in that way.”
Throughout the day, Lake
Dallas schools hosted luncheons
for Lake Cities police. Prior to
Friday’s football game between
Lake Dallas and Lucas Lovejoy,
the Lake Dallas Quarterback
Club served dinner to first re-
sponders at atailgate party. Afew
officers spent time Friday talking
with students at area schools.
Students and staff at Lake
Dallas ISD campuses were en-
couraged to wear blue Friday to
honor first responders. At the
high school, students wore blue
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sically forgot about the rescue
because it was obvious nobody
was surviving. It was just a re-
covery”
He said Friday was emotion-
al for him because he was in Tex-
as, not back home with the guys
he worked with. He said it was
nice seeing students recognizing
officers and doing something
positive, especially at a time
when there’s so much negativity.
Chmiel said he hopes stu-
dents remember the sacrifices
people — first responders as well
as civilians — took for one an-
other 14 years ago. People came
together regardless of race, gen-
der or age.
“Without each other, we’re
nothing,” Chmiel said.
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“This should remind all Tex-
ans that until we convince state
legislators to represent the ma-
jority of Texans who want to re-
store local oversight of oil and
gas development, the public in-
terest will continue to take a
back seat to industry profits,”
Wilson said.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE
can be reached at 940-566-
6881 and via Twitter at
@phwolfeDRC.
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In this aerial photo, students wearing red, white and blue
form the initials of Harpool Middle School in the Lantana area
on Friday, in recognition of the 14th anniversary of 9/11
ribbons to mark 9/11 and some
wore T-shirts with the phrase
“Falcons American Proud.”
“It was a day juxtaposed be-
tween remembrance and cele-
bration,” Superintendent Gayle
Stinson said. “It was important
for us as a school district to be
able to honor these folks because
they are such an integral part of
our Falcon family.
“Our job is to educate, and so
first and foremost we do that,
and so we were able to combine
that with a day from our history
and then hopefully make new
memories with our protectors
for our students. It was a big day
for us.”
OBITUARIES
BRITNEY TABOR can be
reached at 940-566-6876 and
via Twitter at @BritneyTabar.
Billy "Bill" Wilson
Billy "Bill" Wilson, 84, of Aubrey, Texas, passed away
Friday, September 11,2015, at his residence. Funeral
arrangements are pending with Terri Slay and Slay Memorial
Funeral Center in Aubrey, Texas.
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“We are pleased
that the justice
process is
continuing to
move forward for
the sake of the
Siwakoti family. ”
— Lt. Darren Brockway,
with The Colony police
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Jose Angel De La Rosa
Jose Angel De La Rosa, 56, passed away
in Dallas, Texas, on September 9, 2015. A
visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 pro. on
Saturday, September 12, 2015, at Denton
Funeral Home; the rosary will begin at 7:00
p.m. A funeral service will be held at 11:00
a.m. on Monday, September 14, 2015, at
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Denton, Texas,
with burial to follow in Roselawn Memorial Park,
Jose was bom to Lauro and Delores (Portales) De La
Rosa on May 16, 1959, in Coahuila, Mexico. He is survived
by his wife, Rosa Maria De La Rosa,
Arrangements are under the direction of Denton Funeral
Home. Online condolences may be left for the family at
www. dento nf u n e ra I h o me. net.
the register before Kingston left
the scene.
Siwakoti was the mother of
two young daughters.
Kingston was served with a
capital murder warrant in Fris-
co a little over a week after the
shooting.
Kingston also has two pend-
ing aggravated robbery charges,
one in The Colony and one in
Frisco, according to police.
He was being held in the
Denton County Jail in lieu of
$1.12 million bail.
“We are pleased that the jus-
tice process is continuing to
move forward for the sake of the
nior director of customer opera-
tions and government affairs,
said the charitable foundation is
able to give grants thanks to
CoServ foundation members
and customers and employees
of the electricity cooperative.
‘We’re here today because of
an unfortunate circumstance,”
Boutilier said.
“It’s because of the unselfish
commitment by Special Abili-
ties in providing quality of life
for others that we’re here to do
our part.”
Special Abilities also serves
adults with dementia and Alz-
heimer’s disease.
weekend. Thieves also took
items intended for a silent auc-
tion fundraiser scheduled for
Oct. 9.
CoServ Charitable Founda-
tion gave Special Abilities a
$15,000 emergency grant that
Troy Greisen, CEO of the non-
profit, said would be put to-
ward replacing the vehicles
used to take clients on field
trips from the agency’s day-stay
facility. Greisen said the trans-
portation gives people with de-
velopmental disabilities a
chance to get out into the com-
munity.
Bruce Boutilier, CoServ se-
Siwakoti family,” Brockway said
Friday on the grand jury’s in-
dictment.
MEGAN GRAY-HA TFTFJ.D
can be reached at 940-566-
6885 and via Twitter at
@MGrayNews.
Denton Funeral Home
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