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Vol. 112, No. 176 /18 pages, 3 sections
Monday, January 25, 2016
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Denton, Texas
Plenty to discuss,
debate on retreat
Still teaching
Actress, educator
recalls long career
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Dallas actress
Irma P. Hall,
shown reading
poetry at a 2012
event, will be
honored with a
lifetime achieve-
ment award
during the Den-
ton Black Film
Festival.
reforms, the council keeps city staff out
of those talks, except to answer specific
questions. And, as the threat of recall
looms for at least one council member,
battle lines are hardening over whether
to spend $240 million on two new gas-
fired power plants.
Yet, for all day Thursday and a good
part of Friday, council members will
hole up together in a Westlake hotel
meeting room. They and senior staff
members are participating in a strate-
gic planning retreat.
The council went all of 2015 without
a planning retreat. Prior to 2014, it had
gone several years without a planning
Council will head out
of Denton for two days
of strategic planning
By Lucinda Breeding
Staff Writer
cbreeding@ dentonrc. com
Actress Irma P. Hall said she never
imagined being in the movies. She
thought of herself as a teacher and an
activist. For her, there was no siren
song from Hollywood. No fantasies of
fame, no yearning for riches.
And yet the Dallas actress found
her way there at age 3 6, working most
recently with Spike Lee in Chi-Raq, a
21st century take on the ancient Greek
play Lysistrata. She’s known for her
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc.com
Members of the Denton City Coun-
cil may need to call on etiquette in the
style of Downton Abbey’s landed gen-
try this week.
They repealed the citizens’ initiative
banning hydraulic fracturing in a hotly
debated split vote, the first of many
split votes on key issues in the past sev-
en months. Deeply divided on ethics
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work as a supporting lead in the Coen on Friday, the actress will pick up a
brothers’ comedy The Ladykillers lifetime achievement award during
and George Tillman Jr.’s 1997 film the Denton Black Film Festival.
Soul Food.
Hall is still working at age 80, and See HALL on 7A
See RETREAT on 7A
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at South Lakes
Park is expected
to open by the
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Eureka
2 opening next month
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The Denton Parks Foundation and the
Denton Parks and Recreation Depart-
ment recruited volunteers to help build
the playground last fall. The new structure
will be accessible to those with disabilities
and will meet new safety and ADA re-
quirements the old one did not meet.
Molly Tampke, the foundation’s exec-
utive director, said the playground was
originally tentatively scheduled to open in
January but will now open sometime in
February.
Instead of wood chips, the ground will
be covered with a wheelchair-accessible
poured-in-place rubber flooring. Once the
flooring is in place, the last step will be to
pour the concrete sidewalks surrounding
the playground.
“The concrete we can do at any time,
except you have to watch the weather,”
Tamkpe said. “The temperature does af-
fect it. But we now have the money raised
for that and can go on and put it in.”
One last piece of playground equip-
ment, a climbing net made to look like a
spider’s web, arrived last week.
“First we’ll invite people who worked
on the project to come play on the first day,
and then after that, anybody that wants to
can,” Tampke said. “When the construc-
tion fence is down and the flooring is in
place, it’s ready.”
She said the foundation plans to hold a
grand opening for the playground some-
time in March.
More than 3,000 volunteers helped
complete the initial construction of the
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Several more weeks
before playground is
ready; funding goal met
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By Rhiannon Saegert
Staff Writer
rsaegert@dentonrc.com
The Eureka 2 playground, built on the
site of the old Eureka playground in South
Lakes Park, is now scheduled to open to
the public before the end of February.
A magnitude-7.1 quake
shook up Alaska early
Sunday morning.
See EUREKA on 7A
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East Coast faces tough commute today
INTERNATIONAL
Egyptian prosecutors have
ordered eight museum
workers to a disciplinary
court after a botched
repair job of King Tut’s
burial mask.
Sunday to clear streets and sidewalks de-
void of their usual bustle.
Ice chunks plunging from the roofs of
tall buildings menaced people who ven-
tured out in Philadelphia and New York.
High winds on Manhattan’s Upper West
Side kept the snow from entirely swallow-
ing the tiny Mini Cooper of Daniel Bard-
man, who nervously watched for failing
icicles as he dug out.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio encour-
aged people to leave their plowed-in cars
covered with snow all week after a one-day
record of 26.6 inches fell in Central Park.
That advice came too late for Bob Ral-
diris, who tried shoveling his Nissan Maxi-
ma out of a spot in Ridgewood, Queens,
before passing plows and trucks spoiled
his labor. “This is terrible,” he said, point-
ing to a pile of snow three feet high.
Sunday’s brilliant sunshine and gently
rising temperatures provided a respite
Hazards remain despite
sunny Sunday; storm
blamed in 29 deaths
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By Michael R. Sisak and Verena Dobnik
Associated Press
NEW YORK — After a weekend of
sledding, snowboarding and staying put,
the blizzard-blanketed Eastern U.S. will
confront a Monday commute slowed by
slick roads, damaged transit lines and
endless mounds of snow.
Authorities cautioned against unnec-
essary driving, airline schedules were in
disarray and commuter trains will be de-
layed or canceled for many as the work
week begins after a storm that dumped
near-record snows on the densely popu-
lated Washington-to-New York City corri-
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Alex Brandon/AP
Pirjo Garby, left, and Tom Henry, both of Washington, sit near the Tidal Basin
and watch the sun set Sunday behind the Jefferson Memorial in Washington,
D.C.
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The last flakes fell just before midnight
Saturday, but crews raced the clock all day
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