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Agencies set goals for health plan
The specific data from the assess-
ment translates to five “areas of con-
cern”: access to care, behavioral health,
diet and exercise, education and chron-
ic diseases.
In the access-to-care category, there
were 90,000 uninsured adults younger
than 65 in Denton County in 2014, while
about 18,700 children in the couirty were
uninsured that year-. The exercise catego-
ry showed 20.2 percent of couirty resi-
dents ar e physically inactive.
In behavioral health, statewide data
indicates that about 78,500 Denton
County residents with a mental illness
didn’t receive treatment in 2013.
Educating residents about behavior-
al health stigmas in schools was one of
the suggested goals at the meeting.
Work begins on 3-year
guide to make county
residents’ lives better
They set broad goals around health
concerns raised in the 2017 Community
Health Assessment, which was released
last week.
The 63-page document outlines,
among other issues, the number of resi-
dents suffering from a mental illness
who aren’t receiving treatment, the
number of uninsured adults and the
percentage of county residents who are
physically inactive. It also includes the
growing rate of sexually transmitted
diseases and new HIV diagnoses.
“Once there are community-recog-
nized goals with access to care, behavioral
health and chronic and communicable
diseases, then we can start to focus our
efforts with new employees and whether
we have budget resources that we can al-
locate to the issue,” Denton County Public
Health director Matt Richardson said.
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
dentonrc.com
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County leaders are taking major steps
toward developing a three-year com-
munity health improvement plan for
county residents starting in 2018.
Representatives from Denton County
Public Health, Texas Health Resources,
United Way of Denton County and other
agencies got together for the first Commu-
nity Health Summit on Wednesday at the
Denton County Southwest Courthouse in
Flower Mound.
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Matt Richardson, Denton County Public Health director, discusses health
trends Wednesday at the 2017 Community Health Summit at the Denton
County Southwest Courthouse in Flower Mound.
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Campus administrators said they are
committed to improving childhood litera-
cy at their schools during a Denton ISD
school board meeting Tuesday
The meeting began with public com-
ment from former school board member
and local activist Willie Hudspeth, who
charged the current school board to do
more when it comes to reading interven-
tion.
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The Denton City Council
appointed Aaron Leal on
Tuesday night as the city
attorney. Leal had been
serving as an interim for
the city after Anita Bur-
gess retired in February.
His two-year contract
provides for a base salary
of $182,800 per year and
a car allowance of $600
per month.
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Rebecca Ivey reads “10 Little Ninjas” by Miranda Paul to children and parents Wednesday during Story Time
at Emily Fowler Central Library in Denton. The interactive preschool program uses stories, songs and pup-
pets to help build early literacy skills.
He cited a recent United Way of Den-
ton County study that said the number of
economically disadvantaged third-grad-
ers reading at grade level in Denton Coun-
ty dropped 10 percentage points in four
years.
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Boy Scouts to welcome girls
“I want to make sure it’s clear who is
not doing their job: the board,” Hudspeth
said. “I know that the teachers would do
better if you designed something for them
to do it.”
Principals from each Denton ISD cam-
pus then laid out the goals in their annual
campus improvement plans. Each school
was grouped into one of four attendance
zones based on high school feeder pat-
terns: Braswell, Denton, Guyer and Ryan.
Though each zone focused on specific
issues, the overarching goal (as with any
school) was to improve student achieve-
ment, specifically in reading and math.
LAS VEGAS
NEVADA
By David Crary
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — In its latest momen-
tous policy shift, the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica will admit girls into the Cub Scouts
stalling next year and establish a new pro-
gram for older girls based on the Boy
Scout curriculum that enables them to as-
pire to the coveted Eagle Scout rank.
Founded in 1910 and long considered a
bastion of tradition, the Boy Scouts have
undergone major changes in the past five
years, agreeing to accept openly gay youth
Girl Scout leaders criticize the initiative
use gender-free names such as Scouts
Canada. But for now, the Boy Scout label
will remain.
“There are no plans to change our
name at this time,” spokeswoman Effie
Delimarkos said in an email.
Under the new plan, Cub Scout dens —
the smallest unit — will be single-gender,
members and adult volunteers, as well as
transgender boys.
The expansion of girls’ participation,
announced Wednesday after unanimous
approval by the organizations board of di-
rectors, is arguably the biggest change yet,
potentially opening the way for hundreds
of thousands of girls to join.
Many scouting organizations in other
countries already allow both genders and
Pressure mounted
Wednesday for Las Ve-
gas police to explain how
quickly they reacted to
what would become the
deadliest mass shooting
in modern U.S. history
after two hotel employ-
ees reported a gunman
spraying a hallway with
bullets six minutes be-
fore he opened fire on a
crowd at a musical per-
formance.
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California Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection. “It is very dynamic. These
fires are changing by the minute in many
areas.”
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jocelyn Gecker
Associated Press
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SONOMA, Calif.
Fueled by the re-
turn of strong winds, the wildfires tearing
through California wine country exploded
in size and number Wednesday as author-
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The entire historic town of Calistoga,
population 5,000, was evacuated. In
neighboring Sonoma County, authorities
issued an evacuation advisory for part of
the town of Sonoma and the community
of Boyes Hot Springs. By that time, lines of
cars were already fleeing.
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man said when a deputy sheriff warned
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Three days after the fires began, fire-
fighters were still unable to gain contr ol of
the blazes that had turned entire Northern
California neighborhoods to ash and
destroyed at least 3,500 homes and busi-
nesses.
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