Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 2002 Page: 1 of 12
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School District Board of Trustees tract
recently offered landowner
learn and/or athletics to determine *
how many, if any. of the girls were
involved in both.
The board also approved a pro- >
lent athlete
lysical edu-
Dennis WesterMn and Ms wife Lori (not pictured) received Keep Songer
BeautiM’s Holiday Yard Award for the west side of Sanger for their
“Star Spangird Christmas*1theme. _________________ '
ally the girls who are involved in
drill team are not involved in ath-
letics.
However, after some discus-
sion the decision was made to al-
elected Precinct 5 justice of the
peace in 1994.
“I have never viewed my jus-
tice court position as a lifetime
job,” Gailey said when asked
about her decision to run for
county judge. “I was. 1 guess, in a
sense waiting for the right timing,
and this seems to be the right
time. 1 believe 1 can do a good job,
and I have a lot of common sense
and good moral thinking to take
into any position.
Gailey said she planned to for-
mally file for the race Wednesday.
Jan. 2. When asked how her cam-
paign for county judge would af-
Lane,” 8th Street as “Snowmen”
and Brooke for the use of the same
outlining around the homes, giving
the illusion that they were all part
of one large house dressed in
Christinas finery.
. The Someplace Special Award
went to the city’s downtown park
in recognition of all the hard work
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Barbara Gailey, Precinct 5 jus-
tice of the peace, has announced
plans to run for Denton County
judge in the March 12 Republican
primary.
Gailey is the second person to
formally announce a decision to
seek the county judge's seat, which
is being vacated by Scott Armey.
Last week Denton County Tax As-
sessor/Collector Mary Hom filed
for a spot in the Republican pri-
mary.
Gailey recently announced
plans not to seek reelection to the
office she now holds. She was
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dent athletes will not be eligible for
drill team and vice versa. Accord-
ing to information received from
the school district, the reason for
the change is that it is a violation
of UIL rules for a stud<
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Sable rejects SISffs settlement offer
Hoping to reach a compro- Biggerstaff said SISD attorneys trict if it ran the sewer line down the form of a letter to Art Kramer,
mine la order to avoid a potential can find no mention of such an Sable's property, as opposed to
mas decorating event “Keep up
the wonderful effort to make
Sanger more beautiful each year
for the holiday season,” she said.
But, even after the holidays
much can be done to make the city
more attractive. For instance,
Buchanan stated, the City of
Sanger, in cooperation with KSB,
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for comment
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feet her responsibilities as justice
of the peace. Gailey said she plans
to continue to do the job she was
elected to do. “That's my first re-
sponsibility.” Gailey said. “That's
what I am being paid for. I will run
my campaign after I get my justice
court duties and responsibilities
taken care of.”
Gailey said she sees the main
issues as being quality growth and
development, roads and transpor-
tation.
Former Texas Gov. Preston
Smith is Gailey's campaign trea-
surer. Her web site
www.BarbaraGailey.com
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St, 204 Kathryn, 1004They^CourL a and turning them into mulch.
”....... Now through Jan. 11, trees can
(lww» Die mulch will then be available
for Individuate to purchase and the
planned to do. Tlffc estimated cost perintendent earlier had stated that
A special meeting of the SISD to run the sewer line down FM 455 if the offer was rejected no other
Donald Sable a settlement offer of trustees was held Tuesday, Dec. is $212,000. The estimated cost to
$44,000. But, the offer has been 18. At that meeting the board run a sewer line down Sable's
rejected. unanimously voted to make a dif- property is $168,000.
Sable owns approximately 135 ferent settlement offer to Sable in
acres of tend adjacent to the new
Sanger High School, He wanted
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teachers representing each sub- the Sanger school board, trustee
ject or discipline. Among the rec- Bill Baird questioned whether the
ommendations heeded by trust- adoption of the policy would make
ees was a return to a traditional
seven period schedule next year.
offers would be made.
“Our plan now is to put out bids
for the sewer line to go down 455.”
Biggerstaff said the proposal Biggerstaff said in a telephone in-
the amount of $44,000. • was to get an easement from Sable terview Monday. Dec. 31.
The $44,000 represents the without having to pay tap fees.
Sanger ISD to foot the bil to run a coatdifferencetotheschooldis-
aewer line for the high school _
project through hie property, j
thereby increasing its value. It is I
Sable's contention that the school —
district should be responsible for a* Hardy
the infrastructure improvements -
and tap fees which will be incurred
when the property is developed.
He had hinted that legal action
could be takeh if the school district
did not agree to do so.
At the Dec. 11 school board
meeting SISD Superintendent
Jack Biggerstaff recommended a
settlement amount of $78,000,
which Sable claims was knocked
off the price of property purchased
by the school from Sable in 1986.
Sable contends that the $78,000
was deducted in lieu of the infra-
» structure and tap fees. But,
104 Ml St, 108 Colonial Haightt
and 200 E. Chapman. ?*
The neighborhood item *
chosen by a paneiof judge! _________
tag outside the &ty limits, ft wwe . Parks Department to use. Anyone
awarded to Indian Springs for its uncreated in purchasing mulch
•Winter Wonderland” theme, from ths dtyahould cal City Hall
Bach of the hommta the snbdhi- nt 456*7930 for pridM-sed to
cion decorated their yards to de- schedule a time for pick up.
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mtse in order to avoid a potential can find no mention of such an Sable s property, as opposed to Sable s Realtor and to Sable’s attor
tawouft, the Sanger Independent agreement with Sable in the con- down FM 455, which it had ney, Benjamin Read. The SISD su-
wonderftil example of American she wants to thank everyone who The Keep Sanger Beautiful award-wtantag yard for Sanger’s east ride,
patriotism done up for Christ- participated in this year’s Christ- ®t 603 Phan, was deeorated with reindeer and angels.
mas.”
Honorable mentions were
114 Freese, which also had a pa-
triotic theme, 2521 Chippewa, 206
Tejas, 1600 W. Chapman and 102
Hok.
The east side individual
award was given to Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Schertz at 603 Plum. Hon-
girls involved in athletics chose
between drill team and athletics,
as opposed to the block schedul- But. Biggerstaff said that tradition
ing the school currently is using.
According to SISD Superin-
tendent Jack Biggerstaff. “The
new schedule will go into effect
when we move out into the new
highschool. We have a curriculum low girls to sign up for either drill
committee that has worked on this
for more than a year now. Based
on their review and research, we
just felt like it (a seven period
schedule) was better suited to our posal to offer introductory level
situation and better for our chil- vocational courses at the middle
dren.” - school, so that students who have
In addition to the elimination taken introductory courses at the
of block scheduling, free periods middle school cai. take more ad-
for seniors no longer will be al- vanced vocational courses at the
lowed. Biggerstaff said he did not high school level. And. a proposal
believe this would face much op- to separate coaching staff at middle
position. “The juniors were having school and high school levels was
a free period this year and the se- approved, as were changes to the
niors were able to have two free pre-AP course requirements,
periods, and we eliminated one of The SHS Curriculum Commit-
those this year. This (the elimina- tee proposed adding several
tion of free periods for seniors) is courses to the high school curricu-
what the board wants to do with lum. These consisted of CISCO
that. I think we expect our stu- Academy, Building Trades. Ac-
dents to be in school.” . counting I. Desktop Publishing.
Also, cheerleaders no longer Principles of Marketing. Computer
will be granted a class period dur- Science. Creative Writing. Choir,
ing the day for practice. All prac-
tices will have to be scheduled
before or after school.
Cheerleading is considered an
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By Lum Hardy
The 2002-2003 school year at
Sanger High School is expected to
begin in a new campus. Recently
the Sanger Independent School
District Board of Trustees ap-
proved curriculum proposals
which will be implemented for the to be enrolled in two
2002-2003 school year to coincide cation courses at the same time,
with the opening of the new cam- Athletics and drill team are contid-
pus. ered equivalents to a course in
The curriculum proposals physical education.
■fop at the caracr af Mi Street aad Chaprem Drive. Arrerdtag to HtaP* tbe watia at the ceaveaieace store shoaM be gotag ap this week, aad the were developed by a committee of
Sanger Courier
Winners of the holiday deco-
rating awards have been an-
nounced by the Keep Sanger
Beautiful (KSB) board.
The west aide individual
award went to Dennis and Lori
Westerlin at 2503 Chippewa Dr.
for their “Star-Spangled Christ-
mas” theme depicting two beauti-
fully lighted American flags, with
tiie entire yard and house deco-
rated in red, white and blue. ___________________________
Barbara Buchanan, spokes- the Barks Department did creating
woman for KSB, said, “If you the “spectacular” display,
missed this yard on your tour of Buchanan stated.
Christmas lights you missed a
Aquatic Science. Computer Main-
tenance. Web Mastering. Jazz .
Band. Advertising. Computer
____________________________ Aided Drafting and Athletic
equivalent to a physical education Trainer. The school board ap-
course. and since student athletes proved this proposal as well,
cannot be enrolled in more than "All those things will be com-
one physical education class per ing in with the next school year. I
day, the change was necessary, can’t tell you what we are going to
Biggerstaff told board members, do on the subject areas, because
However, drill team members that depends on personnel on a lot
can continue to have a class period of those things now,” Biggerstaff
during the day to practice, but stu-
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USB bestows holiday decorating awards
pict a different Christmas carol. Buchanan said that by allow- for trash collection, citizens will be
Honorable mentions went to ing the city to pick up Christmas doing their part to recycle and save
Kathryn Lane as “Candy Cane trees instead of putting them out space in landfills.
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