The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1984 Page: 1 of 6
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DSCC offers
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Longo warns
costly drainage
problems faced
Tom Cravens
is candidate
VANDERGRIFF
TO VISIT CITY
He will invite the views of
residents at the Texas
Power and light building on
Highway 423.
Chambers’ record is now 3-1 and Hair Terrific’s
is 1-3.
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Tom Cravens, 39, of 5212
Reed Drive filed Monday as
a Place 4 candidate for the
City Council.
Cravens, a resident of the
Colony for five years, is a
civil engineer for Sullivan
Properties. Formerly he
was employed by Fox &
Jacobs.
The election will be April
7.
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now operates at less than
half its capacity. .
Longo said he had realized
since 1974 that “without
water the Colony is dead.”
Board member John Two-
mey said the Dallas water
line is scheduled for com-
pletion April 15 and by
early summer water will be
flowing.
Board member George
Dodson said MUD faces a
potential solid waste pro-
blem, but he doesn’t know
when it will happen.
Then one day the major put out an order
that officers were no longer to give booze to
enlisted men. When Davis heard of the
order he headed straight to the major’s
tent.
“Major, that doesn’t include me, does
it?” he asked. Davis left there with a jug.
When Davis finished his tour and
returned to the States I was named senior
corpsman. I was worried about the booze
supply not having an “in” with the major.
However, I got lucky. A few days later I
sent a kid, Bill Mello, out to inventory our
medical supplies. He came back in a few
hours very excited.
Bill said he had found 360 two-ounce
bottles of medicinal brandy and asked if I
knew we had it. My records didn’t show a
single bottle.
We lived rather well the next few months.
A good brandy sure beats chocolate-chip
cookies.
U. S. Rep. Tom Vander-
griff will be in the Colony at
10 a.m. Saturday for an
informal question and an-
swer session.
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Jacobs said concrete streets
would last 20 years, but
they are not.
Councilman Noel Long
said asphalt and cement
around a drainage area can
increase the problem.
Sample said the city’s
northeast section would
include multi-family dwell-
ings near the railroad
tracks, some industrial,
some single-family homes
and a shopping center area.
MUD manager Bill Hall
said at first he thought the
“fall” of a sewer line to
serve the proposed high
school in Office Creek Park
would pose a problem, but
changed his mind.
Discussion turned to the
city’s water supply. Hall
said the City of Dallas
guarantees 13 million gal-
lons a day to the Colony,
and MUD will still have
well water it could mix in an
emergency.
He said that MUD’s
wastewater treatment plant
A recent telephone survey
regarding needs for addi-
tional school facilities was a
topic at Monday night’s
Little Elm Independent Sc-
hool District board meet-
ing.
Eleven Little Elm PT A
volunteers conducted the
survey under the direction
of school superintendent
Dr. Elmer Russell. The
sample was selected by
taking every tenth name
from the most recent voter
registration list, discarding
those that did not live in the
school district and those
who were known to have
moved away, leaving a
sample total of 96 persons,
82 of which were actually
contacted. Two refused to
respond, leaving the sam-
ple at 80, which is approxi-
Colony man
PR chief
Robin Bauman of the Col-
ony has been named direc-
tor of public relations and
marketing at United Net-
work Services (UNS), a
long-distance telephone
service headquartered in
Dallas.
Previously display adver-
tising manager with Gor-
don Publications in Dallas,
Bauman was hired to im-
plement UNS’ advertising
and marketing campaign
which is slated to begin in
the spring.
PTA to meet
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moved from the southwest
corner.
Sample said a statement
that St. Paul Hospital had
signed a five-year lease on
space in the building was
not correct. He said St.
Paul had signed a threeyear
intent to lease with pro-
visions for two five-year
extensions.
Councilman Scott North
made a motion for the
council to accept the pre-
liminary and final plats for
the project. It passed.
A city building permit
must be issued for the
project, but that can’t be
done until plans meet
F&J’s specifications.
At the Monday meeting
Williams asked if he could
speak. Sample said he
couldn’t and was out of
order. Williams left.
The mayor said later he
made the ruling because it
wasn’t a public hearing and
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Plans for construction of
Paige Medical Plaza at 6600
Paige Road came under
attack Monday by Mayor
Larry Sample at the City
Council meeting.
The basic criticism is that
plans are to construct it
with aggregate not brick.
Councilmen say that brick
wouldn’t blend in with
homes in the neighbor-
hood. Dr. Kevin Seidler,
developer of the 22,000-
square-foot plaza, says that
brick is too expensive.
Sample said the council’s
approval of the project de-
pends on having complete
and valid plans. The mayor
said the council hadn’t
been dealt with in a straight
forward manner.
He said plans for the plaza
didn’t comply with Fox &
Jacobs’ deed restrictions,
and that includes architec-
tural control.
In a Feb. 8 letter to Allen
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mately 7.5 per cent of the
district’s population. Of
those 80 people, 54 per cent
had children in school and
46 per cent did not.
When asked if they tho-
ught the schools will need
more classroom space in
the near future, 54 said yes
and 8 said no. When the
schools have to build more
classrooms, 16 preferred
adding to the elementary
school, 16 preferred build-
ing a new school rather
than adding on, 15 prefer-
red adding to the elemen-
tary and Junior-Senior
High, and only 7 preferred
adding to the Junior-Senior
High School.
When asked if they tho-
ught a new school should
be built, 15 preferred
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Williams, a representative
of the architectural firm on
the project, John Hender-
son of F&J’s land acquisi-
tion department, said he
had reviewed the landscape
plans for the center, “how-
ever, our concerns for
maintaining the integrity of
the neighborhood remains
the same as outlined in my
letter of Feb. 3.
“Fox & Jacobs stands
ready to consider further
proposals, but we feel that
some good faith efforts
should be made to follow
our suggested revisions.”
In the Feb. 3 letter Hen-
derson said:
—F&J wants the building
to be brick because it will
be in a residential area.
—The building should be
turned so it would face
Paige and Kisor Drive.
—Most parking should be
in the rear.
—A dumpster should be
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The Little Elm PTA will
meet Monday at 7:30 p.m.
in the Elementary School
gym. Mrs. McGee’s fourth
grade P. E class will pre-
sent a demonstration of
tumbling skills and exer-
cises to music. The comm-
unity is welcome.
there had been too much
talk in the past.
In another matter, the
council again called for bids
on the sale of 13.6 acres at
South Colony Boulevard
and Highway 423. The tract
is zoned Shopping Center.
Bids will be opened at 2
p.m. March 19 at City Hall.
Bids had been invited
before but none had been
received by the 2 p.m. Feb.
6 deadline. One arrived a
few minutes late and
another a day late.
Commenting on the lack of
interest shown by bidders,
Councilman Noel Long said
13 acres is too small a tract
to interest major de-
velopers.
In still another matter, the
council petitioned for
annexation of Office Creek
Park into the Municipal
Utility District. That is the
site for a proposed high
school.
City Council and Munici-
pal Utility District board
members discussed plans
for the city’s growth Mon-
day.
Board member Bill Longo
called attention to the city’s
drainage problems. “Let’s
pay attention when we
move lots of earth,” he
said. He said the city faces
five serious drainage pro-
blems that could cost $1
million to correct.
The group first discussed
an area south of present
Colony housing. Mayor
Larry Sample said it would
include multi-family high-
density housing, a regional
shopping center, a motel,
restaurant, and a marine
dealer.
Longo said the city and
MUD managers must work
closely on the drainage
problem and a bond issue.
He described it as a serious
problem for taxpayers.
Speaking of problems,
Longo said that Fox &
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From time to time I see on the boob tube
where some helpful group has sent
enormous amounts of cookies and candy to
the U. S. Marines in Lebanon.
When another shipment of Christmas
cookies arrived one Marine said, “I’d
rather have homemade biscuits and red-
eye gravy.” I can identify with that.
Candy and cookies are okay but the
Marines I served with in the Central Pacific
during World War II would take girls and
booze 10 to one. Even seeing girls on
Pacific coral was an impossible dream and
booze was a rarity.
Some way, Marine officers got all the
booze they wanted at their club, and
enlisted men got a ration of two bottles of
green beer daily.
However, medical corpsmen attached to
the Marines fared a bit better in the
Marshall Islands. We had a senior corps-
man from Texas named Davis and he kept
us a modest supply of booze that he got
from Major York, squadron commander.
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Councilman Marlene
Poole said “we plan and
dream” but don’t know
when a serious problem will
come up.
Council and board mem-
bers were thinking in terms
of an eventual 100,000 pop-
ulation.
“It was a very good dis-
cussion. I think we came
out of the meeting united,”
Sample said Tuesday.
programs
The Dallas Society for
Crippled Children (DSCC)
has a Speakers Bureau
offering educational pro-
grams for area organizat-
ions.
The programs include a
brief talk on DSCC agency
services, a film presenta-
tion, and supplementary
handout materials. DSCC,
an Easter Seal affiliate, is a
non-profit, outpatient re-
habiliation facility for
handicapped children. Call
Cynthia Sanders at (214)
358-5261 for information.
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A daughter, Shea Nicole,
was born Feb. 1 to Ken and
Cindy Bahr of the Colony at
Plano General Hospital.
She weighed 5 pounds 13
ounces.
Grandparents are Ed and
Shirley Scarbrough of Lub-
bock and Joe Bahr of
Salem, Wis.
Action in Colony Men’s Basketball League Middle School. A Chambers player tries to pass
continued Saturday with seven games at Griffin the ball in a 61-42 win over Hair Terrific.
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Blalock, Jack. The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1984, newspaper, February 16, 1984; Little Elm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1520119/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.