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Allen Food Pantry seeks donations for holiday food drive
Cravens, who has worked with the to help others.”
The holiday season often inspires Alliance officials estimate that at
feelings of generosity and helpful- least 1,200 people, the majority of Scouts, who collected about 4,500
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From green to gold
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Please see AWARDS, page 4A
Please see LISD, page 8A
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program for about two years, said
each year more help is needed.
CHRISTMAS: is just around
the comer. Get in the holiday
heartfelt thanks to the participating
Scouts, their leaders, and the
people of Allen and Lovejoy who
donated so willingly,” Cravens said.
During this season, the Food
Pantry needs donations of any type
of food, but especially turkeys,
hams and peanut butter, Cravens
said. Other suggested donations
This Christmas will mark the
second year the Allen-based Global
Bright morning sunshine catches a tree
at Ford Park still changing colors from
the top down. Up in the sparse branches
at the top, the leaves have already
turned to gold, while the ones nearer the
So far, the holiday food drive has
netted about 8,000 cans of food
from specific efforts of the Boy
choosing the right Christmas
tree, writing letters to Santa
Claus and other special activites
in stories on page 3B.
Right mix
of city, country
Scott Nowling/Staff photo
trunk still hold their summer coloration.
The festival of hues should be appre-
ciated while it lasts, because with the
wind and rain that also arrive in the fall,
the trees will soon be bare.
WEATHER: The National
Weather Service forecast for
Saturday calls for mostly sunny
skies, a high near 70 and
westerly winds 10 to 20 miles
per hour. The forecast for
Sunday and Monday is partly
cloudy and cool with highs in
the 50s Monday and 60s Tues-
■ day. Lows will be in the 40s.
Tuesday should be partly
cloudy and warmer with a high
in the upper 60s.
care,” Wright said.
The program is interdenomina-
tional, he said.
“We help out the refugees and
then we introduce them to God,” he
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Wright of Allen said project volun-
teers have been hand delivering gift
boxes to various parts of the world
for 10 years.
“We help out children in areas
where church relief groups or
government aid programs have
Lovejoy Independent School
District received numerous
commendations from the three-
member state accreditation team
that visited the campus last week.
“We would like to see more
school districts (in Texas) like this
one,” said Dr. Leo Cano, team
chairman.
The accreditation team, sent by
the Texas Education Agency to
evaluate the performance of each
school district in the state, spent
three days visiting the Lovejoy
campus, talking with teachers,
administrators and parents and
observing student performance..
“They turned over every rock
and looked in every nook and cran-
ny, and they were very pleased
with the results,” said Superinten-
dent Robert Puster.
The team disclosed its prelimin-
ary findings to the board of trustees
last Friday. They made only two
suggestions for improvement within
“It was all so new to me,” Allen
said. “I hadn’t been working at the
station very long. That day gave me
more hands-on experience than any
other.”
Allen remained on the air until 9
p.m. that night, reporting new
developments as they occurred.
“The rest of the day, the station
was bedlam,” he said. “People were
standing around wondering what
was happening. The whole place
was buzzing with rumors.”
The rumors still abound today.
Twenty-five years later, the Ameri-
can public is still unsure of what
exactly happened that tragic day.
Many officials have given their opin-
the district:
■ Lovejoy should continue to adapt
state-mandated curriculum guides
to fit local needs. The state guide-
lines are very general, Cano said,
and need to be fashioned to fit the
overall campus plan at LISD.
The district has been in the
process of adapting the guidelines
since their adoption by the TEA
about two years ago, Puster said.
So the team’s suggestion will be
easily implemented, he said.
■ Lovejoy should continue plans for
the implementation of a comprehen-
sive counseling and guidance plan to
provide for a school counselor.
Currently, the district does not
employ a counselor, Puster said.
However, the board wants to have
the plan approved and hire a school
counselor by the next school year,
he said.
Of the teaching staff, Cano said,
“There is a high level of knowledge,
strong instruction and a high level of
teacher performance (at LISD).”
Girsch said. “It warms my heart to
see such generosity.”
In addition to needing food, the
program also needs volunteers to
sort, stack and transfer food items
from the church to a warehouse
adjacent to Domino’s Pizza in the
Allen Heights Shopping Center.
Domino’s management donated the
space to the Food Pantry, Girsch
backed out,” Wright said. “Right
now, the fighting in Central America
is so bad that we are focusing our
efforts on that area.”
The group delivers parcels of
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On Nov. 22, 1963, broadcaster
John Allen of Lucas sat in the news-
room of radio station WFAA in
downtown Dallas listening to
routine chatter on a special short-
wave channel being used by the
Dallas police. He listened as the
police supervised the parade trans-
porting President John F. Kennedy
and the first lady from Love Field
airport to the Trade Mart on Stem-
mons Freeway, where Kennedy
was to deliver a speech around
' noon.
Everyone else who worked at the
ABC-affiliate station had gone to
lunch, leaving Allen to do his noon
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Donations can be made by calling
St. Jude Catholic Church or by
taking the items there personally.
Jeanne Girsch, administrative
assistant at St. Jude and secretary
of the Food Pantry, said one family
donated its entire Thanksgiving
dinner to the food drive because it
was called out of town
unexpectedly.
“That’s the real spirit of giving,”
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The time has come for the Allen
Independent School District
G Community Education Advisory
Council to solicit nominations for
1988-89 Teacher Excellence
Awards.
This 5-year-old program recog-
nizes outstanding teacher achieve-
ment in the district by honoring
nominated teachers with a recep-
tion and certificates of merit.
Nominations for the awards are /
made by Allen residents, AISD
G students and administrators, and
the teachers themselves, according
to Community Education Director
Bob Outman.
“Anyone can nominate a teacher,
for an award,” Outman said. “These
awards are given by the community
with a lot of support and effort put
into the program.”
Five finalists are chosen from the
nominations; four of them become
— honor teachers, and one becomes
• 1988-89 Teacher of the Year.
Teacher of the Year will be
awarded $1,000 in cash, maid
service at the teacher’s residence
once per month for one year, and a
personalized commemorative
plaque. The teacher’s name also will
be inscribed on a permanent plaque
that is displayed in the AISD Admi-
nistration Building at 200 S. Cedar.
The four honor teachers will each
O receive $250 in cash and a personal-
ized plaque.
Funds for the awards program
are supplied by donations from indi-
viduals, local businesses and organi-
zations, the AISD Community
Education Advisory Council, AISD
Parent-Teacher Associations, and
the school district, Outman said.
The awards program is designed
to recognize the quality teachers
c AISD employs, Outman said.
" “We feel this is a good way to
thank, them,” he said.
Eligibility for nomination is
limited to AISD teachers whose
primary function is teaching,
regardless of grade, subject matter
or assignment, Outman said. To be
eligible, a teacher must have
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the police channel.
“Three shots have been fired at
the presidential motorcade at Elm
and Houston (streets) — no further
information is available as yet,” the
message said.
Allen immediately snapped on the
emergency switch to the control
room to interrupt the program on
the air.
“I’ve got a bulletin!” he shouted.
The time was 12:31 p.m., about
30 seconds after the bullets hit
Kennedy and Texas Governor John
Connally. Allen was the first in the
nation to broadcast details on the
assassination, according to a story
later published in Reader’s Digest
magazine. His broadcast set in
motion an unprecedented media
blitz that lasted weeks.
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ness, and the people of Allen are whom are children, will need help
being called upon by the Allen from the food program during the
Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry to holiday season.
share some of their holiday feelings “This is the busiest time of the
with those in need by donating to year for the Allen Food Pantry,”
the holiday food drive. Cravens said. “But this time of the
Food Pantry Director Linda year is also when people give more
Outreach program has sent Christ- food, medicine and clothing to child
mas presents to the thousands of refugees and orphans, he said, and
children living in the refugee camps those who make the trip down to
of Central America, and the prog- Central America try to ease these
ram sponsors need all the help they children’s suffering in any way they
can get. can.
The Global Outreach program “There is no U.S. agency that
brings people together to help child- gives foreign aid to Costa Rica and
ren in war-tom Central America by Honduras. The fighters as well as
sending them packages for Christ- the children and refugees are
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Warnken, Mark. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 158, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 27, 1988, newspaper, November 27, 1988; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1536429/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.