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April 11,1990
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Vol. 21, No. 29
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Good Morning
Long-time postal clerk
to move to Little Elm
Commission OKs
inmate transfer
Setting
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longer than in any other place as an
adult, and I’ve seen many kids grow
up. I’m going to miss the people a
lot. I’ve known a lot of these people
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Community
Schools
Movies
Lifestyles
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County
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By LORI FAIRCHILD
Contributing Writer
west of Frisco.
In addition to eliminating her com-
mute to and from work, Klasky’s
In a story on page 14A in
the Sunday, April 8 edition
of The Allen American, in-
formation about two candi-
dates for Allen City Council
Place 2 was incorrect.
Allen resident Marc
Murray is a Collin County
probation officer and Allen
resident Mike Nichols is a
vice president for South-
west Credit Systems.
All candidates for Allen
City Council are required
to reside within the city
limits.
The Allen American re-
grets the error.
By DONNA FRANCIS
Staff Writer
FORECAST:
Wednesday — Mostly fair with a high
in the upper 60s. Thursday through
Saturday — Partly cloudy Thursday.
A chance of showers Friday and
Saturday. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
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By SCOTT NOWLING
Staff Writer
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when I started here. They have two
part-time clerks, a postmaster and
two rural carriers.” Klasky has lived
in Little Elm with her husband, Phil,
for more than two years. The com-
munity is located about seven miles
For official National Weather Service
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For additional weather information
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For the current pollen count, call
373-SNIF.
By Bill Davis
Staff Writer
Without the formality of a debate,
Collin County commissioners on
Monday granted Sheriff Terry Box’s
request to transfer 50 inmates from
the crowded county jail to jails in
Navarro and Anderson counties.
Ninety inmates already are being
housed out of the county, 50 of them
in Bell County and 40 in Navarro
County, at a cost of $110,000 a
month to Collin County. All the in-
mates being moved are state prison-
ers the Texas Department of Cor-
rections refuses to take because of
state prison overcrowding.
Box’s most recent request will
add $60,000 a month, or $40 a day
per inmate, to the county’s tab.
Unlike the two times in 1989 when
Box asked to move prisoners, on
Monday the commissioners unani-
mously approved the transfer with-
out a discussion. During the pre-
vious requests commissioners Jerry
Hoagland and Howard Thornton
criticized the moves at length be-
cause of the costs.
“We have the money in the budget
this year,” Hoagland said after the
commissioners court meeting. “We
knew it would be coming. There is
no use getting upset if the state isn’t
going to take its prisoners, and that’s
about the size of it.”
The county has budgeted $2.3
million this fiscal year for transfers of
inmates. On Monday the county jail
held 240 inmates, 150 of whom were
state prisoners. The jail was de-
signed to hold at most 144 inmates.
In January 1989 the commission-
ers approved the transfer of 50 in-
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students in the Allen Indepen-
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joy Independent School District
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consecutive year. For more photographs from the Satur-
day’s championship game in Lewisville, turn to pages
15A and 17A in today’s Allen American. (Staff photo by
Scott Nowling)
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familiar faces since long before most welding club at the school and intro-
of Allen’s current population moved duced himself, he got no response
here. But after April 19, postal pat- until he said his wife was ‘Peggy at
rons in Little Elm, where Klasky has the post office,’ ” Klasky said. “In
accepted a transfer, will enjoy her the last few years, Allen has gotten
pleasant service. so large, and many people don’t
“In a way, I’m going back to where come to the post office, so some of
I started,” she said. “Little Elm may that has lost its significance. But
be about the size now that Allen was many do know me. I lived in Allen
The Allen Eagles girls soccer team celebrates its
regional championship victory on the field in Lewisville
Saturday afternoon. The team will head to Austin
Friday for the state title tournament for the second
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a day per inmate. Last July, with the
county jail population hovering
around 260, commissioners
approved moving 40 state prisoners
to Navarro County at a cost of $40 a
day per inmate.
Though it had been nine months
since the last transfer of prisoners,
Box on Monday said he would be
back “within four to six months if I
was forecasting” for a similar re-
quest.
The jail population will increase
faster, Box said, because late last
year he ended a program that had
limited the number of inmates local
entities could send to the county jail.
“I put some of the cities in a bind
with that (program),” Box said. “I
can’t do that. I think it’s shirking
responsibility. Unlike what the state
is doing to the county, I can’t just
turn around and say it to the cities.”
County Judge Bill Roberts said the
commissioners didn’t bother debat-
ing the inmate issue “because we
have been well aware that this re-
quest was going to be made.”
The commissioners were pre-
pared to send prisoners to other
counties “until the new jail is com-
pleted” sometime in the spring of
1992.
“We have made a commitment to
send out inmates when the jail gets
overcrowded,” Roberts said. “This
we will continue to do.”
Roberts predicted jail space would
become more expensive to rent as
“the jail overcrowding situation con-
tinues.”
In other business, the commis-
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some old horses. The guest of honor
was Jody Holmes’ Appaloosa
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and animal has a niche in the sys-
tem,” Hill said.
Sixth-grade students at Lovejoy One particularly interesting class
Independent School District recent- was led by John Preston from Okla-
ly devoted almost a whole week to homa City, Hill said. Children from
" intense ecologic and environmental that class were able to tell the differ-
—5 learning — and at the end of the ence between venomous and non-
-.n experience, were asking for more. venomous snakes, and they all came
Inspired learning through experi- away with a new appreciation for
ence, not in the classroom, but at snakes.
■ Goddard Youth Camp in the Arbuck- * Each one was able to touch or
• n- le Mountains, near Sulphur Springs handle snakes,” Hill said.
\ in southern Oklahoma, has been a Matt Empey, of Lucas, one of the
tradition at Lovejoy Elementary students who went on the trip, said
School for 18 years. we learned a lot about snakes and
Each year, excitement begins to mammals and all, but the one of the
build as word spreads of the upcom- best parts was a party and dance we
■ ing trip — already common know- had on the last night we were there.
I ledge among all the Lovejoy stu- We had music and games. Even
■ dents, who have been hearing about now, all the kids keep saying ‘Man,
the experiences of classmates who we wish we were back at Camp God-
• have attended before them. dard!’ ”
. Fourteen parent sponsors and The class was fortunate to have as
four teachers accompanied 69 11- a parent sponsor Steve Runnels,
and 12-year-olds to the week-long director of the Heard Museum and
. — camp. Also a camp participant was Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney.
Jody Holmes celebrates the 25th birthday of her Appaloosa Jim Hill, principal at Lovejoy. Runnels discussed wildlife and birds
horse Smoke. Holmes and some of her friends held a birth- “We talked about man’s use of the and also some of the smaller forms of
day party for their horses Sunday. (Staff photo by Scott world, trees, conservation of water,
Nowling) the relationship of the plants and
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When Peggy Bridges Klasky be- transfer to the Little Elm Post Office I
gan her career with the Allen Post will allow her to return to a part-time
Office in 1966, the city had no street schedule. She worked here as a
delivery and the post office was lo- part-time clerk for nearly 20 years Hill
cated in the building now occupied by before going full-time several years
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“Allen was little bitty then,” Kias- Klasky, who was bom and raised %
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everything about the community has Bridges, who died in 1975. Their "
changed,,at least visually. One of the children, Joyce and Gerald, were "
comforting constants Allen resi- young school children when she be-
dents still treasure, though, is the gan her postal career. It was’t long
special treat of being served by a before she became known as “Peggy |
familiar face when doing business at the post office.”
locally. Klasky has been one of those “When my husband went to a
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