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now to reserve your 10’ X
12’ space, with electrical
outlets available. More infor
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registration. Contact Kay
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the Cat Spring Volunteer
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Sunday at the JP Annex No.
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and a one mile kids
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include a Wellness of
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Lecture Series titled
“Women’s Health 21st
Century.” The event is held
to raise funds to fight
breast cancer and learn
more about the integration
of mind, body, and spirit. It
lasts from 7 a.m. 3 p.m. at
Moody Gardens on
Galveston Island on
Saturday, Oct. 11. For more
information visit the website
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forced whip when thrown up
by impact. The result can
seriously damage any vehi-
cle and can be fatal for inno-
cent motorists in small
automobiles and on motor-
With the two sources of fees, the dis-
trict funds capital and operational
expenses for trunk and phone lines,
911 computer equipment, 911 data-
base maintenance, mapping/address-
ing functions and administrative
expenses, Haynes said.
“Districts provide the agencies han-
dling 911 calls the technology to
answer the public emergency calls in
an efficient and timely manner,”
Haynes said. The Austin County 911
District is one of 24 districts that
serve 29 counties in Texas.
Haynes is overseeing implementa-
tion of technology called Enhanced
911, or E911, which will provide the
phone number or location of a wireless
call. Phase I gives emergency person-
nel the capability to know the wireless
phone number of the caller and which
communications tower is transmitting
the call. Haynes said the 911 district
has completed that phase and is
engaged in upgrading towers for
Phase II, which will provide more spe-
cific location information on the
whereabouts of the wireless caller.
This is an “expensive” process
(about $80,000), but “the way the law
reads, we have to reimburse compa-
nies when they upgrade (towers),”
Haynes said.
Haynes is still working on the coun-
ty’s database so it’s accurate, updated
names of streets and addresses. This
has been a time-consuming process,
he said, but he plugs away at it during
his “retirement.”
Communications (911) District.
“Odis Haynes has moved the district
a long way and does an outstanding
job,” said Sheriff R. De Wayne Burger. “I
think a lot of his work (for the county).”
Bilski first met Haynes at an
Emergency Communications District
meeting several years ago. He was
concerned .about who would answer
his 911 calls, because he and wife
Mildred lived on 55 acres in the New
backed up traffic for several
miles as DPS cleared the
sites and called for medical
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has been the site of fatal and
serious traffic accidents over
the years, more so as traffic
volumes have increased
Aside from those projects,
most major transportation
projects are scheduled for
outyears, some as far away
as 2015.
In 2004, TxDOT has
appropriated some $3 mil-
lion for seal coat and main-
tenance of Interstate 10
from one side of Austin
County to the other. improve the
Ivy said the work will quality of life
begin periodically closing in ' Austin
lanes on the interstate County, Judge
beginning this coming May. Carolyn Bilski
TxDOT will overlay the said about
highway with a new kind of
material that is both hard
and skid resistant.
That water-based asphalt
material is put on by a con-
tractor out of Kansas.
Wehden Community near the
Washington County line. Instead of
leaving his problem with the district,
he opted “to become a part of the solu-
tion,” Bilski said.
Not just a part of the solution,
Haynes was president of the 911 dis-
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Serna’s struck the debris, the. highway is illegal,
sending it toward her 1997 Pickett said. There were no
Toyota FourRunner. witnesses who could con-
Sema swerved to avoid nect the slab of steel rein-
the tread, went into a Slide forced rubber tread to any
and was struck broadside particular truck. The tread
by a 1993 Peterbilt tractor- did not belong to the
trailer driven by Lee Milton Peterbilt involved in the
Brice, 58, out of Arkansas. accdent.
The collision sent Sema’s “I catch them all the time
vehicle into the median of when I canrand telithem
the highway and back out to go back and pick it up.
onto the roadway where it
collided with yet another r
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some vehicles, principally
over-the-road trucks and
heavy vehicles, off the
Highway 36/Interstate 10
confluence and put them on
a more direct access to the
interstate off Brast Road
The $5.2 million project
will rework FM 3013 and
Brast Road, turning Brast
Road from a county road to
a state-maintained farm-to-
market road - FM 3538.
Brast Road now runs
along the west edge of the
site of a future Wal-Mart
Distribution Center and
near the new Sealy High
School campus.
Traffic from that facility
and trucks from the many
gravel pits and other OTR
vehicles will get off Texas 36
and avoid the often confus-
ing left turn from the north-
bound highway to get onto
eastbound Interstate 10.
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It’s a safe bet the citizens of Austin
County are lucky Odis Haynes is hav-
ing an active “retirement.”
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The Sealy News is a member of
the National Newspaper
Association the Texas Press
Association, the South Texas
Press Association, the Texas
Gulf Coast Press Association
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Industry.
The board approved a
two-year contract with
Pritchard & Abbott Inc. for
the appraisal of mineral
and industrial properties
and Seidel, Schroeder & Co.
as auditors for the 2003 fis-
cal year.
The board’s next regular
meeting is scheduled for
Oct. 16.
TAXES
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meeting of the the Austin
County Appraisal District
Board of Directors on Sept.
18, the board swore in new
member Bill Schmidt Jr.
He is completing the term
vacated by Jim Bishop, who
moved out of the county.
Crawford said direct
deposit is available now for
district employees, and the
district ordered a 2004
Chevrolet pickup from
vehicle, according to
reports. Both the truck and
third vehicle were driven
from the scene, but the
injured woman’s vehicle -
was towed.
Pickett said there were no
other injuries and all vehi-
cles involved were west-
bound on the highway.
Pickett issued no citations
in the aftermath, although
if the driver of the truck
leaving the tread on the
highway is identified, he or
she could be cited for doing
so.
Leaving tread slabs on
trict board for more than five years
before he was appointed executive
director by the district board in April.
Haynes said after attending a cou-
ple of early 911 district meetings at
the Bellville Volunteer Fire
Department, he “got tangled up” with
the 911 board.
Haynes’ retirement was supposed to
start in 1990, after working for
Southwestern Bell for 11 years as area
manager of outside repairs in Austin,
Waller, Fort Bend, Colorado and
Washington counties. He and his wife
lived in Fort Bend County before mov-
ing to Austin County, where they have
been raising cattle and hay since 1989.
Austin County voters voted to estab-
lish an Austin County Emergency
Communications District with local
control of funding and governance in
November 1987, Haynes said.
Funding for the district is by land-
line and wireless fees. Telephone
providers collect 911 landline fees
from each customer and send those
funds directly to the district, Haynes
said. The maximum a district can
charge is 6 percent of the major tele-
phone service provider’s base rate.
The county’s district charges that
amount, which is 50 cents a month.
Austin County’s major provider is
Southwestern Bell. Cellular phone
owners pay the same amount.
“All of those monies go directly to
the Commission on State Emergency
Communications and are distributed
to each 911 entity based on its popula-
tion,” Haynes said.
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