The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 47, Ed. 1 Monday, June 17, 2002 Page: 1 of 24
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Midrainage work finally underway
City hopes for solution to flooding with $750,000 construction job
School board adjusts rules
for high school dress code
VOLUME 111, NO. 47
ALVIN, TEXAS 77511
change the regular council meet-
ing dates from the second and last
Thursday at 7 p.m. to the second
and fourth Monday at 7 p.m. The
new meeting dates will be in
By Kathleen Holton
Managing Editor
secretary after the next council
meeting on Thursday, June 27.
In an effort to review applica-
tions for a new city secretary, the
By Roberta Matthews
Staff Writer
After years of flooding in the South
and Johnson street area, work on phase
I of the Ml Drainage Improvement
Project began this week. Workers broke
up the roads in front of South Park
effect starting in July.
The Council also accepted
Manvel City Secretary Florence
Schumann's retirement letter. She
has the opportunity to travel to
Lithuania with her husband. A
Baptist Church, where the main prob-
lem is located.
According to Alvin Director of
Public Services Wayne Sabo, the first
will now be allowed.
Slides and mules without back-
straps will be allowed, but not
beach, sport or flip flop sandals.
Trustees also stipulated that
belts must be work if the pants
have belt loops.
Shirts much be tucked in. and
no sheer or see-through fabric is
allowed.
Although the board approved
the adjustments in the code, they
were not in total agreement.
Trustees Gary Mayfield and
Micki Kincaide voted against the
By Roberta Matthews
Staff Writer
Alvin City Library offers
the following activities in
June: Tuesday, June 18,
Escape School with the
Alvin Police Department;
Wednesday, June 19, Sea
Center will present story
time; Thursday, June 20, a
special rodeo story time,
where the children will learn
to make cowboy hats.- All
programs begin at 10:30 a.m.
The library is located at 105
S. Gordon. Don’t forget to
sign up for the Summer
Reading Program. For more
information, call the library
at 281-388-4200.
, o.c. 316 E. House St
331-4213
Alvin police are seeking information in the investigation of a felony hit and run accident that occurred on
Monday, June 10 at approximately 12:50 p.m. The accident occurred at the intersection of Blum and Hardie
streets. According to police, the accident occurred when a vehicle driven by a pregnant female was struck
on the driver’s side by a vehicle that ran a stop sign. The vehicle which ran the stop sign then fled the scene
westbound on Blum Street. The offending vehicle is described as a maroon, 1990 Mercury 4-door and
should have extensive front-end damage. The Mercury should display Texas license plate C04-WXK on the
rear bumper. The vehicle was occupied by approximately four to five Hispanic males. Police seek your assis-
tance in locating the vehicle and/or identifying the driver of the vehicle at the time of the collision.
The Alvin Food Pantry will
be collecting donations on
Sunday, June 23 at the ACC
campus next to Hugh Adams
Park, from from 2-5 p.m.
Volunteers are needed to
By Roberta Matthews
Staff Writer
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Last month, a 1998 graduate of Alvin High
School began her summer internship in
Washington, D.C., serving the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Stefphanie Gambrell was one of 11 students
selected through the Agricultural and Natural
Resources Policy Congressional Internship
Program at Texas A&M University.
The internship will complete Gambrell’s
undergraduate studies, and she will receive her
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Alvin High School students
will see some changes in their
standardized dress rules when
school resumes in the fall.
During last Tuesday's Alvin
Independent School Board meet-
ing, trustees voted to give high
school students more latitude in
what they can wear, calling the
changes “minor”.
Solid colored shirts of any
color, logos of no more than two
inches in size, on the shirts,
black or tan denim fabric pants
6"
During Manvel City Council’s
regular meeting last Thursday,
councilmembers approved the
Caps, gowns
and a Quilt
in this week's
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A family education work-
shop on children with brain
disorders will be held on
Saturday, June 22 and 29,
from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at the
Lighthouse, 319 E. South
St., Alvin. Visions for
Tomorrow is a six-week
series of workshops that will
cover an array of brain disor-
ders such as ADD, autism,
depressive disorders, eating
disorders and anxiety disor-
ders, to name a few. The
course also offers caregivers
of children with brain disor-
ders an opportunity to share
mutual experiences and learn
valuable lessons from one
another, as well as coping
skills and the basics for day-
to-day caregiving skills. For
more information and regis-
tration, call NAMI Gulf
Coast at 281-585-3100, 409-
744-9616 or 1-888-554-
2264.
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replaced with 7x10 foot concrete doing is transferring the problem from will be installed under South Street and
boxes. Sabo said that one box will con- one location to another location that is a 54 inch pipe under Johnson Street,
vey more water than one of the tin less populated,” said Sabo. He also The pipe will run along the east side of
Attention all golfers. The
Pearland Elks Lodge is
having its annual Bob
Burkett Memorial Golf
Tournament on Saturday,
June . 22 at Country Place
Golf Course It will be a 4
person scramble with a 1
p.m. shotgun start. Entry fee
is $80 per person, which
includes green fees/cart, dri-
ving range balls and a post-
tournament dinner. Sign-in
will begin at 11 a.m., and
there will be many prizes
and contests, including a
$10,000 hole-in-one. For
more information, call 281-
485-4160.
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3 She curtently has a 3.6 grade point average.
While in D.C., Gambrell will be monitoring
legislation, attending committee hearings and
briefings, preparing reports, and researching
and responding to constituent requests.
“I like it here in D.C., and I have met a lot of
neat people,” said Gambrell. “I could definitely
see myself coming back to Washington.”
According to Dr. Ed Hiler, vice chancellor
and dean for agriculture and life sciences at the
University. ANRP interns provide valuable was exposed to agriculture all her life,
assistance to the offices at Capitol Hill, and the After high school graduation, she worked for
experiences they gain are beneficial to their job RiceTec in Alvin, where she was a research
search after graduation. assistant. “Working at RiceTec is what really
The program began in 1990 after got me interested in studying agriculture," said
Congressman Greg Laughlin contacted an agri- Gambrell.
cultural economics professor and director of After her 10 week assignment in D.C.,
the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Gambrell says she plans to return to A&M to
Texas A&M University, Dr. Ron Knutson, begin her Master’s in Agricultural Economics,
needing an intern with agricultural and natural focusing in Agricultural Policy.
resource knowledge. Since then, more than 275 "I am planning on becoming a teaching assis-
Aggies have worked in Washington through the tant for the undergraduate program when I go
program back,” says Gambrell.
Each student is awarded course credit and a "I am also interested in teaching at the uni-
$2,000 scholarship that is funded by private versity level, or maybe research after I get my
donors and commodity organizations. Master’s degree ” She also added that she
added that if Alvin has another Tropical Johnson Street, where it will then cross
Storm Allison, the drainage improve- the road, past the parking lot and run
ment project would only be able to han- into the ditch.
die 60 percent of the run off.‘The pipes After 25 years of flooding in the
that are being installed are designed for South Street area, the City of Alvin
a five year storm,” he said. budgeted $750,000 to improve the
At a recent meeting, city coun- problem.
cilmembers approved a change order After receiving bids, the contract was
for $150,000 to complete phase two of awarded to M-3 Infrastructure, Inc. for
the project. This phase involves tearing the amount of $540,000. So far, the
up South Street across Johnson Street City is under budget by approximately
to remove the culvert to prevent it from $60,000.
draining into the ditch in front of the Sabo says that the work is expected
church. A supplementary 48 inch pipe to be completed in 60 days.
phase of the project involves removing water depth by 1.6 feet.
two tin culverts under the church park- Sabo also said that although the
ing lot, located on the west side of drainage project will improve the prob
Johnson street. The drains are being lem, it will not eliminate it. “All we are
The Monsanto/Solutia
Retirees Club will hold the
quarterly meeting at the
Alvin Senior Citizen Center
on Saturday, June 22 at 6
p.m. All Monsanto/Solutia
retirees are invited to attend.
For more information, call
281-331-2060.
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Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 47, Ed. 1 Monday, June 17, 2002, newspaper, June 17, 2002; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1602836/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.