The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Page: 2 of 50
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Manvel Council disolves
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Staff Writer
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Staff Writer
High-speed accident
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By Edward Looby
Staff Writer
State Representative
Glenda Dawsom
Capitol Office
Room EXT E2 302
PO Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
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The three Alvin Council mem-
bers who were recently elected
into office were sworn in at the
May 15 Alvin City Council meet-
ing.
Matt DeKcnipp, shown above,
left, and Dick Tyson, right were
sworn in to Positions C and B.
respectively, while new Council
member Laurie Ellerbe, lower
left, took the oath for the At Large
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Staff Writer
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One more move was made at the
May 12 Manvel City Council
meeting to separate the Manvel
Fire Department and the Manvel
EMS.
At the meeting. Council dis-
solved the contract between the
City and the Fire Department for
EMS services and ratified another
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Notice is hereby given that the Economic
Development Committee of the City of Alvin, Texas
will hold a public hearing to receive comments on the
Junkyard Ordinance which Will regulate junkyards
and salvage yards in the city. Said hearing will be held
on May 27, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. in the First Floor
Conference Room at City Hall, 216 West Sealy Street,
Alvin, Texas.
and restricting manufactured
homes to certain districts.
Mobile home are defined as
manufactured homes which were
built before 1976. All existing
structures will be grandfathered
under the provision.
Councilman Tommy Pollard
voted against the measure, stand-
ing by his conviction that eight-
liner halls should be allowed to
operate, as long as they’re within
personnel testifying that fire-
works are a nuisance.
3; A heated debate about fireworks Debate on the issue started last
in Alvin dominated the May 15 November, after Council declared
Alvin City Council meeting, with the pyrotechnics a nuisance and
fireworks stand owners pleading banned sale, possession or display
for the future of their businesses of them without a permit within
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Ban within 5000 feet of city limits fought by stand owners at Alvin city council meeting
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5000 feet of the city limits, the ban to allow stand owners to from the city limits includes meeting. ,
Fireworks possession, sales and sell fireworks during the New Alvin’s 40-year-old 100-foot Also, due to Alvin s proximity
display had already been illegal in Year holiday, in an expressed strip, which runs 137 miles, past to Manvel and Santa Fe, the;
Aivin for years, but the addition effort to help them liquidate Manvel, down Highway 288 and only be one area south of Alvin 92
of the 5000 feet beyond the city inventory they had already back to Alvin. This addition Highway 35 where fireworks can
limits put several fireworks busi- bought. would potentially put 15 fire- be sold.
nesses in jeopardy. Since then, it has been discov- works businesses out of commis- “Enforcing this will not put an
In December, Council amended ered that the 5000 feet extension sion, according to owners at the
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newly formed EMS. The change states that business-
The EMS is new on paper only, es may have a single machine on
It is the same group which has the premises, a*' lorg as it’s oper-
served Manvel for years, but has ated legally, but more than one is
only recently set up a separate prohibited.
non-profit status to break away Also at the meeting. Council
from the fire department, approved a $5,200 request by the
The move was made with little Manvel Public Library to hire a
fanfare, taking no discussion and firm for the installation of new
passing with a unanimous book shelves.
approval from the three council A $26,000 grant was received to
members present. purchase the actual shelves, and
The meeting’s start was delayed the extra money is needed to hire
by 30 minutes, due to the lack of a someone to remove the books,
quorum, but debate was sparse on dismantle the old shelves, install
most of the agenda items, and the the new ones and replace the
meeting progressed smoothly. books, according to Librarian
Amendments to the City zoning Kathryn Klentzman.
statute passed with a two to one The shelves will be able to be
vote, prohibiting mobile homes, transported to a new library facil-
eight liner parlors and sexually ity, once one is finished, she
oriented businesses in Manvel, added.
police to arrest a 50-year-old man questioning.
for felony drug possession. After Torbert’s car was tipped
according to reports. back over onto its wheels, police
Police say Curtis James Torbert, were able to examine the interior.
50, was already out of his car They say they found a citation
when they arrived at the accident which was written in Missouri
scene, about 9:44 a.m. on May City for speeding, 100 miles per
12. One car was in the ditch, and hour in a 55 mile per hour zone,
Torbert’s car was flipped over, which was written just 14 minutes
resting on its roof in the middle of See Speed, page 14A
different from the legislative side
of the bench, Ellerbe said it’s not
a big change.
“I've sat up there before, while
serving on commissions,” she
said, “so it's not that intimidating.
“The big difference is the num-
ber of people and the fact that
there are TV cameras in the room.
I’ll have to get used to that.”
Also at the meeting.
Councilman Steve Troha was
appointed as Mayor Pro-Tem.
Councilman Matt DeKenipp cast
the lone dissenting vote in that
decision.
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Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen. The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 2003, newspaper, May 21, 2003; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1602980/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.