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Eagles ready to challenge at Greenhill Invitational. See story, Page 9A.
Sunday
September 1, 1991
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Female vicar gets
nod at All Saints
Appointment significant
one for Dallas Diocese
By PEGGY HELMICK-RICHARDSON
Staff Writer
This Sunday will be a significant day for Allen’s All
Saints Episcopal Church as it plays a role in laying the
groundwork for the progression of women serving in
the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
The Rev. Christianne McKee will preach her first
sermon during the 9:30 a.m. worship service as the
mission’s new vicar and the diocese’s first female
priest appointed in full-time charge of a congregation.
Dal Goodman, senior warden for All Saints, said
the church’s vestry recommended the Rev. McKee
for appointment by Bishop Donis Patterson on Mon-
day, Aug. 26, and received approval by the bishop the
same evening.
The bishop’s appointment was welcome news to
the church, which has been without a priest for appro-
ximately three and a half months following the retire-
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Janice Hirmon/Allen American photo
The Rev. Christianne McKee has been
appointed the new vicar of All Saints Episcop-
al Church in Allen.
Every morning at 8:20 Reed Elementary School broadcasts the
days announcements from the school library. Principal Norma
Lewis, far right, hosts the show and Minetta Smith, left, the
Obstetricians rescue
county indigent plan
By BOB SECHLER
Staff Writer
• Area doctors who provide prenat-
al care to indigent women have
agreed to accept reduced Medicaid
supplements from the county rather
than see the county scrap its current
program for indigent prenatal care.
Commissioner John Witherspoon
told doctors at a Wednesday meet-
ing that county officials are prepared
to replace the current prenatal prog-
ram with a county-run prenatal clinic
• if they did not agree to reduced
" Medicaid supplements.
“We can work this out with a de-
creased reimbursement and still
have this program in place,” said Dr.
Bruce Rajala, a McKinney obstetri-
cian who provides prenatal care to
indigent women in the county. “You
have a perfect system right now.”
Doctors at the meeting Wednes-
day at the Harvey Hotel-Plano said a
county-run prenatal clinic would be a
disaster. They called the current
system a model for the state.
The two groups met to discuss
means of reducing the current prop-
osal, which calls for $300,000 more
in expenditures than anticipated re-
venues during the fiscal year that
begins Oct. 1.
The proposed county health-care
budget includes $2.1 million worth of
expenditures and $1.8 million in re-
venues. Much of the gap between
estimated expenditures and re-
venues in the budget has been
blamed on the program to provide
indigent women with prenatal care.
Negotiations between doctors
and county officials over the amount
of the supplement reduction will be-
gin Tuesday.
The obstetricians present
Wednesday said they would rather
see reduced supplements than a
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RAINFALL: Local weather obser- INSIDE:
ver Big Daddy Summers recorded i Letters to the editor
0.10 inches of rain Monday and 1.40
Friday, bringing the total for the year
up to 40.95 inches, which he said is
almost the normal rainfall for the en-
tire year.
FORECAST: Today — Rain and
thunderstorms likely. High in the up-
per 80s. Low near 70.
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Morning!
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Country Fair to include
special tribute to troops
By MARK HUTCHISON
Managing Editor
As part of the 10th annual Allen Country Fair, the
Jaycees are planning a two-hour tribute — complete
with a USO-type show — for local military personnel
who served in the Persian Gulf.
The annual festival is planned for 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 7 in downtown Allen. The Country Fair
is sponsored by the Jaycees and the City of Allen Parks
and Recreation Department.
Theme for the fair will be “Red, White and
Blue...Coming Home!” It will take place from noon to
2:30 p.m. on the main stage near the intersection of
Main Street and Allen Drive.
During the tribute, Allen Mayor Joe Farmer will honor
all local servicemen and women on active duty during the
war. He will also make a special announcement concern-
ing the city’s efforts to recognize the returning military.
Family members may accept the award on behalf of the
soldiers. For more information, call the Allen Chamber scholarships,
of Commerce at 727-5585. 1
Legislature, will address the crowd, followed by Justice
of the Peace Tom Kelly, a past American Legion com-
mander, and Bobbie Jezek, who organized the Plano
Desert Storm support group.
Tribute coordinator Lew Bruno will read letters from
President George Bush and Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney.
The finale will be a USO-type show featuring singer
Verna Hale, Freddie Eskridge and 20 participants from
the Miss Texas Teen Pageant. The performance will be
the first for the group, which will tour various Texas
military bases.
Other local participants include: members of the Allen
High School Student Council; Allen singer Randy
Burgess; First United Methodist Church minister the
Rev. Charles Cox, a reserve chaplain; and First Christ-
ian Church minister the Rev. Ben Hubert.
Funds raised at the Country Fair will be used to pay
for other Jaycees events such as the Allen Christmas
Parade, the group’s Easter Egg hunt and its college
The Jaycees have invited everyone in Allen to partici-
pate by flying flags and decorating store-fronts with the
fair’s theme in mind.
Brian McCall, Allen’s representative in the state
Janice Hirmon/Allen American photo
school’s librarian, operates the camera. Friday’s guest were
Cathy Zeek’s second-grade class. The students brought
poems they had written themselves.
Minor injuries
Allen Fire Department paramedics wheel Rus-
sell Noe, 28, of Allen to an ambulance Friday
morning. Noe was involved in a two-car acci-
Other activities include:
■all kinds of local and professional entertainment on two
stages;
■entertainment for children in their own arts and crafts
tent, including a petting zoo and pony rides;
LISD taxpayers
to save money
However, future not so bright
By MARK HUTCHISON
Managing Editor
dent School District offset the ex-
pected losses.
“We lost a huge amount of money,
but it almost washed itself out be-
cause of tuition changes,” Puster
said.
“With the rewriting of the school
finance formulas, Allen’s state and
CED funding has been very signifi-
cantly increased. We pay less be-
cause, what we used to pay was the
difference between what they spent
and their state aid. Now we pay the
difference between what they
spend, their state aid and county
education district aid.”
The loss in tax revenue is due to
the new school funding law, which
created 188 county education dis-
tricts this spring to assess, collect
and distribute tax money. Combin-
ing Lovejoy’s tax base with other tax
bases in the Collin County Education
District will result in a loss of approx-
imately $169,000 to LISD.
The district’s loss in state funds
totals approximately $146,000.
Puster said LISD will not benefit
from any surprises such as reduced
tuition next year and taxes will have
to go up.
“From now on out, any additional
There’s good news and bad news
for taxpayers in the Lovejoy Inde-
pendent School District. The good
news is that taxes for the 1991-92
school year will fall slighty. The bad
news is that the state Legislature’s
so-called “Robin Hood” bill will force
taxes to go up in the future.
At a public hearing Tuesday night,
the LISD Board of Trustees re-
viewed a proposed 1991-92 budget,
which includes a proposed tax rate of
$1.33 per $100 valuation, the same
tax rate as last year.
At $1.33, the owner of a $100,000
home will pay $1,105 in education
taxes to LISD. Last year, the tax bill
for the same homeowner was
$1,264. The difference is that voters
in Collin County approved a 20 per-
cent homestead exemption, which
will decrease the amount of revenue
the CED can collect.
“We are very fortunate here in
Lovejoy this year,” Superintendent
Robert Puster said. “But our fortune
won’t last.”
As expected this year, Lovejoy
lost approximately $300,000 worth
of income in state aid and local tax monies we lose, either from the
revenues. However, an unexpected county education district or the state
decrease in the amount of tuition
Lovejoy pays to the Allen Indepen-
Janice Hirmon/Allen American photo
dent at the intersection of Main Street and Foun-
taingate. He and the driver of the other vehicle
sustained minor injuries in the accident.
DPS urges holiday travelers to buckle up
By LISA TANNER
and MARK HUTCHISON
Harte-Hanks staff writers
creating a long weekend ideal for
traveling.
Those travelers will pay “substan-
tially less” for gasoline this year,
according to the American Auto-
Gasoline prices increased an aver-
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CCCC
budget
presented
By ELAINE RICHARDS
Harte-Hanks staff writer
Collin County Community College
President Dr. John Anthony pre-
sented a $35.6 million proposed
budget for 1991-92 to CCCCD trus-
tees during their meeting this week.
The proposed budget allocates
$26 million to the current operating
budget, $931,000 to the building
fund budget and $8.7 million to debt
service.
“That’s a considerable amount of
resources at our disposal,” Anthony
said during the Tuesday meeting.
The current operating budget is 21
percent higher than last year’s,
while building and debt services
budgets decreased. Board members
voted last week to fund the 1991-92
year with the same tax rate as last
year.
Roughly half the current operating
budget is devoted to salaries. Funds
are also set aside for 14 additional
full-time faculty positions to balance
out part-time faculty. Contracted
services — custodial, grounds and
Lower gasoline prices and state
troopers enforcing the seat beltlaw mobile Association.
will greet travelers taking time off AAA’s nationwide fuel gauge re-
for the Labor Day holiday this port shows the average price of self-
weekend. . service regular unleaded gasoline is
Allen schools, City Hall and many down 14.5 cents from last year to
businesses will be closed Monday, 1.16 per gallon.
age of 23.2 cents during August of temporary help — amount to 11 per-
1990 following Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion cent of the operating budget.
of Kuwait. Staff benefits increased 54 per-
The average price of self-serve cent due to state-mandated insur-
regular unleaded is up 7 cents in the ance costs and the college’s change
last week and 1.7 cents since the to self-funding for worker’s com-
July Fourth holiday, according to pensation.
AAA, a nationwide non-profit asso- The college will receive $11 mil-
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Hutchison, Mark & Epperson, Wayne. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1991, newspaper, September 1, 1991; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1626246/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.