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, Page 4A — The Allen American — Sunday, April 5, 1992
A Snoto involving children. He and his wife, Tact
J vClldLO Cynthia, are also the parents of
: ----------------------------------three. ----------------------------------
From 1A The lawyer has been the coach for From 1A
an eight-year-old baseball teamin
* in 1985. . the Whitehouse Little League. He the Otis-Lenon School Ability Test
* In 1990, she received the Plano has frequently been a speaker at on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
: Chamber of Commerce s Athena area civic clubs on baseball card col- Tliis locally administered test is used
- Award for being “Outstanding lecting. Kent has been co-liaison to to aid in identifying students’
: Businesswoman of the Year.” Sha- the legal community for the Tyler academic strengths or needs.
- piro is president and co-owner of Says No (to Drugs) program. Lovejoy first and second graders
: Shapiro, Small and Associates, a loc- Former treasurer of the Rose will be taking the Iowa Test of Basic
- al advertising and public relations City Kiwanis Club, Kent is also a Skills this week. According to Love-
: firm. member of the Tyler Museum of joy counselor Rebecca Cox, the
She is currently the vice chairman Art. He has served on the State Re- Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT),
- and only Texan serving on the publican Executive Committee for issued by The Riverside Publishing
: National League of Cities advisory Sentate District 2 and also been a Company and given to second and
: board. She is head of the Collin precinct chairman. fourth grade students in November,
: County Mayor’s Association. Kent was a delegate to the State replaced the Otis-Lenon Test this
* Shapiro formerly taught English Republican Convention three times year for Lovejoy.
: and speech in the Richardson Inde- and to the County Republican Con- Allen ISD parents with questions
2 pendent School District. She is a vention four times. He was vice- regarding the administration and re-
t graduate of the University of Texas chairman of the George Bush for suits of these tests should contact
- at Austin and did graduate study at President campaign in Smith County
* Southern Methodist University. and also chaired the Kay Bailey
* She won the Political courage Huchison for State Treasurer cam-
* Award from the John Ben Sheppard paign in Smith County.
* Public Leadership Forum in 1991 A managing shareholder for the
- and the Paul Harris Fellow Award Tyler law firm of Cowles and
: from the Plano Rotary Club in 1990. Thompson, Kent is licensed to prac-
“ She was named one Alpha Epsilon tice law in all Texas state courts and
: Phi’s “Outstanding Young Alumnae” on up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
: in 1989. He was a district director in 1988-89
» Shapiro and her husband, Ho-
: ward, a local attorney and trustee for
: the Plano Independent School Dis-
: trict, are the parents of three.
1 Kent, 39, who earned his law de-
; gree from the University of Houston
| and his bachelor’s degree from
' Baylor, has chosen to devote his
spare time to a variety of activities
Parks
Alba
and vice president in 1991-92 of the
Texas Association of Defense Coun-
sels.
Major areas of difference between
the two candidates philosophically
and politically can be found on the
subjects of abortion, a state funding
plan for public schools, crime, educ-
tion and how to cut the state budget.
the assigned time period,” Olson
said. “The results may be helpful in
identifying particular academic
strengths and non-strengths. Usual-
ly, the best preparation for this type
of test is a restful night’s sleep, a
John Alba was arrested the day nourishing breakfast and an ‘I can do
after the assaults on March 6 follow- it’ attitude.”
Funds for the projects will come
from park bonds, interest earned
funds and increased user fees.
From 1A In an attempt to recover what it
the types of things they want. If a costs the city to provide services,
significant number of people indicate the council approved increases in
they would like these things, we will user fees at city facilities. Here are
, ask the council to approve them some of the increases:
when it approves the final list.” ■ individual daily admission to Ford
Proposals for Cottonwood Bend Park pool up from $1.25 to $1.50;
and St. Mary’s include two back- ■ individual pool pass for the season
stops at each of the parks. The total up from $25 to $35 (family mem-
for the two projects is $11,000. berships also up);
Proposals for Hillside and ■ pool rental rates for two hours up
Bethany Lakes ballfields, andjupiter from $50 to $75;
Park include upgrades to the lighting ■ user fees for non-residents up
systems. Expenditures at Hillside from $2 to $5;« light fees up from $6
andjupiter could total $26,400 each, for 90 minutes to $6 for 60 minutes;
Expenditures at Bethany Lakes are ■ Learn to Swim program fees up
expected to be $11,000. from $24 to $30;
Proposals for Rolling Hills include ■ adult softball league fees up from
a new $20,000 playground and $195 to $230 for eight game sche-
. . $5,000 to replace the bridge. dule;
their campus principal, the campus The council, when it approves the ■ adult basketball summer leagues
assistant principal for instruction, or final proposals, could delete specific up from $230 to $300;
the student s teacher. The items and/or reduce expenditures in ■adult volleyball up from $95 to
curriculum office 1S available for one area and increase expenditures $135;m day and fish camps have
further information by calling 727- in another area. been combined and fees will rise to
04 oaoie AST The proposals do not include any between $90 and $120.
Dr. David Olson, AID director of expenditures at Reed, Ford, Story New fees will be charged for the
curriculum and instruction, recom- and Walden parks, or the Hillside open gym program. Residents over
mends parents encourage heir child play area. 18 years of age may purchase a year
to do Ins or her best work without
becoming overly concerned about
passing the test.”
“Thoughtful and careful consid-
eration should be given to as many
test items as can be answered during
pass for $12 or pay $2 for each visit.
The program remains free for those
18 and under. Non-residents will not
be allowed to purchase passes and
must pay a $5 entry fee.
In other action, the council-
approved a resolution requested
the North Texas Municipal Water
District to implement Phase 1 of the
updated plan for the Upper East
Fork Sewer Interceptor System.
According to a district spokesman,
the upgrade will increase capacity
and supply the City of Allen with
sewer service through the year
2020.
The council also adopted ordi--
nances updating its building and fire
codes, approved a resolution adopt-
ing an Emergency Operations Plan,
approved a resolution adopting a wa-
ter conservation and drought con-
tingency program, approved the low
bid and authorized execution of a
contract for mowing services, au-
thorized negotiations on a contract
for concessions in Allen parks and
acknowledged the resignations of
Judith Seale from the Planning and@
Zoning Commission and Sharon
Hamner from the Library Board.
I
------------ing a three-hour standoff with Plano
From 1A police outside a shopping center at
Parker Road and Avenue K. Alba
stems from an incident that occurred stood against a wall with a gun to his
the same night of the shootings head.
where he allegedly abducted two Alba was chased there by a Plano
Princeton youths from a Plano bowl- officer who investigated a tip from
ing alley. Allen police that Alba was at a resi-
Albais also facing a charge of inde- dence on nearby Avenue N. Alba
cency with a child stemming from an saw the officer and ran down an alley
incident involving a friend of the cou- and jumped a fence, then stopping at
ple’s. He was in jail 40 days on that the shopping center where police
charge before being released Aug. eventually ended the standoff by dis-
4. Police said he then returned to the arming him after tossing a stun gre-
apartment to find and kill his wife, nade at him.
Knowing that her husband had
been released and fearing for her
life, Wendy Alba placed the couple’s
two children in the care of other
friends at the complex and then went
to Webb’s residence.
Authorities said John Alba was de-
spondent because he believed his
wife was going to leave him.
Officials with the Collin County
Women’s Shelter told The Allen
American Wendy Alba called them
asking for safe haven from her hus-
band three days before he killed her.
The shelter’s records showed that
after an initial telephone contact and
agreeing to provide her and her chil-
dren accomodations, Wendy Alba
never called back as instructed. .
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Hutchison, Mark & Epperson, Wayne. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 5, 1992, newspaper, April 5, 1992; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1629317/m1/4/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.