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I he Allen American
Saturday
April 1, 1995
Vol. 25 No. 69
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Rountree
Main Street
Bethany
Story
Vaughan
Trustees approve redistricting plan
By CATHY SPAULDING 001th 111 0/1416 pricing now, would be bused to Green Elementary.
Staffwriter LUt 87000ere means 0ec8tO7e Under the other, sixth-graders in affected
Allen school trustees settled on what 01041'4 homamomt neighborhoods and schools may opt to re-
Allen School Board President Glenn An- 0007 L permunefu majn at their current schools for their final
drew called an imperfect solution to the elementary school year. Siblings of these
school system’s redistricting quandary Drive, is set to open in August. students may also remain at these schools
Thursday. • Moving students living in the Her- for one year, then move to their newly as-
“There cannot be a 100 percent perfect itage Park area north of Bethany Drive signed schools. Parents would be responsi-
solution,” he said, adding that at a growth from Vaughan to Story Elementary ble for transportation.
rate of more than 10 percent a year, the School. Trustees also agreed to maintain the
trustees’ decision would not be perma- • Moving students living in Highland feeder-school concept between elemen-
nent. Meadows from Rountree to Boyd Elemen- tary schools and middle schools. Howev-
Allen school trustees Thursday ap- tary School. er, children living north of Bethany Drive
proved attendance boundaries proposed The proposal to reroute northern Her- in the Heritage Park neighborhood or chil-
by a redistricting task force. Elementary itage Park elementary students had earli- dren rerouted to Story would be given the
school proposals included: er drawn criticism from some residents option to later attend Ford or Curtis Mid-
•Setting the attendance zone for the who felt that growth around Story and die School.
new Green Elementary School as the area Vaughan should be stabilized. In the report, task force members said
west of Texas Highway 5 plus a little jog Trustees added two elementary pro- their decisions were based on geographic
west of Jupiter between Main Street and posals Thursday. Under one, children who and numeric information. As a result, the
White Oak Street. Green, located in the would live north of Exchange Parkway, northern attendance boundary for Vaughan
Twin Creeks neighborhood west of Alma where school officials said nobody lives Turn to AISD, Page 7A
OMING
to
AMERICA
AHS students learn about
immigration during Ellis
Island re-enactment
By KELLY D. PATTERSON
Staff writer
The excitement of arriving in a new country
and frustrations of dealing with the system was
felt by freshmen and sophomores at Allen High
School this week.
Juniors and seniors, on the other hand, had
the duty of making sure no unwanted foreign-
ers called America home.
The task was part of a yearlong project for
students involved in the Phoenix program to
help them understand the Ellis Island experi-
• ence and massive immigration efforts that took
place during the early 1900s.
Developed by AHS Phoenix II teacher Pam
Martin in 1991, the idea was to enable students
to experience bigotry.
“Most students here won’t ever experience
Turn to AHS, Page 7A
Above, Jessica Fox, left, awaits the re-
sults of her literacy test, which is being
checked by Angela Palmer. Alta
Chambers waits in line. Allen High
School students re-enacted events at
Ellis Island to learn about immigration.
County unemployment
rates take a slight dip
By GLEN FEST ary’s 3.3 rating and well below the
Staff writer 4.1 unemployment figure from
The unemployment rate in February 1994.
Collin County took a slight dip in Only a 2.8 rate for Plano in Jan-
February, while Plano’s jobless uary 1990 has been lower, accord-
figure dipped below 3 percent for ing to data compiled by the TEC’s
the first time in the past five Dallas office.
@ars, according to monthly job- “It’s as low as any time its been
less statistics released by the in that period,” said Don John-
Texas Employment Commission. stone, a labor market analyst for
Statistics are not kept for the the TEC.
City of Allen individually. The TEC only has comparable
Collin County’s rate fell from figures dating back to 1990, ac-
3.9 in January to 3.4 in February, cording to Johnstone, since fig-
according to the TEC. Ayear ago ures in the 1980s were compiled
in February, the country’s unem- through a different method.
ployment rate was 4.8. The dip in the area’s jobless fig-
Plano reached 2.9, improving ure was attributable to school hir-
@i the 12-month best of 3.0 ingsand a rebound from seasonal
recorded in December. The Feb- post-holidays employment trends,
ruary rate was down from Janu- Turn to JOBLESS, Page 7A
At left, Jennifer Preston, portraying a
member of the U.S. Public Health Reg-
istry, asks questions of newly arrived
immigrants. Below, Katie Ingersoll por-
trays a 10-year-old girl from Sweden
who is going through immigration.
Photography by
CINDY Blanchard
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County looks for
juvenile-jail plan
Action to save time in event
May 6 proposition approved
By JENNIFER PALLANICH the architectural agencies that
Staff writer the project was subject to voter
McKINNEY — In what Collin approval.
County Commissioners called an The proposed $5 million deten-
effort to save time, the court tion facility would contain 100
Monday approved seeking qualifi- beds and would have the infra-
cations from architectural firms structure to add 100 more if the
interested in designing a juvenile- need arose.
detention facility. “This is just to speed up the
County voters will not decide process,” Hatchell said.
until a May 6 bond election For a project of this type, he
whether to fund the facility, but said, the firms must submit quali-
county officials say their plan is fications that show the agencies
time-efficient. are capable of designing a juve-
County Judge Ron Harris said nile-detention facility. After the
that the qualification submission qualifications are submitted, a re-
period was two months long, and view committee narrows the
he said that moving now saves the prospective firm list to between
county some time in the long-run. five and seven agencies, he said.
“We are time-critical,” he said. If the bond package for juvenile
“If voters do approve (the facili- detention is approved by voters,
ty), we’ll be in position.” then those agencies would be
Commissioner Jack Hatchell asked to submit formal proposals,
said he wanted to be clear with Turn to COUNTY, Page 7A
Area officials present
plea for road funding
By JENNIFER PALLANICH construction and improvements
Staff writer in fiscal year 1996, said Randall
For the first time, the Metro- Dillard, TxDOT media relations
plex is banding together in its officer.
search for state and federal fund- Dillard said $989 million of the
ing of road improvements. available $1.6 billion has been al-
Officials from Collin, Dallas located.
and Tarrant counties went to “That ($170 million for the Dai-
Austin to ask the Texas Depart- las district) is just a piece of the
ment of Transportation Commis- overall pie,” he said. "The remain-
sion for $550 million for the com- ing money has yet to be allocat-
bined regions, which includes ed.”
Allen. The delegation, which repre-
According to TxDOT officials, sents the entire Metroplex, is ask-
however, the state is allocating ing for about $70 million more
$1.6 billion. Currently the Dallas than the two regions received last
district, which includes Dallas, year, said Dallas County Commis-
Collin, Denton, Ellis, Navarro and sioner Jim Jackson.
Kaufman counties, is slated to re- An earlier funding plan that
ceive $170 million for highway Turn to funding, Page 7A
Til the cows come home
Calf strays into back yard
By BRENDA WELCHLIN
News editor
Betty Haskell can’t put off anything until the s
cows come home anymore.
That’s because the cows — or at least a calf
— came home to her back yard in an Allen
neighborhood recently.
“He was standing up there looking me in the
face,” said Haskell, whose home in arowof
houses on Exchange Parkway lies across from
an open field.
The calf was one of a handful that got loose
in Allen and sent police and animal-control offi-
cers looking for their ropes.
Joyce Wrigley, who recently replaced Alexis
Marantos as one of Allen’s animal-control offi-
cers, earned a quick chance to add cattle-rop-
ing to her resume.
“She chased that thing all over my back
Turn to CALF, Page 7A
Submitted photo
Allen animal-control officer Joyce Wrigley
ropes a calf in Betty Haskell’s back yard.
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Watterson, Tim. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 69, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1995, newspaper, April 1, 1995; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688419/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.