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Saturday
April 22, 1995
Vol. 25 No. 75
Candidates
address
residents
at forum
By BRENDA WELCHLIN
News editor
Candidates for City Council
and school board positions had
their first chance to be ques-
tioned by residents as a group
Tuesday night during an open
forum at the Allen Public Library.
Both unopposed candidates for
stool board seats attended, as
did three of the four people vying
for City Council seats. Steve
Terrell, who is unopposed in his
bid for re-election to his Place 5
seat, did not attend.
Both Steve Allen and Doug
Gallagher, the two candidates in
the only contested race in the
city, answered questions given to
t’e candidates in advance and
onered by a few dozen audience
' members that night.
Much of the questioning
focused on growth throughout
the city, including the pressures
on the school district to house all
its students and the pressures on
the city to attract more retail and
commercial development.
John Garcia, who is unopposed
in his bid to replace Chuck
elliams as the Place 5 trustee on
the Allen School Board, said he
saw strong connections between
the school district and the city.
“Quality education goes
beyond our classrooms and it
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goes beyond our schools,” Garcia
said. “Excellence in our schools
has an impact on our economic
development. ... Excellence in
our schools also helps to increase
property values of our
homes.”
Jim Kerr, who is unopposed in
his bid to reclaim the Place 4 seat
he already holds on the board,
said the district sometimes was
faced with a choice between
“bricks and mortar or programs”
because of tremendous growth in
student population.
“What we find is that growth
doesn’t have as much effect on
quality as it does on quantity,”
Kerr said/ noting that it takes
higher taxes to accommodate
more students and buildings. “If
you want low taxes, don’t live in a
growing community because
everything has to be built.”
The two candidates also were
asked about their views of a
mega-high school, one of the
• Turn to CANDIDATES, Page 8A 1
By CATHY SPAULDING
Staff writer
Days after a car bomb ripped
through a federal building in
Oklahoma City, relief workers say
they are getting more than
enough offers of support.
The main needs now are cash
donations, mental-health counsel-
ing and prayer, say area relief
organizations and churches.
Officials at BloodCare of Dallas
reported that people throughout
Dallas and Collin County donated
1,176 units of blood Wednesday,
the day of the bombing.
“That’s well over double what
* we were expecting for that day,”
spokeswoman Mary Beth
Harrington said.
A representative of the
BloodCare office at Plano
Presbyterian Hospital said the
center received 120 units
Wednesday and Thursday, while
the average daily donation is
“about a tenth of that.”
Harrington said the emergency
demand for blood had dropped
off, though “we never want to dis-
courage people from giving
blood. We always need about 600
units a day.”
She said there was a strong
need for type 0 blood because it
could be transfused to every
other blood type.
Harrington said several organi-
zations, including St. Elizabeth
Seton Catholic Church, had
offered to hold blood drives to
help the Oklahoma survivors.
~ Ian Halperin/Staff photo They are being told such drives
- „ + are not immediately needed.
Parker volunteer firefighter Chris Reinke tries spent Wednesday in Oklahoma helping out However, more blood may be
to describe the situation in Oklahoma City fellow emergency workers. Reinke talked
following Wednesday’s bombing. Reinke about the total destruction, as well as how all
and fellow Parker firefighter Robert Messier branches of government worked together.
Here’s how you can help
•The American Red Cross is calling for
monetary donations. Checks earmarked
for the Oklahoma City Disaster Relief Fund
may be made payable to the American
Red Cross, 2300 McKinney Ave., Dallas,
75201. People may also call 871-2175.
and clothing. Those interested may call 1-
800-741-1441.
•Feed the Children, an Oklahoma City
ministry, is seeking cash donations, food
•Dallas-based BloodCare, which has
offices at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano
and in Richardson, is taking blood dona-
tions, although there is no longer an emer-
gency demand. Call 1-800-DONATE-4 (1-
800-366-2834.)
needed later, she said.
Carmen Castagno, outreach
coordinator at St. Elizabeth Seton,
said the church would hold its
regular drive on May 26. She said
her church would have a special
offering for Oklahoma City disas-
ter relief during its regular
Sunday worship. The offerings
will go to the American Red
Cross, Oklahoma City Catholic
Charities and to St. Joseph
Cathedral, a historic downtown
Oklahoma City church damaged
in the blast.
United Methodist churches
across North Texas are being
asked to have a time of prayer for
the victims during their Sunday
Turn to DONATIONS, Page 8A
Local residents
pitch in, assist
in relief efforts
By CATHY SPAULDING
Staff writer
A ity of Parker volunteer
( firefighter Robert
/ Messier said he could
think of no other way to
describe the ruin he saw in
Oklahoma City Wednesday.
He said the nine-story fed-
eral building that had its
north side ripped off by a car
bomb that morning “looked
like a war zone.”
Even so. Messier and fel-
low Parker firefighter Chris
Reinke were there, offering
whatever assistance they
could to rescue the hun-
dreds of people trapped in
the building's debris.
They were not the only
Collin County residents in
Oklahoma City to help peo-
ple cope with the bombing.
Sarah Thomas, vice presi-
dent of marketing and public
relations for Medical Center
of Plano, worked with a sis-
ter hospital in Oklahoma
City to help national and
international media cover
the event.
Messier said he was work-
ing at his home Wednesday
morning when he saw televi-
sion coverage of the
Oklahoma City disaster that
has become the worst terror-
ist attack on U.S. soil.
“We began making calls,”
he said. “My girlfriend made
a call to Southwest Airlines
(to arrange a quick flight)
and I called as many volun-
teers as I could muster from
Parker.”
Shortly, he and Reinke
were on a no-expense flight
on the airline. He and Reinke
praised Southwest Airlines
for providing them with free
round-trip flights.
“On the flight up, we met
two of the Oklahoma City vic-
tims’ relatives,” he said.
Reinke said one woman
Turn to EFFORTS, Page 8A
SpringFest slated at Ford Park
By BRENDA WELCHLIN Outreach, including the job
News editor bank, Meals on Wheels, infor-
Allen Community Outreach mation and referral and corn-
workers were in high gear this prehensive emergency support
week making final preparations services.
for SpringFest, which runs Last year’s event garnered
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at about $9,000 for the organiza-
@ord Park. tion, said Jim Dolan, treasurer
“This is a very important of ACO’s board of directors.
event for the community,” said This year’s goal is similar at
Glenda May, director of Allen $7,000 to $10,000, he said.
Community Outreach. “It’s a Entry to the event is free, but
great way to bring families participants are asked to take
together ... and have an enjoy- their money to spend on food
able time all the while we’re and activities.
raising money for less-fortu- SpringFest ’95 will include
nate people.” face painting, pony rides, live
e Money raised from the carni- bands, food, educational mate-
val-like event will go to support rials and arts and crafts.
programs of Allen Community Turn to springfest, Page 9A
Council approves budget for street, alley repairs
By BRENDA WELCHLIN ments in 1995-96. time, he said. Streets included in the work
News editor Alleys approved for replace- “It’s going to be real critical on schedule for this summer include
Allen City Council members ment with concrete this year communicating,” Conner said. Rolling Ridge, Sunny Slope,
reviewed a package of street, alley include those north of the 700 and The council approved $118,000 Greeting Gate, Circle Cove,
and drainage repairs for this year 800 blocks of Rivercrest for replacement of the two Meadow Mead, Wandering Way,
and approved budgets for several Boulevard and those north of the stretches of alley. The city expects Valley View, Hill Haven, Grassy
of the projects. 900 block of Cypress Drive. In to tackle another stretch of Glen and Melody Mall.
Anna, Boyd and Whisenant dri- each case, the existing asphalt Cypress Drive in 1995-96, as well Council members heard com-
ves are set for repavement, with a will be removed and replaced as sections of Rivercrest plaints last year from some resi-
total cost of about $160,000. An with concrete. Boulevard, Whisenant Drive, dents whose streets had been
additional $200,000 also was George Conner, director of Allen Drive and Hefner Drive in resurfaced with the process,
approved for drainage improve- public works, said one of the city’s 1996-97. which involves coating the street
ments to the Whisenant area biggest tasks would be communi- ‘We’re trying to pick the worst with a layer of oily tar and then a
before the repaving. cating with residents who live alleys and do them this year,” layer ofchipped rocks.
Financing for the projects near the alleys and streets that Conner said. “The process seems to invite
comes out of bond money will be worked on. Some will be To extend the life of other teen-agers who want to scratch
approved by voters last year, asked to park their cars in alter- streets in the city, the city also off and throw the rocks, and those
Repairs are expected to follow a nate areas during the work, and plans to resurface a number of do cause some minor damage and
five-year plan, with Watson and some will have limited access to streets using a chip-and-seal a lot of frustration to the local res-
Butler drives slated for improve- their driveways for part of the process. Turn to COUNCIL, Page 9A
Inside Today
Business Briefs
.3A
Calendar .........2A
Commissioners to discuss
fees for juvenile offenders
Play rehearsal
Classifieds
.3-10B
Entertainment Guide. .13A
Movie Listings......6A
Youth Sports......14A
Police Reports
.2A
Sports .
.16A
By JENNIFER PALLANICH
Staff writer
payers.
“These kids go out and damage
McKINNEY — About one property ... and create these
month after commissioners expenses,” he said. ‘We are say-
approved a resolution to charge ing that if that occurs and they are
adult inmates for housing, the guilty, then they should pay for it.”
court is set to discuss moving And if the juveniles cannot
toward the same action for juve- cover the cost, he said, let the par-
niles. ents pay for the damages.
Collin County Commissioner Commissioner Jack Hatchell
Jerry Hoagland said he would said the county needed to try to
support the idea at Monday’s recover whatever money it could
meeting because housing the con- related to the jail and juvenile-
victed — adults and juveniles detention facility.
alike — was a burden to the tax-
Turn to JUVENILES, Page 8A
Students in the Allen High
School one-act play
class run through a dress
rehearsal of “The Grass
Harp” Wednesday after
school. The play will be
performed today at 7:30
p.m. at the AHS auditori-
um. Tickets are $2.
Ian Halperin/Staff photo
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