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The Albany News
Thursday, August 3, 2006
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Supt. hopes for 100+ enrollment
An enrollment of more than
100 students is what Moran ISD
Superintendent Reggy Spencer
is hoping for when school begins
August 14.
Whatever the number, each
student will be covered with in-
surance, Spencer told the school
board during a brief called meet-
ing Monday night. The insur-
ance is similar to last year's cov-
erage.
Breakfast will be served free
of charge to all students. All
faculty and staff will pay $1.25;
visitors will pay $3.
Lunch costs for Pr^-K through
fifth grade will be $1.25 and
$1.75 for the rest of the stu-
dents. Faculty and staff will pay
$2 and visitors $3.
The board approved the policy
that there would be no free meals
for any employee of Moran ISD.
Any meals not paid for at the
time of service will be withdrawn
from paychecks on a monthly
basis.
The brief business meeting
followed a policy training ses-
sion. Trustees present were Teri
Hudson and John Adams.
Early registration set next Friday
An open house and early reg-
istration for students is planned
Friday afternoon,^August 11
from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Moran
School.
Students who will be attend-
ing local classes are invited to
meet their teachers and bring
their supplies.
The school year at Moran ISD
will actually begin earlier in the
week with staff development
next Monday, August 7, accord-
ing to the new MISD superin-
tendent Reggy Spencer.
Except for Wednesday, each
morning will begin with coffee
and doughnuts in the audito-
rium from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.
On Monday, the staff will hear
a talk by financial advisor Mike
Whitis, followed by "Reading
Plus" training, a program that
promotes fluency, comprehen-
sion and vocabulary.
UIL rules and regulations will
be discussed on Tuesday morn-
ing, after which there will be a
PDAS update and training for
all teachers, with further train-
ing for new teachers after lunch.
Asbestos training is scheduled
at 3:00 p.m.
The entire staff will leave
Moran at 7:45 a.m. on Wednes-
day for a Region 14 inservice in
Breckenridge, entitled 'Tools for
Success."
The special education staff
and other interested teachers
will have more specialized read-
ing training on Thursday, while
other members of the staff will
work in their rooms.
There will be a teacher work-
day on Friday, August 11 prior
to the afternoon registration and
open house.
baling wire & memories
By Audrey Parker Brooks
It's school-starting time again;
something that invariably arouses
my elephant-like memory. I imme-
diately recall the day I decided to
quit school. My parents had other
opinions about their seven-year-old
daughter's decision to quit school.
My father promptly saddled a horse,
placed me in front of him in the
saddle and we went to school post-
haste. Why we went aboard a horse
instead of in a car I don't know. I do
know that I never again refused to
go to school. As a matter of fact, I
loved my school years.
School starting always reminds
me of something else - something I
have no answer for. My 42-member
high school graduating class never
had a reunion. Several years after I
was married and living at Moran, a
good friend and fellow class mem-
ber talked about the possibility of
such a get-together via telephone.
San Saba is a little more than 100
miles from Moran. Not a great dis-
tance, but putting a class reunion
together takes more than a day or
two. Also Norma Lee taught in the
San Saba school, something that
took a lot of time. Norma Lee did
have the opportunity to meet with
later classes. I envied her that privi-
lege.
Moran ISD graduating classes
seemed to have had class reunions
forever and a day. I remember
Lucion's 50th class reunion at Mrs.
Terry's residence across the street
from the museum. One thing was
different. At that time the museum
building was the First Christian
Church.
Not until April 1990 did I have
the opportunity to take part in a
class reunion, the meeting of
Moran's 1940 class. I had, still have,
a 100 or so black and white slides
copied from a large assortment of
somewhat ancient black and white
pictures. I will always remember
their pleasure when one or the other
of the group found a shot of them-
selves in some of the slides.
As enjoyable as class reunions
are, there is an inescapable air of
poignancy about them. The seniors
of 1940 were now the senior citizens
of 1991. But for a brief few hours,
the senior citizens would turn back
the clock a half century to their
graduating year of 1940.
This class was facing something
that would forever change their
world. War clouds were building in
Europe. Like distant thunder that
builds in intensity, the clouds
seemed to come nearer and nearer.
The quiet, sane world into which
these 26 MHS graduates had been
born disappeared forever in one
earth shattering blast December 7,
1941, slightly more than 18 months
after the 26 marched into the Mo-
ran High School auditorium and
received their diplomas from Su-
perintendent C.J. Watson. But what
a wonderful world it was before that
awful day!
Their music was that of the Big
Bands - Glenn Miller and his trom-
bone. Remember his theme "Moon-
light Serenade" and Texas Beneke
and the four Modernaires crooning
"Chattanooga Choo Choo," "Blue-
berry Hill," "Moonlight Cocktail,"
"That Old Black Magic," "Wood-
pecker Song" - on and on.
World War II claimed Glenn
Miller and forever stilled that glori-
ous trombone. There were other
bands - Tommy Dorsey, Benny
Goodman, Artie Shaw, Vaughn
Monroe - many more. There were
other songs - love songs, glad songs,
sad songs, silly songs like 'The Music
Goes Round and Round," "The Hut-
Sut Song." Songs of yesterday.
In that yesterday, Moran was a
bigger little town. It had a newspa-
per, The Moran Enterprise, succes-
sor to The Moran News. Above the
name was this bit of advice, "Be
Loyal to Moran, Trade at Home,
Sell at Home and Buy at Home."
That advice is meaningless in
today's Moran.
This was the world of the 1940
graduate. World War II was just
around the corner. Every male mem-
ber of that class served his country
in some branch of the armed ser-
vices during that war and they all
survived.
Four of the class members called
Moran home. Two, Bryant Edwards
and Helen Knight McCollum, never
left. Two others, J.R. Collinsworth
and the late J.B. Montgomery, re-
turned to Moran following their re-
tirement. Nell Cottle, class valedic-
torian lives in Houston. The saluta-
torian, Mary Weber Steen, is a Dal-
las resident. Newspaper man, Otha
Lee Grisham, has been a resident of
Seguin for many years. Others are
scattered throughout Texas or were
in 1990.
That 50th class reunion is past
history. It can never be repeated.
Too many years, too many miles
and too many now gone. Each gradu-
ate has given a good account of him-
self or herself. Each one has been -
and is - a credit to Moran and to the
Moran Independent School District.
8-3 moran supply list
Pre-K/Head Start
1 box baby wipes
1 box gallon Ziploc bags
1 box Kleenex
A change of clothes in a baggie
with their name on it.
A small blanket and pillow
for nap time & a plastic bag to
store it in. (Blanket bag or the
pkg. that new comforters or blan-
kets come in works perfect.)
We furnish nap mats and a
daily snack.
Kindergarten-First Grade
2 pocket folders
4 chubby pencils
1 pair blunt Fiskar scissors
1 package washable Crayola
brand thick classic markers
1 box 24-count Crayola brand
crayons
1 roll of paper towels
3 K-l writing tablets
1 plastic school box
1 box baby wipes
2 boxes Kleenex
1 8-count Crayola brand water
colors
1 bottle 12 oz. hand sanitizer
1 box quart size Ziplock baggies
1 package brown paper lunch
sacks.
Second & Third Grades
Pink eraser
1 red pen or pencil
12 #2 pencils
Crayons
Markers (optional)
Ruler (with centimeters)
Notebook paper (wide ruled)
Folder (1 blue, 1 red, 1 green, 1
yellow)
3 boxes Kleenex
1 gallon sized Ziploc baggies
1 quart sized Ziploc baggies
Glue
Scissors
School box
Backpack
Fourth-Fifth Grades
100 sheets wide-ruled notebook
paper
12 #2 pencils
1 red pen
1 pink eraser
11-subject (70 sheets wide rule)
spiral notebook
2 folders (1 red and 1 yellow)
with pockets
2 boxes Kleenex
1 box crayons (12 count or higher)
1 box washable markers
Scissors
Backpack
Glue — liquid and stick
Ruler with centimeters and
inches
School box
Some items may need to be
replenished throughout the year.
2006 PROPERTY TAX RATES
IN THE CITY OF MORAN
This notice concerns 2006 property tax rates for the city of Moran. It presents
information about three tax rates. Last year's tax rate is the actual rate the taxing unit
used to determine property taxes last year. This year's effective tax rate would impose
the same total taxes as last year if you compare properties taxed in both years. This
year's rollback tax rate is the highest tax rate the taxing unit can set before taxpayers
can start tax rollback procedures. In each case these rates are found by dividing the total
amount of taxes by the tax base (the total value of taxable property) with adjustments
r as required by state law. The rates are given per $100 of property value.
Last year's tax rate:
Last year's operating taxes
Last year's debt taxes
Last year's total taxes
Last year's tax base
Last year's total tax rate
This year's effective tax rate:
Last year's adjusted taxes
(after subtracting taxes on lost property)
-5- This year's adjusted tax base
(after subtracting value of new property)
= This year's effective tax rate
$ 13,009
$ -0-
$ 13,009
$ 2,601,800
$ 0.500000/$100
13,009
$ 2,541,697
$ 0.511823/$100
(Maximum rate unless unit publishes notices and holds hearings.)
This year's rollback tax rate:
Last year's adjusted operating taxes
(after subtracting taxes on lost property
and adjusting for transferred function,
tax increment financing, state criminal
justice mandate, and/or enhanced indigent
health care expenditures.)
+ This year's adjusted tax base
= This year's effective operating rate
X 1.08 = this year's maximum operating rate
+ This year's debt rate
This year's total rollback rate
13,009
$
$
$
$
$
2,541,697
0.511823/S100
0.552768/$100
-0-
0.552768/$100
Statement of Increase/decrease
If the City of Moran adopts a 2006 tax rate equal to the effective tax rate of $ 0.511823
per $100 of value, taxes would increase compared to 2005 taxes by $624
SCHEDULE A: Unencumbered Fund Balances
The following balances will probably be left in the unit's accounts at the end of the fiscal
year. These balances are not encumbered by a corresponding debt obligation.
Type of Property Tax Fund General General
Balance $ -0- $ -0-
Name of person preparing this notice: Teresa Peacock, chief appraiser
Date prepared: July 21, 2006.
SHELBY ANN CRUME & BRYAN BRANHAM
Crume, Branham set date
Joe and Lorie Crume of May
announce the engagement and
approaching marriage of their
daughter, Shelby Ann Crume,
to Bryan Houston Branham of
Moran, son of Johnnie and Alice
Branham of Moran.
The bride-elect attended Tar-
leton State University and re-
ceived a bachelor's degree in
nursing. She is employed as a
registered nurse at Hendrick
Medical Center in Abilene.
The prospective groom also
attended Tarleton State Univer-
sity. He is currently employed
at Coca-Cola in Abilene.
The wedding will be Septem-
ber 30 at the First Baptist
Church in May.
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