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In Sports
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Vol. 36 No 24
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Thursday August 30 2001
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Main Street
manager hired
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Kathy Nixie of the American Kitefliers Association demonstrates ths way to maks a
kite for a group of girl scouts and would-be scouters at a recruiting drive at ths
Valley Ridge Amphitheatre.
By PATRICK M. WALKER
Today Staff
Cedar Hill officials have
moved quickly in hiring a new
Main Street program manager
to replace Rusty Brewer, who
left in early August for law
school in Washington, D C.
Valerie Gibson, an August
graduate of Texas Tech
University, is scheduled to take
over the post Monday, Sept. 17.
The Houston-area native
spent the past 18 months as an
intern for Levelland’s Main
Street program and was highly
recommended for the Cedar
Hill job, city planning director
Rod Tyler said.
Gibson, who will draw
about $28,846 annual salary,
said she plans to learn what
community members expect of
the program before she sets her
priorities.
“My main goal when I get
there is to sit down with the
board (members) and get a feel
for where they want to go.” she
said.
The Cedar Hill Main Street
Development and Preservation
Program is funded mainly by
the $60,000 it has been receiv-
ing each year from the city’s 4B
half-cent sales tax dedication
That commitment, which
comes from the Cedar Hill
Community Development
Corporation, was scheduled to
last three years, the third of
which will be fiscal 2002. Bui
Assistant City Manager Greg
Porter said he was confident
the Main Street program would
continue to be funded
“The city has been very
pleased with the work that’s
been done,” he said
Tyler said the program
began to take off when Brewer
was hired a little more than a
See MANAGER, Page 3
New Safe House
planned forCity
By DAPHNE M. BROWN
Today Staff
It has been almost a year
since Bridges Safe House in
Cedar Hill was destroyed by a
lightning strike.
Plans are underway to
rebuild the short-term haven
that never got to house any-
one before lightening struck a
nearby tree and fell through
the facility, Cedar Hill Police
Chief Steve Rhodes said.
The strike happened only
days after opening in Septem-
ber 2000 to serve citizens in
emergency situations.
Bridges Safe House Board
President Lois Cannaday said
the board is preparing a grant
to submit to various funding
agencies to gain financial
backing.
“We’re in the process of
surveying the churches,
school counselors and police
departments to see what
needs are in the community,”
said Cannaday, who has been
the board’s only president.
She said the lot was totally
destroyed and has been
cleared away.
“The insurance was not
sufficient to cover replace-
ment,” Cannaday said.
Many churches in the Best
Southwest have included Safe
House in their budgets, she
said.
Safe House has not yet
begun construction on a new
building and it is not accept-
ing donations due to a lack of
storage space. But an archi-
tecture firm out of Houston is
assisting the board with
future design plans,
Cannaday said.
Rhodes said well over two
years of work was destroyed
when Safe House burned
down.
“It was terrible.
Everybody was in tears,”
Rhodes recalled.
Safe House will work in
conjunction with Brighter
Tomorrows, the Cedar Hill
Police Department and the
Buckner STAR program to
secure a new home, Rhodes
said.
Bridges Safe House pro-
See HOUSE, Page 3
CH Bennigan’s manager
nameffMs. Black Texas
By KIRK DICKEY
News Editor
As Camille Reeves accepted
the crown as Ms. Black Texas
2001 on Aug. 19, she knew she
owed a debt to her job.
As a sales and service man-
ager for Bennigan’s in Cedar
Hill, Reeves has to deal with a
variety of people in many situa-
tions. And that, in turn, allowed
her to be comfortable with the
judges and on stage.
She believes she did well in
the pre-interview because she
was the most mature contestant
and seemed natural to them.
“I was extremely humble
and I think they got a real spir-
itual vibe from me,” Reeves
said. “I think they got the sense
that I had been around the pub-
lic a lot and that I knew how to
relate to people. I am a people
person.”
At work, she oversees the
dining area, the bar and the
waitstaff. She also goes out to
work with vendors and to build
outside sales.
“Being out in the forefront
and being on the people side of
Camille Reeves
the business is awesome,
because it gives you that expe-
rience you need to go out in the
real world and deal with the
diversity,” Reeves said.
Reeves knows about diversi-
ty. In addition to dealing with
local people and businesses,
she has also worked in interna-
tional training, helping to open
a store in the Philippines and
visiting China as a corporate
trainer.
“I have really had the chance
to go out and spread my wings
when it comes to the people
side of the business," Reeves
said.
And, in part, the contest was
about spreading her wings and
getting out to do things.
This is her first year in the
Ms. Black Texas pageant and
her third pageant total. She had
been Ms. Black Dallas/Fort
Worth in February and was first
runner-up in a Talent of
America pageant.
“I think it is a great motiva-
tion for a young woman. It
builds your confidence."
Reeves said. “It’s a way to get
exposure for yourself and be a
positive influence in the com-
munity. If I can encourage
someone to go out and set their
goals and achieve them, that
works for me "
One of the pageant’s orga-
nizers, Felisha Lynch, agreed
“Beauty pageants instill
self-esteem in our youths as
well as give them some leader-
ship qualities to follow through
with in their lifespan.” Lynch
said.
She believes it gives contes-
tants a better self image a and
See PAGEANT, Page 3
New blood-alcohol tester could walking the halls
save BSW cities time, money
By PATRICK M. WALKER
Today Staff
Police in the Best Southwest
soon will be able to administer
breath tests to suspected drunk-
en drivers without first having
to transport them to downtown
Dallas.
That1* a luxury officials say
will save the departments many
man-hours.
Thanks to a grant from
Texas A&M University’s
Engineering Extension
Service, the DeSoto Police
Department has received a
blood-alcohol content testing
machine. Law enforcement
officers in Cedar HH1,
Duncanville and Lancaster also
will have access to the tester.
DeSoto Police Chief Mike
Brodnax said technicians were
working to calibrate the device,
which cost about $5,000. He
said he hoped it would be ready
to use as early as Friday, Aug.
31.
The Southwest Institute of
Forensic Science in Dallas will
provide maintenance and certi-
fication training related to the
machine, Brodnax said.
“Only certified officers will
have a key to the room with the
(tester),** he said. “I’m the
chief, and I don’t even have a
key.”
Brodnax and other chiefs
said the time savings made pos-
sible by the acquisition would
ease the strain on their depart-
ments.
■ On a weekend night, for
instance, an officer transport-
ing a DWI suspect to Dallas for
a breath test might be tied up
for two hours or more, officials
said.
“This should really help us,”
said Capt. Larry Flatt of the
Lancaster Police Department.
David Aguirre, DWI pro-
gram specialist for the
Engineering Extension
Service, said the money for the
machine came from the
National Highway Traffic
See ALCOHOL, Page 3
Today photo by CHRIS HUOSON
The CHH8 Parent-Teacher-Student Association held an
open house Aug. 27. Parents had the opportunity to
travel the earn# schedule their children do, visiting
with teachers and faculty along the way. Above, Dr.
Alfred Ray, the high school's principal, hetpe a parent
who has lost her way.
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