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City gets
graded
on litter
Survey: Cleanliness
taken seriously here
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Each year C edar Hill gets a
grade on cleanliness. This
year’s results, like last year’s,
are uniformly positive.
“We are so proud of our res-
idents for keeping our city so
clean,” said Sheri Borth, presi-
dent of Keep Cedar Hill
Beautiful.
The organization is required
to conduct an annual “litter
survey” in order to remain in
good standing with its national
parent organization, Keep
America Beautiful.
“This year we went after a
recent ram but found very little
trash or heavy debris,” said
KCHB member Sandy Martin.
“We found more last year than
this year.”
Group members and volun-
teers fan out once a year, usu-
ally in March, and take two-
hour driving'tours oTTTfiTclfy,
which the organization divides
into nine sectors.
On that initial driving tour,
the group tries to hit at least
seven of the nine sectors,
including areas that are hard to
reach.
Areas that get the most
scrutiny include land near
Mount Lebanon Road,
Pleasant Run and Cedar Hill
roads, areas near Joe Wilson
Intermediate School and resi-
dential areas near city hall.
Though the city got a good
See LITTER, Page 2
Music educator adding
fine arts to homeschooling
Kilgore hopes to reopen ‘one-room schoolhouse’ at church sites
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
>
Several years ago, Janice
Kilgore traveled by rail all over
the country, spreading the word
about a different kind of home-
schooling.
Back then, several compa-
nies had formed to offer home-
schooling services that elimi-
nated one of the problems of
the practice — children missing
out on the social aspects of get-
ting an education.
They offered courses on all
subjects in a group setting —
science, math, history, reading,
English, among others — but
something was missing, Kil-
gore said.
“I took my trip at a bad time
for schools. It was a time when
budgets were getting cut and
the fine arts were always the
first to go," said Kilgore, a
longtime educator and Cedar
Hill resident. “I found a pro-
gram that did what I wanted to
do, but without the fine arts
component.”
• Kilgore contacted Gateway
Preparatory Schools about join-
ing its program of homeschool
networks for students between
12 and 18 years old and signed
on with an idea to add the arts
to the curriculum.
This fall, the first campus of
Kilgore’s Southwest Prep-
aratory Schools will open in
DeSoto at First Christian
Church at 501 E. Belt Line
Road.
Once enrollment there
reaches 30 students, Kilgore
plans to open more schools in
Cedar Hill and Duncanville,
and eventually Midlothian and
other cities once the 30-student
threshold is reached.
Students will follow a Sep-
tember through May schedule,
which used to be the norm for
public and private school stu-
dents until recent years saw the
first day of class creep into
mid- and even early August.
“Basically I want to reopen
the ‘one-room schoolhouse’ in
this area,” Kilgore said. “This
concept is very popular in
places like Plano and McK-
inney, and in Houston it’s just
busting out all over.”
C ourses are taught over the
Internet or from watching
DVDs, except for the fine-arts
courses, which Kilgore and
other local musicians will teach
in person.
Those courses will take
place after school hours, which
run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Kilgore claims the Gateway
program — soon to be renamed
The New American School —
will help younger students
increase learning capacity and
help high school students earn
bettqy: grades and perhaps grad-
uate early with college credits
and scholarships in hand.
Mentoring will be provided
in each subject through teach-
ers from all over the country,
but many are based in the
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,
Kilgore said.
Also, facilitators will be
onsite from the start of the
school day to the end of arts
lessons, Kilgore said.
Students must supply a lap-
top computer, bring chairs, a
novel or some sort of required
reading, and lunch and snacks.
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CEDAR HILL
Donations help department
State park ready for its closeup
Today photo by DAVID GOODSPEED
Bluebonnets are starting to burst out all over, especially at Cedar Hill State Park,
which hosts Its annual expo Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featured
events Include a mammals program, reptiles program, wildflower walk, Penn
Farm tour, vintage baseball and guest speakers. The park entry fee is $5 and chil-
dren 12 and under are free. For more Information, call the park at 972-291-3900.
For related stories, see Pages 8-9. _
ensure home equipment works
limited number of carbon
monoxide detectors it plans to
distribute.
“As a rule, people are pretty
good about keeping their
smoke detectors up to date,”
Pollock said, pointing to the
departments “Change your
clock, change your battery,”
marketing program each year
when it’s time to set clocks
back or forward. “But we have
seen fires in places where there
wasn’t a battery in a smoke
detector.”
It’s a good idea to have
working detectors in multiple
rooms, depending on the size
of the house. Pollock said.
Some people get lulled into
a false sense of security if they
have one working detector in
one room but not one in anoth-
er, he said
“It’s just not a good situation
to be in, especially if you’ve
got a two-story house,” Pollock
said.
Firefighters will work with
homeowners to determine the
best location for equipment.
Pollock said
“We’ve always set a little bit
of money aside for this, but
really not as much as we’d like
to, but (these grants) really
See FIRE, Page 2
Today photo by CHRIS HUDSON
This red-light camera looks out over East Belt Line Road and South Clark Road in
Cedar Hill and monitors traffic violations at the intersection. The camera is still in the
testing phase, but violations will be recorded for real beginning Sunday, April 15. The
city has several other cameras in the works at other intersections, and the city coun-
cil was briefed on their readiness at the April 10 meeting.
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
One of the most inexpensive
and effective ways residents
can protect themselves is by
making sure their smoke detec-
tors are working properly.
Now, the Cedar Hill Fire
Department is taking steps to
make sure everyone’s equip-
ment is up to date.
The department always sets
aside a little money for smoke
detectors and batteries to give
to the public when needed, but
a $l,Q00 grant from Wal-Mart
and $250 from High Pointe
Baptist Church can buy a lot of
extras. Cedar Hill Fire Chief
Steve Pollock said.
“We’ve always come out to
people’s houses and provided
them when requested,” Pollock
said. “Now we’re going to have
them in our apparatus so we’ll
always have them with us.”
Firefighters have been told
to monitor the status of smoke
detectors when they go out on
every call if possible.
“If you don’t have one or
one that’s not working, we’re
going to provide you with one
or give you a battery," Pollock
said.
The department also has a
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