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Thursday. March 1,2007
Shelter
explores
expansion
Animal facility has long
dealt with overcrowding
Today photo by LOYD BRUMFIELD
High winds Feb. 24 stung eyes with Lubbock>tinged red dust, sent roof shingles flying, caused power outages
and knocked out this fence in the High Pointe neighborhood of Cedar Hill.
Nature unleashes an angry wind
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Red skies generally mean bad news for
sailors, according to an old saying, but they
also didn’t help the residents of Cedar Hill
and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,
which were inundated by winds as high as
60 miles per hour and West Texas dust that
colored the sky.
The Cedar Hill Fire Department report-
ed no unusual activity when the windstorm
hit on Feb. 24, but as many as 90,000 peo-
Storm damages property,
but no injuries reported
pie in North Texas were without power,
including at least one local shopping cen-
ter. Several fences were blown down and
shingles were tom from rooftops.
The Target shopping center at Highway
67 and Pleasant Run Road was without
power for several hours, said Jason Russell,
managing partner of Panera Bread Co.
The power went out around 11 in the
morning and was still off early that
evening.
Hundreds of flights were canceled at
Dallas Love Field and at DFW Inter-
national Airport, leaving hundreds of trav-
elers stranded in terminals.
Cedar Hill Fire Chief Steve Pollock said
his department had a routine day.
“It was a pretty quiet day, and we didn’t
have any major issues,” he said. “No power
lines, no trees — it was a pretty routine
day.”
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
The Tri-City Animal Shelter
was ripe for expansion almost
since the day it opened nearly
11 years ago.
Now, the three cities that
manage the shelter have taken
steps to determine what path
that expansion will take.
The Cedar Hill City Council
gave Mayor Rob Franke the
OK to sign a contract with
Quorum Architects to perform
a building evaluation and
needs assessment for the shel-
ter in a recent council meeting.
“It’s truly not just about
space,” Tri-City Director Alissa
Prelis said. “It’s about the con-
struction of the building itself.”
Since opening day, the shel-
ter has experienced animal
overcrowding issues, building
issues such as plumbing and
disease control, and space
issues for the shelter’s staff, the
council was told at the, meeting.
Cedar Hill, DeSoto and
Duncanville will now embark
on a series of citizens’ surveys
and public hearings before
determining what will be done.
Public hearings haven't
been scheduled yet, but Cedar
Hill expects to conduct theirs
sometime this month, said
Melissa Valadez-Stephens,
assistant to City Manager Alan
Sims.
“We’re just starting to put
together the plans,” Valadez-
Stephens said. “Everything is
still very preliminary.”
The 4,500 square-foot
building on East Pleasant Run
Road in Cedar Hill faces a
number of structural issues,
Prelis said.
“The way the kennels are
constructed is just not con-
ducive to having a first-rate
animal shelter,” Prelis said
“Ideally, we’d want solid walls
that separate the kennels so that
the dogs can be kept physically
separate from each other, and
space that allows for more nat-
ural lighting and better air-
flow”
Currently, dogs share drains,
“so if one dog urinates, it could
flow into another dog’s living
area,” Prelis said.
In addition, many top-notch
kennels keep their animals
behind either glass or acrylic
glass windows so diseases
aren’t spread dog-to-dog and
potential new owners don’t
See SHELTER, Page 2
Family, friends celebrate Trevino, raise money for her
Benefit collects about $22,000 for medical expenses
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Cedar Hill came to the aid of
one of its busiest volunteers,
donating its time and money to
help Angela Trevino in her
fight against breast cancer.
Hundreds of people went to
the Performing Arts Center at
Cedar Hill High School to lis-
ten to music, sign up for cancer
screenings, take part in a pair of
auctions all in the name of
Trevino, a longtime community
volunteer who recently was
diagnosed with Stage 4 breast
cancer.
“I’m overwhelmed,” said
Trevino, a single mother of five
daughters. “The community
really turned out. All my
friends are here, the music is
great... I’m just oveijoyed.”
According to initial totals,
the benefit raised about
$22,700 Tor Trevino’s medical
bills.
David Merton of Image
Mart donated pink T-shirts that
country and rock bands played
on the stage at the Performing
Arts Center.
Outside in the hallway, visi-
tors looked over items included
in a silent and live auction, and
cancer support information was
also available.
Sherry Fox of the Baylor
Sammons-Mobile Breast Iipag-
ing Center talked to women
about Baylor’s Mobile Mam-
mography Unit, which will be
in the parking lot of Regions
Bank on March 9.
“We travel within a 75-mile
radius and have the capability
of screening 40 women per
day,” said Fox, who added that
the mobile unit makes appear-
ances all over the Dallas-Fort
Worth Metroplex nearly every
day of the week.
“A lot of people know about
us through word of mouth,” Fox
said. “Women who have come
in before and are regulars know
about us, and they tell their
Mends. Plus, we do a lot of
Fox has an interesting way
of dealing with patients’ fears,
she said.
“Women say, ‘Oh, it hurts, it
hurts, it hurts,’ but really, it’s
uncomfortable but not unbear-
able,” she said. “We always say,
‘Well, it hurts to have children,
too, but most women are happy
to do that.’”
Baylor has two mobile units
that travel to different destina-
tions every day, and Fox says
more companies are paying for
their employees to be screened.
One of Trevino’s closest
friends, Jimmie Ruth White,
organized the music for the
event, which included Country
Day on the Hill mainstays the
Darrell May Band and Vance
Harsch.
White also found 8-Tracks,
a 1970s-era cover band, and
invited then) to play the benefit.
“They're going to be at
Country Day this year, too,”
said White, who has connec-
tions in the local music busi-
ness through her husband Bill,
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Angela,” and several local and events like this one.”
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