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The Subhfbia News
Volume 39, Edition 14
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
FEBRUARY 26
Last Day of Early Voting for
Mar 2 Primaries
MARCH 2
Texas Independence Day
MARCH 2
Democratic & Republican
Primary Election
MARCH 2
Sunset Lions Club Meeting
6:30 @ 13966 W. US Hwy 175
MARCH 4
Seagoville City Council
Meeting, 6:30 at City Hall
MARCH 8
SHS Parent Conferences
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MARCH 8
Last Day to File for Place on
Ballot for Local May 8
Election
MARCH 9
3rd Annual Women’s Expo
4:00 to 8:00 pm
12400-12450 Elam Road
Balch Springs Texas 75180
MARCH 9
SMS Parent Conferences
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MARCH 11
Seagoville Elementary
Schools Parent Conferences
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
MARCH 14
Daylight Saving Time Begins
MARCH 15-18
Spring Break
MARCH 16
Sunset Lions Club Meeting
6:30 @ 13966 W. US Hwy 175
MARCH 17
St. Patricks Day
MARCH 18
Seagoville City Council
Meeting, 6:30 at City Hall
To have your event added to our
calendar, please e-mail us at
News@SuburbiaNews.com
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police report
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sports
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outdoors
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school menu
3
student of the week
3
weather
3
church directory
4
obituaries
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pet of the week
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religion
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senior citizens
4
crossword
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kids korner
5
movie listing
5
recipe
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sudoko
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business of the week
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classifieds
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legal notices
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business services
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dining guide
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Two Charged with Burglary
Seagoville Texas - On January
21, 2010, at approximately 4:00 A.M.,
suspect(s) burglarized the Smoke Stax
Tobacco Store on U.S. Highway 175, and
took an undetermined amount of tobac-
co products. The next morning at about
4:00 A.M., Officer Josh Morillos was
patrolling the area and noticed a suspi-
cious vehicle occupied by two males
parked near the tobacco store. Upon
investigation, Officer Morillos located
several items in the vehicle, which were
believed to have been taken in the pre-
vious days Burglary, along with tools
consistent with those used to burglarize
buildings. Detectives later determined
that both suspects did take part in the
earlier Burglary. Charges have been
filed with the Dallas County District At-
torney’s Office on both suspects. Ad-
ditionally, detectives were able to link
these suspects to other burglaries in the
DFW area. Nelson is currently wanted
for Burglary and James has been released
on bond. Anyone having information on
Nelson’s location is encouraged to con-
tact the Seagoville Police Department at
972-287-2999.
Local Employee In
Intensive Care after Accident
By Greg Rhea
On Sunday morning, February 14th at around 5am,
Karen Bullard was on her way to work at the Valero gas
station located on Malloy Bridge Road in Seagoville. A
heavy early morning fog had set in and the temperature
was below the freezing mark. This made driving condi-
tions very dangerous and for Karen, nearly fatal.
Karen was driving west bound along Hwy 175 when
her car hit a batch of ice along the Trinity River Bridge.
Karen and another car were involved in the accident. A
Crandall Police Officer shortly there after arrived on the
scene. The officer arrived and was escorting Karen and
the other individual who was involved in the accident
back to the patrol car so they could get out of the cold.
Then the unthinkable happened. As they were walking to
the patrol car, another car hit a batch of ice and slid right
in their direction. When this happened, it forced Karen to
fall over the side of the bridge and onto the ground some
20 plus feet below, landing her within about 15 feet from
the Trinity River. The police officer leaped out of the way
to avoid the car and was left dangling, holding onto the
guard rail of the bridge for dear life. The officer was even-
tually and fortunately able to pull himself up and back
onto the bridge.
Firefighters and paramedics then arrived onto the
scene. Rescuers were finally able to get down to Karen
after having to walk all the way from the end of the bridge
through the snow filled bottoms to where Karen was at.
They then had to carry her back on a stretcher by hand, “It
was a very tough rescue,” said Crandall Fire Department
Chief Tim Atkins.
Lucky to be alive, Karen was transported to Baylor
Hospital and remains in intensive care. Karen suffered a
broken hip, a fractured pelvis, a broken femur, eight frac-
tured ribs, and a crushed L3 vertebra.
Karen has a long road to recovery ahead of her and
her family is really in need of help. If you find it in your
heart that you want to donate then there is a way you can.
A fund has been set up at Baylor Dallas on Worth Street at
the Salmons Building in Suite #410. The sponsor number
is 089079.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Karen and her
family.
City of Seagoville will
participate in statewide
warrant roundup
Officers will be arresting people in Sea-
goville who have outstanding warrants
Seagoville, TX - Defendants who have
failed to pay their outstanding warrants could
be in for a rude awakening this March. The
Seagoville Municipal Court and Seagoville Po-
lice Department have joined over 200 other law
enforcement agencies from across Texas for the
2010 Great Texas Warrant Round Up. Beginning
March 6, 2010, officer will be arresting individu-
als with outstanding warrants pending before
their respective municipal courts. Officers will
make arrests at your home, place of business or
wherever they can locate you.
Persons with outstanding City citations can
avoid arrest by appearing in person to make ar-
rangements at the Seagoville Municipal Court
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, or during special hours March
4-8 between 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. or Saturday,
March 6 between 8:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Dallas ISD To Host
Parent Conferences For
The Spring Semester
Parent Conferences Scheduledfor
March 8, 9, and 11
DALLAS-The Dallas Independent School
District encourages all parents to attend the par-
ent/teacher conferences for the spring semester,
scheduled as follows:
• High School, Monday, March 8,4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
• Middle School, Tuesday, March 9,4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
• Elementary School, Thursday, March 11, 4
NASA Is All
Around Us
By U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
There are many unique things with which Texans identify our-
selves, but human space exploration is perhaps one of the most dis-
tinct. Through the developments spurred by NASA’s human space
flight program, started here in Texas in 1961 at Houston’s John-
son Space Center, Americans and diverse peoples across the globe
are intricately linked by gadgets and inventions that make our
everyday lives easier. Cordless tools were brought into the main-
stream consumer market following their successful use in space
travel. NASA scientists, in order to conduct a thorough study of
the Moon’s soil, needed samples from both the lunar surface and
subsurface. Digging into the hard lunar surface layer demanded a
lightweight, compact power drill capable of drilling 10 feet below
the surface. To top those requirements, the drill also needed its
own independent power source. The Black & Decker Corporation
- working with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center - responded
with a battery-operated, magnetometer system. In the years follow-
ing the Apollo Program, Black & Decker refined this spin-off tech-
nology and created entire lines of handy cordless tools for widely
different industries.
Astronauts also needed a way to cleanse water they use in
space, since bacteria and sickness would be highly problematic.
Water filter technology had existed since the early 1950s, but
NASA wanted to know how to clean water in more extreme situ-
ations and how to keep it clean for longer periods of time. If you
look at a water filter, you can usually detect small chunks of char-
coal inside of them. Sometimes, when you first use a water filter,
you’ll even notice tiny black flecks from those chunks. This char-
coal is specially activated and contains silver ions that neutralize
pathogens in the water. Along with killing bacteria in the water, the
filters also prevent further bacterial growth. Companies have used
this same technology to bring us the water filter systems millions
of people use at home every day.
For decades, ground and polished glass had been the preferred
lens in the eyeglass industry. That changed in 1972 when the Food
and Drug Administration issued a regulation that all sunglasses
and prescription lenses must be shatter-resistant. NASA’s Dr. Ted
Wydeven of the Ames Research Center generated the technological
seeds for the first scratch-resistant plastic lenses while working on
a spacecraft water purification system. In 1983, Foster-Grant ob-
tained a license from NASA for the scratch-resistant coating tech-
nology. The company combined its own technology with NASA’s
and produced a superior lens. Their scratch-resistant lenses lasted,
with normal wear, ten times longer than the most widely used plas-
tic optical lenses, surpassing even glass. Today, the majority of
sunglasses, corrective, and safety lenses sold in the United States
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Reality Fitness to Relocate
after Roof Caves In
By Greg Rhea
Perhaps you have drove by Reality Fitness in
Crandall last week and noticed all the yellow caution
tape blocking off the parking lot. Well Reality Fitness
literally had the roof cave in on them following the
heavy snow storm that we received. Now the gym is
in the process of relocating to a new facility. Currently
they are working steadily on relocating to the building
behind Subway in Crandall, which is within walking
distance of the previous location was.
In the mean time, Shape Fitness in Seagoville
has offered Reality Fitness gym members the ability
to workout at their location in Seagoville for no addi-
tional charge. We will keep you updated as to when
Reality Fitness will be open at their new location.
p.m. - 8 p.m.
The meetings offer an opportunity to ask
questions and to share any circumstances that
might be interfering with a student’s progress.
Some of the things that parents can do to
prepare themselves for a parent conference or
parent-teacher meeting are:
• Write down specific questions that you have
about your child, and ask the teacher (s).
• Write down concerns that you have about your
child and discuss them with the teacher (s).
• Get all the information that you need from the
teacher (s).
• Ask for ways to help your child at home.
• Follow up with the teacher (s) after the meeting.
Parents can request a conference any time
of the year by calling the teacher to schedule a
meeting.
Seagoville HS Offers Child
Care Program
High School students get the chance to interact and teach pre-school students
By Greg Rhea
Seagoville High School has
many neat activities and pro-
grams at the school. One of the
programs that they have is their
Child Care Program. Ms. Pete
heads up the program. The pro-
gram is for preschool aged kids
from 3 A years old to kindergar-
ten age and operates the same
hours as normal high school
hours. High school students get
to come in and spend quality
one on one time with the pre-
schoolers. They play games with
the kids and help them to learn.
They even prepare meals for the
kids.
Ms. Pete is a certified teacher and talks of the benefits that her class provides for the preschool
kids. “The kids get a lot of one on one time with the high school students, more than they would in a
normal daycare because they can not afford to have to teacher to student ratio that we have,” said Ms.
Pete. “They also get exposure to older kids and that helps them to interact. I really love the benefits of
having the high school kids and the preschool kids here.”
Ms. Pete also went on to say that they would be more than happy to welcome new preschool stu-
dents. If you have a child that is of preschool age and you would be interested in enrolling them in the
class then you can call Ms. Pete at 972-892-5945 or you can come up to the high school and fill out and
application. The program operates the same days as the high school does. Tuition for the program is
$200.00 a month which covers items such as food, supplies, etc.
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