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VOLUME 131 NUMBER 36
SUNDAY MAY 5 2013
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Survey says, more restaurants!
BY VALERIE REDOELL
Editor
polknews@gmail. com
LIVINGSTON - Ask
anyone who spends much
time in Polk County what
business they would like
to open here and you will
hear the same resounding
answer. “More restaurants.
Something besides Mexican
food."
Livingston High School
students in Deanna Evans
Entrepreneurship class
drafted a questionnaire
to quantify what kind of
business and which brands
Livingston residents would
like to see. They surveyed
84 people in grades 9-12 and
adults. Of the respondents.
45 percent were male and 55
percent were female.
Evans said the class spent
two days crunching the
numbers after their surveys
and re-evaluated the results
three times.
Each of the students
wrote a report based on the
results and then the group
evaluated the reports and
chose the top three to be
the "official presenters" for
the class when guests from
the Livingston-Polk County
Chamber of Commerce and
the Polk County Enterprise
came to hear the results.
Class members chose
Bnenden Shields. Grant
Fults after they made their
presentations and also Dalton
Shults in absentia since
he was called away from
class to handle duties as an
FFA officer for Ag in the
Classroom.
Survey results showed that
most respondents wanted
IHOP(39 percent). Chili's
(30 percent). Starbucks (28
percent). Chick-Fil-a (27 per
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Students at Livingston High School's Entrepreneurship class presented results
of their survey of most desired businesses for the Livingston area Friday. They
found that most respondents would like to see an IHOP in the Livingston area
Their survey also showed demand for clothing retailers.
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Despite cool temperatures, the fact that the calendar said summer is at hand means plenty of traffic through Livingston beginning at lunch time on Friday. Visitors piled into
to the Lake Livingston area for a full slate of activities and to prepare weekend residences for a busy summer on the water.
Cleveland man jailed after fight
with LPD officers at Wal-Mart
LIVINGSTON - A
Cleveland man is being held
without bond at the Polk
County Jail on charges of
robbery, escape from cus-
tody and other charges that
stemmed from a shoplifting
incident at the Wal-Mart
Super Center located at
1620 West Church Street,
according to a statement re-
leased by Livingston Police
Department.
Officers Lenneth Gardner
and Dallas Early were en
route to the store on May I
when the man began strug-
gling with asset protection
staff while committing the
theft, Det. Leon Middleton
said.
“The suspect identified
himself to officers as Joshua
EVERITT WAYNE
McADAMS
Caleb McAdams."
Middleton said that after
being placed in custody.
McAdams was being es-
corted to a waiting patrol
car, McAdams was about
to be placed in the vehicle,
he fled on foot from Of-
ficer Early.
“A foot chase ensued and
McAdams ignored Officer
Early’s commands to stop
running. After ignoring the
officer’s commands. Officer
Early deployed his laser,
striking McAdams."
McAdams was taken back
into custody.
After further investiga-
tion. Early and Gardner
learned that McAdams hail
provided a false name. He
was later positively iden-
tified as Everitt Wayne
McAdams. 29, of Cleveland,
who was a wanted fugitive
from Liberty and San
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'Transparency' bill nearly dead
AUSTIN - A bill
that called for greater
governmental transparency
died in the Texas House
on Friday , the Austin
Amerii an-Statesmun
reported in its online
editions Friday.
State Rep. Trey Martinez
Fischer. D-San Antonio,
killed the measure with a
parliamentary maneuver
known as a point of order.
Martinez Fischer opposed
the bill because officials
from his hometown of San
Antonio saw it as a burden.
By not going forward
with the bill, local
governments can now
"meaningfully participate
in the process." said
Martinez Fischer, who
added that he supports the
concept of transparency.
House Bill 14 by
state Rep. Jim Pitts.
R-Waxahachie. would have
required cities, special
districts, counties and
school districts to disclose
long-term debt obligations
and other financial
information to voters
annually.
The idea was to provide
the electorate with financial
information before they
vote on taxpayer-funded
projects.
Austin Mayor Lee
Leffingwell. who also
hailed the issue of
transparency, was also
against the measure.
He told Speaker Joe
Straus in a recent letter
obtained by the Austin
Amerii an-Statesman that
the bill would hinder
cities’ ability to make
infrastructure investments.
“Unfortunately, H.B.
14 has the potential to
confuse and mislead voters
about these investments,
ultimately making it harder
to finance infrastructure,
and putting our strong
economic performance at
risk." leffingwell wrote to
Straus.
State Comptroller Susan
Combs, a Republican who
has been discussed as a
possible candidate to be the
next lieutenant governor,
has pushed for the bill
The proposal still has a
chance in the House, and a
similar bill is pending in a
Senate committee.
Sex offender gets 15 years for failing to register address
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BY VALERIE REDDELL
Editor
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illVINGSTON - A 72-year-old
Houston man was sentenced to
15years in prison before District
-Judge Kaycee Jones in the 41 Ith
District Court for violating a life-
time requirement to register as a
sex offender with local law en-
forcement authorities and provide
timely notice if he moves.
Lewis Mark Kronnick was sen-
tenced to 17 years in prison for
sexually abusing his stepson and
served all but six months of that
LEWIS MARK
KRONNICK
sentence before he was released
on parole in 2010. He came to live
with a Livingston woman and mar-
ried her a short time later.
First Assistant District Attorney
Joe Martin said that in March
2011, Livingston police received
an anonymous tip that Kronnick
was not living at the address he had
registered with the department. An
officer went to the address and the
home was uninhabited.
When asked, a neighbor said no
one had lived at the home since the
previous November.
The LPD sex offender registrar
contacted Kronnick by phone and
he appeared at Livingston Police
Department and told officers he had
been living out of his car because a
power pole had fallen on the house.
“Officers talked to the wife sepa-
rately and she indicated they had
been living in Rosenberg," Martin
said. “We filed charges and she tes-
tified they had bee living apart.”
Martin explained the amazing
part of the case was that the now
estranged wife had kept aweceipt of
every purchase she made/
“She organized them chrono-
logically and was able to show us
exactly where they had been. You
could sec they had been living in
Rosenberg for those months from
November 2010 to March 2011,"
Martin said.
Kronnick had learned leather-
working while in prison. After
leaving Livingston he had opened
a leather shop in Rosenberg and
didn’t want to register as a sex of-
fender there. “He was also going to
gun shows and selling stuff there.
Being around guns, doesn't amount
to possession.” Martin said.
A computer Kronnick used
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