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The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, August 27,1992
I I I I I RS
LETTERS
LETTERS
To the editor and citizens of
DubUn,
This is in response to the front
page article by David Burke (Ste-
pheovilk Empire Tribune) and the
editorial in the Stephenville paper
last week, concerning alcohol in the
Dublin City Parks.
First, I wonder why Mr. Burke
and the Stephenville papier want to
print such a biased account of how
Dublin people feel and think. How
many citizens did he talk to? He
only listed 2, our general manager
and a civil servant. Hardly a fair
sampling of Dublin citizens.
Second, the question of what to
serve the agri-business people while
they are setting up their booths. We
have the oldest Dr Pepper Company
in Texas plus the largest dairy
business. Let’s stick with the guys
that stick with us. Serve soft drinks,
floats and the best old fashioned
cooler around -- buttermilk. These
businesses support Dublin doings -
why take tax dollars across the line
to buy beer in Comanche when our
own industries need these dollars.
Shop at home.
Third, where did the money come
from to buy the beer last year? Did
the city government (unnamed offi-
cials) buy it with city tax or general
funds? Maybe David Burke will go
back to city hall and find out.
Last, why are the unnamed and
out-of-town newspapers so inter-
ested in keeping alcohol in our city
park? Do they have something to
gain? Does anyone really have
anything to gain?
Citizens, call your councilperson
and tell them how you feel about
the new law, either pat them on the
back or tell them to repeal it. They
need to hear directly from you -
not what a couple of people told a
reporter. Don’t forget, you are the
one that counts. Your councilperson
cannot please you if you don’t
speak up. One minute -- one phone
call!
Not ashamed to stand up and be
counted.
Patsy Harvey
Dear Editor,
The response to our Dublin City
Park playground fund has been
fantastic! The community business
people and our dairy families have
shown a great interest in our fund-
raising efforts.
We have dairy families sending in
donations from Lingleville, Hico
and Stephenville as well as Dublin.
We cannot believe the positive
response we are getting.
Thank you everyone for the out-
standing response.
The dairy industry is going all
out to show their community sup-
port!
We would like to invite the entire
community to our Back to the
Fifties Dance on Sept. 5 to make
this one of the biggest money
raisers the City of Dublin has ever
seen.
It’s for our kids.
Thanks,
Lissa Zwiestra
GUEST EDITORIAL:
Dressing up Downtown Dublin
By Patsy J. Jones
Just imagine our downtown district dressed in
a new wardrobe!
While parts of downtown Dublin are dressed
with style and flair, others are clothes in modest
good taste; some ate shabby and worn; and
finally, a few are abandoned, barefoot and dirty.
1 have a dream for Dublin! I dream of a
Dublin that is DRESSED FOR SUCCESS; a
downtown wife attractive storefronts, clean win-
dows, trimmed grass and flowers, smoothly-
paved clean sidewalks and curbed streets; a
downtown park for community gatherings or
maybe a picnic lunch that invites fee spirit to
enjoy a time of renewal
Our dreams define the boundaries' of our
accomplishments. Nothing was ever changed and
improved unless someone had a vision of what
the outcome could be. I hear many stories of
what other small towns have done. LET’S
BECOME THE TOWN OTHER PEOPLE ARE
TALKING ABOUT. We have fee talents, the
workers, the interest, the capabilities, the com-
munity-spirit that it takes to accomplish great
things. Let’s get started N-O-W!!
First we need you to join the Dublin Dream
Team to help wife fee cleaning and farm scene
painting of downtown windows. All projects
need a deadline to get us going. Let’s get Dublin
ready to put it’s “best foot forward’’ for the
Dublin Dairy and Farm Equipment Show on
October 21-22. The Industrial Foundation is
hosting a breakfast presentation for the exhibi-
tors to encourage them too consider relocation of
suppliers to our area. Let’s show than that we
take pride in our community and in its appearance.
First impressions do count.
All interested volunteers are invited to attend a
planning session on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7 pjn.
Bluebonnets & Christmas Thyme is hosting and
providing refreshments. Come dream along wife us
and be a part of the Dublin Dream Team.
Postscript:
Just a footnote at this time to mention an idea. What
can we do to get more service and pleasure from our
Wright Historical Park grounds and library grounds as
a downtown meeting place and community activities
center? First, we need to plan more events around
these locations. The famous “vacant lot” will soon be
unavailable to us for these occasions. And these two
properties are permanently available to fee citizens.
(That is except for fee cement building separating
Wright’s from the library.)
That is fee crux of my idea. Couldn’t fee Historical
Society organize a fund drive to purchase that
property? A plaque could be erected to name those
whose donation exceeded a certain amount. The
building has had many improvements and is filled
with windows and skylights. It could tx^tfsSd as an
indoor facility for community events and perhaps
rented for meetings as well. Surely there are lots of
possibilities. Even a Santa’s village to spotlight our
wooden Christmas scenes-but that’s another dream
I’ll save for later.
Think of fee types of businesses this building could
be sold for. And of fee detriment to fee appearance of
fee Historical Park grounds it if it unsightly. Go by
and take a look at it and dream of fee possibilities.
And let me hear about your dreams.
SEE ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S PUZZLE ELSEWHERE IN THE CITIZEN.
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Dear Editor,
On Sept 5 beginning at 6 pjn.
there will be a benefit dance and
barbecue to raise money to make
needed improvements to fee play-
ground at fee city park. All this will
be at fee park and fee swimming
pool will be open.
I was a member of the Dublin
Jaycees in fee 60’s when fee last
major improvement was made to
fee playground. We repaired tables,
built fee fence and installed new
and very heavy duty playground
equipment We hoped it would last
ten years and ft did. Now ft is all
worn out and tom up.
Let’s all get behind the effort to
make the needed improvements to
our playground. Not only will ft
benefit local people but ft would
amaze you how many travelers stop
and picnic and rest while fee kids
swing and seesaw.
Even if you don’t want to go to
fee dance and barbecue, please
make your donation. Lissa Zwiestra,
Frances Joiner at the Dublin Motor
Co. or the Dublin Chamber of
Commerce can take your money.
You can get your name on a
permanent plaque in the playground
area by donating $250 or more.
See you at fee city park on Sept.
5. Bring money.
BUI Greer
Patsy Jones
Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Dear Patsy,
Excitement fills fee air as stu-
dents, teachers, and parents fever-
ishly ready themselves for fee new
school year. The welcome back
appreciation breakfast planned and
provided by the Dublin Chamber of
Commerce was fee perfect way to
kickoff what promises to be one of
the most productive and successful
years Dublin ISD has ever
experienced. The members’ dona-
tions of time, food, and energy
were truly appreciated by everyone
who attended. The breakfast so
clearly illustrated the total commit-
ment fee Dublin community shares
for exceUent.
Again, many thanks to fee Cham-
ber for a marvelous beginning to
fee 1992-93 school year.
Sincerely
■ Karol HoweU
Director of Curriculum and
Instruction, Dublin ISD
DUBLIN
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PTO MEMBERSHIP
The PTO's membership drive is
underway. Students will bring home
a form to be returned to school. The
PTO Carnival is set for Oct. 10
from 2 to 6 p.m. at the football
field.
PLANNING MEETING
Anyone interested in helping wife
fee downtown window painting
project is urged to come to Blue-
bonnets & Christmas Thyme, High-
way 377 South, at 7 pjn. Sept. 1
for a planning meeting. Refresh-
ments wiU be served.
BUNYAN CEMETERY
The Bunyan Memorial Cemetery
Foundation’s yearly meeting wUl be
held at 10 a.m. Sept 5 in fee
hospitality room of fee First
National Bank, 825 N. Patrick,
DubUn. Enter south door, please.
4-H ENROLLMENT
A 4-H meeting and enrollment is
set for 7 pjn. Tuesday, Sept. 1 at
the DubUn Senjgr Citizen Center.
Ages 9 to 19 (third grade and up)
are welcome. More information is
available by calling 445-3425.
PROFIT OR SERVICE?
It’s time to answer
a critical question
City Council members who attended fee Thursday night budget
hearing appeared to be in favor of purchasing a new city ambulance.
That’s fee good news.
The bod news is feat only half the council members were present
and they disagreed on how fee ambulance would be used.
The controversy involves out-of-town transfers. Councilwoman Lois
Atherton, who has researched how other communities of comparable
size operrte their ambulance service, wants the transfers stopped.
Other council members as weU as a few members of a painfully
sparse audience agreed fee transfers might be limited, but not to fee
exclusion of patients who need to come home to DubUn from
Stephenville or De Leon hospitals.
We’re looking at a very important issue here. Guidelines must be
established but they should reflect the ambulance service’s reason for
existence. Why is Dublin in fee ambulance business? Is ft to make
profit or is ft to provide a service to its residents? Can ft do both? If
so, how?
We would like to see more research and more input on this
important question of ambulance usage, particularly as ft relates to
transfers. We would like to see an ad hoc committee consider options
and come up wife guidelines for presentation to fee council -- a
committee composed of representatives of fee city, of fee community
at large and of fee emergency care attendants who will be using this
new vehicle.
Let’s start at fee bottom. Let’s decide what we hope to accomplish.
Let’s find out as much as we can about our options and let’s work out
a general policy that is reasonable.
Let’s carefully evaluate whether to keep both of fee ambulances
which fee city now owns. Can fee small van-type ambulance be used
strictly for transfers? Is ft possible to spend a little money to make fee
Dodge (now infamous for its lack of dependability) useable as a back
up to a new ambulance?
We’re on the verge of resolving a very important local issue. Let’s
do ft in a manner that reinforces the goal of fee ambulance service but
not to fee exclusion of compassion.
-.- Karen A. Parham
TEXAN’S REBIRTH
A small town shows
its faith in the future
32 marital status ot
Kilgore Rangerettes
35 governor, 1910-14:
_ Colquitt
Weddington
TEXAS CROSSWORD is brought to you esch week by
First National Bank of Dublin
825 N. Patrick P.O. Box 440
(817)445-4400
Member PDIC
DUBUN CITIZEN
(USPS 006412)
404 N. Patrick
Dublin, TX 76446
(817) 445-2515
Published weekly except the
first week of July and fee last
week of December by
Karen Wright at 404 N. Patrick,
Dublin, TX 76446.
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Dublin, TX 76446.
The Dublin CMun reserves
the right to edit all materials
& West Texas Press Assn.
By JAN L. SCHUBERT
Contributing Writer
HAMILTON - When fee switch is pulled to activate fee bright neon
lights feat spell “TEXAN” above fee theatre marquee in Hamilton on
Sept. 5, it will signal more than fee official reopening of fee
newly-refurbished 52-year-old movie theatre. It will symbolize community
teamwork, civic pride and fee spirit of a small town that believes in its
future.
The Texan will host two festive music revues at 2 p m. and 4 pjn. on
Saturday,'Sept. 5 in conjunction wife fee annual Dove Festival. Local
talent will be on hand to showcase their musical abilities in an effort to
defray ..the costs of the theatre’s recent restoration. Admission is $3 per
person.
Although the population of this rural community in Central Texas is less
than 3,000, Hamiltonians have long held a love affair wife film and live
theatre. It was from that passion that Hamilton Civic Theatre board
members Lambert Little and Marge and Pete Jordan first seized the idea of
creating a permanent home for their acjiye little theatre group, while also
restoring fee popular old movie feeatrelforfftm lovers.
The trio purchased fee Texan Theatre from Lemuel and A lane Guthrie,
longtime residents who had owned and operated the theatre for fee past 16
years. They have worked day and night through the summer in order to
formally open fee doors during fee popular Dove Festival. Dozens of
vohrutaors ranging from school children through retirees have donated
their skills ami talents to complete the restoration.
The bright burgundy/blue/grey colon scheme on the interior is reflected
in fee new carpeting, paint and seat upholstery. Seats in fee outside aisles
were removed and replaced wife wood floors laid In tiers to support chairs
and tables for dinner theatre seating. The stage has been extended 20 feet
to accommodate live theatre productions. The exterior has a fresh coat of
paint, providing a fitting backdrop for fee most vivid symbol feat fee
Texan is once again fee cultural hub of this close-knit community - fee
town’s only n^jor exterior neon sign. The 18 foot high vertical sign was
removed, sandblasted and repainted and fee neon letters and graphics were
replaced. Crowds cheered, horns honked and passetsby stared, smiling, as
fee sign once again dazzled fee streets wife its brilliant glow.
Little and fee Jordans, longtime civic supporters, undertook fee project
“because we warded to give this theatre to the community,” Little said.
“This was a labor of love, created not wife a profit motive, but wife fee
idea of boosting community pride, showing our support for Hamilton and
the arts, and creating a permanent home for our very active local theatre
group.”
The Jordans thanked fee enthusiastic corps of volunteers who proved
feat fee small town cooperative spirit is alive and well in Hamilton. Pete
Jordan said, “We are overwhelmed by the level of support our friends in
this community have shown this summer. We were never short of
volunteers. This has been a very gratifying project”
The Texan will show films on weekend beginning Friday, Sept. 11 wife
fee film “A League of Their Own”, starring Geena Davis and Tom
Hanks. Hamilton Civic Theatre will inaugurate its new home wife
“Dracula” on Halloween weekend. Movie ^admission will be $3; live
theatre performances will be $6 for dramas, $7 JO for musicals and $15 for
dinner tneatre performances.
JOB CORPS
Young adults, ages 16-21, in
low-income situations may qualify
for Job Corps. Room, board, medi-
cal and dental care and other bene-
fit are provided. You can also
obtain a OED and receive help far
**•Ywag
For more information. (817)
moot Commission. 2900 W. Wash-
ington, Tubs., Sept. 8 at 9:30 p.m.
Registration set for
aerobics classes
Regkftntkm will start on Tues-
day, Sept. 1 for dance/step aerobics
classes at fee City Park building.
Classes will meet from 6 to 7
pjn. mi Mondays, Tuesdays, Thun-
days and Fridays
Coat is $25 a month and a step
box wiU be provided.
Certified instructors are Kelly
Klaus and Christy PhilUps.
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