Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1994 Page: 1 of 14
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They Got Blf
Easter Eggs
Ashley Cook and Grant Garrett didn't snatch up little eggs for their
Easter egg hunt last weekend. The 5-year-old daughter of Sam and Julie
Cook and the 3-year-old grandson of Ralph and Laura Chester of
Burleson got emu eggs (which are naturally a dark teal green) from the
Chester's Texas Outback Emu Ranch.
Texas* Largest Sidewalk sale
kicks off Good Life activities
If you're in need of a sidewalk,
Burleson is the place to be on Satur-
day, April 16.
Probably there won't actually be
any sidewalks rolled up and ready to
thing else you might want will be on
sale—and right outside where you
can easily find it.
That) day will find Burleson
hosting Texas' Largest Sidewalk Sale
as the kickoff event for a weekful of
Good Life Days activities.
From Burleson's Old Town to
Burleson Town Center, businesses
will be setting up tables outside their
doors. At select locations, there will
also be arts and crafts booths as well
as booths catering to hungry and
thirsty shoppers with good things to
eat and drink.
In downtown Burleson (aka Old
Town), many of the businesses are
participating in the sidewalk sale and,
in addition, there will be train rides
and pony rides for the children. Pro-
ceeds from the train and pony rides
will be used for the purchase of pe-
riod lighting for the historic down-
town area, said Burleson Historical
Society Chairman Bettie Bailey.
traveling by van to Georgetown on
Monday, April 18, to finalize light-
ing plans at some Central Texas an-
tique lighting centers.
Arts, crafts, collectibles, food,
downtown area during Texas' Larg-
est Sidewalk Sale, she added.
This is the second year the side-
walk sale has initiated Good Life
Days events and was the brainchild
of co-chairman Chris Akey, account
representative for the Burleson Star.
"It may take another year or two
to get this event as big as it's billed,"
she said. "But look how far we've
gone on thcentertainmentsideof the
festival itijust a few short years."
Good Life Days got off to a wet
start when virtually everything was
rained out by its inaugural year in
1983, recalled Star Publisher James
Moody, who originated the idea for
the celebration and chaired the first
four. Last year he co-chaired the event
with Akey when the first big-name
entertainer, Janie Fricke, was booked
for the festival in the park.
This year Akey is co-chairing
the event with Doug Drake of F&M
State Bank. Another big-name corn-
Members of the society will be try entertainer, Earl Thomas Conley,
Election day polling places for
April 12 run-off elections
DEMOCRATIC
Boxes 1,14,30, and 33................Community Center, Godley
Boxes 2,12, and 31..........First Assembly of God Church, Joshua
Boxes 3,4, and 5.............Crestmont Baptist Church of Burleson
Box 6.....................Freeland-Highland Community Center
Boxes 7 and 11.........Briaroaks Fire Hall (Ward Land off CR 805)
Box 8..............................Lillian Fire Hall (Hwy. 917)
Boxes 10,28, and 34.....Alvarado High School, 1100 Cumming Dr.
Boxes 13 and 29.............Joshua High School, Hwy. 174 South
Box 15.......Community Center (near CR 1121 and CR 2331), Bono
Box 16...............Primera Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel Church,
/ 1100 Country Club R<L, Cleburne
Box 17..........................First Assembly of God Church,
710 W. Kilpatrick, Cleburne
Box 18......First United Methodist Church, 1300 Westhill, Cleburne
Box 19..... ............... SL Mark’s United Methodist Church,
1111W. Henderson St, Cleburne
Boxes 9,20,21, and 22...........Henderson Street Baptist Church,
919 Henderson SL, Cleburne
Box 23.......................Rio Vista City Hall, Hughes Street
Box 24..................Greenbriar Church (FM 2415 at CR 313)
Box 25........................... Venus City Hall (City square)
Boxes 26 and 27................Grandview City Hall (City Square)
REPUBLICAN
Boxes 6.14,15,16,17,18,19.23,30,31, and 33.........St. Mark's
United Methodist Church
1111W. Henderson SL, Cleburne
Boxes IX*A.5,12,29, and 32.............Jim Baptist Chigch of
’ Burleson Family Life Center
317 W. Ellison St., Burleson
Boxes 7,8,10.11,28. and 34.................Cana Baptist Church
(CR 600). Burleson
Boses 9,13.20r 21,22,24,25,26, and 2/............Henderson St.
Raptist Church.
919 E Henderson St., Cleburne
will headline this year's entertain-
ment lineup, which also features an
up-and-coming group, Perfect
Stranger, and hometown girl Tori
Lea (Middleton), whose credits in-
dudea guest appearance on the Grand
Ol Opry as wen as starring roles m
countrymusic reviews at Fiesta Texas
and Six Flags Over Texas.
For those wanting an advance
preview ofPerfectStrangcr, the group
willbeappearingatBillyBob'sTexas
on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day prior to their appearance at Good
Life Days on Saturday, April 23.
Among the other businesses
which have made an early commit-
ment to participate in Texas' Biggest
Sidewalk Sale are Factory Outlet,
Ellison Street Shop, Wal Mart, Ha-
zels’s Western Wear, and Cato's.
Good Life Days shirts are on
sale at the Burleson Area Chamber of
Commerce, Wal Mart, the Burleson
Branch of the First State Bank of Rio
Vista, Bailey's One Main Place, and
F&M Bank. Other locations will
likely be added before the week is up.
Shirts feature a new design cre-
ated especially for this year's festival
and come in all sizes from children's
to XXX. Also, baseball shirts as well
as t-shirts are available this year.
T-shirts are $10; baseball shirts
are $12. Shirts will also lie available
at the chamber booth at theGood Life
Days park festival in Chisenhall Park
on Saturday, April 23.
In addition to top-quality coun-
try musie entertainment, the park
festival will also feature local dance
groups, arts and crafts booths, food
booths, a carnival with midway and
rides, a children's area (one of the
most popular attractions at last year's
(event), and increased parking.
Parking in either the Burleson
Boys and Girls Club lot or the cham-
ber lot is $1. Admission to t)$ park is
$2 for adults and$l forchildren6-12.
Advance tickets can be purchased for
$1 apiece.
There is no additional charge for
the Earl Thomas Conley concert.
Entertainment on the main stage will
begin around noon with Conley
scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
Step-parenting
class scheduled
Huguley Memorial Medical
Center's education ' department is
sponsoring a free class to the public
on April 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30
pan.
"The Making of the Blended
Step-Family" is presente
Hacker, M.Div„ M.A.,
class will be held at Taylor Elemen-
tary School Gym,400N.W. Alsbury.
For pre-registration and class
information, call ASK-A-NURSE at
551-2555-This class is approved for
!.S /vmHmtinj education horns for
Early vote
ends Friday
for county,
state runoff
County Judge Joe Durham will
find out Tuesday if he will win his
party's bid for re-election.
There are four races on the De-
mocratic Primary's run-off election
ballot April 12. On the county level,
Durham is facing challenger Roger
Harmon. If Durham wins his party's
bid again he will face Republican
Gene Roy in December. On the state
level, Richard Fisher and Jim Mattox
are fighting for the chance to go up
^against Republican Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison in November for bar sen-
ate seat.
A seaton the S upreme Court and
on the court of criminal appeals are
also in a run-off. Rene Haas and Raul
Gonzalez are battling for the Demo-
cratic bid for justice of Supreme
Court, Place 1, and Betty Marshall
and Gene Kelly are opposing each
other forjudge of the Court of Crimi-
nal Appeals, Place 2.
On the Republican side, there
are only two races. Don Wittig and
Patricia (Pat) Lykos are battling for
the bid for attorney general and Shar-
on Keller and Sam Bayless are both
vying for the chance to represent the
Republicans on the ticket forjudge of
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 2.
Early voting in the run-off elec-
tion will end Friday, April 8. That
voting can be done at 113 W. Cham-
bers in Cleburne or the subcourt-
houses in Burleson or Alvarado. If
voters wait until election day to say
how they feel, they'll have to go to the
voting box sites (see accompanying
Jmb
T The countyjudgeahip started out
as a three-man race. Harmon, not to
be confused with Pet. 2 Commis-
sioner Ron Hannon, came out on top
with approximately 40 percent of the
vote. Durham followed with 35 per-
cent and John Harrison came in third
with approximately 24 percent of the
total votes.
Today is deadline for residents
to file as write-in candidates for
city cotincil or school board
Today, April 7, is the deadline for people who want to run as write-
in candidates for either Burleson city council or Burleson Independent
School District school board seats to file as such. For the school race, the
deadline is 4 p.m. Those filing for city seats have until 5 p.m.
Three school board seats are up for election and all three are contested.
Incumbent Laura Forman is being challenged by Jerry Tucker for Place 5
and Incumbent Bruce A. Gilliam is being challenged by two men—David
R. Hadley and Scott Easly—for his Place 6 seat Bob Ray chose not to run
for re-election for his Place 7 seat. The two vying for that position are Jerry
Cramer and Guy Davie.
In the city races, only two outof four are contested. Mayor Rick Roper
has no opposition and neither does Mayor Pro Tern Todd Pearson for his
Place 4 seat Incumbent Jim Bailey drew opposition from David R. Mc-
Dougald for his Place 2 seat and Incumbent David Rubenkoenig is being
challenged by Ray Pearce for his Place 6 seat
Early voting for both the city and school elections will take place at
Burleson City Hall on Renfro Street It starts Monday, April 18, and ends
Tuesday, May 3. The hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. from April 18-April 22;
8 a.m.-6 p.m. from April 25-April 29; and 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on May 2-3.
Election day is Saturday, May 7. You only have one stop to vote on election
day too. To vote for both city and school seats, go by Burleson High School
on Johnson Avenue between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Work never completed
Indictment sought
against company
Candidates forum
for county judge's
seat is tonight
The candidates for county
judge of Johnson County will be
featured in a candidate's forum
tonight, April 7, at the Rio Vista
Civic Center.
The forum will begin at 7 p.m.
Incumbent Joe Durham and chal-
lenger Roger Hannon will discuss
the present and future needs of
Johnson County and will answer
questions from the public and
media.
John Harrison of the Cleburne
Eagle News will serve as modera-
tor. Harrison came in third amongst
the three candidates for the Demo-
cratic bid for county judge.
The forum is being sponsored
by the friends and board members
of the Rio Vista Civic Center. The
event is open to the public and
admission is free.
BY SALLY ELLERTSON
Four Johnson County families
have filed complaints with the dis-
trict attorney's office concerning con-
crete work that was paid for and not
completed.
The charges are leveled at a
concrete company that, according to
the Better Business Bureau, as of
March 21,1994, has operated under
six different names in a three year
period. The BBB concluded that “the
bureau's file experience shows that
{businessowner, who will be named
if and when an indictment is made}
has an unsatisfactory record with the
bureau due to a pattern of failure to
respond to customer complaints.
Complaints allege that the company
failed to complete jobs and did not
provide refunds."
The first three families to file
complaints had lost $3,300 in down-
payments and none of the concrete
work was completed. The three asked
for an extension on a business, and
foundations for shops and buildings.
The company in question was last
operating from a Roanoke, Texas,
address.
Johnson County Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Jerry Webber is han-
dling the case, which will be pre-
sented to a grand jury this month.
Webber said the case is for felony
theft (over $750).
The three original families, who
have lived in or have property in the
rural Crowley areaof Johnson County
for over a decade, wrote a letter ex-
plaining their plight to the DA's of-
fice.
"We are three middle class fami-
lies who have been victimized by a
professional scam group. Our re-
search indicates the {businessowner}
has been doing this for quite some
time and there are many more vic-
tims in Johnson County as well as
Houston, Temple, Beaumont, Dal-
las, and Oklahoma. The (busines-
sowner) stays in rural areas where
law enforcements are small and deal
in small amounts of money making it
more difficult toprovecriminal fraud.
These people operate in rural areas,
do just enough work to get a 50 per-
cent deposit, and will not complete
the woik."
One of the four families, all of
whom asked not to be identified for
fear of retaliation, said the concrete
installer took money to buy supplies
and said the work would be done in
three days.
"They loaded up their work, left,
and didn't comeback. We have called
repeatedly and they never call back.
They always have an excuse for not
coming to work on the job," the vic-
tim said. The installer did come back
and "move some dirt" then left. "They
said they would be back, then the
excuses started all over again. They
didn't call back or try to show up. We
asked for our money back and the
excuses started all over again."
The company solicits work with
signs on utility poles advertising con-
crete driveways, parking lots, and
slabs for $1.25 a square yard for all
materials and labor. The victims said
they have been threatened by stat-
ments such as "You haven't seen
trouble yet; there are 11 of my sons;"
the contractor allegedly threatened to
kill a witness to a conversation about
the work that was to be done; and one
of the victims received a prank call
that ended in a death threat. The vic-
tims said they could settle the prob-
lem with the money in civil court but
have decided to pursue it in the crimi-
nal courts in an attempt to stop what
they believe is a scam and to protect
their life and property.
"We are doing this to put a stop
to it," one of the victims said.
Gearing Up for
the Circus
One of tneCircn* downs vtahed Taylor Elementary School ear tier in the
week to show the stadenta a little abort ckma makeup. Thrty students
were pidmd to demonstrate three styles of downs. The Carson and
Barnet rivc-^sg sirens ista Bnrisson today for two performances, one
at 4£t pra. and one at S pm. The cm Is a* ap behind Spence's Paint
sad Body Shop at Hwy. 174 and FM 73L
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