Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Page: 3 of 14
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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 2006
Bains Countu Leader 0
Dear Editor,
People in Rains County are
always writing about animal
control, or the lack of it. They
never seem to care that lots of
the animals in this county have
no one to look after their well
being or care. There are animals
that are owned by people and not
running loose that are not being
cared for properly. They are not
fed enough food, don’t have
proper medical care or are just
plain neglected. These are the
people who need to be held
responsible for this problem.
The county needs some hu-
mane animal organization that
will look after this. The only
place we have to call is the sher-
iff’s department. They do not
have the time or manpower to
check on all starving or mistreat-
ed animals. The officials of
Rains County should be
ashamed of themselves.
I know that people say they
are good church-going people
but will not help a hurt or starv-
ing animal that lays beside the
road or in their pasture and dies.
That is not their problem, they
say. I believe that God did not
mean for us to be that cruel.
LaNora Boyd
201 Private Road 5302
Emory, TX 75440
Dear Editor:
I would like to thank the phar-
macist and the staff of the
Brookshire’s pharmacy for
patiently working to fill my
son’s asthma medications that
were called in right at closing
time last Monday night. They
stayed until everything was
accounted for and filled. I do not
believe I could have gotten that
kind of care and service outside
of Emory. This is a true example
of excellent customer service.
Thank you,
Juanette Lobaugh
132 RCR 3319
Emory, TX 75440
Dear Editor,
The “Angel Trees” are now up
in Emory. The “Teen Angel
Tree” is located at ALCO. This
tree has only teenagers, and they
are the hardest angels to get the
public to pick. Yes, it is true that
it is more expensive to fill these
angel card wishes, but just as
important as the younger angels.
Because of this factor, it just
makes good sense to mention
what a few school classes are
doing.
If Sunday school classes,
community organizations, social
groups, businesses and many
individual school classes would
pool their money together, I
believe that all of the “Teen
Angel Cards” could have all
wishes and needs on the card
filled in no time at all. I usually
have 30 or more angel cards left
on the trees after the gift return
date passes, most being from the
teen tree. There is also a list of
individual items needed for
teens under most trees. Please
get together with others to fill a
Teen Angel’s Christmas wishes.
My goal is to have ALL Angel
Cards picked and returned by
Dec. 18 to any Angel Tree loca-
tion. Santa is counting on your
help!!
Kimberly Watkins
Angel Tree Coordinator
P.O. box 65
Emory, TX 75440
Dear Editor,
1 am replying to the letter last
week by Ms. Spence regarding
Wal-Mart and its support of
homosexual activism.
First, Sam Walton did found
Wal-Mart to be a family friendly
store with values and promoted
this in the ’80's and ’90’s with
“Made in America by Ameri-
cans." Now Wal-Mart is acceler-
ating the loss of American jobs
at an alarming rate. It has dou-
bled its imports from China in
the past five years and in 2002
bought close to 12 billion dollars
of merchandise from China, that
is 12 billion dollars that were
NOT paid to American workers.
Wal-mart has also been cited
in numerous countries for using
child labor. In Jordan, workers
are paid just a few cents an hour
and work over 100 hours a week.
They imported 732 million gar-
ments from Bangladesh last
year, and workers, mostly
women and children, are paid
seven and one-half cents an hour
instead of the required 33 cents
an hour. There is no medical
attention, no maternity leave,
seven-day work weeks and mon-
itored bathroom breaks. In Hon-
duras, workers are considered
indentured servants. Does this
not bother your “family values?”
Can you now knowingly give
your money to a company that
promotes child and slave labor?
Second, regarding discrimina-
tion. It is my understanding that
this is America, where our
ancestors fought and died for
freedom and our freedom from
religious persecution. Good
Christians believe that we were
made in God’s image and we are
taught tolerance and forgiveness.
In the wake of the recent scan-
dals of Ted Haggard, Mark
Foley, etc., tolerance and for-
giveness is a daily activity. Also,
at one time, women were dis-
criminated against by not being
allowed to vote and voice their
opinions. Should we go back to
those “family values?”
Americans and Christians
should look out for each other
and not be divided. Wal-mart IS
giving these people jobs so that
they can support their families
and their loved ones. If these
people were not gay, but said
they did not believe in God, or
“your” God, would you not want
them to work there either? Or is
it only people who believe in
“your God and your values” that
Wal-Mart is allowed to hire?
Remember nobody is perfect!
Thank you,
Joanna Wilcox
156 Private Road 5503
Point, TX 75472
City of Emory to seek
$250,000 ORCA grant
By JAXIE MORGAN
Rains County Leader staff
Editor’s Note: We have re-
ceived several letters con-
cerning Wal-Mart and its
policies. Due to limited
space, we will not print any
more letters on this issue.
The Emory City Council
voted Tuesday night, November
21, to apply for a $250,000
grant from the Office of Rural
Community Affairs (ORCA) to
go toward the city’s wastewater
plant project. The cost of the
project is more than what the
city anticipated - 3.2 million
dollars - and the city has
already applied for a grant-loan
from the USDA to help with the
cost.
ORCA grant won’t
affect USDA grant
Mike Donnan with Hayter
Engineering assured Mayor Cay
House that applying for the
ORCA grant would not affect
the USDA grant, a concern that
House had due to past experi-
ences.
Justin Epker with Grant-
Works, who will be handling the
grant application, said the appli-
cation will be turned in on
December 15. The project will
be presented to the review board
on March 21, and the city will
find out in April or May whether
or not they will receive the
grant.
The council also voted to
contract with McLain Decision
Support Systems of Longview
to conduct an independent water
rate study for the city of Emory
at a cost of $14,950, to be pre-
sented to the council at the Jan-
uary council meeting. The
action was taken due to a pend-
ing lawsuit with water whole-
salers that are contesting the
city’s in-house water rate study.
In other action involving
water, the council approved a
reciprocal use contract with the
city of Point whereby each city
can purchase water from the
other during emergency situa-
tions. Point has been buying
water from Emory intermittent-
ly for several years due to prob-
Court approves software for
clerks, sheriff and attorney
lems with its water treatment
plant.
Cleo Holt addressed the
council regarding his sewer bill.
He explained that his
water/sewer bill goes up during
the summer due to watering
horses that he raises to sell.
Since the water does not go
through the sewer system, he
asked for a reduction in his
sewer bill.
Councilperson Carolyn Hill
pointed out that people who
water their gardens and/or lawns
have the same problem.
Holt countered that people
who water their lawns or gar-
dens do so by choice, but he has
no choice. If he doesn’t water
the horses, they will die. He also
told the council that three of his
trees were killed during the
installation of the sewer line on
Hwy. 19 S. and the city had
promised to remove them but
had not done so.
No action was taken on the
request for a discount on the
sewer bill; this will be revisited
at the January council meeting.
However, the council voted to
remove the dead trees as well as
his neighbor’s dead trees, also
allegedly killed by the installa-
tion of the sewer line.
TxDOT to lower
speed limit
Police Chief Bruce Feagin
reported that the Texas Depart-
ment of Transportation (Tx
DOT) agreed to lower the speed
limit on Hwy. 69 from 60 mph
to 55 mph from Hwy. 276 to the
school. The city had asked that
the speed limit be lowered to 45.
With the consensus being that
every little bit helps, the council
passed a resolution supporting
the speed reduction in order for
the police department to be able
to enforce it.
Public Works Director Dean
Carrell gave his monthly report.
He said that due to the ongoing
drought, the city’s water intake
valve, which was in about 10
feet of water, is now in five to
five and a half feet of water. "We
need to start focusing on what
we are going to do in about two
months if it doesn’t rain,” Car-
rell said. He suggested extend-
ing the intake line about 2,000
feet further out while leaving the
barge and pumps in the current
location.
Clyde Smith, Director of
Economic Development, gave
his monthly update. He remind-
ed the council that the Emory
Development Corporation
(EDC) will hold a Holiday Open
House from 3:00 to 5:00 on Sat-
urday, Dec. 9, before the Christ-
mas parade.
Chief Feagin also gave his
monthly report. He said the new
police car should be in any time
and will be sent to be outfitted.
In other action:
• Approved the minutes of the
past meeting of the council.
• Approved payment of bills as
presented.
• Voted to remove the extrinsic
language in the city's person-
nel policy (section 5) regard-
ing pay for working on holi-
days.
• Voted to amend the city's
Certificate of Convenience
and Necessity (CCN) in the
northeast comer of the city's
current CCN.
• Approved the contract with
the Rains County Appraisal
District for assessment and
collection services for 2007.
• Accepted Prosperity Parkway
and Enterprise Boulevard in
the Business Park for mainte-
nance and set the speed limit
at 30 mph. ,
• Voted to transfer $30,000
from the general fund to the
water/sewer fund due to a
cash shortfall and to delay
the payment to Burton Engi-
neering until the city receives
the documents from Burton.
• Approved a change in the
EDC bylaws to alter the
board membership require-
ments,
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Comments were taken from
Sheriff David Traylor, District
Clerk Deborah Traylor and
County Clerk Linda Wallace.
During the discussion, Coun-
ty Judge Joe Dougherty
expressed his concern that more
research should be done, adding
that possibly there are other
systems that should be looked
at.
However, Commissioner Eve-
lyn Malone, who was attending
her last meeting of the court,
said that both systems looked
impressive to her and continued
by saying that there are a lot of
other systems on the market but
the county just cannot afford
them.
Malone made a motion to
accept LGS’s Option One soft-
ware package at $61,848 per
year. The motion was approved
with all commissioners voting
Open forum
In open forum, Sheriff Tray-
lor introduced Lyn Baker, who
spoke to the court regarding
Rains County participating in
the VIN System program.
VIN is an automated tele-
phone notification system advis-
ing victims of crime when a
offender has been released.
Baker said the notification is
triggered within 15 minutes of
the release of the offender.
Funding is available with no
money needed from the county.
At the present time, as well as in
the past, the federal government
has grant money available to
fund such programs. The Texas
State Attorney General’s office
has received grant funds in the
past and currently has an appli-
cation in for a new grant.
Certain genes elevate risk
for ovarian, breast cancer
Baker added there is no obli-
gation to continue the contract if
there is no funding available.
Since the presentation was
made in open forum, no action
was taken.
In other action
• Approved placing a second
dumpster for monthly trash
collection at the #2 R&B
Yard in Bright Star.
• Tabled action on manning
and scheduled collection
dates for dumpster at #2
R&B Yard in Bright Star.
• Approved keeping the coun-
ty’s TCDRS retirement plan
at 7 percent and set a match-
ing of 190 percent.
• Approved the payment of
accounts as presented with
Commissioners Herschel
Bullard, Evelyn Malone and
Gary Bishop voting for and
Commissioner Rodney Smith
abstaining.
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all cancers have a strong heredi-
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larly true for women who carry
the BRCAI or BRCA2 gene
mutations that expose them to a
90-percent risk of developing
breast or ovarian cancer. By
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syndrome have about a 10-per-
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cancer and slightly less than a
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