The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 2003 Page: 2 of 24
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Sec. A, Page 2
The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003
Ask the j§iayor
By James "Red" Seigars, Mayor of Dublin
1 was asked this morning when we were going to start on the
Pedestrian Parkway. I did not really have an answer but 1 believe the
following schedule will shed some light on this matter.
Events Project Date
Design and Environmental
Submitted to TxDOT Sept. 2003
TxDOT approval Fed. 2004
Project Bid Mar. 2004
Construction Begins April 2004
Construction Complete Oct. 2004
Wayne Thiebauld is the Chairman of the Park Committee.
Darlene Gaitan is Chairperson of the Street Committee. 1 will agree
that the streets are pretty well tore up at this time. It would be diffi-
cult to lay some of the water lines without tearing up the street. The
streets will be repaired as soon as possible after the water lines are
in place. The City Manager does control the daily operations of the
city.
This must be a bad time of the year as our Police Department
was very busy during the month of Sept. The activity report shows
303 incidents. Citations were written for no liability insurance at 25;
speeding was 25; and no driver's license was 17. Thirty-eight warn-
ing were given for speeding; 10 were given due to failure to change
address on D.L.; and expired MU1 and expired registration total 9
each.
The code enforcement officer was also very busy reporting 48
violations. He also reviewed 18 inspections and wrote four citations.
The code enforcement officer wears many "hats. " If you call and he
is busy, he will get back with you as soon as he is free.
I would like to explain that under the "Citizens
Communications" section of the City Council meeting, you have
three minutes to address the council. Longer if approved by the
majority vote of the council. However, the council cannot answer
your questions during this time. You must be on the agenda in order
for the council to reply.
The park building is available to rent. The city secretery has the
remand deposit price list and can be reached at 445-3331.
The planning and zoning board will meet today at 7 p.m. in the
council chambers to discuss storage buildings, set back distance for
carports and neighborhood businesses. This board does a real nice
job and is a big asset for the City Council.
Don't forget to join in on all the fun. Be a volunteer and make
your day.
Dublin was on the "plus" side in the sales tax bracket in Sept.
Help keep us there. Shop Dublin first and shop as many shops as
you like.
Have a great day.
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Roger Turney, Mrs. W.H.
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an Event Calendar
for Dublin and its surrounding communitites
Thursday, October 23
• Singles Club
7 p.m. - New York in Mingus
• Planning & Zoning Board
7 p.m. - Council Chambers
friday, October 24
• Brown Bag Dinner
5 p.m. • ? - Project Graduation at Football
game
• Blood Drive - Rotary Club
9-2 p.m. - Dublin National Bank
j Saturday, October 25
• Pack the Gym
starting at 10 a.m. - Varsity Volleyball game,
varsity parents and seniors honored
• TSU Homecoming
Sunday, October 26
• Proctor Bap. Church
Homecoming
10:45 a.m.
Tuesday, October 27
• Rotary Club
Noon • Wall Conference Room
• Lions Club
7 a.m. - Dairy Queen
Send Us Your Events
445-2515 111 S. Patrick, Dublin, Tx 76446 dublincitizenads@earthlink.net
Technology is great?
I've often eluded to the the problems we have with computers and
I'm sure most other who have computers can sympathize.
Technology in general has moved so fast that it js mind boggling.
A friend of mine in Colorado recently wrote a column for the paper
where I used to work in Fort Morgan entitled, "My how (phone)
times change."
The lead paragraph of that column by Kim Spencer read, "I
remember the day when getting new phone service involved going
to the telephone company, the only telephone company, choosing a
phone, rotary dial, having the technician come out to the house to
hook it up and feeling pretty luck if you had more than one exten-
sion in the house."
Well, Kim is a bit younger than me. I well remember when no
one had telephones out in the Pleasant Home area and when they
time arrived about 1956 or so, maybe a year or two later, we were
so excited.
Of course, we were on a party line with eight other people. No,
young people, that doesn't mean we were having a party on the tele-
phone. We all shared one line and we had to listen to the rings to see
if the call was for us. As I remember it, one ring was our call. You
could have a long and short, two longs, two shorts, etc. Others on
that party line include Mr. And Mrs. Sam Kinnard, Maude Grissom,
Charles Gamer, Rush Gray, Doc Carter and I can't remember the
others.
It wasn't easy.
Of course, there was no such things as privacy. Everyone knew
about the business you discussed on the telephone.
I don't even remember the number we had but it was four digits,
as I recall. Everyone knows that Dublin Dr Pepper had the No. 1.
We did have a rotary phone although most people had to relay on
the operators to call somebody . We just weren't used to having a
directory and there wasn't any charge for that service. The local
operators knew everybody and their numbers.
That party line stayed the same for many years and there are still
party lines in some areas of the country. If you wanted to use the
phone, you had to ask who was on it to get off and of course you had
to explain your reason. Sometimes those on the phone didn't think
that was an adequate reason.
It cost extra to have a private party line or a two-party line.
Now, the use of phones is unbelievable. Not only can you have
call waiting but an Internet connection on the same line on which
you are talking plus there is called ID if you want to pay for it (I
don't like that because it lets people know that my fingers walk to
the wrong numbers when I get in a hurry).
Now, of course, we have cellular phones where you can talk
from anywhere to anywhere. Again, I'm not sure that's a good idea
as we used to be able to leave the office or home and get away from
the telephones. Now, there is no escape.
When you sign up for a service, they ask you how many minutes
you want on a plan. I just can't believe that I can talk for 200 min-
utes or more a month on the phone outside the office.
Now, of course everybody in the family wants a cell phone.
Everybody wants instant communications. Doesn't that sound like
we are a spoiled society? Do we really need instant contact. What
about a little later, tomorrow or the next day.
We seem to be getting more and more impatient.
And of course, I'm not sure that some people are real as all I’ve
ever talked with is a voice-mail message. That's very frustrating,
especially i^hen I'm trying to get in tojich with someone now. Well,
mere Y go with tne impatience. '
J Technology is 'great'btit' IVe noted ftJs6ems to he leading to more
and more impatience. We need to slow down and not be in such a
hurry. And maybe I need to heed my own advice.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
(McKinnon can be reached by e-mail,
dublincitizenpublish@earthlink.net).
Saying Good-bye...
With most sincere thanks and utmost admiration for this loving,
warm community, I must say my good-byes.
A new opportunity, full of new experience, which will hopeful-
ly help lead me to a successful reporting job in May, has opened up.
With regret and sadness I leave the Dublin Citizen, taking with me
the friendships of several people, whom, in the last 13 months have
made a dramatic impact on my life.
To Mac: Thank you for your guidance. Through your patience, I
will be leaving here a better writer, a better listener, a better reporter
and a better person all around.
To Lea: Thank you for being my "mommy" away from home.
You're a wonderful cook and I was never left hungry!
To Rhonda: Thank you for being my pal. Being at the office late
was never a problem. We always seemed to find a way to enjoy our-
selves.
To Johnnie and Katy: Thank you all for believing in me. Support
from my co-workers has been such a blessing.
The Dublin Citizen and the Dublin community have truly been a
family to me for the last year. I love each of you and thank you for
every opportunity and all of the patience you have given me.
God Bless.
STATE
CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Mike Cox
Jexas Press Association
State to eliminate 7 health, human service agencies
Those involved are using the term "re-org" to describe something
that is bringing profound change to them and the people they serve.
By the first of the year, because of legislative mandate, a dozen
state health and human service agencies will be consolidated into
only five.
Ranging from working for an agency with a new name to the ulti-
mate impact of having no job, this "re-org" affects more than 50,(XX)
state workers - nearly a fourth of the total number of employees.
Though the Legislature required the restructuring, a plan outlin-
ing the nuts and bolts of how it will be done is due at the governor's
office by Dec. 1. Some of the details may change, but the big pic-
ture is already in the frame:
* The Health and Human Services Commission will be the
umbrella agency.
* The Department of State Health Services will assume the staff
and functions of the Department of Health, the Commission on
Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Health Care Information Council.
The new agency also will provide care for mental health clients pre-
viously served by the Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation.
* The Department of Aging and Disability Services will assume
mental retardation care from what is now MHMR as well as func-
tions from the Department of Human Services and Department of
Aging.
* The Department of Family and Protective Services will replace
the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
* The Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services will
handle the duties of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission,
Commission for the Blind, Commission for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing, and the Interagency Council of Early Childhood
Intervention. School bus safety week more than talk...
It's nothing to get alarmed about unless you are a traffic law vio-
lator, but some school buses this week will be carrying passengers
with guns.
This is School Bus Safety Week, and to underscore the point, the
Department of Public Safety is putting troopers on school buses
to make sure drivers obey the law requiring them to stop when a
school bus is stopped to load or unload children.
The fine for passing a stopped school bus when its red lights ar
flashing can reach $ 1,000.
On the money list...
This is one state government list you might want to be on - the
state’s annual Unclaimed Property List.
The list, published by Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhom,
includes more than 142,000 unclaimed property owners who have
lost track of $71 million in cash and other valuable assets.
Houston has the most names on the list with 22,644 people miss-
ing $14.24 million in unclaimed property from 2003 alone.
The list was published Oct. 19 and is available on the comptrol-
ler's Web site at www.window.state.tx.us/up.
More Troopers needed....
Looking for a new career? The DPS is looking for a few good
men - and women - to attend the next DPS recruit school.
With retirements and new positions authorized by the
Legislature, the DPS will start its next training class for new troop-
ers on Feb. 2. If you're interested in a law enforcement career, the
DPS will be accepting applications until Nov. 7.
To meet minimum qualifications, applicants must be at least 20,
a U.S. citizen and have competed MasT^b horns' of&lleg'e.,,n'v’
For more infortnation, check theJ department's Web site at
www.txdps.state.tx.us or call the DPS’ toll-free recruiting line, 1-
866-TXTROOP (898-7667.)
PROCLAMATION - Mayor James Seigars signed the proclama-
tion to make October 13-17 Texas Chamber of Commerce Week.
Looking on is Chamber Director Jeanette Ward.
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ACROSS
1 in Montague Co.
on hwy. 62
5 TXism; "lower
than a snake's
belly in__"
6 the East TX Dairy
Finance Corp.
_ money to
buy dairy cows
7 Tex-Mex tasty
8 George W.'s
time (abbr.)
9 TX Reeves
recorded for
_ Victor
2 TX King Ranch
has 825,000
of 'em
7 goal at Six Flags
over TX? (3 wds.)
9 TX"_town
Scandal"
(1971-72)
11 TXism: "doesn't
know enough to
come _ __
the rain"
2 TX "Eagle" Don
3 TXism: "blind
Quarter’
31 it ain't "tails"
36 milk is__
material for TX
Bluebell
36 this Anna Maria
was in Alamo film
"Last Command"
42 "__
Choir" has HQ in
Fort Worth
44 paint layers
46 a very light TX
boxer
48 this Skeeter won
Pulitzer for photo-
graphy at Dallas
Times Herald
49 Cowboy Dan
Campbell's
position (abbr.)
50 fly high
51 Olajuwon as
a Cougar
The Original TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbison
28 TXism: "stirred up
a hornet's _"
29 "_out a living"
30 Travis Trill hit:
52 DA evidence
(abbr.)
53 Rockport is
"Where the fun
never "
TXism: "could
shoot the eye
out of a __*
TXism:__
bien” (good)
57 Grande
58 pig's "wickiup"
DOWN
1 TXism for "saved"
(3 wds.)
2 in 1862, 40 sus-
pected Unionists
were hanged in no.
TX for this crime
3 Kimble Co. seat
4 this Preminger
directed TX Gene
Tierney in "Laura"
9 barn critters
10 closet items
(2 wds.)
11 TX J.M. Bullock
was on this TV
"alien" series
12 TX cosmetics
queen Mary Kay
13 popular product
from New York, TX
14 TX Nimitz's ______
in WWII was
admiral
15 UT has _
Stanley Gardner's
complete study
16 drove fast
18 election day (abbr.)
20 this Young created
storied "Curtain
Club" at UT (init.)
Belo Corp.
is TX media giant
dir. to Corpus
from San Antonio
(abbr.)
TXism: "fast as
_ up a rafter"
desolate by death
TX)sm:
"unnecessary _
__grease on
a jackrabbit”
TXism: "let
rip!"
33 Greg Abbott's
position (abbr.)
34 22-across init.
36 "Honest _■
37 TX "Moonraker"
actress Chiles
38 outlaw Hardin quote
Texas, _ __!"
39 TXism: "I'd have
_better to die"
40 "tall Texas_’
41 bit of gossip
43 dir to Austin
from Dallas
45 George H. (abbr.)
47 DART is Dallas
mass _____
48
la vista’
55 X-mas gift (2 wds.)
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