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Sec. A, Page 2
The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005
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I would like everyone to try and understand how important it is
to be aware of the various ordinances we have and to obey them.
It is against the law not to.
Some people feel they are above the law or that is doesn't pertain
to them. Others seem to thing that they are the only ones being
picked on. Believe me - This is not the case. If the city manager
or I thought this to be true we would clean house. The city
manager will sit down and discuss any problem that is city related
and I know, you know my phone number!
We have eight people on the council. They are listed by wards.
Call them before you react: Ward I Ed Stafford, 445-2340 and Tom
Gordon, 445-0399. Ward II Wayne Thiebaud, 445-3539 and Paul
Bradberry, 4452388. Ward III Tommy Sperry, 445-3247 and
Gaylon Craddock, 445-3238. Ward IV Melba Reed, 445-274 and
Melody Warner, 445-4437.
The city crew has been repairing some of the real bad
intersections. Also pot holes and patches that are real bad.
October 10th is a legal holiday and the city hall will be closed.
Our regular October city council meeting will be at 7 p.m. of
Tuesday, October 11th.
Don't forget the Doodlebug train ride on the 15 th of October. I
understand the tickets were sold out weeks ago, but there will be
some downtown excitement during the day. In fact, the city
manager and I will be shuttling people from their cars to the train.
Today, at 3 p.m., the city will hold its 2nd meeting to discuss
possible situations that could occur if a disaster was to happen.
Procedures will be put in place to minimize any possible disaster.
Some people have talked to me about the article in last weeks
paper on Green Creeks water rate. Remember the city raised their
rates from $2.69 to $4.03. The difference between $4.03 and $7.82
goes in Green Creeks coffer. They have not been paying for any
upgrades and have been getting water for all these years cheaper
than the citizens of Dublin. I do believe EMS, Fire Department and
the police go to Greens Creek and provide a service. Some of us
were not here in the late 60's or early 70's.
No one likes to raise prices, however, this is a business, the same
as gas stations, stores, laundry. You still buy gas, even when it goes
up $.20, $.40 a gallon. One day in Texas, water may cost more than
gold!
Buy Dublin First! We all like a small town atmosphere and
friendly shops.
Volunteer today! Look around you, don't be left out in the cold.
Have a great week and look after each other.
HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Sterling
Texas Press Association
an Event Calendar
for Dublin and its surrounding communities
Thursday, October 6
MTGCD Board Meeting
1 p.m. - Council Room, City Hall
JV Football vs. Hico
6:30 p.m. - Memorial Stadium
• Jr. High Football vs. Hico
6:30 p.m. - Hico
Friday, October 7
Varsity Football vs. Hico
7:30 p.m. - Hico
Saturday, Octobers
FCCLA Bake Sale
David’s Grocery Store
Proctor Baptist Concert
7 p.m. - Proctor Baptist Church
Fall Harvest Dinner & Concert
6 p.m. - Carlton Community Center
Monday, October 10
Commissioners Court
9 a.m. • Erath County Courthouse
4-H Club Meeting
6 p.m. - Senior Center
Tuesday, October 11
Ribbon Cutting @ Paradise Floral
12:15 p.m. - 231 S Patrick
City Council Meeting
7 p.m. - Council Room, City Hall
American Legion Meeting
7 p.m. - Senior Center
Thursday, October 13
Lingleville School Board
8 p.m. - Lingleville High School
Send Us Your Events
445-2515 111 S. Patrick, Dublin, Tx 76446 publisher@dublincitizen.com
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Volunteers are priceless Grand Jury indicts Speaker DeLay
Everyone is familiar I'm sure with the credit card commercial on the
value of different things and the role that credit cards play in our life. The
tag line is that some things, such as spending time with your family, is
priceless.
One of the areas that I notice so frequently that is priceless is the work
of volunteers. Almost every where I go, I find volunteers. 1 hesitate to list
those involved, but I'll just tell you what 1 encountered Saturday - moms
and dads working with kids playing soccer, Boy Scouts and other
volunteers working at the Senior Center doing landscaping, people
helping at the high school on behalf of sports boosters, people working on
schedules to get the little guy football league started for the season,
people staffing the historical and rodeo museums, and I'm sure there were
others.
At all athletic events you will find volunteers helping out, calling the
lines at volleyball games, running the chains at football games, helping in
the concession stands.
Volunteers are everywhere you look.
That's just the local picture.
Take a look nationally and you'll find people really working to help out
in disasters such as hurricane relief in the Katrina and Rita disasters. What
could have been done without those volunteers? So often we depend on
government, but we must learn and know how to help ourselves. I've
often noted that people need a hand up, not a hand out and that's what
volunteerism is all about.
All the money that has been spent and will be spent to recover from
those hurricanes is discussed, but I would suspect that if you could put a
price tag on it, that the value of donations of goods - not just money - and
the donation of time will far outweigh all the money that will be spent by
governments.
As a matter of record, I oppose government giving away so much
money to help rebuild all these areas. The government has a role to play,
but those impacted must take a responsibility for their own welfare. We
can't rebuild all the houses that were destroyed - people need insurance.
We can't bear the responsibility of getting people in and out of areas - they
need to take care of themselves or bear the consequences.
I'm more than a little upset, and I've heard many others say the same
thing. They are tired of hearing people complain and ask about when will
they get help from the government.
I don't mean to sound hard hearted, but depending on the government
for everything has gotten out of hand. We must take charge of our lives
and live up to our responsibility. One thing these hurricanes have shown
is just how many people are getting help from the government. It's out of
control. It's going to break our nation's bank if we don't do something
about it soon.
I realize President Bush is doing all he can to juggle the many
responsibilities he has, but he must know that government can't take on
paying the expenses of the world. And we must support him when it gets
down to the nitty gritty of cutting expenses.
By the same token, we as a nation have to curb our greed. It would
seem to me that the costs of many things is due to greed - people want
more and more. How much is enough?
Everything costs way too much, not just gasoline.
I do expect the price of gasoline to go down but in the meantime, we
MUST develop a national energy strategy and that includes building more
refineries, using atomic energy and more drilling in the vast reserves of
the Arctic and oil shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
And the people in California must be a part of the change. They need
to allow construction of refineries and drilling off their coasts
Lots of changes are needed in our society including the attitude of what
I call liberals in trying to be a part of the problem rather than part of the
solution. And that goes to my liberal brethren in the media. ^
They need to get involved to help. They have told some of the stories
about volunteers, but they overlook so much of the good that is done in
this world by volunteers.
Thanks to all the volunteers in our town, our state and the world. Your
work is priceless and that especially includes volunteer firemen who we
salute during fire prevention week.
Thanks for reading.
(McKinnon can be e-mailed, publisher@dublincitizen.com).
A Travis County grand jury indicted U-.S. House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay of Sugar Land on a charge of conspiring to violate a state
election law that prohibits the use of corporate contributions to
campaigns for elected office.
DeLay, in accordance with U.S. House rules, resigned his position
as majority leader. That means he will no longer decide which bills
willmake it to the House floor for debate.
In a post-indictment news conference, DeLay said he was innocent
and called Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, the
prosecutor, a "partisan zealot" and the indictment "baseless.”
Earle, a Democrat, did not say exactly how DeLay broke the law,
but did say that evidence would emerge in the trial.
The charge stems from the 2002 midterm election, in which
DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority,
sent corporate donations totaling $ 190,000 to the Republican National
Committee. The money allegedly returned to Texas as cash infusions
to' specific House members' campaigns in the final months of the
election. Those races resulted in victories that bolstered GOP
majorities in the Texas House and Senate.
Legislation redrawing U.S. congressional districts passed in 2003.
The grand jury also reindicted Washington, D.C., fundraiser James W.
Ellis and Austin fundraiser John D. Colyandro, both associates of
DeLay, on c harges of money-laundering and conspiracy related to the
election.
DeLay was ordered to appear in Austin Oct. 21 for pre-trial
processing. His attorneys are asking for the trial to begin before the
end of the year.
Top officials address Rita issues
Gov. Rick Perry and other statewide officeholders toured East
Texas counties hit Sept. 23 & 24 by Hurricane Rita, doing what they
could to speed relief and recovery efforts.
Perry issued a proclamation authorizing utility companies to lay
temporary power lines. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made calls to bring
in needed supplies. Lawmakers from the area visited their districts.
Meanwhile, having seen what a tangle of life-endangering
inefficiencies hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed in federal, state and
localgovemment, Perry appointed an 11-member task force to
improve responses in the fiiture. Perry's Task Force on Evacuation
Transportation and Logistics will meet in early October.
In other news, the Texas Department of State Health Services
initiated a toll-free number (877-623-6274) to help family members
locate hospital and nursing home patients evacuated because of
Hurricane Rita.
Callers need the name, date of birth and gender of the patient. In
cooperation with the Texas Hospital Association, DSHS will provide
the hospital name and location, if available, in its directory but not the
patient's health status.
Also, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott started a toll-free
hotline to assist in restoring child support payments to parents in the
hurricane-ravaged Beaumont, Orange and Port Arthur areas. The
number is 866-291-6604.
No word yet on school finance
As reported in late August, the Texas Legislature did not meet state
District Judge John Dietz's Oct. 1 deadline to find a way to give Texas
schoolchildren equal access to a good education. The Texas Supreme
Court didn't have it done by Oct. 1 either.
Since July 6, the high court has been deliberating on the state's
appeal of Dietz's year-old ruling that the method of funding public
education fails to satisfy the state constitution.
With March primaries on the horizon and new budgetary
obligations related to hurricane recovery, there does not appear to be
a collective rush to solve school funding and its twin issue: property
tax relief.
ACROSS
1 TX Carolyn Jones
film: “The Seven
Year _"
5 nail college sports
org. (abbr.)
6 hair coil
7 former Houston
mayor Lanier
(init.)
8 this Heisman
winner Brown
played h.s. ball
in Dallas
9 rubs it in
15 Odessa AM
16 book: "Little _
_____of the
Texas Revolution"
19 In Grand Prairie:
"Ripley’s Believe
*
21 Tex Ritter was
Johnny_in
"The Arizona Trail"
22 TX O. Henry's “A
Houston_*
27 San Antonio AM
28 TXism: "gave’em
__and a
hug"
29 this Doug pitched
for Astros C93-*7)
30 song: "It__
_ You*
32 a TX Mandreil
(init.)
33 TXism: "hot _
__in July"
38 TXism; “feel like _
_chewed up
and spit out"
37 TX pilot ChennauH
was adviser to
Chiang _-shek
38 what Jack took up
the hill? (2 wds.)
39 produce electricity
41 areas along the Gulf
44 military assistant
45 "plumb crazy"
46 TXism: "when hell
freezes _*
47 cow "howdy"
48 most weak
51 TX-filmed "Daddy's
_Who's Got
the Will?"
52 oil additive
53 cry of triumph
The Original
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbinon
54 this Robb began
pitching career
with the Rangers
DOWN
1 former TX airline
"Braniff__*
2 Fort Worth
university (abbr.)
3 Dimmit Co. seat:
_ Springs
4 TV movie
producer:
_Fame”
8 TXism for "carry"
9 TX Buck Owens’
•I've__„_
__Tail"
10 TX Sissy played
this Loretta in
■Coal Miner's
Oaughter" (Init.)
11 TX Janis died of
this (abbr.)
15
16
starchy Asian
tuber
TXism: "a whole
’ (a lot)
a TX Indian tribe
TX clothing
designer Oldham
17 Astro or Ranger
extra innings
game? (2 wds.)
18 obstructing ball
on the green
20 TXism: "it's__
■bout”
22 this Duvall starred
in "Breakout" with
TX Ouald (Init.)
23 TXism: “don't give
a hoot 2__
holler"
24 homemade liquor
"sour_
25 ”__walk*
26 Sam Houston's
home In Indian
territory: “The
Wigwam_*
28 U.S. has__
on Cuban cigars
31 in debt
34 TXism: *„_as
the bottom of a
well"
35 cowboy bolo
37 Shreveport, LA
TV station
40 "One_, one
Ranger"
42 TX Strait's"__
Come to Expect
It From You"
43 TXism: "his recall
__overhaul'
49 type of Apache
50 Ranger sports-
caster Nadel (Init.)
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