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Rally slated Sunday,
come rain or shine
LIVINGSTON - The “Proud to be an American” Rally and Candlelight
Service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Lions Stadium.
Originally slated for Sept. 23, the event was postponed due to
inclement weather.
“I am still issuing the challenge to all citizens, that we, as a county,
stand united and show that we’re proud to be Americans,” County Judge
John Thompson said, adding that he wants to pay tribute to three different
the general citizenry, all emergency service providers and the
groups -
military
“If it rains again this Sunday, we will have a scaled-down version in the
Livingston High School Auditorium,” Thompson said.
Everyone attending is asked to bring their own candle for the candlelight
service, as well as a hand-held flag. Flag inserts provided in the Sept. 20
issue of the Polk County Enterprise may be brought as well.
Everyone is also asked to wear red, white and blue.
Although the home-side stands at the stadium will be available far
seating, Thompson suggested people bring lawnchairs in the event of an
overflow crowd, in which case people may sit on the football field. Half
of the field will be available for lawnchair seating, he said.
Handicapped parking will be available at the location of the old tennis
courts. Additional parking will also be available at Timber Creek
Elementary School and in the courthouse parking lot. Brazos Transit
District will provide a shuttle service, free of charge, to the stadium from
Timber Creek Elementary and the courthouse parking lot.
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At Polunsky Unit
Dedication planned
ENTERPRISE PHOTO BY EMILY BANKS
TRACK STARS RUN FLAG IN - In order to show their support, a ceremony was held Tuesday at the Big Sandy High School
in which the high school students gathered around the flagpole and lowered the American flag. The boys’ and girls’ cross country
teams then carried the flag and ran from the school into town and to the Polk County Courthouse. Upon arrival at the courthouse,
the students presented the flag to County Judge John Thompson and then raised it up the courthouse flagpole where it will fly this
week. As the cross country team made the run, students from Big Sandy High School were bused into town for the presentation
at the courthouse. Others attending included BSISD Superintendent Darrell Myers, Principals Murry Polk and Kenneth Graham,
Board member Sally Hendrix, Cross Country Coach Eric Carpenter and the entire high school faculty.
the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice (TDCJ); State Representa-
tive Dan Ellis; State Senator Todd
Staples; A.M. Stringfellow, chair-
man of the Texas Board of Criminal
Justice; and Polunsky.
The actual dedication ceremony
will be conducted by Johnson; Janie
Cockrell, director of the TDCJ’s
Institutional Division; and Jimmy
Alford, director of Region I of the
TDCJ’s Institutional Division.
‘Texas, Our Texas” and ‘The
Eyes of Texas” will be performed
by the Livingston
Choir.
Polunsky Unit Chaplains John
Stanley and Joe Jennings will offer
the invocation and benediction,
respectively.
Following the ceremony, a recep-
tion will be held in the shift turn-
out room, followed by staff tours.
The local unit opened in Novem-
ber 1993 and was named for Charles
T. Terrell, chairman of the criminal
justice board at that time.
The name change was prompted
by Terrell’s philosophical shift in
In communication items, the recent years regarding the death pen-
board will review correspondence alty and was considered at his re-
from the Texas Education Agency quest,
regarding board of trustees relation-
ship.
Individual instructional program
overviews will be presented by the
pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first
grade and second grade teachers.
Other items on the agenda include
approval of a budget amendment,
the financial reports and minutes of
the Aug. 23 meeting.
LIVINGSTON - A formal dedi-
cation ceremony at the Allan B.
Polunsky Urtit on FM 350 is slated
for 2 p.m. Friday.
The outdoor ceremony is to
honor the former Texas Board of
Criminal Justice chairman and cele-
brate the renaming of the unit from
the Terrell Unit to the Polunsky
Unit.
Following a welcome by Jim
Zeller, senior warden of the Polun-
sky Unit, the Region I Honor
Guard from the Holliday Unit will
post the colors and the National
Anthem will be performed by the
Livingston High School Royal
Brigade Band and the Livingston
High School Choir.
Remarks will be made by Gary
L Johnson, executive director of
LIVINGSTON - A resolution in the social services department in
adopting a redistricting plan for
folk Comity wm approved by to
County Commissioners’
Court during its regular meeting
Tuesday.
Commissioners approved a re-
vised interlocal cooperation contract
with the Texas Department of Pub-
lic Safety for the omnibase services
“failure to appear program.”
Through this program, people with
outstanding warrants or traffic fines
in Polk County are not allowed to
renew their driver’s license until
their fines are paid.
Clarke Evans was nominated as
the county’s representative for a
two-vear term beginning Jan. 2 on
the Board of Directors of the Polk
Central Appraisal District.
Commissioners approved renew-
ing the firefighting agreement with
the City of Livingston, through
which the county funds $29,444.
A resolution nominating Precinct
2 Commissioner Bobby Smith as
an officer to the County Judges and
Commissioners Association of
Texas was approved.
; Also approved was the updated
format for requests for proposals for
contract operations of the county’s
waste management systems.
Commissioners renewed an
agreement for lease of office space
an executive session to deliberate County Tax Assessor-Collector
the purchase of real property, no Marion A. “Bid” Smith opened me
action was taken upon--retain tc meeting with prayer,
open session.
Other business included approval
Action on the acceptance of of the budget amendments, person-
Candy Lane as a county road was nel action forms, schedule of bills
deleted at the request of Precinct 1 and minutes of the Sept. 11, Sept.
Commissioner Bob Willis. 12 and Sept. 17 meetings.
School
to appoint Charles K. Horton as
reserve deputy constable to fill the
District.
In policy matters, the board will
consider approval of Policy CQ,
regulations for electronic communi-
cations data management.
Superintendent James Boyce will
report on the Texas Association of
School Boards/Texas Association of
School Administrators convention,
construction of the central office,
construction of the track, renova-
tion of the gym and bleachers.
An executive session is on the
agenda, at which time the board
will deliberate personnel and prop-
GOODRICH - Removal of the
two-story administration building
will be considered for action by the
Board of Trustees of the Goodrich
Independent School District during
its regular meeting at 7 p.m. today
(Thursday).
Approval of a short plan year for
the cafeteria plan, from Nov. 1
through Aug. 31, will be consid-
ered.
The board will consider action on
nominations for the Board of Direc-
tors of the Polk Central Appraisal
vacancy left by the resignation of
William D. Willis.
Commissioners approved adver-
tising for bids for the purchase of a
motorgrader for Precpict 4 and also
approved advertising for bids for oil
and gas leases on Polk County
school lands in Throckmorton, Bay-
lor and San Jacinto counties.
County employees Lezli Myers,
Christi Rowe, Risa Ivy, Leslie
Burk and Lisa Andress were selected
to comprise the county employee
sick leavfc pool committee for fiscal
year 2002.
Commissioners also approved
certain Texas County and District
Retirement System options
Although the court entered into
Rating
boosted
CORRIGAN — Corrigan-Camden
Elementary School's state account-
ability rating has been boosted to
acceptable following the discovery
of a coding error.
When accountability ratings from
the Texas Education Agency were
received in August reflecting TAAS
scores for the elementary school, it
showed the campus with a rating of
“low performing.” After further
review, it was determined there were
some coding errors made on the
answer documents, according to
Corrigan-Camden Elementary
School Principal Sup McMeans and
Assistant Principal Jerry Ausburn.
When the errors were found, the
school appealed to Commissioner
of Education Jim Nelson. Once the
commissioner reviewed the appeal,
he made the determination that the
elementary campus should have
received an "acceptable" rating.
Corrigan-Camden Elementary
School never received the pre-coded
test documents for the TAAS test
as scheduled, according to adminis-
trators Therefore, they wen famed
to code all erf" the documents by
hand, which led to the scoring error.
The Texas Education Afency will
reflect the changes in the Adhdamic
Excellence Indicator System this
October.
Coming Sunday
>. When the movie “2001- A Space Odyssey” was released in theaters in
1968, the millennium seemed a million years away. Yet, here we are, and
tor many of us, 1968 doesn't seem so long ago.
While there will be no Pine Cone Festival this year, the Polk County
Enterprise will continue its tradition of publishing an annual heritage edi-
tion. This year’s special section, which rvill be included in Sunday’s En-
terprise, looks back at the year 1968.
!■ In many ways, it was a tragic year - as 2001 has also turned out to be
in light of the events of Sept. 11. Thirty-three years ago, America was
embroiled in a bloody conflict in Vietnam. There were riots, protests.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King were
Americans bowed their heads, then got back to the business of making
things better.
In Polk County, 196S saw the completion of Lake Livingston and the
subsequent boom in subdivision development The City of Livingston
started construction of a municipal airport and a new library. The Ala-
bama-Coushatta Indian Reservation embarked on a huge development that
included building a 30-acre lake and campground. A contract was awarded
far construction of a new Corrigan-Camden High School.
.‘ We hope you will take a few minutes to look through this Sunday’s
Special section, which include articles and pictures from 196S issues of
the Polk County Enterprise. The subject of the Section was selected long
tefore the events of Sept 11, but, at is often the caw when it comes to
■story, we were reminded of a valuable lesson: A lot of good things can
m accomplished in a year marred by tragedy.
OUT WITH THE OLD... - Livingston Paries and Recreation Department workers Nolen Tim-
mons, Juan Cuellar and Alex Rodriguez load some old landscape timbers used as car stops at
parking spaces in Matthews Street Park. The timbers will be replaced with unuaqd cement
mpers taken from Pedigo Park.
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