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Seminole (Gaines County),Texas 79360 ©2003 Wednesday, September 10,2003
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Volume 95, Number 95
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Dugger Ends 17 Year SISD Service
By Dustin Wright
After a 17 year stint with the Semi-
nole Independent School District, repre-
senting District 4 as a School Board mem-
ber and serving as the Board's President
for the past 16 years, Gary Dugger turned
in his resignation to Trustees, which held
their Regular meeting Monday night at
the SISD Administration Building.
In a letter addressed to the Board and
SISD Superintendent Doug Harriman,
Dugger cited that he had recently moved
outside his district boundaries and regret-
fully had to turn in his resignation to the
Board.
With the vacancy, Trustees later took
action and decided to appoint a new board
Texans to
Decide on 22
Amendments
Constitutional amend-
ments will be on the ballot as Gaines
County voters trek to the polls this
Saturday. All polling places will be
open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
A total of 22 proposed
amendments are on the ballot and
voters will vote either "yes" or "no"
on the measures.
Voting will take place at
respective precincts' polling places,
with one change from previous
elections.
Precinct 2 voters, who
have previously voted at the Gaines
County Civic Building, will vote at
the senior citizen center next door in
this election only.
Dane Smith is voting
judge for box 5, located at the Loop
Community Building; Gracy Davila
is judge for box 8 at the Seagraves
Community Building; Stella Mc-
Beth is judge for box 9, located at
the Church of Latter Day Saints in
Seminole; Harvey Hannah is judge
for box 2 at the senior citizen build-
ing; Sheila Huffaker is judge for
box 6 at the Higginbotham Commu-
nity Building; Dixie Lentz is judge
for box 3, located at Seminole High
School; Carlene Chandler is judge
for box 4 at the Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce Building;
and Charlotte Roberson is judge for
box 7 at the Seagraves Chamber of
Commerce office.
Amendment 1 would au-
thorize the Veteran's Land Board to
use assets in certain veteran's land
and veterans' housing assistance
funds to provide veterans home for
the aged or infirm and to make prin-
cipal, interest and bond enhance-
ment payments on revenue bonds.
member as soon as possible.
However, in an executive session, the
board decided not to take any further ac-
tion at this time, after discussing the pos-
sibility of appointing candidates to fill the
board vacancy.
"Whoever is selected to take Mr.
Dugger's seat on this board has big shoes
to fill and will be hard to replace," said
Interim Board President Jerry Don Foote
before the board accepted the resignation
of Dugger.
"We regret that this had to happen,"
said Foote.
TRACK BID
Trustees also voted to approve of a
bid from SRI on a Structure Coat Track
System to be installed at Wigwam Sta-
dium, valued at $161,988.83.
After a lengthy discussion with Mon-
te Hunter, an architect from Midland, the
Board decided to take the Structure Coat
System over the Sandwich System, which
was valued at $227,814.39 and the Basic
Polyurethane Track valued $139,709.00.
PURCHASE INSURANCE
The Board also voted to accept the
bid of Trident Insurance Services out of
San Antonio.
The rate will be $167,056 with an
$10,00 deductible, which is a five percent
increase from last year.
Fleet insurance is included in the
package, with a deductible of $1,000.
The services are offered through
Moore-Haralson Insurance Atzency
OPEN HOUSE
Trustees also voted to allow the
dates of October 20 for Open Hou^e it
F.J. Young, Primary and
Elementary schools, October 21 at
the Junior High, October 15 for the High
School, and October 27 at the Success
Center.
TEA WAIVER
Board members also voted to allow a
waiver to modify the schedule of classes
on TAKS testing days during the current
school year to reduce interruptions during
testing periods.
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hension. First Grader
reading comprehension, while Second
Graders had an 79 percent reading com
prehension, and a 97 percent I AKS cpm-
prehension.
VENDOR LIST
Board members also voted to allow
a list of over LOOP vendors Lu die SISD
Vendor List for the 20(15-2i>( )4 Achool
year.
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CHEERING AWAY
The 2003 Seminole Mini-Cheerleaders performed during the first quarter of the Indians 41-
16 win over the Monahans Loboes Friday night at Wigwam Stadium The Mini-Cheerleaders
displayed their talents through cheers and rooted the Indians to their second win of the 2003
season. One more performance will be made available for the Mini-Cheerleaders, but a date
Sentinel Photo/Dustin Wright
for their performance has yet to be determined Seminole will take their 2-0 record to *erm-
Friday night to take on the Yellowjackets in an 8 p.m. contest at Yellow acset Stadium. See iv
game preview story inside this issue.
City Council Approves '03-04
Amendment 2 would es-
tablish a two-year period for the re-
demption of a mineral interest sold
for unpaid ad valorem taxes at a tax
sale.
Amendment 3 would au-
thorize the legislature to exempt
from ad valorem taxation property
owned by a religious organization
that is leased for use as a school or
that is owned with the intent of ex-
panding or constructing a religious
facility.
Amendment 4 relates to
the provision of parks and recre-
ational facilities by certain conser-
vation and reclamation districts.
See Amendments...Page 2
The Seminole City Council
approved the tax rate to support the
2003-04 budget, awarded a contract
for ne
w and replacement water lines, ap-
proved the purchase of two police
cars, approved a demolition request
and approved a pay increase for City
Administrator Tommy Phillips at the
regular council meeting Monday.
Tax Rate
A tax rate of 60 cents per
$100 valuation was approved to
support the 2003-04 budget, the
same tax rate that has been approved
the past several years by the city.
The new budget and tax
rate will take effect at the beginning
of the city’s fiscal year, October 1.
Water Lines
Approved by the council
for water line replacement was the
low bid of TEC Excavation of Mid-
land. That bid was $97,800, with
the city to pay $40,535 and Don
Moore, who is developing property
for housing, to pay the balance of
$57,265.
The city's portion will be
used to replace two-inch galvanized
pipe along four blocks of Southwest
3rd Street, where water pressure has
been low or non-existent.
TEC is expected to begin
the project as soon as possible.
Other bids were submitted
by Tejas Partners, $99,668.60; Scott
Thane Ditching, $132,459; and
Ramirez and Sons, $151,115.
Police Cars
Working through a state
program, the council approved the
purchase of two 2003 Lord Crown
Victoria Police cars in the amount ot
approximately $20,000 each. Funds
for the purchase were included in
the city budget and the vehicles
are expected to be delivered next
month.
Demolition
Acting on a request from
the property owner, the council ap-
proved a demolition and cleanup
of three lots in the Austin-Millei
Addition at no cost to the property
owner.
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Following mv ann.il
evaluation of Phillip- m cxevi.ti c
wssipn, the council went back m •>
open,-session and-said the, ado
trator had done another ' ontsi.
mg" job during the past yen’
The council then iii:
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mously approved a lour pcrceii;
increase for Phillips
Administrative Report
Before the start of
meeting. Phillips reported -to
See Council... Page 2
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Paper fn Ink... Winning Peace Is Tough
By Lynn Brisendine
Last week I wrote about my recol-
lections of the '60s, a time of protesting
and anti-establishment music. Lately, I
feel the same kind of atmosphere rising in
this nation. Are the Iraq and Afghanistan
situations forging some splits? Or is that
just me?
President Bush gave his speech last
Sunday evening. I think he feels the same
schisms coming down the road. He made
an elegant appeal to stay the course and
fight the battles in Iraq instead of New '
York City. And if battles indeed need fight-
ing, then Baghdad is a better place than
Washington, D.C. to see bullets flying and
bombs bursting.
Is our national zeal for patriotism
ebbing into the past as the banners and
flags which have flown so prominently
these past two years fade and seem to be
disappearing? Or is that just me seeing
these signs of discord?
We, just a short span of months ago,
invaded Iraq and saw our troops sweep
across that nation with little opposition.
And those enemy troops that dared shoot
our way were quickly and efficiently killed.
We lost tens, they lost thousands. We saw
them destroy a few tanks and humvees
and shoot down one helicopter, while we
destroyed military equipment and knocked
out infrastructure and ruined many of the
enemy's palaces.
The war couldn't have gone better
for us. But now we are trying to win the
peace, and from what we've been hearing,
that's the hard part in both Afghanistan and
We knew that the backwards, rock-
filled Afghanistan was a poor place when
considering properties and utilities. We
also knew it was a place rich only in hate,
a place of ignorance being compounded by
the religious leaders taking more than half
of their population out of any organized ed-
ucation. They had forbidden their female
children to attend classes.
Afghanistan is a place trying to live
in the seventh century with its religious
taboos and rigid social structure enslav-
ing a population. We took out the dreaded
Taliban, only to see the old warlords make
a comeback. One group's ideas of freedom
for the populace are as bad as the others.
They aren't interested in democracy, they
only want power. It was a system used
by their ancestors and the ones in power
can see no wrong with continuing these
barbaric traditions.
In Afghanistan, we aren't trying to
rebuild a country and its infrastructure
as much as to begin a government of the
people and to construct modern conve-
niences a few steps above open gutters
flowing with sewage and comer markets
with rotting animal carcasses hanging, for
sale, covered with flies.
Iraq was supposedly a more modem
place. It had sewer systems and water
delivery pipes and electricity. It was an oil
rich place where people were more literate
and the place was a secular organization of
goverment operating alongside the con-
straints of a moribund religion which itself
is fractured between differing sects who
practice non-tolerance for each other. Kill-
ing is condoned and used as a tactic to gain
power. They blow each other up. creating
new martyrs and fostering ancient hatreds
mixed with new feelings of old terror rev is-
lted. All this, regardless of our attempts to
offer protection. We are embroiled in the
intrigue and deceptions of groups ot people
without honor.
Now we are finding that the lights
aren't coming on with any regularity. The
communications arc almost nonexistent.
The economy is in a shambles and even
food supplies are erratic in making it to the
populace.
We took over a nation w hich had
seen its prisons emptied before we even
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Fisher, David. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 95, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 2003, newspaper, September 10, 2003; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth804421/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.