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FOOTBALL:
Former Panther
on watch lists
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CROWLEY POLICE:
Weekly calls
for service
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PAINTING:
The Rec Center
hosts art classes
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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2013
VOL. 27 NO. 11^75 CENTS
VOLLEYBALL CAMP
Crowley High School volley-
ball coach Kim Wheeler is host-
ing a volleyball camp from 8:30-
1 1:30 a.m. Monday-Thursday at
the South gym at CHS.
The cost of the camp, which
is for incoming fourth- through
ninth-graders, is $65. Campers
can register the day of the camp.
Volleyball coaches from CHS
and H.F. Stevens Middle School
will provide instruction of the ba-
sic fundamentals of volleyball,
team building exercises that will
help prepare the campers for
middle school and high school
volleyball.
MOVIES IN THE PARK
The city of Crowley is hosting
Movies in the Park. Bring seating
for the whole family and enjoy
a night at the cinema under the
stars.
Light refreshments will be
served.
Showbeginsaround 8:30p.m.
at Bicentennial Park.
Friday — "Wreck It Ralph"
Aug. 9 — "Oz the Great
and Powerful"
ANCHOR'S AWAY
The city of Crowley is in the
process of building a veterans
plaza to honor its military person-
nel who have served, who are
currently servinq and those who
have given their all for our coun-
try. The plaza will be located be-
tween the library and Fire Station
2 just off of Business 1 1 87.
The city has been offered from
theU.S.Navy,ananchoroftheUSS
Shasta as a military artifact for the
plaza. The plans are to locate the
anchor at the corner of Business
1 1 87 and the driveway entering
the city complex.
It will be the city's responsibility
to pay for the cost to get the an-
chor here from Brownsville and
for the required foundation to
mount the anchor. The city needs
donations to help pay for this. All
donations are tax deductible. A
form from the IRS stating this can
be obtained from City Hall.
Contact councilman Johnny Sho-
twell 817-675-6466orKelly Harris
817-297-2201 forinformationcon-
cerning donations.
CASINO NIGHT
The Crowley Lions Club is host-
ing its annual casino night at 6
p.m., Sept. 14, at Rafter 7 Ranch.
For information on the event or
for sponsorship opportunities call
817-996-7000.
NEW PRINCIPAL
Armard Anderson was named
the new principal at Parkway
Elementary during a specially
called CISD board meeting last
Saturday.
Anderson holds an MBA from
LaTourneau University and a
bachelor's degree in business
management from Johnson
&Wales University in Providence,
R.l.
Anderson formerly was an as-
sistant principal at the Crowley
9th Campus.
Prior to coming to CISD, An-
derson was an assistant prin-
cipal in Waco ISD and at the
Richland Milburn Academy in
Fort Worth.
HOUSE OF HOPE
The Crowley House of Hope is
in the process of buying school
supplies for nearly 700 children
in preparation for the new school
year. To assist financially, contact
Billy Hutchings at 817-297-6400.
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ORDINANCE
City looking to rosolve parking issues
JAY HINTON/CROWLEY STAR
At any given time, trucks can be seen parked in the old Brookshire's
parking lot on Main Street. Some residents aren't happy with it.
BY JAY HINTON
crowleystar@thestargroup. com
As complaints from Crow-
ley residents continue to roll
in concerning the 18-wheel-
ers being parked in the lot
of the vacated Brookshire’s
grocery store on Main Street,
the city is now taking a closer
look at the situation and oth-
er parking issues in the city.
At last Thursday’s City
Council meeting, Crowley
resident Lezo Foley, who has
run for City Council on two oc-
casions, expressed his displea-
sure with the situation during
the citizen and visitor partici-
pation portion of the meeting.
“We need to move on things
like this especially when you
don’t want the city looking all
junky and cluttered. We’re
trying to get businesses in
here,” Foley said. “We don’t
need 18-wheelers (parked in
the city). They are tearing up
the highways and the streets.
That looks bad.”
His comments drew
“amens” from some mem-
bers of the audience.
Because it was citizen par-
ticipation and not an agen-
da item, the City Council
couldn’t address Foley con-
cerns but Crowley Interim
City Manager Robert Loftin
did, however.
“We are currently review-
ing an ordinance that we
hope to bring before the
council in the very near fu-
ture that would give us some
ability to limit or remove
those trucks from that park-
ing area,” Loftin said.
Loftin said city officials
will look at other cities and
see what they have and see
what would work for Crow-
ley, then it will be put on the
agenda for a council vote.
“It will be fairly compre-
hensive and not just for pri-
vate commercial lots like
Brookshire’s and the trucks.
See PARKING Page 4
CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM
JAY HINTON/CROWLEY STAR
Crowley ISD board member Heather Bright shows her patriotism at Crowley's Celebration of Freedom July 13. The CISD board
will hold in its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the district office located at 512 Peach Street in Crowley.
ICONIC BUSINESS
Rejuvenation Ranch closes doors after 5 years
BY JAY HINTON
crowleystar@thestargroup. com
Some five years after opening
its doors at Rejuvenation Ranch in
Crowley, owner Rie Tate officially
closed for business Monday.
“I lost my business. I didn’t close
it because I wanted to. I lost it. It’s
just as devastating to me as it is for
everyone else,” Tate said. “It was
really hard. I spent Monday and
Tuesday crying all day. It’s nothing
I wanted to do.”
When the spa first opened in
the 700 block of S. Crowley Road,
it was in a 1,500-square-foot area,
and several years later it moved
just a few doors down into a
3,000-square foot facility.
“I started the business the year
the economy crashed,” said Tate,
who was involved in many civic
functions, including the Crowley
House of Hope and Crowley Area
Chamber of Commerce. “I am
proud I was able to build a busi-
ness during the downturn in the
economy. I think the economy fi-
nally caught up with me.”
Slowly, Tate said, the business
grew and grew, and she fell victim
to her own success.
“The only way to describe it is
it finally got bigger than me,” she
said. “It was growing at a rate fast-
er than I was prepared for. It was
growing and growing and then it
came to a halt.”
Myriad issues can be pinpointed
to the demise of the business, said
Tate, but the bottom line was the
bottom line.
“We couldn’t make it any more
and we had to made a decision,” she
said. “I couldn’t keep the staff. We
weren’t producing enough money
for the services they did that day.”
According to its website, Reju-
venation Ranch had 13 stylists and
other professionals, and Tate said
most have found employment at
other area salons or spas.
“For the last three or four
months there was a drop off as far
as cash flow,” Tate said. “We tried
to survive and make it work the
best that we could.”
JAY HINTON/CROWLEY STAR
Iconic Rejuvenation Ranch closes its doors after five
years on N. Crowley Road in Crowley.
WEATHER
Drought
‘not likely’
to improve
BY BRIAN PORTER
crowleystar@thestargroup. com
The remains of a weath-
er system which delivered
around three inches of pre-
cipitation to Crowley and the
surrounding areas appears to
be green grass and a few wa-
ter puddles.
The National Weather
Service’s Fort Worth forecast
office recorded 2.4 inches
of rainfall at Cleburne since
July 14, considerably more
than the 1.7 inches of record
rainfall that has been report-
ed by the NWS.
“Some of the heavier rain
fell to the south of the Me-
troplex,” said meteorologist
Jamie Gudmested. “So, it is
entirely possible that some
people in Johnson County
may have received more than
three inches of rain.”
It is still unclear what
change it might have to the
area’s drought conditions.
The newest model of the U.S.
Drought Monitor, the model
used by the NWS, won’t be
released until Tuesday.
“The ground was so dry, so
we’re not sure it is going to do
a whole lot for the drought,”
Gudmested said. “We are in a
drought, because we haven’t
had a lot of rain.”
Prior to Sunday, North
Texas was 5.8 inches below
the average rainfall total for
the year, according to the
NWS, and behind by 2.7
inches since June 1.
The rainfall received since
July 14, using the NWS’ re-
cord total of 1.71 inches, has
North Texas ahead of the
July rainfall average by one-
third of an inch. There had
been no prior rainfall record-
ed in July 2013 by the NWS.
And the precipitation cut
into the gap between average
rainfall and what has been
received this year. North
Texas is now 4.4 inches be-
low average with 17 inches of
rain received since Jan. 1 and
3.85 inches since June 1.
“The vegetation has been
so dry and the soil so dry
that this rain just soaked in,”
Gudmested said. “It doesn’t
appear the rivers and lakes
See RAIN Page 4
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