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SOFTBALL MATCH
School teachers and officials
will participate at 9:30 a.m. June
1 in a softball tournament at the
Joshua High School softball com-
plex to benefit Johnson County
Sheriff's Dep. David Hoschar,
who is facing mounting medical
bills incurred from a heart trans-
plant he received March 20.
The tournament, which also
took place last year for a benefit
cause, features teachers and ad-
ministrators and last year includ-
ed some students.
Email Joshua High School
principal Mick Cochran at co-
chranm@joshuaisd.org or April
Worley at worleya@joshuaisd.
org for other ways to aid in rais-
ing funds for Hoschar.
GRADUATION
Joshua High School seniors
will graduate at 8 p.m. June 6 at
Owl Stadium and their baccalaure-
ate service will be at 2 p.m. June 2
at NorthPointe Church in Burleson.
WEST SUPPORT
The Chisholm Trail 100 Club
is accepting donations to benefit
the families of fallen West first re-
sponders. Donations are tax de-
ductible, as the CT100 Club is a
nonprofit organization dedicated
to supporting fallen first respond-
ers. Visit www.ctlOO.org to do-
nate by credit or debit card.
AUTISM SUPPORT
Families of children in Johnson
County with Autism and Asperg-
ers Syndrome are invited to par-
ticipate in a meet and greet with
the Hope Center for Autism. One
in 88 children has been identi-
fied with an Autism spectrum
disorder according to the Center
for Disease Control. Visit www.
hopecenter4autism.com or email
susan4autism@aol.com or Danita.
tutt@aol.com or 817-528-0128.
SHERIFF S OFFICE
Videos and photos of un-
solved crimes submitted to John-
son County CrimeStoppers and
the Johnson County Sheriff's
Office are now being placed
on a YouTube link at www.you-
tube.com/user/JCCSTEXAS.
Residents are encouraged to
visit the page often and provide
information that might lead to
solving crimes.
FREE ESL CLASS
Free ESL classes take place
each Tuesday from 7:30-8:30
p.m. at First United Method-
ist Church, 590 N.E. McAlister
Road. Call Marty Wells at 817-
929-4345. Nursery care is avail-
able upon request.
QUILT GUILD
The Johnson County Quilt
Guild is seeking new members.
The club meets on the fourth
Monday of each month from
6:30-9 p.m. at the Joshua Com-
munity Room, located north
of City Hall on Main Street in
Joshua. Contact Fran Snay at
817-295-4649 or bagrags2@
aol.com.
INSIDE
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Volume 43, Number 7
10 pages in 1 sections, plus inserts
City Page............................2
Education.........................4, 9
Sports.................................5
Community........................6-7
Classifieds...........................8
Johnson County.................10
To submit photos and story ideas,
contact reporter Jim Gibbs at
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com.
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ELECTIONS
Hollarn defeats Smith to
earn second mayoral term
By JIM GIBBS
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com
Election Day has come and gone and a
familiar face has returned to the position of
mayor, while a new face will be added to the
Joshua ISD board of trustees.
Mayor Joe Hollarn won re-election by
a landslide over challenger and fellow City
Councilman Gary Smith, defeating Smith 187-
28. Meanwhile, in the race for Place 7 in the
JISD board of trustees, Jason Moss defeated
incumbent Branten Rose by a 73-56 margin.
Smith’s term was set to expire and he
chose to challenge Hollarn for mayor. That
opened his City Council seat, which has been
taken by Joshua Chamber of Commerce
President Kim Henderson, who ran unop-
posed. She got 167 votes, while Sharlotta
Connally, also unopposed, got 160 votes to
return to her Place 3 City Council seat.
In the school trustee
election, Taffy Ward and
Myra Pruitt each got 130
votes in uncontested rac-
es. Ward will return to her
Place 6 seat and Pruitt re-
turns to her Place 5 seat.
“It was a great experi-
ence for me to go door-
to-door and get to meet
so many of our wonder-
ful citizens face to face,”
Hollarn said. “Had I not had a challenger,
I might not have done that so I’ll always be
grateful to Gary for that. He was a good op-
ponent and it was a fun race to be a part of.”
But, with about 3,500 registered voters
in Joshua, less than 10 percent of those reg-
istered to vote actually cast a ballot.
See ELECTIONS | Page 3
FIRE ACADEMY
JOSHUA STAR/JIM GIBBS
Members of the inaugural Joshua Citizen's Fire Academy got a taste of a real fire Tuesday, as firefighters
set a controlled burn in a dumpster behind what used to be the old fire station.
Residents battle dumpster blaze
By JIM GIBBS
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com
Joshua fire Chief Wayne Baker turned up
the heat on students at the Joshua Citizen’s
Fire Academy Tuesday night.
Firefighters set a dumpster on fire and
then Baker and his crew watched the class -
and the fire - carefully as each member took
turns spraying the blaze down with various
firefighting equipment.
“I think this is a great part of the class and
this is great for our citizens to see this,” said
Joshua Councilman Glen Walden, himself a
member of the inaugural class. “It just shows
you what these firefighters have to go through
and the dangers that they face every time
they go out on a fire. I learned a lot about the
dedication of our firefighters today and how
often their efforts go unappreciated.”
Before the dumpster was torched, fire-
fighters carefully showed the class how to
properly take care of the hoses and other
equipment after a fire has been fought.
“I really enjoyed helping roll up the hos-
es and seeing what they go through between
fires,” said Angela McFarland, another
member of the citizen’s fire academy and a
member of the city’s planning and zoning
commission. “It’s not like they can just wait
and roll it up in the morning. They don’t
have that luxury.”
The class also learned what causes fires
and how best to fight them.
“I enjoyed learning about the foam sys-
tem and how much longer that will last than
some of the the other things that firefighters
use to treat fires,” said Mayor Joe Hollarn,
also a class participant. “This whole pro-
gram has been very educational and I ap-
preciate all the hands-on activities.”
Lesa Bassham, wife of Joshua fire Assis-
tant Chief Russ Bassham, said she enjoyed
fighting the dumpster fire.
“I had never squirted a fire hose be-
fore and it was a lot easier than I thought
it would be,” she said. “I think I was most
impressed with how the heat dissipated so
quickly when we started putting the foam
on it.”
JOSHUA ISD
JOSHUA STAR/JIM GIBBS
Newly-elected Joshua ISD trustee Jason Moss works with his son,
Rhett Moss, 3, on some of the finer points of the game of baseball.
Moss is district s
newest trustee
Youth coach finds new
way to give back to kids
By JIM GIBBS
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com
You might say he’s just a local boy who made good.
Jason Moss grew up in Joshua, and has been
coaching youth league sports for so long now that
many of the kids he’s worked with are ready to have
families of their own.
On Saturday, Moss defeated incumbent Branten
Rose, 73-56, to win a seat on the Joshua ISD board of
trustees. He’ll now help steer the direction of schools
he once attended.
See MOSS | Page 3
CITY COUNCIL
Three to begin
new terms today
Youth Leadership Council
organization on tap today
By JIM GIBBS
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com
A new member will be seated after the canvassing of
votes and youth will be given a greater opportunity to
serve when the City Council meets tonight.
Joshua Area Chamber of Commerce President Kim
Henderson, who has spent the past couple of months
knowing she would have a place on City Council be-
cause she was unopposed, will be sworn into her posi-
tion as Place l City Councilwoman. She replaces Gary
Smith, who lost his challenge for the mayor’s seat held
by Joe Hollarn.
See COUNCIL | Page 3
CRIME PREVENTION
echnology can step up summer security
By JIM GIBBS
jim.gibbs@thestargroup.com
With summer officially
just a few weeks away, so is
the potential for crime.
It’s the time of year, po-
lice say, that homeowners
are often most vulnerable
to burglaries and other
types of crime.
But, unlike other gen-
erations of homeowners,
today’s homeowners have a
huge advantage with tech-
nology. For just a couple of
hundred dollars, homeown-
ers can install two cameras
that can monitor the com-
ings and goings of unwel-
come guests.
“Witnesses to burglaries
are great, but cameras are
even better,” said Joshua po-
lice Det. Josh Lyon. “Because
cameras have great memo-
ries and always see things
exactly as they happen.”
Many times, a camera at
one residence can help solve
several burglary cases in the
neighborhood by just catch-
ing a glimpse of a car or a
suspicious person, Lyon said.
“The technology is so
inexpensive today that it
makes it fairly easy and eco-
nomical to monitor your
home,” he said. “You can
install cameras outside your
home and then monitor it on
your iPhone. You can also
get these systems with mo-
tion detectors so that, when
they sense motion, they will
will send a video image to
your email and you can view
it from there.”
Robert Smith, a down-
town Joshua vendor of such
technology, says smaller
video cameras and monitors
are starting to become a big
seller at his store.
“We’re starting to in-
See CRIME | Page 3
JOSHUA STAR/JIM GIBBS
Technology like this camera and small monitor can give homeowners
affordable security options that could be important to police if a crime
were to be committed.
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