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10 Pages 2 Inserts
Sunday, July 10,2005
Volume 96, Number 078
Weekend
Edition
75c
A Look Inside
Today’s Issue
Whitaker
Residence Named
Yard of the Week
See Page 6
Who Will Fill the
District 4 Seat?
SISD Trustees to Seek Replacement
for Chaney During Monday's Meeting
By Dustin Wright
Sentinel Managing Editor
Seminole ISQ trustees will have the daunting task of once again
filling a vacancy on it's seven member board, with the recent resignation
of former SISD school board member Guy Chaney.
Trustees will discuss the vacancy void during
the board’s regular monthly meeting, slated for
Monday night at 7 p.m. at the Seminole ISD.
Administration Building. ,
Chaney, who was appointed to the SISD
board of trustees in September of 2003, turned in
his letter of resignation at the board s last meeting
held a little over two weeks ago, citing that he had
recently moved out of his voting district and into
another district. ”
Representing District 4, Chaney was
appointed by board members to replace former
SISD board president and member Gary Dugger,
who alsb resigned because of moving out of
District 4, over a year and half ago
17 years as a member of the SISD board of
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Chaney
Peanut, Disease
Tours Slated Later
This Month
(See Page 10
Sentinel Photo/Duitin Wright
OPTIMIST T-B ALL
Team members of the Thriftway Astros scramble to pick up a grpund ball during action Thursday night in their
.game against the Moore-Haralson Yankees at Welch's Wonder, located on NW 11th Street. The 2005 Seminole
Optimist Club T-Ball league began play Tuesday of this week and will host games on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday nights throughout the month of July. Three games are held each night, with the first game beginning
at 7 p.m.
Strategic Plan: One Marketing
Slogan, Logo Needed for Seminole
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Two Indicted on
Drug Charges by
Grand Jury
Sec Page 6
Obituaries
Anna Neudorf, 56
See Page 3
Local Weather
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TEXAS PRESS
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Seminole (Gaines County),
Texas 79360 ©2005
By Dustin Wright
Sentinel Managing Editor
(Editor's Note: The following is the
third part of a multi-part series that will
explain the Strategic Plan that has been
proposed for Seminole, to help promote
economic growth.)
Seminole Economic De-
velopment Corporation, Board
members will have to develop
a' marketing plan for the city of
Seminole, to coincide with the
strategic plan developed by TIP
Strategies.
The marketing plan, which
was included in the draft present-
ed to the SEDC nearly two weeks
ago, points out primary target
audiences for the SEDC to focus
in on as far as marketing a city for
economic development.
TIP Strategies took into ac-
count Seminole's unique features,
such as the German population,
and superior school districts, as
well as assets and constraints and
developed some recommenda-
tions, by focusing on activities
that would be the most effective
for each of the targeted industry
segments, while at the same time,
making the best use of limited re-
sources.
The primary targets for the
SEDC to focus in on include lo-
cal and regional business leaders
who can influence business loca-
tion and investment decisions; key
allies, such as state and regional
economic development organiza-
tions; members of the region’s
various media outlets; and deci-
sion makers at companies within
the target industries.
According to the draft, the
most important target audience for
the SEDC should be the people
and businesses who are already
live in Seminole and the surround-
ing area, because of the fact that
those people have already made
some level of investment, both
financially and emotionally, within
the community.
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Economic OawiiJ
They also are the ones who
represent Seminoli on a daily
basis.
Members of the SEDC should
also undertake a sustained internal
marketing campaign to generate
and promote a positive image of
Seminole.
By making sure that exist-
ing residents and local business
leaders have a positive image of
their community, these people
play a crucial role to the success
of any external campaign, as these
are the best people who can best
describe the Seminole story to the
outside world, while Seminole, as
a city, must set itself apart' from
various competitors throughout
West Texas and Eastern New
Mexico.
According to the draft, the
most effective marketing strategies
are those that promote specific
initiatives and opportunities, and
See SEDC...Page 2
Dugger spent
trustees.
Board members can either, by law appoint a representative from
District 4 to sit on the board of trustees, or call for a special election to
fill the void.
Attempts to receive a comment from Chaney on his time served on
the SISD board were unsuccessful as of presstime Friday afternoon.
’ Also slated for Monday's meeting is the consideration and adoption
of several code of conduct handbooks and student handbooks for the
2005-06 school year, as well as revisions;to the FM(LOCAL) policy
regarding extracurricular absences.
Board members will also consider the revision of course description
of Concurrent Business Computer Information Systems I, to Pre-AP
Computer Information Systems 1, for the high school campus.
Trustees will also consider two consent items Monday night, which
include minutes from the board's previous meetings held on June 13
and June 30.
An executive session is also slated for Monday night’s meeting, in
which board members will consider resignations and the employment
of personnel.
Also on tap for Monday is the Superintendent’s report for the month,
financial reports, and the consideration of approval of bills for the month
of July 2005.
One Man's Treasure is the
City of Seminole's Junk
Council to Host Public Hearing with Man on
Removal of Junk Vehicles
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Economic Dcvcsioprrei'it Corporation
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Seminole
Woman Dies in
Tuesday Crash
A 55-year old Seminole
woman died as a result of injuries
sustained in a two-vehicle accident
__ one mile south of
Seminole on
^ US.Highway
UiKi 385 Tuesday
morning.
Anna
Friesen Neudorf,
was pronounced
dead at the scene
of the accident
by Gaines
County Justice of the Peace
B.W. Baucum at around 10 a.m.
Tuesday morning, after her 1994
blue Dodge Intrepid four-door
sedan collided into the back end of
a 1995 Peterbilt semi-truck, which
was pulling a flatbed trailer.
^ According to initial reports,
See Crash...Page 2
Seminole City Council
members will meet Monday
night with a citizen regarding the
removal of a motor vehicle as a
public nuisance, and consider
the adoption of an ordinance
authorizing the issuance of
certificates of obligation, during
the Council’s regularly scheduled
meeting, slated for 7 p.m. at
Seminole City Hall.
Councilmembers will meet
with Ernest L. Taylor, regarding
the removal of several motor
vehicles as a public nuisance,
and later consider action relative
to the public hearing regarding
may request a public hearing on
the matter.
Taylor just did so, and will
voice his concern during Monday
night's meeting of the vehicle's in
his possession.
Also on Monday, the council
will consider all matters incident
and related to the issuance and
sale of "City of Seminole, Texas,
Tax and Waterworks and Sewer
System (Limited Pledge) Revenue
Certificates of Obligation, Series
2005" during Monday's meeting
The Council will also
consider the purchase of a
ditching machine and conduct
the removal of the vehicle. L-
According to City
Administrator Tommy Phillips,
the City has sent several letters
in regard to the junk vehicles,
and by City policy, residents
their first budget workshop for the
upcoming 2005-06 fiscal year.
During the Administrative
Report, Councilmembers will
hear from Phillips on an update
on the city's wellfield.
Neudorf
Paper n'Ink... Austin Affairs
by Lynn Brisendine
I wonder if the 15 to 20 percent of us Texans who actually take
the trouble to vote are paying attention to the state of affairs in Austin
these days of the Special Session.
Perception is, or should be, a powerful tool in judging the ability and
actual performance of our politicians. The idea being that if something
looks and sounds right or wrong, then it probably is right or wrong.
You know the old saw "if it looks like a duck..." Well, this past week
in Austin some of our representatives failed to represent us.
The story goes that a Democratic Rep. Dawnna Dukes of Austin
worked a deal with Republican Jim Pitts of Waxahachie to pair their
votes. She knew she would vote no to the tax plan and he knew he
would vote yes. She was going to go to France with her family and
wouldn't be able to vote. This knowledge brought about a parlia-
mentary trick of pairing votes. They both knew that they would cancel
each other out should they both be in attendance so they agreed that
since she would not vote, he wouldn't either. The deal worked until
the actual vote was taken. She was gone. He voted, in spite of his
signed pledge to pair his vote. The bill she was against passed by one
vote, his vote.
According to reports in the Austin American Statesman, this wasn’t
the first big vote Dukes has missed. It amazes me that the voters in
her district continue to send such an ineffective person to represent
them in office.
It will not surprise me if the voters in Waxahachie return Mr. Pitts to
his position. He is the powerful Chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee (a position he is probably going to be allowed to keep since
his vote) and that's a feather in his district’s hat. It matters little in the
reality of politics, as it is played in Austin, that he is not a man of his
word, even after he signed a pledge. After all, he just tricked the enemy
and probably made his signature with his fingers crossed-
The perception here is, as far as I am concerned, one of dishonesty
and perhaps total indiscretion. Who can you trust?
Two other Democrats tried to sneak votes by the electronic system
by having someone push their voting buttons, as neither was available
to cast a vote- In Austin the term for this is "Ghost Voting. " And if the
vote hadn’t been so close, one wonders if the absentees would have
been counted or not. .It doesn't seem to matter that the votes being
cast in Austin this week are some of the more important actions these
guys and gals are supposed to take. Again the perception, at worst, is
one of dishonesty, and at least, is certainly a lack 6f respect for their
elected duties.
But then our perception of what transpires in Austin does not take
into consideration that these folks make their own rules. They are
expert in using the latest loophole; deception is a key. And in a word,
it stinks. *
The vote squeaked by and with it the possibility of a new tax scheme
comes our way. Here perception again turns to deception. Politicians
See Paper n' Ink...Page 2
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