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Vol. 109, No. 213 / 34 pages, 4 sections
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Denton, Texas
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Guillermo Dominguez, a student teacher from the University of Seville in Spain, leads an exercise with Guyer High School physical education
students Monday in Denton.
Cross-cultural education
Exchange program offers rich lessons for
Spanish student teachers and their pupils
By Britney Tabor and Rachel Mehlhaff
Staff Writers
Balls float through the air from
one student to another during a
team-building activity in a morning
physical education class at Guyer
High School.
Throughout the 90-minute class,
students pace up and down the gym
floor participating in agility exercis-
es and activities that challenge them
to use math. They listen for instruc-
tions about various activities.
Guyer staff members typically
conduct the class, but on this partic-
ular morning, two student teachers
from Spain are leading it.
Since Feb. 9, four students from
Spain’s University of Seville have
gotten firsthand experience teaching
classes in the United States.
The quartet is one young woman,
who’s teaching second-grade science
and math classes at Hawk Elemen-
tary School, and three young men,
who are student teachers in P.E.
classes at Guyer and Denton High
School.
Their work as student teachers is
part of a pilot exchange program
between the University of Seville
and the University of North Texas.
“I’ve never been in America, and
this was an opportunity I can’t
refuse,” said 22-year-old Pedro
Martinez of Cadiz, Spain. “I think
that it has been good.”
Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss, associate
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TODAY
IN DENTON
Mostly sunny
High: 70
Low: 34
Weather report, 2A
By Megan Gray
Staff Writer
An estimated 1,200 volunteers partici-
pated in Keep Denton Beautiful’s Great
American Cleanup event Saturday.
Event coordinator Lauren Barker said
972 people registered in advance for the
cleanup.
The annual event focuses on cleaning
up neighborhoods, parks and streets, all
through the effort of residents wanting to
do good for their community.
“It’s been amazing to see the show of
support the community as a whole pro-
vides every year,” said Barker, who’s been
involved with the cleanup event since
2008.
Who cleans where is determined by an
appearance index Keep Denton Beauti-
ful is required to put together yearly as a
nonprofit organization.
“Basically, we have some people that
have their own suggestions on where
they want to work at cleaning, but most
are sent to areas most needed according
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Blood
draw
program
starts
Carrollton first in county
to launch no-refusal
policy for DWI suspects
By Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Carrollton police recently rolled out
Denton County’s first mandatory “no-
refusal” blood-draw program for suspect-
ed drunken drivers.
If a motorist is suspected of driving
while intoxicated and refuses a breath
test, police can obtain a search warrant to
draw a blood sample.
After the driver is arrested and brought
to the Carrollton City Jail, a trained phle-
botomist takes the blood sample in a
clean room specifically set up for drawing
blood.
“Since Feb. 1, we have completed
approximately 20 blood draws in our jail,
which is a majority of the DWI arrests
during that period,” Officer Jon Stovall
said.
If a driver refuses, then the state has
the right to impose an automatic suspen-
sion on his or her driver’s license, accord-
ing to Carrollton police.
“In the case of a refusal, we are seeking
a search warrant issued by a magistrate
for the person’s blood based on probable
cause and going ahead and taking the
blood specimen without their consent,”
Stovall said.
The new policy, launched Feb. 1, was
based on a program launched in Dal-
worthington Gardens, about 12 miles
southeast of Fort Worth.
In 2005, the community was the first
in Texas to start a “no-refusal” blood-
draw program, said Bill Waybourn,
Dalworthington Gardens’ chief of public
safety.
Waybourn said no accidents or safety
concerns have been raised in the depart-
ment’s nearly eight years of practice.
Since the policy’s inception, Dalworth-
ington Gardens has had no DWI-related
fatalities, Waybourn said.
He said the average blood alcohol level
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Struggles precede
success, CEO says
By Karina Ramirez
Staff Writer
Patience is key to allowing a
business to run and be success-
ful. Be a role model and give
back to the community. And
absolutely, never give up.
Those were some of the les-
sons shared by Gail Warrior, the
keynote speaker at the Denton
Black Chamber of Commerce’s
16th annual banquet, held
Saturday at the University of
North Texas Gateway Center.
About 160 peo-
ple attended.
“Be happy
with what you
do because your
exuberance is
contagious,”
... . said Warrior,
arrior president and
CEO of Dallas-based Warrior
Group Construction Co.
Warrior spent eight years
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Warrior
State
pride
University of
Texas Alpha Phi
Omega members
carry the state
flag during the
Texas Indepen-
dence Day parade
Saturday in
Austin.
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