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LOCAL/NATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Today is the last day of early voting.
Voters may cast a ballot in any
election at any early voting location.
On election day May 10, however,
voters must go to the voting location
for their precinct.
The following early voting sites will
be open today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
College St.
■ Krum ISD Administration Building,
1200 Bobcat Blvd.
■ Lewisville Municipal Annex, U97 W.
Main St.
■ Little Elm Recreation Center, 303
Main St.
Bockrath, said nearly 21/2 min-
utes went by before someone ap-
peared with a fire extinguisher.
By then, the aircraft was fully in
flames. He said it took a total of
five minutes before fire crews ar-
rived.
Fairfield, Calif.
Officials eye response
time in plane crash
Investigators trying to deter-
mine what caused the crash of a
vintage airplane during a stunt
at a California air show said
Monday they will start by exam-
ining the wreckage and ground
scars.
■ Oak Point Town Hall, 400 Naylor
Road
EARLY VOTING
LOCATIONS
■ Pilot Point Senior Center, 310 S.
Washington St.
■ Sanger Church of Christ, 400
Locust St.
■ The Colony Government Center,
6301 Main St.
■ Trophy Club Svore Municipal
Building, 100 Municipal Drive
■ Cockburn Municipal Building, 405
Shaffner St., Ponder
.
Arnwine couldn’t say exactly
how long it actually took and
wondered if the pilot died on im-
pact or from the ensuing fire.
“The people around me were
almost screaming,” he said.
“What is going on here? Why
aren’t they trying to get him out?
Where is the fire engine?”
Base spokesman Jim Spell-
man said crews responded with-
in a minute or two. A hotshot
team from the base was among
the responders, he said, adding
that a person’s sense of time is
often disoriented in a moment
of crisis.
■ Argyle City Hall, 308 Denton St.
■ Aubrey Area Library, 226 Country-
side Drive
■ Bartonville Town Hall, 1941E. Jeter
Road
■ Carrollton Public Library, 4220 N.
Josey Lane
■ Corinth City Hall, 3300 Corinth
Parkway
■ Denton County Elections Adminis-
tration, 701 Kimberly Drive, Denton
■ Flower Mound Police and Municipal
Court Building, 4150 Kirkpatrick Lane
■ Frisco Fire Station No. 4,4485
Cotton Gin Road
■ Frisco Fire Station No. 7, 330 W.
Stonebrook Parkway
■ Highland Village Municipal Com-
plex, 1000 Highland Village Road
■ Justin Municipal Complex, 415 N.
Howard Plagens of the Na-
tional Transportation Safety
Board said his team will also re-
view the amount of time it took
for emergency crews to respond.
Witness Geoff Arnwine, who
attended the show on Sunday
with his son, was among the
people who said it seemed like a
long time before fire crews ar-
rived at the scene of the crash at
Travis Air Force Base in Fair-
field.
SPECIAL EARLY
VOTING SITES
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Some special early voting sites will
also be open but will have limited
dates and hours. They are:
■ Denton Civic Center, 321E. McKin-
ney St. Open today from 7 a.m. to 7
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Al Key/DRC
Technology librarian Trey Ford checks the calibration on a 3-D
printer at the North Branch Library in Denton on Monday.
p.m.
■ Hilltop Elementary School, 1050
Harrison Lane, Argyle. Open today
from 5 to 8 p.m.
— The Associated Press
themselves to build expertise
that can be helpful to the com-
munity, Wells said.
The library will still offer ba-
sic computer literacy services
that the community has come to
depend on and the upgrades for
the maker space included new
computers for the rest of the
computer room.
The classes and the equip-
ment are available for free to li-
brary users, although patrons
should expect to pay a nominal
fee for 3-D printing to offset the
library’s cost of supplies, similar
to the small fee for making pho-
tocopies.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE
can be reached at 940-566-
6881 and via Twitter at
@phwolfeDRC.
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Another witness, Roger
The Forge
High court ruling favors prayer
The city budgeted about
$13,000 to outfit The Forge,
which includes the 3-D printer
and a year’s worth of supplies.
So far, the staff has scheduled
weekly classes on using the 3-D
printer, which users will be re-
quired to take before being able
to use the device.
Ford is working with the
youth librarians to offer technol-
ogy classes for younger users,
but he will wait a little to see the
demand from adults on classes
to offer, he said.
Meanwhile, staff members
are working with the programs
significantly from the 1983 deci-
sion because “Greece’s town
meetings involve participation
by ordinary citizens, and the in-
vocations given — directly to
those citizens — were predomi-
nantly sectarian in content.”
Kennedy himself was the au-
thor of an opinion in 1992 that
held that a Christian prayer de-
livered at a high school gradua-
tion did violate the Constitution.
The justice said Monday there
are differences between the two
situations, including the age of
the audience and the fact that at-
tendees at the council meeting
may step out of the room if they
do not like the prayer.
In her dissent, Kagan said
the council meeting prayers are
unlike those said to open ses-
sions of Congress and state legis-
latures, where the elected offi-
cials are the intended audience.
In Greece, “the prayers there are
directed squarely at the citizens,”
she said.
Kagan also noted what she
described as the meetings’ inti-
mate setting, with 10 or so peo-
ple sitting in front of the town’s
elected and top appointed offi-
cials.
By Mark Sherman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A nar-
rowly divided Supreme Court
upheld decidedly Christian
prayers at the start of local coun-
cil meetings on Monday, declar-
ing them in line with long na-
tional traditions though the
country has grown more reli-
giously diverse.
The content of the prayers is
not significant as long as they do
not denigrate non-Christians or
try to win converts, the court
said in a 5-4 decision backed by
its conservative majority.
Though the decision split the
court along ideological lines, the
Obama administration backed
the winning side, the town of
Greece, N.Y., outside of Roches-
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The Rev. Rob Schenck of Faith and Action, center, speaks in
front of the Supreme Court with Raymond Moore and Patty
Bills, both also of Faith and Action, during a news conference
Monday in Washington.
an religious figures would turn
officials into censors. Instead,
Kennedy said, the prayers
should be seen as ceremonial
and in keeping with the nation’s
traditions.
“The inclusion of a brief, cer-
emonial prayer as part of a larger
exercise in civic recognition sug-
gests that its purpose and effect
are to acknowledge religious
leaders and the institutions they
represent, rather than to exclude
or coerce nonbelievers,” Kenne-
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twu.’
During his tenure, which for-
mally begins in August, he hopes
to get more of the men on cam-
pus engaged in campus life and
activities.
“We have the odds against us
since we’re 85 percent commut-
ers and 11 percent male, and
these odds are not in our favor,
but more or less I’m trying to
spur some interest in student in-
volvement, especially with
males,” he said.
He has been active in the Stu-
dent Senate since he transferred
to TWU in 2012, and recently
served as executive treasurer of
the organization. He’s also a
member of the Multicultural
Student Network and a Pioneer
Ambassador for prospective stu-
dents.
Dickerson
dy said.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing
for the court’s four liberal justic-
es, said, “I respectfully dissent
from the court’s opinion because
I think the Town of Greece’s
prayer practices violate that
norm of religious equality — the
breathtakingly generous consti-
tutional idea that our public in-
stitutions belong no less to the
Buddhist or Hindu than to the
Methodist or Episcopalian.”
Kagan said the case differs
ue to promote the distinct missi-
on of TWU, which includes di-
versity.”
Dickerson has been the only
man on the executive leadership
board, and all of the former stu-
dent body presidents he has met
are women, but he thinks the
upcoming year will be different
because of new administration
rather than his gender.
Ann Stuart, current presi-
dent and chancellor of TWU, is
retiring from the university this
spring and will be replaced by
Carine Feyten, who starts July 1.
Additionally, a search is under-
way for the next vice president
for student life after Richard
Nicholas retired from the posi-
tion last week.
“Honestly I don’t think gen-
der has anything to do with it; I
think it’s about the timing,” he
said. “The administration I’m
coming under is new with a new
president and vice president for
student life. There are more pro-
gressive changes coming to
ter.
The outcome relied heavily
on a 1983 decision in which the
court upheld an opening prayer
in the Nebraska Legislature and
said prayer is part of the nation’s
fabric, not a violation of the First
Amendment’s guarantee of free-
dom of religion.
Writing for the court on
Monday, Justice Anthony Ken-
nedy said that forcing clergy to
scrub the prayers of references
to Jesus Christ and other sectari-
Children and teenagers are
likely to be present, she said.
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Before beginning his term in
the fall, Dickerson will start
working in his role to help with
orientations for incoming stu-
dents over the summer while
taking classes.
Council
nounced.
During a council briefing
Monday by city staff, council
member Jim Engelbrecht said
he is concerned that the Rayzor
Ranch project has now dwin-
dled from four planned anchors
down to one. As a result of Dil-
lard’s decision to remain at
Golden Triangle Mall, the only
large project now announced for
the Town Center project is a Cin-
emark movie theater and, possi-
bly, a grocery store, city staff told
the council.
Several council members
said they were concerned that
the city is continuing to make
changes and concessions to the
original agreement, which was
inked in 2007 before the eco-
nomic downturn.
Scott Wagner, vice president
of development with RED De-
velopment, told the City Council
that the officials are “retooling”
after Dillard’s announcement
The council is expected to
vote today on whether to create
a public improvement district
for Rayzor Ranch Town Center
and economic incentives for
both Rayzor Ranch projects.
The council is expected to
discuss the issue further in
closed session today before
holding a public hearing tonight
on the creation of a possible
public improvement district for
Rayzor Ranch.
The public improvement dis-
trict would allow RED Develop-
ment to borrow about $40 mil-
lion in public bonds to build the
infrastructure — water, sewer,
roads and other public fixtures
— for the Town Center project.
RED will be limited to borrow-
ing no more than one-third of
the value of the land it seeks to
improve, Bissett said.
Among the additional con-
cessions RED has asked for in-
clude being able to recover the
costs of setting up the district
with the bonds. RED is asking
the city to make other changes to
its original agreement, which al-
lowed the company to recover
some costs through $62 million
in tax incentives.
RED has asked that the cap
of the agreement be increased to
$68 million and other terms be
extended, including the dead-
line to meet performance
thresholds. The company also is
asking that additional categories
of expenses be considered reim-
bursable.
Wagner said RED, based in
Scottsdale, Ariz., also wants to
be released from terms in the
agreement that protect Golden
Triangle Mall, which has since
received its own incentives from
the city.
The council added the terms
after reports emerged that Ray-
zor Ranch’s previous developer
was pursuing the mall’s tenants.
Those terms included prohibit-
ing Rayzor Ranch’s developers
from claiming credit for sales tax
revenue the shopping center
lured away from the mall.
The company is also asking
to be released from a require-
ment that made it responsible
for any vacancies left behind at
the mall.
Council members agreed to
consider a sunset provision that
would release those provisions
involving the mall in about five
years in order to re-level the
playing field, but the council was
lukewarm to RED’s other re-
JENNA DUNCAN can be
reached at 940-566-6889 and
via Twitter at @JennaF
Duncan.
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quests.
“In general, we don’t like to
incentivize retail development,”
Burroughs said.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE
can be reached at 940-566-
6881 and via Twitter at
@phwolfeDRC.
Stephen George Kniatt
Stephen George Kniatt, 83, died on April
30, 2014 at Denton Regional Medical Center.
He was born on September 17, 1930, in
Philadelphia, PA, to Stephen Joseph and
Cathryn Burg Kniatt. He married Mary Jane
Johnson in California in 1952. She passed
away in 1966, and he married Nancy Louise
Gorton in Bangkok, Thailand in 1967.
Following service in the US Air Force from 1949-1953,
Steve spent 20 years with Philco-Ford and RCA, working in
locations throughout the US as well as in Okinawa, Thailand,
and the Marshall Islands. In 1973 he moved to Denton,
where he owned and operated DEN-TEX A/C and Restaurant
Supply for over 40 years, always taking great pride in being
there for his customers 24/7. He had amazing mechanical
skills, and there wasn’t a heater, air conditioner, refrigerator,
or ice machine he couldn’t fix. He was a 32nd degree Mason.
Steve is survived by his wife Nancy; sons Stephen and
wife Linda of Corinth, Paul of Sanger, Mark and wife Robin of
Denton, and Richard and wife Kathleen of Alexandria, VA;
daughter Kimberly Usher of Hawaii; daughter-in-law Kathy
Kniatt of Branson, MO; grandchildren Stephen, Cheryl,
Curtis, Nathan and wife Courtney, Michael, Rachel, Jacob,
Cole and Anastasia Kniatt, Stacey Wolf and husband
Spencer, Mary Lindlau and husband Jonathan, and Amanda
Reynolds and husband Mason; 9 great grandchildren;
brother Joseph and sisters Ruth, Teresa, Anne and Mary,
and numerous nieces and nephews. Steve is also survived
by many friends, especially Guy Hammons and Mike and
Selena Zampino. He was preceded in death by his parents;
first wife, Mary; daughter, Mary Iva; and brother, Robert.
A brief memorial will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, May
8th, in the Chapel at Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home, 705 N.
Locust Street in Denton. In lieu of flowers, please consider a
donation in Steve’s name to Denton Animal Shelter
Foundation, PO Box 486, Denton, TX 76205, or to Our Daily
Bread, 300 West Oak Street, Denton, TX 76201.
On line condolences may be made at
www.mulkeymasondenton.com
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Billy Harley Finch
Billy Harley Finch, 82, of Lake Dallas
passed away peacefully at his home on Friday
May 2, 2014. Bill was born in Red River
County, Texas on June 1, 1931 the son of
Harley Roach Finch and Alma Beatrice
Leatherwood Finch. Bill served in the U.S.
but remain bullish on the pro-
ject.
Aimee Bissett, the city’s eco-
nomic development director,
told the council that Denton
didn’t have the average house-
hold income that other nearby
cities have and as result proba-
bly couldn’t afford the same de-
sign standards employed at
Southlake Town Square or The
Shops at Highland Village.
Navy during the Korean War and was a farmer
and rancher.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents and daughter
Gail Yvonne Finch Monroe. He is survived by his wife
Carolyn Minnis Finch of Lake Dallas; daughter Cindy Knight
and husband Jeff also of Lake Dallas; four sons, Aubrey
Finch of Corinth; Aaron Finch and wife Tina of Lake Dallas;
Anthony Finch and wife Lizzie of Fort Worth; and Billy Harley
Finch Jr. and wife Ramona of Muskogee, Ok. Bill is also
survived by four sisters and four brothers; Charlene Cass,
Joyce Coin,Vicki Veach, Ann Bettem, Travis Finch, Jack
Finch, Sammy Finch, and Dale Finch; 10 gandchildren, 22
great grandchildren, and 1 great great grandchild.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday May 7, 2014
at 9:00 a.m. in the Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home Chapel, 705
N. Locust Denton, TX with a graveside service following at
2:00 p.m. at the Cuthand Cemetery located at CR 1412 & FM
1487 in Cuthand, TX. A visitation will be held on Tuesday
night from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
On line condolences may be made at
www.mulkeymasondenton.com
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Stuart
rector of Grace after Fire; Sen-
fronia Thompson, a state repre-
sentative and civil rights leader;
Deborah Tucker, director of the
National Center of Domestic
and Sexual Violence; and Caro-
lyn Wright, chief justice of the
Fifth Court of Appeals.
JENNA DUNCAN can be
reached at 940-566-6889 and
via Twitter at @JennaF
Duncan.
Fame. Maj. Gen. Mary Saun-
ders, an alumna and the current
director of the TWU Leadership
Institute, was inducted in 2012.
Other inductees are Nandita
Berry, Texas secretary of state;
Lillie Biggins, president of Texas
Health Harris Methodist Hospi-
tal Fort Worth; Joanne Herring,
political activist and business-
woman; Kim Olson; retired Air
Force colonel and executive di-
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