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Ups and downs in Denton police data
Fewer cases cleared presented statistics to the Denton City trol officers and less street construction ment has been assigning more family
1 Council earlier this week that suggest in Denton, Howell said. The city’s fiscal violence cases in the last few years, re-
but response times Denton police have been clearing fewer year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30.
^ cases each fiscal year since 2014, de-
better for vital calls spite the number of cases staying rela- Howell said there are several factors
behind the lower clearance rate, includ- to the cases-cleared number,” Howell
The data, however, showed police ing fewer investigators and recent long- told council members. “But I would say
response times for high-priority calls term investigations. Lt. Chris Summitt, those are the main reasons why it looks
improved compared to the last fiscal the supervisor over the criminal inves- down.”
year — largely due to an increase in pa- tigations division, also said the depart-
police make an arrest or the reporting
party declines to press charges. Cases
also are cleared if the report is found to
be false or if police exhaust every possi-
ble lead available during the investiga-
tion, Summitt said.
The data shows the total num-
ber of cleared cases has been steadily
gardless of the amount of available ev-
During the meeting on Tuesday, idence.
‘There’s a lot of different dynamics
tively consistent.
By Julian Gill
jgill@dentonrc.com
Staff Writer
Denton Police Chief Lee Howell
Cases are considered “cleared” when
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100-year-old volunteered during WWII, and she’s still at it
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DRC file photo
A pedestrian steps on a section
of crumbling sidewalk around the
Courthouse on the Square last July.
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County paves way to
fix historic walkways
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Construction is set to begin in
August to reconstruct the sidewalks
around the Courthouse on the Square.
Denton County is leading the project,
with participation from the city of Den-
ton, according to a news release from
the county.
The project will replace the dam-
aged sidewalks immediately surround-
ing the courthouse, as well as all the
curbs and sidewalks around the perim-
eter of the courthouse lawn.
“The work will dovetail with the
traffic signal and ramp reconstruction
recently completed by the city of Den-
ton,” Danny Brumley, Denton County
director of facilities, said in the release,
issued Friday. “The existing sidewalks
along the streets around the courthouse
were constructed in 1935 or 1936 as
part of the Works Progress Adminis-
tration (WPA). The WPA was a feder-
al program established to provide jobs
during the Great Depression. There are
several sidewalk panels stamped with
the WPA nameplate. To the extent pos-
sible, those panels will be removed and
preserved for future display.”
The location of that display has
not yet been determined. Because the
Courthouse on the Square is designated
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Anna Mae Walter, who turns 100 years old Saturday, smiles while her friends and co-volunteers sing to her during a birthday party Friday at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton. Walter has been a volunteer at the hospital’s front desk for many years, but her volunteer work goes back to
World War II when she was a Gray Lady for the American Red Cross, rolling bandages.
A life of service
medical field filled the gap of not going to school for
nursing, which Walter said she would have changed
if she could.
“I started in World War II,” Walter said. “I was a
Gray Lady during the war.”
In 1941, Walter joined the American Red Cross’
Gray Lady Service, where she helped roll bandages.
The Gray Lady Service was initially a non-medical
care service, but its services extended to blood centers
and disaster response assistance during the war.
Walter has volunteered in hospitals in Tennessee
and Texas for almost 40 years. She moved to Denton
in 2000 after the death of her husband. Edman, her
husband and their son are Walter’s only family in
More than eight decades later, Walter is celebrat-
ing her 100th birthday with a party Friday at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, where she
volunteers, with about 50 fellow volunteers, staffers
and friends. She has more celebrations lined up for
Saturday, her actual birthday.
“It’s been one happy thing after another,” Walter
said about turning 100. “It’s been real exciting.”
Walter was bom June 23,1918, in Atlanta, Geor-
gia. She recalled going to the movies for 5 cents and
taking ballet lessons as a child.
Over the years, Walter worked as a bookkeeper,
the co-owner of a toy store, and as a secretary in
real estate and at a middle school, but she has spent
much of her fife in volunteer work.
Edman, 67, said Walter’s volunteer work in the
By Zaira Perez
zaira.perez@dentonrc.com
Staff Writer
hen Anna Mae Walter
graduated from Roosevelt
High School in Chicago
during the Great Depression, go-
ing to college for nursing “wasn’t in
the cards,” said her daughter Kathy
Edman.
That did not stop her from giving
back to the community.
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City’s new fire station
includes bigger staff
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Denton Fire
Chief Kenneth
Hedges, top
left, welcomes
guests during
Friday’s grand
opening cere-
mony for the
new Fire Station
No. 4, located at
2116 E. Sherman
Drive. The new
fire station went
into full service
June 12.
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Facility dedicated, and
northeast Denton gains
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facility up close Friday.
Friday morning was the dedication
ceremony for Fire Station No. 4. In
addition to more firefighters, the new
facility also will house a fire engine, am-
bulance, brush truck and an all-terrain
vehicle. The new station, which was
built next to the station it’s replacing,
Six additional firefighters will staff went into full service June 12.
the new fire station in northeast Den-
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By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@dentonrc.com
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The building is Leadership in Ener-
ton at 2116 E. Sherman Drive, where gy and Environmental Design certified,
members of the public got the chance -
to see the roughly 13,000-square-foot See STATION on 9A
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