South Belt Leader (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1979 Page: 1 of 16
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Vol. 4 Number 43 Nov. 28, 1979
Sagemont basketball clinic set
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At preMtime, IS local youths had registered. Thirty are needed.
Jh*J ?he the P**adena Recreation Department has
conducted a local clinic.
a f^^A *nd dril1* clinic- designed to acquaint youths with rules
and fundamentals of basketball, will be conducted by John Robinson,
former professional basketball player.
, Th«e.C‘o in1*** »*en set for the Stuchbery Elementary gym
from 8 to 9:10 p.m. for five nights.
Cost is $10 per child, which includes a camp T-shirt. Several prises will
be awarded. Trophies will be awarded for dribbling and for free throw
shooting. Youths may also compete for basketball shoes and basketballs.
Boys in third through sixth grades are eligible, and girls in fifth and
sixth grades are eligible.
To register for the Sagemont clinic, call Allen Munz at 481-5357.
Sageglen board meets
The Sageglen Community Association board met Nov. 27 to discuss
problems involved in financing the proposed recreation center.
Lloyd Markowitz, president of the board, said the tight money situation
was adding complications to the loan application.
The Sageglen Community Association will hold its next regular
meeting in January.
Xmas decorating contests set
Plans for two annual South Belt area Christmas decorating contests
were announced last week.
McCarver Realtors Sagemont office is sponsoring its annual Christ-
mas Outdoor Decorating contest.
The categories are: most beautiful, most original and best religious.
Winners will be awarded yard signs and a personal certificate.
Judging for the contest will be Friday, Dec. 14 beginning at 7 p.m. It is
not necessary to formally enter the competition to be eligible.
Homes in the subdivision of Sagemont, Sagemont Park, Sagemeadow,
Sageglen, Kirkwood, Kirkwood South, Kirkmont, Wood Meadow and
Scarsdale will be judged.
Judges are needed for the event. To volunteer call 481-4040.
The Sagemeadow Civic Club will have judging for its contest for Thurs-
day, Dec. 13.
Categories are: most beautiful, most original and best religious.
Prizes for the Sagemeadow contest will be announced later.
To be eligible for the Sagemeadow contest, entrants must live in the
Sagemeadow subdivision.
The Christmas issue of the South Belt leader will feature some of the
winners from both contests.
Home additions need approval
Due to the tight money market, many South Belt area residents are
adding on to their present homes and making improvements as opposed to
buying a new home.
Before making such improvements, residents should check to make
sure they are not in violation of the deed restriction for their subdivision.
Many of the subdivisions in the area are undertaking the respon-
sibility of enforcing deed restrictions.
In some cases this has resulted in court action.
To insure that a home improvement is not against deed restrictions,
residents are urged to obtain a copy of the deed restrictions for their
particular area.
The deed restriction copies should be available from local realtors,
home builders or civic organizations.
Sagewillow cars vandalized
Several cars on Sagewillow Street were vandalized on Thanksgiving
night. Residents report cars parked outside homes were damaged between
7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Residents are urged to report acts of vandalism to the proper
authorities as police patrol of an area is based on the number of reports
received.
USA to meet Dec. 6
The annual meeting of the United Sports Association (USA) will be held
Tuesday, Dec. 6 at Stuchbery Elementary School cafeteria at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting is for an election of a board of directors for the 1979-80
year and for any other business which may be brought before the board.
All members of the USA are eligible to run for office and to vote in the
election.
Letters will be sent to all who paid the USA membership dues the past
year.
Santa’s Corner Saturday
Over 20 booths have been rented for Saturday's Santa's Corner to be
held at Beverly Hills Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 10111 Kingspoint.
AH types of hand-made items, including ceramics, crochet, quilts,
macrame, candles, caligraphy, floral arrangements, egg decorations,
jewelry and Christmas items will be featured along with many types of
food.
Chili dogs, hot dogs, coffee, hot chocolate and soft drinks will be
available.
Children may have their picture taken with Santa. Color Polaroid
prints will sell for $1.50.
Some outside booths are still available. A ten-foot square booth rents
for $10. The deadline for renting booths is Friday.
All proceeds from the event will go toward buying pool and playground
equipment for the park. Last year’s event raised $800 which purchased
playground equipment which is presently being installed at the park.
Business workshops planned
Prospective and existing small business owners/managers will have an
opportunity to learn about tax planning through a six-hour workshop
offered by the Small Business Development Institute at the University of
Houston at Clear Lake City, in cooperation with the Small Business
Administration.
The workshop program, "Tax Planning,” will meet for two sessions,
Wednesday, Dec. 5and Dec. 12from 7p.m. until approximately 9:30p.m. in
Room 2-508 of the Bayou Building.
The instructor for the workshop is Dave King, a practicing CPA and a
member of the accounting faculty at UH/CLC. For more information call
488-9415 or 488-9533.
Local drill teams win honors
The South Belt area drill teams in the Bay Area Football League
competition held at Clear Creek High School last week did well, with the
Sagemont Area Cowgirls and the Dobie Fillies getting the President’s
Award.
The Cowgirls and Fillies got ratings of one (the highest) on all their
routines to qualify them for the President’s Award.
In addition, the Cowgirls took a Judges Choice for their entrance and
exit, and the Fillies took a Judges Choice award for their hand routine.
Both the Sagemont Lancerettes and the Sage-Almeda Tigerettes
got Excellence ratings.
HL&P increase to squeeze
unincorporated area funds
be the solution for the subdivision she
Po said that although there is an $8a
Area vets
and mos-
Students must pass tests
Sagemont
for PISD graduation
club sets
members
Kirkwood
month ceiling on the funds that can be
collected presently. if 60 percent of the
residents take part in a vote to in-
crease the maintenance tax, and 75
percent are in favor of the increase,
then the ceiling can be raised.
She also indicated pressure would
be put on Harris County to assume
maintenance of the esplanades and
mosquito control.
None of the three subdivision com-
mittees contacted plan to officially
protest the rate increase proposal.
Jim Sharpless, also a member of
Sagemeadow's maintenance commit-
tee. said he felt fighting it would be
futile. "How can you fight it, it’s the
only light company in town,” said
Sharpless.
Rabies threat
Beverly Hills residents Brian, age 9 and his brother Nathan, age 15
will have to undergo painful rabies shots if a black male cat which bit
both boys last Thursday Is not found. The cat, described as weighing
approximately 20 pounds may be Injured as a result of efforts by
rabies control officers trying to apprehend the animal. Nathan
caught the animal after it bit hla brother. In an effort to catch the
animal, he was also bitten. Parents of the boys, Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Hemingway called rabies control officers to pick up the cat. Efforts
of nearly an hour by officers failed to get tbe animal la their truck,
and the cat escaped. A shot was fired at the animal in an attempt to
wound it. It was last seen heading toward Southport. Anyone knowing
tbe whereabouts of the cat Is asked to call Rabies Control at 222-3501.
The boys are shown here with their pet cat*) Trouble and Brandi.
sees annexation by the City of Houston tee. when asked if annexation would
as an answer to the rising costs.
“No way,” answered Edna Po of serves.
Sagemeadow, maintenance commit-
By Mario Fllckiager
The current rate increase proposal
for Houston Lighting and Power now
before the public utility commission
will result in a 94 percent increase for
unincorporated maintenance groups
if passed.
Presently the maintenance commit-
tees and civic associations are paying
$4 per street light plus an additional
77-cents fuel adjustment charge. If
approved, the new rate for lights will
be $7.75 each plus an approximate
$1.80 fuel adjustment charge.
Increases are also in store for resi-
dents and businesses serviced by
HL&P.
Unlike most consumers of HL&P’s
product, the local subdivisions cannot
cut down on use of street lights to save
money.
"If we turn off every other light, we
still have to pay for each light," said
Lloyd Markowitz, president of the
Sageglen Civic Association.
Contracts between HL&P and the
unincorporated areas do not allow
for conservation of energy used by
eliminating some of the lights.
Maintenance committees and civic
associations in the South Belt area
report the increase will pose a "seri-
ous” problem.
This is particularly true in the sub-
divisions of Kirkwood South and Sage-
meadow.
In those subdivisions residents are
paying the maximum presently al-
lowed by the charters under which
they are governed. The $8 monthly fee
covers the $6 garbage fee (raised this
month from $4.50) street lighting, cost
of enforcing deed restrictions, book-
keeping costs, maintenance of espla-
nades and in Sagemeadow
quito control.
Maintenance committee
from Sagemeadow and
South report a surplus of funds from
which they can draw if necessary, but
both indicate "it (the surplus) won't
last long."
Kirkwood South, with 650 homes,
has a surplus of approximately
$50,000.
Sagemeadow, with approximately
1,100 homes, has a reported $25,000 in
surplus funds.
Elizabeth Woods of Kirkwood South
swamped
The two South Belt area veterinary
clinics were swamped with requests
to vaccinate dogs and cats for rabies
following the county’s first reported
case of rabies in over 20 years last
week.
Both the Sagemont Animal Hospital
and the Kirkwood Veterinary Hospital
reported vaccinating approximately
100 pets Monday through Wednesday
last week.
At the county Rabies Control Cen-
ter, vaccinations were running three
times that of a normal day.
The Rabies Control Center, 2700
Evella. is remaining open from 8 a.m.
to 9 p.m. For information, call 222-
3501.
The two South Belt clinics require
an appointment for the shots, which
cost $6.50 at both clinics.
The shots will prevent an animal
from getting rabies, but they are use-
less when an animal already has the
disease.
An animal must be put to sleep to
determine if it has rabies.
dinner
The Sagemont Civic Club is sponsor-
ing a family dinner for all members
Tuesday, Dec. 11 at Sagemont Pres-
byterian Church beginning at 6:30
p.m.
The civic club is furnishing turkey,
ham, coffee and tea for the event.
Those planning to attend are asked to
supply a covered dish or dessert. Civic
club president Carol Fielder has ask-
ed all those that plan to attend to
make reservations by calling her at
481-2744 or one of the following: Judy
Ethridge at 481-1994 or Cecil Callahan
at 481-3597.
South Belt
pro-Macey
The five South Belt area voting pre-
cincts were almost evenly divided
between Jim McConn and Louis
Macey in the mayoral run-off election
last week, with Macey gathering six
more votes than the incumbent mayor
locally.
Macey carried the precincts at
Dobie High School and at Thompson
Intermediate, while McConn barely
carried those at Meador, Burnett and
Frazier Elementaries.
South Beit totals in the mayoral
race were: Precinct 76 (Dobie): Macey
280 votes, McConn, 259; Precinct 41"
(Thompson: Macey, 218, McConn, 210;
Precinct 418 (Meador): McConn, 189,
Macey, 171; Precinct 475 (Burnett):
McConn 97, Macey 94; Precinct 476
(Frazier): McConn 128, Macey, 126.
McConn carried three of four other
nearby precincts. Those totals are:
Precinct 257 (Jessup): Macey, 98. Mc-
Conn, 78; Precinct 280 (Freeman): Mc-
Conn 306, Macey 251; Precinct 289 (St.
Francis Cabrini): McConn 228, Macey.
189; and Precinct 328 (Garfield): Mc-
Conn, 273, Macey 220.
City-wide, McConn gathered over 56
percent of the vote.
In the two at-large city council
races, Eleanor Tinsley got over 54
percent of the vote city-wide, to Frank
Mann’s 45 in the Position 2 race.
Incumbent councilman Johnny Goy-
en got over 70 percent of the run-off
vote to Olga Soliz’s 30 percent in the
Position 3 contest.
Reports of students graduating
from high school who could not read
have promoted educators around the
country to initiate testing for compe-
tency before a child can be passed to
the next grade level.
Already, over 30 states have been
given legislative mandates to have
competency testing in their schools.
The Houston schools began compe-
tency testing with their Fail Safe pro-
gram last year.
Just this month, the Pasadena
school district got the go-ahead from
its Board of Trustees to implement a
competency testing program begin-
ning in 1980-81.
A committee comprised of reading
teachers to look into competency test-
ing was formed in Pasadena in Octo-
ber of 1978.
That committees' recommenda-
tions will be implemented next year
when the district begins its compe-
tency testing.
Eventually, the district hopes to
have competency testing in all content
areas at every grade level, said Al
Danheim, executive director of curri-
culum for PISD.
But, for next year, only students in
first, second, sixth and ninth grades
will be tested. And those students will
be tested only on reading skills.
This year the district is working
with the reading curriculum adopted
by the competency committee.
The aim of the curriculum is to
provide each grade level with a speci-
fied set of reading goals which stu-
dents are expected to master before
going on to the next level. These goals
must be uniform throughout the dis-
trict.
Next year, the students will be test-
ed at the end of the learning period to
determine if they have mastered the
goals.
The tests for first, second and sixth
grades will be designed by supervi-
sors and teachers.
"The tests will be built to conform
with what has been taught," Danheim
said.
The ninth graders in English 1 will
take the high school version of the
Adult Performance Level standardi-
zed test.
The district plans to use the same
pass-fail cut-off for the competency
tests it uses in the schools: those
scoring under 60 percent fail.
Danheim said the competency test
will serve as the exclusive factor in
determining if a child fails the grade.
At the high school level, those stu-
dents failing the APL test will be
scheduled into s second semester
course built around the APL program.
Those students will then take content
area tests on material studied. If they
pass, they are clear for their high
school competencies. If they fail, they
have one chance in each of their
remaining years to retake and pass
the competency test. If they do not
pass, they do not graduate.
Preparing for bond election
Dr. Parker Gregeire, vlee president st San
Jacinto College Son th, and her secretary Janet
Brass fltt prepare the voting booth for absentee
voting In the $35 million San Jacinto College
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Ing at the South Campus wHeh began Nev. 21
and will continue through Friday, Doc. 7. Tbe
bend election Itself will be held Tuesday, Dec.
11.
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