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Obituary
Inside ACC
Students give hearing, vision tests
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had to work with the Nursing
students performing vision and
hearing screenings at several of
our campuses,” Alvin ISD Lead
Nurse Paula Griffith said. “They
were a knowledgeable and pro-
fessional group that were of
great assistance to us. We look
forward to continuing our rela-
tionship with the ACC Nursing
department.”
While the screenings have an
important benefit for the school
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Hey, Sparkman! I will let
you have the last word.
Yap! Yap! I hear that record
numbers are participating in
early voting so get out and
vote people for the candidate
that will move our country
forward and bring back the
respect, morals, and integrity
that our nation was founded
upon.
The tests are required every
fall semester and Scales said
she hopes that the ACC Nurs-
ing program will continue to be
involved. In the spring, the pro-
gram will perform screenings
for youngsters in local daycare
facilities.
“ACC is directly impacting
the quality of lives of the AISD
students,” she said. “We have
students helping students suc-
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district, the Nursing students
also benefit because it is an op-
portunity to practice the skills
they leam in class, Scales said.
“We train and certify the ACC
nursing students to identify chil-
dren who should be referred to
their primary care provider for
further examination and possible
treatment,” She said. “Screening
is a simple, non-diagnostic pro-
cedure that identifies possible
problems.”
Learning can be difficult for
young students when they lack
the basic abilities to see and hear
clearly.
Alvin Community College
Associate Degree Nursing stu-
dents recently helped students
at Alvin ISD schools with vision
and hearing tests in an effort to
identify those who may be in
need of assistance.
“Since an estimated 80 percent
of learning is visual, catching a
vision problem early can have a
profound effect on the student’s
life,” said ACC Nursing instruc-
tor Christy Scales said. “Addi-
tionally, hearing loss can have
lifelong implications.”
Scales and other Nursing in-
structors Jocelyn Wiltz, Wendy
Stewart and Ashley White re-
ceived the certification train-
ing and then certified first-year
Nursing students to perform
basic hearing and vision screen-
ings.
“The early identification of
problems through the screening
process can connect the child
and family to appropriate pro-
grams and services,” Scales said.
More than 2,600 Alvin ISD
students in 10 schools had the
hearing and vision tests Oct. 5.
The screenings are a require-
ment by the Texas Department
of State Health Services.
“The Alvin ISD nurses ap-
preciated the opportunity we
grandchildren, Joy Daniel Nel-
son and Ashby Fillips.
Adolf is survived by his
daughter, Susan Simpson; sons,
Karl Fillips and Robert Fillips
and wife, Patricia; sister, Au-
drey Urban; 12 grandchildren
and 7 great-grandchildren; and
numerous other relatives and
friends.
Visitation will be held from
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday,
October 28,2016 at St. John the
Baptist Catholic Church with a
rosary being recited at 4:30 p.m.
The Funeral Mass will be cel-
ebrated at 10:00 a.m., Saturday,
October 29,2016 at St. John the
Baptist Catholic Church, 110
E. South St., Alvin, Texas. In-
terment will follow at the Res-
urrection Cemetery, Pearland,
Texas.
Arrangements under the
direction of the Scott Family.
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tion, and around the world.
As the Internet and global com-
munications open new avenues
into global trade, companies are
increasingly relying on bilingual
employees to communicate with
clients. For example, global ser-
vices trade equaled $4.7 trillion
in 2013, an amount that has more
than doubled over the past decade.
Bilingual adults can especially
impact global services trade since
these jobs tend to require more
communication with the client
than with manufactured goods.
We need to continue to
strengthen English skills in
schools, but also look for ways
to continue native/foreign lan-
guage development for children,
whether that is through bilingual
education programs or greater
resources and encouragement for
parents to foster the acquisition of
the language at home. Strengthen-
ing foreign language programs in
public schools can also encourage
English-speaking students to mas-
ter a second language.
There is an abundance of cul-
tural richness that is lost in an
English-only approach, but by
encouraging bilingualism, we
can better enable the next genera-
tion to cement Texas’ place in the
global economy.
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Alvin Community College Associate Degree Nursing students practice on a simulator. (Contributed
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May 3, 1938 - Oct. 24, 2016
Adolf Emil Fillips, age 78, of
Alvin, Texas passed Monday,
October 24, 2016 at UTMB-
Jennie Sealy Hospital, Galves-
ton, Texas. Adolf was born on
May 3, 1938 in Liberty, Texas
and was a resident of Alvin
for 45 years. He was a heavy
equipment mechanic at Amoco
Chemical Plant for 28 years and
was a member of St. John the
Baptist Catholic Church. Adolf
was preceded in death by his
wife, Rosemary Fillips; parents,
Adolf and Rosie Fillips; and
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perceptions, and greater empa-
thy. Also, recent research tak-
ing advantage of more detailed
language-use data sets has shown
that bilingual young adults are
more likely to graduate from high
school and go to college. Bilingual
young adults are also more likely
to be hired for a job and retained
during layoffs. Among children of
immigrant families, young adults
who are bilingual and literate in
both the native language and the
dominant language have higher
status jobs and earn more than
their peers who are no longer pro-
ficient in their native language. In
the aggregate, this pattern leads to
higher productivity and better eco-
nomic performance for the state.
Having a large number of bilin-
gual residents is also an economic
asset given that Texas is a major
player in the global economy.
Texas has been the top export-
ing state in the nation for the past
14 years and exported $251 bil-
lion in goods last year. The pres-
ence of multiple languages in the
state can be an opportunity to
develop bilingual and biliterate
adults in order to fully engage the
global marketplace. Workers that
are proficient in more than one
language can help bridge the gaps
between cultures in our state, na-
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The Amarillo and Austin-
Round Rock Metropolitan
Statistical Areas recorded the
month’s lowest unemployment
rate among Texas MSAs with
a non-seasonally adjusted rate
of 3.5 percent, followed by the
Lubbock MSA with a rate of 3.6
percent and the College Station-
Bryan MSA with a rate of 3.7 for
September.
HUD awards flood funds
Texas General Land Office
Commissioner George P. Bush
on Oct. 20 announced the U.S.
Department of Housing and Ur-
ban Development has awarded
the state of Texas $45.2 million
to assist in long-term recovery
efforts following severe flooding
events earlier this year.
HUD, Bush said, will priori-
tize the most impacted of the 112
affected Texas counties included
in the Presidential Declarations
for 2016. The residents living
in the combined affected coun-
ties encompass 76 percent of the
state’s population, which totals
more than 20 million Texans.
“The damage from the 2016
floods in Texas had a com-
pounding effect from those that
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I know that neither candi-
date is worthy of our vote,
but the worst thing you can
do is not vote. I implore you
to vote; if you don’t, one of
them is sure to win the elec-
tion and the policies they im-
plement for the next four years
and beyond may change your
life drastically just as the ones
have for the past eight years.
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occurred in 2015,” Bush said.
“Many residents were unable
to rebuild from the 2015 floods
before the rains began again. We
must work efficiently and dili-
gently to turn these funds into
effective results,” he added.
Trade grant is awarded
The Texas Department of Ag-
riculture on Oct. 17 accepted
a grant for $800,000 from the
State Trade Expansion Program
of the U.S. Small Business Ad-
ministration Office of Interna-
tional Trade.
Texas Deputy Agriculture
Commissioner Jason Feamey-
hough said plans are to use the
funding to expand export-related
activities of small businesses in
Texas and to increase export dol-
lars earned by those companies.
The grant money, Feamey-
hough said, will provide train-
ing through the University of
Texas-San Antonio’s Interna-
tional Trade Center. Stipends
will be made available for Texas
businesses that request small
infusions of funding to support
export expansion, according to
the Texas Department of Agri-
culture.
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Money, David. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 88, Ed. 1 Monday, October 31, 2016, newspaper, October 31, 2016; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1245475/m1/8/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.