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.Number of convicted felons in Collin County Jail doubles
County Commissioners on manager for the architects.
percent of the jail’s population to 15 units, 144-bed clusters or 576-bed progress is being made on designing
institutions, Gross said.
ment of Corrections placed a cap on doubled since the state put a cap on percent, Gross said.
Plans for the new jail call for the county’s estimated growth to 1.5 depend on when and if Texas builds
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with park purchase
Texins gun club to clean soil of lead
Allen I&R organizing
luncheon for volunteers
Monday reviewed the report
compiled by HDR/Harvey Moore,
An eventual 2,304-bed complex
will be built at a 160-acre site over
the next 50 years to support the
At its Thursday night meeting,
the Allen City Council authorized
A record total of 700 votes, about
35 percent of registered voters in
the district, were cast in the elec-
Wearing an oxygen tank on his back, a Lone Star Gas
repairman works to patch a 6-inch gas line that was dug
up and broken by a backhoe digging a trench as part of
the Main Street Project construction near the Cotton-
wood Creek bridge. For more than 112 hours Wednes-
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the jail facility, even though the
Commissioners Court has not
selected a site for the facility.
How quickly the county must
expand the new facility could
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day, Allen Fire Department units stood by and Allen
Police Department personnel directed traffic around the
high pressure gas leak. Lone Star Gas personnel stayed
on the scene for the rest of the afternoon to monitor the
situation and to improve the patch.
By MARK WARNKEN
Staff Writer
By JUDY EDQUIST
Staff Writer
By SCOTT NOWLING
Staff Writer
By SEAN HOCKENS
Harte-Hanks News Service
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FORECAST: Saturday —
Mostly cloudy and cool, with a
high in the mid-60s. Winds
northeast 10 to 15 mph. Sunday
through Tuesday — Partly
cloudy, with seasonably mild
temperatures. Lows in the 40s
and highs mainly in the 60s.
The school board was forced to
call the election when a valid
taxpayers’ petition requesting a roll-
back election was presented in
December. The petition challenge,
allowed under state law in certain
conditions, was organized by a
group of residents in response to a
16-percent increase in the property
tax rate to$l. 15 per $100 property
valuation.
The rollback would have required
the school district to set its 1989-90
tax rate at $1.05, resulting in a loss
of about $200,000 in tax income
The property has trees, open
areas and a 4.3-acre lake, he said.
Texins Association, an organiza-
tion for the benefit of Texas Instru-
ments employees and their families.
Allen Information and Referral
recently decided it was time to
show appreciation for their volun-
teers and other residents who
donate time to local organizations.
As a result, Jennifer Anglin, Allen
I&R program caseworker and
volunteer coordinator, recently
began organizing Fiestaval, a volun-
teer recognition luncheon scheduled
for Thursday, April 13 that’s
planned as an annual event.
Ninety-seven invitations were
sent out Monday to organizations in
Allen, Lucas, Fairview and other
nearby cities that receive volunteer
help, like libraries, police depart-
ments, fire departments, Parent-
Teacher Associations, churches and
schools, Anglin said. By Wednesday
afternoon, 30 people already had
committed to attend.
“It really is just going to be a way
for all the community to recognize
that volunteers are the lifeblood of
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knew there was a place to go hiking
and be outdoors,’ ” Monier said.
prisoner transfers, according to a accepting inmates at state prison
study on the proposed jail complex, facilities, said John Gross, project
Connemara sculpture
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the rollback on election day, and 53
voted against it absentee; 220 voted
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Board President Rich Hickman
thanked the Lovejoy Citizens for
Quality Education, a group of resi-
dents that worked to defeat the
rollback.
Hickman also said it was the
school board’s duty to take a parti-
san stand and oppose any rollback
that might damage the district’s
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execution of a contract for purchase currently owns the property and
of park property at the northeast has used it as a gun club for 27
corner of Allen Heights and years.
Bethany Road. With all those guns being fired,
The purchase will be funded 50 there is a lot of lead in the ground,
percent by a grant from Texas McCarty said, but Texins will have
Parks and Wildlife Department and 90 days to clean the soil to accept-
50 percent from local park bonds able levels before the closing
sold in 1986. occurs. Soil will be pulled up and
“This is an excellent piece of mixed with a chemical agent that
property, the premier of its type in neutralizes the lead and with a
the city,” said City Manager Jon bonding agent to encapsulate the
McCarty. “It will be enjoyed by
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) The Connemara Conservancy ing the artists before.
will open Sunday with its ninth “This is the third year we’ve
annual sculpture exhibit beginning done this. The first year it didn’t
at 1 p.m. work so well. This year there were
Alien-area residents are invited lots of people,” she said.
to honor the artists and tour the “The sculptors love it,” she said.
72-acre site. “I’ve found that the sculptors are
The nature conservancy, located very personable. They love the help
on the Allen and Plano border off from the visitors because they can’t
McDermott Drive, holds in public do it all themselves. It’s a real
trust, pristine, natural tracts of land payday for them. They love the fact
Dso future generations can enjoy the that these people want to come up
landscape in its near-primal state. and help them and talk with them
This is the ninth year the Conne- about their work,” Monier said,
mara Conservancy has given grants From the beginning, Monier lets
so artists from throughout the the artists know that their work in
nation can erect sculptures at the the meadow will be handled,
meadow. “From their being accepted in
Last Saturday and Sunday, the September, we communicate back
conservancy held a unique meet- and forth and they know that kids
and-work-with-the-artists will be touching and climbing on the
weekend. piece, so they create it with that in
Several hundred visitors watched mind,” she said.
Dand, in some cases, helped the Monier also believes the public
artists as they put the finishing has finally accepted Connemara and
touches on their large-scale outdoor can’t wait for the new season to
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The number of convicted felons percent, Gross said.
has risen from 13 percent in Octob- ,
er 1987 to 31 percent in December . What ts happenmg ts the system
1988, while the number of pretrial is getting harder and harder, he
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tsmgkdimdmdh By MARK WARNKEN ability to educate its students.
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T"280 day canvassed and certified results continue to communicate the
02 of last Saturday’s election in which a happenings in finance and budget
■ tax rollback was defeated 473-227. throughout the community.”
McKINNEY — The county’s architects of the proposed facility,
inmate population has become The number of convicted felons
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Amy Monier, Connemara director were 10 cars parked along the road 80011 NoWlingstaf Photo
and curator. and it was a Thursday afternoon and Joe Barrington’s “Broken Deer Skull” is one of the pieces
y "On Saturday, I stacked bricks. It we aren’t even open yet,” she said, of art on display. The piece stands almost 10 feet tall,
was fun,” she said. “Obviously there is a real need
“People get real intrigued. It’s for what we’re doing,” she said. For the 1989 season, 12 artists and Peter Anderson of Seattle and
Dkind of fun and they get obsessed “The sculptures started out as a have built 10 sculptures. The artists Cam Schoepp of Fort Worth (the
with finishing,” she said about the way to lure people away from the are: Future Akins of Dallas; Joe three will work as a team); Karen
visiting helpers. shopping malls. It’s been an incredi- Barrington of Throckmorton; Jake
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Warnken, Mark. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 19, 1989, newspaper, March 19, 1989; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1536441/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.