The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 86, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 2002 Page: 1 of 30
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Candidates make last plea for votes
Alvin Community College board hopefuls address voter concerns
Manvel 8-liner dispute
may close county parlors
VOLUME 111, NO. 86
ALVIN, TEXAS 77511
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Tuxedo Rentals
and Accessories
By Edward I aoby
Staff Writer
By Edward Looby
Staff Writer
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A meeting of the Alvin ISI)
GiRted and Talented Parent
Advisory Council will meet on
Nov. 4 at 7 a m in the Board
Room of the Alvin ISD
Administration Building. The
purpose of the meeting is to
develop a program implemen-
tation plan. All interested par
ents and citizens are welcome
to attend. Contact Sandra
Warren at 281 -388- II 30 for
more information.
Alvin Fire Chief Rex Klesel kneels outside a burning home as his men fight the blaze which is believed
to have broken out in the living room. Extensive damage to the home was reported.
Tuesday marks the end of an
unusually active campaign for
positions on the Alvin Community
College Board of Trustees
For the first time in years, seats
Eight liner parlors across Brazona
County may be soon looking al
extinction, between the efforts of local
law enforcement, the Brazoria County
District Attorney and the Texas
Attorney General's Office
The movement in this area began in
Manvel, when the City med to close
the first eight liner parlor to come to
town, under the premise that the facil
ity was actually a gambling hall
Manvel Police Chief Ralph Garcia
said that, although other eight liner
machines were being used in Manvel
establishments already. the concentra-
By Edward Looby
Staff Writer
Alpha Thu Phi’s 17th Annual
Holiday Extravaganza arts
and crafts show will be held
Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10 a.m.-
5 p.m. at the Nessler Center,
Texas City. Proceeds benefit
COM scholarships and local
charities. For booth informa-
tion, call Ronda Tatum at 409-
945-2441
Poppies will be offered for
Poppy Day, Nov. 5, at the
American Legion Hall in
Alvin, Nov. 8 at area Wal
Marts and Nov. 9 at Stanton’s,
Kroger and Walgreens from 9
a.m.-4 p.m Please support
your veterans. November 9 is
Poppy Day
The Alvin Garden Club will
meet Thursday, Nov. 7 at
9:30 a.m. at the Alvin Senior
Citizens Building, 309 W
Sealy. The meeting will open
with fellowship and refresh-
ments at 980 a.m.. with the
business meeting following.
The program will be a hands-
on design program. Members
are to bring all materials.
Guests are welcome. For more
information, call 281-331-
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baseball style cap. The criminal flashed a black automatic handgun at the clerk, ordered cash, took
about $200 and fled on foot. At the next scene, just five minutes later, the store clerk said the crook
took all of the money from the register, then also demanded money from a box under the counter. After
gathering all of the cash, he look the box and left, warning the clerk not to follow, or risk being
shot.Police say similar robberies occurred just before the Alvin crime spree began, with an armed rob -
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A midday fire Friday gutted the
home of a woman and her son
Smoked rolled out of the structure
as several fire trucks converged on
the scene.
The woman told officials that she
and her young son were watching a
cartoon wheh sKd ftft the room for a
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The Alvin Area Retired
School Employees will hold
its monthly meeting on
Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Senior
Citizens Center at 3 p.m. The
program will be “Easy Flower
Arrangements," presented by
Madonna Ballard. A covered
dishrmearFwhr be stved after
the meeting. Plans are being
made for the annual bake sale
to raise money for scholar
ships. The sale will be held on
Nov. 22 at Union Planters,
Express and First National
Banks from 9 a.m. until noon.
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Police are currently searching for suspects who may have committed as many as five armed rob
beries.Three local convenience store clerks were robbed at gunpoint by a man who was described as
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for the board are contested, with
as many as six people running for
one position. ACC tax payers will
have the opportunity to vote
Tuesday at the main fire station in
Alvin, the Liverpool Fire Station,
Manvel Junior High School and
Iowa Colony City Hall.
moment After she returned, her son injured in the fire
told her that a chair was on fire Alvin Volunteer Fire Department
She said that she first thought he officials say the fact that the win
was referring to something happen- dow was cracked slghtl) created a
ing on the cartoon, but she quickly draft which fanned the flames The
realized that the blaze was climbing are currently investigating the cal’N
from her recliner and onto the of the blaze.
drapes by the window. Within minutes of the fire’s start.
She told officials that she took her the entire house was engulfed in
son outside, where.a friend started Wame. with smoke from the blaze
trying to fight the blaze. Noone was Vwie across the city.
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forum with ACC staff
Missing from the panel were
Position 2 candidate Ed Harness
and Position 5 candidate Cary
Stiles, who had a previously
scheduled business trip he had to
attend
As in the forum held at the
. Senior Citizens Center the previ-
ous week, candidates were
allowed to give a brief overview
of themselves and their back
ground Then they were asked to
answer questions from the audi
ence
Questions asked of the candi-
dates included:
7 Will your plans include firing
< ertain ACC personnel?
2 Have you toured the facilities
on i anipus to See their condition
in relation to the bond proposals ?
3. Do you think ACC needs to
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Police continue to searc
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hire a new auditor?
4 Did you vote for or against
the ACC bond issue, and why ‘
Position 4:
Brenda Brown
h I think that the key compo
nent to this question is in keeping
ACC one of the top schools in the
state in order to do that, we have
to keep a top quality. dedicated
staff
2 Yes I wish there was some
way to get all of the people who
voted no on the bond issues to
look at what they’re getting from
ACC and see the high results
we're getting, then look at what
our faculty has to work with I
think if they saw the whole pie
lure, we'd get more cooperation
on things like the bond issue
Candidates for the Board faced
oil Iasi Wednesday on what they
hope to soon call their home turf
to air their views and answer
questions
Board hopefuls met at the Texas
Room of the ACC campus during
the lunch hour for a televised
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lion of machines in the new business
raised concerns
“Years ago, there was some abuse of
these machines, and we go them out of
town. " he said. "We kind of over
looked the remaining machines, as
they weren I used very much Bui
now we will be looking al them, giv
ing the owners warnings and, if need
ed. citations.”
Manvel authorities are contending
that the parlors are really gambling
establishments, as defined in Texas
law. They are having to change their
strategy on how to prove that, howev
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Volunteers are needed for
the Court Appointed Special
Advocates program of
Brazona County. Volunteers
will complete a 30-hour train-
ing curriculum that includes
such topics as child develop-
ment, the dynamics of child
abuse and neglect, Texas
Family Code, and CPS poli-
cies and procedures.
Volunteers are needed to repre-
sent children in foster care in
Brazoria County. Classes have
begun and are being held in
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Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 86, Ed. 1 Monday, November 4, 2002, newspaper, November 4, 2002; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1602895/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.