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6800 AadonysPublic Library
The Colony, TX 7605
LADY COUGARS EARN ALL-DISTRICT HONORS — PAGE 11A
THE Colony Courier-Leader
Vol. 19 No. 42
Thursday, November 30, 2000
50 cents
Search begins for city manager
COLONY
This Week
New home for The
Colony Courier-Leader
The Colony Courier-Leader
has moved its office. Please
feel free to stop by and visit
at 6700 Main Street, Suite
128, The Colony. The phone
number remains the same,
972-625-9698.
•••••••••
TCHS band to take
part in Saturday
Christmas parade
The Colony High School
Marching Band will be partici-
pating again in the 13th annu-
al Neiman
Marcus/Adolphus/Children’s
Parade on Dec. 2. The
parade will march down
Commerce Street in Dallas at
10 a.m. Come show your
support for the band and
enjoy a family tradition.
.........
Topcats collecting toys
for Ronald McDonald
In the spirit of the season,
The Colony High School
Topcat drill team will be col-
lecting new stuffed animals
for the Ronald McDonald
House in Dallas. On Tuesday,
Dec. 19, the Topcats will
deliver the stuffed animals to
the House and perform for
the children and staff. If you
are interested in donating a
new stuffed animal to this
organization, please contact
Tami Prevett at 972-625-625-
extension 172.
.........
Mechanics Ministry
to help single
mothers, widows
The First Baptist Church
Auto Mechanics Ministry will
be servicing cars for single
mothers and widows of our
community on Saturday, Dec.
2, from 8 a.m. until noon in
the church parking lot located
at 4800 S. Colony Blvd.
•••••••••
PTSA taking Krispy
Kreme orders
Back by popular demand,
The Colony High School
PTSA is again taking orders
for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
Deadline for ordering the $5
dozen doughnuts is Monday,
Dec. 4 at noon. Delivery is
Thursday, Dec. 7 from 4 p.m.
to 7 p.m. in the TCHS
Cafeteria. Checks and cash
are accepted. Please make
checks payable to TCHS
PTSA.
You can e-mail your order
to theshums@swbell.net or
joerobertson@att.com or call
the PTSA Krispy Kreme order
line at 972-625-2896.
community
newspapers
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By SUSAN CHINIEWICZ The first step, they said, is
Staff writer to interview not candidates,
The first step in finding a but the council, mayor and
new city manager for The city staff.
Colony was taken Monday “We want to have a detailed
night when the City Council understanding of what the
chose David K. Wasson council is looking for,”
Management Consulting to Wasson said.
begin the search. Through the series of inter-
At the council’s special ses- views they will develop a
sion, representatives of the brochure and cover letter to
firm, David K. Wasson and distribute to various candi-
Terry Hatcher, presented dates in Texas and across the
their 4-phase plan to find a country. The brochure will
replacement for Lanny outline the benefits of living
Lambert, who left The Colony and working in The Colony as
last month to begin work as well as the special require- .
the city manager for ments and challenges facing with it are what will attract face-to-face, in-person inter-
Brownsville. such a rapidly growing city, most of the candidates. views,” Wasson said.
"This is an excit-
ing time for The
Colony. City
managers like to
come where
there's action.jj
Terry Hatcher
‘This is an exciting time for After that point, the list is
The Colony,” he said. “City narrowed once more to five to
managers like to come where seven candidates who will
there’s action.” then be brought to The
“A search of this nature typ- Colony for final interviewing
ically attracts from 30 to 50 with the council. They expect
candidates,” Wasson said, the entire process to take 90
From there they will pare the to 120 days.
list down to 10 or 15 of the The professional fee for all
most promising, and then per- four phases of the search will
sonally visit each one in their be $17,500, split into three
home town to get a feel of equal installments. Adding
their capabilities and experi- the estimated expenses and
ence. They will also be con- optional psychological assess-
ducting interviews at that ment of fitness for command
Hatcher said the growth time. will bring the total to roughly
and the difficulties associated “We believe in the value of between $45,000 and $50,000.
With that price tag comes a
Chamber Toy Drive
Submitted Photo
The Colony Chamber of Commerce is holding its second annual Ambassador's Toy Drive benefiting The
Colony's Lions Club. Donations of new unwrapped toys can be dropped off at The Colony Chamber offices
on Main Street until Friday, Dec. 1. The toys will be given to the Lions Club who will distribute them to needy
children in The Colony in time for a joyful Christmas.
Superstar:
Owen Elementary student
enjoys gig with Radio Disney
Back in September he worked on show. He was a nervous at first but
a Radio Disney commercial and the she quickly calmed him down with a
producer suggested he try out for hug
the DJ spot. He showed up 6:45 a.m. “She was real fun” said David,
for the open call audition and found “She was real comforting and warm,
himself just one of thousands of kids She was a lot like talking to my
wanting the same thing he did. mom.”
Just a few short weeks later he Conversation invariably turned to
got the call. one of David’s favorite subjects,
“When my mom told me I just baseball, and his favorite team, the
screamed,” said David. “Then they Yankees.
player, select bas- David Wright said I was their on-location guy and “I asked When I play for the
ketball player, my first mission was to interview Yankees will you come watch me?’
select indoor soc- Rosie O’Donnell in New York City.” She said Yeah, but you have to go to
cer player, jogs on Tuesday and on Oct. 24, David’s eleventh college first We don’t want dumb
Thursday mornings with the rest of birthday, he boarded an airplane ball players.’”
the Owen Sprinters, does safety and flew to New York. They continued talking about base-
patrol before and after school, is a "I’d never been to New York ball and the World Series which was
member of the school’s Honor before. I’d never been on a plane being played while he was in New
Choir, is on the school’s UIL before,” he said with a touch of awe York. O’Donnell asked him if he’d
Number Sense team and serves as still jn his voice. “It was a dream gotten tickets to a game, and when
Vice President of the school’s come true. I think it’s the best birth- he said no, she removed a watch
Student Council. day present I’ll ever have.” from her wrist and gave it to him. It
Oh, and he’s a Radio Disney DJ The next day he met with Rosie was a gold-faced “Subway
heard all over the country. O’Donnell after the taping of her Turn to radio, Page 5A
. By SUSAN CHINIEWICZ
Staff writer
He’s an aver-
age kid, David
Wright.
He’s an A
Honor Roll fifth
grade student at
BB Owen
Elementary, is a
select baseball
David Wright
Turn to SEARCH, Page 5A
Coming
attractions
New businesses
prepare to call
The Colony home
By SUSAN CHINIEWICZ
Staff writer
What’s going in to the old Wal-Mart?
The question has been asked since the
new Super Wal-Mart was built two years ago.
Since then, the building at Main Street and
South Colony Blvd, has sat vacant, while
speculations ran through town as to what
would fill it
Finally there is an answer.
Super One Foods, a bag-your-own grocery
store applied for, and received council
approval of their site plan which includes
designs to expand the space by over 11,000-
feet They will also be renovating the land-
scaping, the parking lot and the lighting for
the existing shopping center.
A twenty foot wide landscaping buffer will
be added onto the existing 10 feet of right of
way already in place along Main Street Six
large trees will be added to the 210-foot long
strip and the eight existing pecan trees will
remain and one live oak will be added. There
will also be 12 small trees and some ever-
green shrubs.
Along South Colony five feet of landscap-
ing buffer will be added with 50 evergreen
shrubs, 13 preserved pecan trees, two live
oaks and five small trees. The land adjacent
to the building will also be landscaped as will
several islands added through out the park-
ing lot to ensure that no space is further than
75 feet away from landscaping.
“It’s going to look nice,” said Harry
Persaud, Director of Planning for the City of
The Colony.
Also new to The Colony will be the corpo-
rate headquarters for Pizza Inn.
A 40,000-square foot two story office
building and a 100,000-square foot ware-
house have been approved by the council to
be built just south of State Highway 121 on
Plano Parkway. The facilities will be the dis-
tribution and training center for the compa-
ny, but the zoning approved by the council
will not allow any manufacturing. Increased
truck traffic along Plano Parkway and SH
121 is expected to cause congestion, but
according to Persaud it shouldn’t be any-
thing the roadways can’t control.
Pizza Inn will be using a traffic monitor
during the busiest times of the day, to assist
with the flow of trucks into and out of the
building.
Both businesses are still in the early
stages of development and not scheduled to
break ground soon.
Last-minute shopping not part of this year's Christmas celebration
Tts almost Dec. 1. And as of today,
I I’m about 90 percent through
A with my Christmas shopping.
There’s no great secret to my
shopping success. It’s not due to the
fast that I’m super organized.
Au contraire.
Actually, this is the first year I can
recall that I’ve been this far ahead
this early in the season, although
year after year, after the hustle and
bustle of the holidays ends, I
promise myself next year, I’ll begin
shopping in July.
Truthfully, the reason I’m so
advanced in my shopping this year
is because - with the exception of the
children in my life - most of my rela-
tives are receiving similar items for
Christmas, all ordered at the same
time from the same source. And I
shopped for nieces and nephews
through catalogs and the Internet
from September through
Thanksgiving.
Most years, I’m among the ranks
of the highly stressed, barely moti-
Adventures
In Life
Corina Miller
- Dec. 24, having just begun on Dec.
22.
And it’s no easy task to buy 25
vated last-minute Christmas shop-
pers.
I’m sure you’ve seen us before.
We’re the runs who run huffing
and puffing through stores as
though we’re wearing pork chops
and being followed by a pack of hun-
gry dogs; hurriedly snatching items
off shelves, then breathlessly beg-
ging everyone’s pardon as we scut-
tle off, sneakers squeaking on the
waxed tile, towards another aisle.
Yup, I’m usually the kind of
Christmas shopper retailers envi-
sioned when they created 24-hour
market places. In fact, I’m a late
shopper of the worst kind. I’m usual-
ly still shopping the afternoon of
causes me to blow my Christmas
budget. It’s tough to comparison
shop when you’re only hours away
from watching your 10-year-old
nephew tear through wrapping
paper gawk at the really cool gift you
gave him.
And last but not least, chances are
gifts in two days.
First of all, you have to battle
crowds. Usually by the time I’m
doing my Christmas shopping, most
people are out buying batteries, ---------------------.-------
wrapping paper, food for a Christmas that because I’m cramming all my
feast or a last minute gift for a neigh- shopping into two short days, I for-
bor. get something. So it often ends up
So finding a parking space is that my sister opens up a stunning
tough. And getting through a check set of sterling silver napkin holders,
out line within a decent time frame sans matching napkins.
is tougher. All in all, last minute shopping
I also find that shopping on Dec. marathons make me a Scrooge on
24 means I often can’t find what I’m
looking for. And that’s my fault. By
the time I get to the stores, most
merchandise has already been
picked over pretty good. In years
past, I missed out on some of the
hottest Christmas items available,
simply because, you guessed it, I
waited too long.
Plus waiting until the last minute
to purchase Christmas presents
Christmas Day. So since I’m free of
eleventh-hour gift buying this year,
I’ve decided to relish this Christmas.
And who knows?
Maybe I’ll enjoy it so much, I’ll
begin shopping for next Christmas
in July. Hey, it could happen. Right?
Corina Miller is a staff writer for The Colony
Courier-Leader and a resident of The
Colony. You can email her at
ColonyCourier@aol.com.
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