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VOLUME 24, NO. 36
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• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12,2005
Man charged
with assault
A resident.of The Colony
was charged with two counts
of sexual assault involving
teenagers, The Colony police
said.
Dustin Storm Devenport,
18, of The Colony, was arrest-
ed Oct. 3 for two counts of sex-
ual assault, police said.
The two alleged victims
were acquaintances of
Devenport, police said. One
was a 15-year-old male in an
incident alleged to have hap-
pened in June 2005. The sec-
ond was a 14-year-old female
occurring in an incident
alleged to have occurred in
September 2005.
Bond was set at $25,000 for
each charge. As of Tuesday
morning, Devenport remained
in the Denton County Jail.
Library holds
workshop
Teen Read Week 2005 “Get
Real!" will be celebrated at The
Colony Public Library, located
at 6800 Main Street, from Oct.
18-22.
There will be drawings for
free graphic novels as well as a
decorated guessing candy jar
contest. All area teens are
encouraged to come by during
the week and participate.
GET REAL! at your library!
is alive with Teen Read Week-
related books about biogra-
phies, self-help books and
videos, strange-but-true sto-
ries, documentary films,
graphic novels and more.
For more information, con-
tact the library at 972-625-1900,
ext. 3.
Early Childhood
PTA holds sale
The Early Childhood
Parent-Teacher Association
will hold a consignment sale
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 14
and from 8 am. to 2 p.m. Oct.
15 at St. Peter’s by the Lake
Church.
Visitors may shop for cloth-
ing, baby and children’s items
as well as household items.
MADD to hold
panel for teens
Mothers Against Drunk
Driving will conduct a Teen
Victim Impact Panel at 7 p.m.
on Oct. 19 in the Lewisville
Municipal Courtroom, 1197 W.
Main Street.
Check-in will begin at 6:30
p.m. Participants will learn
about current alcohol-related
legislation, the effect of alco-
hol on adolescents and the
impact of drunk driving on
individuals.
For more information con-
tact Anne Dubinsky at 972-219-
3671 or adubinsk@city-
oflewisville.com.
CCA asks
for donations
Christian Community
Action has issued an urgent
call for the following dona-
tions in support of Katrina
evacuees:
• Nonperishable food, espe-
cially canned meat and pasta
• Pancake and waffle Syrup
• Cooking oil
• Cleaning supplies and
buckets
• Manual can openers and
cooking pots
Donations can be delivered
to any Lewisville fire station,
or the to the Hurricane Relief
Center in Lakeland Plaza at
S.H. 121 and Interstate 35E.
INDEX
Honor Rolls....
Pets of the Week
Police Reports..
Opinion.......
Education.....
Sports........
Classifieds.....
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5A
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3-7B
How to Contact Us:
Gen. Office: 972-424-6565
Classified Ads: 972-422-SELL
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Voters OK $200M bond package
District may choose how to make Chapter 41 payment
BY MOLLY MCCULLOUGH
STAFF WRITER
Lewisville ISD officials breathed a sigh
of relief when they heard the news that all
four propositions concerning the district’s
bond election and Chapter 41 status were
approved by voters on Saturday.
LISD officials broke new ground by
haring their bond election package and
Chapter 41 propositions, otherwise
known as Robin Hood, put in front of vot-
ers at the same time. All propositions
passed with at least an 86-percent
approval rate.
“Being the first district in the state to
combine a school bond election with a
Chapter 41 election was a challenge."
LISD Superintendent Jerry Roy said. “I
want to thank the voters for taking the
time to study the issues involved with a
Chapter 41 and taking local control over
how we send this money to the state. This
translates into a significant savings for
our district.”
This was the first year for LISD to be
declared a Chapter 41 district. This means
that the district had no choice but to send
money to the state, so state officials might
redistribute that money to property-poor
school districts. By calling the Chapter 41
election, LISD officials needed the voters
to approve two propositions — one that
would allow the district to send the
money directly to the state, and the other
to allow LISD to find a partner school dis-
trict to send money to.
Turn to VOTERS, Page 4A
COUGAR ROYALTY
JEANNIE MILLENDER/STAFF PHOTO
The Colony High School seniors David Garcia and Tiffany Poe were crowned Homecoming king and queen Friday night before the
Cougars game against Lewisville. For more photos, see Page 10A. For the football game story, see Sports, Page 1B.
Moving tributes
Motorcycle escort, memorial thank
veterans and service men, women
BY CORINA MILLER
STAFF WRITER
A motorcycle escort and
a memorial will further
spread the message that
area residents wish to
honor America’s service
men and women and its vet-
erans.
A group of local
American Legion members
will escort the Moving Wall
into the area on Veterans
Day, Nov. 11.
The Moving Wall is a
half-size replica of the
haunting black granite
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
designed by Maya Ying Lin
that stands in Washington,
D.C.
A memorial, which will
include a brick display fea-
turing a pair of bronze
plaques flanked by seven
25-foot flagpoles, will be
erected in front of Little
Elm Town Hall.
The Moving Wall later
will travel to The Colony,
where it will stop at the vet-
erans memorial at the Five
Star Athletic Complex.
As the wall is transport-
ed through Little Elm on
Nov. 30, approximately 15
members of the Little Elm
American Legion Riders
motorcycle club will join
nearly 150 riders from The
Colony to escort it via
motorcycle, said Ray
Kahler, who is coordinating
the effort.
Dewey Fambry is work-
ing on the effort in The
Colony.
Escorting the Moving
Wall as it travels through
the heart of Little Elm and
into The Colony, where it
will stop at the veterans
memorial at the Five Star
Athletic Complex.
“What happens is the
point of contact that we
have from The Colony is
going to be in contact with
the trucker who’s going to
bring the Wall in,” Kahler
said. “We’re going to meet
her halfway between Little
Elm and Denton on U.S.
(Highway) 380.”
There it will stand next
to The Colony’s own veter-
an’s memorial, with bricks
being sold to support its
construction.
The memorial stands as
a testimony to all that mili-
tary personnel do, said
Gary Story, a member of the
local American Legion post
who served in the U.S.
Marine Corps for 12 years.
“I'm hoping the memori-
al itself will draw more of a
unity between our veterans
of the community and the
rest of the community
itself," said Story. "I feel like
the town of Little Elm has
given me so much that I
want to give back. And in
talking to other veterans,
it’s a mutual feeling.”
Kahler, who served in
the U.S. Air Force and
Army, was among 250
motorcyclists who met the
traveling wall in Durant,
Okla., and rode with it to
Denison in July.
“It was an honor and a
privilege for us to do that,”
he said, adding that 58,000
perished in what historians
Turn to VETERANS’, Page 4A
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
The Colony High
School may have lost its
Homecoming game to
Lewisrille 23-6, but that
didn’t dampen the week’s
festivities.
That’s particularly true
for an event that has tradi-
tionally been doused by
the rain in recent years,
according to one student
“It was the first time in
two years that is has not
rained at the game,” said
Brittany Womack, a TCHS
junior.
The game saw the coro-
nation of the Homecoming
king and queen. Students
voted Tiffany Poe as the
queen and David Garcia as
the king of the
Homecoming festirities.
Friday’s coronation
was one of a number of
events that surrounded
the weekend.
Thursday evening start-
ed with the Homecoming
parade down Blair Oaks
Drive near the school.
TCHS students, as well as
students from feeder
schools, marched down
the road in various cos-
tumes and transportation.
Womack said her
favorite float was a John
Deere tractor sort of float,
which she described as
“cool.” She marched in the
parade as part of the drill
team.
Students then congre-
gated for a pep rally and a
carnival.
Friday night saw the
football game and corona-
tion of the court. Saturday
hosted the Homecoming
Dance.
Chamber steps back
om relief
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
Even with the demands of hur-
ricane relief rising with evacuees
from Hurricane Rita, The Colony
Chamber of Commerce is remov-
ing itself directly from relief
efforts.
The Chamber, which has
served as a coordinating agency
for those driven from their Gulf
Coast homes by Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, is still handing
out some leftover gas cards, but
after that point, it will refer calls
to the agencies that operate local-
ly.
“We’ll refer to the churches
and United Way, agencies that
provide local support,” said
Allison Mihavics of The Colony
Chamber.
The relief system that has been
set up to take care of evacuees
will continue in place, Mihavics
said. The chamber’s Web site,
www.thecolonyrelief.com, will
also remain up for the time being.
Mike Oestreicher, a New
Orleans evacuee who has been
working for the chamber as volun-
teer coordinator, said it was time
orts
for the chamber to concentrate on
its normal business.
“They've been putting every-
thing they’ve been doing on the
back burner, and that isn’t good
for the community,” Oestreicher
said. “This little chamber in this
little community has bent over
backwards to accommodate
[evacuees]."
Oestreicher has been joined by
Melanie Pennington, who helped
coordinate medical services, as
well as countless volunteers
throughout the city who have
pitched in to help their neighbors.
Oestreicher said the city has
received a new influx of evacuees
from the Beaumont area.
He said the new evacuees have
had to deal with only the leftovers
from the Katrina survivors, and
said they had a shorter window in
which to apply for Federal
Emergency Management Agency
grants, making it more difficult
for them to get relief money.
Oestreicher said he thinks that
stems as fallout from the large
amount of help that was dedicat-
ed to the Katrina survivors.
“They’re just not getting the
kind of outpouring,” Oestreicher
said.
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