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VOLUME 26, NO. 16
Around Town
Colony COURIER- LEADER
Sports
Spring
football
Black wins
hard-fought
spring game
— See Page 1B
The Colony Public Library «
6800 Main St.
The Colony, TX 75056-1138
In the Community. With the Community. For the Community.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007
City changes trash,
recycling services
The City of The Colony has
switched to a new trash and
recycling services provider in
a move that will take effect
June 4. See story, Page 12B.
Ugandan choir
to sing in TC
If music is the most univer-
sal form of communication,
then visitors to Trinity |
Presbyterian Church will get a
bit of both Sunday night.
That is when the church
| plays host to the Watoto
| Ugandan Children’s Choir, a ;
traveling Christian choir from
the central African country
I that is on a tour of the United
I States.
The event will take place at
| 7 p.m. at the church, located
at 4700 Nash Drive. The dress
| is casual.
The choir is made up of 18
| singers ranging in age from 6
I to 13 years old, who must
audition for their spots and
the opportunity to travel
i abroad and represent their
| homeland.
I The church was attracted
• to the group because of the
yearly mission to Uganda that
its members take, said Janet
Ohlig, a church member who
| is helping promote the show.
That relationship makes all
! things involving Uganda inter-
I esting to the church. Ohlig
Top of the class
Salutatorian looks back on career
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
Graduation — Page 12A
Council OKs hotel plans
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
The Stroud family is get-
ting some experience in this.
Ethan Stroud has been
named the Salutatorian of The
Colony High School’s class of
2007. Apparently it runs in the
family. His older brother was
also the Salutatorian several
years ago.
Could the family break
through one day and take
that top spot?
“I wanted to, but I could-
n’t beat it,” he said.
With
graduation
approaching, The Colony
High School has named both
its Valedictorian and its
Salutatorian at the head of
its graduation.
The top student in the
Class of 2007 is Laura
Turn to GRADS, Page 12A
Despite some concerns from
residents, The Colony City
Council approved plans for a pair
of hotels in The Cascades of The
Colony development at its meet-
ing Monday night.
With Council Members Joel
Marks, Perry Schrag, and Kirk
Mikulec absent, the remaining
four councilmen voted in favor
of the development and site
plans for the hotels that are part
of the 100-acre development
between Memorial Drive and
State Highway 121.
Plans are for two four-story
hotels — a 104-room Fairfield
Inn and a 102-room Residence
Inn designed for longer stays —
to be built on the interior of the
development’s southeastern
quadrant, adjacent to a traffic
circle and a central park.
Ron Smith, a representative
of the project’s architectural
firm, spoke on behalf of his com-
pany and developer Jackson
Shaw about the project. He
addressed some concerns over
parking and assured the council
that the facility will have plenty
of landscaping.
Smith said the Fairfield Inn
will count on the economic drive
of an on-site event center. The
Residence Inn will cater to new
employees moving into corpo-
rate jobs in nearby communities.
He said the number of travelers
will help the development attract
a better brand of restaurant to
other parts of the development.
“We are very fortunate to be
getting these [hotel] brands to
the Colony,” he said.
Several residents of nearby
homes filed opposition forms
with the city’s planning depart-
ment.
“I believe the hotels will bring
unwanted traffic and problems
into our neighborhood, thus brin-
ing down property values,” wrote
Turn to COUNCIL, Page 12A
Police
catch
murder
suspect
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
A group of Denton County law
| said church members keep enforcement agencies worked
quickly and jointly late last week
I Uganda in their hearts.
I “When it comes to Uganda,
I we’re all about it,” she said.
The church’s minister,
j James Kim, learned of the
| choir’s visit and tour and con-
tacted a person in Florida to
arrange for a performance in |
The Colony, Ohlig said. She
hopes spreading word of the
concert will help it overcome
the timing during the busy
Memorial Day weekend.
Ohlig said the choir “raises
to capture a wanted man.
Law enforcement officials are
seeking help from the public in
finding a murdered woman’s
vehicle after the arrest
Wednesday of a man wanted on
murder charges in Florida.
David Byron Russ. 45, was
arrested after breaking into the
home of a former female
acquaintance in the Cross Oaks
Ranch subdivision just east of
awareness of Uganda's needs
and allow s the children to see
[the West].’ — Kevin Bowen,
Staff writer
Cheerleaders hold
taste test fund-raiser
The Colony High School
cheerleaders are hosting a
taste test fund-raiser at The
Colony High School cafeteria
on from 10:50 a.m. to 4:20 p.m.
June 5.
Everyone attending will be
able to taste test different
kinds of chips, cookies, and
other items at no cost. It
should only take 20 to 30 min-
utes.
Participants between the
ages of 13 and 17 years old
will need to fill out a permis-
sion form prior to taste test-
ing.
The cheerleaders will earn
money with each person that
joins in on the taste test. For
information, send an e-mail to
jonesha@lisd.net or visit
http://tchs.lisd.net.
Cross Roads, near U.S. Highway
380, according to a statement
from the Denton County Sheriffs
Office. The arrest was the prod-
uct of an operation by the
Denton County Sheriffs Office,
the Department of Public Safety,
the Aubrey and Oak Point police
departments, and the Denton
County Precinct 2 Constable’s
Office.
At about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday,
a 9-1-1 call reported that a man
had been seen walking behind a
house in the subdivision, fol-
lowed by the sound of breaking
glass. Officers from those agen-
cies swarmed to the house and
Turn to CAUGHT, Page 10A
PENNY RATHBUN/STAFF PHOTOS
Above, Keegan Arnold as Andrew Rally, left, and David J.
Wallis as Barrymore discuss the finer points of acting in the
Lakeside Community Theatre’s production of Paul Rudnick’s
comedy ‘I Hate Hamlet.’ The show runs at 8 p.m. May 25 and
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. performances on May 26. Above right,
Kari Schouveller as Deirdre and Wallis as John Barrymore
lament they are not in the same plane of existence.
Not-so-special delivery
Woman says new postal facility on
South Colony Blvd. is an early riser
Index
BY KEVIN BOWEN
STAFF WRITER
Loving Hate
‘I Hate Hamlet’ shoots slings,
arrows of outrageous comedy
BY PENNY RATHBUN
STAFF WRITER
If you hate Shakespeare this
is the show for you.
If you had that one English
teacher that ruined Shakespeare
for you by making you analyze
everything including the punctu-
ation in the sonnets, then you
should see Lakeside Community
Theatre’s production of Paul
Rudnick’s comedy “I Hate
Hamlet.” It may not change your
attitude toward Shakespeare,
but you will have spent a thor-
oughly enjoyable evening in the
theatre.
“I Hate Hamlet” is about
Andrew Rally, the star of a TV
medical drama. He has all the
praise and money that being a
TV star provides, but somehow
he is not artistically fulfilled. On
the advice of his agent, Lillian
Troy, he takes the eponymous
role in a New York City
Shakespeare-in-the-park produc-
tion of “Hamlet.”
He has to have a place to live
while starring in the play, so he
rents an apartment in an old, but
prestigious building. The apart-
ment he rents is so prestigious
partly because the 1930s star,
John Barrymore, once lived
there.
As Andrew, Keegan Arnold
has boyish charm to burn. He’s
tentative in the beginning of the
play, seemingly not sure of the
people or things in his surround-
ings. That’s part of the character
Turn to HAMLET, Page 10A
Lake levels still rising
but rationing remains
BY BRIA BOLTON
STAFF WRITER
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‘Early to bed, early to rise”
was a phrase originated by
Benjamin Franklin. Of course,
Franklin also happens to be the
father of the United States Postal
Service.
Those two inventions — the
Postal Service and the “early to
rise” part — are coming together
in an unfortunate way, says
Jeanenne Miles, a resident of
Strickland Ave.
About a month ago, the U.S.
Postal service opened a new
courier annex at 5201 South
Colony Blvd., in a shopping cen-
ter across the street from main
post office.
The center houses local
postal carriers, and it contains
sorting and delivery operations.
That means that mail has to
be delivered to the new annex at
early morning hours, starting
around 3:30 a.m. Miles said.
Miles said that she hears an
assortment of noises. Eighteen-
wheelers roll in and unload their
haul on belts. Beeping noises,
believed to come from trucks in
reverse or machinery, are heard.
Conversations are heard. Once,
a voice came on over a loud-
speaker.
Miles said she has contacted
the postal service about her con-
cerns, and is waiting for a reply.
Miles says she tries to leave
her windows open to catch cool
night air, but it has become diffi-
cult with the noise. She said dogs
in the neighborhood also
respond to the noise.
McKinney Boyd, a spokesman
for the Postal Service, said the
noises are a part of the activity
that needs to take place as part
of mail delivery.
“Anytime that you have peo-
ple, you have vehicles, you have
activities, you have this kind of
peripheral noise,” Boyd said.
“We have to deliver the mail,
and there has to be noise,” he
said.
Miles would prefer if that
noise had not come into a shop-
ping center near her home. She
wonders why the postal annex
wasn’t built somewhere where it
would bother fewer homes.
“I want to see them move the
facility out onto [State] Highway
121,” she said. “I would rather
not be subject to the noise.”
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Although recent rainfall
in North Texas has brought
some relief, the worst
drought since the 1950s
rages on.
The North Texas
Municipal Water District
depends on three reservoirs -
Lake Lavon, Lake Jim
Chapman, and Lake Texoma
- to provide water to many of
those who live in and around
the Dallas-Forth Worth
Metroplex.
As of May 22, Lake Lavon
is almost completely full
with an elevation of 491.35
feet, which is less than a foot
below the conservation pool
level, while Lake Jim
Chapman has an elevation of
only 429.85 feet, over 10 feet
below normal. This is proof
that rainfall doesn’t mean
the end of the drought.
An area is “considered in
a drought anytime your lake
elevation falls below the top
of the conservation pool or
what citizens would refer to
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Lake Jim Chapman, also
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October of 2005 and contin-
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