The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Page: 3 of 31
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Military Notes
Sheriff’s Office recognized
Allen
Army Pvt. David C. Allen has
graduated from Basic Combat
Training at Fort Knox, Kent.
During the nine-week training
period, the trainee received
instruction in drill and ceremony,
weapons, rifle marksmanship
and bayonet training, chemical
warfare, field training and tacti-
cal exercises, armed and
unarmed combat, military cour-
tesy, military justice, physical fit-
ness, first aid, and Army history,
traditions, and core values.
Allen is the son of Michael
Allen of Allen, and Michele Ely of
The Colony.
The private is a 2003 graduate
of The Colony High School.
Eanes
Midshipmen Lauren Eanes,
currently attending the United
States Naval Academy in
Midshipman Lauren Eanes
course is sponsored by the
Language Studies Department,
includes university summer ses-
sions, study tours, exchange vis-
its, and limited translator-intern
duties.
The first segment of LSAP-
Japan is a study trip to the
Annapolis, Md. has been selected Japanese Maritime Officer
to participate in the summer of Candidate School (JMOCS) on
2007 Language Study Abroad the historic island of Eta Jima,
Program. The elite immersion Japan. At JMOCS, midshipmen
live in school dormitories with
Japanese midshipmen, observe
their classes and training, and
participate in cultural events
including martial arts (Judo,
Kendo), tea ceremony, museum
visits, and day trips to Hiroshima
and Miyajima.
For the final segment of
LSAP-Japan, midshipmen live
with families of active and
retired Japan Maritime Self-
Defense officers. Between
immersion in Japanese military
and home environments through
the JMOCS and home-stay, LSAP
participants travel to historical
and cultural points of interest in
Nagasaki, Kyoto, Tokyo, and
Yokosuka. This language study
program will be funded by
Olmsted gift or government
funds.
MIDN Eanes is an alumnus of
the JROTC Cougar Battalion and
a 2004 graduate of The Colony
High School. She will complete
her education at the United
States Naval Academy in May
2008.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Denton County Sheriff’s
Office has been recognized as a
patriotic employer by the Office of
the Secretary of Defense.
Denton County Sheriff Benny
Parkey received a “My Boss is a
Patriot” certificate from the
National Committee for the
Support of the Guard and Reserve
as a result.
Investigator Shawn Clary, who
served a year in Afghanistan in the
Army National Guard, nominated
Sheriff Parkey for the certificate.
“He was constantly reassuring
and offering any assistance while I
was deployed,” Clary said on the
nominating form, “He views ser-
vice members as assets and as a
benefit to the Sheriff’s Office, even
though long periods of absence
are required.”
More than a dozen employees
of the Sheriff’s Office have served
in Iraq or Afghanistan over the
past four years. For information
about the Employer Support of the
Guard and Reserve, go to http://
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Memorial Day holiday
speeding crackdown
The Denton County Sheriffs
Office will be working overtime to
increase its traffic patrols and
crack down on speeders during
the week before and the week
after Memorial Day, May 21
through June 4. The increased
patrols will concentrate on U.S.
Highway 377, Farm-to-Market
Road 455, U.S. Highway 380, State
Highway 121, and Interstate
Highway 35.
Overtime hours for more patrol
deputies will be paid for be a state
grant from the Texas Department
of Transportation’s Selective
Traffic Enforcement Program. The
program is a year-long effort to
slow speeding drivers by concen-
trated enforcement of the speed
limit laws to decrease crashes,
injuries and fatalities during peak
traffic seasons.
The Sheriff’s Office has
received the $15,000 grant to pay
the overtime costs for deputies to
patrol roads with the highest per-
centages of speeders, as shown by
a survey done last year. Money
from the grant also has been and
will be used to increase patrols
during other holiday periods in
2007.
“This is part of a cumulative
effort that we hope will have a last-
ing impact,” said Sheriff’s Office
Patrol Capt. Mike Caley.
“Memorial Day is the first big holi-
day going into the summer, and
traffic accidents always increase
as a result of more people on the
roads traveling to meet friends and
family. We’re all trying to make
that experience a safer one by pre-
venting as many accidents as pos-
sible.”
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