The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 20, 1991 Page: 1 of 20
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Lady Eagles hope to avoid Memory Lane — Page 11A
Wednesday
November 20, 1991
Volume 22, Number 92
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Allen, Texas
Draining day
Calendar option expands
By MARK HUTCHISON
Managing editor
School districts across Texas
watched Monday night as the Allen
Independent School District Board
of Education approved expanding
the single-track year-round calendar
in place at Waughan Elementary
School to the other four elementary
campuses.
The board also added a second
single-track calendar at Vaughan
next year with the intention of con-
verting it to a multitrack system in
1993-94.
Allen students were the first in
the state to attend year-round clas-
ses when they reported to Vaughan
in August. On the present single-
track calendar, students take one-
month breaks in November, March
and July.
In a multitrack system, students
begin school at different intervals so
vacations fall at different times. In
this way, one group is always out on
vacation, maximizing the efficiency
of the facility.
Also on Monday, the board
approved the idea of adopting the
multiple-track systems in the future.
No parents attended Monday’s
meeting.
AISD adopted the year-round
concept to optimize space at the
elementary level and to delay the
School board determines
budget process schedule
By MARK HUTCHISON
Managing editor
The Allen Independent School
District Board of Education adopted
a timeline Monday night for deter-
mining its 1992-93 budget.
Changes in the public school fund-
ing laws have altered the way dis-
tricts determine budgets. Despite
the uncertainties surrounding
monies to be received, school dis-
tricts are still required to have a
budget in place when school starts in
the fall.
Although AISD’s timeline does
not set a date for adoption of the
district’s 1992-93 budget and tax
rate — those dates will be deter-
mined later — it does call for four
workshops next year.
need for construction of a new
elementary school indefinitely.
Trustees decided to take five
additional steps next year:
■The four remaining elementary
campuses — Reed, Boyd, Rountree
and Story — will be transitioned to a
Trustees will meet in January to
determine needs and priorities, in
March to determine staffing needs,
in June to determine salary require-
ments and in July to discuss the
proposed budget.
“We could wait until August to
start working on our budget, but our
experience has shown that some of
our best program decisions come in
May,” Superintendent Gene Daven-
port said. “The proposed approach
would be ideal as far as programming
is concerned.”
Davenport said the plan, if fol-
lowed literally, may require the
board of trustees to make some de-
cisions before it is ready to make
Turn to BUDGET, Page 4A
YRE program identical to the one in
place at Vaughan; each may be con-
verted to multitrack system as
needed in the future.
■An additional track will be added
at Vaughan so the school can be con-
verted to a multitrack system in
1993-94.
■A traditional track will be main-
tained on each campus.
■Boundary changes, the use of
portable buildings and temporary
sixth-grade adjustments to middle
school(s) as needed to avoid over-
crowding will be considered.
■YRE at the secondary level will
be studied.
Trustees pointed out that AISD
will have two single tracks and a tra-
ditional track at Vaughan next year,
which is not a true multitrack sys-
tem. None of the benefits of a multit-
rack system will be realized until the
school is converted in 1993-94.
In other action related to growth,
the board tabled a plan to set up a
citizens committee to study the dis-
trict’s needs and recommend solu-
tions. Trustees tabled the item after
rejecting the idea of setting up guide-
lines for the committee.
“What was proposed was for the
committee to validate that we need a
bond election,” Superintendent
Gene Davenport said. “The board
felt like we should charter the com-
mittee to study the needs without
guidelines so it can make its own
determinations.”
The board will consider the re-
vised plan of action for the citizens
Turn to GROWTH, Page 4A
Beth Richardson/Staff photo
Amanda Blair lets her emotions go after finishing the state
’ cross country race at Southwestern University in Georgetown
on Saturday.
Cross country team
makes great strides
By BRET BLOOMQUIST
Sports writer
GEORGETOWN — Allen girls
cross country coach Steve Whif-
fen expected the UIL state cham-
pionships to be tough. But
evidently few people had a true
idea of exactly how tough the race
would be.
Two days of rain made the nor-
mally difficult course at South-
western University an absolute
killer, and a trio of darkhorse
teams knocked off favorites High-
land Park, Georgetown and Allen.
The Lady Eagles, ranked third
coming in, ran a solid race but
Turn to TOUGH, Page 11A
Naming park on council agenda
By MARK HUTCHISON
Managing editor
Morningside Park? Bethany Lakes Park?
Allen City Council will try out the sound of
those names and 25 others suggested for the
city’s newest park when it meets Thursday to
name the site.
The regular Council meeting is scheduled to
begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Municipal Annex at One
Butler Circle.
The two names top the list recommended by
the Allen Parks and Recreation Board and the
development subcommittee for the 50-acre park
at Bethany and Hillside drives.
The parks department sponsored the contest
to generate public interest in the project and to
come up with the best name for the facility.
The board selected its top choices based on
popular vote. Names that met the minimum
criteria were eligible. Other names submitted for
consideration are: Allen Community Park,
Bethany Bayou, Bethany Lakes, Chain-of-Lakes,
Citizens, Community, Desert Storm Park, Fami-
ly, Heritage Park, Hillside Haven and Homestead
Park.
Also, Morningside Park, Lineage, Mustang
Branch, Mustang Park, Mustang School House,
Sam Barr Park,' Serenity Shores, Spring Hollow,
Spring Lake, Sunrise Park, Tranquility Lakes,
Tranquility Trails, Tres Lagos and Veterans
Park.
Also on the council’s Thursday agenda is
approval of the substance abuse prevention office
yearly work plan and a public hearing on a request
to annex 149 acres of land south of State Highway
121 and east of the proposed Rowlett Road ex-
tension.
The yearly work plan for the Allen Substance
Abuse Prevention program reflects the mission
statement adopted by the ASAP steering com-
mittee at a strategic planning session in March
1990 and reaffirmed in the August 1991 planning
meeting.
According to the mission statement, ASAP is
dedicated to promoting positive family relations
and increasing productivity in the workplace, and
developing happy, healthy, drug-free children
and adults by supporting existing programs and
activities that will foster greater community
awareness and involvement in order to prevent,
reduce and disrupt the use of alcohol and other
drugs.
The yearly work plan must also be approved by
the Allen Independent School District Board of
Education at its next regular meeting.
The public hearing will be held to consider a
request by Robert J. Johnson to annex 149 acres
referred to as Johnson Center. Allen residents
wishing to speak for or against the annexation are
invited to the hearing.
The council will also consider two items on the
consent agenda:
■authorization of solicitation of bids for em-
ployee uniform service:
. "approval of an ordinance abandoning a portion
of the sanitary sewer line easement within the
Cottonwood Bend North subdivision.
Newest member of Allen clergy
to conduct Thanksgiving Service
By PEGGY
HELMICK-RICHARDSON
Staff writer
T Allen Ministerial Alliance will pro-
Wide a time for all members of the
community to worship together at an
Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service
Monday.
Guest preacher for this year’s
service will be the newest member
of the Allen clergy, the Rev. Christ-
ianne McKee, vicar for All Saints
Episcopal Church. She will be
assisted by other area clergy.
The Thanksgiving Service is
D)_____
scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.
Monday at First Christian Church,
101 N. Allen Drive. Refreshments
will be served afterward.
Choir members for this event will
comprise any singers wishing to par-
ticipate and will be under the gui-
dance of the new choir director of
First United Methodist Church of
Allen, Rita Yoes. Rehearsal will be
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The Rev. McKee said she is ex-
cited and honored to be asked to
preach for this service. She came to
All Saints Episcopal Church on Sept.
1.
“It is wonderful to be in a com-
munity where the various churches
cooperate and worship together,”
she said.
The Thanksgiving Ecumenical
Service has a long history in Allen,
said the Rev. Dick Senter of First
Baptist Church, Allen.
“I’ve been here 22 years,” he
said, “and they had it when I arrived.
At that time only three churches par-
ticipated in it.”
Ten churches are involved in this
year’s event.
Good
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By VALERIE BARNA
Staff writer
■Because of a $9.1 billion shortfall of
funds for projected roadway needs,
the North Central Texas Council of
Governments has begun a study to
determine the feasibility of tollroads
in the area. See story, Page 10A.
■An open house and reception for
Collin County Community College’s
new law lab and model office will be
held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the
lab. See story, Page 10A.
Direct questions for Readers
Ask...to Mark Hutchison at 727-
3352.
. For a complete list of The Allen Amer-
1 ican AccessLine information services,
| see Page 4A.
The word “condom” is omitted or
scarcely mentioned in classroom
teaching about AIDS in most area
school districts.
Condom use is discussed briefly in
the Allen Independent School Dis-
trict as it is in Plano, where the dis-
trict uses a detailed, 78-page AIDS
instruction addendum to its biology
curriculum.
Emphasis has been placed on
AIDS education in school districts
around the country since basketball
superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson
announced this month that he has
tested positive for the HIV virus re-
sponsible for the onset of the AIDS
virus. There is no cure for the deadly
disease.
In the Allen ISD, curriculum
director David Olson said “we don’t
have a set, boxed program” as an
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn-
drome curriculum. ..
Instruction about the killer-virus
is interspersed throughout the
health curriculum, he said, and in-
struction is geared to the maturity
level of the students.
AIDS instruction begins in the
first grade in Allen.
As to AIDS prevention, absti-
nence is taught in Allen classrooms.
The spread of the disease through
“dirty needles” and from an infected
mother to an unborn child is men-
tioned, but “the degree of detail de-
pends on the age of the children,”
according to Olson.
“Safe sex” through use of a con-
dom is discussed in the advanced
health class open to juniors and
seniors. Enrollment is limited to ab-
out 10 percent of the students, said
Olson. He added that to his know-
ledge, discussion of condoms is not
part of formal instruction for 90 per-
cent of Allen High School students.
“It’s considered ‘safe sex,’ but the
message we intend to give is that
abstinence is the accepted norm,”
Olson said. “I don’t know of any time
that a condom has been brought into
the classroom.”
“Abstinence is our policy” in re-
Turn to AIDS, Page 4A
St. Louis blues
In the Allen High School production of Meet Me
In St. Louis, Rose Smith, center, played by Star-
la Leonard, begs forgiveness from her father for
causing him to lose his job as her mother looks
on. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are played by Jeff Day
Janice Hirmon/Staff photo
and Jenny Dawes. The play is being performed
at the Allen High School auditorium at 8:15 p.m.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets may be
purchased during lunch at the high school,
Ford Middle School or at the door.
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