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H A RTE
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Saturday
August 10, 1996
Vol. 27 No. 3
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Alien, Texas
‘P‘ is for pie
Michell Bolack/Staff photo
• Story Elementary sixth-grader Amanda Stanton ognizing students for achieving an exemplary rat-
prepares to hit Principal Al Breedlove with a plate ing on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills
of whipped cream during a celebration Friday rec- tests.
CC Red Cross gets new director
of health and safety services
By SIMONE SEELEY could think of to solve this dilemma was to
Staff writer become a volunteer and learn the skills so
McKINNEY - After spending three thoroughly that he could teach other peo-
years in Lubbock, Doug Bingman said one ple.
of the first things that struck him about His eventual rise into a paid position
McKinney was how pretty the area was. was a natural progression, Bingman said,
“If you’ve ever been to Lubbock, you’ll just as he thinks coming to McKinney will
understand,” Bingman said. be another positive move.
Bingman is the new director of health “McKinney is a good step for me in my
and safety services for the Collin County career path,” Bingman said. “I want to stay
@d Cross and oversees the CPR training with the organization as long as possible...
and aquatic programs. The Red Cross is a good organization to
Bingman first became involved with the represent.”
Red Cross 13 years ago through a CPR Although Bingman said he had similar
class. After he took the class, Bingman duties at the Red Cross office in Lubbock,
said he wasn’t entirely secure with the because the McKinney office serves a
skills he had learned, and the best way he Turn to RED CROSS, Page 8A
Today’s health-care consumers lean
toward managed health-care plans
By CATHY SPAULDING
Staff writer
figures do not cover other managed care
plans, such as the less-restrictive pre-
With enticing packages offering such ferred provider organizations.
things as $10 doctor visits, $5 prescrip- Carl King, executive director of
tions and free mammograms, managed Prudential Healthcare of North Texas,
care plans are drawing Texas health-care said the market for managed care plans is
consumers by the millions. far more competitive than for traditional
And the numbers are growing. indemnity plans.
• The Texas HMO Association reported a While Prudential still offers such tradi-
345 percent increase in HMO member- tional payment programs, “we are either
ship between 1985 and 1995. Association shrinking or maintaining our indemni-
spokesman Mona Taylor said 1.35 million ties,” King said.
people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are Of the three managed care programs
on HMO plans. That’s more than one-third King’s company offers, the most growth is
of the area’s 4.2 million residents. Those Turn to HMOs, Page 8A
Ian Halperin/Staff photo
Writers’ talk
Bethany L. Hamilton shows off her newly published story,
‘Scary Noises,’ during the Young Author’s Workshop book
party Tuesday at the Allen Library. Hamilton’s book,
along with 11 others written by students in this year’s
workshop, are now available for check-out at the library.
for two area
athletes
Sports
lass
School year off to good start,
despite roadway bottlenecks
By MICHELLE MITCHELL construction projects that some
. Staff writer are blaming for the heavy traffic.
A districtwide increase of Conditions are especially bad
more than 600 students, coupled in front of the high school, as evi-
with the standard first-week-of- denced by calls received by The
school traffic woes, have made Allen American, but Conner said
Allen resemble Dallas at rush they’re really not any worse than
hour, one city official said. they were before the project
Enrollment in Allen schools began.
has grown by 655 students, and “It wasn’t any worse than I
more students means more vehi- thought it would be,” Conner
cles packed onto city streets
already operating at capacity. s related story page ^
“A lot of mothers were taking Seereqrea stor,*
kids to school instead of letting
them ride the bus,” said George
Conner, director of public works, said. “I don’t know that there’s
“It’s always going to be horrible anything we can do.”
the first week of school.” Carroll said that although the
Green Elementary has grown first week of school went smooth-
the most, by 233 students, said ly, the traffic was congested, to
Tim Carroll, spokesman for say the least.
Allen Independent School “I saw the traffic on Jupiter
District. backed up from that intersection
‘Vaughan and Green are the (Jupiter Road and Main Street) to
boomtowns,” he said. Vaughan the ball fields,” he said, adding
grew by 89 more students this that on Main Street the line of
year. vehicles reached Braum’s. “You
Conner said traffic heading can’t tell the kids not to drive,
west, toward Green on Farm-to- What do you do about it?”
Market Road 2170, was bottle- Until four lanes have been
necked at Alma Road. completed in the six-lane expan-
Though the district did not sion project on . Main -
open any new schools, this Street/McDermott Drive/FM
school year has brought street
Turn to CLASS, Page 8A
City officials
retreat to talk
about budget
Cindy Blanchard/Staff photo
The Heltons, a husband and wife team who both grew up in
Allen, are preparing to open their collection of farm animals
to area school children.
un on the Farm
Lucas couple want to share collection
of interesting, educational animals
By MICHELLE MITCHELL
Staff writer
with an attitude crows continuous-
ly, farm owners and animal lovers
LUCAS — Chickens with punk- Curtis and Keeley Helton sense
rock hair-dos and a sheep with something missing — the pitter
four horns are not lab experi- patter of little feet.
ments, but real animals that share The Heltons, both 34, a husband
a farm with a pig named Clint and wife who both grew up in Allen
Eastwood just outside Allen’s city and now live in Lucas, want to
limits. open their collection of farm ani-
As Clint sits sunning himself in mals to the school children of
a big vat of water and a rooster Turn to ANIMALS, Page 5A
By MICHELLE MITCHELL
Staff writer
A three-day competition for money ensued
Friday as heads of city departments, city staff
and council members retreated to Tanglewood
resort on Lake Texoma to talk numbers.
City officials hope to see this year’s annual
budget process end in a reduction in the prop-
erty tax rate for Allen residents of almost 2
cents per $100 valuation.
The proposed rate is 64.8 cents, a decrease
from the current rate of 66.5 cents per $100 val-
uation.
Presentations about Strategic Plan Projects
were made Friday afternoon, running the
gamut from an overall community vision to
redevelopment of the Central Business District.
Today and Sunday, each department director
will make individual budget presentations,
including achievements over the past year and
goals for 1997.
While departments can come up with projec-
tions based on past years and estimated growth
in the individual budgets, Strategic Plan
Projects are sometimes a little less tangible.
While it is relatively easy to put a price on new
software for automation of Joe Farmer
Recreation Center class registration, money
also has to be allocated for management studies
and training to promote creative thinking.
“They have certain issues they have come up
with, usually at the Spring Planning Session,
that the council wanted to see proposed to meet
Turn to RETREAT, Page 5A
Soaring voter registration helps
GOP, but Democrats stake claim
By MICHAEL BRICK GOP candidates. ’ dents may fit the GOP profile of
Harte-Hanks Austin Bureau Party leaders hope that affluent voters, Collin County is
AUSTIN — Collin County’s strength will bring big-name state “an independent voting area.”
surge in voter registration since campaigns to the area. “We don’t vote in herds,” said
1992 will break normal voting pat- “This county has grown so Linda Ashton, a Plano resident
terns and strengthen the much and the people that move and member of the state
Republican Party’s hold, analysts here are the kind that go out and Democratic Executive
say. But Democrats are quietly vote,” said Jerry Yancey, chair- Committee. “We do have afford-
attracting statewide political fig- man of the Collin County able housing in Plano. I think
ures to the conservative North Republican Party. “More attention (motor voter laws that have made
Dallas suburbs. is going to be focused on us registration easier) actually help
Local party and state officials because we go out and vote and Democrats because only
warn that increased registration we vote Republican.” Republicans would register
won’t necessarily translate to The job market has attracted “a before.’
votes at the polls. But party offi- certain kind of ex-Californian” Collin County Democrats have
cials hope the increased interest with a “higher-educated, upscale” drawn recent visits from state
will bring more statewide cam- outlook, said Daron Shaw, a pro- leaders, like former Texas
paigners to the county. fessor of government at the Democratic Party chairman Bill
Republican growth since the University of Texas at Austin. White, and a scheduled appear-
1992 presidential election has Those voters are drawn, to the ance Saturday by State Treasurer
analysts and party leaders consid- Republican Party, he said.. Martha Whitehead.
ering Collin County a lock for But Democrats say while resi- Turn to voters, Page 8A
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Watterson, Tim. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 10, 1996, newspaper, August 10, 1996; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688490/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.