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During his unsuccessful race don’t come home. again. He ought to tell Texas vot-
for president, Gramm missed key Think what you will about ers if he plans on serving a full-
__Senate votes and Texans rarely Gramm’s personal eccentricities. term if he is re-elected.
7 . saw him 111 Texas. He had one of No one ever claimed that he was MavhX potato will 1-11 name the
From 4A the worst attendance records in the most charismatic character to ybe er l.t h h
whether Morales was angry when the U.S. Senate, ever represent the Lone Star same thing they did when he
Lloyd Bentsen and Lyndon When he was campaigning in State. switched parties: they trust him
Baines Johnson left the Senate to Iowa, Gramm missed casting the But personalities aside, and his decisions no matter what
5 - take higher office. . deciding vote to break a filibuster Gramm’s integrity commands his political affiliation or what
“I bet you not,” Neal said. “This on an overhaul of farm programs respect for at least this reason: In office he’s running for.
is a pledge reserved for crucial to Texas. Gramm claimed 1983, when then Congressman He’d also have to take the
/ Republicans but not applicable to the vote was a setup by his presi- Gramm switched political parties, chance that Texas could say they
Democrats. . , , dential rivals, and that was proba- he resigned the post to which he want a full-time senator who
4 What's lost in the bickering is bly true — but it still happened. was elected as a Democrat, then wouldn’t be distracted he pieeh
: the fact that Texans deserve an But what wasn’t a setup is that ran in the special election as a wouldn’t be distracted by seeking
1 honest answer about any of their according to Secretary of the Republican. the presidency — two years
representative’s future plans — Senate office expense reports, He was re-elected. And his before his senate term is up.
‘ whether the candidate is a Gramm spent only 16 days in decision to give his constituents Either way, Texas voters
Democrat or Republican. Texas in 1994 and nine in 1995 the chance to give thumbs up or should get an answer. Not
They deserve the answer not doing work for Texans. down to his party-switching candi- because Morales wants it, but
because Morales brought it up, Gramm supporters say those dacy showed class rarely seen in because voters deserve it.
but because voters deserve the figures are wrong by at least 50 Texas politics.
chance to decide whether or not it percent. But even at that it’s hard Gramm should have that same Steve Ray is capital bureau chief for
is an issue. to represent Texas when you kind of faith in his constituents Harte-Hanks Austin Bureau.
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Animals
Retreat
Carson stated their opposition to
spending Parker tax money to
defeat the annexation of proper-
.ty by Murphy.
From 4A Jim Carson’s disdain for
More disturbing, than these Parker’s City Council and the
errors, however, is Mitchell’s previous administration is well
failure to include viewpoints on known to Parker residents who
Letters
> From 1A
Collin County. They’ve already
< secured the proper insurance and
permits to host field trips and
have prepared a 90-minute educa-
tional program called “Fun on the
Farm,” designed to teach the
basics of farming to young chil-
. dren.
A pilot session with third-
graders from Story Elementary
last year went well, Keeley Helton
- said — so well that she wants to
build a business of it.
Helton, who showed horses for
; a professional trainer in her teens,
’ said her collection of animals is
• just too diverse to keep to herself.
I “Everytime we went out shop-
. ping, we’d see a new chicken with
a wild hair-do, or a goat,” she said.
’ Helton’s husband, Curtis, had
1 his own explanation for the
I menagerie.
| “You wouldn’t quit buying ani-
| mals,” he said.
The enjoyment in the faces of
4 her children, Leann, 10, and
| Jeremy, 9, and their friends made
: Helton realize she’d have a captive
audience if she could just market
, her product.
“Everybody loved coming out
and looking,” she said. “I took
some of the animals out to the
: schools, and the teachers suggest-
ed that I start a business.”
Although the Heltons do work
: for a living — Curtis for Texas
: Instruments and Keeley for
: Columbia Medical City of Dallas
- — animals require great expense,
she said.
“These animals are pretty cost-
ly to maintain,” she said, adding
* that the field trips would provide
: some money to go toward the ani-
; mals.
The program is split up into
three 30-minute blocks. The ideal
I number of children, Helton said,
' is 50 to 70. The group would also
4 split into three smaller groups,
and would rotate through the ses-
1 sions.
Helton conducts a session on
1 horses, and she said she was
‘ -amazed at some of the children’s
J misconceptions during last year’s
: group.
“They thought horses’ feet
, were made of plastic or wood,”
J she said.
L. Helton’s husband takes the
children on a hayride for 30 min-
i utes and his mother, Rachael,
I teaches a 30-minute session on
farm animals.
' During the farm animal ses-
? sion, Helton said children learn
: the differences between goose
: eggs and chicken eggs, of which
: there are several different colors;
' the various types of animal feed;
L ‘and, most importantly, she said,
• what farm animals are really for.
I “The movie ‘Babe’ did a great
1 'disservice to farm animals,” she
said. “Fun on the Farm” teaches
: children that much of the food
. * they eat comes from the animals.
1 . After the 90-minute rotations,
, the children eat lunch under a
, huge willow tree whose branches
/ spread out across the yard.
1. The Heltons have four horses, a
• mule, two turkeys, Clint the pot-
i bellied pig, chickens, ducks, a
> goose, sheep, goats and two
: emus. Plans are in the works to
: buy a miniature pot-bellied pig
: and a llama.
The program is geared toward
j elementary-school-aged children,
? Helton said. For fewer than 50
"= children in a group, the price is $5
per child. For 50 to 70 children,
the price is $3.50 per child.
-Birthday parties, which are about
two to three hours, are $125 for 15
to 20 children. The Heltons pro-
1 vide tables, tableware and table-
cloths, Helton said, adding that at
birthday parties, the children get
to actually ride the horses.
Helton said Clint, the four-
horned Jacob sheep, the oddly-
tressed Polish chickens, and the
% rest of her farm will be ready for
the first field trip of the season by
Sept. 1. Call 390-1933 for informa-
tion.L
to recommend reforming the which is being redeveloped
classification and compensation without enough guidance from
system in the finance and admin- the city government ... the city
From 1A istration department. Handling can use its planning powers ... to
certain goals they want to reach everything from water bills to assist and direct redevelopment
for the next year,” said Linda financial reports, the new soft- ofthe district in the interests of
Vaughan, chief accountant for ware would do all things more all citizens and property own-
the City of Allen. “Its a question efficiently and enhance ser- ers.”
of which projects are most VCESE CLy Manager Jon Other highlights of the pro-
important.” At 000, ten •. 6. j ject summary include $10,000
The proposed Strategic Plan third-highest budget reauest A f°r redesign ofthe traffic signal
Project budget is $196,345. Of 14 City calendar designed to mar at Jupiter Road and Bethany
different headings, including ket the city and promote com- Drive to provide turn arrows, a
unified community vision,” munity services, falls under $500 connect-with-mission con-
city offices and technology,” “informed citizens.” Also at ference between the City
the largest budget request is $15 000 development and a Council and its boards and com-
$36,000 under the heading tion of a plan to define and missions, to be held annually,
“operations,” for a city public rebuild Allen’s central business and, at $2,000, providing the
information officer. district would require additional Internet to library users.
Similar to the spokesman for planning staff with a surveyor Goals included in the summa-
the Allen Independent School and traffic consultants. The dis- ry without dollar amounts
District position, the officer trict, roughly east of U.S. attached include re-evaluating
would “coordinate information Highway 75, west of Cottonwood the need for and design of Civic
and guidance for customers, and Creek, north of Ellis Drive and Plaza, construction of a new City
... coordinate media relations.” south of Whisenant Drive, is, Hall by 2000, and broadcast of
The second-highest request- according to the project summa- City Council meetings on televi-
ed budget at $20,000 is a study ry, “an under-utilized asset sion.
Have something to SELL? Call 422-SELL
the merits of funding the lawsuit have attended council meetings,
beyond those of Edmundson and In fact, Jim Carson recently ran
Jim Carson, for a seat on Parker’s City
Edmundson owns undevel- Council and was soundly defeat-
oped land in Parker’s extra-terri- ed.
torial jurisdiction and in the Many Parker residents
extra-territorial jurisdiction of believe the lawsuit to reclaim
Murphy. Jim Carson owns unde- Parker land annexed by adjacent
veloped land, previously within cities is vital to preserve the
Parker’s extra-territorial jurisdic- character of our community and
tion and subject to Parker’s zon- do support continued funding
ing requirements. Murphy for the lawsuit.
annexed his land pursuant to the Mitchell’s omission of any
legislation that Parker contests viewpoint contrary to those held
in the lawsuit. That legislation by Edmundson and Carson and
was procured by a few owners of her irresponsible failure to point
undeveloped land within out the bias of Edmundson and
Parker’s extra-territorial jurisdic- Carson in this matter did a dis-
tion, hoping to take advantage of service to your readers.
less restrictive zoning in Allen,
Murphy and Wylie. Predictably,
both Edmundson and Jim
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At The Joe Farmer Recreation Center
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TIME: DUSK TO MIDNIGHT
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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/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Allen Public Library.