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Dobie’s Class of ‘82
plans 10-year reunion
Page 4A
Preview the ‘92
boys, girls soccer season
Page 1B
2 CBHS cheerleaders
return from London trip
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January 23, 1992
“The Voice of Community-Minded People’
Vol 23 Number 50
Williams library to get books
Commissioners Court approved on Tuesday $600,000 to purchase books for
the Parker Williams Library proposed for the corner of Beamer Road at Scarsdale
Boulevard adjacent to existing county offices.
County librarian Catherine Park hopes the libary will open before the first of
next year.
The money will purchase an opening-day collection Park said will be the most
quality collection a county library has ever opened with. “We were so thrilled they
gave us the money we asked for.” She added that the shelves will not be filled at
the library’s opening.
Park should know in March if she will be able to hire a librarian and assistant
to begin duties in May or June.
Thompson picked for state study
Thompson Intermediate School is one of 82 in the state selected by the Texas
Educaton Agency to participate in a state program which will waive state education
regulations to allow a more innovative approach in an effort to boost student achieve-
ment, it was announced in Austin this week.
Texas Education Commissioner Skip Meno, who will meet with Thompson prin-
cipal Vickie Thomas in Austin later this week, said the Partnership Schools Initiative
seeks to “jump start the process of education reform by taking away real or perceived
barriers.”
The proposed programs will be developed in conjunction with the TEA.
CCISD early dismissal Tuesday
Tuesday, Jan. 28, will be an early dismissal day for all students in the Clear
Creek Independent School District.
Community prayer service set
Ministers of the South Belt Alliance of Churches will exchange pulpits this Sun-
day, Jan. 26, in observance of the annual Christian Unity Week. In addition, a com-
munity prayer service will be held Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Luke’s Catholic Church
11011 Hall Road.
The focus of this year’s Christian Unity Week is “Remember, I Am With You
Always” from Matthew 28:19-20. The pulpit exchange will have the Rev. Susan
Bryan of Sagemont Presbyterian Church preaching at St. Luke’s, the Rev. Dominic
Pistone of St. Luke’s will be at Cokesbury United Methodist Church, the Rev. Allison
Cambre of Cokesbury will be at Kirkwood South Christian Church, and the Rev.
Herb Linskey of Kirkwood South will preach at Sagemont Presbyterian.
For further information, calls may be directed to any member church of the
South Belt Alliance of Churches.
Creek school board meets
The Clear Creek school board held a special meeting Tuesday to canvass elec-
tion returns. Committee reports on year-round schools, facilities and technology
were also given.
The regular monthly meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. at the
district administration building, 17045 El Camino Real at Gemini.
Spaghetti supper set at CBHS
A spaghetti supper will be held Friday, Jan. 24, at Clear Brook High School,
located at 4607 FM 2351, from 5 to 7 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Celebrities
drill team.
Adult dinners will sell for $5, and children’s will be $3. The Celebrities will
also perform at the dinner.
Scarsdale civic club to meet
Peace officers from Constable Gary Freeman’s office will answer questions
at the regular monthly meeting of the Scarsdale Civic Association at 7 p.m. at the
Scarsdale Park Pavilion on Monday, Jan. 27.
Registration for the constable patrol sponsored by the association will also be
available.
Project Graduation to meet
Anyone interested in the Dobie High School Project Graduation is asked to at-
tend a meeting Monday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the school’s automat.
Slinging burgers for the team
Members of the Clear Brook High School Celebrities drill team will serve food
to patrons at Burger King on Bay Area Boulevard at Baybrook Mall, Wednesday,
Jan. 29, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Burger King will donate 20 percent of the night’s proceeds to the Celebrities.
Choir Night set at SHHS
South Houston High School will hold its Choir Night on Tuesday, Jan. 28,
in the school’s auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
In addition to featuring the high school choirs, selected choirs from Miller,
Queens and South Houston intermediates will be featured.
Hughes light expected by Feb. 1
The signalization project being constructed on Hughes Road at Beamer is ex-
pected to be operational by Feb. 1, according to Metro’s Mark Lupher
The signal light is a project of Metro and the city of Houston. The contractor
has applied for power to Houston Lighting and Power and is also awaiting an op-
tical detector. -
PISD adopts ‘92- ‘93 calendar
Trustees of the Pasadena Independent School District at their Jan. 21 meeting
approved the following schedule for the 1992-93 school year:
Classes start..
Labor Day holiday..................................
Student holiday/teacher inservice, election day
Thanksgiving holidays..............................
Christmas holidays...................................
Spring break...........................................
Good Friday holiday.................................
Last day of classes..................................
...........Aug. 20
.............Sept. 7
.............Nov. 3
.Nov. 25, 26, 27
...Dec. 21-Jan. 1
......March 15-19
.............April 9
............May 27
Pasadena School Board Election Results
Polling
Place
Dobie
Pasadena
Rayburn
South Houston
Absentee at
Adm. Bldg.
Absentee at
Dobie
Absentee by
Totals
Marshall
Kendrick*
Position 6
Danny
Barfield
Allen
Evans
Vickie
Morgan*
Position 7
Robert
Andrews
Michael
Gilmore
Total
Voting
Clear Creek
slates Feb. 15
runoff election
154
175
445
178
196
23
0
1,171
95
181
226
72
91
17
0
682
186
186
233
20
446
122
270
99
76
22
1
776
239
506
213
221
27
0
1,392
184
371
123
112
34
0
1,057
*Top vote-getter for each position is the winner
45
63
12
32
1
1
174
491
956
353
369
63
1
2,679
Trustees vote at Tuesday meeting
Orozco new PISD board president
Two newcomers face each other in a Feb.
15 runoff election for Position 4 on the
Clear Creek school board while incumbent
Sherrie Matula narrowly missed a runoff
following Saturday’s voting.
In the race for the Position 4 seat which
was not sought by incumbent Jim Larrabee.
Dana Kelley, 34, led all voters with 2,573
votes. Leo Sarabia, 48, garnered 2,396
votes. Kelley, an engineering manager, will
vie once again with Sarabia, a customer
service manager.
A third candidate in the race, Roger Par-
sons, 48, received 288 votes.
In the Position 3 contest, Matula secured
a majority with 2,850 ballots, edging out
Walter Medsger, who received 2,363
votes. Jeff Williams, 21, got 101 ballots.
The 40-year-old Matula, a former first-
grade teacher in the district, owns a com-
puter company with her husband. Medsger,
28, is an attorney, and Williams is a law
clerk.
At the Weber polling place, Sarabia, with
77 votes, was top vote-getter. Kelley
received 33 votes in that contest, and Par-
sons got 12.
Medsger tallied 73 votes at Weber, and
Matula received 57. Williams got 2.
Carmen Orozco was elected president of tions to five intermediates, including Bever- Trustees said instead of giving the Mar- Tie 1 1
the Pasadena school board at the regular ly Hills. Dyad Construction is the contrac- tin Luther King holiday, they would like F red employee
monthly board meeting Tuesday night. tor for that project. to see educational programs on King of-.
Though the board normally meets the Trustees also adopted a calendar for the fered to students on that day. charoec harassing
fourth Tuesday, it met a week earlier to 1992-93 school year and for summer The first summer school session will € 5 - 5
canvass election results. Denny Delafield school. begin at South Houston High on June 8,
will be the board vice president, with The ’92-’93 calendar (see calendar on with the last day of classes June 26. The A Highland Meadow woman appeared at
Vickie Morgan serving as secretary and this page) calls for school to begin Thurs- second session begins July 6 and ends July Commissioners Court on Tuesday, charg-
Harvey Turner as assistant secretary, day, Aug. 20, and end Thursday, May 27. 24. ing sexual harassment in the Precinct 2 con-
It allows an additional Wednesday holiday Tuition will be $85 for in-district stable s office.
In other action, trustees awarded bids for before Thanksgiving. Christmas holi- students. Mariam Willis a 40-year-old divorcee
construction of a new intermediate school days begin Dec. 21, with students return- Trustees also approved changing this was fired Jan. 14 fir m her civil clerk s job
and for additions to five other in- ing Jan. 4. Spring break will be the week year’s graduation dates. Because Dobie will in the office where he has worked for the
termediates. The construction projects will of March 15. hold its graduation away from Phillips Field past two years. ,
use up the last of bond moneys approved Again in 1993, there will be no holiday House (at Hofheinz Pavilion),, there will no According to Wi s statement, she was
by a $40 million bond issue in 1990. for Martin Luther King Day. Most area longer be a Sunday graduation. South transferred to a less advantageous job after
Temple and Associates will build a new school districts have a teacher workday on Houston High School’s graduation will cooperating with the district attorney s in-
intermediate south of Fairmont Parkway that Monday, but the Pasadena district opts move to Saturday, May 30, at 10 a.m. vestigation into wrongdoing in Constable
near the beltway at a cost of $7 8 million to have two consecutive early dismissal Pasadena High will graduate the Friday Gary Freeman 5 office. .
Also costing $7.8 million will be addil days instead, night of May 29. CpXteSS
ca, teased her in a sexual manner, prompt-
• ing her to file a grievance.
1 011 AT C During the grievance procedure, Willis
refused to furnish information she had
given to the district attorney regarding
wrongdoing in Freeman's office.
Her failure to reveal the information to
Filing closes for
By Cheryl Bolen Holly Hall. No Republicans filed when fil- rison of Houston has filed against him. Freeman’s staff resulted in her firing.
Though the March primary promises ing closed Jan. 10. • In the race for state Senate, District 11, In Freeman’s le .er of termination to
some hotly contested races, one area • Judge Howard Wayland has filed for Pasadena incumbent Chet Brooks is being Willis, he wrote, “Due to your unwill-
lawmaker is virtually re-elected months re-election to Justice of the Peace for challenged by Jerry Patterson of the South ingness to cooperai with our investigation
before the November election. Precinct 2, a post he has held since 1980. Belt area. Brooks, who has served 30 years and substantiate these serious allegations,
County Commissioner El Franco Lee, a The Democrat is being opposed by in the Legislature, is a Democrat; Patter- I find that this agency no longer has need
Democrat, is the only candidate to file for Democrat Josefina Rendon of 7015 Gulf son is a Republican. of your services.”
commissioner for Precinct 1. Freeway and Republicans Janice Law and • Running for Congress for District 22 Following Willis’ statement at Commis-
All of the other candidates hoping to Danny Perkins. will be incumbent Republican Tom DeLay, sioners Court, Commissioner El Franco
represent the South Belt area have drawn • Incumbent Precinct 2 Constable Gary who is opposed by Democrat Richard Lee asked Willis i she was aware of the
opposition for the March 10 primary. Freeman is being opposed by predecessor Konrad of Houston. district attorney investigation and if she had
• Redistricting has forced long-time state Paul McClure of Pasadena, Art Molina of • Incumbent Congressman Jack Brooks legal counsel.
Rep. Randy Pennington from his former 9406 Redford and Mike Harris of 5123 of District 9 is being challenged in his re- She answered yes to both questions.
District 130. He will now oppose fellow Berrycreek. All are Democrats. election bid by Republican Steven Lee and County udge Jon Lindsay ex-
Republican Mike Jackson of La Porte for • Opposing incumbent Constable Bill Stockman of Webster. Brooks, of Beau- pressed concern over Willis’ situation but
District 129. There is no Democratic can- Bailey, a Democrat, for Precinct 8 across mont, is a Democrat. said Commissioners Court was not an in-
didate in the race. the freeway is Democrat Molly Maneso of Party primaries will be held Super Tues- vestigative agency
• Incumbent state Rep. Al Edwards of Pasadena and Republican Keith Glover of day, March 10. Each party’s candidate Willis said her purpose in appearing
District 146, which now extends to the La Porte. must receive a majority vote. Party runoff before the court wa . to publicize her prob-
South Belt area, is being challenged by • No Republicans oppose incumbent elections will be held the second Tuesday lem in the hopes of ers with similar prob-
fellow, Democrat Levi J. Benton of 2968 Republican state Sen. Buster Brown of of April, and the general election will be lems in Freeman office would come
Lake Jackson, but Democrat Ronnie Har- held the first Tuesday in November. forward.
Robbery, • killing
of storekeeper
at Sagemont home
Two men have been charged and a
juvenile is being held in connection with
the Jan. 15 shooting death of a 54-year-old
market owner at his home in the 10900
block of Sagepark.
Phuoc Ba Nguyen, 19, of the 135 block
of Gaby Virbo, and Jerry Deal, 20, of the
9200 block of Bellwood were charged with
aggravated robbery, and their bond has
been set at $200,000.
The two men and the juvenile allegedly
entered the home of Le Duc Nguyen as he
counted the day’s receipts from his market,
Fish Grocery in the 11300 block of
Homestead in northeast Harris County.
According to police, the young men
knocked down the victim’s wife as she
opened the door to take out the trash near
11 p.m. Le Duc Nguyen then fired a gun
at the assailants, who returned fire.
Le, Duc Nguyen suffered two gunshot
wounds to the head and died at the scene.
One of the suspects, Phuoc Ba Nguyen,
was shot but managed to flee on foot. The
suspects stole an undisclosed amount of .
money. 1 fh f Economic Leaders
While police investigated the shooting •
after Nguyen’s wife called 911, they re-
ceived a report of a man staggering into the County Judge Jon Lindsay, left, chats with, from left, John roads being built in e South area at d pro talked on
Stop N Go on Hall Road, apparently suf- Moon, Joe Armstrong and Alvin Reed following the South the prison system. Moon,of Moon Capi an undate on Metro
feting from a gunshot wound. Belt-Ellington Chamber of Commerce Economic Leadership economic issues, and Metro s R g P
That man was taken to Ben Taub Breakfast on Jan. 21. Armstrong is chamber president, and programs affecting the South Be are . , Flickinger
Hospital where he was arrested. the other three spoke at the breakfast. Lindsay talked about -coy
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