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Cedar Hill Today
Vol. 43 No. 39
Cedar Hill's oldest
Three races contested
By STEVE SNYDER
News Editor
It's officially elections time in Cedar Hill
Independent School District and the city of
Cedar Hill..
Places 6 and 7, which are currently held
by Dr. Mike Marshall and Sonya Grass, re-
spectively, are on the ballot for the Cedar Hill
ISD election. Grass and Marshall are both
running for re-election; Cassandra Cooper
and Quintella Downs are running against
Marshall, and perennial candidate James
Charles is running against Grass. '
The Cedar Hill City Council has called for
elections for Places 1 and 4, currently held by
Mayor Pro Tern Corey Spillman and Coun-
cilman Greg Patton. Spillman has filed to run
for re-election for his seat. Patton has already
announced he is retiring; so far, Chris Parvin,
Wallace Swayze and Mike Holley have offi-
cially filed to run for his spot.
Municipal and school board elections are
May 9. Cedar Hill Today offers each candi-
date the chance to run a 3 00-word, self-writ-
ten story with mugshot photo. Contact cedar
hill@todaynewspapers.net.
Headed to state
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Today photos by STEVE SNYDER
Longhorn senior Shawn Glover cuts the
nets in Fort Worth after Cedar Hill's Re-
gion I title win over Duncanville. Fellow
senior Tyler Jacobs, the team's last-sec-
ond hero, parades the team champi-
onship trophy. Details on page 9.
Today photo by STEVE SNYDER
Linda Brown tells Cedar Hill Chamber of Commerce members how to use what she called
"the components of mental navigation" in their businesses.
Words have meaning in business
By STEVE SNYDER
News Editor
Word do have meaning.
Sometimes they can frame pat-
terns of thought.
That was how management
consultant Linda Brown started
off her speech to the Cedar Hill
Chamber of Commerce's monthly
members' luncheon Feb. 26.
Brown mentioned the word
"Hawaii," and told people to write
down the first thought that came
to their minds. She then did the
same with "Alaska."
See CHAMBER, Page 2
Austim-spectrum symptoms?
Scott helps son with early start, long battle
Oncor CEO addressing area chamber
By STEVE SNYDER
News Editor
The next luncheon
of the Best Southwest
Chamber of Com-
merce could be elec-
tric, so to speak.
The featured guest
speaker at the event
will be Robert Shep-
ard, chairman and
CEO of Oncor Elec-
tric Delivery, formerly
named TXU Electric
Delivery.
Robert Shepard
The luncheon is March 19 at the Hilton
Garden Inn in Duncanville. Given that electric
rates and bills have been a hot topic around
office water coolers recently, Shepard should
draw strong attendance although Oncor just
delivers and doesn't sell electricity..
The Best Southwest Chamber of Com-
merce is a consortium of the chambers of
commerce, and political and civic leaders,
from the Best Southwest cities of Cedar Hill,
DeSoto, Duncanville and Lancaster. Mem-
bers of individual chambers of commerce
can make reservations for the luncheon
through them.
See SHEPARD, Page 13
By STEVE SNYDER
News Editor
Elizabeth Scott must have felt
like a drill sergeant the past few
years.
Imagine taking a preschool-
age son and putting him through
10 hours a day of drill, with as
many a 70 different drills and
skills techniques.
Well, other parents with a child
diagnosed with autism-type
symptoms would be doing the
same, if they thought it would
help.
And, it did.
Roman Scott, whose symp-
toms were diagnosed by his mom
at about 17 months, has written
about her years of 10-hour drill
days, which ultimately resulted in
getting her child out of special
education and into a mainstream
classroom at the Red Oak Life
School.
Scott is holding a book signing
and publishing breakout event for
"Raindrops on Roman" from 4-6
p.m. March 28 at Barnes & Noble
in Cedar Hill, 305 W. FM 1382,
with Roman there as well.
The title comes from part of
her work with Roman. To "desen-
sitize" him to his fear of rain, she
adapted the song "These Are a
Few of My Favorite Things" from
"The Sound of Music," namely
the line, "raindrops on roses."
Concerned by difficulty in
feeding him, including choking,
Scott took Roman to Children's
Medical Center in Dallas.
She was told her son had a sen-
sory processing disorder. A nurse
at Children's told her to contact
the state's Early Childhood Inter-
vention Services program, which
offers support and services for
developmentally delayed children
up to the age of 3.
From there, Scott was told her
child had Pervasive Develop-
mental Disorder, a constellation
of symptoms overlapping with
autism, Asperger syndrome and
Rett syndrome, among other
things.
See SCOTT, Page 2
History, mystery, books in BSW
Staying safe on your block
By STEVE SNYDER
Today Staff
A growing literary tradition
for the Best Southwest cities
of Cedar Hill, DeSoto,
Duncanville and Lancaster is
just around the corner.
The Best Southwest Book-
fest 2009 is in the sixth year of
bringing authors, writers and
speakers to Southwest Dallas
County to celebrate the writ-
ten and spoken word. This
year, the theme is History,
Mystery, More, which pays
homage to the location of this
year's Bookfest, Lancaster,
which was one of the first
incorporated communities in
Dallas County, being incorpo-
rated in 1866.
Featuring local authors
such as Carlton Stowers and
Michelle Stimpson, the Book-
fest honors and promotes local
authors as part of its literary
events.
MILKE'S
The 2009 Bookfest begins
the morning of March 27 with
a series of workshops present-
ed by authors Michelle Stimp-
son, Travis Hunter and Janis
Susan May. Each author will
present their workshop three
times and each workshop lasts
50 minutes. While the work-
shops are being focused for a
young adult audience, any age
is welcome to attend.
Sessions begin at 10 a.m.,
11 a.m. and noon. All Friday
morning sessions are free.
Stimpson is an educational
consultant who lives in Cedar
Hill with her husband and two
children. She has also served
as part of the writing and edit-
ing team of Heartbeat maga-
zine, a publication of Oak
Cliff Bible Fellowship Church
in Dallas.
An Essence bestselling
author, she recently published
her first young adults book,
"Trouble in Mv Way," which
delivers an inspirational and
engaging story about a mother
and her teen daughter who dis-
cover that even though mis-
takes can happen, the one
thing that they can always
count on is family.
Hunter is the author of six
novels and the founder of the
Hearts of Men Foundation a
non-profit organization fo-
cused on advancing the lives
of underprivileged teens in the
fields of education, health,
human services and the arts.
Travis, who believes in
practicing what he preaches
has been quoted as saying:
"It's not where you come
from, but where you are inside
of your heart." He has written
a young adult book which is
still waiting to be published.
His next book, "Dark Child,"
will be released in May. Travis
lives near Atlanta, Ga.
See BOOKS, Page 14
Today photo by CHRIS HUDSON
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