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Vol. 42 No. 2
Cedar Hill's oldest newspaper
residents since 1965!
Thursday. April 26. 2007
Candidates address citizens on issues
Contrasting
views at
Kingswood
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Residents of C edar Hill got
an up dose look at nearly all of
the candidates running for
seats on the city council and
school hoard as the Kingswood
Homeowners Association host-
ed its ninth annual forum April
19.
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Seven candidates running
for mayor and the city council
spoke at the function, along
with three candidates running
for seats on the Cedar Hill
School Board.
Most of the candidates
voiced agreement on the issues
and had a cordial discussion.
Write-in candidate for mayor
Phillip Bielamowicz chal-
lenged the status quo in his
opening remarks, as did former
school board member James
Charles, who is trying to regain
a seat on the board by chal-
lenging Place I incumbent
Terrel Nemons.
Makia Epie, incumbent
Place 5 council member, was-
n't able to attend the
Kingswood forum. In his
place, forum moderator
Michael Lemmon read an e-
mail from the 11-year council
veteran, who was at a board of
directors meeting for the North
Central Texas Housing Finance
Corporation, an organization
that tries to make it easier for
people to afford homes in
Cedar Hill, he said in the e-
mail.
Epie said he would be
pleased to continue his service
and continue to make Cedar
Hill a welcoming place to be
for people of diverse back-
grounds.
He also touted the effective-
ness of the city’s police and fire
departments, lauding Fire
Chief Steve Pollock for recent-
ly being named Fire Chief of
the Year and said the city’s pub-
See VIEWS, Page 2
Today photos by CHRIS HUDSON
City council Place 3 incumbent Wade Emmert addresses the crowd at the Kingswood Homeowners Association’s
ninth annual candidates forum at the Cedar Hill Recreation Center on April 19. Emmert is running unopposed.
Below, Mayor Rob Franke speaks at the High Pointe forum, as the other candidates look on behind him.
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Contestants
speak out in
High Pointe
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Kingswood has been host-
ing candidate forums for nine
years, but this year the High
Pointe Public Improvement
District got into the act with a
well-attended event held April
23 at High Pointe Baptist
Church.
Every candidate on the bal-
lot for the May 12 city and
school board elections and one
write-in candidate for mayor
lined up to talk a little bit about
themselves and answer moder-
ated questions as well as a few
from the audience.
After candidates introduced
themselves and spoke for a few
minutes, moderator Michael
Quildon asked each one a cou-
ple of different questions each
and invited the audience to ask
their own.
Amy Allen, running unop-
posed for the Place 2 scat on
the Cedar Hill School District
board of trustees, said the
biggest challenge facing new
Superintendent Harold Will-
iams is the drive to transform
the district into a world-class
body.
“We are expecting to be
world-class by 2012. We want
to be a recognized district by
2007-08, but that's not all we
want to achieve,” she said. “I
know 2012 seems like it’s a
world away, but when you stop
and think about it, it’s only five
years.”
Asked by the audience what
“world-class” means, Allen
said, “We want to be compared
positively not just with schools
from around the state and
nation, but from all over the
world. We want to be the model
district ... where people who
live in Brazil and Spain say,
‘We want to be like Cedar Hill,
Texas’”
See SPEAK, Page 2
Judge Fite realtors plan
a move to The Ranch
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Bill Ingle has been talking
about Phase II of The Ranch
for quite some time. Later on
this year, it will become a
reality and will start things
off with a mighty big tenant,
Century 21 Judge Fite Co.
is moving as many as 50 real
estate agents from its current
location on South Cedar
Ridge Road in Duncanville to
the new development at The
Ranch at Wintergreen Road
and Highway 67 in Cedar
Hill.
The Judge Fite offices
will occupy roughly 6,000
square feet in the 13,000
square-foot Phase II complex
and will give the city some-
thing it has sought for a while
now: Class A office space.
“Where our clients live
today is Cedar Hill, Midloth-
ian, DeSoto, Glenn Heights,
Lancaster and even parts of
Grand Prairie,” said Joe
Picardo, branch manager at
the Century 21 Judge Fite
office. “We had a location
that didn’t support the clients
as well as it could, and it’s all
about the clients.”
Ingle, owner of The Ranch
complex, is also excited
about the move.
“It’s going to be a really
huge office space,” Ingle
said. “It’s probably been in
the works for about six
months.”
See FITE, Page 3
Submitted photo
Charles Williams was injured in a Humvee accident late
last year while en duty In Iraq.—------------—-----
Cedar Hill soldier
suffers brain injury
Williams should be back in U.S. by now
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Alice Williams knew her
husband hadn't been feeling
well for a while, but about a
week ago she found out just
how serious his condition is.
Charles Williams, a Cedar
Hill resident and a specialist in
the National Guard serving in
Iraq, was scheduled to be in a
Washington, D.C., hospital by
press time, getting treatment
for a brain injury that has been
traced to an incident that hap-
pened late last year.
Charles is also a part of
Today Newspapers’ Troop
Adoption campaign, an effort
launched by the company and
Cedar Hill resident Pat Mobley
to match American military
personnel with sponsors back
home who stay in touch with
them and send them supplies as
needed.
Charles’ sponsor is Pat and
her husband Jimmy Mobley.
Until recently, Alice had
been told by her husband that
his headaches were stress-relat-
ed because he didn't want to
worry her.
Even after he collapsed
April 2 and was evacuated to
Germany for treatment, his
wife was still given a diagnosis
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Gooch, Robin. Today Cedar Hill (DeSoto, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 2007, newspaper, April 26, 2007; DeSoto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth568639/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.