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City snares $3 million for road projects
Cory Spillman
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Some $3 million in federal
funds could go toward Cedar Hill
transportation projects after the
U.S. House passed the
Transportation Equity Act on
March 10.
The bill provides $284 billion
in funding for federal highway,
Improvements slated for Lake Ridge Parkway, Hwy 67 access
transit and road safety programs
through the year 2009.
Cedar Hill secured the money
for a couple of projects, including
construction of a grade-separated
interchange at the intersection of
Highway 67 and Lake Ridge
Parkway that will allow access to
Lake Ridge Parkway from north-
bound 6 T7
The project will be a connector
between Uqke Ridge Parkw'ay
West and the proposed Lake Ridge
Parkw'ay Last.
“We submitted five different
projects, and they took them and
rolled them up into a package for
Cedar Hill,” city councilman and
Mayor Pro Tern Cory Spillman
said, referring to U.S. Rep. Kenny
Marchant’s office.
Currently, there is no direct
access from northbound Highway
67 to Lake Ridge Parkway.
Motorists must travel about one
mile to the next intersection to
access the highway.
The second project is just north
of the Lake Ridge interchange at
Tidwell Road and involves the
widening of the bridge there from
two to six lanes and the construc-
tion of an interchange.
See PROJECTS, Page 2
Soccer siblings watch each other grow up
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Parents marvel as one
learns from the other
as prep careers wind up
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By JUSTIN JONES
Today Staff
tan West announces
^the Cedar Hill High
k-7 School varsity soccer
games.
His wife June usually is
the one everyone hears
yelling |n excitement during
the contests.
’ Add in the fact their son
Matt and daughter Sara are
senior captains for their ‘
respective teams, and
watching the sport has taken
on a different meaning.
“It’s probably the one
thing that keeps us, the par-
ents, going. We enjoy and
look forward to it, whether
it’s club, practices and
games,” Stan said. “And
with high school, it’s icing
on the cake to watch them
both play.”
Especially considering
Stan and June didn’t always
know much about soccer,
and that if not for Matt
picking up the sport it might
never have happened.
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tion came up with Matt, he
and June took advantage of
the opportunity.
“Of course Sara was an
only child, and here comes
Matthew, who says he wants
to play sports, and Sara sees
him and says ‘I can do
that,’” Stan said. “If one
hadn’t been with the other,
them playing soccer might
not have happened.”
Neither would the mem-
ories of seeing the two kids
playing competitively in the
front yard.
“It never got to a point
where they were killing
each other like making hard
tackles,” Stan said, noting
he bought them a goal they
played with in the front
yard.
“You would see them
taking shots on each other
all of the time.”
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Today file photo
Cedar Hill’s Matt West is one of the team’s top defen-
sive players and is also a captain. He also works with
special education students.
Soccer inside
• You win some: The Cedar Hill boys team ran off four goals In the
second half after coming close in the first half of a 4-0 victory over
DeSoto. The girls put up seven goals in shutting out the Lady Eagles.
• And you lose some: Before shutting out DeSoto, both teams
found themselves on the wrong end of scoreless games against
Arlington High.
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thought it was fun and also
picked up the game.
“They both had a lot of
energy when they were
young,” June said. “Soccer
was a real good way, as far
as sports go, to get their
energy out.”
It was also a way for the
two to become closer, con-
sidering Sara was an only
child before Matt was
adopted when he was 4
years old.
Stan, who is also adopt-
ed, said he always wanted to
adopt and when the situa-
That competitiveness still
lingers today, as June said
the two compare and brag a
lot, despite their different
personalities.
“Yes, they are very com-
aic petitive, but they help each
other a lot,” she said. “Sara
is pretty outgoing and has a
compel nor oy aian, lviau ^ 0ther a lot,” she said. “Sara
lot of confidence from soc-
cer. Matthew is a strong stu-
dent and has a lot of inter-
est.
“Jhey help each other
out in that one is more out-
going and one is more
focused.”
Outside of helping each
other, the parents said it’s
clear that the sport of soccer
has helped, too.
“It’s given them a sense
of teamwork. They have
gone places and bonded
with people, who have
See SIBLINGS, Page 2
Cedar Hill’s Sara West is one of the top assist leaders
in the Metroplex. She will play in college for Nicholls
State University.
Sports inside
• Softball gots first win: Cedar Hill puts aside a frustrating start
to the season and hammers DeSoto 23-7.
• Baseball rolls on: The Longhorns defeated District 7-5A foe
Arlington Sam Houston in their home opener at Valley Ridge Park.
• Track: The Longhorns competed in a pair of meets in Dallas.
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Gibson: Campuses will wow you
Today phjjfto by
Cedar Hill Superintendent Jim Gibsonlfe
other board members addressed parents and faculty at
several school forums recently.
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
One thing will stand out for students,
parents and teachers when they enter Cedar
Hill’s new ninth-grade center after it opens
for the 2005-06 school year.
“When you go in there, you are going to
be struck by the expansiveness of the hall-
ways,” Superintendent Jim Gibson told a
group of teachers, officials and parents at
an open forum at Pcrmenter Middle School
on March 9. “They’re probably two or three
by loyd Brumfield times the size of the high school’s.”
nding)and The new home for the districts fresh-
men was designed to eventually become a
second high school once the city’s growth
dictated it, Gibson said.
Gibson and Other board members pre-
sent at the forum said the creatiod of a sec-
ond high school probably wouldn’t happen
before 2014.
“We all know demographic numbers can
change and we can have a sudden growth
spurt that will dictate when we go to a new
high school,” hoard member Terrel Nemons
said.
But the way things stand now, it would-
n’t be needed for a decade or so, hoard
members said.-------
Construction on the ninth-grade center
is ahead of schedule and should be finished
by May, Gibson said. The district will also
open a new middle school this fall, and
boundaries were assigned to it ai the school
hoard meeting Monday. March 14
“We will consider all transfer requests
Iust like we do between the intermediate
schools and |ust like we do with the ele-
mentary schools." (iibson said
Initial plans call for the ninth-grade cen-
ter and the 10th-12 grade campus to have
staggered start times
“Some teachers (in smaller depart-
ments) will end up teaching at both
schools,” Gibson said, and the different
starting times wall help them travel between
campuses more convenientl\
In addition, this helps family members
with TTuTnTpTc" cTiiTdr6ii get TlWh TO school
on time, he said
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