The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 2005 Page: 2 of 46
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Sec. A, Page 2
The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005
Op inland
Ask the /y\ ayorI
By James "Red" Seigars, Mayor of Dublin
As in the past, the Dublin Garden Club put on a feast for the city
employees fit for a king and queen. Each year they out do themselves. 1
and the entire city crew wish to thank you again for a superb
Thanksgiving meal.
The Dublin American Legion Post 219 held a Veteran's Day event
honoring our service men and women last Friday on the comer lot.
Thanks to the boyscouts and the Jr. High drum corps.
Mr. Mark Whittly from Stephenville was the winner of the BBQ pit
that was ratfled off Friday follow ing the Veteran's Day ceremony.
There have been a lot of loose dogs roaming the neighborhoods lately.
These dogs, if picked up by the city crew w ill be put in the city pound.
You should call 445-3331 if your pet has gotten loose and cannot be
found. Most people enjoy their pets. If you have one be sure you have a
dog house, food and water available for it and the dog is secured at all
times.
I would like to thank American Legion Post 240 and the Senior
Citizens Center from Stephenville for a wonderful meal and veteran's
program last Thursday night. Those veterans who missed out on this
program should contact Sandy Morgan at the center and let her know
your where abouts. Most veterans in this county do not belong to a local
veteran's group. Remember there is power in numbers.
A lady who comes to our council meetings has asked me "Why I do
not vote on a subject 1 set on the Council?" First, I am not a
councilperson, I am the mayor, therefore I am the President of the
Council. In a Class A municipality, which Dublin is in, the Mayor is only
allowed to vote to break a tie. This I have had to do several times. Only
councilpeople can vote on each item that is listed on the agenda.
The county bum ban is still on. No burning allowed. The grass and
fields are very dry and it would not take much to get them going.
Thanksgiving is next Thursday the 24th. City Hall will be closed on
the 24th and 25th of November to celebrate this occasion.
The water billing clerk is Gloria Craig. She can look at your past
consumption and tell you how much water you have used per month for
the past few years and give you some idea if you have a leak. High usage
for one month and low usage for 10 months is an indication. Contact the
city manager if paying your late bill is a problem. Don't wait too long.
Volunteer to be a volunteer! You do not need to be with a group of
people or represent an organization just show up and put your knowledge
to work.
How many shop owners do you know? Keep them in Dublin. Buying
Dublin 1st w ill keep them open and running.
Have a great w eek and look after each other.
TURNING-
Cont’d from pg 1A
for Dublin 8th grade included Matt West, Becky Kasper, Jill
Thackerson, Richard Cox, Bert Runnels and Robert Williams.
The seventh grade honor roll included Jennifer Harrell, David
Fritts, Terry Craddock and Scott Andrle.
The Friendship Club met at 569 N. Grafton in the home of
Antha Howell.
The Dublin High School F.F.A. Senior Farm Skills team earning
first place at the District Meet held on the Tarleton campus were
Edward Holt, Daniel Stephens and Shane McClung.
an Event Calendar
for Dublin and its surrounding communities
•
Library Annual Bake Sale
Noon-2 p.m. - Library
•
TOPS open house
10:15 a.m. - First Baptist Church
•
Library Annual Bake Sale
10 a.m.-2 p.m. - Library
•
Computer Class
9 a.m. - Dublin Senior Citizen Center
•
Edna Hill Community Thanksgiving
Dinner
vll II Ivl
7 p.m. - Community Center
•
Little Guy Flag Football Super Bowl
4 p.m. - Memorial Stadium
•
Community Baptist Thanksgiving
Dinner
Noon
•
Silver Seniors Thanksgiving Dinner
11:30 - Perry Hall
•
School Board meeting
7 p.m. - DHS library
•
Lions Club
7 a.m. - Dairy Queen
•
Rotary
Noon - Chuckwagon
Send Us Your Events
445-2515 111 S. Patrick, Dublin, Tx 76446 publisher@dublincitizen.com
.......tv Dublin
Dr Pepper
since 1891
.and the band plays on
The Dublin High School "Sound of Dublin" band going to state
marching contest in San Antonio still is the subject of many discussions.
As one man told me, he and many of his friends had worked long and
hard but had never been able to make it to the final cut in area competition
much less make it to state.
I'm not sure how many people realize just how big an honor this is. In
sports, is obvious who the winner is. But in band, the judging is
subjective.
While I'm not an expert, the Dublin'band should have ranked even
higher at state although they did real well. I've long been a band fan and
have watched bands everywhere I go and have paid attention to
everything they do.
Plus, I've been in communities where there has been a very big and
good band program. (Big does not necessarily mean good).
Watching the bands compete in San Antonio was a real treat as they
were all really good. Some did very traditional marching and music
playing.
What Dublin did was a very different and in my limited knowledge,
very difficult routine with very difficult music and thus they should have
been rated on degree of difficulty.
But I do realize that everyone who is watching is looking for
something different and the judges understand what it takes to have a
good show.
I found out just last week that one of the judges in the area competition
was the former band instructor in Monahans which is famous for its "Big
Green Band".
Incidentally, everyone probably knows that Glen Rose has an excellent
band program. That is due to Kent Holder who was director of bands in
Colorado City when I was there. He gained fame for his work and Glen
Rose hired him because they wanted a good band program. That was in
the late 1970's and a tradition he started in Glen Rose continues until this
day.
Dublin has had a tradition of having good bands. However, it had
slipped a bit before Cliff Horn came here and it hasn’t taken him long to
get the band program going again. And it will continue to be that way as
community interest has been ignited. Look at the Middle School band and
you'll see Horn has a lot of good talent coming to high school. Horn of
course has been instrumental in getting things going at middle school as
well.
It's too bad a band can only advance as far as state once every two
years as it would appear Dublin is in a prime position to advance next
year. But, in two years, the band will probably be even bigger and better
than it is now. ,
No one seems quite sure when advancing to state started. There has
always been a competition. When I was in band, I believe we went to
Winters which is where I became aware they were called the Blizzards
and for good reason as the day we competed there, there was a blizzard
and I've never been that cold since then.
Later the contest was moved to Brady and sometime in the 70's the
competition advanced to state.
Horn explained that the reason the competition is held in San Antonio
is that with the dome, bands don't have to worry about rain and it is
difficult to reschedule the event as bands come from long ways off, up in
the panhandle and far West Texas.
Plus, it shouldn't be held on grass as members of bands have been
injured by slipping on wet grass and in the mud, some with broken bones.
He also noted that one year the sod was so tom up in Waco that it cost
$20,000 to restore the field._
One event coming up is the Garden Club tour of homes in December.
It seems I have unintentionally slighted the Garden Club as I missed their
fashibn show in December and I forgot the Thanksgiving lunch they
provided last week for city and emergency workers. That is always a real
treat as they fix some really good dishes. I was the big loser for missing
that great meal. Sorry, ladies, it wasn't on purpose. I just forgot (I hate to
admit forgetting something).
Thanks for reading.
(McKinnon can be contacted by e-mail,
publisher@dublincitizen.com).
STATE
CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Sterling
Texas Press Association_
Texans limit marriage
Nov. 8 election results are in and the most talked- and written-about item
on the ballot passed.
Texans voted 3 to 1 in favor of Proposition 2, a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the state from recognizing legal status similar to
marriage for couples of the same sex.
The Texas vote matches what has happened in 18 other states, where
voters banned legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages.
Travis County, of course, stood out among the state's 254 counties as the
only one in which voters rejected Prop. 2.
As former Gov. Ann Richards said recently, Travis County is an oasis of
blue in a red state.
Secretary of State Roger Williams said about 18 percent of the state's
registered voters cast ballots in the election, the highest percentage to
participate in a constitutional amendment election since 1991.
Other propositions that passed: \
o Prop. 1, authorizing the state to subsidize private and public tail
transportation improvement.
o Prop. 3, allowing local governmental entities not to consider certain
economic development investments as debt.
o Prop. 4, giving judges more authority to deny bail to people accused
of felonies who are perceived as threats.
o Prop. 6, increasing the State Commission on Judicial Conduct by two
members.
o Prop. 7, allowing homeowners age 62 or older to obtain a "reverse"
mortgage on their home.
o Prop. 8, ending state claims on disputed land comprising about 4,600
acres in Uprshur County and about 900 acres in Smith County. Propositions
that failed:
o Prop. 5, eliminating interest rate limits on certain state commercial
loans.
o Prop. 9, extending the terms of appointed board members of regional
mobility authorities to six years.
New commission to study taxes
Gov. Rick Perry named 24 people to the Texas Tax Reform Commission.
Their job will be to hold public hearings across the state and work out a way
- such as a broad-based business tax - to fix the state's broken property tax
system. The goal is to provide long-term property tax relief and improve the
financing of public education.
State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, voiced concern over the
absence of wage-earners, consumers and educators on the commission.
Coleman said Perry and Sharp should consider adding them. "The Tax
Reform Commission should refrain from recommending any increase in
the state sales tax or other consumer tax unless consumers and workers have
a seat at the table," he said.
In October, Perry named former Texas Comptroller John Sharp to chair
the commission. Perry also chose his former communications director
Robert Howden to be staff director for the commission.
Names and home cities of the appointees, most of whom are prominent
business people:
Kenneth M. Jastro w, Jan Newton and Howard Wolf of Austin; Dr. David
Teuscher of Beaumont; Victor E. Leal of Canyon; William Blaylock,
Printice L. Gary, Hunter Hunt and Ronald G Steinhart of Dallas; Ernest A.
Morales of Devine; and Woody L. Hunt of El Paso.
Also, John V. Roach of Fort Worth; Wendy Lee Gramm of Helotes;
James D. Dannenbaum, Jodie L. Jiles, Dennis Patillo and William A.
McMinn of Houston; Robert Rowling of Irving; Alonzo Cantu of McAllen;
A.J. Brune III of Midland; Randall Cain and Judith A. Lindquist of San
Antonio; and Truman Arnold of Texarkana.
Lottery chief pay hike proposed
Oklahoma's lottery director gets $175,000 a year in state pay, not
including bonuses. The Texas lottery director gets $115,000.
Texas Lottery Commission Chair C. Thomas Clowe is asking state
budgeteers to up the ante to $139,140 - the pay cap for the head of a state
agency. Clowe said Texas must pay more to compete with other state
lotteries for a top candidate.
Former Texas lottery director Reagan Greer resigned in July after it was
discovered and made public that
inflated jackpots were advertised
while he was in charge. ,
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Show"
5 Park, TX
6 Parcells scheme:
"game___“
7 Dallas Co. VP
namesake (init.)
8 TXism: “in a coon's
* (long time)
9 illegal DVDs or
video tapes
16 TXism: "up and _
'_juice" (coffee)
17 TX Mark
Chesnutt's"_
Have
New Names"
19 device at Hood Co.
Comanche Peak
21 this Bill founded
TX-based "I Cant
Believe it's
Yogurtl"
22 former TX river
channels
27 TXism. "neon light
_* (inspiration)
28 term of
endearment
29 "Border _“
30 Rockets 1st round
pick in '90, Alec
degree at most TX
colleges (abbr.)
33 TX twisters
36 Tyler is in__TX
37 _ Rio, TX
38 Rangers have
never won the
39 hisftric Austin
hotel
41 TXism: “_ a
spell"
42 exotic sheep found
on TX refuges
45 wallet stuffers
46 TXism:'Texas
(oil)
47 TXism: "he
barbed wire as
dental floss" (tough)
48 TXism: "I'm working
without a safety _
49 some criticize TX
George W. for a
slow
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54 giant entertain-
ment co.
55 possessive of
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couldn't lick his
upper__"
2 internet provider
3 Carl .Sandberg:
"Texas is valor
and _”
4 you can take a
_in the TX
wine country
8 "threw everything
they had__"
9 TXismfor
"satisfied"
(3wds.)
DL or SSN
this Ray won 77
TX Byron Nelson
Golf Classic (init.)
retailer found
throughout TX
"Gone With the
Wind" plantation
"top dog" in the
Middle East
sound measures
Jay Gould's
railroad car on
display in
Jefferson, TX
aces in blackjack?
you cant-__
of TX in one day
"Beware the__
of March"
TX Perot (Init.)
"_More Beef"
TXism: "call off
the dogs"
put In custody
TX Rather co-
anchored with this
Chung for a time
28 Lucy's "bigger half
31 hog fat
prosecutor (abbr.)
TX B.J. Thomas'
"Hooked __
Feeling"
TXism: "mean as
a bulldog on a
gunpowder_■
TXism:"__-
walking drunk"
TXism:"_your
head for something
besides a hat rack"
pecan pie, e.g.
"night__"
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