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Seminole Sentinel
The News Leader of Seminole and Gaines County Since 1907"
12 Pages, 2 Sections, 4 Inserts Wednesday, April 3,2013 Volume 104, Issue No. 053 750
Do you feel all of Gaines County
should allow for the sale of alcoholic
beverages?
Yes-(68%/28 votes)
No-(27%/11 votes)
Undecided/No Opinion - (5%/2 votes)
Total voters: 41
Cast your vote online by logging
on to www.seminolesentinel.com
and participating in our online
poll, located at the bottom of the
website's front page.
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Area Agency on
Aging to Host
Local Workshops
Representatives and volunteers of the
Area Agency on Aging lias scheduled
two early April dates to meet with local
Gaines County senior citizens to offer
assistance with Medicare, Medicaid,
Medicare Part D or oilier benefits.
According to group officials, local
senior citizens seeking assistance may
make appointments for the afternoons
of April 4 and April 11, for time slots
between the l-to-3 pm. hours.
The Area Agency on Aging will meet
with local residents on those dates at the
Gaines County Senior Citizens Center,
located in the 500 block of N.W. 5th St.
Local senior citizens are encouraged
to call (432) 758-4020 to schedule an
appointment.
Spanish speaking individuals will
be made available for those who need
assistance, and walk-ins for those dates
are welcome.
For more infonnation about the Area
Agency on Aging, contact Raynetta
Williams, Benefits Counselor, at 1 (800)
491-6363 or (432) 563-1061.
Tlie Area Agency on Aging is funded
by the Texas Dept, of Aging and
]yj Disability Services.
For late breaking news
£ stories, log on to
www.seminolesentinel.com
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Sentinel Phota/Dustin Wright
TUESDAYTOWNHALL MEETING
Seminole Hospital District taxpayers look over informational handouts and discuss issues pertaining to the entity's $48.5 million bond proposal for an expansion/renovation project
to the district's medical facilities, prior to a Tuesday evening townhall meeting held at the Seminole Ambassador Room.
Talking Numbers
Tuesday s Townhall Filled with Hospital District Figures, Stats
By Dustin Wright
Sentinel Managing Editor
Seminole Hospital District officials are projecting that 85-to-88-percent
of their proposed $48.5 million bond venture - to be used for expansion
and major renovations to the Memorial Hospital and Memorial Health
Care Center facilities - will be paid for through tax revenues paid for
by petroleum related companies' mineral values, as the second of three
scheduled townhall meetings over the project was held Tuesday evening.
"By our calculations, only 12-percent of this project would be paid by
local property and landowners," said Betsy Briscoe, Chief Executive Of-
ficer of the SHD in the townhall meeting, held at the City of Seminole's
Ambassador Room.' The remainder of the project will be paid for through
tax values assessed to the larger oil companies who have property (and
mineral rights) within the district."
SHD officials, in Tuesday's meeting, offered more figures to those in at-
tendance - which ranged from 20-to-25 persons - particularly pertaining
to the growth of patient services, the anticipated added revenue the district
could generate from expanded services through the project, to the break
down of costs associated with an estimated $18.9 million in Texas Dept,
of Health (TDH) Code Violations currently acknowleged at the Memorial
Hospital facility.
A facility which was opened for operation in 1974 after the establishment
A rendering of the proposed public ER entrance to the Memorial Hospital campus.
of the Seminole Hospital District in 1971 and passage of a roughly $2 mil-
lion bond for the construction of the Memorial Hospital's main campus.
"The TDH has been very understanding and wilting to work with us as
we've taken the proactive approach in addressing some of their issues and
concerns," said David White, Director of Construction Services in Texas
for McKinstry in Monday's meeting.
McKinstiy, a full-service design, build, operate and maintain (DBOM)
firm, was hired by the local district earlier this calender year to begin the
See BOND PROPOSAL, Page 8A
N.M
Death
Probed
Man with Local
Ties Discovered
in Rural Lea Co.
LOVINGTON, N.M. - The Lea
County (New Mexico) Sheriff’s
Office is investigating the unattended
death of an individual tentatively
identified as Troy Lee Allen, 37, who
was reported missing from Andrews
County, according to a news release
issued by the LCSO on Tuesday
morning.
According to the release, Lea
County Sheriff’s Office deputies
were looking for Allen’s vehicle after
he was reported missing and located
it approximately eight miles north of
U.S. Highway 380 on Nine Ranch
Road in Lea County, northwest of
the Tatum community.
"Mr. Allen was found in a pasture
approximately two miles east of
his vehicle," said the LCSO news
release. "No cause or manner of
death has been determined as of
this release."
Allen’s body was sent to the
New Mexico Office of the Medical
Investigator in Albuquerque, N.M.,
for an autopsy.
No other details are available as
of the Lea County Sheriffs Dept,
release, which was posted on the
department's public website.
Allen has family connection within
the Seminole community.
Gaines County Sheriff Ronny
Pipkin stated the Gaines County
Sheriffs Office had no involvement
with the investigation of the case as
of presstime Tuesday.
Sources with the Andrews County
News said Tuesday morning
Andrews County law enforcement
officials were also not active in the
investigation, and no formal report
of Allen's dissapperance had been
filed with the agency.
No timetable on when autopsy
results would be released in Allen's
case.
Lea County, N.M. incompasses
a land area of 4,394 sq miles,
according to the U.S. Census
Bureau's statistical database.
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This story was
initially published
Tuesday morning,
at 11:41 a.m., at
SeminoleSentinel.com
If You Build It
Build-Your-Own Pizza Eatery
Begins New Trend in Seminole
Leo Copeland
Seminole Sentinel
A new concept in pizza's has arrived at Seminole first The restaurant is
called BYOPizza, which stands for Build Your Own Pizza. It is a totally new
concept and has some interesting new equipment.
You haven't seen one before because this is the first one.
The restaurant is owned and operated by two men who have their roots
in Seminole. Richie Brown and Robert Griffin.
Brown, was bom in Seminole and his family moved to Denver City when
he was in the fourth grade where he graduated from high school. He then
went to South Plains College in Levelland. Richie is a professional song
writer and now living in Nashville, Tennessee.
Robert Griffin was raised in Seminole since 1973, and went through
school here, graduating in 19S4. From there he went to Texas Tech where
he enrolled in RHIM (Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional Management). While
still in school he started managing restaurants in Lubbock.
In 1996 Robert married Stad Brown who is Richie Brown's sister. Stad
is a 5th grade teacher in Seminole, they have three children: Mason who
is a student at Angelo State University in San Angelo; Daniel who is in the
9th grade in Seminole and Shelbi who is in the third grade.
This unique restaurant idea came about when Richie's friend in the
music industry, Michael Lelts, who lives in California and is in Music, TV
See EATERY, Page 7A
Sentinel PhotoLeo Copeland
BUILD YOUR OWN PIZZA
Richie Brown (left) and Robert Griffin, co-owners of Build Your Own Pizza - or BYOPizza - stand in front of their pizza building station,
digital menu board and brick oven at the Seminole eatery, located at 1100 S. Main St.
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Wright, Dustin. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 53, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 3, 2013, newspaper, April 3, 2013; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth787511/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.