Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2011 Page: 2 of 14
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2 ★ Alvarado Star
www.alvaradostar.net
Thursday, January 13, 2011
News
■ A SONG FOR THE BOARD
TOMMY BROWN/COURTESY PHOTO
Amanda Hodge, left, and Jordan Echols are part of the Alvarado Junior High honors band that
performed for the Alvarado ISD school board meeting Monday night in honor of School Board
Recognition Month.
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TRS & ERS Now Allowing Alvarado
Medicine Chest Pharmacy To Fill
Prescriptions for 90 Day Supplies
Alvarado Medicine Chest Pharmacy can now accept ninety day supply
prescriptions for ERS and TRS employee plans, and at the same
co-pay as mail order. For years, these ninety day prescriptions have
only been available from a select few mail order pharmacies, but now,
if you are covered by an Employee Retirement System of Texas or a
Teacher Retirement System of Texas Medical Plan, your ninety day
prescriptions can be filled at Alvarado Medicine Chest Pharmacy as
easy as any other prescription, and at the same cost as mail-order. No
more waiting for mail-order delivery, Alvarado Medicine Chest can
fill most ninety day supply prescriptions while you wait.
“We’ve had a lot of customers ask us about filling ninety day
prescriptions in the past, and now finally we are able to offer the
convenience and speed of this service directly for our customers on
ERS and TRS medical plans”, said Jerry Shaw, Alvarado Medicine
Chest Pharmacy Manager.
Alvarado Medicine Chest also offers convenient same day delivery
and features a convenient drive-thru for prescription drop-off and
pick-up. Alvarado Medicine Chest is close and convenient for all of
your pharmacy needs: prescriptions, over-the-counter medications,
vitamins and supplements, in-store compounding, and on-line refill
requests. So remember, if you are covered by an Employee Retirement
System of Texas or a Teacher Retirement System of Texas Medical
Plan and have ninety day supply prescriptions to fill, give Alvarado
Medicine Chest Pharmacy a try.
420 Highway 67 West
Alvarado
817-790-3355
Visit: www.medicinechestrx.com
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
■ VFW WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
Texas president visits
posts this weekend
BY CHRISTOPHER AMOS
alvaradostar@thestargroup. com
Veterans of Foreign War members from
the north Texas area are making prepara-
tions in expectation of an important visitor
- VFW Ladies Auxiliary state president Lynn
Richards.
The Ladies Auxiliary state president visits
VFW posts during her term and speaks at dis-
trict meetings throughout Texas. She will be
meeting Saturday with members of Tri-City
Post, which includes Burleson, Crowley and
Joshua, and with the Alvarado post.
“This is a really big deal,” Alvarado VFW
Post 9299 spoksperson Debbie Lamb said.
“She visits each district once a year to meet
with the members, so we are doing what we
can to get ready. She will be visiting our post
before the big district meeting.”
Richards will meet for a “bruncheon” at
11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Hershal L.
Miller Memorial Post, 6732 E. Highway 67
in Alvarado. She will speak at the District 21
meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday, at Post 2695,118
Harmon Road, in Hurst.
Alvarado VFW member Pete Kinson said
both the men and women will be at the Sun-
day morning meeting.
“This will be what we call a joint meeting
with both the men and the ladies,” Kinson
explained. “This is when the committee
chairs will be giving their reports.”
A business meeting will follow at 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Hurst post.
Richards is a life member of the Dickinson
Ladies Auxiliary to VFW Post 6378, Dickin-
son, Tx. She was elected VFW Department
Guard in 2006 and elected state president in
June of last year at the VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Convention at DFW International Airport.
As district president, Richards was se-
lected Outstanding District President of
District 16.
Richards joined the organization under
the eligibility of her husband and Vietnam
COURTESY PHOTO
Texas VFW Women's Auxiliary president Lynn
Richards will be meeting with members of
area posts Saturday and Sunday.
veteran Danny Richards, who she has been
married to for 28 years.
Ladies Auxiliary organizations support
VFW posts across the country with fund-
raising events, community activities and
supporting veterans causes.
Since the 1930s, the Ladies Auxiliary’s
Americanism program has strived to foster
pride in the country and to influence citizens
to become involved in supporting American
active military. The Alvarado group spon-
sors a student patriotic art contest each year
with contestants submitting art and essays
in hopes of winning awards and cash prizes.
The group also conducts the “Buddy Pop-
py” drive, giving poppy pins for donations.
Money from the poppy program supports
injured and recovering American veterans
of all branches of service.
■ FOR THE BIRDS
Grackle migration causes woes
BY PHIL BANKER
alvaradostar@thestargroup. com
They come every winter,
flocking by the tens of thou-
sands.
They fly overhead in mas-
sive flocks with iridescent
wings flashing in the sunlight.
They perch high above us,
watching — waiting for their
chance to feed.
What sounds like a Hitch-
cock horror story actually
plays out every season in
Alvarado and throughout
the southern United States:
grackles have come to roost.
The birds seen in Texas
and throughout the South are
actually two different species
of grackle: the Great-tailed
grackle, and the common
grackle.
Dr. Dean Williams, profes-
sor and bird expert at Texas
Christian University, said the
Great-tailed grackle is only
passing through, while the
common grackle is here until
spring.
“The Great-tailed grackle
will extend into Mexico,” Wil-
liams said.
The birds can be seen in
flocks of thousands in Al-
varado and other southern
cities. Williams said they are
much more dispersed in their
spring and summer habitats
in the Midwest and Canada,
and it isn’t known exactly why
they swarm in such concen-
trations here.
“Nearby agricultural areas
could present concentrated
food sources, but we don’t
know if they did that before
humans arrived,” Williams
said.
Grackles are opportunistic
CHRISTOPHER AMOS/ALVARADO STAR
Two female grackles prowl a parking lot. Grackles migrate by
the tens of thousands each winter, sometimes leaving a mess
on cars, sidewalks and people.
feeders, and will eat almost
anything they can fit in their
mouths — insects, seeds, and
even garbage in parking lots.
Alvarado does not have
as much park and public
area as Fort Worth, where
the birds become a nuisance
each year. Many major cities
spend thousands of dollars
trying to ward the bird away
from public area. Meth-
ods range from firecrackers
dropped in metal bins to
“cracker shells” fired fired
in the air to disperse the
birds, only to have the birds
just move to nearby trees.
Trained falcons were ex-
perimented with one year to
chase the birds away.
The most damaging aspect
of the grackles’ presence is
their feces, which can cover
large areas and can corrode
stone, metal, masonry and
paint finishes.
More permanent solutions
to grackle flocks are disal-
lowed as they are protected
by the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act, a federal mandate.
PREVENTION
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