Alvarado Star (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 2011 Page: 1 of 14
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Customized trucks with oversized tires and fire-helching motors from
three states showed off for the crowds at the Diamond W Arena Friday
and Saturday night as the Lone Star Monster Truck Show descended upon
Alvarado. The giant trucks "danced" across the arena floor during the
wheelie competition, then flattened a line of automobiles during time
trials. Outlaw Clydesdale, a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado with a
Merlin 540 engine driven by Bennett Clark of Georgia, proved
to be one of the crowd favorites during the two-day event.
Tribe Pride
Alvarado High School honored its 2010 fall ath-
letes Monday night with an awards banquet for
football, volleyball and cross country. Keynote
speaker for the evening was Jacob Rowe, left, an
AHS and Tarleton State University graduate.
See Page 3B for photos from the evening
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2011 budget cuts
‘Conservative approach to budgeting’
likely to preserve funding for staff
SPECIAL TO THE ALVARADO STAR
As early as it is in the state budget process for the most re-
cent session of the state legislature, it seems to be a forgone
conclusion that cuts will be made in every area of the state
budget - including public education.
While the severity of the cuts will not be known until the
final state budget is released this summer, school districts
across the state have been bracing for the likelihood of less
funding for some time.
For Alvarado ISD, planning for a financial crunch is noth-
ing new as the district recently made the transition to a Chap-
ter 41 district; which means it receives less funding because of
its property wealth.
“We are in a better financial situation than many districts
because of our conservative approach to budgeting,” said
Chester Juroska, Alvarado ISD Superintendent. “Over the
years we have spent less than what was budgeted and thus we
now have a healthy fund balance (savings account), which will
help us ride out the storm.”
That conservative budgeting is a direct reflection of Larry
McGough, Alvarado ISD’s Assistant Superintendent of Fi-
nance.
With the state cuts looming, McGough has looked at bud-
get models that reflect cuts anywhere from 5-15 percent in re-
cent months as he begins preliminary planning for next year’s
school budget.
State solutions
Some programs that will be among the first hit with the
budget cuts at the state level are teacher incentive programs,
pre-K programs and classroom technology money.
On top of cutting funds, the state legislature has other op-
tions it can consider as cost-saving solutions to its budget
when it comes to public education.
The most popular ideas that have been made public are lift-
ing the cap on class size at the elementary level, furloughs and
consolidating to county school districts.
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RIBBON CUTTING
The Alvarado Chamber of
Commerce will hold a ribbon
cutting for Vickie’s Variety
Shop, 200 N. Parkway, on
Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 2:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited to
come by and meet Vickie
Bartula, explore the shop and
enjoy refreshments.
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Each day is a blessing for Alvarado man
Alvarado
resident Jim
Sickler, cen-
ter, talks to
his Chisholm
Trail Academy
basketball
team during
a timeout Sat-
urday night in
a tournament
game. Sickler
is a volunteer
coach for the
Keene school.
PAUL GNADT/
ALVARADO STAR
PAUL GNADT
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Twenty-seven years ago,
Jim Sickler was told he had
two months to live.
The Alvarado resident was
just turning 30 and was a
physically active person, so
news that the lesion on his
face was metastasis mela-
noma cancer came as quite a
blow.
“The day I went to Hous-
ton it was dark and dreary,”
Sickler said. “M.D. Anderson
is a mammoth of a hospital.
Of course it’s the best cancer
place in the world, so every-
body there is pretty serious.
Otherwise they wouldn’t be
there. It’s not a real exciting
place to be. When I was told
the diagnosis, I was devas-
tated.”
Sickler was sent to M.D.
Anderson Hospital after he
had surgery to remove a le-
sion on his right cheek.
“I wasn’t feeling sick at
all,” he said. “It was a spot.
I was in my early 30s and
was outdoors a lot. I’m fair
skinned, and back then no-
body thought about using
sunscreen. I had a lesion on
the side of my face. I kind of
ignored it and it stayed there
awhile. I realized later that I
had a little knot on my neck.
I went to my doctor, who was
my roommate in college, and
he looked at it and said we
need to biopsy it.”
Once the cancer had been
tested, the doctors sent him
to M.D. Anderson to find out
the worst — the cancer was
melanoma and it had metas-
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