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The Princeton Herald• Princeton, Texas, Thursday, April 10, 2014 • 2 sections, 14 Pages 75¢ The Official Newspaper of Princeton
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EF-1 Tornado strikes Princeton
Drought declaration issued for Collin County
Business loans available for those impacted by drought
Local resident dupes district out of millions
Grocery store sale finalized
Princeton’s Grant Gilbert feels the pain after getting hit by a pitch on the road against Community. For the full story and additional photos see this weeks Sports. Additional photos available online at www.princetonherald.com.
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Taking one for the team
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Non-farm businesses in Collin County are now eligi-ble for low-interest disaster loans due to impacts of the drought from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). “These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by the drought that began on Feb. 4 in the following pri-mary counties,” announced Tanya N. Garfield, Director
of SBA’s Disaster Field Op-erations Center-West.
Eligible Texas counties include Bell, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Eastland, Fannin, Hamilton, Hill, La-mar, Mason and McLennan Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Collin, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Gillespie, Grayson, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Kim-ble, Lampasas, Limestone, Llano, McCulloch, Menard,
See COLLIN page 2A
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According to a release from the office of Congressman Ralph Hall (TX-04), Col-lin County was one of eight counties declared natural disaster areas by the Depart-ment of Agriculture.
The designation is a result of recent drought conditions and was announced by Sec-retary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack.
Also included were Fannin, Lamar, Delta, Grayson, Hunt,
Red River and Rockwall counties.
Hall said, “While Texas is no stranger to droughts, the past two years have been es-pecially dry, and 4th District constituents have been hit hard – particularly in regard to our water supply, agriculture production and local tourism. Today’s designation is an im-portant step toward the recov-ery of these eight counties in the midst of drought. It will allow local farmers to be eli-gible for much-needed assis-tance from the Farm Service
Agency, including emergency loans.”
He said the Drought Moni-tor used to identify the coun-ties as natural disaster areas is a product of the National Integrated Drought Informa-tion System program, which he introduced and that was reauthorized last month.
“I am pleased the NIDIS program continues to be ef-fective in providing accurate drought information and that the 4th District constituents
See EIGHT page 2A
By Kat DonnellStaff Writer
The stroke of a pen and a handshake sealed the sale of David’s supermarkets to Lufkin based Brookshire Brothers on Friday, April 5.
The Waldrip family, who has operated stores in dozens of small towns throughout north central Texas for the past 50 years, owned David’s Super-markets, a grocery chain based in Grandview.
Following the closing in Cleburne, Brookshire Brothers President and CEO Jerry John-son said, “The Waldrip family serves communities similar to those we serve. Their values align with ours and we under-stand their customers.”
Johnson went on to say that the former David’s employees, numbering approximately 500, have the opportunity to become not just employees but owners of Brookshire Brothers.
The David’s acquisition gives Brookshire Brothers a presence adjacent to its exist-ing market area.
“We feel these communities in North Texas are the heart of America,” said John Alston, Brookshire Brothers Chief Operations Officer. “Serving them and serving them in their communities will be our privi-lege. We are pleased to offer all existing store level employees
See STORES page 7A
By Wyndi VeigelNews Editor
Severe weather conditions and preparations have been on everyone’s minds as of late especially after an EF-1 tornado touched down in Princeton April 3.
According to information released by the city, at about 7:35 p.m. April 3, a tornado touched down in the area of east Princeton Meadows and the Creekview Addition causing moderate damage.
Emergency services in-cluding fire, police, and pub-lic works were dispatched to the areas.
“I am happy to report there were no injuries re-
ported. The residents were sheltered in place and no additional sheltering was re-quired, although sheltering was organized by the emer-gency management team and available from the Red Cross,” City Manager Derek Borg said.
The city did experience periods of power outages throughout the evening and into the early morning.
According to the National Weather Service, it was de-termined to be an EF-0 to an EF-1 Tornado with approxi-mately 85 to 90 mile per hour winds.
There were two moderate to heavily damaged homes;
See HOUSES page 5A
By Wyndi VeigelNews Editor
Kris Wilson Gentz, 59, of Princeton, a former Plano ISD employee, recently pled guilty to federal program theft after embezzling millions of dollars from the school district, accord-ing to U.S. Attorney John M. Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.
According to published re-ports, Gentz is believed to have stolen between $2.5M to $7M as part of a conspiracy to com-mit federal program fraud.
He worked as the manager of security and fire systems secu-rity for Plano ISD.
In essence, his job was to make sure PISD buildings and campuses were properly equipped with fire and security
alarms.According to published re-
ports, Gentz created two shell companies and worked with two others to create bogus invoices for work that was never done and for equipment that was never installed, Bales said.
The fraudulent scheme be-gan in 2004 and continued through last year.
The scheme came to light in the fall when a district em-ployee noticed an unusual invoice and reported it to su-periors. Plano police soon got involved in the investigation.
Once they got an idea of the scope of the crime, they brought in the FBI and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General.
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Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldThis house in the Creekview addition in Princeton suffered the wrath of the EF-1 Tornado last week.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldTrash lines the curbs after the EF-1 Tornado last week.
A tragic simulationMass casualty drill helps emergency services learn
Canine search animals and their trainers from Texas Search One aided emergency services personnel in locating victims during the drill. 4A
Lake Lavon LevelsNormal – 492
480.18as of 04/08/14
Lake Jim ChapmanNormal 440 – Current
428.53 Source: US Army Corps of Engineers
Freeport exemption gets approval
The city council approved an ordinance to provide an exemp-tion for Freeport goods in tran-sit.
Freeport exemption is a prop-erty tax exemption that includes various types of properties that are detained in Texas for 175 days or less before being trans-ported out of Texas. 7A
C.A.T.E captures award at SkillsUSA competition
The Career and Technol-ogy Center at Princeton High School placed yet another feath-er in their cap, as they brought home wins from the state held SkillsUSA competition. 7A
There will be a benefit team roping for Derrick Tarrant Sat-urday, April 19 at the James Watson Arena in Tioga.
The books open at 9 a.m. and roping begins at 10 a.m. There will also be food on site and a live auction.
Proceeds go toward Tar-rant’s medical expenses.Tar-rant was diagnosed with lym-phoma in January 2013 and received a stem cell transplant in December 2013.
For more information call Janet Lynn at 214-733-6007 or JD Bacon at 580-743-0616.
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Roping to take place for TarrantThere will be a benefit team roping for Derrick Tarrant Sat-
urday, April 19 at the James Watson Arena in Tioga. The books open at 9 a.m. and roping begins at 10 a.m. There
will also be food on site and a live auction. Proceeds go toward Tarrant’s medical expenses. Tarrant
was diagnosed with lymphoma in January 2013 and received a stem cell transplant in December 2013.
For more information call Janet Lynn at 214-733-6007 or JD Bacon at 580-743-0616.
Samaritan Inn hosts community egg huntThe Samaritan Inn welcomes the community to participate
in an Easter Egg Hunt on the newly purchased 15-acres of land that is intended to become a new family homeless shelter. Along with approximately 60 children who sleep at the Inn each night, the community is invited to bring their families to a fun-filled day with face painting, a cupcake walk, egg color-ing, bounce house, balloon artist, music and food. The Easter Bunny will be on hand for photos with children.
Activities begin at 11 a.m. April 19 at 1514 N. McDonald Street in McKinney.
The event is free and intended to introduce the community to the new initiative to help the growing number of families experiencing homelessness in Collin County.
To assist with the event, contact Tressie at [email protected] or 972-632-1290 x232.
For more information, go to www.thesamaritaninn.org.
Family fun event hosted in FarmersvilleA free family fun day will be held Saturday, April 19 in
Farmersville including a 5K run, a 1K run and an egg hunt.The event is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.Registration for the Family Fun Bunny Run begins at 7:15
a.m. behind the Onion Shed in Farmersville and the race will be held along the Chaparral Trail. The 5K will start at 8 a.m. and the 1K at 8:30 a.m. There is no age limit and the races are free.
At 9:15 a.m., an under 4 Easter Egg Hunt will occur behind the Onion Shed and at 9:35 a.m. there will be a 5-11 year old hunt. Free sno cones will also be provided as well as free chil-dren’s activities.
Hope for Paws hosting bake saleHope for Paws is a nonprofit rescue group located on the
grounds of Camp Diggy Bones boarding facility located at 10785 Hwy. 205 in Lavon. When funding stopped from a large rescue group that housed their dogs at the facility, a cry for help went out. Those in the community and people that love dogs stepped up to the plate to help the 300 plus dogs.
Since January, over 140 dogs have been adopted or taken in by reputable rescue groups and enough food was donated to feed the dogs for four months.
In the effort to place the remaining dogs with loving fami-lies, the need for help continues. Presently, there is a need for wet dog food, Front Line for fleas, Lysol, and a gently used weed eater and lawn mower.
Volunteers are needed to help at an adoption event on April 19. Monetary donations are also needed. All donations are tax deductible. For more information visit www.campdiggybones.com or call 214-298-7562.
1Night to Unite seeks volunteersOrganizers of the multi-denominational event 1Night to Unite,
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, at Wylie Stadium, are asking for volunteers. Needed are singers for the choir and those who will man the golf cart/shuttles, act as host or hostess, inter-cessors, medical/security and parking lot attendants.
Visit 1nighttounite.org/participate/volunteer to see all the op-portunities to contribute and sign up.
Cash donations are also needed, and pastors and church leaders may still sign up their church to participate. The information is on the above website.
Area Briefs are printed free of charge for community events and nonprofits no more than two times. A full calendar can be viewed online at www.princetonherald.com.
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will personally benefit from NIDIS.
“I may not be able to make it rain, but I can legislate. I will continue my efforts on behalf of the 4th District during this difficult drought season and will help our lo-cal officials and farmers bet-ter prepare for and alleviate the impact of drought.”
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Milam, Mills, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Red River, Rockwall, San Saba, Shackelford, Stephens, Tarrant and Williamson and Bryan and Choctaw counties in Oklahoma.
“SBA eligibility covers both the economic impacts on busi-nesses dependent on farmers and ranchers that have suffered agricultural production losses
caused by the disaster and busi-nesses directly impacted by the disaster,” Garfield said.
Small, nonfarm businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private, nonprofit organizations of any size may qualify for Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) of up to $2 million to help meet financial obligations and operat-ing expenses which could have
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Gentz is cooperating with au-thorities and his attorney Quin-ton Pelley, released the fol-lowing statement: “Mr. Gentz took the first few of many steps today towards repairing the damage he caused the Plano
Independent School District by admitting his participation with others to take money from PISD. He came forward early and accepted responsibility for his wrongdoings with feel-ings of extreme remorse. This morning he waived his Consti-tutional right to have a grand
jury review his case prior to its commencement and confessed in federal court to the poor choices he has made in the past two years. Mr. Gentz intends to do whatever it takes within the bounds of the law to rectify the unfortunate dilemma with PISD.”
Allegedly, there were two other people involved in the scheme, one of who is de-ceased. The authorities have yet to release the names and the in-vestigation will continue.
Gentz is awaiting sentencing and could face up to five years in prison.
Two others allegedly involved in scheme
Courtesy photoCongressman Ralph Hall met April 2 with several 4th District constituents representing the Texas Farm Bureau.
Collin County on list
been met had the disaster not occurred.
“Eligibility for these loans is based on the financial impact of the disaster only and not on any actual property damage. These loans have an interest rate of 4% for businesses and 2.625% for private, nonprofit organizations, a maximum term of 30 years, and are avail-able to small businesses and most private, nonprofits with-out the financial ability to off-set the adverse impact without hardship,” Garfield said.
By law, SBA makes EIDLs available when the U. S. Secre-tary of Agriculture designates an agricultural disaster. Secre-tary Tom Vilsack declared this disaster April 2.
Businesses primarily en-gaged in farming or ranching are not eligible for SBA di-
saster assistance. Agricultural enterprises should contact the Farm Services Agency (FSA) about the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) assistance made available by the Secre-tary’s declaration. However, in drought disasters nurseries are eligible for SBA disaster assistance.
Applicants may apply on-line using the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA’s secure Web site at https://di-sasterloan.sba.gov/ela.
Disaster loan information and application forms are also available from SBA’s Custom-er Service Center by calling (800) 659-2955 or e-mailing [email protected]. For more information about SBA’s disaster assistance programs, visit http://www.sba.gov/disaster.
Eight counties declared natural disaster areas
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n Baptist nAltoga Baptist Church6594 FM 1827 • McKinney
972-542-2727Sam Tullock, Pastor
Sunday school 10 a.m.Worship Service 11 a.m.Evening Service 6 p.m.
Small Church with Big Heart
Bethlehem Baptist Church16167 CR 665 • Farmersville
972-784-2300David J. Meeks, PastorSunday School 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.Sunday TeamKID 5:45-7 p.m.
Sunday Evening 6 p.m.Wednesday Youth 6:30 p.m.Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.lighthouseinthecountry.org
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Faith Baptist Church1306 N 6th Street • Princeton
972-736-3733 Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Wednesday Service 6:30 p.m.faithprinceton.org
Cowboy Church of Collin County
2800 FM 3364 • Princeton214-668-8147
Wes Brown, Pastor Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday 6:30 p.m. (all ages)cowboychurchcollincounty.org
n Catholic nSt. Anthony Catholic Church
404 N. Ballard • Wylie972-442-2765
Rev. Andrew Semler, PastorMonday – Saturday 9 a.m.
Saturday (Vigil) 5 p.m.Sunday 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.
Sunday 12:30 p.m. (Spanish)Sunday 5:30 p.m. Mass
Confessions (Sat.) 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.Nursery Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Mass
Saint Anthony Catholic Church affi rms that all life has value and
dignity from conception to natural death.
]n Church of Christ nFarmersville Church of Christ
310 Hwy 78 N • Farmersville, TX 972-784-6176
Clint Brown, MinisterBible Study 10 a.m.Worship 10:45 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
Climax Church of Christ4089 FM 1377 • Princeton, TX
climaxchurchofchrist.orgKenneth Morvant, Minister
Bible Study 9:30 a.m.Worship 10:15 a.m.
n Methodist nFirst United Methodist Church of Farmersville
206 N. Main Street • Farmersville972-782-7025
Rev. Tom WaitschiesSunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:50 a.m.Junior High, High School, Youth fellowship 4-6 p.m. Wednesday
Kids Under ConstructionKindergarten – 5th grade3:30 - 5 p.m. Wednesday
n Non Denominational nGrace Community Church
691 E. Princeton Dr., Ste 109Princeton
972-734-2776Rich Hooper, Pastor
Morning Worship 10 a.m.gracecci.org
Pathway Church193 FM 547 • Farmersville
972-784-7333Pastors Mike and Lori Phillips Children’s Church and Nursery
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Cheryl (Lynn) Kittelson GrinerCheryl (Lynn) Kittelson Griner of Princeton, went home to be
with The Lord Wednesday, April 2, 2014, after passing away unex-pectedly from a hemorrhagic stroke. Lynn was full of life and brought true Love & Joy to all with whom she came in contact. Born June 17, 1946, in Independence, Kan., Lynn lived in the Wylie/Princeton/Dallas area for most of her adult life. Lynn co-founded ‘Crown of Thorns’ - beautiful, hand-twisted crowns sold in Christian re-tail stores, and with husband Terry has real-ized nationwide success. As a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grand-mother, Lynn loved spending time with family. Lynn was a former member of Sachse Assembly of God and is currently a member at Legacy Church in Princeton. She was a woman of great faith and love for Jesus.
She is survived by her husband, Terry Griner; two sons, Mike Kittelson and Jeff Kittelson; step-children, Terri Baum, Teresa Rogers, Tim Griner and Tracy Kirkpatrick; grandchildren, Ashley Swallow, Cody Kittelson, Micah Kittelson, Myranda Kittelson, Jesta Kittelson, Stetson Kittelson, Case Kittelson, Nathan Baum, Tyler Baum, Katie Baum, Brandon Hogue, Kelsie Rogers, Zach-ary Griner, Kendal Rogers, Kolton Rogers, ReAnne Kirkpatrick, Christopher Kirkpatrick; and great-grandchildren, Addison, Lilly, Elizabeth, Avie and Destiney.
A memorial service will be held at Legacy Church, 120 Tickey Dr., Princeton Texas on Friday, April 11th at 1:00 p.m. Cheryl Lynn will be missed deeply but we take comfort in knowing that she is with The Lord.
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Lt Col. John Kendall SmithLt Col. John Kendall Smith passed away peacefully after a
lengthy illness in Bonham, April 4th, 2014.John was born in Farmersville, on June 10th, 1932, to the late
John Kendall (Kay) Smith, and Challis Irene Acord Smith.John was a loving husband and father. He is survived by his wife
of 58 years, Marvalene Moore Smith of Lavon; 3 sons, John Wes-ley Smith of Lavon, Weldon Glenn and Melissa Smith of Wylie, Marlin Brent and Michelle Smith of Grand Saline; along with 6 grandchildren.
John retired from the United States Air Force in 1978, where he served the country in many capacities, one being an air traffic con-troller. His foreign tours included Japan, Goose Bay Labrador, and Turkey. John’s tours in the United States were varied. To name a few of his tours in the U.S., he played a key part in implementing the Norad facility in Colorado Springs, served as a unit commander at both the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Fla.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Lavon, where he served as a deacon. He cared about his church family and those in the community.
He served as Mayor of Lavon in the 1980’s, participated in the Meals on Wheels program, and was quick to silently help those in need.
Visitation was held at First Baptist Church of Lavon, on Sunday, April 6, from 7:00–9:00 p.m. Funeral services for John were held at the First Baptist Church of Lavon on Monday, April 7, at 2:00p.m. The Rev. Clint Bratcher officiated. Burial followed at the Thomp-son Cemetery in Copeville.
William Eugene Oliver (September 27, 1938 - April 6, 2014)
U.S. veteran Mr. William Eugene Oliver, 75, of Garland,
passed away Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Plano. Mr. Oliver was a member of First Baptist Church in Copeville. He was retired from city of Garland in the Operations Department. He served for seven years in the Texas Air National Guard.
Mr. Oliver was preceded in death by his wife, Freida Ol-iver; daughter, Valerie Whitworth; grandson, Colton Wil-liam Oliver; his parents, “Frosty” and Mae Oliver; sister, Mary Ann Dean; and brother, Lonnie Oliver.
His surviving relatives are his wife, Betty Oliver of Gar-land; five sons, Doug Wilburn of Texas, Robert Oliver and his wife Tanya of Josephine, Melton “Spanky” Seay and his wife Brie of Balch Springs, Mike Green and his wife Deborah of Farmersville, and Johnny Wilburn and his wife Denise of Arlington; two daughters, Lynn Schuyler and her husband Gary of San Antonio and Cindy Hancock of Mesquite; two sisters, Beverly Oliver Massegee of Nevada, Texas, and Glenda Roland of Campbell; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Oliver will have visitation at Hurst’s-Fielder-Baker Funeral Home in Farmersville from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10. His funeral will be held at First Baptist Church in Copeville at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 11. Burial will be in the Thompson Cemetery.
Hurst’s-Fielder-Baker Funeral Home in Farmersville is in charge of the arrangements.
Bettye Lou Box May 7, 1922 - April 4, 2014
Bettye Lou Tollett Box, 91, passed away Friday, April 4, 2014, in Rockwall. Mrs. Box was born May 7, 1922, in Greenville. She retired as a school secretary with Pasadena Texas School District. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Farmersville.
Mrs. Box was preceded in death by her husband, M.J. Box in August 2011; her parents; and a brother.
Her surviving relatives are two sons, Michael James Box and his wife Susan of Lavon, and William Patrick Box and his wife Marcia of New Braunfels; five grandchildren, Michele Marie Box, Melissa Hutchinson, Jami Lyn Simons, Kimberly Box and Brian Patrick Box; six great-grandchildren, Andrew Hutchinson, Tori Hutchinson, Bodie Box, Blake Box, Haylen Box, and Ryker Simons.
Visitation for Mrs. Box was from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at Hurst’s-Fielder-Baker Funeral Home in Farrmersville. Her fu-neral service was held at First Baptist Church in Farmersville, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 9. Burial was in the Nevada Cemetery in Nevada.
Hurst’s-Fielder-Baker Funeral Home in Farmersville is in charge of arrangements.
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On Tuesday, in Washington D.C., Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society named two Collin College stu-dents, Michelle Davis of Allen and Alexa Acosta of Plano, to the exclusive 2014 All-USA Academic Team. On stage, Davis and Acosta joined 18 college students from across the country who were selected from more than 1,700 nomi-nees.
The program is widely recognized as the most pres-
tigious academic honor for students attending commu-nity college. Nominees are hand-selected by colleges for showing intellectual rigor and for demonstrating academic leadership and civic growth. The program also recognizes students who extend their community college education to better themselves, their col-leges and their surrounding communities.
“Michelle and Alexa are perfect examples of the aca-demic excellence at Collin College,” said Mac Hendricks, who chairs the Collin College
Board of Trustees. “They are role models in the classroom, on campus and in the commu-nity, so we are delighted that they have been recognized.”
Davis and Acosta each will receive a $2,500 scholarship and a special medallion to wear with their graduation re-galia. Davis was the top scorer in the state earning an addi-tional award as the 2014 Co-ca-Cola New Century Scholar for Texas, which comes with a $2,000 scholarship and plaque from the Coca-Cola Founda-tion and Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.
Two Collin College students make national headlines
Photo by Nick Young Michelle Davis (left) and Alexa Acosta were named to the exclu-sive Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) In-ternational Honor Society 2014 All-USA Academic Team.
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Editor’s note: The following story and photos are of a mass casualty drill, or Collin County Unified Emer-
gency Operations Challenge. No one was injured.
Canine search animals and their trainers from Texas Search One aided emergency services personnel in locat-ing victims during the drill.
A PHI heli-copter lands at the scene to transport critically in-jured victims.
Victim Relief Ministry was on site to aide during the sim-ulation. The organization was mobilized for the drill and partners with law enforcement agencies, victim service organizations and homeland security to deliver appropri-ate physical, emotional, and spiritual support to victims of crime, disaster and terrorism.
Firefighters work to treat victims during the exercise.
Princeton Fire Chief Tom Harvey acts as incident commander for the drill.
Public Information Officer and Assistant Fire Chief Steve Deffibaugh walks across the scene as the drill takes place.
Members of the Princeton Fire Department were on scene to participate in the drill
By Wyndi VeigelNews Editor
Large commercial airliner down.
These words would invoke fear, panic and anxiety in any-one, but for 26 agencies this was part of their day April 5 as Sister Grove Park in Princeton was transformed for the Collin County Unified Emergency Op-erations Challenge.
Those who were involved knew that the 737-100 crash was a drill, but it afforded the agencies practice by working together in the event of a real emergency.
“We accomplished the major-ity of our goals,” Princeton Fire Chief Tom Harvey said.
The “crash” involved an air-
liner that contained 150 passen-gers. Emergency services were faced with dealing with 26 fa-talities and 37 injured patients during the drill.
Agencies involved in the drill included AMR Collin County, Hunt County Ambulance Ser-vice, Dallas County Ambulance Service and PHI air medical ser-vice.
Area fire departments par-ticipating included Farmersville FD, Blue Ridge VFD, Princeton FD, Branch VFD, Lowry Cross-ing VFD, Melissa FD, McKin-ney FD and Josephine VFD.
Other departments and agen-cies participating in the exercise included Collin County Fire Marshal’s Office, Homeland Security, Collin County Dis-patch, Collin County Sheriff’s Department, Medical Reserve
Corp., Texas Search One, Vic-tim Relief Ministry, Princeton PD, Princeton Public Works, Princeton High School, Princ-eton CERT team, Texas Forest Service, Princeton Emergency Operations Center and Princ-eton Fire Marshal’s Office.
More than 250 people were on hand to join forces and prac-tice techniques including Inci-dent Command System organi-zation.
During the drill not only did the airliner crash, but also fire departments had to contend with wildfires and hot spots in the surrounding woods, which endangered both the Medical Reserve Corps. (MRC) indi-viduals and Texas Search One, a canine search unit used to res-cue victims in the woods during the scene.
Both search groups were able utilize their skills as the area was gridded off in a search pat-tern; victims were located and then taken to triage.
Midway through the drill a planned snafu occurred as the communications tower fell due to the wildfires simulating a to-tal communications black out. This made the HAM radio op-erators within the search groups essential as teams radioed in when they found their victims.
“We need to train more in this type of situation,” Harvey said. “It helps us work together on a day-to-day basis.”
This type of drill will be done on an annual basis in order to accomplish this practice.
“The professionalism of ev-eryone performing in the drill was great,” Harvey added.
A tragic simulationMass casualty drill aids in pulling together agencies
Photos by Wyndi Veigel
A firefighter uses foam to stop the spread of flames on the simulated fuselage.
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most of the damage was limited to roofs, fencing, broken win-dows and automobiles.
Many residents within the Creekview subdivision spent Friday, April 5 doing cleanup and repairs.
Will Monk, a resident with-in Creekview, swept up glass from neighboring windows and moved boards from his fence that was down in the backyard.
Progressive Waste Solution
and the city provided large dumpsters on site to allow resi-dents to throw away debris.
Other residents, such as Sara Reed who lives on Cross Creek Drive, used the experience to reinforce the positive in their lives.
“We’re just lucky it didn’t do more damage and that no one was hurt,” she said.
Many neighbors within Creekview were helping each other pick up debris, some meet-ing each other for the first time,
due to fences coming down. “The city’s new storm warn-
ing system functioned prop-erly and gave the citizens in the area advance notice to take cover,” Borg said. “ Thanks to the Princeton emergency man-agement team’s cooperation and quick response, they were able to assess the damage and address the immediate needs of the citizens. I would like to also thank the citizens of Princeton for their cooperation and sup-port during this time.”
Houses affected by EF-1 TornadoWyndi Veigel/The Princeton Herald
Assorted debris littered the woods surrounding the Creekview subdivision in Princeton.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldProgressive Waste Solutions and the city provided large dumpsters for residents to col-lect debris.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldResidents of the Creekview subdivision clean up debris following the EF-1 Tornado.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldA long row of fences were destroyed in the Creekview subdivision.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldThis grill was picked up in the EF-1 Tornado and ended up in another yard.
Wyndi Veigel/The Princeton HeraldA fence picket ended up lodged in the roof of this house.
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A Fort Hood soldier brought a civilian semiautomatic pistol
to the sprawling military post 60 miles north of the Capitol city on April 2 and opened fire, killing three fellow service members and wounding 16 others before turning the .45- caliber weapon on himself.
The suspect, Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound reportedly after a female military police officer con-fronted him. Gov. Rick Perry, in a statement released the day of the shooting, said, “Today, Fort Hood was once again stricken by tragedy. As Texans, our first priority must be car-ing for the victims and their families. Fort Hood has proven its resilience before and will again. Texas will support those efforts in any way we can, with any resources necessary. The thoughts and prayers of all Texans are with everyone affected by this tragedy.” At-
torney General Greg Abbott, on April 3, said he would send members of his Crime Vic-tim Services Division to Fort Hood to work with victims of the attack and that victims may apply for reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses through the state Crime Vic-tims’ Compensation Fund.
Abbott, the state’s chief law enforcement officer, said: “Our hearts break for the wounded military men and women and the families of those who died. Few answers can be found in the days immediately after such a tragedy, but we pledge to assist in any we can. Mem-bers of our military and Texans in the Fort Hood area have stared down adversity before and they will do it again.”
An April 3 White House
news re-lease said “the De-partment of De-fense has
the lead on the investigation with support from federal partners including the FBI, as well as state and local law enforcement personnel.”
‘Obamacare’ enrollment ends
With an official enrollment total and supporting informa-tion yet to come, a few hun-dred thousand Texans applied and obtained health insurance coverage under the U.S. Af-fordable Care Act before the March 31 enrollment deadline. The Obama administration’s national goal of gaining 7 mil-lion enrollees reportedly was met after months of technical problems with the healthcare.gov website created to pro-cess applications. Still, an estimated one-fourth of the
state’s 26 million residents do not have health insurance but are eligible under “Obam-acare,” leaving Texas among the least-covered states.
Statewide enrollment climbsPublic school enrollment
in Texas reached 5,075,840 in 2012-2013 and “continues to surge, growing by 820,019 students or more than 19 percent over the past decade,” the Texas Education Agency reported on April 1. The 2012-2013 school year marked the first time that statewide en-rollment officially topped five million, the agency said, and from the 1987-1988 school year to the 2012-2013 school year enrollment grew 57.4 percent, or about 1.85 million students. Pulling information from its new report, “Enroll-ment in Texas Public Schools 2012-2013,” the agency noted the composition of the overall student body was 51.3 per-cent Hispanic, 30.0 percent
white, 12.7 percent African American, 3.6 percent Asian and 1.8 percent multiracial.
Safety campaign is launchedTexas Department of
Transportation on April 2 urged motorists “to put away their mobile devices and other distractions and pay atten-tion to the road.” April, the agency said, marks National Distracted Driving Aware-ness Month and the kickoff of TxDOT’s annual “Talk, Text, Crash” public educa-tion campaign. The Talk, Text, Crash campaign warns motorists about the dangers of distractions and urges them to avoid multitasking or engaging in non-driving activities until they arrive at their destination. John Barton, TxDOT deputy executive director, said, “The statistics in Texas are sobering. One in five traffic crashes in Texas is caused by a distracted driver, and last year, 459 people were killed as a result.
Those deaths were prevent-able. …” TxDOT gave exam-ples of distractions, including: texting, checking email, eating and drinking, grooming, read-ing, programming a naviga-tion system, watching a video, and adjusting a radio, CD player or other audio device.
Unemployment rate dropsTexas Workforce Commis-
sion on March 28 reported em-ployers added 37,600 seasonal-ly adjusted total nonfarm jobs in February and “those addi-tions, coupled with a revised gain of 43,000 jobs in Janu-ary, boosted annual growth to 314,200 jobs in Texas.”
Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in February, the com-mission reported, adding that the rate was down from 6.5 percent in February 2013, a full percentage point below the nation’s February unem-ployment rate of 6.7 percent.
State responds to tragic Fort Hood shootingBy Ed Sterling,member services director for the Texas Press Association. His column is a weekly aggregation of news about the state’s government.
Home Rule: vote with your heart
Here we go with Home Rule one more time. Actually, it isn’t all bad, but it isn’t all good ei-ther. I’m hoping the Princeton citizens take a long, critical look at Home Rule before it’s passed so everyone is aware of benefits and consequences.
I remember living in Rich-ardson when it was passed there. It was no big deal, for a while. We were promised that things would be nicer in the long run. As I said, “No big deal.”
Until, one night in the early morning hours the Richardson powers-that-be made a huge land grab. Instantly, the city went all the way to Renner Road on the north and to, or very near, Murphy Road on the east. Without asking the people who lived in the unincorporated areas if they wanted live in the city limits, Richardson grabbed
the land, houses and farms of people who had lived in the country, in unincorporated ar-eas, all their lives. We were devastated that what was coun-try was now city. Everyone was up in arms about this.
It happened again a short time later. This time it was Plano who silently tip-toed through the darkness and pushed the city limits in every direction, gabbling up more land occupied with contented country folk. Before long, the old-timers were pushed out of their chosen lifestyle, giving up their holdings that soon would be housing editions. Farm Road 544 went from a two-lane as-phalt country road to a modern six-lane highway overloaded with traffic on most days. The same is true of Renner Road winding its way from Richard-son to Murphy.
If you doubt this, just drive along Renner Road from K Av-
enue/Greenville Avenue east to Murphy Road. The farms there had houses that set back from the road. In the fall, the land owners hung rows of dead fox-es on their barbed wire fences, the foxes that had killed, de-stroyed or eaten the farmer’s chickens. Today, the foxes are nowhere to be found. The farm-houses are gone as are the bois d’arc posts and barbed wire that fenced this area of the country. Renner is no longer a white rock road. Now, it is a fancy six-lane road with expensive brick homes, each with fancy grass, trees and colorful flower beds, high wooden fences and shopping centers and connector roads crawling with traffic. The homes are beautiful, there is no denying that. And, the shopping centers are convenient. But, the farms are gone as are the foxes that roamed the area when I was growing up. It’s not coun-try anymore.
Now, imagine the farmlands around Princeton. Picture their eradication and in its place more shopping centers, brick homes, apartments, noisy traf-fic, etc. Do you want to save our countryside? Keep it country?
Then Princeton voters please vote wisely. Vote with your heart. Home Rule has both good and bad that follows it. Eventually, it will take our countryside once again. Once again, our country farms will be incorporated into the city. May-be it won’t happen this year or in two years, but it will happen. The very people in city gov-ernment who promise the land grabs won’t happen may not be in office for many years. Who will take their place? Will the newly elected vote to chomp up our farms and ranches once again?
You must decide with your heart.
Brenda Kellow
Rural and small-town Texas folks
tend to put on their best behav-ior in church. I’m sure that’s pretty true universally.
However, when it’s a small town or area and the church is also fairly small – everyone knows everyone else. When that’s the case and someone you know pretty well, it gets the tickle box upside down enough to disrupt services a bit. That statement ex-tends to another place where solemnity and reverence are expected – a funeral home.
One of my cousins told me of sitting with my young great-niece at visitation prior to my mom’s funeral.
The young niece asked the cousin how old she was and my cousin replied, “I’m 65.” To which the niece said, “Well, it won’t be long now.”
At the “children’s moment” in church services, a time when small children come to the front of the sanctuary and sit with the pastor as he tells them a biblical story, a young girl was told by the preacher: “My, that’s a very pretty dress you’re wearing.” The girl’s re-sponse: “Yeah, but my mother says it’s a b---h to iron.”
My youngest brother tells of a service he attended in which a young boy was bap-tized by the elderly minister who then sent the boy out the wrong side of the baptistery to the girls’ dressing area. Momentarily, as the congre-gation was singing (giving every baptismal celebrant time to dress and rejoin the services), here came the young boy doing the Aus-tralian crawl in a swimming attempt to get back to the male side of the baptistry.
In yet another baptismal tale, one of this small town’s “big-time” sinners, a man who was said to daily consume large amounts of whiskey, was convinced by the pastor to give up the booze, confess his sins and join the church.
During the baptism, the recalcitrant booze hound was dunked and came up with such force that the wide sleeves of the baptismal gown scooped up volumi-nous amounts of water and dumped them on the choir’s
alto section in sort of a re-baptism for those women of the church.
In both cases, some members of the back-row-cool-teen-bunch had to dash out of the services, unable to sti-fle the understandable urge to guffaw loudly at the turn of events.
Some stories cannot be substanti-
ated but take on the cloak of “joke” as they are re-peated through the years.
One such tale deals with a preacher’s condemning sermon on the evils of con-suming alcohol. You don’t hear quite as much of that any more since the Texas Alco-holic Beverage Commission established a later opening time on Sundays for establish-ments selling booze. It has long been said that the rule was written so as to give dea-cons an even Sabbath day start with all the other drinkers.
Another deals with a “seasoned” sinner who had a propensity for profan-ity but was convinced to renounce his misbegotten life and join the church.
In an emotional, revivalist-inspired type of profession of faith, the pastor asked: “Who has blessed you with new life?” To which, the new church member replied emphatically: “The Lord did!”
Pastor: “Who washed away your sins?”
New member, with increased intensity: “The Lord did!”
Pastor: “And, what did Satan ever do for you?”
New member, shouting: “Nothing! ?@#* him!”
Another Sunday “legend” involves a baptism in which the pastor is “dunking” a new confessor to the faith.
The pastor immerses the novitiate and seems to hold him under a little longer than usual, and upon lifting the just-baptized new mem-ber from under the water, asks: “Do you believe?”
New member: “Yes.” Pastor: “What do
you believe?”New member: “I believe
you’re trying to drown me. It’s great to live in a coun-
try and atmosphere where we can worship as we see fit. And, it’s wonderful that God has a sense of humor.
Doesn’t he?
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of David’s a position with our company. Some of the corpo-rate staff has chosen to come on board, including several third generation Waldrip family members.”
Of the 25 stores, nine will fly the David’s Supermarkets or David’s Express banner, one will remain Pecan Foods and 15, including one recently opened in Meridian, will be
Brookshire Brothers. Founded in 1921, Brook-
shire Brothers is 100 percent employee owned. Its assets include 148 retail outlets that include grocery stores, conve-nience stores and free standing pharmacy, tobacco and petro locations. Two new stores are planned for 2014. Their territo-ry reaches east to Lake Charles, La., west to Canyon Lake, north to Whitesboro, and south to Ganado.
Stores 100 percent employee owned
Freeport exemption gets approval
By Kat DonnellStaff Writer
The city council approved an ordinance to provide an exemp-tion for Freeport goods in tran-sit.
Freeport exemption is a prop-erty tax exemption that includes various types of properties that are detained in Texas for 175 days or less before being trans-ported out of Texas.
The exemption applies to goods, wares, ores and mer-chandise. Oil, gas and petro-leum (defined as liquid and gaseous materials immediately derived from or natural gas from refining petroleum) and to aircraft repair parts used by a certified air carrier.
The goods must be in Texas for assembling, storing, manu-
facturing, repair, and mainte-nance, processing or fabricating purposes.
“The Economic Develop-ment Corporation is always on the lookout for new ways to at-tract business,” said city manag-er Derek Borg, “This is one way to make that happen.”
Texas legislation passed the ordinance in 1989 to promote business and industrial growth.
“We needed to adopt this ordinance for several reasons, “said Jim Staley, EDC board member. “When business and industrial growth move for-ward, it benefits the city, the school district and the citizens. This creates jobs and tax based income. For us to stay competi-tive in the growth process, its only natural that we would im-plement what everyone else has already done,” he added.
C.A.T.E captures first-place at SkillsUSA competitionBy Kat Donnell
Staff [email protected]
The Career and Technology Center at Princeton High School placed yet another feather in their cap, as they brought home wins from the state held Skill-sUSA competition.
The competition is a partner-ship of students, teachers and industry that work together to ensure America has a skilled workforce.
The national nonprofit orga-nization works with teachers, high school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical, health and skilled service occupations.
Texas SkillsUSA was held at the end of May in Corpus Christi.
As a team, PHS had students qualify for state in cosmetology, auto technology, construction trades, video production, com-puter maintenance, computer programming, HVAC, medical math and medical terminology.
Justen Davidson took first place in the HVAC competition,
making him the first SkillsUSA state champion from PHS. The win also qualified Justen for the National SkillsUSA competi-tion that will be held in June in Kansas City.
In addition to winning the state championship, Justen re-ceived Best of Show for his HVAC project.
“It was exciting being there representing our school,” he said. “We had all worked so hard to qualify. To bring home the state championship was a proud and humbling moment. I’m looking forward the nation-als in Kansas City.”
Also placing in HVAC was Forest Carter, who received third place and Jose Fiscal who received fourth place.
“This is such a great honor for these students,” said HVAC in-structor Rusty Lormand. “They have worked hard and their hard work is paying off. We are get-ting calls from large established companies in the area who are interested speaking to our stu-dents about employment oppor-tunities.”
Other SkillsUSA results from
PHS include cosmetology stu-dents Blanca Acosta- Supe-rior rating, Jocelyn Buitron, Jai Hernandez, Ehly Diaz, Michael Christain, and Kiara Perez- Excellent rating and Madison Perkins, Riley Carter, Vanessa Rascon-Nunez, Maritssa Rivera and Kim Rivera all received Very Good ratings.
HVAC students Nathan Stringer, Aaron Wanner, Shane Huddleston, Anthony Taylor, Jose Fiscal, Austin Fisher, Pat-rick Shores, Austin Brown, For-est Carter and Garrison Burkins all received Superior ratings.
Auto technology student Josh Herron received a Superior rat-ing and construction trades stu-dent Ariel Landa received an Excellent rating.
“I congratulate everyone who qualified to enter this competi-tion,” said Michael Hesse As-
sistant Principal - CATE Pro-gram and Pharmaceutical Tech instructor. “They not only repre-
sented the school well, they rep-resented themselves and their individual skills well.”
C.A.T.E award winners from the SkillsUSA competition were, from left, Nathan Stringer, Aar-on Wanner, Forest Carter, Austin Brown, Jose Fiscal and Justen Davidson.
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Kat Donnell/The Princeton HeraldEgg collectors review their goodies during the city Easter egg hunt.
Kat Donnell/The Princeton HeraldAbove, Juliette Monk, Tracy Monk and Lucy Monk display their bounty. Below, a container full of empty eggs.
Kat Donnell/The Princeton HeraldAbove, an egg hunters basket displays its riches during the City of Princeton’s egg hunt. Right, Gabe Keel, Caleb Keel, Valerie Skaleck and David Keel pose for a picture after the egg hunt.
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PISD Sports
April 9Track at District 12-3A meet (at Princ-eton), TBA
April 10Track: at District 12-3A meet (at Princ-eton), TBA
April 11Tennis: at District 12-3A JV Tournament (at Princeton), TBABaseball: vs Anna, 7:30 p.m.Baseball JV Maroon: vs Anna, 5 p.m.Softball: vs Anna, 6:30 p.m.Softball JV: vs Anna, 5 p.m.
April 14Tennis: at Class 3A Region II Tourna-ment (at The Rockwall Tennis Center), TBA
April 15Baseball: at Melissa, 7 p.m.Baseball JV Maroon: at MHS, 5 p.m.Softball: vs Melissa, 6:30 p.m.Tennis: at Class 3A Region II Tourna-ment (at The Rockwall Tennis Center), TBA
April 16Tennis: at Class 3A Region II Tourna-ment (at The Rockwall Tennis Center), TBA
April 17Track: at Area Meet (district qualifiers at Dallas’ Kinkaide Stadium), TBATennis: at Class 3A Region II Tourna-ment (at The Rockwall Tennis Center), TBA
April 18Baseball: vs Community, 7 p.m.Baseball JV Maroon: vs CHS, 5:30 p.m.
Baseball
Softball
Within reach
Tennis
Sports briefsHave you ever wished that
you could play football one more time?
Your wish has been granted. Alumni football is coming to
Farmersville. Gridiron Alumni is planning several full contact alumni football games.
Gridiron Alumni travels the nation pitting old football rivals against each other one more time. Last year, hundreds of players and thousands of fans swarmed stadiums to watch their hometown heroes strap it on one more time.
Gridiron Alumni is targeting teams like Farmersville, Com-munity, Caddo Mills and many others.
Players from the local area are invited to register to play. Players are needed to sign up for their alma mater and the first 40 players on each team get to play.
The team that gets 30 people registered first gets home field advantage.
If you or someone you know is interested in putting on the pads one more time, please go to http://www.gridironalumni.com to register.
Fishing reportLake Lavon
Water lightly stained; 42–47 degrees; 12.36’ low. Black bass are slow on black/blue flipping jigs. White bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are fair on chartreuse jigs and minnows. Catfish are fair on prepared bait and trot-lines. Zebra mussels have been found in this reservoir. Boats, livewells, and bait buckets must be drained of all water before leaving the area. Reports can be found at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/action/reptmap.php?EcoRegion=PL.
Princeton discovers successBy David Jenkins
Staff [email protected]
Princeton had one of schools strongest showings a few weeks ago in the District 12-3A Tournament.
“I was very happy with the way all of our athletes performed throughout the tourna-ment. There were several rain delays and it was drawn out over nearly a week. They were able to stay focused and perform under
pressure,” head coach Brett Hackman said. Up next is the April 14-17 Class 3A Re-
gion II tourney at the Rockwall Tennis Cen-ter.
“Our goal as a team was to send as many teams to regionals as we could, I think with four teams representing Princeton we should be able to advance in several differ-ent divisions,” Hackman said.
At Princeton, the varsity boys won the
See PHS page 6B
Track & FieldDistrict meet up next
From Staff [email protected]
For the second straight year Princeton will play host to the District 12-3A meet.
It is slated for Wednesday and Thursday at Jackie Hendricks Stadium.
Competing will be Princeton, Melissa, Anna, Bonham and Community.
The prelims will take place Thursday, followed by the finals on Friday.
The top four varsity finishers in relays and individual events will move on to compete in the area meet, along with teams from 11-3A.
In the latter grouping are Dal-las ISD’s Madison, Roosevelt
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Victor Tapia/The Princeton HeraldShelbi Cook makes the final out in the bottom of the second inning against Community. Additional photos www.princetonherald.com.
Lady Panthers one victory away from 12-3A titleBy David Jenkins
Staff [email protected]
Coming into this season, one of the Lady Panthers goals was to win a second straight District 12-3A.
They can achieve that later
this week with a win over Anna at 6:30 p.m. Friday dur-ing Senior Night.
“This could be the last time these ladies (seniors) see ac-tion on the home field so emo-tions will be high,” head coach Jason Milligan said. “From the team aspect, we will need to
refocus on hitting balls in the upper portions of the strike zone as we face their pitcher in the last round.”
Honored before their final game will be multi-year starter Kaylee Strickland and Jordan Reynolds.
Earlier in the week the Lady
Panthers (17-7 overall, 6-0 for first in district, as of April 7) welcomed CHANT to town.
“They have matured since we first faced them five years ago,” Milligan said. “We saw them play in the Little Elm tournament where they fin-ished in second-place. They
are a salty team and will be a great challenge for us. I hope the weather holds up.”
Princeton closes out the dis-trict slate 6 p.m. April 15 at Melissa, which lost the initial game 17-5.
See TEAM page 5B
Grant Gilbert
gets off the mound and
readies to fire the ball over to first
base against Community
during the close of the first round of District 12-3A ac-
tion. Gilbert picked up
the win. Additional
photos www.princeton-
herald.com.
Victor Tapia/The Princeton Herald
Panthers collect winsBeat Community, avenge previous loss to Bonham
By David JenkinsStaff Writer
The Panthers were hit hard by the injury bug early in the season.
They are finally back to 100 percent and it showed last week during a pair of District 12-3A wins.
They closed out the first round with a 6-0 triumph at Community and avenged a pre-vious loss to Bonham with an 11-2 victory over the host War-riors.
“It feels good to finally get the team 100 percent healthy and feels good to put together back-to-back wins,” head coach Richard Boring said. “We had a tough loss to Melissa (13-1 in the first round) and our team re-bounded with a strong showing last week.”
In the opener, the Panthers scored once in the first inning, fourth in the second and once in the sixth on five hits.
Excelling at the plate were Garrett Autrey (pair of hits), Brandon Talley (pair of hits and an RBI), Reese Schulz (two walks), Logan Teel (pair of walks and an RBI), Derek Strawn (two walks) and Shane Hudelson (RBI).
Grant Gilbert went the full
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Boys varsity and junior varsity track team is back row, from left, Derion Carlock, Dylan Templeman, Rauf Scott, Bradley Torres, Christian Garcia, Logan Jordan, Juan Huitron, Jakari Dillard, Jeremy Beaird, third, DJ Price, Kendall Ogletree, Jourdan Blake, Bailey Muchemwa, George Flores, Sadavion Matthews, Broderick Hampton, Jacob Rochlin, Brendon Bow-land, Dennis Lockman, second, Moonie Jackson, Savon Miles, Dylan Price, Jaylon Leonard, Wade Young, James Nash, Dar-rius Rivera, Thomas Newby, Eugenio Cer-vantes, Preston Bluett, Derek Templean, Logan Roberts, front, Paul Redford, Zach Nicholas, Benito Montoyo, Darris Reddick, Regan Wilkins, Kai Brinkerhoff, Dusty Burris, Nicholas, Baker and Jermaine Rugwiza. Not pictured: Antonio Bautista, Michael Bowers, Justin Cullum, Dakota Brunson, Daniel Hernandez, Trey Jack-son, Eddie Mendez, Dylan Pfeil, Zachary Throckmorton, Hunter Thompson, Payton Thompson, Zach Torres and Sergio Tovar.
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Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyGirls golf team is from left, Margie Carcamo, Kelsey An-guiano, Kaitlyn Dillingham, Astraea Wayman and Skyla Gilliam. Not pictured: Kailey Marksberry and Kayla McKenna.
Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyGirls varsity track team is back row, from left, coach Carrie Croan, coach Randi Trew, Celeste Acuna, Shaycee Blan-kenship, Lurynn Dixon, Kendall Waddle, Camerin Edmonds, Rachael Mukweyi, coach Susan Rodriquez, middle, coach Maurice Hill, Genesis DeLeon, Patricia Finchum, Jimma Chapman, Michaella Ray Jayla Williams, Sara Wood, coach Angeleena Young, front, Emily Jondron, Nya Scott, Jackie Wolf, Brittany Schantini and Shay Veal.
Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyGirls junior varsity track team is back row, from left, coach Randi Trew, Kyra Stull, Brianna D’Avilar, Ariyan Cole, Darlington Johnson, Chantelle Ellis, coach Susan Rodriquez, front, coach Carrie Croan, Jasmine Bryant, Kelsey Anguiano, coach Maurice Hill, Kristin Strip-lin, Mariah Kirby and coach Angeleena Young. Not pictured: Amber Washington, Brianna Bell, Miranda Mitchell, Sarah Mukweyi, Aimee Parker, Austyn Abrams and Delaney Reed.
Courtesy Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyBoys golf team is back row, from left, Leif Pikkarainen, Tyler Kendrick, Connor Owen, Jalaam Hunter Jake Bowland, front, Jared Carlisle, Wade Young, Devon Davidson and Preston Cook.
Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyJunior varsity tennis team is from left, Vivian Henriquez, Ahtziri Fraustos, Israel Cer-vantes, Brooke Whalen, Vivica Torres and Alissa Avena. Not pictured: Abe Marquez.
Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Double T PhotographyVarsity tennis team is back row, from left, Erin Koeppen, Seth Rios, Adrianna Peters, Kyle Collins, Chase Beebe, Eli Anthony, Zach Torres, front, Kimmy Lyday, Zane Platt, Olivia Simpson, Kevin Alarcon, Raegon Cook, Callie Burton and Michael Roets. Not pictured: Jackie Wolf and Delaney Reed.
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A request has been received from Grif-fin West Partners, L.P., for a voluntary annexation of prop-erty, being a 182.393 acre tract of land situated in the Hard-ing Wright Survey, Abstract No. 957, in the City of Princ-eton, Collin County, Texas, and being a part of that land de-scribed in deed to Griffin-West Partner-ship, recorded in Vol-ume 2132, Page 757 of the deed records of Collin County, Texas (D.R.C.C.T.) and all of the remain-der of Lot 1, Block 4 of Princeton Parks P.D.D. Phase 1A, an addition to the City of Princeton, recorded in Cabinet G, Page 200 of the plat records of Col-lin County, Texas (P.R.C.C.T.), said 182.393 acre tract be-ing more particularly described by metes and bounds and be-ing more particularly described as follows: 182.393 acre tract of land, southwest cor-ner of Hwy. 380 and FM 982, and cross-ing Tickey Creek, Princeton, Texas.
PUBLIC HEAR-INGS WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAM-BER OF CITY HALL LOCATED AT 123 W. PRINC-ETON DRIVE:
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRINCETON, TEXAS, ORDER-ING A S P E C I A L E L E C T I O N TO BE HELD ON MAY 10, 2014, FOR THEPURPOSE OF ADOPTING A HOME RULE C H A R T E R ; D E S I G N A T -ING LOCATION OF POLLING PLACE; ORDER-ING NOTICES OF ELECTION TO BE GIVEN AS PRESCRIBED BY LAW IN CON-NECTION WITH SUCH ELECTION.
NOW, THERE-FORE, BE IT RE-SOLVED BY THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THECITY OF PRINC-ETON, THAT:
Section 1A Special Election is hereby ordered to be held on Saturday, May I 0, 2014, for thepurpose of adopting a Home Rule Charter.
Section 2The polling place where qualified vot-ers shall cast bal-lots at such loca-tion in the City ofPrinceton 2014 spe-cial municipal elec-tion is as follows:
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Princeton High School
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School, 1000 E. Princeton Drive, Princeton, Tex-as 75407 and at Princeton ISD A d m i n i s t r a t i o nBldg., 321 Panther Parkway, Princ-eton, Texas 75407 beginning on Mon-day, April 28, 2014, through Saturday, May 3, 2014, during the normal working hours of 8:00AM until 5:00PM and on Monday, May 5, 2014 and Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 7:00a.m.- 7:00p.m. Early voting by per-sonal appearance shall also be avail-able weekdays at the Collin County Sub-Cour thouse ,2010 Redbud Blvd., Suite 102, McKin-ney, Texas 75069. Additional early voting locations andhours are Princeton High School, 1000 E. Princeton Dr., Princeton, Texas 75407 on Mon-day, April 28, 2014 from 5:30p.m.- 8:00p.m., Tuesday, April29, 2014 from 6:30p.m.- 8:00p.m., Thursday, May 1, 2014 from 6:30p.m.- 8:00p.m., Monday, May 5, 2014 from 6:30p.m.- 8:00 p.m. and Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 5:30p.m.- 7:00p.m.
Section 4 Applications for ballot by mail shall be received and processed by the Collin CountyElections Adminis-trator, 2010 Redbud Blvd., Suite 102, McKinney, Texas 75069. The first day to apply for ballot by mail is March II, 2014. Applications for ballots by mail must be received(not postmarked) no later than the close of business on May I, 2014.
Section 5The City Secretary is hereby autho-rized and directed to publish and/or post, in the timeand manner pre-scribed by law, all notices re-quired to be so published and/or posted in connec-tion with the con-duct of this Election.
DULY PASSED AND APPROVED this 27 day of Janu-ary, 2014.
Lesia Thornhill,City Secretary
RESOLUCION NUMERO
2014-01-27-R
UNA RESOLU-CION DEL AYUN-TAMIENTO DE LA CIUDADDE PRINCETON, TEXAS, ORDE-NANDO UNA ELECCION ES-PECIAL QUE C E L E B R A R A EL10 DE MAYO DE 2014 CON EL PROPOSITO DE ADOPTAR UNA CARTA CONSTI-TUCIONAL DE LA CIUDAD; D E S I G N A N D O LACASETA DE VO-TACION; OR-DENANDO QUE
SEDAN LAS NOTICIAS DE LA ELECCION COMO ESTA P R E S C R I T O BAJO LA LEY RELACIONADA CON TAL ELEC-CION.
POR LO PRE-SENTE, ESTA RESUELTO POR EL AYUNTA-MIENTO DEL ACIUDAD DE P R I N C E T O N , QUE:
Seccion 1Se ordena una elec-ci6n especial para tomar Iugar el saba-do, el 10 de mayo, 2014 con elprop6sito de adopter una Carta Constitu-cional de Ia ciudad.
Seccion 2La caseta de vo-taci6n donde los votantes calificados votaran estaria el si-tio de Ia elecci6nmunicipal especial de 2014 de Ia Ciu-dad de Princeton que es Ia siguiente:
La Caseta de Votacion
Princeton High School
1000 E. Princeton Drive
Princeton, Texas 75407
La caseta de elec-ci6n estara abierto a las 7:00a.m. hasta el 7:00p.m. en Ia fecha de Iaelecci6n.
Seccion 3La votaci6n adel-antada en persona se llevara a cabo de lunes a viernes en Ia Princeton High School,I 000 E. Princeton Drive, Princeton, Texas 75407, yen el Princeton IDS Edi-ficio de Administra-ci6n,321 Panther Park-way, Princeton, Texas 75407, em-pezando ellunes, el 28 de abril de 2014, hasta el sabado, el3 de mayo, 2014, en-tre las horas nor-males del negocio de las 8:00 de Ia mafianay las 5:00 de Ia tarde, yen el-lunes, el5 de mayo, 2014, y el martes, el6 de mayo, 2014, a las 7:00a.m. hasta las 7:00p.m. La vo-taci6n adelantada en persona tambien se llevara a cabo de lunes a viernes en el Sub-Edificio de los Tribunales del Con-dado de Collin, 20 I 0 Redbud Blvd, Ste. I 02, McKinney,Texas 75069. Sitios de votaci6n adelan-tada adicionales y horas son el Princ-eton High School, 1000E. Princeton Drive, Princeton, Texas 75407, ellunes, el 28 de abril, 2014 de las 5:30 de Ia tarde hastalas 8:00 de Ia noche.. El martes, el29 de abril, 2014, de las 6:30 de Ia tar-de hastalas 8:00 de Ia noche, eljueves, el I de mayo, 2014, de las 6:30 de Ia tarde hasta las 8:00 de Ia noche, ellunes, el 5 de mayo de las 6:30 de !a tarde hastalas 8:00 de lanoche y el
martes, el6 de mayo, 2014 de las 5:30de !a tarde hasta las 7:00 de !a noche.
Seccion 4Las solicitudes para boletas que se vo-tarim en ausencia por correo deberan recibirse y estaranprocedados por el Administrador de Elecciones del Con-dado de Collin, 2010 Redbud Blvd, Ste. 102, McKinney, Texas 75069. El primer dia de solici-tar para boletas que se votaran en ausen-cia por correo es el 11 de marzo, 2014. Las solicitudes para boletas que se vo-taran en ausencia por correo deberan recibirse (no matas-ellado) antes del fin de las horas del ne-gocio el viemes, el 1 de mayo de2014.
Seccion 5La Secretaria del Municipio esta au-torizado y dirigido a publicar y/o fijar, en el tiempo y manera prescrito por !a ley, todas las noticias requeridas de estar publicados y/o fi-jados en relaci6n a Ia conducta de esta Elecci6n.
DEBIDAMENTE LEGISLADO Y APROPADO EL 27 DE January, 2014.
ATESTACION:Leisa Thornhill,
La Secretaria del Municipo
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PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE
A request has been received from Princ-eton 55, Ltd. for a voluntary annexa-tion of property, be-ing a tract of land situated in the Har-din Wright Survey, Abstract Number 957, Collin Coun-ty, Texas, and be-ing the remaining portion of a called 55.46 acre tract of land described in the deeds to Princeton 55, LTD., recorded in Instrument Num-bers 20070219000-228440 and 200702-1 9 0 0 0 2 2 8 4 5 0 , Official Public Records of Collin County, Texas, and a portion of Princ-eton Drive (U.S. Highway 380) right-of-way and being more particularly described as fol-lows: 54.330 acres (2,366,602 square feet) of land more or less, South-west corner of U.S. Highway 380, East of the EZ Mart, Princeton, Texas.
PUBLIC HEAR-INGS WILL BE HELD IN THE COUN-CIL CHAMBER OF CITY HALL LOCATED AT 123 W. PRINC-ETON DRIVE:
The Princeton City Council will hold the First Public Hearing regarding this request on April 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
The Princeton City Council will hold the Second Public Hearing regarding this request on April 28, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
AS AN INTER-ESTED PROPER-TY OWNER YOU ARE REQUEST-ED TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN BY AT-TENDING THESE H E A R I N G S .
If you have any questions or need additional informa-tion please contact the City of Princeton at (972) 734-2416.
Lesia ThornhillCity Secretary18-1t-84-147
PUBLICHEARINGNOTICE
A request has been received from Rich-ard K & Sandra L Traylor for a volun-tary annexation of property, being all of that certain 15.106 acre tract situated in the City of Princ-eton, Collin County, Texas, in the David Cherry Survey, Ab-stract No. 166 and the Hardin Wright Survey, Abstract No. 957, and be-ing part of a called 12.22 acre tract of land described in a Warranty Deed with Vendor’s Lien re-corded in Volume 4587, Page 797 of the Collin County Deed Records and a part of a called 3.360 acre tract of land de-scribed in a Special Warranty Deed re-corded in Volume 4700, Page 3383 of said deed records, and being more par-ticularly described as follows: 15.106 acres of land more or less located West of the Northwest corner of W. Princ-eton Drive (Hwy. 380) and Princ-eton Oaks Drive, Princeton, Texas.
PUBLIC HEAR-INGS WILL BE HELD IN THE COUN-CIL CHAMBER OF CITY HALL LOCATED AT 123 W. PRINC-ETON DRIVE:
The Princeton City Council will hold the First Public Hearing regarding this request on April 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
The Princeton City Council will hold the Second Public Hearing re garding this request on April 28, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
AS AN INTER-ESTED PROPER-TY OWNER YOU ARE REQUEST-ED TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN BY AT-TENDING THESE H E A R I N G S .
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A week ago, the Lady Pan-thers started off the second half with wins at No. 21 state-ranked Community 16-6 and No. 26 ranked Bonham 16-5.
“Our girls seemed to show some signs of late season fa-tigue. Our win over Community we started off a little slower than were used to seeing and did not look as sharp on defense as we would have liked. In the end, we took care of business and came away with the win. We had two shortened practices after Tues-day and instructed the girls to rest,” Milligan said.
He added, “When we went to Bonham we again started off sluggish with the lead go-ing back and forth in the early innings. We finally came alive in the fifth and sixth innings on offense and put the game away.”
In the weeks first game, Katy Wilson picked up the decision, after going five innings, giving up six hits, walking one and striking out three.
In relief, Rachel Solis tossed the final two frames, gave up a pair of hits, walked three and struck out two.
Princeton finished with 17 hits, with four going for extra bases.
Top hitters were Amber Mor-
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seven innings, struck out 13 and threw 21 first pitch strikes.
At Bonham, the Panthers put up three runs in the second, one in the third and fourth on home runs, four in the fifth, one in the sixth and seventh off 10 hits.
Top hitters were Talley (three hits), Hudelson (pair of hits and an RBI), Autrey (pair of hits, three RBI’s and a walk), and Gilbert (walk).
Talley picked up the decision, struck out 10 and delivered 15 first pitch strikes.
As of April 7, Princeton was 9-14-2 overall and tied for fourth-place with Bonham at 3-2.
“We still want to achieve our goal as district champs, we just need to take one game at a time,” Boring said. “With the win against Bonham, that strengthens our shot to make the playoffs.”
The Panthers traveled April 8 to Pilot Point for a non-district contest and return home 7:30 p.m. Friday to take on the Coy-otes from Anna.
“We need to stay sharp with a non-district game versus Pilot Point and keep it rolling until we see Anna on Friday,” Boring said.
In the first contest, the Coy-
Talley, Gilbert earn decisions
otes fell 4-1 on their home field.
Games left in district are at district leader Melissa (April 15) and with Community (April 18 for Senior Night), both start at 7 p.m.
Subvarsity reportThe junior varsity Maroon
squad beat Community 13-3 and Bonham 6-0.
They took a break from district April 8 at Pilot Point and play host 5 p.m. Friday to Anna.
Those matchups are fol-lowed by at Melissa (April 15 at 5 p.m.) and with Commu-nity (April 18 at 5:30 p.m.).
The Black team played host April 7 to Waxahachie Faith Family to close out the 2014 campaign.
Team beats state-ranked squads
Victor Tapia/The Princeton HeraldLogan Bolsinger gets the out at second against Com-munity. Additional photos www.princetonherald.com.
ton (double and three RBI’s), Ali Saldivar (double), Makayla Smith (double), Lindsey Tarby (double and an RBI), Lyn-dze Curry (RBI), Abby James (RBI), Solis (three RBI’s and a stolen base) and Strickland (sto-len base).
Versus Bonham, Solis got the win, after tossing five innings and giving up one earned run.
Wilson closed things out in the sixth frame and allowed two earned runs.
Excelling at the plate were Morton (double and an RBI),
Saldivar (pair of RBI’s), Smith (double, home run and two RBI’s), James (double and three RBI’s), Shelbi Cook (pair of RBI’s) and Strickland (stolen base).
Note: Rankings are from the Texas Girls Coaches Associa-tion Class 3A Top 30.
Junior varsity reportPrinceton’s junior varsity
won 8-3 at Community in dis-trict. They welcomed CHANT to town April 8 and wrap up the season 5 p.m. Friday with Anna.
Victor Tapia/The Princeton HeraldKaty Wilson fires the pitch the catcher against Commu-nity. Additional photos www.princetonherald.com.
6B Thursday, April 10, 2014 972-784-6397 | The Princeton HeraldSPORTS
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and Wilmer-Hutchins, Irving North Hills Prepatory and Fer-ris.
That meet is slated for April 17 at Kinkaide Stadium in Dal-las.
Princeton hosted the meet a year ago.
From there the top four indi-vidual and relay team finishers advance to the 3A Region II meet, which is April 25-26 at
Texas A&M University-Com-merce’s Memorial Stadium.
The state meet is May 9-10 at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
Last season during the 12-3A meet the Panthers varsity and junior varsity were second, and the Lady Panthers varsity and JV ended up third.
The following week at the area meet, the Panthers tied for second-place with Melissa on a
total of 110 points, and the Lady Panthers earned 64 for sixth.
Madison took the boys and girls titles with 148 and 113 points, respectively.
Track hits the roadDENTON – Princeton closed
out the predistrict slate April 4 in the Ryan Invitational.
In the varsity only meet, fin-ishing in the top six for the Lady Panthers were Shaycee Blan-kenship (third in shot put), Ken-
dall Waddle (fifth in shot put) and Lauryn Dixon (three-way tie for sixth in shot put).
The 800-meter relay took eighth.
Earning points for the Pan-thers were Mooney Jackson (sixth in long jump), Derek Templeman (fourth in shot put) and James Nash (fourth in 300 hurdles).
In relays the boys took eighth (800), ninth (400) and 10th (1,600).
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team title and the girls were runner-ups.
In boys doubles Eli Antho-ny-Kyle Collins took the top spot, and Zach Torres-Chase Beebe were second, both squads are regional bound
In mixed doubles Adrianna Peters-Seth Rios ended up second and qualified for re-
gionals.In singles action Raygan
Cook was fourth and Rachael Mukweyi lost in the opening round both in girls, Nathan Platt was third and Michael Platt took fourth both in boys.
In girls doubles Erin Ko-eppen-Jackie Wolfe took sec-ond and qualified for region-als, and Delaney Reed-Olivia Simpson fell in the first round.
David Jenkins/The Princeton HeraldIn attendance for the Dennis Lockman dance scholarship signing with Diaz Management Group of California were coach Brett Hackman (front from left), Dennis, boys basketball head coach Jeff Coburn, back, Princeton ISD athletic director Stacey Dillard, mom Tangy Lockman, dad and coach Eric Lockman, brother Derek Lockman, Andy Gilbert and Mike Brinkerhoff.
Senior duo inks college scholarships
David Jenkins/The Princeton HeraldPictured at the Sterling College football scholarship signing were Brenden Bow-land (front center), back sister Emma Bowland (left), mom Briana Bowland, dad Bret Bowland, grandmother Sarah Bowland and brother Jake Bowland. Sterling College is located in Sterling, Kan.
PHS captures titles
Courtesy photoKyle Collins (left) and Eli Anthony (right) won the Dis-trict 12-3A boys doubles championship at Princeton.
Five program 12-3A meet starts WednesdayFile photo
Jourdan Blake (center) prepares to take the baton from Jakari Dillard last year during the 400-meter relay.