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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30
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NEWS SEPTEMBER 2010
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DAYTON CITY COUNCIL LOCAL NEWS 05/18/2010 THE DAYTON CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A MEAL PROGRAM FOR THE NEW SENIOR CENTER, AT LEAST ON A TRIAL BASIS AT THEIR MEETING MONDAY NIGHT. WE HAVE REPORTED THE PROGRAM INVOLVES LUNCHTIME MEALS PREPARED AND SENT FROM THE LIBERTY SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER TO DAYTON. COUNCIL APPROVED THE PROGRAM FOR ONE DAY EACH WEEK- WEDNESDAY- THROUGH SEPTEMBER. DAYTON MAYOR STEVE STEPHENS SAID THIS WOULD GIVE COUNCIL AN OPPORTUNITY TO GAUGE THE RESPONSE TO THE PROGRAM. UNDER THE GUIDELINES SET BY DAYTON COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEALS WILL BE SERVED EACH WEDNESDAY AT NOON. THOSE WHO WANT A MEAL WILL NEED SIGN UP AT THE DAYTON SENIOR CENTER BY 1:30 P.M. TUESDAY TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF MEALS TO BE DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY. ANYONE WHO IS 60 YEARS OLD OR OLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE MEALS. THERE IS NO CHARGE, BUT THE CITY IS REQUESTING A $3 DONATION TO HELP RECOUP COSTS. MAYOR STEPHENS SAID DAYTON COUNCIL WOULD THEN HAVE SOME IDEA OF THE RESPONSE TO THE MEAL PROGRAM BEFORE DISCUSSING ANY CHANGES IN OCTOBER. IN OTHER ACTION LAST NIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTED TO REJECT ALL BIDS FOR GROUNDS MAINTENANCE FOR THE NEW COMMUNITY CENTER. CITY MANAGER DAVID DOUGLAS SAID THE CITY HAD RECEIVED A NUMBER BIDS- RANGING FROM AS LOW AS $9,000 TO AS HIGH AS $39,000. MR. DOUGLAS SAID THE PROBLEM APPEARED TO BE THE BID HAD BEEN LEFT TOO VAGUE AND MANY COMPANIES HAD SUBMITTED BIDS FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL OF THE WORK INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUNDS MAINTENANCE CONTRACT. ON THE CITY MANAGER’S RECOMMENDATION, DAYTON COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTED TO REJECT ALL CURRENT BIDS AND REWRITE THE BID SPECS, MAKING IT CLEAR COMPANIES WERE REQUIRED TO BID ON ALL THE MAINTENANCE WORK INVOLVED, RATHER JUST SOME PARTS OF IT.
Liberty Dayton Regional Hospital improves .10 Improvements continue regularly at Liberty Dayton Regional Hospital. Recently, interim administrator Vicki Gates said her staff wanted to make some more cosmetic changes outside. The hospital paid for some flower bed mulch and employees donated a large number of plants to create new flower beds in key places around the building. Vicki Gates said they called the project "Planting for the Future". Most recent flower bed additions are at the entry door to the patient wing on west side of the building. Still more flowers beds were added by the emergency room entrance. We have already reported that not long ago the Liberty Rotary Club, who paid for the original effort 20 years ago, lead the way to completely rehabilitate and spruce up the old air ambulance landing pad with new paint, new helicopter landing lights, and a lighted wind sock. Major work and expense was absorbed for that job by Cooper Electric of Liberty and by the late Mark Carpenter, a contractor based in Kenefick. Mr. Carpenter perished in an accident in Galveston shortly after completing the work he did at the hospital helipad. All the 25 patient rooms, or most to them, have new patient beds, over-bed tables and fresh paint throughout the building. There has also been some new hospital services added with more in the future. We will provide information on those upgrades in the future. The Liberty Dayton Regional Medical Center is a 25 bed joint commission accredited critical access hospital in Liberty. They have 24/7 fully staffed emergency services. There’s digital radiology and CT scans and ultrasound. There a fully staffed up to date medical laboratory, in house Dr’s clinic services Monday through Friday and cardiology services on specific day
Latest dollar update on Relay for Life 5.15.10 Our latest update on the South Liberty County Relay for Life comes to us from Volunteer Co-Chair and Treasurer Sandra Sterling. She extended gratitude to the many businesses, services clubs and hundreds of individual volunteers who help this idea stay alive and growing. To date she revealed the local chapters has raised some $79,500 with more still coming in but now at a slower pace. These locally raised dollars go not only into the National effort for research and development of cancer treatment and patient care and to supply information for cancer sufferers or their families. $79,500 is not the most a South Liberty County Relay has raised but it is, according to Sandra Sterling, a good number. She said the volunteer committee is proud of those who made this an unbelievable success story. Mrs. Sterling closed by saying, Thanks to all of those who helped locally we will have a world with less cancer…. and more birthdays. summer jobs news story 05.18.10 another reminder - workforce SOLUTIONS has summer job OPPORTUNITIES for teens and young adults whose family receives any type of public assistance or with a family income below certain levels. SPECIFICALLY, these summer jobs are for those 16 to 24 year old whose families receive public ASSISTANCE through programs like tanf, snap, chip, wic, the free and reduced lunch program, public housing ASSISTANCE, or workforce SOLUTIONS financial aid. young people also qualify based on FAMILY INCOME. for a family of four, the total income must be less than $64,286. those who qualify can apply at workforce solutions located in the strip center adjacent to wal-mart in liberty. you must show proof of identity and age along with proof of ELIGIBILITY to work in the united states. applicants also must provide evidence of public ASSISTANCE or family income for the past 13 weeks. once more, these summer job opportunities are available for those 16 to 24 years old. when applying, parents must accompany those ages 16 and 17. apply at workforce SOLUTIONS in liberty next to wal-mart. for information, call 936-336-3637. Trnwr lands news story 05.18.10 one of the jewels of liberty county is the trinity river national wildlife refuge. the local federal land offers visitors an opportunity to participate in many outdoor activities, such as bird and wildlife watching, boating, KAYAKING, fishing and hunting, just to name a few. refuge manager stuart marcus said the trinity river refuge now encompasses more than 25,000 acres. "audio" stuart marcus said trinity river refuge specifically purchases bottom lands along the trinity river. "audio" kshn recently reported the trinity river national wildlife refuge has received funding for CONSTRUCTION of a new administrative office BUILDING to be located on the refuge itself. stuart marcus said he is excited that after 16 years, they will soon have permanent space to call home, taking the place of their current small office in the 1300 block of north main street in liberty "audio" that new office facility will be built on refuge land on fm 1011, directly across from the sam houston regional library and research center. in short, The trinity river national wildlife refuge continues to grow, and is now more than 25,000 acres. the REFUGE’s most popular site is champion lake public use area, which is now 5,500 acres. it is located off fm 1409 - 10 miles south of u.s. 90 in dayton - at the end of county road 417. for more information about the refuge, go to our website – www.kshn.com – and click on the trinity river refuge link at the bottom of our home page. golf tourney news story 05.18.10 the magnolia ridge invitational golf tournament over the weekend drew a full field of golfers. when the final ball dropped sunday after the three days of spirited competition, the team of ken burnham and bud still took home the first place trophy in the championship flight. earning second place in that championship group were colby worthy and culley howard. then, in the presidential flight, shawn nelson and jason grimsley captured first place followed by jeff williams and jordan jones in second and then scott callaway and mitch moon in third. the first flight WINNERS were the pairing of mark beausoleil and kirk graves. topping the golfers in the second flight at the magnolia ridge INVITATIONAL were ron nelson and joe musgrove. in the third flight, the denton fregia and phillip george team was first. taking home the top trophies in the fourth flight were ron mayo and josh sadler. again, the team of ken burnham and bud still took the championship flight at the 57th annual magnolia ridge INVITATIONAL golf tournament. the two-man team had a three-day average of 65 1/3 per 18 holes. BENEFIT FOR CLAYTON EVANS LOCAL NEWS 05/18/2010 AN ACCOUNT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AT FIRST LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK TO HELP WITH THE MEDICAL EXPENSES OF A YOUNG VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER INJURED IN A WRECK LAST WEEK. AS REPORTED, CYPRESS LAKES FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEER CLAYTON EVANS, 22, OF TARKINGTON WAS RESPONDING TO A MUTUAL AID CALL MONDAY MAY 10TH WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TANKER TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. THE BIG TRUCK ROLLED AND THE FIREFIGHTER WAS EJECTED, SUFFERING MULTIPLE INJURIES. AS OF THIS REPORT, CLAYTON EVANS REMAINS IN SERIOUS CONDITION AT MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON FOR WHAT PROMISES TO BE A RECOVERY TIME OF MANY MONTHS. MR. EVANS IS MARRIED WITH ONE YOUNG DAUGHTER WITH ANOTHER CHILD ON THE WAY. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT FIRST LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK, EITHER THE LIBERTY OR DAYTON BRANCHES. DONATIONS AND CARDS FOR CLAYTON EVANS CAN ALSO BE SENT TO CYPRESS LAKES VFD, 109 WOODFERN DR., CYPRESS LAKES, TEXAS, 77327. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL CYPRESS LAKES FIRE CHIEF NEAL HOLCOMB AT 832-472-7141 OR MILDRED DEAL AT 832-472-7121. LIBERTY EMPLOYEE HEALTHCARE LOCAL NEWS 05/15/2010 AT THEIR MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT, THE LIBERTY CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO CHANGE EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND APPROVED A NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN WITH SOME MAJOR CHANGES. LIBERTY CITY MANAGER GARY BROZ RECOMMENDED THE SWITCH FROM HEALTH FIRST TO UNITED HEALTH CARE TO COUNCIL, SINCE IT WILL MEAN SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS TO THE CITY. GARY BROZ SAID DIFFERENCES IN THE NEW CITY EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE PLAN FROM THE PREVIOUS ONE INCLUDES A 4% INCREASE IN WHAT THE EMPLOYEES HAVE TO PAY FROM THEIR PAYCHECK – FROM THE CURRENT 8% TO 12%. AUDIO. CITY MANAGER GARY BROZ SAID THE CHANGES IN THE EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE PLANS SAVES THE CITY OF LIBERTY FROM BETWEEN $100,000 TO $120,000 AND BRINGS THE CITY’S VERY GENEROUS HEALTH CARE BENEFITS MORE IN LINE WITH THOSE OF OTHER CITIES OF THE SAME SIZE. |
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