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News
Tuesday, March 23,2010
Scott McBride, Rebecca Hoeffner & Melissa Boughton, News Editors
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Soccer fields to replace bird-watching area
By Alex Calams
Staff Writer
Four new adult-sized soccer
fields at a Denton park will
soon replace an area devoted to
bird watching, which may stir
up controversial views among
local birdwatchers.
North Lake Park, at 2001
W. Windsor Drive, is Denton's
largest city park and commu-
nity recreation center. The
soccer fields will be placed to
the east of the park's existing
fields, said Emerson Vorel,
Denton Parks and Recreation
director.
"There's folks that would
prefer the land stay untouched
for bird watching," Vorel said,
"but there is also a much larger
population that would like to
play adult soccer in Denton."
Vorel said that, as with any
decision, there are going to
be opposing views that leave
some unhappy. He also said
the soccer fields are overall
the best decision for Denton,
which has a lack of adult soccer
fields.
The Capital Improvement
Program Oversight Committee
approved the decision to allo-
cate money toward the soccer
fields in 2005. The project will
cost $850,000 and is funded
by the city's Parks Gas Well
Fund.
"The design for the Adult
Soccer Fields at North Lake will
be done by Jacobs Engineering
Group and will have four adult
soccer fields, parking and
vehicular access to the new
fields, as well as a restroom
concession building. Design
should be complete by winter
2010," said Bob Tickner, the
Parks and Recreation Planning
superintendent, in a prepared
statement.
Denton allocates a consid-
erable amount of revenue
from the Parks and Recreation
Department's fees.
This year's revenue budget
showed that every member-
ship fee associated with Parks
and Recreation services was
increased by $5 this year,
and city soccer fields rental
expenses saw an increase of as
much as $50. The budget esti-
mated an enhancement of more
than $96,700 this year from
increased Parks and Recreation
fees.
Among other projects
included in Denton's 2009-2010
city revenue budget are a new
water slide at the Water Park,
costing $250,000, and land for a
the new Senior Center, costing
$150,000.
Spanning 351 acres, North
Lakes includes a 17,417-square-
foot Recreation Center equipped
with a gymnasium and weight
room, two lakes, three lighted
football fields, 12 lighted soccer
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Texas weather to see sunny
skies, reach mid to upper 0s
(AP) - Sunny skies and warm
temperatures were expected
statewide on Tuesday, just two
days after an unseasonable
north Texas snowfall ushered
in the Texas spring, according
to the National Weather
Service.
Texas isn't through with
snow yet, as more snow is
expected Wednesday and
Thursday in the Panhandle.
For now, through, spring has
sprung in the Lone Star State.
Skies will be clear to partly
cloudy across the state Tuesday,
with temperatures reaching the
mid- to upper 70s in most of
the state. Highs will be in the
80s in West and south Texas.
Winds will be southerly 15-20
mph with guts to 20 mph.
Skies on Tuesday night will
be partly to mostly cloudy with
lows in the 50s, except for 40s in
West and far east Texas and 30s
in the Panhandle. Southerly
winds will diminish to 5-10
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Sunny skies are expected for Tuesday, but more snow may fall for Wednesday
and Thursday in Texas.
Police find body parts in bags
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP)
— The pre-dawn discovery of
two bodies cut into pieces and
shoved into two black bags
brought a tragic end Monday
to a search for two missing
police officers in the southern
state of Guerrero.
Law enforcement offi-
cials say the bagged body
parts were found at 3:15 a.m.
outside police headquarters
in Guerrero's capital city,
Chilpancingo.
One of the victims was a
regional commander, the
other a state police officer.
Notes written on yellow cards
were attached to the bags, but
police refused to disclose what
they said. Drug cartel killers
frequently attach messages
to bodies.
In the nearby resort of
Acapulco, police later found
another two mutilated bodies
and a threatening message
outside the house of the city's
former deputy traffic police
chief.
The victims were identified
as the former deputy chief's
nephews, the Guerrero state
Public Safety Department said
in a statement.
Police also found a message
threatening supporters of the
Beltran Leyva cartel, it said.
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Police officers have been
targets, and are sometimes
complicit, in drug-related
killings, which have claimed
17,900 lives since President
Felipe Calderón stepped up the
drug war in December 2006.
On Sunday, Rodrigo Medina,
governor of the northern state
of Nuevo Leon, announced
that he was firing 81 state
police officers suspected of
corruption.
Also in Nuevo Leon on
Sunday, the police chief of
the city of Santa Catarina
narrowly avoided being
killed by gunmen believed
to be connected to drug traf-
fickers.
The assailants attacked a
convoy of vehicles carrying
Police Chief Rene Castillo
Sanchez and other authori-
ties shortly after the arrest
of several suspected drug
dealers.
One of Sanchez's body-
guards was killed and three
people in the convoy were
wounded, said a police spokes-
woman who, under depart-
ment rules, was not authorized
to give her name.
The Mexican military set up
a checkpoint between Acapulco
and the city's airport Sunday
evening after a man was killed
in a shootout between gunmen
riding in separate vehicles.
The gunbattle followed the
deaths of five men who pulled
guns on each other during an
early morning fight that began
as an argument at a wedding
Saturday night.
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