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Wylie, Collin County, Texas
46: Issue 43
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Thanks
To the boy scouts for removing the
brick planters downtown so that
new planters may be put in their
place. This is all a part of Wylie’s
effort to put a new face on the city.
School’s Out!
Wylie ISD schools and adminis-
trative offices will be closed April
8,9, and 12 for Easter holidays.
Classes will resume at the regular
time on Tuesday, April 13.
Texas Education Agcy.
conies to Wylie ISD
A team of four Texas Education
Agency (TEA) officials will be in
Wylie three days this week inter-
viewing WISD Board members and
any citizens who have either
written letters or called the agency
regarding board action and policy.
The group is conducting the inter-
views as a follow-up to a letter that
was sent two weeks ago to board
president Linda Brune and will
determine if the board is following
proper procedures.
Stacy Potter inducted
into Alpha Chi
Stacy Potter, a senior majoring in
hearing impaired education and
daughter of James and Doris Potter,
of Nevada is among students
inducted into Alpha Chi, national
honor society at Stephen F. Austin
State University this spring.
A grade point average of at least
3.25 and standing in the top 10
percent of the junior or senior
classes are required for Alpha.
A 1988 graduate of Community
High School, Ms. Potter is also a
member of Kappa Delta Pi,
education honor society.
Committee on Aging
The Collin County Committee on
Aging has an Urgent need for
TTonations of the following home
■health items: Bath benches, shower
hoses, grab bars and wheel chairs.
Please call 542-0106 or 1-800-371-
0955 if you can help.
Bryan Link
still pitching
Bryan Link was named Big South
Conference Pilcher of the Week for
the week of March 21st. During this
week he pitched 13 innings, struck
out 13, walked 1 and gave up only 1
earned run. Bryan, a recent graduate
of Wylie High School attends
Winthrop U. in Rock Hill. S.C.
During 1991-92 he was selected as
a Big South Presidential Scholar.
Textbook
Reviewing
Textbooks up for adotion for use in
Texas Public Schools in 1994-95
will be made available for public
reviewing beginning April 19 at
Region 10 Center, 400 E. Spring
Valley, Richardson. 8:00 to 4:30.
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WYLIE FFA AND 4-H
SAUk
The 1993 - 4-H Show and Sale on Saturday, april 3 was a huge success, despite a misting rain. The
Birmingham Land Board provided a 60X90 tent to shelter both animals, participants and a larger
crowd of spectators. Pictured above are some of the students who competeed inthe show.See next
week’s Wylie News for more pictures and results of the show and sale.
Holland Hitch leads the way
in Wylie’s Clean up campaign
By Weldon Lac
One industrial firm that has joined into
the true spirit of Wylie’s springtime
emphasis of “Clean Up, Green Up” is
Holland lliteh of Texas at 1301 Martinez
Dr.
The progressive and growing company
that is an
industry leader in fifth-wheel development
and technology for large semi-trucks
further demonstrated its standing as a gixrd
corporate citizen by making major
improvements in its exteir appearance.
In connection with a recent expansion of
its plant to include 155,000 square feet of
space under roof, the company has
constructed a new driveway and done
grade work on the property to improve the
control of runoff water, as well as safety
and general attractiveness.
The main jewel of I loiland’s clean-up,
green-up project is a new garden alongside
the building, created from an area that had
previously been an untended and
unattractive grass and weed patch.
Designed as a low-maintenance project
at a cost of more than $5,000, the new
scenic area is landscaped with gravel,
rocks and desert-type bushes and plants.
Another major beautification project tit
the plant was the recent planting of an
additional 200 photenia hedges to screen
the north side of the plant property. Their
lush red leaves, combined with (lowering
pansy beds and other shrubs and trees,
give the property a fresh spring look.
I.arry Nulf, company vice president and
general manager of die Wylie plait, said
the company is pleased to cooperate in the
city’s beautification program and
expressed hope that other business
concerns will take similar measures to
give die city a more pleasing appearance,
official “Clean Up and Green Up"
i Wylie is April 17-27, and more
don about it may be had by
ng Dill Nelson, Wylie community
director, phone 442-4700.
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Birmingham
Scholarship
applicants,
22 named
Twenty-two Wylie High School seniors
have been declared eligible to compete for
the Miss Pearl Birmingham scholarship
awards which have been given annually
since 1948 to outstanding WHS graduates.
Eleven of these students will be announced
as winners of the $9,000 college
scholarships during die academic awards
ceremony on May 18.
The scholarship fund was established in
1947 by T.F. Birmingham of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, in order to comply with a request
by his sister, Miss Pearl Birmingham, who
died in 1946. Miss Pearl, as she was known
to her friends and students, spent most of her
life teaching school. She began her teaching
career in Wylie where she taught first and
second grades. Miss Pearl has been
described as having been “a very quiet,
unusually kind and pleasant person from a
more than generous, happy and religious
family". In her will, she left 1,000 shares of
common stock in the Standard Oil Company
of Ohio to support an annual scholarship to
be given to an outstanding Wylie High
School graduate.
See applicant page 7A
Spring
Clean-up
The City of Wylie and Browning-
Ferris, Inc. (BFI) will be providing
dumpsters fora spring clean-up April 17-
April 25. Ten dumpsters will be placed
throughout the city at the following
locations.
McCreary Rd. - entrance to Southfork
M l I P.
Westgate Way - first dead end barricades.
Ballard Ave. at Birmingham St.
Thomas St. at Pirate Drive - by
Community Park.Oaks Shopping Center. -
by Green’s Automotive.
Ann Drive at Kamber Larne.
Century Way near Alanis Lane
Ballard Ave. at Hwy . 78 , ambulance
bldg.
Foxwood Lame at Castlewood.
London at Parliament off Kreymer
Lane.
Spring Clean-Up Guidelines
Your assistance in following these
guidelines with regard to items placed in
the dumpsters is greatly appreciated.
• Dumpsters will be emptied as needed
within 24 hours
• No items to be left outside on
container.
• No paint cans, oil, batteries, or other
household hazardous materials.
• No commercial construction debris.
• No refrigerators, freezers, air
conditioners or any appliance containing
chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants. As
of July 1. 1992 the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency prohibits the disposal of
any “white goods" containing CPC’s.
Larry Nulf, vice president and general manager of Holland Hitch of Texas in Wylie, is show n in an attractively
landscaped area of the plant’s exterior.
WISD Board ratifies vote from emergency meeting
Board president says: “We should not have registered the vote”
By Patty Flint
The WISD Board of Trustees met
Tuesday at 5:30 pin. in the administration
building in a special session to ratify its vole
on the resolution to terminate the
employment of Superintendent Don Whitt
that was taken at an emergency meeting on
Friday, March 26.
The meeting was posted Saturday,
March 27 at 8:00 a.m.
After Dr. Ted Trimble read the resolution
into the record and made the motion, with
Brenda Burroughs seconding, they and
other board members discussed the issue.
Vic Eggemeyer asked President Linda
Brune if the board had voted on the
resolution at the Friday night meeting, “can
you explain to me why we have to vote on it
again?”
She said it was because the school
district’s lawyer, Dennis Eichelbaum,
instructed them to do so, “because of a 48
hour notice. We could receive information
from the lawyer, but we should not have
registered the vote; because it should have
been 72 hours on posting the vote."
She also said that to hear the two reports
(from Eichelbaum and from Whitt’s
attorney) would “have been fine.”
Eggemeyer then asked her, “When did
you know you were going to call that
resolution ag;iin and we’re voting all over
with the 72 hour posting.” Brune told him.
“Did you make sure we got everything?”
Collins asked Brune. “As far as I know,” she
replied.
Trimble added that “in technicality, that
vote never existed"
"I would appreciate, any time, if someone
sees us not doing something — be it the
audience, be it the press, be it anytxxly —
bring it to our attention, because we were
going on the ... the lawyer was in town, he
was leaving town and he wanted to give us
that report. And, it was perfectly fine for us
to hear the report," Brune said.
After more discussion, the vote on the
resolution was taken. Tapp. Brune, Trimble,
Burroughs and Annette Naish voted for the
motion. Collins and Eggemeyer voted
against.
meeting on Friday night?”
Brune said she called Personnel Analyst
Mary Nelle McClendon and left a message
on Wednesday morning.
See RATIFY page 8A
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