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CHISD early
release dates
Cedar.Hil! ISD has
announced the following
early release schedule.
_* Elementary and interme-
diate schools will release
early on Thursday, May 24.
Lunches will be served at
all elementary campuses.
Middle school and high
school will release early on
Thursday, May 24.
Lunches will not be served
on these campuses.
On all campuses, buses
will run at the early release
times.
The last day of school
for students is Thursday,
May 24.
All elementary campus-
es will be dismissed at
11:45 a.m. Thursday, May
24th. Lunch will be
served.
Beltline and West inter-
mediate schools will be
dismissed at noon
Thursday, May 24. Lunch
will be served. ~l
Permenter will be dis-
missed at 11:35 a.m.
Thursday May 24th.
Lunches will not be served.
Permenter students will
follow a final exam sched-
ule on both days.
Cedar Hiti High School
Will be dismissed at 12:28 I
p.m. Thursday May 24th.
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not be served. High school
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Today photo by CHRIS HUDSON
Highlands Elementary got the opportunity to dunk a teacher as a way to unwind
after TAAS testing . Above, Chad Wubbena, a third grade math teacher at Highlands
let students try to soak him on the cooler than usual Monday. A police officer was
also allowed students to throw pies at him as part of the festivities.
360 graduates
By CHRIS McGATHEY
Today Staff
Staff and students at
Cedar Hill High School are
preparing for yet another
graduation when ceremonies
commence at 7 p.m.,
Wednesday, May 30 at
SMU’s Moody Coliseum.
The last day of class for
seniors was May 18. Students
finished final exams, and
depending on passage of the
TAAS, were gearing up for
graduation.
Kim Ellis, principal secre-
tary, said the school is pre-
pared and has a number of
staff and undergraduates on
hand to conduct a successful
ceremony.
Cedar Hill High School
plans on graduating about
360 seniors this school year.
Volunteers from the Seniors
Parents Committee will hand
out programs.
“I think we have enough
people to handle clean up and
take care of all the other
things that go along with
conducting a graduation cer-
emony,” Ellis said.
Baccalaureate ceremonies
were held May 20 at Mt.
Lebanon. Other events slated
for students included Senior
Honors Night, which was
held May 15.
Spanish teacher Amanda
Roberts said numerous
events were planned for
seniors this year, including a
lock-in in Arlington that was
held May 18. On May 21,
seniors were honored with a
picnic at former Dallas
Cowboy Bill Bates’ ranch,
which was planned and orga-
nized by parents. On May 22
students were able to partici-
pate in another lunch at
Colonial Hills Baptist
Church in Cedar Hill.
Roberts said staff and stu-
dents start planning and orga-
nizing senior graduation
activities months in advance,
and numerous hours are put
in as well.
“We work on senior events
all year long, in fact, we have
already started working with
juniors to get ready for next-
year,” Roberts said.
By JENNIFER ANN HUTT
Today Staff
Area cities are joining forces
in preparation for the deregula-
tion of power in Texas sched-
uled for 2002.
Cedar Hill and Midlothian
are the most recent additions to
the Cities Aggregation Power
Project, a coalition of more than
30 municipalities including
Dallas and Duncanville.
“It’s basically just a joint
purchasing program for cities
for power,” Cedar Hill Assistant
City Manager Cireg Porter said.
“By not joining at this time we
would have precluded ourselves
from participating. We wanted
to keep all of our options open.”
As a combined unit, the
aggregation of cities will solicit
bids from power providers. By
combining the electricity
demands of each city, the coali-
tion hopes to get a good rate
because they will purchase the
service in bulk
“It makes sense to me that if
we can all go in together, we’ll
gel better rates than with the
default statutory provider,”
Midlothian City Manager
Joseph LaBeau said
Bidding is scheduled to take
place in June, with implementa-
tion in January 2002. This will
coincide with the deregulation
of power in Texas
In addition to obtaining low
electricity rates. Porter said they
also will consider efficiency
and dependability of the power
supply.
“Half of what we look at will
be reliability,” Porter said.
Between reliability and cost.
Porter said he believes the
aggregate may have better
opportunities than a city would
individually, but that it would
not be certain until deregulation
takes place.
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Officers ride for charity
Police help Texas
Special Olympics
raise money
By JENNIFER ANN HUTT
Today Staff
Cedar Hill police officers
pushed their motorcycles to the
limit in a motorcycle rodeo
that raised more than $53,000
for Special Olympics.
Officers Will Dox and Todd
Marsh both rode in the Eighth
Annual North Texas Police
Motorcycle Training
Competition held at the West
End in Dallas May 11-12.
The Special Olympics coor-
dinator for the Cedar Hill
Police Department, Officer
Mollie Dox, said both officers
performed well. Dox placed
third in his division and
received a trophy.
“Todd’s only been on
motors five months, and Will’s
had his about a year and a
half,” Mollie said. “They both
did excellent.”
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Officers Will Dox and Todd Marsh took part in a motor-
cycle rodeo which earned $53,000 overall.
coordinated each year in part
by the Duncanville Police
Department. It hosts entrants
from all over the state of Texas
as well as Louisiana. New
Mexico and Mexico.
Officers are divided into
various divisions where they
compete for trophies and
awards.
“They set up a cone course
and you have to run through
the pattern.” Will said. “The
one with the lowest time w ins.”
Duncanville Police Officer
and event coordinator Raul
Taylor said the courses are
designed to simulate road haz-
ards or situations that officers
may encounter when they are
working on the streets.
“They were pretty difficult
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CDC takes project suggestions
It’s storytime
Today photo by CHRIS HUDSON
Trsphsno Hickman, a local atorytattar worked har
magic on a group of children at Chlck-fll-A aa a kick-
off for aummer library programa, May 21. Zula Wylla
Library haa many auch events planned this summer.
By JENNIFER ANN HUTT
Today Staff
While pressing forward with
current plans, the Cedar Hill
Community Development
Corporation prepares for new
projects and new board mem-
bership.
The corporation, which uses
the 4B sales tax to fund com-
munity improvements, will
soon consider requests for
future projects.
“We generally have an open
project application period in
the late April-May time frame,”
Assistant City Manager Greg
Porter said. “Those notices
have gone out and applications
have been out there for a while.
We are expecting the deadline
for that on Friday, May 25.”
The board will then review
the applications and determine
which projects they will fund in
the upcoming fiscal year.
“We typically get anywhere
from a half dozen to a dozen
project requests,” Porter said.
“They typically come from
either the library interests or
the parks and recreation inter-
ests.”
Porter said he is not sure
what requests will come in this
year but he anticipates one or
two proposals for neighbor-
hood parks and expects the
library to ask for a few more
Computers.
In addition to the project
schedule, the board member-
ship soon will be revised and
renewed.
The CDC is a board of vol-
unteers appointed by the city
council. Some of the appoint-
ments have come to term and
the Cedar Hill City Council is
now accepting applications for
those positions._
Applications arc available at
city hall, and all citizens are eli-
gible to apply. New board
appointments will be made in
late June or July.
In the meantime, the current
board has several active pro-
jects that they will continue
working on.
The largest active projects
include the plans for a recre-
ation center in C edar Hill.
By the end of.the current
fiscal year. Porter said land
acquisition for the recreation
center should be done and the
design process should have
begun.
“We are getting close to the
point where we should be able
to start kicking that project
off," Porter said.
As the board continues plan-
ning for the recreation center
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Crooks, Kristi. Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 2001, newspaper, May 24, 2001; Duncanville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth541829/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.