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Updates for Oct. 1, 2005
Published October 1, 2005
CLUTE POLICE RAISE MONEY TO RETRAIN CANINE
The Clute Police Department raised about $5,500 through donations and a Thursday barbecue fund-raiser to send its ailing canine, Molly, to a specialized school in Louisiana.
A dogfight with the department’s other canine left Molly, a 3-year-old Labrador, emotionally battered. She also lost a 2-inch piece of her tongue.
MEMORY QUILT HONORING SOLDIERS CLOSE TO COMPLETION
A memory quilt, designed to pay tribute to Brazoria County members of the U.S. military who are or previously have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is nearing completion.
The top of the quilt, made of red, white and blue striped blocks, is finished. The quilt includes the names of 71 area soldiers.
Members of the Plantation Quilters Guild hope to finish the quilt by Veterans’ Day.
NEW ACC SCIENCE BUILDING BEING DESIGNED
This month, SBWV architects are expected to present design development plans to Alvin Community College’s board of trustees for the $19.9 million health and science building voters approved in May.
Danny Potter, the college’s dean of financial and administrative services, said the college staff is working with architects to plan the building’s classrooms, labs, offices and ambulance bay. The design development phase will include details about the building’s engineering components. The building should be finished by July 2007.
SANSOM CONTINUING THERAPY, BACK AT WORK
Andy Sansom, a Brazoria County native and former Texas Parks and Wildlife Department director, said he is progressing daily from injuries sustained in a May 23 car accident. He has returned to Texas State University as a geography professor and executive director of the River Systems Institute.
“I’m doing great,” Sansom said. “I’m using a cane a little bit, but other than that, I’m back.”
Sansom’s car flipped when it was struck by another driver on Highway 36 near West Columbia. Sansom was airlifted to a Houston hospital with broken legs and broken vertebrae in his neck.
“I’ve had so many calls and cards from Brazosport, and I’m deeply grateful,” he said.
PEARLAND MAN'S MURDER TRIAL STARTS MONDAY
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Pearland man accused of murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter in 2003.
James Kevin Yost, 43, faces up to 99 years in prison if convicted of killing Anna Michelle Farmer at the home they shared in Pearland. Yost’s trial was scheduled to start Sept. 19, but was postponed because of Hurricane Rita.
2 PEACOCKS LEFT
Two councilmen, the public works superintendent and their friends have only two peacocks left to catch in Oyster Creek resident Dorothy Kidder’s yard.
The group helped the woman catch the fowl after learning keeping them within 100 feet of another occupied home violates a city ordinance.
Toby Guenter, the city’s public works superintendent, said they have caught and found homes for 13 geese and five peacocks.
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