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SLINGS&ARROWS | PAGE 5

Do unto others

The “Golden Rule” is a good basis for all

of us - even presidents.

Life&Community

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Thick Skinned

Taxidermist describes work as hobby

and a business.PAGE 6

Another Texas Christian

ChristianHannah Christian travels the

courts for Lady Frogs.

Sports

ON THE SIDE

Trust fund, benefit

set for fire victim

A trust fund has been set up

at Aledo National Bank to

assist Catherine Davis, whose

home was a total loss in a fire

last week in Aledo. All of her

clothes and personal effects

were lost in the fire.

A benefit concert has been

scheduled Sunday, June 27

at Silverado Steakhouse and

Arena called “Guitars & Jazzy

Cars.”

Musical acts include the Matt

Stapp Band, Ali Dee & Alan

Parsons, The Randy Brown

Show and Zach Edwards. Stu

Stewart with 95.9 The Ranch

will be the event emcee.

The classic car show will be

held from 1 - 5 p.m. and a

live auction will take place at

5:30. The silent auction will

close at 8 p.m.

Silverado Steakhouse is on

Hwy. 51, 11 miles south of

Interstate 20 in Weatherford.

For more information, send an

e-mail to cheryl_dennylong@

sbcglobal.net.

Aledo drought

contingency plan

Because water tank levels

remain consistently at a low

level during the summer

months, the City of Aledo

will implement Stage 1 of its

Drought Contingency Plan,

beginning July 1, 2010.

• Watering with hose-end

sprinklers or irrigation sys-

tems is limited to Sundays

and Thursdays for customers

with a street address ending

in an even number (0, 2, 4,

6 or 8), and Saturdays and

Wednesdays for water cus-

tomers with a street address

ending in an odd number

(1, 3, 5, 7 or 9); irrigation of

landscaped areas is further

limited to the hours of 4 a.m.

to 8 a.m. and between 8 p.m.

to 11:59 p.m. on designated

watering days. However, irri-

gation of landscaped areas is

permitted at anytime if it is by

means of a hand-held hose, a

faucet filled bucket or water-

ing can of five (5) gallons or

less, or drip irrigation system.

Turn to WATER, page 3A

TONY EIERDAM/THE COMMUNITY NEWS

Isabel Henry is looking cool with her sporty sunglasses as she fires a forehand Tuesday morning dur-

ing the Aledo High School Tennis Camp at the AHS courts. Youngsters have participated in tennis,

soccer, softball, baseball and basketball camps in June at Aledo High School with many more sports

camps scheduled for the rest of the month as well as July and August. See the camp calendar on

pages 8A and 10A.

COOL CAMPERALEDO

Homeowner

waits for city

council action

! Concerns arise on

wastewater plant

By Dominic Genetti

The Community News

Inside a quiet neighborhood,

four houses stand tall along the

cul de sac of Valley View Court.

But the silence is about to be

broken by the sounds of diesel

trucks and construction.

Located directly behind the

two-story homes is the City of

Aledo’s wastewater treatment

plant. Plans are not only to

expand it to accommodate Aledo’s

growth, but the recent decision to

make the facility the new regional

wastewater treatment plant for

East Parker County is going to

make the area (about a mile from

southbound FM-1187) a construc-

tion site for years to come.

The recent attention at the

wastewater treatment facility has

sparked David Doty to bring con-

cerns to City of Aledo administra-

tors and the Aledo City Council.

“The city seems to be receptive

to our concerns,” Doty, who owns

the property at 404 Valley View

Court, said.

“The city seems

to be receptive to

our concerns”- David Doty

Construction of a retaining

wall around the renovated plant

has been etched into the new

design. Plans call for the wall to be

made of stone, but the structure

for parts of the wall alone requires

a land easement from Doty to the

city. Doty said a retaining wall is

the “minimum” he wants to see

built when refurbishing begins.

“I haven’t seen anything yet

as far as the paper work or the

request even to take that ease-

ment,” he said. “I see (the city)

considering the options that are

available.”

But will he even grant the

easement to the city?

“I can’t say that at this time

because I don’t know what the

city is willing to do,” Doty said.

“We want to be good neighbors.”

In an effort to get even more

feedback, Aledo administrators

held a special meeting for citi-

zens of Valley View Court and the

adjacent subdivision on Barnwell

Lane. Only Doty and his wife

attended.

“I was a little saddened by the

turnout from the people that live

in that community,” Doty said.

Natalie Groves lives in the

cul de sac as well. She said she

would’ve gone to the meeting

if she wasn’t always on the go

with her kids. And that’s why the

upcoming renovations aren’t real-

ly cause for concern.

“I don’t know what it’s going

to mean for us. I’ve heard good

things and bad things,” she said.

“Construction and all that doesn’t

bother us.”

Turn to WASTEWATER, page 3A

! Seven Aledo High

School graduates headed

to very selective colleges

By Christine Hurd

The Community News

On April 1, Aledo High School

senior Trevor Coyle anxiously

checked his e-mail. He was wait-

ing to hear from three Ivy League

Universities. With admission rates

in the single percentages for all three

schools, the likelihood of getting into

even one college was daunting, and

the price tag of more than $50,000

per year to attend made receiving

fi nancial aid a necessity. At 4 p.m.,

the decisions arrived, and Coyle was

accepted into Harvard University

in Cambridge, MA and Princeton

College in Princeton, NJ.

However, Coyle is not the only

AHS senior to earn admission into a

highly selective school. The Class of

2010 contains six other high-achiev-

ing students who were accepted into

elite colleges: Kristin Brikmanis,

Anna Flinchbaugh, Katie Taylor,

Chris Twedell, Nicholas Vance and

Zachary Zambreski.

According to the standard for col-

lege rankings, U.S. News and World

Report, all of these students were

accepted into Universities ranked in

the top 20 in the country or the top

ALEDO ISD

Going Ivy League

10 liberal arts colleges. For a high

school that normally sends perhaps

one student per year to such a col-

lege, this turnout has raised ques-

tions about what made this class so

different from previous ones.

Myrna Sam, who teaches AP

English Language and wrote all

seven students’ recommendation let-

ters, thinks it speaks to a dynamic

she’s observed exclusive to this class.

“These students push each other,

drive each other to accomplish more

and more...these students set goals

and helped each other achieve them,”

she said.

Turn to COLLEGES, page 2A

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The statue of John Harvard at Harvard University will become a familiar sight

for Trevor Coyle of Aledo, who was accepted there in April.

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Following basic training, he was assigned to Craig Air Force Base in Alabama. He started out as a clerk, making rounds and keeping tabs, but then started working in traf-fi c management. He didn’t know it then, nor did he even think about it, but this would become his military career.

The rest of his four years includ-ed opening Foster Air Force Base in Victoria, Texas, but before he knew it, his active duty and dedication to the United States military was over. If he reenlisted within 90 days he could keep his rank, but a job as a sales manager for a moving company seemed a little more pleasing.

“I had a great boss in this moving company, but his wife was interfer-ing with the business and I didn’t want to face that,” Alderman said. “I stayed out 89 days and decided that I really liked the Air Force and I went back pretty well assured I would go to offi cer candidate school.”

Yet, that required a return trip to San Antonio and the grilling life of Lackland Air Force Base.

“That was a very tough school,” Hale remembered, “a six-month course.”

Not long after his return to Lackland it was off to Wichita Falls and Sheppard Air Force Base, but with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry at the top of the Rock ‘n Roll charts another assignment was distribut-ed; Germany. From 1956 to 1959 Alderman lived in Europe just a decade after the second world war concluded.

“I think I was well on the way to a career,” he said. “I never looked back after I got my commission.”

The ‘60s came and went and when the ‘70s began, Alderman found himself off to a place caught in a political debacle in the United States, Vietnam. But there was no time for fear; he had a job to do and when he was stationed in Saigon that’s what he dedicated himself to.

“I got the assignment, I took it,” he said. “By 1970, yes it was pretty strong but it didn’t last much longer.

“You learn to do what they tell you to do and if you’re going to make a career of it, you’ve got to throw the personal part over to the side. I was a little bit leery about leaving my family.

“I was at the headquarters in Saigon, my job was providing the air lift throughout the Vietnam area. I had to travel to all the bases to see everything was going well.”

By the end of the ‘70s, Alderman graduated college and fi nished his 28-year military career in Panama. It was now time for new chapters of life.

He came to Fort Worth and worked for General Dynamics before becoming a Baptist church adminis-trator. It was in Fort Worth, after the death of his fi rst wife, that he met

Marianne. The two have been mar-ried for 22 years.

“We’ve had a wonderful 22 years,” he said.

In 1992 the couple moved to Willow Park, and eventually to the city council.

It may sound like a lot to have done throughout life, but that’s what Alderman said God had planned for him, service to people in one way or another.

“I try to be true to my country, I try to be true to my Lord, and it makes life easy,” he said.

When it comes to his experience and his many services there’s only one word that comes to mind for what he’s done, “satisfaction.”

“I try to be true to my country, I try to be true to my Lord, and it makes life easy.”

- Hale Alderman