Friendswood Journal, The (Newspaper) - May 19, 1982, Friendswood, Texas Friendswood News Serving The Clear Creek Basin Bulk Rate Postage Paid Triad 25 VolmeS Phone 4857501 Hot Important Notice To comply with pending Postal regulation please fill out the postage paid card inserted in this weeks You will continue to have the newspaper delivered to your home or mail Filling out the card and mailing it to our office does not obligate you to pay any money as a future In addition to having your request on file we would like for our readers to answer the questions on the card about the services and content of the News Briefs VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL Methodist Church Vacation Chur ch will begin May 23 and will begin continue through June Enrollment will be The church school will be held June 2125 for children ages 2 years through sixth All classes will be held at the church from 9 to Registration will be held at the church 204 Edg REGISTRATION Colts Fillies registration will be held May 22 from 9 to 1 at Ages 8 12 years by 1 Bring birth certificates and insurance For more info call 4825837 football NEW ARRIVAL Congratulations to Diana and Mack Thornhill on then new arrival Christopher Mackensen He weighed in at 8 14 Also waiting anxiously for his arrival home are sisters Mary Katherine and ATTENTION CONCERNED CITIZENS City Council Kids in Friendswood have all the fun during spring Kendra uses a rubber raft to visit friends on East in last To the business and other citizens of Friendswood the members of the Board of Trustees of the Friendswood Independent School District would like to elicit your support in attacking a growing and potentially hazardous problem of alcohol abuse by our young people in Serious including traffic accidents and frequently are traced back to a beginning of innocent fun and As a result of alcohol some young adult in our community could be faced with tragedy for members of his or some innocent We encourage the adults and young people in this community to consider the both physical and if alcohol is made available to We take great pride hi the accomplishments and we salute the mature judgement exercised by most of our We congratulate them and wish them a happy and successful An awareness of alcohol abuse is a community wide problem rather than just a school We must join forces and only through a cooperative effort can we begin to reduce alcohol abuse by our young solution lies in and law Lets all do what we can to encourage our children and their friends to participate in activities which do not reinforce the use of we urge you to support law enforcement efforts by working cooperatively with officials to reduce the availability of alcohol to The Friendswood Independent School District Board of Monday night the Friendswood City Council opened bids for the first phase of the street The bidders made both a dollar bid and a working days John Carlo had the low bid in each cata gory with and 75 Able bid and 120 loi and 90 Ike bid and 100 Lem bid and 100 Brown and bid but they made no provision for working The bids were referred to the city manager and engineer for Whitehall residents who lived on Lockmore led by Carl talked to the council about run off going down their street and tearing up the and The street dead ends at the county line and takes run off from a field in Brazoria Mayor Ralph Lowe says that putting a dam or a berm at the end of the street and along adjoining yards could help to alleviate the sheet flooding from the adjoining City attorney Jon Olsen says that if the natural drain age is the city could be libel for any potential damage caused by the He suggested that the city engineer look at the Councilman Todd Stewart moved that the city manager look into the problem with the engineer and re turn with a The motion passed unan Jan Jordan issued a report on She says that she agrees with Councilman Loren Woods report that since large departments already report to the it is unnecessary for them to have Jordan suggested that the city write letters to the smaller such as the fire the street naming and and that a liaison be appointed if the departments Councilman Leon Brown said that he didnt want to be automatically tied down to appointing a so Stewart suggested that the motion be amended to send a letter without committing to sending a The city authorized the fire department to have roof repair work done by Waynes Roofing and at a cost of Electrical work will be done by Cordova Electric for The fire department also reported roof leaks at Station as well as a large electric even though the station is not in City Manager Jim Morgan said that the Sunset bridge span could be reduced at a savings of construction but that it would take redesign and a delay hi completion Since the bids are already the council decided to stay with then The council passed a recommendation by the Planning and Zoning Commission to rezone an area at FM 2351 and Melody Lane by a 43 and were against May 1723 proclaimed as Police Stewart was appointed as the drainage district Student plaques were presented last week to the and state champions from Friendswood High School on behalf of the Dick Conway was reappointed as the Health Approval was given for a potential reserve police officer to attend training Pictured above from left to right are David and Gerri Martisek purchasing supplies from Belle Beatty as Laura Martisek looks PTO Sells Supplies The dine and Westwood PTO will be selling pre packaged school supplies on 52482 and Monday to to Tuesday to at Westwood Proceeds will be used by PTO for the