Lakewood People (Newspaper) - October 6, 2006, Dallas, Texas COMMUNITY MATTERS Saddle roundup 2A m WEDDING See who said WEEKEND Beach Boys at Bobs 3B FRIDAY OCTOBER 6 PAPERS COM VOL 3 ISSUE 39 Neighbors Compromise relief for some others wait for day in court By Peter Simek Staff Writer US Rep Jeb Hensarling R Texas who serves Lakewood was one of only 22 representatives who did not vote for Congress com promised repeal of the Wright Amendment which limits flights to and from Love Field to Texas and nearby states In a prepared statement he said the that passed didnt go far enough to help bring lower fares to the citys airport While this agreement does away with Wright in its current form it creates a new Wright by replacing one set of anticompetitive congressional mandates with another Hensarling said The Congress passed on Sept 29 is an amended version of a compromise reached in June by the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth as well as Southwest Airlines American Airlines and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport It allows for immediate at Love Field to destinations out side the Wright boundaries and the Wright restrictions will be completely lifted in eight years In turn the airport will reduce its gates from the 32 allowed in the Love Field Master Plan to 20 A study commissioned by the cities to measure the economic effect of the com promise concluded that it would save North Texas travelers million a year Pat White of the See Page TEXAS HOLD EM POKER MEDINA Darren Dan Meyer Mike Rose and Ken Robinson check their a charity Texas Hold Em Poker tournament held Sept 26 at Winfrey Pointe The event was sponsored by the Lakewood Neighborhood Association to raise money for landscaping and beautification projects Henda Salmeron of Ellen Terry Realtors contemplates move Lakewood jokes between hands Woodrow Receives Advanced Placement Incentive Money Funding goes to supplies activities teacher training By Sarah P Henry Staff Writer Susan Schuerger knows firs hand what a difference one of the states programs designed to inspire educators can make in the classroom Her family which includes five children all of whom either attend or graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School has been very involved with the Advanced Placement program at the school The program is outstand ing said Schuerger who is the PTA president at Woodrow and who holds a degree in biology For instance AP Biology at Woodrow Wilson is an amaz It is and by the school and the district Programs like this are what earns schools across the state award money from the Texas Advanced Baccalaureate or Incentive Awards Program Dallas school district did not respond to requests to specify the amount of money received by the dis under the program However Brandenburg director of incentives for the TEA confirmed that Woodrow did receive incentive money Brandenburg said the exact amount is not public infor mation and she could not release it The program one of several AP incentive programs funded by the TEA gives to schools for every passing score of 34 or 5 that a student receives on an AP exam Though one student often takes more than one AP exam each student counts only once Under the law approved by the Texas Legislature in 1996 See MONEY Page Jonathan s Place Honors Texas T Boone Pickens Housing cottage named for oilman philanthropist By Bruce Staff Writer Texas oilman T Boone Pickens now can be men in the same sentence as Dallas Stars center Mike Both men have housing cottages named for them at Jonathans Place an Old East Dallas shel ter located on Gaston Avenue for abused and neglected children Doug Hood spokesman for Jonathans Place said one of two housing cottages was named a few years ago because of the hockey players yearly donations to the charity through his Mike Foundation The sec ond cottage which had been called Youth Cottage was christened T Boone Pickens Cottage last week emony commemorating the donation earlier this year Hood said the donation represented the largest gift made to Jonathans Place by an individual We were surprised by the PHOTO usa Matthews T Boone Pickens and Madeleine Pickens in front of the new Boone Pickens Cottage on the Jonathans Place campus amount Hood said He just wanted us to continue to expand our vision Marci Carlin director of community affairs for the T Boone Pickens Foundation said Pickens annually sifts through hundreds of requests for donations Jonathans Place she said offered the oilman the opportunity to change the lives of children During the course of the year hes presented with many opportunities to contribute she said Place had gone out to find support and when they approached him he saw by the work and history it was one of those organizations where your dol lars can do a lot of good and provide hope See HONOR Page SA Prehistory Lives at Dallas Arboretum tree found in Australia planted at botanical garden STAFF PHOTO MICHAEL BROADBENT Jimmy director of horticultural research at the Arboretum and Dates Parts and Recreation board member poses with the Arboretums new a pine extinct By Bruce Prehistory came alive at the Dallas Arboretum last week Representatives of the White Rock botani cal garden the National Geographic Society and Pine North America horticultural conservation group were on hand Sept 26 to plant a tree that has ancestors dating back to the age of dinosaurs Josh Schneider president of Pine North America said the tree called the pine dates back to between 90 million and 2 mil lion years ago Earliest fossil records date to 90 million years ago and the latest indi cate the tree lived up until about 2 million years ago Scientists believed the tree WEEKEND You Hes doing terrible things Hes being so But he s like everybody Hes really like everybody who lives in the 55 r on playing Idi Amins physician in The Last King of Scotland became extinct at that time because no further fossil records could be identified he said That changed in 1994 During that year a park and wildlife officer in National Park near Sydney stumbled across a small grove of the conifers He took a sample which the Australian Royal Botanic Garden failed to identify Botanists later determined the WEATHER plants lineage by the fossil records Today fewer than 100 adult pines exist The cere mony at the Arboretum marked the first public plant ing of a species sample since it was discovered in Australia about 12 years ago Schneider said the planting represented the first public example of See PLANT Page ra Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy
