Odessa City Council Cuts Funding For Area Agencies
City council reduced 2000 2001 funding requests from six agencies reliant on hotel motel tax general fund and solid waste fund to a combined 923 440, about 110 000 less than needed. Officials said shifting 150 000 into the hotel motel tax balance loan program provides temporary relief but shortfall remains. Agencies received 590 000 for Convention and Visitors 12 500 for TM Council for the Arts and Humanities 40 000 for Ector County Ice Hockey 50 000 for Ector County Coliseum and 25 000 for Heritage Holiday with several lines below requested amounts.
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Odessa
Bill Hext
James Zentner
Zentner
Hext
Bill Cleaver
Council For the Arts and Humanities
Mac
Black Cultural Council
Ector County
Fort Stockton project eyes revival of abandoned nursing home
Woods Brothers Energy Tech Inc plans to buy the former Fort Stockton nursing home and lease it back to Odessa businessman Vic Silvester for one dollar a year. Silvester, founder of ODSSA, aims to convert the site into Freedom 2000 a treatment and research center for chemical sensitivity serving veterans oilfield workers and others. The facility would rehabilitate patients and offer job skills training with support from ABLE Center for Independent Living.
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Fort Stockton
Woods Brothers Energy Tech Inc
Harold B. Woods
Woods Brothers
Vic Silvester
Odessa
Woods
Silvester
Desert Storm Association
ODSSA
Freedom
Jeri Kounce
Area Base For Living Enrichment
ABLE
Independent Living
TxDOT Officials Discuss Elderly Transportation Needs in Odessa
Texas Department of Transportation officials told senior citizens groups in Odessa on grants and cooperative planning to improve transportation for the elderly and disabled. Ajay Shakyaver urged area providers including Midland Crane Upton Andrews and Martin counties to consolidate services, share vehicles, and coordinate rides to medical appointments, shopping, and recreation.
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Texas Department of Transportation
Odessa
Ajay Shakyaver
Txdot
Shakyaver
Midland
Crane
Upton
Andrews
Martin
Survivor recalls leaping from burning Branch Davidian complex
Misty Ferguson, 24, testifies in a wrongful death case against the federal government about her escape from the Waco compound on April 19, 1993. She was 17 when the FBI’s siege involved tanks and tear gas, a floor collapse, and fires that killed sect leader David Koresh and about 80 followers. she injured her hands, losing fingers as she jumped from the second floor.
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WACO
Dep Oe Davidian
Misty Ferguson
Ferguson
FBI
David Koresh
three lanes on 42nd street closed for crane work
The Texas Department of Public Safety urges drivers to heed signs as a construction phase at Memorial Park near Music City Mall narrows 42nd Street. A contractor will close two eastbound lanes to place three walkways linking south side sidewalks, reducing eastbound traffic to one lane with barrels guiding cars toward Albertson's grocery entrance.
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Texas Department of Public Safety
42Nd Street
Memorial Park
Music City Mall
Odessa
TXDOT
Glen Sarum
Albertson's
West Texas Safari Club donates hunting library to Ector County
The West Texas Safari Club International chapter donated 60 to 70 books plus subscriptions to SCI materials to the Ector County Library. Interim Director Kathryn Boone and former chapter president John Hoestenbach praised the collection covering hunting, fishing, wildlife, and wilderness, with annual $1,000 support promised to continue the project.
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West Texas
Safari Club International
Ector County Library
SCI
John Hoestenbach
SCI Region 13
Kathryn Boone
Hoestenbach
Wey Hogey
Mare
Odessa
Boone
North America
Africa
Safari Club
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Chevae McGuffin
Able Center
James
Persian Gulf
Council
America
Cor
Takemoto
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