Lunch & Lecture Series features photographer Jon Smith
Midland readers learn Odessa photographer Jon Smith will discuss travels life stories and offer photography tips at the Petroleum Museum on Thursday. Color panorama miniatures will be for sale and attendees may bring a bag lunch while tea coffee and dessert are provided. Call 683 4403 for details. The Crisis Center funds An Affair of the Heart May 5 with hors d oeuvres, 100 glasses of champagne one with a diamond and 99 with cubic zirconia tickets 50. Call 333 2527 for info.
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Odessa
Jon Smith
Petroleum Museum
Interstate 20
Smith
Crisis Center
Odessa considers buying Ratliff Ranch golf lease
City council will meet in a closed session to consider purchasing the lease for Ratliff Ranch Golf Course at 7500 N Grandview Ave. The owner and manager deny any sale offer and say the land has been leased by Ronald Crain since 1988. Mayor Melton says the city received an offer, but manager John Crain says he hasn’t heard of it.
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Ratliff Ranch
Grandview Ave
Melton
Crain
John Crain
Ronald Crain
Odessa weighs city ownership of municipal golf course
City officials discuss whether to purchase the Crain family owned golf course. The contract would require escalating payments to Crain and a 7 percent gross income fee plus 1 percent of food and beverage sales. Council and city manager call it a quality of life issue and plan executive session to decide.
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Crain
Richard Morton
Odessa
Texas Senate OKs 139 Billion Budget for 2006 07
The Texas Senate approved a 139 billion two year budget boosting health and human services funding, higher education, and state worker pay. CPS reform gets more money amid turmoil, with education funding growth projected at 8 percent and tuition controls for colleges. The plan, 66.2 billion in state funds, moves to the full Senate for debate.
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Senate
Child Protective Services Agency
Eliot Shapleigh
D-El Paso
House
Steve Ogden
College Station
CPS
Jane Nelson
R-Lewisville
Ogden
Cleaning air ducts and carpet at Jordan Elementary urged
Carl Bailey a Odessa hygiene expert supports state and local findings on Jordan Elementary rash issues. He notes duct cleaning and carpet removal as key steps and praises the thorough investigative work by health officials. State recommendations to ECISD and County Health are to be released after school ends to avoid disturbing students.
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Carl Bailey
Odessa
Jordan Elementary
Bailey
Jordan
Texas Department of Health
ECISD
Gino Solla
Ector County Health Department
Solla
Sofia
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