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Leadership Brazos begins 4th year
By John Coles
Reporter
eadership Brazos, an organization developed
toldentify, educate and involve potential leaders
jnlhe Bryan-College Station community, is be
ginning its fourth year of leadership training.
An anonymous seven-member committee
clloses 30 applicants to participate in eight
monthly sessions from October to May.
:verly Barron, staff director of Leadership
zos, said that when the committee chooses an
applicant, it considers a candidate’s other in-
ements.
ligh credentials as well as potential are con-
;red when the committee makes its choices,
ron said.
he eight-hour sessions focus on learning
ut certain aspects of the local economy: edu-
|on, media and communications, criminal jus-
lifestyles and city and state government,
ih session is intended to enhance a partici-
t’s knowledge and leadership skills,
eadership Brazos is absolutely wonderful,”
iail Sara Jones, a local attorney, a Leadership
^zos graduate and now a city councilwoman.
ll've lived here all my life, and I thought I
knew everything there was to know about the
community,” Jones said. “Then I was chosen for
Leadership Brazos and have learned so much,
plus the fact of working with 29 other concerned
individuals makes it worth the time and money.”
A tuition rate of $350 a year helps pay for a
two-day retreat in September, various guest
speakers at the sessions and a year-end banquet.
Barron said, “Leadership Brazos is a lot of fun.
Not only does a person learn about the commu
nity, but he develops a network of friends he can
call on to ask for help and to gain their knowled
ge.”
fred Brown, a local car dealer, College Station
City Council member and a graduate from the
first class in 1983, said, “The alumni group gives
me a nucleus of friends and colleagues I can call
on for help at almost any time.
“Leadership Brazos is a marvelous way to find
out the inner workings of both cities, and a little
bit about the state. In fact, it is what inspired me
to run for city council.”
Brown now serves on the council, and donates
time to the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center
and Humana Hospital. He also serves on the
board of directors for the March of Dimes and
Republic Bank.
“The alumni group is really just starting to or
ganize,” Barron said. “My main objective is to
find out what everyone in the group is doing now
to help the community.”
One of the alumni projects is “Christmas in Ju
ly,” which helps homeowners with house repairs
if they are unable to afford the repairs, Barron
said.
Many of the alumni’s ideas come from other
leadership organizations around the state, she
said. There are similar programs in Austin,
Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi.
Some of the participants this year include a
moving consultant, a woman who works for the
school district, a public information officer for
Bryan and a man who owns his own recording
studio, Barron said. The oldest participant is 58
and the youngest is 23, she added.
“And I think it’s interesting to know that this
year’s class has more women than men,” Barron
said. “So when we pick an applicant for the class,
we look at the quality of the person and his or her
potential to be a leader.”
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DALLAS (AP) — The Texas
fcsquicentennial and exhibits
§om China will make this year’s
St.ite Fair of Texas, which opens
today, a world-class affair with
Be potential for record atten-
■tnce, fair officials say.
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m ition begins at noon in honor
ol both the anniversary of the
late’s independence from Mex-
Jo and the 100th anniversary of
tlie first state fair.
“We have the opportunity to
(freate a new generation of fair
Ins,” said Wayne Gallagher, the
fair's executive vice president and
Jeneral manager.
Hr said more than 3.7 million
leople are expected to go
(■trough the turnstiles before tlie
jit's end on Oct. 2b. The atten-
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Itals and enable Texans to boast
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|ich honored the state’s 100th
ear of independence.
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Clements’ group protesting
new political ad for White
AUSTIN (AP) — Republican Bill
Clements’ campaign is protesting a
new television commercial produced
by Democratic Gov. Mark White and
has asked television station man
agers to consider taking it off the air.
But White’s campaign says Clem
ents' request is evidence that the ad
has struck its target.
The commercial hit the airwaves
this week, raising questions about the
effects on education of Clements’ so-
called “secret plan” for balancing the
state budget.
Reggie Bashur, spokesman for
Clements, called the commercial’s
implication that Clements would cut
education spending “a big lie.”
George Bayoud, Clements’ cam
paign manager, has sent a letter to
Texas television stations arguing
that the commercial tries to leave the
impression that Bill Clements will
ruin the education system in Texas if
he is re-elected governor.
The letter also said Clements is
committed to education funding.
The 30-second commercial fea
tures a little girl holding a doll and
reciting the alphabet while an off-
camera voice says Clements’ secret
plan to balance the budget could in
clude devastating cuts in state spend
ing.
The voice then says that if Clem
ents is running against White “to get
even — that’s his business.”
And as the little girl falters in mid
alphabet, the voice adds, “If he
(Clements) takes it out on education,
that’s your business.”
Autopsy shows boy, 9, died from cocaine
HEREFORD (AP) — The death
of a 9-year-old boy from an allergic
reaction to cocaine underscores the
fact that drug use is not just a prob
lem in large cities, authorities in this
Panhandle town say.
An autopsy showed this week that
Manuel Saucedo died of cocaine poi
soning on Aug. 17. Residents said
they were shocked that dangerous
drugs were so readily available.
"It’s so shocking that it happened
here in Hereford,” said Justice of
the Peace Johnnie Turrentime.
“And it’s shocking that it happened
to a 9-year-old.”
Police who interviewed family
members were uncertain how the
boy obtained the cocaine that killed
him. The case probably will be re
ferred to a grand jury, investigators
said.
The case is not the first involving
drugs in Hereford over the past
year. Last January, after a 10-month
undercover operation, police ar
rested 70 adults and seven juveniles
on a variety of drug charges.
Manuel’s father, Hector Saucedo,
said his son had been happy and
singing the night of his death and
“kissed me on the cheek and said, ‘I
love you, daddy.’ ”
After the youth was found on the
floor of his residence, Saucedo and
his oldest son carried him two blocks
to a hospital where he was pro
nounced dead of cardiac arrest.
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