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STATE & LOCAL
Tuesday, September 12,1989
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Homes for the homeless
Habitat for Humanity chapter formed to build houses for needy
By Michael Kelley
Of The Battalion Staff
In the era of President Bush’s
“1,000 points of light,” a new stu
dent organization, Habitat for
Humanity, is working in that
same essence by building and
renovating houses for the home
less in Bryan-College Station.
The newly formed student
chapter of Habitat, which first
met Monday night, will serve as a
support organization to the
Bryan-College Station chapter.
Habitat for Humanity is a
Christian grassroots movement
based in Americus, Ga. Its 383
U.S. affiliates raise funds and re
cruit volunteers in local commu
nities to build low-cost housing
for the needy.
Heather Hilton, student orga
nizer of the A&M chapter of
Habitat, was one of five who
served on a steering committee to
create the Bryan-College Station
chapter in January.
Hilton said she got the idea of
promoting Habitat for Humanity
in the Brazos Valley from a
friend in Austin and through
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
INTERNATIONAL
brochures she received at an Amy
Grant concert.
Sam Sharp, a local attorney
and president of the board of di
rectors for the Bryan-College Sta
tion chapter of Humanity, spoke
to approximately 30 students in
forming them how the organiza
tion works to create a positive in-
fluence upon the local
community.
“You pick a fringe area that
you can stabilize and indirectly
encourage other people in that
neighborhood to paint up, fix up
and recondition their homes,”
Sharp said. “You build two or
three houses in a neighborhood
to make it grow.”
Under Sharp’s leadership, his
chapter already has received
more than $11,000 in donations.
Fund raising activities will not
start until the end of this month.
Sharp attributes the large
number of donations to commu
nity excitement about the new or
ganization.
Sharp said the first house
should be finished by March.
“That first house is going to do
two big things,” Sharp said. “It’s
going to give one family a home
and it’s going to show this com
munity that Habitat really cares
about our fellow man.
“Habitat is to the human soul
what Blue Bell ice cream is to the
human tongue.”
David Stricklin, a Baylor Uni
versity faculty member and presi
dent of the Habitat chapter at
Baylor, spoke about his chapter’s
success and how it has built 10
houses in Waco.
“In Waco, a recipient must
work a total of 300 hours, which
includes work on their house as
well as on somebody else’s hou
se,” Stricklin said. “There is pride
built into each house, not just free
home ownership. If you nail
those boards together, you’re not
going to tear that place up.”
Stricklin said that Habitat is not
charity, but capital, since the new
home owner must pay $20,000
with a 20-year mortgage. This
adds up to only $90 per month,
and according to Stricklin, this is
usually cheaper than “the rat in
fested, run down slums where the
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Twin City Mission gives away refrigerator
in promotion; winner delighted with prize
By Julie Myers
Of The Battalion Staff
What began as another biweekly trip to the
Twin City Mission Second Chance Store resulted
in a much-needed refrigerator for Alicia Vas-
quez, the winner in a drawing at the College Sta
tion thrift store Friday.
Most people typically are amazed when they
unexpectedly win something, but when 68-year-
old Vasquez received word she had won a new re
frigerator, she was delighted that her home
would no longer be without a modern necessity
most people take for granted.
“She was very excited to have won the refriger
ator,” Vasquez’s daughter-in-law, Judy Vasquez,
said. “On a fixed income she couldn’t afford a
new one, so that’s why we were in the store that
day when we both decided to enter.”
Vasquez said that because her mother-in-law’s
financial position made shopping at the thrift
store almost a necessity, they were lucky that the
store sold good products that were useful.
“Older people and those on fixed incomes still
need quality things that work,” she said.
Because her mother-in-law is unable to drive,
Vasquez offers to drive her to the store.
“She never turns me down,” she said.
J.C. Thomas, executive director of Twin City
Mission Inc., said other promotions were being
planned to publicize the mission’s four Bryan-
College Station area stores.
“Since we haven’t had these promotions before
the odds of winning weren’t bad; we had about
90 entries,” Thomas said.
KAMU program director
says creativity beneficial
when writing for radio
By Robert Krenek
Of The Battalion Staff
Kayonne Riley, program director
at KAMU-FM radio, presented a
program on “Writing for the Radio”
at tne September meeting of the
Brazos Writers Club Monday night.
Riley discussed the differences be
tween writing for radio and for
other mediums and offered advice
on how to write and submit work for
broadcast on the National Public Ra
dio network.
Writing for the radio is dif ferent,
Riley said, because the medium of
fers more ways to affect the listener.
Television gives the viewer the
whole picture, she said, but radio
leaves the writer more room to cre
ate whatever images are desired.
“There is so much freedom to cre
ate images and pictures for the lis
tener,” she said.
Public radio, Riley said, looks for
material that is “different, things
that have not been done before.
That has always been a strong inter
est of public radio.”
Contributions from individuals on
all topics are welcome on public ra
dio, she said. Work can be submitted
on a simple tape format, she said,
and should be between two and 10
minutes long and aimed at an audi
ence above the age of 25.
She advised anyone with an idea
for a radio production to contact
KAMU-FM and said the station is
available to assist with production.
She followed her talk with a pre
See Writing/Page 9
Mattox accuses Richards
of 4 Watergate-style spying’
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney Gen
eral Jim Mattox on Monday accused
Treasurer Ann Richards’ guberna-
tox ial campaign staff of engaging in
“Watergate-style spying” on his cam
paign for the Democratic nomi
nation for governor.
“Ann Richards has lost control of
her campaign, and they’ve pan
icked,” Mattox said. He has not yet
announced his candidacy for gover
nor but is a likely opponent to Rich
ards in the 1990 Democratic pri
mary.
Richards’ campaign manager,
Glenn Smith, called Mattox’s
statement a “ridiculous claim” based
on a request by a volunteer for Rich
ards, who asked Mattox’s headquar
ters for brochures and bumper stick
ers.
Smith said Frank Castillo, an em
ployee of the attorney general, had
threatened the volunteer, 21-year-
old Evaristo “Carlos” Hernandez,
with loss of his legal residency status,
a lie detector test and prison term.
Hernandez, who was born in Gua
dalajara, Mexico, has lived in La
redo, and for the past five years,
Austin, where he is a first-year stu
dent at the community college.
According to Mattox, Hernandez
came into his downtown campaign
headquarters on three occasions and
claimed to be a Mattox supporter.
Hernandez later was seen work
ing at a campaign table for Richards
at the Mexican-American Democrats
convention, Mattox told a news con
ference. Hernandez admitted he
had been working on Richards’ cam
paign for about six weeks before
coming to Mattox’s
See Mattox/Page 9
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