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The Battalion
KAMI! Give Five Telethon
8yKATHERINE COFFEY
OfThe Battalion Staff
Volunteers in the Bryan-College Station area
nil! be giving time from their schedules instead
of money from their pocketbooks next month
during the Give Five Telethon.
Local residents are encouraged to pledge five
liours a week to volunteer for non-profit organi-
ations in the Brazos Valley, said Penny Zent, a
representative from Texas A&M’s KAMU-TV.
Zent, KAMU’s development director, said
Tuesday the telethon is the television station’s
ray of giving something back to the community.
Zent said government restrictions prevent
public television stations from raising funds for
other organizations, so KAMU decided to raise
volunteers, which are equally needed.
“Since we can’t help them (the community)
raise money, we decided to help them raise vol
unteers,” Zent said.
The volunteer drive will be televised from 10
i.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 from KAMU
studios and Post Oak Mall in hopes of raising
Local viewers donate
hours in telethon
450,000 hours of volunteer time.
The telethon, sponsored by local businesses,
will feature demonstrations of volunteer oppor
tunities, live entertainment and updates of how
many volunteer hours have been raised.
Rodger Lewis, KAMU’s program director,
said the telethon is looking for more live enter
tainment to participate in the telethon.
“We are still in the recruiting stage of finding
more great entertainment,” he said.
During the telethon, Zent said KAMU’s goal is
to generate 2,500 volunteer hours, including
present volunteers renewing past pledges.
Twenty organizations will be sponsored at the
telethon. Anyone interested in volunteering for
other non-profit organizations, however, still can
register volunteer hours at the drive.
Kelley Durham, marketing director of Post
Oak Mall, said many volunteers come from com
panies, civic groups and churches.
She said banners, billboards and displays at the
mall have helped promote the telethon.
“The telethon will not only help them get
more volunteers, but it also will benefit the orga
nizations beyond the scope of the telethon be
cause they receive free air time,” Lewis said.
KAMU authorities said before and during the
telethon, interested people can call 845-KAMU
or go by Post Oak Mall to pledge time or ask for
pledge forms.
Pledge forms also are available from most em
ployers, A&M departments and members of the
Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce.
Volunteers can mail the pledge forms to KAMU
or return them to the tables set up in Post Oak
Mall.
For more information contact Penny Zent at
KAMU-TV, 845-5611 or Kelley Durham at Post
Oak Mall, 764-0060.
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EPA calls plan ‘inaccurate’
GRAPEVINE (AP) — The Dallas- —: 1 ——
GRAPEVINE (AP) — The Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport
bard has failed to paint an accurate
picture of what its proposed expan
sion will do to the environment, the
Environmental Protection Agency
said.
In a letter to the Federal Aviation
Administration administrator, the
,EPA said Monday that there had
been “a lack of sufficient environ
mental analysis” in several areas.
Airport officials must make major
changes in their environmental
study before they can publish a final
document, the EPA’s letter said.
City officials in surrounding com
munities hailed the assessment.
“This is a major step by a federal
agency to identify some deficiencies
that we’ve been talking about for a
longtime,” Grapevine City Manager
Mark Watson said.
The draft environmental impact
statement from the airport down
plays the project’s environmental ef-
iects by omitting key information
“This is a major stop by a federal agency to
identify some deficiencies that we’ve been
talking about for a tong time.”
— Mark Watson,
Grapevine city manager
and disregarding cumulative im
pacts, said the letter from EPA Re
gional Administrator Robert E. Lay-
ton Jr.
Although the EPA repeatedly told
the FAA and airport officials the
kind of information they must in
clude, the draft environmental
statement still had serious gaps, the
EPA said.
The EPA said the airport study
failed to include adequate informa
tion about the extension of existing
runways, and the $1 billion redesign
of the west side terminal and auto
parking facilities, in addition to at
least a dozen other construction pro
jects included in the airport’s devel
opment plan but not addressed in
the environmental study.
Officials in Grapevine, Euless and
Irving have been fighting the pro
posed expansion because of the im
pact they say it will have on the cities.
The cities said they would lose $1.7
million in property taxes because of
the expanded runways.
“The EPA pointed out the same
deficiencies that we found, and that
shows we are on solid ground,” Ir
ving Mayor Pro Tern John Medaille
said.
The board had sued the three cities,
contending that they do not have
zoning control over the airport.
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Representative files
bankruptcy petition
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep.
Craig Washington, D-Houston, who
gave up a lucrative law practice to
head to Congress last year, has filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorga
nization.
Washington filed a petition in
Houston bankruptcy court Friday
for himself and for his business,
Washington Properties.
Washington listed assets worth
more than $555,000 and debts that
could be more than $614,000. His
assets included a half-interest in real
estate, worth $377,500, and in busi
ness investments through Washing
ton Properties, worth $57,500.
Washington, 49, gave up his prac
tice as a criminal defense lawyer with
Lampley Evans & Braquet and his
senate seat in the Texas Legislature
last January to succeed the late
Mickey Leland in the U.S. House of
Representatives. Leland was killed in
a plane crash in Ethiopia in August
1989.
When he took office, Washington
said his annual congressional salary
of $89,000 would be out 80 percent
less than what he was earning at the
time. His congressional salary in
creased to $125,100 a year on Jan. 1.
Lewis asks
judge for delay
of ethics trial
AUSTIN (AP) — House
Speaker Gib Lewis, indicted on
two misdemeanor ethics charges,
asked a state district judge Tues
day to delay consideration of his
case until after the legislative ses
sion, according to his spokesman.
Lewis’ attorneys also filed a
motion with State District Judge
Bob Perkins to move the case to a
lower-level court, Glenn Smith
said.
“Those kinds of misdemeanor
charges are usually handled by a
county court,” instead of a state
district court, Smith said.
He said delaying the case until
after the session would allow Le
wis to concentrate on state issues
before the Legislature. The regu
lar session ends May 27.
A hearing on the motions had
not been set, Smith said.
He said the changes would
have no effect on the investiga
tion by a Travis County grand
jury into Lewis’ relationship with
lobbyists.
Lewis has said he is innocent of
the misdemeanor charges of fail
ing to report a gift from a San
Antonio law firm and of failing to
disclose his interest in a business
for which the law firm allegedly
paid some property taxes.
Correction
A story in Tuesday’s issue of
The Battalion incorrectly re
ported that English 103 is not
used to determine a student’s
grade point ratio. ENGL 103
does not count toward a student’s
degree program. It is, however,
used to figure a student’s GPR.
The Battalion regrets the error.
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