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Friday • September 8, Reunion Continued from Page 1 Just stop by the Customer Service Booth to join our exciting new Bucks Back Club, exclusively for preferred customers. Members will receive a Free Bonus Card which entitles you to: a $5 Mall Gift Certificate; discounts and fabulous prizes every time you shop! *See official rules. them,” he said. “We can learn about what it takes to get through A&M, es pecially as an African-American, what to expect after graduation. “That’s very important. So many times, we’re focused so much on gradu ating. But that’s such a small part of everything. “This reunion gives us a chance to see what it’s like as African-Americans and as Aggies.” The reunion will culminate in a ban quet in 225 MSC at 6:30 p.m. Satur day. Dawnna Dukes, Class of ’86 and a representative in the Texas Legisla ture, will deliver the keynote address. The banquet will be followed with a 11 a.m. brunch the next morning. All proceeds from brunch ticket sales will benefit the Shelton Wallace Endowment and the Crystal Miller/Reginald Broadus Scholarship. The two endowments were dedicated in the memory of three A&M students who passed away. Amtrak Post Oak Mall Bealls, Dillard's, Foley's, JCPenney, Bears, Service Merchandise, The Food Court 8t 1QB Specialty Stores, Open Monday - Saturday 10 to 9, Sunday 12 to 8, Your Sift Certificate Connection .,, Call Our Customer Service Booth 784-0777, Texas 0 Bypass at Hlflhwey 30, College Station, Continued from Page 1 to — “Survive in ’95 .” Amtrak officials came to College Station in August to reach an agreement between concerned citizens and Amtrak officials. "The bus service is just a compromise,” Willis said. "They weren’t going to have Amtrak anymore.” One suggestion was to have the Texas A&M marketing department conduct a survey to de termine how many pas sengers were needed to keep the train running and how to attract them. However, Willis said the train service had al ready reached a decision. “They didn’t want to look at restructuring,” he said. “They already had their priorities and plans set up when they came down here.” Frost said he also suggested the “Aggie Special” where people could ride the train from Houston and Dallas to A&M home football games for a group rate. “Even though a ma jority of the people at the games are students and local residents, there are a lot of alumni and resi dents from Houston and Dallas who have to drive down here and fight traf fic for home games,” he said. “The Aggie Special would make it easier on people traveling and bring in more revenue for Amtrak.” Frost said that al though the community made an effort to save the train service, it would have taken more than a few con cerned citizens. “This is a regional or state problem, and we need the regional eight or nine counties to stand up and say, Hey, wait a minute,’” he said. Even though the deci sion was not the city's first choice. Frost said it is important to maintain some sort of connection with Amtrak. Another problem may be the fact that not many people know or care about trains, which were once a primary travel source, he said. “Most people don't care because they do not know what train travel is and have never been on one,” Frost said. ■JplAENTSItt/N^J Mosquitoes: City targets breeding sites Continued from Page 1 QUICK! discount entertainment TODAY ONLY!!! & tomorrow & the next day & the r^c *ln College Station & Bryan With This Coupon Tirade 2 Used CD'S For 1 Used CD!* far back on their property as possible — away from areas in which there are people.” Steve Beachy, College Station emergency management coordi nator, said the city is taking some steps to solve the problem, but the citizens are the ones who can do the most. “Their cooperation will be es sential to control these prob lems,” Beachy said. College Station is planning a two-phase approach to the mos quito dilemma. The first phase is a pubiic ed ucation initiative, which will get the word out to the people that there is a danger by using the city’s community access channel. Beachy said the second thing the city will do is place insecti cide tablets in some of the ar eas where mosquitoes are thought to breed. “This will help alleviate the breeding sites, and if ... residents will do the same sort of things, that will help to,” he said. Similar insecticides can be found at local stores, Beachy said. 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