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Bryan among finalists
for All-American City
BY SAMEH FAHMY
The Battalion
This month, the city of Bryan will compete for
the nation’s oldest and most prestigious civic recog
nition award — All-American City.
This is the second consecutive year Bryan has
been named one of the 30 finalists in the competi
tion. Community representatives for the city will
travel to Philadelphia June 24 for a three-day com
petition. Representatives will be judged on a 10-
minute presentation and a 10-minute question-and-
answer session about the city. ,
The 10 winners of the All-American City honor
will be announced June 26.
Joe Brown, public information officer for the city
of Bryan, said the award brings many benefits to a
city.
“What you really can’t place a price tag on is the
civic pride it generates in the community,” he said.
“It creates an atmosphere of unity.”
Brown said the award can boost the recruitment
of industry, jobs and investment to the city.
Brown said the city is more prepared than it was
last year and has a good chance at winning the
award.
“We’re going in a little more confident this year,”
he said. “It’s like going to the Super Bowl for the
first time — you’re just happy to be there and blind
ed by the lights. This year we know what to expect
and we’re going there to win, not just to compete.”
For a community to be named an All-American
City, it must be able to demonstrate successful res
olution of community issues through collaborative
effort. Communities must list three projects where
local business, government and nonprofit organi
zations have worked together to tangibly improve
the lives of their community’s residents.
The three projects Bryan has highlighted in its
application are Health For All Inc., Project Unity and
Bryan Independant School District’s Helping Our
Students to Succeed (HOSTS) programs.
Health for All Inc. is a nonprofit volunteer clinic
offering free health care to people without insurance
who do not qualify for government medical assis
tance,
Mary DeVaul, clinic volunteer and past president
of the board of directors of Health for All Inc. said
these people are often overlooked by more conven
tional health-care providers.
Started 12 years ago by Dr. Karim Haji, Health for
All Inc. now has 50 physician volunteers and more
than 100 non-medical volunteers. The clinic treated
5,000 patients last year.
Project Unity is an organization that directs disad
vantaged people to services that can benefit them. The
organization acts as a clearinghouse for social and hu
man agencies in Bryan-College Station.
The HOSTS program is a mentoring program
started in 1991 which recruits community volun
teers to mentor students once a week in spelling and
reading.
Brown said the program has been instrumental
in lowering the high-school dropout rate in Bryan
from 6 percent to .5 percent. He said students in
volved in the program have had their reading abil
ity increase by an average of two-and-a-half grade
levels.
Brown said an intangible benefit of the program
is its effect on children.
“It shows that there are people other than their
immediate family that care about them,” he said.
Brown said these programs have been successful
because of citizen involvement.
“These weren’t government enacted programs,”
he said. “They were enacted by the people.”
A community pep-rally will be held June 22 at
6:30 p.m. in front of the Bryan Municipal building.
A final rehearsal for the presentation will be held
June 21 at Bryan City Hall at 6:30 p.m.
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The city of Bryan is among the 30 finalists for the All-American City Award. Representatives for the city will
head to Philadelphia later this month for the competition.
HOUSTON (AP) — The fingerprints of a man want
ed for questioning in as many as six Texas slayings and
one killing in Kentucky were found inside the home
and car of two victims, police say.
Law enforcement officials from around southeast
Texas gathered in Houston on Tuesday to discuss oth
er possible links between a six-month string of slay
ings and suspect Rafael Resendez-Ramirez.
Resendez-Ramirez’s fingerprints were found in
side the Fayette County home of 73-year-old
Josephine Konvicka, who was found bludgeoned to
death Friday evening, Fayette County Sheriff Rick
Vandel said.
“I’d certainly say (Resendez-Ramirez) is a suspect in
the case,” Vandel said. “He’d be hard-pressed to explain
how his fingerprints got inside Mrs. Konvicka’s house.”
Police said his fingerprints also were found inside
a Jeep Cherokee stolen from the Houston-area home
of Dr. Claudia Benton, who was slain Dec. 17, 1998.
The Jeep Cherokee and a car belonging to two
other people Resendez-Ramirez is suspected of
killing were found in San Antonio. Those victims,
the Rev. Norman “Skip” Sirnic and his wife, Karen,
were found dead May 2 in the parsonage behind the
Weimar United Church of Christ.
Resendez-Ramirez also is wanted forque:
in connection with Friday’s slaying of
Dominguez, 26, at her Houston homeandtlj
killing of a University of Kentucky student.
Additionally, Austin County Sheriff’s Dej.
officials are attempting to determine if thedea
man found early Friday in Stephen F. Austin?
is connected to the other killings.
Authorities say Resendez-Ramirez has a*
criminal history spanning 20 years and isk:
live as a transient, sometimes hitching ride;|
cars.
All of the victims lived or were killed neata j
The only charges filed against the suspect ;
mains at large, are auto theft and trespassing
stemming from the Benton case.
FBI officials said Resendez-Ramirezhaso
drivers’ licenses in California and Florida
given at least four different birth datesandb
at least six aliases that include Jose Angeli
Carlos Angel Jaramillo, Pedro Angel Jaramij
Angel Reyes-Resendez, Antonio Martineza;
Mangele Konig.
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Vehicles at the corner of Wellborn Drive and Joe Routt Boulevard encountered flooded streetsi
result of water drainage problems that occured when the city was hit with three-tenths oU *
of rain yesterday. Scattered showers are expected today.
Overtime goal leads Buffalo past Ddi
DALLAS (AP) — Jason Wool-
ley came off the bench, grabbed
the puck and scored the winning
goal at 15:30 of overtime and the
Buffalo Sabres, kept in the game
by Dominik Hasek’s brilliance,
seized home-ice advantage by
beating the Dallas Stars 3-2 in
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals
Tuesday night.
Hasek stopped 35 of 37 shots
and kept the Stars to only one
power-play conversion in 10 op
portunities in the Sabres’ first
Stanley Cup game in 24 years.
Woolley had just come off the
bench when Curtis Brown spot
ted him skating down the slot
and put the puck on his stick to
beat Ed Belfour, whom Hasek
once backed up while with the
Chicago Blackhawks.
Game 2 will be Thursday
night in Dallas before the series
shifts to Buffalo on Saturday.
The arena went eerily quiet as
Woolley scored the kind of op
portunistic goal that often de
cides such games.
Woolley’s goal was his fourth
of the playoffs and resulted not
just from the Dallas defense’s
negligence in picking him up, but
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ing into scoring position.
The Sabres now can win the
first Stanley Cup in their history
by winning all of their games in
Marine Midland Arena, where
they are 7-0 in the playoffs.
Tuesday's setting seemed unusu
al for a Stanley Cup finals — deep in
the heart and heat ofTexajii:
June, with an outside temp'.
90 — but the first goal camel
one of hockey’s familiar face;
Brett Hull, a renowned
who at age 34 has transli
from a stubborn one-way
into one who willinglyd
and hits, beat Hasekbetwee
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high slot at 10:17 of the firs
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