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Cora Lee Brannon said her prized impatiens, begonias and even one of her oak trees have shriveled up and died this month on her one-acre property in the' Fort Worth suburb of Southlake. “Mother Nature is not kind in Texas,” she said. “Like everybody, it’s been a struggle to keep the spring things alive. It just doesn’t make any sense to try to keep them alive.” Despite two months without rain, the region is only about a half inch below normal for the year, Harris said. North Texas has received 21.19 inches since Jan. 1, and average rainfall for that period is 22.31 inch es. Heavy rains in June minimized the deficit, Harris said. Harris said the record will contin ue until rain is measured at the agency’s rain gauge at the Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport. And even a bit of rain will not be enough to snap the extended drought. Harris said it could take a year or more to restore the state from the drought because it is a slow process of filling up reservoirs and recharg ing soil moisture. “It’s kind of like sliding down a hill,” Harris said. “Eventually, you get to the end of it.” Golf Continued from Page l A FISH OKAY, 7H/5 15 The THlRb VE4R OOR Coaiic $TR\p HA5 RtW IaJERE OWIOOSLV AJOT FKSHrtEAJ AM'/More..- So by R.DeLuna Non Mia Culpa 'Forms+ ZETOtfO to A-tn TO CWTiNUE THE LRiwfciAjtf- 6-AVT CAUEP Htt-HE-K Eput/vnovL. H£V K.ORD! L0M6- Time! Ya check IrJitAT /V£ Pone to r O\jE R OOM. PRtTtv Black L-t^-HTs, 6-goovy posters. by B-Hippie TOASF'tK l,& Fr IN A CCMWOMItMCr ftos.TioiO On CEP IMichEuX. H£A I 254 CoNVicreb caMi&al, LesTfes, RHOD65, L£AV£5 DEATH FDO A FRSC man AFIefc ReQoesT/D^ THe 6XC0JTI0N6R foR HIS CAST rA£AL. Apt. #38 by kyle w Checkinsr with ^ Overdraft Protection W* FIRST . ^smencan ^ s ^aBA1TK Open your account online. www.first-american-bank.com Br We’re here to help. 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In addition to the cham pionship-caliber course designed by golf legend Nicklaus, Traditions will provide for residential devel opment, totaling more than 1,000 new homes. “Additionally, Traditions is oblig ated to return the city’s initial invest ment within seven years,” said Tom Coyle, Traditions project manager and director of Development Ser vices for the city of Bryan. “The profit participation agreement guar antees that the city of Bryan will have a revenue stream that will ben efit city residents for years to come.” building like that you aren’tsud you’re going to get once youslij ing some of the areas out,”hesj Zawieja said the delay in ovations was not the construction company. “There’s nobody working against us,” shes “They all know what the goal, but we wanted to do the ven! job we could so that we j needed out of the project and! have to live with any otherprol; 1 , „ ,i„ F yJason Beni Hue down the road. According to the Depart® Food Services Website, tk Sbisa will feature a markei-i service as well as Italian, Mej 'he Battalion We Octobe esty. Its sc 'stories of si Asian and American foods, ers reject the i pbhion and oj eir music. Tl Is any partial Continued/romPf ^ribe it as “art Graduation loot interestec |ryan-Colleg< lave a chance lusions Wedi the matter because all rounding the case were lawyers for both parties. “They wanted total removtlr, any comments from thetransai^^ d n , s ( Sladek said. “We felt like-fe;ff u [ at aces ' own credibility and to uphoiiB ^ att . graduation standards—wened» cto fo r sa ' 1 * 1 carry though with what wesaidw^kfo^ 11 ^ were going to do.” ■ statement wi Spence said the seniorclassoflil "1 think the met three times for graduation Jal content tice, and, each time, they were iwoveskey sai plained the rules of graduation.Mention to the she said, the rules did not forbidia orating mortarboards. “They never, ever, said any! about not decorating yourifc board or anything like that,”Spit said. “The only thing they saidi )r() '“ 0 ' t ’j' n ‘j" , j^ our gowns was to makesmth te „ rab |' ms neatly pressed. r Marquette Maresh, legal for La Grange 1SD, said thescla must leave itself the abilityto decision about behavior at grad nusic in our leals with an i Noveskey s lew album, i ient, which tl ivercoming tl “Each song ibsolution,” They are abo “It is very difficult forschooli * ea ' w | t * 1 y° ul tricts to predict every single typi misbehavior that a student she said. gage in. While the ife are the th lew album, da Sladek said the students arend land has ch ince its begii land in Hou: BY J. GOLDFLUTE r, said the ba o its packed t “The band fied of the policy before graduatii Maresh added that Spenceadi ted on the stand that she was* iased primar there was a chance she migbi: Michael Rand asked to remove the sticker. “They have all worked fourte hard years,” Sladek said, citing no student deserves more attenis kind'said' “T than any other. ' ' , Spence, a Texas A&M „ Scholar, said that she was nottiyi to attract any extra attention,! rather to show her pride in Tes A&M and La Grange HighScb«! “It wasn't only my prideinAiW was my pride in having done sow! La Grange that they had prepared® well that I was able to cometoAfi Spence said. “I don’t feel [tirestick ’fits indepem took away from the decorumofte “ased album emony. 1 didn’t get any more alter, drawn to me than anybody else.” Sladek said the school’s lav offered Spence’s lawyers a cl to submit versions of arewt transcript comment, but they! clined to do so until after the! junction was denied. hicago...’ Since its be 90s, Blue Oc m impressive vide, but it lopularity sp tself. They h nore than 5,01 lone, and la land sold oi 'exas perforr 'and received ress Award rtist in 199 eived the san Artist in 1999 Correction In Section B of Monday, Augt| 28 Battalion, the article stats that UNIX is being phasedoij ACS is being phased out. THF. 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