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Denton Record-Chronicle An edition of The Dallas Morning News
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Vol. 114, No. 18 / 34 pages, 4 sections
Denton, Texas
Sunday, August 20, 2017
68 animals find their way home Linda McNatt center takes part in its first Clear the Shelters Day By Kyle Martin
Staff Writer kyle.martin@dentonrc.com
When a line wrapped partly around the Linda McNatt Animal Care &
Adoption Center on Saturday morning, the shelter had 72 animals ready to be adopted as part of the nationwide Clear the Shelters Day. Clear the Shelters is a national event in which participating shelters waive adoption fees and open their doors, welcoming hopeful pet owners to find a companion of their own to take home.
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Melissa Desurne gets to know her newly adopted mixed pit bull, Diesel, on Saturday at the Linda McNatt Animal Care & Adoption Center in Denton.
Program lets WIC participants shop at community market By Kyle Martin
Staff Writer kyle.martin@dentonrc.com
Through a new program at the Denton Community Market, participants in Denton County Public Health’s Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, or WIC, now have access to more locally grown vegetables and fruits. WIC participants — who include pregnant women, young mothers and young children at nutritional risk — already receive benefits such as food packages with items that may include milk, eggs, beans, infant formula, cereal and more. Because of a new partnership between Denton County’s WIC department and the Denton Community Market, WIC participants now have access to vouchers that can be redeemed at the weekly market for fresh fruits and vegetables, grown by North Texas farmers. Each WIC participant is eligible for one booklet of vouchers, good during
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The City Council will hear a report this week on what it will cost to restore or renovate City Hall West. Staff moved out of the building last year to make room for crews to do the work. Now city leaders need to decide how much they can spend to return the building to its former glory.
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
The great Spanish lady by the Square is almost 100 years old and needs a million-dollar makeover. The Denton City Council talked over renovation plans for City Hall West last week. If all goes well, the city could have a second major historical asset downtown, right by the county’s historic Courthouse on the Square, said Mayor Chris Watts.
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“Not many cities could make that claim,” Watts said. “This is a treasure.” The building is sound and its renovation has been a long-term goal for him, he said. Denton hired the same architect who worked on the county courthouse renovation to determine what could be done with the city’s building. Craig Melde, of
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With renovation work and a plan, City Hall West could be another jewel in Denton’s downtown
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A sign advertises Brushy Creek Farms’ participation in the WIC voucher program at the Denton Community Market. The farm booth, staffed by Rhonda Parr on Saturday morning, is one of several market vendors that now accept WIC vouchers for fresh produce.
Dallas-based Architexas, laid out several options for the City Council during a work session Tuesday afternoon. The city could spend $3.7 million to restore the exterior and make minor, but important, fixes inside the building. Or, the city
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UNT lab reduces testing for missing Drop in grants means less DNA work on unidentified bodies
Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday on downtown Boston. Page 9A
STATE A statue of Robert E. Lee was vandalized overnight in a Dallas park. Page 4A
By Jaime Dunaway Associated Press
Karen Stipes always believed her missing mother was “Mountain Jane Doe,” buried unidentified in a paupers’ cemetery deep in the woods outside Harlan, Kentucky. But without proof, it took nearly half a century and the development of DNA technology for forensic scientists at the University of North Texas to confirm her intuition. Police didn’t know who Sonja Kaye Blair-Adams was when a man
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DNA testing equipment is left on a work mat at a Center for Human Identification lab at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth. picking flowers on a trail found her body stabbed multiple times in 1969. It remained a mystery to the locals
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until advances in forensic science prompted renewed efforts to identify the body and resume the hunt for her killer. While police have yet to solve the killing, Stipes said the restoration of her mother’s identity has provided at least some closure. But now the same Texas lab that handled Blair-Adams’ DNA has had to stop testing samples like hers that come from outside the state due to a lack of funding, meaning family members of missing and unidentified people are waiting longer for their cases to be solved. “Everyone deserves to have their unidentified found,” Stipes said. “I
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