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Council Reaches Agreement with Livestock and Rodeo Associations

By LAURA KESTNER, Editor

After weeks of negotiating and discussion, members of the DeLeon Livestock Association, Peach and Melon Festival committee members, Rodeo Association members and the City of DeLeon all reached what was deemed a “workable” solution to the concession stand issue (whether anyone besides Livestock Association members can use the concession building at the Tractor Pull arena) during the most recent City
Council session, Thursday, July 30, 2009.

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Despite Problems, Hospital Finishes Fiscal Year With Profit

By JERRY MORGAN, Reporter

VAN DYKE -- Red ink flowed like blood in a battlefield hospital for the second month in a row as hospital administrators made provision for billing problems encountered during the process of computerized
information systems conversion.

As reported at the July board meeting of the Comanche County Medical Center, June's monthly net loss of $169,000 came following the previous monthly loss for May of $370,000. The two month losses almost eliminated what had appeared as recently as March to be a fiscal year with strong profits.

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DeLeon ISD’s Grades Improving
By JERRY MORGAN, Reporter

The DeLeon Independent School District continues to record progress in its goal of attaining the highest possible rating by the Texas Education Agency.

For the time being, at least, it will have to settle for only one campus being rated as “Exemplary”, two as “Recognized” and one as “Acceptable.”

The DISD as a whole continues to be rated as “Academically Acceptable,” the same as it has been rated since school district ratings began.

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Grand Jury Indictments

The Comanche County Grand Jury met July 30, 2009, and released the following indictments. Notably absent in the list was Aaron Micheal Smith, of DeLeon, who was arrested and charged with Intoxication
Manslaughter on May 2, in connection with an April 15 accident in which Megan Holder was killed.

Mark Andrew Campbell, DeLeon, Possession of Methamphetamine;

Juan Junior Hernandez, DeLeon, Possession of Methamphetamine;

Paul Salinas, DeLeon, Terroristic Threat;

Christella Marie Blanco, DeLeon, 1)Delivery of Controlled Substance 2)Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver;

Norma Jean Estrada, DeLeon, 1)Delivery of Controlled Substance 2)Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver;

Gustavo Cruz, DeLeon, 1)Delivery of Controlled Substance 2)Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver;

Francisco Garcia, Gustine, DWI with Child Passenger;

Phillip Wayne Perez, Gorman, DWI;

Coby Carl Elliott,

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Drowning at Proctor Lake

Special to the Free Press

Saturday, August 1, 2009 at approximately 8 p.m. Comanche County 9-1-1 Dispatch received a call on a possible drowning at Lake Proctor.

The 9-1-1 caller advised that a male subject fell out of a boat and was hit by a wake board pulled by the boat.

The area was searched by DeLeon and Promontory Park fire departments, Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens, and the Comanche County Sheriff’s Office. The search was terminated around 11 p.m.

The next morning at approximately 9 a.m. game wardens, using sonar technology, located the body of Kyle Hall, 22, of Fort Worth.

The incident is still under investigation by Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens with the assistance of the Comanche County Sheriff’s Office.

Danny Owen, the Mayor of De Leon, has a personal website.

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Scott Hall has creating an Internet website with history & photos of our town.

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