Temple Assistant City Manager Sam Listi will become Belton's city manager in March, and Temple officials said Tuesday they believe the situation will make for a closer working relationship between the two cities."We have a good partnership with Belton," Temple Mayor Keifer Marshall Jr. said, "but this will make our partnership even stronger."Temple City Manager Mark Watson said he believed the working relationship between the two offered many advantages."There is a lot of opportunity because we know each other pretty well," Watson said, adding Listi was helpful when he began serving as Temple's city manager. "I'll still be calling him."He said that the closeness of the two cities was an advantage when enticing retailers or restaurants to the area."We need to use both our population base numbers for marketing to such things as (popular chain restaurant) Chili's," Watson said. "It takes both of us to make this region work."Watson said he hoped to continue the tradition of occasional breakfast meetings with the Belton city manager started with Listi's predecessor, Jeff Holberg. by Anna Foster
For the majority of her life, Judy Hays found the simplest activities to be arduous chores.Crossing her legs, putting on a shoe or sitting in a restaurant booth, became carefully choreographed movements for Hays who was 102 pounds overweight."It was hard for me although most people wouldn't give a second thought to doing such things," she said.Last year, with the help of a surgical treatment now provided by Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Mrs. Hays was the first patient to receive the surgery and said the experience has given her a new lease on life."The best part is shopping," said Mrs. Hays. "I don't have to buy big clothes anymore."The surgery, called gastric bypass, is deemed by many medical professionals to significantly improve the fight against one of America's most important health problems Computers in the Temple Daily Telegram's Circulation Department will undergo a software upgrade beginning this morning.As a result, some customer service functions will be affected from 7:30 a.m. today until 8 a.m. Thursday.Although circulation department personnel will be able to take orders for new subscriptions during the time period, those orders and requests for changes in service will not be entered into computers until Thursday morning when the new system is brought on line.In addition, personnel will not be able to answer inquiries about the status of bills and payments during the upgrade.The Telegram appreciates the patience of its customers during this period. | |
sportsToday's the day marked on the calendars of many area high school football players, whose skills have now enabled them to progress to the next level. It's national signing day
Coming off last Friday's disappointing loss at Georgetown, the 11th-ranked Temple boys basketball team was determined to bounce back with a little style on Tuesday night against Waco. But when the Wildcats found themselves getting a little too cute and facing a third-quarter deficit, they scrapped style for substance. David President ignited the Wildcats with a steal and breakaway slam dunk in the closing seconds of the third, and then poured in 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter.The result was an up-and-down, but sweet 59-50 Temple victory that clinched the Wildcats' second consecutive playoff berth following a six-year postseason absence from 1994-99. The night turned even sweeter for the Wildcats when they learned that Copperas Cove upset 10th-ranked Georgetown, 77-63, giving Temple sole possession of first place in District 13-5A. Temple (25-4, 7-1 in district) now owns a one-game lead over Georgetown (6-2) and a two-game edge over third-place Killeen Ellison (5-3), which was upset by Killeen, 62-57, on Tuesday. Remaining on the schedule for the Wildcats is a 7:30 p.m. match-up with Ellison on Friday at Wildcat Gym and a road contest at Killeen next Tuesday. by Tom Day
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