Manor City Council has certified official election results of the May 11, 2013 election:

Rita Jonse was elected Mayor with 117 votes (no opponent on the ballot)

Sherri Hooker was elected Council Member Place 1 with 107 votes; opponent Chris Harvey received 45 votes

David Cruz was elected Council Member Place 3 with 110 votes; opponent Ike Clark received 43 votes

Rebecca Davies was re-elected Council Member Place 5 with 101 votes; opponent Franklin Grant Hutchinson received 42 votes.

The new Mayor and Council Members will be sworn in and begin their terms of office on June 5.

When

5/30/2013, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM

Where

Manor ISD Technology Training Room

You are cordially invited to this year’s TechTalks: Projects Worth Seeing

Come see Francisco Martinez, Ashlande Evans, and Karen Hernandez present their Senior Projects!

These three MNTHS seniors are presenting projects they have been working on as individuals for this school year. Each student fully designed, researched, and implemented a project of their choosing that would have an impact on their community in someway. This is a very rigorous process that runs very similar to a college freshman seminar course. These students have had to be very independent and disciplined to get to the end.

Ashlande Evans’s project is titled “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and is about helping Manor’s food pantry.

Francisco Martinez’s project is titled “Reducing Child Hunger, One Kid at a Time” and is about hunger and working with multiple organizations to help people in need.

Karen Hernandez’s project is titled “Kids and Soccer” and was to create an ACE program about health and soccer. She ran her program at Manor Elementary for 5 months with third graders.

At tonight’s school board meeting:

Re-elected school board members Matildy (Sam) Samaripa and John Jonse were sworn in

The board elected its officers for 2013-2014:

Desiree Cornelius-Fisher was re-elected President by vote of 4-2-1

Allen Ambuhl was re-elected Vice President by vote of 7-0

Matildy (Sam) Samaripa was re-elected Secretary by vote of 7-0

Athletic Director Sadd Jackson announced that the Manor-Eglin football game this fall will be televised, and played on a Thursday evening to accommodate the TV schedule.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Les Simpson, Creative Director, Manor New Tech High – 512-278-4875

MANOR NEW TECH HIGH PRINCIPAL TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE FOR BRAINSTORMING SESSION

Just two weeks after President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Manor New Technology High School, Principal Steven Zipkes is headed to the White House. On Thursday, May 23, Zipkes will join Arne Duncan, Secretary of the Department of Education, James Kvaal, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council, in an informal brainstorming session to discuss how to engage employers in building skills through redesigned high schools. Twenty other leaders in business and education will also be in attendance, including  Michele Cahill, Vice-President and Program Director of the Carnegie Corporation and Stan Litow, President of the IBM International Foundation.

“I’ve always told my teachers they are changing education,” said Zipkes. “Now there’s an opportunity to share Manor New Tech’s best practices and affect change at the national level. I’m honored to be the voice that gets to tell our students’ and teachers’ story.”

Manor New Tech has gained international attention as a successful example of public high school redesign, hailed by President Obama on May 9 as “an example for the nation” and highlighted by Secretary Duncan in 2010 as a “model for reaching underserved students”. In addition to its 97% attendance rate, the school has consistently outperformed the state average in the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test. It has been featured in numerous academic “white papers”, which conclude that the school is successfully “closing the learning gap” with historically underperforming students from low socio-economic backgrounds.

Engaged in a curriculum of 100% project based learning, students are not only evaluated in subject area knowledge, but also a variety of “21st Century Skills”, including technology literacy, critical thinking, work ethic, and oral communication.

“Our business partners get it,” said Zipkes. “When they visit our classrooms and see what our students are doing, they get excited and tell me over and over ‘This is getting them ready for the workforce. This is what we’re looking for when we hire people.’”

The campus is also home to the Think Forward PBL Academy, where Manor New Tech teachers have trained over 1,000 educators from over seven states and two countries in project based learning pedagogy.

Manor, Texas – May 20, 2013 – The Manor Police Department will be participating in the Texas Click it or Ticket project starting May 20th, 2013 through June 2nd, 2013. Officers will be out in high numbers to enforce traffic and state laws and cite or arrest drivers that put themselves and motorist in danger.

The participation in the project includes increased citations and arrests for various offenses including Seat Belt violations, Speeding and DWI over the last week of May and first week of June 2013.

“Our Officers are ready for this weekend and eager to protect the safety of the motorists using Manor roadways.” Sgt. Ryan Phipps.

Police Council Reports

April 01^st – 30th, 2013

 The second number represents same month prior year.

During the Month of April 2013 Manor Police Officers responded to 845-786 calls for service and issued 728 citations or warnings for individual traffic offenses.

On average our officers responded to 28 calls each day in April 2013.

The Types of calls our officers are responded to are:

Unknown Situations: 53-84

Assist our Community: 94-115

Residential & Business Property Checks: 68-32

Assist other agencies: 17-5

Suspicious Circumstances: 33-26

Property Crimes: 24-20

Crimes against Persons: 25-21

Crimes against our Community: 33-29

Alcohol Related Calls: 11-7

Drug Related Calls: 17-13

Animal Related Calls: 2-15

Traffic Issues: 443-277

Motor Vehicle Accidents: 11-15

Fraudulent Crimes: 0-0

City Ordinance Violations: 2-5

Warrant Arrests: 12-7

Calls in April 2013 are up 6.9% from April of 2012.

Pinn Farm: We will be there (unless the weather gets ugly).  We will have potatoes, green 
beans, purple pod beans, kale, turnips, onions, swiss chard, a few tomatoes, 
cabbage, (I'm probably forgetting something!!)

Gordon's Natural Gardens says:carrots, beets, lettuce, baby Swiss chard and regular, walking onions, shallots.  Pickles: beets, jalapenos,   Bread and Butter and squash.  And, as always, all his delicious jellies.

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