Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, TX

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February 15, 2010

Grandview Fire Department receives $88K

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced the award of an $88,376 grant to the Grandview Volunteer Fire Department on Friday.

The grant is funded through the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency in cooperation with the U.S. Fire Administration.

It can be used for training, support operations or to purchase equipment.

“This funding will help make sure first responders at the GVFD have the resources necessary to keep the surrounding community safe,” Cornyn said. “We have a responsibility to support those working on the front lines every day to protect families, homes and property.”

Cornyn held roundtables with emergency first responders across Texas in an ongoing effort to support their work and provide communities with an opportunity to express their needs and concerns.

The money will be used to purchase new air packs for firefighters and an air compressor to refill the tanks after they empty, GVFD Chief Frank Huggins said.

“Right now we have to send our tanks out to be refilled,” Huggins said. “I’m excited because with the compressor we’ll be able to do a lot more in-house training than we could before. We could let the firefighters suit up with the air packs but couldn’t let them use the air in training exercises because we would have had to send them out to be refilled.”

The department will purchase 10 new air packs, Huggins said.

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A very welcome surprise

Madison Dingman, 6, a first-grade student at Norwood Elementary School in Burleson, received a surprise Tuesday when her father, U.S. Army Spc. Aaron Dingman, visited her class after arriving on a flight home on a three-week leave. Dingman, who is based at Fort Drum, N.Y., just concluded a 10-month tour in Iraq. “I felt real good and real surprised,” Madison Dingman said of seeing her father for the first time in a year. “I can read him some books.” Aaron Dingman said that Madison still had all of her baby teeth the last time he saw her. “I was kind of nervous about her reaction,” he said. “She’s grown up.”

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Riggin Cleveland, front right of the edge of the banner, and Garrett Murdick, back left edge, with their teammates at the 2008 Walk To Defeat ALS and their inspiration for walking, Riggin’s grandmother, Barbara Turner, standing with a walking aid.

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Rusty Redden, a former offender, leads the men and their family members in bible study during a No Turning Back support group meeting Tuesday at Venus United Methodist Church.

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    Jimmy Humphus had an idea. He had already ministered to prisoners for three years at the Sanders Estes unit, a small minimum security prison in Venus.

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