Round Rock High School - Dragon Yearbook (Round Rock, TX)

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Floods bring AMERICAS FAMILY DRUG STORE Golden Fried ' Chlcke n We appreciate your business America's Family D r u g S to re Round Rock West Shopping Center 2 J J 0922 400 W. Round Rock Ave. 255-1331 area problems Rain! Rain! Rain! First we don't have enough of it, then we have too much. There were major problems with flooding in Round Rock in the fall. Not only in the neighborhoods, but also in the school. Round Rock High School's annex flooded twice this year, and it created problems for the teachers and students. Marvin Schmitt, World Geography teacher, said, The classroom smelled like fermentin wet diapers in a hamper for four Clays. Lloyd Corder, American History teacher, said, It was like someone spill- ed a bucket of water on my floor. It was a real pain. Lake Creek Drive also had flooding three times in the past year. Houses and cars were ruined. We lost two cars and had to re-do our whole house, Charlette Davis, junior, said. The city promised to build a bridge to relieve water pressure when it rained, but nothing was done about it this year. Heavy rains flooded the campus twice in October, forcing classes in the annex to be temporarily moved to the student center. .:. ,, ., ,.., 2 2400 S. IH 35 and Hester Crossing Round Rock, Texas 244-0104 224 Advertising

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Growth spurt breaks records Round Rock is no longer the small town many people think it to be. Housing and building growth had a strong im- pact on the city in 1984-85. All previous construc- tion records were wiped out in 1984 when 1,918 building permits were issued for work totaling 2B168,007,984. Housing was the biggest part of the past construction year, but commercial industrial ac- tivity also made its mark. Going into 1985 there was an air of optimism. One indicator of the op- timism about Round Rock's growth could be seen in the number of sub- division plats on file with the city's Planning and Zoning Commission. For 1984 there were 1,282 duplexes and 1,054 apartment hous- ing units. Also added to this list were some 72 permits for commer- cial-industrial build- ings, all totaling in the millions. In 1984 the July- August burst of permits for houses preceded adoption of new building permit fees that ranged from 251,800 to SS3,720. During the 1984-85 school year several new buildings went up in the community including Wendy's, Jack Brown Cleaners, Bealls and Mazzio's Pizza. Construction was noticeable not only on the campus, but in the com- munity as Round Rock began to change from the small town it has previously been to a large urban community. Bill ations Realty ir Residential 'A' Commercial ir Farms ir Ranches ir Lake Lots . 'MAY 1 an . MLS ons Bill Nations K X' i k ' V ...-- X ie -. ff- , A NL., 4. :?:.-,:'-'+-- - - -- U - an-fi x, .-' , , -,V ,-- Z .4..., ,y 4 Highway 79 East at County Road 115 255-7888 Advertising 223

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