Deer Park Police Surveillance Solution

Deer Park Police Department Goes IP by Adopting 911 Security Camera's Complete IP Video Surveillance Solution

911 Security Camera Inc., a Dallas-based security surveillance system provider and integrator, announces the completion an integrated IP video surveillance system for the Deer Park, Texas Police Department. The Police Department was looking for excellent coverage and equipment from a cutting-edge surveillance system at the best possible price. 911 Security Camera met the department's requirement to balance cost and coverage while maintaining a superior security standard.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) February 25, 2009 - 911 Security Cameras Inc. designed and installed an integrated IP video surveillance system for the Deer Park Police Station. 911 Security's IP video surveillance solution gives the department centralized control over all aspects of security. The surveillance system provides 24 hour monitoring of all areas of the department's operations including booking areas, holding cells, interview rooms, parking lots and the entrances. A key task of the project was planning the layout of the IP security cameras, to guarantee the optimum balance between security coverage and cost.

Deer Park is a southeast Texas City located within the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metropolitan Area. The Deer Park Police department is no stranger to utilizing state-of-the art technology. Last year the department was awarded funds to install the new Coban digital video recording system into ten of their marked patrol cars. The city of Deer Park employs a total of 61 licensed police officers and 46 full and part time civilians.

City of Deer Park partners with Red Cross for transportation services.

City of Deer Park partners with Red Cross for transportation services.
Red Cross Transportation Services

The City of Deer Park, through a partnership with the American Red Cross Greater Houston Area Chapter, provides non-emergency health and human services transportation for Deer Park residents at no charge.

The Red Cross provides non-emergency transportation for our elderly residents that do not drive, residents that are disabled, or residents that are chronically or terminally ill to nonemergency medical appointments, dialysis centers, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, grocery stores, and other local companies and organizations.

The Red Cross provides door-to-door pick-up and drop-off services, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Reservation requests should be made as far in advance as possible. A minimum 24-hour advance notice is required.
For more information, contact the Red Cross Transportation Service at (713) 313-1631.


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U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, of District 22, meets with Boeing employees

U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, of District 22, meets with Boeing employees Monday afternoon to talk about his hopes for more NASA funding.


By YVETTE OROZCO
Updated: 02.18.09
President Obama’s stimulus package passed this weekend after having been opposed by most Republicans in Congress.

One of those Republicans in opposition, Pete Olson, representing the Texas’ 22nd congressional district, met with Boeing-NASA employees on Monday afternoon.

“I voted against the stimulus bill,” said Olson. “I hope it works for our nation’s sake, but we’re throwing an awful lot of money and I don’t know how many jobs will be added to our economy.”

Before he spoke with the media, Olson met with Boeing-NASA employees in a scheduled town hall meeting, addressing his hopes for the future of aeronautical research and exploration.

The freshman congressman is the ranking member on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, which has investigative authority in issues regarding NASA, aeronautical science research, space law, and space commercialization, making him the top Republican in the House on Space and NASA issues.

The stimulus package designates $1 billion for NASA, but that came after a compromise.

The House version of the bill originally slated $600 million with the Senate adding $900 million, but the final version was a compromise of $1 billion.

For Boeing-NASA, said Olson, the issue of funding is complicated by the president’s own trajectory throughout his campaign and election regarding support for funding, which Olson characterized as inconsistent.

More recently, said Olson, Obama has supported an increase in that funding.

“I hope we can keep him at his word because it is critically important, not just for this area, but for this country,” he said.

Olson, a former Navy pilot, spoke of having recently met individually with one Boeing employee.

“The only reason he’s here is because he wants to be a part of human beings going back to the moon and beyond,” said Olson. “You can’t underestimate how much technological innovations and manned space-flight from NASA can inspire.”

Olson has recently been speaking at similar meetings throughout his district, which includes south Pasadena and Deer Park, along with the south-central part of the Houston-Baytown-Sugarland regions. The district covers Rosenberg, La Marque, parts of Missouri City, Pearland, Fort Bend, Galveston, Brazoria and Harris counties.

While his main talking points remained focused on NASA’s future, Olson also elaborated on the uncertainty among employees amid predictions of economic instability and job insecurity.

“There is some apprehension,” he said. “Our economy is in a recession and those things concern people and there is an uncertainty.”

Warrants mistakenly issued three times for woman who left the Army

Warrants mistakenly issued three times for woman who left the Army
06:57 AM CST on Friday, February 6, 2009

By Jeff McShan / 11 News
HOUSTON -- Scared she might be headed to jail, Angela Collura reluctantly walked toward a federal building in downtown Houston on Thursday.

She hoped that once she was inside, she would be able to finally clear her name. This is because when Collura was a student at Deer Park High School, she signed up for the Army Delayed Entrance Program.

She said she was interested because the military offered to pay her way through college. But before she graduated, Collura changed her mind, and she said the recruiter told her she didn't have to go.

She went on with her life, got married and had a child.

A year later, in 2002, the unthinkable happened. Collura was arrested for being AWOL. She spent seven days in jail before the military figured out there was a mistake and let her go.

But four years later, she was arrested again. This time she was charged with desertion and held without bond in the Harris County Jail.

“I have no idea why they came back again,” said Collura.

The Army completely cleared her. This time they gave her discharge papers, which she carries around at all times.

But on Wednesday, a nationwide warrant was issued for her arrest again.

“I have nothing against the Army, but they keep playing games with me and it’s not right,” said Collura.

Once again on Thursday, she was told that the mistake has all been cleared up. However, Collura can’t help but wonder if it will happen again.

Deer Park rallies to edge La Porte 50-49 in girls hoops

Deer Park coach Theresa White told her team to be calm in the midst of the storm.
It’s easier said than done when trailing by 15 points to rival La Porte, the only team that had defeated White’s team in District 22-5A play.

But the tides eventually turned in Deer Park’s favor and the Lady Deer pulled out a 50-49 victory Tuesday night at Deer Park High School, giving Deer Park (13-11, 11-1) a seven-game winning streak.
“The team that’s patient and can get back on track and do what they’re capable of doing will get the win, so we just went back to playing Deer Park basketball,” White said. “We started taking care of the ball and we love to trap, so that’s what we went back to doing.”

La Porte (18-11, 9-3) was the last team to defeat Deer Park back in January and looked well on its way to doing so again behind the strong play from senior forward Heather Toebeck who recorded four blocks in the first period. Toebeck finished shy of a triple-double with 11 points, eight rebounds and eight blocked shots.
The Lady Bulldogs took a four-point lead into halftime and got after Deer Park early, starting the third quarter with an 11-0 run, forcing a timeout with 4:11 left in the period.

That’s when the Lady Deer decided it was time to play their brand of ball, vehemently trapping La Porte any where it went on the court. Deer Park scored the last 11 points of the third and was back in the game.
“No matter what level of basketball it is, eventually the pressure is going to get to you,” White said. “I told our girls that if we stay calm and keep the pressure on them, they’re going to make mistakes and that’s what we’ve been living and dying on.”
Deer Park took its first lead of the second half when freshman guard Tabitha Hawthorne intercepted a La Porte pass and went the other way for a layup, putting the Lady Deer in front 43-42 with just under 1:30 to play.

Deer Park built a 4-point lead with just under 1:30 to play when La Porte senior guard Christina Gallegos got fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots. Gallegos finished with a team-high of 14 points.

La Porte was up against the clock and forced to foul. Senior guard Katie Whitaker would heed her coach’s words earlier, calmly making 4-for-4 from the free throw line to secure the game for the Lady Deer.
“Every day in practice we shoot just like that to win the game, so I think that has prepared us the most,” said Whitaker who finished with 18 points.
“The only way we could have won this game tonight is if we worked together, and that’s what we did.”


Originally posted at : http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6245478.html

Free Deer Park Computer Classes at The Library!

Need to work on your computer skills? Want to learn how to post too blogs like this?
Consider taking one of the free computer literacy classes taking place at Deer Park Library.

Here's the schedule:


Thursday, February 5, 2009
Basic Internet @ 2:30 PM
Basic Computer Literacy @ 6:30 PM

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Microsoft Word 2003 Basics @ 2:30 PM
Microsoft Excel 2003 Basics @ 6:30 PM

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Microsoft Excel 2003 Basics @ 2:30 PM
Microsoft Word 2003 Basics @ 6:30 PM


**Asistencia bilingüe disponible solamente durante las clases de la tarde.
Location: Library Meeting Room
Each class is approximately 1 – 2 hours.

Space is limited and registration is required.

To register or for more information, please call the Library @ 281-478-7208.

Classes are Free!!!

Refinery workers reject latest offer

By L.M. SIXEL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Jan. 30, 2009, 1:19PM

Union negotiators for workers at 11 area refineries and chemical plants announced today that they have rejected Shell’s latest contract proposal.
“We are having difficult times in negotiations, and the talks are progressing slowly,” said Lynne Baker, a spokeswoman for the United Steelworkers Union. “We will continue to meet, and we will meet throughout the day today.”
The offer, the third Shell has proposed during the course of the nationwide oil bargaining, would have raised wages 2.5 percent each year for three years. The proposal also offered a one-time $500 ratification bonus and $250 a year to workers for their unreimbursed medical expenses, if they completed an unspecified health and wellness program.
The current contract expires at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, raising the prospect that 30,000 energy and chemical workers nationwide, including 4,200 in the Houston area, could strike.


Read the full story at chron.com

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