EXPANDED LOCAL NEWS INDEX Regional Roundup ...... 2 Carrollton...... 3,4,6,7 COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE METRO AREA, PLUS MORE FROM: Community Opinions...... 11 LUS Classifieds ...... 12 P Carrollton, Flower Mound, Irving and Lewisville Obituaries...... 16 B Weather ...... 20 METRO plus Coppell, Farmers Branch, Tarrant and Denton counties The Dallas Morning News dallasnews.com Saturday, June 16, 2007 A neighborhood’s dreams are FOCUS ON YOU Today, the Metro section focuses on scorched by fires, foreclosures Carrollton. spanning Cedar Hill and Grand months ago, and both houses are But Lake Ridge officials Prairie. exposed to the weather. But burned-out homes and a The Rolling Oaks fire is still un- say there’s hope yet for number of foreclosures along der investigation, but officials said upscale development Rolling Oaks Ridge, where they the Golden Pond home was most built their 3,940-square-foot likely a victim of arson. By KATHY A. GOOLSBY home in 1998, have soured the “It’s an eyesore, and I can’t Staff Writer couple on their neighborhood. stand to look at it,” Ms. Riser said. [email protected] “Lake Ridge has just ruined my “Then we’ve got all these foreclo- Audrey and Stephen Riser dream,” said Ms. Riser, who lives sures. I know we’ve got at least Making a difference: thought they had found the perfect across the street from a home at four of those on this street, and Diana Franzetti has spot for their dream home back in 2519 Rolling Oaks Ridge that who’s going to buy a house with JIM MAHONEY/Staff Photographer been the executive 1994, when they bought a lot in burned in January. Another home burned houses on the street?” Audrey Riser lives across the street from one of a few burned director of the non- Lake Ridge, an upscale communi- around the corner on Golden Pond homes in Lake Ridge in Cedar Hill. She says problems are profit agency Bea’s ty in far southwest Dallas County also sustained fire damage several See LAKE Page 13B rising, with empty and ruined homes discouraging buyers. Kids since September 2006. 3B More focus communi- ties and the days Fired they’re highlighted: “Being in the ICU or having some heart transplant operation over the Northeast Tarrant Thursday lifetime costs less than this enzyme treatment.” Irving Dr. Lewis Waber, the geneticist who diagnosed Ryan’s disorder nurses Friday Lewisville/ Flower Mound Sunday Have an idea for a story fire about people or events in any of these areas? Send an e-mail to vwigglesworth@ dallasnews.com. back

Mesquite: Hospital INSIDE defends action as ICU Keller ISD head has patient ratio debated more allies on board By KIM BREEN Last month’s election re- Staff Writer solved a political division on [email protected] the Keller school board, Three nurses who say they seating a board majority were fired from a Mesquite hospi- that is supportive of Super- tal after refusing what they be- intendent James Veiten- lieved was an unsafe patient load heimer, who was recently are trying to bring attention to given an extension on his what they consider dangerous un- contract and a raise. 7B derstaffing. Girl, 14, fatally shot Nurses Diana Sepeda, Nancy Friesen and Sandra Taylor said at teen party they were fired this month from A late-night teen party with Dallas Regional Medical Center alcohol combined with at — formerly the Medical Center of least one teen’s handling of a Mesquite. During a night shift in gun led to the death of a the hospital’s ICU in May, each 14-year-old Arlington girl, nurse refused to take on three pa- police said. 2B tients because they did not think Polling places they could provide adequate care. Photos by JIM MAHONEY/Staff Photographer “I’ve never been fired before in Runoff elections are taking Ryan Dant coached campers at Hebron High School’s summer baseball camp earlier this month. During his 27 years,” Ms. Taylor said. “But place across North Texas tenure as student manager of Hebron’s baseball and football teams, he rarely missed a practice or game. there comes a time when you’ve today. For a list of polling got to stand up for what’s right. places, see Page 14B. “These hospitals are making Mercedes Olivera profits on the backs of these pa- tients.” Restaurant mogul Michael Paula Reisdorfer, a spokes- “Mico” Rodrı´guez is new to philanthropy, but as co- Teen who beat odds See HOSPITAL Page 15B chairman of this year’s scholarship fundraising campaign for the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he’s set a fun- Static for draising record that won’t easily be matched. 12B faces new dilemma Gymnast’s concert church, will help charity Olympic gymnast, gold medalist and newly minted High cost of treatments could keep him out of workforce college singer Carly Patterson will perform her first concert By JAY PARSONS Ryan graduated from Hebron High this month to raise money Staff Writer School last month, almost 16 years after for free dental services for [email protected] doctors at Children’s Medical Center Dal- Dallas: First Baptist says children. 17B CARROLLTON — When Ryan Dant las gave the diagnosis of mucopolysac- 1 Criswell can’t sell KCBI What’s happening was 3 ⁄2 years old, doctors told him and charidosis — or MPS 1, an enzyme defi- his parents that Ryan had a rare, incur- ciency disorder that often leads to a without approval to family values? able disorder that would likely kill him by painful death. On the eve of Father’s Day, his mid-teens, if not earlier. Soon, Ryan will face another goal he By SAM HODGES readers sound off on what His parents cried, and cried some isn’t supposed to reach — the work world. Staff Writer [email protected] makes a healthy family. more on the way home. Ryan took a nap. Ryan Dant dreams of working He’s physically able to work, but prob- Community Opinions, 11B In the years that followed, Ryan was for the Texas Rangers. ably faces an insurance dilemma: work Leaders of First Baptist Church told he wouldn’t get a driver’s license (he and go without the medicine he likely of Dallas have sent a hot letter to did), he wouldn’t finish high school (he needs to survive, or not work and get the president and trustees of Cris- did), and even if by some miracle he did DigitalEXTRA Medicaid to cover $450,000 in annual well College, protesting plans to those things, he’d be in a wheelchair — treatment costs. sell Christian radio station KCBI- RELIGION maybe with a breathing tube attached. A ^ Video: Ryan and Mark Dant “Ryan says he’s going to get a job with FM (90.9) without the church’s ravaged body certainly wouldn’t let him talk about Ryan’s life. approval. play varsity baseball. (He did.) dallasnews.com/extra See LIFESAVING Page 8B Tuesday’s letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Dallas Morn- ing News, says “an attempt to cir- cumvent, evade or avoid the voice of the [church] membership to speak on this significant issue is How about some enthusiasm for election day! wrong, both morally and legally,” and warns the matter could end up hen you wake up Sun- roster now includes 48 men and Dallas voters aren’t terribly excited in court. day morning, and likely four women — from the late Dr. about abandoning their flat- The college’s trustees met Fri- Ark almighty W long before you go to Samuel Pryor, who first held the screen TVs and leather sofas to go day. The biblical story of a bed tonight, Big D will have a city’s reins, to Mayor Laura Miller, cast a local ballot. “The board took no action on a large boat and its reigning new city father. who has 10 days left in the saddle. They’d rather have their hands sale, but the matter is under study, animal rescue contin- Either Tom Leppert or Ed Oak- The history is intriguing. around a frozen margarita, a golf review and prayer,” Criswell Col- ues to resonate in ley will become the 53rd mayor But so, too, is the present. And club or the remote control. lege President Jerry Johnson said. popular culture. 18B Dallas has had (elected or ap- by present I mean right now — But I was given fresh hope this JAMES RAGLAND First Baptist Dallas founded pointed) since the city was granted election day! An exclamation week when early voting ended Criswell College in 1970, naming [email protected] a town charter in 1856. mark may be a stretch because re- For what it’s worth, that regal cent history strongly suggests that See MOST Page 2B See CRISWELL Page 17B W ......

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Continued from Page 1B His hands are short with stubby, tion over the lifetime costs less eral poverty level, $10,210. Lt. Dant wants state and feder- shows no hint of the worry audible curved fingers. He’s grown to 5 than this enzyme treatment.” Ted Hughes, a spokesman for al governments to waive the maxi- in his father’s voice. He looks more the Texas Rangers, and I believe he feet, 5 inches. Lt. Dant said he doesn’t blame the Texas Health and Human Ser- mum income requirement for like the 3-year-old who fell asleep will because everything else he His body wasn’t strong enough the pharmaceutical companies. vices Commission, said alternative people like Ryan who have rare as his parents cried over his diag- said he would do, he’s done,” said for him to play baseball regularly, The medicine is so expensive be- programs are geared toward peo- diseases. nosis that day in September 1991. his father, Mark Dant. “But we so he became the student manager cause so few people need it. ple with disabilities that prevent “It costs so much to keep these “I still have goals for the future, need to find a compassionate sen- for Hebron High’s football and Ryan’s coverage under his par- them from working. kids alive, but it’s worth it,” Lt. but I don’t look toward the prob- ator or congressman who will fin- baseball teams. He rarely missed a ents’ plan is set to expire next year “If a person is able-bodied and Dant said. “They can contribute to lem,” Ryan said. “I live by a code. ish out the gift of dreams.” practice or game. when he reaches his lifetime cap. ready to make $30,000 a year, society, but not if the government Live life to the fullest. Who knows On April 13, 1988, Ryan was Hebron baseball coach Steve At that point, federal Medicaid they’re probably not going to be won’t let them. We need a con- if I’ll be here until tomorrow or the born weighing 8 pounds and Stone said: “He definitely showed could pay the bills — but only if able to qualify for most of these gressman to take up the battle.” next day, so I’ll live life to the fullest healthy — or apparently healthy. It us what tough means, and he’s one Ryan’s annual income is at the fed- programs,” Mr. Hughes said. As his dad pleads for help, Ryan today.” wouldn’t be until September 1991 of the toughest kids I’ve ever that doctors noticed Ryan’s liver known. and spleen were enlarged, the “Sometimes we feel sorry for joints in his fingers stiffened and ourselves — ‘Oh, it’s a tough day his face coarsened. and it’s hot out,’ ” Mr. Stone said. A geneticist told Mark and “And he’s the first one out there, Jeanne Dant that their son had saying, ‘What do you need to me to Hurler-Scheie syndrome, a form do, Coach? Want me to get the of MPS 1. Only 40 infants in the bases out? Want me to rake the U.S. are born with the disease an- mound?’ ” nually. But football coach Brian Brazil Ryan’s body doesn’t produce an said Ryan wasn’t a token inspira- enzyme that breaks down certain tional story— he was “one of the sugar molecules in cells. Without guys.” Ryan wasn’t untouchable or the enzyme, the molecules build immune to teasing — and that was UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES up, damaging joints and vital or- a good thing, Mr. Brazil said. gans. “They didn’t treat me any dif- There was no cure and no good ferent, and that’s what I wanted,” FROM J. RAYMOND UPHOLSTERY treatment. Ryan would probably Ryan said. endure excruciating pain until his Ryan got in for one play last body couldn’t function anymore, year in football and batted twice killing him by his early teens. for the baseball team. During a “I remember walking down the baseball game in Houston his ju- MIX &MATCH SEATS,ARMS,BACKS,&BASES hallway and Jeanne asking, ‘What nior year, with his team down 14 are we going to do?’ ” said Mark runs, Ryan fouled off six pitches TO CREATE A SOFA THAT S UNIQUELY YOURS Dant, a lieutenant in the Carroll- before hitting a fly ball into the ' ! ton Police Department. “We were outfield to score a run. crying. It was the end. We spent “The team met me on the plate about a year crying.” and it seemed like we won the 165 STYLE POSSIBILITIES • 100SOFFABRIC CHOICES • DELIVERY IN ABOUT 4 WEEKS! After a year went by, the Dants World Series,” said Ryan, who fin- had a bake sale to raise money for ished his baseball career with a MPS research. They raised $342. single and a sacrifice fly. The Dants’ Ryan Foundation for Ryan plans to attend Brookha- What's your style? Casual, urban, traditional…or perhaps something in-between? With MPS Children has raised $3 mil- ven College for two years and our J. Raymond collection you can mix and match different styles of seats, arms, backs, lion since then, mostly through transfer to the University of Louis- sports tournament fundraisers ville, his favorite school. Ryan then and bases to get the exact look you want…affordably priced and ready for delivery in and auctions. hopes to land a job with the Texas about 4 weeks! As Ryan approached age 10, his Rangers and work his way up to headaches became so severe that clubhouse manager. he’d vomit and pass out. He began “What better job than working to limp, and his joints were so stiff with the players and coaches in the he couldn’t throw a baseball. locker room before and after “He knew what was in his fu- games?” Ryan said. ture, but he didn’t complain — ev- For most kids, getting hired by er,” Lt. Dant said. the Rangers would be hard With funding from the Ryan enough. But Ryan has a bigger Foundation, a California doctor problem. Under most insurance started a trial enzyme replacement plans, Ryan would either quickly treatment in 1997. It wasn’t a cure, max out his lifetime coverage or but weekly intravenous treat- face unaffordable premiums. ments would prevent further dam- Ryan’s treatments require age. four-hour IV infusions every week. On Feb. 13, 1998, Ryan — with The enzyme medication costs al- a baseball tucked in his arm — got most $450,000 a year — “every the first trial infusion. Ryan’s year, forever,” Lt. Dant said. headaches went away and his body “This IV enzyme treatment for began growing again. these groups of disorders is the Recessed Arm Cushion Front Facing Arm Cushion “He could throw a baseball highest-cost treatment of any- again, and that was his big dream,” thing,” said Dr. Lewis Waber, the Lt. Dant said. geneticist who diagnosed Ryan’s The treatments didn’t reverse disorder. “Being in the ICU or hav- 10 years of damage to Ryan’s body. ing some heart transplant opera-

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