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 ........ B1 W 06-16-2007 Set: 22:08:51 B0616WB001PCB0616WB001PMB0616WB001PYB0616WB001PKB0616WB001PQ 5 25 50 75 95 Sent by: rstumpf News CYANMYBELLOWLACKAGENTA CARROLLTON Page 8B Saturday, June 16, 2007 W dallasnews.com The Dallas Morning News Lifesaving treatments carry a high price tag 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.