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JERRY HUTSON
For Little Elm barber, driving to Richardson is routine By DANIELLE ABRIL dabril@neighborsgo.com
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Jerry Hutson, 79, drives to Richardson twice a week for his 10 to 15 regular customers.
last boy of three. His father owned a grocery store, and his mother used to wake up early to milk cows and start breakfast while the kids picked cotton. Hutson remembers when Little Elm had a population of 100 “if we counted the few dogs and cats,” he said. He learned to swim a nearby creek before the construction of Lake
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his memories, with only four or five families with which he grew up still residing in the area. Yet, he said he’ll probably just stay put. “I’m too old to move,” he said, smiling. Danielle Abril is the neighborsgo Frisco/Little Elm editor.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Foster family hopes to find homes for dogs
Legacy Junior High players participate in diabetes walk By CARLY ENGIBOUS
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Photo submitted by KATHRYN HORNER
Bob, a 5-year-old German Shorthair Pointer Mix, brings a lot of personality to the Terhall foster home. Bob and his foster brother and sister are available for adoption.
MORE INFO To learn more about Bob, Simon, Carrie or other available dogs, visit friscohumanesociety.com.
you helped save a life through fostering and adopting a dog to a wonderful new family,” Sharyl said. “We get back way more than we ever give.”
Carly Engibous contributes to neighborsgo on behalf of Legacy Christian Academy.
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Kathryn Horner contributes to neighborsgo on behalf of Frisco Humane Society.
Legacy Christian Academy Junior High football coach Scot McCollum works hard to be sure that his team does its part — on and off the field. The football team spent the morning of Sept. 25 participating in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International Walk to Cure Diabetes for someone they had never met — Micah Strain of Frisco, who battles Type 1 diabetes. McCollum found out about the opportunity to help through his Sunday school class, which Strain’s parents attend. McCollum was touched and decided his team would participate and show support. “I thought it would be a great idea to get my junior high football players involved so I sent out an e-mail encouraging the parents to get their sons involved,” McCollum said. “I guess I expected some participation, but I did not expect to get 32 out of 54 boys with all the other activities that kids this age are involved in.” The LCA students raised more than $400 for the walk and contributed 32 team members to Strain’s goal of having an 85-person team.
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three foster dogs: Bob, n top of caring Simon and Carrie. for their three Terhall said she dogs, Todd and found 5-year-old Bob, a Sharyl Terhall German Shorthair serve as a foster family Pointer mix, running for Frisco Humane SoKATHRYN HORNER loose at a major interciety and have fostered Contributor section. After unsuc21 dogs in the last three cessfully trying to find years. his owner, he fit right into the Terhall The couple adopted their first two family with his bigger-than-life perdogs, Bonnie, a 9-and-a-half-year-old sonality. black Schnauzer/Terrier mix, and Simon, a sweet 11-month-old BeaLady, also 9 and a half, in 2001. Algle mix who was running out of time at though both are cancer survivors, neia local kill-shelter, has been a perfect ther shows it, said Sharyl Terhall. foster brother, Terhall said. “They are the queens of the house,” Carrie, a 5-year-old black Labrador she said. retriever, contently sits on the sidelines After adopting spirited and funand enjoys a good rub down. She has a loving Snickers, a 4-year-old Corgi sweet nature and calm spirit and adds mix, from the Frisco Humane Society to the Terhall foster family dynamic. in 2007, the Terhalls’ family was comThree years and twenty-one foster plete, but their hearts were weary for dogs later, the Terhalls have proved all the homeless dogs still out there. they are more than just dog lovers — “A lot of people don’t understand how or why we foster, but we don’t un- they are serious about saving lives and making a difference to homeless dogs. derstand how we can’t,” Terhall said. “There is no feeling like knowing The couple currently cares for
A FAMILIAR ROAD Jerry Hutson’s middle son, Tommy, has taken a similar path as his father. Tommy, a technology director at the Dallas District Attorney’s office, travels from Little Elm to downtown every day for work. His other son, Robert, and daughter Carroll Anne also stayed in the area. Robert, the oldest, is the chief financial officer of the Dallas Stars and Carroll Anne, the youngest, is an assistant principal of Argyle High –D.A. School.
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Jerry Hutson, a longtime resident of Little Elm, has spent much of his time somewhere else. But the 79-year-old barber always comes home. “I’ve got two completely different lives. The two different crowds don’t even know each other,” said Hutson, who travels 25 miles to Richardson two days a week to cut hair at Le’s Hair Pro. Le’s is located in the same shopping complex where Hutson owned his own shop for 40 years. He has 10 to 15 regular customers a day, and most of them have been coming to him for years. “I don’t do any new ones, just a bunch of old people,” he said. But Little Elm is home to all of his favorite childhood memories. Hutson was the fourth child of six and
Lewisville, which now covers the land where his childhood house was located. He graduated from Frisco High School in 1948 and joined the Air Force in 1950. For three years he was stationed in Las Vegas, where he said he watched atomic testing from afar. He moved back to Little Elm after he completed his military service, had brief stints in Houston and Richardson, then returned home for good in 1967, when he met and married his wife, Judy. An uncle he remembers from his childhood inspired Hutson to become a barber because he was always jingling the change in his pockets. “He was the only one with money,” Hutson said. And Hutson doesn’t think twice about his trek to and from Richardson. When he was growing up, everyone traveled to someplace near Dallas to find work. “There was nothing to do in Little Elm unless you were a farmer,” he said. Hutson said Little Elm isn’t the town of