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24 | June 2009 Community Impact Newspaper • Georgetown/Hutto/Taylor Edition
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Medical school opens this fall, expands
Cedar Park On March 31, Tom
Hicks, a Dallas-based investor
whose Hicks Sports Group owns
the Texas Rangers and Dallas
Stars and who is also a partner
with Cedar Park on the Cedar
Park Center, missed a quarterly
interest payment on loans of
more than $500 million.
Though the lenders declared
Hicks in default April 6, the loan
issues will not affect the completion
of the Cedar Park Center.
Hicks missed the payment in
an effort to renegotiate some of
the loan terms with a group of
lenders, he said in a press release.
“We are simply asking the
lenders to be reasonable, and they
need to understand that these important
assets must be managed
Pearl
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Georgetown, TX 78626
The Cedar Park Center, which will be home to the Texas Stars hockey team, is scheduled to
open in September.
with a long-term perspective
and a commitment to winning,”
Hicks said in the statement.
Hicks partnered with Cedar Park
on the Cedar Park Center, the $55
Following services are provided:
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• Trigger Point Injections
• Complete and Comprehensive physical
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• Well child examination
• Immunizations up-date
• Dr. K follows her own patients in the hospital to
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million stadium where the Texas
Stars — the American Hockey
League affiliate of the Dallas Stars
— will hit the ice this fall.
Full story at more.impactnews.com/4387
(512) 869-8500 • (512) 869-5052
www.pearlfamilypractice.com
Same- and next-day
appointments available
301 Seton Parkway, Suite 302
Round Rock, Texas 78665
(next to Seton Williamson County Hospital)
Neighborhood Dining
programs and partners with area clinics
health, OB/GYN, pediatrics and
primary care — and a pharmacy
in the facility.
Wally’s Burger Express 8107 Mesa Drive
345-7441 • Sun.-Thu. 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m.
Northwest Austin Robert joint in northwest Austin, Wally’s
Returning students also hope Mayfield’s introduction to the Burger Express.
Round Rock The Texas A&M The Health Science Center’s to organize outreach efforts everyday workings of fast food The business opened off of
Health Science Center will mark affiliation with LSCC, which such as community vaccinations dining started before he was a Mesa Drive in 1980, priding itself
the second year of its Round Rock oversees clinical rotations for and student-run clinics similar teenager, when he worked at his on the fact that it serves burgers
program this fall with the open- third-year medical students at to those currently in place at dad’s walkup Dairy Queen in and fries in a basket, “just like in
ing of the first building on its new the Round Rock campus, will campuses in Temple and College Cleburne.
the old days,” Mayfield said.
campus. The school also plans likely serve as a model for future Station, third-year student Liz That was back in the 1950s, Full story at more.impactnews.com/4476
to expand its partnerships with programs, Kotrla said. The part- Scherer said.
when Dairy Queen served only
local clinics, allowing incoming
classes to work more closely with
nership is expected to evolve this
year to provide more opportuni-
Round Rock emerged as a
hub for health education with
sodas and ice cream and was not
yet a multimillion dollar chain
n
patients in need of special care. ties for students to work with ge- the influx of new hospitals in that has become a staple in small
Dr. Kathryn Kotrla, associate riatric clinics, veterans’ hospitals recent years, beginning with towns across the country.
dean of the Health Science Cen- and inpatient facilities such as the the opening of Scott & White Still, what Mayfield learned
ter’s Round Rock campus, said Austin State Hospital.
Healthcare–Round Rock in then about customers — their
the school hopes to build upon The building opening on 2007 and Seton Medical Center likes and dislikes — is something
existing relationships with local the new campus was designed Williamson in 2008. St. David’s he used 30 years later when he
hospitals and community health to further immerse students Round Rock Medical Center also decided to open his own burger
centers such as the Lone Star into LSCC programs, with a completed a $100 million expan-
Circle of Care, a nonprofit health- public health clinic operating sion in 2006.
care organization that provides among classrooms and train- Full story at more.impactnews.com/4649 Camino Real 907 FM 685
medical care to uninsured and ing labs. The clinic will include
989-8833 • Sun.-Thu. 7 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.
under-insured patients.
four departments — behavioral
Cedar Park will see Stars soon
restaurant by dinnertime.
Henriquez opened his Austin location
in 1993 and, some 14 years
On schedule for fall hockey season
later, opened the second Camino
Real on FM 685 in Pflugerville.
He said the first year or so
at the new location was rocky,
something that may explain a
few of the not-so-pleasant reviews
that pop up during a quick
online search of the restaurant.
However, Henriquez said the
restaurant has improved its
customer service and is trying to
perfect what it delivers to diners.
Full story at more.impactnews.com/4642
Pflugerville Each day, Luciano
Henriquez gets up early and arrives
at his Pflugerville restaurant
by 6 or 7 a.m. to start cooking
that day’s food. Most of the recipes
are homemade or picked up
from years of working in Mexican
restaurants, something he
and his wife did prior to opening
their own place, Camino Real, in
Austin and in Pflugerville.
Henriquez works at the restaurant
most of the day, whether
it is helping in the kitchen or
tending to yard work outside. He
only goes home for a short break
during the day, but returns to the
n
Mesa Dr.
Pecan St.
Michael F. Lenis, M.D.
Spicewood Springs Rd.
Pflugerville Pkwy. 130
685
Paul J. Roach, M.D.