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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-05-08 Euless Articles v 44/ DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE ' MAYOR CITY CNCL CITYATTNY GRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY, DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR sI ? / j • DATE DISTRIBUTED �� DATE OF ARTICLE � /� / D / NEWSPAPE'�I.- ,, )ct.� 0�c,,ttc4 e II �j r The si1 � te for Southgate,a jl planned 1.5 million-square- - ei : foot mixed-use project on WC -I,I Dallas/Fort Worth Interna- le ) tional Airport grounds. �` ��`Ga �etirc I I c ; __Re4ttzN 1 lla t1E II. DFW I� ..,------- 44 6.- t� , e v. Airport—I � Q vz,tYods `'``ess ------A � 1 �1``:, P. ,%'� 02 va,' � T``183 f- I � r - r LN.,,,i4 eon r h i 14C----rr---' ''�F0RT,1V0 H DALLAS zi 1-_,>Ni\---- sallas/Fort Worth International Airport officials have selected Southfield, Mich based Redico to be the master developer for a 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use r •oject on airport property. As planned, it will have office, restaurant and retail space to go along with two hotels. Collectively, the development could employ r-ore than 2,700 people. The concept plan for Southgate Plaza calls for 60,000 square feet of restaurant r-id retail space, 320,000 square feet of office space, a Soo-room full-service L tel and a 120-room limited-service hotel, said John Brookby, assistant vice president of commercial development at the airport. irport officials and Redico declined to give the project cost or even an estimate, saying too many specifics have yet to be ironed out. Airport projections available f )m public documents, however, estimate Southgate will add more than $250 rrrillion in value to local tax rolls. uthgate Plaza is planned on a 33-acre piece of vacant land in Euless on the rrertheast corner of International Parkway and Rental Car Drive. The development is next to and will be integrated with the airport's rental car facility, d a shuttle-bus system will connect Southgate Plaza with the airport's terminals. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 1 OF/ MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRlM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY DECK BROWN YOUNG McDO.VALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBR4RYADNIIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CVTR L Q — DATE DISTRIBUTED /U / o DATE OF ARTICLE 3 /( / 09 NEWSPAPER FIST SHLACHTER&CO. — Y SHLACHTER& CO. IINCAID'S TO OPEN FIFTH AREA LOCATION The burger restaurant says it also plans to open a location in Weatherford this year. Kincaid's Hamburgers, a Fort Worth staple for the past 45 years, opens its fifth location today, this one in Alliance Town Center in north Fort Worth. A ribbon:cutting is planned for 9:30 a.m.,and the restaurant will open to the -public at 10:30 a.m. The famous hamburgers .. were first made at Kincaid's Grocery and Market on Camp Bowie Boulevard starting in 1964. -� 'Kincaid's Grocery opened in 1946. The company is owned and operated by the Gentry family. The last Kincaid's opened V in the Arlington Highlands in 2007. _ There are also locations on Hulen Street in Fort Worth and. Kimball Avenue in Southlake. Kincaid's is consistently named for selling one of Fort Worth's and Texas' best bur- gers. They're made from freshly 7 ground black Angus chuck. -. Kincaid's said it will also open in Weatherford this year. Locations are planned for Eu- less and Denton next year. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / LMAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBR4RYADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR LDATE DISTRIBUTED 1/4-3 / /a 9 DATE OF ARTICLE .5 /S /° , NEWSPAPER FWST OBITUARIES L Evelyn Himes IMO ,44`44 Z MCF` EULESS - Evelyn Himes, 92, passed away Monday,May 4,2009. FUNERAL 2 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in Eu- less,the Rev.Gary Turner officiating. Interment will follow in Moore Me morial Gardens in Arlington.Visita- tion:5 to 8 p.m.Tuesday at the funer- al home. MEMORIALS:If desired,memori- als in Evelyn's name may be made to First United Methodist 106 N.Main, Euless;Texas 76039. She was born Evelyn Whitener, Sept.28,1916,in Euless and was a descendant of many original settlers of that community. She remained a L resident of Euless all of her life and served many years as a member of the Euless Historical Society. She worked for the HEB school district for .over 25 years and retired as cafeteria manager at Wilshire Elementary in ` 1977.Evelyn was a lifetime member of First United Methodist Church of Euless and was active in Many church k activities including her Kum Double L Sunday School Class and the Wesley- an Service Guild. She was preceded in death by her husband,_Andrew. SURVIVORS: Daughter, Shirley Himes Melson and husband, Lin,of North Richland Hills; grandchildren, Matt Melson of Bedford,Mark Mel- L son and wife,Jennifer,of Hurst;Kelly Melson of San Antonio; and great- grandchildren Andrew,Austin,Lillian and Madeleine Melson. Moore Funeral Home-N.Davis Drive - L Arlington,817-725-2711 View and sign guesthook at " www.startelegram.com/obituaries { L DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 1 OF l MAYOR CITY CNCL CITYATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR _ © DATE DISTRIBUTED ,� / D /09 DATE OF ARTICLE S / /7 / © / NEWSPAPER FWST 1 of the most morally compelling"mea- LEGISLATURE I HOUSE VOTE sures of his legislative career.He said • he filed the bill in response to pleas. B1 WOUIC from parents and grandparents who 1 1 �J t l told him of cases in which their chil- dren were banned from college cant- change sex puses or unable to get jobs after being JL, placed on the sex offender registry offender "They're treated like pedophiles," • rule Smith said. Smith • and other House members The proposal would allow judges not acknowledgedtheriskofpoliticalfall- out from a vote that could be .per- to list some young violators. ceived as being lax on sex offenders. — By DAVE MONTGOMERY When the bill came up for preliminary dmontgomery@star-telegram.com consideration Wednesday, 45 mem- AUSTIN'-The House of Representatives hers voted against it. But Smith and passed legislation Wednesday that would his' supporters worked overnightto allow judges to spare teen-agers and young build support bar explaining the intent adults engaged in consensual sex from be- of the bill. mg branded as sex offenders. Smith told colleagues that if a con Rep. Todd Smith,R-Euless; sponsor of stituent accused any of them of being_ the bill,said that manyyoung people face a soft on sex offenders, "I make a per- sonal pledge to come to your district lifetime of shame by being placed on the and call that person a liar." sex offender registry after being convicted Several lawmakers praised Smith of sex with a minor: for"courage'in taking on the issue. Sex involving minors is illegal in Texas, „ „ though cases are seldom prosecuted if the I voted against this bill yesterday, 'participants are no more than three years Rep. Dan Gattis, R-Georgetown, told office. colleagues in announcing that he apart,according to Smith's o 7 Under HB3148, which the House sent planned to change his vote. Its the right thing.It's the moral thing. to the Senate by a vote of 131-12,a defen- "This is not absolving them. .. dant could`petition a judge for exemption Th�, still be prosecuted. It gives from being registered as a sex offender. the judge,the opportunity to deter The legislation would apply only to age- mine whether this person should based offenses involving consensual sex have to. register for the rest of their in which the defendant is no more than lives as a sex offender." four years older than a victim who is at least 13 years old. Smith, an attorney, called the bill "one DAVE MONTGOMERY,512-476-4294 — DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE l OF l L MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY DECK BROWN • YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADAIIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR LDATE DISTRIBUTED 5 / / 09 DATE OF ARTICLE 5 11 I (:) NEWSPAPER FWST LEGISLATURE Smith acknowledged that egad for Texas'" L he couldn't muster enough Although Smith said his pro- Vote4+ votes for his original proposal posed exemptions are aimed 11 to get it out of his committee, at `addressing Democratic L p� � gets which Republicans control by concerns over photo IDs, the gets a 5-4 vote. In addition to de- election committee's Demo- • manding a photo ID, a state- cratic •vice chairman •signaled Demo- more c strict . ment from the House Repub- disapproval with Smith's I lican Caucus also called for a latest draft. inHouse new voter ID requirement to I think it's bad for Texas, 1 be in place for the next elec plain and'simple," said Rep. tion, effectively repudiating i Aaron .Pena,D-Edinburg. Euless lawmaker recasts I Smith's proposed four-year Democratic committee Ir. proposal amid demands delay. chairmen and vice chairmen, from fellow Republicans If there were sufficient support for that,"he said of his in aletter to HouseSpeaker Joe By DAVE MONTGOMERY Straus, are also asking for a ` first plan,"then we would have further round of public hear N. dmontgomery@star-telegram.com just voted it out." AUSTIN — The majority of The voter ID issue has been Ings. Smith presided over two Texas `voters would be re days originalplaforeunveil repeatedly characterized as a • L quired to present photo iden- partisan standoff between mg 14' original plana tification in'order to cast bal- Democrats and Republicans. lots under a retooled voter But Smith is facing formidable DAVE MONTGOMERY,512-476-4294 identification bill being circu- challenges within'his own par L lated by, House Elections ty as he attempts to cobble to- Committee Chairman Todd gether a bill capable of gaining Smith. bipartisan support in the Smith, R-Euless, backed House. I. away from his original plan, which allowed voters to pre- Plan still evolving sent a photo ID or two forms of Smith described his latest pro- L. non-photo ID, after 71 of the posal as"conceptual"and said 76 House Republicans issued a he may present further modi- statement insisting on a strict fications in order to find con- L photo ID law. sensus. In another major change, "What is necessary to get it Smith also modified a prow- out of committee may be dif- sion in his earlier proposal ferent from what[is]needed to L that would have kept the bill get it off the House`floor," from taking effect for four Smith said, years in order to educate vot- Smith's original proposal, ers about the new ID require- which he said remains his"No. L ments.Now it would become 1 choice," was similar to the effective in January 2011. ' Senate-passed bill that would Voters who are indigent, allow voters to present either a have a religious objection to photo ID or two forms of non- L the documentation,or live in a photo ID,such as a utility bill, nursing home would be ex- handgun'license ora pilot li- empt from the photo ID re- cense. t quirements in Smith's revised A voter ID law is one of Re- L plan. The bill would also ex- publicans' top legislative pri- emptvoters who are at least 70 orities in response to what years old and never had a birth they say'are constituent de- p certificate because their births mands for strengthened ballot Lweren't recorded with a state security. But Democrats say vital statistics office., the requirements would dis- enfranchise poor, elderly and pminority voters who might not have the required identifica- tion. L DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITY CNCL CITYATT.VY CRM MCKAMIE RIDG W4 Y DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBR-1RYADIIIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR — DATE DISTRIBUTED / / U DATE OF ARTICLE /O / 09 NEWSPAPER FWST OBITUARIES Beatrice Parker Green • y:L a • EULESS—Beatrice Green passed away Wednesday,May 6,2009,after 101 glorious years on this side of heaven. SERVICE:A celebration of a beau- tiful life's walk with the Lord will be — held at 11 a.m.Saturday in the church she loved,Cathedral Of Faith Church of God In Christ in Mosier Valley.In- terment: next to her beloved hus- _ band,Clifford,in Mosier Valley Ceme- tery.Family and friends will gather at the Cathedral of Faith Church from 7 to 8 p.m.Friday for an hour of reflec- tion and precious memories of — "Mother Green." SURVIVORS: Left to mourn, her grandchildren, Danny Wilson, Jacqueline Stewart and Jerry Point- er; eight great-grandchildren; 22 great-great-grandchildren; eight great-great-great-grandchildren;and a host of other relatives and friends. Gregory W.Spencer Funeral Directors — 4000 Miller Ave,817-531-8666 View and sign guestbook at wwwstar-telegramcomNobituxies