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-Architecture of planned
church draws protests:
A Greek Orthodox church's brick building on the back of room for himself in his tent."
new building will have a the 303 Cullum Drive properArumugam said it's fme for
ty. That building will become the church to grow, but itByzantine design. classrooms. offices and a felshould "go grow somewhere
By TERRY EVANS lowship hall when the new else."
tevanS@star-telegram,com building is finished. He suggested that the festi
EULESS -St. John the Baptist "The building they have val be moved as weU.
Greek Orthodox Church is now is nothing like what Sullivan said that festival
bursting at the seams and has they're going to build, with this year's, on Oct. 8-10, will be
plans to build a new worship turrets and that type of archithe 19th --is the church's pri
center. tecture," she said. "The neighmary fundraiser and draws
The new building's archiborhood is a beautiful slice of guests from acrosS the region.
tecture is Byzantine, a design country in the middle of the It's critical, considering the
style that originated in Greece, Metroplex. I don't have any$2.4 million cost for the new
Turkey and Romania, said Joe thing against the church, but building anlJthe. 2,500
Sullivan, building committee that drastic architecture square-foot addition to the
chairman. doesn't fit in." current one. Thechurl;h, he
"We're excited about being Euless Mayor Mary lib Saadded, has addtessed ",igh-.
able to worship in a church leh disagreed. bors' complaints. \
that's the correct style of archi"The church is gorgeous:' "One of the things w~ve
tecture," he said. she said. "They put a lot of done is enact aparkiflg plan .
Greg DeGiovanni, office ad-. thought into the arcrnutcture. that puts up parking barriers i
ministrator, said construction It will enhance the ne'ighbi)lso nobody can park against'
should begin within the next hood, and we're going to see their land," he said. "We have
couple of weeks. that it's not ~bi8·to disrupt parking monitorS and get
"I'm kind of surprised we the neighborhOpd ... · as many folks as we can to park •
haven't seen them out there al~ Saleh and th't City Coundl in an adjacent property we
ready," he said ofconstruction approved the building's site own to keep them off the
crews. plan at their June 8 meeting~ street."
But while the church's 100 But its design wasn't the Sullivan said the church
or so families eagerly await the only subject of protest letters stakes highly visible marker
construction of the 8,300-that Brauchler and another tape along private property on
square-foot edifice that will neighbor, Muhuntha ArumuCullum Drive to warn drivers
seat about 260, some neighgam, fIled with the city's plannot to park there.
bors aren't happy with the ning and zoning committee. He said that illegally parked
plans. Arumugam, who lives on vehicles are towed away if
, Sherry Brauchler isn't Colonial Lane, said that the owners don't respond to an
looking forward to the new church's annual Mid-Cities nouncements over the PA sys
church building in her Cullum Greek Food Festival makes tem within a reasonable
Drive neighborhood. him miserable. amount of time.
"I'm not a curmudgeon," ''I'm a Christian," he said. Saleh said the festival has
she said. ~I just feel that there ''I'm not against church. I'm become part of Euless. and she
is a responsibility to the neighagainst having too much regrets that some neighbors
borhood." crowd all over the place. We find it intrusive.
The architect who develcannot even enter our own "Yes, it is a big festival," she
oped the concept drawing, house, and the music goes to 1 said. "They have a lot of peo
MireJa Tudora, is the wife of or2 a.m." ple and music. Some people
the parish priest, the Rev. VaArumugam said he also just don't like that."
sile Tudora. She's also fears that this expansion won't The mayor urged tolerance.
schooled in the Byzantine be the last. "Let's be accepting of one
style of architecture, Sullivan "We are accommodating," another," she said. "Ifthere are
said. he said of himself and his true problems, call us and
That style is a burr under neighbors. "But we're like the we'll come out and do what we
Brauchler's saddle. She had no farmer who let the camel put can to help you."
problem with the church's first its head in the tent when it
construction project, which in rained. The camel kept com
1987 put an 8.000-square-foot ing until the farmer had no TERRY EVANS. 811-390-1620
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~IRELA TUDORA
A concept drawing by architect and parishioner Mirela Tudora shows the Byzantine style of St. John the
Baptist Greek Orthodox Church's planned worship center. Construction is expected to begin this month.
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GOVERNMENT
Euless seeks to lure
retirees to the dty
to boost economy
The first step is earning a state
designation.
By TERRY EVANS tevans@star-telegram.com
EULESS City officials are targeting retir
ees in an effort to boost their population and
strengthen the economy.
Linking up with a state website designed
to pull in people who are planning retire
ment would increase exposure for Euless,
said Betsy Deck, a city spokeswoman.
"Potential retirees looking for a place to
retire might look on this website and see Eu
less as a destination," she said.
The basic motivation is economic, said
Kay Godbey, special projects manager.
"It's all tied to economics in theory," she
said. "We hope that attracting retirees to Eu
less will help the city's economy,"
The first step is earning a
Texas Certified Retirement
Community designation.
Godbey sem an applica
tion package last week to the
Texas Department of Agricul
ture. The application in
cludes support letters from
people who know what Eu
less has to offer.
One of those letters is from
Mayor Mary Lib Saleh, who
said she hopes to share the
life she has in Euless with
people who are approaching
her level of experience.
The mayor said that she's
tired of reporters telling her
age, but said she has "passed
the diamond jubilee."
"1 don't consider myself
retired," she said. ''I'm busy
every day and every evening.
Retirement means you get to
go out in the garden and fin
ish that little pa tch you start
ed two weeks ago."
The retirement-commu
nity certification would be an
economic-development ve
hicle, Saleh said.
"Ifyou get it and are desig
nated senior citizens-worthy,
it goes up with other awards
we've won that say Euless is a
great place to live," she said.
"The [packagel that Kay put
together is fantastic. It's a
book we ought to print and
sell to our citizens, because it
has so much up-to-date in
formation about what's avail
able in the city and the com
munity."
One of the city's center
pieces is the Texas Star Golf
Course, considered one of
the top public courses in the
state. And the city's Arbor
Daze festival has long been
popular in Northeast Tarrant
County.
But the city's most attrac
tive facet may have nothing
to do with facilities and activ
ities, Saleh said. Instead, she
cited such community ser
vice opportunities as the 3
year-old Euless Revitalization
Program.
"If people ask me what's
best about Euless, I have to
say it's the volunteers,» she
said. "We had 600 volunteers
show up for two days to revi
talize 15 homes from top to
bottom back in March. We'll
do another one this fall."
Saying that practically her
whole life has been one vol
unteer job after another, Sa
leh said the payoff is the satis
faction of serving others.
"That's what's important
to me as mayor of a city like
ours, people who are willing
to volunteer their time and
talent to help other people,"
she said.
Godbey said she doesn't
know how long Texas will
take to decide whether to ap~
prove Euless' request.
TERRY EVANS, 817-390-7620
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