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Home My WebLink About2005-06-10 Euless Articles DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF I MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT UNG McDONALD ` COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR r DATE DISTRIBUTED 6 � � � 0 S DATE OFARTICLE 5 /07 9 � NEWSPAPER DMN The mem -orie-s- e behi d amilies and friends recall'what o made their loved nes lost in ba _ --- _ - �._._ the so special 4, 'v. K U ' EGGERS Army staffsergeant ' Age:27 Hometown:Euless Date killed:Dec.5,2004 At 27,Staff Sgt.Kyle Eggers ' was one ofthe"old men"in his unit.But"Kyle didn't act his age,"said his wife,Jennifer Eggers. ' While in Iraq,Sgt.Eggers liked to play practical jokes on a close friend,Sgt.Ist Class Todd Gibbs,who was killed two days- ' after he was.Sgt.Gibbs was known as a neat freak and a perfectionist. "Todd hated having change ' left on the nightstand,"Mrs. Eggers said."So one day in Iraq, Kyle got hold of some super glue and glued pennies to Todd's ' truckand bunk bed." Sgt.Eggers even enlisted his wife to help in his mischief. "Kyle sent me a list ofthings ' he wanted,"she said,"and he wanted slingshots and water balloons." 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE, _LOF A MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR ' DATE DISTRIBUTED 6 /I D /O S DATE OFARTICLE S 30 _ S S NEWSPAPE Area benefits companies Name,address,phone,fax,Web site or e-mail #of employees national local Top executive Types of services Headquarters/year established Clients served ALLTAX,L.L.C. 2107 Sherry Street,Arlington 76010 3 (8 17)459-0771 fax(8 17)459-1920 Dan Tran Insurance,taxes and bookeeping DND/1982 OND Web site:www.dantranagency.com Odyssey One Source,Inc. 209 North Human resources,benefits ' 361 Sheet,Euless 7 62 8,287,9,1 GG (817)508-7361 fax(817)508-7362 David Williams administration,payroll,tax reporting and other employer Ewers/990 355 clients served eb site:www.odysseyonesource.com services Paychex,Inc. 3116 W.5th Street,Fort Worth 76107 (8 17)332-2567 fax(8 17)336-2819 9,600 Jonathan Judge,CEO Payroll and human resources Rochester,New York/1971 505,000 clients served Website:www.paychex.com Rigg Benefits&Financial Services 777 Main Stree,-4444 fort Worth 76102 -031 Benefit consulting, Ian design ' (B 17)335-4444 fax(8 17)870-0310 230/65 Charles Reynolds a g Fort Worth/I 895 Mid to large companies,high net Web site:w .wrigg.com and brokerage worth individuals Siter-Neubauer&Associates 5001 Byers Ave.,Fort Worth 76107 Consultin executive �^e ' (8 17)989-9700 fax(8 17)569-1 126 15 Les Siter g' Fort Worth/1999 OverI,000 clients served Web site:wwwsncompanies.com recruitment NOTES:DND—did not disclose.SOURCES:The companies,RESEARCHER:Emily Rhodes. ' DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF i MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT I'OUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED a,5 DATE OF ARTICLE S NEWSPAPER DMN ' EULESS ' Former city employee sentenced for theft A former Euless employee was ' sentenced in state district court this week to two concurrent 10- year sentences.for stealing money from the city's employee health in- surance fund.Tammy Money,46, was also ordered to repay more than $500,000 if she is paroled early, officials said. Restitution of ' about $85,000, including funds from her retirement,has been es- crowed for return to the city.Ms. ' Money, the city's former human resources and risk administrator, had pleaded guilty to.felonycounts of theft of more than $200,000 ' and money laundering. Marice Richter DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED / S DATE OF ARTICLE 6 A//os- NEWSPAPER DMN Old barn makes its move ; T II•. 1 - t .. Photos by RON BASELICE/Staff Photographer s The McCormick Farm barn took a trip over Airport ,. ti V Freeway as it was moved to its new home in Euless' Heritage Park on Friday.Left:Willie Mas McCormick , ` t donated the structure,which was built after World War I by her husband,W.W."Mack"McCormick,and father-in-law,Walter L.McCormick,using material salvaged from the Camp Bowie Barracks.The barn •.:.,,,• will be restored by Denton County preservationist Bill Marquis using period materials and construction + methods. Hui .r DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE /. OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT IWUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATEDISTRIBUTED (p �� ld s DATE OF ARTICLE oS NEWSPAPER FWST BARN RESTORATION Edl*fice of hl* story 4 i J mask— K } r J i ;r lJlr,lltra>` dt I /C. Y �t ! r II^S at` ` b ' STAR TELEGRAM/STEWART F.HOUSE Willie Mae McCormick,96,is donating the barn built in 1919 by her father-in-law,Walter Lee McCormick,to Euless. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF 3 MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR ' DATE DISTRIBUTED �P /l / DATE OF ARTICLE / " / S NEWSPAPER FWST A relic of Eulessrural past gets a new home tt : F yW' a By TERRY LEE GOODRICH STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER P EULESS — For decades, the'little red barn onr Willie Mae McCormick's Main Street property was ' her personal landmark. Ar rry z r, "People would say,,`Where do you live?' And I'd , yi +N* say, `Look for the red barn,' '•' Said McCormick,who j t is 96. 4 pJT�N. But the faded barn left its 1850s log cabin,a windmill and home amid massive oak trees Euless'first brick home,built in Friday to become a civic land- 1932. r xyx mark. "Looks like they know what '' wx The wooden chunk of Euless they're doing,"McCormick saidr history,built in 1919,was hauled as she watched movers and 3.8 miles to Euless' Heritage police vehicles begin the pro- Park on Cullum Drive.There, cession."But it was pretty nice Willie Mae McCormick holds a photo of her husband, ' McCormick's gift to the city to have.a barn,and I'll kind of Walter W."Mack"McCormick,in his National Guard uni- will be restored alongside an form,standing in front of the barn in 1919. 4. WIDE C 4 {iBIU r s�a rr 4 STAR-TELEGRAM/STEWARTF.HOUSE The McCormick family's barn,built in 1919,is moved down Fuller-Wiser Road on its way to Euless'Heritage Park,where it will be restored. I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 3 OF 'MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT UNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR r DATE DISTRIBUTED �w /bS DATE OF ARTICLE NEWSPAPER FWST ' acres.But McCormick said the miss it." rural charm lasted. The barn was built by Wal- "We built our own house in ter Lee McCormick,the father 1952;and we paintedthe barn ' of McCormick's late husband, red because you think about a Walter W."Mack"McCormick, barn being red or white,"she. she said. said. "I thought,'Shoot.The Her husband's job as a rail- city's been good to me,'" road conductor called for him McCormick said."For the last to travel frequently.When he, few years,the barn hasn't been was gone,McCormick and her ' anything except storage for daughter clambered into the some of my daughter and barn's loft and pitched hay grandkids'things.I wanted it down for the few cows they to last as a memory of Mack's owned,she said. ' folks." Daughter Elizabeth Wilcox, The 480-square-foot barn is 72,said her most vivid barn the city's oldest,and"it may be memory was of the time she the only one left;'Deputy City was shucking corn and spotted ' Manager Gary McKamie said. a coiled copperhead.She The$30,000 restoration, called her boyfriend to the'res- paid for by the city's historic cue,she said. . preservation funds and a dona- "Mother and I used to get ' tion from McCormick,will tickled trying to lift 50-pound take at least a couple months, feed bags into the barn,"she said Bill Marquis of Ponder, said."It will be different with- ' the restoration contractor. out it." "It needs a lot of help,but I Laura'Webb,who lives near want to restore every original 'Heritage Park,came out to board I can,"he said. watch the barn being unloaded ' McCormick said the barn after its 45-minute journey. was built of lumber salvaged "Having this nearby just from World War I military bar- makes you feel like you're in a racks.In those days,the little piece of country,a little ' McCormicks raised watermel- bit of quiet,"she said. ons and cantaloupes,loaded When the restoration is them into a horse-drawn done,Marquis said,the barn wagon and drove all night to will sport a new coat of red ' get to Dallas for the markets' paint. . Opening the next morning. "Too many people throw After McCormick and her away history,"he said."I love husband were married,they this barn.When I get done,it ' lived for a time in Big Spring will look like it did when it was and then moved to the family's built." 120-acre Euless spread in 1948. ONLINE:wwwdewess.mus ' In the 1970s,the Terry Lee Goodrich,(817)685-3812 jMcCormicks sold all but 7 tgoodrich@star-telegram.com DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE I OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED D DATE OF ARTICLE OS NEWSPAPER FWST Christ's Haven sponsors Fb' 4. Charity Golf Classic Christ's Haven for Children sponsored its 12th annual Char- ity,Golf Classic at Bear Creek Golf Course. PHOTOS BY MIKE LEWIS r May Ann Izzarelli,Glenn Porter- field and Yvonne Frank FISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE ( OF / MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT rUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED � �l 5 DATE OFARTICLE & //(D /G S NEWSPAPER FWST LESS FESTIVAL LFRIpinos to, celebrate traditi*ons By DIANE SMITH brate.We were under Spain for culture have never been in the STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER 300 years," said Manny Rivero, ,Philippines,"said Linda Lanuza EULESS - Filipino-Ameri- picnic chairman. French,one of the event's orga- If you 90 Lans will gather Saturday for the This year's event will include nizers. I ■The Dallas Fort Worth ual Pista Sa Nayon, or V Vil- a flag-raising ceremony to The Santacruzan,a religious Filipino-American community lage Festival, commemorating honor military veterans, said portion.of the parade, honors will commemorate the Philip- Phi lippines' independence Chito Delacruz,president of the the Virgin Mary,French said. pines'independence from Spain m Spain on June 12,1898. Philippine Republic Day Cele- The Dallas-Fort Worth Fil- with an annual picnic Saturday. The free, all-day festival at bration.Several Filipino-Amen- ipino-American community has ■10 a.m.to 5:30 p.m., the Villages of Bear Creek Park, can organizations and many been celebrating its homeland's amphitheater of the Villages of ffisexpected to draw several hun= volunteers helped organize the independence since 1993:For Bear Creek Park, Bear Creek Parkway,Eulesules s. . Wed visitors. Highlights will festival,which allows older gen- the last several years,the festiv- ■Event includes parade,games<: include games,a traditional pro- erations of Filipino-Americans ities have been in Euless,a cen- for children and pediatric health cession known as the San- to share their traditions and cul- tral location for revelers to•gath- screening.Admission is free. acruzan, folk dances, native ture with younger ones. I er from throughout the Metro- ■Information:(817)706-9090, ' Wood booths and a health fair. "A lot of children who are plex. (972)932-4345 or(972)233 "We want to do this to cele- growing up in the American ONLINE.www.pinoytexas.com 5504. 1 t 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGEOF l MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR ' DATE DISTRIBUTED ( U DATE OFARTICLE��i f�G U S NEWSPAPER FWST TRANSPORTATION BighWay p .almost finished 1 ■Traffic relief is coming Texas 360 spokesman Michael Peters soon to the western edge of said Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. na Even so, some commuters.. have steered clear of the ByGORDON pICKSON orange barrels, large dirt STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER. ze M i mounds and heavy equipment: GRAPEVINE — Com- _ in the area. muters won't have to wait "Probably the biggest differ much longer to use an exten-. Zedforrd s F w i�`/ �� ence is lots of dust in the air,so ' sion of Texas 360 in Euless I'd be reluctant to drive m and Grapevine. ! A > convertible"with the top down; The main lanes from Mid- 121 ie3 said Milo Oleson ofSq t�lake, Cities Boulevard in Euless to who occasionally uses theioad' Texas 114/121 in Grapevine to reach Arlington ` will open in early July,a Texas ` ma D 360 8 It's a different story for the- Department of Transportation 5 Grand' southern portion oi`the pro official said. Fori a Prattle,- ject between Mid-Cities- worlfi' f i .r The-project is four months Boulevard and Airport Free-. ahead of schedule. STAR-TELEGRAM/TIM BEDISON way—Which 1S-not scheduled Work has moved quickly to open until spring 2006. because of cooperative weath- roads,which were built in 1991. When'completed,the free .r er and minimal traffic disrup- "Anytime you're able_'to way will ease north-south traf tions. Most work is in the. work away from existing traf ficnear Dallas/Fort Worth median,leaving plenty of room, fic, you have potential for Airport., for traffic on the frontage making good time, agency .r on the road a decade earlier.+ .r In Grapevine,it may lead The section scheduled to to.a new wave of roadside open in early July is being commercial development. built by H.B. Zachry of San �++ The Texas 360 corridor is Antonio under an $18 mil- among the few places in lion contract. That 2.8-mile Grapevine where large stretch will include two parcels of undeveloped land main lanes in each direction. are available. About all that's left to do "We're certainly excited is finish painting stripes, to have it open," said Matt landscaping and installing .r Singleton, Grapevine's pub- road signs,Peters said. ' lic works director. "It will The 1.9-mile portion from f probably help with develop- Mid-Cities Boulevard to Air- ment, and it will definitely port Freeway is being built ,r help with traffic conges- by Archer-Western of tion." Arlington under a $21_mil- About 55,000 vehicles use lion contract. That section the Texas 360 frontage roads will have three lanes in each each'day,according to a 2001 direction. Transportation Department count. That's more than Gordon Dickson,(817)685-3816 triple the number of vehicles gdickson@star-tetegram.com