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Home My WebLink About2006-04-13 Euless Articles DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT ' YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR. DATE DISTRIBUTED �I 3 4° DATE OFARTICL NEWSPAPER 34 111 �� CONQUEP. YOUP. 131 D The City of Euless' Crude Cruiser ' mobile will be up at the Euless Municipal Complex on Saturday, April 22 from 9-11 am in order to help ' residents dispose of their household hazardous waste. Old paint, pesticides, used oil and other automotive fluids, household cleaners, medicines, ' make-up, solvents, batteries, and pesticides are all examples of household chemicals that could be hazardous to the environment if disposed of improperly. They are also excepting small electrical ' appliances for recycle(sorry...no TV's). Proof of' residence such as a current utility bill is required but no fee is charged. Call 817-685-1410 or visit www.euless.org/hazmat.htm for more info. f I F s 1 t E n 1 Y k I I I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OFA MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRA�R/YADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED ,: �' DATE OF ARTICLE `1 6 NEWSPAPER FWST NORTHEAST-TARRANT BRIEFS Wess police find mail hoard, meth lab BEDFORD-Euless police officers whose burglary investiga- tion took them to a Bedford apartment Thursday afternoon found the equipment for an iden- tity theft ring-and a working methamphetamine lab.Officers found 2,000 pieces of mail from 25 jurisdictions during the search at the Euless apartment in the 2400 block of Meadow Park Circle,as well as computer equip- ment and fraudulent IDs,Euless police Lt.W.L.Pavlik said in a news release.Police arrested two people on suspicion of three counts of tampering with a gov- ernment document and one count of manufacturing metham- phetamine,Pevlik said.The offi- cers had been tracking a money order stolen during a burglary,he said.Euless police and the U.S. r Postal Inspection Service are continuing the investigation. -Ben Tinsley r r r Will Ed [DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT 'YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYAD/MIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED LISZ0 �' DATE OFARTICLE Y NEWSPAPER FWST 1 4� : M1 1 ■Euless Easter Egg Scramble Have you gone fishing yet this year? "Parks at Texas Star,1501 S.Pipeline Now is the perfect time to get away y1Road' . with the kids and enjoy some fishing ,(817)685-1666 fun.The city of Euless and Texas Ju- -Free '`. Nor Anglers are hosting the free 11am-2pm April 8 event,which takes place from.9 a.m.to Events include an egg hunt,bounce noon at Wilshire Park.Wilshire Pond house,face-painters and games.Hunts ' SATURDAY will be stocked with 500 pounds of will be divided by age groups. catfish and staff members will be '■Junior Anglers Day present to offer fishing instruction. Wilshire Park,315 Sierra Drive,Euless Loaner fishing poles and bait will be-available for children.A '(817)685-1666 fishing tournament also will be held,with prizes awarded in . Free 'various age groups and categories. 9am-noon April 29 Fish at your leisure and also enter a fishing tournament. t DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE _Z_OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WIILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATEDISTRIBUTED I�'� /�1� DATE OFARTICLE 5 /� NEWSPAPER FWST NORTHEAST AFTER HOURS Free jazz concert EULESS The band Finger- prints will perform a free public concert at 7'p.m.Monday at the Euless Public Library,201 N.Ector Drive. The jazz band has recorded four CDs during its,15 years.The, five-member group has performed at clubs and music festivals throughout the Southwest.Its Euless performance is sponsored by ARTSNET as apart of its Mas- terWorks Series.(817)283-3406. -Compiled by Joy Donovan 'DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT ,YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARY DMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 3/ DATE OFARTICLE 7 `� NEWSPAPER FWST NORTHEAST BRIEFS Mail carrier home ' from Iraq honored EULESS-Air Force Tech Sgt. ' James Towles of Euless,who I recently served in Iraq as a load- I master,has returned home and will be honored at 10 a.m.today ' at the Euless Post Office,201 N. Ector Drive,by the city and the Postal Service,according to Post- al Service officials.The event will ' include a flag-raising by Ameri- can Legion Post 379.The day has been proclaimed James Towles Day by the city.Towles is a mail carrier and has been in the Air Force Reserves for eight years, city officials said.He was sent to Iraq in April,where he was sta- tioned at Balad Air Base in Bagh- dad.He and his wife,Carol,have a daughter,Caroline,and a son, Joseph,who is serving in the Air Force in Tampa,Fla. —Terry Lee Goodrich DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE ( OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD /COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYA/DMIN /LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 7 �-3/ DATE OF ARTICLE y/�k" / 4a NEWSPAPER DMN CALENDAR,.. EASTER EGG SCRAMBLE:The Euless Easter Egg Scramble will be from 11 a.m.to 2 p.m.Saturday at the Parks at Texas Star,1561 S.Pipeline Road.The free event will include an egg hunt, bounce house,games and pictures with the Easter bunny. 1 rr 'DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE_/OF� MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGIVAY(2) BOYETT 'YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYLADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED i, / / 7 / / I`" DATE OF ARTICLE NEWSPAPER FWST NORTHEAST CLICK ' Reception precedes concert A VIP reception preceded the Brass Roots y } Trio sponsored by ARTSNET at the Old Bedford School ' SPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM/BRIAN VENEZIA S �c i r` Mry, xf l It Janice Vickery,Susan Clark,Karin #f, Newell and Mike Collins. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE /OFA MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED L 7 /`13,l DATE OF ARTICLE / -71 C NEWSPAPER FWST PROCLAMATION n, f SPECIAL TO THE STAR TELEGRAM/ EMILY HUGHES rrrl LOCAL SOLDIER IS HONORED Tech Sgt.James Towles shows off a city proclamation Thursday declaring April 6 James .w Towles Day for his service in Iraq.Towles,a postal worker,received the proclamation at a flag-raising ceremony by American Legion Post 279 at the Euless Post Office. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT 'YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARY�AjDMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 3/�� DATE OF ARTICLE D /0 NEWSPAPER FWST REGION BRIEFS Police plan regional ' roundup this month Law-enforcement officers will fan out throughout North Texas from April 24 to 30 in a regional ' roundup of residents with out- standing warrants.The roundup will take place in Collin,Dallas, Denton,Johnson,Rockwall and ' Tarrant counties.Officers from more than 40 cities will be in- volved,including police from Arlington,Euless,Forest Hill,Fort ' Worth,Haltom City,Hurst,Kenne- dale,Mansfield,North Richland Hills,Richland Hills,Southlake and Watauga.Residents with ' pending warrants can avoid being arrested by contacting the mu-, nicipal court where the warrant was issued andmaking payment arrangements before.April 24. ' Most of the warrants are traffic related Class C misdemeanors. Those arrested during the round= up will be taken before municipal' judges for arraignment and dis- position of cases,authorities said. For more information on how to pay citations,residents should ' contact local municipal courts. -Domingo Ramirez Jr. t DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYKEF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED �1 19N DATE OF ARTICLE J / NEWSPAPER FWST LANDMARKS Water towers of owe Pre-eminentplumbing c4r i Rld xtres double as signsMai Y By BILL TEETER �� STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER r' It hasn't held a drop of water � Y in years, but Roanoke's Oak *fi Street water tower still has a fu- ture. The tower has stood over downtown for about 70 years,so ° Orlando Olvera paints near the top of the Euless water tower. officials plan to keep it as a land- mark bearing the Roanoke logo and weave it into the communi- ty's planned redevelopment. of 1 the city center. "I think it's just part of our k t heritage," Mayor Carl Gierisch Jr.said. r' Water towers maintain pres- sure by storing water up high, w and gravity carries it to the spig- ot with no additional pumping. But they have also become geo- graphic markers—billboards for rt 3 cities or high school sports Painter Filimon Olvera is a barely teams. Throughout Northeast visible speck, lower right, on a Eu- Tarrant County, communities less water tower that is being repo- ' have plastered their names and vated. sports championships in big let- ters across the sides of the tower tures. Like Roanoke, Keller has tops. maintained a defunct water tow- From atop the Ferris wheel at er, at U.S.377 at Keller Parkway, last weekend's Watauga Fest, Keller City Manager Lyle Dresh- seven water towers were visible. er said.The best estimate is that The older towers have also the tower was built in 1910, he become important historical fea- ' STAR TELEGAM/LAURIE L.WARD Hundreds of tarps keep paint and sandblasting ma- terial contained while the Euless tower is refur- bished. tISTRIBUTED TO: PA GE + MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGW9Y(2) BOYETT ,YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS / WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED I ( DATE OF ARTICLE 7 19 //0(, NEWSPAPER FWST ' holds about 2 million gallons,he ers are listed on the National said. said. Register of Historic Places. "j Construction records for Oak Other places go beyond just Although the steel towers, ' Street tower have been lost, but paint. such as Roanoke's,aren't much to former Mayor Max Watson said On some older tanks,the steel look at, their function at certain the tower was built in 1936. At- is fashioned to look like ketchup times in history and prominence ' tached to one of the steel-lattice- bottles,teapots,fruit and vegeta- in the local skyline make some work legs is an old siren that once bles. want to save them, said Linda summoned volunteers to the sta- A tank near the Panhandle city McClelland, a historian for the tion to fight fires,he said. of Groom is well known to trav- National Parks Service. ' "It signifies Roanoke.It's been elers on Interstate 40 because it "Often the availability of wa- there as long as I can remember," was intentionally installed lean- ter fostered development," she ,said Watson,who moved to Roa- ing to one side, to attract atten- said. "It really goes far beyond poke in 1968. tion. A tower in Lakeway is what your initial perception is.". ' Newer water tanks often hold painted as a giant golf ball. The Roanoke tower, which a million gallons or more. The newer tanks are often de- had a 100,000-gallon capacity, Along North Main Street in signed with storage or office will dovetail into the city's down- Euless, crews are finishing up space beneath the' elevated tank, town plan to renovate an 1887 ho- work on a$1.28 million project to said Glenda Curry of Landmark, tel and to attract new businesses refurbish two of the city's three a Fort Worth-based company that and homes to.Oak Street, City water towers and repaint Euless' builds elevated tanks in the U.S. Manager Jimmy Stathatos said. name on both of them, Deputy. and Canada. Joe Neary, a salesman for ' ,.City Manager Gary McKamie Watauga has water depart- Blastco, a Wentzville, Mo., com- said. ment offices in the bottom of a pany that paints and refurbishes "We use it as a point of identi- tower, just east of Denton High- towers, pays attention to towers . ication for the northeast side of way,she said. as he travels the state.Blastco is ' town,"he said. "It's just another Haltom.City has a fire station repainting images of two can way of identifying your city." in its tower at Haltom Road and nons on a tower in Gonzales to McKinney- recently shelled Northeast Loop 820. commemorate the town's place , ' out about $48,000 to paint new The love affair with the-water in Texas'fight for independence city logos on its four elevated tower goes beyond Texas: from Mexico. tanks, said Harlyn Farrell, Mc- A tower built in 1905 in Ray- On Oct. 2, 1835, Texans re- Kinney's water and wastewater mond, Miss.,. has been recog- pelled a Mexican force sent to superintendent. nized as a Mississippi state land- disarm them,igniting hostilities Typically,towers cost about$1 mark. About 25 water towers °per gallon of capacity to build, ranging in design from stark steel aat Teeter,(817)390-7757 4nd the last one McKinney built structures to ornate, stone tow- breeter@star-retegram.com ul 1 i 4 >F .z STAR-TELEGRAM/LAURIE L WARD ' The gallons of paint that Filimon Olvera mixes were trans- ported from the interior of the Euless water tower high up to where workers needed it. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD /COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBRARYADMf IN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED l 3 DATE OFARTICLE / C)(�f NEWSPAPER FWST Expect it to, get wol/,2,se , before , it Airport 1 1 eeway By GORDON DICKSON night,and usually less than three miles at STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER a time,„Texas Department of Transpor- Airport Freeway's overused pave- tation spokesman Michael Peters said. drivers are in for ment won't look like a giant piece of "Their intent is to limit the work area for Swiss cheese much longer. less inconvenience to the public.” a bumpy, noisy The busiest and perhaps roughest The work will be done in four phases, road in Tarrant County—it carries up to beginning with a three-mile stretch from �{ j 200,000 vehicles per day-will be resur- east of downtown Fort Worth to Carson 1 next five months faced during the next four to five months, Street in Haltom City, then moving • beginning next week. northeastward through Richland Hills, for road repairs Workers may be in the area as early as North Richland Hills,Hurst,Bedford and 1 this week, putting up temporary barri- Euless. cades and work zone signs. Why will it take so long? Motorists can expect loose gravel,un- The machinery involved in the pro- even lanes and tire noise along the 20- ject simply moves at a crawl,say contrac- 20-mile stretch mile stretch of freeway, which includes tors who commonly use the equipment. Map of where the construction will 'parts of Texas 121 and Texas 183,extend- The top 3 inches of the road surface take place,8113 ing as far east as Texas 360 in Euless. will be chewed up by a rotomilling ma- But there is good news: chine, a giant apparatus with an insatia- "The lane closures will only be at Chewing up a road Rotomilling is a simple process,but can take A rotomiller has a spinning, Once the asphalt is After the foundation is repaired,a months to complete.The work takes place corkscrew-shaped blade with removed,workers can new,3-inch layer of fresh asphalt is at night while freeway lanes are temporarily metal teeth that chews up the seal cracks and,if poured.The process takes just a few closed,and motorists can continue to drive road.The crumbled asphalt is necessary,cut out days.A properly repaired road on the lanes during the day. deposited in a dump truck,and entire damaged should be pothole-free for eight can be recycled. sections and pour years or more. " ffi s V new concrete. 0 � o 0 0 0 0 0 I 00 00 p. n a o 0 0 0 SOURCE:Texas Department of Transportation STAR-TELEGRAM/TIM BEDISON rw Derr DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 1;� OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT 'YOUNG McDONALD I COLLINS WILHITE GETCHELL LIBR4-11101C ARYADMII N /LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DA TE DISTRIBUTED ` 7 /��l DATEOFARTICLE -/ 110 ( C `F NEWSPAPER FWST Colley elle R N111111111i ., in 1985 and touched 'in 1997. 26 D/FW 1z1 Airport ezo 121 1e3 Euless 35W 10 I 151 360 I x fort30 w.aueb.'..,.:. ' North ? r ingto � 281 a STAWTELEGRAM/TIM BEDISON fteeway: Repairs will start in, downtown area ' —and the road will look good ble appetite for pavement.. as new. That machine's corkscrew- The$6.8 million project is like teeth can only gobble under the direction of Dallas- about one to two miles of a based contractor Austin single freeway lane during a Bridge and Road. 10-hour shift,contractors say. Any discomfort experi- A rotomilling machine can enced by commuters will be remove enough old asphalt to worthwhile in the long run, fill 200 dump trucks each according to The Road Infor- night,they say. mation Program, which rep- The old asphalt can then be resents the highway industry recycled and used in future in Washington. hot mix. About 34 percent of U.S. Once the top layer of the roads are in poor or mediocre t road is removed,any cracks or condition,according to TRIP, other flaws in the subsurface and motorists spend an aver- concrete are exposed and re- age of $275 a year repairing paired. damaged vehicle parts. ' Finally, a fresh 3-inch top- Gordon Dickson,(817)6853816 ping of hot mix will be applied gdickson@star-telegram.com