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Home My WebLink About2006-08-18 Euless Articles DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE * MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT �OUNG McDONALD QCOLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRA�R7YADMIN LIBRARYREF ANI /L CNTR DA TE DISTRIB UTED O l DATE OF ARTICLE b l /� NEWSPAP l Cu.r� 1 Interstate All Battery tests new store concept in Euless ' Dallas Business Journal- 1:15 PM CDT Monday Interstate All Battery is testing a high-tech store concept in Euless,one of only three cities where the concept is being tested. ' Aside from the Euless store, at 1301 W.Glade Road,Interstate All Batten-, a division of Dallas- based Interstate Batteries,is testing the"I World"stores concept at stores in Des Moines, Iowa, and Puerto Rico. ' The stores are designed to rival the look of high-end retail stores.They feature wood floors, plasma monitors and a"Find It"kiosk,which helps customers find solutions to their automotive batten- needs. ' Interstate All Batten-has 61 stores in 26 states,Canada and Puerto Rico. ' Web site:interstateallbattery.com DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE l OF I MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD QCOLLINS/ BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED U � ) I DATE OFARTICLE �'Zy NEWSPAPERFO—),J61-1c---� Dewhurst speaks 4 ,. July 13' Lt.Gov. David Dewhurst was the guest speaker at an HEB Chamber of Commerce luncheon.The event was held at the First United Methodist Church of 3e. Hurst. ° PHOTOS BY JON P.UZIEE David Medina,Mary Frazior and Steven Bell Mary lib Soleh,Rep.Todd Smith and Karin Newell h � 2 Tom Hingst,Rebecca Barksdale and John Fletcher DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT �OUNG McDONALD QCOLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY/ADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 0 / C DATEOFARTICLE ( S l NEWSPAPER DMN ARI LAS' i COL N 1.l ' 3 more cases reported as W.Nile virus spreads Tarrant County Public Health ' officials said Monday that the county has confirmed three more cases of West Nile virus,bringing the county's total for the year to 11, t including two deaths. The new cases are in Arlington,Euless and Fort Worth. Two weeks ago, the ' health department said that two elderly people — in Fort Worth and Hurst — had died this sum- mer from West Nile or its compli- cations. From staff reports t 1 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF r MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT ' YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYA/DMIN/ LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED I '`� C7 DATE OF ARTICLE l ( NEWSPAPER FWST Euless City Council work session, 4 p.m., regular meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall, 201 N. Ector Drive. The coun- cil will schedule public hearings , on the city's ad valorem tax rate, proposed to drop from 49.1777 cents.per $100 to 48.95. Propos- ' als are for the hearings to be Aug. 24 and.Aug. 29 and the rate to be adopted Sept.12. ' ONLINE: wwwci.eWess.tx.us- DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE _�OF l MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCF-AMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT j IYOUNG McDONALD COLL�IQNS/ BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYAD/MIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED g r+ l U� DATE OF ARTICLE r b NEWSPAPER DMN ' COMMUNITY ' CALENDAR BICYCLE RODEO:The city of Euless, will have its third annual Bicycle � Rodeo from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m.SatuFday, at°The Parks at Texas Star,1501 S, Pipeline Road.The Euless Police Department will have a safety course for children to ride along with an officer to learn about road safety.Th`2{�- ' free event also will include a one-mile Treasure Ride,inspections on the air, brakes and chain on bikes by Mad Duck Adventure Sports,bounce ' houses,face painters and free refreshments.For information,call 817-685-1666 or visit www euless.org._ 1 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATEDISTRIBUTED YI b 1/�`�� DATE OF ARTICLE l g NEWSPAPER FWST EULESS Wo years after its pastor resigned,, First Baptist Church welcomes new minister Answered I)rayers, 4!7 9 �•4 #ca` x t*' fix'. - ::4 4 k 1 i ,eco 57-7 , : MiM.L cRnr "People are comfortable with my deafness,because I joke about it,"says the Rev.John Meador. . ..r 11STRIBUTED TO: PAGE /t- OF� MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT �OUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYArDMIN L6:, IBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED l ' U7" DATE OF ARTICLE l! I U " NEWSPAPER FWST ' By TERRY LEE GOODRICH I STAR TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER ULESS — There was a man sent "People are comfortable This week, as John Meador from God, whose name was John. with my deafness, because I helps with unpacking, enroll joke about it,"he said."I make ing children in school and get- John 1:6 it very plain I'm-not embar- ting Texas license plates — That was John the Baptist' known for rassed.Most people as they hit and, yes, prepares Sunday's 50 begin losing some hearing, sermon — he is "what he fearing animal skins and spreading the so I tell them, `You're just preaches from the pulpit,"his word that Jesus was coming. catching up. I've got a head wife said."That's what he lives start."' at.home. He's a true family tBut in March, another John, the Rev. Meador, who has been man, as hands-on as he can hn Meador, began to take that Scrip- Preaching for 23 years, said be." that as a youth growing up in Besides serving as pastor of ture personally. He had repeatedly de- Purcell,Okla.,he tried to quell Woodland Park Baptist ined invitations to consider becoming the feeling that he was meant Church in Chattanooga,Tenn., to be a pastor. Meador also was a preacher at pastor of the 7,000-member First Baptist p � mep "My father is a Southern Emmanual Southern Baptist hurch of Euless.But as he contemplat- Baptist preacher, so I knew Church.in Edmond,Okla.,and what a pastor did," said Mea- at MacArthur Boulevard Bap- the verse during a weekend missions dor. "I knew it involved hear- tist Church in Irving. conference at the church he pastored in ing people and listening to More than a year ago,he and people.How can you counsel if, a handful of other preachers attanooga,Tenn.,he said, he decided you can't hear?" were taken from a list of 70 e persistent search committee from As a student at Oklahoma plus names suggested by less might be onto something=such Baptist University in Shawnee, church members and others, g g Okla., Meador tried majoring said Joe Bledsoe, search com- tGod's will., in physical education, then mittee, chairman. Committee psychology,then pre-med. members pored over resumes On Sunda Meador,who is 93 percent « Sunday, � P After my first biochemis- and listened to DVDs of doz- fof, will preach his first sermon as se- try class, I decided that's not ens of sermons before placing rpastor of the Euless church.He will what I wanted,"he said. Meador at the top of the list. He received a bachelor's de- Meador twice told the com- d a congregation whose former pas- gree in business administra- mittee he was not interested, Irl the Rev.Claude Thomas,resigned in tion—and read the Bible cov- and members continued to ___ er to cover while in college,he search. But Meador began to 2004.:' said. He did not find the right g reconsider the idea in March, I"God has shown me he can career fit until he obtained his when Bledsoe telephoned him rcome any disability," said Master of Divinity degree in Chattanooga. After exten- t e 6-foot-5-inch Meador, a from Southwestern Baptist sive meetings with the com- former college basketball play- Theological Seminary irk;Fort mittee and Euless church 1 Worth and began preaching. members, among them dea- Meador; 49, who recently He found another perfect cons,singles,senior adults and moved to Colleyville, became match in college,his wife,Kim. financial leaders, Meador Fd of at age 5 after a high fever "She was a cheerleader,and preached in Euless on July 9.At aged the nerves in his in- their van broke down during a a church meeting that evening, F, ears. He has no recollec- snowstorm as we were coming more than 85 percent of 1,500 tion of hearing. back from Texas Tech Univer- people voting supported Mea- �Despite the hearing loss, sity,"he said.The cheerleaders dor. . eador is an attentive"listen- climbed aboard the bus carryThe church had an interim say longtime acquaintanc- ing Meador and other players pastor for nearly two years. es and First Baptist Church of and she sat beside him. Thomas,the former pastor,re- &less congregants who have "Besides him being a great signed after a financial review Bard his sermons and spoken basketball player and hand- by a Fort Worth accounting with him.Meador wears hear- some and good-looking,he at- firm revealed questionable ac- aid s in both ears—elevat- tracted me because he was ve- counting practices.It conclud- sound to a murmur—and ry attentive and able to focus ed that no money was missing not know sign language, on someone besides himself," and that many of the church's instead relying on reading lips. Kim Meador said. The two financial practices were e speaks clearly,although he have six children,ages 10 to 24. sound, but it raised questions Ld consonants can some- about a credit card policy that es be tricky. allowed some senior staffers DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 3 OF -5 =` MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD �COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED ZS l I / DATEOFARTICLE 7 1 ( 2 ( V� NEWSPAPER FWST to spend without submitting itemized receipts, according to sources familiar with the re- view. 3 Meador's arrival is "some- thing positive, and we're looking forward, not back," Bledsoe said. Meador is an excellent preacher, said Ron Proctor of Grand Prairie, national direc- tor of LifeBuilders, an adult ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International. He has known Meador for 33 years and said he is"very accepting." "He's honest.He does what he says he will do.He preaches the Bible line by line, page by page, and lets it stand on its own merit,"Proctor said. Randy Whitley, a member of the Euless church for 23 years,said it is strong in evan- gelism and building member- ship, but he hopes that under Meador's leadership it will in- crease emphasis on helping Christians with everyday life and teaching them how to share their faith. In his July 9 sermon, Mea- dor said that in this day of ce lebrity pastors and mega- churches, what is needed in a pastor is less glitz and more mentoring. "People are looking for get- rich-quick spiritual schemes," he said."But I've walked with the Lord a long time,and I ha- ven't found any shortcuts.It's a process and a relationship." He says that his hearing loss can be a bridge to others. "I'm not a casual listener," he said."I have to watch you to know what you are saying—so you always have my full atten- tion." This report includes material from Star-Telegram archives. Terry Lee Goodrich,817-685-3812 tgoodrich@star-telegram.com