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Home My WebLink About2006-10-06 Euless Articles F/I�LE FISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE O CAPY •MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT tOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED /D/ '�' /O DATE OF ARTICLE&Lm M' ��'�' NEWSPAPER G(, ' fneh SCHOOL of URBAN and UBLIC AFFAIRS BUPA the newsletter for friends of the uta school of urban and public affairs .._ _...Summer 2006 Mayors meet at UTA SUPA co-sponsored a high-profile meeting of Texas mayors and key ' administrators in late June to discuss municipal efforts to reduce emission of greenhouse gases and improve air ' quality. Participants in the meeting,which was held at UTA and co-sponsored by Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck,in- cluded the mayors of Carrolton,Dallas, Eur less,Mansfield,Lancaster,Plano, Weatherford,and Wichita Falls.Also ' attending were representatives of Den- ton,El Paso,Fort Worth,Grand Prairie, North Richland Hills,and Richardson ' as well as a number of UTA programs. Presentations were made by Cath- erine Thomasson,president-elect of Physicians for Social Responsibility, ' Michelle Wyman,U.S. director of Local Governments for Sustainability, Richard Greene,regional administrator ' of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency,and Tom Smith,Texas director of Public Citizen. ' UTA President James Spaniolo kicked off the meeting,which followed a pre- liminary gathering at SUPA in Decem- ber 2005. SUPA planning for the event was coordinated by Sherm Wyman and Jeff Howard,with assistance from grad students Kent Hurst and Sara Hudson. f 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 1 OF MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT • YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMALCAT DATE DISTRIBUTED `~ DATE OF ARTICLE NEWSPAPEr PlainsCapital Family Business Awards ��2 `� _ Grubbs Infiniti -- Category: Family Values Family Business z._ Top Exec: George Grubbs III and Eric 10 WE Z Grubbs, dealership owners Address: 1661 W. Airport Freeway Euless, TX 76040 cD Phone: 817-318-1200 l' Family Values Finalist tJ— 4 x�, � , �; '�YQ�/t•(p#'$� �d' kY;.. " 4e II h4i 4. k �a Q eorge Grubbs III, a fourth-generation car dealer— ship ealer-. 4 . shfamily. owner, values his employees just as he values � y ! "Since it is a family business, we're able to treat theCL yt i employees like family," said Grubbs. "The car business is traditionally a hard business with long hours.We're able to o 9 ,;�' r recognize that time off with family is important." In 1948, Grubb's great-grandfather, Hubert Grubbs, C) started selling cars in front of a grocery-store he owned in Q • Dallas. He soon found he could make more money selling cars than groceries, so he opened a used-car lot before get- ting a Dodge dealership in Garland in the early 1950s. Hubert's son, George Sr. and his grandsons, George Jr. and r Eric,also ended up in the business. George Grubbs III, current owner of Grubbs Infiniti in Euless,became involved with the company as a porter at the 1 age of 15.After college,he came on full time as a parts man- ager, and moved through the ranks to service, finance and sales management positions. Eric still owns and operates Grubbs Nissan in Bedford, but George Sr. and George Jr. are retired. `- The company is involved with several community organizations, including Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army. "We just want to make the place we live and work a good place," Grubbs III said. "It's important to take care of those who can't take care of themselves." —Sarah McClellan-Brandt 11STRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF l 'MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT IOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYA/D`MIN /LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED �L'l � DATE OFARTICLE �U/"y /y t` NEWSPAPER FWST ' EULESS I FESTIVAL _ 1 Arbor Daze back, only smaller . _ ' By DAVE FERMAN year,it will be Saturday and Sunday.The STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER emphasis will again be on conservation EULESS — Arbor Daze fans, listen "I am very excited," said Mayor Pro V u ' up:Your festival is back—in 2007 Tem Linda Martin. "A lot of our older A scaled-down version will return in residents avoided it — it just got too R. April,with more emphasis on the com- big." 4 munity and none of the name musical Arbor Daze had featured acts such as ' acts that swelled attendance to more the Dixie Chicks and the Beach Boys , } than 250,000 in recent years,City Man- The festival was nearly rained out in ager Joe Hennig said. The budget will 2004,costing the city about$250,000.It 1 drop from about $1 million to about returned in 2005 but was canceled in ' $50,000,he said. 2006 because of rising costs and the fi- "We're going to focus on family and nancial risks. ' our children in Euless and the H-E-B In Bedford, officials have canceled area,"said Hennig,who predicted"a few the Labor Day blues and music festival thousand" attendees each year from for the second year in a row.The city has STAR TELEGRAM ARCHIVES/M.L.GRAY now on. faced recent budget troubles, and the 2005 was the last year for Euless'Arbor The festival,which began in 1988,had festival saw a decline in money and at- Daze because of rising costs and finan run from Friday through Sunday. Next tendance. cial risks. DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF l MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED DATEOFARTICLE / NEWSPAPER DMN COMMUNITY CALENDAR, r GARAGE SALE--Eu less will have its community garage sale'from 8 a.m.to` noon Oct.14at Midway.Recriation, centsr,300 W:Midway[rive.$ooths cost$10 call 817-685,1666. TEXAS JUNIOR ANGLERS DAY:Kids can fish-from 9 a.mn.to noon Oct 14 in the pond at Wilshire Park,315 Sierra Drive in Euless.The event is free. . Equipment will be available.Prizes will be awarded.call 817.-685-,1666. FISTRIBUTED TO: PAGEILOF 'MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT UNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR to DATEDISTRIBUTED ` 0/4'/o�' DATE OFARTICLE ��/�/� NEWSPAPER FWST NE M NORTHEAST CLICK t Roy Savage and Allan Weegar Joe Hennig,Joe Atwood and Mark Schluter q5 j � � A Y r ^' Y Mary Lib Saleh and Charles Swearengen Betsy Boyett and Linda Martin' Breakfast features city managers The city managers of Hurst,Euless and LBedford spoke at the"State of the Cities"breakfast,held at the Brookside Convention Center in Hurst. ' SPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM/D.J.PETERS DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / ``` MAYOR CITYCOUNCIL CITYATTORNEY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED / /aw DATE OF ARTICLE / w `�' NEWSPAPER FWST Clara Latta ARLINGTON=Clara Latta,96,a homemaker, died Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006,at an Arlington retirement center. Funeral:2 p.m.Saturday at Harvey Baptist Church.Burial:West End Cem- etery in Stephenville.Visitation:6 to 8 p.m.Friday at Lacy Funeral Home. ' Clara Latta Was the Memorials: Masonic Retirement Center,Arlington. grandmother Of Euless Survivors:Son,Pat Latta;daugh- employee, Ann i e c e terry,�eggyVandiver,Dixie Godfreyand MCKanna. Dorothy Jones;nine grandchildren;and eight great-grandchildren: Lacy Funeral Home Stephenville,254-968-2102 3 3 3 3 3 3