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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-04-04 Euless Articles IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGEPiL - / COr . MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN ▪ YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS' C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR 111 ▪ DATE DISTRIBUTED /II/ d) DATE OF ARTICLE 3/02 9/08' NEWSPAPER FWST ' CHEERS AND JEERS Cheers:To the Tarrant County mayors ' who participated in our Mayors for Meals 2008 event:Robert Cluck of Arlington, Russ Braudis of Azle,Jerry Dittrich of Benbrook,David Kelly of Colleyville,Billy ' Davis of Crowley,Mary Lib Saleh of Euless, James Gosey of Forest Hill,Charles En- gland of Grand Prairie,Bill Lanford of HItom City,Pat McGrail of Keller,Bryan Lankhorst of Kennedale,Dorothy Alder- holt of Pantego,SandyTolbert of Pelican Bay and David Regan of Richland Hills: ' Cheers also to the city council members who participated:Roy Savage of Bedford, Joel Burns of Fort Worth,Bill McLendon of Hurst,Scott Turnage of North Richland ' Hills and Nancy Tice of Pantego. —Alejandra Morado, • Meals On Wheels Inc. of Tarrant County,Fort Worth • 1 • 1 cPAGEIS ED TO: OFj/ ./ _ OI�,,� CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY GRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR I DATE DISTRIBUTED 4// q/6 K DATE OF ARTICLE ( 3/ /0 e NEWSPAPER FWST REAL ESTATE I TRANSACTIONS . . - ,. I Arlington 114 texas Motor 1. Retail building purchase speedway Flower Southwest corner of West Alliance Mound .Lc< O Y Airport.. DENTON ea-Nr Pioneer Parkway and Park ARI,,N� C ,70; �? r.; /-:- Springs Boulevard - Nz Grapevine Texas Star Inc. bought the 177aito sw qv .4 7,200-square-foot mufti-tenant retail buildingfrom Southwest ze; o p'F' 377 �26� Ai port: (11* Securities. ei121 Broker: David Keal of Aubrey 199 :-_ , ,is3 Keal Commercial Real Estate It z- 10 0 represented Southwest Securi- FART ,z ® Irving 112 WORTH ties.Kurt Cherry with PM Real- tis. 30 ty Group represented the • 20 ()Grand _, Arlington _ Prairie buyer. Cherry will market and 287) 60; ,. - lease the building. X20 0 ,.. 408E .,,� v szo zol Bedford 77 20 2. Building sale "7) ,— b j 800 Brown Trail ..* Sentry Consolidated Fund purchased a 5,580-square-foot STAR-TELEGRAM building from Mid-Cities Real The building is completely The Woodmont Co. negotiated Estate. leased after renovations. the Ardor Apparel lease.Ro- Broker:Cody Payne of Sperry Brokers:Renee Efimoff and manda and Brady Barnett,also Van Ness/Dunn Commercial Gary Walker of SCM Real Es- of Woodmont,negotiated the represented the seller. Matt tate Services in Arlington rep- VIP Tan lease. Lewis of West Tierra Ltd. rep- resented the landlord, Bardin resented the buyer. Investors, 7.Shopping center lease 8221 Ederville Road Colleyville Fort Worth Little Angels Day Care has 3. Building purchase 5.Office lease leased the 10,000-square-foot 5220 Texas 121 710 W. Leuda St. day-care facility that has been Exchange Resources Inc. in Richard Artim has leased 5,085 vacant for several years in the Plano has bought the 7,400- square feet for his medical Eastchase Market.The child- square-foot former Railhead practice in the newly complet- care center is scheduled to Barbecue restaurant location. ed medical building at the open in April. The deal included 1.94 acres. corner of Travis Avenue and Brokers: Kornel Romanda and Brokers:J Searcy and Franco Leuda Street. It will be used a Brady Barnet of The Wood- Calderon of Coldwell Banker cancer treatment center. mont Co.negotiated the lease. Commercial Searcy Vasseur Brokers: Bill,Jordan of Moss Group represented the seller, Jordan&Associates repre- Grand Prairie Railhead Partners.Mitch Traub sented the landlord,TAK En- 8. Office lease of the Retail Connection repre- terprises. Huck Newberry 2080 N.Texas 360 sented the buyer. represented the tenant. Priority Power Management,an energy management and con- Euless 6. Retail lease suiting firm,leased 2,543 4.Office lease 2740 Western Center Blvd. square feet. 310 S.Industrial Blvd. Two new tenants have signed Broker: Kurt Cherry of PM Aerotech Holdings,a maker of on for space in the shopping Realty Group represented the airplane and helicopter parts, center and plan to open in May. landlord,Carrier 360 Office leased 3,467 square feet at the Ardor Apparel has leased 1,500 Associates. former Sante Rehabilitation square feet,and VIP Tan has building.The company will use leased 2,005 square feet. it for administrative offices. Brokers: Kornel Romanda of IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF / MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN I YOUNG McDONALD COLLIN/S' K C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED '7 I`Y� /( DATE OF ARTICLE -I, / / / D NEWSPAPER FWST ZEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL ities planning April e clanu evens . p By JESSAMY BROWN jessamybrown@star-telegram.com ies of volunteers will head to sites acrossramrrCleanup activities ant County with `trash bags, rakes and Arlington Information:www.euless.org or wheelbarrows to beautify their hometowns this Cleanup Day 817-685-1449 month. April 19 ISeveral communities are hosting litter pick- An event to encourage residents to clean up around their Haltom City p events Saturday as part of the annual Don't homes and take hard-to-get-rid-of items such as brush and Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off Mess with Texas Trash-Off sponsored by Keep appliances to drop-off sites. Saturday exas Beautiful. When:9 a.m.to 4 p.m. Volunteers will meet at two points Other municipalities,such as Arlington with Where:Sites are Arlington Sanitary Landfill,800 Mosier to pick up litter along Denton High High- s twice-a-year Cleanup Day, are holding Valley Road;Six Flags Hurricane Harbor,1800 E.Lamar Blvd.; way and at Buffalo Ridge Park.A events this month that let residents dump trash, and Sam Houston High School,2000 Sam Houston Drive. free picnic follows at the park. rush and old appliances for free. Details:Proof of residency,such as driver's license or water When:9-11:30 a.m. Austin-based Keep Texas Beautiful provides bill,is required.No children allowed at the sites. Where:Parking lot at Kroger Food ormation on more than 340 affiliate Texas Information:www.ci.arlington.tx.us or 817-459-6777 Store,Broadway Avenue and Den- communities on litter prevention,waste reduc- ton Highway;and Buffalo Ridge Ion and beautification. Colleyville Park pavilion,Parkview Drive off Keep Texas Beautiful has a list of community Spring Clean Sweep Fossil Vista at Beach Street. events on its Web site,www.ktb.org. April 26 Details:Keep Haltom City Beautiful Staff writer Noor Elashi contributed to this report. Volunteers will pick up trash and litter and take it in for hosts the event. disposal.Residents can take in many items not covered in Information:www.haltomcitytx- SSAMY BROWN,877-685-3876 , regular garbage pickup.The Green Festival includes speakers .com or 817-222-7767 on home energy efficiency and water conservation. I When:Trash pickup,8:30-11:30 a.m.;Crud Cruiser,9-11 North Richland Hills a.m.;lunch and Green Festival,11:30 a.m. Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off Where:Meet at McPherson Park,240 McDonwell School Saturday and April 12 Road.Drop off hazardous household waste and large items Volunteers will gather to pick up I at City Hall, 100 Main St.,southwest parking lot. litter Saturday.Next week,residents Details:Participants can win a wood chipper in a drawing at can drop off nonhazardous bulky noon. items. Information:www.colleyville.com or 817-488-7148 When:9 a.m.and noon I Euless Where:Cleanup volunteers meet at Neighborhood Services,7200-C Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off Dick Fisher Drive South.Bulky ' Saturday drop-off site:Tarrant County Col Volunteers will meet for breakfast before picking up trash at lege Northeast Campus,828 Har- several sites around the city.They'll reconvene for a free wood Road,parking lot E. pizza lunch afterward and get a Texas Trash-Off T-shirt. Details:Residents interested in I When:8:30 a.m.Lunch at 11:30 a.m. volunteering are encouraged to Where:Meet at Incredible Pizza,1201 Airport Freeway, pre-register by calling 817-427- Euless. 6651. Details:Trash bags,orange vest and plastic gloves will be Information:www.nrhtx.com or Iprovided. 817-427-6650 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF 3 MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD qCOLL,I`NS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARYADMI NLIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 1`7 /� DATE OF ARTICLE /3/03 NEWSPAPER DMN COVER STORY attention• attention , , ,,, , , , . . ., ,14.;,“*..11.14 ■ 9 ' • '.4-it.,-;72;4. 4. 'i'„ • i'tom r ,''',Ii ,�'�`r X''•'":1 Vbe,4;, :.,Ry < '` *° '�p 1- w+ � u t .t., e; ,. f e "zr. :',.. '-,0,-'•`�f jG yye , a, i ^ e g-,..,..1 ''.k3.p ,-)4 ;t�.,1 k � ,� I� �! ., .'-'t ""ks �1k ,,a�..�� xi3f. ''� j.t tF7'F r.*l s � �J ^F'N '."i yk";'' fl• M1 t 4� �� Sn���3� �5 Y ��?a weary a r z rr I �y ._ Ar. S+ 4 �'4 ��' �n1t�. 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' :�1.k '-" TM" S, 4-`gyp 3 kii �v' „4 sY i ; 0 " e 1. ry h R py 1 Randall is the son of Danette Thorpe, ^ , § _,, F , 1/4 = w Y ,,,,:. ., secretary in the City Manager's office. 1..,.., ,,,...t, ° _ Hitageo i .ETh©r °c� c t__ h p IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE cR OF 3 - MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN ' YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS l!��C BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR L DATE DISTRIBUTED "`� / l v8. DATE OF ARTICLE //3 /0 NEWSPAPER DMN I ByBOBBI ROQUEMORE Q School,class:Col leyville Heritage,Sr. Staff Writer Position:Center field broquemore®dallasnews.torn • P Did you know?Thorpe is the only black player on the „- . _, OLLEYVILLE — With each Heritage team,something he would like to see change in clink"of a baseball comingoff o the future.Therefore,Thorpe serves as a mentor for ' an aluminum bat, Colleyville #,,-4 � � black youths curious about baseball."He's worked with av e� Heritage senior center fielder couple of kids that have seen him and got an interest t Randall Thorpe II reacts in rapid said his mother,Danette."The numbers are dwindling as t f motion. far as African-American players,and I would hope that *mss Whether it's a shallow -Pop some kids would see Randall and see that if he's doing it, g ' threatening to drop for a single or a deep drive headed for the gaps, - they can do it.That's part of Randall's intention" , 1 Thorpe more often than not is able cause he has confidence to go back try Inside Prep Baseball named to track it down for an out. and get the ball. Thorpe the No.10 prospect in Tex- -`' ' "He does some things out there "He's better than me." as this year. Thorpe's father said that to him are easy and to most Randall Thorpe II developed representatives from 22 MLB people are hard,if not impossible," his knack for baseball under his fa- teams have been in contact. coach Alan McDougal said."There ther's tutelage,right from the'time Thorpe said he would consider I are plays that he makes that nor- he was old enough to hold a bat turning professional and bypass- ing people aren't even in the same and join a T ball league. ing Texas A&M if he is chosen in area code as those balls, and he Yet the son could have just as the first six rounds of baseball's gets to them." First-Year Player Draft in June. I Thorpe also is an offensive easily thrived playing basketball McDougal said it would take "a force with a.310 batting average, exclusively — a thought that life-changing number"financially 24 runs and 18 steals. crossed his mind more than once. for Thorpe to skip college. - Thorpe exhibits such a stun- But his love for baseball was too But,with Heritage in the mid- ' ninpresence that Major League much for him to•ignore,and mak- g in the vadrsi die of another successful cam- Baseball scouts are a regular sight sealed his arsieciion to stickwithpaign,Thorpe said those matters around Heritage, not just foro went on to become the dis- are far from his mind.His top pri- ' games but even for batting prac- orities,he said,are manufacturing tice. trict defensive player of the year. , runs, preventing opponents from Thorpe, a 6-1, 170 pound "Ever since then,it's all I think getting them and showing 4.pas- speedster who signed with Texas about and dream about—making sion for the game that inspires his IA&M in November,isn't letting all it big,"Thorpe said. teammates to excel. of the attention get to his head, His junior year brought even "If we go out there and play though.Reacting and racing to rob more success, including a .330 • hard," Thorpe said, "we can do a batter of a hit is all in a day's work batting average and perfection(20 whatever we want to do." I "I'm very focused on movement for 20)stealing bases. Just like he does in center field. when the ball is being pitched,and Since then, Thorpe has been I can just read how the ball is going touted among the best in the coun- off the player's bat,"Thorpe said."I Iread it really well,and I have good speed and take good steps." If the style, shrewdness and surname seem familiar, it's be- ' cause of his genes. His father,Randall Thorpe,is a former UT-Arlington center field- er(1978-81)who is in the school's' Iathletic Hall of Honor. He played in the Texas Rangers organization from 1981 to 1986. I The elder Thorpe said he is sur- prised that his son is already"on a pro level defensively." "He can get the best jump'on the ball out of anybody I've ever I seen," the father said. "He takes the perfect angles. He plays very shallow for a center fielder be- AI I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE 3 OF MAYOR CITY CNCL CITYATTNY CRIM MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) DECK BROWN YOUNG McDONALD c0 m c C. 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BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 4 /y / 0.62 DATE OF ARTICLE '/v/v V NEWSPAPER DMN DEVELOPMENT • D/FW plans bother Moncnef W mayor fears ers and revenue away from off- Airport chief executive Jeff 330,200 square feet of office Ort might compete airport businesses: Fegan reassured Mr.Moncrief space. al ' g p Mr.Moncrief said he backs and others that the project is The project,to start in early with cities'projects efforts to provide more places -targeted for airport people on- 2009 and be developed over By TERRY m_AXON to eat and shop at the airport, ly. three years,would go on 32 ' staff writer, tmaxon@dauasnews.corn particularly since there is little "We firmly believe that this acres south and west of the _in the airport terminals out- project is really designed to airport's rental-car center.A While Dallas/Fort Worth ' side security areas. serve the passengers as well as future expansion could add 20 International Airport is mak- . However,"it is not the re- the employees at D/FW Air- acres north of-the first phase. I ing plans for a splashy corn- sponsibility,nor do I feel ap- port,"he said."We have over The airport estimates that mercial development onits propriate, for this airport to 55,000 employees who work the project would add about southern end, Fort Worth compete with surrounding here every day and probably .$250 million to property tax I Mayor Mike Moncrief sound- cities for business, for hotels 175,000passengers who rolls,result in 2,700 new jobs ed a warning Thursday that or for revenues that our cities come through D/FW every and bring a$95 million pay- airport projects shouldn't need to continue to build re- day" roll. Under those estimates, compete with those in nearby s onsibl "he said. ' ibythegross' p y, As envisioned . air- Euless would about I Mayor Moncrief,speaking call for Southgate to didn't - port staff,Southgate Plaza will $750,000 in sales and proper- cities.yP g Mr. Moncrief,Sout towbe include a 400-room full-ser- ty taxes and Dallas and Fort to other members of the D/ shelved,said his concerns are vice hotel and business center, Worth would split $1:5 mil- FW Airport board, said the shared by Dallas Mayor Tom a 130-room limited-service lion, with other tax revenue planned Southgate Plaza pro- Leppert, who did not attend hotel, 69,250 square feet of for Tarrant County and school ject should not take custom- Thursday's meeting. stores and restaurants and districts.