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Join actress for mom talk
EULESS—Janine Turner,a Colleyville resident and star
of the television series Northern
Exposure,will appear at 7 p.m.
Tuesday on LIFE Today television
to promote her.new book and
' encourage single mothers. 7,.
The book i5 Holding Her Head prir
High: 12 Single Mothers Who 1
Championed Their Children and __
' Changed History. fY !
The studios are at 1801 W. i
Euless Blvd. For free tickets to be .r
' in the studios during Turner's
appearance,call 817-354-3655 or
e-mail audience@loi.org.
—Terry Lee Goodrich
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CHEERS AND JEERS
Cheers:To U.S. District Judge John
McBryde for upholding the Euless
ordinance against animal sacrifice.(See
March 11 news story"Euless'ban on
animal sacrifice is upheld.")The San-
teria church,in its exploitation of ani-
mal abuse to suit their sacrifices to
"deities,"wasn't a legitimate reason for
Euless to capitulate based on religious
grounds.
—David Payne,Fort Worth
Jeers:To the Santeria church for
practicing animal sacrifice and suing
Euless for infringing on religious free-
dom in hopes of perpetuating this
cruel,inhumane suffering for religious
purposes. (See March 10 news story
"Santeria priest's case will go to U.S.
court today.") It's anachronistic,archa-
ic and against city ordinance.
—George Ibarri,Fort Worth
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Man's death in a fire inspires
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"He was extremely to him- • Smoke detectors
About 20 percent of homes in the U.S.do • self," Ernest Dusek said: "He •About 20 percent of
I not have working smoke detectors: had some girlfriends, but homes in the U.S.do not
nothing serious ever devel'= have working smoke detec-
By MELISSA VARGAS mvargas@star-telegram.com oped.He was just pretty much tors.
EULESS — Frank Dusek, 62, was a retired a loner." •Smoke detectors double
I American balanced his Airlines
of cian whorecently Frank Dusek loved collect the chances •of escaping a
collecting by taking, collect-
ing guns,not to shoot,but just house fire and should be
up gardening. a:to have them,his brother said. tested and the batteries
When temperatures hovered above freez- :;;He said Frank Dusek collected replaced every six.months.
1 ing in late March, Dusek built a greenhouse many things, and his house •if you need help installing
behind his home to nurture his::almost was filled with items people or checking your smoke
._bloomingrosebushes,tomatoesandredpep had g rown away, but he' detector,call your local fire
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- thought He heated the space with wood fires. thou ht were still useful. department.
Dusek's family speculates that his heating A neighbor had recently
technique triggered the March 19 blaze that given him a broken clock,and: volunteers talked to Dusek's
killed him and destroyed his house.Fire offi he fixed •it,Ernest Dusek'said. neighbors, many of them el-
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cials have said they believe that the fire was It was easily heard chiming in derly,or left hangers on door-
but they are still investigating. the background during the knobs asking residents to con-
electrical,The only smoke detector in the home.was brothers'monthly phone call, tact the Fire Department if
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when they talked about poli- they needed help checking or
on a chair,without the batter-. tics for hours. installing smoke detectors.
e ies,fire officials said. Recently, Frank Dusek had Theed ed at,33 homes in
become interested p "I'd like to think that having y pp
sted in garden- Dusek's neighborhood and in-
1 a working smoke detector ing.He spent much of his time stalled 16 smoke detectors,
would have saved his life, but learning about plants and two each in eight homes,
n you never know," Euless fire planting and caring for them, Gilmore said.
investigator VernonGilmore his brother said. The green= "Sometimes, seniors don't
1 ;said."He certainly would have house was also lost in the fire, have the'ability or means to
Y had a better chance." "He was probably asleep. check smoke detectors, and
e On Friday,Euless fire inves- „
tigators joined members of the He slept in the living room, we have to do anything we can
I Ernest Dusek said."The house' to help them,"said Linda Mar
"citizens fire academy alumni was probably ablaze before he
woke up. It must have been tin, a city councilwoman and
organization to go door to volunteer. "I am a senior Citi
door in Dusek's neighbor- overwhelming." zen,and I know sometimes we
hood, distributing working tend to be lax.This is just a lit-
1 :smoke detectors. Prevention tie reminder."
A quiet man About 20 percent of homes in The group got such a good
the U.S. do not have working response that it is going to try
1 ;Dusek was born and raised in to canvass all Euless net
t Sayre, Okla., said his his younger• smoke detectors, Gilmore neighbor
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smoke
hoods,Gilmore said.
brother, Ernest Dusek. After On Friday, firefighters and A riew partnership with
four years as a technician in ' Meals on Wheels has also
I 'the Air Force,Frank Dusek got started to pay off.The organi
.a job working as a flight sum- zation is training its volun
►ulator technician for Ameri teers to do home safety in
can Airlines. He stayed at the spections for elderly clients,
I airline until he retired about and it will notify Euless Fire
three years ago, Ernest Dusek Department officials if alarms
said, are needed.
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make sure people have smoke ." a"
detectors,we are all over that," •
Gilmore said. It hurts me to .
see that an elderly person
doesn't have smoke detectors. • k
It just bothers me to know thatsmatilVx4ts
we have folks without them."
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MELISSA VARGAS,817-685-3888
Euless fire inspector Charles Anderson installs a smoke detector in a
Euless home Friday.Alumni of the Euless citizens fire academy and fire
inspectors went door-to-door installing smoke detectors. ..r+
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KELLER—The extent of Keller's public art pro- supersede needs such as public safety,roads and
gram could come down to whom voters elect to infrastructure.He is being challenged by public ...i
the City Council on May 10. arts supporter Jim Thompson.
Public art advocates say they are running for The issue is part of a regional debate over
each of the three seats up for election in part to whether tax dollars should help pay for public
bring change. They say the five-member coun- displays,of sculptures,paintings,fountains and ..
cil's support for public art has spiraled down- even art on city curbs.
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lace to Pays dividends ,
live,and that encourages interest from business- Keller is among communities,including Colley
es and developers,the advocates say. ville, Euless, Hurst, North Richland Hills and
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I Southlake that have supported public art, of But others, such as Bob Bashein of Fort
ten spending taxpayer dollars to do so.South- Worth,believe cities can go too far in using tax-
lake and Hurst set aside a portion of their hotel payer money to fund art projects. Bashein,
taxes to pay for artwork,while other cities use president of the executive committee for the
I some of their sales tax revenues. Ridglea Hills Neighborhood Association, said
In Keller,the Great Blue Heron sculpture in, taxpayer money is being spent to add tiles to
Town Hall started the city's public art program curbs in his neighborhood. The curb art on.
I in 2003.Keller has since accumulated at least Piedmont Road in his neighborhood cost
nine sculptures,which are on display through- about$4,000,with the funding coming from 2
out the community.Keller is also known for its percent of the city's 2004 Capital Improvement
2-year-old fall art show,Brushes to Bronze. Program bond fund, said an official with the
I "These are investments in our community Arts Council of Fort Worth &Tarrant County,
that we get dividends off of even sometimes in- which manages Fort Worth's public art pro-
directly" said John Baker, a public arts sup- gram. ,,
porter. He is running for the Place 2 council "Thisconcept is common across the court-
111 seat against Scott Zang,who opposes using tax try where cities set aside part of their construc-
dollars for public artwork; incumbent Mark tion budgets for public art,"said Martha Peters,
Harness,who says he's open to finding a way to council public arts director.
payforpublic art;and Kevin Jerome,who views Bashein said taxpayers' dollars could be
I the debate as a side issuer better spent.
"It showcases our values,"Baker said, "and "My gripe is that there are neighborhoods in
indirectly helps economic development." the city of Fort Worth that would just like to
I That opinion is shared by Tem Messing, have curbs,"he said."It's a total waste of mon-
chairwoman of the Apex Arts League,a non- eywhen we have miles and miles of streets that
profit group in Southlake that hopes to open a need repairs.This doesn't make sense."
regional art center in Northeast Tarrant Court
I ty. The nonprofit group sees visual and per- Keller art
forming arts as integral to communities. In Keller,Baker,a former chairman of the Keller
"You can go anywhere else in the country Public Arts Board, believes that the board's
that.are premier communities, and there is work has been undermined by Carson and the
I art,"Messing said."The arts are important be- current council. Money for.the projects was
cause they soften our world. It's important to generated by cellphone tower leases and the
educate our children.Art well-rounds a corn- .$25,000 that the city's trash contractor,Allied
munity." Waste,pays Keller for each year of its contract.
I In other Northeast Tarrant cities: , The Great Blue Heron sculpture cost,$65,000,
•Southlake's already-strong involvement Baker said. .
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has set aside money toplace
place blit c un- public art.Place 4 Councilman Jim Carsons opposes
dabounts and plans to place art in the'city's spending public dollars for art. S-T/KELLEY CHINN
new Department of Public Safety building. - .,
II Hurst dedicates a portion of its hotel-mo
tel tax fund to public art. Last year, the City • •`A;
Council combined revenue from the city's ho- �
tel-motel fund and from the half-cent commu- , 4 F
I nity services sales tax fund to buy the$68,405 'S . `�a . - f.Y ,, f 3 '
eagle sculpture that sits in front of City Hall. � �
•North Richland Hills'Arts in Public Spac- .
es Program has bought 14 pieces since it was , .. 1 , (
I established in 2002, North Richland Hills E t F ; ,
spokeswoman Mary Peters said.The artworks � �- �:. �I` � '<•„;...
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—which range from paintings to metal and p k . ' y g £
stone sculptures - are in parks and public . ; I "�'
I buildings throughout the city, Peters said. IE * $. -
They've been purchased through private and j %
corporate donations,revenues from cellphone �'; � :.!'.--'4
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cent sales tax for parks,she said."The program ; A r '` ,.
beautifies public areas,improves our quality of it ,,
life and creates a distinctive identity for our
I community,"Peters said. e.
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"We spent three years paying for this first Baker, Thompson and Place 3 candidate111
piece using the beginning balance we had in a Tom Cawthra say they are running in part to
Public Art Board special revenue fund,"Baker restore support for the public arts board and
said.Through the years,the board has also re- the arts in general.Thompson called the cell-
lied on cash donations and in-kind sponsor- phone tower money "windfall money, the
ships to keep the city's program robust. kind of revenue the city should use to fund its
But the council eliminated the board's sep- public art program.
arate account last year,deciding instead to pay People move to Keller for its quality of life,
for public art as needed through the city's gen- Thompson said. •
eral fund. Carson said he represents those in "Is public art part of that?"he said."I would
Keller who oppose using taxpayer dollars for think so. This City Council has been less s p-
public art.He believes public art should com- portive of public art than previous admin' tra-
pete with other funding needs of the city,such tions.For me it's not about one piece o ,one
as roads and public safety. park,it's about the big job of keeping quality of
"To me it's just sleazy to give them an open life in Keller high."
checkbook,"Carson said of the city's Public Art Place 3 incumbent Bob Kirk said the council
Board. "The Public Art Board should decide needs to give the public arts board clear direc-
what it wants to do and ask the council for the tion.The other Place 3 candidate, Bob Welch,
funding. Of course, I'm always going to vote did not return phone calls.
no." "I don't have a problem with there not being
Carson spearheaded an attempt in Febru- a special fund for public art,but there needs to
ary to block funding of a sculpture for the city's be a specific amount in the budget for public
Veterans Memorial park.But the council voted art,"Kirk said. "I think that's where I and Car-
4-1 with Carson dissenting to contribute son disagree because he believes the board
$55,000 toward the $80,000 eagle sculpture. needs to come and ask every time it needs
Several council members said that the city had funding."
already committed to the artwork. Online:www.cityofkeller.com
Carson said he believes that his position on
public art will help him win re-election. ADRIENNE NETTLES,817-685-3820
"I have had people calling me,thanking me
for fighting special agendas in Keller after that
vote,"he said.
Carson's viewpoint is shared by political
newcomer Zang. "Local government should
support the art endeavors to the point that they
can use the city as aforum for displaying public
art,"he said. "I don't support taxpayer dollars
going toward public art. We have fiscal ac-
countability and responsibility on the way tax-
payer money is spent."
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®Blooms of Enlightenment,a
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-' Where:Euless Public Library,
i k--: ' 201 N. Ector Drive
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-,0",4`.2,16,,,"'"p,.., �y t� .k, h Cost:$125,000' - �° ,'' How money was raised:
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Wil, "m � ��" sculpture of a police officer
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�a � �� 4 ,: £ Center, 1102 W. Euless Blvd.
II .„ ..,,,.„:„,$,,,,.....,...„.,..,u, �, t, Year installed: 1999
-,-,3,,,, ,„,,L` ' a • Cost:$22,000
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, .Sunday Skaters, a sculpture in Pinwheel,a series of three kinet- Temujin,a sculpture of an eagle ni Association
downtown Grapevine. is sculptures in North Richland outside of Hurst City Hall.
STAR-TELEG.,RAM/STEWART F.HOUSE Hill S. S-T/STEWART F.HOUSE STAR-TELEGRAM/STEWART F.HOUSE •
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sculpture of an eagle landing
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Year installed:2005
Cost:$33,300
jublicplace . How the money was raised:
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Star-Telegram Public art spending
,A look at public art in some .Grapevine
*Northeast Tarrant County About half the cities in greater Northeast Tarrant County do not fund ■Sidewalk Judge,bronze
' :cities: ",public art projects.The other communities use various methods to sculpture of an elderly man
pay for artwork,such as sales and hotel-motel taxes,and revenue from who observes people
`Bedford cellphone tower leases.Annual municipal public art budgets can range Where:Wallis Building Front
i The Need to Know,a greatly from year to year,depending on the artwork purchased:
Porch,301 S.Main St.
bronze statue of a boy read- City FY 2006-07 FY 2007-08 Year installed:1997
ing a book Southlake $120,000 $50,000 Cost:$70,000
Where: Bedford Public Hurst $86,405 $20,000 `How the money was raised:
Library,1805 L.Don Dodson Keller $86,000 $55,000
Drive Euless Grapevine Convention&Visi-
$61,500 $78,408 tors Bureau funds
Year installed: 1998 North Richland Hills $37,000 $149,196
Cost:$48,000 Colleyville $0 $60,000
How the money was GraIII Benjamin Richard Wall
Grapevine $360,000
raised:Coin drive and Statue,Bronze sculpture of
'f figure is cum ulative;G rapevi ne does not break o down by year.
donations Source:Cities Grapevine's fourth mayor
STAR-TELEGRAM Where:Main and Wall streets
I Colleyville Year installed:2004
-111No title,lifesize bronze Cost:$34,500
sculpture of a firefighter How the money was raised:
Where:Central Fire Station, Grapevine Convention&Visi-
5209 Colleyville Blvd. tors Bureau and cellphone
Year installed:2008 tower rental revenue
Cost:$38,500
How the money was raised: ■Sunday Skaters,bronze
City's public arts budget sculpture of children from the
1920s skating down the street
Where:College and Main
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Year installed:2006
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Cost:$40,500
How the money was raised: •I Luv NYC,mural depicting
Grapevine Convention&Visi- New York City street scenes
tors Bureau and cellphone Where:Ace Park,7751 N.
tower rental revenue Richland Blvd.
Year installed:2007
■The Nightwatchman,Bronze Cost:$20,000
sculpture of a man who patrols How the money was raised:
Grapevine streets from the Public arts budget through the
1900s-1950s city's half-cent sales tax for
Where:On top of City Hall, parks
200 S.Main St.
Year installed: 1997 Southlake
Cost:$20,000 ■Southlake Stampede,fi-
How the money was raised: berglass longhorns
Selling prints of original paint Where:City properties
ings in City Hall and 18-inch throughout Southlake and
bronze replicas of the statue local businesses
Year installed:2006
Hurst Cost:About$110,000 ..r
■Temujin,10-foot-tall bronze' How the money was raised:
sculpture of an eagle Sponsorships,statue purchas-
Where:Hurst City Hall,1505 es by sponsors and auctions.
Precinct Line Road $138,486 has been collected to .,
Year installed:2007 date;excess funds go into the
Cost:Artwork:$30,000;foun- city's public art fund
tain,landscape:$39,000 Sources:Cities of Bedford,Colleyville,Euless,
Grapevine,Hurst,North Richland Hills and mai
How the money was raised: Southlake
Hotel/motel funds,citywide
beautification funds and half-
cent sales tax fund rr
North Richland Hills
•Pinwheel,a series of three
kinetic metal pinwheels
Where:Clyde Zellers Park, �+
4801 Vance Road
Year installed:2003
Cost:$11,000
How the money was raised:
Public arts budget through the
city's half-cent sales tax for
parks
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•Family Train,metallic sculp-
ture of a family
Where:Dick Faram Park,8344 .d
Amundson Drive
Year installed:2003
Cost:$10,000
How the money was raised:
Public arts budget through the
city's half-cent sales tax for
parks
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''t 7 Euless firefighters and workers from a wrecker service help
clear sand after a truck overturned on North Industrial Bou-
levard in Euless on Monday. S-T/RJEENAJACOB
Accident injures 2,shuts down road
EULESS—Two men were injured and southbound In-
dustrial Boulevard was shut down Monday morning after
a wreck that dumped a truckload of sand near Trinity
High School. Both men were taken to hospitals,one by
helicopter,but neither appeared to have life-threatening
injuries,police spokesman Lt.John Williams said.Three
tractor-trailers loaded with sand were traveling in a sin-
gle-file caravan about 7:30 a.m.when the third truck
failed to slow quickly enough and glanced off the second
' truck,crashing into the lead one and spilling that truck's
load,Williams said.All of the southbound lanes and all
but one northbound lane were closed between Harwood
Road and Midway Drive during the cleanup,which lasted
' until about 12:30 p.m.
—Mark Agee
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By JESSICA DeLEON Tuesday of a federal court
jdeleon@star-telegram.com decision backing Euless' re-
EULESS — A Washington, fusal to.allow a Santeria
D.C.-based religious liberty priest to slaughter goats in
organization filed an appeal the city °
Background
In December 2006,Santeria priest Jose Merced sued the city in
federal court,saying Euless was violating his
religious freedom by not allowing him to
sacrifice animals as part of a religious cere-
4ys,, mony.
Last month,U.S.District Judge John
McBryde ruled against Merced,saying that he -
Y. did not need to use his house to practice his
Merced religion and that the city was protecting the
public's health with ordinances against animal
cruelty and the disposal of blood and carcasses.
The appeal
Officials with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said they
filed the appeal on behalf of Merced in the 5th U.S.Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Becket describes itself as a nonprofit,nonpartisan public-',
interest law firm that defends free expression of all religious
traditions.
Plaintiff's view
McBryde didn't give enough weight to the fact that the cere- �.
monies have not caused any health problems,Becket attorney
Lori Windham said.There had been no reports of anyone
being sick or other complaints,she said.,
"This public health problem is something that's still hypo ""
thetical,"Windham said.
Merced said he was pleased that Becket agreed to take his
He said his ceremonies have not harmed anybody.
"1 don't think a city can tell me what I can practice in my
house,"he said.
City officials declined to comment on pending litigation.
Online:www.becketfund.org
www.euless.org
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Cities have slight variations in their rules for activating siren systems
12:00 AM CDT on Friday,April 11,2008
' As powerful storms moved through North Texas early Thursday morning,Allen.McKinney,Frisco.Lancaster,
DeSoto,Fanners Branch,Cleburne,Hurst,Euless and Bedford activated emergency alert sirens.
But other cities,including some that suffered significant damage—like Plano.Coffeyville and Southlake—did not.
' So what are the criteria for activating the sirens?
' It varies slightly from city to city, but generally,emergency officials sound sirens because of at least one of two
factors:
' •A tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service for a city or neighboring city
• Tornadic conditions are observed by police or fire officials in the city.
Plano did not activate weather sirens because officials believed conditions didn't warrant it. said Assistant City
Manager Bruce Glasscock.
' The main purpose of the siren system,he added,is to warn people who are outside to take cover. Because the storm
took place so early in the morning,officials decided the sirens would have provided little warning.
In neighboring Allen,sirens were activated at 3:56 a.m.,said city spokeswoman Teresa Warren.
But Ms. Warren said that because sirens are an outdoor warning system,they are not designed to be heard inside d-
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residence that might be some distance from a siren location.
"Our Fire Department advises our residents to use weather radios with battery backup to check the status of weather
during a severe storm," she said.
The radio receivers or scanners are available online or at electronics stores. They can be programmed to alert
residents only of certain emergencies in specific counties,and they have battery backup.
Weather radios are often the best alert system because power can fail during a storm,leaving residents without
electrical and phone service.
' "I would take the opportunity to tell people it is time to have an all-hazard weather radio in their home." said
Raymond Rivas,emergency management specialist for the city of Dallas.'His radio woke him up when the National
Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Tarrant County around 3 a.m.
Staff writers Jim Getz,Ed Housewright, Theodore Kim, Elizabeth Langton,Jon Nielsen,Marice Richter, Stephanie
Sandoval and Jeffrey Weiss contributed to this report.
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•Polo Campero, the pop-
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Tarrant County location this
summer. Watch for it at Texas
121 and Glade Road.
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