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Map Area Sales Change Median price Change
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82 NE Arlington 23 +35% $172,000 -3%
83 Central west Arlington 30 +20% $119,900 -11%
84 Central east Arlington 12 -52% 555,010 -2%
85 Arlington, Pantego, 58 +23% $133,500 -12%
Dalworthington
Gardens
86 SE Arlington 29 +53% $87,200 +3%
87 Far SW Arlington 54 +38% $142,700 +16%
Tarrant County home sales for April
88 Far SE Arlington 113 +24% $120,000 0%
`��T°� Lake 89 Mansfield 110 +53% $176,000 +12%
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102 Saginaw,north FW 140 +?7% $126,200 0%
i € le r e 104 East Fort Worth 53 +13%
mountain sw 126 ....I --: 8 $83,840 +7%
Lake , r , 123 124 105 Southeast FW 20 +43% $23,950 +22%
l,4 ` ii 106 South Fort Worth, 26 +8% +18%
xs/ g,72 "s $72,000 e � f27 ,' ` 1 t� Everman,Forest Hill
I ort i 121w 107 Central west and 52 +11% $158,000 -12%
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3y �i.� ; 108 Central west FW 69 +35% $221,320 +12%
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j°1414::13':-:7 ,r -- _-_i.....,2_F 121 Euless 56 +60% $152,450 f.96
N "' 122 Hurst 41 +8% $144,000 +8%
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123 Colleyville 34 +55% $475,000 8%
124 Grapevine 44 +47% $240,000 -8%
125 Southlake 42 +91% $480,000 -2%
126 Keller 54 +2% $280,000 0%
127 North Richland Hills, 74 +28% $125,000 -3%
Richland Hills
128 Watauga 30 +30% $105,000 +21%
. 129 Haltom City,Riverside 23 +28% $51,250 -27%
130 Summerfields, 191 +52% $142,000 -5%
Park Glen
131 Roanoke 13 -19% $169,680 +1%
132 Trophy Club,Westlake 20 +54% $242,500 -41%
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FAITH & SPIRIT
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Half of the produce from �, Gardeners use 2-by-6-inch
the church's raised beds is F, ,..76,0.,..',-,4 s --,,,-5, lumber to frame 4-by-4-foot
donated to local charities. f squares that are gridded into
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By TERRY EVANS n 4 •'' 0 9, " 4 ,y suggests planting a different
tevans@star-telegram.com *iti0 ''''''''''',Avegetable in each section, but
EULESS — When Peter as- * i, that's up to the gardener.
sures Jesus in John 21:17 that ;=,-,: ::, , • x S The church devoted a cor-
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loves him, Jesus tells Peter y ,i`- ner of its five acres to the Gar-
to"feed my sheep." NV*,`"• . den of Eatin'.It gets full sun all
Members of United Memo- ` 1 ' day,so it's great for crops. —
rial Christian Church take that i,, Dillon said that some of the
scripture to heart with their ' a gardens are on stilts.
Garden of Eatin', a cluster of .' "We have three that are ele-
raised-bed gardens that will ••,r L vated so that they're wheel- —
provide fresh produce to those ,,; s , s�, ' chair accessible," she said.
in need. ,f --,:ii.:44 ,' e ,A4)„," Dillon said she works in her
Pastor Mary Lou Dillon said ? F y. A; �, z.; garden every day,and that one
that the name of the first com ,, y< � garden easily feeds a couple —
munitygarden in Euless is ob- _ _�° F47v � � • •• �. people all summer.
viouslytied to Genesis but that r - ' ' S ` "We've harvested radishes
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Christ's mandate to care for Sherry Ward harvests a tomato from her bed at the Garden of Eatin'. we planted three weeks ago,"
people is the driving force be- Gardeners donate half of their bounty to North East Emergency Dis- she said."I'm surprised at how —
hind the garden. tribution and 6 Stones Mission Network and keep the rest. quickly things are ready to
"There are many homeless harvest."
and hungry people in our How to help Dillon said the church _
area,"she said."We have avail- To request a garden at United Memorial Christian Church,call plans to expand the garden
able land and can grow vege- 817-571-0231 or go to unitedmemorial.org. because so many people have
tables." asked to join.
Half of everything pro- More on gardening "We've got at least an acre _
duced in the Garden of Eatin' Euless will host a Square Foot Gardening class from 9:30 to 11 or so that's good for this gar-
is donated to North East a.m.July 10 at Midway Recreation Center,300 W.Midway Drive. dening method," she said.
Emergency Distribution and 6 Cost is$20;register at www.eulesstx.gov or 817-685-1666. "People call and ask for one
Stones Mission Network, Dil- and if they're willing to do the —
lon said. Gardeners keep the tt We hope that did years ago." farming and take care of it we
rest of their bounty. Dillon, who grew up on a sign them up."
"We hope that when people when people see farm in Donna in South Texas, Then, they start feeding
see how easy it is to do thathfollowed a gardening method sheep. —
they'll have gardens every- OW easy it is to developed by Mel Bartholo-
where,"Dillon said. do that they'll mew, a civil engineer in
John Bobo, vice president have gardens
Utah.The church planted a —
of the distribution group,ech- g prototype garden in the fall,
oed the hope that gardeners everywhere" which produced a variety of
across Hurst, Euless and Bed- vegetables, including radish-
ford will follow United Memo- Pastor Mary Lou Dillon es,lettuce and tomatoes.That —
rial's lead. effort has been expanded to 16
"There's nutritional value ed food is canned. [Garden- individual beds.
in fresh vegetables that people ing] is a good use of land and "All are adopted by some
benefit from," he said. "Most also is going to benefit young church members and a lot of —
of the time at our facility and people,getting them back into community folk who heard
at 6 Stones,most of the donat- things that their grandparents what we're doing,"Dillon said.
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Linda Eilenfeldt waters the Garden of Eatin'on Wednesday at United Memorial Christian Church in Euless.
The garden with 16 4-by-4 foot beds is tended by members of the church and the community.The church
.,. plans to expand the garden because so many people have asked to join.
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SALES TAX RECEIPTS 4
Tarrant cities encouraged beginning of a recovery," but local budget officials weren't
as enthusiastic.
"We're
increase encouraged that the slump appears to be reced-
by in sales taxes ing,"said Horatio Porter, Fort Worth's budget officer. "The
challenge is that .. . we're behind on our overall collet-
However,officials say,a tions."
rebound must be prolonged Most cities rely on sales and property taxes for the bulk of
to truly help, their income. The economic downturn has cut into both
sources dramatically,forcing many of them to discuss lay- 1
By MIKE LEE offs and cuts in services.Meanwhile,expenses in some cit-
and SUSAN SCHROCK ies continue to increase.
mikelee@star-telegram.com, Fort Worth's sales tax collections rose only slightly in
sschrock@star-telegram.com March—0.15 percent—and the city has lost 2.7 percent in
It will take a few more months the first three months of the year compared with the first
before most local cities are three months of 2009.
ready to declare that the econ- Porter said he doesn't expect sales taxes to recover until
omy has turned around. the unemployment rate improves. Statewide unemploy-
Sales tax figures released ment is 8.2 percent;Tarrant County's is 8.3 percent.
Wednesday show that retail In Arlington,sales taxes collected in March surged 11.5 '
sales are increasing in Texas percent compared. with March 2009. The $8.6 million
for the first time in 14 months. check,which includes sales tax collections that some busi-
In Tarrant County,30 of 34 cit- nesses pay every three months instead of monthly,was the
ies saw an increase in their biggest "quarterly" payment — excluding the December
April sales tax payments from checks that are always higher because of holiday shopping
—that the city has seen in five years,Budget Manager Mike
® Online exclusive Finley said.
Search our database However,last March's check was the lowest the city had —
online to see how your city or seen since 2006,Finley said.
town fared at star-telegram.com "You are comparing the best check to the worst check.
Things were just much more dismal last March compared
the state. to this March,"Finley said. As people get more confident, _
But even with the increases, they are spending more."
most of those cities still col- Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said he was astonished by
lected less in the first three the double-digit increase.
months of 2010 thanurin
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g I wasn't prepared for that much of a jump,"Cluck said. —
the sameeriod in 2009.
P "In the face of decreased [property values], this really is a
The April numbers cover nice thing."
sales taxes collected in March The March sales tax check puts Arlington$121,000 high-
and offer a glimpse of how the er in collections than it had projected at this point in the
economy performed during year, but city officials aren't ready to start earmarking the
the first three months of 2010. money for new expenditures.
State Comptroller Susan - "If this trend continues for a couple months,we'll be able
Combs said they"may be the to raise our sales tax projects.It will mean we will be able to
continue to provide services or provide additional servic-
es,"Finley said."We are not quite ready to raise our estimate
yet because we want to see more activity." —
Other cities similarly had gains for one month,but not
enough to offset the losses in previous months.North Rich-
land Hills and Euless gained a little more than 11 percent
compared with last March,but Euless'year-to-date collet- —
tions were still down 6.4 percent.North Richland Hills'year-
to-date receipts were 1.17 percent higher than the sameP e-
riod in 2009.
"One good month is not a trend," said Mark Mills, the ',
North Richland Hills budget director. 1
MIKE LEE,817-390-7539
SUSAN SCHROCK,817-390-7639