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"When guys would run into battle with
bayonets fixed, Stubby would run right next
to them. He would go into no-man’s land
where guys would get wounded, find them, bark until the medics came and then stay
with them. There are so many guys that
stayed alive because of one dog.”
Thomas DoyleDFW Humane Society
Rescue Volunteer
By Sara CoelloStraight Line Discs and
the Irving Parks and Rec-reation department joined forces to host the 18th an-nual Fritz Open Disc Golf Tournament in Fritz Park Sept. 16-17.
The city invested $5,000 to add new baskets and generally revive the course, which now boasts 18 bas-kets. Fritz Park’s course is now the oldest Disc Golf course in the DFW area that
By Sara CoelloThe city of Irving present-
ed its annual Main Street Event on Sept. 15-16, bring-ing Irving businesses and families together to cele-brate all downtown has to offer.
The Irving Public Library used the event to kick off its annual Community Read initiative by issuing library cards and putting on a chil-dren’s puppet show.
“For weeks after, we’ll have people come in and say they saw us at the fest,” said Caila Morgan, who man-aged the booth. “It’s always good to remind people we’re here.”
CBS 11 Main Stage pre-sented a series of musicians, including Vibe: The Band, Inspiration Band, and AJ Vallejo’s Perfect Nation: Performing Prince’s Great-est Hits on Friday. On Sat-
By Rachel Hawkins Fun Academy Motion Pic-
tures introduced “Sgt. Stub-by: An American Hero,” its animated movie based on the events of Sgt. Stubby, Robert Conroy, and World War I, at the DFW H u m a n e Society on T h u r s d a y Sept. 14 as a part of North Tex-as Day of Giving. The movie is ex-pected to be released in theaters on April 13, 2018.
B e f o r e S e r g e a n t Stubby be-came a fa-mous Amer-ican war hero, he was a starving stray dog wandering the streets of New Haven, Connecticut. In July of 1917, he ran into Private First
By Ariel GrahamKnitting and crocheting
fans celebrated their craft during the STITCHES Tex-as 2017 expo held Thursday, Sept. 14, through Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Irving Con-vention Center.
This marked the third year STITCHES has come to Texas. The national show featured a huge specialty yarn marketplace with over 50 different vendors from across the nation. While there were a few booths for sewing, quilting and other fabric crafts, Libby But-ler-Gluck, marketing and public relations representa-tive for STITCHES, said the primary focus of the show is yarn, and not the yarn you find in a typical craft store.
“Our show really does fo-cus on fiber,” Butler-Gluck said. “The kind of yarn you find at a Michaels or JoAnn’s is typically acrylic yarn. But our yarn is really natural fibers, so you’ll see wool, angora, cashmere, and fine, natural fibers. It’s a totally different kind of yarn and a totally different
Main Street Event offers fun for everyoneurday, the Texas Sky Band, Vintage Vibes and Lara Lat-in performed.
The Family Fun Zone was one of the most robust areas of the fair. Children enjoyed presentations by Window to the Wild, Mikey the Mon-key, Snake Encounters, and Geppetto’s Marionette The-ater Silly Strings featuring Bug Crazy Celebrities, as well as a Build and Grow station sponsored by Lowe’s Home Improvement. An in-tersquad cheer competition was hosted by the Irving Girls Cheerleader Associ-ation. Face painting, bal-loons, inflatable rides, pony rides and a petting zoo kept children busy between the shows.
The Manifolds on Main Street Car Show, produced by MSP Car Shows, was one of the more popular spots for adults. The show boast-
ed 30 trophy classes and six Best of Shows.
Just around the corner, a craft marketplace let local businesses display wares from jewelry to woodwork and had booths from a va-riety of local outreach pro-grams. An adjacent juried art exhibit let shoppers mill around in the air condition-ing, enjoying pieces by local artists as well as live perfor-mances by Jim Eger Jazz Trio and Bnois King Trio.
Another popular contest was the Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Hot Sauce Fest, which of-fered awards for individ-uals and area restaurants for the categories of Best Hot Sauce, Best Mild Sauce and Best Non-Traditional Sauce.
For those who do not like
WINDOW TO THE WILD: Wild animals roam the streets of Irving through Window to the Wild, a presentation during Irving Main Street's Family Fun Zone. /Photo by Sara Coello
STITCHES Texas sews its way to Irving
kind of show.”In addition to the market,
STITCHES also featured a wide assortment of class-es for all interests and skill levels. Attendees could par-ticipate in a short demo, an hour-long session on the marketplace floor, or a three to six hour class taught by professionals.
“Some of our attendees are amazing knitters, cro-cheters and people who sew and craft,” Butler-Gluck said. “We have the best teachers from all across the country who come out to our shows and teach these fantastic classes. It’s really part of the STITCHES ex-perience to be able to come, learn something new, take a class from one of your fa-
vorite teachers, and then have the dinners and the fashion shows and the mar-ketplace.”
Erin Loosbrock is the general manager of Steven Be, a fiber warehouse based in Minneapolis, Missou-ri. She and her crew have come to STITCHES Texas all three years.
“We’re all about being inspired and being cre-ative, and that’s what we try to bring to STITCHES,” Loosbrock said. “We want to make people walk in, see our bags, and say ‘Hell yes!’ They’re excited to be here, they get inspired, and then they just want to create something. They can’t even
Fritz Park hosts annual disc golf tournament
has been in continuous use since its creation.
DeWayne Furr of Straight Line Discs was in-vited to sponsor the event, which was revived by Irving Parks and Recreation Board member James Stewart three years ago after a long hiatus.
Furr founded Straight Line Discs in 2000 after six years of playing disc golf and realized the disc golf community did not have
enough sponsors for tour-naments and events.
Ziggy King, the only player in the Legend division, first encountered disc golf when deployed with the Navy during the Vietnam War. He and his companions played a modified version on their ship. In 1984, when King joined a group that plays on Saturday mornings in Fitz Park, the setup was not
Sgt. Stubby promotes animal shelter adoptions
Class Robert Conroy of the 102nd Infantry Regiment as Army recruits were train-ing on the Yale University grounds.
Since the soldiers taught Stubby how to salute, he
was able to stay as the unit’s unof-ficial regi-ment mas-cot. When the men were being shipped off to France to join the war, Stubby was not al-lowed to go since mil-itary dogs were not being used during WWI for battle. Conroy did not want to leave Stub-by behind, so he snuck Stubby onto
the ship. When officials
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By Daisy SilosThe Texas Musicians Mu-
seum hosted the second Tejano Heritage Festival in Irving on Saturday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Sept. 17. The festival consisted of three major components, a fiesta, a Tejano Expo, and music.
Tejano Heritage Festival celebrates culture, music
“The idea is to have a family event that’s free and brings the ambiance of the fiesta with this event for our community,” event producer and coordinator Luis Sosa said. “We have an outdoor fiesta with merchants and sponsors. We also have the expo which is a perspective of the Mexican American Tejano ex-perience and how it re-lates to our lifestyle and our culture. Then we have a trib-ute to honor the musi-cians who are icons to Tejano mu-sic.”
The festi-val celebrat-ed the Teja-no culture, music and history as well as pay-ing tribute to an artist who has influenced the Tejano music genre.
“We really wanted to have an exposure for the Tejano music scene and help it re-build itself in a way,” direc-tor and founder of the Texas Musicians Museum Thomas Kreason said. “Selena [Quin-tanilla] was a big influence. She did more to popularize Tejano more than any oth-er Tejano artist. They said when we lost Selena, Teja-no music died, kind of like when Buddy Holly died, they said rock and roll died. Ob-viously it didn’t really die, it just wasn’t as strong as it was, and we’re trying to give it that strength back.”
The two day festival kicked off with an outdoor fiesta called, “Fiesta Diez y Seis.” Diez y Seis trans-lates to sixteen in Spanish, paying homage to Mexico’s Independence Day which is on Sept. 16 during National Hispanic Heritage Month.
The outdoor fiesta includ-ed musical performances from several artists such as children’s performer Mar-icela and Friends, The Tune-makers of Dallas, and Rich-ard Palomino.
“It was a pleasure for me to come out and perform here,” Palomino said. “I am truly honored and hope they
continue the celebration for years to come.”
On Sunday evening the festivities continued. The night was dedicated to pay-ing tribute to Tejano music band, The Latin Breed, cel-ebrating the band’s accom-plishments influencing Teja-no music.
“Tejano music is an im-portant part of our histo-ry,” Kreason said. “Only two genres of music were created here in Tex-as, Conjunto and Teja-no. So if it’s born here, we should be making a big deal about it. It’s also good to pass it on to the other generations and share this wonder-ful music.”
The band was honored with the Texas Musicians Museum Teja-no Music Legends Tribute award. Lats year’s award went to Sunny Ozuna.
“We like to do a tribute to our music icons for Tejano,” Sosa said. “I wanted to do a little bit more than just a fiesta, so we started paying tribute to our Tejano mu-sic legends in the museum. Sunny Ozuna was the first, and this year is The Latin Breed, who is a terrific group that had a lot of influences in Tejano music because of their orchestra sound they generated.”
The Latin Breed closed the festival with a live per-formance at the Texas Mu-sicians Museum. Sosa re-mains hopeful the festival will continue growing to recognize many more musi-cians and teach people about the Tejano heritage.
“This is our history and we want to let people know about it,” Sosa said. “We hope to continue our efforts here in Irving and let the fi-esta continue.”
"This is our history and we
want to let people know about it. We hope to continue our efforts here in Irving and let the fiesta continue.”
Luis SosaTejano Heritage Festival
Event Producer and Coordinator
TEJANO REVIVAL: Richard Palomino performs at the Fiesta Diez y Seis celebration during Irving's second annual Tejano Heritage Festival. /Photo by Daisy Silos
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much more sophisticated; they used stripes on trees as targets and often could not tell whether the disc had hit the goal.
Even with his low-tech start, King has been the winner of four consecutive Texas State Masters tourna-ments and scored a 118 at this weekend’s tournament.
“He played out of division since he started,” said fellow disc golfer Mike McKenzie. “And he still beat us all.”
Jim Dart had a similar start. The aerostructure de-signer, who has worked on other disc golf courses, be-gan playing something like disc golf on family vacations in the Tetons.
“We would go out tent camping. We took Frisbees and took turns picking tree trunks to hit,” Dart said. “We’d done that for three years and never heard of disc golf.”
Dart discovered the more formal version of the sport when playing in a park. A group of disc golfers lent him their discs, which are more balanced and generally eas-ier to use than Frisbees.
“I left the disc on top of the basket and finished with my Frisbee,” Dart said. Eventu-ally, he bought his own discs, and now plays regularly.
“You come out here for each other rather than the game itself,” McKenzie said. “The majority of us have been friends for 20 years.”
“You meet people from all walks of life,” Willy Casta-neda said. He began playing for his health, but now looks
forward to the comradery of Saturday mornings as much as the workout.
“It’s got every emotion that ball golf has,” Dart said, “only you don’t have to pay $50-60.”
Entry fees for the tourna-ment ranged from $20 to $60 and earned the players T-shirts. Amateur players also received Frisbee golf discs. Straight Line Discs added $500 to the pot, so the cash prizes ranged from $58 to $275.
In the professional tour-nament on the first day, King was the only player in the Legend division and took home $75 and a score of 118. Castaneda beat out five oth-er Senior Grandmasters with a score of 105, while Furr and Joe Sofinowski topped the seven participants in the Masters class with a tied score of 107. Of the seven competitors in the Open di-vision, Trent Hadaway won $265 for his score of 95, the best overall score of the tour-nament.
Sunday was reserved for amateur play. Joshua Reed won the advanced division with a score of 99, while Zachary Gates topped the Advanced Masters with 104 points. Larry Rosemond scored 102 and won the Advanced Grandmasters division, and Samuel Smith won the Intermediate divi-sion with 104 points. James Marrs’ 110 beat out the rest of the Recreational division, and Claire Porrata won the Recreational Women’s divi-sion with 133 points.
By Rachel HawkinsThe State of Hispanic
Business in North Texas (SHBNT) hosted its second annual convention at the Ir-ving Convention Center on Thursday, Sep. 7. Working collaboratively with other Hispanic organizations and industry leaders, the SHB-NT informs entrepreneurs and other stakeholders on current and cutting-edge trends that will potentially transform the way they do business.
The North Texas panel not only spoke about entrepre-neurship, but the economy’s future.
“As entrepreneurs and businesspeople, especial-ly the smaller and medium businesses, we tend to focus on the immediate problems
Hispanic business convention looks forward to future
such as what do my custom-ers need and what payroll do I have to meet on Friday,” said John Martinez, Presi-dent of the Regional Hispan-ic Contractors Association. “I think that by being here we help people with what’s going on currently, but we also give them resources and data of information that they can use to plan for their busi-nesses, while being aware of some of the things that are going to be hitting them in the future. As a small busi-ness sometimes that’s some-thing you really lack. There is no one inside your compa-ny who is looking at what the terrain will look like in the future.
“When these things hit, it’s difficult for them to pivot and deal with that, but if we
can give information to the entrepreneurs that are here, then there is a win.
“This conference is not just limited to Hispanics. It’s for the overall economy because we are all impacted by these problems. We want to makes sure that this [His-panic] population is aware that these important things are happening.
“We’re hoping that while we are presenting these mainstream issues, these mainstream speakers we have brought in today will equip entrepreneurs and the people who serve them with the tools and informa-tion that will help them bet-ter prepare themselves for the decisions they make on a daily planning basis,” he said.
Every Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Hispanic Contractors Association pro-vides research data to their members.
“I was looking forward to this convention because I am also a small business owner who is trying to grow,” said Mickie Esquivel, owner of Clean My Credit. “Coming here and listening to every-thing said today was a posi-tive and very interesting op-portunity for the growth of the city of Dallas.
“I saw so much poten-tial and so much hope for the city of Dallas. I’m look-ing forward to going to the breakout sessions. I’m go-ing to find out what Dallas is looking forward to and what they are doing for the future.”
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By Rachel HawkinsDavid S. Arbuckle, Vice
President of External Af-fairs for the Texas Central Railway, presented “Accel-erating the Texas Economy at High Speed” during the State of Hispanic Business in North Texas hosted at the Irving Convention Center on Thursday, Sept. 7.
The Texas Central Rail-way (TCR) hopes to build a state-of-the-art, 240 mile-long high speed rail line to decrease the standard trav-el time by car from three to
Texas Central Railway plans for bullet train
four hours to a total of 90 minutes by train. This would make the rail line the first bullet train in not only Texas but the United States.
TCR is a private company which plans to bring trans-formational projects to Tex-as to help advance the econ-omy.
The Texas Bullet Train would serve North Texas, the greater Brazos Valley, and the Greater Houston Metro areas. DART would work along-side the bullet train to accommodate peo-
ple to and from the station.The bullet train will be
built in Japan and later shipped to the U.S. to be as-sembled.
Around 50,000 Texans travel between the Metrop-lex and Houston more than once a week. According to a comprehensive ridership study conducted by L.E.K Consulting, 90 percent of the 16 million people located in Texas would save approx-imately one hour by riding the bullet train, compared to an airplane or driving.
Planners speculate the market-led infrastructure can be built without any federal grants, and it will pay taxes to all the munici-palities it crosses. The Texas Bullet Train will be designed to have full ADA access.
From this project, more than 10,000 jobs are project-ed to be created during each year of the construction. Once the train is fully opera-tional, more than 1,000 jobs are projected to be created.
“We plan to stop in Dal-las,” Arbuckle said. “Other people will build something beyond that, but Texas Cen-tral’s project is focusing on North Texas to Houston.
“We believe this is the right project, being done the right way, at the right time. The longer we take to do it, the more expensive it gets. The reason why we can al-most go into Downtown Dal-las is because of the Trinity and the lack of development. If we continue to build past Houston, it would cost $100 million per mile.”
The Dallas station is planned to be built within the area next to 610 Loop, between 290 and I-10.
“By law, we do not have to follow the state statuto-ry, minority participation guidelines, but by right,
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Teacher’s Pet AdoptionSeptember 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Irving Animal Services is holding a ‘Teacher’s Pet’ adoption at the Irving Animal Care Campus, 4140 Valley View Lane. Adoption fees will be waived for all dogs and cats 1 year and older. Animals being adopted will be: Up-to-date on vaccinations, including rabies if the animal is more than 4 months of age. Spayed or neutered. Given a general dewormer and flea prevention. Microchipped and registered with 24PetWatch.
Sundaes on SundaySeptember 24, 2pm-4pmJoin the Entertainment Series of Irving in the lobby of the Texas Musicians Museum, 222 East Irving Blvd., for a free ice cream sundae and to get the “scoop” on the concert series fall lineup. Music provided by pianist Scott Loehr. Door prizes will be awarded and admission is free. Museum tours will be offered at the discounted price of $5 per guest. For more information, visit www.entertainmentseries.com or call 972-252-3838.
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At its Sept. 11 meeting, the board of directors of Irving Flood Control District Sec-tion III (IFCD 3) passed a tax rate of $0.125 per $100 valuation for fiscal year 2017-18 for property owners it serves in the Valley Ranch area.
The board originally
Irving Flood Control District approves tax rate
proposed a rate of $0.128 per $100 valuation, but re-duced it to $0.125 per $100 valuation after additional review of the 2017-2018 budget. This rate, which is unchanged from the rate adopted in 2016, reflects efficient management of taxpayer funds, while still al-
lowing the District to main-tain current projects and operations that protect the homes and businesses of Valley Ranch from flooding.
The 2017-2018 IFCD 3 tax year covers the period of Oct. 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018.
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Musicians earn seats in local orchestra
Several Irving ISD musi-cians are the newest mem-bers of the Lone Star Youth Orchestra after excelling in auditions last week. As members, each will partic-ipate in four performances per season and will also play alongside both the Las Coli-nas Symphony and Garland
Symphony Orchestra in spe-cial performances during the year.
Congratulations to the fol-lowing:
Leslie Gurrola, 8th grade – Bass (Lamar orchestra)
Monica Limberg, 9th grade – Violin (MacArthur orchestra)
Xavier Reyes, 12th grade – Violin (Irving orchestra)
Andrew Rowlett, 11th grade – Violin (Nimitz or-chestra)
Belen Salgado, 11th grade – Principal Viola (Irving or-chestra)
Julian Torres, 12th grade – Tuba (Nimitz band).
SOURCE Irving ISD
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Public hearing is held to consider application for amendments to the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map and the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and the Official Zoning Map of the City of Irving, Texas for the properties described herein:
LOCATION, DATES & TIMES OF PUBLIC HEARINGS:City Council Chambers of City Hall, 825 West Irving Blvd., Irving, TexasCity Council: Thursday, October 12, 2017, 7 p.m. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT AND ZONING CASE ZC17-0058: Approximately 0.22 acres located at 2422 East Shady Grove Road. The applicant is proposing to amend the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map from Commercial Corridor to Residential Neighborhood uses, and requesting to rezone from R-6 (Single Family) District to S-P-2 (Generalized Site Plan) for R-6 (Single Family) uses to allow an existing oversized metal accessory structure.
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SGT. STUBBY Continued from Page 1
discovered Stubby, they learned the dog could salute and decided to allow the dog to remain with the soldiers.
“He was actually very helpful,” said Jacy Jenkins, director of outreach and partnerships of Fun Acad-emy Motion Pictures. “He uplifted morale, he got rats out of the trenches, he once caught a German spy and he saved a whole town from a surprise mustard gas attack because he warned them.”
Stubby participated in 19 battles and four offen-sives. After capturing the spy, Stubby was promoted to Sergeant. The women of Chateau-Thierry made Sgt. Stubby a chamois coat for his honorary medals.
To this day, Stubby was the only dog in military his-tory to be promoted to Ser-geant, surpassing even his owner’s ranking.
“Stubby was wounded twice,” said Thomas Doyle, DFW Humane Society rescue volunteer. “When guys would run into battle with bayonets fixed, Stub-by would run right next to them. He would go into no-man’s land where guys would get wounded, find them, bark until the med-ics came and then stay with them.
“There are so many guys that stayed alive because of one dog.”
After Stubby came back from the service, he became a service therapy dog.
“Our founder, Richard Lanni, made the most aired World War II documentary series,” Jenkins said. “When he went back to the drawing board to create a WWI doc-umentary series, he found this story of an amazing dog. He was so captivated by Stubby that he wanted
to make more than just a children’s book or a serious documentary where no one would see it.
“He wanted to make a movie that would reach a larger audience, while hav-ing full creative control. He decided animation does the best at the theaters. On one hand we’re going to be producing this CGI animat-ed, top-caliber, educational film. Our whole mission is to produce fun educational movies.
“Not many people know about WWI, but we be-lieve more people will learn about WWI through the eyes of this dog. Our launch pad is Stubby and we do plan to make a trilogy out of the story. The world is hun-gry for more story driven content,” she said.
Today, Stubby is pre-served in the Smithsonian in his military jacket.
“Sgt. Stubby: An Amer-ican Hero” will give away 10 percent of box office proceeds to animal rescues around the country.
“Conroy rescued a dog, and Stubby felt obligated to rescue him along with a bunch of other people be-cause they were keeping his human alive,” Doyle said.
“This is a story of an an-imal and human bond and it’s powerful. This is why I volunteer at the Humane Society. We see dogs like Stubby every day and we help make that animal/hu-man bond every day. It hap-pens because of volunteers and generous donors.”
“We wanted to keep the film a PG rating,” Jenkins said. “For example, one of the guys in the movie has a pipe without tobacco in it. We tried hard to really make it family friendly.”
“Richard wasn’t con-cerned about how we were going to demonstrate war in an animated film,” said Jane Sheehan, Public Rela-tions for Fun Academy Mo-tion Pictures. “He thinks we coddle children too much when they could actually be learning something. It’s not going to be like your average war movie, think of it as an adventure set in a war set-ting. Stubby’s story is liter-ally zero to hero.”
“If you look at Stubby, he really is the poster for shel-ter dogs,” Doyle said. “He is the quintessential shelter dog because he is a mutt, but he also has some bul-ly breed in him. Most dogs seen in the shelters are bully breed.
“Stubby was a half-starved dog running around in the streets and he literal-ly did run into a solider. He did end up out ranking his human. In the history of war dogs in this country, Stubby is still the most decorated war dog in American history compared to the purebred dogs they spend thousands of dollars to train.
“Rescue dogs come in all shapes and sizes,” Doyle said. “Finding them homes is one of the things we strive to do in rescues. We’re not selling dogs here, that’s the reason why we use the word adoption.
“Several local groups in this area are official rescue partners for this movie. This includes DFW Humane Society, Paws for Irving Animals, Two Bullies and a Blonde, and Trinity Gap Rescue. This is the start of a partnership that will contin-ue through the entire three sequels.”
The University of Texas at Arlington announces that the following students are scholarship recipients for the 2017-18 academic year. The students join the largest
Local students awarded scholarshipsand most academically ac-complished incoming fresh-man class in UTA’s history. UTA is a Carnegie Re-search-1 institution with a global enrollment in excess
of 58,000 and has academ-ic programs across all eight of its schools and colleges ranked among the best by U.S. News & World Report. As the third largest produc-er of college graduates in Texas, UTA is serving to-morrow’s workforce needs by bridging access and ex-cellence. In 2017, U.S. News ranked UTA as having the second lowest average stu-dent debt in the nation and the lowest in Texas.
Students from Coppell that won the Maverick Academic Scholarship: Pranav Bhandari, Jason Cabrejos, Andrew Lindberg, Austin Smith, and Alyssa Wilbert. Students from Irving that won the Maverick Academic Scholarship: Micah Abaya, Steve Abra-ham, Kalik Adekunle, Rikki Alvarado, Kelvin Amaya Al-varez, Swarangi Ambre, Os-car Blanco, Lopez Brandon, David Cardenas, Raymundo Castaneda, Anthony Dao, Sam Dennehy, Xayden El-
zey, Carlos Franco, Mary Garay, Diana Garcia, Sa-vannah Garcia, Guadalupe Garcia Ayon, Suyash Ghi-mire, Misbah Gilani, Lesley Gonzalez, Gabriel Grosu, Adriana Guerra, Juan Gue-vara, Alejandra Hernandez, Jocelyn Hernandez, Rocio Hernandez, Vianey Her-nandez Perez, Juan Her-nandez Ramirez, Brittany Hoskins, Sabrina Howard, Raul Jimenez, Aysia Jones, Shahriyar Khan, Jenny
Kim, Melissa Leal, Alexis Lopez, Sonia Lopez, Cynthia Mares, Alondra Martinez, Daniel Martinez, Jazmin Martinez Morones, Omer Mohamed, Brandon Mo-rales, Jackie Nguyen, Jenny Nguyen, Nina Nguyen, Adi-ba Noshin, Sergio Paniagua, Cassandra Pineda, Elmer Rivera-Molina, Tommy Rojo, Anthony Sanichanh, Kapil Shahi, Jai Sharma, Adil Siddque, Jacie Sober-anis, Eric Tamrakar, Ayush
Thapa, Christine Thomas, Jesus Torres, Jackie Tran, Janet Velazquez, Sakina Vohra, Giovanna Wijayan-to, Aurelia Witt, Faris Zu-haimi.
Students from Irving that won the Presidential Schol-arship:
Tatheer Ajani, Ryan Chang, Claire Dela-place, Truman Maxfield, West Meyers, Kim Tran, Franklin Ventura.
Dr. Pam Quinn, who has led distance learning and online higher education ef-forts at the Dallas County Community College Dis-trict (DCCCD )for more than 30 years, believes that the knowledge industry “is changing rapidly with in-novative approaches and
Education expert looks ahead in white paper
players.”“With online and digital
education as a key compo-nent, we will be seeing a va-riety of pathways for learn-ers to earn credentials,” in a new white paper issued recently by Blackboard Inc., Quinn wrote.
Blackboard Inc. is a lead-
ing education technolo-gy company for teaching, learning and student en-gagement, and its new white paper explores the future of higher education.
Based on in-depth in-terviews with Quinn and 12 other higher education thought leaders, the white paper titled “Future For-ward: The Next 20 Years of Higher Education” was released on Aug. 28 in con-junction with Blackboard’s 20th anniversary.
As the company compiled this new resource, Black-board asked higher educa-tion leaders in the U.S. to share their insights and dis-cuss what higher education institutions of the future will look like; how other industries will influence post-secondary education; how technology will enable change to occur in the way learning is delivered and assessed; and interviewees’ opinions about a variety of other topics.
Several key themes emerged from interviews with Quinn and her col-leagues, which were pub-lished in the white paper:
America’s current higher education system is unsus-tainable and ill-suited for a globally-connected world which is constantly chang-ing.
Colleges and universities must change their current business model so they can continue to thrive, boost revenue and drive enroll-ment.
New technologies will al-low faculty members to shift their focus to applied learn-ing rather than acquiring knowledge.
Data and the ability to transform that date into action will be the new life-blood of those institutions.
The people who work at any institution of higher education are its heart and soul. Adopting new technol-ogies is only a small piece of the puzzle; colleges and universities also must work with faculty and staff to in-stitutional culture.
One of Quinn’s comments
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Patricia Ann Whitson Logann, age 83 of Irving, passed away peacefully on August 11, 2017, with her family at her side. She was born on September 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in New Orleans, which was near and dear to her heart. She was the daughter of Estey Baxter and Martha Florence Adkins. Patricia was married to Charles Whitson and later to Lesley Logann, both of whom precede her in death.
Patricia was a graduate from TCU, with a double major in Engl ish and Religion. She was also an active member of the Arlington Christian Church. Patricia worked 20 years as an English teacher. She also worked 10 years for American Airlines. In her spare time, Patricia was an avid reader, traveled with her husband, loved to walk, solved many crossword puzzles, and watching birds. She also had a love for two cats. Patricia will be fondly cherished for her heart of gold, giving her family and her students a special love to enlighten their lives. Her greatest joy in life was her family and friends, all of whom will miss her dearly. She loved to say, “Happy Day!” as she faced every day optimistically.
Patricia is survived by her children Terry Meyer and husband Mike, Holly
Whitson and husband Eric Samler, Stacy Whitson, Bill Whitson and fiancée E r i c a S h e v l i n , D y a n Logann, Richard Logann and partner Errol Hanes, and Charlotte Logann; grandchildren Christopher Meyer and wife Rebeca, Cody Meyer and wife April, Desireé Samler, Danielle Samler, Zachary Whitson, and Elijah Whitson; great grandchildren Benjamin, Anabelle, and Mason Meyer. Patr icia was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, son-in-law Don Hughes, and half-brother Richard Wayne Cox.
A memorial service to celebrate Patricia’s life will be held at 2PM on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at Moore Bowen Funeral Home on Bowen Road in Arlington, Texas, with Pastor Jon Mark Fowler officiating. Condolences may be offered to the family by visiting www.moorebowenroad.com
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wait. They want to wind [the yarn] in their hotel room be-cause they’re so excited.”
Loosbrock keeps coming not just to inspire others, but to get some inspiration for herself as well.
“We get to meet new people and new custom-ers, and we get to expand the amount of people we touch,” Loosbrock said. “It’s always fun to see the new creative trends that are go-ing on and try to keep ahead of them. Our goal is to keep ahead of whatever’s going on and be the trendsetter. But we also find all sorts of new things and new discov-eries here.”
Bryon and Abby Owens are co-owners of Twisted Owl Fibers in Longview, Texas. They both agreed STITCHES provides a sense of community with their customers and fellow yarn enthusiasts.
“Knitting is a communi-ty, yarn and fiber is a com-munity, and we’re all small businesses together,” Abby said. “Whenever we band together like this, everybody wins. Of course, we’re going to all have a positive experi-ence just because there’s so many great people here.”
“We build a lot of re-lationships here,” Byron added. “Sure, it’s about business, but we’ve made so many friends, they’re like family.”
The sense of community is more relevant than ever this year with many at the expo focusing on Hurricane Harvey and the relief efforts taking place in Houston. Many vendors at this year’s show will be donating 5 percent of their total sales, and STITCHES itself will be donating 50 percent of its marketplace ticket sales to the Houston Food Bank. In addition, STITCHES has teamed up with Warm Up America and The Blue-bonnets Knitting Guild to create and donate blankets for hurricane victims all weekend long. Teachers of STITCHES are also banding together to create a blanket of their own which was auc-tioned off after the expo.
Sandy Kohler is the co-owner of Shaky K Fibers
of California, one of the vendors who volunteered to donate a portion of their sales. Many of her custom-ers come from the Houston area and Kohler is glad to do whatever she can to help in the relief efforts.
“We were absolutely dev-astated to see what hap-pened in Houston,” Kohler said. “A lot of returning customers for us come from that area and we’re just heartsick for them. Being so far away, there’s not a lot we
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could do but we do what we can.”
Libby Butler-Gluck add-ed it was very encouraging to see everyone working to-gether at the show to help so many.
“It’s just been amazing how many of the vendors have really rallied behind and wanted to give [to the relief effort],” Butler-Gluck said. “Besides having this great show this weekend, we are really focusing on the hurricane relief efforts.”
in the paper reflects some of those thoughts.
“Education is becoming more personal and engag-ing, and artificial intelli-gence and virtual reality will help make that change a re-ality,” Quinn wrote. “Adap-tive, competency-based education will let students move through content more quickly and at a level meet-ing their personal learning needs. This approach will improve student learning outcomes.”
Quinn was honored that Blackboard sought her perspective for its national white paper on the future of education.
“In my career at DCCCD’s LeCroy Center, I’ve shep-herded many changes to reach students through var-ious technologies,” she said. “I’ve also been extremely fortunate to work with so many of our creative and innovative faculty and staff who were eager to try new teaching approaches.”
Quinn, serves as provost for the LeCroy Center, said her work in multiple tech-nologies has contributed to the growth of online learn-ing at DCCCD – areas she discussed in the white pa-per.
“It’s been highly reward-ing and exciting to lead and support teams using technologies like television, satellite and the Internet, which all have allowed our district to serve literally millions of students lo-cally, nationally and even globally. These efforts have helped us build a reputation of innovation for the Dallas County Community College District,” Quinn said.
To read the white paper, including Quinn’s inter-view, visit www.blackboard.com/future-forward.
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The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is looking to the public for donations of food and funds to help re-plenish the organization’s available food supply. Dona-tions of food and funds were down this summer in com-parison to previous years, and when coupled with an
Food bank needs community supportincreased need in the area due to supporting evacuee relief efforts, the organiza-tion faces a food supply 20 percent lower than expect-ed. The Food Bank will use these additional resources to ensure a continued high level of service to those in need through their more
than 200 partner agencies and programs.
The North Texas Food Bank is an active member of the Hurricane Harvey disas-ter response team via their role in the Mass Care Task Force (MCTF) a collabora-tion that also includes the Red Cross DFW, The DFW
Salvation Army and Vol-unteerNow. NTFB’s role, as part of the MCTF is to provide ready to eat foods, snacks, and fluids to evacu-ees housed at local shelters.
Through this role, NTFB had inventory on-hand to serve the evacuees during the first days of the crisis response and have since remained on call provid-
STITCHES FOR FRIENDS: Ladies show off a work of love during the 2017 STITCHES Texas Expo. /Photo by Ariel Graham
we’re going to,” Arbuckle said. “The reason is for this to be done the right way, we have to do the right thing, and that is to offer that op-portunity.”
The TCR still faces emi-nent domain issues, com-petitors, and conflicting interests. Eminent domain is the right of a state or fed-eral government to take pri-vate property for public use while requiring compensa-tion.
“Railroads are allowed to have eminent domain, but what we are being chal-lenged on is ‘are we really a railroad,’” Arbuckle said. “We don’t have tracks or
trains, so we are being chal-lenged in court.
“We are trying to avoid ever using [eminent do-main], and we would like to buy the entire 240 miles without touching it. Our problem is a gentleman in South Dallas who buys land, and he picked up a $7000 piece of land. We came along, and we’re going right through that land. We tried to buy the land from him, and he says ‘sure, that would be $1 million.’
“That’s why eminent do-main exists. You have to have the right for the public to get through,” he said.
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ing snacks and fluids as requested to shelter sites. These disaster relief efforts, preceded by a slow donation season leave NTFB with fewer resources going into the critical holiday season.
“Those who face hunger, including many evacuees in our community, are facing tough choices currently,” said Trisha Cunningham,
NTFB President and CEO. “We need the community’s help to ensure nutritious food does not have to be in-cluded in these choices. We are proud that every $1 do-nated to the Food Bank al-lows us to provide access to 3 nutritious meals for those in need. ”
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* It was 20th-century American philosopher, writer and educator Susanne Katherina Langer who made the following sage observation: “If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.”
* In Western cultures, the owl is associated with wis-dom, but in some Asian countries, it’s traditionally a symbol of stupidity.
* In the 9th century, a Norseman named Sigurd Ey-steinssonÊearned the name Sigurd the Mighty while helping to lead the Viking conquest of what is now northern Scotland. As part of a continuing effort to expand his Scottish conquest, Sigurd challenged a native ruler, Mael Brigte the Bucktoothed, to a battle. Each leader was supposed to bring 40 men to the battle, but Sigurd broke his own rule and brought 80
warriors. Unsurprisingly, Brigte lost. After beheading his defeated foe, Sigurd displayed Brigte’s head on his saddle as a trophy of war. He got his just desserts in the end, though; as he rode, Sigurd’s leg was scratched by Brigte’s buck teeth. The seemingly insignificant wound festered, and Sigurd the Mighty was killed by the infection.
* You may already know that seahorses mate for life. You may not be aware, though, that as they swim, they keep their tails linked together.
* Those who study such things say that Napoleon Bonaparte was partial to cashmere underwear.
* Beards may be trendy these days, but if you prefer the clean-shaven look, you belong to a group that goes back further than you think. Cave art dating back to 10,000 B.C.E. depicts grown men with no beards.
* The ostrich is the world’s only two-toed bird. ***
Thought for the Day: “The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” -- P.D. James
1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the name of George Washington’s estate?2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first president to appear at a live televised
news conference?3. TELEVISION: In what year did the children’s show “Sesame Street” debut?4. MATH: In Roman numerals, what is D divided by X?5. LITERATURE: Who wrote the 19th-century novel “Mansfield Park”?6. MEDICAL: What is a common name for the childhood disease varicella?7. ASTRONOMY: What is the only planet in our solar system named after a female deity?8. MEASUREMENTS: What is the metric equivalent of a teaspoon?9. NICKNAMES: What major city is also known as “The Big Smoke”?10. BIRTHSTONES: What is the official birthstone of September?
Answers1. Mount Vernon2. John F. Kennedy3. 19694. L (50)5. Jane Austen6. Chickenpox7. Venus8. About 5 milliliters9. London10. Sapphire
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By Ariel GrahamPeople from all walks of
life rallied together to sup-port the victims of drunk driving during the Dal-las Walk Like MADD and MADD Dash 5K held at Lake Carolyn on Saturday, Sept. 16.
This is the third year the walk has been held in Irving since moving from down-town Dallas. This year’s walk saw nearly 600 partic-ipants and over 40 different teams compete in both a competitive 5K run and a non-competitive 5K walk to raise funds for Moth-ers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Altogether, the event raised over $80,000 for MADD.
MADD’s CEO Debbie Wier said the event is one of the biggest events MADD does all year.
“Walk Like MADD is one of our signature public awareness events,” Weir said. “We do about 80 of them across the country and we do about 10 of them in Texas. It’s a great event to bring the community to-gether so they can witness what MADD does, they can honor victims and their families and law enforce-ment, and also help to raise mission funds for the orga-nization.”
Many individuals, teams and businesses from all over Irving and Las Colinas participated in the day’s events. Irving Officer Ste-phen Burres received recog-nition as the largest individ-ual contributor. He and his team from the Irving Police Department raised $5,555, beating the MADD national team by just $31. Burres not only works with the police in dealing with intoxication crimes and DWI arrest, but
Walk Like MADD honors victims of drunk driving
he has also been involved with MADD for a number of years and is focused on edu-cating the public to prevent drunk driving.
“On average, the DWI of-ficers do about 120 DWIs a year,” Burres said. “We have about five officers assigned to our unit, but we also do a lot of proactive stuff. We teach the Victims Assis-tance Training Institute for MADD, we do that about every other month. We do a lot of presentations to try and prevent people from driving intoxicated.”
The focus of the event was not only to raise funds and awareness but also to honor the memories of the many victims of drunk driving. Throughout the event, signs were posted and plates were
set out detailing the lives of those who died at the hands of drunk drivers. MADD’s Debbie Wier also shared statistics with the crowd prior to the race.
“Every step we take today is one step closer to ending drunk driving,” Wier said. “Someone is killed every 52 minutes of every day in our country, and someone is injured every two min-utes [as a result of drunk driving]. While we’ve made great progress, we know we must do better because drunk driving is a hundred percent preventable, every single time.”
One of the largest teams in attendance was Trevor’s Troopers, a group of cheer-leaders from Hebron High School who have attend-
ed Walk Like MADD and cheered on the participants for many years. Courtney Kennedy, head coach of the Hebron varsity cheerlead-ing team, explained why these girls show up every year.
“Our Hebron cheer pro-gram has been affected by Trevor Schor, who was a student at Hebron High School, and his sister was also a member of our pro-gram a while back,” Kenne-dy said. “He was killed by a drunk driver in 2007 as a junior at Hebron. We are walking to honor him and also to show the girls what an important organization this is.”
Kennedy added it is im-
Students in the culinary arts and hospitality pro-grams at Singley Academy and Nimitz High School competed and placed in the Irving Hispanic Chamber’s Hot Sauce Fest contest this
Singley, Nimitz bring the heat
weekend. The winners were as follows:
First place – Nelson Mar-tinez (Singley Academy)
Second place – Manuel Lopez Lara, Ulysses Mar-quez Alvarez, Maynor Os-
eguera Pineda and Edgar Hernandez (Nimitz)
Third place – Jessica Es-parza and Eric M. (Nimitz).
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The University of Dallas reinforced its placement as one of the nation’s top uni-versities in the 2018 edition of U.S. News & World Re-port’s Best Colleges guide-book. Published online Tuesday, Sept.12, the guide-book credited the university
University best value Texas Catholic schoolas the highest-ranking “Best Value” Catholic institution in Texas. Expanding be-yond Texas to encompass the whole Western region, the university ranked fourth overall.
“Being recognized once again as one of the country’s
top universities is a well-de-served honor and privilege. Rankings like these are a testament to the university’s world-class faculty and the quality of our rich academ-ic environment,” University of Dallas President Thomas W. Keefe said.
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ing Merit Aid.”Since July, the Univer-
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their food too spicy, Doc’s Street Grill, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Pappy’s Mobile Café, Pineapple Grill Texas, Steel City Pops, 4M Concession and TC Country Corn Roast were all busy, as attendees flocked to their booths and trucks for snacks and drinks throughout the warm day.
Eleven-year-old Olivia McKee liked the pigs at the
petting zoo best. The petting zoo and crafts booths are the main reason she and her mother, Erin Mckee, attend the event every year.
“Irving’s so big, and sometimes it seems bigger than it really is,” said Erin, an Irving resident. “This helps show the small town side of it. It’s a good com-munity.”
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Thanks to the generosity of Don Herring Mitsubishi, Irving ISD’s 2017 district teachers of the year will be cruising in style this year. The local car dealership gifted El-ementary Teacher of the Year Jennifer Hunter and Second-
Teacher of the Year car giveaway
ary Teacher of the Year David Lewis a Mitsubishi loaner car as a token of appreciation for their service. The teachers received keys to the vehicles during a special presentation held at the dealership.
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portant for young people in particular to see first-hand the effects of drunk driving in the hope they will never do it themselves.
“I think it’s good, espe-cially for high school kids, to see the impact drunk driv-ing has on everybody, but especially teenagers,” Ken-nedy said. “It helps them learn it’s a devastating cause that could be prevented.”
MADD’s Debbie Wier agreed drunk driving is en-tirely preventable if people just plan ahead before head-
ing out for a drink. “Our message is we’ve got
to continue to communicate and raise public awareness of the issue,” Wier said. “If you’re over 21 and you’re going to go out or your ac-tivity includes alcohol, we’re not against drinking alco-hol, but we believe the saf-est choice is not to drink and drive. Always plan to have a sober driver drive you home, whether it’s a friend, family member, Uber or a cab, it’s just important not to be behind the wheel.”
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the academic quality of the institution and the average amount of need-based aid provided to students. To-day, it is among the most comprehensive research tools for students and par-
ents considering higher ed-ucation opportunities. For a complete list of rankings and more information on the Best Colleges ranking methodology, visit www.us-news.com/colleges.
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