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Michael Williams Jordan eagerly reels in his second catch of the day at the annual Irving Family Day of Fishing. Jordan and his mother, Shawneta Jordan, attended last year's event and hope to make it a family tradition. / Photo by Joe Snell

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By Ariel GrahamLocal charities teamed up

to support kids during the 5th annual Irving Kids Char-ity Golf Classic Kickoff Par-ty, hosted at the Cool River Club in Irving on Thursday, June 8.

Originated by David Pfaff and Andy Nadel, the event is a collaboration between five different Irving charities: Irving YMCA, Irving School Foundation, Irving Health-care Foundation, Irving-Las Colinas Rotary Club, and the La Buena Vida Foun-dation. Attendees raised funds for these charities by participating in silent and live auctions throughout the evening. The proceeds from the event and the golf event will be divided equally be-tween all five organizations. Last year, the event raised over $200,000 and this year the goal is $250,000.

By Daisy SilosMore than 3,000 runners

from all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area woke up early Sunday morning, June 11, to race around the Urban Center as part of the ninth annual Wounded Warrior Military Miles half mara-thon, 10K, and 5K.

A post-race party fol-lowed the race with food, drinks, and live music. The race is put together by Dal-las Athletes Racing and the money raised goes to three military charities: Wound-ed Warrior Project, Fisher House and Team Red White and Blue (RWB).

“There’s not a singular purpose, there are multiple purposes for this event,” said executive producer

By Joe SnellShawneta Jordan braved

scattered thunderstorms to attend the annual Irving Family Fishing Day in hopes of catching her first fish. She did not want a repeat of last year’s event, where she watched her son Michael Williams Jor-dan catch fish after fish as she went home empty handed.

This year, S h a w n e t a used the fish-ing pole her son won at last year’s event and with the help of city and event vol-unteers, reeled in a large catfish.

“It’s becoming addict-ing!” she said, minutes af-ter her prized catch. Held on Saturday morning, June 3, at Northwest Park Rec-reation Center, the fishing outing offers families a chance to visit the city’s rec-reation facility and educate themselves on how to prop-erly fish.

“It makes them knowl-edgeable,” Shawneta said. “The knowledge they gain from this they can’t get from

Stop and smell the fishes at Irving Family Fishing Dayan iPad or TV or computer.”

The event began over 20 years ago when the North-west Park Recreation Center partnered with Texas Parks and Wildlife, a state-wide

organization that provides trout stocking across Texas.

“We hope people enjoy being outside and intro-ducing the younger ones to the sport of fishing,” said Della Jones, Senior Rec Specialist at

the center.The event originally took

place in February, but after years of struggling through cold weather, including a year where ice covered nearly the entire park, the rec center team made a de-cision to move the event to May and June to avoid the freezing temperatures.

One concern with mov-ing the date closer to the summer was the effect the heat would have on both the participants as well as the fish. This year’s event was originally scheduled for Fa-Non-profits join forces for

Irving Kids Charity Golf ClassicCrystal Scanio, execu-

tive director of the Irving Schools Foundation, feels this event is unique because the charities are working to-wards one common goal in-stead of competing against one another.

“Usually charities com-pete for money,” Scanio

said. “Asking five charities to work together to raise money for one great cause was very different. But it’s completely worked out, and it’s a great partnership be-tween these different char-ities to raise money for one great product, which is our children.”

For some organizations, the Charity Classic is their biggest fundraiser of the year. John Munoz, execu-tive director of the Irving YMCA, explained that his charity’s portion of the funds will be used to ensure everyone can participate in YMCA programs.

“The money we raise from this event goes to help us provide scholarships and Wounded warrior

race supports veterans

for Dallas Athletes Racing (DAR) Tom Ryan.

“If you look at one, it’s the whole energy that sur-rounds the military support here in the United States that’s the glue, but at the same time we’re heavy into health and fitness,” he said. “You combine high profile, active, benefitting charities along with health and fit-ness in a very active city; it’s a great recipe.”

DAR has partnered with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) since the beginning of this event.

“Our original partner is Wounded Warrior Project, and then we added Fisher

By Joe SnellSharib Haroon, an exec-

utive committee member of the Irving Islamic Center, quoted Henry Ford as an example of inclusion, kick-ing off the Islamic Center of Irving’s annual Outreach

Ramadan outreach dinner bridges community leaders

Ramadan Iftar/Dinner on Thursday, June 7.

“Coming together is the beginning,” Haroon said. “Keeping together is prog-ress, and working together

An exhausted 5k runner grabs his medal after finishing the fast Wounded Warrior racecourse. / Photo by Daisy Silos

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By Joe SnellJust in time for summer grilling season, the Open Door

Church in Irving hosted a barbeque to show their appreci-ation for the Irving police department on Tuesday, June 6.

“Last year, we had our first event after the police shootings in Dallas,” Open Door Church Pastor Phil Durham said. “We wanted a way to honor the police here in Irving.”

Food and drinks were donated to Pastor Durham’s group. A dozen volunteers passed out meals to the officers to show the church’s support for everything the officers do for the

Irving police department honored with barbequee really want to serve those who

serve us, and certainly let the officers know that we care about them.”

community.The church is only a year and a half old. One way they

have started making an impact is by having a strong youth group presence. The barbeque is another way they hope to bring the community closer together.

“We wanted to not forget,” Durham said. “Just because there’s no tragedy going on, we’re not going to forget the po-lice. We really want to serve those who serve us, and certain-ly let the officers know that we care about them.”

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Above Right: The youth group of the Open Door Church in Irving show their appreciation for officers with personal thank-you cards. / Photo by Joe Snell

financial aid to individuals,” Munoz said. “That way, they can take part in the YMCA programs, whether they are kids getting free swim lessons, or cancer survivors coming to the Y for a free 12-week program so that they can find their new self, or members who need help because times are tough for them. We provide scholarships so they can all be part of the Y and the community.”

Joy Goodrum, executive director of the La Buena Vida Foundation, hopes the funds will go a long way to-ward providing new hous-ing for young at-risk wom-en in Irving.

“Irving Schools are tell-ing us that there are female students who have no place to go,” Goodrum said. “As of right now, we don’t have the funds to be able to start a new apartment for them. This [event] could mean the start of a new apartment, which could change the lives of at least four young ladies who are enrolled in our Ir-ving high schools.”

But it is not just one night out of the year that these five charities work together. Many of them collaborate on events year-round. Laura Manning, senior officer of the Irving Healthcare Foun-dation, said her organization has been working with the Irving Schools Foundation to help fight childhood obe-sity and this event will be a big help.

“We need the money to help support programs to

fight childhood obesity,” Manning said. “Our main focus right now is diabetes. We’re trying to catch people early when they’re young, learn healthy eating habits, learn about fitness, and try to keep that from being a problem later in life.”

John Munoz of the YMCA said collaborating with these other non-profits through-out the year is part of what makes Irving so unique and it is the kids that matter most.

“Irving is really one of the most unique places in that all of the non-profits all year long work together,” he said. “We’re not very territorial. We all know that we’re here to service the kids and the community, and so we all band together to do whatev-er we can to help each oth-er.”

Crystal Scanio added

other cities can learn from Irving about how non-prof-its co-operate and not just compete.

“I think this could be a re-ally great case study for oth-er cities to see that you can work together, as long as you have a common cause,” Scanio said. “We’re all work-ing for the best that Irving can be.”

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ther’s Day weekend and was to have a father-son theme, but Magnolia Fisheries, the group that stocked the lake, advised Jones that tempera-tures would be too warm for the catfish. Even though cat-fish are nocturnal, the water temperature would rise to unsafe temperature lev-els and render the fish less active, so the decision was made to move the event to June 3.

Magnolia Fisheries stocked the lake a day be-fore the event with 250 lbs. of channel catfish. Typically the event includes hot dogs, concessions, popcorn, and this year had planned to add a bounce house and snow cones, but due to the poor

weather conditions, Jones and her staff of five cancelled the additional activities.

Jones has been working at Northwest Park Recre-ation Center for 17 years. This year will be her last or-ganizing the Family Fishing Day, as next year she will be working at Lee Park. She will be replaced by Recreation Specialist Heather Rooney. Jones had a few words of advice for her young staff member.

“You never know what the weather’s going to be like, this is Texas,” Jones said. “We have to take things as they are. With this event, nothing ever goes according to plan.

“We always have to have

patience when we’re plan-ning an outdoor event, and that’s with anything within the city of Irving. You just have to have patience and make sure you have a back-up plan.”

One group that has been helping the Northwest Park Recreation Center put on the annual event is the Irving Christian Anglers Bass Club. Over 40 years old, the club meets monthly for friendly fishing competitions among its members as well as to help at local fishing events. They have helped at the Ir-ving Family Fishing Day for 25 years.

“I think it’s just getting the kids out of their iPhones or their computers and just

sitting back and relaxing for a second and trying to do something different,” said club member Rick (Arrr) McCullough.

McCullough, once an avid Harley Davidson rider, joined the fishing club after he continued getting into wrecks.

“This is it,” McCullough said after his final wreck, where he went down on Belt Line Road at night and thought he was going to get run over. “I’m officially going into geyerserdome. I’m sell-ing the motorcycle, and I’m buying a fishing boat.”

That night happened about five years ago and encouraged McCullough to join the Anglers. He thinks events like the family fishing outing encourage parents and kids to slow down and appreciate life.

“The world’s too fast-paced right now,” he said. “Just relax, and the old say-ing, smell the roses a little bit. If you end up smelling like fish, that’s even better.”

By Ariel GrahamConversations turned to

action during the 2017 Na-tional Sexual Assault Con-ference presented June 7 - 9 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas.

More than 1,700 advo-cates, educators, law en-forcement personnel, and others in the field of sexual assault prevention attended the conference to connect and share information to better prevent sexual vio-lence and help the victims of those crimes. The con-ference featured over 120 different panel discussions, workshops and plenaries covering a wide array of topics from assault on col-lege campuses to how these crimes affect women of color and around the world. The conference also hosted a number of keynote speakers, such as former Texas gover-nor candidate Wendy Davis.

This was the first time the conference has come to Tex-as. This year’s convention was hosted by the Texas As-sociation Against Sexual As-sault (TAASA). The organi-zation provides training and technical assistance for rape crisis centers throughout the state as well as advoca-cy work at the state capital. Ted Rutherford, commu-nications program direc-tor for TAASA, explained the importance of bringing these industry professionals together.

National sexual assault conference comes to Texas

“There’s not just one way of ending sexual violence,” Rutherford said. “There’s not just one way of support-ing survivors. We always want to make sure we’re do-ing that work in a way that’s trauma-informed, that we’re taking care of the folks most affected by the issue. The best way we can do that is to gather together all of the people and all of their collec-tive wisdom to really think through those problems and share what’s worked and what hasn’t, so we’re doing the best for survivors. That’s who we’re really here to serve.”

Rutherford said a large portion of people who work in anti-sexual violence have been victims themselves.

“We know there are a large number of survivors who come into this work, because they’re familiar with the issue,” Rutherford said. “It’s close and personal to them, and they want to do something about it so these sort of things don’t happen to other people.”

Annette Burrhus-Clay, executive director of TAA-SA, said the conference also helps to encourage people to talk about sexual violence, difficult as it may be some-times.

“The goal of this confer-ence is to provide a space for some of the work that needs to happen to propel those critical conversations

forward,” Burrhus-Clay said. “Although I realize there is no shortcut past these open and sometimes painful dis-cussions, we also have an obligation to actually act on these conversations. All of us have a responsibility to take our issues out of the theoret-ical and start implementing well-informed and inclusive solutions.”

As for how to better pre-vent these violent crimes from occurring, Rutherford offered two suggestions. The first is to believe victims of sexual violence and support them.

“When they tell us they have experienced sexual as-sault, the first thing we have to do is believe it’s true and provide them with the sup-port they need,” Rutherford said. “So often survivors come across people, wheth-er it be their friends and family or through the justice system or just about every-where across the board, they hear people question wheth-er or not they were actually sexually assaulted. They ask them where they were, what they did, what they were wearing, or were they drunk, which all implies [the vic-tims] have some blame for what happened to them.”

The second part is in-stituting harsher penalties against the perpetrators of sexual assault.

“Perpetrating sexual assault is not something

that’s OK,” Rutherford said. “While you say that out loud and it seems obvious, it’s not an OK thing to do. When we have low rates of prosecu-tion, oftentimes perpetrators don’t ever see a day in court and it’s very difficult to pros-ecute those cases. They feel like it’s sort of a sense of per-mission to be able to do what they want to do.”

Rutherford added that the road to end this kind of violence will be long and dif-ficult, but change must hap-pen.

“We have to change our culture,” Rutherford said. “We have to change the way we think about sexual vio-lence and why it happens. We have to understand the power dynamics that are at play. When we understand why it’s happening, then we can do something about it.”

Beach PartyJune 16, 7 - 10 PMMake a splash and cool off with some fun away from the sun at the South Irving Library. Enjoy making beach-y crafts, playing summer games, posing for a photo as you catch a wave and ride the tide, and watching Disney’s Moana (2016, PG).

Juneteenth Celebration June 17, 5 to 8 PMThis year’s celebration will pay homage to museums that share information about the origin of the Juneteenth holiday. In addition, the celebration will include a free community picnic and concerts sponsored by In-N-Out Burger. Tributes to the Jackie Townsell Bear Creek Heritage Center and the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. are planned. Outdoor games, a vendor marketplace and children activities will be available. Residents are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for concerts.

Concert Series 4 KidsJune 22, 10 AMThe music of AndyRo is just half the fun, the event has so much more going on. Before the show starts kids can check out the playground and participate in a craft activity. There will be a concession stand available; however, outside food and drinks are allowed. Covered seating is limited, attendees are

Irving Concert Series June 23, 7 to 8:45 PMThe Irving Concert Series will highlight several genres with a New Orleans influence including jazz, big brass, Cajun and more. Food vendors will serve up dishes with flavors straight from NOLA.All shows and are held at the Whistlestop Plaza, 123 W. Irving Blvd., Irving, TX 75060. Admission and parking are free. Seating is not provided, visitors are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs. Outside food and beverages are allowed. Mardi Gras beads will also be passed out, while supplies last.June 23, DVA Productions, Inc. presents Jay B & the Zydeco Posse

Traffic, trash highlight topics at Town Hall MeetingBy Ariel Graham

Traffic and trash con-cerns were at the forefront of the District 4 Town Hall Meeting, held at the former Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 16.

One of the major topics of discussion at the meet-ing were the traffic issues surrounding Infinity Pre-paratory Academy. Traffic and Transportation Direc-tor Dan Verdal explained that heavy traffic caused by parents picking up and dropping their children off at Infinity is causing back-ups on southbound MacAr-thur and on eastbound and westbound Shady Grove, as well as often blocking the intersection of Westwood and Shady Grove.

“Because this is a charter school, this is different than a school like you’d see in Irving Independent School District,” Verdal said. “Those are neighborhood schools, designed and in-serted into neighborhoods

where kids can walk or bike to school. But with a charter school, these kids are usu-ally driven, and a majority of them are from outside the neighborhood. Because of that, you do have a lot of vehicular traffic with moms and dads bringing their kids to and from.”

So far, the city has at-tempted to curtail the situa-tion by installing “No Stop-ping, Standing or Parking” signs on both MacArthur and Westwood. However, many of the citizens at the meeting pointed out that signs alone were not enough to solve the issue.

One citizen, who is both a parent of an Infinity Prep student and lives on West-wood, said, “It is not the cars stopping on Westwood Drive to let their children out, it is the cars that stop in the middle of Westwood Drive, have children getting out from all directions, and have parents backing up the full length of the street to try

to get out. It is a safety issue. It is not just a concern about people parking on our street. That is what is not being ad-dressed.”

Another citizen added that the no parking signs were completely useless because the parents do not see them or are intentionally ignoring them.

“I have actually monitored my street for a year and I have had parents flat out tell me, ‘I will continue to park here. I will park under the no stopping, no parking sign. I do what I want until the school tells me not to,’” she said.

Assistant Police Chief Brian Redburn said the po-lice and school will work to re-communicate proper pick-up and drop-off proce-dures with parents of Infin-ity Prep, and stated that as of next school year, Infinity Prep will hire a third school officer to monitor those no


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ZONING CASE NO. ZC16-0092ZONING CLASSIFICATION - S-P-2

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1144, THE 1964 COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS, GRANTING A ZONING CHANGE ON A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND OUT OF THE BLAYLOCK 12 OAKS SOUTH REVISED ADDITION, AND LOCATED AT 720 NORTH BRITAIN ROAD, MORE FULLY AND COMPLETELY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO; ORDERING A CHANGE IN THE USE OF SAID PROPERTY FROM S-P-2 SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR R-XF USES UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AS AMENDED TO S-P-2 SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR R-6 USES UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AND ACCORDING TO THE SITE PLAN ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO LAND USE; CORRECTING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP ATTACHED TO ORDINANCE NO. 1144; PRESERVING ALL OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE; DETERMINING THAT THE CHANGE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MORALS AND GENERAL WELFARE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES NOT REPEAL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE EXCEPT IN CASES OF DIRECT CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.


ZONING CASE NO. ZC16-0099ZONING CLASSIFICATION - S-P-2

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1144, THE 1964 COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS, GRANTING A ZONING CHANGE ON A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND OUT OF THE PLYMOUTH PARK NORTH 2 ADDITION, AND LOCATED AT 2713 STANFORD DRIVE, MORE FULLY AND COMPLETELY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO; ORDERING A CHANGE IN THE USE OF SAID PROPERTY FROM R-6 SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT USE UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AS AMENDED TO S-P-2 SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR R-6 USES UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AND ACCORDING TO THE SITE PLAN ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO LAND USE; CORRECTING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP ATTACHED TO ORDINANCE NO. 1144; PRESERVING ALL OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE; DETERMINING THAT THE CHANGE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MORALS AND GENERAL WELFARE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES NOT REPEAL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE EXCEPT IN CASES OF DIRECT CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.


ZONING CASE NO. ZC17-0009ZONING CLASSIFICATION – S-P-1

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1144, THE 1964 COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS, GRANTING A ZONING CHANGE ON A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND OUT OF THE MANORS AT VALLEY RANCH 1ST REVISION ADDITION AND LOCATED AT 600 RANCHVIEW DRIVE, MORE FULLY AND COMPLETELY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO; ORDERING A CHANGE IN THE USE OF SAID PROPERTY FROM M-FW FREEWAY DISTRICT USE UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AS AMENDED, TO S-P-1 SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR C-N USES UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AND ACCORDING TO THE SITE PLAN ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO LAND USE; CORRECTING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP ATTACHED TO ORDINANCE NO. 1144; PRESERVING ALL OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE; DETERMINING THAT THE CHANGE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MORALS AND GENERAL WELFARE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES NOT REPEAL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE EXCEPT IN CASES OF DIRECT CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.


ZONING CASE NO. ZC17-0020ZONING CLASSIFICATION - S-P-1 (R-AB)

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1144, THE 1964 COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS, GRANTING A ZONING CHANGE ON A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND OUT OF THE MARKET PLACE SHOPPING CENTER 4TH REVISION ADDITION AND LOCATED AT 1820 MARKET PLACE BOULEVARD, MORE FULLY AND COMPLETELY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO; ORDERING A CHANGE IN THE USE OF SAID PROPERTY FROM S-P-2 SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR C-C USES UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AS AMENDED TO S-P-1 (R-AB) SITE PLAN DISTRICT USE FOR RESTAURANT WITH ATTENDANT ACCESSORY USE OF THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION USES UNDER SECTION 52-49 OF ORDINANCE NO. 1144, AND ACCORDING TO THE SITE PLAN ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO LAND USE; CORRECTING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP ATTACHED TO ORDINANCE NO. 1144; PRESERVING ALL OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE; DETERMINING THAT THE CHANGE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MORALS AND GENERAL WELFARE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES NOT REPEAL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE EXCEPT IN CASES OF DIRECT CONFLICT; PROVIDING THE ENTIRE ORDINANCE SHALL BE INVALID IF ANY WORD, PHRASE, CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SECTION OF THIS ORDINANCE IS HELD TO BE INVALID AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.

PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS, on June 8, 2017.

RICHARD H. STOPFERMAYOR

ATTEST:Shanae JenningsCity Secretary

APPROVED AS TO FORM:Kuruvilla OommenCity Attorney

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS – PROPOSED ZONING CHANGESCITY OF IRVING CITY COUNCIL

Public hearings are held to consider applications for amendments to 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, TexasPlanning and Zoning Commission: Monday, June 19, 2017, 7 p.m.City Council: Thursday, July 6, 2017, 7 p.m.

ZONING CASE ZC17-0026: Approximately 0.139 acres located at 214 E. Cason Street. The applicant is requesting to rezone the property from S-P (Site Plan) district for Single Family uses to S-P-2 (Generalized Site Plan) district for R-6 (Single Family) uses to add a 693 square foot addition to the existing house.

ZONING CASE ZC17-0036: Approximately 16.787 acres located north of Fuller Drive and west of W. Las Colinas Blvd. The applicant is requesting to rezone the property from S-P-1 (Detailed Site Plan) district for R-AB (Restaurant with the attendant accessory use of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption), Convention Center, Retail, Entertainment, Hotel, Restaurant and related uses to S-P-1 (Detailed Site Plan) district for R-AB (Restaurant with the attendant accessory use of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption), Convention Center, Retail, Entertainment, Hotel, Restaurant and related uses to amend the detailed site plan.

All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearings and express their opinions on the zoning change request. Written response for the record may also be submitted to:

City of Irving – Planning & Community Development Dept., 825 W. Irving Blvd., Irving, TX 75060

The applications are on file for public review in the Planning & Community Development Dept. at the address listed above during normal business hours. For additional information, please contact the Department at 972-721-2424. Please reference the case number when requesting information.

This facility is wheelchair accessible. Accessible parking spaces are available. Requests for interpretation services or assistive hearing devices must be made 48 hours prior to the meeting. Contact the City Secretary’s Office at (972) 721-2493 for assistance.

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is success. That’s the reason we are here.”

Ford lived over 70 years ago, but his message still resonated as the Irving Is-lamic community welcomed city leaders, law enforce-ment officers, the fire de-partment, as well as other religious and community leaders to the Islamic Cen-ter of Irving to celebrate Ra-madan with a large feast.

Ramadan is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting to com-memorate the first revela-tion of the Quran to Mu-hammad and is regarded as one of the five pillars of Islam.

The Islamic Center of Ir-ving’s director of outreach

Imam, Nick Pelletier, says fasting is important to ad-here to God’s commands, the most important of which is character.

“Fasting, we believe in Is-lam, is something that isn’t new, but is something that has been practiced by the Christians and Jews who came before us,” Imam Nick said. “The reality is that fast-ing is for the purpose of in-creasing our righteousness or our god consciousness or our connection to God.”

Mayor Rick Stopfer was among the many city lead-ers in attendance to cele-brate the end of outreach dinner.

“We are so fortunate to have the diversity we have

within the city of Irving,” Stopfer said. “It’s some-thing we should celebrate. It should not be something that divides us.”

Stopfer joined guests in-cluding Police Chief Jeff Spivey, Fire Chief Victor Conley, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Commissioner Elba Garcia.

Jenkins condemned po-litical forces trying to sepa-rate the Irving community.

“It should not be con-troversial that we are one community,” Jenkins said. “We see these threats to try to separate our people for political gain and to try to make our neighbors into the enemy. That is an evil we must stand against just as we stand against other evils.”

Minister Russell Frantz of the Grapevine Church of Christ, and Rabbi Frank Joseph, who serves at Tem-ple Beth Israel in Harlingen and Temple Beth El in Cor-sicana, also spoke on the importance of fasting and fellowship among commu-nity religious leaders.

“Fasting for the early church fathers was inex-plicably tied to giving by opening themselves up to the presence of God,” Frantz said. “Fasting seems to bring us to union with an experience at the very heart

of God.”Imam Nick presented a

handful of awards to organi-zations that typically do not receive the recognition they deserve serving the commu-nity, including the City of Irving, police department, fire department, Parkland Hospital, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Rela-tions), and MLFA (Muslim Legal Fund of America).

“We’d like to recognize those organizations that oftentimes do thankless work,” Imam Nick said.

Imam Nick also recog-nized Irving ISD for work he characterized as at the foundation of establishing a sound society, and Irving Cares for making sure we take care of those who are less fortunate.

Harking back to Ford’s quote, Haroon said each of Irving’s religious and civic circles share the same val-ues.

“We all believe in values like honesty, integrity, car-ing for the poor, the sick, the homeless, the elderly; the list goes on. These are all the values shared by all of us,” he said. “It is important at this point of time to remind ourselves about our shared values, as we are living in really challenging times where extremists from all sides seek to divide us by exploiting our differences.”

parking signs and assist the crossing guard. District 4 City Councilman Phil Riddle said a joint meeting between Infinity Prep and members of the community will be held during the sum-mer to attempt to resolve these issues at a later date.

Another major issue that came up was trash accumu-lation. Casey Tate, director of the Capital Improvement Program, gave an update on Lake Vilbig and spoke about the efforts bring tak-en to reduce the amount of trash and debris found in and around the lake. These efforts include employing street sweepers, which some citizens pointed out are not doing a good enough job of keeping the streets clean. This led the discussion to turn away from the lake and focus on trash accumula-tion.

Greg Hoffmann, presi-dent and CEO of the Irving Lake Association (ILA), was also present at the meeting. Lake Vilbig is currently un-der ownership of the ILA, and he pointed out the ef-forts he and his association takes to keep his property clean.

“Every year we do a clean-up on our lake,” Hoffmann said. “We physically go out there with our members and clean up 4,000 pounds. Think about 4,000 pounds of Styrofoam, plastic, alu-minum cans and all that. It’s not the people who live on

the lake that are throwing it in there. This is what we’ve been complaining about, saying the city needs to do more to prevent that trash from coming in to our pri-vate property.”

Councilman Phil Riddle stepped forward and said that litter was not just an issue at Lake Vilbig, but all over Irving.

“Litter is a citywide prob-lem that has to be addressed on a neighborhood level,” Riddle said. “Everybody ought to be responsible for picking up their stuff. We could not pass a tax rate that would put enough people out there to pick up trash. You’d never stand for it. So you’ve got to take responsi-bility for your own streets. Neighborhoods need to take care of neighborhoods.”

Tate also gave a quick up-date on the Glenwick Lane project and the recent com-plications the project had with groundwater. Teresa Adrian, director of Code En-forcement, gave the crowd a brief overview of how code enforcement operates, in-cluding what the depart-ment can and cannot cite people for and proper code violation reporting practic-es.

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Brown’s Memorial Funeral Home972-254-4242

Michael “Tiger” Miller – April 22, 1968 – June 11, 2017

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Frank Willis – March 20, 1927 – June 12, 2017

Freda June Isbell passed away on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Memorial services will be held Friday, June 16, 2017 at 6:00 pm at Church on Fire 315 W. Gray St. in Norman, OK. Immediately following services, there will be a gathering and meal in the common room at the Willows apartments located at 517 N. University Blvd., Norman, OK.

Freda was born July 14, 1940 in Mexia, TX to Victor and Evelyn Isbell. Freda was named for her maternal great grandfather Fred Reimers of Montague, TX. At Irving High School where Freda graduated in 1958, she pursued her love of dancing by joining the schools majorette team which her mother, Evelyn sewed the uniforms for. The Isbell family were members of the First Baptist Church of Irving, Tx where all four Isbell daughters were married.

Freda married her first husband, Malcolm Walker after high school. They had two daughters, Randi and Malisa (Lisa) After a divorce Freda moved back to Texas with her two daughters and during this time became an entrepreneur with her own wig business called the Wig

Wagon.Freda marr ied Gary

Nipper in 1973 and had three more children, Gavin, Joshua, and Cassia, and moved to Norman, OK . After this marriage ended, Freda obtained a degree in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma in 1997.

She went on to work for Indigent Defense, Habitat for Humanity, and as a caregiver for the elderly, but upon retirement she pursued her true passion, a generational, artistic tradition of flower making that her paternal grandmother, Lena Brookes Sherrill Isbell, had originally taught her.

Freda was preceded in death by her parents, Victor and Evelyn Isbell, brother, Allan Isbell, and grandson, Nicholas. She is survived by her siblings: brother, David Isbell and his wife Rosemarie of Plano, TX, and sisters, Vicky Bailey of Eustace, TX, Kay and her husband Charles Cash of Bedford, TX and Linda and her husband John Dippel of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Her five children: daughter, Randi and husband Mark

Chambers of Noble, OK, Daughter, Lisa Stevens of Norman,OK, Son Gavin Nipper of China, Son Joshua and wife Edith Nipper of Norman, OK, daughter Cassia and husband Steve Boaz of Norman, OK. Eleven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.

Freda will be deeply missed by all those who knew her. The world has truly lost a beautiful person.

Martha “Anne” Ferrell, age 85, died Sunday, June 11, 2017. She was born Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Rufus and Mary Lillian (Cheer) Hale on March 31, 1932. Anne attended The University of Miami and The Texas Wo m e n ’s U n i v e r s i t y, obtaining her Master ’s Degree. She retired from the Irving ISD, where she worked as the director of the Gifted/Talented Program, reading department. Ann spent 50 years serving children and after her retirement she volunteered for 12 years with Caring Hearts at Baylor Hospital. She is preceded in death by her husband Harold Gene Ferrell; left to cherish her memory are her two sons Forrest and Bruce Ferrell. A funeral service will be held 10:00 am, Thursday,

June 15, 2017 at Plymouth Park Baptist Church, 1714 N. Story Road in Irving with interment 12:30pm at Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery in Dallas. A visitation will be held at Brown’s Memorial Funeral Home, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, between 5:00 and 7:00 pm. The family request memorials to Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Irving at http://www.plymouthpark.org.

MARTHA "ANNE" FERRELL

Wayne was born in Athens, TX and grew up throughout East Texas till be was 16. At 17 He moved to Dallas, TX where he met Diane in 1978. Diane was born in Sherman, TX and grew up the first 7 years of her life in Bonham. Her family moved to Irving the summer of 1968 and resided in Irving since. Wayne and Diane married April 8, 1981 and soon started a family.

Diane is survived by her husband Robert Wayne Smith of Irving TX, Daughter and son in law Teresa and Ruben Hernandez of Irving TX, Mother Pat Muller

ROBERT WAYNE SMITH - 57(NOVEMBER 12, 1959 - MAY 8, 2017)

TERESA DIANE SMITH - 56(MARCH 25, 1961 - APRIL 29, 2017)

of Bonham TX, older brother Greg Brown and younger brother Chris Brown of Bonham TX, s is ter in law Olga Castillo of Fort Worth TX and nephew Michael Brown

of Fort Worth TX.Diane proceeded in death

by her Father Jim Brown.Wayne is survived by

his daughter and son in law Teresa and Ruben Hernandez of Irving TX, mother and step father Carol and Dale Hunt of Elk City OK, father Carl Smith of Troup TX, brother Gary Smith of Carrollton, TX, and sister Sandy Glossip of Oklahoma

A memorial service to honor their lives together will be held June 23rd, 2017 at 10:00AM at Oak Grove Memorial Gardens in Irving, TX.

FREDA JUNE ISBELL(JULY 14, 1940 - JUNE 6, 2017)

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By Vaughn-zel Lloyd Drums snared, horns

trumpeted, and dancers electrified the stage in front of an audience as students from the Universal Acade-my and Paul Laurence Dun-bar High School (Ft. Worth) competed during Univer-sal’s Spring Jamboree and Musical Showcase on Satur-day, May 20.

“For the inaugural year, we’re trying to offer a cul-tural awareness as to what show bands do in the Metro area” said Universal Acad-emy Band Director David Johnson. “I think there is no better way to start than right here in the center of Irving, Texas.”

Although Dunbar High School won the band com-petition and drumline com-petition, in the end Ricardo Garza said that both schools learned a lot.

“Both walked away as winners,” Garza said. “It was a great way to get the students involved in a battle atmosphere while enjoying themselves. Although there is competition, it is also a good way for the students to interact with other mu-sicians who have the same

Universal Academy presents spring Jamboree

passion as they do. Some-times the crowd is the best judge. If they know the songs, they will sing them while the bands play or they might boo you, so you have to be on top of your song se-lections.”

David Rhone took over for Mr. Polk as band direc-tor at Dunbar High School and said the battle of the band culture is expanding.

“It’s in the culture,” Rhone said. “It’s the norm, but in west Dallas it’s not the norm, and in Fort Worth it is. It is a stylistic difference with both tradi-

The amount of scholar-ships and grants received by the Class of 2017 is on the rise as graduates continue to report their awards. To date, totals have reached more than $38.3 million in an outstanding display of academic achievement by this year’s graduating class. An updated breakdown of scholarships and grants by school is as follows:

Irving High School –

Scholarship numbers continue to climb

more than $8.2 millionMacArthur High School –

more than $9.3 millionNimitz High School –

more than $12.6 millionSingley Academy – more

than $8.1 millionScholarship and grant to-

tals for seniors of Cardwell Career Preparatory Cen-ter also grew to more than $43,000 – the most earned by a graduating Cardwell class.

SOURCE Irving ISD

Results from Irving ISD’s annual Parent Involvement Survey are in with 7,383 parents submitting feed-back for evaluation. Parents answered questions focused on four areas: district/school communication, campus involvement, aca-demics and campus climate. A few highlights from the data include:

92 percent of respon-dents agreed their child’s teachers give them the tools needed to support learning at home. This is a 5 percent-age point increase over last year’s survey.

97 percent of respondents indicated the staff at their child’s school make them feel welcome. This is up 2

Parents give IISD high marks on survey

percentage points from last year.

96 percent of respon-dents agreed their child’s campus was a safe learning environment, up 1 percent-age point from last year.

94 percent of respon-dents agreed their child’s campus holds parent in-formational meetings on topics that help them be a more informed parent, up 2 percentage points from last year’s survey.

Of respondents who con-tacted their child’s teacher, 91 percent indicated they were satisfied with the lev-el of communication from their child’s teacher. This is up 4 percentage points from last year.

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215 Main St. Downtown Irving3rd Thursday of each month.

Recruiting/Questions call 469-621-7878

Circle I - Square & Round Dance Club1st & 3rd Saturdays at 8pm

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P.M.132 E. Second St., Irving, TX 75017

[email protected] / 972-253-5600Irving Noonday Lions

PH 972-409-9940Every Wed. @ Noon

Golden Corral, 1701 N. Belt Line Rd. Irving Republican

Women’s Club 2nd Monday each month @ 6:30 pm

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Personnel AssociationFirst Christian Church 104 W. Grauwyler Rd.

Second Thursday every monthIrving Rotary Club

Thursdays at 12 pmLas Colinas Country Club

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Thursday at 7 amLas Colinas Country Club

4400 N. O”Connor RdIrving Texas Democratic

WomenMeet the first Tues. each month

7 p.m. To 8:30 p.m.East Buffet Rest.

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Fourth Tuesday of every month11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.

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1600 N. Irving HeightsSaturday Singles

Lunch Bunch 1st & 3rd Saturdays

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* It was beloved English author J.R.R. Tolkien, best known for fantasy tales “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” who made the following sage obser-vation about his chosen genre: “I have been a lover of fairy-stories since I learned to read. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison walls?”

* You might be surprised to learn that thieves, too, have a patron saint: Saint Dismas. Incidentally, he’s also the patron saint of prisoners and funeral direc-tors.

* You’re probably aware that nocturnal animals are active at night and that diurnal animals are active

during the day. But what about creatures that prefer the twilight hours? Yep, they have a name, too: They’re crepuscular.

* Those who study such things say that ecdysiasts -- those performers better known as stripteasers -- are likely to be first-born children.

* In a recent survey of Americans and Britons, conducted on behalf of meditation app Calm.com, respondents reported that they get their best sleep of the week on Thursday nights, while Sunday night is the worst for sleeping.

* In India at one time, it was believed that eggshells held clues to the future. Fortunetellers would smash a hen’s egg against a special board, then interpret the pattern made by the fragments of shell.

* Add this to the list of America’s puzzling small-town festivals: Every June, the town of Ainsworth, Nebraska, puts on the Middle of Nowhere Celebration.***Thought for the Day: “The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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airport’s three-letter designation is ORD?4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Hannibal Hamlin served as vice president to which U.S. president?5. ANATOMY: What part of the human body is affected by Graves’ disease?6. LITERATURE: A biography of which five-star general was titled “Old Soldiers Never Die”?7. MEASUREMENTS: How many tablespoons are in a cup?8. CARTOONS: What are the names of the “The Chipmunks” singing group?9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: When is a sesquicentennial?10. FOOD & DRINK: What type of spice can be Hungarian or Spanish?

Answers1. Arizona2. Madonna3. O’Hare International Airport, Chicago4. Abraham Lincoln5. The thyroid gland6. Douglas MacArthur7. 168. Theodore, Simon and Alvin9. 150-year anniversary10. Paprika

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House, and last year added Team RWB,” Ryan said.

WWP provides a variety of services, programs, and events for wounded veter-ans of the military following 9/11. Fisher House helps military families by provid-ing them a place to stay at no cost while a loved one receives treatment. Team RWB is the newest partner charity to benefit from this event. They supports veter-ans making the transition from military to civilian life.

Members from all three of the organizations actual-ly ran the course and par-ticipated in the race. Jim Theisen, a member of Team RWB, ran the race before Team RWB became a part-nering charity.

“I’ve run this race ever since its inception,” Theisen said. “I do this race every year because it supports the military and I’m a Viet-nam veteran. I run it for the people overseas who cannot run it.”

The race grows bigger each year and brings more awareness to the partner causes. For the first time,

Exeter Finance, a subprime auto finance company, gathered a group of their employees to volunteer and participate in the race.

“We have a program in our company called Xvets, so we recruit a lot of veter-ans to come work for our company,” said Hart Jack-son, executive assistant for Exeter Finance. “When we found out about this run, we wanted to make sure some of our veterans and our employees got out here and participated.”

Jackson said it is import-ant to show support for the veterans and military and he hopes to participate in all future Wounded Warrior races.

“I hope this is definite-ly something we continue doing, because this is who we recruit to work for us, our veterans,” Jackson said. “We are really big on recruiting veterans in our company. It’s just a great cause to support.”

Next year, the Wounded Warrior race will celebrate its 10-year-anniversary and Ryan is glad that the event

continues to grow. “This year we had more

runners, the most vendor support we’ve ever had, and we’ve raised thousands and thousands of dollars for our three charity partners,” Ryan said. “The event is a win-win because it helps the charities, it helps the ath-letic community, it brings awareness to the charities, and it brings awareness to health and fitness in the community.”

The city of Irving will once again host the race next year for the 10-year-anniversary. Ryan said he hopes to go ‘big’ to celebrate the mile-stone.

“I don’t know what ‘big’ means today, but it will cer-tainly give us more of an opportunity to celebrate 10 years,” Ryan said. “It has its own kind of buzz, so we have to support that buzz somehow.”

Ten students in the Architecture/Construction/Engi-neering (ACE) Academy at MacArthur High School re-ceived industry-related job offers and scholarships through the Texo Signing Day held May 24 at the school.

Scholarship amounts ranged from $4,000 to $10,000 most of them for four years. Companies involved were Chamberlin, Cummings Electrical, Humphrey and Associ-

Constructing student success

ates and Polk. Students who received scholarships include Chris

Vidales, Christopher Vidales, Deondre Ross, Elmar Meni-var, Eric Robledo, Hector Sandoval, Horacio Rangel, Luis Meza, Victor Calderon and Xylon Honeycutt. Texo is an association of construction and contracting companies in north and east Texas.

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tional style bands, which means we march 8 to 5 at 90 degree angles and most of the bands in this area are chorus style or military style. They have a differ-ent style of marching. They march shill toe or glide step; we march high lift. Then our music selections are more of things you would hear on the radio as opposed to hearing them other places. Our music is mostly popu-lar, but it’s still written out the same way. People have a misconception about show time music.”

Johnson wanted people who were not familiar with a battle of the bands to take an interest.

“I want the crowd to get an awareness of what we do for show bands,” John-son said. “I want the crowd to enjoy the show. I want them to be able to see there is more to the band life than we normally see in the state of Texas. A lot of this is from the heritage of Louisiana. We want them to gain an awareness of how we do a show and have a great time with show bands and the kids.”

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By Daisy SilosThe Irving Fire Department is adding two new trac-

tor drawn, aerial trucks, most commonly known as Tiller trucks, to its firefighting arsenal. Irving is the second city in Texas using these trucks, Dallas being the first.

Tiller trucks are designed to better maneuver around congested areas and narrow streets around town. Driving a Tiller truck is a two-man job.

“The vehicle has been in the fire service for a very long time, but it’s a relatively new concept in the South,” Assistant Fire Chief Tony Harvey said.

The Irving Fire Department began doing research on the Til-ler trucks in late 2014.

“With some of the construc-tion and stuff going on in the city, it has started becoming denser and more populated in tighter spaces,” Station 12 Cap-tain Darrell Hall said. “We real-ized we have places that some of our equipment has trouble getting into.”

A committee approached the Irving City Coun-cil to propose the purchase of the trucks. Committee members even took a trip to the West Coast in July of 2015 to observe Tiller trucks in action.

“We set up a trip to California,” Hall said. “California has a lot of departments that have Tillers, because they’ve been tight quarters for a long time. They showed us their trucks, let us drive their trucks, and showed us what they were ca-pable of doing. Even more important for us, it told us what you should do and what you should not do.”

The committee studied the concept for two years before presenting the idea to the council.

“We made the presentation and the council approved it,” Harvey said. “They actually approved two of these Tiller trucks, so we’re really excited about getting them in service.”

One of the trucks will be going to Station Three to cov-er the southern part of Irving, and the other will be going to Station 12, which is slated to open in July, to cover the northern part of town. All the personnel assigned to the two stations have received over 40 hours of Tiller training to learn how to operate the front end and the back end of the trucks while maintaining constant communication with one

Tiller trucks latest advancement for Fire Department

another through wireless headsets.“The Tiller truck has a standard driver and in

the back is the trailer, which also has a steering wheel. That driver is called the Tiller man,” Hall said. “He can steer the back of the truck so we are able to maneuver around some pretty tight areas. We want each guy to be crossed trained in both locations, so no matter what situation comes up, we can get the job done and get it done safely.”

Crew members trained on courses designed to simulate different street layouts and hard to reach areas.

“There’s four different scenarios we have to drive through,” fire equipment operator Steven Hall said. “A lot of this is stuff we’ve done before but on straight axle equip-ment, so whenever you get to do this on a Tiller rig, it’s a to-tally different game. We’ve spent several hours getting used to that before we actually start driving on the road with the public.”

The new trucks also give firefighters more space to store equipment.

“We’ve got so much compartment space that we have not had in the past,” Darrell said. “The trucks are set up for firefighting and rescue operations. Every piece of equipment has a place now. It’s wonderful to be able to have so much space that even as the department needs to change we can put more equipment on the truck, which we haven’t had the ability to do in the past.”

The trucks are scheduled to go into operation in July once Station 12 opens. There is the possibility more than two Tiller trucks could be protecting Irving in the future.

“Our personnel who’ve been training on them ask ques-tions like, ‘How come we didn’t do this 20 years ago?’” Har-vey said. “Maybe when another station comes up for a lad-der truck replacement, it could be a consideration.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 2118 into law on Monday, June 12, which now allows the Dallas County Community College District to offer a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, its first four-year degree.

State Sen. Royce West and Rep. Helen Giddings filed bills to address the shortage of early childhood teachers in the North Texas area. Ultimately, language from their bills was added to SB 2118 by Sen. Kel Seliger. This legislation will provide a solution to the shortage of more than 4,000 early childhood education teach-ers in Dallas County.

“Students in our area now can choose a quality, afford-able bachelor’s degree in early childhood education,” Dr. Joe May, DCCCD’s chancellor said. “It also sup-ports the governor’s goal to provide quality pre-kin-dergarten for our youngest Texans, and it comes at no additional fiscal cost for the state.

“We are excited to offer this choice and also to solve a shortage that has limited the number of youngsters who were allowed access to pre-K programs in Dal-las County because there weren’t enough teachers.”

The bill also allows sever-al other community colleges in the state to offer a bacca-laureate degree in applied science, applied technology or nursing.

DCCCD now will work with the Texas Higher Ed-ucation Coordinating Board to establish an education pathway for early childhood education in the district. DCCCD colleges already

have child development programs in place and can offer the new bachelor’s de-gree once the specific curric-ulum and requirements are established and have been approved by the THECB.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools also will be involved in the ac-

creditation process for the new degree, including fac-ulty credentials, expanded library offerings and other criteria.

The entire process will approximately three to four years.SOURCE Dallas County Commu-

nity College District

DCCCD approved for first bachelor’s degree

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