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By Elaine PaniszczynOver 2,000 students and their parents

benefited from the school supply initiative spear-headed by the Irving Community Action Network (ICAN) at Irving High School Aug. 18.

“When it is all said and done, we will give away almost 3,500 backpacks to the kids,” said Doug Fox, Executive Director of the Irving YMCA and Chairman of ICAN. “Last year, we did it at the Irving Mall to maximize our number of partners. We gave away 1,500 backpacks last year, but there was a flaw in the way we did it at the mall. We identified Irving High School as a place where we can get more kids through safer and quicker.

“We’ve worked with the school district in a number of different departments to put this event on,” Fox said. “Our committee has focused on making sure those who need the backpacks the

most are the ones who receive them. We have 70 partners this year; we had 35 or 40 last year.

“Irving Bible Church has been a huge sup-porter both financially and with volunteers,” Fox said. “The Irving Las Colinas Rotary Club gave $5,000 to buy back packs. Chase Bank and a long list of others have helped. Today, what has been really impressive is, besides the number of adult volunteers, we have all of the ROTC students from Irving High School. They are helping with the check in and handing out the supplies. They have just been outstanding. The future is bright looking at these kids the way they are helping out the adults today.”

HelpersThe Irving Senior Arts Program (ISAP)

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Irving Bible Church: Ministries include medi-cal, single parent, ESL, citizenship, food, stu-dent, and career transi-tion workshops. Go to IrvingBible.org for a full listing of services.

Launchability, ECI and Supported Employment: These groups provide services to children and adults who have a developmental delay. They help adults with disabilities find jobs. They are funded by United Way and accept Medicaid and private insurance for the thera-pies for conditions such as autism.

Juice Plus: A whole food supplement that contains 17 fruits, veg-etables and grains has a child study that will allow one child per adult in a family to take the product for free. Go to juiceplus.com for more information.

Earn It, Keep It Save It: A United Way pro-gram which offers free tax preparation for fami-lies with incomes below $50,000. Go to www.irvingcares.org/free-tax-prep-at-irving-cares.

Boy Scouts: Citizen-ship training and per-sonal fitness. Go to beascout.scouting.org.

Harmonica players share the heart of their music By Phil Cerroni

The blues player is an essential part of the Ameri-can self-image: the old man sitting on a stoop creat-ing beautiful, melancholy sounds that waft from his instrument. Although the harmonica is not a dying art form, it is rare to find someone who plays something besides the diatonic or “rock” harmonica. But if you happened to wander through the Westin DFW Airport Hotel in Irving, you would have seen many people sporting a multitude of different harmonicas from the massive chord and bass harmonicas to the smaller, extremely versatile chromatic harmonica. The reason all these musicians were wandering around the hotel is because SPAH (the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) held its 2012 Convention here.

Mike Street came all the way from Richmond, VA for the week shared some of the benefits of participat-ing in the convention.

By Jess PaniszczynYoungsters became fantasy prin-

cesses and monsters of the night through the magic of makeup during the West Irving Library’s Glam & Gore Stage Makeup Workshop on Aug. 18. Through the workshop, professional stage makeup artist, Stefanie Glenn from the Plaza Theatre Company taught the kids how to apply basic stage make-up, as well as fantasy and gory makeup.

“Stage makeup isn’t typically

taught in the public school curriculum,” Glenn said. “A lot of these kids do theater in school or locally, and stage makeup is a good skill to have.

“This is a good group of kids, and they are really creative. They are doing fun things with makeup and asking good questions. They really seem inter-ested in what is happening.”

Jade Coyle (13) coaxed her younger sister, Jenna, into attending the work-shop.

“I’ve always liked the fantasy makeup, so I wanted to come and learn how to do some of the makeup,” Jade said. “It is interesting to learn about the different types of makeup and how much you should use, instead of just putting it everywhere.

“I really liked putting makeup on my sister. I just put it all over her face. She kind of didn’t want to do it, so now she’s taking her revenge out on me by

Summit revealsradical possibilities for rail transportBy Phil Cerroni

At the 15th Annual Transportation and Infra-structure Summit presented at the Irving Convention Center Aug. 14-17, one of the most widely discussed topics was the plan to install a high-speed rail in Texas … by 2020.

Irving City Council Member, Roy Santoscoy, enumerated on the benefits a high-speed railroad would have on Irving.

“I think because of our location here in Irving be-ing right next to an international airport, being halfway in the middle of the state of Texas, halfway between the two coasts, we have a logistic spot that transportation and infrastructure both are interested in. Whether it’s commuter traffic automobile or airplanes or rail line or waterways, I think Irving needs to stay abreast of everything that’s going on. By having the summit here

By Phil CerroniThere is a group of epicures

which has existed almost unbe-knownst to the people they serve ev-ery day. They are everywhere: you see them in restaurants, you read about them in the newspaper but unless you know their secret heraldry, you will rarely realize you met one.

They are America’s somme-liers, a small but prestigious group of individuals who have dedicated themselves to the art of wine, and they gathered at the Four Seasons

in Irving to for the 8th annual Texas Sommelier Conference (TEXSOM) and the Texas’ Best Sommelier com-petition on the weekend of Aug. 11-12.

Fred Dame, a member of the English Court of Master Sommeliers and the man who established the tradition to America, elaborated on the significance of TEXSOM.

“This event is two-fold,” Dame said. “First of all, it’s to support the hospitality industry and the somme-lier profession in the State of Texas

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The Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District will hold a public hearing on a proposed tax rate for the tax year 2012 on September 12, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. at 850 East Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, Texas 75039. Your individual taxes may increase or decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.

FOR the proposal: Danny C. Opitz Robert H. Power Charles Cotten Steve Bronner Jeff CourtwrightAGAINST the proposal: NonePRESENT and not voting: NoneABSENT: None

The following table compares taxes on an average residence homestead in this tax-ing unit last year to taxes proposed on the average residence homestead this year.

Last Year This YearTotal tax rate (per $100 of value) $2.122 / $100 $1.87558 / $100 Adopted Proposed

Difference in rates per $100 of value ($0.24642 / $100)Percentage increase in rates (11.6%)Average appraised value $411.120 $410,606General exemptions available (excluding senior citizen’s or disabled person’s exemptions) * *Average taxable value * *Tax on average residence homestead * *Annual increase / decrease in taxes if proposed tax rate is adopted (+/-) * and percentage of increase (+/-) (11.6%)

* Single Family residential homesteads built within the District are eligible for an abate-ment exemption on all taxable improvements for a term of up to 50 years. The current percentage exemption is 92% of appraised value.

NOTICE OF TAXPAYERS’ RIGHT TO ROLLBACK ELECTION

If taxes on the average residence homestead increase by more than eight percent, the qualified voters of the district by petition may require that an election be held to determine whether to reduce the operation and maintenance tax rate to the rollback tax rate under Section 49.236(d), Water Code.

and to show the great food and wine we have here. Most of all, it’s to have a great time drinking wine and eat-ing food because, in the end, that’s why we all do this – otherwise it’d be pounding nails.”

Sommeliers from all around the nation attend TEXSOM every year in order to hone their skills. Julie Dal-ton, a sommelier at the Four Seasons in Baltimore, MD has been coming to TEXSOM for three years.

“This is like a sommelier’s dream come true – über-geeky seminars with amazing people. It’s my favor-ite thing – I look forward to it every year,” Dalton said. “Wine is the most multi-disciplinary subject there is. It’s exciting to be able to talk about

the weather, religion, biochemistry, taxonomy and geology in one conver-sation. No meal is complete without wine – to be able to talk about that all day long –who wouldn’t want to be able to do that?”

Although it takes a lifetime to become a true master sommelier, even at the entry level, certified and advanced certified sommeliers are vigorously tested to prove their worthiness to serve as the moral compass of America wine drinkers and restaurant goers. Mike De La Vega, a certified sommelier at Biga on the Banks in San Antonio talked about some of the tasks that aspiring sommeliers must face.

“Level 1 is a seventy-two to seventy-five question theory exami-nation all on paper,” Biga said. “Level 2 is a very similar theory examination on paper followed by one white and

one red in a blind setting. You deduct what the wine isn’t to determine what the wine possibly is. The third scenario in level 2 is the service ex-amination in which you enter a room and you have Master Sommeliers at a circular table as if they were in a dining setting asking you questions off the top of their heads such as how do you make a Sidecar or what’s in a Cosmopolitan. Wine, liquor, beer, sake, cigars – a Master is a walking encyclopedia of beverages in the restaurant setting.”

De La Vega was also one of the participants in this year’s Texas’ Best Sommelier competition, which besides being a chance for young sommeliers to face off with each other, is a scholarship opportunity for continuing education in the field. He revealed some of the rigorous chal-lenges competitors were subjected to.

“When I walked into my theo-retical examination, it was a four page exam, fifty to sixty very difficult and particular questions that your average clientele are not asking for,” De La Vega said. “The second part of our examination had to do with our blind setting. The blind setting that I experienced yesterday was two whites and two reds in front of me on a table with a panel of four Master Sommeliers. The third part was a service examination where the Master Sommelier would say “I’m going to have a Sidecar to start off with as an aperitif; make it - the bar’s right there.’”

Although it might be easy for sommeliers to put on airs of superior-ity, Dame said that this is completely contrary to what being a sommelier is all about.

“Wine is fun. It’s not a challenge, it’s not an exercise, it’s not a board game,” he said. “The real adventure of wine is the fact that it’s not the same. It’s not like going to buy ‘X’ brand of beer because it’s what you’ve been drinking for the last twenty years of your life. Even if you buy the same brand of wine, every vintage is going to change. You never have the same experience twice, and I think that’s really a cool thing.”

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The Irving Hispanic Chamber announced that Lourdes Campero, owner of Forever Tiles, was named 2012 Texas Hispanic Woman of the Year by TAMACC (Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce).

Mrs. Campero opened her business in 2009 and is growing at a significant and steady pace. She started with a flooring showroom that showcased her flooring designs that were inspired by her native Mexico and although she knew basic English she was inspired to perfect the lan-guage as best she could to better help her communicate with potential clients.

Because of her dedication to her business, profes-sionalism, and quality of work, she treats each of her clients as potential representatives. She understands how important ‘word of mouth’ is.

Lourdes is a member of the Irving Hispanic Chamber

of Commerce (IHCC) and also serves as on the Board of Directors. She leads weekly Christian Woman’s Leader-ship classes focusing on immigrant families at St. Francis and St. Ann’s Catholic Parish and volunteers at Pierce Early Childhood School and serves as a room mom at The Highlands School. Lourdes knows how important it is to volunteer and leads by example for her children.

The Irving Hispanic Chamber nominated Lourdes Campero because of her dedication to her business, her community and going above and beyond to assist in the economic growth our economy.

“Lourdes is a reflection of the entrepreneur spirit and serves as a business woman that has managed to successfully compete in a male dominated industry,” said Asusena Resendiz, President of the Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Source: Irving Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

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The Irving Flood Control District, Section III, will hold a public hearing on a proposed tax rate for the tax year 2012 on September 10, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at 201 Red River Trail, Irving, Texas 75063. Your individual taxes may increase or decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.

FOR the proposal: Kim Andres Chris Calvery Mazhar Islamraja William CorreaAGAINST the proposal: PRESENT and not voting: NoneABSENT: Chris Wallace



Difference in rates per $100 of value $0.005219Percentage increase in rates 3.9%Average appraised value $236,115 $234,915General exemptions available (excluding senior citizen’s or disabled person’s exemptions) 41,510 40,649Average taxable value 194,605 194,266Tax on average residence homestead $260.77 $270.46Annual increase / decrease in taxes if proposed tax rate is adopted (+/-) $9.69 and percentage of increase (+/-) 3.7%




The Irving Flood Control District, Section I, will hold a public hearing on a proposed tax rate for the tax year 2012 on September 11, 2012, at 11:30 a.m. at the Haggar Board Room, Haggar Building, University of Dallas, 1845 E. Northgate Dr., Irving, Texas 75062. Your individual taxes may increase or decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.

FOR the proposal: Vera Spruill Patrick Daly Phil Forte Robert Galecke Gary Weinberger Jon SchneiderAGAINST the proposal: NonePRESENT and not voting: NoneABSENT: Gary Swink



Difference in rates per $100 of value $0.04Percentage increase in rates 9.3%Average appraised value * *General exemptions available (excluding senior citizen’s or disabled person’s exemptions) * *Average taxable value * *Tax on average residence homestead * *Annual increase / decrease in taxes if proposed tax rate is adopted (+/-) * and percentage of increase (+/-) 9.3%

* There are no residence homesteads within Irving Flood Control District, Section I.



A man from Irving was sentenced Aug. 9 to 20 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release fol-lowing his guilty plea in April 2012 to child pornography charges. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

Hugo Magdaleno, 27, has been in custody since his March arrest in Houston. He pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography, and one count of trans-porting and shipping child pornography.

According to documents filed in the case, Mag-daleno admitted that he used file-sharing software to trade images of child pornography, including images of prepubescent minors and sadistic, masochistic or other violent images involving minors. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a search warrant at Magdaleno’s home in January 2008.

The forensic analysis they performed on his seized com-puter equipment revealed more than 6,000 images and hundreds of videos of child pornography.

HSI conducted this investigation. Assistant U.S. At-torney Lisa Miller, Northern District of Texas, prosecuted this case.

This investigation was part of Operation Predator, a nationwide HSI initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders and child sex traffickers.

HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2ICE or by completing its online tip form.

Both are staffed around the clock by investigators.Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Irving man sentenced in child pornography case

The Obama Administration re-cently announced that it won’t allow infrastructure funds to sit idle as a result of stalled earmark projects at a time when hundreds of thousands of construction workers are looking for work. U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making over $470 million in unspent earmarks imme-diately available to states for projects that will create jobs and help improve transportation across the country.

“My administration will con-tinue to do everything we can to put Americans back to work,” said President Barack Obama. “We’re not going to let politics stand between construction workers and good jobs repairing our roads and bridges.”

“We are freeing up these funds so states can get down to the business of moving transportation projects forward and putting our friends and neighbors back to work,” said Secre-tary LaHood.

President Obama has vowed to veto any bill that comes to his desk with earmarks and would support legislation to permanently ban ear-marks. But $473 million in highway earmarks from FY2003-2006 appro-priations acts remain unspent years later. Those acts contain provisions that authorize the Secretary to make the unused funds available for eli-gible surface transportation projects. State departments of transportation will now have the ability to use their unspent earmarked highway funds, some of which are nearly 10 years old, on any eligible highway, transit, passenger rail, or port project.

States must identify the projects they plan to use the funds for by Oct. 1, and must obligate them by Dec. 31, 2012.

“Particularly in these difficult fiscal times, states will be able to put these dollars to good use,” said Federal Highway Administrator Vic-

tor Mendez. “These funds will create jobs in the short term and help bring about what President Obama called ‘an America built to last.’”

To ensure that this funding is quickly put to good use to improve our nation’s infrastructure, funds not obligated by the Dec. 31 deadline will be proportionally redistributed in FY 2013 to states that met the deadline.Source: U.S. Department of Transportation

‘Use it or lose it’ action may help put people to work

Irving says no to sprayingI find it unconscionable that

Irving city leaders have said no to aerial spraying for West Nile virus, and thus put all residents lives at risk.

To quote Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings “...the biggest risk to hu-man health is to not go ahead with aerial fogging...”. It is astounding that Irving’s leaders apparently think they are smarter than Dallas County leaders and virtually all other city leaders within Dallas County.

As a 30 year Irving resident, I implore the city’s decision makers this one time to pull their collective heads out of the sand.

Donald Wheeler

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER DESIGNATIONOF AN AREA AS REINVESTMENT ZONE #37 PURSUANT TO

TEXAS TAX CODE, CHAPTER 312, AND OTHER RELEVANT STATUTES.

The Board of Directors of Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District does hereby give notice that a public hearing will be considered on the 12th day of Sep-tember, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. o’clock at the following location:

850 E. Las Colinas Blvd.Irving, TX 75039

for the purpose of considering the designation of the hereinafter described property as Reinvestment Zone #37 pursuant to the Texas Tax Code, Chapter 312 and other relevant statutes:

Legal Description:1501 West Royal Lane

5.9031 AcresIrving, Texas 75039

The Board of Directors, at the same meeting, will consider entering into a Tax Abatement Agreement with State Bank of Texas/US Oncology Corporate, Inc.

At the hearing, all interested persons shall be entitled to speak and present evidence for or against the designation.

Any party desiring additional information relative to the hearing may contact Kenneth R. Heffley, Tax Collector for Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District at 972-556-0625, ext, 25.

Executed this 15th day of August, 2012. Kenneth R. Heffley Tax Collector Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District

TXU Solar Day shines a light on conservationBy Phil Cerroni

Every year, TXU Energy, one of Dallas’ local energy suppliers, holds a special event for the children of their employees. It is called Solar Day, and it is meant to teach kids ways that they can help sustain our energy resources.

For the past four years, five doz-en kids ranging from kindergarten to seventh grade visit TXU’s headquar-ters on Sierra Dr. in Irving to learn how solar energy works through workshops like using light to power a motor or experiments in reflective vs. absorbent surfaces. There were also just for fun stations where kids could get their nails painted with a polish that changed when it was exposed to the sun’s rays. Even the nail polish had a point as it demonstrated the energy transfer of the sun.

Juan Elizondo is responsible for corporate communication at TXU and was more than happy to elabo-rate on the importance of events like this to spread awareness.

“It’s a great way to connect our kids to what their parents do, and really help make a connection to the importance of power,” Elizondo said. “Our hope is that they bring it out to their friends. Most kids, especially this age, have science fair projects that they have to do, so we hope it gives them some ideas; and it gives them some good habits out into the community.”

Elizondo continued to share some of the way that adults can be sustainable as well, especially during a Texas summer.

“For most houses, fifty or sixty percent of the energy is going to your air conditioning,” he said im-pressively. “So by controlling the air conditioning, you can really get some great savings.

“We really advocate program-mable thermostats, because even if you’re not going to waste any money by turning it off and turning it back on when you get home, you don’t’ want to get home to a hot house.”

Contrary to some opinions, cooling a house down when it is hot actually does save power.

“It does not take more energy to cool it back down. In some cases it might take less than leaving the air conditioning on all day. Gener-ally speaking, you get home in the evening it’s not as hot as it is all day, and you haven’t been running it all day long. So the consumption is going to be equal if not less.”

Not all conservation techniques are equal, however, and Elizondo was quick to point out some of the most common urban legends about beating the heat.

“People leave fans on thinking that’s going to cool down their house. It really doesn’t. A ceiling fan or an oscillating fan makes us feel cooler, and the only way we feel cooler is

if we’re in the room with it. It’s an urban myth that if you leave the fans on it cools the house and lowers your bill. It really doesn’t; it uses power for no good reason.”

One surprising fact Elizondo revealed was that energy companies want customers to use less of their product.

“To us it’s very important that our customers understand the power that they’re using - what they’re pay-ing for, where they might be able to conserve,” he said. “Not only is that good for the entire state because of generation issues, but also because you don’t want to pay for power that’s not benefiting your family but is running in your home when you’re not there.

“We want to be a good advisor; we want to be somebody you can trust, and if we are helping you to conserve, we feel that creates a good relationship. A good, long relation-ship is better for us, is better for the customer.”

Michelle Due, a TXU employee,

brought her son Nicholas to Solar Day for the second time. She says that he enjoys the activities, and she ap-preciates the information it teaches.

“They can learn what they can do with the sun, the energy they can cre-ate, how they can save other forms of electricity using solar power instead,” Due said.

They have already put some of these practices into place in their own home.

“We don’t use the lights during the daytime – we have lots of win-dows so we use the sunlight most of the time. We don’t’ even turn the light on till it gets dark,” she said.

Melanie Harper, a veteran teacher of 30 years, now participates in the NEED Program (National Energy Educational Development Program) which works with parents students, teachers, and government to build an energy conscious society that understands how to conserve so it is sustainable for the future.

“It’s important that they under-stand that they need to unplug their cell phone charger so that it’s not using energy when it’s not using the phone,” Harper said referring to the students at the event. “If we give them little tips like that, it teaches them conservation and sustainability for the future.”

Although some of these kids were just leaving grade school, Harp-er was adamant that these lessons were completely appropriate to them.

“We are not going to run out of the sun’s radiant energy, so it’s im-portant to teach them that is a viable resource to use, that it’s renewable. That can help us not to use so many non-renewable sources of energy, which conserves natural resources for future generations,” she said. “They’re young. We’re planting seeds.”

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School Zones – Most have flash-ing signals to alert you of their loca-tions, but some only have signs with times so be aware of school zone loca-tions. The speed limit in school zones

is 20 mph unless otherwise posted. Remember to slow to the posted speed before entering the zone.

Cell Phone Use Prohibited – The use of cell phones while driving in active Irving school zones is prohib-ited, except for emergency contact with police/fire/emergency medical personnel. This ordinance was en-acted to reduce driver distraction and enhance the safety of pedestrians and motorists alike by preventing motor-ists from engaging in calls, talking, dialing or listening on a hand-held

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Irving since 1959, and the owner of Perkins Jewelry Store for 28 years. He is survived by his two daughters,

Ginger Conoley of Irving and Kathy Eager of Alma, Missouri; two sons, Monte Perkins and w i f e , L y n d a of Irving and Dana Perkins

and wife, Trisha of Corinth, Texas; 14 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren and one great grandchild. Private family services will be held at a later date. Funeral services conducted under the direction of Restland Coppell Chapel.

Dovie Jean BalesDovie Jean Bales, a resident

of Irving since 1962, passed away Sunday, August 12, 2012. She was

born March 23, 1928 in Abilene. She enjoyed q u i l t i n g , p a i n t i n g , a n d w a s a n accomplished musician. Dovie is preceded in

death by her parents, husband of 63 years, Alfred Tennyson Bales, son Gerald Bales, and grandson Brian Ward, and is survived by her children John Bales of Hico, Diana Bales of California, Edwin Bales of California, Amy Ward of Royse City; 15 grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; brothers Kokey Ohlhausen and David Ohlhausen; and sisters Flora Bird, Betty White, and Dolly Ostlien. Graveside inurnment services were held at 10 AM Saturday, August 18, 2012 at Shady Grove Cemetery in Grand Prairie with Grady King officiating.

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“All the bigwig harmonica players are here, sort of the who’s who. It’s a great place to learn and to make new friends,” Street said. “During the daytime you’ve got your choice of seminars and workshops where professionals are sitting there breaking down steps for you, or they teach you everything from technique to equipment you can use; even tuning and fixing harmonicas. There’s so much that I’ve absorbed in this short week.”

Like many people at the convention, Street’s love for the harmonica goes far beyond a single genre of music or looking cool.

“I wanted to be different, but it quickly grew into lov-ing the instrument, loving the whole blues history behind that –trying to develop and preserve it as an American art form,” he said.

One reason that Robert Logan came to the conven-tion was to discover new styles of harmonica music that he would not otherwise have been exposed to.

“Today I was sitting at a table in one of the seminars, and a guy was telling me all about – he called it old time music – it’s fiddle music, but I’d never been exposed to that before. The tunes and the rhythm are different than the blues, and I’ll go home and try some of it – see how close I can get,” Logan said.

Sixteen-year-old Norman Patton was one of five recipients of SPAH’s youth grant.

“They took five young people who were playing the harmonica and helped give them rooms so they could be at SPAH to show what young people are doing and show older people hope that there are young people who also play harmonica,” Patton said.

Passing on the harmonica’s legacy was a desire shared by many of the convention’s participants.

“One guy who is in college is playing the same song that a guy in his 80’s is playing,” said Rob Fletcher, a chord

harmonica player. “They have different takes, but at the same time there’s a common ground.”

Joe Filisko’s story is a great example of what life could be like for anyone who does plays harmonica. At this time, he is not only a masterful maker of custom harmonicas, but he is also a very successful musician.

“When I was in high school I fell in love with the guitar,” Filisko said. “When I got into college I developed a very strong interest in American roots music and blues and that got me really listening to the harmonica. And the harmonica became, from that point on, my love and affection. I pursued the art of harmonica player rather feverishly.

“In 1992, a couple things happened. I started teach-ing at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and I was also recognized by the Associated Press for the high end, high performance, harmonicas I was building. It was really the beginning of an international career for me. I went to my first World harmonica Festival in 1991 and became a featured performer in 2001. I didn’t really start recording too much until 2006.”

But Filisko says that playing as a professional is no different than playing as an amateur. This was not just something he said, however. He was jamming with the rest of convention’s participants in the hotel lobby at 11 p.m. the last night of the convention.

“Music is music,” he said. “People want to listen; people are into it. They’re a lot of people really express-ing themselves.”

Dallas is shaping itself to be a major destination of American music. From its historic piece of blues history that is Deep Ellum, to the world-class steel guitar manu-facturers based here, to events like the SPAH convention. The trend appears to be on the rise, and with new means of transportation like the DART Orange Line, that just make it much easier for residents from all parts of the Metroplex to expose themselves to this amazing music that is so much a part of our heritage.

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the crosswalk. Please be aware of the crossing guard locations and always wait for their signal before proceeding.

Students Walking to/from School – Parents, be aware of the route your child will take if walking to and from school. Walk the route with them in order to familiarize both you and your child with possible hazards and school zone procedures. Also, talk with them about possible circumstances or situations that may occur and develop a plan of what to do if something unexpected occurs.

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Marchant recognizes 45 Eagle ScoutsCongressman Kenny Marchant recently hosted a ceremony to recognize

45 Eagle Scouts in the 24th Congressional District who have attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the past year. The event occurred Aug. 16 at the National Boy Scouts of America (BSA) headquarters in Irving and marked 100 years since Boy Scouts of America began recognizing Eagle Scouts.

The event was designed to allow each scout an opportunity to describe their Eagle Scout project to an audience of over 200 people composed of fami-lies, friends, and Scout Leaders. Some of these remarkable projects included renovating a community garden, organizing a massive canned food drive, and remodeling a church. Congressman Marchant congratulated each scout for their achievement following their description of their Eagle Scout project.

“The Eagle Scout projects were phenomenal,” said Marchant. “I’m very proud of this group of young men. They have demonstrated great qualities of leadership, and I know they’ll grow into fine leaders who will go on to achieve great things.’”

The Eagle Scout rank is the highest honor in the Boy Scouts of America program. To achieve this honor, the scout must earn at least 21 merit badges, develop and oversee a community service project, and fulfill a pledge to live according to the Scout oath. According to the National Eagle Scout Association, less than five percent of scouts earn Eagle Scout rank each year.

The honored Eagle Scouts included: (Bedford) Jonathan Beckett, Matthew Steidle; (Carrollton) Jonathan Campbell, Zachary Fink, Matthew Furhman, Andrew Hines, Charlie Johnson, Parker Martinez, Daniel Milton, Jason Montes, James Netherland, Nathan Owen, John Privitt, Tyler Rozelle, Aaron Schmidt, Kyle Vick, Ryan Widener, Jonathan Womack ; (Colleyville) Craig Colborn, Matthew Johnson, Thomas Moyer, Ryan Obenhaus; (Coppell) Dylan Airey, Adam Blake, Trevor Caples, Keaten Cunningham, Cameron Farr, Christian Frantz, Avery McAnelly, Chris Overcash, Jacob Vance, Benjamin Zill; (Euless) Matthew Schaefer; (Farmers Branch) Tanner Pochmann; (Grand Prairie) Kristopher Kindt; (Grapevine) Andrew Jensen, Strat-ton Szanyi; (Hurst) James Bartlett, Jeremy Bartlett, Thomas Toney; (Irving) Walker Embrey; (Southlake) Christian Barham, Joseph Beatty III, Casey Miller, and Paul Porter.

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Muller Film & Television Edu-cation Foundation, an Irving-based non-profit organization dedicated to educating youth about the film industry, will host a Back-to-School social gathering at The Studios at Las Colinas on Aug. 25 from 7 - 10 p.m.

“In addition to being a fun and festive way to kick-off the school year, this party is a great opportu-nity for kids of all ages to come and experience the inside of a film studio and see firsthand how a television production is filmed,“ said Justin K. Muller, president of Muller Film &

Television Education Foundation. Dubbed “Nightmare Before

School Begins,” the social will have a Halloween theme, because the event will be incorporated into the pilot episode of Who Runs This Show?, an original television series produced in Texas starring an all-youth cast that will air on the Youtoo TV channel in October. The comedic variety show is the first project of the Company Program, a new initiative of the Foundation that empowers Dallas area youth ages 8-25 to collaborate on professional-grade film projects.

Those who attend the “Night-mare Before School Begins” social event will view a sneak preview of the television show, meet the cast of Who Runs This Show? and have the opportunity to be an extra in the pilot episode, which will be filming during

the event. Party goers are encouraged to wear family-friendly costumes, preferably no logos or licensed char-acters. A prize will be awarded for best costume.

The Studios at Las Colinas are located at 6301 Riverside Drive, Ir-

ving, Texas 75039. The social event is open to the public with an admission fee of $10 in advance via the Founda-tion’s website, or $15 at the door. For more information or to register, go to filmtveducation.org.

Source: Muller Foundation

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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:

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we’ve been able to bring leaders from across the country and even interna-tionally, which gives us a perspective that’s not just national and also it exposes Irving to people from across the country.”

Travis Kelly is the director of Lone Star High-Speed Rail, LLC. To date, the company has not laid any rail, and they are using their time to educate government officials and potential partners of the benefits of building a high speed railroad in Texas.

“We think it’s a great solution for Texas,” Kelly said. “At the end of the day we don’t expect to put the auto out of business; we don’t expect to put the airline out of business; we just want to provide a third option that will meet the travel demands as Texas continues to grow.

“High speed rail is a huge driver of economic development, and this has been shown in countless markets around the globe. Transit oriented development is something that is re-ally starting to catch on in America. When you fly into Washington, D.C. you can see there are clusters of eco-nomic growth all around the metro stations, and we would expect the same thing for our major terminals in Texas.”

High speed rail not only brings economic benefits with it, but it is perfect marriage of efficiency and sustainability.

“It’s all electricity; it can be a completely free transportation sys-tem,” Kelly said. “You can essentially plug the system into nuclear power or renewable energy, or it can also run off the existing grid.”

The summit’s opening address was given by Paul Priestman, Direc-

tor of PriestmanGoode, a consulting firm that designs the interiors of trains and airplanes. His plans for high-speed rail go far beyond simply adding a new, convenient means of travel. He wants to create a com-pletely new way to travel.

In his opinion, the greatest hin-drance to current rail travel is rail travel itself.

“A lot of the railroad design you see currently is very agricultural. It’s very strong and quite crude when re-ally it could be much more elegant,” Priestman said. At the conference, he presented some very interesting concepts to make rail travel more appealing to travelers, in particular, businessmen.

“Here you have a first class area that’s also a lounge,” he said while showing a slide of a very well-ap-pointed cabin. “It’s more like a lounge you get at an airport – to appeal to the business customer, probably the one sector we have to appeal to most because they tend to drive around in cars, alone, taking up a lot of space.”

Rail travel is not only about com-fort and efficiency, however. Priest-man says it is a national symbol.

“Trains can be an absolute bea-con of a country’s presence, an ex-ample of great design and engineer-ing,” he said.

This is not just some ideological selling point. Priestman brought up examples of how an eye for national identity makes trains more attractive to travelers.

“It has to have the right char-acteristics, the right cultural under-standing. If you’re designing a train in China, you always have to have hot water in the vestibules at the ends of the trains because everybody likes drinking tea. When designing a train in New Zealand, we weren’t designing bike racks, we were designing surf-board racks,” Priestman said.

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shop bring people into the library and encourage reading, according to Debra Miller, the West Irving Li-brary’s Volunteer Coordinator.

“Off and on throughout the year, we are doing more drama related projects, because theater is a good gateway to literacy,” Miller said. “There are kids who couldn’t care less about reading, but you give them a chance to perform and with a script

in their hands all the sudden there is some motivation to read.

“Through theater kids learn a form of self-imposed self discipline. The focusing skills learned in theater can help improve a child’s grades and behavior.

“We are bringing more and more drama into the library, because there is a huge desire for theater in this community. I moved here from New Mexico, and I have never seen so much musical theater going on in such a small area. So we are definitely filling a demand, and it brings people into the library.”

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President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Dr. Walter G. Bumphus addressed the faculty and staff of North Lake Col-lege on Aug. 21. Sharing wisdom from his 38 years of experience as a leader in the educational community, Bum-phus’ speech “Community Colleges and the Nation’s Future,” opened North Lake’s 35th anniversary year.

“It’s because of your work,” Bumphus told the audience, “we are being recognized by the White House, Administration, Congress…” Mentioned numerous times in the

President Obama’sState of the Union address, community colleges like North Lake act as career centers for the community. In fact, 46 percent of U.S. undergraduates enter communi-ty colleges, making these institutions the largest and fastest growing sector of higher education.

“It’s no wonder we are often referred to as the on-ramp for the middle class,” Bumphus said.

President Obama believes com-munity colleges will help nurture the economy; proposing the Community College to Career Fund last February. An $8 billion investment in his Fiscal

Year 2012 Budget, the fund would call on community colleges to train two million workers for good-paying jobs in high-demand industries.

“Now you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community ca-reer centers,” Obama told Congress, “places that teach people skills that local businesses are looking for right now, from data management to high tech manufacturing.”

Despite the sector’s growth, how-ever, community colleges nationwide continue to strive for improvement. North Lake’s area of focus: student

completion. With AACC as its mouth-piece, NLC pledged to increase stu-dent completion rates by 50 percent by 2020. Bumphus’ speech offered several recommendations to this end.

“We’ve got to support and nour-ish our faculty,” Bumphus said. “The same thing goes for leadership development.” Bumphus also cited creative solutions such as reverse transfer, automatic graduation and eliminating graduation fees.

The luncheon marked the begin-ning of North Lake College’s 35th anniversary year.

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AACC president speaks at North Lake College

Dr. Walter G. Bumphus


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Irving Single-Family Home Construction Increases 47%

The health of an economy is typically framed in terms of unemploy-ment rates, however, another key indicator is the rate of residential and commercial development. The City of Irving, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, is reporting a surge in the number of permits issued for residential development. These two indicators are good signs for the city’s local economy.

At the close of May, the city had issued 321 permits for single-family development for the fiscal year. This data represents a 47 percent in-crease from last year’s development rates. The value of this construction is approximately $98 million, placing the average value of new homes built in the City at $352,000. “It shows an upstart that the economy is continuing to get better, so I think that’s good news for the City of Irving,” said City Manager Tommy Gonzalez. “We have higher-quality homes, which means it helps the schools and aids in providing for more retail in the area.”

“If this trend continues, we should see the highest number of resi-dential permits since 2009,” said City Inspections Director Gary Miller.

Single-family developments are emerging all across Irving. Exam-ples include the Lakes of Las Colinas—a privately secured community, and the Enclave at Riverside Village an area with 64 single-family lots, and developments south of State Highway 183 such as the Wyatt’s Place and Rose Oaks subdivisions.

Irving Chamber Hosts 57th Annual Back to School Luncheon

The Chamber and the Irving school district hosted the 57th Back to School Luncheon, celebrating the hiring hundreds of new teachers, and preparing them for the upcoming year. The Irving Independent School District, the city’s second biggest employer, added more than 400 new employees this year after last year’s cuts and layoffs.

The district has 4,200 employ-ees, 2,500 of them teachers. Super-intendent Dana Bedden said a lot has changed for the better during the past year. “Remember, last year, we had a huge recession,” he said. “We were laying off about 300 staff last year. We were able to hire about 72 percent of those back who wanted to come back.” The district hired more than three times as many teachers as it did last year. Bedden also said his school district is one of the top paid districts for starting-teacher salaries.

Dr. Bedden also said the district received about 5,000 applications for the open teaching positions. Some of the new teachers, such as Irene Macias, are fresh out of college. “[I’m] pretty overwhelmed, but I’m re-ally excited,” she said. “I have a really great team to look forward to, and I have a really great classroom and already have it set up.” Others are coming from another district. Many, such as Trent Nickerson, are from Irving and say they’re grateful to be back. “I went to MacArthur High School, and my favorite teacher taught U.S. history, so I get to teach it now,” he said. “I get to have fun with my students.”

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Breakneck speed. Split second thrills. Heart pound-ing adrenaline. Those are a few phrases to describe the

new action flick Premium Rush. Di-rector David Koepp uses the streets of New York as his race course, and we get to go along for the ride. Though the story isn’t perfect there is enough velocity and edge of your seat drive to make this one rush of movie ex-citement.

Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a bike messenger in Manhattan. He is one of the best, though many think him unstable due to his daredevil ap-proach to cycling. When he is hired to deliver an envelope across town he soon discovers that there is more than

one person interested in its contents. Including a sordid cop named Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon). Wilee has to use his knowledge of the streets and expert bike skills to stay ahead of his pursuer.

This film works the best when you go along for the ride and don’t stop to ask a lot of questions. The script is solid but can be frustrating if you think too much about it. There are a few “why doesn’t he just...” moments that may seem logical but would take all the air out of the film. The characters are well constructed, and for the most part, skillfully portrayed. Levitt is of course spot on. We have come to expect greatness from this versatile actor, and once again he puts all his energy into making his character and abilities believable.

Shannon is the scene stealer in this outing though.

He plays maniacal to an almost animated level. His facial expressions and dark, shifty eyes are intensely riveting. Yet there is an undertone to his persona that is practically comical. He carries them in perfect balance to deliver a memorable bad guy.

As a cyclist, I appreciated the attention to detail given to the tools of the trade. The debate between riders of fixed gear bikes and those with shifters is played out in healthy contests throughout the film. The no brakes, pedals never stop spinning qualities of fixed gears fit perfectly with Wilee’s personality. You would expect him to favor nothing else. His main rival in the film is a spandex wearing road bike guy (Wolé Parks) with a cocky disposition and an unwanted admiration for Wilee. The competitive nature of their relationship is another likable element in the film.

Premium Rush is rated PG-13 for some violence, intense action sequences and language. This is an intense thrill ride and the action is non-stop. The bad guys are very bad and hold no punches. There is a crazed ruthlessness to Monday that is blatantly portrayed. Also, the language, though never more than PG-13, is rampant throughout. It seems like every other sentence has an expletive or two. It is never gratuitous or crude but certainly fits the characters. Flying through a red light on a bike and barely missing a taxi, it is hard to say “oh shucks”.

I give it 3.5 out of 5 big chain rings. It has all the ac-tion you could want and in a creative setting. This makes it stand out from the other cookie cutter chase sequences. Though it is mainly a guy geared flick, there is a bit of romance between Wilee and another female messenger. That and the reasoning behind the package puts it slightly in the female wheel house as well.Review copyright 2012 Mungleshow Productions. Used by Permission.

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The Irving Flood Control District, Section I, will hold a public hearing on a proposed tax rate for the tax year 2012 on September 11, 2012, at 11:30 a.m. at the Haggar Board Room, Haggar Building, University of Dallas, 1845 E. Northgate Dr., Irving, Texas 75062. Your individual taxes may increase or decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.

FOR the proposal: Vera Spruill Patrick Daly Phil Forte Robert Galecke Gary Weinberger Jon SchneiderAGAINST the proposal: NonePRESENT and not voting: NoneABSENT: Gary Swink



Difference in rates per $100 of value $0.04Percentage increase in rates 9.3%Average appraised value * *General exemptions available (excluding senior citizen’s or disabled person’s exemptions) * *Average taxable value * *Tax on average residence homestead * *Annual increase / decrease in taxes if proposed tax rate is adopted (+/-) * and percentage of increase (+/-) 9.3%

* There are no residence homesteads within Irving Flood Control District, Section I.



The ING Unsung Heroes® program strives to uplift, inspire and honor educators who are making a significant impact on their students and the educational experience in the classroom.

One of the exceptional programs in the 2012 ING Unsung Heroes competition was submitted by Ryan Patton, a teacher at Stephen Austin Middle School in Irving. He is going back to school with a $2,000 ING Unsung Heroes grant. The award recognizes Patton as one of the na-

tion’s most innovative educators. He is one of only 100 winners across the country receiving a $2,000 award to help fund “Integrated Modern In-dustrial Research and Development,” his innovative idea, and bring it to life. He will now compete with other winners for one of the top three prizes — an additional $5,000, $10,000 or $25,000.

Patton’s winning program, “In-tegrated Modern Industrial Research and Development,” also known as iMIRD, is a project-based learning class that teaches students how to create software solutions through object-oriented computer program-ming with Scratch software. Ad-vances in the program allow students to create more in-depth software so-lutions and develop complex games and simulation programs that have a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) focus. The objective of the program is to teach students computation skills through software programming that

correlates with their math and sci-ence courses and to prepare them for enrollment in the district’s high school Career Technology Education department.

The iMIRD course is unique because it is one of the few computer programming courses offered in Texas middle schools. Patton, who resides in Prosper, hopes iMIRD will prepare students to succeed academi-cally in high school and compete in the workforce.

“ING is proud of the hard work and dedication of all of our nation’s teachers,” said Maliz Beams, CEO of ING U.S. Retirement Services. “It is a privilege to invest in the in-novative ideas of educators across the United States who are preparing our children for the future. We hope the additional funds Ryan Patton is awarded through ING Unsung Heroes will help sustain his program and continue to make an impact on the children in his community.”

Source: ING U.S.

Irving educator awarded grant for innovation


“I was contacted by Thelma Cantu, coordinator of Partners in Education with the Irving Indepen-dent School District (Irving ISD),” said Kitty Baker, founder and director of ISAP. “All of our members love giv-ing back to the community for all that we receive from the community and all the ticketing that we get.”

When parents arrived, they presented their ticket to the ISAP greeters, who gave them their golden passport and told them how to begin the process to receive their backpack and school supplies. They had to visit at least five vendors and exhibitors at the information fair before going to the dental and vision screenings.

Jennifer Dickson attends Irving Bible Church and is an assistant principal at Johnson Elementary in Irving ISD.

“I think it’s neat to see the dif-ferent groups come together, the churches and the different volunteer groups, partnering with the district,” Dickson said. “Our kids who really need school supplies are able to get their needs met whether it’s vision or medical or school supplies. It’s just really neat to see the community come together, and it’s fun to be a part of it.”

Wendy Gibson, a Senior Ex-ecutive Assistant with Chase Bank in Irving, said they have handled filling the backpacks for the last two years.

“We stuffed about 1500 of these backpacks and arranged to have them picked up from our building and brought over here,” Gibson said. “Our volunteers are here today handing the backpacks out to the children. We also collected supplies from other businesses, and we did a backpack drive our self, and donated about 200.”

Several departments throughout Irving ISD were involved.

“This is a business and commu-nity partnership with Irving ISD to bring backpacks with school supplies to the children most in need in Irving ISD,” said Erin Yacho, Coordinator of Parent Involvement for Irving ISD. “There have been different events and activities that have gone on at dif-ferent places like Irving Bible Church, Chase Bank and other churches and businesses and organizations. We wanted to bring everybody together and not only get the synergy that will bring and be able to serve more people but also to bring them more.

“So we added an informational fair with close to 30 booths who are talking about social services for the needy in Irving. We also added visual and dental screening run by volun-teers from the community.

“Excess backpacks will be dis-tributed to the campuses, and the schools will give those to the most needy,” Yacho said. “There is an event called Back to School Fiesta at Irving Mall every year, and the initial reason for that event was to give vaccinations and backpacks. But what we wanted a venue that would be just for Irving ISD kids.”

“Over 100 volunteers are here from the companies and churches that donated the supplies. We used the free and reduced lunch list and went to the bottom of that list and invited those families. We plan to do 6,000 next year.

“Food services provided break-fast or lunch for the children,” Yacho said. “(Students and parents) went through the informational fair, then the medical, then received their backpack and picked up breakfast

or lunch on their way out, all free of charge. Volunteers from all over the community came: Irving ISD’s Security Department, Communica-tions, Parent Involvement, and Teen Court came.”

Vision and DentalDr. Stephen Crane from Baylor

College of Dentistry, four dental students, two students from the University of Texas at Dallas, and Dr. Rena Cuba, who graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 2004, performed the dental screenings. In three hours they had examined 90 children and expected to examine about 150 children by the end of the day.

“We are doing a visual, oral screening,” Dr. Crane said. “We’re looking to see the condition of their mouths and if they are getting good dental care. If we see any problems, we write it down on a sheet, and we inform the parents that the child needs to have certain things in their mouth addressed and fixed. We have information about how to become a patient at the dental school and the Community Dental Care Clinics which accept Medicaid and CHIP.”

Irving Lions Clubs were on hand to do the vision screenings.

“We are doing very preliminary eye exams,” said John Stare with Irving Noonday Lions Club. “If we notice a problem, we let the parents know that the student needs to see the nurse at school to have their eyes reexamined. We have a vision clinic set up for Sep. 19 and another one in November where the children can

see an optometrist. They can pick out frames, and they will get their eyeglasses at no charge.”

Stare was keeping a data base of all the students they felt needed to be examined by the nurse, and he said they would send those names to Irving ISD.

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