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Contents July 2016 • Volume 3, Issue 7

Highlights 20 A new chapter

Yoko Matsumoto, the director of Arlington’s Public Library System, has big plans for the future.

24 Once upon a time in the West Former librarian Jerry Hunt has the ultimate Elmer Kelton collection.

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28 Let freedom ring!

Here are some area events that will help you celebrate the July 4 holiday in grand (old flag) fashion.

32 Winning WWII with the Jeep

As we celebrate our nation’s independence, it seems like a good time to feature the little vehicle that helped us win a war.

On the Cover And now, to honor America, we share this view from atop Globe Life Park, where the Texas Rangers celebrated a previous July 4th in a most patriotic manner.

Cover photo by Kelly Gavin

Departments Starting Line ... 8 This ‘n Data ... 10 Around Town ... 18 Scene ... 16, 30, 50, 60 Style ... 56 Dining Guide ... 64 First Person ... 66 Sights/Sounds ... 68 Speaking of Sports ... 70 Itinerary ... 72 Finish Line ... 74

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36 Healthy living

Wellness trends from the medical field, the gym, the parks and more.

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44 A league of its own

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How some visionaries and a community teamed to create the Mission Arlington Baseball Academy.

48 Here’s to the kids!

How the Trinity Sports Foundation – and a genuine Field of Dreams – came to be.

52 Starting over (again)

Gloria Van Zandt has sold her share of homes, but this one took her by surprise.

58 Pop! goes the tennis ball

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Arlington Tennis Center offers a new way for players to realize net returns.

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Please, no black balloons On July 16, 1956, the folks at Youngblood Manor welcomed a new baby

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his month, I officially become superannuated, which is one of the synonyms listed on thesaurus.com when you look up the word “geriatric.” I’m not sure the big 6-0 officially qualifies on either the superannuated or geriatric front, but reaching that milestone has made me more reflective of late. And more resolute.

In fact, now that I’m 60, I have a new resolution: to be more resolute, except when I’m being less resolute or just average resolute.

Actually, I have decided some six decades into the game that there are some things I need to work on. One thing I obviously decided not to work on is fixing dangling participles.

But I would like to be a better listener than I’ve been in the recent past, especially where my wife, Susan, is concerned.

Ditto, with my kids, whatever their names are.

Just joshing. My children’s names are Matthew, Aaron, Daniel and Hannah.

Yep, we went Biblical with the monikers. I suppose they should thank their lucky stars we didn’t go with our first Biblical choices: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Don’t Editor Yale Youngblood Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife.

OK, we never considered any of those other options. That’s probably just as well, because I can picture little Meshy taking something of a pounding in junior high school phys-ed class.

Speaking of poundings, I will not be “pounding the sauce” from this month forward. I figured I should pick one resolution I could keep, given that I’ve never been one for sauce pounding. I have consumed too many Diet Dr Peppers, Diet Cokes and Coke Zeroes in my lifetime. That’s something I’ll definitely work on. In fact, I’ll start working on that this morning, as soon as I leave Burger King, where I usually go to drink a Diet Coke and work on this missive.

I’ll also eat better, if just because my wife said I would. She also said I would exercise more. And cut down on the “golf words.” And observe the speed limit. And spend less time watching sports. And spend more time taking her to musicals. And spend a great deal of time reading any of the two dozen books she said I need to spend a great deal of time reading. And whatever else she said after I stopped listening.

(Just kidding, honey!*) * I was told by a wise person that you should write as if you have but three exclamation points to use over the course of your entire lifetime. I’m going to go out on a limb and say this would be one of those occasions.

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Arlington Iron Benders vying for world titles ARLINGTON IRON BENDERS will be well represented at the 2016 World Horseshoe Pitching Championships July 25-Aug. 6 in Montgomery, Ala. Ed Posey will be pitching Aug. 1-3 in the top class, competing against 20-time World Champion Alan Francis and three-time World Champion Brian Simmons. Fred Jurik and Tony Ritchie will be pitching in the J1 Class, and Gaylin Grant will be pitching in the J2 class. Competition in those classes will take place July 25-27.

Each class consists of 16 players in a round-robin format.

Competitors will pitch five games per day for three days.

There are 40 pitchers representing Texas at the event.

They have heart Lori Helsley and Elizabeth Hostin honored

by MISD for the way they inspire their peers MANSFIELD ISD recently surprised two employees with the Heartbeat Award. The award recognizes employees, nominated by their peers, who display heart in their lives and inspire other district employees through their actions.

The latest Heartbeat Award recipients were Lori Helsley, secretary to the assistant superintendent of technology and information services, and Elizabeth Hostin, principal of Linda Jobe Middle School.

Helsley was nominated by her coworkers for the diligent work she does every day, Lori Helsley Elizabeth Hostin even though she has been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Staff noted that she is more concerned for her family and how they are dealing with the news than how she is handling it.

“She just comes to work every day with a smile on her face, works hard, and takes care of everybody before herself,” says Dr. Sean Scott, assistant superintendent of technology and information services.

For Hostin, receiving the Heartbeat Award was especially sentimental because she retired after the 2015-16 school year. The entire Linda Jobe Middle School campus was in attendance to congratulate the longtime educator who has a deep passion for students.

“She touches hearts in every way,” says Tiffany Majors, assistant principal at Jobe Middle School. “She inspires teachers, staff, and students with endless hours of counseling and tutoring.”

The Heartbeat Award began in January 2003.

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1. One fine equine trainer ... Did you notice that Lone Star Park’s all-time leading trainer, Steve Asmussen, won the Belmont Stakes when his horse Creator nipped Destin in a photo finish during the final Triple Crown race last month? It was Asmussen’s first win at Belmont and this third classic race win in all. His horse Curlin won the Preakness in 2007 and his horse Rachel Alexandra duplicated the feat in 2009. Speaking of Lone Star Park and the recent Belmont Stakes, an anonymous bettor at the Grand Prairie track played the pick six wager and correctly bet on all six Belmont race card winners to earn $702,114, the largest payout ever on a single ticket at Lone Star Park.

2. Farewell to a local legend ... Grace Atherton, a former teacher and one

of Arlington Independent School District’s first female principals, died last month. Her passing came just months after celebrating her 103rd birthday at the elementary school named for her and her late husband, Bob. Grace was a teacher at Speer Elementary and also the first female principal at the school now known as Veda Knox Elementary.

3. Free flicks ... The University of Texas Arlington’s Excel Campus Activities is

hosting a free outdoor movie experience almost every week this summer. The outdoor movies will be shown on Thursdays at 9 p.m. outside the Maverick Activities Center (500 W. Nedderman Drive).

Arlington department part of President’s task force on policing THE ARLINGTON Police Departceremony at the White House. Chief Photo: City of Arlington ment is one of 15 law enforcement Johnson presented a speech to attendagencies nationwide to be selected by ees on building public trust. the United States Department of Justice “Trust is not built during a crisis, it and the Office of Community Oriented is not built quickly, and no matter how Policing Services (COPS) to serve as much trust you build it can erode over an exemplary implementation model time,” he said. “Building public trust Police Chief Will Johnson, Mayor Jeff Williams, Police Lt. for the President’s Task Force on 21st requires constant devotion, a focus Tarrick McGuire and City Manager Trey Yelverton Century Policing. on relationships, and a demonstrated Mayor Jeff Williams, City Manager Trey Yelverton, Police commitment to achieve community goals through personal and Chief Will Johnson and Police Lt. Tarrick McGuire attended a organizational actions.”

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Women’s Health Services is excited to announce the addition of two new doctors and the opening of our second office in Arlington. Dr. LaTasha Jarrett and Dr. Joy Carter will be starting in July of 2016. All obstetrical deliveries will be provided at Texas Health Arlington Memorial hospital. The doctors of WHS provide full Ob-Gyn services including well woman exams, North Office: 1001 N. Waldrop, Suite 505 Arlington, TX 76012 South Office: 5005 S. Cooper St, Suite 275 Arlington, TX 76017 Phone 817-277-9415 • Fax 817-277-0360 Email info@womenshealthservices.com

evaluation of abnormal pap smears, surgery for uterine bleeding, uterine prolapse, bladder suspensions (without mesh), vaginal hysterectomies, in-office ablation for heavy periods and Essure tubal ligations.

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A new sculpture, “The Sea,” is now part of the Meadowbrook Park Sculpture Garden.

‘The Sea’ settles – in Meadowbrook Park, no less Photos courtesy of Women Inspiring Philanthropy

Women Inspiring Philanthropy awarded grants to The Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington and to Dental Health Arlington.

Benevolence squared Women Inspiring Philanthropy awards $50,000 grants to The Boys & Girls of Arlington and Dental Health Arlington WOMEN INSPIRING Philanthropy (WIP), a local philanthropic group of women, recently announced two new Community Partners who will receive a collective $100,000.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington was awarded $50,000 for a new Arlington ISD STEM curriculum that will be implemented at each branch. This program will improve test scores with hands-on learning. Though this type of programming is available through tutor centers and camps, the time, money and transportation makes that impossible for the kids served by the Boys & Girls Clubs.

The second $50,000 grant was awarded to Dental Health Arlington to add 3,000 more Arlington ISD students to the SMILES program that currently serves

almost 8,000 first, second and third grade Arlington ISD students. This program benefits low-income children by placing sealants on six year molars and providing oral health education, a new toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and a visual screening to determine other needed oral hygiene.

“We have so many worthy organizations in our community,” says Women Inspiring Philanthropy President Linda Dipert. “We could not be more proud of our new Community Partners and the terrific programs they are going to put into place with these grants.”

Women Inspiring Philanthropy is a non-profit group of women seeking to transform lives in the Arlington area through philanthropy.

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YUM! Jambo’s BarbequeShack opens a new location on W. Division

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JAMBO’S BarbequeShack has recently added to “the family,” opening a new restaurant at 1724 W. Division.

Owners Paul and Ashton Lovato created the first Arlington Jambo’s at 2502 Little Road. The restaurants’ specialties include “The Sadie” stuffed baked potato, “The Hot Mess” chopped brisket plate and the award-winning “Jambo Texan” sandwich (pictured to the left).

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AFTER A YEAR and a half of rehabilitation and fabrication, the sculpture “The Sea” has washed ashore, as it were, in Meadowbrook Park Sculpture Garden.

The work was created 1980 by Italian artist Otello Guarducci and was donated to the city for public display by the Perard family.

The sculpture previously was housed at Chester W. Ditto Golf Course, but in 2015 city officials deemed it needed rehabilitation, and Schaefer Art Bronze of downtown Arlington took on the task of returning the striking piece to its original form.

The Meadowbrook Sculpture Garden Board provided $1,000 toward the project, focusing the donation on the installation of the work’s foundation. The Parks and Recreation Department provided the funding to complete the fabrication and painting of “The Sea.” “The Meadowbrook Sculpture Garden Board is pleased to partner with the City of Arlington to add a distinguished piece of art to the Meadowbrook Sculpture Garden,” President Sue Phillips says. “With all the construction going on in downtown and along Abram Street, it’s an exciting time. This piece adds to the excitement of the American Dream City.”

The Meadowbrook Sculpture Garden is located in the southern-most section of the Entertainment District Sculpture Trail. This master planned trail will eventually have up to 20 sculptures for park users to enjoy.

The trail starts at the Arlington Convention Center and goes south to Meadowbrook Park.

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AISD is state’s first district to implement eScholar myTrack

TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie distributes shoes to children as part of the company’s quest to provide provide footwear, sight, water, safe birth and bullying prevention services to people in need around the globe.

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TOMS turns 10 Blake Mycoskie’s philanthropic company celebrates in typical fashion TOMS SHOES, the company that inspired the one-for-one business model, recently marked its 10th anniversary. So how did founder, Arlington native Blake Mycoskie, celebrate? In typical TOMS fashion.

He and his fellow TOMS team members hosted “One Day without Shoes” on May 10th and donated a pair of shoes to children in need for everyone who joined them in posting an Instagram photo of their bare feet next to a pair of TOMS shoes they had purchased. The collective act of “bare footin’” helped provide

footwear to some 100,00 children across the globe.

Since its inception in 2006, TOMS Shoes has donated shoes to kids in 75-plus countries, using its revolutionary model to spur the process: For every pair of TOMS shoes purchased, a pair is donated to someone in need around the world.

TOMS has since expanded its product line to include sunglasses and bags, and when shoppers purchase those, donations are made to provide vision solutions and safe baby and mother care for people in need. For more: toms.com.

THE ARLINGTON Independent School District is the first district in Texas to implement eScholar myTrack, a comprehensive instructional improvement system that provides in-depth and actionable data analysis for teachers, staff and administrators.

With myTrack, Arlington ISD staff can use the data to help their students and not worry about the data analyses. In the upcoming version of myTrack, the Arlington ISD can take advantage of the myTrack goals to set, track and manage student goals and interventions all in one place. “eScholar myTrack not only saves our teachers time, but it helps them understand their students’ strengths and weaknesses more thoroughly,” says Chad Branum, AISD’s assistant superintendent of technology.

“A relatively good assessment score or proficiency level may actually be hiding a weakness in a specific skill. eScholar myTrack helps our teachers uncover that and take action.”

The Arlington ISD is taking a phased approach the new program. Last year, 27 campuses had teachers trained, and the district anticipates having all campuses active during the 2016-2017 school year.

For the Record “OTT” CRIBBS was the city’s Chief of Police from 1934 to 1971. Arlington’s Public Safety Center is named in his honor.

IN 1973, a group of Arlington citizens formed a theater group called “The Potluck Players,” because they met in the Potluck Room of Miss Persis Dance Studio. Their

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first production of “I Do, I Do” represented the genesis of Theatre Arlington.

ARLINGTON welcomed its first steakhouse to town in 1931. The Triangle Inn was located on Bankhead Highway.

ELLA MAE MORSE, who charted seven Top 10 sin-

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ARLINGTON COLLEGE was established in 1895 at the urging of Edward Emmett Rankin, an Arlington civic leader, to improve the availability of quality education in the recently founded rural town. Some 72 years later, that school became UTA.

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Running man For a guy duking it out with cancer, Jeph Abara is the poster child for living well • By Kenneth Perkins

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rowing up in his Nigerian village, Jeph Abara had but one mode of transportation: his feet. He ran. Everywhere. To the store. To school. To a friend’s house. He ran early morning, late at night, when the sun was shining, when it was tucked behind rain clouds.

When he arrived in the U.S. to attend Ohio State University in 1963, the cross-country coach told him thanks, but no thanks.

Too small, too frail, too fragile to handle the grueling rigors of cross-country hill running.

No matter. While earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering and later a master’s degree in industry engineering from OSU along with a doctoral degree in operations research from the University of Pittsburgh, Abara ran anyway.

Landing in Arlington in 1979 to work for American Airlines, Abara did what he had always done – run – sometimes before work, Photo: Kenneth Perkins sometimes after, always on the weekends where time was a friend. While a 5K guy, he ran the Boston Marathon, the Cowtown in Fort Worth and the White Rock Marathon.

It wasn’t until retirement from American after 23 years that he organized a race for his Mount Olive Baptist Church, and his ministry began.

People began coming to him to put on their races, and Abara would oblige, slowly forming his passion into a business that helped raise money for charities.

Abara is now the go-to guy for road races in Arlington, mostly at River Legacy. If you run in Arlington races you’ve no doubt seen the slender, white-bearded Abara and his small army of workers directing, cheerleading, tallying up results.

The races he organizes has raised money for Mission Arlington, Arlington Life Shelter, H.O.P.E., veterans groups, schools, churches and a host of other charities to the tune of nearly $15,000 a year. For Abara, it’s not about making money for himself.

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financially to causes or bringing along a friend who needs to at least begin an exercise program.

“People run for a lot of different reasons,” Abara says as we sit at a park bench at River Legacy, watching people walk, run and ride bikes. “They do it to lose weight or just to stay healthy. Some do it just for the love of running. What’s great about running is how it’s a very inclusive activity. Unlike baseball or tennis, [where] you need two people. To run all you need is shorts, shirt and shoes. You’re in business. It’s a beautiful activity.”

Abara, 71, even attributes his running lifestyle to extending his life. Several years ago he developed prostate cancer, which he outran, and he is recently in a footrace with lung cancer (He’s currently in remission.) Amid chemotherapy sessions, he laced up his Jeph Abara running shoes and hit the started running road, going as far as his as a child, and he hasn’t stopped stamina would take him. since.

He’s certain that his cardiovascular system was helped immensely by his overall health due to his passion.

The other factor is a positive attitude, sustained by his faith.

While some might get down over having lung cancer without one puff of a cigarette, Abara knows that “our days are gifts from God” and that it is God’s Will that allows us to get up each morning.

“I believe in the miracle of medicine, but more of God’s grace and goodness,” Abara says. “I always try and have a positive attitude even when I’m in pain or just not feeling well. Knowing that God will always take care of you, you have to be positive about that.

That’s really the secret to living well.”

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Yoko Matsumoto, the new director of Arlington’s Public Library System, is eager to discover what the future holds – and to help define it.

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A NEW chapter

Yoko Matsumoto, the director of Arlington’s Public Library System, has big plans for the future • By Bill Lace

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ome folks’ minds are filled with dreams; others, with schemes.

Yoko Matsumoto’s is brimming with sticky notes as she digs deeper into her new job as director of Arlington’s Public Library System.

“I’m a design thinker,” she says. “I’ll talk with this person, that person – whomever I need to talk to as I’m gathering information.

So I come back, and there’s this big mess of information.”

So, attempting to make clarity of the clutter, she turns the snippets of information into virtual sticky notes posted on a mental bulletin board. Later, she reviews the collection, grouping them into themes dealing with what’s happening, will happen and needs to happen regarding the library system ... and that’s a lot.

Named director in February, Matsumoto “stepped into the role in a time period that’s definitely not normal.” Indeed, there don’t seem to be enough burners, front or otherwise, to accommodate all the projects.

Foremost, of course, is construction and funding of the new George W. Hawkes Central Library scheduled to open sometime in 2018. Then there’s a new branch library to be built in conjunction with the city Parks and Recreation department and a renovation at the Woodland West Branch.

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“I had expected all this since I was already here,” Matsumoto says, “but I didn’t realize it would take most of my time. But I always like to look at the positive. Because of all this I’m getting out in the community a lot quicker, meeting people and presenting on the Central Library project.”

Such is the force of these presentations that those hearing them are likely to come away with feelings approaching religious zeal.

“I was there the other day when she spoke to the Downtown Arlington Management Corporation,” says Andi Davis, longtime development coordinator for the library system. “When Yoko was through, those people left really excited about the new library.”

Infectious enthusiasm is something Matsumoto can’t help.

“When I’m passionate about something,” she says, “everybody needs to know it.”

SPREADING HER PASSION about the library is part of her plan. Just as important, in her view, is that the library staff should be equally energized. One of her first goals, now almost completed, is to have 45-minute one-on-one meetings with each of the 120 or so people on the staff. “I want to make sure that every single person in the library system knows who I am and can see my vision,” she says.

“I WANT everybody to say, ‘This is how I contribute to the library system.’ If I don’t have their [the staff’s] perspectives, it limits my ability to make decisions.”

But these meetings have been very much two-way exchanges. Matsumoto rose through the library ranks on the programs side, starting under a three-year literacy program grant and working up to oversight of all outreach programs. Much of the nuts-and-bolts aspects of the library, such as materials acquisition, cataloging, collection development and technology, were largely unknown. OK for a programs administrator; not so much for the director.

She met the situation head on, reaching out first to the supervisors of the acquisitions and cataloging departments and saying, “I need to know what you guys are doing, the challenges you’re facing and what you’re doing to streamline the process.” She shadowed both administrators, observing, asking questions and filing away sticky notes. She since has done much the same thing for every library department and every branch.

Matsumoto will never, she readily admits, know as much about cataloging as, say, the people who do it day after day, but that’s not her goal. Rather, she wants a working knowledge of each facet of the library’s activities in order to make informed decisions.

THOSE DECISIONS, however, won’t be made in a vacuum.

She doesn’t have a traditional library background, she says, but she has plenty of experts who do, and she’ll lean on them a lot.

Recently, when she asked staff members in a meeting for their opinions on a topic, the general response was that she was the boss and should make the decision. “I don’t want to hear that kind of vocabulary here,” she says. “I want everybody to say, ‘This is how I contribute to the library system.’ If I don’t have their [the staff’s] perspectives, it limits my ability to make decisions.”

Matsumoto’s expertise is education, an area of increasing importance as Arlington grows in both population and diversity. “She brings so much to the job, more than anything her enthusiasm and passion for education and for the community,” says Cary Siegfried, her predecessor, now library director in Salinas, Calif. “She believes in education, especially early childhood learning and is herself always learning.”

It wasn’t always thus. Admittedly “not a super-strong student,” Matsumoto resolved to get serious about academics as a sophomore at Dallas’ Sunset High School after being called to the front of the room to do

what should have been an easy math problem ... and getting it wrong.

That same day, she talked to her father about transferring to a suburban high school to better seek a college volleyball scholarship. This was true enough. Her sand volleyball partner attended Richardson Berkner, a school much more likely than Sunset to attract the attention of college coaches. It wasn’t, however, the whole truth. She never mentioned her humiliation.

Matsumoto excelled in soccer and volleyball at Berkner, winning a scholarship in the latter to UTA, where she was team captain while finishing her bachelor’s degree in history.

She took her knowledge and skills in both areas to Flower Mound Marcus High School, teaching while coaching junior varsity soccer and volleyball. She had a budding career, a steady boyfriend, and everyone thought her path was set. Everyone, that is, except Matsumoto.

“There was something more in me that I needed to be,” she says.

“I needed to explore more about myself.”

That voyage of discovery took her to the island nation of Cape Verde off the coast of Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, as her older sister had been, but the voyage almost ended before it really began. So strong were her doubts that she hesitated even to leave the airplane on arrival and finally decided to exit only in order to tell everyone sorry, but she had changed her mind. On the way out, Here is an artist’s rendering of the George W. Hawkes Central Library, scheduled to open in 2018.

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however, she saw an invisible, yet very tangible line before her labeled “fear.” “I told myself that if I didn’t step over that line, I’d never become the person I wanted to become,” she recalls. “I stepped over it and never went back.”

Matsumoto returned, she says, a stronger person who knew that she couldn’t devote equal fervor to both coaching and teaching.

Teaching won out. She switched to elementary schools, putting athletics behind her.

After six years working with young children, she decided she wanted to work with their parents, too, and spent two years at a Dallas non-profit doing just that while at the same time earning a master’s at UTA. Her return to Arlington made her determined to have a career there. She was interviewing for AISD principal jobs in 2008 when she saw the opening for literacy coordinator for the Arlington library. It was a natural fit, she says, because she had found her calling working with parents to equip them to be able to prepare their pre-kindergartners for school.

“Then, little by little, I became passionate about libraries and what they have to offer,” she says, “and Cary let me flourish.”

She expanded the program to include working in individual schools in addition to at the library. The idea grew quickly and now encompasses more than 30 AISD elementary schools.

IN HER NEW ROLE as director, Matsumoto misses that direct interaction with parents, but sees “my ladies” around Arlington now and then. Recently, at a fast-food drive through, she was recognized by a woman with whom she had worked several years ago. The woman proudly said that her children still go to the library and, even more proudly, said, “I know you, and now you’re principal of the library.”

Now it’s up to Matsumoto to expand her vision for literacy programs to the entire system.

That vision, says Andi Davis, “is for a library that offers more than just buildings and books – one that serves our community through programs that meet its unique needs.”

Indeed, Matsumoto wants to keep and strengthen the bonds between the central library, its branches and the individual areas they serve. “I don’t want to be a Target library with every branch the same,” she said.

She doesn’t know exactly what the library will look like in 10 years, but she knows what she wants it to be. “I want the Arlington Public Library to be nationally recognized,” she says. “I want people to say, ‘We need to look at what’s happening in Arlington.’”

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Former librarian Jerry Hunt has the ultimate Elmer Kelton collection • By Karen Gavis

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Elmer Kelton wrote more than 40 Western-themed novels. Former librarian Jerry Hunt has all but one of them.

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Hunt, who first met Kelton in 1968, says he travformer regional librarian, who once consideled to Germany last spring to speak to a group ered westerns a little less than literature, has of western culture enthusiasts about Kelton’s novspent most of his life collecting the works of els.“[Kelton’] very popular there,” he says. famed western fiction writer Elmer Kelton.

Although he has collected the works of other University of Texas Arlington alumni Jerry Hunt, western authors as well, Hunt described Kelton’s 77, former director of Friends of the Arlington Pubas “more realistic.” Hunt plans to donate his collic Library, began unknowingly collecting Kelton’s lection to UT-Arlington. work during a past illness. While sharing rides back and forth to therapy with a well-read friend, he says the two also shared trade paperbacks.

About Elmer Kelton After reading “The Good Ol’ Boys,” which Kelton Elmer Kelton was born April 29, 1926 on the Five had penned during a trying time in his life when Wells Ranch east of Andrews, Texas. His father, his father lay dying in a hospital room, R.W. (also known as Buck), Jerry Hunt and his Kelton collection.

Hunt became connected with the book’s was a ranch foreman. When character because of a similar situation Elmer told his father that he he faced with his own father’s illness. wanted to be a writer, he said After that, Hunt read many more the elder Kelton didn’t quite westerns, and he soon found himself view that as real work, and keeping Kelton’s books rather than he found himself on the rePhoto courtesy of Jerry Hunt trading them. He also began buying ceiving end of a stare. NoneKelton’s new releases in hardcover first editions. theless, at 16, Elmer enrolled at the University of Eventually, Hunt realized there were few Kelton Texas at Austin to study journalism. novels that he did not own. Stoked by the insight, Paul Patterson, one of Kelton’s former teachers, he began searching for those and anything else by has told and retold the story among Texas folklorists Elmer Kelton. of how he once saw the young cowboy at work on The value of individual books in Hunt’s collecthe McElroy Ranch surrounded by nearly 200 horstion range from less than $20 to more than $2,000, es, one leg loped over his saddle horn with his nose he says. And the lone copy missing from his collecburied deep in a tale of western fiction. tion is a 1956 first hardcover edition of the author’s From 1948-1963, Kelton worked for the San first book, “Hot Iron.” The book, which was origiAngelo Standard Times as a farm and ranch writnally limited to Naval and public libraries, was not er than as agricultural editor. He edited Sheep and for sale to the general public.

Goat Magazine from 1963-1968 and from 1968-1990 “I have been offered a copy of it twice,” Hunt he was the associate editor of The West Texas Livesays, but because it comes with a price tag of more stock Weekly. Until 1990, Elmer wrote his novels on than $800, he passed. nights and weekends. After retiring in 1990, in his In 1993, Hunt authored his own book, “Elmer spare time, Kelton wrote numerous novels and Kelton: One Collector’s Bibliography,” which short stories. Kelton died in 2009. sold out almost instantly. Asked once about the Kathy Kelton, the author’s daughter, wrote in an book Hunt had written about him, Kelton replied email that in 2004 Kelton dedicated “Jericho’s Road,” dryly, “Well, now I know how that little frog felt sixth installment of “The Ranger” series, to avid colin biology class.” lectors Art and Margie Hendrix and Jerry Hunt.

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Here are some area events to help you celebrate the July 4th holiday in grand (old flag) fashion

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his just in: Patriotic fever will be sweeping over the area early this month, with outbreaks of Independence Day celebrations projected to extend throughout Arlington, Mansfield, Kennedale and Grand Prairie. Authorities say local residents should be prepared for bombs bursting in air and clowns roaming the streets on minibikes.

They add that there is no need to be alarmed, however. In fact, they encourage you to catch this fever and offer a number of opportunities to do so. For example ...

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The area has plenty of activities on tap to celebrate Independence Day, including Mansfield’s “Rockin’ 4th of July,” which will feature a performance by the popular cover band High Definition (top right).

Then, of course, there’s the annual Arlington 4th of July Parade (remaining photos on this page) and fireworks galore (next page).

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ARLINGTON The city’s annual “Light Up Arlington!” event will kick off the July 4th holiday celebration. It will be held from 6-11 p.m. on July 3 at the Levitt Pavilion (100 W. Abram St.) and at nearby entertainment venues.

“Light Up Arlington!” will feature a Kid Zone, train rides, carnival concessions and foot trucks from 6-10 p.m. There will be several activities for patriots of all ages, including

face painting, a petting zoo, train rides, great food and live entertainment with American Jazz Composers Orchestra and Firefall.

On the Levitt Pavilion main stage, Hannah Kirby and the Brad Thompson Band will perform. A few blocks over, The Grease Monkey also will feature live music, and the Boomtown Kids Stage will offer performances by Innovative Dance Inc. and Young Stars and Guitars.

Fireworks will begin at 9:45 p.m.

On the fourth, one of the nation’s larger Independence Day parades, the Arlington 4th of July Parade, will start at 9 a.m., and some 130 entries will wind throughout the downtown area over the next two hours.

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“We’re encouraging spectators and entrants to use social media to post comments and photos before, during and after the parade to share their experiences,” says Donna Darovich, Arlington 4th of July Association public relations director. “The parade’s social media tag is @arl4thParade. Expect diversity in this year’s parade.”

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KENNEDALE Though the city has no formal Indepenence Day celebration planned, it is showing a family friendly movie on July 2. “Norm of the North” will play from 3-5 p.m. in the Kennedale Public Library (316 W. Third St.).

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orld War II commanders, including notable Generals Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton and George Marshall, identified the unpretentious Jeep as America’s greatest contribution to modern warfare.

The famous Ernie Pyle, official Army correspondent, summed it up like this: “Good Lord, I don’t think we could continue the war without the Jeep. It does everything. It goes everywhere. It’s as faithful as a dog, strong as a mule, and as agile as a goat. It constantly carries twice what it was designed for, and keeps on going.”

With such distinction as these heroes gave it, we can understand why Arlington Police Detective Jesse Minton is proud of his Ford GPW model built in the car company’s Dallas assembly plant.

It rolled off the assembly line there two days before Christmas in 1942 as number 87,638 out of about 277,000 that were produced to very exacting specifications for the war department.

I caught up with Detective Minton and his Jeep at the recent Centennial celebration of the Bankhead Highway held at the infamous Top O’ Hill Terrace in West Arlington.

BOTH OF JESSE’S GRANDFATHERS and some of his uncles served in WWII. With such a family history, he developed an interest in the little workhorse vehicle while in high school.

After his marriage and with a child on the way, he finally found one near Wichita Falls that he thought he could restore and had it towed home. It turned out to be in such bad shape that he wound up using it for parts when he finally located near Fort Hood the one you see here. >>>

Photos: Richard Greene

Detective Jesse Minton acquired his Jeep near Fort Hood and recrafted it to WWII specifications some two decades ago. Each feature mirrors those used by the military during the war, making Minton’s vehicle a popular highlight at patriotic events.

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General George S. Patton salutes troops from his Jeep during World War II.

how versatile and useful the vehicle was and why it was in such demand.

Ford engineers designed round, recessed headlamps mounted on hinges so the lamps could pivot back and light the engine bay. Below them are the rectangular night-lights designed for travel in the dark but hidden from the enemy.

PERHAPS THE MOST-DISCUSSED feature is the gas tank. It is located directly under the driver’s seat – a dangerous arrangement, one may conclude. But the reason is strategic.

The most important targets in the vehicle were the driver and the gas tank. A direct shot to either would put the Jeep out of commission and expose the other occupants to enemy fire.

Putting them together cuts the vital targets in half. Yeah, war is hell.

Photo: writingasaprofession.wordpress.com Even its name is part of the folklore of history.

Ford named it a “general purpose” vehicle that became “GP” for short. With it is slurred together, the name comes He went to work determined to restore it to those exacting out “Jeep.”

WWII standards and accomplished his mission to do so almost The Germans and Japanese had their versions of the Jeep, but 20 years ago. both turned out as dismal failures. As a result, enemy general or Since then, he has shared it with everyone in parades, veterders were issued to capture the American Jeep for their purposes ans’ events and community outings, with the most recent apwhenever possible. pearance at the Levitt Pavilion featuring a Glenn Miller event on Detective Minton is a member of the Arrowhead Chapter Father’s Day weekend. of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA). The It features every detail the Army needed in the vehicle, and purpose of the organization is to honor our country’s veterans nothing about it is without a purpose. It is powered by a flat-head through vehicle restorations, displays and memorabilia. four-cylinder 60-horsepower engine nicknamed the “Go-Devil” The MVPA also supports legislation that affects rights to coland will reach a top speed of about 60 miles per hour. lect, own and operate historic military vehicles.

The handles on the back and sides of the Jeep were designed You can get all the details, along with links to related websites so that soldiers could lift it out of a mud hole if necessary. You at arrowhead-mvpa.com. can see many of the other features in the photos and realize just

The vintage Jeep is one of the more practical vehicles in history, with many features serving multiple purposes.

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Wellness

Healthy Living!

From the medical field to the gym, from people who take care of your teeth to people who take care of your loved ones, here are wellness measures that help make our community – and lives – better

WE ALL WANT good health – that’s a no-brainer. How we go about attaining good health is a matter defined by a number of factors, not the least of which is the quantity and quality of service providers in our community. This area is fortunate in that it features the best of the best resources. Its hospitals are first-rate, as are those people who treat illness on a daily basis from their practices. Our dentists not only help us have better smiles, they enjoy smiling themselves. Meanwhile, the region’s parks and recreation departments are among the best in the state.

Likewise, the plethora of fitness centers and family centers. Indeed, when it comes to healthy living options, we have more than our fair share.

Here are some of the better examples ...

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How local hospitals stay on the cutting edge FROM EXPANSION of facilities to enhancement of protocols, area hospitals are consistently striving to improve the way they serve patients. Here are some of the ways medical centers in and around Arlington are earning patients’ trust – and awards, as well.

sity testing; discussing pharmacotherapy and treatment (when applicable); and providing written communication to the patient and their physician regarding specific risk factors and treatment recommendations.

Baylor Orthopedic & Spine Hospital From back pain and neck strains to carpal tunnel and sports injuries, Medical Center Arlington Baylor Arlington specializes in providing comprehensive outpatient Medical Center Arlington (MCA) has begun a $60 million expansion and inpatient treatment of orthopedic and spine disorders. and renovation to the existing Women’s Tower, part of a $100 million With top doctors, the latest technology and a one-of-a-kind facility, hospital improvement project. The enlarged tower will become MedBaylor Arlington offers services that include orthopedic surgery, spine ical Center Arlington Women’s Hospital and will have a total of five treatment, joint replacement, diagnostic imaging, pain management floors – two more than the current Women’s Center. and sports medicine.

Medical Center Arlington Women’s Hospital will include 70 post-partum, ante partum and gynecology beds, future expansion to 23 labor USMD Hospital at Arlington and delivery suites, and 35 beds in the neo-natal intensive care USMD Breast Health Center is one of a few breast centers in North unit. In addition to an expanded obstetric emergency department, Texas that can care for patients from diagnosis to treatment to recovMCA will enlarge its labor and delivery recovery area, enhancing its ery, all under one roof. market-leading women’s care reputation. More than 4,300 babies are USMD offers an unparalleled combination of services and support, delivered annually at MCA. including integrative care, nutritional therapy, mind-body treatment, A $15 million fifth-floor addition to the MCA acute care tower will become an Inpatient Rehab Unit. A $25 million emergency room and intensive care unit (ICU) expansion is also underway, and MCA has invested in a $5 million 3-D Biplane, leading-edge technology that allows for 360-degree radiological imaging within steps of the emergency room. In May, the facility initiated a $3 million operating room renovation project designed to increase the number of post-anesthesia care areas and add space to two operating rooms. This project should be complete by late summer.

Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital is one of the few hospitals nationwide whose successful efforts to help Medical Center Arlington has begun a $60 million expansion and reduce fragility fractures will be highlighted in the August renovation to the existing Women’s Tower, part of a $100 million hospital improvement project. edition of US News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” Arlington Today photo guide. advanced surgical options, and a personal nurse navigator that The publication will recognize Texas Health Arlington Memorial and serves as a resource throughout a patient’s treatment. other facilities that have achieved a 75 percent compliance rate or higher in at least 5 of 10 prevention measures. These high-achieving Methodist Mansfield Medical Center facilities are deemed as Star Performers through the American OrthoMethodist Mansfield Medical Center has received the American paedic Association’s “Own the Bone” program.

Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Specifically, Texas Health Arlington Memorial achieved a 95 percent Guidelines®-Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award. or greater compliance rate on all 10 measures related to osteoporosis care which include: educating patients on the importance of calcium The award recognizes the hospital’s success in ensuring stroke and vitamin D, physical activity, falls prevention, limiting alcohol intake patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to reand quitting smoking; recommending and initiating bone mineral densearch-based guidelines founded on the latest scientific evidence.

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Healthy Living!

‘Hassle-free’ birth control

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Decreasing your handicap ACTIVE FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER (formerly Godwin Chiropractic & Wellness Center) has been providing exceptional care to families, business owners and athletes for almost six years. In June, Dr. Stephanie Williams, a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, joined the team, helping the practice expand its reach and contribution to the community – especially, the golf community.

“Our office now has a specific program tailored for golfers to improve their swing and longevity, while reducing their pain,” says practice founder Dr. Kenyon Godwin. “Contrary to what some may think, golf is a very intense sport. On average golfers attempt 20 powerful swings every seven minutes [in] a game.”

This creates a form of repetitive stress to the entire body.

There are typically over 2 million low back injuries from golf a year, and these injuries keep avid golfers from enjoying something they love. “In our office,” Dr. Godwin says, “we have a unique analysis of the golfer’s posture and biomechanics that will dictate the results of their swing. We take the information from this focused analysis to develop the right adjustment and rehab protocol to aid the athlete in peak performance. Imagine if you could play golf more often, for decades to come with less pain.”

Whether it’s golf, baseball, soccer, football or hockey, they all have one thing in common: injuries – usually injuries that can be prevented or restored quickly to keep athletes in the game.

“Many professional golfers know the value of having a chiropractor that helps excel their game,” Dr. Godwin says. “Otherwise, great athletes lose their ability to compete at a high level.

We are offering our program to golfers of all ages to help them play well, play hard and play longer. Our protocols reduce the chances of early retirement or paying for a country club membership that they can no longer enjoy.”

Golfers, take note – and take down this number: (817) 5572770 to set up an appointment.

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WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICES offers a three-year birth control implant called Nexplanon.

“Patients who are interested in having ‘hassle-free’ birth control should consider Nexplanon,” says practice founder Dr. Joan Bergstrom. “This small, soft, flexible implant is inserted under the skin on the inside of the upper arm. It is very discrete and is as effective as the birth control pills, patches, and shots.”

Nexplanon offers three years of continuous contraception without the need for remembering to take it daily, weekly, or monthly. Once inserted, Nexplanon works to prevent pregnancy with a continuous slow release of a hormone called progesterone. This prevents ovulation and thickens the mucous of the cervix so sperm cannot reach the egg.

Nexplanon Certified physicians at Women’s Health Services are Dr. Dawnette Peppler, Dr. Angela Watson, Dr. Kiran Nangrani, Dr. Sheri Puffer, Dr. Joy Carter and Dr. LaTasha Jarrett. Patients can call (817) 277-9415 or book a consultation online at womenshealth services.com.

Patients are a virtue

DR. THERESA STRETCH, founder of Pleasant Ridge Internal Medicine, based her practice on personal experience. While dealing with an illness of her own, she discovered both the personnel and protocol involved in her treatment to be impersonal.

So she started a new kind of medical practice with a focus on the patient. Since Pleasant Ridge Internal Medicine opened its doors in 2011, Dr. Stretch and her staff have built a reputation for providing the highest level of medical care in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

The physicians, nurse practitioners, and support staff at Pleasant Ridge Internal Medicine are dedicated to building relationships with patients ages 17 years and older, and promoting the health and development of patients from young adulthood to end of life care.

“Our personable providers diagnose and treat acute and chronic illnesses and provide an emphasis on preventive care with guidance through routine exams, immunizations, and healthy lifestyle to help you lead a long, happy, healthy life,” Dr. Stretch says.

The practice offers services in primary care and prevention, diagnosis and management of chronic medical conditions, treatment of acute illnesses, personalized health services, and minor procedures. Primary care and prevention includes annual physicals, well-women visits, wellmen visits, immunizations, and screenings for cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and numerous other adult diseases. For more: (817) 635-6363.

Quality hearing healthcare: the best approach THE GOAL AT Audiology Experts is improving quality of life by facilitating better communication between people with hearing loss and those with whom they communicate. This outcome requires much more than a hearing device; it also requires passion and commitment from the provider.

“As a practice we are succeeding in meeting our goal because of expert diagnostic hearing evaluations, access to all makes, models, and technologies of hearing devices, and our focus on the individuals we treat,” says Dr. Lisa Fell, who owns the practice with Dr. Kristin Robbins. “For the last eight years we have provided excellent and com-

passionate patient care, and we will continue to do everything possible to ensure patient satisfaction with our service and the products we fit.”

This approach allows Audiology Experts to focus on meeting the needs of the people it serves, whatever those needs may be. “Our Doctors of Audiology work diligently to diagnose and find solutions for hearing problems and for tinnitus,” Dr. Fell says. “Being our patient means you will receive care that is very specific to you, your individual experiences, and your unique life situation. Our exceptional follow-up care ensures your expectations will continue to be fulfilled.”

For more: (817) 451-4818.

Because vision matters IF YOU’VE EVER WALKED into a medical office that made you feel like a number, you know the importance of practices that put patients first. That’s the philosophy at Kleiman|Evangelista Eye Center. Before technology. Before revenue.

The practice’s patients are the priority, and that’s what sets it apart – a healthy dose of Texas hospitality.

When you walk in, you’re warmly welcomed.

Technology, however, holds a very close second position in that priority list – Kleiman|Evangelista Eye Center’s offices are state-of-the-art and equipped with a range of advanced laser vision correction technology that offers proven results.

The Kleiman|Evangelista story began 33 years ago when founder Dr. David Kleiman opened his first office as a solo physician. Partner surgeon Dr. Anthony Evangelista joined the practice in 1999. They performed thousands of LASIK procedures in that first humble office in Arlington and

opened a second location in Plano a few years ago. In 2014, they upgraded to a 28,000-square-foot flagship center at I-20 and Matlock, not too far from their original location. It houses an ambulatory SameDay Surgicare and Awakenings Med Spa. Why the expansion?

“Our motivation in this expansion is to provide the best possible care for our patients,” says Dr. Evangelista.

“By doubling the number of exam rooms and tripling the square footage, patients enjoy an excellent experience with less wait time and more flexibility in scheduling.”

Most recently, in late 2015, they opened their doors in the Uptown Knox Henderson area so that patients living and working in the heart of Dallas now have a convenient place to receive excellent eye care.

As their practice has grown, so has their experienced team of surgeons and their list of services. Dr. Aaron Amacher joined the team in 2013, and Dr. Kelly Frasier made four in October 2014.

These experienced surgeons specialize in a team approach to BladeFree HD IntraLASIK, “NoDrop” and laser cataract procedures, LifeStyle Lenses and the brand new breakthrough for reading glasses wearers – The Corneal Inlay Procedure.

For more: (817) 784-0222.

Compassionate dental care WHEN DR. AMY SCHOENING opened the doors to her beautiful office at 912 N. Fielder Road in 2004, her desire was to have the Pecan Park Dental practice provide a calm, friendly, homelike environment for her patients.

It is important to Dr. Schoening, who has been practicing dentistry since 1997, that her patients don’t feel like a number and get the treatment and care they deserve.

Dr. Schoening’s vision was to bring another dentist alongside her, and Dr. Stephanie Bangs joined the practice in October 2015. “She has been a perfect fit to our Pecan Park Dental family,” says Dr. Schoening. “Stephanie has been in practice since 2009. She has a very upbeat personality. She likes meeting new people and making her patients feel at ease.”

Aside from routine dental care, the office provides a wide range of cutting-edge cosmetic procedures, including veneers, crowns, teeth whitening, Invisalign®, digital X-rays, full mouth reconstructions, sleep apnea cases and some laser treatments.

Patients praise Pecan Park’s staff and beautiful high-tech office. Here are some testimonials: “Excellent visit – best cleaning I ever had.” “Consistent high quality care is the norm.” “My experience with the staff at Pecan Park Dental was excellent.

It seemed more personal than other dental practices that I had been to in the past.

You were a person, not a number.”

For more: (817) 275-4355.

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Healthy Living!

Comprehensive primary care ARLINGTON PHYSICIANS NETWORK (APN) is a comprehensive primary care service created to meet patients’ everyday and immediate care needs. Whether you’re fighting the common cold or in need of an annual physical, the physicians at Arlington Physicians Network are dedicated to providing high-quality prevention, assessment and treatment of illness.

Arlington Physicians Network blends multiple aspects of the healthcare process by delivering comprehensive care in one location. Plus, if you need to see a doctor now, APN has same-day appointments available. Dr. Signe O’Neale and Dr. Rachel Chamberlain are the principal care providers at the practice.

Dr. O’Neale has extensive experience in urgent care and minor emergency care and is dedicated to women’s health, hypertension care, and diabetic management.

She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has memberships in the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Chamberlain is also board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, as well as board certified in Sports Medicine. Her special interests include non-surgical sports injuries, concussion management, as well as sports injury-related ultrasounds. Her memberships include the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. O’Neale says Arlington Physicians Network welcomes patients seeking family medicine services. “We know how to care for your whole family,” she says.

For more: (817) 987-1172.

Chin fat, be gone!

DR. MARK BISHARA, owner of The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa, says a new product that has come to market in injectable medicine is Kybella.

“This is a substance known as deoxycholic acid that is injected under the chin to dissolve fat,” Dr. Bishara says. “The procedure takes about five minutes total, has minimal swelling afterword and requires two to four treatments that are spaced out for weeks between treatments. It is appropriate for mild to moderate amounts of submental fat or chin fat.”

Dr. Bishara says he and his team perform this procedure in Mansfield on Wednesdays, and in Southlake on Monday and Thursday afternoon.

For more: (817) 473-2120.

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Home health & hospice care TENDER HEART Home Health Agency is a Joint Commission accredited, licensed and certified agency committed to quality home care services. At Tender Heart, all patients and their families are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.

Tender Heart provides patients with an excellent standard of care in a comfortable and familiar environment – their home – under the direct supervision of their physicians.

Tender Heart Hospice Care is focused on the patient and family.

Hospice is about hope and living the rest of your life with comfort and dignity, and Tender Heart Hospice does that. Caring for a loved one and managing the demands of your own life can be stressful and challenging.

There is no need to do it alone. Tender Heart Hospice Care helps help balance the physical, emotional and practical aspects of care giving that you and your family need.

Fore more: (817) 265-0066.

Get spry at the Y THE ARLINGTON-MANSFIELD Area YMCA is a cause-driven organization that serves the community through programs designed to enhance youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.

The Y focuses its work in these three key areas because its administration team and staff believe that nurturing the potential of every child and teen, helping people live healthier, and supporting neighbors are fundamental to strengthening communities.

This summer, the Y provides services that include childcare programs such as Summer Day Camp, group exercise classes, youth sports, adults sports, aquatics and water aerobics, Active Older Adults, the Father/Child program, the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program and more.

For more: ymca-arlington.org

Solutions for those who want to start or grow a family IVFMD OFFERS comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for male and female infertility, from the basic to the most advanced. Dr. Sy Q Le, founder of the practice that started in 1997 and opened in Arlington in 2005, says he and his staff also strive to provide the best treatment in the most affordable manner.

“We are well known as a center where patients find affordable treatment,” Dr. Le says. “We are sensitive to the high cost of treatment and always strive to practice in a most cost-effective manner.

We are also known for flexible and innovative treatment protocols to fit individual patients. Every patient has unique characteristics that we take into account in designing the treatment approaches to

optimize the outcome and keep the cost affordable.”

Dr. Le has been in practice for 20 years and is board certified in the subspecialty of reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, did his OBGYN residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and his fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

That collective experience has helped him become one of the nation’s foremost experts on fertility treatment – and made IVFMD a premier resource for people searching for fertility solutions, as noted by its designation as a Center of Excellence for Infertility by United Health Care and Aetna. For more: (817) 701-1290.

Two locations for outstanding dental care GREAT OAK DENTAL opened in Arlington in the spring of 2013 and has been growing since. In March 2015, Dr. Jackilyn Dang opened a second practice in North Arlington called Legacy Park Dental to offer broader dental services to the region.

“Over the past few years, we were able to form an experienced dental team who takes great pride in caring for our patients,” Dr. Dang says. “Since we have one practice on the Northeast side of Arlington and another on the Southwest side, most of our patients from Arlington are located somewhere in between and have the choice of going to either.”

Great Oak Dental has an experienced staff equipped with the latest dental equipment and technologies, including a laser. “Lasers have come a long way and, like Lasik for the eyes, dental lasers help with patient comfort and much faster healing time,” Dr. Dang says. “We always believe in patient rights and will take all the time necessary to listen to the patient’s issues, needs and expectations and explain all the options available to them, including insurance, finance and treatment planning.”

Dr. Dang said one of the things that make the practice special is that she and her team are a part of the community they serve. Last November, Great Oak Dental began “Service Smiles,” offering a day of free dental service for veterans.

For more: (817) 789-4488.

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Take a trip to the park ...

NOT BREAKING NEWS: Arlington has some of the better parks in North Texas.

Whether you’re a jogger, walker, biker or simply a lover of nature, you don’t have to stray far from home to scratch your niche.

What is news, however, is the plethora of improvements being made to the city’s already stellar parks system, as well as a new addition to the parks family.

In the recent past, city leaders have approved enhancement projects at Martha Walker Park (7509 Sharon Lee Drive), Lynn Creek Linear Park (6501 Matlock Road), and Fish Creek Linear Park (2121

Havenwood Drive). Meanwhile, work has begun on the much-anticipated Julia Burgen Park (1299 S. Mesquite St.), which will open next spring.

And, of course, the granddaddy of Arlington parks, River Legacy (701 N.W. Green Oaks Blvd.), continues to attract and wow visitors. The crown jewel of Arlington’s park system is located along the banks of the Trinity River in the northwestern section of Arlington. This 1,031-acre, forest-floodplain park features 400 species of wildlife, 193 species of birds and 28 species of trees.

For more: naturallyfun.org.

... Or take in 18 holes of golf (or more) TEXAS STAR, located in Euless (about a figurative 2-iron from here) is well-known for world class golf that treats and tests area golfers.

This challenging course has been highly ranked by Golf Digest, Golfweek, the Dallas

Morning News and T&L Golf. The serene public golf course has a private feel with 275 acres of plush fairways, magnificent views, stacked rock ponds, waterfalls and natural woodlands.

For more: (817) 685-1865.

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Fitness facts:

•In spite of what you may have read, there is no “best time to exercise.” It turns out that the best time to exercise is when it works for you.

• Too much cardio can actually prevent fat loss because your body will actually burn muscle for fuel.

• Your heart pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood each day.

Source: exercise.lovetoknow.com

A fun visit to the dentist.

Seriously

FUNDENTIST.COM, the website adopted by the practice, Drs. Hyde, Bailey, Miller & Associates, is an accurate description of the experience at three Arlington locations and one in Mansfield.

Since 1981, Dr. James E. Hyde, Dr. Charles W. Miller and the now-retired Dr. Philip M. Bailey have devoted their careers to pediatric dentistry that is fun

for patients, teaming a caring staff and visits by Adam the Alligator to ease tensions. “We have a fun group of ladies that make the experience for the children great,” says Martha Burkhart, business manager for the practice. “One time, a patient said, ‘Mom, I love this dentist. Can we keep coming here?’’’

For more: fundentist.com.

Q&A on fitness Gretchen Davis, owner of The Firm Cardio Studio, talks about new regimens to use to get/stay fit THE FIRM CARDIO STUDIO began offering a limited number of classes in a temporary location in January of 2015. It moved into its permanent location (5801 W. Interstate Highway 20, #310), in July of 2015 and had its grand opening earlier this year. Here, owner Gretchen Davis discusses how the company’s unique fitness programs provide fun benefits to clients.

ARLINGTON TODAY: How many staff members are at The Firm Cardio Studio (and, if they specialize in particular areas, share what those are)?

GRETCHEN DAVIS: We have three part-time Member Experience Engineers. Their sole responsibility is to make sure our members have the best possible experience before, during and after their workout. We have eight instructors. All hold Group Exercise Certifications, Personal Training Certifications and/or Specialty Certifications in the format that they teach.

AT: What services do you offer?

GD: We offer a wide variety of Small Group Exercise Classes, most of which focus on cardiovascular health. We specialize in unique classes that can’t be found elsewhere in the area. Surfset is a surf-inspired format where participants perform exercises on a balancing platform similar to a surfboard. The focus is on core, but classes vary from balance and flexibility to strength to high intensity interval training.

We also offer a “virtual reality” indoor cycle class. Think of it as a video game, and the bike is your controller. Your avatar reacts to your effort on a big screen, and you can compete with friends or teammates. Other classes offered include Boot camps, Barre

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classes, POUND (drumming inspired workout), TurboKick (kickboxing), Barbell, HIIT classes and Yoga.

We offer Kidz Klub for the younger children while Mom or Dad work out. Older children are encouraged to work out with Mom and Dad for many of the formats offered. We offer convenient online scheduling and spot reservation. Our classes are small, so members enjoy more one on one with instructors and staff. Spaces are limited, so the classes will never be overcrowded.

AT: What is the usual course of action for people who contact you about starting a fitness program?

GD: People can visit our web page (thefirmcardio.com) and set up an account. They receive a coupon for a FREE class and using our online scheduling, reserve a class. We encourage them to come early for their first class so we can find out more about their fitness goals and suggest classes to help them get there.

Fitness testing is available at no charge and can be scheduled most any time. There is no charge for the first assessment, and it is offered at regular intervals at no charge to unlimited members.

AT: What is your professional philosophy?

GD: I’m a firm believer in the health benefits of being fit and enjoying an active lifestyle. Studies have shown that regular exercise can reduce the risk of several types of cancer, reduce insulin dependency in diabetics, help with chronic pain and many other ailments. It also improves the quality of life, enabling people to enjoy being active. I also believe above all else that exercise should be FUN! For more: (844) 284-3347

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A LEAGUE of its own How some visionaries and a community teamed to create the Mission Arlington Baseball Academy • By Toni Randle-Cook

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he Mission Arlington Baseball Academy is in The Mission Arlington Basball full swing. The program, which is geared toAcademy leadership team: ward elementary school aged children, was the Jim Reeder, Tillie Burgin and Jerry McCullough. vision of Jerry McCullough and Jim Reeder.

Photo courtesy of Mission Arlington The men, both Bible study leaders with Mission Arlington, a faith-based organization created to assist people with their physical, intellectual, emotional, and The two men took their idea of a new baseball program to Misspiritual needs, were coaching basketball together last year sion Arlington Executive Director Tillie Burgin. when they tossed around the idea of adding another sports “Taking church to the people” is Mission Arlington’s motto, program – baseball. and McCullough says Burgin was very supportive. “She knew The two felt it was important, considering the area. through baseball that we could reach a lot of kids,” he says.

“We’ve got the major league team here,” says McCullough,

“and I knew we didn’t have a baseball program at Mission ArEVEN THOUGH she wasn’t sure how it was going to come tolington.” gether, Burgin gave the idea the green light.

McCullough played baseball throughout his childhood. He McCullough and Reeder started to look for a spot to run the and his entire family are fans of the game, even joining the Rangacademy. Burgin suggested an open space behind Parkview ers at spring training in Surprise, Az., each year.

Church off of Fielder Road. While it was big enough, it was not Back in the day, Reeder’s father owned the only sports equipin the best condition. There was a sand volleyball court in the ment store in Arlington. He was surrounded by a love of sports middle, which had not been used in some time, and the land was and went on to play baseball in high school and college. covered with stickers.

“When I grew up here we didn’t have a pro baseball team,” Yet they went ahead and used it for the first sessions, which Reeder says. “You know now we have the Rangers, and the kids took place this past fall. can be exposed to it.”

“These kids, for the most part, 95 percent of them had never put on a baseball glove or knew much about the game at all,” Reeder says. No matter. About one The academy plays at Hunter’s Field, hundred youth, recruited from Mission Arlingwhich was a gift from Mike Irwin, who named the facility in honor of his late ton’s apartment ministry churches, attended each son. session.

In December, McCullough mentioned to Burgin that the field needed some work done to overcome safety and usability issues. She told him about Mike Irwin, a Mission Arlington board member and volunteer.

“He stepped up and volunteered when he heard about it,” McCullough says.

Irwin made an offer. He had been looking for a way to honor his 23-year-old son Hunter, who died in 2014. “It was something on his heart that he wanted to do for children – dedicated to his son, Photo: Toni Randle-Cook 44

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“‘TAKING CHURCH TO the people’ is Mission Arlington’s motto, and Tillie Burgin knew through baseball that we could reach a lot of kids.”

Photo courtesy of Mission Arlington

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dedicated to the Lord most of all – and that’s to teach the children how In the middle of each session, time is set aside for a devotional. “We try to tie it around baseball so that it sticks with them,” says Reeder. to play, to have the skills,” Burgin says.

Irwin, who owns a fencing company, leveled off the field, built a “But that’s an important part of what we do in every academy.” fence and dugouts. Other local companies then offered their services It may only be for 10 minutes, but the message is there.

“It’s about more than baseball,” Reeder says. “It’s making a real to help finish what is now known as “Hunter’s Field.”

Academy participants took to the new field in May. Most of these meaningful impact on these kids lives when they accept Jesus Christ – children will not have the opportunity to play in another league. And that’s what it comes down to.” being a part of this program makes a huge impact on their lives – on The men make no secret of their faith. In fact, everyone involved in this project puts God at the center of it all. and off the field.

“We would do it every Saturday if we could, because of the envi- “It’s a God thing,” says McCullough. “It wasn’t something that Jim ronment of it, the excitement,” says Burgin, “It’s what you want for and I did. It was something that God did.”

Reeder echoes that sentiment: “We’ve every kid that doesn’t have that in their gotten a whole lot of good feeling about home setting. You can see them learning it. It really just makes us feel like it’s and working together. The setting of it will “WE WOULD DO it every Saturday if we God plan for this thing to happen. It just keep them off the street.” could, because of the environment of it, the came together.”

McCullough and Reeder are grateSO WHAT DOES a typical session at Arexcitement. It’s what you want for every kid ful for the volunteers who help them lington Academy look like? that doesn’t have that in their home setting.” with the academy sessions, but say The boys and girls are broken into they could use more people who want groups. Some of those groups are on the to come out to share their abilities and field running a simulated game. The others rotate through drill stations outside the field, learning how to hit love of baseball and for kids. “The more people we have, the smaller off the batting tee, field ground balls, field fly balls and practice base the groups become, and you can give more individual attention,” says Reeder. running and throwing.

And while the kids are learning baseball skills, McCullough ex- McCullough and Reeder say they will lead a one-day session in July plains they are also taking away something much more important. and in August, then a longer session in the fall. Both would like to see “We wanted to share God’s work with them while we we’re doing the sessions continue in the future and the size of the academy grow, it,” he says. “That’s our whole purpose at Mission Arlington: to eventually to become a league of its own.

For more, visit missionarlington.org and click “Services.” share the gospel.”

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Worthy Causes (Part 2)

Here’s to THE KIDS!

How the Trinity Sports Foundation – and a genuine Field of Dreams – came to be • By Jim Reeves

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he vision was crystal clear as Scott Heusel looked out across the empty pasture that rolled south from Trinity United Methodist Church to the northwest corner of Green Oaks and Pioneer Parkway.

Heusel didn’t see the emptiness. He didn’t see the challenges or the roadblocks others might have seen. He didn’t even see the 15 acres of vacant land looming right in front of him. What Heusel, Trinity’s associate pastor and youth minister, saw was a community’s most precious resource of all.

He saw kids.

Kids of all sizes, all shapes, all colors.

Kids kicking soccer balls, playing softball, throwing footballs and Frisbees.

Kids laughing and having fun.

And not just any kids, either. He saw kids who might never before have had a chance to play organized sports or be part of a team, kids who had never pulled on a real team jersey, or a ball glove, or worn a pair of real soccer shoes.

Trinity’s move to its new 28-acre home from its original location on West Park Row opened up a whole new vista of possibilities.

Heusel’s vision spawned the Trinity Sports Foundation, whose mission is to provide Christian-based sporting acRev. Scott Heusel tivities for children, youth and adults, and Trinity Sports regardless of race, economic means, reFoundation chairman Bill Bowie stand on ligion or athletic ability. one of the Trinity “I’ve always wanted to combine my sports fields. two passions, sports and ministry,” says Heusel, who spent time as a trainer for both the San Diego Padres and San Diego Chargers before going into the ministry. “Moving here to this new facility in 2012, I saw all this space we had and thought how neat it would be to be able to offer baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, right here on our campus.”

Bill Bowie, a Trinity member and president of RTI, a resin consulting company, caught Heusel’s vision, too, and put his passion, money and organization skills to work in forming TSF. Bowie, who spent 14 years on the board at the Arlington YMCA, is the board’s chairman. Trinity’s senior pastor, Dean Posey, stepped forward to donate all the proceeds from his book, “12 Gifts We Can’t 48

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Afford to Lose,” to support the endeavor. A May fund-raising golf tournament at Shady Valley drew a field of 120 golfers and sponsorships from the Texas Rangers, Moritz Car Dealerships, Hutcherson Construction, JW Neal and Associates and Jerry and Becky McCullough. Former mayor Richard Greene teed up the honorary first tee shot for former Ranger’s president and U.S. Ambassador Tom Schieffer.

“Even with everything the Y does, and with programs like the Boys & Girls Clubs and others, there’s a dire need for sports playing fields in Arlington,” Bowie points out. “This seemed like the perfect marriage of discipline, teamwork, sacrifice, serving others, all those things we talk about in our faith, and an opportunity to put kids on those fields.”

This summer there are three soccer fields and a temporary softball/ baseball field in operation. Liverpool, a youth soccer organization with ties to the Liverpool, England, professional team, has invested $100,000 in an irrigation system and is using fields there, along with the YMCA. TSF has invested another $85,000, collected from donations and Dr. Posey’s generous gift, into the fields.

What Bowie and Heusel envision for the future is a sports center with lighted fields, concession areas, pavilions, another baseball diamond and soccer fields that can also douPhoto courtesy of Trinity Sports Foundation ble as flag football venues. All of this will combine with the basketball and volleyball programs already underway in Trinity’s Activity Center.

“We want to be able to offer the kids who can’t afford to play a chance, to tell them just come and we’ll take care of things, give them a jersey, make them part of a team,” Heusel says. “It’s amazing how a soccer ball or a softball can transcend barriers of language, of race, or whatever.”

Those kids Heusel could once see in a vision? He doesn’t have to squint any more. They’re there, and more are coming right behind them.

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At the time, Gloria was going through a divorce, and her neighbor, At the time, Gloria was going through a divorce and her Virginia Winkler, was grieving the loss of a child. The two women neighbor, Virginia Winkler, was grieving the loss of a child. The two needed a fresh start, so Gloria sold her home on Country Club Drive women needed a fresh start, so Gloria sold her home on Country to Mrs. Winkler. The transaction was so pleasant that the only disClub Drive to Mrs. Winkler. The transaction was so pleasant that pute in the contract was over which nail polishes Gloria would leave the only dispute in the contract was over which nail polishes Gloria behind. would leave behind.

The Winklers remained in that home for 40 years until they both The Winklers remained in that home for forty years until they passed in 2015, at which point their son listed the house for sale. both passed in 2015, at which point their son listed the house for sale.

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Mike and Tracy Talambas have been remodeling homes with Tracy’s brother, Steven Klansek, for the past four years. At this point, they have 10 renovations under their belts and several more in the works.

The three of them make a dynamic team – Mike negotiates the purchase and sale of the home, Tracy stages and is in charge of planning the renovations, while Steven plans the budget and executes the work.

When the Talambases found the house on Country Club Drive, they discovered that the Winklers hadn’t updated the home in all the time they had lived there, and it was showing its age.

The once-beautiful white, birch paneling was yellowed beyond recognition; the fixtures were outdated; the layout was closed off. However, the trio knew that behind the layers of age and wear, it had great potential. They purchased the home in early 2016 and got to work.

Step one in the renovation: open things up. To give this home an updated layout, several walls had to come out. The kitchen was expanded into what used to be the dining area, while the new dining room was relocated. The double staircases – previously hidden between cramped walls – were opened up to showcase them as the statement-making features they were meant to be.

THE BIGGEST CHANGE, however, came with the removal of the wet bar in the living room.

When the walls came down and the paneling was removed, light came streaming into this once dimly lit, closed off space. Except for the original fireplace, the room is almost unrecognizable.

In fact, much of the house is unrecognizable because nearly everything in this 1968 home is new – windows, flooring, duct work, electrical, paint, trim, doors, cabinets, water heater, rails, and pergola.

Choosing materials for the house was a difficult process because the renovations had actually been started by another investor, but were quickly abandoned. Tracy and Steven were left trying to find the same materials the investor had been using, so they could finish the job – a time-consuming process.

“Things don’t happen as quickly as they do on those TV shows,” Tracy says with a laugh.

The kitchen and master bath got massive overhauls, with a brand new walk-in shower, new granite, backsplash and cabinetry. >>>

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Mike, who has a CPA firm here in Arlington, happened to show a client photos of the recent renovation. She recognized the home on Country Club immediately, remembering the grand parties she used to attend there, including one night during which George H. Bush addressed party-goers from the balcony. She recalled it had once belonged to Gloria Van Zandt.

Since 1973, Gloria has made quite a name for herself with her real estate company, Van Zandt & Co. Mike contacted her to learn that, despite having sold her business, Gloria was still very much active in real estate.

Mike typically doesn’t use an agent for his renovations, but in this case he made an exception.

After 40 years, Gloria returned to her old home to sell it once more.

This time, things were completely different. “Everything in this house is

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before The paneling was replaced and the wet bar in the center of the living room was removed; several other walls were also opened up to flood this room in light.

new,” Gloria says. “It looks like new, it smells like new, it’s a totally new floor plan.”

Not one to mourn the loss of the old days, however, Gloria loves the updates and has nothing but admiration for the work that Tracy, Mike and Steven have done. A fiercely loyal resident of Pantego, Gloria loves her city and will never stop trying to make it better. “I’ll never retire,” says Gloria. “I like being in the real world where I feel like I can do something for someone.” She even sits on the Economic Development Council in Pantego.

Gloria’s take? “This is how we achieve economic development, by improving our homes,” she says. We have to update our city.”

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Arlington Tennis Center offers a new way for players to realize net returns • By Toni Randle-Cook

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family friendly variation of the traditional tennis game is becoming more popular in North Texas. POP Tennis is a sport that people of all ages can immediately play, without prior lessons or classes. You can even get on the court with limited athletic ability.

While it’s not a new game – POP Tennis is actually a rebranding of paddle tennis founded in 1898 – it is new to the area. The Arlington Tennis Center is one of only two sites in North Texas currently offering it.

Facility Manager Sheryl Osborn helped bring POP Tennis to the ATC. “It gets people moving and having fun on the tennis court,” she says, “which is one of the healthiest activities in which we can participate.” Osborn says POP Tennis is active, but also more relaxed.

So what makes it different from the game we all know?

(1) The courts are smaller. A traditional tennis court is 78 feet long. But Osborn explains, “USTA and POP Tennis have part-

nered to agree to use the 10 and under 60-foot lines commonly painted on full-sized tennis courts, at least for recreational POP Tennis play. For younger children, the USTA 10 and under 36foot courts can be used.”

(2) The nets are lower, and players use low-compression tennis balls, which are less lively.

(3) Players use a paddle that is shorter than a typical tennis racquet. It has no strings, which makes it easier for players to have control over the ball.

(4) The other key difference is that players serve underhand, versus overhead. And everyone is encouraged to find or create his or her own playing style.

Not everything is completely different, however. The rules, strokes and scoring are the same in POP Tennis as in the traditional game.

Osborn says these similarities help to build a strong foundation for players who want to transition from one game to the other. “POP Tennis can satisfy the ‘tennis fix’ we develop, all on its own, or it can be used as a spring board to add or move to traditional tennis,” she says. “Plus, it’s just plain fun!”

POP Tennis is a very social game with longer rallies and a lot of net play. Organizers say it’s easy to play and easy on the body; because there is less court to cover, there is less wear and tear on the back, legs, feet and shoulders. Even seasoned players enjoy POP Tennis as it helps to improve their traditional tennis game by decreasing reflex and reaction times.

While it’s not a new game – POP Tennis is actually a rebranding of paddle tennis founded in 1898 – it is new to the area. The Arlington Tennis Center is one of only two sites in North Texas currently offering it.

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In the fall, the ATC will offer a POP Tennis class for ages 11 to adult. A class for younger players may also be added.

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Community Notebook

Girls Inc. to celebrate 40th anniversary in November ARLINGTON-BASED Girls Inc. of Tarrant County was established in 1976 as the Arlington Girls Club by a group of community leaders who saw a need for comprehensive programs for girls in their community.

Now, some 40 years and a name change later, the non-profit organization that has been a positive influence on the lives of thousands of area girls since its inception is planning to celebrate its birthday in a big way.

A 40th anniversary gala is set for Nov. 11 at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel in Fort Worth, and Girls Inc. officials are hoping the 22 living past chairs of the organization can be part of the festivities. The buildup to the November affair started in February, when eight former chairs attended a social, which helped define plans moving forward.

“That set the tone for the feeling we have,” says Amy Razor, director of development for Girls Inc. “It was like a high school reunion.

We decided we want to feel that way for the rest of the year.”

Razor says proceeds from the gala will go to scholarships to girls involved with Girls Inc. Organization officials hope to raise $25,000 from the event. That would mark yet

another step in Girls Inc.’s remarkable evolution that started four decades ago, when eight girls were involved in the Arlington Girls Clubs programs. Last year, Girls Inc. served 13,000 girls.

Girls Inc. assists girls through nationally researched and developed programs on relevant topics that help them to overcome challenges and achieve success. The fruit of that labor: 96 percent of this year’s seniors involved in Girls Inc. programs are pursuing post-secondary education.

In the past five years, Girls Inc. has awarded $167,500 in local, national, alumni and 8th grade scholarships to Tarrant County girls.

The organization’s initial chair, Charlotte Moore, is proud of the progress. “As the first board chair for Arlington Girls Club, I have watched and been amazed at the way the organization has grown,” she says. “We had a vision and a passion and worked hard to establish an entity that would thrive. A beginning is one thing, but it takes the continued dedication and leadership of board and staff to have made the organization a 40-year success.”

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Groundbreaking sets library project in motion THE GROUND HAS officially been broken. Construction will begin this month.

And sometime in the spring of 2018, Arlington’s new George W. Hawkes Central Library will open north of city hall.

The 80,000-square-foot, $30 million structure is the fruit of four years of planning and was designed to provide cultural, recreational and learning opportunities for city residents. The new library will feature three stories that incorporate learning spaces for children and teens, a literacy center for new adult learners and GED preparation, specific locations for collections, expansive reading areas, an extensive computer lab with nearly 200 computers, and community meeting spaces.

It has been crafted to accommodate future technology needs and space requirements for library programming and individual and group study. Additionally, there will be an outdoor plaza in front of the building, with plans for a rooftop garden to help attract visitors to the downtown area.

“A library is always thought of a place where people go for books. It’s so much more today,” Mayor Jeff Williams says. ”The thing I’m really excited about is the sense of community we’ll have. It’s a place where our residents can learn about their city. Where a new mom and dad can connect with other parents in story time. Where students meet and study together, where friends can meet and visit in a comfortable and unrushed atmosphere, and where people come to collaborate about new jobs and new business opportunities. That is the vision of the new library.”

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Candlelite Inn candleliteinnarlington.com 1202 E. Division St. (817) 275-9613 Chop House Burgers chophouseburgers.com 2230 W. Park Row Drive Suite A, Pantego (817) 459-3700 Grease Monkey greasemonkeyburgers.com 200 N. Mesquite St. (817) 665-5454

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First Person

Pay it forward Good Samaritans still exist, as I discovered first-hand • By Corey Callaway

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ecently, I had the opportunity to take my nephew to one of his Webelo campouts. This was a family type of outing where parents and siblings are invited. I had all of my gear loaded up, and, due to the chance of rain, I had a tarp covering it.

I dropped by my nephew’s house to pick him up and promptly loaded his gear. He had a plastic footlocker with most of his clothes, tent, sleeping bag, Webelo uniform and his handbook. We refer to the footlockers as Canticos. I believe it is a brand name.

I wedged his Cantico between my chuck box and ice chest on top of the tarp. Canticos are fairly water-resistant – unless you sink them.

Therefore, I was not concerned that his gear would get wet.

And off we went.

It had just turned dark when we reached the campsite. Many families had already arrived and set up camp. There were a bevy of excited children and flashlights floating around in the field.

I climbed in the back of my truck and started to grab some gear and noticed that my nephew’s Cantico was not there. I asked him if he had grabbed it when my back was turned, and he had not. The Cantico had apparently blown out of the back of the truck in route to the Scout camp.

There is nothing worse than looking into the eyes of a child you just let down. I failed him by losing his gear and potentially wrecking his campout.

I cannot tell you how many trips I have been on, how many trucks and trailers I have packed gear in.

And I never lost anything on a trip before.

But we rallied together, had him share a tent with some other Scouts and borrowed a sleeping bag. He had fun that evening.

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about an hour, back tracking in hopes of finding his Cantico lying on the side of the road undisturbed. No such luck.

When I returned, it was 11 p.m., and everyone was a sleep.

The next morning and the rest of the day, my nephew had a great time. We put on a short hike, shot BB guns and did some archery shooting. I assisted with the archery range. My nephew was oblivious to the fact his gear was still gone. He had a great time that day.

The next morning, the den leader gave me the good news that a Good Samaritan had found my nephew’s Cantico. The den leader had the gentlemen’s name and phone number. I was relieved – and off the hook.

Throughout the whole weekend, I was going through my mind of how much gear I was going to have to replace. It was adding up to a couple hundred dollars quickly.

We packed up and headed home and contacted the gentlemen and arranged a place and time to meet to get my nephew’s gear. I had pulled $40 or $60 dollars out of my wallet to present to the man in exchange for his time and generosity. I had it handy in my front pocket to hand to him when he returned the Cantico.

We had a nice visit. He was a grandfather. He refused my money and only charged me to teach my nephew and other young Scouters to do good deeds for others, to raise them with good values. We both agreed that our society needs it more and more.

The Cantico ... it had been hit by Photo: thecavenderdiary.com a car. One corner was busted up.

Two of the snapping locks held, though. And, unbelievably, all of his gear was there, and nothing was broken. And on top of that, because of the gentlemen’s generosity, I have saved face with my nephew.

I have a very large debit in my “Pay it Forward” account.

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Nightlife & More

Sights/Sounds Your resource for entertainment options in and around the city MUSIC: Dailey & Vincent When: July 1 Where: Arlington Music Hall (224 N. Center St.) Show time: 7:30 p.m.

Notes: From the beginning of their partnership in late 2007, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent quickly established themselves as fresh voices in the music industry. The concoction of their powerful vocal blends, four award-winning studio albums and heavy touring schedules has gained them well-deserved attention from Bluegrass, Country and Gospel critics and fans alike.

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FILM: “The Sandlot” When: July 1 Where: The LOT Downtown (108 S. Main St., Mansfield) Show time: 8:30 p.m.

Notes: The LOT Downtown will show one of the more popular baseball and friendship movies of all time.

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TRIVIA: Live trivia with the PubGuys When: July 6, 13, 20, 27 Where: World of Beer (5005 S. Cooper St.) Show time: 7 p.m.

Notes: Every Wednesday is trivia night.

Bring your smart friends for the answers, and your rich friends for the tab.

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THEATER: Gracefully Ending When: July 1-17 Where:Theatre Arlington (305 W. Main St.) Show time: 7:30 p.m. on Thursday; 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. on Sunday Notes: Theatre Arlington is one of only seven theatres nationally to be selected as a producing theatre for the winner of the American Association of Community Theatre national new play festival, NewPlayFest 2016.

For more: theatrearlington.org MUSIC: Concerts at Levitt Pavilion When: July 1-3, 6-10, 14-17 Where: Levitt Pavilion (100 W. Abram St.) Show time: Check website for show times Notes: Performing or playing this month at Arlington’s premier venue for free entertainment are: The Verve Pipe (July 1), Zane Williams (July 2), Hannah Kirby and Brad Thompson (July 3), Family Movie Night: “Shaun the Sheep” (July 6), Buddy Whittington (July 7), Marcia Ball (July 8), Rick Trevino (July 9), La Tropa F (July 10), Oil Boom (July 14), The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (July 15), Radney Foster (July 16) and 68

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MUSIC: Acoustic Sundays with Jesse Jennings & Friends on the Patio!

When: July 3, 10, 17, 24 Where: Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits Cafe (781 W. Debbie Lane, Mansfield) Show time: 7 p.m.

Notes: Jennings is a singer, songwriter and musician based in Fort Worth.

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Timeless Concerts presents Beethoven and Brahms TIMELESS CONCERTS’ “Evening in Germany with Beethoven and Brahms” will be presented at 8 p.m. on July 16 at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (1700 University Drive, Fort Worth).

The music of composer Ludwig Beethoven, including some seldom performed songs, and the works of Johannes Brahms, including pieces for the piano trio of violin, cello and piano and Hungarian dances, will be performed by violinist LeeAnne Chenoweth, pianist Heejung Kang and cellist Karen Smith.

Opera singers Don O’Neal Leblanc and Judith Rodriguez will also perform.

Following the concert, a complimentary fruit/ cheese/dessert buffet will be served, and a pianist will play for dancing.

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MUSIC: Charley Pride When: July 9 Where: Arlington Music Hall (224 N. Center St.) Show time: 7:30 p.m.

Notes: Charley Pride was country music’s first African American star, singing 36 No. 1 hit singles, including the legendary “Kiss an Angel Good Morning.”

For more: arlingtonmusichall.net MUSIC: Todrick Hall Presents: Straight Outta Oz When: July 21 Where: Verizon Theatre (1001 Performance Place) Show time: 7:30 p.m.

Notes: Broadway actor and Pentatonix collaborator Hall puts a new “twister” on L. Frank Baum’s classic creation, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” With more than 20 original songs, Hall brings to life this American classic like you’ve never seen it before. Watch as Hall and his talented crew tell the tale of his adventures from his small town in Texas to the big Emerald City

lights of “Oz Angeles.” This show is great for the family with powerful music and a great social message.

For more: verizontheatre.com MUSIC: Me and My Monkey When: July 22 Where:Teirra Verde Golf Club (7005 Golf Club Drive) Show time: 7 p.m.

Notes: In this month’s Party on the Patio, Tierra Verde welcomes the popular Beatles cover band. The event features a buffet and cash bar.

For more: (817) 478-8500 MUSIC: Space Oddity: David Brighton’s Tribute to David Bowie When: July 30 Where: Arlington Music Hall (224 N. Center St.) Show time: 7:30 p.m.

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Speaking of Sports

A cool idea The Rangers’ proposed new ballpark would be a comfortable upgrade for fans • By John Rhadigan

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grew up in Michigan, and like generations of Michiganders my favorite place in the entire Metro-Detroit area was Tiger Stadium. I loved that place. I was filled with excitement every time I went to a game. Even once I began my career as a sportscaster I got butterflies walking up to corner of Michigan and Trumball.

In 1984, my first year in television, my beloved Tigers won the World Series. I was covering Game Five of the series when Kirk Gibson hit his second-most-famous home run, a game clincher off of Goose Gossage. As I was leaving the stadium that night there was such a huge crowd of people filling the concourses that I really thought someone was going to be crushed or trampled. I realized then that my beloved Tiger Stadium needed to be replaced.

Today, the same thing is true about another place I love: Globe Life Park in Arlington.

In the case of Tiger Stadium, it was, literally, dangerous to leave the stadium after a sellout.

It had become obsolete.

Clearly, it is not dangerous to leave Globe Life, but, as beautiful as it is, it has become obsoImage courtesy of The City of Arlington lete, as well. For the comfort of the fans, a ballpark in Arlington needs a roof and air conditioning. The Rangers have spent millions of dollars investigating the possibility of retrofitting a roof to Globe Life, and it is just not feasible. For those who lament the fact that they did not put a roof on when they built The Ballpark in the mid-’90s, may I remind you that the technology was not great then.

At the time, only Toronto had a retractable dome, and to this day, the roof there is unpredictable and finicky. It can only be opened when the temperature is in a certain range. The truth is: That stadium is so obsolete that it has become a joke. The difference is the Blue Jays don’t have owners and city leaders who are forward-thinking enough to know to replace it before it got ugly.

Traveling with the Rangers has taken me to three stadiums with retractable domes in the past nine months. In Toronto, they could not open the roof for any of the seven games I covered there.

It would not have been uncomfortable for fans; it was just that the roof only opens if the temps are in a certain temperature range.

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Houston, it was the best of both worlds. One night in Seattle, the roof was open. A shower moved in so they shut it – no delay no problem. Then in Houston, it was too hot to open the roof for batting practice, but as the temps dropped, it became a perfect night for baseball. Tens minutes later, the roof was open.

I have filled this space before with my memories of the early days of The Ballpark in Arlington. My favorite memory during construction was the time George W. Bush had to pull me out of a mud hole on Greene’s Hill. I was exploring the area wearing hip waders for a feature story on NBC5, and I literally got stuck in the mud.

My favorite memory once An artist’s rendering of the construction was comthe proposed Rangers plete was standing on the Stadium and surrounding area. field in 2010 and realizing that the Rangers were going to the World Series for the first time in history. There were hugs all around that night. The most significant were with the people who got it. The people who, like me, had been around a long time waiting, hoping, praying this day would come. It was the best night that stadium has ever had.

Clearly, I am going to miss Globe Life Park in Arlington. But if we don’t act now, the next Rangers ballpark might not be in Arlington.

There are other municipalities salivating at the opportunity to build an air-conditioned palace for the Rangers. I have nothing against those cities.

I don’t blame them for wanting the Rangers, but I want the Rangers to stay home in Arlington, Texas.

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Events, etc.

Itinerary Your official Arlington area guide to fun (and the like) July 1-Aug. 21 What: Vivian Maier: Lost & Found (Street Photography: 1950-1970) Where: Arlington Museum of Art (201 W. Main St.) When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

In a nutshell: Maier’s haunting images of street life in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, which weren’t discovered until they were auctioned off several years ago, will be on display at this exhibition.

For more: arlingtonmuseum.org July 1-3, 7-10, 14-17, 21-24, 28-31 What: Planetarium Shows Where: University of Texas Arlington Planetarium (700 Planetarium Place) When: Check website for show times In a nutshell: This month’s schedule features the following programs: “One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure,” “Secret of the Cardboard Rocket,” “We Are Astronomers,” “Spacepark 360: Infinity,” “Pink FloydDark Side of the Moon” and “Pink Floyd: The Wall.”

For more: uta.edu/planetarium/shows July 1, 5-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25-29, Aug. 1 What: Kids & Teens University Where: UTA’s Continuing Ed & Workforce Development building (140 W. Mitchell St.) When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

In a nutshell: Kids & Teens University has been crafted to provide attendees with well-organized and structured Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focused camps in a safe, fun and educational environment.

For more: goo.gl/7ZYaOY July 1-July 22 What: Summer Fun Arts Camps Where: Arlington Music Hall (224 N. Center St.) When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Monday-Friday In a nutshell: These camps are designed to help students develop self-esteem and to develop an awareness of how the arts can be used to relate to others.

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July 2 What: Red, White & Rockin’ Kids Triathlon Where: Hawaiian Falls (490 Heritage Parkway South) When: 7:30 a.m.

In a nutshell: Kids can participate in a fully USAT sanctioned event with two distances: 100-meter swim, 3-mile bike, and half-mile run for the Juniors (6-10 years) and 200-meter swim, 6-mile bike, and 1-mile run for Seniors (11-15 years). The swim will be in the Hawaiian Falls Lazy River, the bike course will be near the complex, and the run will be around and through the Big League Dreams baseball complex.

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Texas Women’s Open to be played at Rolling Hills CC THE ENERGY PRODUCERS, INC. Texas Women’s Open golf tournament will be played July 7-9 at Rolling Hills Country Club.

Some of the state’s premier female players will be vying for the title and for prize money projected to total $50,000. In addition, the champion earns an LPGA Tour exemption.

“Some of the game’s greatest names have won the event in its early years, including Babe Zaharias and Betsy Rawls,” says Greg Griffin, general manager of Rolling Hills.

“Recent winners have included three wellknown national golfers in USGA: Senior Women’s Amateur champions Mina Hardin and Carolyn Creekmore and LPGA Tour winner Cindy Figg-Currier.”

The 2015 championship was won by Maddie McCrary of Wylie, who plays for the Oklahoma State women’s golf team.

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July 2, 5, 17, 20 What: Dallas Wings Basketball Where: UTA’s College Park Center (601 Spaniolo Drive) When: Check website for game times.

In a nutshell: The WNBA’s newest team will play host to four games this month, as they welcome the Connecticut Sun (July 2 and 20), the Phoenix Mercury (July 5) and the Minnesota Lynx (July 17).

For more: wings.wnba.com

July 4-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25-29 What: Studio Movie Grill’s Summer Children’s Series Where: Studio Movie Grill (225 Merchants Row in Arlington Highlands) When: 11 a.m.

In a nutshell: SMG’s Children’s Summer Series offers a budget-friendly entertainment option for families, summer camps, and weekday programs to escape the summer heat to watch $1 screenings of recent, popular, children’s films. This month’s featured films are “Horton Hears a Who” (July 4-8), “The Peanuts Movie” (July 11-15), “Chicken Run” (July 18-22) and “Rio” (July 25-29).

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July 7-10, 25-31 What: Texas Rangers baseball Where: Globe Life Park When: Check website for game times.

In a nutshell: The Rangers’ quest to win back-to-back American League West titles features three home series this month. The club will play the Minnesota Twins (July 7-10), the Oakland Athletics (July 25-27) and the Kansas City Royals (July 28-31).

For more: texasrangers.com July 14 What: Business after Hours Where: Alley Cats (2008 W. Pleasant Ridge) When: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

In a nutshell: After the workday is done, business professionals can unwind at Alley Cats, where craft beers and fun and games are the order of the evening.

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Finish Line

The end of an era Arlington bids farewell to a place that has been prominent in the city’s history • By Richard Greene

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few weeks ago, the Arlington city council chamber, the place where vital decisions have been made that have shaped our community for the past 35 years, hosted its last meeting.

It has been where government of, by and for the people has been conducted in a process that is the most favorable among all levels of government for upholding the American tradition of granting access to those elected to represent us.

In addition to hosting meetings of the city council, the chamber was the site where many other of the city’s public entities have held their sessions, and it is a favorite among state legislators and members of congress as an ideal setting for their town hall assemblies.

A new venue will take its place in a couple of years as part of the development of the city’s new central library next door to city hall.

When the “old” council chamber opened in 1981, Arlington was home to less than half the number of residents we have today.

Our population has grown from 160,000 persons when the city ranked as the 95th largest in the country to more than 385,000 during that time span. Arlington now stands as the 50th most populous city in the nation.

Mayor S. J. Stovall and his city council colleagues were the first governing body to occupy the then-new public meeting room. The greatest challenge those members of the council were dealing with at the time was working out of the financial problems resulting from the closing of the Seven Seas Marine Life Park.

A great many Arlington residents reflect a puzzled look on their faces when they hear that – more than half the current population wasn’t here when the park was in operation.

In the Arlington tradition of seizing opportunity and solving problems, a unique partnership was crafted that resulted in the development of the Arlington Convention Center and the adjacent Sheraton Hotel on the old Seven Seas property between Six Flags Over Texas and the Rangers ballpark.

The Parks in Arlington Mall became a magnet for shoppers, driving an economic boom for a city that was growing like crazy. As a result, the city emerged stronger than ever from what was to become known as its only setback in becoming a major tourism center welcoming some 10 million visitors every year.

As Stovall’s term came to a conclusion in 1983, he turned the gavel over to new Mayor Harold Patterson in ceremonies conducted in 74

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the council chamber, followed by similar events of administering oaths of office to succeeding mayors and council members in the ensuing years.

Major decisions continued to unfold in weekly public sessions that resulted in the acceleration of road and thoroughfare development, revisions of the city’s comprehensive plan for future growth, and the design of capital improvement plans overwhelmingly approved by Arlington voters in successive bond elections occurring in three- to five-year intervals.

When another city attempted to steal the Texas Rangers Baseball Team from Arlington, the council chamber was the place where a comprehensive agreement with the team was approved, an election A rendering of Arlington’s new called, and debate unfolded before City Council Chamber, which is scheduled to open in 2018. voters, who then by a 2:1 margin in the largest turnout ever for a local measure, ensured the Rangers would remain where they belonged – in Arlington.

The meeting room was also the place where a big celebration took place in 1991 when General Motors Photo courtesy of the City of Arlington declared it would keep building vehicles in the 40-year-old Arlington Assembly Plant even though the company was closing plants elsewhere in the country in response to a national economy in recession.

It is noteworthy that both the Rangers and GM have again been on the city’s agenda as the days of the council chamber came to a close. As a result of the city’s support, the big car company recently announced a $1.4 billion expansion of its Arlington plant – the outcome of an agreement with the company approved by the city council in one of its last major decisions in the room.

And then, at the very last meeting in the building, a new agreement with the Texas Rangers was unanimously approved to build a new ballpark with a retractable domed roof to help keep the team in Arlington for another 30-plus years.

During the construction time for the new council chamber, meetings will be held on the third floor of city hall. Then the move will take place, ushering in a new era of guiding the city to an exciting future in a facility designed to further the process of representative democracy that works best when it is implemented closest to the people.

Richard Greene served as Arlington’s mayor from 1987-1997 and currently teaches in UT Arlington’s graduate program in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs.

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