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Building a Dream

A duo of installation artists turned their respective layoffs into a business opportunity.

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METROPOLIS Some residents saw their water bills triple after the city installed new meters.

BY MEGAN ABLES

STATIC Are most police cameras in low-income neighborhoods?

BY EDWARD BROWN

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EATS Grounds and Gold is a fresh bakery and more out in South Arlington.

BY LAURIE JAMES

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MUSIC Snoop Dogg (yes, Snoop Dogg) lends his lyricism to a track by Fort Worth rapper Clay Perry.

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STAFF Anthony Mariani, Editor Lee Newquist, Publisher

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Bob Niehoff, General Manager

After being laid off, two local craftsmen/artists got busy.

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Ryan Burger, Art Director Jim Erickson, Circulation Director Edward Brown, Staff Writer Taylor Provost, Proofreader

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The Writing Life

Tony Diaz, Account Executive Wyatt Newquist, Digital Coordinator

As colleges cut back, therapeutic essaying may get lost.

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Having Snoop Dogg rap on one of this local rapper’s tracks is just the beginning of a NFT joyride.

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Feats of Clay

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A GUIDED TOUR OF HOTEL DROVER, THE CROWN JEWEL OF MULE ALLEY

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NIGHT&DAY Grapevine Film Fest 2020 gets a redo this Sun at The Haltom.

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From 8:45am to 4:15pm today and Friday, explore the topic of Flight Thursday Culture and the Human Experience at the 55th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures series hosted by the History Department at UTA (201 University Hall, Arlington, 817-272-2861).

The two-day event is free to the public and will be livestreamed at UTA.edu/History/ Research/Webb-Lecture-Series.

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From 8pm to 2am, Free Play Fort Worth (1311 Lipscomb St, 682-231Friday 1444) is hosting a hacker celebration called Hack the Planet. The festivities include a free rooftop screening of the movie Hackers at 8pm, a free Wipeout game demo at 10pm, and a throwback electronic DJ set by VIC-20 at 10pm. Allyou-can-play arcade access is $10.16 plus tax. Attendees also receive a free Hack the Planet floppy disk while supplies last. While the event is free to attend, table reservations can be made for $20 at FreePlayFtWorth.com.

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At 7pm, ArtHouse Art Gallery & Urban Hangout (1226 Ash Saturday Crescent St, 682-4325848) is hosting its occasional Muses & Mangoes Show celebrating visual artists, musicians, culinary art, and fashion. There will be live music and vendors selling a variety of items. Tickets are $10 thru Friday or $15 day of show.

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A major local film festival is getting a redo.

From 10am to 2pm, the Sunday Haltom Theater (5601 E Belknap St, Haltom City, 682-250-5678) will host the Belated 2020 Grapevine Film Festival. Enjoy photos on the red carpet, network with film industry folk, see award presentations, and watch a selection of films from around the country.

Tickets are $10 at FilmFreeway.com/ GrapevineFilmFestival/Tickets.

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Even without concerts, there’s a lot more going on at AT&T Stadium Monday (1 AT&T Stadium Way, Arlington, 817-892-4000) than just sports.

The arena that hosts Dallas Cowboys home football games also holds a great collection of art. At 10am any Mon, take a Guided Art Tour for $25. To book a tour, go to Tours.ATTStadium.com/Events.

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Celebrate 420 in style with DFW NORML — the local leg of the Texas NORML Tuesday organization devoted to the reform of statewide cannabis laws — at the 420 Daft Punk Tribute Show at Subsolo Underground Speakeasy (211 N Ervay St, Dallas). This underground dance party is hosted by Shaun McAlister and Giulio Ferrari and features Robot After All, a Daft Punk tribute act. Proceeds from ticket sales, vendor booth sales, and raffle tickets will be donated to Texas NORML. Tickets are $25 at DFWNORML.org.

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At 2pm today — or at 1pm Sat, Apr 24 — Amphibian Wednesday Stage (120 S Main St, 817-923-3012) is hosting a screening of a previously recorded production of National Theatre Live: Hansard, a new play by Simon Woods.

It’s a summer’s morning in 1988, and Tory politician Robin has returned home to the idyllic Cotswolds house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana — the picture of a perfect marriage. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.

Tickets are $20 at AmphibianStage.com.

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Many Fort Worthians are experiencing high water bills as a result of new meters.

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After noticing unusually high bills not long after the city installed new water meters in her neighborhood, Tabitha Williams reached out to other neighborhoods with new meters.

The line between public safety and trampled Constitutional rights is one that law enforcement officials deal with on a daily basis. In Fort Worth, those discussions have increasingly revolved around the use of police cameras.

The Fort Worth police department maintains several surveillance initiatives, including the Neighborhood Camera Program, which places cameras in “strategic areas,” according to the police; the Community Camera Program, which relies on locals to voluntarily submit video footage; and new initiatives like 63 solarpowered license plate-reading cameras that were recently placed in high-crime areas in Fort Worth. The purchase of the solar-powered cameras has so far led to the arrest of two suspects, FWPD recently told NBC 5.

A map of the new license plate-reading cameras “would likely overlay perfectly with an income map of the city,” one local wrote when the topic was discussed in the Facebook group Enough Is Enough, one of several online outlets for the grassroots group that mobilized dozens of Fort Worth protests against police brutality last summer.

What may appear as cynicism to some is the basis of concern to people living in Como, Stop Six, and other predominantly Black neighborhoods. Leon Reed, a retired Marine and current criminal defense lawyer, brought the publicly viewable cameras to our attention late last

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The results were similar.

Williams’ neighborhood, Wedgwood East, arranged for a virtual meeting with the Fort Worth Water Department. During the meeting, department leaders explained that the old meters weren’t registering accurate usage and the new ones are.

“The water department said that higher bills are usually attributed to leaks that were previously undetected by the inaccurate meters or irrigation systems that are using water that wasn’t being read by the old meters,” Williams said.

She believes this premise is problematic.

Many neighbors — in her community and others that she contacted — reported extremely high bills for several months, followed by somewhat normal bills. Williams also discovered that residents were not only experiencing drastically higher water bills but also water main breaks, noises in their pipes, and very high or very low water pressure.

“Leaks don’t fix themselves,” Williams said, “and irrigation systems don’t suddenly choose to use less water, so I find [the water department’s] explanation to be false.”

year (“Public Safety of Over Policing?,” Nov 2020). Reed requested the locations of the tax-funded electrical pole-mounted cameras through an open records request that he filed last June. The Secretary’s Office of Fort Worth, which handles open records requests, refused to release the locations of the cameras, which has only further fueled speculation that the surveillance programs are unevenly aimed at Black and brown communities.

What is happening in Fort Worth “seems pretty concerning and part of a growing trend and problem of oversurveillance, particularly in Black neighborhoods,” said Brian Klosterboer, staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas. “The ACLU has long opposed the use of mass surveillance, including public video tools.

It is not an effective crimefighting strategy. It is not something that keeps communities safe. It can lead to a lot of abuse by police departments through discriminatory enforcement.”

In 2019, according to the city, Black drivers accounted for 38% of vehicle searches even though that demographic accounts for 19% of the local population and an even smaller portion of car owners. Black drivers were significantly overrepresented across a wide range of police interactions — without exception — between 2003 and 2019, according to Fort Worth police department data.

The constitutionality of Fort Worth’s police camera program largely depends on where the cameras are placed, Klosterboer continued.

In an email, Mary Gugliuzza, communications coordinator for the Fort Worth Water Department, said that Fort Worth began using new meters in 2016 in new developments and when exchanging meters in existing parts of the system. The meters use radio transmitters to collect readings.

Gugliuzza said that the transmitters were not activated until July 2019 because the network to receive and process the data was not yet in place.

Williams said that some residents reported bills that were even triple what they were before the new water meters were installed.

“That would mean the old meter was extremely inaccurate and the water department failed by not replacing them much, much sooner,” Williams said. “My other concern is … if what the water department says is 100% true and it’s leaks and irrigation systems, that means they knew this was going to cost people significantly more money, and they are doing it during a pandemic, when many people are already financially devastated.”

Williams worries there are certain parts of the city where homeowners will

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The Secretary’s Office of Fort Worth, which handles open records requests, refused to release the locations of the cameras, which has only further fueled speculation that the surveillance programs are unevenly aimed and Black and brown communities.

“The cameras could be invading people’s right to privacy,” he said. “How [the program] is used could lead to due process issues if it’s leading to police targeting people or harassing people.”

be priced out of their houses by sky-high water bills.

Wedgwood East resident Rebecca Vrazo said her water bills are usually very consistent, “about $120 a month, except in the summer months, [when] it might go up for watering the garden or something. I think they changed out my meter in September.

In December, [my bill] had doubled. It was $242, and the consumption had gone from 17 to 45. Then it doubled again the next month … to 88 consumption and $450 for the water bill.”

In her email, Gugliuzza said, “Mechanical water meters do not start registering higher than actual consumption of water over time. They only start registering lower than actual consumption. Over a period of time, customers view the underregistered consumption as their normal usage, and when the meter is replaced with an accurate meter, their consumption appears to spike as it returns to an accurate level.”

Vrazo started an investigation through the water company. Their electronic data showed the usage of the house hour by hour for two weeks. Thinking she had a leak, she hired a plumber but was

If the cameras were placed in a manner that was “racially targeting and profiling people,” he said, that would seem “egregious — it isn’t the Texan way for the government to be monitoring every aspect of our lives.”

City officials successfully argued that releasing the locations of the publicly viewable cameras, which are posted in plain sight, would result in the “destruction of the city property.”

If Fort Worth officials have “data on general locations of the cameras, like by ZIP code or neighborhood, that wouldn’t implicate any terrorism or security concerns,” Klosterboer said. “I imagine the people who are seeking this information want to know the broader picture. That’s where the city should disclose generally where they are putting the cameras. The Texas Public Information Act provides the bare minimum of what they are supposed to disclose. The city can always go beyond that to be more transparent and do more to disclose information to the general public.”

As a longtime advocate for civil liberties, the ACLU and others have not-infrequently sued the National Security Agency (NSA) and other governmental groups that support mass surveillance programs, he said.

“It is hard to say specifically if this issue in Texas would lead to that type of litigation,” he said. “It is definitely something we will monitor. [These types of programs] could exacerbate racial disparities in Texas’ broken criminal justice system.” — Edward Brown

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go somewhere else … you can’t do that with the water company. In the meantime, we’re on unemployment, and this is crazy expensive for us. It’s terrible timing with COVID going on. The last thing I need is a water bill that’s $400.”

Vrazo is waiting to be refunded by the water department for half of the overages she paid for the two months her bill dramatically increased.

“We have received high bill complaints from about 2% of the new meter installations done,” Gugliuzza said, noting that 160,000 houses, including some businesses, have received new meters throughout town. “This is actually less than the number of complaints we receive from customers with the old meters. Historically, that number is about 5% a year.”

Another concern to residents is a change in water pressure since the new installs.

“The water department,” Williams said in an email, “told us that we sit next to a pump station, so our water pressure will always be high. They said the new meters have no effect on that and that we all need to purchase pressure-reducing valves.

I think getting water to people at an unsafe pressure should be unacceptable.”

Multiple neighbors have had damage, Williams said, including sink and tub fixtures shooting off their walls, because the pressure is so high.

“I feel like my neighbors, as well as others in Fort Worth, deserve their complaints to really be investigated,” Williams said. “My personal preference would be for the water department to stop install of new meters until the online portal is running, check for leaks before installing, and set up a bulk install of pressure-reducing valves.”

The water department, Gugliuzza said, is “halfway through the meter installations citywide. The target is to complete the installations in about another year.”

Williams suggested an opt-out policy for residents who do not want the new me-

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frustrated when told there was no leak.

“There’s something going on with those new meters that is tripping them up,” Vrazo said. “We couldn’t have used water constantly throughout the night for two weeks. That’s impossible.”

Vrazo experienced two months with unexplained overages before her bill decreased after January. There seems to be no way for residents to prove that they didn’t use the water that they were billed for.

The water department’s “only proof that we used it is that they have a meter that says we did,” Vrazo said. “It’s crazy.”

Vrazo said she reached out to City Councilmember Jungus Jordan, hoping to bring the higher water bills to the city’s attention. “I know he’s working on trying to get some satisfaction for several people on this, but so far what I’ve done is send in the request for reimbursement.”

Jordan responded to Williams’ concerns through email, saying, “I will ask the director of the water department to research the issues addressed and work with you and your neighbors to resolve the concerns.”

A few weeks ago, Williams said, the water department gave a presentation during a city council meeting “similar to the virtual meeting they held with us, but nothing has been done to provide any relief to my neighbors, whose bills have become unaffordable.”

In March, Fort Worth implemented a high-bill adjustment for the new meters in response to concerns, primarily from the Wedgwood East neighborhood. Through the City of Fort Worth’s website, people can request an adjustment of their suddenly spiked usage. The Fort Worth Water Department advises residents who’ve experienced the sudden increase in response to the new meters to view the “high water use bill adjustment” link at FortWorthTexas. gov/departments/water/services/high-bills.

“We’re basically at their mercy,” Vrazo said. “The fact is that it’s not a private company and we have no option to

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Williams discovered that residents were not only experiencing drastically higher water bills but also water main breaks, noises in their pipes, and very high or very low water pressure.

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Building a Dream

Need a spherical-shaped bookcase or a classroom that looks like the inside of a school bus?

Dream Maker Builds has you covered.

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McCallum: “Now Scott [shown right] is like my best friend.”

Dream Maker’s projects blur the line between fine and commercial art.

It’s a space that McCallum and Scott are comfortable with. After working in the entertainment and construction fields, McCallum and Scott have found a love for that middle ground of creating functional creative projects that take viewers out of their daily routines and into spaces where rooms become school buses and hotels become dream-like ice cream parlors.

Scott’s early career in roofing offered the benefit of access to tools and lots of metal scraps.

“I’d take them home and fashion them into things,” he recalled. “My grandmother was an art teacher in Arlington for decades.

She always inspired me.”

His “gothic-style” metal works include cupholders, candleholders, and other functional items that are typically bereft of creative design. Scott would show his fantastical pieces at local shows, and that’s where he met Gaylord production manager Christopher Gonzalez, who soon offered Scott a job.

girlfriend, and we decided to get married.”

The marriage brought McCallum back to North Texas, where he began working at the Gaylord and met Scott, a few years ago.

“We didn’t care for each other when we first met,” McCallum said with a laugh. “Now, he’s like my best friend. We both realized that we both like to build utilitarian art, art with a purpose.”

McCallum and Scott often tossed around the idea of starting their own company, but nothing came of the small talk until March.

“In March, we were told jobs were being cut at resorts,” McCallum recalled.

“They told us to stop work. A week later, they said we were furloughed for two weeks. Two weeks later, they said they are going to terminate our positions.”

A friend mentioned a new project in Grapevine that was led by the nonprofit House of Shine. Scott said it was the type of work the two friends had always wanted

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“Everything that could have happened,” Caleb McCallum said, “happened in 2020.”

Sitting in a sprawling Keller warehouse next to his business partner Alan Scott, McCallum, who goes by Rooster to his friends, summarized 2020 — the year he and Scott were furloughed then terminated from Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center before founding Dream Maker Builds.

The past nine months have been both “terrifying and exciting,” McCallum said. “We could complain, but we feel incredibly blessed.”

As turbulent a year as 2020 was, McCallum and Scott have worked nonstop since launching their art installation and construction business in March. The subsequent months were spent building fantastical projects for hotels, nonprofits, and businesses while growing their brand.

The project-building team used the term “utilitarian art” to describe what they do. Need a spherical-shaped bookcase or a classroom that looks like the inside of a school bus? Dream Maker Builds has you covered. Local musician Jeff Dazey recently hired McCallum and Scott to construct the “World’s Smallest Honky Tonk,” also known as the miniature stage used to film Dazey’s Last Call Tavern, a livestream series that features local musicians and artists.

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“I started by working part-time at nights throughout a 2016 Christmas program,” Scott said. “Then I was asked to come over full time. I started designing things and leading large groups of people to accomplish large tasks with deadlines.”

Scott enjoyed the seven years he worked at the Gaylord, he said. As part of the resort’s production crew, he learned about carpentry, stage design, welding, and other skills he now uses to build Dream Maker’s enormous projects.

McCallum came to work at the Gaylord by way of Marfa — an escape the Fort Worth native took to “sober up,” he said.

“I went on vacation to Marfa and decided to stay,” he added.

He worked at the campground El Cosmico on the maintenance crew.

“I mostly got sober going to [nearby] Terlingua and building weird stuff,” he said. “I reconnected to my long-term

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A duo of installation artists turned their respective layoffs into a business opportunity.

Each House of Shine project started with sketches.

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to do. They reached out to the charity, drafted a proposal for constructing more than 20 installations and exhibits, and began working nonstop from April to August.

Colleen Monroe, the nonprofit’s chief operating officer, said she and executive director Claudia Beeny interviewed several companies for the project. With a mission of promoting self-discovery, House of Shine was transitioning from a traveling educational program to a brick-and-mortar location. Beeny and Monroe were looking for collaborators as much as vendors.

Monroe said, “One of the things we would tell them is, ‘You need to spread shine in your corner of the world. There is a corner as you walk in the space. Picture a museum shop in the corner. What do you imagine that to be?’ ” Mostly humdrum suggestions like hanging shelves followed, Monroe recalled.

“Then we met Dream Maker Builds,” she said.

McCallum and Scott were noticeably excited by the proposition. The duo enraptured Beeny and Monroe with the vision of a globe-shaped shelf that had a walking space down the middle.

“Claudia and I looked at each other and knew they had to be our partners,” Monroe said. “They understood the vision and could execute it. From there, it was a match made in heaven.”

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The pandemic and resulting layoffs meant that the Dream Maker crew had ample time to pour into the project, but materials were scarce.

“Trying to find plexiglass during the pandemic was insane,” McCallum said.

Those materials were “getting turned into guards at gas stations. The prices became incredibly inflated. We pulled off the project with two helpers working in a barn.”

With their first contract booked, McCallum and Scott scrambled to file the necessary paperwork to start a business.

McCallum recalled being surprised how many checks he had to mail to various state offices just for the government to acknowledge the existence of Dream Maker Builds. The $6,000 in out-of-pocket expenses may not have sounded like a lot, Scott said, but it was all the two had at a time when there weren’t alternative work prospects.

“That’s low for most” startups, McCallum said. “We are just blue-collar dudes who really love building art. We had all our cards showing. We were all in.”

Monroe said the Dream Maker team created new spaces and installations in a relatively short period of time, given the enormity of the task.

“We had been around [for seven years as a nonprofit], but we didn’t have anything you could touch,” Monroe said.

“We described our nonprofit through

Small projects kept the business afloat after a large nonprofit’s contract was finished.

words, which was difficult. To have a space where people can interact and sit down and do the hard work it takes to learn about themselves, they helped us do that.”

At one point during the project, Beeny told McCallum and Scott that they build dreams.

“Everyone is overwhelmed at every turn” when they visit House of

Shine, McCallum said. “We created the impossible” that summer.

Scott and McCallum hope to continue making seemingly impossible dreams come true for small and large businesses across the region. Their collective plans for 2021 include creating artistic fixtures, artwork, and other unique pieces for new and refurbished homes.

“I think we’d like to meet some home flippers,” Scott said. “We’d come in and design their spaces and possibly move into the consulting and project management field. I’d like to do custom furniture when we have time.”

In mid-March, during our second interview, the dream-making duo described their recent transition from small projects to large installations.

“We were still building props,” Scott said, referring to the few months following the House of Shine build.

Small projects kept the business afloat after the large nonprofit’s contract was finished, McCallum said.

“We had to go inward and get really crafty and creative,” McCallum said. “We made smaller props for party planners, pop-ups, and even a pet store. We worked for anyone who needed something creative, whether it be a display or some weird-shaped prop like a rainbow. We got close with a group of women who owned their own companies and reached out to us on Instagram.”

The small gigs kept Dream Maker Builds profitable, but McCallum and Scott wanted to work on larger installations and creative projects.

“We realized we needed to find someone who is doing what we wanted to do” but has been doing it longer, McCallum said.

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constructing a showroom on the Near Southside for Printed Threads, a custom T-shirt maker. Dallas-based Sweet Tooth Hotel, an immersive art installation, has several projects planned for Dream Maker Builds, Scott said. McCallum added that his business is progressing with the “mullet approach” of finding businessfriendly installation projects for companies and homebuilders and more party-friendly gigs, like the art-driven Sweet Tooth Hotel projects, that satiate McCallum and Adams’ inner artists.

“We hope that people recognize from our story that [life and work] can be really great if you work” collaboratively with others, McCallum said. “We were fired from our jobs, and we wanted to build. We found some other dudes and women who understand that. We are trying to build a community here. We aren’t doing anything new, but we are trying to put our own spin on it. We are just a company doing what it loves and doing it with the people we have been lucky enough to meet so far.”

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The transition to Texas was eye-opening for Greene, the granddaughter of people who worked in gardens in large estates in Britain. “When I first got here, I thought Texas was a truly punishing environment for a garden,” she says. “But it’s an optimum place to grow, both in spring and fall where you can second crop things.” With perennials and annuals that can be planted year-round, there’s literally something to see, and something to eat, all the time. Additionally, gardening can provide a lesson in patience. “Carrots take ages to grow,” she says. “When kids grow a carrot, they are likely not to throw it away because it took so long to grow.”

Gardening also offers young children a window into eating with a Plant Slant. “Kids won’t eat a snow pea at a table, but in a garden, they will at least try one,” Green said. “Maybe it’s peer pressure, or maybe because they grew them.” Growing food “ticks a lot of the Blue Zones boxes,” including building a sense of Community, Downshifting and Moving Naturally. “We’re not using electric tools, which makes moving more naturally possible.”

While many of us struggled with the isolation brought about by COVID, Greene believes that the realization that we’re at the mercy of the supply chain may kickstart interest in gardening, or at least in people’s desire to support local farmers markets and local producers. In addition, with spring coming, it’s the perfect time to enjoy gardening before the summer heat starts. “There’s joy and satisfaction in growing something,” she says. “Let’s not abandon how the rediscovery of the outdoors and happiness feels.”

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friends: Patrick Adams, owner of 6572 Builds, and Rick Davenport, owner of Davenport Design Build. The calls paid off.

Brandon Pederson, who owns the design and carpentry company Brother Sister Design and works closely with Adams, called McCallum back and offered work and the chance to build a relationship.

“We have been following each other on Instagram for years and years,” Scott said. “His shop had a lot going on. It opens doors [to businesses like Brother Sister Design] to have more hands. Same goes for us.”

Adams and Pederson were in the finishing stages of placing large installations on the exterior of an upscale home.

“You need as many experienced hands as you can get,” McCallum said of the recent residential projects. “These guys have been doing what we want to do, and they have been doing it well. To learn through osmosis has been incredible.”

McCallum and Scott are currently undertaking a couple of projects for Davenport Design Build, including

Greene, who works with Blue Zones Project facilitating gardens and the love of growing things in several Fort Worth schools, wrote a curriculum for preschoolers that also features math, sensory integration, art, play, and, of course, eating what they’ve grown. “Gardening is exploratory and intuitive and really doesn’t have to be taught,” she says. And she finds that the garden is a great equalizer. “A garden is an incredibly leveling space – there are no wrong answers. It’s intuitive once you’ve gotten past ‘Don’t stab your friend with the tool’!”

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Fort Worth musician Jeff Dazey recently hired McCallum and Scott to construct the “World’s Smallest Honky Tonk,” also known as the miniature stage used to film Dazey’s Last Call Tavern, a livestream series that features local musicians and artists.

You don’t have to dig deep to find Mary Jo Greene’s Purpose. The effervescent Brit, who’s a gardener by trade and a teacher by training, is exceptionally passionate about gardening. “I come from a culture where people garden,” she says. “Most schools have a garden in the UK – it’s wrapped in the curriculum.”

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“The writing was my safe space,” shared one of my former students, Selena Park.

“It was healing for me.”

Park was one of 19 students enrolled in my Fall 2019 writing course at Texas Women’s University (TWU), the last semester of relative normalcy before the pandemic uprooted the higher ed landscape.

In college writing classes, it’s not uncommon to read essays interrogating psychological disorders, misogyny, racism, and the deleterious effects of homophobia that have impacted students’ lives. What is novel is the upward trending interest in writing about personal traumas brought on by the pandemic.

More than ever before, college students are writing about uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and depression. Our

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The college writing classroom offers a critical vantage point. Not only can writing instructors reach out to students in crisis or on the verge of dropping out, but writing also provides students opportunities to externalize difficult emotions they might not be able to if lacking access to professional counseling.

To be clear, as an assistant professor of English at TWU, I never attempt to counsel students, but I do monitor student mental well-being and do report personal safety concerns. What I am deeply committed to doing for my students is cultivating a classroom where writing about difficult experiences feels therapeutic instead of taboo.

Make no mistake that writing is therapeutic. Several studies confirm that a regular writing practice buoys the emotional well-being of anyone who picks up a pen. In one study from 2017, clinical psychologists randomly assigned 45 patients to a positive writing intervention group and 44 patients to a control group.

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It’s time to fund college writing programs like student lives depend on it — because they do.

After four weeks of positive writing, the intervention group “had significantly lower depression scores than controls” and made better use of the emotional regulation strategies they were instructed to use. In that same year, psychological trauma researchers used expressive writing treatment to improve the self-images of women who had been sexually abused as children.

To be sure, not all public universities are anticipating a budgetary slash, but state schools that haven’t been gobbled up by one of the six university systems are feeling a bigger-than-normal pinch. It hurts worse for MSIs like TWU, where the purse strings are being pulled tighter each month. Writing program administrators like myself are working night and day to manage heavy teaching loads brought on by budget cuts while still conducting high-quality research that might help us serve our students better in this “new normal” crisis scenario we find ourselves living in.

It’s time to send a message to the Texas lege. Modest investments in college writing programs will pay big dividends later. If we care about the next generation of college grads, let’s fund college writing programs so that all students matriculating in Fall 2021 can find an equitable, supportive path forward in higher education.

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students are grieving the loss of loved ones due to COVID-19 while others are failing out of school because they struggle to learn in online environments. Worse yet, reports out of The Chronicle of Higher Education confirm what students are cautiously sharing with writing instructors: Young people are being domestically and sexually brutalized by partners at higher rates, thereby making it difficult for them to persist in their studies.

This news shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. We know from recent crises in our nation’s history that rates of sexual violence tend to increase as a result of state- and nationwide emergencies, but we haven’t learned any better. Sexual assault reports increased by 45% during Hurricane Katrina, and just a few months into the pandemic, Harvard Medical School reported that 40% of rape crisis centers had seen an increase in services provided since the pandemic began.

Economically disadvantaged students are dropping out or unenrolling from Texas universities at unprecedented rates — 3%, to be exact, which will result in major long-term deficits. The drop-out rate for two-year colleges is even worse at 8%, but with new research correlating successful performance in first-year writing courses with increased retention, now is the time to fund college writing programs like lives depend on it, especially at minorityserving institutions (MSIs).

If you think that the average college student isn’t stressed, consider a study conducted by the nonprofit Active Minds, which found that in Fall 2019, 39% of college students were experiencing a significant mental health issue and that suicide was the second leading cause of death among college students. The same organization surveyed 2,086 students in April 2020 to find that 80% were reporting that the pandemic was negatively impacting their mental well-being.

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During the middle of the COVID pandemic, Maurice Ahern expanded Gold Ribbon Confections, the baking enterprise he began in 2017, into Grounds and Gold, a coffee shop/cafe with a little event space. Both Ahern’s bakery and his new eatery bear bittersweet tribute to his son Micah, who died of the pediatric cancer neuroblastoma in 2016. And judging by the steady stream of people wanting to get their coffee and pastries on, Grounds and Gold’s got the goods.

The menu is loaded with baked confections, small plates, salads, and sandwiches. During a morning breakfast visit, my dining companion and I goggled at the bakery case: The klobasneks (sausage rolls that are usually lumped in with their cousins, the fruit-and-cheesefilled kolaches), cinnamon rolls, scones, and quiches looked amazing. There are vegan and gluten-free options for almost every pastry, and there’s a larger list of whole pies, cakes, and cheesecakes if you’re looking to take dessert home with you.

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From the biscuit selection, the Chef ’s but more protein was needed to combat Choice was loaded with a generous serving the carb splurge laid out on the table. of egg and avocado, sandwiched between The ping-pong-ball-sized gems weren’t a slightly crispy-on-the-top house-made uniform –– a sure sign that they were biscuit to which a strategic application of house-made –– and savory herbs flecked faintly peppery aioli had been applied. The the surface and the center. The ramekin sandwich also included a small portion of bearing the eight portion-controlled balls bacon and some melted Manchego cheese. came covered in a lovely crust of Parmesan The subtle flavor of the Italian cheese was cheese, along with a handful of crostini almost lost to the savory aioli. I found it for dipping into the marinara sauce that when my overstuffed biscuit fell apart, and accompanied the meatballs. Unfortunately, I surrendered to the need to use a fork. The the sweet, slightly acidic sauce was fresh, warm, flaky biscuit, fluffy scrambled lukewarm, although the meatballs were egg, and creamy avocado were absolutely a perfect temperature. The balls also come as a lunch item satisfying.

Grounds and Gold sandwich, with grilled The gluten-free Chef’s Choice biscuit ......................... $8 onions and peppers muffin was the closest Mama’s Meatballs and toast ............ $8 on fresh-baked bread. one could get to the Breakfast taco w/bacon ................... $5 Gluten-free blueberry muffin ............. $3 Also ordered real deal I’ve found The Cobb ............................................. $10 balance, the in years. Coarse sugar Drip coffee .......................................... $2.50 for Cobb salad didn’t top? Check. Loads of blueberries embedded into a slightly sweet disappoint. A variety of mixed lettuce muffin? Check. The only thing that was (heavy on the red leaf, radicchio, and frisée missing was the tell-tale gritty mouth-feel with no iceberg in sight) formed the perfect that seems to accompany a lot of GF baked base for bacon crumbles, tomatoes, purple pickled eggs, more Manchego cheese and goods.

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The single disappointment at our table: the breakfast tacos. The duo came out loaded with egg, potato, and bacon (for an upcharge) on corn tortillas that were nowhere close to being house-made. The one item in the entire restaurant that was semi-homemade was also the only dish on the table that was remotely average.

Grounds and Gold is settled in an Arlington strip mall near a liquor store and a nail salon –– it’s a little off the beaten path. But the home-baked goodies make it worth a bit of travel, and if you live between 287 and the Parks Mall, you know how few non-chain restaurants exist near there. Stop by, grab a cup of coffee and a pastry, and consider writing a postcard for a kid at Cook Children’s Medical Center’s cancer unit –– Micah would approve. l

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The Scarborough Academy of Performing Arts — the festival’s performance troupe — has created new characters and refined long-time favorites to bring the recreated 16th-century Village of Scarborough to life. Along with annual favorites like full-combat armored jousting, the Birds of Prey exhibitions, the Mermaid Lagoon, and knighting ceremonies, SRF 2021 features new shows with acrobats, comedians, multi-instrumentalists, magicians, Scottish bagpipe and drums, a dancing weasel, and a sword swallower.

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You will also discover exquisite oneof-a-kind treasures at the hundreds of Scarborough shops, and there are dozens of authentic artisan demonstrations.

There are also renaissance rides, games of skill, and so much more.

Each successive weekend (Sat-Sun) has a different theme: Artisans’ Showcase Apr 17-18; Royal Ale Festival Weekend Apr 24-25; Live the Fantasy & Spring Celebration May 1-2; Celebrating Chivalry Weekend May 8-9; Celtic Weekend May 15-16; Legends of the Seas May 22-23; and The Last Huzzah May 29-31.

Located in Waxahachie, Scarborough Renaissance Festival is just 30 minutes south of downtown Fort Worth on FM 66 off I-35E. Admission is $37 for adults and $17 for children ages 5-12. Children age 4 and under are always admitted free.

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With his new single featuring Snoop Dogg, the biz-savvy MC has scored a coup, but there’s a gamble: Fans will have to embrace obscure technology to even hear it.

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As well as being one of the more erudite rhyme masons in the local hip-hop scene, over the last few years rapper Clay Perry has displayed a business acumen that just might top his lyrical keenness. Last year, he was able to use a high-level comprehension of social media algorithms to garner literally millions of views of the video for his toke-and-cruise anthem “Roll N’ Ride.” As a result, he now stands as one of the few local artists outside of Leon Bridges to have a verified account on

HearSay Fort Worth has lost a true original. After an extended illness, Jerry Hudson passed away on April 12, said sister Kathy Hudson Kennedy. He was 68.

Just about everyone knew Jerry. He was a hilariously curmudgeonly dude with a cranky voice who loved local music just as much as his Texas Rangers. You could almost always find him at the Chat Room Pub, not too far from his local institution, Eagle Audio Recording, on South Main Street on the Near Southside. It was at Eagle where Jerry Hudson would establish his reputation as one of the coolest people to work with in local music. No fuss, no bullshit, just whatever works.

He was also prolific. Before opening Eagle Audio, he recorded at Pantego Sound for 20 years starting in 1976 after breaking into the sound business in 1971. Jerry ended up recording hundreds of bands and working thousands of shows, including Merle Haggard at the convention center.

All of Fort Worth’s biggest rock bands in the ’70s, including Nitzinger and Savvy, recorded at Eagle Audio.

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Many big local rock acts also recorded at the studio. As part of our annual Music Awards, we would produce a live studio recording of select nominees’ songs always at Eagle and always with Jerry and engineer Jeff Ward, who also passed away not too long ago. The weekend was usually one of the lost variety: hanging out at the studio all day, downing Bud Light Platinum after Bud Light Platinum, talking music and sports, noshing on Central Market sandwiches, maybe puffing, puffing, and passing. Those were the good ol’ days before Facebook took over all social interactions and home studios really took off. The only way we were able to have so much fun and produce so much quality music was because of one man, Jerry Hudson. See you on the flipside, Uncle Jerry.

Many of Fort Worth’s best and hardestworking musicians paid tribute to the man via social media.

“Damn,” saxophonist Jeff Dazey said.

“Sad day in the 817. RIP Jerry Hudson. My first recording session in a studio ever was at Eagle Audio. Life is fleeting and Jerry was very gracious to all of us.”

“Rest easy, Jerry,” singer-songwriter Katie Robertson said. “We had some silly memories together and created some cool art along the way. I’ll miss our chats and giving

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Facebook. That “blue checkmark” command of social media has now also helped land him the biggest guest feature of his career. On Tue., April 20 (certainly no coincidence for the herbfriendly MC), Perry will drop “Dogg,” his latest single, which features a verse from one of the biggest names in hip-hop history, Snoop Dogg.

Though the new track boasts a name so big even your grandma would recognize it, Perry halts any confusion or assumptions as to how the new track has come about.

“I’m honest when people ask me about it,” he said about the unlikely pairing. “No, I’ve never met him. I don’t know Snoop, but I definitely know people who know him. This thing was all because of Mr. Lee.” Mr. Lee (2Pac, Scarface, Paul Wall) is the famed Houston producer and beatmaker who shepherded the Snoop feature on Perry’s track.

“I remember being in the studio when we were working on ‘Roll N’ Ride,’ ” Perry recalled, “and I said to [Dallas producer] Flowman, ‘I want Snoop to do a verse on this song.’ He just kinda looked at me and politely nodded like, ‘Yeah, OK. Sure, man.’ But I knew I could make it happen, so I just set out to figure out how or who could help me.”

Through networking on Twitter, Perry struck up a relationship with Lee, and the two decided to work together on a track. As well as lending his own lauded reputation as a producer, Lee helped realize Perry’s ambitious goal by facilitating the Snoop verse.

Perhaps more surprising than Snoop’s appearance is how Perry has decided to release the single. The track will be available only in a limited run via the NFT platform Rarible.

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are, in the simplest terms, block chain-verified

Perry: “I said … ‘I want Snoop to do a verse on this song.’ ”

digital assets — a novel tech-based collectible of sorts that has just recently gained some prominence, mostly associated with the NBA’s new digital trading card platform Top Shot. On Top Shot, player “moments” — a digital highlight clip of a particular play, for example — are bought and sold much like physical trading cards have been for decades.

Sold in “packs” for around $9, inexplicably, some individual moments are already reselling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The novel tech space is certainly still in its infancy and does require a bit of mental cardio from non-cryptocurrency aficionadotypes to comprehend its abstract cost/value ratios, but Perry sees it as the future and as a revolution of the music industry.

“Say you mint 1,000 versions of a song,” he explained, “and you sell them for $10 apiece. You sell all of them, and you just made $10,000. Plus, if anyone decides to resell the mint, you get 10% of the price every time one is sold. That’s real money in your pocket.

There’s no label, no middleman. It’s all you.”

It might be easy to see some inherent risk in secluding the biggest track of an artist’s career to a finite number of copies distributed via a niche (and largely unknown) platform, and Perry concedes the point. But each other shit all in fun. You were a good one. Thank you for your kindness, belief in me and helping so many of us making music. You, Jeff & Eagle Audio hold a special spot in my heart.”

“We love you and miss you Jerry,” pop singer-songwriter and Grammy winner Jordan Richardson said. “You kept this city cool.”

“Farewell Jerry!!” producer Britt Robisheaux said. “As a young engineer I spent a lot of time setting up mics in my living room.

The thought of figuring out how to get into a real studio scared the shit out of me because I had no real formal training in audio. Well, I made a few records in my living room that got favorable reviews in some magazines. One day I walk into my neighborhood bar which at that point was kind of like my second home.

Out of the darkness steps Jerry Hudson. We’d never actually met up till then. Rather than introducing himself he looks at me wild eyed and says ‘well, I guess we need to talk.’ Oh shit, does this guy think I’m taking his business?

No, it was the opposite. He asked if I’d like to start making records in a real recording studio, of course I did. Jeff taught me how to use the equipment and Jerry taught me about the life of an engineer and how to maneuver the business of it all. Now, hundreds of records later I’ve had

he has faith that the gamble is going to pay off. With his recent ascension on BitClout, a site that works as a sort of stock exchange for celebs and influencers in which investors put their money into the brand/name value of individuals as opposed to shares of stock, he has reason to believe there’s a market for his digital assets. The value of his “coins” on the platform is currently north of $13,000, and he’s been on the site for only a couple of weeks.

“I see NFT as a no-brainer,” he said.

“The more I dive into this community, the more opportunity I see. Just yesterday I was talking with a developer from Google who’s building an app for music artists, and he wanted my opinion on things I thought would be useful. The more I get into NFT, the doors are just getting bigger, and they’re opening faster and faster.”

As of this writing, Perry is still undecided on the price and the number of “mints” he will release for “Dogg.” He did a trial run with his last single “Gateway” a few months ago, and versions of that song are selling on Rarible for $60 a piece. He’s trying to thread the needle between a price point that is financially worthwhile while still giving the purchasers maximum “utility” for their investment.

He said the research he’s been doing on the potential for NFT to transform the music industry — with the benefits weighted to the artist like never before — has completely changed his outlook going forward.

“This whole thing could flame out,” he concedes. “I’m realistic about that possibility, but this thing has completely changed my feelings on being an artist. I feel appreciated as an artist and valued in a way I never have.

I see it as a monster that’s just woken up and can’t be put back to sleep.” l to say goodbye to both of the guys that brought me into the business. I spent many hours with Jerry and Jeff and I have plenty of good stories I’m not sure I should share publicly, but you should remind me to tell you next time we see each other. Jerry passed down the plate reverb from Eagle to me too. It’s in good hands. Rest easy fellas.”

And singer-songwriter Taylor Craig Mills said, “It is important in this world to learn through loss and heartache that there is a Peace in Death. For those who are no longer, they stay on thru ourselves and our stories. More importantly they continue on in how we choose to live our lives in Honor of their memories. Many people lost a friend, a mentor to many. Jerry Hudson, you will be missed, but not lost. You remain in each of us. I saw the raw kindness in you, and we were better because of that. Go get ’em Young Man. I’ll pour them up when we see each other again, Brother. Thank you for everything.”

Jerry’s family is planning a celebration of life “in the months to come,” Kathy said.

“We will announce the details once plans are made. Peace and love to all.” — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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ON THE AIR There are radio shows that play local bands.Who knew? THU 4/15: The Local Show with Amy Miler playing blues, folk, hip-hop, jazz, Latin, rock, and R&B from 7pm to 8pm on KXT (91.7). SUN 4/18: The Paul Slavens Show — curated by listener suggestions across many genres including local and national artists — is at 8pm on KXT (91.7). SUN 4/18: Reckless Rock Radio playing rock and metal from 10pm to 12mid on KNON (89.3 FM). SUN 4/19: Loud & Local with Debbie Sexton playing rock and metal from 11pm to 12mid on KEGL (97.1 FM).

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT PROPOSED AIR QUALITY PERMIT NUMBER 164026

APPLICATION. Custom Rack LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for: Issuance of Permit 164026 This application would authorize construction of a Burn-Off Oven located at 1401 Royal Parkway, Euless, Tarrant County, Texas 76040. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/ hb610/index.html?lat=32.817777&lng=-97.118888&zoom=13&type=r. The facility will emit the following contaminants: hydrogen chloride, a Hazardous Air Pollutant.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on February 3, 2021. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Mary Lib Saleh Euless Public Library, 201 North Ector Drive, Euless, Tarrant County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ. The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments, or request a public meeting or a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will prepare a response to all public comments.

The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application, if requested by an interested person, or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing.

After technical review of the application is complete, the executive director may prepare a draft permit and will issue a preliminary decision on the application. Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision for an Air Quality Permit will then be published and mailed to those who made comments, submitted hearing requests or are on the mailing list for this application. That notice will contain the final deadline for submitting public comments.

OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. A contested case hearing will only be granted based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission’s decision. Further, the Commission will only grant a hearing on those issues submitted during the public comment period and not withdrawn.

The deadline to submit a request for a contested case hearing is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. If a request is timely filed, the deadline for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to 30 days after the mailing of the response to comments.

A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, and daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing”; (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or an association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.

If a hearing request is timely filed, following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.

MAILING LIST. In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive future public notices for this specific application by sending a written request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from Custom Rack LLC, 1401 Royal Parkway, Euless, Texas 76040-6725 or by calling Mr. Frank Gaudet, Environmental Engineer, Regulatory Compliance Services, at (214) 500-4081.

Notice Issuance Date: February 11, 2021

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