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After their battle with COVID-19, a preacher and a homelessness missionary have a lot to be thankful for.

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hits — chronicles the friendship between the singer and one of her most devoted fans, Louise Seger, who remained friends and kept in touch until Patsy’s death.

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The Fort Worth chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction Monday is hosting the 37th Annual NAWIC Ways & Means Golf Tournament at Diamond Oaks Country Club (5821 Diamond Oaks Dr N, 817343-9669). A portion of the proceeds will go toward scholarships for women in the construction industry. The event begins with breakfast at 7:30am and ends with an awards ceremony at 2pm. Registration is $150 per person or $575 per foursome at NAWIC-FW.org.

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See Miranda Lambert this weekend at Billy Bob’s Texas.

The big names keep rolling in for Billy Bob’s 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Thursday At 9pm today and Sunday, plus 10pm Fri-Sat, see Texas native Miranda Lambert at the World’s Largest Honkytonk (2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-6247117). Doors open at 6pm, and the house band opens the Honky Tonk Stage at 8pm every night.

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6pm Saturday. This high-energy fitness expo features celebrity guests — including Danna Linn Bailey and Rob Bailey — competitions, fitness classes, and hundreds of vendors. Two-day passes are $30, and one-day passes are $20 at FitCon.com.

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Springtime in Texas heralds the arrival of the Ubbi Dubbi Festival at Saturday Texas Motorplex (7500 US-287, Ennis, 972-878-2641). This twoday electronic music festival is happening today and Sunday from 2pm to 11pm.

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Club, Dirt Monkey, Ghastly, and many more. Two-day passes are $199.95 plus fees, and one-day passes are $109.95 plus fees. Passes and camping packages can be purchased at UbbiDubbiFestival.com.

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At 2pm today or Saturday, see the matinee performance of Always Sunday … Patsy Cline at the Reid Cabaret Theatre at Casa Mañana (3101 W Lancaster Av, 817-332-2272). This production can also be seen at 7:30pm Fri or 8pm Sat. Based on a true story, this show — featuring Patsy Cline’s biggest

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At 2pm at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (1300 Gendy St, 817-738Tuesday 1938), experience the next installment of FWO GO, the Fort Worth Opera’s series of neighborhood pop-up performances. This 30-minute concert features artists Gabrielle Gilliam, Megan Kock, Darius Terran Thomas, and Dr. Charlene Lotz, FWO’s head of music, performing Broadway hits, opera classics, and romantic duets. This event is free to attend.

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Affectionally referred to as the Blue Nugg, Division Wednesday Street Icehouse (2602 W Division St, Arlington, 682-259-7257) — formerly known as the Golden Nugget — is home to a weekly open-mic night hosted by Jeremy Norvelle of the local acoustic duo Chasing Rent.

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In honor of April being National Comedy Month, there are some upcoming comedic events to check out.

If comedy is a hobby of yours, don’t be shy. There are several open-mic nights for you. For example, Bodega West 7th (2921 Morton St, 682-250-6399) offers Comedy Open Mac with host Ian Mac every Wednesday at 9pm. Sign up by 8pm to reserve your time onstage.

Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub Fort Worth (425 Commerce St, 817-877-5233) has the longest-running comedy club in North Texas. Show days are ThuSun, with Thursday being free cover night. All shows are for ages 21 and up only. For tickets and more info, visit HyenasComedyNightclub.com.

This week’s shows at Hyena’s include Helen Hong and the 325 Comedy Show featuring Brandon Davidson, Jamie Gravy, and Christina Lopez 9:30pm Thu (free show), Tony Hinchcliffe 9:30pm and 11:30pm Fri and 8pm and 10:30pm sat (tickets are $20), the TK Kirkland oneperson show 8pm Sun (tickets are $25-35).

Plus, at 10pm Fri, see the Sprung Comedy Show in the Red Room featuring Dylan Arena, Adrian Johnson, Chris Hopkins, Diego Morales, Zac Sprung, and Sarah Tullos. (Tickets are $25.)

Typically known for live music, MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774)

also hosts special events and comedy shindigs. From 8pm to 11pm every Monday, the uproarious Claws Out Comedy Show hosted by Monna features a rotating cast of local comedians. This weekly event is free to attend.

Nationally renowned Improv comedy empire’s full-service restaurant and comedy club Arlington Improv sits in the Arlington Highlands Shopping Center (309 Curtis Mathes Way, Ste 147, 817-635-5555). Show days are Thu-Sun, but you can enjoy a full menu of food, drinks, and video games at Improv’s inhouse Black Dog Retro Arcade every day.

The next shows at Arlington Improv will be Steve Trevino: I Speak Wife tour at 7:30pm on Thu, May 6; 7:30pm and 9:45pm Fri, May 7; 7:30pm and 9:30pm Sat, May 8; and at 7pm Sun, May 9. Tables start at $80 for four people at ArlingtonImprov.com.

Speaking of future shows, the Fort Worth comedy institution Four Day Weekend is awakening from its government-mandated hibernation when it reopens on Fri, May 14. Performances will be happening every Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 7pm and 10pm at the Four Day Theater in Sundance Square (312 Houston St, 817-226-4329). Tickets go on sale on Sun, May 1, at FourDayWeekend. com for $25 each plus fees and taxes.

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Life After COVID A homelessness missionary and a preacher try to reconcile their good fortune as deaths continue to mount.

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Philippines, and no one was allowed into the hospital to visit her, hold her hand, or say their final goodbyes as COVID-19 ended her life.

After watching what his mother went through, Cariaga thought he was next, he said. As the virus attacked him, he struggled to breathe, even with oxygen, he said.

He also experienced being completely isolated in the hospital while visitors were prohibited. At that time, he realized another vicious cruelty of COVID-19.

“The world is already a lonely place,” Cariaga said. “COVID-19 took that to an extreme.”

Extremes seem to categorize the past year. COVID-19 caused us all to endure empty stores, barren roads, shuttered businesses, and closed schools.

We lost family members, friends, and acquaintances to the virus.

Although the figures have improved, the danger from COVID-19 is not over, health experts have said. As of last week,

Long before his battle with COVID-19, Cariaga, 57, began filming sermons for Michell, a preacher at Woodlands Park

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octors wearing white hazmat suits drifted in and out of the hospital room like astronauts in a slow-moving outer space nightmare. Their faces and expressions were hidden behind helmets that looked like fishbowls, and their voices were inaudible mumbles. Flipping through medical charts, the doctors kept a far distance from the patient lying in the bed before them, a man with a debilitating case of COVID-19.

Salvador Cariaga, a Fort Worth missionary and homeless advocate, was their patient.

“It was very strange,” Cariaga told me as he recalled the scene. “Like a Twilight Zone.”

Cariaga was receiving morphine, steroids, oxygen, Remdisivir, and blood plasma as part of his treatment for COVID-19, but his condition appeared to be getting worse. During the worst point of his illness, he lacked enough energy and concentration to fully comprehend what was happening and was suspended in a la-la land, he said. He found himself staring aimlessly at the four walls and the ceiling of his hospital room in a state of utter confusion brought on by the virus and the medications.

“When you can’t breathe, it affects your mind,” Cariaga explained. “I’m a very active person, in mind and body, and when I had COVID, I would be sitting down and just staring at the wall. And I didn’t know why I was staring at the wall.”

Other times, he stared at the ceiling, knowing there were things he had to get done, but he couldn’t recall what they were.

“You’re in limbo,” Cariaga said. “You can hardly breathe, and that affects your morale. I’m a very optimistic person, but in that state, it affects you.”

Complacency set in for him followed by thoughts of whether he would beat the virus.

“That’s where faith is really important,” Cariaga said. “When you are close to death, nothing matters. I was asking myself, ‘Is my life right with God? Am I ready for this?’ ” Days before he landed in a hospital with double pneumonia as a symptom of the virus, Cariaga watched on a video call as his 79-year-old mother died from the virus. She was under a quarantine in the

Texas has lost a total of 49,674 people to the virus. That figure includes 3,371 people in Tarrant County. Nationally, 566,000 deaths are attributed to COVID-19.

Instead of closures and soaring cases, today’s focus is set on vaccines. Some are afraid that could cause more people to abandon safety measures like wearing masks and social distancing.

Cariaga and his friend, preacher Jim Michell, who also nearly died from the virus, have not forgotten what life was like at the height of the outbreak in Tarrant County.

Cariaga splits his time between the United States and his native homeland, the Philippines. He spends his days and nights in the homeless camps along East Lancaster Avenue, where he works to provide hope and basic needs for some of the most downtrodden, unhealthy, and disadvantaged people in the city. Most homeless people do not wear masks, Cariaga said.

But it was not the homeless population that gave him COVID-19. He caught the virus at a church, at a time when he and Michell were the only two people in the building.

Before it was over, both of them were barely breathing and wondering whether they would survive.

A seemingly harmless video recording led to a spread of COVID-19 that almost turned deadly.

Church of Christ in Mansfield. One day in early October 2020, their video session began as it usually does, with Michell preaching his heart into the camera and Cariaga manning the recording equipment. Michell delivered his message while sitting in front of a white latticework screen and lush green plants at the church, a setting that gave the feeling of being in a peaceful garden. Little did they know, hell was going to break loose.

“We were the only two people in the building,” recalled Michell, a pulpit minister with more than 40 years of experience preaching in Texas and California churches. Due to a vision impairment, Michell gave himself the moniker “the blind preacher.”

Cariaga said he was “careless” helping Michell record his service. Michell is “very careful,” Cariaga said. “He wouldn’t even let me in his house.”

Because of the pandemic, Michell, 71, and his wife, Louise Michell, rarely left their home, Michell told me. When they had to go out, they were diligent about social distancing, wearing masks, using hand sanitizer, and washing their hands.

Despite their precautions, COVID-19 launched a stealth attack in their lives.

Louise apparently caught the virus during a routine doctor visit. Days after the appointment, she began feeling ill and went to get a COVID test, Michell said.

It was positive. By the time the result came back, Cariaga and Michell were already becoming ill.

Louise was lucky. Her illness was not severe. But Cariaga and Michell caught the worst of everything COVID offers.

“His wife got it first when she went to the doctor,” Cariaga explained. “When [Michell] found out about it, he got himself tested immediately and informed me. By the time he found out that he had COVID, which took a week, he and I were already showing symptoms.”

Cariaga and Michell both endured a brutal battle with the virus that began mild but almost turned lethal.

By Oct. 21, Michell was ill in the hospital, and Cariaga’s symptoms seemed to be improving. His cough, fever, and headaches were gone. At the time, it seemed as though he would beat the virus without a hospital stay.

Initially, Michell’s symptoms were so mild that he thought it was allergies.

“I had a runny nose and thought it was hay fever,” Michell said. “I was helping to rake up some leaves at my son’s house over the weekend and thought it was from that.”

His symptoms progressed to vomiting and diarrhea that were so severe he went to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with double pneumonia — a term that means pneumonia is present in both lungs.

“I had no idea I was in such critical condition,” Michell said. “They complained to me about my breathing

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and oxygen and that I couldn’t take the oxygen hose out of my nose. They also had a little device on my thumb to measure the oxygen in my body.”

When he spoke to his family members on the phone, they were crying, Michell said. A doctor told them he believed Michell’s chances for survival were slim.

“They had already told my family they didn’t think I was going to make it, and they wanted to know what to do with the body,” Michell said.

At one point, Michell alleges that he overheard one of his doctors telling another doctor to put Michell on a ventilator.

“I woke up at 4 a.m. in ICU, and one of the doctors said, ‘Well, go ahead and hook him up,’ ” Michell recalled. “Another doctor said, ‘Don’t you think we ought to give him a chance to fight?’ ” The two doctors debated what should be done, but Michell prevailed in his effort to stay off the ventilator.

“Do you want to live?” one of the doctors asked him. Michell said he told her, “I would prefer to.”

While in the hospital, he drew on his faith, remembering the verse Philippians 4:6-7: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Drawing on his faith during his fight with COVID-19 kept preacher Jim Michell going.

Shortly after the conversation about the ventilator, Michell was given a shot to sedate him, he said. He alleges that he woke up hours later with his hands and feet bound to keep him from moving.

“It was like some sort of straitjacket,” he said. “It was very confining.”

He demanded that the doctors remove the constraints and not place him on a

ventilator, Michell said.

“Nobody would have known until it was too late,” he said. “Once they put you on a respirator, your chances of making it aren’t good. It’s basically a death sentence, and I didn’t get that death sentence.”

Similar to Michell, Cariaga’s symptoms began with fatigue and a runny nose. Then came difficulty in breathing,

headaches, and body aches, he said.

“Everything started tasting really bitter and different, and I realized, ‘This is it,’ ” he said.

He went to two different places for a COVID-19 test, and both confirmed that he was positive.

Cariaga’s first week in quarantine saw “mild to wild” symptoms that at one point seemed to be improving, he said. He tried sleeping more and boosting his intake of water and fresh fruit juices, hoping he could beat the virus. For a few days, it seemed like he was getting better. Then his condition got worse, and overwhelming fatigue set in.

When breathing became difficult, Cariaga decided to drive himself three hours to Oklahoma City, where his daughter-in-law, Sarah, works as a nurse at Integris Hospital.

“As soon as I got there, they took me to the hospital,” Cariaga said.

While he was there, two friends showed him an astounding display of compassion and friendship. Days before he left for Oklahoma City, Cariaga talked with Matt Kirby, another volunteer for the homeless.

Kirby said he remembered Cariaga saying he wasn’t afraid of the illness, even though he was already beginning to lose his sense of taste and smell.

“I texted him and said, ‘I love you brother,’ ” Kirby said in a phone interview.

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POWER OF FAMILY Pastor Fernando Rojas puts his family and congregation first.

Iglesia Bautista Azle Avenue Baptist Church began in 1996 as an offshoot of a Hispanic mission within Rosen Heights Baptist Church. “We wanted a church representative of the community,” Lead Pastor Fernando Rojas says. In 2001, that offshoot found a permanent home when Azle Avenue Baptist Church invited the fledgling group to join with their congregation’s primarily aging members. Rojas helped with the transformation, first as a member of Rosen Heights Baptist for 24 years, and nine years as associate pastor at IB Azle Avenue.

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Rojas definitely puts Family First – his favorite Blue Zones Power 9 principle – and sees his church as a family. Rojas and his parents came to Texas 30 years ago with no other family around, and perhaps that’s why he feels the connection so strongly. “My daughter grew up with kids in the church youth program who are now her family,” he says.

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Now 20 years in, IB Azle Avenue has truly embedded itself in the community. There’s the Read2Win program, which pairs high school students with first and second graders who weren’t reading fluently.

The church also partners with W.J. Turner Elementary with the 13-week “Highly Capable Children” program. When they noticed that the program was attended primarily by mothers, Rojas says the church started an All Pro Dads chapter, where fathers could have breakfast monthly with their kids at school.

Then there’s the Walking School Bus. For the last four years, the church has sponsored a walk from the church to the school for children and families. On every corner there’s a physical activity to encourage the kids (and parents) to Move Naturally, another Power 9 principle. Rojas often preaches about stewardship.

“We’re stewards of all God gave us,” he says. He sees Moving Naturally as a part of that stewardship.

One of the most important things the church does is assist its members with immigration aid, in partnership with the Mexican Consulate. “We help people get or renew their passports, find their birth certificates, or obtain a U.S. ID.” Like many churches, IB Azle Avenue closed the doors when COVID-19 hit. They tried on-line services, but Rojas saw how congregants struggled with the lack of human touch. The church re-opened last June, with strict procedures that are still in place. He says his congregation – his Right Tribe – is more than willing to mask up. “We’re called to love God and care for one another. Wearing a mask is part of that.”

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The rehab Cariaga and Michele endured lasted weeks. Both were released home with oxygen tanks and had to do physical therapy to regain their strength.

An in-home physical therapist came to Michell’s home and put him through exercises and breathing exercises. He also went on long walks to help build his endurance.

“The next morning, I said I haven’t hurt this much since I played high school football,” Michell said.

While in the hospital and for weeks after, Cariaga experienced what he called a “COVID cloud,” a time of slow thinking and slow moving that sapped every bit of his energy and motivation. Sitting up, talking, and walking to the bathroom were all exhausting. His speech was slow and difficult. The first time he returned to church, Cariaga was out of breath after singing one song, he said. He couldn’t talk on the phone much because it made him cough.

All of the cards, messages, and emails from friends and concerned onlookers kept him going, Cariaga said, adding that he was too weak at the time to answer most of them.

At the height of the surge of COVID cases in Tarrant County, Cariaga’s Facebook page read like a memorial for victims. There was a wife who cared for her husband while he was sick with the virus and contracted it herself. Her husband’s

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“I knew he was sick, and I didn’t want to bother him. The next thing I knew is that after much coaxing and pushing, he went to Oklahoma.”

While Cariaga was in the hospital, Kirby and another friend had already planned to drive to Oklahoma City on business, but that wasn’t enough for Kirby to risk driving in the treacherous ice storm that was forecasted for the area.

“I need a better reason to go,” Kirby said he told him.

They both found one: They would make the trip and also stop by the hospital parking lot to pray for Cariaga.

As snow and ice rained down around them, they sat outside in the car and pleaded with God to save his life.

“It was a very emotional and spiritual time,” Kirby said.

Cariaga was so out of it, he had no idea they were outside at the time, he said.

The two friends later sent him a blurry cell phone photo of the parking lot, with heavy snow and ice falling around them.

“I am eternally grateful for that,” Cariaga said. “This was during an ice storm. That’s friendship.”

Better still, the next morning his symptoms began improving, Cariaga said, but it would be weeks before Michell and Cariaga returned to feeling even slightly “normal.”

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funeral was scheduled so she could attend after her symptoms improved, but she also died before the funeral could be held.

A friend who wrote encouraging text messages to Cariaga while he was in the hospital contracted the virus and died.

Both Cariaga and Michell have tried to reconcile how they survived and others did not.

Overall, the care they received was excellent and saved their lives, Cariaga and Michell told me, but their good fortune caused them to think of other COVID victims who were not as lucky.

What about people who weren’t given the chance to fight? Michell said he has wondered. What about people who didn’t receive the proper care and were warehoused or otherwise left to die?

Cariaga has coped with his ordeal by reaching out to others who have fallen ill to the virus or who have lost loved ones.

“I am sharing this for those who are going through COVID-19 like I did,” he wrote on Facebook. “I understand, am praying for you and hope you recover like I did. Feel free to message me or reach out if I could be of any help.”

As a volunteer and missionary for the homeless, Cariaga works with many “broken” people, he said. That could just as easily apply to how the pandemic has impacted everyone in some way.

“Working with the homeless is interesting work because the homeless are a community of people with mental illnesses and broken relationships,” he said. “People who work with the homeless are not perfect, either. We’re also broken.

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Links between campaign contributions and kickbacks are nothing new in politics, and in Texas, those exchanges rarely result in ethics violation enforcements. The state’s ethics laws “generally emphasize disclosure over prohibition,” one director at the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) recently told me, meaning public office candidates and officials typically have little to fear once donations are publicly disclosed.

In recent years, local examples of ethically precarious election gifts have involved members of Fort Worth school district’s board of trustees (“Ethics for Sale?” May 2018) and Tarrant County’s current tax assessor-collector (“Keeping Tabs on TAD,” Jan. 6).

Following Mayor Betsy Price’s January announcement that she would not seek reelection, many wondered how and when the influence of special interests would aim to unduly influence the race for Fort Worth’s top elected position. During our research into donations made to four frontrunner candidates for mayor, contributions to Councilmember and mayoral candidate Brian Byrd stood out. Large campaign gifts made to Byrd over the past four years were frequently followed by the awarding of millions in city contracts to those same donors. Even a hefty donation doesn’t guarantee that a contract will be awarded — one councilmember cannot determine or account for all nine councilmember votes — but, in politics, money buys relationships.

And even modest political offerings garner a returned phone call.

The contributions date from his first term as District 3’s city councilmember (2017) to more recent contributions in support of his current race for mayor. An April campaign finance report discloses a $10,000 donation made by one local with direct ties to companies that were recently

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Place public housing development was recently demolished as part of a massive Stop Six revitalization effort that is possible, in part, due to a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Councilmember Gyna Bivens has represented District 5 since 2013.

Bivens is the president and executive director of North Texas Leaders and Executives Advocating Diversity, a nonprofit that provides free services to job seekers. The former broadcast journalist has served on more than 30 boards and commissions. Antonio Harris (Facebook @WinwithTwin5) attended Stop Six’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and currently owns and manages a lawn care service and business advertising and branding company. Mar’Tayshia James (Instagram @MJamesCityCouncild5) regularly leads park cleanups in District 5 and frequently speaks at City Hall. Ricky Vazquez (Rick-

awarded almost $5 million in city contracts: $460,607 (July 2020), $1,582,207 (June 2020), and $2,737,888 (April 2019), according to city documents.

City records show that a 2017 donation of $2,500 given to Byrd by a local developer was followed by a city contract worth $2,737,888 (April 2019) and a contract that allowed the donor to develop 733 acres of land in Tarrant County and four in near or neighboring counties. One local construction company owner who donated $6,000 to Byrd through three contributions over the past four years has received contracts worth more than $9 million from the city, according to government documents I reviewed.

Byrd did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Our reporting found that tens of millions in taxpayer-funded contracts have been awarded to companies that have ties to major donors of Byrd’s past city council and current mayoral campaigns. Several very recent donations of $2,500 and more were connected to individuals who work for current and past city vendors. Around half of his major donors are real estate investors, commercial property owners, and homebuilders who reasonably have vested interests in city dealings.

Campaign disclosure reports show that Byrd’s campaign had $502,934 on hand on April 1, making him the top candidate (based on the size of his war chest that includes a personal $300,000 loan) at the time. Frontrunner mayoral candidates Mattie Parker, Ann Zadeh, and Deborah Peoples respectively reported $466,221, $134,420, and $41,034 on hand during that disclosure period. We reviewed major donations made to the four frontrunner mayor candidates and cross-referenced companies tied to those individuals through the city’s online vendor database. Parker’s and Zadeh’s donations showed few if any potential conflicts of interest, and, with an average donation size of around $60, Peoples’ records did not suggest unethical behavior.

yVazquezforCityCouncilDistrict5.com) is an election judge and active member of the Democratic party. Bob Willoughby (FWDistrict5.com) ran for the District 5 seat in 2015, 2017, and 2019 and is a proponent of removing the influence of special interests from local politics.

We sent all five District 5 candidates the same question, and they responded in writing.

Please describe the unique needs of District 5 and your plans to serve the area.

Bivens: District 5 residential and corporate constituents are pleased to see improvements in infrastructure, economic development, police/community relations, and the need for quality builders taking place, but decades of municipal neglect in these areas have not been resolved.

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Through his numerous campaign flyers, Byrd has positioned himself as the candidate who will fight special interests. Our reporting found that his campaigns are funded in no small part by those same special interests.

After five years as chief of staff for Fort Worth City Council and the mayor, Parker is seeking her first elected office. One February donation made to Parker’s campaign came from the owner of a business that is a vendor with the City of Fort Worth. A $10,000 gift to Parker by the owner of Conatser Construction mirrored donations made to Byrd that were followed by large city contracts. Parker’s donations largely come from donors who made their wealth in oil and gas. Since Parker did not have direct influence on the awarding of contracts when she was chief of staff — her focus was on planning and managing the day-to-day duties of the elected officials — the contributions cannot be directly linked to kickbacks.

Donations to Zadeh, who has spent the past seven years as a city councilmember representing District 9, revealed a single tie to city contracts — a $2,500 contribution

from the president of an architecture firm that was awarded a $419,138 city building design contract in 2019, one of dozens of contracts awarded to the firm since 2000, according to city documents, long before Zadeh sat on council.

Peoples’ early April campaign disclosure lists nearly 1,000 donors, according to her released documents.

While no single councilmember holds the power to award large city contracts, it would defy belief that Byrd was unaware of the direct ties that his donors had to tens of millions of dollars in city contracts that were, at the time, being reviewed by city staffers. Byrd’s campaign ad that lists “stopping corruption” as his top priority stands at odds with his track record of repeatedly accepting funds from self-interested individuals. — Edward Brown

James: The unique needs I feel District 5 has are crime rates, police relationship with the community, affordable housing, and communication. I believe that I can help steer those because I am one who has already begun to take action. Police restoring their relationship within the community is something that is imperative and needs to take place fast — not just by orchestrating functions or gatherings but by the people of Fort Worth knowing and seeing these changes. Housing is something that continues to be an ongoing issue, and I am not saying I will change things overnight. I plan on hosting and educating residents and seniors on grants and

Willoughby: Before District 5 can improve, we need voter education to inform citizens what a good candidate is over a bad one. Voting is an obligation, not a privilege. The Fort Worth Police Officers Association providing large sums of cash to candidates to influence an election is wrong, but what is more wrong is the candidate that accepts their endorsement or cash. There are lots of different reasons why people do not exercise their right to vote, which is especially problematic. These people will not vote because they feel that, fundamentally, the system is broken. And others do not feel like they have enough information. Councilmember Gyna Bivens has done a poor job informing residents about city functions that affect us like bonds, redistricting, and zoning. 2022 bond money should be used practically and profitably. A children’s amusement park at the north end of Lake Arlington with a petting zoo and 1,500-seat amphitheater would be profitable in more ways than one and good for District 5. To put another $12 million of bond monies into Rockwood Golf Course would not be smart. l

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Vazquez: Let me be clear. It’s not just about what I want to see the city do for District 5. It’s what the people in the community want to see and have been asking to see. First is vision. We want to be able to think about or plan for the future with imagination or wisdom. We as a community have to prepare for the future to be better. Second is leadership. We have too many chiefs and not enough Indians, as the old saying goes. It’s time we are all on one accord and make this community what it used to be. We have to select the right leadership so the people can be one and not split as we see today. Third is collaboration. We have to work as a team for local economic growth and not against.

We have to collaborate with our small business owners, other elected leaders, law enforcement, and local entrepreneurs so we can improve business relations and have that grocery store we want to see in District 5. Let’s help our local Realtors so we can have affordable housing, lower property tax, and [better] relations with law enforcement so we can feel safe again. If we come together and do this, we the people in District 5 will indeed have progress. Once we fix our community and bring it back to the roots of vision, leadership, and collaboration, I promise [that] we will have progress and become whole again.

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Harris: District 5 is socially uncomfortable in an environment where police continuously practice excessive force [and people are] undereducated due to a school system that cares more about the number enrolled versus the scores on the test. Economic growth [is] bankrupt from the lack of jobs, trades, and skills, and underdeveloped communities [are stricken] with food deserts, unhealthy fast-food restaurants, transit inequality, an environment of unused land, and dilapidated buildings plagued with gentrification. Not only for District 5 but for the city as a whole, we need adequate transit to ensure a safer, faster, and more efficient means of travel to jobs and leisure. The City of Fort Worth must do a better job of making the east side of I-35 mirror the west side of I-35.

funding that are available to and for them when restoring their homes and rebuilding our city. More than often, we hear that the community is unaware of things taking place within their communities or that they are not notified of things that they should be notified about. I know for a fact after canvassing and just building relationships with my fellow neighbors that they feel as though they are the last to know about anything in their communities but the first to have to adjust to the changes. I just do not see that as right or fair.

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We have seen progress on major arterials like Randol Mill Road, Ramey Avenue, Precinct Line Road, Miller Avenue, and East Rosedale Street, but we must do better in communicating the methodology engineers use in prioritizing how neighborhood street needs are addressed. I am delighted that District 5 will be home to one of the first two transit-oriented developments anchored by the Lakes of River Trails (LORT) master-planned community and a rail station, but that is the only master-planned development in District 5 right now. That means we have to be on guard against shoddy developers who build with little regard to the spirit of the neighborhood. Residents in Stop Six complained [about] many boarded-up abandoned houses before I was elected. I asked developers why they avoided building in Stop Six and learned it was because of zoning restrictions. Stop Six now has a 66% increase in new housing permits. It turns out Stop Six was home to the city’s largest historic overlay (397 acres), but the structures within the boundaries never met the criteria for such a designation. Homes of my two aunts and grandmother were actually relocated to Stop Six as were many others.

I removed the restriction with fewer than 20 residents opposing the zoning change.

Many of our challenges stem from the fact that the Chamber of Commerce’s efforts focused on member priorities who mainly lived on the West Side. No one was lobbying for District 5. I am optimistic that the $35 million HUD grant will provide the catalyst to bring desirable and sustainable retail options that will enhance the quality of life here.

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Oscar’s Hidden Gold

And the Oscar goes to … that guy. An analysis of the awards’ not-somajor categories.

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Cinematography: The best-photographed movie I saw in 2020 was Vitalina Varela, a movie about Cape Verdean immigrants in Portugal with cinematographer Leonardo Simões placing these African islanders in sharp, dramatically lit tableaux reminiscent of Caravaggio paintings. Sadly, Pedro Costa’s film was ruled ineligible for this year’s awards (other than the International Feature one), so this trophy will likely go to Erik Messerschmidt’s sumptuous blackand-white photography for Mank. Others ineligible for this award that would have made worthy nominees are Declan Quinn’s Technicolor job on Sylvie’s Love and Aaron Moorhead’s multilayered work on Synchronic. I am mystified by the omission of Christopher Blauvelt’s photography of Emma.’s eggshell colors and Karim Hussain’s lurid look for Possessor. Every year has a bad movie with great cinematography, and my pick for 2020 is Disney’s Mulan remake, photographed by Mandy Walker.

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Just before everything went to hell, we had the last Oscars, that feel-good win for Parasite, and me writing this piece while we were wearing jackets and heating our homes. This year, we go from the Oscars pretty much straight into the summer movie season, and I’m writing this story while running my A/C. The ceremony this Sunday will have a different vibe, with producer Steven Soderbergh saying it will feel like a movie. (Um, OK.) They’ll still be giving out the following awards that I’m handicapping. As always, if my predictions are wrong, I’ll refund you the newsstand price of our paper.

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are easily more impressive than any other film in the field’s. The rest are distinctly underwhelming compared to the films that were overlooked, with Erin Magill creating life-drainingly perfect interiors for Swallow, Cristina Casali giving a storybook feel to The Personal History of David Copperfield, and Kave Quinn imparting a dollhouse texture to Emma. Michael Perry’s Day-Glo colors on Promising Young Woman helped that revenge story go down easy. A couple of forgettable horror films contributed some memorable sets, too, with Jeremy Reed’s abstract, brutalist sets being the best thing about Gretel & Hansel and Ferdia Murphy’s work for The Other Lamb contrasting monumental sculptures against the wild countryside of County Wicklow, Ireland.

Once again, Sylvie’s Love and Mayne Berke’s midcentury stylings are ineligible, as are Philip Murphy and the oppressive look he brought to Vivarium.

Costume design: Once again, this branch of the academy has it wrong. I mean, Alexandra Byrne well deserves her nomination for Emma., and you could argue that Mulan and Pinocchio belong here, too. I’m afraid Mank might win this, too, because of Hollywood’s love of movies about itself. We all should be up in arms that Erin Benach’s costumes for Birds of Prey were not recognized here, because Harley Quinn’s outfits contributed so much to that movie’s antic humor. Anna B. Sheppard’s deliberately outrageous clothes for Eurovision Song Contest merited a place in this field as well. These clothing designers take their jobs too seriously. I have one more left-field pick: Valley Girl wasn’t much of a movie, but Maya Lieberman’s 1980s outfits sent up the decade perfectly.

Foreign-language international film: An unusually strong field this year. The trophy will likely go to Denmark’s Another Round, which also snagged a surprise first-ever Best Director nomination for the country.

Here’s hoping we see Mads Mikkelsen

break out some dance moves to celebrate the win. It seems likely that Brazil didn’t submit Bacurau because of its criticism of Bolsonaro’s government, while France passed up Cuties in favor of the inferior Two of Us, which illustrates why letting the countries pick their one submission for this category sucks. I haven’t seen True Mothers (Japan) or This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (Lesotho), but both won rave advance reviews while going unrecognized by the academy. La Llorona (Guatemala) and Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast) made the shortlist and would have made better nominees than Better Days (Hong Kong) and The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia).

Deserving more consideration as well: Vitalina Varela (Portugal) and The Man Standing Next (South Korea).

Animated feature: For a while, it was looking like Pixar’s only entry in this field would be the relatively undistinguished Onward, but now, I see nothing standing between Soul and the studio’s 11th win in this category. Wolfwalkers looks like the only credible threat in the field, and while there’s great affection for Tomm Moore’s distinctive visual style and mining of Irish lore, I don’t find that his stories come together as potently as I’d like. You could make a case for Earwig and the Witch deserving a nod, but I’m not too upset. Not eligible for this award are some prominent Asian entries like Jiang Ziya and La Casa Lobo, which is a Chinese entry, believe it or not.

Documentary feature: I went over this in exhaustive detail when I did my piece on the year’s best documentaries last month. I picked Time as the likely winner, and I see no reason to come off that.

Original score: Soul will take this one, with Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross’ jazz both meritorious on its own and being foregrounded so much by the film it was in.

I have no problem with this, nor with the nominations for Da 5 Bloods and Minari, but some of 2020’s most interesting scores went by the wayside here, like Adam Janota Bzowski’s organizing principle of a score for Saint Maud, Robert Glasper’s lush jazz music for The Photograph, and Jim Williams’ unorthodox soundtrack for Possessor. I’m not sure how Nicolas Becker and Abraham Marder’s music for Sound of Metal misses out here, either, with its heavy metal songs so integral to the film’s story. Anthony Willis’ bruising string score for Promising Young Woman (and its cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic”) was ruled ineligible.

Original song: Weak stuff here. Seriously, you could take “Fight for You” out of Judas and the Black Messiah and switch it with “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami, and nobody would notice. There may be some support for the Italian-language “Io Sì” from The Life Ahead, with songwriter Diane Warren on her 12th Oscar nomination without a win. However, I’m 100 percent behind “Husavik” from Eurovision Song Contest, which is the best song here and the only one with a sense of humor or lyrics in Icelandic. A win for it would make songwriter Will Ferrell the first ever cast member of Saturday Night Live to receive an Oscar, which is a mind-blowing fact.

Billie Eilish’s theme song from No Time to Die was ruled ineligible because the movie it’s attached to hasn’t been released yet. If the academy had nominated “Wuhan Flu” from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, it would have injected some fun into the ceremony and been worthy of standing beside “Blame Canada” as an Oscar nominee. I’m not a fan of the song, but nominating Taylor Swift’s “Only the Young” from Miss Americana would have made for a more interesting race. Enough about that. You’re upset over the omission of “Jaja Ding Dong” from Eurovision. I don’t blame you. Guess that’s something to sing at your socially distanced Oscar party. l

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The menu offers authentic Argentinian recipes plus European and American favorites. All are baked in thin but hearty shells of pastry dough.

The Beef Classic seemed like a safe start before I ventured to some of the more adventurous options. Alternating salty bites of green olives, savory ground beef, and hints of fiery spices met my palate. An accompanying side of chimichurri sauce added an oregano-infused pop and a tinge of acidity.

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The garlicky amalgam of savory textures was filling, even if the cheese somewhat overpowered the seafood.

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Del Campo Empanadas’ only vegetarian-friendly option, the caprese, was comparatively refreshing to the other baked pies I had that day. The ripe and slightly sweet sliced Roma tomatoes shone through, as did the fresh leaves of basil that retained their freshness even after being baked.

A small Argentinian flag (held by a toothpick pole) designated the one true Argentine empanada I ordered that day — Argentine Style Beef. The juicy ground meat, seasoned with cumin and paprika, was topped with sweet raisins, briny green olives, sweet red bell peppers, and small slivers of onions for a blend of sweet, salty, and savory which was as complex as it was enjoyable.

The two desserts I tried were light but densely packed with flavors. The Banutella was about the size of a cannolo and was encased in a fried dough similar to the classic Italian dessert. The fillings consisted of slices of sweet, ripe bananas and a rich, dark chocolate sauce. Eating the puff pastry was an entirely different experience. The brittle shell broke apart easily, sending small plumes of powdered sugar every which way. The real treat was at the center — a thick layer of dulce de leche. The reduced milk and sugar confection tasted like caramel, but the texture was much lighter.

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Did you know that JPS Health System has two food trucks parked on campus every night? Look for them in the parking lot at the northwest corner of Main and Allen streets from 10pm to 2am. A Taste of Louisiana, Bullfish Foods, Go-Coffee Co., Kipz BBQ, La Cocina Rodante, and WangzFii are all on this week’s schedule.

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Grapevine Main Station — a new transitoriented development project featuring a newly minted Texas landmark designation — has its official grand opening on Saturday at 11am at the intersection of Main Street and Dallas Road. See the expansive Peace Plaza and Rail Station, which features Harvest Hall (815 S Main St, Grapevine, 817-251-3050), a Europeanstyle food hall with seven kitchens, craft coffee, drinks, and cocktails. There is also a new 150-foot-tall Observation Tower — the new home of the Grapevine Visitor Information Center connected to Hotel Vin — with panoramic views of Historic Grapevine and much of North Texas.

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Are you missing your post-show pancake fix? Ol’ South Pancake House is back open 24/7 at its Fort Worth Location (1509 S University, 817-336-0311). The Burleson location (225 E Renfro Rd, 817-989-9090) is open daily from 6am to 10pm but plans to go 24/7 soon as well. (Ol’ South is also hiring, so apply in person day or night.)

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Speaking of Burleson, Oscar’s Bar & Grill (1581 SW Wilshire Blvd, Ste 101, 817-4477232) is back open. This brand new music venue, bar, and full-service restaurant had just met its three-month mark when the pandemic hit. Due to capacity restrictions, owner Christian Baird decided to close temporarily. With a full music schedule lined up from now through May, it’s time to head there for date night.

Taste your way around Scarborough Renaissance Festival (2511 FM 66, Waxahachie, 972-938-3247) on Saturday and Sunday at the Royal Ale Tasting Tour.

After entering the festival grounds, head to the Royal Tasting booth in Crown Meadow to purchase a $10 tasting ticket (must be 21+), then enjoy a variety of craft beers in the various pubs and taverns throughout Scarborough. Festival admission tickets are $37 at Albertson’s and Tom Thumb throughout North Texas.

Food Hall at Crockett Row will soon be offering another food option — Smoke-AHolics BBQ — inside Crockett Food Hall (3000 Crockett St, 817-885-7331). SmokeA-Holics’ free-standing location (1417 Evans Av, 817-386-5658) will continue its operations with the food hall as a second location. The new site will serve most of the items from the original store, including loaded cornbread, a widely popular dish made of fresh-baked cornbread topped with baked beans, chopped brisket, shredded cheese, onions, and barbecue sauce. For updates and grand opening info, follow them at Facebook.com/Smoke1TX.

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MUSIC Levi Ray

For When the Sad Songs Make You Happy, the singer-songwriter broke through the pandemic malaise.

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A stellar lineup of singer-songwriters piled onto Tulips’ stage Saturday night in celebration of one of their own. Levi Ray had just released his second recording, the EP When the Sad Songs Make You Happy, and Quaker City Night Hawks’ Sam Anderson and Summer Dean warmed up the crowd before Ray and his backing trio — father Gerald Ray on guitar, Charles Kleuser on bass, and Jeffry Simms (The Matthew Show) on drums — took the stage. The sound was pristine, and the tunes even sharper.

“The band played great on Saturday, by the way,” Ray said. “I’m super-lucky.”

Super-lucky or just talented? One listen to Ray’s five-song effort strongly indicates the latter. The haunting, lifting, and gritty sounds are anchored by Ray’s soulful baritone.

Whatever Ray does, he said, “it just has to be real.”

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Slow Draw’s Yellow and Gray

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In an era of hyperstimulation, few things succeed at fully grasping our attention.

Not many pieces of media make a mark on our consciousness, sneaking in at the edges of our perception and slowly making themselves known. Many aspects of our lives and environments blur into a quiet droning. Yellow and Gray, the mostly ambient new EP from Slow Draw, is anything but background music.

Yellow and Gray materializes like a thick fog on the horizon, fuzzy riffs and grooving percussion creating a meditative funk that is easy to become engrossed in.

Ray: “Part of writing and recording and playing is to just keep going.”

When the Sad Songs Make You Happy was recorded in bits and pieces starting last year in Fort Worth at Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges, White Denim, Vincent Neil Emerson) with producer Joel Raif. Along with Gerald and bassist Kris Luther (The Polydogs), Ray was joined by drummer and engineer Peter Wierenga (Siberian Traps). Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan) mastered the EP. Ray’s songs come from the depths of the pandemic blues.

“I kind of reached a point during the lockdown where I forced myself to do something,” he said. “I got ahold of Joel at Niles City maybe around this time last year, and we were both open to it.”

The sweet title is appropriate to these five songs about beating back remorse and despair.

“Feels like I’m dying,” Ray sings on leadoff track “Give.” “Weight is killing me, bringing me down / Running out of time to figure out and make everything

While fans of Kitchens’ other project, Stone Machine Electric, will notice familiar psychedelic influences and signatures in Yellow and Gray, the album is still stylistically unique and somewhat of a departure from the heavy, psychedelic stoner-rock jams that Stone Machine Electric specializes in. Most notably, Yellow and Gray is almost exclusively instrumental. This reliance on tone to tell a melodic story in no way detracts, however, from the ethereal journey the listener is brought along on. In fact, it removes the distraction of lyrics from the equation and diverts all attention to the distinct mood and tone of each composition.

From the chartreuse and melodic “Stumble” to the remarkably riffy “A Heavy Snack” and the oddly tropical, mirage-like feel of “Stranded,” Slow Draw explores a range of soundscapes, taking the listener on a psychedelic journey through the mind’s eye. Cheerful, bright

synth is juxtaposed with thick bass and guitar to create a cosmic, oceanic feeling that washes over you in waves. There is a certain fluidity to Yellow and Gray that tugs you gently through the entirety of the record, keeping your attention honed. You don’t hear this EP. You drink it.

One of the best tracks is “Turntable.”

Building gradually, effectively slow dancing with the ear, the song has a smoky amber vibration that feels like music you would hear in a bar at the edge of the universe. It’s a sepia psychedelia that plays with the mind and keeps the listener absolutely engaged. It’s the ideal soundtrack to quiet, relaxing evenings and contemplative self-reflection.

Drawing obvious influences from lounge, ambient, psychedelic, and even metal and funk, Slow Draw creates a unique soundscape that transports the listener into a sultry, vaporeal auditory

alright … Wish that I had known then, the simple things have no time left to own / Best that I can do is give / It’s all that I have left to give / It’s yours for the taking, life and lovemaking / Everything we have is ours to give.”

Ray feels like he’s improving, always improving.

“I feel like my writing is getting better, or, you know, it’s different,” he said, “being a better self-editor, I suppose, and I think that’s important.”

The album includes one cover song but not of anything off a major label.

Not too long ago, Ray heard a song by his graphic designer and media artist, the local musician Conor Dardis of Thirst and Company, “Ballad of the Butcher’s Wife.”

“I fell in love with it,” Ray said. “It’s a murder ballad that’s very visceral and real.”

Ray said he hopes When the Sad Songs Make You Happy resonates throughout the community.

“We have a wonderful little circle here in Fort Worth,” he said. “There’s all kinds of places to play, and they’re all wonderful, and they’re wonderful people, but go beyond that.”

Ray, who’s been known to haunt stages all over town, said that playing three-hour gigs five days a week isn’t something he’s too interested in and that it can be a bit monotonous — he’s been gigging steadily for at least the past decade. Performing and making music has to mean more than just writing lyrics and releasing digital tracks, he said, which he stresses as the importance of why he makes music in the first place.

“So much of life is difficult, and the last year-plus has been even more so,” he said. “It’s easy to get lost in all that. Part of writing and recording and playing is to just keep going. Helps my head, my heart, my soul, everything. Life didn’t stop. It just changed.” l environment. All senses are engaged without being overwhelmed.

Each track on Yellow and Gray has a unique and distinct tone while still fitting together in a cohesive way. The overall feel is a trancelike repetitive groove, that’s laid back while still demanding attention and intuitive listening. There is a space cadet quality to the entire thing that feels nearly like lounge music from another dimension while still being gritty enough to ground you to this realm of reality.

Slated for a May 7 release, Yellow and Gray is a natural successor to Quiet Joy, Slow Draw’s previous effort. It takes the bones of that EP and builds from them, utilizing the tones and auditory themes already well established in Slow Draw’s oeuvre to create a sequel that is harmonious with the rest of the existing catalog. — Chloe Walden

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AMENDED NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT AIR QUALITY PERMIT NUMBER 37321 APPLICATION TEXSTARS, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for: Amendment of Permit 37321 This application would authorize modification of the Surface Coating Facilities located at 925 Avenue H E, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas 76011. 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=32.763333&lng=-97.051666&zoom=13&type=r. The facility will emit the following contaminants: exempt solvents, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, hazardous air pollutants, and organic compounds.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on March 16, 2021. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Arlington Public Library - George W. Hawkes Downtown Library, 100 South Center Street, Arlington, 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.

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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.

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