Archive for March, 2011
By Bruce Felps I meant to get to this a few days ago, but sorry, doing things interfered with things I should do. Anyway, this item popped up from a Lakewood BubbleLife feed that hit the inbox last Friday and I thought it might be of interest. Seems there’s a relatively new transportation outfit called [...]
By Bruce Felps Marianne Gargour, an artist who lives in Lakewood, hits the exhibit circuit again this weekend. She will set up at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, which runs 5-10 p.m., April 1; 11 a.m.-10 p.m., April 2; and 11 a.m.-7 p.m., April 3 in the Deep Ellum Entertainment District, which seems like a [...]
Community Contribution Lakehill Preparatory School presents its third program in its Environmental Summit speaker series, a free symposium for individuals interested in environmental awareness and sustainability. The free event takes place at the LEED-certified Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Science Center at Lakehill’s Roger L. Perry Campus. The event, The Next 100 Years: The [...]
By Bruce Felps This morning’s cruise through other local blogs turned up this review of a Lower Greenville Avenue preview that occurred last night. According to Unfair Park, last night’s meeting included a couple of food trailers situated at the old Arcadia site — get used to seeing that — and a developer’s pitch to [...]
By Bruce Felps Woodrow Wilson High School English teacher and tennis coach is justifiably proud of his engaged in the latter competition. The Wildcats girls and boys tennis teams played in the district tournament March 29 and 30, with all players advancing from day 1 to day 2 and 15 of 16 players earning tournament [...]
By Bruce Felps The Woodrow Wilson High School boys and girls soccer Wildcats moved to the next round of the playoffs after each notched a win versus their respective Ennis rivals Tuesday evening. The boys team took its region II area playoff game 3-nil, while the girls scored a 2-1 victory. Both teams hit the [...]
By Bruce Felps Stonewall Jackson Elementary School kids break free from the classroom Friday to honor the timeless tradition of field day. Kindergarten, first-, and second-graders kick it from 8:30-11:30 a.m., April 1; and third-fourth-, and fifth-graders enjoy the great outdoors from 12:30-2:30 p.m., the same day.
By Bruce Felps The Promise of Peace Community Garden yesterday gained a new spade-turner. Area artist and metal sculptor David Hickman created a piece titled “The Little Gardener” and erected the work on the PoP grounds. Elizabeth Dry, executive director of the garden, said the piece is there “on loan or until someone sponsors it [...]
By Bruce Felps An e-mail message arrived yesterday morning soon after the piece about the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon hit the light of cyber-day. The opening sentence, the “lede” in media-speak, included the phrase “Some area residents groused a bit about the inconvenience of yet another marathon ….” The e-mailer turned out to be one [...]
By Bruce Felps Sometimes PR machines should just play it straight. The city’s public information office yesterday sent out a notice of a good event to take place tomorrow in the neighborhood. The Dallas Waste Diversion team and Whole Foods-Lakewood, along with Mother Earth News Radio, join up to stage Rally for Recycling — 10 a.m.-2 [...]
