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Home My WebLink AboutE-Communicator-City Publications-1/30/2012IN THIS ISSUE BAYLOR REWARDS HEALTHY CITIES HOLIDAY TREE PICK-UP WATER RESTRICTIONS CONTINUE IN WINTER MONTHS NEW ALARM PERMIT SITE NOW LIVE SEVERE WEATHER SANDBAGS FREE TAX PREPARATION ASSISTANCE OFFERED ZUMBA Colleyville History: PLEASANT GLADE QUICK LINKS CITY OF COLLEYVILLE CITY NEWS PUBLIC MEETINGS FEBRUARY EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Zumba Gold Colleyville Senior Center Wed., Feb. 1-29 11:00 a.m. For details, call 817.283.7648 Adventure Kidz Valentine Cards Colleyville Public Library Thu., Feb. 2, 3:15 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1150 Tornado Warning Colleyville Senior Center Thu., Feb. 9, 11:30 a.m. For details, call 817.283.7648 Adventure Kid ~ ,~ r~, , ~ ~ ~,, ~f > , ~ ~ ~~~ ~ , ~ ~. . ~ ~ ~ x w,~ , A ; ` , M ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~, ry~_ t ~n, ~~ ~ ' 1 ~~,~ ~. a ~ r~ ?. ~t ~°' ro ~ t: 1~ ~ ~ ~,~r, ~; F Yl; 4, q w a `~ ~-°~r !:~r f{~~+~i+~-._ r '~'`'. `~ i~.;il~~~~lr '~.~ s '~~' ~- $~ t ~`}~i`~ Colleyville is one of eight communities to accept Baylor Regional Medical Center's Lifestyle Improvement Challenge to promote and encourage healthy lifestyles in area communities. If it's successful the challenge, which is part of a pilot program targeting northeast Tarrant and southern Denton counties, may be instituted throughout the Baylor Regional Medical Center system. To prove it's serious about the cause, Baylor Regional Medical Center is offering $50,000 in incentives to the winning communities. The first-place community will receive a$25,000 grant from Baylor to promote healthy living programs. The second-place city will receive $15,000, while third place will net a lucky community $10,000 to aid in wellness programs. The Lifestyle Improvement Challenge runs until April. The criteria includes a weight loss incentive program, a community-driven competition or promotion, and a race or other event. Other participating communities include: Euless, Grapevine, Haslet, Hurst, Keller, Roanoke, and Watauga. Colleyville held the Run, Walk, Read event in November. The New Year will bring a health lecture series and cooking demonstrations at the Colleyville Public Library with concurrent programs being offered for children. Upcoming topics include general health and fitness, weight issues, and nutrition. Children's topics include Orange I Special, Blueberries-True Blue Yummy Tool, BAYLOR RE~VARDS HEALTHY CITIES Medical Cente~'s community challenge r~uns un~il April LEGO Mania Colleyville Public Library Thu., Feb. 9& 23, 3:15 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1150 Colleyville Senior Center Annual Senior Prom Compass Christian Church Fri., Feb. 10, 6:00 p.m. For details, call 817.283.7648 Daddy/Daughter Dance Colleyville Center Fri., Feb. 10 7:00-9:00 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1180 Pinkalicious Party Colleyville Public Library Thu., Feb. 16, 3:15 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1150 View a complete listing of activities and events in February City of Colleyville 817.503.1000 Suggestions or Comments? Munchin' Crunchin' Broc Talk, and Feeling Good Down To- ma-toes. For more information, contact the Colleyville Public Library at 817.503.1150 or visit Colleyville.com. ~ ;Q_ ~,~ ~,~ ~-, ~• T~' ~ ~ R -~ ~ ~`~ ~ =~' ~;~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~.r ~~, °. ~ ~v~g~~l.r..~~.. ~~~ ~~E.~ ' •x'k ~~r~.5i~ . ~! r ~~. e~ ~ ~ ~~; , ,~' r e 6 ~~...~ E~• P ~~~. G.,~ ~~ 7 I ~ ,`~ i ~ ~ Holiday trees can be placed at curbside for pick-up beginning Thursday, Jan. 5 through Friday, Jan. 13, according to the following schedule: - For residents on a Monday-Thursday collection schedule, holiday tree pick-up will be conducted on Thursday, 7an. 5 and Thursday, ~an. 12. - For residents on a Tuesday-Friday collection schedule, holiday tree pick-up will be conducted on Friday, ~an. 6 and Friday, Jan. 13. All hooks, nails, and tinsel must be removed from the trees prior to placing them at curbside. WATER RESTRICTIONS CONTINUE IN ~VINTER MONTHS Despite significant precipitation in December, the Texas drought continues. Lake and reservoir levels are still below 75% of capacity. Under the Tarrant Regional Water District's (TRWD) drought plan, when the district's lakes and reservoirs drop to 75% of capacity, TRWD requires cities to enforce these mandatory restrictions. The city of Colleyville will continue to enforce the restrictions on outdoor watering, including the prohibition on watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. (hand watering is allowed); limiting outdoor watering with sprinklers or irrigation systems to twice per week through the city's zoned system (conservation managers at TRWD recommend watering no more than twice PER MONTH during the winter and only if necessary); prohibiting hosing off paved areas like driveways and sidewalks, or buildings and windows; restricting draining and re-filling swimming HOLIDAY TREE PICK-UP pools; and limiting private vehicle washing to the use of a bucket or a hose with a turnoff valve. According to the water conservation managers at TRWD, outdoor irrigation should not be necessary during the winter months because: * Recent rainfall has increased the soil moisture levels enough to accommodate the needs of most plants' root systems-especially turf grass. A two inch or more moist soil depth should last several weeks, especially with cooler temperatures. * Short days and long nights have lowered the evaporation rates and have a direct effect on the growth rate of most plants. * Warm season turf grasses (St. Augustine, Bermuda, Zoyzia, Buffalo, and others) stop growing (above ground) when air temperatures average 50°F, and root growth activity stops when the ground temperature approaches freezing. The current soil moisture content is sufficient for most turf grasses. * Watering during the cooler months, especially when average temperatures are low and direct sunlight is short, will leave turf grass blades wet for long periods of time, increasing the potential for disease. Also, frozen plant leaves can cause severe cell damage to the plant, which can easily kill it. NEW ALARM PERMIT SITE NOW LIVE The city's new alarm permit management system took effect Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 with the launch of the new alarm permit site. The site will serve both city officials and residents, who will be able to set up a personal login and password for their account. Information detailing the city's alarm ordinance will be available on the site to educate residents and offer training in the proper use of alarm systems. The site will manage all alarm permit holders' accounts and collect fines for code violations, which will give permit holders safe, easy access to their account information and allow new alarm owners to apply for a permit online. Responding officers will also have real-time access to an alarm permit holder's prior history. Residents can access the site at Colleyville.com. The annual permit fee for an alarm is currently $25 and will stay the same under the new ordinance. Each alarm owner will be allowed up to three false alarm responses per year without incurring a charge. Thereafter, the fine will increase in $25 increments to a maximum fine of $100. The city has contracted with PMAM Alarm Management to implement the False Alarm Management Solution (FAMS). The full-service, web-based application is expected to reduce false alarms by 25 percent within 18 months and raise the alarm code compliance rate from 21 percent to at least 40 percent. About 99 percent of business and residential alarm calls responded to by Colleyville police are false. Last year the city spent about $261,000 responding to false alarms and nearly an hour in officers' time clearing each false alarm call. Last summer, the Colleyville City Council adopted a new alarm permit ordinance to curtail the high volume of false alarms. SEVERE WEATHER SANDBAGS Severe weather and flooding can affect everyone. During flooding events, the city has sandbags on hand at the Public Works facility located at 1601 Hall Johnson Road. These are provided without charge to the Colleyville residents who need them. In emergency situations, the city's employees are busy working the emergency and are not available to deliver those sandbags, so residents who need them should plan to pick them up at the Public Works facility, located on the south side of Hall Johnson Road, just east of the Colleyville Post Office. The Public Works facility is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 817.540.0609. FREE TAX PREPARATION ASSISTANCE Every year the AARP provides free tax assistance at the Colleyville Senior Center. The service is available to everyone and will be offered every Tuesday, starting Feb. 7 through April 10. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-12.30 p.m, and 5:00-8:00 p.m. Appointments are required and reservations can be made through the Senior Center at 817.283.7648. ~ ~,f~ ~,- ZUMBA . ~~ ~ ~. Join the party! Colleyville Parks and Recreation's winter lineup includes a Zumba class. Zumba combines fitness and motivating music with combinations of world dance, creating a dynamic, exciting, effective, and fun fitness program. The easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie- burning dance steps will help you tone and sculpt your body. The adult class is held at the Colleyville Senior Center since the Center offers a large dance space. Classes are held Monday and Thursday, Jan. 23-March 1, from 5:45-6:45 p.m. To register, call 817.503.1180 or register online here. Don't know Zumba? Check it out in this YouTube video from a similar class. Tradition has it that when early settlers came to the wooded area to the north of Little Bear Creek, they looked out over the countryside and said, "This is a pleasant glade. Let's stop here." First called the "Glade Prairie" in 1860, it was named "The Glade" about 1869, and the name continued to be used even into the 1980s. The community was located nineteen miles from Fort Worth on the Grapevine-Arlington road and by 1935 had a population of seventy-five. It thrived for over a half- century with productive farms that yielded prize-winning produce for local festivals and the Fort Worth market. Pleasant Glade resident, Charles Hall, founded the first county cooperative marketing association in 1927 to market cantaloupes and tomatoes. This association shipped produce all over the Southwest, helping the community to become known as the center of the Tarrant County cantaloupe district. Besides farming commerce seemed to be an important part of The Glade's development, as many tried their hand at storekeeping. The earliest stores at The Glade were located in the area between the Baptist church at 3708 Glade Road and the Assembly of God church at 3801 Glade Road. Ed Cavender owned the first store in the late 1800s. An interesting incident occurred here when the men of the community had a fight over the school board election in the early 1900s and someone shot a hole in Mr. Cavender's door. Read about the history of Pleasant Glade Forward email This email was sent to cloven@colleyville.com by mqandyCalcolleyville.com ~ ~ ~ ~ , . =ao•° ~r;r~#N~ ~~ ti:~~~+'~ ~~~~~~ ~~~ ~ ~~~ ~~~: Colleyville history: PLEASANT GLADE (CA.1875-1956) Update Profile/Email Address Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeTM ~ Privacv Policy. 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