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HomeMy WebLinkAboutColleyville Communicator-City Publications-8/31/2011T- SEPTEMBER WODAYWATERINGZONES EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Colleyville Center 5301 Riverwalk Drive 817.503.1330 Colleyville PARD L.D. Lockett House 315 L.D. Lockett Road Rock House 240 W. McDonwell School Road 817.503.1180 Colleyville Public Library 110 Main Street 817.503.1150 Colleyville Senior Center 2512 Glade Road 817.283.7648 Junior Beginner Tennis City Park Tennis Court Mon. and/or Wed., Aug. 29-Sept. 26, 4:15 p.m. For details, call 817.503.1180 TRWDPREDICTINGMOREWATERRESTRICTIONS Digital Storybook Colleyville Senior Center With continued dry conditions Restricting draining and re- • Wed., Sept. 7-28, 10:00 am. and extreme temperatures,filling swimming pools officials at the Tarrant Regional Limiting private vehicle • Story Time Registration Opens Water District (TRWD) havewashing to the use of a bucket Colleyville Public Library notified member cities that moreor a hose with a turnoff valve Mon., Sept. 12, 10:00 a.m. stringent water restrictionsIn Colleyville, twice-a-week Regal Opera Performance across the region are likely to bewatering would be accomplished Colleyville Center enacted by early September.in zones depicted in the map Friday, Sept. 16, 7:00 p.m. Under TRWD’s drought plan, ifabove. ...continued on back page Sunday, Sept. 18, 2:00 p.m. the district’s lakes and reservoirs For tickets, call 817.685.6143 drop to 75% of capacity, TRWD OUTDOORMOVIECANCELLED will require cities to enforce For a complete listing of Due to concerns for the public’s mandatory restrictions. activities and events in August, safety, the outdoor movie, “How Those restrictions include: visit Colleyville.com to Train Your Dragon,” sched- uled Friday, Sept. 2, has been Limiting outdoor watering with • cancelled. Continued high sprinklers or irrigation systems temperatures and dry conditions to twice per week may present health concerns for Prohibiting hosing off paved • some residents. The event will areas like driveways and side- not be rescheduled. walks, or buildings and windows FALLCLEANSWEEP PARDONLINEBROCHURES WATERRESTRICTIONS Saturday, Oct. 1, 8:45 a.m. continued from front page... (McPherson Park, 240 West The respective zones and allowed McDonwell School Rd.) watering days are as follows: Presented by Keep Colleyville Beautiful (KCB), in association Zone A - north of Colleyville with the city of Colleyville, Clean Boulevard and west of Pleasant Sweep brings the Colleyville Run Road community together to pick up Tuesday and Friday city streets and open spaces. KCB currently is accepting Zone B - north of Glade Road individual, group, or family and east of Pleasant Run Road volunteers for the event, which Wednesday and Saturday qualifies for community service hours. Please call 817.503.1180 Zone C -south of Glade Road Colleyville Parks and Recreation for volunteer information. For and east of Colleyville Boulevard continues the city’s efforts to general event information, visit Thursday and Sunday keep Colleyville green. Beginning Colleyville.com. this fall, class and activity Outdoor watering with brochures will no longer be VIALOFLIFEPROGRAM sprinklers or irrigation mailed to individual households, For emergency personnel, knowl- systems would be prohibited but will be available through a edge of a patient’s medication(s) on Mondays to comply with city fully digital, interactive online can be critical. The Vial of Life and TRWD drought plans. The “book” at ColleyvillePARD.com. program provides that access restriction on outdoor watering Brochures will be available for through a free medical informa- from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. three seasons—fall, winter/spring tion kit. Participants complete the would remain in effect, even on and summer. form included with the kit and allowed watering days. The online brochures will also place it, along with a photograph, Foundations and new plantings have a green effect on the city in a clear plastic bag. The bag, (first year) of grass, trees, and budget. Savings in printing and labeled with a special decal, is shrubs could be watered with a mailing costs will save the city placed on the refrigerator. A handheld sprayer or soaker hose approximately $12,000 annually. second decal is placed on the on any day. Nurseries would be For details on recreational front door to alert first responders allowed to water plant stock only. programs offered in Colleyville, to the medical information. The city of Colleyville’s water contact the Parks and Recreation The Citizen’s Fire Academy conservation and drought Department at 817.503.1180. Alumni Association is sponsoring contingency plan provides the program and purchasing the penalties for violations of these NATIONALNIGHTOUT first 300 kits, which will be avail- restrictions. A first violation Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:00 p.m. able at the Colleyville Senior would result in a written warn- (Citywide) Center. For more information, ing; subsequent violations could contact the Colleyville Fire result in a citation with a fine notThe Colleyville Police Department Department at 817.581.4591. to exceed $2,000 per incident.encourages everyone to get TRWD supplies water to mostinvolved in Colleyville’s National cities in Tarrant County. InNight Out event, scheduled- NONEMERGENCYNUMBER addition to Colleyville, the districtTuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:00-8:00 Effective Oct. 1, the former supplies water to Fort Worth,p.m. The program promotes non-emergency numbers for Arlington, North Richland Hills,neighborhood interaction, police- Colleyville—817.281.2132 and Southlake, Keller, and Mansfield.community partnerships, and 817.281.3134—will no longer Information on waterheightens awareness of crime be operational. The new conservation, as well as links toand drug prevention activities. non-emergency number— TRWD and the Trinity RiverSuggestions for neighborhood 817.743.4522—that went into Authority (TRA), is available atactivities include: block parties, effect last year when the city Colleyville.com. Updates oncookouts, organized walks, and joined the regional jail and current and anticipated watercontests for the kids. For more communications center will restrictions are available throughinformation, or to arrange for a remain active. In the event of the City E-News service. Regis-police or fire department visit, an emergency, residents should tration is free and available atcontact Officer Raymon Cannon always call 9-1-1. Colleyville.com.at 817.503.1230. 2875-19081