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Area officials, however, keep mandatory water restrictions in place

Rainfall pulls Tarrant County out of drought conditions

Grapevine’s police and courts building was built in 1978.

By Rachel SladeDrought conditions are over—for now—

in portions of the Dallas-Fort Worth area thanks to recent rainfall, but experts do not expect mandatory conservation efforts to lift anytime soon.

“What we’ve decided to do is take a wait-and-see approach to the Stage 1 drought restrictions and leave them in place until we can determine what the long-term weather predictions hold,” said Mark Olson, con-servation and creative manager for the Tar-rant Regional Water District. “Lifting those really all depends on what kind of rainfall and runoff we see in the next couple of months.”

Rain at last After weeks of clear skies, Texas made

a dramatic about-face during the winter with its December–January period ranking 11th wettest in the state’s history, according

to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It was the first time that the state had recorded above-average precipitation two months in a row in nearly two years, and by the end of January, a pocket of North Texas communities had officially emerged from drought conditions for the first time since last summer.

Still, more than half the state is des-ignated as experiencing severe, extreme or exceptional drought conditions, and experts say North Texas’ reprieve may be brief. Climate Prediction Center maps show above-average temperatures for the region through September—and below-normal precipitation through the summer.

Drought 2011The three cities all started summer

2011 with watering restrictions in place. In Grapevine and Southlake, those

By Diane S.W. LeeThe training room inside Grapevine’s fire administration

building doubles as a volunteer work area and storage site for EMS supplies. To interview inmates, police detectives have to move them from the detention facility through public hallways to reach interview rooms on the opposite end of Grapevine’s police and courts building.

Those are among the functional deficiencies detailed in a public safety needs assessment presented to the City Coun-cil late last year. Now city leaders are looking to construct a roughly 94,400-square-foot public safety building at a cost of approximately $33.5 million.

“We feel pretty passionate that public safety has waited its turn, and now is the time to make sure that they have the building and technology they need for the future,” Grapevine City Manager Bruno Rumbelow said.

Public safety 2.0Though the council is considering four potential sites

for the new facility, they know the site will house the city’s police department, municipal court, fire administration,

detention facility and emergency operations center. It will also provide spaces for specialized equipment and vehicles, and a warehouse to store supplies, property and evidence.

Grapevine voters last May overwhelmingly approved renewing a half-cent sales tax designation for the the city’s Crime Control & Prevention District. The tax will last for an additional 15 years and help pay for public safety initia-tives. After voters approved the tax, the council requested a public safety needs assessment. It remains unclear which

restrictions—which make it illegal for system-based lawn watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. with few exceptions—are in place year-round. In Colleyville, they kick in each May and are guaranteed to last through Oct. 31.

Last year was the state’s worst one-year

drought since 1895, and the National Weather Service announced that Texas’ June–August 2011 period was the hottest such span to date nationally.

By August of last year, Southlake had already called for Stage 1 watering

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American Airlines employees protest at DFW AirportAfter news broke that AMR Corp. had plans to cut as many as 13,000 jobs during company restructuring as part of its bankruptcy filing, flight attendants and maintenance workers descended on Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Silver Lake Crossings project gets back in gear with January hotel approvalAfter years on hold thanks to the Great Recession, the multi-use development project set to go up at Northwest Hwy. and Bass Pro Court is expected to find new life in 2012.

City, college partner on business development classThe City of Colleyville has partnered with Dallas Baptist University on a college course that provides business owners in the retail and restaurant industries with tools to succeed.

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Reading through this month’s issue, the theme that appeared again and again was passion—pas-sion to do the right thing, to have an impact on the community, to take care of

others or to fight for change. It appears in the words of Grapevine’s

public safety chiefs, whose passion to serve residents is being rewarded with a new, more functional facility (Page 1).

It can be found in the tough decisions facing school board trustees who must balance student and employee needs with a growing deficit (Page 8).

You can see it in the hard work of busi-ness owners who have fought to keep their shops afloat through hard times (Page 13-14).

And you can feel it when you step onto Main Street Grapevine during a major festival, or walk through any of the projects that serve as reminders of the work of P. W.

McCallum and his team (Page 16). Particularly in a month when greeting

cards and heart-shaped candies offer us a cookie-cutter version of passion, it is easy to go about our days in neutral, moving from task to task in a slow blur of requisite actions and reactions.

So I invite you to enjoy this issue and take a few moments to revel in the passion of those who live and work around you here in Northeast Tarrant County.

Because whether the focus is conserv-ing water (Page 1), saving their jobs (Page 1 online), building community from the ground up (Page 6) or simply throwing the best fundraiser you have ever seen (Page 7), it is passion that makes everyday moments memorable and meaningful.

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preventative maintenance, Nu-Star Technologies LLC opened at 1802 Industrial Blvd., Ste. 2 in Colleyville. 817-337-6900, www.nu-star.com

6 The convenience store 7-Eleven opened at 2001 W. Wall St. in Grapevine. 817-424-4237, www.7-eleven.com

7 McDonald’s restaurant opened at 5345 William D. Tate Ave. in Grapevine. 817-290-2144, www.mcdonalds.com

8 Haven Spa Services Inc., providing massage and scrub services, opened in December at 1700 Tennison Parkway, Ste. 103 in Colleyville. 817-542-1034, www.onsitemassagetherapydfw.com

9 Offering home and automotive insurance services, Blake Allen Agency opened in January at 4100 Heritage Ave., Ste. 107 in Grapevine. 817-358-0480.

Coming Soon

10 Providing cosmetic and medical hair extension services, Off the Runway opens March 1 at 5013 Colleyville Blvd., Ste. 101 in Colleyville. The business is also a boutique for clothing and accessories. 817-886-3455, www.offtherunwayinc.com

Relocations

11 Seghers Family Dental, a family dental practice, moved from Bedford to 5209 Heritage Ave., Ste. 420 in Colleyville in November. 817-283-4444, www.seghersfamilydental.com

12 Providing locksmith services throughout the region, Triple R Locksmith recently relocated from Main Street to 151 S. Dooley St., Ste. 103 in Grapevine. 817-481-5345, www.rrrlock.com

13 An exclusive Catholic store offering gifts, books and clothing, Faithful Treasure has relocated from Cheek Sparger Road to 3811 Colleyville Blvd., Ste. B in Colleyville. 817-656-4739

Now Open

1 MedX Imaging and Eve’s Breast Center recently opened at 630 E. Hwy. 114 in Southlake. The center offers ultrasound, CT scan, MRI and X-ray for adults and children as well as mammography procedures and obstetrics work for women. 817-329-8910, www.medximaging.com, www.evesbreastcenter.com

2 Your Rx Pharmacy recently opened at 2637 Ira E. Woods Ave., Ste. 200 in Grapevine. The store offers prescription medication, as well as a variety of over-the-counter medicine and medical supplies. 817-416-2222, www.yourrxpharmacy.com

3 Lux Nails & Spa opened in late January at 2647 Ira E. Woods Ave., Ste. 400

in Grapevine. 817-446-7260.

4 Wholesaler of home furnishings, Embay Holdings LLC opened in December at 1800 Industrial Blvd., Ste. 120 in Colleyville. 817-283-7249, www.divinedesignsusa.com

5 Offering services such as project management, video conferencing and

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14 Coyote Cowboy, a western wear retail store, has relocated from 411 S. Main St., to a bigger space nearby at 417 S. Main St. in Grapevine. 817-481-1315

15 A business offering guitars and accessories, Grapevine Guitar Works relocated in January to 1689 W. Northwest Hwy. in Grapevine. 800-764-8144, www.grapevineguitarworks.com

16 The Soccer Corner, offering a variety of soccer clothing and gear, has relocated within Southlake to 100 N. Kimball Ave., Ste. 105. 817-748-0555, www.thesoccercorner.com

Expansions

17 Import One Trading Co., a store offering fashion accessories, women’s footwear, clothing and more, completed an expansion last month at 4709 Colleyville Blvd., Ste. 400 in Colleyville. 817-605-7007.

New Ownership

18 Pauly’s Pizza opened in December 2011 at 437 E. Northwest Hwy. in Grapevine. Claudia Baldenegro took over the business formerly named Pauly’s New York Pizza. 817-488-9137

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19 Books-A-Million in Grapevine Mills mall closed in late January.

20 Chocolate and gift shop Chocolate Grape at 601 S. Main St., Ste. 103 in Grapevine closed this month.

21 Irish-themed pub The Tilted Kilt at 1041 W. Hwy. 114 in Grapevine has closed.

22 The wine emporium Farpointe Cellar at 721 E. Southlake Blvd. in Southlake has closed.

In the News

23 Mathnasium Southlake, a math learning center, added an additional hour for high school homework help from 5:30–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday at 1251 E. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 305 in Southlake. Students may now visit during the weekdays without an appointment. 817-421-1900, www.mathnasium.com 24 The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation, a nonprofit organization, awarded Sonia Kirkpatrick a $10,000 scholarship for her business plan and essay on PediaPlex, now open at 2425 E. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 100 in Southlake. The business is an all-inclusive clinic that offers assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic services for children dealing with autism disorders or behavioral health issues. 817-442-0222, www.pediaplex.net

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March 6 and 20, 7:30 p.m.Meetings broadcast live on city cable channel 16. replays air at 6 p.m. on the thursdays and Sundays of meeting weeks. www.colleyville.com.

Grapevine City Council200 S. Main St., Grapevine817-410-3000

March 6 and 20, 7:30 p.m.audio recordings available on the city’s website by noon the following day.www.grapevinetexas.gov

Southlake City Council1400 Main St., Southlake817-748-8400

March 6 and 20, 5:30 p.m.public work sessions begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by a private executive session and public forum. Forum times vary. Meetings are broadcast live on city cable channel 27 and 34. Live streams and recordings also available on the city’s website. www.ci.southlake.tx.us

Tarrant County Commissioners Court 100 e. Weatherford St., Fort Worth817-884-1111, www.tarrantcounty.com

Meetings are Tuesdays, 10 a.m.

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Commissioner Fickes honored

Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes, whose Precinct 3 cov-ers Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake, was honored on Jan. 27 with the John Harbin Vision-ary Award at the Northwest Metroport Chamber of Commerce 2012 Awards Gala. Fickes was awarded for his efforts to improve transportation in Northeast Tarrant County. His efforts include the Northeast Tarrant Transportation Summit held annually to update residents on the status of projects like the DFW Connector.

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City rolls out new alarm management system

It used to be that the Colleyville Police Department only processed applications for alarm permits during business hours from Monday through Friday. Now the city’s residents and business owners can apply for alarm permits and make pay-ments online at any time during the week.

The city transitioned to a new online alarm management system on Jan. 2 in an effort to reduce administrative work for the police department, as well as cut down on

Campsite among nation’s best

Last year’s visitors to Vineyards Camp-ground & Cabins on Grapevine Lake were happy campers. And they made it clear by voicing their opinions online.

The Vineyards Campground & Cab-ins ranked among the nation’s best rated parks for 2010–2011 on GuestRated.com, a website evaluating America’s RV parks and campsites.

Grapevine’s campsite received an “A” for

overall experience, including campsites, service and facility cleanliness.

Joe Moore, assistant director of Grape-vine Parks and Recreation, picked up the award on Dec. 1, 2011, at the National Association of RV Parks and Camp-grounds convention in Savannah, Ga.

“We feel privileged that we are one of 12 in the country to get a grade ‘A’ four years in a row,” he said.

Grapevine’s campsite has received more than 155 recommendations and only one

the high volume of false alarms. According to the city, 99 percent of the

alarm calls from businesses and residents that police officers responded to last year were false alarms. The city said officers devoted more than 1,000 hours to respond-ing to false alarms, which cost the city about $261,000.

The False Alarm Management Solu-tion will manage the city’s administrative paperwork for alarm permits. The city expects the new website will help reduce false alarms by 25 percent within 18 months through basic education.

“It is education on how and when to properly use your alarm system—and what the most common causes of false alarms are—and what can be done to fix the prob-lem,” said Toni Oyler, program coordina-tor for CPD.

Alarm owners can now access their permit account information, pay fines and submit new applications for permits online. And responding police officers can access real-time histories of alarm permit owners to know when there is a history of false alarms. For more information, visit www.colleyville.com.

Statue honors Southlake Town Square developer

Visitors can shop, dine, watch a movie or attend a City Council meeting at the Southlake Town Square, thanks to its

developer Brian Stebbins. The city on Dec. 6 unveiled Southlake Town Square’s first public art piece dedicated to Stebbins, a Southlake resident who envisioned a downtown where people could gather to eat, shop and do business.

Southlake Town Square opened in March 1999 and is now home to more than 150 businesses and restaurants, residences, a post office, a town hall, county offices and a sub-courthouse.

About 130 acres of open field and a farm used to occupy the space of Southlake Town Square on the the northeast corner of Carroll Avenue and Southlake Boule-vard. Stebbins worked with city staff to turn the area into a place that visitors and residents now frequent.

Frank Bliss, president of Cooper and Stebbins, has known Stebbins for 25 years.

“The statue represents an amazing vision for a downtown that never had a down-town,” Bliss said. “It also represents a won-derful partnership between a developer, a city and a community that has seen the creation of something in Southlake Town Square that has not only been recognized regionally and locally, but nationally and internationally.”

The bronze sculpture, “The Ties That Bind” by Jan DeDecker, depicts a father crouching to tie his son’s shoes in the park. The statue, located on the corner of State and Main streets in Rustin Park, symbol-izes family. The piece was paid for with taxes levied on hotel rooms.

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March 9–10travelers aid Dallas/Fort Worth, a nonproft offering emergency travel assistance, hosts a chocolate and art festival fundraiser. the evening of chocolate and Wine features chocolate samples from area businesses, wine samples, souvenir commemorative wine glass, peoples’ choice contests, celebrity judging, silent auction and live music. Festivities run from 7–10 p.m. March 9 at La Buena vida vineyards, 416 e. college St. in Grapevine. tickets cost $50 in advance. the classic flm “Willy Wonka and the chocolate Factory” will be screened at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at the palace arts center, 300 S. Main St. in Grapevine. tickets cost $5. a Day of chocolate and art from 10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. March 10 will feature chocolate samples from area businesses, art exhibits, activities and live music at the palace arts center. tickets cost $15 for adults and $5 for children under age 7.

For more information on any of this year’s chocolateFest events, call 972-574-4420 or visit www.chocolatefestgrapevine.org.

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The ChocolateFest in Grapevine features entertainment, chocolate samples and art exhibits.

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23 Lunch with the Girlz the colleyville Woman’s club hosts a luncheon and designer fashion show to beneft local charities. Features work of DFW designers elizabeth anyaa, Geoffrey henning, nhã khanh, Shemara couture, Delight van Dame, Stephanie anne, Susie Straumbmueller and Theresa Hollister. • 9:30 a.m. reception and silent auction, 11:30 a.m. ballroom opens $85 and up • hurst conference center, 1601 Campus Dr., Hurst • 817-358-1805 www.cwcfashionshow.com

24 Green Fest 2012Green Fest Southlake, themed Get your Green on this year, offers information and resources on saving money and the environment by going green. the event includes vendor booths, entertainment, raffles and prizes. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. • Free • Southlake town Square, 1256 Main St., Southlake www.texasgreenfest.com

Udder-ly Cool Dairy Daythe colleyville public Library presents a day featuring food tastings, milking presentations with live cows and special guests. Bread and butter tastings and cheese-making display. healthy tips from Baylor Grapevine. • 12:30–2:30 p.m. • Free • colleyville public Library, 110 Main St., colleyville • 817-503-1154 www.colleyvillelibrary.com

30–April 1 DFW Fiber Festthe annual weekend event features fber vendors and fber arts classes in spinning, hand knitting, crocheting and weaving. 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday–Saturday and 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday • $2 daily pass, $5 weekend pass • class fees vary • Grapevine convention center, 1209 S. Main St., Grapevine 214-799-1347 • www.dfwfberfest.org

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3 The World Comes to Westlake Westlake academy Foundation and Westlake public art Society presents a gallery night fundraiser featuring works from local artists, auction, entertainment, food and beverage. proceeds beneft Westlake academy. • 5:30 p.m.–midnight • $15 adults and $10 students, senior, members • Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Solana, 5 village circle, Westlake www.westlakeacademyfoundation.org

8 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Southlake’s apeX arts League and the Dallas Symphony orchestra present a concert featuring music from Beethoven and Mozart. 7:30 p.m. • $15 adults at the door and $10 for students, seniors and apeX members White’s chapel united Methodist church, 185 S. White chapel Blvd., Southlake 214-692-0203 • www.apexartsleague.org

22-24 Grapevine Farmers Marketarea farmers kick off market season in historic downtown Grapevine. • 8 a.m.–4 p.m. thursday–Saturday through october Downtown Grapevine, 325 S. Main St. www.farmersmarketofgrapevine.com

31 Hoppin’ Good Egg Huntcolleyville parks and recreation presents egg hunting activities for children ages 12 and younger. a small fee for photos with the Bunny. • 10 a.m.–noon • Free • the village at colleyville, 100 Main St., colleyville 817-503-1180 • www.colleyvillepard.com

April13–15 & 20–22 Day Out with Thomas hop aboard thomas the tank for a 25-minute train ride with themed entertainment based on the children’s television series. the event includes thomas & Friends storytelling and video viewing, food, temporary tattoos, arts and crafts station. Free parking on east side of Grapevine Library. Shuttles will transport guests from the parking lot to the event site. train departure times vary • $18, discounts available for groups of 20 or more • Grapevine vintage railroad, 705 S. Main St., Grapevine 866-468-7630 • www.grapevinetexasusa.com

14 Colleyville Clean Sweep volunteer to clean up colleyville for the citywide clean Sweep beginning in Mcpherson park. • 8:30 a.m.–noon 240 W. McDonwell School rd., colleyville www.colleyvillepard.com

21 Spring into Nash nash Farm hosts a day of family activities, including pony rides, cow and goat milking and more. • 10 a.m.–2p.m. • Free • Nash Farm, 626 Ball St., Grapevine • 817-410-3185 www.nashfarm.org

23 Golf Shootout the Southlake chamber of commerce hosts a golf shootout at timarron country club. 10 a.m. registration, noon shotgun start $275–$300 individual or $1,500 and up for six-person scramble team • 1400 Byron nelson parkway, Southlake • 817-481-8200 www.southlakechamber.com/golf

27–29 Art in the Squarethe Southlake Women’s club presents a fne arts festival featuring works from more than 140 artists, crafts, food and entertainment. proceeds from food and drinks beneft northeast tarrant county charities. • 4–10:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.–10:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday • Free Southlake town Square, 1256 Main St., Southlake • 817-233-4328 www.artinthesquare.com

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By Diane S.W. LeeAs a move to address a now anticipated

$5 million budget shortfall next year, the Carroll Independent School District board of trustees earlier this month voted to reduce eight teaching positions while retaining block scheduling for the 2012–2013 school year.

Carroll ISD trustees on Feb. 6 voted 5-0 to approve a general framework plan for balancing the budget. Trustees approved the first line item—cutting eight teach-ing positions in fifth through 12th grades through attrition for the 2012–2013 school year. Trustees are planning to cut eight more positions the following year, but they only approved the first year of cuts.

That means a total of 16 teaching posi-tions at six campuses—left vacant from reassignments, resignations and retire-ments—will not be filled over a two-year period.

The proposal calls for a reduction of two positions at Carroll High School, two posi-tions at Carroll Senior High School as well as one position at each intermediate school and middle school for the 2012–2013 school year.

Carroll ISD trustees approve staff reductions to help balance budgetBoard’s decision maintains block scheduling for 2012–2013

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“Having that level of cut over the next couple of years wouldn’t require us to actually let anyone go,” Board President Read Ballew said. “We just wouldn’t hire as many people.”

Carroll ISD trustees also voted to main-tain block scheduling, in which students attend classes for 90 minutes every other day as opposed to taking shorter classes daily.

Superintendent David Faltys said par-ents and staff wanted to maintain block scheduling.

“There was an overall feeling that the balance the budget plan that we are cur-rently moving toward now is gradual, not drastic,” he said. “Because obviously, cutting staff too soon, too fast, too quickly hurts morale and is bad for kids.”

Last year, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD’s board of trustees approved eliminating block scheduling for high school students. The district’s Superintendent Robin Ryan explained that hard decisions had to be made as a result of public education fund-ing cuts from the state Legislature.

Carroll ISD Board Vice President Sue Armstrong said keeping block scheduling

will give students more time for extra-curricular activities and to prepare for advanced placement classes.

“It really is better for the students, espe-cially for AP courses, because they need that time allotment,” she said. “It allows the teacher time to go over the material more in depth, and it prepares students for the college schedule.”

Other line items in the plan include a two-cent tax ratification election, proposed fees for student activity participation and the sale of district property.

Trustees are planning to consider the additional line items at future board meetings, Carroll ISD spokeswoman Julie Thannum said. The next meeting is sched-uled for March 5.

Trustees have until the end of August to approve the district’s 2012–2013 budget.

“Whatever decisions we make going for-ward, we’re always going to try to do what is best for students,” Armstrong said.

Trustees Craig Rothmeier and Fred Stovall were absent from the meeting.

OPTIONS FOR BALANCING THE BUDGETCarroll ISD trustees are considering several options to help balance the budget. The options below are not comprehensive and are subject to change.

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Generating more advertising and sponsorship revenues

Charging a bus fee for all riders

Selling surplus land

Calling for a tax ratification election

Increasing class sizes for fifth through 12th grades

Making changes to the fiscal year for one-time savings

Charging fees for student activity participation

Continuing a salary freeze

Restructuring the district’s Gifted and Talented program

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fund the council will tap for the new facil-ity’s eventual cost. Brinkley Sargent Archi-tects presented findings from their study during a council workshop on Nov. 15.

Cramped conditions For the existing building that houses the

city’s police department, municipal court and detention facility at 307 West Dallas Rd., the study identified numerous func-tional deficiencies. For example, the build-ing was not up to standards for handicap accessibility, had limited storage space and an inadequate forensic work area. It also lacked a witness waiting room and public attorney meeting spaces.

Grapevine Chief of Police Eddie Salame said overcrowding and safety are problems at the existing building.

“If a detective wants to interview a pris-oner, you’ve got to take him out and walk him across a public hallway into the inter-view rooms on the other side of the build-ing,” he said. “That’s really not the way that things should be done.”

The existing police and courts building was built for Braniff International Airways. The city bought the building, after the com-pany went bankrupt, Salame said. The city turned the building into a police facility and municipal library in 1978. While the library has since moved out to give the department more room and the building has undergone changes to accommodate department needs, it is not enough.

“It’s just an old building,” Salame said. “It’s not a building that really is made to sustain today’s police functions.”

At the existing fire administration build-ing at 601 Boyd Dr., the study noted lim-ited storage space, the lack of an operations room, conference rooms and a radio ama-teur civil emergency service room.

Supplies and training materials are stuffed into boxes, which are hidden under desks, inside closets and even underneath the sink of the women’s restroom.

“It’s cramped,” Grapevine Fire Chief Steve Bass said. “We have no storage. We have no room to grow.”

Built in 1991, the fire administration

building houses administration offices for the fire chief and deputy fire chiefs. It was originally built to accommodate five fire administration employees, but the staff has since grown to include 10 people, Bass said.

The training room can fit about 20 to 25 people inside, but there have been times when the department has had training ses-sions for 100 people, Bass said. As a result, the fire department might borrow the train-ing room at the police building or commu-nity rooms operated by the city Parks and Recreation Department. They might also rent rooms at the Grapevine Convention Center or the Lancaster Theatre, which costs between $125 and $300 per day.

Finding a siteInitial concept plans for the new facility

included demolishing the existing police and courts building and constructing a four-story building on the site. However, the council last year expressed concern about the idea of expanding a new build-ing on the site because of its proximity to residences. Instead, the council asked to see potential alternatives. A recommendation on a site could come to the council as early as next month, Rumbelow said.

The price tag of roughly $33.5 million came as a surprise to Grapevine Mayor William D. Tate, but he said all the city’s leaders understand that the departments have grown in terms of manpower, equip-ment and technology over the years.

“We built a lot of other municipal build-ings for other departments,” Tate said. “And they are the biggest department and they’ve been last, so there’s no question that we need to improve the facilities. How we do it and how much is proper to spend is still debatable.”

Bass said improvements would be noticeable immediately and would provide for years to come.

“This [new] facility provides for the future, but provides, most importantly, to bring us up to a modern, efficient facil-ity that helps us do our job and helps the public access us better than they do now, whether it’s fire, police or courts,” Bass said. “We serve the citizens and this gives us a better ability to do that.”

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restrictions for its residents and business owners. And Grapevine and Colleyville, though they had not reached sufficient scarcity levels to mandate Stage 1 restrictions at the local level, followed suit just weeks later when the Tar-rant Regional Water District forced Stage 1 conditions on its users.

District restrictions TRWD, which provides water to more than 1.7 million

North Texas residents through 30 wholesale customers, looks at combined capacity at its four water reservoirs to determine whether customers need to begin Stage 1 regu-lations.

When Lake Bridgeport, Cedar Creek Reservoir, Eagle Mountain Lake and Richland-Chambers Reservoir drop below 75 percent capacity, the call goes out.

Stage 1 restrictions clamp down on outdoor watering, allowing residents to water only twice weekly using a schedule based on their address.

Grapevine and Southlake con-tinue to adhere to TRWD’s system, which allows houses with even-numbered addresses, including zero, to water on Wednesdays and Saturdays; odd-numbered addresses to water on Thursdays and Sundays; and businesses, parks and home-owners associations to water on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Colleyville divides its watering schedule according to three geographic areas. Zone A, which includes all homes north of Colleyville Boulevard and west of Pleasant Run Road, waters Tuesdays and Fridays; Zone B, including homes north of Glade Road and east of Pleasant Run Road, waters Wednesdays and Saturdays; and Zone C, including homes south of Glade and east of Colleyville Boulevard, waters Thursdays and Sundays.

Across the board, Monday serves as a renewal day for water sources—a necessary move, Olson said, when drought conditions are so extreme.

After revamping its conservation plan based on prob-lems discovered during the 2005–2006 drought, 2011 was the first year that the water district mandated Stage 1 regu-lations for its customers.

“After we saw what was happening with our lakes [a few years ago], we realized the way our regulations were written, actions and measures that were going to be taken would have been implemented too little too late,” Olson said. “So what we wanted to do was come up with a more proactive approach.”

Slow progressStrict regulations combined with unexpected rainfall

have, to some degree, done the trick. At press time, capac-ity at the water district’s four water sources had risen to a combined 82 percent. The water district needs to see more improvement, though, especially given that not all of its resources are out of the danger zone.

“Even though the immediate Dallas-Fort Worth area is technically out of a drought, we still have lakes that are not in this drought-free area,” Olson said. “Those reservoirs—Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers—are still more than four feet down each, and those are the two lakes we rely on for a majority of Tarrant County’s water supply. About 80 percent of our water supply comes from those two.”

Winter recoveryIn Tarrant County, resident water demand during the

winter drops to about 40 percent of what it is during the summer, Olson said. That is good news for the water dis-trict, which is now seeking to stockpile as much water as

it can in preparation for hotter tem-peratures, but it also offers a false sense of security in the supply. In short, reserves are up. But how long would they stay up if drought con-ditions returned to North Texas and temperatures began creeping back into the 90s?

“We don’t want to go into a drought stage and come out just to go back in,” Olson said. “We’ve con-cluded that terminating and reiniti-

ating Stage 1 restrictions if conditions worsen again could be problematic and be confusing to the public. So we’re just waiting like everyone else.”

As local leaders worry about their resources, state lead-ers have been busy making plans for the resources of Texas. And they are looking beyond the coming months.

State plans The Texas Water Development Board in mid-December

completed work on a 2012 State Water Plan, a proactive approach of its own to look at deficiencies throughout the state, as well as conservation measures and economic losses anticipated as dry conditions continue. The 300-page document’s primary message is simple.

“In serious drought conditions, Texas does not and will not have enough water to meet the needs of its people, its businesses, and its agricultural enterprises,” the board’s synopsis reads.

Tarrant County is grouped with all or part of 15 other counties in the state’s plan, which labels the stretch from Cooke County in the north to Freestone County in the south, and Jack County on the west to Collin County on

the east, as Region C. According to 2010 data, our region is home to 26 percent of Texans—and our needs are high.

By 2060, the region is projected to grow 96 percent to more than 13 million residents, and water demand is expected to rise by 86 percent. Meanwhile, the area’s water supply is expected to diminish thanks to sedimentation in area lakes. The state’s 2012 plan recommends adding four new major reservoirs in North Texas in the coming decades to account for the increased need.

“As the state continues to experience rapid growth and declining water supplies, implementation of the plan is crucial to ensure public health, safety, and welfare and eco-nomic development in the state,” the report says.

The state’s recommendations, however, do not come cheap. Estimated price tag? $21.5 billion. Until relief comes, Colleyville spokeswoman Mona Gandy says the message here in Tarrant County is short and sweet: “Con-servation, conservation, conservation.”

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At the height of the drought last summer, Lake Benbrook and other area reservoirs took a beating. Benbrook had reached an all-time re-cord low by October, dropping nearly 18 feet below normal capacity.

“We’ve concluded that terminating and reinitiating Stage 1 restrictions if conditions worsen again could be problematic and be confusing to the public. So we’re just waiting like everyone else.”

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In December 2011, Colleyville com-pleted a survey to determine the condition of public streets throughout the city. The city did not rely on visual inspection for the study, but rather technology.

Applied Research Associates assessed pavement conditions on city streets using laser cameras that captured digital photos

of roads, signs and utility poles. The information will be used in the analysis of road conditions. Every street segment will be ranked on a scale from 0 to 100. Next month, the council plans to discuss pos-sible summer road projects.

“The analysis will be used to plan future roadway improvement projects and to enhance the efficiency of our road repairs and maintenance projects,” City Manager Jennifer Fadden said.

The city allocates $1 million of its budget every year to road repair and resurfacing.

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As early as next month, the Texas Department of Transportation plans to start work for an overlay project on Hwy. 26 from south of John McCain Road to north of Hwy. 820.

Crews will make repairs to concrete, replace existing asphalt and re-stripe the roads. The project is divided into three seg-ments. • 1,000 feet south of John McCain Road to

Glade Road• Glade Road to Precinct Line Road• Precinct Line Road to north of FM 1938

TxDOT plans to get started on segment one in the coming weeks and finish up no later than September.

The estimated $4.2 million project was awarded to LANE Construction Corpora-tion.

At press time, TxDOT was working to finalize plans for the project. Work is anticipated to last for seven months.

“We’ll work, as always, to minimize impact to motorists and businesses along this busy state Hwy. 26 corridor,” TxDOT spokesman Val Lopez said.

As early as next month, the Texas Department of Transportation plans to start work for an overlay project on Hwy. 26 from south of John McCain Road to north of Hwy. 820.

Crews will make repairs to concrete, pave and re-stripe the roads.

The project is divided into three segments. • Crews will begin work 1,000 feet south of John

McCain Road to Glade Road. • Next, crews will work on Glade Road to Pre-

cinct Line Road. • Crews are planning to finish work on Precinct

Line Road to north of FM 1938 by September.The estimated $4.2 million project was

awarded to LANE Construction Corporation. TxDOT was working to finalize plans for the

project. Work is anticipated to last for seven months.

“We work as always to minimize impact to motorists and businesses along this busy state Hwy. 26 corridor,” TxDOT spokesman Val Lopez said.

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Redistricting challenges push Texas primaries another month By Mitzie Stelte and Diane S.W. Lee

An April primary will be virtually impossible thanks to legal battles over Texas redistricting maps. At the earliest, voters will hit the polls on May 29.

A settlement on the Texas Senate map was announced Feb. 15 after nearly two days of hearings in a San Antonio federal court, but as of press time, a compromise had not been reached on Congressional and state House maps.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached an agreement with state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, and minor-ity rights groups on a map that would leave Davis’ district unchanged.

Davis was mostly drawn out of her district, which includes Grapevine, Col-leyville and Southlake, under new maps approved by the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature last year. Davis sued Texas in September 2011, alleging the state Senate plan discriminated against minor-ity voters in her district. With an agree-ment to leave her district intact, Davis

will have a better chance at running for re-election as an incumbent.

“What happened was a tremendous vic-tory,” she said at a Feb. 15 press conference, “not just for my opportunity to run again and have the honor of serving this seat, but much more importantly, a victory for the voices of Senate District 10 that otherwise would have been silenced.”

But with only a partial deal, the San Antonio court told Democratic and Republican leaders a primary before May 29 was not likely and instructed them to submit proposed changes to election dead-lines and procedures based on that date.

“Looks like April is out,” Texas Demo-cratic Party Spokesman Anthony Gutier-rez said. “May is the next realistic date.”

Both parties are set to hold their con-ventions in June, but a late primary would require election rule changes. Gutierrez and Republican Party of Texas Spokes-man Chris Elam said the next step in the process includes negotiations between the parties and the secretary of state on how

IMPORTANT DATESFiling Deadline: March 5

Registration Deadline: April 12

Early Voting: April 30–May 8

Election Day: May 12

UP FOR RE–ELECTIONGrapevine: Mayor, Place 1 and Place 2

Colleyville: Place 5 and Place 6

Southlake: Mayor and Place 2

Carroll ISD: Place 4 and Place 5

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD: Place 1 and Place 2

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Sources: Grapevine, colleyville, Southlake, ciSD and GciSD

best to accommodate a May 29 primary. The San Antonio court did not say when a decision on a date would be made.

Once every decade, Texas lawmakers must redraw the state’s legislative and congressional boundaries to reflect the population changes as shown by U.S. Cen-sus Bureau figures. Federal lawsuits halted the enactment of new maps drawn by the Texas Legislature, originally delaying the primaries from March 6 to April 3.

Texas is among the states that must get approval on redistricting maps from the U.S. Department of Justice under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Instead, the state

directly petitioned a federal district court for approval of its redistricting plans, but the petition was denied.

Meanwhile, separate lawsuits were filed in state and federal courts by opponents who claimed the Texas Legislature maps violated the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Some of the lawsuits were consolidated and heard by a U.S. District Court in San Antonio, which issued its own maps. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected those maps, though, and the San Antonio court has urged plaintiffs to find compromise with Texas.

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The redistricting challenges only affect the state- and Congressional-level elections. The local general elections for city councils, school boards and local ballot initiatives are not affected.

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The Owl’s Nest Toy Shop Treasure trove still delighting a decade later

After Sandy Challinor’s 4-year-old son Ryan and 2-year-old daughter Tracey

finished piano lessons in New-buryport, Ma., they always had to make a stop at Eureka Toys.

“We always had to walk by the toy store,” she said. “But we didn’t just walk by the store. We definitely went inside.”

On the weekends, they often visited The Dragon’s Nest, where the children would spend hours wandering the specialty toy shop.

The family moved to Col-leyville in 1998. Challinor opened The Owl’s Nest Toy Shop in The Village at Colleyville in October 2002. And in 2005, she relocated to Southlake Town Square, where the business is one of the few independent shops among a sea of chain stores. She modeled her shop after The Dragon’s Nest.

A wooden Thomas the Tank set greets visitors once they enter.

“I have parents that come in here and say ‘Oh, their radar is up

today.’ They were driving on 1709 and they know that we’re in here and have to stop,” Challinor said. “The kids run in and they run in to Thomas the Train table. They all do.”

Shelves are stocked with a vari-ety of toys, arts and crafts, games, puzzles and educational books. Challinor tries to stock up on hot-selling items, such as Spooner Boards. There are specialty items too: HABA toys from Germany, Papo Knight action figures and Thomas the Tank wooden trains.

The shop offers hand painting of names on glass ornaments for Christmas and on wooden eggs for Easter. Gift wrapping is free for all purchases, which brings customers back to shop.

The business has a frequent buyer program, a gift registry and rewards for students who excel in school. Students who bring in a report card with all passing grades are rewarded with a silver coin valued at $2, redeemable for

merchandise in the shop. The Owl’s Nest will soon be

celebrating its 10th anniversary. But in July 2009, the shop was on the verge of closing its doors.

Challinor was behind on her rent and informed customers there would be a big sale as a result. Two days later, customer Debbie Williams-Thomas came to the rescue as an investor. Chal-linor closed the shop for almost a month to restock the shelves and reopened in August 2009.

She received nearly 500 emails from customers. Her favorite letter was written by a customer from Borger. After he took his son to Baylor Grapevine for autism treatments, they would often visit The Owl’s Nest.

“He loves to go by there and see your Thomas playsets and look over your puzzles. As usual, we always walk away with something for him,” the letter reads. “Thank you for being there and thank God you are staying.”

Sandy Challinor moved her shop to Southlake Town

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C olleyville Florist has seen a rotat-ing door of ownership since it was founded more than 42 years ago.

But its fifth owner, Verna Farris, plans to stay.

“It is an established business and we need to keep it here,” she said. “It is too much of a community need to go away.”

Farris had worked part-time as a custom floral designer at Colleyville Florist for 10 years when the previous owner told her some alarming news in December 2006.

“She came to me one Christmas and said ‘I’m going to close the shop. We’re just not doing very well and I’m just going to close, unless you’ll buy it,’” Farris said. “And I guess I just lost my mind and did.”

Farris has owned Colleyville Florist for five years. When she took over the business in January 2007, she replaced the rattan and wicker displays with new tables and display cases for gift items. She painted over the purple walls with pastel green and yellow to give it a touch of spring, and she hung paintings and plaques on the walls.

“I want people to feel comfortable and warm and at home when they come in here,” she said. “And feel like we’ll take good care of them for whatever floral need they need.”

Farris has increased the shop’s social media presence online, driven a pink delivery van to draw attention, purchased higher quality vases and provided attentive customer service. The flowers also receive special care at the shop.

“We take a lot of steps to make it long lasting as it can be,” she said. “I want it to

Verna Farris worked part-time as a custom floral designer at Colleyville Florist before she took over the business in early 2007.

bring a smile to their face.”The shop offers floral arrangements

and gifts for various occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and funerals.

Farris orders flowers such as roses, lilies and tulips from a Fort Worth wholesaler and an online service, as well as fresh orchids shipped from Hawaii. But those are just the details of the business.

What keeps her going, she says, are the lives that she is able to touch through her work.

One customer, for example, orders a single stem flower every day for his wife.

“I just thought that was really special; how thoughtful,” Farris said. “And he doesn’t really care what it is, but we try to keep track and coordinate the colors.”

Farris recalled three years ago when a customer ordered six rose arrangements and six boxes filled with petals for Valen-tine’s Day.

“This guy was going to propose to his girlfriend, so he filled his house with flowers,” Farris said. “Not just one arrange-ment, but he had six, and the petals were scattered everywhere from the front door to the living room. We got to do the wed-ding—that’s the fun part.”

When it comes to weddings, Farris said she strives to make the day very special.

Flowers are important for those who have lost a loved one too, Farris said.

Another customer thanked them for the family flower arrangements for a funeral service.

“She called back after we’d done her mom’s flowers and she said, ‘It was just a wonderful send-off for her,’” Farris said. “And it made us happy that the flowers were so beautiful.”

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Colleyville FloristBusiness owner finds the beauty in everyday life

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Napoli’s Italian Café & ConfectioneryEatery and sweets shop offers something for everyone

W henever 82-year-old Grapevine resident Marie Calareso craves homemade Italian cooking, she

goes to Napoli’s Italian Café for lunch. And she craves it often.

In fact, Calareso has been eating there almost every day since her first visit to the restaurant in December 2004.

“They make the best pizza here. They really do, and I love it,” said Calareso, whose family is Sicilian. “So I started com-ing here pretty often.”

Lisa Kinzel opened Napoli’s in May 2004 with her husband, Brett, after noticing Grapevine’s historic Main Street was miss-ing an Italian restaurant. They collected recipes from friends, family and even customers.

Kinzel remembers her regulars’ names, and can put in their orders before they even sit down. Regulars like Calareso have become good friends—framed photos of her family in Italy even hang on the restau-rant’s walls.

“We’ve had regulars from the begin-ning,” Kinzel said. “We get to see their kids grow. We get to see the mamas pregnant and then they have the babies. And here we are eight years later.”

Most everything served at the restaurant is made from scratch: marinara sauce, beef lasagna, pizzas and breadsticks. The pizza dough is hand tossed, rather than pressed from a machine. Lisa Kinzel said that makes a big difference in the taste.

“You cook it with love,” she said. “And

you are using traditional spices. And you are using traditional ingredients. They are very important.”

The Margherita pizza ($8.95–$17.95) and Napoli’s Supreme pizza ($10.95–$19.95) are popular menu items.

“I order the pepperoni, the cheese and I love the Margherita pizza,” Calareso said. “That is the best pizza.”

Wanting to double the restaurant’s seat-ing and offer a wider selection of desserts, the Kinzels expanded in June 2011, open-ing Napoli’s Confectionery next door.

Most of the chocolate, gelato and fudge are made on site by a chocolatier with help from Kinzel.

“I’m not a cook, but I love to help with the chocolates,” she said. “I love to make the fudge. I love to package them and decorate them.”

The confectionery also sells baked goods, including banana bread, tiramisu and lemon bars; an assortment of can-dies, such as peppermint taffy, strawberry licorice and gummy frogs; and seasonal treats such as pumpkin cheesecake and candy cane fudge. They have even offered a special flavor based on a fictional beverage made famous by the “Harry Potter” series.

“In the summer we did Butterbeer, because of the ‘Harry Potter’ movie,” Kinzel said.

Although Calareso has high cholesterol, she cheats occasionally with a treat or two.

“Those pastries are just delicious,” she said. “I love lemon bars. They are so good.”

By Diane S.W. Lee

A chocolatier makes most of the chocolate sold at Napoli’s Confectionery on site.

Gelato flavors include mocha almond fudge, maple walnut and pistachio.

The Margherita pizza is topped with roma toma-toes, olive oil, mozzarella cheese and fresh basil.

Napoli’s Italian Café & Confectionery owners Lisa and Brett Kinzel with their son, Andrew Kinzel.

Owners’ Favorites

Appetizers

Bruschetta with mozzarella cheese ($7.25)

Fried calamari served with marinara sauce ($8.95)

Entrées

chicken Marsala ($13.95)

Beef Lasagna ($13.95)

Pizza

napoli’s Supreme ($10.95–$19.95)

Desserts

Gelato ($3–$5.50)

tiramisu ($6.25)

Napoli’s Italian Café & Confectionery309 S. Main St., Ste. 100, Grapevine 817-310-0385 www.napolisgrapevine.com

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Paul W. McCallum Grapevine CVB leader has left a legacy

W hen Paul W. McCallum moved to Grapevine in 1987, he recalls only two restaurants and a few

fast food places in town. Grapevine only had about 2.2 million visitors, but McCallum could see its potential.

“The thing that made Grapevine appeal-ing to me was that the elected leadership wanted to guide the growth and devel-opment of Grapevine,” he said. “It had everything it needed to be the complete town. The small towns around it were quickly becoming bedroom communities, and Grapevine did not want to become a bedroom community.”

Originally from the Australian out-back, McCallum is known as “P. W.” to his friends. He finds many similarities between Aussies and Texans: a love for the outdoors, a can-do attitude and hospitality. Whereas he previously worked as director at the Convention and Visitors Bureau in Melbourne, Australia, he has now lived in Texas for decades, even serving a six-year term as director of marketing for the Fort Worth CVB before starting in Grapevine.

During his 25 years as executive direc-tor of the Grapevine CVB, McCallum

Paul W. McCallum has been executive director of the Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau for 25 years. He helped bring Grapevine Mills mall, Sea Life Aquarium and Legoland Discovery Center to the city.

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has helped to attract the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center and Great Wolf Lodge, both premiere attractions and major employers in Grapevine. He also helped bring Grapevine Mills mall, Bass Pro Outdoor World and more than a dozen other hotels to the city.

“Living in Grapevine, you are never going to be far from the best shopping, the best dining, the best entertainment, the best hotels,” he said.

His legacy can be found in a list of annual festivals, including GrapeFest, which has grown into the largest wine festival in the Southwest since its incep-tion in 1987.

“At first it really wasn’t all that focused on being a wine-related event,” he said. “And so then we took it to focus as a wine event, and that’s when it really grew.”

While attending the University of Hous-ton, McCallum worked as a banquet waiter at the Shamrock Hotel. There, he realized conventions meant jobs for hotels and businesses. Grapevine now attracts more than 15 million visitors annually—giving McCallum a sense of accomplishment.

“The housekeepers in the hotel or the

kitchen staff in a restaurant or the extra staff in a retail store—those people are working because of what we do,” he said. “And that means a lot to me.”

In September 2011, the Texas Travel Industry Association awarded McCallum the Tall in Texas Award, the highest honor for the state’s travel and tourism industry. McCallum does not like to brag. Instead, he gives credit to his team, describing his role with words like “cheerleader” and “motivator.”

McCallum will not reveal plans for the

next big project, but he hints it will be his proudest to date if he can accomplish it. Meanwhile, he is excited to see the comple-tion of the new, two-story CVB building and its animatronic clock that will feature glockenspiel cowboys dueling twice a day. Be warned, though, the rumors that one of the cowboys will sport an animatronic ver-sion of McCallum’s distinctive beard—his trademark since 1970—are not true.

“The guys who are building it want to put a beard on one of them,” he said, laughing, “and I won’t let them.”

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Historic dates

Grapevine-Colleyville ISDSchool district to mark 50th anniversary

G rapevine’s first high school graduating class in 1908 had one student.

The private boarding school Grapevine College opened in 1887 and became a state high school in 1907. Before the exist-ing Grapevine High School on Mustang Drive opened in 1969, the original school was located on Austin Street.

History records indicate that in 1930, the Grapevine Independent School District had 346 students and 12 teachers. Superintendent, W. F. Cannon served from 1938 to 1958.

When Helen Jean Lucas Reed graduated in 1951 from Grape-vine High School on the corner of Austin and Worth streets, her senior class totaled 36 students.

Reed remembers students, including herself, were “scared to death” of English and speech teacher Isla Bickers.

“She was an excellent teacher, but as a freshman in high school,

you were shaking in your boots,” Reed said.

Reed remembers Cannon did work that superintendents would not dream of doing now.

“If they had a water line break, he would get a bunch of boys from high school to come out and help him,” she said.

Annual teas for ladies clubs were important back then.

“Mr. Cannon always let the teachers out to go to the tea at around 2:30 or 3, and they would send high school girls to finish up the class for the day,” she said.

Cannon Elementary School—named after Superintendent W. F. Cannon—opened in 1959.

Reed’s mother taught third and fourth grades at Grapevine Elementary School during the late 1920s and later transferred to Cannon Elementary when it opened. That same year in 1959, Reed’s cousin, Janet Willhoite Dickey, graduated from Grapevine High School on

East Worth Street, a new building that opened in 1952 and eventu-ally became Grapevine Middle School, then Faith Christian School. Dickey’s senior class included 68 students.

Students took required classes: English, science, history and math. Students could pick from electives such as vocational agri-culture, homemaking, shorthand typing and driver’s education.

After Dickey finished driver’s education, her father bought her a blue 1949 Chevrolet. Dickey lived about two blocks away, but she remembers many students living in Colleyville took the school bus to attend school in Grapevine.

In 1962, Colleyville officially joined Grapevine ISD. The dis-trict became known as Grape-vine-Colleyville ISD in 1975.

Joe Deupree served as a school board trustee during that time and made the motion to change the name to include Colleyville.

“It seemed appropriate to

Superintendent E. S. Farrington in front of Grape-

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recognize Colleyville as a signifi-cant part of the district,” he said.

This year GCISD will be celebrating its 50th anniversary of consolidation. The district serves kindergarten through 12th grade students in Grape-vine, Colleyville and portions of Southlake. There are now

• 1887 - The private school Grapevine College opened• 1907 - Grapevine College designated as state high school• 1952 - The new Grapevine High School opened on Worth Street• 1959 - Original high school became district’s administration building • 1962 - Colleyville joined Grapevine Independent School District• 1969 - Grapevine High School opened on Mustang Drive and old GHS build-

ing became Grapevine Middle School• 1975 - District became Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District

17 traditional schools and two alternative schools. Robin Ryan is GCISD’s superintendent. The 2011 graduating class from Grapevine High School and Colleyville Heritage High School totaled 1,083 students.

Source: GCISD

References: GCISD, Grapevine Historical Museum, “Grapevine Area History,” Grapevine High yearbooks

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Winding CreekGrapevine – 76051

Build-out year: 1997

Number of homes (estimated): 366

Average square footage: 2,682

Home values: $74-$136 (prices per square foot)

HOA dues (estimated): voluntary

Amenities: none

Nearby attractions: Lake Grapevine, Main Street–Grapevine, Southlake town Square, Gaylord hotel, Great Wolf Lodge, DFW airport.

Property taxes:

city of Southlake 0.3480 tarrant county 0.2640 tarrant county college 0.1490 tarrant county hospital 0.2279 carroll iSD 1.4150

Total (per $100 value) 2.4042

Carroll ISD Schools:

Johnson elementary 1301 n. carroll ave., Southlake, tX 76092

Durham intermediate School 801 Shady oaks Dr., Southlake, tX 76092

carroll Middle School 1800 e. kirkwood Blvd., Southlake, tX 76092

carroll high School 1501 W. Southlake Blvd., Southlake, tX 76092

2136 Brookgate Dr. $293,500 4 Bedroom / 2.5 Bath 3,260 sq. ft.agent: kathy tricka972-898-4650

1087 Rosewood Dr. $310,000 4 Bedroom / 3 Bath 5,422 sq. ft.agent: paul tosello817-656-3519

1041 Brownstone Dr. $309,900 4 Bedroom / 3.1 Bath 3,614 sq. ft.agent: rhonda Moorefeld214-552-1094

1041 W. Aspenwood Dr. $269,900 4 Bedroom / 2.1 Bath 2,995 sq. ft.agent: Sinu pohar469-438-4797

No. of homes for sale

No. of homes under contract

Avg. days on the market

4 2 62

No. of homes sold in the last year

Square footageLow/High

Selling priceLow/High

14 3,578/1,540 $315,000/$210,000

On the market (As of Jan. 12, 2012)

Featured homesOverview

Market Data Grapevine, Colleyville, Southlake

Price Range

Number of homes for sale Average days on the market

Grapevine Colleyville Southlake Grapevine Colleyville Southlake

Less than $100,000 1 1 1 209 59 182

$100,000–$149,900 3 1 1 69 185 19

$150,000–$199,900 37 5 1 88 100 1,152

$200,000–$299,900 68 22 9 123 324 76

$300,000–$399,900 28 39 30 117 197 148

$400,000–$499,900 13 56 35 132 154 95

$500,000–$749,900 5 83 80 145 165 108

$750,000–$999,900 3 28 39 127 208 156

$1 million + 1 30 48 24 195 212

Month

Number of homes sold Average price

Grapevine Colleyville Southlake Grapevine Colleyville Southlake

Jan. 2012 32 23 22 $93,000 $118,000 $103,000

Dec. 2011 36 27 32 $231,215 $408,828 $546,706

Nov. 2011 29 21 34 $224,032 $461,661 $591,905

Oct. 2011 29 19 25 $244,849 $459,096 $647,420

Sept. 2011 34 36 37 $314,850 $447,561 $696,236

Aug. 2011 52 35 54 $246,793 $476,340 $662,359

July 2011 23 20 30 $277,566 $505,587 $637,468

June 2011 52 31 64 $247,042 $403,419 $599,551

May 2011 42 41 35 $221,741 $535,809 $602,333

On the market (as of January 31st) Monthly home sales

Data compiled by Tim Hayes

RE/MAX on Main817-239-7255

[email protected]

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