Artistas de alto nivel Ramón Ayala, Lupío Rivera, Dulce and Presentado in Rio Bravo Arlington, delayando, but no faltar las delicias de la cuisina.

I think we have clients asiaticos, Europeans, literally and we visiting for the comida mexicana.

Rio Bravo se convertible in one of the restaurants del area gracias a su comida, a little entretenimiento.

But the client is the queen and desace.

So gracias a Dios almost uh and client's appointment and serve us and start uh nivel of the client, but I can't move the client.

Welcome to another Arlington Eats.

I'm Cynthia Lemus with my Arlington TV, and this episode brings us to Bandelgriff Park where the cooking with cops event hosted by the Arlington Police Department.

A way to people hearts is through their bellies.

And it's a way that the police officers in the Arlington Police Department just can connect with the community.

Right now, more than ever, we need to build trust and legitimacy within the community.

And what better way to do that by just interacting with them?

As you can see in the background, we got food, we got music, we got uh photo book, and so this just breaks the ice and actually um give us an opportunity for uh citizens just to know who we are.

Burger Hot Glass.

All right, give me a plate.

Officers grill hamburgers and hog dogs to give away, along with snacks and other refreshments.

We have over 300 hot dogs, 300 hamburgers, we have chips, we have drinks, we have sodas.

And so we have those things, and it's free of cost.

This event at the Vandergriff Park was a success.

Officers had to make another grocery store run to buy more food.

But who was in charge of the grill?

We actually have three cooks this time.

We actually have Jamie Matthews, um, he's an officer in the East District.

We have Deputy Chief Paul Rodriguez, and he's in the South District, and then finally we have Chad Wong.

And I had some of Chad Wong's brisket when I was in the West District, and that's the secret weapon.

Officers hope that events like cooking with cuts will help them to connect with all residents in Arlington so they can serve as their eyes and ears in their communities to keep the American dream city safe and beautiful.

And we're essentially bringing the library to people's homes.

The Arlington Public Library has a program called Books on Wheels, where originally we were working with senior facilities to deliver books to their homes that they normally can't come to the library, maybe due to lack of transportation, disability, or maybe they just don't physically have a close library to them.

If a person wants to apply for individually homebound, they can go to our website at Arlington Library.org slash sexuality.

But if they want their uh senior facility to participate, they could contact their facility their facility supervisor or whoever coordinates for them to contact us and we could set that up with one of our local libraries that's closest to that senior facility.

Every month we will come over to a senior facility or to a homebound facility where we'll check out books, pick out books if they want to renew, they can renew there at that time as well.

Some of the library materials that you can check out through our books and wheels homebound service include books, including large print books, audio books, music CDs, Chromebooks, and hot spots.

And if you're a homebound or senior facility, we deliver your card out of your first delivery.

Right now we're accepting volunteers for all positions, especially right now.

Our homebound applications are now open as well for volunteers.

And if you want to sign up to be a volunteer, just go on our website at Arlington Library.org where you can find our application form and sign up at any time.

Here are some of your fellow North Texans with a few safety tips.

When Laura is driving in North Texas, she respects bicyclists as vehicles on the road.

She's alert of their movements and knows to give at least three feet of safe passing room.

Laura also looks out for pedestrians crossing streets and never blocks crosswalks.org.

Books on Wheels is a service that the biblioteca ringed for live services, especially unicilly or private or central for the person of the terceridad.

It's for this that we organized events of Cocinando con los officials, or in English cooking with cops, in which we can create a connection between the uniforms and the community.

And it was a good thing.

Arlington.

I think it was just uh more of a community feel.

And we were opening this up on a dime.

My wife has always wanted her own coffee shop, but this was just too big to do just coffee.

So we decided to do coffee and deli.

And so a lot of taste test.

My wife came up with the whole menu.

The names came from the Western kind of theme, the John Wayne, the high noon, the Buffalo Bill, the Alamo.

I want you to have the same exact sandwich today that you come back in five years for.

I want my employees to always be respectful, always be welcoming, always um go out of their way to give somebody an experience here.

To be able to have something that their kids can take something from, and that the community involvement in everything just comes together for me as far as the American Dream.

But I am I am living the American dream.

That's why we're still here after 20 years because of this community.

And it's the little shop that could.

The little shop that could, that does, that will, that will continue on.

We will be here as long as the community has us.

Hi, I'm Damon Carney.

Hi, I'm Brady Carney.

And we're alive with the American Dream.

We are an anchor institution.

We really view it as our mission to help support the communities that are around us.

And so we know that in order to achieve that American dream, that students need an education, and we are standing right by their side to help them achieve what their dreams are.

Growing up in Arlington, UCA was just part of my experience.

I came here for orchestra camps.

I had the opportunity to take classes here.

My dream was that I was gonna be the city manager of Arlington, Texas.

I even had an internship in the city manager's office while I was an undergraduate uh student.

And uh along the way I had a faculty member that encouraged me to think about getting a PhD.

And that got me into academia.

Had the opportunity to go to other communities, but when the opportunity opened up to come right back territory Arlington, I was all on board and excited to come back to my hometown.

I'm running a small city.

Do you think about all that goes on on the campus and how many tens of thousands of people are here every day?

It's a little bit like I got to fulfill that dream in just a little bit different way.

Students are choosing a university, they're not just choosing UT Arlington, they're choosing a community.

And we want them to choose Arlington as a place that they see that they can grow and thrive.

One thing that I'm really proud of is that we produce more than 10,000 graduates a year.

And the economic impact that the University of Texas at Arlington has is 22 billion dollars a year.

The future of UTA is bright.

We have achieved so much over the decades that we have been here.

If you think about where we started and where we are today, I just look forward to imagining 20 to 30 years from now how much more impact we can create.

We're back with another Arlington Eats.

I'm Jeremy Thomas with My Arlington TV, and on this episode, we're bringing you to an Arlington favorite.

It's TJ's Catfish and Wings, where they're serving up great food, but also welcoming you and to their family.

We're here to serve the community.

We're here to make you happy when you come in and then when you leave, you're gonna be even happier.

When TJ's first opened in 2003, owner and Martin High grad Travis Johnson says the focus was just on traditional wings.

We uh added catfish to the menu.

Uh we went ahead and went and did some chicken tenders and boneless wings.

And we can't forget about the fried shrimp, okra, and look at those hush puppies.

But also inside of this restaurant, you can experience two distinct great tastes.

As time has gone on, as you guys know now, I've now have added MJ's House of Smoke, who is my nephew to this process.

Just making it with love, you know.

It's one of those things where I truly enjoy what I'm doing.

Oh, yeah, so I win it.

Look at here.

His nephew Segin High Grad Marcus Campbell is throwing down on the grill, smoking up some amazing barbecue from your multi-meat plates with brisket and ribs to a whole lot more.

And don't just take my word for it, Texas Monthly think so too.

My main sellers are gonna be uh the brisket tacos, uh the loaded potatoes, uh the load of cornbread, uh the brisket filling.

You know, I just have a lot of different one-off menu items that you know everybody loves.

Campbell and Johnson say they come from families who not only know their way around the kitchen, but also want everyone to experience and enjoy the great flavors they create.

A menu can change in an hour.

I mean, you can change overnight.

Um, just because we're in the back just uh using our skills to the best of our ability.

You know, my whole vision on my business was to create a kickback type vibe.

So when somebody came to my restaurant to eat, they felt like family.

And while the businesses look to expand soon, they plan to keep taking care of their hometown right here in the American Dream City.

The community they've always embraced, you know, and I've always tried to give back to my community.

Arlington is a very supportive community.

Yeah, I love this community.

Welcome to another Arlington Eats.

I'm Cynthia Lemut with my Arlington TV, and this episode brings us to the Mansoul and Arlington area YMCA International Food Festival.

Food is culture.

And people that come from different parts of the world are very eager to share, you know, some of the dishes that their family members may have prepared, or even dishes that you can go out into the Arlington community and have some great food as well in the local restaurants.

An afternoon full of food and culture.

The first ever international food fest at the YMCA was a tremendous success.

And one of the great things here in Arlington is the community lives here.

We have members that represent over a hundred countries, and one of the things that we try to do in the YMCA as an inclusive organization is to invite everybody in to our doors.

From Jamaica to Syria, from India to Mexico, you can easily travel around the world just within this room.

We have, I would say about 15 countries represented today.

Um so we've got uh Mexico, Syria, Bangladesh, Thailand, uh, Vietnamese.

We have two different Vietnamese um restaurants and also a community member.

Um we also have food from uh the southern part of the United States, and we've got some vegan soul food, so really you name it.

I think everybody loves food, and that is something that brings all of us together.

But now it's an opportunity to showcase each other about the food, why we cook the way we cook, how we eat, and just bring everyone together and share that love.

The goal was to learn about the many cultures in Arlington and Memphis and celebrate the diversity of our cities that welcome everybody in the community.

We really pride ourselves on um reaching into the community, learning about who is in our backyard and representing those cultures.

Things can be kind of tough in our culture today, and one of the things that we like in the Y movement is that we really see a place where everybody can come together and to realize hey, we're all people.

Then I went to play it in a town where was some scout named Orlando Gomez.

And my coach went to him and said, Hey, you have to see this little skinny 17-year-old guy.

He's gonna pitch and you go, Wow, look at him.

He went to the game, I win the game, one nothing, struck out 17 guys, and two weeks later the guy came in and signed me.

I didn't speak any English, so I had to uh learn and learn a little bit watching the prices right.

So the first thing I learned was come on down.

And that was my favorite words at first.

People come on and say, How you done?

I'll go, come on down.

I went every year, I went up to Able Double A Triple and 1980, I was able to get colored to a million weeks.

And I remember going to the hotel real quick, calling my dad, and then the next day to walk into that big stadium and all these people.

I mean it was uh sometimes uh you trying to explain but it's no worse what you feel because that's your dream.

Growing up, I listened to the games on the radio with my dad, but I never thought, oh, I can do that.

Lenornera really helped me a lot how to go from the baseball language guy to how you're gonna talk to the fans.

And every year I kinda start doing better, better.

And what I did was I would sit down and watch the game and I worked like I was doing the game, and I think that helped me a lot.

You have to practice to get yourself better.

And uh now I've been doing it for 17 years, and it's something that I love doing it, but it always gave me the chance to stay in the game.

The rangers always they always had the doors open for me.

I played here and uh I went to the cups, came back, but when I was here, they were not only good to me, but good to my family too.

I'm very grateful that I steal Ranger.

For me, playing in that very old stadium to play this next one next to here, and then playing here because this now only happened with the organization, opened with the Arlington people in the city, and that's something that I see in Arlington always they always try to grow and to get better.

What I see is great people with great future in them.

I am Jose Guzman, I am alive with American Dream was not, but mantra me.

Okay, yeah, I've got my swing, but not Rangers enviated scout to see a tryout, but they have one talent.

The dirigente Orlando Gomez, okay, but we have to go to this flaquito 17 years of Santa Isabel.

And those semanas later was the Scout Orlando Gomez.

And for me, it was more.

We're back with Arlington Eats.

I'm Jeremy Thomas with my Arlington TV.

October 1st is National Homemade Cookies Day.

So on this episode, it's love at first bite as we bring you a classic favorite from something sweet bake shop.

We are baking homemade chocolate chip cookies.

I think that deserves a chip chip parade.

Kanara Davis has been whipping up treats in the kitchen since childhood with her mom and grandma.

It was really kind of inevitable that I would find my my way in the kitchen as I got older.

Ended up starting a Texas cottage baking business.

And that was during the pandemic.

Since then, the business has partnered with Cup of Vibes in South Arlington.

That's a batch made in Heaven.

We do their wholesale baked goods, and we also use the commercial kitchen space there.

And so we're able to serve them as a client and also serve our existing and new clientele as well for custom cakes, weddings, cookies, and all the good sweet stuff for any occasion.

And on Tuesday, it is the best day to eat cookies.

Before you get started, you definitely want to make sure that your ingredients is room temperature.

So set out your butter and eggs at least two hours before you're ready to start baking.

Then it's the mixing of ingredients like sugar, flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.

One tip you don't want to overmix.

And so I like to add in my chocolate chips before the flour mixture is totally incorporated, so you don't risk overmixing once you add in the chocolate chips.

And then also, since presentation matters, I like to add some chocolate chips to the top, just so that you can see them.

Alright.

So another pro tip, I like to let these chill in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes.

Um, just so that they're they're firm before they go into the oven.

And then we place them in the oven at 325 degrees for nine to ten minutes.

Davis says, what makes the difference with homemade cookies is that they're baked with love.

Here they are fresh out of the oven, and well, if you bake it, you eat it.

These are my favorite.

Super soft in the middle, country on the edges.

While something sweet is by appointment only right now, Davis has big plans for the business in the future as she bakes the world a butter place.

Arlington is the American dream city, and so I even when I was a little girl, I had dreams of wanting to have my own bakery.

And so I think it's just fitting that I've been here for so many years, had so many connections and friendships, and um just a lot of relationships here, so I think this will be the great, a great opportunity for me to have my first doorfront in Arlington.

Hey, what's going on, everybody?

My name is Bradley Miller.

I'm a firefighter paramedic assigned to Station 1 in Arlington, and I want to answer some questions about the recruitment process.

The Arlington Fire Department is looking for good men and women who have what it takes to save lives and strengthen our community.

What positions are available in the Arlington Fire Department?

In 2024, we are in search of approximately 40 to 50 firefighter trainees.

Why is the fire department hiring so many firefighters?

NFPA 1710 is a national standard that recommends each fire company be staffed a four firefighter.

Our fire engines and ladder trucks have previously been staffed with three firefighters.

We were recently granted approval by city council to hire firefighter trainees with the purpose of staffing the fourth firefighter on every engine and ladder truck.

What type of individual are you looking to hire?

Being a firefighter requires you to be in good physical shape, perform the duties of the job, as well as have a heart to serve the people.

So you can apply right now.

Anyone interested in applying for the position can visit Arlington TX.gov slash AFD Fire Hire between now and December 12th.

It's kind of nice to be able to say that for the rest of my writing career.

I say it, I can say it got started with kindness.

I went to the military from here, came back and then went to college first to Denton and then UT Arlington.

As I was homeschooling the kids, that's when I started seriously studying writing.

And from there it's just progressed forward from writing really bad stuff that got progressively better.

And ultimately it culminated in my book, Lee Howard doing the ghost of Simmons Pierce Manor.

Lee Howard is the my debut book.

It's the first book.

And the kindness that I was shown all along the way, and especially that got me started with that TikTok video from Red.

Kroger's has a program, the National Authors in the Grocery Store program.

And I was just there, I got there at 9 o'clock in the morning and was trying to sell copies of my book.

And Red came by.

He just came over and started talking to me to brighten up my day, to be honest.

He said he wasn't a reader, but he saw me sitting alone.

He was just being nice to me.

He bought a copy and went and checked out.

And then he came back to buy a second copy.

Like I said, the foundation of it all is two people being kind to each other in a grocery store, two strangers.

The American dream means to me the opportunities available to achieve whatever you set for a goal.

It's not a guarantee of an outcome, it's a guarantee of the opportunities.

For me, uh having started Lone Star Drone, I think it's it's really cool because we went from the military to an advanced technologies company.

It shows the American dream when we can go from having protected the country now to providing the tools to better protect the country.

So I was one of those guys that joined uh very shortly after 9-11.

I joined the army.

I was an army reconnaissance scout, uh, which means that that's kind of where I got my first taste of drones.

We use drones as a tool um to seek out enemy locations.

A lot of these guys were talking about what they were gonna go back to when they got off their deployment and they didn't have careers to go back to.

Like I had a good career to go back to.

So if I could help these guys out by starting some kind of company or some kind of business that employed these guys, these these incredibly talented guys that were used to dealing with advanced technologies and it and really advanced systems, then that's what I was gonna do.

Lone Star Drone is an advanced drone company that typically focuses on things like engineering surveys um and more advanced solutions than your typical photo video work.

We do everything from clean energy inspections to if one of our clients needs uh a custom engineered drone, we'll do that as well.

The drones we use can be used to monitor vast areas and augment security for both the border as well as municipalities here in the United States.

Lone Star Drone may not exist if it hadn't started in Arlington because this city specifically takes all of our companies, all of our businesses, no matter how small it is or how big it is, they kind of put them all on equal playing fields and really help them all out.

They want that American dream to become a reality for everyone here in Arlington.

Our dreams here in Arlington and with Lone Star Drone are they're endless.

So Angel Martinez.

Um like the ice creams.

You know, my mom went to Mexico to get the you know recipes and all that.

So it's like a taste that comes from there.

We use natural flavors for everything.

You can find popsicles, ice cream, aguas frescas, and if you are hungry, they have options for you.

They started incorporating ceviche, um, and it's fresh.

It's it's made every day, the stevicha and then the tortas.

We have the ham torta, the uh torta has uh like a chicken fried steak, um, and then another that's Milanesa, and then the cubana, which has the chicken fried steak, ham and um hot dogs and vegetables and stuff.

Customer satisfaction is their priority.

Well, that's something my mom and my dad always tried to do put more variety in the shop so that um yeah, so people when when people come, they have something to pick to choose.

Adriana and her family moved to Arlington from Houston 20 years ago.

And when they started looking for a business, they knew the American Dream City was the right place to start.

I love Arm's.

I wouldn't go back to Eastern.

This presentation is going to show you how to use the water sprinkler gauges that you receive from the city of Arlington.

The first step is to place your cauches evenly in the lawn and within the space pattern of your sprinkler zone.

If you need more cauches, tuna cans work great.

Or anything that has a flat bottom.

Just use a ruler in a permanent marker to put your own measuring lines on the inside of the cans.

The second step is to run your sprinklers for 10 minutes and record the amount of water that was collected in each cage.

The last step is to calculate the sprinklers precipitation rate by taking the average in depth.

You will take the average, which is all the gauges amount added together and divided by the number of gauges used in inches.

The water divided by the runtime in minutes, then multiplied by 60.

Here's an example of the calculations.

If you have three gauges, you will record the amount of water that was collected.

One of them being 0.25, the other one being 0.23, and the last one being 0.27.

You will then add up those numbers and divide by three, which you will get a result of 0.25.

After getting the average, you will divide the average by the runtime, which is 10.

You will get the result of 0.025.

Then you will multiply 0.025 by 60 and get the result of 1.5 inches per hour.

Now that you know the precipitation rate for your sprinkler zone, you can use this information to determine how long to run your sprinklers for to give your lawn the correct amount of water.

Don't forget to use the cycle and soak method setting on your sprinklers when watering.com and sign up to have weekly watering advice for your home address sent to your mobile phone or email account.

Find more tips at WWW.savearlingtonwater.com.

I don't know.

I guess I just I just have to just go and try it and see if it's really gonna work for me.

Tag Players is our senior readers' theater program here at Theater Arlington where any adults 55 and up can come and be a part of our Thursday afternoon rehearsals, uh kind of get their acting skills going, and we put together uh readers' theater scripts, performances, and tour around the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.

Um, a lot of times we'll go to retirement homes or uh community centers, libraries, things like that.

I think a lot of the places that we perform are people who may not be able to come to the theater um physically, but we can bring theater to them.

There's nothing that can touch your heart as much as the arts.

So for me, it's for my benefit, and I want to stay physically active.

There's so much stress and stuff in the world these days.

We all need fun and we all need activities that are lighthearted and comedic and have you tried a plant-based diet.

We are wonderful examples of how life continues to go on after uh retirement.

We remake ourselves for our next chapter, and that's a wonderful reminder for anyone who wants to come and have us act or be silly or enrich their their lives.

Whether you have experience or not, uh you're welcome in this program to come be a part of our rehearsals, learn, grow together.

Uh, we have a lot of fun, and and then of course you have the opportunity to perform for uh people in the community as well, which is such a an enriching opportunity.

Music has always been my first love, and I think it's something that I am living my dreams and actualizing more, and I'm very excited for the future, and again, just so full of gratitude to be where I'm at and just be back and have these full circle moments in life that you know we shouldn't really take for granted to say also.

I grew up singing, started when I was three.

I'm a Mezzo Soprano.

And it always happened.

My dad played the organ in our church growing up, and my mom too, you know, she sang in the choir growing up.

Both my parents are from Ghana, and the choral music tradition is um very much a part of the culture.

My first recital ever in my life was at Carnegie Hall when I was nine years old.

I always say I didn't understand the magnitude of that.

Hindsight is 2020.

Looking back, I can see that that was that was a big deal.

And the rest, I guess, is history as they say.

So thank you, Mrs.

Rateggi, and um here I am.

So I got my degree in vocal performance.

Looking back, I'm so glad that I stayed here because a lot of my first professional opportunities were here in the DFW.

I made my Broadway debut in Camelot on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater, which was amazing and incredibly exciting.

I then went on to sing my first Carmen at Opera Columbus, and then I um went to Portland opera and did a production of the Marriage of Figaro there as a black woman in this country.

Um the odds are not stacked in my favor, and you know, the old ad is twice as good to get half as far.

But in spite of that, I think the American dream is really whatever you want it to be.

I'm so thankful again to to those that came before me because they opened doors that they probably didn't even realize that they opened.

We've come a long way and again.

Um I'm thankful and I'm praying that those that are coming behind me can say the same thing.

I'm T Cia Kwetang, and I'm alive with the American Dream.

We're back with another episode of Arlington Eats.

I'm Jeremy Thomas with my Arlington TV, and on this episode, we're headed to the doctor.

That way you can get a fresh prescription of a variety of shrimp that's in season all year long at Shrimp Dock.

We want to be simple and effective.

If I want to do it, I want to do it well.

You know.

And that's and that's why we just stay in the shrimp like nothing but shrimp.

Well, if you couldn't tell, co-owner David Harrison is very serious when it comes to shrimp.

You probably know, tasted, or have seen the food from Shrimp Dock at a Texas Rangers baseball game, or over the years at the State Fair of Texas.

So that's only 24 days out of the year.

And you know, people over the years who are like, man, you guys got a location, man.

You know, oh, I gotta wait to I gotta wait till the fair to get this again, and blah blah blah.

So that's what prompt used, even initially started looking for a place and you know found all of them.

Harrison and his family opened the storefront off Supplit Road in February of 2023.

We're known for the black and black potato.

It's how we got into the state fair of Texas.

And we thought it would be like our number one thing here, but our number one thing here has been all of our fried shrimp.

Our flavors, everybody loves our zesty cool ranch, Cajun Buffalo, hot lemon pepper.

They love the different combinations.

Our maple cinnamon waffle, grilled shrimp with you know, veggies and rice.

We try to have something so it's not just everything in my fries, and we've got a few extra things here that we don't do at the front.

You get a little treat if you get if you come in.

Even as the Harrisons look to expand their business to new locations, they're loving their community right here in the American Dream City.

Uh it's been honestly overwhelming.

It's been really good here.

Um we're seeing new faces every day.

It's not just within the community, people are traveling.

Yeah, uh the community, like she said, it's not just around in the area.

It's we get love here as well.

Um, Orlington, but I mean they're coming from everywhere.

And uh it's it's it's been it's been good.

All of it's really been a good place, and we really uh like it here, so this exhibit is called the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters.

It is on the labor union that was formed in 1925 by predominantly African American people, and it was mostly porters that worked for the Pullman Palace car, which is like a sleeping car train car.

This was actually a personal interest of mine because I had read um The Humanity Archive by Jermaine Fowler recently, and he had mentioned this labor union in his book.

I figured, you know, we have the Texas Labor archives here in special collection, so I figured we would have something on the topic since it's labor-related.

The highlights are we have um a charter of the local union from Fort Worth, and it's dated in 1929.

So this was fairly, you know, brand new to um the union's existence nationwide.

A Philip Randolph, who founded the union in New York City in 1925.

They held a convention here in Arlington, and it was the first Texas convention of the A.

Philip Randolph Institute.

Um, and it was in 1974, and it was held at Six Flags here in Arlington.

This is really a really great representation of our labor archives material, and items like this were kind of hidden gems of special collections, knowing that these exist and their importance to our history as a country, you know, I just feel like people have to come see them.

The exhibit is on view until the end of February, and they can come to um UTA Special Collections, which is on the sixth floor of Central Library.

Making sure everything is just right for the collection trucks when they come by.

And they just but they're not magicians.

And there are a few things you can do to make collection day run smoothly.

First, make sure that all of your items are out on the curb at 7 a.m.

on collection day.

Then make sure that your trash bags are inside the trash cart with the lid closed.

Got it.

And the wheels up against the curb.

And all of your carts, brush, and bulky items need to be three feet apart with about 15 feet above them, so crews have plenty of space to pick them up.

Go ahead.

Thanks.

That's easy enough.

Good deal.

Gotta get rolling.

Spread the word.

Alright, bye, Carter.

Don Staffin empezed a bonus accident.

Tratamos to trat the manner digna.

Consider what is the story that we tried to live here because tratamos to a tratamos to comprend, okay to create a space in which they send them bienvenidos.

But one day I appreciate that llorando no iba resolver nada.

When I decided to have the company, I imprimed all the papers, he said my folder that all my documents were in the biblioteca.

So I Maria Allen and my Swell Americano Arlington Eats.

I'm Cynthia Lemos with my Arlington TV.

And on this episode, we are visiting a tropical paradise, Cafe Americana, the hottest new restaurant and bar in downtown Arlington.

It is the brain child of a collective of friends who wanted to bring their love of food and beverage from around the world to the community.

We have our traditional paella as well.

But we added some Texas flair to it.

Instead of Papa's bravas, we did yucca bravas, instead of chips for the guacamole, we do plantain chips for the drinks.

So people in Arlington would feel that they are included.

A lot of this is our gift back to the community from what the United States has done for our lives.

It was maybe at the beginning having the house that you always wanted to have, wanted to have, but you couldn't afford in your country for taking your kids to that college that you can now you can afford.

But the dream is not just making to that point.

It's the journey.

After having or being living my American dream, it became to help others to achieve their American dreams.

And he was like, Maria, would you bring me more people?

And then he said, Maria, can you do this like a frequently deal, like can you bring me four people every weekend?

I was like, oh, that's a business there.

Don't staffing started on 2019.

We are a temporary company who provide with temporary staffing for big companies.

What it makes done staffing different is that we understand our employees.

I was in their position.

You don't know how many times I cried.

I didn't went to the school to wash dishes.

Oh my god.

So we understand them.

We understand that it's not easy.

We understand that they come with a with a story, like they are here for a big reason.

So we tr we we treat them rightfully, we are fair.

The library was my office for maybe four years.

So Arlington is always going to be the place where I have to say thank you.

The diversity in Arlington is amazing, and I feel welcome.

I am Maria Allen and I'm alive with the American dream.

For example, the Los Salado, Los Camaroni, las empanadas, pastel de coco.

Aqui tu encuentras muchos lugares, muchos restaurantes, but no vas enquanto Americana.

But what is the cafe American different of other restaurants?

From a deaf perspective, things are a little bit different.

Deaf people are very visual.

So growing up, I didn't have access to overhearing what people were talking about.

I didn't always understand what was going around in my environment.

So I missed so much because of that.

When COVID happened and shut down the world, I decided that it was time to go back to school.

And so through that I was able to be successful and I realized the success I could have.

And that gave me a passion to see what success could look like for me.

And I decided that my purpose for life was not only to figure out how to navigate the hearing world as we call it, and who I was as a deaf woman in that, but also to have a life of service for other deaf individuals to help them understand how they can be successful.

I'm hoping that the deaf community will be seen as equals.

For me, the American dream means knowing that I can do whatever it is that I want to do just as anyone else is able to do.

That I can be just as any other American.

Sometimes it may be that people would identify as this disabled.

Maybe they would say, you know, you have a hearing loss, and that's a negative thing.

And some people may identify themselves in that way, and that's fine.

That's their perspective.

But for me, my life has been completely changed for the better in a very positive way.

My name is Lacey Sky.

And I'm alive with the American dream.

Not many people really get to do that.

It's very special, and I'm just happy to be able to do this for a living.

He's a golf nut, big golfer, and uh just ever since like seventh grade is when I really got into it.

I'd really just been getting after it ever since then.

He got tongue cancer and then went through, you know, radiation, all that stuff, got through it the first time, and then was cancer free, and then it came back again and then passed away senior year.

He loved always saying, can't went home, you know.

Don't ever say can't do anything.

So that's kind of one that I probably always use.

You know, I live here, I'm from here, played college golf in Arlington.

I mean, I played at Rangers before it was Texas Rangers when it was Chester Ditto in high school, and yeah, just being able to compete in Arlington was special, had a bunch of people come out and it was a treat.

I turned pro and right when I graduated last year in 2023 May, and had a lot of success, kind of like right out of the gate.

One my US Open local qualifier got into sectionals and then got to Q school and went from pre-qualifying all the way to final stage, and two out of 500 guys that signed up for pre-qualifying made it to final stage, so it was a pretty cool accomplishment.

After they built Texas Rangers, it's like you could hold anything here.

This place is amazing.

I hope they come here forever.

I'm Caleb Hicks and I'm alive with the American Dream.

We're back with another episode of Arlington Eats.

I'm Jeremy Thomas with my Arlington TV.

Most folks love barbecue, and today we're going to learn how to cook some high quality barbecue and some brisket that I'm already smelling from the boss himself, the brisket balls.

Brisket Boss is basically uh a 70-year story comprised in the last four or five years.

Owner of Brisket Balls LLC, Royce Simmons says his dad and uncle started barbecuing as a side hobby.

Simmons chose a different career path in the army and then a leading aerospace and defense company, but that love for barbecue or his family's legacy never left.

In my retirement years, I decided to hey, let me get back into the barbecue land and let me come up with some spices that would be good for sick and shut-in people in the hospitals that had a little sodium and great taste because everything that I do is a resemblance of what he did.

The recipe for this amazing barbecue, well, we can't give that away, but what we can tell you is what Simmons offers.

Since I'm the brisket boss, let's make that clear, all right?

My number one thing is the briskets.

We do a lot of seafood.

Uh we do a lot of chicken sausage.

Um with that with that seasoning I have now, do a lot of vegetables.

That spice he's referring to is this special low sodium savory peach molasses seasoning.

I've got 19 different spices all mixed in one.

So if you want Cajun, it's got occasion flavor.

It's got occasion geek.

If you want sweetness, it's got some sweetness in it.

What's also sweet is that Simmons was named a finalist for HEB's Quest for Texas Best Competition.

That was the day that I cried because I was just amazed that day that I got the opportunity to support Arlington as the only contestant that was selected from this Dallas Fort Worth area.

And Simmons appreciates his community for their support of his business right here in the American Dream City.org and there is a financial aid section that you can click on there.

And before each application period, which happens in January and July, we update a link to go directly to the application for the applicant.

They just click on that, fill it out.

We do ask for a couple of additional documents that need to be included, uh proof of Arlington residency, which could be just as simple as a utility bill attached, and then uh proof of income.

They get two activities per year or per application that they uh put in, and they get to pick from any of our recreation centers that uh have activities going on.

We post those in our naturally fun magazine uh three times a year, so families can look at that and see what there is to offer, and they choose two of those activities to register for with their award.

It is for kids of 4 minutes of life after the 16 years.org.

It's fascinating all the details and the respuesta to while your pregunta.

Welcome to another Arlington Eats.

I'm Cynthia Lemos with my Arlington TV, and we are back to Cafe Americana because they are adding new dishes to the menu to celebrate one of the biggest soccer tournaments in our region, Copa America.

With the games coming in, we wanted to add this.

It will stay for a while, uh depending on how much the customers like it.

Arlington will host three games for Copa America, starting with Peru versus Chile on June 21st, USA versus Bolivia in June 23rd, and a quarter final game on July 5th.

And if you are wondering what dish represents the United States of America, here is the chef's comment.

It's all the countries that you know came to the United States and like look for that American dream here in Arlington, and so it encompasses the whole menu that we have right now.

Start here on June 20.

We are here in Arlington.

If you've ever been to a Texas Rangers game, you've probably noticed the Patinos Micheladas stand.

And if you ever wonder why it's always packed, well, because of my dad.

It's not just the dreams, it's the show.

He throws the whole dance and he throws the bottles up and down and he's dancing, so it's funny because every time they come get a Michelada, everyone's always like, we came for the show, and of course the Michelada, but they're like, we since they're always like telling me it's so worth it getting a show, a food and a drink at once because they come fully loaded with the shrimp and stuff.

It was called El Oceano Mexican restaurant.

Um it was going really good, so they enjoyed it, everything was going well, then COVID hit.

Like many small businesses, they faced difficult times when COVID hit and had to close their doors.

But the patinos weren't ready to give up on their dream.

Um that's whenever we decided to add that to our menu, and it's been it's been really good.

But the real star of the show, Mr.

Patino himself.

Probably the patinos Micheladas.

And if she said it's lino, well it's the bebida, but the spectacle.

But the camera has been faster.

And my guess of a negotiation.

We have to find a restaurant.

No, no, no.

This experience served for other alternatives to these famous Micheladas.

And they did that if we are here, we decided to go one day.

I'm an immigrant from Los Tankes, Valparaíso Zacatecas, Mexico.

I am a first generation Latina with a PhD.

I moved when I was 15 years old and I was in 10th grade of high school.

We moved with that with that desire to uh for me to go to college and I think that that has been embedded in my in my soul because I want to honor my mom and my dad's sacrifices.

I think for me the American dream is to have an amazing job that you boy that I love and that I care, but also that I am excited about going every day.

I am the uh senior director of HSIVs, uh so it's an amazing department, and our main goal of the department is to advance our HSI federal designation and then also you know making sure that UTA is a Hispanic thriving institution.

I am blessed for having this amazing job at UTA, but at the same time I have to do a good job to be a good, I guess a role model if possible for other Latinos to come.

For me, receiving those awards is like giving me more or inspiration to continue working hard for my community for my students and you know and and for for everybody in every like I had every aspect of my life, my personal life, my professional life, and then also you know my life for the community.

I am Dr.

Maria Yarelli Delgado and I'm alive with American Dream.

This is called Day at the Diamond.

We're with our wife friends, and this is a program that the YMCA has run for literally decades to help those adults um with the range of abilities and disabilities lead a great life.

It's exercise, teamwork, social interaction, it's an opportunity to bond with one another.

Parents get to know each other.

It is probably our best event all year.

I'm gonna hit that home run, make people happy and make them laugh.

Like we play baseball is like it's like we watching Texas Rangers.

And every single time I hang out with my friends, like the whole squad.

So amazing.

Oh, yeah, it's really fun.

It's my first time playing baseball, and I'm really excited.

And I really like the people here.

We really truly are a family.

We have any wear ages 18 with our youngest, and 67 is our oldest.

This group is so inclusive and so welcoming to new people.

So if anyone is interested and if they have a special needs family member, please come by and talk to me, Mm-hmm.

Day at the Diamonds.

It's an opportunity to bond with one another.

Parents get to know each other.

It is probably our best event all year.

This is a program that the YMCA has run for literally decades to help those adults with a range of abilities and disabilities lead a great life.

I'm gonna hit that home run to make people happy and make them laugh.

Familiar amigos des bancas celebrate, converting the Vandergriff Park in a parque de pelotas of grandliga.

Like we play baseball is like it's like watching Texas Rangers.

And every single time I hang out with my friends, like the whole squad.

So amazing.

Oh, yeah, it's really fun.

It's my first time playing baseball, and I'm really excited.

My passion is helping people realize that they have what it takes to get what they want out of their life.

And fitness is just a tool that I get to use to help people become the greatest version of themselves.

I'm a man of faith, and I've always derived my inner strength from my faith in God.

And inner strength is it doesn't have to be spiritual like that, but it's one of those things where I've always thought people have it within themselves to begin to change their lives, to begin to grow their lives.

If you just have the support that you need and maybe the right tools, you can do almost anything you set your mind to.

Helping people in the Arlington community.

It gives me satisfaction when I go to bed at night, knowing that I'm touching the lives not only of the clients that we serve but of their families.

There's so many benefits of what we're doing for people that honestly I may never even really get to see.

What it does for me is it helps me realize I've got a bigger purpose than just myself.

The American Dream for me is the ability to make a difference in my community while also having the leverage to be there and be a present husband and be involved in my children's lives.

It's a lot of activities to do when I'm looking around.

I pretty much just walk around the entire thing already.

Um I like how big it is for different age groups.

I like how there's like climbing, there's uh different ones for um, I know so for special needs.

I like that that they have that option for them.

There we are.

This is a totally inclusive playground, and that's our objective here in Arlington is to make this a home for everybody.

And uh this park helps really move us in the right direction.

The sensory area is pretty nice where they get to play with the bells and rings and uh touch sensory is pretty cool, so it's pretty nice and very big park.

This is a collaborative effort with our community, our city, our parks and wreck people.

The Arlington Tomorrow Foundation gave half a million dollars to make this project possible.

That type of stuff shows how much people in this community care for one another.

Make those memories and you won't regret it.

You'll have those things that last forever.

Something that I could, you know, hopefully create a legacy that I can leave for my kids and my grandkids.

In 2021, I decided to start Glong Glen Let's Five.

It's a non-surgical cosmetics practice.

I do serve on the board of directors at the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.

Arlington means a lot to me because it's the city where I started a family.

It's the city where I built our first business.

It's the city that my family can call home.

I'm Yaman Subay, and I'm alive with the American dream.

The city of Arlington is launching a new version of the Ask Arlington app with some exciting new features.

So let's answer some of your questions about the new app and how you can download it to your device.

The Ask Arlington app allows users to report various issues and concerns to the city 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year.

Now once reported, updates can be viewed at any time.

And the app also provides links to various city departments as well as informative alerts.

How can I download the app?

For iPhone users, you'll be prompted to update the app, and the newest version will automatically install.

Android users will need to remove the old version of the Ask Arlington app, then search on the Android app store for the Ask Arlington app, and the newest version will be available for download.

For those that do not have the app, search for the Ask Arlington app in your app store and it will be available to download and it's always free.

However, how quickly this is addressed depends on the time and the severity of the request.

If you've created a profile on the app, we will update you on the status.

And if you do not have a profile, you will not receive individual updates, but you will have the ability to search for a status report on the app.

Thank you for watching another edition of Ask Arlington.

Be sure to download the new Ask Arlington app.

The ciudad of Arlington is language a new version of the application Ask Arlington with a little functions nuevas and more interesting.

The application Ask Arlington permits a usuario information and inquires of the city, the 24 hours of the day, the 7 days of the semana, the 365 days of the day.

These are moments that you know are so integral in our culture now.

So it's really great to be able to have the audio guide that goes along with the exhibition.

It's narrated by the photographers, so it's great to hear from them directly about what happens to bring these, you know, really amazing photographs to life.

That is the ticket at exhibition.

All of our ticketing information is on our website.

During the pandemic, we were sitting home.

I love baking.

And my husband also is a big lover of coffee.

That's why he bought a roster coffee and we roast our own teams.

One day we were just visiting the area here in Arlington, and we saw that this place is wholesale.

And just like that, Saber Coffee Bar and Eatery was born.

A place where passion meets flavor.

I think we have best coffee, best tastes, and also we have the best scripts and sandwiches because they are made with love.

That's the importance.

At Saver, you'll find a unique blend of Moroccan flavors paired with the finest local coffee.

Iman masters the bakery.

Well, Mohammed, the coffee expert has also learned his way into the kitchen.

But we make the sandwiches here.

We make the cracks.

We learned how to make the cribs.

But at all, all of that.

That's it.

We have like our own signature drinks, our own signature flavored drinks, whether it is coffee, tea, refreshers, luminos.

Saver has its own loyal customers.

People who love the food, the coffee, and the amazing vibe this couple has created.

It wasn't easy in the beginning.

Every business has its up and ups and downs.

The um business uh customers in the beginning were like loyal to the the uh original uh business owner, not to the uh piece itself, but by time we started to build our uh own customer bees.

I love the area.

Now my husband was talking with me last week and said, what do you think?

We go to play now or to the north a little bit.

He said, No, no way, I like the area.

The benefits of Tai Chi for anybody who practices it, they include better strength and flexibility, a greater ability to concentrate, uh greater ability to relax, increased balance and coordination, and sometimes even a little bit of relief from chronic pain.

She's left learning off.

Tai Chi classes help seniors to have a healthy lifestyle, both because of the metal and physical benefits as well as because of the social interactions that they can have here, which is extremely important for older people who sometimes get isolated.

If there are people that have more specific limitations, I can address those with other modifications on a case-by-case basis.

My students know that they're never going to be judged, and that all of their efforts, if they continue doing them, will benefit them.

The Tai Chi classes at Dotty Lin are at noon to 1245 on Tuesday and Thursday.

So it also has social and cultural implications.

So that's what I I loved about it.

I was about to graduate from art school.

I was gonna apply to graduate school for art restoration.

I um got a letter and it was about a summer program to introduce you to design and one of the professions that was landscape architecture.

I liked that it was art because you know I was a painting major.

It was science, so I like the combination of it and the fact that you know, as those things you get to um make the world literally better.

I am professor and director of landscape architecture.

I'm really lucky to be at UTA.

I mean, really lucky because community service, especially having students to be able to work on you know real projects in communities.

I'm a licensed landscape architect also.

I really like the work we do because our work is very community-based, like most of our clients are nonprofits or community groups.

The American dream means being able to do something you like.

Do something you like and being able to share it and pass it on.

Like being here at UT Arlington for me is the American dream.

Because I love landscape architecture.

And I get to work with my the faculty here to pass on this knowledge, to know that we're sharing this with young people that are gonna go out and continue to share this knowledge and make a difference in the built environment.

I'm Diane Jones Allen and I'm alive with the American Dream.

We're back with another episode of Arlington Eats.

I'm Jeremy Thomas with my Arlington TV.

You know, sometimes you just want something sweet like a churro.

So on this episode we're headed to Churro on Top, where there's a little oh my goodness in every box.

This is what the kids say.

We're definitely an Instagrammable dessert.

The store is Instagrammable, and we are a dessert that looks good and tastes good.

In the artworks Oaks shopping center, owner Annam Khan says sweet tooth lovers can unite at Churro on Top.

We do have over 30 churros.

I know it's a lot, but over here in Churon Top, we like to say there's something for everyone, you know.

We make everything fresh.

Uh we make our churros in house.

Strawberry cheesecake is fan favorite.

Our red velvet is very popular.

We also have uh something called creme brulee.

It's in the name, it's a churro with creme brulee on top.

What better way to have fresh churros than to pair them with a milkshake?

And that's pretty much our gourmet churros that go on top of handcrafted milkshakes.

So if you do a panda pan and milkshake, which is another fan favorite, which is an Orion cream milkshake with Oreo churros.

Khan says the inspiration behind this unique concept was simply a craving.

And finding out there was nothing in the market to fulfill my craving.

I was pregnant with our second uh child and unfortunately that uh pregnancy you know wasn't successful.

So after COVID, um my husband decided that you know we need to go ahead and fulfill my dream.

And in 2023, Churro on Top opened.

My husband's from Arlington, he lives, breathed.

This man loves Arlington.

Arlington has been very kind to us, definitely, and no, it's not because my husband's been here and he knows everybody.

We were blessed.

That support for the Khan family puts it all into perspective.

You know, we worked on something and I didn't give up after you know all those um tragic losses, and I turned something sad into something happy, and that's what I want to teach my daughter, you know.

We gotta pick ourselves up and just keep going.

Ayudar algunas clases como Tai Chi mejora, yes su flexibilidad, su fuerza, dolores musculares, was he is one of the population.org.

Rose Hotels in Co.

has this amazing program called Local Bylows, in which we partner with local businesses, local craftsmen, local artisans to bring the neighborhoods right into our hotels.

We partnered with uh the UTA on their fine arts uh program for glassmaking.

We have this really unique thing here in Arlington, which is our glass program, which is very unusual, particularly for this part of the country.

And so we've came up with this idea to start presenting artwork, starting with my artwork as we're kind of starting this first part of the journey.

But ultimately leading to an opportunity where students can submit images of their completed work and then start to think about how they could design something or how some of their work might fit.

So like 1500 to 2,000 degree Fahrenheit glass into giant tanks of water that causes the glass to crack.

But through very specific kind of processes and timing, what ends up happening is the pieces end up cracking on the interior and the exterior, but the molten state of the glass holds it together.

The wonderful thing about this partnership with uh the UTA is that we have the rotating axe exhibits here at the Lowe's Convention Center Hotel.

But we're also doing a cocktail at Lie by Lowe's called the Native Breeze.

And that is a rum punch that our bartenders are crafting every single day for our guests.

So when you see the glass, it kind of has like an almost like a summery, sandy, beachy feel to it.

However, when you start to put the native breeze in it, which has a reddish hue, it totally changes the visual kind of effects of the glass having a different background on it.

We have some amazing mixologists here in the hotel who are really experts in their craft to partner those mixologists with the artisans at UTA who are experts in this glass making field, they could collaborate, come up with this amazing cocktail, this amazing glassware, which our guests can purchase and a portion of those proceeds and go back to UTA to support their masters of fine arts program.

Our goal is to bring people in a place that they can eat and dine together to build community.

Taste Project is a place that focuses on feeding the food insecure people of the community.

And we do that through a pay what you can restaurant.

Everybody gets a meal, everybody gets a check that comes to them.

That check is blink.

Everybody just writes down what they're going to pay that allows to keep a sense of dignity, keep a sense of belonging, keep a sense of being a part of something.

The restaurant is open to those both who need it and both who want to support it.

So our volunteers and our diners are a mixture of different socio-economic grass.

The menu items are constantly changing, so we want to be an introduction to different foods to people when they come in.

But we have a mixture of both healthy and hearty meals.

The city of Arlington's been an incredible supporter of what we do.

We've gotten support from Arlington Tomorrow Foundation.

All of us at the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation were delighted to be the first gift, the leave gift to make taste a reality to Arlington.

We can't wait for the community to embrace taste and to embrace its cause and to tell your friends and to watch taste grow.

We should be opening on March 5th, but we can't wait to serve the community of Arlington.

Cool stuff, it's seeing the wood, like it doesn't ever get old.

I still love cutting logs.

That's probably my favorite like work to do.

We like to say we give trees a second life, and we also say that no trees are harmed in the making of our products.

Caleb and I have known each other since middle school.

We were each other's first boyfriend and girlfriend.

Having that much history with someone I think makes it easier to work together because you not just grew up together, but you went through some of the most, you know, important developmental parts of your life together.

We came here to go to UTA and then fell in love with the city.

And one of the things that I love most and appreciate most about Arlington is how supportive it is.

It's a huge city, but it has such a small feel, and it's really really supportive of local businesses.

Arlington seems to really have embraced us and it's been a great, great relationship.

So we are exclusively urban source.

This came out of a passion from Caleb working with his family's company, seeing the logs come down, and most of it ends up in a landfill.

Sometimes it's able to be chipped or turned into firewood, but the majority of the wood that comes down in any urban area all goes to a landfill and we use those to mill and make all of our products.

Just saw how much wood we wasted and had an idea to see if we could use it and I don't know, naively thought it would be easy to just start cutting wood and make stuff.

Whenever you cut into urban source lumber, the things that killed the tree are often what make it more beautiful.

So if there's a fungus, um boar galleries, beatles, things like that that take a tree down, those give the tree the raw materials, the lumber, so much extra character.

The American dream to me is being able to follow my passion and vision and be creative and you know have opportunity, share it with other people.

Working in an industry or a company that you enjoy with people you enjoy in a place that supports you, and we've definitely found that here in Arlington.

My name's Caleb Gear.

My name is Kelly Geere.

And I'm alive with the American Dream.

Not just because of this incredible museum, but because every single one of our journeys of life and paths of purpose brought us here together.

The significance of the metal is ever stronger, and uh, we need our young people to know about character and uh perseverance, selflessness, and all the things the medal represents.

The National Medal of Honor Museum is truly a vault of the shared human values enshrined in the Medal of Honor.

These values and your story will now come to life for generations of visitors, inspiring them to act with courage in their own community and to sacrifice for others when the moment requires.

If it doesn't make your heart swell up with pride, then you're just not paying attention.

And what's amazing is every one of these heroes has a story like that, and now we have a museum that can tell every one of those stories.

What a visionary leadership of a of a city to realize that where else could this wonderful place be but here in Arlington.

It's now open to inspire America.

We have 3,528 for the most inspiring, most compelling stories.

Um, and our job as the museum team is to help visitors connect with them.

So initially, when they come up, they'll see the seven-minute presentation with an introduction to the history of the metal and a brief introduction to a few of the recipient stories.

And then as they come out into the museum space itself, uh obviously uh we have our exhibit spaces set up to tell individual recipient stories.

Um we can do that in lots of different ways through traditional texts and artifacts, um, but also a lot of audiovisual opportunities that we can help tell these stories and share them with our visitors.

I knew that there was going to be exhibits from Vietnam and also visible for Marines.

My husband and my dad were both Marines, and can I just have it so emotional?

It's uh it's hard to see this because of the family members that we lost.

But I know that this is for the greater good, and that our family members are not passing in vain.

They're being remembered.

Today is National Medal of Honor Day, and that was great that we opened the museum today, but we wanted to make it a special week for veterans.

So any veteran that shows up here is going to get into the museum for free.

That's just a sponsorship that we wanted to make so that as many people as possible can get through here in the first week.

Just to see everything come together.

I mean it's it's very, very beautiful.

I love what they did with this museum.

And when they talked about, like, hey, we're gonna bring it to Texas, Arlington.

What better place?

Um growing up, you know, being a Texan myself, you know, we have to go big, and uh this is actually big.

Comprehensive plan is a way that we sort of look at where we're at now, look at where we want to be 20, 25 years from now, and develop a roadmap on how to get to where we want to be.

So what people can get from the plan is here's where we're going.

Here's how we think we can get there.

The process is uh a process of several phases.

Phase one is uh information gathering, sort of like writing the yearbook for the city of Arlington.

Then we take all of the information that we've learned, we analyze it, and then phase three is we put together a plan on where do we want to be.

It takes about 24 months.

We plan on wrapping it up around October of 26.

Our city council approves the name of the comprehensive plan is Innovate Arlington.

We are a leader in innovation, whether it's a leader in North Texas, whether it's a leader in the state of Texas, Lord, whether it's a leader in the country.

We lead in innovation.

And innovate Arlington is the perfect thing for what we're doing.

We can't do a great job on a comprehensive plan without your help.

It's your suggestions, your ideas about your community that is the driving force for what we're trying to do here in Arlington.

So I'm gonna give you a call of action, call to action.

You get online, you go to Arlington Listons.com, you give us your thoughts.

You show up at the workshops, you go to your community events, and when you see our comprehensive plan committee out there, you go and talk to them and you tell them what's important to you.

This is your community.

Help us make this community the best we can be.

No traffic collects of what we consider performance measures.

It pretty much gets you know uh arrival on greens, delays, and we're able to look at intersections and tell if we need to adjust the timing plans and order to mitigate congestion.

Um, it also has safety data analytics, which we can tell how many people are running red lights.

Are they passing through on yellow?

Are they passing through when it's changing, or they're passing through right on red?

Uh, with that information, we can then either adjust the green time, adjust the yellow time to allow cars to be able to pretty much cross the intersection safely.

With no traffic, what we found out is that it can detect emergency vehicles.

Um, it can detect when a train is present.

So all that helps us real lifetime adjust things uh based off of what we receive from their system notifications.

Currently we have 12 intersections up and running.

The first intersection, of course, is Cooper and Main Street.

The next 11 are on Matlock from Mayfield down to Green Oaks, and currently we are deploying another, I believe, 29 intersections in entertainment district.

As far as the World Cup, uh, what we're doing with No Traffic is we're pretty much going to be able to track over the nine events that we have and uh track the number of total visitors that came into the district.

With the World Cup, we also think that we will have an increase in pedestrian traffic, so also be able to know the actual account of pedestrians in entertainment district.

So, with our coordination with the Arlington Police Department along the Matlock Corridor, what we've been able to do is pretty much take reports every week and send them over to APD.

Uh, once we send them those reports, they actually deploy officers to the intersections which have been pinpointed as a problem intersections.

But with the help of APD, we have had seen a decrease in aerial light running on the corridor.

So here in Arlington, what we're trying to do is just make sure that whether you're a resident or you're a visitor or traveler, that when you're on Arlington Streets that you have a smooth drive to get back home.

I bought eggs and some fresh produce, vegetables and fruits.

It is lovely to have fresh produce and everything in Arlington in the middle of the city.

Oh it's a great market.

I'm so thrilled that they've got one now.

Hoping this really takes off because it's uh it's nice little walkable area to come to and great restaurants and um I'm leaving with wonderful jam and a lovely plant.

But I'm definitely coming back and they're gonna be here um the vegetable guys said they'd be here all summer.

So that should be pretty exciting for um especially for the apartment people that are walking through and getting groceries down here.

It's walkable and it's beautiful.

Our experience with the City of Arlington has been amazing.

Uh we're really grateful to them.

We wouldn't be in the position that we are without them.

They've been very extremely helpful.

They always reaching out, making sure we get it taken care of.

We we really appreciate that.

We're very grateful.

Getting to work with City of Arlington at the get-go was really really important.

They got to know what we can offer.

They looked at the type of work that we perform, and it's definitely helped us from there on to continue to get projects.

Since I'm a minority own and having this type of opportunities has impact tremendously.

Because again, you guys open doors to other municipalities around because your recommendations, so we are very thankful for that.

It's almost like our lifeline.

We wouldn't exist without this opportunity because we're a small company and it's really difficult to compete with these large companies who have these large budgets.

We're really grateful for that opportunity that the city of Arlington provides.

Because of the Office of Business Diversity, uh I feel it's been very beneficial to um pull in the community as a whole, right?

This is a very diverse community.

We have different minority owned businesses and women-owned businesses that can see this as an opportunity to give back to their city.

It is so important for local governments uh to have these programs for minority businesses.

It's been extremely important to us, and it's very important that these types of programs continue so that other people can enjoy them and also profit from them.

This program helps women, helps minorities and uh impact this.

But I I'm just so thankful for for that because it really really impacts positive to everybody.

As we have gotten these sub contracts, it's put us in a position to be able to hire more people and get more equipment, and it's got us to a point to where we were able to get a primary contract.

So we're we're very blessed and very grateful.

The biggest thing coming from uh a minority is the fact that you're being included.

They appreciate you as a person.

They appreciate your experience.

If you can bring that to the table, then they welcome you with open arms, and I really really appreciate that.

I vine al mercado compramos unos huevos, fruta y vegetales.

See, Pienso regresar para much fruta, mas huevos.

Um I much velas, miel e todo que me encantaría probar.

I agradezco que sigue um ayudando a los negocios pequeños para que no se nos olvide the dónde empezamos.

Well, let's take a deep dive into the city's webpage.

We'll show you some of the new features and right off the bat.

If we go to the menu here, let's click on city services, you'll notice instantly.

This is designed by topic, not by department, but by the topics that you would need to search for to accomplish what you're coming to the website for.

That's the goal here with this.

The other goal was that it'd be very mobile friendly.

Now, why is that?

Well, about 75% of our traffic to the city's webpage is from cell phones.

You're using your cell phone and your tablet to access the webpage.

Therefore, the vast majority of what you can do at the desktop, you can do right on your phone.

All right, let's get back to the website now.

And we scroll down.

First, I want to point out the search feature.

Really important here.

Almost everything you want to do on the city's website, you can do through this search.

It is incredibly robust and giving you very accurate results.

But there are other ways for you to find what you're looking for here.

Hot topics being one of those is exactly what it means.

What are the big things happening in Arlington right now?

That's what you're gonna find here.

Change daily or weekly, depending on what's going on.

Prime example, downtown Farmers Market just launched.

You scroll down, your one click off the homepage, and you can already find what the location of the farmers market is as well as the dates and times for it.

If we go back to the homepage, go a little further down to the how can we help section.

We already know what the bulk of the traffic to the website is.

It's one of these eight things right here.

So very easy if you find right off the top of the website.

You can go to how do I get a job with the city?

How do I pay my water bill?

How do I pay a citation?

All that right here is easy to find.

You click on that and you get a web page that gives you all the different types of requests you can make for garbage and recycling and more information about this very important topic to our residents.

We go back.

Our counter of events, same thing.

Changes regularly, please check it out.

But this is a brand new feature on the website, the what's around me.

So I'm gonna do a little test here of it.

Type in the city's hall address here, get it in, click search.

And look at that.

Within a second, you get a map, all these green dots, the different city facilities around you at that time.

A lot of these are park and library facilities.

There's more information on here though.

You can also find what your specific waste collection day is for general waste for cycling as well as brush and bulky.

You can also find out your elected member, obviously the at large members here, but your district member will be listed here.

This is specific to where you are at the time that you type in to that feature.

So we go back here.

That's the city's new website.

We encourage you to check it out, do a little exploring.

It may take some time to get used to it, but again, it was built with your experience in mind, and we hope you're gonna enjoy it.

While you're here, by the way, be sure to click on that.

But see, the information that you're doing is regression news and events, and we're gonna go to where they say all news.

This is an opportunity to give people a chance to explore the world one drink at a time.

We've had uh great success with something called Spice Club, in which different cuisines and cultures are highlighted month by month and there's preparation of food.

And my colleague thought, yeah, you could do that with just tea.

Typically we'll try to tie in the choice of what teas we're going to drink with something that's going on this month for Arab American Heritage Month.

We're working with one of my colleagues in the uh technical services department with first hand experience with Arab tea culture.

We'll be talking about Arab tea culture in general, but with a specific emphasis on Morocco, whereas most of the Middle East drinks uh black tea.

Um Moroccan culture, much like Japanese tea culture, it's more of a focus on green tea and specifically a mint green tea.

Tea plays a very significant role in treating the guests as a treasure.

The black tea cardamom made me feel warm inside, it made me feel like a winter's day, the green tea was light and refreshing, minty, all the things you need to give you all the feels, so very grateful to come and to learn.

It's nice to know that this is an interactive thing, and that you can come, you can talk about what you want to talk about and enjoy.

Everyone is welcome here, and everyone has a story to tell.

Sometimes you just need a nudge or an excuse to tell your stories.

So we hope to provide that opportunity.

Just in our first three years, we were able to uh repurpose, recycle or donate over 250 tons worth of what would otherwise have been waste.

Instead, uh we were able to provide people with furniture, uh household goods, clothing.

Our business is uh Jaws Junk Away Solutions.

We're a full service waste management company.

Uh we're better known and operated.

We try to hire veterans as often as possible as well.

And it's one of the things that has given us some purpose following our military service.

Arlington has all the opportunities that a big city can provide, but also all the characteristics of a small town.

The community here has been a big part of my story, even through transition from the service.

So when I got out, my focus was how can I continue to serve.

And through that process, I just kind of fell on hard times.

I was with Wounded Warrior for just a little while.

And so when people ask me, how do you do it?

It goes back to my faith.

Being tethered to my faith, I just feel like I have this new lease on life.

And I see the people around me that need that energy given back to them.

And that's really what drives me every day that gets me up and gets me going.

And where I'm at right now in every day in each day is a blessing.

There's an immense amount of opportunities here.

There's so much for the veteran community, not just resources that are available, but again with the community.

So very proud and very excited to uh to be a veteran here in Arlington.

I'm Brian Griffith and I'm alive with the American Dream.

The Tool Sharing Program is a community focused service designed to support Arlington residents in maintaining and beautifying their properties.

If you want to reserve tools, go online to the city of Arlington and go to City Services, which is right across the top of the uh the page, and under code compliance, and then there's tool sharing program, click on that and then scroll down to request the tool, and the menu will lead you right through it and it'll give you the opportunity to pick the day you want the tool and it'll give you an opportunity to pick the uh tools you want.

We offer a wide variety of tools for lawn care and basic home repair.

A list of those tools are uh mowing and general yard maintenance, tree and shrub trimming, fence and household repair, pressure washing, and we have tools for painting projects and uh litter and debris cleanup around the house.

Tool deliveries and pickups are on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

For example, if we drop off a tool to your house on Monday, we will pick it up on Wednesday.

If we drop off a tool to your house on Wednesday, we will pick it up on Friday.

And if we drop off a tool on Friday, you'll get it for the weekend, and we'll pick it up the following Monday.

The eligibility requirements are uh a water bill, some proof of residency, and a driver's license or some form of federal government identification.

And you can either upload that on the website or you can wait and we will uh we will check that when we deliver the tools.

It's gratis for the residents of Arlington.

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Necessitarian presentation of the residencia of Arlington from una factura actual de agua or services publics.

I sell a lot of plants.

My husband told me one time.

He said you could sell us to an Eskimo.

And I pretty well could.

Because I enjoy that.

That's my job.

It's the customers and dealing with them.

And they come in as maybe they've never heard of us, but they happen to come in and then they become my friend.

And that's really satisfying to me.

We are family owned.

We're not in the immediate family, but we are attached to that family.

We started in 1893 in East Texas.

Mr.

Cannon, the founder, one day he was traveling down the Bankhead Highway.

He saw this property was for sale and it was vacant.

And he said, hmm, that would be a good place for a flower shop.

So he bought this.

That's where we started in Arlington in 1921.

You can see we have a wide variety of plants.

But uh we can do exotics, we can do very pretty little bouquets.

Give us an idea of what you want, and then let the designer design.

We just have 140 people.

And this is one way that we think we might be more efficient in meeting that community needs.

And people smarter than me are going to look at all the data from the from this great project and help us contemplate how we might be able to approach stage two, take it to scale.

I see just a bright future for uh drunk ones delivering food.

Everybody, it's Jay Warren with another on the clock.

You know, fire hydrants are a vital part of our public safety system here in the city of Arlington.

But how do you know if they're working?

How are they tested?

Well, our city manager, Trey Alverton went out with the team from Fire Station 1 to do some of that very testing.

Thanks, Jay.

Today I'm in downtown Arlington at Fire Station 1 on Main Street, and I'm here with Lieutenant Adam Evans, who's been with our department for 26 years.

And it's going to help me get this straight to help the public understand.

But in recent last year in particular, big wildfires out in California.

There was I've received questions here locally about how do I know that my hydrant is working?

How do I know there's a water supply there?

I think it's a fair question.

So I'm coming directly to the source and asking you how do you guys handle that or what do you do on a routine basis?

Okay, so we have roughly 12,000 hydrants in the city of Arlington, about 10,000 of those being city owned and the other 2,000 being privately owned.

And we basically have a system that we disperse all of those hydrants between our 17 stations and three shifts where these companies go out and physically test every single hydrant in the city.

We usually do this between the months of March and August, and then the water department actually does a second round of testing these hydrants and the months between September and February.

How much water do you have to have to flow it to let it clear itself out and what it what exactly is happening there?

Sure.

So we basically, as a rule of thumb, we like to flow the hydrants until we get clear water.

Sometimes, unfortunately, that may take us flowing actively flowing these hydrants for a few minutes, which to the citizen may look wasteful that we're wasting water, but it but it absolutely has a purpose.

The purpose is to make sure that we have everything out of those lines, that everything is operating properly and that we have sufficient amount of water where we need it.

Now I'm out in the Arlington neighborhoods, and I'm here with one of our firefighters, uh Rowdy Vicara, who's gonna describe for us a little bit about how we go about the process of checking the hydrants.

We're gonna open up one cap, typically our large steamer in the front.

So we're gonna tighten that back up and then we're gonna slowly open the hydrant.

We'll close that back off.

Okay.

So at this point, we're gonna open it back up and we're gonna get water flow.

This will be done for approximately three minutes.

Now that I've watched you do this, I think it's my turn to go check maybe one right down the street.

So let's go check out another one and see if I uh if I've if I got got the task.

It's got what it takes.

Yes, sir.

You're gonna load this one into your system and I get credit for doing this one today.

We'll put you down.

Okay.

Well, hey, we appreciate everything that you and your team do every day to protect us in simple ways and a more complex way.

So we're just very thankful for all your service to our community.

Yes, sir.

We're happy to do it.

We're proud to do it.

Thanks, Trey, and thanks to you at home for watching.

Tune in next time for another on the clock.

We wanted to make tour of Asia, all the flavors that you can have in Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, and we brought everything here with the Texas twist.

Soy Cowboy is Burke Hospitality Group's largest and most exciting project.

So Kiawo is a great place to celebrate certain milestones in life.

It's a great place to stop by, enjoy amazing handcrafted cocktails, scratch-made food in the awesome ambience that brings peace and happiness to the our guests.

Alashuria Life, the regional culinary director says Soy Cowboy has three separate kitchens, three separate dining rooms with different themes, and 12 different food stations.

Guests can enjoy alongside its Pan Asian menu.

Most popular dishes are the our wagyu skewers, crispy rice tuna, uh, fresh cucumber salad with avocados and tomatoes.

Umodles that is very famous comfort food in Japan after the late night.

We also have uh fresh selection of sashimi.

You can choose variety of fish from and also coconut dessert is one of the most high-selling items.

Ingredients are incredibly important.

That includes A5 Kobe beef, fresh truffles, sometimes from France or Italy, sometimes from Australia.

Those are the ingredients that not local, but we wanted to make sure we bring to Texas that our guests can enjoy.

He says they were open seven days a week for dinner with a brunch option Saturdays and Sundays, all right in the heart of the entertainment district.

Arlington is last 10 years, it grew significantly, and we are right across from AT ⁇ T Stadium, Globe Lightfield, and we are located in the Lowest Arlington Hotel.

Location could not be perfect for the city.

At beginning, we focus on a resource and development for military.

We developed a lot of new technology and a lot of new invention.

So currently the company owns almost 50 US patent invention patent in the G.

We developed commercial products and one of our the product right now, the key product of Luvaco right now is Americal massage chair.

People know Luraco as the only American make massage chair in the US.

My dad served in the South Vietnam military.

Then after 1975, when the North companies took over, they put my dad in prison camp for seven years.

After he got released, and the US Gabriel man came over and you know they brought our family over here.

You know, we came here with nothing.

Arlington provided us an a huge opportunity to rule our life and especially that we live close to the University of Texas in Arlington we call UTA.

That's the plus.

That's why all my brother and sister we came to UTA and we graduate from UTA.

The American dream gave us everything that that's what how we have right now.

Even we were hard, but it's the opportunity that you know the we revealed appreciate.

In the US, we found that this country gave us a lot of opportunity to change our life, to improve our life to where we are right now.

So American dream may mean a lot to our family.

I would like to thank you this country.

I would like to thank you, American people, giving us an opportunity to change our life.

I'm Dr.

Kevin Lee.

I'm Tom Lee, and I'm alive with the American dream.

We want this to be something that has a lasting legacy, not something that just stays in those two months of the games.

You can find more information at the North Texas FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee website where we have information on all the focus groups that we have for the World Cup, contact information and upcoming event, including a newsletter.

My design was inspired by the juxtaposition of old West culture meets modern design.

The cowboy is doing a bicycle kick.

I'm not a big soccer guy, admittedly, but I do know that.

Arlington ends up playing a role in the artwork inevitably and less of a straight-on way and more of a just personal way.

I grew up on the west side of Fort Worth.

Arlington sits right between Fort Worth and Dallas.

I was a massive baseball fan growing up.

I uh back in the day you used to be able to bring an empty can to the ballpark in Arlington and you can trade in for upper deck seats, and I grew up in a single mother household.

Uh we were hurting for money, and uh Arlington is a place that I found a lot of happiness and solace in.

I spent just incredible amounts of time in Arlington, and so I think in some way that's gonna shape you as a person.

Um everything that I draw is reflective of who I am as a person.

I have built a career um as an artist, mostly working in the music industry.

You know, I've worked with bands, classic rock bands like the Eagles, and I've worked with uh country artists like Midland and Charlie Crockett and Marin Morris and Fort Worth Zone, Leon Bridget, Post Malone and uh Raising Canes and the Dallas Cowboys and all sorts of all sorts of things.

I've got a I've got a painting hanging in the uh the visiting clubhouse of the Texas Rangers locker room.

I'm kind of all over DFW right now, which makes me just feel unbelievably proud to be kind of merging, you know, my music reputation with sports reputation and meeting it somewhere in the middle.

I hope that they see Texas.

I hope that that's the number one thing they see, and I think that I've executed that in the way that I that I wanted to.

This is a this is a idea that I had that popped into my mind almost immediately on how you would merge Texas and soccer and all of these things are football for the sticklers out there.

This is symbolism of a really awesome thing that's coming to North Texas that we should all be incredibly excited about.

It's the World Cup.

We make mostly blankets and wood art, and then we accept donations for the work, and then everything we make goes back to the Arlington shelter, and we will do other things.

We've done snuffle mats, toys, we've done jewelry.

They started, I believe, in the fall of 2010.

So 15 years.

To join, if you want to come visit us, we meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays at noon.

And you can just come visit us.

To actually join, you'll have to go to the city website and fill out the volunteer paperwork and go through the uh the shelters training.

Originally they said anyone who considered them a golden ager.

As far as we're concerned, we'll accept anybody over 18.

It's fun, it's community, it's comradeship, it's I'm doing something useful, and I enjoy it.

We're actually doing something for something that needs to be done.

Animal shelters and helping take care of the little critters that wander through here.

Splash Island and Hurricane Harbor, Arlington is la inversion más grande in the history of este party y ya está abierta al public.

Splash Island includes 50 miles de pura diversion con 17 toboganes, plus de 100 juegos de agua completos, una structura de juegos de más de 50 pies de altura ando gigantesco que mil gallones de agua cada cinco minutos.

Splash Island and Hurricane Harbor, Arlington is a large family este verano.

When you think about legacy, that impact is something that they take and they pass on.

Because if whatever it is dies with me or just one generation behind me, then it's just not good enough.

And so, how can I help others build a legacy that's enduring.

Went through my military career, total years of 23 years, so my goal was to be a Green Beret in the Army.

And so I put in my request to go to selection, and there's a process.

And we started with 375 people, and only 50 of us were selected.

After Desert Storm, I was stationed at the time, it was called of course Fort Hood, and I was there for uh a few years, and then I was a senior ranking official within Homeland Security.

When I came back to Texas, I lost my brother to cancer.

Six months later, I would lose my dad.

My niece and nephews came up to me and they were like, now what do we do?

I was able to take care of my family, my immediate family, but I needed to do more for them.

And so I decided to uh launch my own business.

Being a veteran and knowing that difficulty in transitioning from the military into the private sector and not really knowing how to operate.

So the things that they bring to the table that some people overlook, like their leadership skills, their ability to have that unconquerable spirit and that ability to persevere through adversity.

Now let's add in their ability, their business acumen to actually run a successful business.

The American dream is having not just the opportunity to go out and achieve something, but having those doors open up for you.

This is such a people-oriented city, and we really do focus on uh lifting everybody up together.

I'm Michael Daly, and I'm alive with the American Dream.

I'm really excited for the comprehensive plan.

I really like the vision that the planners have here, and I want to be a I want to be a part of that process and be able to uh shape how much unity looks in the future.

Well, ultimately, this is a plan for the future of Arlington.

I think the people who live here now should be a part of that future and ultimately they care the most.

So we need to get their input on what they would like to see happen, not happen, importantly as well.

And in our experience, the best way to have a plan be implemented is to have community buy-in.

Our comprehensive plan gives a gauge us to the direction of your city over a certain amount of time that may even um surpass say elections that happen or turnover within your government.

That plan ensures that your government is on a certain track, and if you want to shape that track at all, you need to participate in things like this.

So I really appreciate this open forum to participate in that discourse that will guide the trajectory of your community.

I think it's easy to become insulated and to know or think you know, just what's going on in your own area of town that you begin to realize there are a lot of other priorities too.

This is really a golden window because we're gonna have this plan for a long while.

The comments is like we really won't get a better opportunity to like speak their mind like and try to shape the city that we're gonna live in going forward.

Get involved.

You know, make your voice be heard.

This is going to affect your life, you know, for a long time.

Planning Arlington's future starts with you.

Go to www.arlington lessons.com forward slash comprehensive dash plan to sign up for email updates, share your ideas, see what we learned in phase one, and discover how the growing and better Arlington board game brings planning to life.

Your voice, your city, let's plan it together.

Splash Island at Hurricane Harbor, Arlington is the largest investment in the history of the park, and it's now open.

Splash Island includes more than 50,000 square feet of pure fun with 17 slides, more than 100 interactive water features.

We also have a large splash pad.

Also a treehouse structure standing 50 feet tall and a Texas-sized tipping bucket carrying more than 1,000 gallons of water, plus double decor cabanas, a new restaurant, and a new bar.

Splash Island, a Hurricane Arbor is the place to be this summer.

The Southeast Connector will be expanding the capacity on our three major highways, I-820, I-20, and US 287, as well as their respective frontage roads.

This will greatly reduce the congestion that we're seeing from the approximately 250,000 folks who commute these highways daily.

We're also adding pedestrian sidewalks project wide for a lot of that walking and cycling use.

When the Southeast Connector project is completed, the mobility throughout the corridor will be greatly increased.

Right now there's a lot of merging involved with switching from one highway to the next.

Since the project has begun, we've opened approximately six miles of new frontage road to traffic, and we're anticipating to open another seven before the end of this year.

The Southeast Connector Project is a 14-mile project.

If we were to take all of the lanes from all three of those highways and smush them down into one, the quantity comes out to 295 lane miles, which would take you from Arlington all the way to Galveston.

I'd like to remind commuters that the speed limits have been reduced to 55 miles per hour throughout the Southeast Connector corridor.

Please slow down and obey all of our detour signs so that everybody can go home safe.

To stay up to date with the Southeast Connector project, I would encourage folks to check out our project website, SoutheastConnector.com.

It is updated daily to reflect all of the upcoming lane closures for that night as well as the next day.

I would like to encourage folks to use the Waze GPS Navigation app.

When you open up the app, you're seeing exactly what we have out there reflected for the work that we're doing today.

A family dream that started during the pandemic has grown into a tasty new place in West Arlington for the community to enjoy.

Everything we make is truly made with all like natural ingredients.

Stephanie, her parents, and her sisters opened Balleteria La Flor in June 2023 with a colorful menu full of traditions and creativity.

It kind of just came up like, oh, like this would be really cool to start as a family, and it just kind of became a reality after that.

They serve fresh manganadas with mini mango popsicles in tasty snacks like nachos and elote.

We have sweet things, we have savory things, you want something cold or even warm.

We have a lot of fruit options, everything's made with real fruit.

The name La Flor comes from the family's last name, Flores, and shows their Mexican roots in every bite.

For sure, growing up, you know, we would always visit Mexico, and we're always really in touch with you know the food over there.

So it's nice to add that little touch of Mexico here in Arlington.

Now, this family-owned business is happy to call Arlington home.

We enjoyed living here.

We always knew it would be a good location to start a business.

La Flor is more than a place to get a snack.

It's a place where flavor, culture, and community come together.

Arlington students are serving up flavor and creativity.

A taste of Arlington ISD is more than just a food event.

It's where young chef from six Arlington high schools turn their ideas into real meals that will soon heat school lunch menus across the city.

We invite uh Colinary students from the various high schools to showcase their recipes, which in turn we will feature on our school menu throughout the uh upcoming school year.

They were given a list of ingredients, uh to use their creativity to come up with a uh menu item using our ingredients that will fit within the school regulations.

And that's how they were uh they were chosen.

This is very exciting for me.

Uh it's my first time here, and it's an honor to have two of my dishes that I've created on the menu for this school year.

Villa wrote flavors from home, including one inspired by her mom's cooking.

I saw in the food items he gave me, croissants, and I've never seen croissants ever displayed at school food.

And I was like, wait, I know the perfect recipe, and my mother actually makes these croissants sandwiches at home.

It's very warming to share what I know from home to the school.

I came here to volunteer because I love to cook.

I love to help around people.

The community, it helps me connect with them.

I used to cook all the time with my mom, and that personally is why I like I love to cook.

Cooking for me helps me connect with my community because it's not just food.

I feel like it's an art.

From tacos to tenders, each dish represented more than just food.

It was culture, identity, and collaboration.

So that's what our uh Bioschool enforced students program is all about.

We wanted to take uh the voice of the students, their ideas, and then incorporate that on the menu so that they know that everything that they are seeing on the menu is something that uh was actually chosen by our students.

Anthony is student of secondary and one of those buffalo was selection for this great event and is displayable in the menu of comida scholar for this cycle educative.

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I think whenever your feet hit the floor, you have a choice every single day to have a great day.

But not only just every single day to make a choice to have a great day, but you have a choice to make a difference in somebody's life.

And I believe I was put on this earth to help young men become the men they are supposed to be.

Started out at a junior college and then uh transferred to UTA.

I joined Capus Sigma.

I think back about those times, and we we had did have such a good time.

And that is one thing, you know, the Greek system UTA is really a vital part of that university, and they have a nursing school, they have a great nursing school.

I actually thought my junior year I was getting ready to transfer to Texas Tech.

I run into this little blind from Duncanville, Texas.

She was a Zeta.

My wife now of 31 years, uh, Debbie McGuire.

So I stayed and graduated from UTA.

Whenever I was growing up, everybody knew Coach McGuire as my dad.

I was helping him uh on the side as I was going to college and I kept just getting this yearning like I need to I need a coach.

And so I flipped everything at Crowley.

For uh two and a half years.

I was at Cedar Hill for 20 years, head coach for 14.

We played for three state championships right down the road in ATT Stadium, one, two of the three.

I passed up some opportunities, actually for 10 years, passed up some opportunities to go to college football.

I did not know Matt Rule whatsoever, but he got hired at Baylor.

Um we had a conversation on a Sunday morning at IHOP over about three pots of coffee and called my wife and said if he offers us a job, we're going to Baylor.

Baylor for five years and now going on four years at Texas Tech.

The American Dream to me is having something that you wake up to every day and that you're passionate about.

You can make an impact on people's lives in a positive way.

They're basically like a bridge.

And uh it's just like a mini city here.

There's restaurants, there's hotels.

I know it's an amazing place of where we're at, some of the best stadiums in in the nation, and we get to collaborate with them and their fan bases as well to come out to the IndyCar race.

I think it's a formula for success.

I went through a few corners of the racetrack.

I saw the end of the straightaway 185, I think it's projected.

Uh top speed, and I saw a pit lane.

I saw where the hospitality is gonna go over the track.

Like I've seen definitely areas and it looked great.

Expect loud noises, some of the best race car noises you'll ever hear.

Uh expect good vibes.

Expect the good times.

If you've never watched an indie car race, I really invite you to come experience and if you're gonna choose an event to do it at, choose this event.

There's everything around.

It's an amazing city and there's a lot of life here.

Plus race cars, what's not to love.

We're using mobile lidour technology to be able to scan all the sidewalk infrastructure throughout the city.

The technology that we're using on this project, it's mobile lightar, which LIDAR is light detection and ranging.

There's a single laser emitted from the system and a mirror that spends at 8,000 RPMs to disperse millions of points.

So we're getting about one 1.2 million points per second during collection and we're able to capture all the sidewalks and every associated infrastructure around that at posted speed limit so it doesn't impact the traveling public for the city.

Those are two planning documents that the city would use to identify barriers and accessibility issues for people with disabilities.

Because I was just anxious to come and uh and be the like the first of the line and and be the first in the pool.

We have two bodies of water, one's a therapy pool or hydro dreads to bring you resistance as you walk, or you can walk with the current if that's easier.

And then we have a normal four-lane lat pool to where we'll have aerobics classes and things like that, plus just regular lat swims.

Programming right now, we have two classes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

We have a typical aerobics class, a water aerobics class, and we also have a water stretching class.

October 1st we're gonna open up probably eight to ten more classes, and so there'll be something going on at all times.

We'll have some spin classes, so there's bikes in the water, so they'll be able to do cycling classes like that.

It's a place when you retire and have uh enough time you can come and spend the whole day here.

There'll also be times where the laps aren't in there and it's just kind of an open swim time.

Uh we do have basketball goals that those will be up from time to time and we're gonna be looking to do kind of some volleyball nights.

We have a volleyball net, so maybe some water volleyball will be in there too.

It's a five stars.

I mean and it's something I doubt that uh even big cities have this kind of facility for the seniors.

Happy first Christmas.

Welcome to the Retrotech Lab.

We have equipment here that will help you digitize and save cherished family memories, move them into the digital age.

I am digitizing a bunch of Chrome videos from my childhood.

My mom, it's really important for her to have them digitized so that we can actually watch them.

She sends them to me, and I use the Retro Tech Lab here to put them onto the handy dandy flash drive so we can put them literally anywhere we want.

Our control.

I sure hope they take care of it.

This does require a little bit of skin in the game.

This is not a drop off and pick up, but kind of a guided do-it-yourself.

We'll supply the technology.

We'll supply the cords and the cables and the software and most importantly, the know-how.

So we've figured this out so you don't have to.

Anytime I have a question, there's somebody ready to answer.

It's really helpful, even if you don't know the technology or you don't remember because you haven't used it in a while, they're here to help you remember and or learn for the first time.

I've been able to use the programs and use the tech that they have here that would cost me a lot of money to try to set up at my place, but I'm able to do it here and they've got everything.

I tell people our goal is to get unneeded as soon as possible.

So for some people, it might be halfway through the first session, they're like, got it.

And if we're convinced they got it, uh then that's wonderful.

Um other people, you know, at the end of the 20th session, they're thinking, I almost I think I almost have it, and that's mine too.

We just got to hear part of our wedding ceremony that took place almost 50 years ago.

We're getting ready to celebrate our golden wedding anniversary.

We're gonna show it and watch pictures that I've converted to digital and also listen to the wedding vows at our family anniversary celebration.

It was so exciting to just remember that day.

For my mom's birthday, I sent her the first batch of videos.

You want to have your stocking first or do you want to have present?

She was really, really happy.

It was honestly the best thing I could have done for her birthday.

She was really excited.

I was able to upload them online and have her download them so even though she's several states away, she was able to watch them.

Go to Arlington Public Library's website.

Uh, there's a page for the Retro Tech Lab.

You can fill out.

Uh, it will alert me to your interest.

We'll do a two-hour session, uh, give you an orientation, get some things done, and then we'll schedule additional time as well.

To whom much is given, much is expected.

Those were words that my grandmother repeated to all of us.

And so uh I think that for me, wherever I am, and specifically here in Arlington, it's imperative that I live up to that expectation and continue to honor her legacy in doing so.

I think that first the the calling really came at an early age.

Spent a tremendous amount of time in hospitals visiting family members, being there as a support system, and so caring for others was just a part of natural life.

Growing up in Baden Rudge, I graduated out of LSU where I met my husband, uh, went to Tulane for grad school in New Orleans, got my master's of health care administration, and what was exciting about that is that I received a full scholarship from my parent company, HCA in Medical City Healthcare at that time in exchange for that full scholarship.

They only asked that I work for the company for one year.

And I've now been with Medical City Healthcare and HCA Healthcare for 28 years.

In various progressive leadership roles.

My love for the Arlington community, my love for this family that's within the walls of Medical City Arlington, again, it kind of embedded itself in me.

And so when the opportunity became available for me to return as the chief executive officer, um I could not wait to put my name in the hat and just pray that I would be considered worthy of sitting in this seat to be a part of this phenomenal community.

The American dream is once you fulfill your achievements, that you are going out into the community and you are serving a service to others, that you are serving as a vessel of inspiration, a vessel of hope.

And for that reason, there is intentionality around our partnership with various agencies like UTA.

Arlington Independent School District with the American Heart Association.

It is here for every person.

It's amazing when you just happen to announce a true multi-world record breaking attraction that's here in our backyards.

Luckily that gets attention.

So and it's so cool.

Today we announced a what we call a gigadive coaster, which is a world record breaker.

It's the world's longest, the world's fastest, world's biggest vertical loop.

I could just go on and on and on with the number of records this ride shatters.

It's more than 300 feet tall.

It's actually 309 feet, which in comparison is this is relatively the height of our older attraction.

That's how big this coaster actually is.

It's gonna hold you at the top.

You're gonna look beyond straight down before it drops you.

It will change the skyline forever for the city of Arlington, the whole Metroplex, and the great state of Texas.

The state of Texas had never seen a ride of the scale in our entire state's history, and we're ground zero to have it right here.

So how cool is that that everyone in our community can now see this new beacon of thrills and joy for generations to come in the event?

Community Court is a grant funded program.

It's designed to help individuals who have Class C citations in the city of Arlington resolve those citations if they're encountering financial difficulties or other problems.

So that could be any number of different things.

It could be financial hardships, it could be addiction problems.

We try to give those individuals a path forward.

Most people will just go and pay their fine.

A lot of individuals, that's not a realistic option for them.

They simply don't have the funds.

Yes, we're serious about this, and you have to accomplish certain things in order to take care of this, but we're also all rooting for you, and we want to help you succeed.

As far as for me for being the Spanish case manager, just to hear them at the end of the program speak to me in a way in English, or being able to write to me in English in an email.

It's so rewarding.

They forget that they joined to pay off their traffic ticket.

And they're like, I learned English.

The individuals who are entering this program are individuals who want to do the right thing.

They want to be able to be successful and to settle their debt to society.

They just need somebody to meet them halfway.

To realize that the court systems, the people that work for Arlington, they're your friends.

They want to help you as much as they can.

October is national walking month.

So to join into that, we wanted to bring the Walktober Challenge here to Arlington into the Active Center.

So the goal is that you want to walk 40 days during the months of October and November.

And you can walk anywhere, whether it be on the track, whether it be in the pool, in your neighborhood, at one of our fine city parks.

The goal is we just want you to get out and get moving.

It really gives me more energy and I feel you know more active and able to get more of the things you have to do in life every day.

I feel better and I just feel like I'm healthier.

Hey, walking just helps everything overall.

It gets your heart pumping, it gets your legs moving, overall your cardiovascular health, especially if you can be consistent, you know.

And really it's also just to engage our members.

This is the first fitness challenge that we've done at active, and there's going to be more to follow.

But anything we can do to just kind of give benefits to them, uh get them active, get them moving, and also socializing.

Really, it's community here because I have met so many people since I've been here that I really care about them.

And we have it helps walking go faster because we're talking about just different things and you know we're having friendships.

I'm very excited, and I think it's good for everybody.

No matter if you walk slow or fast or whatever, it's great to be outside and enjoy nature and the weather.

Phase two of the comprehensive plan for Innovate Arlington included the board game Growing a Better Arlington.

It helps community members understand or think about what it is that the built environment should look like over the next 20 years.

The objective of the board game is to help community members and the city of Arlington understand what the perception and general goal is for community members in terms of where those housing units and jobs should be placed around Arlington and what they look like.

We've gotten a lot of great feedback from a wide array of residents.

Residents that prefer to still have some more single family residential and residents that are certainly looking forward to a more walkable environment.

And I think the board game illustrates that Arlington is certainly big enough for all of those types of areas to continue to exist, whether they are here today or whether they're coming here tomorrow.

I think the community feedback we've received has been great.

Everyone that I've had an opportunity to witness playing the game and help answer any questions they may have during their game play have all been in super intense thoughts about what it is Arlington should be focusing on over the next 20 years and what it is that our developments look like in certain areas of Arlington is really something beautiful and it's great that we can use a tool such as a board game to help bring all those voices together.

Thanks to your input from the Growing a Better Arlington Board Game.

We're creating maps that show different ways Arlington could grow.

This fall we're asking for your feedback on these maps and what matters most to you.

Visit ArlingtonLessons.com forward slash comprehensive dash plan to learn more, sign up for updates, and find upcoming open house information.

It had a heyday after it was built in the early 80s.

The first 20 years or so it was it was quite vibrant, and we're here to pick it back up.

We're gonna do a major redevelopment.

Um we're done, you will not recognize the place.

We're gonna demolish almost 80,000 square feet to create extra parking to create much better traffic flow north and south, build a couple of new buildings, redo every facade, add public spaces, bring in a lot of new retailers and restaurants.

We want walkability, safety, ease of use, comfortable, warm.

Want it to feel like a village, a place with details.

We want you to feel like you're at home.

We want you to feel like it's a place that you would actually love to go.

We want you to think about not just the retailers of the restaurants there, but the actual place.

We want the place to have a destination worthiness about it.

I would say working with the people at the city of Arlington has been the best experience working with any city I've ever had.

They have been the most aggressive in pursuit of exactly what they want.

They know what they want.

They they work as partners with us, and the communication's been great.

I've really really enjoyed it.

Made made friends in the city of Arlington.

Our purpose is to be extraordinary stewards, enrich lives and enhance communities.

And um, this is an awesome opportunity to do that.

And we're committed to not just doing work.

We're not a commodity business.

We really take our work seriously.

We want to do great work that really has an impact on people and an impact on communities.

We want people to say, I love Anthem.

Who killed Terry McAdams?

It's a question Arlington police have been grappling with since Valentine's Day when the body of the 22-year-old UTA student was found savagely beaten in her fiance's apartment.

On February 14th, 1985, at approximately 2 40 uh p.m., Arlington Police Department officers responded to the 2500 block of Walnut Hill Circle.

They responded to an apartment where the maintenance man found a deceased 22-year-old female, Terry McAdams.

Detectors got on the scene and immediately started gathering evidence.

Um, numerous pieces of evidence.

One specific important piece was the cigarette butt laying next to Terry McAdams' body.

The brutal murder of UTA student Terry Ann McAdams is a tough one to crack.

This case was worked by multiple detectives for the last 40 years.

In 2021, we sent several pieces of those evidence off for DNA testing, including that cigarette butt that was able to gain a profile for an unknown male individual.

Once we were able to gain that profile, uh the Texas at the time started looking into things like uh different testing because we have no hits in the CODIS database system.

Once we didn't get any leads, uh began to look in different avenues like genetic genealogy.

That was helped with the FBI field office in Dallas.

It would take decades and tedious work by APD and the FBI generating leads through commercial genetic records.

Investigators construct family trees of persons identified as possible family members of the suspects.

Investigative genetic genealogy.

That gave a possible suspect in mind, uh, which was Bernard Sharp.

We then end up constructing a plan to conduct these interviews, which we were able to fly out of state to a close relative of our suspect.

One of the relatives ended up consenting to give a DNA sample, which we were able to bring that sample back and to our UNT lab, which we were able to obtain another profile with the profile that we have from the original case in 1985.

That profile matched that Bernard Sharp was definitely the killer at Dale Scene.

Terry's killer police say is Bernard Sharp, a known rape suspect who lived nearby and was questioned in 1985, but then killed himself a few months later in an unrelated double murder suicide.

Using joint operations is always beneficial to get the job done because these are resources that you know we didn't have at the time, but we were able to link with the FBI who had it.

Using them was vital.

Um, and it was a vital piece of technology.

If we didn't have, probably wouldn't still be solved.

After so many long years, we had come to accept that we would probably never know who murdered our sister.

I honestly cannot believe that we are standing here today.

It's just a matter of when.