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 | Snake & Eggs
04/07/2008 @ 08:59 AM CT
A few days ago I walked across the street to the lake and found a really big egg on the ground.
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 | ``Most Improved Fourth Graders``
04/07/2008 @ 08:38 AM CT
The Grand Prairie Optimist Club held the annual Youth Appreciation event - ``Most Improved Fourth Graders`` - was scheduled for March 6 but had to be postponed due to the bad weather - it was held Tuesday, April 1 - 7 PM at Bush Elementary School, GP.
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 | Kid`s Fishing Day
04/06/2008 @ 11:49 PM CT
The March weather was perfect for fishing at Mike Lewis Park it was full of people with poles. Everybody was having a great time at this newly designed park. The ponds were surrounded by people with fishing poles in the water hoping for a bite. The weather was warm with temperatures in the 80`s. The next evening we had snow don`t you just love this Texas weather. A lot of people must love it because the DFW Area was the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation during 2007.
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 | Ruthe Jackson wins a prestigious Award
04/06/2008 @ 6:32 PM CT
Ruthe Jackson has won a prestigious Texas Environmental Excellence Award for 2008. She was selected from nominations statewide for her efforts in environmental education and conservation. Jackson is one of 12 winners statewide to be recognized with an award,presented by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in a ceremony in Austin on April 30. For the past 22 years, Jackson served on the city council and has used her position to advocate for a wide range of environmental projects including a curbside recycling program in 2000. She founded the Grand Prairie chapter of Keep Texas Beautiful which won a 2006 Governor`s Community Achievement Award. Jackson is also the first woman in Texas to receive the National Lady Bird Johnson award in 1977 for her long-standing dedication to the Grand Prairie park system. Jackson focused on Grand Prairie`s youth by sponsoring programs for the area`s Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops. She is the namesake of Keep Texas Beautiful`s Ruthe Jackson Youth Leadership Award, given annually to students who exhibit environmental excellence. She was instrumental in establishing the Green and Clean Campus program at all 37 Grand Prairie schools, serving 20,000 students.
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| Transportation Public Meetings
03/05/2008 @ 1:12 PM CT
The Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments invites the public ot learn what is happening with transportation in the region and help set priorities for the future.
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| City celebrates opening of Two Trails this Spring
03/05/2008 @ 1:12 PM CT
The City of Grand Prairie celebrated on March 1 the opening of Good Link Trail, the first of two Texas-sized trail openings this spring. Good Link Trail connects C.P. Waggoner Park with Mike Lewis Park, 2600 N. Carrier Parkway.
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| AirHogs ink first rounder
03/05/2008 @ 1:12 PM CT
The Grand Prairie AirHogs of the American Association have bolstered their outfield with the signing of former major league first-round draft pick David Espinosa.
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| Grand Prairie adds righty hurler
03/05/2008 @ 1:12 PM CT
The Grand Prairie AirHogs of the American Association have announced the signing of righthanded pitcher James Garcia, who brings Triple-A experience to the AirHogs roster this season.
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| Grand Prairie ISD Donates $1,000 to Dallas Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
03/04/2008 @ 12:57 PM CT
Mr. Kenneth King’s second period math class at Bill Arnold Middle School (Grand Prairie ISD) accomplished an amazing feat – they pulled together to win a national math competition – beating out 400 other schools across the United States for a chance to donate $1,000 to the charity of their choosing.
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| Soldier’s Donation saves the life of a local Grand Prairie teen
03/04/2008 @ 12:57 PM CT
After a year in Iraq, Army Sergeant Christopher Sauceda returned home looking for additional ways to give back to his community. He joined the National Marrow Donor Program registry, and within a year, he learned he was a perfect match for a patient in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.
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| A new church coming to Grand Prairie
03/04/2008 @ 12:57 PM CT
A new community church is coming to the city of Grand Prairie. Due to the tremendous growth of the southern sector of the city the Tarrant Baptist Association will partner with Founding Pastor Malcolm L. Finkley, a Grand Prairie resident to launch Life Church in September.
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| Grand Prairie resident awarded MPH degree
03/04/2008 @ 12:57 PM CT
Stacy M. Lloyd, of Grand Prairie, has recently been awarded a master of public health (MPH) degree from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH).
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