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One of our favorite area events of the year is coming…Grapevine’s Grapefest 2010. It’s the closest ‘large-scale’, yet hometown festival to us in Flower Mound. The shops on Main street have great charm and the merchants are extremely friendly and hospitable. It’s a great opportunity to wander aimlessly down mainstreet without having to worry about vehicle traffic and see some of the architecture of Grapevine that dates back nearly a century. There’s multiple stages with entertainment from opening to closing each day of the four day festival.

There are great arts, craft, clothing and jewelry exhibits, good food, and oh, did we forget…WINE TASTING! Numerous wine tasting ’stations’ are located up and down the street.   There are also special events such as a grape-stomping competition, cooking demonstrations, peoples-choice tasting events, champagne courtyard.

• Thursday, September 16 – 10:00am – 10:30pm, FREE ADMISSION
• Friday, September 17 – 10:00am – 5:00pm, FREE ADMISSION
• Friday, September 17 – 5:00pm – 11:30pm
• Saturday, September 18 – 10:00am – 11:30pm
• Sunday, September 19 – 11:00am – 6:00pm

Admission is FREE all day Thursday & Friday until 5pm!

Adults $8
Seniors (62+)  $5
Children (6-12) $5
Children 5 & under FREE
Weekend Pass Pin $18
Weekend Souvenir Pass Pin $23

For more information and the official site, click here . A HIGHLY RECOMMENDED EVENT!

Dallas Home Improvement Show

Ticket prices: Adults/$10, Seniors/$7, children 12 and under free.

For more information and a $1 discount coupon, click here.

Visit the Fort Worth Home and Garden Market.

** note NOT open on Friday

TICKET COST:

REGULAR $9.00

SENIORS $7.00 (all weekend)

CHILDREN 14 AND UNDER ARE FREE

One Dollar off discount coupons available through Tom Thumb, circular, or by clicking here.

For more information, click here.

The 2010 Town of Flower Mound Wild About Flower Mound Festival has been rescheduled for June 18 and 19. Originally scheduled to occur in May, the event was postponed due to safety and welfare concerns associated with severe weather forecasted for the original event dates.

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Once again, the Town of Flower Mound will host the “Wild About Flower Mound” Festival. The hours are as follows.

Friday, June 18 – 5 to 10 p.m.
Saturday June 19 – 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Wild About Flower Mound is a free event with free parking on site. Activities include two days of live music, a kid zone featuring bounce houses, rock climbing wall, stick horse rodeo, pony rides and petting zoo, and refreshments.

The event will take place at Bakersfield Park, 1201 Duncan Lane, south of FM3040 from 5 – 10 p.m. on Friday Jun 18th and 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 19th. Admission and onsite parking are free for all attendees.

For more information, click here.

Visit Highland Village on Saturday, June 5, 2010 for the Annual Highland Village Days celebration. In the city’s largest special event, enjoy a Texas Country Music Festival, Fireworks extravaganza, and great food.

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Here‘s a good way to spend the weekend…The Grapevine Main Street Outdoor Adventure.  Held on the historic downtown Grapevine main street, the theme is Grillin’, Chillin’ and Thrillin’!

There will be interactive activities, grilling exhibitions, BMX stunts, scuba diving, trampoline acrobat stunts, bungee jumping, kayaking, and of course the traditional carnival and midway.

Festival Hours

* Friday, May 21 – 10:00am – 5:00pm, FREE ADMISSION
* Friday, May 21 – 5:00pm – 11:30pm
* Saturday, May 22 – 10:00am – 11:30pm

* Sunday, May 23 – 11:00am – 6:00pm

Admission is free on Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

* Daily Admission – Adults: $7
* Daily Admission – Seniors (62+): $5
* Daily Admission – Children (6-12): $5
* Daily Admission – Children under 6: FREE
* Weekend Pass Pin: $15
* Weekend Souvenir Pass Pin: $20

No dogs or pets allowed.

For more information, click here.

Elections in most cities this time of year are usually ho-humm, but not so for Flower Mound where voters turned out in huge numbers.   There were reports of residents waiting over an hour to cast their vote.  Even for early voting in recent weeks, reports of 10-15 deep voters in line were common.

Challengers for council positions running on a passionate platform of slowing gas activities and variances in the city brought out the passion of voters and achieved a shake-up of local leadership.

• Melissa Northern defeated incumbent Jody Smith for Mayor
• Al Filidoro remained as the incumbent in the Place 2 Council Seat
• Steve Lyda defeated opponents for Place 4 Council Seat

Northern, Filidoro, and Lyda campaigned as the “NFL” team.  Unofficial results show voters supported the trio who campaigned united by a significent margin with Northern currently at 59%, Filidoro at 59%, and Lyda at 61% of votes cast.

The issue of gas drilling will be on the November ballot.  For such a hotly contested race, it’s interesting to note that 8,400 voters turned out in the district out of 42,111 registered voters.  That represents 19.95% of our registered voters, an impressive number for a May General Election.

For Cumulative results from the Denton County Election Board, click here.

United States (Arizona) – A man was killed Thursday morning when a plane crashed in southwest Arizona, according to the Somerton/Cocopah Fire Department and the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office. Both agencies responded to the area at 5:47 a.m., May 6th after a witness reported that a plane was down and there was an explosion, according to a SCFD press release. The plane, a single-engine Cessna according to YCSO, crashed in an agricultural field. SCFD firefighters quickly extinguished flames that had fully engulfed the plane.

One occupant, presumed to be the pilot, was found dead. He was identified as Travis Perkins, 27, of Flower Mound, Texas, according to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO).

Capt. Eben Bratcher, spokesman for YCSO, said Perkins had been pulled out of the plane by passers-by before emergency personnel arrived.

Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Bratcher said Perkins was flying Thursday morning to drop sterile fruit files into Yuma County fields. Robby Rodriguez, SCFD spokesman, said it took about 10 minutes to extinguish the flames from the wreck and firefighters used the Compressed Air Foam system to put out the fire. The system is standard on their fire trucks, he said.

The cause of the crash is unknown, and the National Transportation Safety Board is en route to investigate the crash.

Woke up this morning to find no service on any of my Sprint phones. Now this is actually unusual and I’ve chided my friends on other networks who have experienced reliability issues. And unlike the Sprint of old, their customer service is actually pretty outstanding.

After holding on the line (office line) to Sprint Customer Service for several minutes I knew something larger was going on. When the tech rep came on the line, after the usual annoying query of my phone number, again, and security pin, they advised me that service was out in most of Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama.

She explained that they had ‘towers down’ all over the area. I’m sure there’s a better explanation that that, but that’s the way it is.  After about 5 hours, service returned to normal and the messages started streaming through at 9:20AM CST

How’s your new years resolution going?  Does it involve getting healther, losing weight, becoming more involved, or discovering new things in your community?  Here’s your chance to do all of those in one.

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