Mayor Loughmiller to announce winners of Live Healthy Texas 100 Day Challenge (McKinney) May 3, 2012 – McKinney has a goal to become the healthiest community in the country. A new event called Get Fit McKinney, hosted by the city and McKinney ISD, takes another step toward reaching that goal. Get Fit McKinney is a […]
On Saturday, April 21 Calloway’s and Cornelius Nursery will celebrate Earth Day by featuring organic products, beneficial insect displays, offering gardening advice and more at all 19 garden center locations in the Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston areas. Stores will open at 9 a.m. and will feature two key clinics that offer guidelines for a healthier garden environment. At 10:15 […]
Participating startup companies look to fill nearly 100 jobs RoundUp for StartUps is an exciting and different networking event designed to bring together local tech and engineering experts with Dallas-based startups. East Dallas resident Chris Gay, founder of two startups, is the brains behind this inaugural event, and hopes it will help keep the tech-savvy […]
FREE event at British Emporium includes Charles Dickens expert Professor Don Vann, tea and British refreshments, short reading, canned food drive for GRACE (Grapevine) – Professor Don Vann, expert on famed Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, will make a special guest appearance at The British Emporium in Grapevine at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17. This event is in celebration […]
The Garland Chamber of Commerce will host a Social Media Campfire event from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 17. The free, interactive seminar will be held at the Chamber, 520 N. Glenbrook Drive, in the Richland Gallery. Did you know that 66 percent of adult Internet users are connected to one or more social […]
A name has just been drawn in our Blue Ribbon News/Shenaniganz “LIKE” contest on Facebook. And the winner is….(drumroll, please)…. Jamie Jones Rubush of Rockwall! Jamie simply entered our promo and “LIKED” Blue Ribbon News on FB to be entered into a drawing to win one of three fantastic prize packages from Shenaniganz, the ultimate […]
(Irving) Irving Animal Services is sponsoring free rabies vaccination clinics in partnership with the Texas Coalition for Animal Protection. They will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Irving Animal Care Campus, 4140 Valley View Lane, on March 23, June 22 and Oct. 26. The free rabies vaccinations are available to dogs and […]
Local rose experts share tips on care, feeding; use of roses in landscape Covington’s, an independently owned 18-acre nursery in Rowlett, is hosting their annual All About Roses event on Saturday, Feb. 25. This is a day devoted to roses where anyone may come to meet and learn from local rose experts about the care and feeding […]
(Irving) A free class introducing the world of the “edible” and useful front yard will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 at the West Irving Library, 4444 W. Rochelle Road. For more information, visit www.cityofirving.org/begreen or call 972-742-2296. To submit your news and events, email .
(Rowlett/Greenville) Lake Pointe Health Network will begin its free 2012 Community Seminar Series with two informational programs on thyroid disorders – one in Greenville on Wednesday, Jan. 25; and one in Rowlett on Thursday, Jan. 26. Wednesday’s program will be presented by Dr. Sreedevi Guttikonda at 6:30 p.m. at the Wesley Medical Plaza, 4101 Wesley, […]