The North Texas Community Cleanup Challenge is a friendly competition among North Texas communities to see who can pick up the most litter per resident from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31, 2021. Communities, churches, boy scouts, girl scouts, companies, activists, or just ordinary citizens can organize litter cleanup events or simply log existing events and efforts as they occur. At the end of the contest, the community with the most litter cleaned up per resident will recieve the North Texas Community Cleanup award that they can proudly display in their city hall. Each year the trophy will move from community to community, each adding their name to the legacy of litter cleanup efforts.
Oct 21 2021
North Texas Community Cleanup Challenge - DFW (Thru Oct. 31)
North Central Texas Council of Governments: High-Speed Transportation Open Houses - DFW
The North Central Texas Council of Governments will hold a series of in-person open houses throughout the region, in October, to highlight the Dallas-Fort Worth High-Speed Transportation Connections Study’s purpose as well as the Phase 1 recommendations of the project.
The first open house is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie. Open houses are also scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 at Southside Preservation Hall in Fort Worth; 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26 at Mercy Street in West Dallas; and 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Large venues have been chosen to allow for adequate social distancing.
See website link below for details and locations.
Fort Worth Botanic Garden/BRIT: Author of Painting the Woods - Online
Deborah Paris, artist and author, will read and discuss her book Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory and Metaphor, published by Texas A&M University Press in 2020. The book chronicles her time working in Lennox Woods, a rare old growth southern hardwood forest near her home in northeast Texas. A place-based meditation on nature, art, memory and time, Painting the Woods explores the experience of landscape through the lens of art and artmaking.
$8/$5 members
Registration deadline Oct. 19