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2021 Goodwill® Halloween Survey Uncovers Trends for the Halloween Season FORT WORTH, TEXAS (October 11, 2021) – According to Goodwill’s annual Halloween survey, three in four Americans (74%) plan to celebrate Halloween this year. The most popular ways people plan to celebrate include giving out candy to trick-or-treaters (41%), wearing a costume or dressing up (34%), decorating their homes (34%) and attending a party (either in-person or virtual) with family/friends (24%). As many people plan to
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FORT WORTH, TX – Longtime Fort Worth leader, Devoyd Jennings, will be posthumously awarded the 2021 Vandergriff Award by the Fort Worth Chamber at its annual State of the County on October 7.Jennings passed away on July 24, 2021, at 73. He was the longtime president and CEO of the Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce and worked at TXU Energy for 27 years. He created the William Mann Development Corp., a financial lending agency, and Southeast Fort Worth Inc., a community development agency. He
Media Contact: Julie Shutley, 214-457-1398 julie@alarryross.com Texas Leather Company Hosts Warehouse Sale, Community Event and Book Drive Two-Day Saddleback Leather Sale in Fort Worth Features Products Up To 75% Discount FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 23, 2021 – Saddleback Leather Co., the largest leather bag company in Texas and the biggest leather bag factory in Mexico, is announcing its Texas-sized warehouse/garage sale. The sale will include new, used, old and rare goods as well as hundreds of
The GM Financial Parade of Lights will illuminate the streets of Downtown Fort Worth on Sunday, November 21, at 6 p.m., and reserved “Street Seats” are available for purchase now starting at $15 here: www.fortworthparadeoflights.org/parade-information/street-seats/.This year’s “Making Spirits Bright”-themed parade marks its 39th year as the city’s official kick-off to the holiday season, and attendees can expect more than 100 festive floats adorned with holiday decor and over half a million sparkling
FORT WORTH – The law firm of Varghese Summersett is pleased to announce the launch of a family law practice. The new branch, Varghese Summersett Family Law Group, is headed up by J. Turner Thornton, a highly-regarded family law attorney who has been named a partner at the firm. “Turner Thornton has a remarkable ability to evaluate complex cases and come up with a winning strategy,” said Benson Varghese, founder and managing partner of Varghese Summersett. “This serves him well in the courtroom and in the
FORT WORTH, Texas – Aug. 16, 2021 – Alfred Vidaurri Jr., a Freese and Nichols, Inc., Vice President/Principal, is the new president of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). Vidaurri is the first Latino president in the organization’s history. NCARB supports the 55 U.S. architectural licensing boards in their mission to protect public health, safety and welfare.“I am honored to be the first Latino president in this organization’s 102-year history,” Vidaurri said after being
FORT WORTH, Texas – Aug. 4, 2021 – Freese and Nichols, Inc., has added Travis Kelly, a policy leader with experience at all levels of government engagement, to help municipalities and other public entities navigate legislative and regulatory processes affecting their projects. Kelly has spent more than 13 years specializing in local, state and federal government affairs, including 10 years in leadership roles supporting Texas’ Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project. His broad experience includes
FORT WORTH, Texas (August 2, 2021) – 23 of Tarrant County’s finest restaurants are participating in the 2021 DFW Restaurant Week, which kicks off on August 6 and extends through September 5. This year’s participating restaurants will offer three-course prix fixe dinners for either $39 or $49, with select restaurants also offering two-course lunches for just $19.For each meal purchased at Tarrant County participating restaurants, 20 percent will be donated back to Fort Worth nonprofit Lena Pope, which works
June 30, 2021 (Fort Worth, TX)– Emmitt Smith, philanthropist, businessman, family-man, Pro Football Hall of Famer, and three-time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys, will be the keynote at Camp Fire First Texas An Artists’ Christmas gala and art auction on November 19 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. This is the first year the annual gala has featured a guest speaker.Smith will share inspired and practical lessons learned throughout his life that helped him along his career path.“Welcoming a
Fort Worth Country Day (FWCD), the oldest co-ed college-preparatory school in Fort Worth, has named Stephen Blan as its new head of Middle School, effective July 1, 2021. Blan succeeds John Stephens, who will depart FWCD at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year after 15 years of service.Blan has been a member of the FWCD faculty since the 2016-17 academic year when he accepted a position as a Middle School history teacher. In 2018, he became FWCD’s first director of the Center for International Studies,
Fort Worth, Texas-based Speed Fab-Crete has been honored with two national awards from the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) for excellence in safety and quality production. Speed Fab-Crete will be honored during the NPCA’s upcoming “The Precast Show 2021,” taking place May 20-21 in New Orleans.Speed Fab-Crete received the NPCA’s highest honor for safety – the “Excellence in Safety-Platinum Award” – for outstanding achievement in jobsite, plant and employee safety, and maintaining exemplary
Lena Pope, a nonprofit organization with a 90-year history of improving the lives of Tarrant County children, has appointed Cathy R. Sheffield as its new Chief Advancement Officer. In this role, Sheffield will be responsible for executing comprehensive and diversified fundraising and marketing strategies to ensure Lena Pope has the resources needed to continue supporting child development and improving the behavioral and mental health of local children far into the future. “Cathy has a demonstrated
FORT WORTH, TX – Today the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, premier business association in Tarrant County and one of the largest in North Texas, announced the organization’s complete rebranding, created to represent the future of the Fort Worth business community with trusted leadership and a powerful voice.Click here to view the Fort Worth Chamber’s new brand. “We are thrilled to finally unveil our new brand,” says Katie Douglass, Executive Vice President of Marketing for the Fort Worth Chamber, “Our
