Now WHY would that be?

The Lone Star International Film Festival is currently taking place in downtown Fort Worth.

We checked everywhere and couldn't find a listing for Up A Creek, the locally made, award winning film about downtown Fort Worth.

Ironic?

More Cheers

Seems some are paying attention, read the Cheer in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Cheers: 

To Layla Caraway, Bob Lukeman and TRIP for winning the Conservation Award at the Glen Rose Film Festival! If you are concerned about out-of-control spending by your government or what's happening with your water, watch Up a Creek. Together, we can make a difference.

-- Debbie L. Sheffield,

Best of Fort Worth

The Fort Worth Weekly has released their Best of Edition for 2011.  Pick one up, check it out.

In addition to finding all the best spots in town, you can read about groups and people we've told you about - NCTCA, Clyde Picht, Ann Sutherland and Layla Caraway, just to name a few.

WHO was the politician most likely to sell grandma to the highest bidder?  YOU know WHO.

Oh, and Readers Choice for Locally Made Film - Up a Creek.  Congratulations to Bob Lukeman and TRIP and to all those out there making a difference.   Like the Weekly.

Lone Star salutes you all.

What can citizens do??

Something.

Anything...

Look what THEY did.

The Weekly tells you where to go

For the Labor Day Weekend. Take a TRIP out to Glen Rose.

Start Watching - from the Fort Worth Weekly

The Glen Rose Neo-Relix Film Festival has chosen Layla Caraway’s Up A Creek as one of the featured documentaries to be shown on Labor Day weekend.

Production of Up A Creek was sponsored by the Trinity River Improvement Partnership, a collection of local folks with varied political backgrounds who think the Trinity River Vision is just an enormously wasteful economic development project masquerading as flood control — and sucking up all the available local flood-control money along the way. (The price tag is now just over $900 million.)

The experiences that led Caraway to produce the film began in the summer of 2007, when weeks of rain and flooding caused her backyard to fall into Big Fossil Creek. In the same storm, a 4-year-old girl drowned when floodwaters ripped her from her mother’s arms.

Caraway wanted to know why the U.S Army Corps of Engineers couldn’t find money for well-documented flood problems along Big Fossil Creek in Haltom City but had hundreds of millions for the downtown Fort Worth project. Local filmmaker and photographer Bob Lukemon helped make the documentary, which will be screened twice during the Glen Rose festival —on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 4, at noon. For more information go to http://www.savethetrinityriver.org/.

It worked on YOUR kids

So WHY wouldn't it work on you?

The NCTCOG (yes, the COG that held the TDML meeting last week and the Recreational Use Attainability Study meeting this week) is sponsoring a video contest with TREES and WFAA to solicit YOUR ideas to clean up the Trinity River.

Does that mean those responsible for doing so have no idea of their own?

While we support public participation in matters that concern the public, we ain't buying it.

The commercial for the WFAA Project Green is ironic and amusing.  It opens with pictures of trash in the Trinity River in Fort Worth, as they say "You may have heard about the problem."  Problem?  WHAT problem?  The local paper, city staff and elected officials, the Tarrant Regional Water District and the Trinity River Vision Authority say there's no problem.  If they say anything at all, it's jump on in, suckers.

(Isn't the local paper and WFAA owned by the same folks?)

The commercial for the WFAA Trinity River video contest goes on to say, "Now it's time for this generation to stop pointing fingers..."  Really, that is what they said.  "...to save the Trinity.  We can do it".  Where have we heard "save the Trinity" before?  Oh yes, the Trinity River Improvement Partnership.  www.savethetrinityriver.org. Those that recently made the video, Up a Creek. THE PEOPLE who are trying to save the river and YOUR money.  For YOU and YOUR kids.

If you have an idea, sounds like they need it.  YOU could win $1,500.  $1,500 is nothing, printing had to cost more than that.

Somebody help 'em out already, would ya? 


Due to the WFAA site asking us to disable security to view contest information, we didn't link to it in the above references.

WHO floods?

And WHO makes the call?

In the articles about all the states being flooded by the Mississippi River we noticed they said the same thing we heard in the Up a Creek movie.

One major factor at work is a seemingly innocuous one: concrete. Arthur Schmidt, a hydrologist and engineer at the University of Illinois, said paving over soil that would naturally absorb rainwater means that water has to go somewhere else — into the efficient network of drainage pipes beneath cities and towns that keeps streets dry.

"That issue of paving our towns isn't just right by the river, it's anywhere that you have a stream that eventually connects to that river, which is a huge portion of the country," Schmidt said.

Are you listening, Fort Worth?  Do you see what's happening to these people?  The Trinity River runs through the heart of Texas including but not limited to Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas.  How many people live along this river and the tributaries?  The numbers are staggering and remember, all the political promises in the world can't stop the rain.  (And we wouldn't want to be standing next to one in the lightning). The Trinity River Vision is more than just a threat to your pocketbook.

An article on MSNBC might put it in perspective for you.  What if it was YOUR house they were flooding to save someone else?  What happens to food prices if all the farmland is flooded? 

"So I guess it's all about saving the rich and burying the poor?" he asked.

In addition to threatening densely populated areas, lower Mississippi flooding was a risk for as many as eight refineries and at least one nuclear power plant alongside the river.

The Army Corps of Engineers has taken drastic steps to prevent flooding. Engineers blew up a levee in Missouri — inundating an estimated 200 square miles of farmland and damaging or destroying about 100 homes — to take the pressure off floodwalls protecting the town of Cairo, Ill., population 2,800.

Bless them all.

Your Invitation!

TRIP invites you to join us for a viewing of the locally made film “Up a Creek” exploring various impacts of the Trinity River Vision project.

Citizens Who Care will present the
Alternative Trinity River Vision plan after the film.

WHEN:
Wednesday April 13th, 2011

6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:

Elks Lodge
3233 White Settlement Road
Fort Worth

This is an important viewing that will enlighten neighborhood leaders, political candidates, and every taxpayer.

If you pay Federal taxes, Tarrant County taxes, Fort Worth taxes or
Tarrant Regional Water District taxes – YOU need to see this film!

TRIP is a non-partisan, non-profit organization which advocates cleaning the river and supporting development that doesn’t despoil the natural aesthetics and historic nature of the river.

Visit TRIP at:http://savethetrinityriver.org/
RSVP to: jspivey@savethetrinityriver.org

Trinity River Improvement Partnership

Kudos to TRIP for a great event at the historic Stagecoach Ballroom last night!

Very informative, very friendly folks!  Even the "plants" were friendly. 

We love it when a group of citizens take the initiative to right the wrongs.  THE PEOPLE are listening. 

Carry on, TRIP!

For Durango's review on the presentation go here.

For more information about the Trinity River Improvement Partnership go here.

We hear the video will be out and about for all to see soon.  YOU can't afford to miss it!

You are invited

TRIP invites you to join us at the historic Stagecoach Ballroom on the banks of the Trinity River for the documentary movie premiere of “Up a Creek” -  exploring various impacts of the Trinity River Vision project.

WHEN:
Wednesday March 30, 2011

Doors open at 6:30 with screening at 7:00 p.m.

2516 E Belknap Fort Worth

This is an important viewing that will enlighten neighborhood leaders, political candidates, and every taxpayer.

TRIP is a non-partisan, non-profit organization which advocates cleaning the river and supporting development that doesn’t despoil the natural aesthetics and historic nature of the river.

Visit TRIP at:
savethetrinityriver.org/

RSVP to: 
jspivey@savethetrinityriver.org