Frisco, TEXAS (July 23, 2007) - Frisco Square, a master-planned lifestyle community in the heart of Frisco, and the Frisco Noon Lions Club today announced their plans to host the Frisco Farmer's Market beginning this Friday, July 27.  The Farmer's Market will be held on Friday's from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Saturday's from 8:00 a.m. to sellout beginning this weekend and running through October 20.  The official Grand Opening of the Farmer's Market will kick off at 10:00 a.m. Friday with a celebratory cider christening by Frisco's first lady, Sandy Simpson. 
  
 The market will be located on the corner of Coleman Boulevard and Frisco Square Boulevard across from City Hall and the Library. Local growers will offer such items as juicy melons and peaches, vine-ripened tomatoes and fresh corn on the cob.  Baked breads, honey and other products will be offered as the market grows.
  
  "We have been hearing from the community for quite some time that Frisco Square would be an ideal location for a Farmer's Market," noted Jim Leslie, managing partner of Frisco Square.  "We are thrilled that we have a committed group of local individuals that have come to together to make it happen and provide this experience for Frisco families." 
  
 More complete information on the Farmer's Market for both shoppers and vendors can be found at www.friscofarmersmarket.com. Interested Farmer's Market Participants will have access to all required forms and rules online. 
  

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Instead of continuing to repeat events in every newsletter, this section will recap events listed in prior newsletters.  You can visit my web site to view a calendar of events or directly on the Calendar (you an even add your own!) and you can view Previous Newsletters for additional information on these events.

Movies in the Square: June 1 - August 10

John Weinberg Golf Tounament: September 10

CALM Pro-AM Charity Invitational: August 19

Monte Carlo Night: August 4

Police Motorcycle Championships: August 22 - August 25

National Night Out: August 7

FARW Luncheon - August 8, 2007 11:30-1:30 @ Stonebriar Country Club. Call 469-633-7614 or 469-865-6220. 

Cloth-A-Child Fundraiser: Aug 8 @ Frisco Roughriders. Call 972-682-9953 for questions.


The Senior Center at Frisco Square is hosting another Country and Western Dance featuring the sweet sounds of Southern Pride. August 18, 7-9:30 p.m. The dance will be held Saturday, August 18, from 7 - 9:30 p.m.  Call 972-292-6550 for further information.

In this new section, I will try and keep up with some of the major upcoming events.  While I usually place the entire event in this Newsletter, sometimes I get information before it is released or the event is too far into the future to write about.  We will see how this works.

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Event: 2007 Chrysalis Ball Benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Collin County.
Where: Embassy Suites Hotel in Frisco
When: Saturday, November 3, 2007 from 6:30pm - midnight>
What: Black Tie Fundraiser General: Special dinner, open bar, dancing to The Pointer Sisters, casino games, live and silent auctions and much more. Master of ceremonies is Newy Scruggs, NBC 5's witty sportscaster.

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Event: 2007 Frisco Arts Black Tie Gala benefiting the Arts in Frisco
Where: Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco
When: Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 6:30pm -
What: Black Tie Fundraiser

General: Special performance, live and silent auctions and much more.

Come beat the heat at the Municipal Outdoor Pool this weekend as the pool is transformed into a Caribbean paradise! 

The Frisco Parks & Recreation Department will be hosting Caribbean Night this Saturday, July 28 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 

Come dressed in island attire and relax on our island of paradise.  Participants will enjoy games, prizes, music and refreshing snow cones.  The cost for this event is $2.50 per person. 

The Municipal Outdoor Pool is located at 7775 Camellia Lane, in downtown Frisco.  For more information about this event, please call 972-377-1752. 

 

Since we have so much going on, it has been very difficult to keep the newsletter up-to-date with traffic and other updates.  I am going to try this for a while, which is to put the direct links where this information is usually kept and where the City Council receives their updates from:

• Traffic/Engineering from Last Council Meeting
(This includes, road, signal and capital project updates. Use the arrows to move between pages)

• TxDOT Road Closures
• NTTA Road Closures (Word Document)
  
• Frisco Project Database

 

 The Centennial Titan Band Is On The March

The award-winning Centennial High School Titan Band is planning a community fund-raiser which will support the band throughout coming the year.  Funds raised will help cover the cost of needed equipment, music royalty fees, camps, private lesson scholarships and costs associated with music contests.

This year, our first March-A-Thon will be on August 18, 2007.  The band will march a 10K/6 mile long parade route, starting at Centennial High School and ending at the Tom Thumb parking lot at Lebanon and Preston Road at 3:00. 

We will march through both residential and retail areas, including Plantation Resort, Preston Vineyards, stopping at Curtsinger Elementary at 12:15 and Clark Middle School at 2:20.  The students will be dressed in their official March-A-Thon t-shirts and shorts and will be accompanied by the directors, lots of volunteers and police escorts.  While marching, the band will perform music including the school's fight song, football stand songs and a portion of our 2007 football halftime show, "Bells."   While marching through residential areas, we will stop to perform for families who contribute to the program.

Corporate Sponsors

Our police escorts (required by the city) are expensive, and so is feeding the entire band. We would like to have these and other expenses covered by corporate sponsorships. If you would like to support Centennial High's music education program, please contact Mr. Lynn Campbell at lcampbell@acosta.com OrBoard member for a corporate sponsor packet.

You can also visit the Titan Band Booster website at  http://www.centennialband.com/Boosters.htm

Come out and join the parade and fun !

The Titan Band Booster Association
 

Frisco BPW

You are invited join us on Thursday, August 2 for Power

Networking!  It can be difficult to get to know someone when you meet an event.  Often, there is not enough
time to really understand what they do or what their company offers.  Exchanging cards and calling later is fine, but sometimes you really want to talk and share ideas right now!  Power networking gives you the chance to spend quality one-on-one time with other business and professional women in only one trip, with only one babysitter fee, with only one dinner at home missed. You get the idea.  Please join us.

The Frisco BPW meets on the first Thursday of the month for dinner, guest speaker and networking at the Frisco Embassy Suites, 7600 John Q. Hammons Drive, just west of Stonebriar Mall. Networking begins at 6:30 p.m., dinner and speaker at 7:00 p.m. Reservations are encouraged.  Please email/call Nina Barr at ngbarr@tx.rr.com or 972-377-0335 to make a reservation or for more information. Guests are always welcome. 

The Business and Professional Women (BPW) is a national organization of women helping women through education, support and advocacy.  Members and guests are encouraged to network with other professionals, share career strategies and interests and to learn from guest speakers on topics of interest to women as community members, individuals, business owners, employees, those advancing their careers, changing careers or re-entering the workforce.

Visit www.friscobpw.org for more information.

The Frisco Parks & Recreation Department invites all interested parties to attend the second round of public planning meetings for Panther Creek Neighborhood Park.  The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 2 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Isabel Sem Elementary School, located at 12721 Honey Grove Drive.

The initial public meeting took place on June 27.  The purpose of this follow-up meeting is to review the potential concepts of the park project.

For more information, please call the Parks & Recreation Department at 972-292-6500.

 

St Phillips Episcopal Church in Frisco is offering the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University class, The Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University is a 13-week class beginning Sun., Sept. 9, through Sun., Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. The class teaches people how to manage their resources, get out of debt and build wealth. "preview" sessions to learn more about the program are offered on Aug. 12, 12:15 a.m. and Aug. 26, 12:15 a.m. at the church, 6400 Stonebrook Prkway, Frisco, TX. Cost: $89.95 per individual kit (one kit per family).  Contact the church office at 214-387-4700 or Jimmy Smith at 469-585-9437 for enrollment information and/or questions.

 

TEXAS --  Civil Air Patrol's Addison Eagles Composite and Dallas Composite squadron joined together recently to provide displays for students at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport's Annual Aviation & Transportation Career Expo, which gives students the opportunity to learn about careers in a variety of aviation-related fields, from pilots to air traffic controllers to police officers and firegighters.

Photo by 1st Lt. Laura Lee Woodward

Cadet 2nd Lt. Brandon Maso of the Addison Eagles Composite Squadron explains to a student how CAP uses the Cessna 172 for search and rescue efforts.

Members from both squadrons worked tirelessly, devoting time and energy to answering questions and talking directly with a continuous line of students and teachers filing by the displays at the Expo, staged at one of American Airlines' maintenance hangars at DFW. 

The CAP displays consisted of two aircraft outside the hangar and a booth inside that depicted cadets participating in various activities. 

Cadets working at the displays recounted first-hand experiences for the students and provided brochures about CAP's cadet program. 

The students were able to look at many different types of aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, OH-58 Kiowa helicopter, C-130H Hercules military transport, a vintage Corsair and North American AT-6. They also could talk to CAP pilots and sit inside the Gippsland GA8 Airvan and Cessna 172 search and rescue aircraft.

Along with CAP, more than 30 agencies, companies and organizations, including the Ninety-nines, Air National Guard and Lockheed-Martin.