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January 30, 2007
The Richardson Public Library welcomes knitters of all ages and ability levels to come to the organizational meeting of the library knitting group, aptly named Dewey Knit, from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the library, 900 Civic Center Drive.
Participants should bring knitting or crochet projects and ideas for the group’s future meetings.
The group will meet the first Saturday of every month in the first-floor program room.
For more information, call librarians Susan Hirsch or Jane Nearing, group organizers, at 972-744-4350.
Posted by Angela Chambers 
at 1:33 PM (E-mail this entry)
Richardson traffic construction tips for the week of Monday, Jan. 29.
Arapaho Road from Mimosa Drive to Floyd Road– The project includes pavement repair, barrier free ramps, sidewalks, retaining walls, drainage improvements, landscaping plantings and new landscape irrigation systems. Expect up to two directional traffic lanes to be temporarily blocked from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on weekdays. The project should be completed by mid-April.
Yale Boulevard - This project includes full depth concrete pavement repairs on Yale Boulevard from Belt Line Road to Chestnut Hill Lane. In addition, sidewalks, residential driveway approaches, wheelchair ramps and median pavement will be repaired. Construction should be completed by the end of March. A traffic lane will be temporarily blocked at times needed as the work progresses along this corridor.
Mimosa Drive at Arapaho Road - Traffic lanes on Mimosa Drive at the approach with Arapaho Road will be temporarily closed to traffic as part of the Arapaho Road rehabilitation project. At times, only one lane will be available each way at the approach and traffic will be detoured to Glen Cove Drive and Cottonwood Drive. This project phase should be finished by late January.
Greenville Avenue south of Campbell Road – Because of utility work, the sidewalk on the west side of Greenville Avenue south of Campbell Road will be temporarily blocked to pedestrians as needed until the end of January.
Posted by Angela Chambers at 11:51 AM (E-mail this entry)
The Richardson High School fine-arts program will present the musical CATS by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 1-4, in the RHS auditorium.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1-3 and 2 p.m. Feb. 4.
CATS was released for amateur production in January 2006, and RHS will be one of the first high schools to produce the show.
Tickets are available at $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors age 55 and older at the RHS front office. For more information, e-mail thespianclub@rhstheatre.org.
The RHS auditorium is located inside the fine-arts building at the high school, 1250 W. Belt Line Road in Richardson.
Posted by Angela Chambers at 11:32 AM (E-mail this entry)
Books, books and more books will be on sale at the 25th annual Richardson ISD Council of PTAs Used Book Fair from Feb. 8-11, writes correspondent Tony Reynolds. This will be the third year for the event will at Valley View Center, Far North Dallas.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Much of the money from the book sale goes directly to fund the Council’s scholarship program through the JJ Pearce Memorial Scholarship fund, which is open to graduating students of all four RISD high schools.
Valley View Center is located at Preston Road and LBJ Freeway.
Posted by Mark Macesich at 11:21 AM (E-mail this entry)
