Cheers for natural beauty, but jeers for kids who hit a dog | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Cheers: To TxDOT for not mowing the northern Interstate 20 access road between Wichita Street and Campus Drive. As a result, we gained naturally, self-planted seed including green antelope horn milkweed, host plant of monarch butterflies.

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Cheers: To Dr. Max S. Ribald of Arlington for repairing my foot problem. You’re a great surgeon.

Cheers: To the Arlington Public Library for its online borrowing system. I have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and can now browse and order online.

Cheers: To two young men from the Keller Water Department who found my water leak and explained the solution.

Cheers: To employees of Lone Star Gas. When they had to change out all the natural gas lines in older neighborhoods around the city, they made appointments, arrived on time and did the job as professionals with the utmost courtesy.

Jeers: To the three schoolkids at Arlington Heights High School in a small gray car that hit a dog. The car never even slowed down.

Jeers: To the city of Watauga and its project to do work on Rufe Snow Drive. Your contractor for Rufe Snow is obviously unable to accomplish a job of this magnitude.

Cheers: To Cpl. James Gordon with the Euless Police Department, for giving Troop 1488 a tour of police headquarters. Also a thank-you to firefighters Robinson and Rowan with the Euless Fire Department.

Jeers: To the Weatherford Streets Division. Fort Worth Highway has been torn up for more than a month for resurfacing, and it’s still only half completed.

Then workers tear up Santa Fe Drive.

Jeers: To the Fort Worth city manager, mayor and all City Council members for attempting to eliminate or modify the cost-of-living adjustment of retired Fort Worth city workers. This is bullying and hurtful.

Jeers: To the Fort Worth City Council for allowing developers to turn the Westcliff residential area into a giant housing project for Texas Christian University students.

No homeowner wants to discover “Animal House” next door.

Jeers: To reckless drivers who illegally merge across the solid white stripes into traffic. You endanger others’ lives, as well as your own.

It’s a severe problem on the entrance ramp from I-30 onto I-35 West at East Rosedale..

Jeers: To whoever was responsible for a car break-in at 10 a.m. on a Monday in a popular Trinity Trails parking lot off University Drive.

There wasn’t anything inside to take.

Cheers: To Everman United Methodist Church as it celebrates its 112th birthday. The 55th Annual Lord’s Acre Fundraiser will be Saturday, Oct. 6. This event includes a bake sale, Hickory Stick BBQ lunch and live auction at 1 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

Jeers: To a funeral home that would not allow a family member at a service. I have never seen a funeral home refuse a family member.

Cheers: To the two young men who stopped traffic on North Beach Street so I could catch my dog. And cheers also to those in their cars who patiently waited for me.

Cheers: To Eddy Bs Fence in Arlington for building a new section of fence and repairing another that had been damaged by the summer storms.

Cheers: To the Fort Worth Water Department for working until 3 a.m. to restore the water supply to the streets of El Cid, Alicante and Ponce.

Cheers: To the person or people who paid for our lunch at the El Chico Restaurant on Baker Boulevard in Richland Hills on Sept. 2. Your kindness was greatly appreciated.

Cheers: To everyone helping me get well after my accident, starting with the 911 call takers, my surgeon Adrian Harvey, the many professional and courteous doctors, nurses and employees of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, Heather in physical therapy, my wonderful family — still helping — and friends who sent cards, flowers, prayers and phone calls.

Thank you all.