Jan 08, 2019 09:35 am
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HALTOM CITY BUSINESS DONATES 130 NEW BICYCLES TO LOCAL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Waste Connections, Inc. Staff Delivered Bikes on Dec. 21, 2018
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The City of Haltom City is coordinating the 18th Annual Christmas Promise Bike Build with their local office of Waste Connections. The staff at Waste Connections, Inc. raised money, purchased and built 130 new bicycles and helmets to be donated to students at W.T. Francisco Elementary school. W.T. Francisco Elementary school was selected this year based on their needs and because they participate in our annual Christmas on Broadway. Keith Lane, City Manager of Haltom City said, “We are very proud of our partnership with Waste Connections, Inc. and this event is a testament to their commitment to serving our community – especially our kids.”
At 8:30 a.m. on Friday, December 21, 2018, parents and families gathered at the gym to pick up their child’s free bicycle and helmet for Christmas! Staff from Waste Connections, Inc., representatives from Haltom City, and staff from W.T. Francisco Elementary were on hand to give away the bicycles.
Last year Waste Connections, Inc. donated over 8,000 bikes to children across the USA. They hope to exceed that number this year through their staff’s generous donation of time and finances to give back to the community that they serve. Haltom City is proud to be home to this community-minded business and thank them for their service in Haltom City.
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ABOUT HALTOM CITY
Haltom City is a Northeast Tarrant County city of 44,000 hard-working Texans that take pride in their comfortable neighborhoods and the town’s unique history as the center of the Birdville Settlement and the original Tarrant County seat. Haltom City is a principal city of the DFW Metroplex located 6 miles from Downtown Fort Worth, 20 miles from DFW International Airport and 30 miles from Downtown Dallas.
ABOUT WASTE CONNECTIONS
Waste Connections, Inc. is an integrated solid waste services company that provides waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. Through its R360 Environmental Solutions subsidiary, the Company is also a leading provider of non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several of the most active natural resource producing areas in the United States, including the Permian, Bakken and Eagle Ford Basins. Waste Connections serves more than six million residential, commercial, industrial, and exploration and production customers from a network of operations in 39 states, six provinces and the District of Columbia. The Company also provides intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest. We believe the solid waste service business is a local business managed by professionals living and working in the communities we serve. We strive to provide service excellence for those communities that place their trust in our company and are always dedicated to putting our customers first.
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Jan 08, 2019 08:50 am
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A note from Eddie Brown
Head Coach, Birdville High School Girls Soccer
In 2008, the Birdville High and Haltom High girls soccer teams joined forces, with the help of coach Kyle Lester (then at Haltom High School), to launch the first ever BISD joint-high school soccer team endeavor to host an event to raise cancer awareness.
Little did we know at that time how cancer would affect our BHS soccer community. The passing in 2009 of fellow Hawk boys soccer player, Johnny Baggett, from leukemia, deeply impacted us all. Johnny’s battle was an inspiration to us which cemented our common fight for the cure. Birdville HS boys soccer coach Roger Garcia joined in the fight the following year.
In 2013, as Coach Lester moved to Richland High School and coach Brandon Badgeley took over at Haltom High School, we began to push in getting more BISD teams involved in the fight for a cure. That year, all three BISD girl’s soccer programs jointly raised over $3,000 dollars to donate to both the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
In 2014, we again tried to push the envelope to be bigger and better. This led to coach Matt Snow, Richland High School boys soccer, jumping on board. We are very proud to say that that year we raised nearly $5,000 dollars to help in the fight for a cure.
2015 again marked a first for BISD as Haltom High men’s coach, Frank Cordova, and his team came on board ensuring that BISD Soccer would be the first and only sport to come together as one family to fight for the cure.
This year, the event again will host all BISD soccer squads, as well as our friends from Azle and Wichita Falls high schools, and I assure you, their fight remains the same.
I am very proud to announce that since the 2008 inaugural match, we have together raised over $30,000 in donations to both the ACS & LLS organizations.
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