City Leaders Sign Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Steel

On Wednesday, June 9, 2010, the Honorable Mayor Tom Leppert invited the Dallas City Council and City Manager Mary Suhm to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction site to sign steel from the bridge’s center arch. City leaders showed their enthusiasm for the project through their creative signatures. The event commemorated the city’s historic progress on the bridge, designed by world-famous Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava.

While it looked like the event would be a wet one, the rain held off, and

Mayor Leppert, the City Council, City Manager Mary Suhm, and the city’s distinguished guests, dressed in safety vests and hardhats, enjoyed the opportunity to recognize progress on the bridge’s arch. A massive Manitowoc Crane looms over the construction site hoisting pieces of steel for the arch into the air. City leaders signed the 300,000-pound center piece which consists of three pieces and is scheduled for placement as the keystone (very top) of the 400 foot arch later this month if weather permits. The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will open in 2011.

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Calendar of Events

June 30, 2010
Trinity River Photo Contest Begins
Calling all entries!
Photo Contest begins with new
online options
Photos accepted through October 15, 2010 
www.trinityrivercorridor.org
or 214-671-9500

Now through July 8, 2010
Trinity River Photo Exhibit
“Bringing the Trinity to Life”
Mattie Nash – Myrtle Davis Recreation Center
3710 North Hampton Road
Dallas, TX 75212-1636
Free admission and parking
9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Monday - Thursday
(214) 670-6194

July 15, 2010
Trinity River Audubon Center
6500 South Loop 12
(I-45 South to Loop 12 East)
Dallas, Texas 75217
Late night 3rd Thursday Free Admission
Visit www.trinityriveraudubon.org
or call 214-370-TRAC
9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Look Closer - Canon Cameras
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Free Photography Workshop by Canon
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Reserve your seat – limit 100 attendees
www.trinityrivercorridor.org
or call 214-671-9500

Community View

Announcing the 2010 Trinity River Photo Contest!
Calling all entries! Capture your own photo adventure!

The City of Dallas, Dallas Camera Club, Canon, and Competitive Camera are proud to announce the Second Annual Trinity River Photo Contest launching on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Photo Contest will allow photographers to display the beauty and majesty of the Trinity River Corridor through their photographic lens – all 20 miles and 10,000 acres of the project.

Canon will host a free photography workshop Thursday, July 15 at the Trinity River Audubon Center to help spur on photographer enthusiasts and allow photographers to begin to capture their images of the exciting Trinity River Corridor

Professional, amateur and youth photographers are encouraged to enter photographs in the following categories:
            Architecture/Structures
            Forest/Prairie
            River/Ponds
            Wildlife

Entries will be accepted from 8:00 a.m. on June 30, 2010 through October 15, 2010 at midnight. For more information about contest rules, how to enter, how to register for the photography workshop, contest prizes, maps, and locations to shoot, please visit: www.trinityrivercorridor.org.

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