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Thursday, March 1, 2012 ★ Joshua Star ★ Page 3
AGRICULTURE
County stock show, youth fair this week
By BRIAN PORTER
joshuastar@thestargroup. com
If you’ve noticed an in-
crease in the number of stock
trailers making their way
through town toward Cle-
burne this week, take a quick
look. It could be a familiar
face.
The 76th annual John-
son County Junior Livestock
Show and Youth Fair began
Tuesday with the poultry and
turkey exhibition, in addi-
tion to the arrival of entries
in the Youth Fair and agricul-
tural mechanics show. Vari-
ous agricultural shows con-
tinue through Friday, with
the annual barbecue and sale
taking place Saturday. All
shows take place at the John-
son County Sheriffs Posse
grounds in Cleburne.
“It’s not about the ani-
mals as much as making bet-
ter kids,” said Chris Good-
win, in his first year as show
president. “Whether they are
showing animals, wood and
metal projects or something
in the Youth Fair, these are
all things the kids are taught
to create. We’re trying to
teach them life lessons. If we
end up keeping the kids in-
volved, in the end, I feel like
we’ve made better kids and
accomplished our goals.”
He takes over the presi-
dency of the show from Stan
McVey, a former agriculture
teacher and now an assis-
tant principal at Joshua High
School.
“Regardless of the econ-
omy, there will always be a
show and always be kids to
bring animals to show for the
benefit of education,” McVey
said. “I can find no other pro-
gram that teaches important
things like responsibility and
right from wrong.”
The students that are
exhibiting have commit-
ted time outside of school to
their projects for as long as a
year in some cases.
“Because of this program,
I had to get up and feed the
cows and pigs every day,”
McVey said. “If they didn’t
eat, I didn’t eat. To this day, I
believe that’s the reason why
I am one of the first to work.
When the sun comes up. I’m
working.”
The students are some of
the best examples of youth,
McVey said.
‘They become great kids,
I believe, because of respon-
sibility and commitment,” he
said.
He tells a story of a stu-
dent he once had in class at
Joshua High School. The
student had never finished a
six weeks passing every class.
That’s until the student was
encouraged to take on a lamb
project.
“He had to pass all of his
classes to show,” McVey said.
“He did for the first time.”
Breeding meat goats
and market goats, breeding
lambs and market lambs
and market steers will be
shown today. Market hogs
and beef heifers will be
shown Friday. Youth Fair
judging took place from 1-6
p.m. Wednesday, with view-
ing open to the public from
10 a.m.-5 p.m. today. Stu-
dent exhibitors will include
4-H and FFA students from
throughout the county. A
barbecue sponsored by the
4-H will take place at 11 a.m.
Saturday before scholarship
presentations at 12:30 p.m.
and the market animal sale
at 1 p.m.
It could be the last time
the show will take place in
late February to early March.
It will move to the second
week of J anuary in 2013.
ABEL TO RELAX
Joshua Star/DAVE SORTER
Cathryn Abel, owner of Abel Hands, gives a chair massage to Josh-
ua Area Chamber of Commerce president Kim Henderson during last
week's meet and greet at the chamber office. Abel sponsored the event.
TRANSPORTATION
FW-Cleburne rail line also faces access, funding issues
By DAVE SORTER
joshuastar@thestargroup. com
Though reported concerns
about funding and access for
the Fort Worth Transporta-
tion Authority’s planned TEX
Rail commuter line do not di-
rectly affect the prospects for
proposed rail service through
Crowley and Johnson County,
some of the same problems
could arise as that line comes
closer to reality.
“The J ohnson County line
has a lot of similar issues,
just because the corridor is
owned by a Class 1 railroad,”
said Chad Edwards, a project
manager for the North Cen-
tral Texas Council of Gov-
ernment’s transportation de-
partment. “So we would have
to have negotiations.”
The 33-mile rail line from
downtown Fort Worth to Cle-
burne, which would run on
BNSF rail, is in NCTCOG’s
2035 long-range plan, though
it has not advanced beyond
that stage, Edwards said.
“Back in 2008, a Johnson
County rail study was complet-
ed that J ohnson County, The T
and we worked on together,”
Edwards said. ‘That laid the
groundwork for the line, but
there has not been a whole
lot in the way of movement in
terms of negotiations.”
In fact, nobody has asked
BNSF to begin negotiations,
according to Joe Faust, a re-
gional public affairs director
for the railroad.
“BNSF has not been ap-
proached at this point to dis-
cuss this project,” Faust said.
‘We are open to discussion on
the long-term feasibility of pas-
senger service in this region.”
The TEX Rail line would
travel from southwest Fort
Worth to the north end of
Dallas-Fort Worth Inter-
national Airport, where it
would hook up with Dallas
Area Rapid Transit light-rail
trains. It could extend east
to Plano on the Cotton Belt
rail line. However, a bill is
being debated in Congress
that would transfer most
gasoline-tax revenue now
earmarked for mass transit
systems to highway projects.
Also, The T is negotiating
with DART, the Union Pacific
Railroad and the Fort Worth
& Western Railroad for ac-
cess to its rails. The three
railroads own about 33 miles
of TEX Rail’s 37-mile corri-
dor. DART owns most of that
track, 20 miles from the Fort
Worth Stockyards to DFW.
TEX Rail would likely have
to be completed before serious
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son County line, Edwards said.
The T hopes to have trains run-
ning on that line in 2016.
“In the long-range plan,
there’s limited funding and
certain projects are further
along,” he said. “Once TEX
Rail is done and implement-
ed, that frees up the (Fort
Worth-Cleburne) corridor
for more funding.”
Therefore, no timetable
has been established for con-
struction of the line.
“It’s out there,” Edwards
said. “We understand the citi-
zens like that rail would come.”
The Cleburne Line, as it
is referred to in NCTCOG’s
mobility plan, would travel
almost completely on BNSF
lines, known by Joshua and
Crowley residents for their
at-grade downtown crossings
and which is almost evenly
between Interstate 35 W and
the future Chisholm Trail
Parkway. While that toll road
will not have a direct Burleson
exit, the Cleburne line would
have a station in Burleson at
Hulen Road and the planned
extension of Alsbury.
The commuter trains
would stop at the site of the
Joshua Station develop-
ment on State Highway 174
between Stadium Drive and
Plum Street, and in Crowley
at Main Street near Hamp-
ton Road, a block from City
Hall. Residents in the north-
ern part of the Crowley ISD
would be served by a station
somewhere near Sycamore
School Road and McCart.
Cleburne would have sta-
tions at U.S. 67 and SH 174,
and Fort Worth stations would
be at Interstate 20 and down-
town. There would be 11 sta-
tions in all. The trip from Fort
Worth to Cleburne would take
about 40 minutes, according
to NCTCOG estimates.
Transit-oriented develop-
ment efforts are already under
way. Burleson commissioned
a study that last year result-
ed in a proposal for a mix of
retail, office and residential
facilities. The Joshua Station
development is starting to
blossom, with Brookshire’s
committed to building a
store there and an apartment
complex possible. The city of
Crowley bought the buildings
that now house the Crowley
Area Chamber of Commerce
more than two years ago to
eventually be used for transit-
based businesses.
“It’s nice to have all that
stuff in place,” Edwards said.
‘That will help when its time
to move forward.”
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