H-E-B happenings
Arbor Daze is Saturday at Midway Park in Euless
If it’s spring in Euless, it must be time for Arbor Daze.
Because of the ongoing Midtown Express construction project, this year’s festival moves to Midway Park, 300 W. Midway Drive. That’s practically its birthplace.
While the festival has been held at the City Hall campus in recent years, it started almost 30 years ago at the Midway Recreation Center. It grew to a three-day festival that drew more than 100,000 visitors before being scaled back to a community event.
This year’s festival will include a kids zone, carnival rides, food vendors, live music (including Escape, a Journey tribute band) and, of course, free tree giveaways.
Information: arbordaze.org.
Bedford butcher wins $20,000 in meat-cutting contest
A Bedford butcher is a one man meat-cutting dynasty.
For the second consecutive year, Alex Marroquin was named Meat Cutter of the Year at the National Meat Cutting Challenge in Orlando, Fla.
Marroquin, a butcher at the Bedford Texas Roadhouse eatery since it opened in 2005, won $20,000 for his elite carvings. He is married and has a 6-year-old son.
“Alex is a highly respected member of the Texas Roadhouse family, and we’re thrilled to see him win for the second year,” said Michael Smith, managing partner of Texas Roadhouse.
The competition, which started with 200 butchers, requires entrants to cut sirloins, filets and rib-eyes from 30 to 40 pounds of meat. Butchers are judged on quality, yield and speed, and the cutting is done in a room chilled to 38 degrees.
Sun Fresh Market closes Bedford location
The number of grocery store options in Bedford has been reduced by one.
The Minyard Sun Fresh Market in Harwood Hills Village, 3300 Harwood Road, is no longer open.
The store opened in February 2015, replacing a Tom Thumb that had long been a staple at the location just east of Texas 121.
The store was among a dozen Tom Thumb and Albertsons stores acquired by Associated Wholesale Grocers of Fort Worth and Minyard Food Stores of Richardson as part of divestments tied to the merger of Albertsons and Safeway, Tom Thumb’s parent company.
Another Sun Fresh Market remains open in Grapevine, also just off of Texas 121.
This story was originally published April 22, 2016 at 11:52 AM with the headline "H-E-B happenings."