State Fair of Texas 2009 promotions: Please note this is not a complete listing.
Participating North Texas KROGER stores
Advance purchase General Admission tickets are $13.50. A Season Pass is $29.95. They may be purchased at the check-out counter or at the service desk.
Opening Day-Sept. 25--Bring a full 20 oz. Coca-Cola product for donation to the North Texas Food Bank containers at Fair admission gates and enter the State Fair for $4 per donation per person.
DART Combo Ticket – Available at Kroger Food Stores. $16 buys one general admission to the 2009 State Fair of Texas and round-trip transportation on DART the day of your visit. The Green Line drops off at the front gate and a second station is located within easy walking distance to the MLK entrance.
Dr Pepper $3 Tuesdays--Every Tuesday, bring an empty Dr Pepper can and enter for $3. Most rides (excluding the Thrillway, Texas Star and selected other attractions) are 5 coupons.
Dr Pepper $5 after 5 p.m. – Bring an empty Dr Pepper can to any State Fair admission gate after 5 p.m. and enter for $5.
Kroger "Three for $1" each Wednesday--Admission is $1 for each visitor bringing 3 cans of food for area food banks.
Coke $4 Thursday--Bring an empty 20 oz. bottle of a Coca-Cola product and enter the Fair for $4 admission.
HealthSpring and Mature Texan Magazine sponsor of Seniors Day. FREE Thursdays--Senior Citizens 60 years and older get in to the State Fair FREE each Thursday.
FREE Thursday admission with a Cinemark Theater ticket stub.
KISS-FM “Fridays at the Fair”- Half-price admission and half-price rides after 5 p.m. on any Friday. Must present coupon printed from KISS-FM website for admission offer. Half-price ride wristbands will be distributed from KISS booth outside Midway Arch from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. on Fridays only.
Dickies – Friday, October 16, wear and show your Dickies logo clothing item at the staffed tent outside the gate and receive a voucher. The voucher is for FREE admission on Friday, October 16 only.
Any Day--McDonald's offers $4 off General Admission with one of their State Fair coupons (available on tray liner or bag stuffer) any day of the Fair. A free child ticket (with purchase of general admission) coupon is also distributed by McDonald’s. Offer may not be combined with any other offer.
For additional information please contact the State Fair @ 214-565-9931 press O for assistance
Monday, September 28, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Animals in the Environment
Animals in the Environment
Creating Homes for Wildlife
at Trinity River Audubon Center
By Jeanette Boylan
Lovely View: Hidden Secret
Looking out from the Trinity River Audubon Center’s deck, you see a beautiful landscape of wetlands nestled next to rolling hills. This lovely view hides a secret. The hills are actually capped landfills - huge piles of trash that have been covered over. Our site
was an illegal landfill for many years until the City of Dallas cleaned it up and began restoring it to native habitats. During the restoration process, several wetlands were created, hundreds of trees were planted and many acres were sowed with native prairie seed. Audubon Texas is now
managing the property and continuing the restoration process.
Artificial Bird Boxes
One feature missing from these newly restored habitats is large dead trees and snags. While not
aesthetically pleasing to many, dead trees are priceless to the thousands of species that need them as homes. To help out a few of these species, Audubon is providing the next best thing, artificial bird boxes. We are putting up boxes for barn owls, eastern screech-owls, bluebirds, wood ducks, and prothonotary warblers. We hope to see occupants in them next year.
Chimney Swift Tower
To help out chimney swifts, we unveiled a new chimney swift tower that was built by the North Texas Master Naturalists in March. This tower provides nesting and roosting habitat for swifts. These small aerial acrobats have become dependent upon chimneys. While chimneys were once common, fewer homes now have them and many homeowners that have chimneys are capping them, preventing the swifts from using them. We were ecstatic when a pair of swifts were seen flying into the tower during the summer. -Jeanette T. Boylan is Citizen Science Manager at
TRAC. She previously worked for 12 years at the Dallas Zoo. She earned her Ph.D. in Zoology from Colorado State University.
Saving the Bees
To assist invertebrates with habitat, we set up six bee hives. This is a partnership between Audubon and Texas Honeybee Guild. In the fall, the honey will be harvested and sold in the center’s nature store. The bees love our acres of pesticide-free clover. Honeybees have recently made the news because of a new problem called Colony Collapse Disorder that is decimating bee populations around the world. The cause of the syndrome is unclear, and the bees need all the help they can get.
Pesticide-Free Diversity
Audubon’s policy of pesticide-free maintenance also helps hundreds of other species. As a result, our insect diversity is incredible and our wetlands are teeming with aquatic critters. High insect diversity leads to high bird diversity. Many birds are insectivores and even our common seed-eaters like cardinals need to feed protein-rich insects to their young. It’s pretty easy to see that if you get rid of the insects, you’ll get rid of the birds.
Just the Beginning…
This is just a start for the Trinity River Audubon Center and we hope to keep improving the site for our wild residents.
What You Can Do:
Homeowners can improve their “habitat” for wildlife by some simple steps.
Reduce pesticide use
Plant native species
Provide nest boxes
Remove invasive exotic plants
Reduce lawn areas
Keep cats inside
Reducing impervious surfaces
More information can be found at AudubonAtHome.org.
Creating Homes for Wildlife
at Trinity River Audubon Center
By Jeanette Boylan
Lovely View: Hidden Secret
Looking out from the Trinity River Audubon Center’s deck, you see a beautiful landscape of wetlands nestled next to rolling hills. This lovely view hides a secret. The hills are actually capped landfills - huge piles of trash that have been covered over. Our site
was an illegal landfill for many years until the City of Dallas cleaned it up and began restoring it to native habitats. During the restoration process, several wetlands were created, hundreds of trees were planted and many acres were sowed with native prairie seed. Audubon Texas is now
managing the property and continuing the restoration process.
Artificial Bird Boxes
One feature missing from these newly restored habitats is large dead trees and snags. While not
aesthetically pleasing to many, dead trees are priceless to the thousands of species that need them as homes. To help out a few of these species, Audubon is providing the next best thing, artificial bird boxes. We are putting up boxes for barn owls, eastern screech-owls, bluebirds, wood ducks, and prothonotary warblers. We hope to see occupants in them next year.
Chimney Swift Tower
To help out chimney swifts, we unveiled a new chimney swift tower that was built by the North Texas Master Naturalists in March. This tower provides nesting and roosting habitat for swifts. These small aerial acrobats have become dependent upon chimneys. While chimneys were once common, fewer homes now have them and many homeowners that have chimneys are capping them, preventing the swifts from using them. We were ecstatic when a pair of swifts were seen flying into the tower during the summer. -Jeanette T. Boylan is Citizen Science Manager at
TRAC. She previously worked for 12 years at the Dallas Zoo. She earned her Ph.D. in Zoology from Colorado State University.
Saving the Bees
To assist invertebrates with habitat, we set up six bee hives. This is a partnership between Audubon and Texas Honeybee Guild. In the fall, the honey will be harvested and sold in the center’s nature store. The bees love our acres of pesticide-free clover. Honeybees have recently made the news because of a new problem called Colony Collapse Disorder that is decimating bee populations around the world. The cause of the syndrome is unclear, and the bees need all the help they can get.
Pesticide-Free Diversity
Audubon’s policy of pesticide-free maintenance also helps hundreds of other species. As a result, our insect diversity is incredible and our wetlands are teeming with aquatic critters. High insect diversity leads to high bird diversity. Many birds are insectivores and even our common seed-eaters like cardinals need to feed protein-rich insects to their young. It’s pretty easy to see that if you get rid of the insects, you’ll get rid of the birds.
Just the Beginning…
This is just a start for the Trinity River Audubon Center and we hope to keep improving the site for our wild residents.
What You Can Do:
Homeowners can improve their “habitat” for wildlife by some simple steps.
Reduce pesticide use
Plant native species
Provide nest boxes
Remove invasive exotic plants
Reduce lawn areas
Keep cats inside
Reducing impervious surfaces
More information can be found at AudubonAtHome.org.
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