This Week

Tue / 01

• The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Tarrant County Business Breakfast, networking for small-, minority- and women-owned businesses, from

7-8:30 a.m. at Radisson South, 100 Alta Mesa Blvd. For information, contact Teresa Pearson at tpearson@fortworthchamber.com.

• A Networking Business Luncheon will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Smokey’s by Eddie Deen, 5300

E. Lancaster Ave. The speaker is Erma C. Johnson Hadley, interim chancellor at Tarrant County College. For information, send an e-mail to smorrison@austincompany.com.

• Runner Dick Beardsley will speak at 7 p.m. at Martin High School in Arlington. A free training seminar and run will be held at 6 a.m. Sept. 2 at The Runner, 3535 W. Pioneer Parkway. For information, call 817-461-2281.  

Wed / 02

• Tarrant County College Southeast Campus is hosting its semi-annual “Back-to-School/Back-to-work” job fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2100 Southeast Parkway in Arlington in the Main Commons. For information, contact TCC Career and Employment Services at 817-515-3592.

• The TCC Small Business Development Center will hold a Tax Workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the James E. Guinn Complex, 1150 South Freeway. The cost of the session is $26. Register in advance with Kathy Hudson at 817-871-6028.

• The Fort Worth chapter of Texas Chefs’ Association meeting is going to be held at 3 p.m. at Colonial Country Club. Scheduled at the September meeting will be a local food show featuring local artisans and farmers including: Generation Farms, Pendery’s Spices, Texas Organic Mushrooms and Paula Lambert, owner and founder of The Mozzarella Co. of Dallas. For information, contact Sylvie Schulze at 817-907-8931.

• The YWCA of Fort Worth & Tarrant County is hosting the first session of its Dialogue of Race, a workshop about racism in Tarrant County, from 6-8 p.m. at the office,

512 W. Fourth St.

• Inventor Dean Kamen is speaking at 7 p.m. in the Lone Star Auditorium at the Maverick Activities Center,

550 W. Nedderman Drive, on the University of Texas at Arlington campus. The inventor’s speech, which is free and open to the public, is one of the kickoff events of the College of Engineering’s 50th anniversary.

Thu / 03

• The TCC Small Business Development Center will host an Intellectual Property Orientation from 10 a.m. to noon at the James E. Guinn Complex. The session is $26 and those interested should register in advance by calling 817-871-6028.

Thu / 03

• Dick Evans, chairman and CEO of Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc., will be the featured speaker of the Tandy Executive Speaker Series, hosted by the Neeley School of Business, from 7:30-9:00 a.m. at TCU’s Brown Lupton University Union.

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