Daylight saving time means the City's cemetery, Burleson Memorial Park, will be spruced up! The clocks fall back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3. All items that are not permanently attached to the memorial or marker at Burleson Memorial Park, 580 Memorial Plaza, will be removed after the time changes. The removal includes fresh or artificial flowers and other items that are hanging, sitting or lying on the gravesite. What goes hand in hand with changing your clocks? Change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. For more information about the cemetery clean-up, contact Lucas Blessing Funeral Home, 518 S.W. Johnson Ave., or call 817-295-9000 for more information. For more information about smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, call 817-426-9176.

It's done! Chicken E Food Service and Chicken Express hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 25 at the site of their new state-of-the-art distribution center and corporate headquarters in Burleson.  The facility will be located on I- 35W near Bethesda Road and FM 917. Chicken E Food Service is the first tenant in the City of Burleson's HighPoint Business Park. The new facility will be nearly 100,000 square feet and will be expanded by approximately 25,000 square feet in the future, as growth continues. The 90,000 square feet distribution center will have 24,000 square feet of cooler space and 18,000 square feet of freezer space.  The corporate headquarters is also relocating and will occupy approximately 8,000 square feet. Construction is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2014.

The Burleson Police Department Explorers placed first in an event at the 2013 Alamo Area Law Enforcement Explorer Competition Oct. 19. The team of Selena Lisotta, Mary Studebaker, Rachelle Medlin, and Colby Smith drew four events at random. They placed first in the Domestic  Disturbance scenario. The team responded to a mock disturbance at a salon. The explorers were responsible for investigating the allegations of assault, processing the crime scene, and arresting the suspect. The Burleson team competed against more than 100 overall. They were accompanied by two of their advisors, officers C. Garrett and S. Henken. The Explorers are led by Sgt. D. Pool. Officer C. Pilgrim is also an advisor. The competition included 14 categories - academic challenge, accident investigation, arrest-search-seizure, bicycle obstacle course, bomb threat, building search, crime scene search, crisis intervention, domestic disturbance, felony stop, foot pursuit, missing persons, robbery in progress and traffic stop. Read More

Burleson Municipal Court will host a Teen Court Open House on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 5:30 p.m. at the Ron Harmon Subcourthouse, 247 Elk Dr. Learn about volunteer opportunities, upcoming training, the advisory committee and much more. The upcoming training for Teen Court is set for Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 5:30 p.m. at Centennial High School, 201 S. Hurst Rd., and Thursday, Nov. 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the subcourthouse on Elk Drive. For more information call Teen Court Coordinator Merissa Olvera at 817-426-9228 or email molvera@burlesontx.com.

Have you heard of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP), Merchant Marine and Rosie the Riveter? The City is hosting the seventh annual Military Veteran Tribute at Veterans Memorial Park at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9. All three groups will be honored. To be a WASP, a woman had to have a minimum of 500 hours flying time and successfully complete ground school instruction that included navigation, meteorology, radio and Morse code, and use of firearms. The Merchant Marine (referred to as mariners) is a fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels that transport cargo and passengers during peacetime. In time of war, men at the fronts depended on the mariners to transport bombs, gasoline, shells, ammunition, food, guns, vehicles, planes, medicine, and other materials. Rosie the Riveter was the face of an ad campaign during World War II to encourage women to do their patriotic duty and enter the workforce to fill the gaps left by men who enlisted. The Rosie the Riveter campaign was aimed at recruiting women to work in the munitions industry. For more about the event at 298 E. Renfro St., see the news release.

Are you collecting receipts from Hwy. 174 businesses located between the I-35W/Hwy. 174 split and Elk Drive? The Shop Wilshire winner for August was Donna Jacobs. She received gift certificates to cover four oil changes in the next year from Burleson Lube Center, located at 131 S.W. Wilshire. The Texas Department of Transportation is making median improvements to Hwy. 174 between I-35W and Elk Drive. During the construction, the City encourages everyone to keep visiting your favorite Wilshire businesses in the improvement area as part of the City's Shop on Wilshire Loyalty program. Collect five separate receipts from businesses in the improvement area, then deliver or mail the receipts to Burleson City Hall. The next drawing is Nov. 11. Make sure your name and your phone number are included with the receipts. Receipts for the Nov. 11 drawing must be dated Oct. 1-31. The prize is a $250 travel voucher from 1st Travel of Burleson as well as a 21-inch roll bag.

 The Burleson Police Department, Citizens On Patrol, and the DEA collected 247 pounds of unused, expired or unwanted medications, in both pill and liquid form, at the Drug Take Back event Oct. 26 at the City's old service center on Main Street. The event included disposal of over-the-counter as well as prescription drugs. The drugs collected on Oct. 26 will be incinerated. For more pictures go to the Drug Take Back Event album on the City of Burleson Texas Government Facebook page.