🌱 Apartment Fire Displaces 40 + Dallas Pride Registration Opens

Good day, neighbors! It's me again, Nicole Fallon-Peek, your host of the Dallas Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Lots of sun; becoming windier. High: 74 Low: 59.

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Here are the top 3 stories today in Dallas:

1. The Dallas Fire Department battled an apartment fire near the President George Bush Turnpike for nearly 45 minutes on Monday. Authorities say the blaze at The Grove at Trinity Mills apartment complex was started by an unknown source. It reportedly left one person hurt, 40 residents displaced, and much of the building severely damaged. Investigators are still working to determine how many of the building's 16 units suffered fire damage. (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)
2. After a two-year hiatus on in-person celebrations, Dallas Pride has opened registration for its 2022 celebration, to be held on Saturday, June 4. The COVID-19 pandemic made Pride organizers hold the music festival and Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade entirely online in 2020. Festival vendors and participants of the parade can now begin to register their services online starting today, Feb. 15. (Dallas Voice)
3. Dallas-based Medifriendrx and the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas are working together to create a robot pharmacy. The new robotic pharmacy's goals are to improve medication distribution, cut wait times, and reduce hospital recidivism while providing drug access to isolated communities, according to D Magazine. (D Healthcare Daily)

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Today in Dallas:

• S.A.D.: Single Awareness Day At The Skillman Southwestern Branch Library (All Day)
• The Market (Open Daily) At The Dallas Farmers Market (All Day)
• Royal Reads: King Tut Museum Replicas Exhibit At The Irving Public Library Kids (All Day)

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From my notebook:

• If you've been visiting any of these closing DFW COVID-19 testing locations, you may need to find an alternative for future testing and vaccination needs. (Dallas Patch)
• The Dallas Arboretum shared a special behind-the-scenes look at the Dallas Blooms: Birds in Paradise. Click to watch the exclusive footage. (Instagram)
• Creative Arts Center of Dallas mourns the loss of Robert Gerard Pollock, a great friend with a gentle humble soul. (Facebook)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.