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Disc golf is no longer just a pastime, and Fort Worth is home to several vibrant courses and leagues.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JUAN R. GOVEA

Now that spring is here, it’s time to hit the links. No, not Colonial or Rivercrest. #fancy We’re talking the chain-links.

Disc golf around town has never been more popular. There are myriad reasons why Fort Worthians are picking up Frisbees and throwing them at “holes” made of chains, but a lot of the local players I talked to think it’s mainly because of the exercise, the fun, and the joy of seeing a plastic disc fly hundreds of feet no matter a player’s age.

Whatever explanation, we’re just glad to see people enjoying nature and moving their bodies. And putting their screens down for a sec.

Fifty-seven-year-old Brian Mace knows the deal. He started playing disc golf in 1991. A competitor and promoter from 1998 to 2008, he made a living from the sport as an event operator. He’s done it and keeps doing it simply because he loves the sport.

“It’s here for everyone,” Maces said.

Thirty-seven-year-old Crystal Haggerton, who’s been playing for 15 years, loves the sport because it’s fun and also because she enjoys the outdoors and spending time with friends. She’s also proud of her and husband John Haggerton’s work at Gateway Park these past five years. The Haggertons, who also help maintain Z Boaz Disc Golf Course, organize Sunday

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Gateway Dubz, a weekly bring-your-ownpartner doubles match at Gateway Disc Golf Park, and are working with Mace to expand Gateway to two 18-hole courses.

“I love the game,” 38-year-old John said.

Along with a few dozen courses, North Texas is home to several retailers, including Ideal Discs in Haltom City. Co-owners Cory Myrick, Luke Robinson, and Jesse Widelipz agree that business has been slow recently, but they see newcomers all the time, quite a few of them women.

“Disc golf is a male-dominated sport just like basketball or any other sport really,” Crystal said. “Women are still working and will continue to work towards growing their sport respectively. It’s difficult for women no matter what sport you play, in my opinion.”

North Texas is home to seven ladies’ leagues, including Saucer Sisters and Chicks Chasing Chains.

Shelby Moore was playing a tournament in Waco when she met a couple women who ran the original Chicks Chasing Chains in Houston. That’s when Moore realized Fort

Worth didn’t have a ladies’ group. “I went out of my comfort zone and decided to start Chicks Chasing Chains [here] four years ago, and it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”

Multiple courses in town and throughout North Texas host tournaments “all the time,” Crystal said. “The disc golf scene is booming, and I don’t expect it to slow down anytime soon.”

She and husband John keeps it simple: “To newcomers, I say just get out and enjoy the game and nature.” l continued on page 5

Discs, like the ones here at Ideal Discs in Haltom City, range in size and curve, starting with a long-distance driver and followed by a mid-range disc and, for short layups, a putter. The co-owners say they see newcomers at their shop almost daily.

Crystal Haggerton doesn’t play a lot of tournaments, but she and husband John Haggerton are the two “Gatekeepers” of Gateway Disc Golf Park. She simply loves the game and has played regularly for the past 15 years.

(From left to right) Amber Montijo, Shelby Moore, Michelle Peacock, and Lauren Selim are part of Chicks Chasing Chains, an all-women disc golf group whose Facebook page lists 291 members. Anywhere from 10 to 25 women play every Sunday at Z Boaz Disc Golf Course.

Discs opened in May 2015 to “provide the best plastic and customer service,” they say.

Shelby Moore at Z Boaz Disc Golf Course: “I went out of my comfort zone and decided to start Chicks Chasing Chains … and it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”

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Brian Mace managed the installation of Z Boaz Disc Golf Park and is working with the City of Fort Worth and Crystal and John Haggerton to create two 18-hole courses at Gateway Park.

of three owners of Ideal Discs in Haltom City, Luke Robinson believes his is the oldest shop of its kind in North Texas.

Andrew Elizalde usually plays Z Boaz with brother David Elizalde, and both say they enjoy the outdoors and the exercise.

(From left to right) Crystal Haggerton, John Haggerton, and Brian Mace take a short break at the eighth basket at Gateway Disc Golf Park.

Eric John Benge, who will be 50 in May, said he’s been playing disc golf off and on since 1992. “It’s great exercise and keeps me out of the bars and whatnot. It helps feed my competitive nature.”

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Morgan Mercantile celebrates five years in a brick-and-mortar spot in SoMa with a party Saturday.

BY STEVE STEWARD

A local apparel retailer and designer is throwing a five-year-anniversary party 4-8 p.m. Saturday, and it’s a big deal because this apparel/design company is independently owned in a world of Amazon, Target, and Old Navy.

And it doesn’t exist only on a screen.

Located on South Main Street in SoMa between Panther City Tattoo and Tarantula Tiki, Morgan Mercantile began as something of a side hustle for the husband-and-wife team of co-owners Kala and Chance Morgan — Kala was working as general manager for a local restaurant while Chance was logging hours at a print shop by day and by night rocking as frontman for one of the biggest indie bands in North Texas, Burning Hotels.

Five years later, and Morgan Mercantile will celebrate good times come on at the South Main MicroPark (105 S. Main St.) with a new seasonal line, a DJ, tattoo booth, free booze, and more. This dreams-docome-true category of success is the result of a lot of hours, effort, and fortunate timing.

There’s also the matter of the Morgans’ vision, in which they design the kind of clothes they themselves would want to wear, which turn out to be wildly popular, because the kind of clothes they’d want to wear

are inherently cool. Of course, that vision doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Per all those hours and effort, Chance was out whizzing around town in the shop’s van when I dropped by the store to chat, but Kala filled me in how they transformed their weekend pop-ups into a brand that’s turned into a recognizable part of contemporary Fort Worth culture.

“Chance started Morgan Mercantile in 2015,” Kala said. “We got married in October of that year, and he told me that summer that he wanted to branch out and do his own thing. He’d been working at Merch Haus, a print shop in Aledo. We got married, and two weeks later, he had everything he needed to start — the branding, the LLC, his clients — and he hit the ground running.”

Morgan Mercantile’s shirts then, as now, were Fort Worth-centric, their seasonal releases heavy on panthers, cacti, and other Cowtown- and Texas-specific graphics, printed in retro-referencing fonts on new old-stock vintage-style shirts. For three years, the Morgans made a name for their brand at pop-ups and other events until they got the idea that the demand for a brick-andmortar store was there. Kala said they signed their lease on the South Main spot in 2018.

A brick-and-mortar location was “kind of like a little bit in the back of our minds, and then one of Chance’s vendors told him about a space that was opening. … It ended up being something that wasn’t going to work out, but that sparked our curiosity, like, ‘Hey, let’s look around.’ ”

Chance contacted local commercial real estate specialist Jordan Johnson for help in finding the right space.

“We looked at a few spots … that didn’t have the foot traffic we were looking for,” Kala said, “but then Jordan told [Chance] about a spot on South Main he had. Chance went to look at the spot, and he called me at work and said, ‘I’ve signed a lease.’ ”

At the time, Kala was GM at Barcadia, the long-shuttered arcade-themed bar and grill in the West 7th corridor. “In my head, I was like, ‘OK, I can probably run the bar and run the shop, no problem. I think I was a little cuckoo to think that, but then [Barcadia’s owner] called me and said, ‘Hey, I think we’re in trouble.’ ”

Due to a stack of owed bills and high rent, Barcadia was going to close.

“I think it was the universe saying that was the perfect opportunity to get out,” Kala

said. “We closed Barcadia in December of 2018, got through the holidays, and started building [the Morgan Mercantile shop] in February of [2019] with [carpenter] Pat Adams. They worked together designing the space, and all of us put our effort into it, and in April, we opened.”

Apart from a couple of “wish we would have done that differently” lessons and the Quixotic quest to predict what designs and cuts people will clamor for, Kala said that their success has been pretty organic. With their clean, vintage-inspired graphics that lean into the Panther City part of Fort Worth’s heritage, the Morgans’ apparel has been a huge hit, especially with visitors.

“We get a lot of tourists, especially now that Fort Worth is getting a lot of press,” Kala said. “A lot of people from Dallas come by, too. So do people who are staying downtown for conventions. And for the eclipse, it was bonkers.”

The Morgans know what sells and know what looks good, and they are wary of chasing one-offs and flash-in-the-pan trends. “We’ve learned through the years … we want to stay in our lane. We’ve done some

apparel for special events, but pretty much, we try to stick to our seasonal drops.”

Putting out quality merch designs that are eye-catching without gimmick or unnecessary flash is part of staying in one lane, and it’s also why the Morgans’ clients include Lone Star Beer, TX Whiskey, Billy Bob’s Texas, and Nickel City, among many others. The Morgans’ reach is subtle but all over the place. In the way that owning a JackDaw Folk Art print is kind of an unofficial “Fort Worth thing,” if you don’t have a Morgan Mercantile shirt or hat in your closet, you probably know someone who does. And you should probably invest in one pronto.

I asked Kala if she and Chance ever thought Morgan Mercantile would have that kind of impact in Fort Worth, or if they were just trying to make shirts people would like. “Obviously, there’s a dream or a hope that it would [resonate]. You do something like this, it’s taking a risk, hoping you can reach a few people. The first time I saw one of our T-shirts out in the wild was probably about a month after we opened, and I just tripped out. Looking back, it seems so silly, but I was at Target when I saw it, and it was someone I didn’t know, wearing one of our most simplistic designs. And I called Chance, and I was so giddy. I was like, ‘I’m looking at this girl in the produce department, and I’m freaking out because she’s wearing one!’ It felt so cool, and to this day, I still trip out when I see people walking down [West] Magnolia [Avenue], anywhere, wearing our shirts, so when someone comes in and tells me a story about how they were in London and saw someone wearing a Morgan Mercantile shirt … that feeling will never get old.”

No doubt Kala and Chance will be enjoying that feeling on Saturday — Morgan Mercantile is also releasing their spring and summer lines in conjunction with the party — as well as a well-earned good time.

“I thought it would be fun for the anniversary to be, you know, semi-themed, so there’s kind of a circus theme,” Kala said. “It’s not going to be fully in your face with clowns and shit.”

It’s the kind of party you hope you get to throw for your friends one day. As I looked around at the sunny, tasteful Texan aesthetic on display, it occurred to me that Morgan Mercantile is as good a representation of being from here as you could hope. l

Morgan Mercantile’s Kala Morgan, with husband Chance Morgan: “When someone comes in and tells me a story about how they were in London and saw someone wearing a Morgan Mercantile shirt … that feeling will never get old.”

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NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR QUALITY STANDARD PERMIT REGISTRATION RENEWAL

AIR QUALITY REGISTRATION NO. 121990

APPLICATION. Holcim - SOR, Inc., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Registration No. 121990, for an air quality standard permit for concrete batch plants, which would authorize continued operation of a concrete batch plant located at 12270 Bod Drive, Aledo, Tarrant County, Texas 76008.

AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. https://gisweb.tceq.texas.gov/LocationMapper/?marker=-97.53591,32.718098&level=13.

The existing facility is authorized to emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on April 9, 2024. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Ridglea Branch Library, 3628 Bernie Anderson, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ.

The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. Information in the application indicates that this permit renewal would not result in an increase in allowable emissions and would not result in the emission of an air contaminant not previously emitted. The TCEQ may act on this application without seeking further public comment or providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.

PUBLIC COMMENT. You may submit public comments, or a request for a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments is 15 days after the final newspaper notice is published. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process.

After the technical review is complete the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. If only comments are received, the response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application, will then be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or who is on the mailing list for this application, unless the application is directly referred to a contested case hearing.

OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing. The applicant or the executive director may also request that the application be directly referred to a contested case hearing after technical review of the application. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 15 days from this notice, the executive director may act on the application. If no hearing request is received within this 15day period, no further opportunity for hearing will be provided. According to the Texas Clean Air Act § 382.056(o) a contested case hearing may only be granted if the applicant’s compliance history is in the lowest classification under applicable compliance history requirements and if the hearing request is based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission’s decision on the application. Further, the Commission may only grant a hearing on those issues submitted during the public comment period and not withdrawn. A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns. Requests for a contested case hearing must be submitted in writing within 15 days following this notice to the Office of the Chief Clerk, at the address below.

Following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to consider in this proceeding.

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