By BJ Austin, KERA News
Dallas, TX – The top of the 400-foot arch on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will be set in place at 7 am tomorrow. That work was scheduled for Monday morning, but contractors moved-up the schedule.
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge extends the Woodall Rodgers Freeway downtown over the Trinity River to west Dallas. It's 40-story arch will be visible for miles.
The Hunt Hill Bridge is the first of three planned "signature" bridges designed by noted Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Partial Lunar Eclipse Saturday Morning
Saturday morning is no time to sleep in.
Linda Krouse, director of the Noble Planetarium in Fort Worth, says a partial lunar eclipse will be visible starting about 5:15 tomorrow morning. But she says you don't have to get up "that" early.
Krouse: The best time to see a partial really is right at its greatest moment, I think, especially if you're looking at it in the early morning hours. Six-thirty in the morning is when the greatest part of this eclipse occurs. It's like 6:38 in the morning.
This is the second of four lunar eclipses over North Texas this year. The first was in January. Tomorrow morning's will be followed by July 11th, and one in December. Krouse calls it a banner year.
Weekly Dallas Protests Of War In Afghanistan
The Dallas Peace Center is launching weekly Friday protests of the war in Afghanistan.
Organizers say they want to pump up the volume for a change in U.S. policy after the firing of General Stanley McChrystal, and new leadership.
Protestor John Fullinwider says he'll spend his Friday lunch hours downtown til further notice -- holding up a protest banner as a reminder to those passing by.
Fullinwider: The public's forgotten about this war in a way. And anyone person who decides to write a letter to their Congressman, or vote differently next time, or come join us next time, you know that's another chain unbound.
About half-a-dozen demonstrators showed up the first Friday protest. They shared the busy corner with pedestrians, a sidewalk preacher, and a man holding a sign about a nearby auction of hi-rise condos.