From a ride along with Catholic Charities’ affordable transportation service for older residents and disabled people to the Flying Eye Hospital tour, our photojournalists at the Fort Worth Report capture the diversity of events through images of the week. If you have events or photo opportunities, contact community engagement journalist Cristian ArguetaSoto at cristian.arguetasoto@fortworthreport.org or on Twitter.
Rider Thelma Jones, 69, pays Driver Supervisor Joe Manuel on Aug. 18. Jones has used Catholic Charities’ transportation services to get to and from dialysis appointments for a few years. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Catholic Charities transportation services picks up a client at her dialysis appointment on Aug. 18. About 44% of Catholic Charities’ trips are for medical purposes. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Rider Thelma Jones, 69, exits a van on Aug. 18 with help from Driver Supervisor Joe Manuel. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Thelma Jones, 69, has used Catholic Charities’ transportation services for a few years to get to and from her dialysis appointments. She pays $2.50 per ride, she said. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Driver Supervisor Joe Manuel, right, helps rider Karl Mott get into the Catholic Charities van on Aug. 18. Mott lost his sight due to complications from diabetes in 1995. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Driver Supervisor Joe Manuel helps rider Karl Mott get to his front door on Aug. 18. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Alana Calise, the program manager at the Flying Eye Hospital, gives a tour of the plane on Aug. 17. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Dr. Maria Montero, the head of ophthalmology at the Flying Eye Hospital, joined the program in 2017. Montero lives and is a practicing surgeon in Mexico. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Dr. Maria Montero, right, helps a student with an eye care procedure on Aug. 17 at the Flying Eye Hospital in Fort Worth. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)An eye is used for practice procedure on Aug. 17 at the Flying Eye Hospital. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)A eye care professional practices a procedure on Aug. 17 at the Flying Eye Hospital. The hospital hosted trainings for providers from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guyana and Jamaica in August in Fort Worth. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Eye care professionals practice procedures inside the Flying Eye Hospital on Aug. 17. A screen displays what is being done on the simulated patient’s eye. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Nonprofit Orbis’ Flying Eye Hospital is parked in Alliance on Aug. 17. The accredited outpatient hospital will stop in San Francisco in October 2022. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Roberto Rodriguez Jr., 19, did an internship at the Southwest Community Center through the Summer Earn & Learn program. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report photo)Student Angel Gabriel, 16, moved to the United States about three years ago from Venezuela. TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School opened his eyes to the world of technology, he said. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Students walk to class on the first day of school, Aug. 15, at TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School students walk to class on Aug. 15. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes talk on Aug. 15 at TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School began its first day of classes on Aug. 15. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Vegetables sit on a table to be sold at the Cowtown Farmers Market festival on Aug. 13 at Veterans Park, 8901 Clifford St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Mind Your Garden founders Ursula Nuñez, left, and Steven Nuñez teach how to make meals with fresh ingredients at the Cowtown Farmers Market festival on Aug. 13 at Veterans Park, 8901 Clifford St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Mind Your Garden founders Ursula Nuñez, left, and Steven Nuñez teach how to make meals with fresh ingredients at the Cowtown Farmers Market festival on Aug. 13 at Veterans Park, 8901 Clifford St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Do-it-yourself micro-greens kits are available for guests at the Cowtown Farmers Market festival on Aug. 13 at Veterans Park, 8901 Clifford St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)Thistle Hill, located at 1509 Pennsylvania Ave., is surrounded on three sides by Cook Children’s Medical Center. The health care system now owns the historic mansion. (Alexis Allison | Fort Worth Report)
Randi Sewell, an employee of candy and popcorn shop What’s Poppin Texas, packs popcorn for a customer on Aug. 18, 2022. The store’s owner, Sue Schulz, says while the store itself isn’t seeing as much sales, the city of Bedford is seeing the benefit of increased sales tax revenue. (Seth Bodine | Fort Worth Report)Cut Throat Finches closed out the Amplify 817 showcase at the Will Rogers Memorial Center on Aug. 17. (David
Moreno | Fort Worth Report)After removing roof, one of the front columns collapsed (Photo 2 | Izzy Acheson Fort Worth Report)The original structure of the historic fuel station still stands in Lake Como. The gas tanks underneath the station were removed with help from the Fort Worth Brownfields Program and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (Izzy Acheson | Fort Worth Report)Fort Worth construction crews build sidewalks on Calmont Avenue, the main road in the Las Vegas Trail area. (Rachel Behnrdt | Fort Worth Report)“At the very beginning a baby doesn’t need that much milk to eat. I really want to stress that (a small amount) is perfectly fine … I mean, their tummy is tiny tiny.” (Alexis Allison | Fort Worth Report)
“You can do this. It will take time to learn the technique, and to know when your milk is going to come down and to know if you’re going to drip on the floor (you know, you might need extra padding). But you can do this. It’ll take some time. But it is so, so worth it, and your baby will feel incredibly close and bonded to you.” (Alexis Allison | Fort Worth Report)
