Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend, American Airline Pilots and Mechanics Volunteer

Saturday I covered Steve Harvey's mentoring program at American Airlines maintenance base at Alliance airport. About 100 African-American teenagers met pilots and mechanics and toured exhibits by the airline, the Navy and the Air Force. Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/19/2277771/american-airlines-comedian-join.html#ixzz0rRQeqP60

Steve Harvey speaks to the 100 young black teenagers, he and other volunteers are mentoring this weekend at American Airlines Maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport, about how if they work hard that they could have a career in the aviation industry Saturday, June 19, 2010.American Airlines mechanics deplane a Boeing 777 and make their entrance into the company's maintenance hanger at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Pilots and Mechanics volunteered to help mentor 100 young black teenagers for the Steve Harvey Foundation. Tuskegee Airman Don Elden, left, and historian C.B. Rice, right, volunteered to help mentor 100 young black teenagers at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Jerid Flowers, 15, checks out the cockpit of an American Airlines Boeing 777 at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010.

Taje Oliver, 13, listens as American Airlines first officer John Arthur Threadgill talks about how he got started in the aviation industry, flying a Cessna at the age of 14, at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Oliver said that after hearing what Threadgill and other maintenance personal had to say, that he now might consider a career as a aviation mechanic or engineer.

Fritz Rahr of Rahr & Sons Brewing Co.

I photographed the owner of Rahr & Sons Brewing Co., Fritz Rahr, last Saturday for a story about beating the summer heat here in North Texas. The brewery was severely damaged last winter when heavy snow collapsed the roof. Fritz hopes to have his brewery up and running again this weekend, conducting tours, too. While the 20,000-square-foot facility is not air-conditioned, it does have swamp coolers, plus a new 25-foot stand-up bar and 16 picnic tables in what owner Fritz Rahr describes as a beer-garden atmosphere. Read the DFW.com story about staying cool in the North Texas heat here.

Fritz Rahr poses for a portrait at his Brewery South of downtown Fort Worth Saturday, June 12, 2010.Pallets of Rahr and Sons Brewery bottles Saturday, June 12, 2010. James Race, a friend of Fritz Rahr, cuts a peice of metal trim for the newley rebuilt bar at Rahr and Sons Brewery Saturday, June 12, 2010. A Rahr and Sons beer at the company's brewery South of downtown Fort Worth Saturday, June 12, 2010.