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A TASTE OF SPACE, THE CLEAR LAKE CHAMBER’S EPICUREAN EVENING is on the calendar for Thursday, Feb. 2. From 6:30 p.m. to 9. For tickets, call the chamber, 281-488-7676.

AUSTIN’S “FIRST LADY OF JAZZ” PAMELA HART will share her passion for jazz in UH-Clear Lake’s Bayou Theater Friday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. She will be accompanied by the Houston-based Darrell Lavine Quartet. For tickets, visit www.uhcl.edu/bayou-theater/

CCEF REGENCY GALA: A Royal Affair will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at South Shore Harbour Resort. Tickets are $150 each.

FREEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS will host a SOUP-ER Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Clear Lake Freeman Branch Library, 16616 Diana Lane in Clear Lake with 3 samples for $5. Tickets available in the library bookstore.

THE 24TH ANNUAL YACHTY GRAS GRAND NIGHT BOAT PARADE will get underway at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. For information, call 713-882-4040 or visit www.yachtygras.com

THE 2023 CHARITY DANCE CONCERT, hosted by Artists of Hope, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10 and 11 in the Proscenium Theatre on San Jacinto College South Campus. For tickets, visit sanjacdance. ticketleap.com

“YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 15-18, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 in the Powell Arena Theatre on the San Jacinto College Central Campus in Pasadena.

BAY AREA WELCOME NEIGHBOR CLUB will feature “The King of Rock’N’Roll” at the monthly luncheon in its new meeting venue, South Shore Harbour Country Club at 4300 South Shore Blvd., in League City Thursday, Feb. 16 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with Elvis tribute artist Ralph Elizondo channeling Black Leather Elvis from the famous TV special. Visit the website basnc.org to make reservations.

PASADENA MAYOR JEFF WAGNER WILL PRESENT THE STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS at the Pasadena Chamber Luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Pasadena Convention Center, 7902 Fairmont Parkway. The 2023 Business of the Year also will be announced. Member tickets are $50; non-members $60.

GO TEXAN RODEO STYLE SHOW will be held Friday, Feb. 17 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Lone Star Flight Museum at Ellington Field.

FRIENDSWOOD MAYOR MIKE FOREMAN will deliver the State of the City Address at the Friendswood Chamber Luncheon in the First Baptist Church’s Family Life Center, 202 E. Heritage, from 11 a.m. at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 2.

MISS LEAGUE CITY PAGEANT, will take place March 2-4, 2023 at South Shore Harbour Resort. Tickets for this event will go on sale soon. For more information Contact Director Kelly Williams at missleaguecitypageant@gmail.com.

SPACE CENTER ROTARY will host the L.E.A.P. for Mankind Awards for 2023 on Saturday, March 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 in the Nassau Bay Hilton Ballroom to honor former BAHEP President Bob Mitchell and the Exploration Green Conservancy. For tickets, which are $125, visit the website Home Page | Rotary Club of Space Center

And the new Miss Universe is . . .

The stunning 28 year old Houston resident and now the newly crowned Miss Universe is R'Bonney Gabriel! R'Bonney Nola Gabriel, also known as R'Bonney Nola, is an American fashion designer and model. She was crowned Miss Texas USA®, Miss USA®, then on January 14, 2023, she was crowned Miss Universe®!

R'Bonney became the ninth Miss USA® to win the title, as well as the oldest entrant to be crowned. Her "force for good" crown is worth over 5 million. How's that for a crowning moment?

Not only a wonderful role model for her accomplishments, and hard work to achieve this goal, but she has become very well known for her designs made from recycled materials.

R'Bonney is a designer for the Houston-based "Magpies & Peacocks", the nation’s only 501(c)3 non-profit design house dedicated to the collection and sustainable reuse of post-consumer clothing, scrap textiles, and accessories diverted from landfill. This design house is actually opened to the public. Her slogan is "if not now, then when" has proven to be exactly what she lives by. She was First Runner Up three times in three different pageants (in the same year) before she won Miss Texas USA® in 2022 that led her become

Miss Universe®.

Bay Area's own Kelly Williams, Host of The Kelly Williams Show, who knows R'Bonney well, interviewed her as Miss Texas USA®, Miss USA®, and is looking forward to her third interview with the new Miss UNIVERSE®.

R'Bonney will be living between New York and Thailand, and will be traveling the globe continuing her work helping others . . . now on a bigger stage. You can follow R'Bonney on IG, FB, and even order her clothing at rbonneynola.com. We want to say CONGRATULATIONS to our beautiful Miss Universe!