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Saturday, June 21, 2014 • Page 1B

Cedar Creek’s Berry Mule There are not one, but three new cocktails at Cedar Creek Bar & Grill, 1034 W. 20th St. The Midnight Special, the Blueberry Shandy and The Leader’s Cocktail of the Month, the Berry Mule.

Muddle/mash two raspberries in the bottom of the glass. Add the vodka, simple syrup and lime juice. Top it off with ginger beer and garnish with lime wedges and two more raspberries. Enjoy.

Bar Manager Paxton Rogers said it was inspired by the fact that it was summer and he likes raspberries. He’s also a fan of the Moscow Mule. Rogers and bartender Donnie Walker came up with the recipe which is as follows.

Ingredients • 4 raspberries • ounce and a quarter of Three Olives® Berry Vodka

Zelko Bistro, 705 E. 11th St., serves the Captin’s Chicken for $16.

Zelko Bistro’s ~ Captin’s Chicken By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com

Chef Jamie Zelko said she came up with the Captin’s Chicken ($16) when Zelko Bistro, 705 E. 11th St., opened ﬁve years ago because it was the kind of food she liked to eat.

“Every chicken restaurant has to have a chicken dish,” she said. “It’s simple and good.” Hers starts with the chicken which comes from Sanderson Farms and is 100% natural. The chicken is soaked overnight in yogurt and buttermilk, and then breaded with a mix

of Japanese bread crumbs and Kashi Organic Corn Cereal. It used to be the not so organic Cap’n Crunch but Zelko made some healthful adjustments along the way. After it is ﬂash fried, the chicken is ﬁnished in the oven and then served with Yukon mashed potatoes and seasonal

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vegetables. And it’s topped with a shallot jam. Leader readers like Stephanie Keitt are big fans of the Captin’s Chicken as are many of Zelko’s regular customers. “People want us to keep it on the menu,” said Zelko. “You go back for your favorites.”

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Berry Mule is The Leader’s Cocktail of the Month. (Photo by Betsy Denson)

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While the strict deﬁnition of “local food” is food grown within 100 miles of the person who buys or eats it, sometimes you have to go a little bit further. Heights resident Lindsey Schechter of Houston Dairymaids, 2201 Airline Dr., says that while there are nearby dairy farms like Swede Farm and Blue Heron, both in Waller, those farmers sell a lot of their wares at farmer’s markets so there’s not a lot of surplus. The closest farm Schechter buys regularly from is Pure Luck Farm and Dairy in Dripping Springs at 182 miles away, and Schechter carries their whole product line of handmade artisan goat cheese. “Amelia Sweethardt is the cheese maker there and we’re very lucky to buy from her,” said Schechter. “She could be selling across the country.” Sweethardt is indeed well-known in the industry - her goat feta was named one of best cheeses of the year by Culture Magazine. Another Hill Country farm Schechter purchases from is CKC Farms in Blanco. Houston Dairymaids offers their goat milk brie and goat milk blue. Wondering why all the cheese around here is goat cheese? According to Schechter, the Hill Country is friendlier to raising goats because it’s drier there and goats are browsers. They don’t graze like cows do. The cow cheese is made in places like Dallas and Waco. Regardless of direction, Schechter likes to keep it in state: “For us, local is Texas, that’s where we started, that’s where we hang our hat.” Lindsey Schechter of Houston Dairymaids

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Kickstarter campaign for Hugs & Donuts What’s better than a hug and a donut? For Jason Hill and Matt Opaleski, co-owners of the popular food truck H-Town StrEATs, it’s their donut and kolache shop soon to open at 1901 N Shepherd Dr. But first they want to raise $50,000 though a Kickstarter campaign to finish the electrical work, plumbing, interior finishing touches on the building they are already renting. Word went out this week about the campaign from the Mangum Park Food Truck folks and others. Here’s what Hill and Opaleski have to say about the endeavor: “We’ve determined that Houston is lacking in artisan gourmet donut and kolache shops. Between the two of us, we possess all the knowledge, creativity and love of the craft to bring awesome donuts to this great city.” We have been testing the market by doing pop-ups and special events over the past year.

These events have proven very successful and have given us the motivation to move forward with our dream.” Want to help them? Kick some funds their way. El Tiempo on Washington is raking it in CultureMap recapped the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission’s report on the amount of money bars and restaurants pay each month in Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts taxes. We’ll sum it up further - while Washington Avenue is down overall, the El Tiempo on Washington is the exception at #77 ($196,000), out of 3,600 bars and restaurants around the state. But you knew that. It’s always packed. Gumbo and Coﬀee coming to Durham A restaurant and a coﬀee shop are moving into a new strip center at 2155 Durham, near Durham and I-10. Gumbo Jeaux’s, which currently has a location near Bush Intercontinental Airport, will

serve spicy Lousiana seafood and burgers in the Heights within a few months. Next to Jeaux’s will be P.J.’s Coﬀee, a New Orleans-based franchise, will open its second Houston location. The other one is inside the Royal Sonesta in the Galleria area. The strip center, owned by Silvestri, is still looking for one more tenant. Where’s the best Mac and Cheese in town? If you believe Houstonia Magazine, we have the corner on the market. The Glass Wall, 933A Studewood St., Liberty Kitchen and Oyster Bar, 1050 Studewood St., Jus’ Mac, 2617 Yale St., and Shade, 250 W 19th St., all made the list. Arteries, prepare for battle.

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There’s a new taco on the bloc at Torchy’s Torchy’s, 350 W 19th St., posted the new arrival on their Facebook page. “Meet The Vagabond: Grilled fajita beef on a bed of sexy bacon topped with grilled onions, Chimichurri sauce, feta cheese, and pico. Served in a warm ﬂour tortilla.”

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Review: Shipley Do-nuts The epic traffic tie-ups in this end of town are well documented. The north end of the Loop trims down to a tiny thread of a thoroughfare that makes morning commutes horrific. And 290 lately more often looks like the parking lot at Reliant than it does a highway to Austin. But one of the more underreported traffic calamities in north Houston is a phenomenon that occurs not over the widening of lanes or building of fly ramps, but when warm, rounded dough exits the oven and gets a dousing of glaze. No, Leader Eater has not turned from a food aficionado to a traffic critic; rather the multi-car back ups that I’m about to explain comes because of a restaurant. The congested corner in question is at Ella Boulevard and 34th Street just south of one of the city’s most beloved breakfast food joints - Shipley Do-nuts. Yes, it’s the house of Houston donut pride that is the culprit in what has become sporadic traffic jams around the intersection. It all derives from a little, two-paneled sliding window on the south side of a building that is no bigger than, well, a box of dozen donuts and serves as the drivethru window for Shipley’s. It ‘s these delicacies – glazed with goodness, covered with technicolor sprinkles, topped with tasty frosting, filled with delicious jelly and powdered to perfection – that will trigger impromptu, totally unpredictable and utterly random lines of vehicles emanating from

Leader Eater enjoyed the Do-nut Holes at Shipley Do-nuts.

Shipley Do-nuts 3410 Ella Blvd www.shipleydonuts.ws Do-nuts: 55¢-$5.50 Cake Do-nuts: 55¢-$5.50 Kolaches: $1.50-$15.00 Kid Friendly: That goes without saying LE’s Favorite: Do-nut Holes

this tiny donut shop. (Not to mention, this is one of only two Shipley’s in northern Houston.) Cars, SUVs, trucks and anything with four wheels that can get a Houstonian to a donut will come streaming out of Shipley in the morning, on the thick commute home in the evening and even at the most random times at night. A queue of cars will sometimes come all the way back to 34th Street to the point where vehicles coming west on 34th can’t make the right hand turn onto Ella without taking a wide and exaggerated turn into the

left lane. And if you’re humming along Ella in the northbound lanes, particularly the right one, you are in danger of hitting this donut danger zone. Leader Eater could go all urban planner on you and nit pick the kink points in the tiny drive-thru and how Shipley’s should be redesigning what is likely one of the oldest of their franchises in the city to cut down on these public safety events. But, really, it isn’t any of that that is causing this trafﬁc mess; it’s that their donuts (and kolaches) are just too darn good.

Retired teacher honored with Kate Bell Award Marcy Cann, a resident of Timbergrove Manor, received the Dr. Kate Bell Memorial “Spirit of HART” award from the Houston Association of Retired Teachers. The award is presented annually with appreciate for faithful and distinguished service to the organization. Cann has served in many ofﬁces including president. She presently serves as secretary treasurer of the HART Foundations. During her 38 year career with the Houston Independent School District, Cann taught at Oak Forest Elementary and Clifton Middle Schools. At Clifton, she served as Magnet Coordinator and later worked in the HISD central ofﬁce as a Magnet Specialist. Currently, Marcy Cann serves as president of Texas Association of Retired Teachers (TRTA) District 4, which includes over 11,950 retired educators in the TRTA State Legislative Committee. “One thing that makes this

honor even more special is the fact that the ﬁrst recipient was Ruby Sue Clifton. I had the pleasure of knowing both Mrs. Clifton and Dr. Bell,” said Cann, who was part of the original faculty at Clifton Middle School.

For Leader Eater, the simplicity of Shipley is the biggest draw. The aesthetics of the Ella location is out of style (although that neon “Hot Donuts” sign and bare bones brown and red logo will be forever cool), the ordering area cramped and the logistics of the drive thru clearly ﬂawed, but what Shipley has on their racks is timeless. And no overly produced frills either. How they present their old-school selection of donuts isn’t going to wow you with its cleverness - Raspberry Filled, Strawberry Iced, Cinnamon Twist, Filled Bar - you get the point. There aren’t any fancy coffees or seasonal gimmicks and the Ella location’s menu only has four main selections donuts, cake donuts, kolaches and drinks. Leader Eater is partial to picking at a sack of melt-in-my-mouth donut holes (which I was doing shortly before writing this column and a favorite of The Bomber, my six-year-old going on 16). Although I curse the place when the cadence of my turn signal thumps over and over again as I try to avoid the mini-trafﬁc jam on Ella and wonder who could be scooping up donuts at the most random times of the day (even though I recently used this particular location as a lastminute savior for a dinner party dessert), the line ups just like Shipley donuts is one of the more charming culinary (and civil engineering) quirks of the neighborhood. Timbergrove Manor resident Marcy Cann recently received the Dr. Kate Bell Memorial “Spirit of HART” award from the Houston Association of Retired Teachers. (Submitted photo)

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Red Ox Bar & Grill is a Great Place to Chill Thirsty Explorer The creators of Bocados on W. Alabama in Montrose have taken all that was good and evolved into the new Red Ox Bar & Grill in Northside Village. Owners Teresa Flores and Lily Hernandez transformed the former lounge/ grocery store/sports bar into a casual restaurant Thirstythat serves “Food people love.” Explorer They still serve the traditional Mexican food they were known for at Bocados, in addition to new favorites like their delicious burgers and salads. They have an unbeatable happy hour with specials on margaritas, sangria, beer, wine and liquor. They also have a great selection of local craft beer and Texas wines. “I wanted to give the neighborhood a cool place to come eat,” said Flores, who grew up in the area and was also the contractor in the renovation of the building.

Red Ox has a rustic, eclectic vibe with recycled materials, such as tables made of retired bowling alley ﬂoors, incorporated into the design. A garage door opens up to the patio for an al fresco feel for when the weather permits. There is a mural by local artist Wiley on the wall outside of the kitchen that incorporates everything that is Houston, and fun caricatures of Lily and Teresa. Red Ox Bar & Grill, located at 811 Collingsworth St., has free Wi-Fi and is bike and dog friendly. Look for daily specials and more information on Facebook. 22¢ Martinis at Katch 22 Katch 22 is throwing a party on the 22nd day of each month starting on June 22 in honor of their namesake number. The party will kick off at 2:22 p.m. with 22¢ martinis, plus unbeatable specials on their delicious food and drinks. Beat the heat and join Katch 22 for great eats and cold drinks galore, plus live music from 3 to 7 p.m. Reservations are not required but recommended. Call 832-8047281 to RSVP. Katch 22 is located at 700 Durham Dr. For

has gained an international presence performing for some of the most sought-after audiences around the world. As a Trance, Progressive, Electro, Tech House DJ, he swiftly captured the underground scene with his infectious charisma and versatile blend of European and American inﬂuenced electronic violin. Hughes Hangar is located at 2811 Washington Ave. For more information, visit selectliveevents.com/event/ voltage-party-series-w-manifesto.Be sure RSVP: Bottle service and table packages available.

more information, visit www. katch22houston.com. HYPO at Warehouse Bar & Chill The Heights Young Professionals Organization (HYPO) is meeting from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 26 at Warehouse Bar & Chill. HYPO is a networking group for the young or young at heart part of the Great Heights Chamber of Commerce. For more information, visit http://www. heightschamber.com/hypo. Warehouse Bar & Chill is located at 3333 W. 11th St. For more information about Warehouse Bar & Chill, visit www. warehousebarandchill.com.

Follow Ivee Sauls on Twitter @ThirstyExplorer. To submit an event, email ivee@theleadernews.com.

Voltage Party Series with Manifesto Next Level Promotions, Select Entertainment and Hughes Hangar present Manifesto, Voltage Party Series, Albert Fix and JKB: The ﬁrst of the “Abduction” Party Series at Hughes Hangar Speakeasy Gastro Lounge at 10 p.m. on Thursday, June 26. Manifesto is a DJ, violinist and producer with an international fan base from NYC and LA to Tokyo and Moscow. Manifesto

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Sweets met Savories at the sold out HHWC Spring Tea. More than eighty ladies packed the Clubhouse to enjoy the homemade delicacies prepared by members for the guests. In addition to the tea sandwiches and sweets, the tea itself was brewed in the traditional British manner using individual teapots. The HHWC tea masters spent considerable time and experimentation working on timing to perfect the “cuppa”. Members and guests look forward to this event each year to meet new neighbors and show off some ﬁnery, especially the hats that could rival any Kentucky Derby Day. Tables are hosted and decorated by members with a theme. Each table showcases the hostesses’ own china, crystal, silver, ﬂowers, and special hostess gifts. The Houston Heights Spring and Victorian Teas are fund raising arms to support the maintenance of the Club-owned 100 plus year old building. The Victorian Tea in December has been a mainstay of the community for a number of years now. However, the demand was so great the membership decided to add the Spring Tea in recent years to meet the attendance requests. An interesting fact that speaks to the binding comradeship of these women is that 50

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So, your dog bit someone ... now what? By Molly Sue McGillicutty

Now what do you do? It happens to the friendliest, most well-adjusted dogs. Sometimes, they’re caught off-guard or some latent aggression gets redirected. Other times, they’re not thinking clearly, they get spooked and boom! They bite your neighbor. It’s such a disturbing thing to think about happening, but this scenario plays out across our city every day. While I certainly hope that this never happens to you, it wouldn’t hurt to have a plan in place, in case it does. Animal behaviorists have suggested the following steps to take in the event of a dog bite: Remain calm and do not punish your dog. He’s not in any position to accept and understand a punishment right now. It will only escalate the drama and confusion. Immediately remove the dog from the situation by placing him in another room

or in his crate. Attend to the victim. Assess if immediate medical care is needed. Get his or her contact information, if you don’t already have it. Refrain from blaming the victim for the bite. No matter what the person might’ve done that caused your dog to bite, your dog is still to blame for the bite. Call your vet, request your dog’s vaccination certificates and medical records and ask how to proceed from here. Call your insurance company and also an attorney, if it feels warranted. Contact your local animal control office and comply with their orders. If you make it through the above steps and are now on the road to mending the relationship between the victim, you and your dog, dog training is your next step. Behavior modifications can help keep your dog from getting into this situation ever again and also help you to recognize the warning signs that it could happen (and allow you to take preemptive action).

By covering all of your (legal) bases, making amends with the victim and beginning a rigorous regime of behavior modiﬁcation for your dog, you can insure that you, your neighbors and your dog will remain safe for years to come. Running For Home Speaking of biting: Do you know what also bites? Running with your dog at Memorial Park, in the heat of day, with no means for cooling your pooch off! While Friends For Life, (who typically allows runners to borrow an adoptable pup to run with at Memorial Park during their “Running For Home” project) are keeping their pooches in the air conditioning this summer, they’re instead planning to have dog cooling stations set up for dogs who are out running with their owners on Saturday, June 11 from 8am until 11am. Once the weather cools off, the adoptable cuties from Friends For Life will be back at the park, eager to trot along beside any runner who’ll have them!

Choose Me What Blackie may be lacking in the “original name” department, he makes up for in the “aﬀection” department. Blackie has been at Friends For Life since he was a kitten, where he and his siblings were bottle fed and cared for until everyone but Blackie got adopted. Now this loving, playful and mellow 3 year old is tired of being patient and ready to go to his forever home. Go to www. adoptfriendsforlife.org for more information.

Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce awards scholarships, recognizes educators

Parsley Studio, family operated for 72 years

The Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce has announced the awarding of scholarships to 12 deserving high school students. Helping local high school students attend college with some ﬁnancial support is a project the Chamber has conducted for over two decades. According to Education Chair, Cindy Reibenstein, this year there were 120 applicants from many area schools. The applicants were evaluated in the areas of leadership, community service, academics, their essay on goals in their life and ﬁnancial need. The $1,000 scholarships were awarded to: Evelyn Leal (Incarnate Word Academy), Brandy Pineda (KIPP Academy), Brittany Smith (Reagan High) and Derrial Doyle (Washington High) S t u d e n t s Receiving $500 scholarships were: Sele-

The ﬁrst Parsley Studio was opened by Howard Parsley and his wife Louise in a small building in front of their home in the 1600 block of Yale, in the Houston Heights in 1942, as World War II was starting. One year later, the studio was moved into its present location at 1504 Yale. Howard continued operation of the business with the assistance of various members of his immediate family until his death in 1985. Janet Parsley, who had worked with her father for many years, took over as photographer. Louise had also worked closely with her husband through the years and es-

na Martinez (Reagan) and David Villarreal (Reagan High), Janet Flores (St. Pius X), Cole Freeman (Waltrip High), Yesenia Mondragon (Waltrip High), Azeneth Quiroz (Waltrip), Nicole Arias (YES Prep) and Ernest Avalos (YES Prep). Keisha Pete of Black Middle School was named Educator of the Year, and Chamber Interim of the Year was Jessica Hightower. A monetary honor and recognition was given to the following school representatives: Eugene Field Elementary Principal, Mr. Hendrickson and Teacher of the Year, Ms. Susan Wall. Garden Oaks Elementary Principal, Dr. Lindsay Pollock and Teachers of the Year, Ms. Rebecca Scott and Ms. Kara Siegal. Sinclair Elementary Principal,

Mrs. Abigail Taylor and teachers of the Year, Mr. John Augustine and Ms. Emily Mingle. Black Middle School Principal, Ms. Jao, and Teachers of the Year, Mr. Matt Sawyer and Ms. Heather Hall. St. Rose of Lima Principal, Ms. Cathy Stephen and Recognized Teacher, Mary Andrews, Jeff Davis High School Principal, Ms. Alcantar-Martinez and Teachers of the Year, Ms. Diane Morrow and Ms. Mary Divin, Lutheran High North Principal, Mr. Dallas Lusk, Reagan High School, Principal, Ms. Connie Berger and Teacher of the Year, Mr. James Johnson, Waltrip High School Principal, Mrs. Andria Schur and Teacher of the Year, Ms. Stephanie Witherspoon

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tablished a reputation in photo restoration, in black and white, brownstone or oil colors. Seventy-two years after its beginning, Parsley Studio continues as a family operation. Today, the studio offers family and pet portraits, wedding portraits, visa and passport photos, quinceanera photos, and black and white glossies for business use. Frank is adding a gallery of his own black and white and color photographs, which provide a historic as well as nostalgic touch. Owner Louise Parsley passed away January 2013; daughter Janet Parsley is still running the business. For information, call 713-869-4641.

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Historic Reagan campus becoming 21st Era in Health care ends for Heights Hospital, will become long-term care facility century ‘urban high school prototype’ After 70 years of serving the Northwest Healthcare Corp. of its intention to sell the facilHouston Independent School District will begin the $40 million partial demolition and rebuilding of 77-year-old John H. Reagan High School this month. The demolition and construction project is the result of a strategic collaboration between experts in curriculum design and school design, members of the surrounding residential com-

munity and Reagan faculty and students. To help keep community members informed of the work schedule and master plan for Reagan High School as construction begins, Principal Robert Chavarria and the HISD Bond Program will hold a public town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 24, in the Reagan High School auditorium, located at 413 E. 13th St.

Houston area as a full-service acute care facility, Heights Hospital is closing its doors to the type of medical services traditionally provided there and will become, instead, a specialty hospital for medically complex, chronically ill patients who require acute care on a long-term basis. This change is expected in the next 30 to 60 days and is the result of a recent announcement by Heights Hospital owner Columbia/HCA

ity to Tennessee-based American Transitional Hospitals, Inc. Heights Hospital President and CEO Chuck Schuetz said ATH’s proposal to establish Heights as a centralized location for referrals from throughout Houston and the surrounding areas, was an attractive one from a services standpoint.

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THE SPORTS. Saturday, June 21, 2014 • Page 7B

Houston Astros honor St. Thomas’ state title team By Peter Scamardo For The Leader

The St. Thomas High baseball team was not expected to win a TAPPS 5A state championship in 2014. But the Eagles deﬁed the odds by edging district rival, Tomball Concordia Lutheran, 2-1, in the state title game last month in Waco. For their accomplishments, the St. Thomas team was honored as one of seven state champions from the Houston area before the Houston Astros-Tampa Bay Rays game on June 13. For the Eagles, capturing the school’s twenty-third state title was the culmination of a season ﬁlled with challenges and overcoming adversities. When former Houston As-

The Houston Astros honored the St. Thomas High baseball team, 2014 TAPPS 5A State Champions, before the June 13 game against the Tampa Bay Rays. (Photo courtesy of the Houston Astros)

tro Craig Biggio ended his tenure as the STH baseball coach, new head coach Ryan Lousteau had huge shoes to ﬁll. Biggio had led the team to

two state titles. But, before the season even began Lousteau was faced with a trial harder than any opponent on the baseball dia-

mond – his wife, Lauren, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The players and coaches rallied around Lousteau, and

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it was this team bond that helped them reach the state championship. With thirteen seniors gone from last year’s team, St. Thomas considered 2014 to be a rebuilding season – but the players did not share this thought, shouting “23!” in the huddle after every practice to remind themselves of their goal. The team was led by seniors Michael Rodgers, Ben Condara, Jordan Bautista-Rosales, and Rawlings Elam – all who were part of a squad who last year suffered a devastating loss to St. Pius X in the 2013 state semiﬁnal after sweeping the Panthers during the regular season. These seniors, all who will be going to play baseball in college, were hungry to ﬁnal ly reach the mountain top and

win that precious twenty-third state title. In the championship game, the Eagles faced district champions Concordia– a team that ultimately captured the district crown. It was only ﬁtting that it was a senior matchup to score the winning run for state when Ben Condara, who after suffering a terrible knee injury during the semiﬁnal was basically standing on one leg, hit the walk off RBI to allow Rawlings Elam to score the game winning run. Following everything that they accomplished, and considering the situation the head coach was going through, the path is set for Lousteau and the St. Thomas Eagles baseball team to accomplish even greater things following this historic season.

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Lost Forest Tennis Club tennis pro Enrique Proanu grew up playing tennis in his native Ecuador. After he moved to Houston in 2009, he wanted to give young people an opportunity to learn the sport, especially those who may not have picked up a racquet otherwise.

So, he started Second Serve, a free tennis camp at Lost Forest – a private tennis club located in North Houston. “We have a passion for tennis,” Proanu said. “We want to give back to the community through the sport of tennis and show kids they can achieve anything they want.” The camp is completely free to the students, and includes lunch and life lessons, in addi-

tion to tennis scrimmages and drills. They learn the basics of the game – the forehand, backhand and the volley serve among other things. The ﬁrst camp was held last week, and it brought in 19 children between the ages of 7 and 13. There are at least two more camps planned for later this summer. “We want to teach them the responsibility of the game,”

Proanu said. Proanu and his staff distributed ﬂiers in nearby neighborhoods and visited apartment managers, churches and schools to tell them about the program. A donor who wishes to remain anonymous has donated a considerable amount of money to the camps. “The kids are loving the camp,” Proanu said.

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Kohl Stewart is climbing the ranks of professional baseball quickly. The 2013 St. Pius X graduate was selected to Midwest League All-Star game on Tuesday but did not play in it. Stewart, 19, was drafted in the ﬁrst round (fourth overall) of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Minnesota Twins last June. After playing for a pair of rookie league afﬁliates last year, Stewart was promoted to the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Kernels in Class A ball this season. Stewart is 1-3 with a 2.44 earned run average and 41 strikeouts in 12 appearances for the Kernels. Stewart chose baseball over an opportunity to play football at Texas A&M. – Michael Sudhalter

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