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City continues crackdown on panhandling

By Landan Kuhlmann

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The city is making good on a promise to move panhandlers off the street.

In an apparent steppedup effort to move panhandlers from the area’s busiest corners, several officers have chased panhandlers off the road along the North Shepherd and Durham corridors near the 610 Loop as the city continues its efforts to crack down on panhandling all around the city.

“If there were officers out there, it was most likely because people were complaining that someone was standing in the roadway,” Houston Police Department Spokesperson Victor Senties said. “With it being a safety issue and violation of the ordinance, then you have officers go out there.”

Houston City Council passed the new ordinance, which prohibits panhandling that impedes medians, sidewalks and roadways, earlier this year following increas-

ing resident complaints about panhandlers becoming more aggressive in their advances.

As currently written, the ordinance does not allow for an immediate citation simply upon local residents registering complaints.

“That’s done at the officer’s discretion,” Senties said. “If [the officer] goes out and asks [panhandlers] to move out of the road because it’s a safety issue, and they comply, then that’s See Panhandle P. 4A

Photo by Jonathan McElvy An officer stops to talk to a panhandler at the intersection of Durham and 610 last week.

City delays Heights historic guidelines Jonathan McElvy jonathan@theleadernews.com

After more than a year of proposals and public meetings to create a set of design guidelines for historic homes in the Heights, Houston’s mayor doesn’t like the outcome.

Three specific districts in the Heights are classified as historic districts, stretching from 20th Street to the north and 4th Street to the south. These districts extend west to Ashland Street and Oxford to the east, in some areas, and if owners want to make structural changes to their homes, they must gain approval from a board of commissioners appointed by the city of Houston.

For years, homeowners caught in “Certificate of Appropriateness” battles with the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission have bemoaned the process of understanding which renovation plans are acceptable, largely because the HAHC had no set of Design Guidelines for historic homes in the Heights. In other words, there was no piece of paper defining the allowable height for an eave or the acceptable lot size-to-home ratio.

“We need these guidelines,” Photo Jonathan McElvy Mayor Sylvester Turner said earHomeowners who want to renovate homes in the Heights will have to wait a little lier this week. longer before Design Guidelines are completed.

In 2016, the city’s planning department hired Winter & Company, a firm based in Boulder, Colo., Those meetings culminated on “We’re not sending anything to the to help draft guidelines for the Heights. Through public meetings June 20 at the Fire Station when [city] council until I approve what and varying degrees of guideline a packed house heard many of the we’re sending, and we aren’t there drafts, residents in the Heights specific proposals and walked away yet.”

Initially, the city’s Planning and were allowed to hear what sort of with less than stellar support.

“We aren’t going to move for- Development Department hoped restrictions would be placed on home renovations (or rebuilds) in ward with this until there’s a See Guidelines P. 4A stronger consensus,” Turner said. the neighborhood.

We’re looking for area’s top young leaders Staff Reports

The Leader is looking for the top young, well, leaders in our community.

On Sept. 16, our entire edition will be devoted to the Top 30 under 40 – those people who live and work here who are under the age of 40.

Already, nominations are pouring in and we don’t want to miss someone you know or work with who deserves to be honored for his or her work in the community.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 18 at 5 p.m., and a committee will pick the Top 30.

The requirement for nominations is simple: The person must either live or work in The Leader’s coverage area – extending to the south at Washington Avenue, the north at Little York Road, the west at 290 and the east at I-45.

If you know someone who lives in the area but works on the Energy Corridor or in The Woodlands or in Galveston, that person is eligible. If a person lives in Kingwood or Pearland but works in this area, that person is eligible too.

To nominate a young leader, visit our website at www.theleadernews.com/ 30under40. You can also find the form by going to our home page and clicking the 30under40 box on the right side of the page.

There is no cost to nominate someone and those who make the nominations will remain anonymous.

Firefighters taking equal pay fight directly to city

By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com

Houston’s firefighters are done asking for the city for help. Instead, they blanketed the local area last week to get yours.

The Houston Professional Firefighters Association recently turned in a petition with more than 32,000 validated signatures to ask the City of Houston to put an equal pay initiative on the ballot in November. The firefighters’ union has been

in talks with the city after a new pension plan passed earlier this year, but finally decided to take the fight for pay raises (and equal pay as HPD) directly to the city after negotiations stalled, and representatives hit the streets in the local area this week.

“Houston firefighters are at a breaking point. Our fleet and facilities are declining, our wages, benefits and working conditions are no longer competitive, and we are losing firefighters to other departments,” Houston

Professional Fire Fighters Association President Patrick M. Langton said at a press conference earlier this week.

Texas Petition Strategies, who aided in efforts to overturn part of the Heights dry laws, consulted with the association to guide them in the legal aspects of obtaining signatures. Petitioners have already made note of successful trips to area spots such as Karbach Brewery See Equal Pay P. 4A

Photo http://houstontx.gov Houston firefighters are asking for pay equal to that of HPD, and hit the streets asking for the public’s help last week.

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Former teacher sentenced to 15 years for abusing 8-year-old student From Staff Reports A former elementary school teacher in the Heights has been sentenced to prison after being convicted of sexually abusing one of his former students.

Miguel Angel Yepez, 41, was convicted of indecency with a child and sentenced to 15 years in jail following a threeday trial in the 185th District Court that ended last week, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

According to prosecutors, the girl was in Yepez’s second-grade class at Harvard Elementary School during the 2010-2011 school year when

the incident occurred.

During the trial, which ended last Thursday, she testified against Yepez, as did her mother.

The mother, according to a release from the District Attorney’s Office, fought back tears as she recalled asking Yepez to watch over her daughter while the family went through a strenuous divorce. In doing so, she said she feels she handed her daughter over “on a silver platter.”

“The jury spoke loud and clear,” Assistant District Attorney Ashley Guice said. “This is a horribly sad example of betrayal by someone entrusted with protecting our children.”

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As the trial progressed, another former student came forward and said Yepez groped her while she was a student

Harvard Elementary during the 2002 school year.

At the time, she says, she was overwhelmed with fear of revealing the abuse. According to media reports, Yepez was also charged with child indecency relating to that off-campus incident, but that case was dismissed following Thursday’s ruling.

“Though this took time, justice has been served,” said JoAnne Musick, chief of sex crimes for the district attorney’s office. “Those who violate the most sacred trust of our community — caring for our children — will be prosecuted and punished accordingly.”

Dog expected to survive following injuries For The Leader Deputies were dispatched to a Shots Fired call in the Garden Oaks area this week.

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Keep holding those library books a few extra weeks

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n the next few months, you’re going to hear a whole lot about the city of Houston’s revenue problem. And there’s a very good chance you’ll be inundated this fall with advertising asking you to fix that problem.

By no means am I the defining voice about the city of Houston’s budget problems, so please don’t mistake me as such. But over the next few months, I’m going to use this space to inform the people in our community about our city’s budget.

Yippee!

Make no mistake about it: The city of Houston is a business in government’s clothing. That’s another conversation for another day, but when business needs money, it’s interesting to understand how it earns the money it already has. So, let’s do that today.

When you hear people (politicians and media) talk about the city’s revenue and expenses, they usually talk about the city’s “General Fund.”

Trust me, I spent an hour this week on the phone with a CPA who audits local governments in another state, and as hard as he tried to explain all the various sources of revenue and expenses, even he said it’s best just to focus on the General Fund.

At some point, I’ll try to explain the difference, but not today.

We’re going to work with the last,

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true numbers we have about the city’s revenue, because any budget numbers we have for 2018 are educated guesses by the finance department. That means we’re looking at 2016 numbers.

In Houston’s General Fund, we have total revenue of almost $2.6 billion. That’s with a “B.” About $45 million of that comes from the sale of capital assets and transfers from “Other Funds,” but let’s not get confused with that.

Of the $2.5 billion, about $1.1 billion of that is in property taxes. The reason you should care about that number is because we’ve heard a lot about the city of Houston’s revenue cap. During Mayor Sylvester Turner’s campaign, he talked about removing the cap on the revenue Houston can earn, and what he meant was that city leaders cannot increase property taxes unless you, the voters, give them permission.

But if you look at the city’s

revenue in its General Property Tax line item over the past four years, you’ll find something interesting in the trend. In 2013, the city collected $910 million in property taxes. In 2014, we collected $976 million.

That’s a 7.2-percent increase in property tax collections. In 2015, we collected $1.07 billion in property taxes, a 9.6-percent increase over the prior year. And now we’re at $1.1 billion – another 3 percent. In the past four years, the city’s revenue from property tax has increased by a whopping 21 percent. How much more do they want?

Earlier this month, Turner went on record saying he wasn’t going to ask voters to remove the revenue cap this November. I think that’s a good idea.

But let’s have some fun with our city’s revenue, because you’ll be shocked at how much the city earns from some of the most interesting categories.

When you go to the grocery store and buy food each week, you’re funding the city to the tune of $640 million. That’s how much Houston collects in sales tax each year.

When you go to a bar and buy a mixed drink, that bar helped fund $16 million in the Mixed Beverage Tax revenue category.

The electricity companies pay the city a combined $99 million in fran-

chise taxes, and phone companies pay another $43 million.

As you know, we don’t have competing cable TV companies in Houston. It’s Comcast or bust here (unless you watch Hulu, Netflix, Amazon or one of the other thousand streaming services). I’ve got a feeling that $24 million the city collects in revenue is going to dry up as more people cut the cable cord.

Food dealers pay the city about $4 million for dealer permits, and about $600,000 is paid in permits by those food trucks that park all over the city. And if you’ve seen an increase in food trucks, that explains why the city has earned 33 percent more revenue in that category since 2013.

Here’s an interesting one, even though it’s awkward to mention.

The city has a line item for Sexually Oriented Business Permits. In 2016, we collected $19,000 in revenue from those permits. Four years ago, the city collected $28,000 in the same category.

I researched what is supposed to be paid for permits in that business, and if you’re an entertainer at a cabaret in Houston, you’re supposed to pay $838.66 every two years to legally dance in one of the city’s esteemed establishments. Unless you live under a rock, you know this city is teeming with gentlemen’s clubs – we have at least four of them just

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Years ago I drove a little, yellow VW Beatle because it was the lowest-priced new car I could find: $3,600. Little did I know that I was killing our children while enriching the State of Texas. No, this has nothing to do with our state legislature, but rather with the millions or billions of dollars headed to Austin, well, maybe, if those funds don’t disappear along the way. It seems that Volkswagen got caught, over a long period of time, deliberately cheating on fuel emissions, smog, mpg and polluting the air we and our children breathe. As punishment, the German auto company agreed to pay vast amounts of money to various governments including many of the U.S. states. Under Texas law, any money VW hands over to the state, the county governments get half. But Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton claims the state should receive 100 percent of the money, and is attempting to toss out all but two of the counties from the case.

In a filing earlier this year, Paxton argued that it was his office’s right to uphold Texas’ environmental laws.

This is laughable, since Paxton and his predecessor in the atty gen’s office, some guy named Greg Abbott, have wasted tens of millions of taxpayer dollars fighting federal anti-pollution laws as Washington’s interference in our God-given right to pollute the air, water and anything else we wish. Now all of a sudden, those very laws Paxton is trying to abolish are our best friends. And we thought hypocrisy was dead in Austin. The potential payouts are enormous. According to press reports, earlier this year, VW agreed to pay $4.3 billion in civil penalties to the Justice Department, part of $22 billion in settlements in the United States alone. In Texas, the company settled anti-fraud violations for $50 million in November.

I have no idea what happened to all that money, but look for the Longhorns and the Aggies to have winning records next season. Volkswagen still faces far more costly violations of Paxton’s hated anti-air pollution laws, maybe fines of up to $25,000 per day for all 32,000 of its clean diesel vehicles registered in Texas.

For guidance as to who gets those billions and what is done with them, we turn to the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). That was the tobacco industries’ deal in 1998 to pay out $246 billion over 25 years to treat tobacco-related health issues and to prevent young people from taking up the cancer sticks. (I think cigars are exempt.) Wait. It’s sort of like winning the Texas Lotto for $1 million. That’s if the $1 million is paid out over 20 years. However, if you choose to take the entire pot at once, it shrinks by one third. The IRS gets about a third, and don’t forget your

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student loan. The money you ultimately receive isn’t bad, but it is in no way $1 million.

Likewise the $246 billion will finally be paid out by the cigarette makers when the U.S. budget is balanced, or hell freezes over, whichever comes first. Now the kicker: the litigants arranged to shift the entire cost of the settlement -- not onto the tobacco companies, but onto smokers through price increases.

Where is this tobacco money going? The settlement made no mention of how the states would spend it, so Michigan is spending 75 percent of its settlement funds on scholarships for high school students who pass a state-wide test. New York allocated $250 million for debt reduction. Forty-five percent of North Dakota’s money financed a Water Resources Trust Fund. South Dakota’s People’s Trust Fund will generate interest income that can be spent on whatever the legislature wishes. Georgia dedicated $63 million to rural economic development. While only spending $5 million on youth smoking prevention, Illinois dropped $22.1 million to improve state buildings. I like this one: Two Nevada PBS stations received $2 million to develop high-definition TV capabilities in exchange for airing some anti-tobacco ads. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that states should spend approximately $3.3 billion per year on tobacco prevention and education, but the states have budgeted a little less than 2 percent of that money, or less than $500 million. That means that for every dollar the states got from the tobacco settlement, two cents was spent on preventive programs.

Here in Texas, the tobacco fortune was a scandal.

Long story short, in October 2003, former Atty. Gen. Dan Morales admitted to having falsified documents in an attempt to give another lawyer a chunk of the state’s tobacco settlement. Morales, who once ran for governor, ended up in a federal pen.

OK, Texas got $17.3 billion, but where did the money go? I mean, have you seen any anti-smoking TV ads?

I haven’t. Have school students been aware of the evils of cigarettes? I hope so. The Texas Dept. of State Health Services has a detailed explanation of where the money went (“Miscellaneous: $17.2 billion”), so we have no need to worry. However, remember that little box you could check on your electric bill that would add one dollar – a single buck – to help

cover the electric bills of poor souls who couldn’t pay for their a/c in August? The Legislature took those millions, and funneled them into the general treasury.

This brings us to the lawyers. The national tobacco settlement was and remains by far the largest money transfer in the history of plaintiff litigation, and attorney fees just kept mounting.

The Massachusetts lawyers in that state’s tobacco case had already been awarded $775 million, an average of more than $7,700 an hour, but they sued for another $1.3 billion. In Texas, five lawyers took on the tobacco industry, which until then had won every single court battle, on a contingence fee -- if they lost, they got zero.

The Tobacco Five, as they were known, won and received $3.3 billion, another record.

Maybe I should have driven an ox cart.

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Stars align as cooling technology helps save resident’s life

Dear Editor: Just wanted to share a comment on your cardiac case as well. I had the same situation happen to me in June 15. Cardiac arrest that evening. My wife called 911.

Paramedics off Seamist station worked on me at the house over an hour as well. Shocking me five different times. Off to same hospital and induced a low temp coma for four days.

A blessing I am still here from God. No physical or mental defects and trying to still get my arms around this episode.

I would love to speak with you some time to share this with you. My wife is my Savior on this. I owe her everything!

Douglass Spreen Dear Editor: My name is April Shaw, Lisa Bedford is my sister.

The CV ICU nurses and PCAs at Memorial Hermann Greater Heights were awesome! Explained all about the meds, procedures that were being done, encouraged her and were very sympathetic: Bryan, Renee,Samantha, Nick,Debra, Ashley, Emilio,Oga,Rosie, Mildred,Brenda, Sebastian just to name a few. And Dr Haas, he fought so hard for my sister with everything humanly possible to make sure she would survive and have a full life, he is truly gifted by God! My family and I thank them all from the bottom of our hearts for caring for Lisa as if she were family!

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Mayor Turner and City Hall efficiently fixes pot hole Dear Editor:

in our coverage area, and we don’t deliver in the Westheimer/Richmond areas of town.

Based on the city’s collections for these permits, that would suggest we have about 46 dancers in all of Houston that pay for a permit. I have no idea, but I bet that number is in the thousands (just go visit the classified pages of some of our city’s entertainment publications). If we’ve got a revenue problem, I bet we could take that $19,000 up to about $1 million in a year’s time. Give that money to the firefighters.

In 2016, the city earned $44,000 in pay phone concessions (about 130 percent more than we earned from the cabaret dancers). In 2018, the city is budgeting to earn $0 from pay phones. Good call.

We paid $13.8 million for traffic tickets in 2016 and another $2 million in non-traffic fines (parking).

But here’s my absolute favorite. In 2016, the city of Houston collected $558,000 in library fines. In other words, keep holding those books an extra few weeks; the city needs the revenue.

Later this year, the city will ask you to help them raise about $1 billion more from bonds. It’s best we know where our money is earned and where it is spent (more on that soon) before we get further into debt.

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Some weeks ago, you wrote an editorial about Mayor Turner and City Hall’s efficiency with the “pot hole” problem. Well, I was on the way to the Post Office the other day and noticed this big pot hole in the street--thought “Now there is a hole that really needs fixing.” Driving back home, about ten minutes later, I saw a city crew hard at work filling in the hole. I thought to myself, “Wow, now that is carrying efficiency to a whole new level--mental telepathy”!

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The Illusion of Public Figure Wisdom

Dear Editor: Long ago I wrote a eulogy for my grandmother’s funeral. After the service, numerous attendees in her little town accosted and conversed with me, treating me like a celebrity. Many wanted to know what I thought of such-and-such, some requesting advice on subjects about which I knew absolutely nothing. I understood from that point forward the pseudo-power a public figure exercises -- and we see this all the time now when, for example, Hollywood bubble-heads opine about presidential macroeconomics policies, rock star dopers chime in on Congressional politics, and professional-sports P.E. majors adduce declarations involving international affairs.

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Reader, from P. 3A Kiki Neumann. As a neighbor directly impacted by this transaction, I hardly regard Ms. Neumann’s deci sion to sell her property to a developer who is posed to squeeze 22 homes where once there were two as a laudable way to honor one’s parents. It appears that The Leader sought only one point of view in this article, and completely ignored the impact to other residents directly affected by this new development in our quiet area.

While it is true the new development boasts a single century-old oak tree, it should be noted that every other mature tree on the wooded, 2-acre lot was hacked down and hauled off along with every other bit of vegetation. As one long-time neighbor told me, “It looks like a bomb went off over there.”

For Ms. Neumann to state that this development was “a great choice for the local area” is presumptuous and insulting to those of us who continue to live here. Frankly, it was not what I expected from the community-minded neighbor you described in the article.

Mary Wiggins

Abandoned pool becoming public safety hazard

Dear Editor: The owner’s name should be published. There is no excuse for allowing a property to become a blight on an entire neighborhood, as well as a health hazard. Our taxes should not be used to repair the problems caused by this neglect. The owner should be fined the maximum amounts allowed by law for every possible infraction, and liens posted on the property if the fines are not paid, with a resulting public sale of the property to pay the liens. I wonder if it can be condemned?

JB Dear Editor: Contacting 311 about neighborhood issues is a joke. Just look at the chart that shows the acceptable number of days for addressing issues.

I have reported a street drainage issue in our neighborhood at least three times. The first two times, it was dismissed as “not our department’s issue,” so on the third attempt, I reported it to FIVE departments. They ALL either dismissed it or recategorized it so that it would not have to be addressed until the latest of 180 days or Hell Freezing Over.

I reported a missing (likely stolen from the curb) trash container.

Took 25 days, though the standard is 10. Contacting Ms. Cohen’s office just adds insult to injury. It took an appeal to the Mayor’s office for a solution.

And now we have a city official advising people to go buy stuff they can throw into the water. Nice.

Perhaps Ms. Cohen’s new BFF, the suspended Director of Public Works, has a solution. Hell, if he had enough money to “loan” a HCC trustee over $70K, perhaps he can go buy that stuff to throw in the water. He sure as hell has the time!

Robert Choate

Inaugural media camp hones skills of craft Dear Editor: Wonderful! Our girl liked it. Thank you Jonathan.

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Dear Editor: My grandson JJ Stoops really enjoyed his week. Hope this will be another adventure for next summer.

Thanks to all the professionals who participated.

Gail Stoops

Panhandle from P. 1A the end of it. If they don’t, there’s a chance they could get a citation.”

In the months since, Turner has also launched a campaign aimed at urging residents to redirect their charitable donations from panhandlers themselves to organizations aimed at solving the city’s homelessness problem.

The campaign, termed “Meaningful Change, not Spare Change” contained several prongs, most notably spawning 55 billboard ads across the city as well as social media promotions and 1,500 radio ads.

“By contributing our ‘spare change’ directly to organizations that are working to get our homeless neighbors off the streets and into housing, we can make ‘meaningful change’ in the lives of our homeless,” Turner said at a May news conference, flanked

by members of faith communities from all walks of Houston.

The city encourages residents not to give money to panhandlers - who may or may not be homeless, and some of whom may be part of organized panhandling rings.

Instead, Turner encouraged all to donate to The Way Home campaign via MeaningfulChange.org.

Though he believes many Houstonians’ hearts are in the right place when providing what might be the most common form of charity, Turner said in May that doing so might actually be making the problem worse around the city, not better.

“This is not a campaign that we’re waging against the homeless,” Turner said.

“This is a campaign to assist people to leave homelessness.”

Equal Pay from P. 1A and Buffalo Wild Wings on Washington Avenue as they push to make their voice heard. As of press time, the group had collected more than 52,000 total signatures in support of the initiative in little more than a week.

“We are now asking the voters to help Houston firefighters because the city refuses to do so,” Langton said. “We submitted the city 50 percent more signatures than was necessary to get this measure on the ballot.

Mayor Sylvester Turner issued a statement in response to the initiative, saying he believes the negotiations have been in good faith, and that the demands being made simply are not feasible for the city’s budget.

“Firefighters deserve a pay raise. They initially demanded 21 percent, then 17 percent. The city, hoping to end the impasse with the firefighters, offered 9.5 percent, which will stretch the city’s financial capability,” he said in the statement.

“The association turned down that offer and continues to demand what the city cannot pay. Now the association is asking voters to sign a petition calling for parity between police and fire, but their structures and benefits are very different.”

Furthermore, Turner said the number of days firefighters work per month, command staff, overtime pay and benefits are not the same as HPD’s and have differed over the last 15 years. Passing the measure, he said in the statement, could possibly cost the city more than $40 million.

“That would force the city to schedule layoffs in all department areas or further delay maintenance on buildings and purchase schedules for much needed equipment,” he said. “The city appreciates and respects every fire fighter, but the demands of their union leadership will financially cripple the city, absent removing the revenue cap and a further tax increase.”

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Neighbors: Railsback completes Girl Scout Silver Award Project

By Elizabeth Villareal elizasgarden@outlook.com

Happiest of birthday wishes go out to Mary Sharon Komarek of Garden Oaks! Komarek celebrated her special day on July 18, with her favorite menfolk, husband Chris and sons Charles and James. Friends and family wish you sunshine and happiness along with many more happy returns of the day.

Happy birthday to Greg Railsback of Garden Oaks who celebrated his special day on July 13, with a fun-filled trip to Galveston! Lots of love from wife Amy, daughter Kristin and son Chris.

Happy, happy birthday to sweet Roxanne Adams! Roxanne celebrated her special day on July 18.

A little birdie told me that Tia Maria’s Mexican Restaurant on Dacoma, home of some of the best frozen margaritas in Leader country, now has a complimentary self-serve station of frozen soft serve ice cream for patrons! Ole! Congratulations to Kristin Railsback, a Cadette with Girl Scout Troop 24233 in Emerald Oaks, who recently completed her Girl Scout Silver Award project. Railsback, a resident of Garden Oaks, chose to create first aid kits for the homeless. The two local shelters she supported are The Star of Hope and The Beacon. Railsback collected donated items from her family, friends, and generous members at her church, St. Matthew’s UMC. After nearly six months, she had collected enough items to create a total of 100 kits (50 per shelter). Items included everything

from band-aids, rolled gauze, antiobiotic cream, betadine wipes, gauze pads, trial sized shampoo/conditioner, hand sanitizer, sunscreen, disposable razors, toothbrushes and more.

Both shelters were enthusiastic and supportive of her project and were thrilled to receive the kits. So often, these basic items are overlooked when people think about donating to shelters. Railsback recognized that children also stay at these shelters as well as the fact many homeless people live on the streets where it is easy to get cuts and scrapes. Basic hygiene and first aid items are easily taken for granted and much needed by almost all shelters year round. Star of Hope loaded the bags into their van to deliver to their emergency shelter and also to people on the streets.

The Beacon allowed Kristin to pass the kits out on site to clients, and they were gone within minutes. Railsback shared that it was a rewarding feeling to see the smiles on people’s faces and to know how many people were able to benefit from her project. She encourages you to consider donating similar items to Houston’s shelters and said that if anyone is looking for a service project, this is one that truly fills a constant need.

Thank you, Kristin!

Recent visits to Kroger were much more interesting because numerous neighbors were spotted: Oscar Montemayor, Steven Doud, Bill Castillo, Shannon Nolle, Dylan Casares, Mark Briceno, Juli and Rebecca Crow, Megan and Kylie Salch, Amy and Greg Railsback, and Richard

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Mark your calendar!

July 22, 1-3 p.m. - AC The Book Scene, 1820 W. 43rd St. -- one of our amazing neighbors, David Baskett of Candlelight Estates, has written a poignant book entitled Entry-Level Cancer – My First Six Months In The Club That No One Wants To Join, and AC The Book Scene is hosting a book signing for him. Baskett handles his subject with a heavy dose of truth along with a wry sense of humor, sharing his fears and his triumphs. AC The Book Scene owners, Alda Pool and Cathy Stringer, invite the community to come in and meet Baskett, have their books signed, and enjoy refreshments, fun and prizes.

July 27, 6:30 p.m. - Timbergrove Manor Neighborhood Association Quarterly Meeting, at Kojaks, 1912 W. 18th St. – Houston High-Speed Rail Watch will provide a quick update and discuss current plans for the major hub to be located at Northwest Mall and a connectivity proposal regarding the planned NW high speed rail transit center. The proposal was created to develop a connectivity proposal that avoids our community’s neighborhoods and would help transfer some riders to downtown while minimizing impact to neighborhoods.

Houston High-Speed Rail Watch is attending various neighborhood meetings to discuss with neighbors and find out what they think about the proposal and to keep everyone informed with the latest developments. Dessert and tea will be provided as well as this is BYOB.

Local student puts caring into action

By Kim Hogstrom For The Leader Madisen Beavers will soon be a senior at St. Pius X High School. The 17-yearold attends full-time and is a member of the National Honor Society. Additionally, despite having so much time consumed by those activities, she has also dedicated extra hours to making an impact in her community.

Beavers volunteers regularly at the Houston Food Bank, and last spring she partnered with the Teachers Aid Program at the food bank to spearhead a drive resulting in the collection of more than 28,000 donated pencils for schools in need. One teen collected 28,000 pencils - herself.

The Houston Food Bank’s Teachers Aid program provides free school supplies to teachers in low-income schools in Houston. After doing research, Madisen discover that pencils are by far the item teachers need most. Educators distribute as many as 20 a day and their Photo supplied reserves run out quickly.

“If a student can’t take notes and re- St. Pius X soon-to-be-senior, Madisen Beavers, sought and collected 28,000 donated pencils to help students and teachers in low-income areas of Houston. cord ideas, how can they learn?” Madisen asked.

The cost of school essentials can that situation, but I know many in Hous- student, including the Leather Apron Foundation’s annual scholarship, which overwhelm low income families. It is ton are,” she said.

During her work with the food bank, covers a portion of her tuition at St. common practice for kind teachers to take money from their own pockets and Madisen can be found doing almost Pius. And don’t expect Madisen to slow down this year. spend hundreds of dollars on provi- anything.

“It’s hard work, but we have fun.

I inThe teen will sit on the food bank’s sions for their students. Knowing this, Madisen launched her pencil drive by vite all my friends to join us. There are ”Student Heroes Board” for young volpartnering with the theology and math about 85 teens who volunteer regularly, unteers this fall. She is also expanding her pencil drive into a full-blown school departments at St. Pius. Soon after, she and we love doing it,” she said.

“Madisen is very special to the Teach- supply drive. Madisen intends to chalhad the backing of the entire school.

“The support we received was amaz- ers Aid program,” added Houston Food lenge St. Thomas High School and ing. We were still collecting pencils into Bank School Programs Manager Kiana others to meet or beat St. Pius’ efforts the summer. It feels good to help others. Anderson. “She began volunteering at collecting donated school provisions.

Giving back has an impact on our sense the our food warehouse, then learned Beavers is hoping to attend the Univerabout Teachers Aid and stated dedicat- sity of Texas to pursue a degree. Maof worth,” she added quietly.

Madisen has been volunteering at ing her time to us. We love Madisen’s disen wants to be an accountant or an the Houston Food Bank for three years. positive attitude; she is such an inspira- actuary.

“I know it’s unusual, but I was blessed “I remember a boy in my class who tion to others. Whenever we need help, with a ‘math brain.’ It’s my strength,” couldn’t afford lunch. I felt so badly for she’s ready to jump in.”

Working with Teachers Aid has re- she concluded with a laugh. him. I think that made me sensitive to hunger in families. I have never been in sulted in numerous accolades for the

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to send a draft of the new Design Guidelines to the HAHC by June 30. That date came and went, and according to one Realtor in the Heights, a meeting with Turner helped nudge the city to go back to the proverbial drawing board.

According to Steph McDougal, who is project manager of the Planning Department’s guidelines process, said a revised draft of the Heights Historic District would be delivered “on or before Aug. 7.”

“We have, however, recommended to the Mayor’s office that there should be an additional 8-week public comment period for that draft,” McDougal said in a written statement. “The additional time for the public to review after Aug. 7 would serve to accomplish the mayor’s goal of a stronger consensus.”

One of the key points of contention in the current draft of the Design Guidelines is the amount of space a home can take up on a lot. As written, the Guidelines say homes on a 5,000 square-foot lot can only be 2,200 square feet.

The problem arises when those 2,200 square feet include garage space, which is usually unfinished and unlivable.

Community leaders have

Photo by Jonathan McElvy In order to complete renovations to homes in the Historic Heights Districts, owners must receive a certificate of appropriateness from the HAHC.

asked that the Guidelines allow for at least 400 square feet of garage be deducted from the size. That would then allow for a 2,600 square-foot house to be built, which is a lot of space in a home.

There also are concerns about ceiling heights and side and rear set-backs to homes, and it appears McDougal and her staff are considering those requests.

“I am in the process of sorting through these requests and will be mak-

ing a recommendation for the additional analyses we could reasonably accomplish, which will satisfy as many of these requests as possible,” McDougal said.

Assuming consensus is built among homeowners, developers, architects and designers, McDougal and Turner hope to complete this process by the end of the year.

McDougal said another public comment period would take place in August and September, and

a finalized draft could be presented to HAHC in October, before being sent to the Quality of Life Committee and, eventually the City Council and Turner’s desk.

“However, since we are not in charge of determining whether or for how long to have additional public comment, and we can only request to have items added to the agendas for both QoLC and Council, I think it’s prudent to say on that such a timeframe is possible…,” McDougal said.

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Professionals and researchers have found specific benefits in cat ownership. For many people, cats offer social companionship without the fear of judgement.

Having a cat around can prevent loneliness and depression and even improve your mood in general. Companionship through a cat is especially beneficial to those who live alone or are widowed.

Dr. Jonathan Lidbury, assistant professor in the feline internal medicine department at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, explains the key advantages of owning a cat.

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STEAK NIGHT American Legion Post 560 Come by the American Legion Post 560, 3720 Alba Rd., for a delicious steak dinner and entertainment, July 21 (third Friday of each month). Steaks will be served from 6 p.m. until sold out.

The cost is $15 per plate. Information: 713-682-9287, facebook.

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BOOK SIGNING The Book Scene Local author David Baskett, will sign and discuss his book, Entry-Level Cancer, “My First Six Months in the Club That No One Wants To Join.” There will be food and prizes. The event will be from 1-3 p.m., July 22. Information: 713-869-6117.

DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every other month, with the next class on July 25 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The meeting is free to attend and open to anyone interested in learning more about healthy eating, foot care, stress management, heart health, blood sugar control and exercise.

For information or to register, call 713-867-4515.

FISH FRY American Legion Post 560 The Ladies Auxiliary Unit 560,

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Vacation Bible School at St. Matthew’s St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church Vacation Bible School will be held at 5:30 p.m. July 24-26. A free light meal will be served beginning at 5:30. Bible School classes start promptly at 6 p.m. This year’s theme is Hero Central.

Classes will be available for children ages Pre K-4th Grade.

Bible classes will also be available for adults. Children must register before the event on July 24. Call the church office at 713-697-0671 or go online at 2017.cokesburyvbs.com/stmatthews to register.

St. Matthew’s UMC is located at 4300 N. Shepherd Dr. Visit the Facebook page, website at www.stmatthewsmethodist.org or call 713-6970671 for information.

Senior Time Event at First Church Heights Senior Time Event is held

the last Tuesday of every month. Come and listen to interesting guest speakers and enjoy breakfast.

This month’s guest speaker will be Ginny Kirkin of the Susan B. Komen Cancer Foundation. The event will be from 10:30-11:30 a.m. July 25, at First Church Heights, 201 E. 9th St., in the fellowship hall.

Call 713-861-3102 or visit www.fbcheights.org for information.

Family picnic at St. Stephen’s St. Stephen’s will host a family picnic Friday, July 28, from 5-7 p.m. at Jaycee Park, 1300 Seamist Dr. Bring dinner for the family, and swimsuits for the kids for splash pad fun.

A Fine Arts Camp offering an exploration of the arts through the centuries with visual arts, music, dance and drama for students in grades K-6 will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. Aug. 6-10. Tuition is $100

The Obituaries.

Dr. Clarence Oscar Dube,

94, born Nov. 22, 1922, died July 17.

Victor “Jimmy” James Green Jr., 67, born Sept. 1,

1949, died July 9. After graduating from St. Pius High School, Green enlisted in the U.S. Army where he earned the Bronze Service Star and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant in 1971.

He is survived by his sons James “Jeremy” and Jacob, daughter Marlena, brother Alan, and two grandsons.

Carl Keppler III, 87, born June 8, 1930, died July 5. He grew up in the Heights and graduated from John H. Reagan High School in 1948. He joined the United States Air Force, serving at Scott AFB and Randolph AFB. He returned home and completed in 1956 a BS degree in electrical engineering at the University of Houston. He was employed with the Johnson Space Center working on the Apollo program and the Space Shuttle and complet-

ing his career as a System Space Shuttle Instructor. Keppler is survived by his son Craig R. Keppler, and brother Donald Keppler.

Wilda Mae Maness, 87, born July 13, 1929, died July 4.

She graduated from Reagan High School in 1947. She met Lloyd Maness in 1946 and they were married Jan. 22, 1948. She was employed as an accountant at Rein Printing Co. for more than 20 years. Survivors include her two daughters Gwen Coronis and Janet Brast, sister Mary Jenkins, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Maxine Kuhn Muske, 88, born June 13, 1929 in Roundtop, Texas, died July 9. She is survived by her son Donald Muske, brother Fred Kuhn, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to: Reach Unlimited, 11832 Mueller Cemetery Rd., Cypress, TX 77429.

Luis Joseph Romero, 69,

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can help you on your grief journey and be an important part of building a strong support system.

Classes will be held Tuesdays from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 1-Sept. 26. The group meets in the South Tower Classrooms at Memorial Hermann Greater Heights, located at 1635 North Loop West. Information: 713222-2273 (CARE).

COMMUNITY DANCE SPJST Lodge 88 The SPJST Lodge 88, 1435 Beall St., will host The Fab 5 - Beatles Tribute, from 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

July 28. The cost is $10 per person. Reservations are suggested, but not required. Enjoy complimentary dance instruction before all Saturday night dances, starting at 7:30 p.m. and during intermission. Reservations held only 30 minutes past start of dance. Information: 713-8695767, lodge88.org.

AMPUTEE SUPPORT CIRCLE Memorial Hermann Greater Heights The Amputee Support Circle meets the second Friday of every month from 1–2:30 p.m., with the next meeting Aug. 11. The meeting provides educational speakers, resources for amputee needs, and a conducive environment for amputees to meet others and share their experiences.

Information: 832-304-3574 or 713-854-2504.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Memorial Hermann Greater Heights When you lose someone you love, you are left to pick up the pieces and try your best to go on.

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hold a Kidz Health Fair from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. July 29.

Call 713-695-7061 for information.

Vacation Bible School at Arise Baptist Arise Baptist Church, 803 Curtin St., will hold Vacation Bible School. VBS Operation Arctic (ages 3-12) and “In Teens” Teen Rally (7th-12th Grade) will be from 6-9 p.m.

July 30-Aug. 4.

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Fifth Sunday Singing at Oak Forest Baptist Come by to Oak Forest Baptist Church, 1700 W. 43rd St., for the Fifth Sunday Singing at 4:15 p.m. July 30. There will be congregation singing, instrumental music and some special music by the church soloists.

There will be a watermelon social at 5:15 p.m. following the singing.

For information, call 713682-4942.

St. Monica to hold annual Fall Bazaar St. Monica Catholic Church, 8421 W. Montgomery Rd., will hold their annual 2017 Fall Bazaar Oct. 14-15. Be a part of the festivities. Vendor booths available. Call Craig Adams at 713-818-2048 or Charles Cade at 713-851-1658.

For information visit www. stmonicahouston.com.

Kidz Health Fair at Greater First Baptist Greater First Baptist Church, 4441 Haygood St. 77022, will

born Aug. 25, 1947 in Edinburg, Texas, died July 11. Romero proudly served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970 as an Air Traffic Controller and achieved the rank of Sergeant. He graduated from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Photography with a Business Management minor in August 1973. He was a professional photographer and owner of Photography by Romero. Romero is survived by his daughters Stephanie Romero and Shelley Romero Rinehart, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, at the chapel of Heights Funeral Home, burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery.

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Learning Open House will be from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at Lone Star College Victory Center, 4141 Victory Dr. Come meet the instructors and speakers, visit with fellow members, get catalogs and parking permits, and register for membership and

classes. The Academy for Lifelong Learning provides free classes and social opportunities for senior adults (50+). Membership is just $20/year for this campus.

Information: http://lonestar.edu, pamela.J.Gardner@Lonestar.edu, 281-810-5680.

DIGITAL DENTISTRY Chase Baker, D.D.S.

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s the world has become digitalized, the world of dentistry has been following right along.

Paper is quickly leaving the office in favor of paperless charts.

Websites can allow a patient to fill out any paperwork needed for an appointment and “send” it straight into their chart at the office. All of this saves time, saves a stamp, and even better — saves a tree!

Photos and X-rays can be taken, viewed immediately and magnified to 25x their original size. This allows for better diagnoses from your dentist and for you, the patient, to see what your dentist is fussing about when he sees a problem (the classic “picture worth a thousand words”). These images can even be e-mailed to other offices, in most cases eliminating the need for a new office to take their own images. Digital radiographs also require far less radiation compared to their conventional counterparts. This is a great benefit as we should all be concerned about our levels of radiation exposure and minimizing it wherever possible.

Another benefit from digital advancements is the ability to take digital impressions for restorations. It is possible to take an “impression” through a camera scan that allows for your dentist, or their lab to fabricate restorations without the need of traditional impression materials.

Take a look around at your next dental appointment and see how all of these advancements are moving to make your patient experience a much more pleasant one.

Prepared as a public service to promote better dental health. From the office of: Chase Baker, D.D.S., 3515 Ella Blvd., 713-682-4406.

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I love our neighborhood. Everywhere I go I meet people who are proud of their neighborhood and are willing to work hard to make it a better place. I want to encourage each of you today to be a good neighbor! In Luke 10:25-37 we read the story of the Good Samaritan.

Jesus used this story as an example to explain what a neighbor is and what makes a person a good neighbor.

A lawyer asked Jesus a question. He said, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus answered by telling a story about a man who had been robbed, beaten, and left on the side of the road, and three other men who saw this man in his need. One man was a priest, another a Levite, and the third man was a Samaritan. Even though each man saw the need of the individual on the side of the road, only one man stopped to help. The Samaritan stopped, tended to the man’s wounds, loaded him up on his donkey, and took him to an inn where he paid for the man’s care and lodging. This man was clearly the neighbor to the man in need. From this story there are several principles that can be learned. First of all, being a good neighbor may cost you time and money. Being a good neighbor requires action and intentionality. If you truly care about others it will motivate you to do something for them. Secondly, being a good neighbor may mean caring for someone you don’t know, someone who can’t repay you, or someone who doesn’t look like you or share your same values. Ultimately, being a good neighbor is hard work and yet without good neighbors many people would be without help. I am thankful for a good neighbor who calls me if he notices anything unusual around our property and has volunteered to help me with projects that I am working on outside. I am thankful that Jesus was the greatest example of a good neighbor in that He came to this earth to die for each and every person. He gave of Himself. What are you willing to do to be a good neighbor to others?

Saturday, July 22, 2017 • Page 7A

The Classifieds.

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eanette Black is an inside sales executive starting her 7th year here at The Leader Newspaper. Jeanette is a native Houstonian, was born in Heights Hospital, grew up in Garden Oaks, is a Waltrip alumni and currently resides in Forest West. Her off time is devoted to her family: Daughter Jackie Black attends grad school at the U of H Main Campus and daughter Jennifer Black Graham, husband Zane, and 2 beautiful grandchildren “Lizzie� and “Tripp� also reside in Houston. “ My grandchildren are our little miracles and we are more grateful every day that we have them to brighten our lives!� Jeanette is an avid garage sale shopper and a HUGE animal lover who has rescued many fur babies and given them forever homes.

What does working for The Leader mean to you?

The Leader means “community� in every sense of the word. I have met many people at our front desk, some who are advertisers and have become friends, some I have known since high school and haven’t seen for 40 years! Our neighbors come by sometimes just to comment on something that we have run in the paper. Even though they may not always agree with us, when they comment we know they are reading us so we must be doing something right!

I do know one thing about living in this neighborhood for almost 60 years: neighbors may move away during the course of their lives for various reasons but a really high percentage move back. I think it has something to do with a love for our community.

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ack in 2007, a group of friends - and University of Houston theatre graduates - decided to do something creative and went to work on forming their own theatre company called BooTown.

Co-artistic director Emily Hynds said the group knew they wanted to work in theatre, but didn’t have a strong desire to work for a company that already existed - enter BooTown. To their core, BooTown creates original performance events that combine the traditions of theatre and performance art with modern interdisciplinary methods, per their mission statement.

One of those performance events is something called Grown-up Storytime that takes place every third Tuesday of the month, with two showings - one at 8 and 10 p.m. - all happening at Rudyard’s British Pub upstairs. In fact, the event has taken place at Rudz since its birth in 2007, but that’s no surprise as Rudz has been a champion for the Arts for some time now.

Getting started, Hynds said they knew they wanted to do a storytelling segment, but put their own spin on it. “Back then, storytelling was becoming this new phenomenon and it was just getting popular – The Moth existed, and a couple other storytelling events that were focused to tell your own story,� Hynds said. “With all our theatre backgrounds, we wanted to put a different spin on it and have the focus be on people submitting stories, and us assigning them to someone else to read – it crowd sources both your writers and your readers, and also gives an opportunity to writers who may not be comfortable telling their own story, but have really amazing stories that need to be out there.�

Grown-up Storytime has two elements: writing and reading. The novice writer, or even experienced writer, can attend a free BooTown Storytime workshop to work on a story and also get feedback.

The same is also true for those who are interested in performing, reading, but the workshop works more on nuts and bolts, like how to properly talk into a microphone, learning to be comfortable on a stage, what notes to hit and not hit. Each workshop provides free feedback and polishes your skills to ready you for a possible debut. “For writers, I think there’s a high rate of those who go to the workshop and then their stories get accepted in because we have the ability to workshop it with you over a long period,� Hynds said. “My favorite thing to tell writers is that you get paid. Even if you attend a workshop, the workshop is free and if your story gets accepted you get paid $40 on the spot for your story, and I think that’s great.�

For readers, this workshop is something new to Storytime. Previously, if you had been to a Storytime and showed an interest in reading, Hynds said they would allow readers to give it a shot, and

Christina Martinez Managing Editor

Photos contributed by BooTown, taken by Sean Askandari At the top, Kim Head reading at Grown-up Storytime number 59.

On the left, Grown Up Storytime 59 reader Danny Furness at Rudyard’s British Pub, located at 2010 Waugh Dr.

Miner. This story shared an inside look of dealing with mental health and depression - this was my favorite written story for the night.

The fourth story was titled “Dating Profile�, written by Robert Houghton and read by Jason Wysong.

The fifth story was “Superboned�, written by John Wayne Comunale and read by Gabe Bravo.

The last story was “I was a Middle School Bully�, written

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This was my second Storytime to attend, and after each one I’ve asked myself what story I would write to share.

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When it comes to which stories are selected for Grown-up Storytime, Hynds said it’s about quality and content. “We don’t just want to have poop and fart joke stories, we want to make sure other genres are represented,� she said. “Storytelling is such a phenomenon right now because it’s all relatable. We can all relate to someone’s mental health story, to someone’s dating story, a poop story. These are all things we have all experienced. So we want to make sure that we represent the spectrum – it’s not all laughs.�

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