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By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com It’s finally happening. After more than 70 citations from the Department of Neighborhoods Inspections & Public Service since 2005, the 222-unit, 18 building Oakbrook Apartments, abandoned for five years, will be no more in a matter of days.

It’s especially good news for the Near Northwest Management District, which once said on their website that “Oakbrook needs to be demolished so their vacant properties in the flood plain do not continue being a source of vagrants and drug usage.”

In January 2014, Roksan Okan-Vick, then ex-

ecutive director of the Houston Parks Board, told The Leader that when the property was for sale, the Houston Parks Board did try to acquire it with help from the city, but was unsuccessful. That’s why the community was so happy this spring when Houston’s City Council voted to purchase the derelict apartments at 5353 DeSoto St. from See Oakbrook P. 3A

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David Harrison, who once shoved a shotgun in his chest, has found a home at First Church Heights. And he may have just found his calling in a diverse church seeking answers in these ‘culturally contentious times.’ - Photo by Jonathan McElvy

For some children in Houston, the summertime is a blissful season of swimming, sports camp and staying up a little later at night. For others, the summer equates to heat and hunger.

About 80 percent of HISD’s kids qualify for the federally subsidized, free breakfast and lunch program, but what happens when school’s out? Where will an already financially strapped family find the money for two extra meals a day, per child? The Houston Food Bank’s Keegan Kitchen located on the edge of the Houston Heights, offers solutions.

“The public thinks that our working poor need help with food over the holidays. In truth, the need is much greater in the summer,” stated Betsy Ballard, Chief Communications Officer for the HFB. “We operate our Kids Cafe Summer Food Program to make prepared meals in our kitchen to help relieve the situation. We serve 5,000 kids, free,

Harrison using his spared life to rescue others

By Jonathan McElvy jonathan@theleadernews.com

During Vacation Bible School, Houston Police and Harvard principal Laura Alaniz stopped

by First Church Heights to visit Harrison and some of their students.

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avid Harrison knows something about law enforcement.

His brother, Lofton, is the deputy chief for the Harris County Constable’s Precinct 1. But that’s not his only connection.

On May 17, 1999, Harrison looked out the window to see his home surrounded by Houston police officers.

That wasn’t a surprise, considering the roaming preacher had downed his second bottle of Bacardi 151 right before calling McDuffie Mortuary to prepare a hearse. He also called his mother to let her know he had nothing left for this world.

The day before, Harrison had given what he thought was his last sermon from Psalm 51.

“Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew a right spirit within me.”

Harrison didn’t wait on that cleansing from God. Instead, he cleansed his left chest with the explosion of a 12-gauge shotgun – above and around his heart.

“Right before I pulled that trigger, I said, ‘God, if you want me, save me,’” he recalled as he lifted his shirt to show the 6-inch scar.

The last thing Harrison remembered, he “felt heat, tasted smoke.”

He woke up four days later in Ben Taub Hospital a broken man. Actually, he was broken long before cops cornered his house.

He served three years as a sea/air rescue paramedic in the first Gulf War in 1991.

“I grew up on the streets in Independence Heights,” Harrison recalled. “You know, people talk about

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That wasn’t the case in the Persian Gulf, where Harrison’s fellow soldiers walked into triage with open wounds and lost lives.

When he came home in 1994, his grandmother, grandfather, uncle and father all died in a 3-month window.

His new wife lasted all of three months. And meanwhile, Harrison wandered. He looked for places to preach. He delivered mail. And he watched his body break into pieces, blaming everything over the sun.

“I was done with this church stuff,” he said. “I had medical retirement from the [U.S. Postal Service], and I was going to raise Quarter horses.”

But Harrison said God called him

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Finding a Home Today, Harrison thinks he knows why his life was spared. He’s found a calling at a once all-white church in the middle of the Heights, and he’s helping lead the battle against what he has dubbed “culturally contentious times.”

In 2013, Harrison graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary, but that degree didn’t come with the promise of a job. In fact, the seminary said they could not recommend him as a pastor because of a divorce earlier in his life.

Instead, the time at DTS gave Harrison a real understanding of the

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As one Harrison prays, another patrols Harris Co.

By Jonathan McElvy jonathan@theleadernews.com While David Harrison arrives to his office every day in the pursuit of saving souls, his brother, Lofton Harrison, is just trying to keep a city safe.

It’s an interesting dichotomy between the two men, who grew up in Independence Heights standing on the curbs of Yale Street.

“If David ain’t building something, he’s sure working at it,” Lofton Harrison says about his brother’s church in the Heights.

It’s easy to sense the mutual admiration the siblings have for each other. David, whose diverse church feels a special calling to bring unity in a tenuous culture, puffs up a little when talking about his older brother.

“I’m so proud of him,” David said. “We’ve talked a lot about what’s happening out there right now, and what he always tells me is that police have one job when they leave for work each day, and that’s to get home safely to their families.”

While news of assaults on law enforcement doesn’t seem to stop, Lofton said churches like his brother’s have an ability to ease the tension in times like these.

“The main thing they can do is keep people calm,” Lofton said. “You know, we’ve got people who are angry. And angry people become mad. And when people become mad, they’re not rational. Whatever name you want to put on this – racism, whatever – it still goes back to the same thing that people are mad.”

And what the church can do, according to Lofton, is “keep people from hating each other.”

That sounds simple, but with the precipitous increase in violence involving law en-

Patrol Chief Lofton Harrison, whose brother’s church has made it a mission to help heal cultural wounds, works the streets of Harris County during a time when law enforcement are on edge.

forcement, Lofton Harrison also knows nothing about this problem is simple.

“It just seems like we have a society of hopelessness,” he said. “And what’s difficult is these people [shooting police officers] really don’t care if they live. They don’t want to live.”

For his part, Harrison is kind of tired of hearing about the race issue.

“I hear young black men talk, and I don’t think it’s about race,” he said. “They think all cops are killers. And this Black Lives Matter movement – it’s not about race. We’ve got to care about everybody. Yes, black lives matter. They all matter.”

As Harrison leads men who patrol the streets, he sees something much larger than skin tones.

“This is something [Constable Alan] Rosen tries to do in our precinct. We are out there trying to create relationships before we have problems like this,” Harrison said.

What bothers him so much,

though, is that beyond possible mistakes by law enforcement in cities around the nation, he’s not sure where the root of the problem lies.

“What, exactly, are we fighting over?” he asked. “We’re not the ones who should be fighting each other. But the younger generation is having a hard time hearing this. They just don’t have the same amount of respect for the leaders, the elders.”

While David Harrison spends most of his time praying and preaching for calm, Lofton Harrison has to trust that he will get home safely to his family. And his family has to trust the same thing.

Lofton’s sons – Cortney Atkinson, 32, and Pierre Atkinson, 32 – work as deputies in the Sheriff’s Department, and it’s telling to hear how the father eliminates the risk of his family’s profession.

“I pray,” he said when asked about the current perils of law enforcement. “We all pray, me and my sons, and we know God.”

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Harrison from P. 1A Bible, and he shared that wisdom wherever he could find it – including to a group of men at the Harriet and Joe Foster YMCA on 34th Street.

“I met a man named Joe Webber, and if you didn’t know him, you would have thought he was the biggest racist in the world,” Harrison said. “But wherever I was preaching, Joe would just follow me around.”

One day, Harrison said he told Webber that he had to quit following him to all these black churches (Webber is white). Instead, he told his new friend to find his own church, a place he could get involved.

Webber ended up at First Baptist Church Heights. And as you might guess, Webber convinced the leadership to bring Harrison for a guest sermon.

Harrison’s infectious joy spread to the leadership of that church and, on Aug. 24, 2014, he accepted the self-created position of executive pastor – for no pay – where he worked alongside Pastor Larry Young. Soon after, Young was diagnosed with leukemia and on June 7, 2015, Harrison became senior pastor of a church that had regular attendance of about 27 white people.

Building Something Different The church Harrison pastors is no longer First Baptist; it’s simply First Church Heights, indicative of the membership’s desire to be nothing more than a Bible church. But that’s the least of what has changed in the building off 9th Street.

Most of the 27 original members there in 2014 are gone, and they have been replaced with 189 members – 57 percent of them African American.

“We haven’t tried to be a multicultural church, it’s just what has happened,” Harrison said.

It’s the diversity of the church, coupled with the pains of current events, which may be offering clarity to why God spared Harrison’s life 17 years ago. He’s using his pulpit, and his church’s unity, to make a statement about a racial discord the pastor said is is worse than the Civil Rights era.

“Look, I’m just going to say it: Things are worse today than they were when Martin [Luther] King Jr. was fighting for civil rights,” Harrison proclaims. “Back then, black or white, we had more unity in this country.

Even in our differences, we were a Christian nation. And sure, the people were segregated, but even though you see the images of [Alabama sheriff] Bull Connor, most people weren’t fighting. They were praying. Martin Luther King’s marches weren’t to start fights.”

Harrison sees something completely different today, and he shares it constantly with his congregation.

“If you analyze this culture, we don’t have a race problem. We have an ignorance prob-

Members of First Church Heights canvas their neighborhood to introduce a new kind of church. At left, David Harrison returned from war and is pictured here from his time at the Naval hospital in Pensacola Fla.

lem,” he said. “We’ve got a victim’s mentality that plays right into the ideals of Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. We’ve raised a generation of bias.”

For his part, Harrison knows he sounds like he’s pandering to his white brothers.

“I tell people, ‘Don’t call me Uncle Tom. Call me Uncle David,’” he said with a smirk.

He doesn’t care how he sounds; he cares what he means.

But Harrison says it’s more than just the victim mentality. He points to the church as a large culprit in this age of confusion.

“The church does not know her position today,” he said. “The church does not know her power. The church does not know her Bible.”

And he believes that church has lost something it once had in this nation.

“Once you’ve lost your power, as the church has, it’s hard to get it back,” he said.

Whether its police officers shooting young black men, or young black men shooting police officers, Harrison believes churches have to reassert their once-powerful cultural influence.

“We don’t have a race problem,” he said.

“We have an obedience problem. And this problem starts at home. Fathers have to go home and find your kids – even your grown ones. We have to go to schools during open houses. We have to go to basketball games and soccer games. We need to be instilling values in men to be dads.”

That’s what Harrison preaches every Sunday at First Church Heights, and he knows there are other churches out there speaking from the same Bible.

“I just wish there was a way for all these churches to come together and make an impact on this problem.”

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Good, healthy food is expensive when compared to the high-calorie, low-nutrition of cheaper alternatives such as pizza, French fries, and hot dogs. What does the HFB’s typical lunch look like?

“Most of the time we prepare hot meals, and each is balanced for a healthy diet,” explained Becky Pahlka, Project Manager for Outreach at the HFB. “Normally, a meal includes one serving of grain, one of meat, a serving of vegetables and one of fruit. We cook them all at Keegan Kitchen on the North Freeway starting at about 3 a.m., and we do that five days a week.”

While federal subsidies help with the cost of the food, the money does not cover it all. Frequently, the HFB must reach to its own shelves to meet demands.

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Oakbrook from P. 1A Fertile Real Estate, LLC, which had owned them since 2013, for a reported $1.25 million.

The city’s immediate plan for the structure? Demolition.

Houston Parks Board Communications Manager Catherine Butsch said that the apartment’s appointment with the wrecking ball had to wait for 90 to 120 days from the close of the sale to allow the city’s General Services Department to bid out the demolition.

On Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the public is invited to join Mayor Sylvester Turner, Council Member Brenda Stardig of District A, and the Houston Parks Board in celebrating the demolition of the Oakbrook Apartments and creation of additional green space along the White Oak hike and bike trail.

Parking will be provided at White Oak Shopping Center at 6644 Antoine Dr. with early shuttle service to the event.

The public is encouraged to take the White Oak Bayou Greenway trail to the event from the shopping center or from home (signs will be posted).

Council Member Stardig whose District A includes Oakbrook told The Leader she has been working on reducing the density of this area for many years, since first taking office in 2010. Butsch said that plans for the park after the demo include minimal landscaping.

A six-year-old girl enjoys fresh fruit served by the Kids Cafe. Photo by Kim Hogstrom

of the Houston Food Bank, and under his leadership HFB has grown into the largest in the United States. Still, Greene knows there is more work to do.

“Keegan Kitchen was designed to prepare 4,000 meals a day, but we push it up to 5,000 for our summer service. Even with that, we estimate that only about 13 percent of qualified child recipients receive food assistance during the summer.

It’s a major problem,” Greene stated.

Greene is seeking solutions but, to meet its objective, the HFB could use the community’s help. In the course of Greene’s tenure at the food bank, the agency has grown from 7,000 volunteers a year, to 70,000. Twice that would be welcomed.

“And we always need volunteers in the kitchen,” Greene continued. “Families with kids as young as six are invited to help. If the children are too young for the kitchen, there is always something to be done at the food bank, and we always welcome the community.”

Another way the agency addresses hunger is through its Food Pantry Partners. Area churches work with the HFB to help families make ends meet by supplementing the family’s groceries. In these cases, there is a small, per-pound charge to the pantry for the food, which defrays the cost of transportation, delivery, warehousing and repackaging of the products. There is no charge to the qualified families each pantry serves.

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Leader one of the last few independents M ost people around here are on vacation, but while our readers (and advertisers) are off building mud castles in Galveston, we’ve thrown things into high gear at The Leader. So while everyone else is away, let me fill you in on some changes and a little industry news.

If you read this page last week, you might have seen that our editor, Jonathan Garris, has moved on to a new career path. Apparently, he’s going to work in some sort of energy sector business, though I thought those companies stopped hiring 16 months ago.

The reality is, Jonathan caused all sorts of problems while he was at The Leader for the past two years.

Namely, every time the phone rang and someone asked for “Jonathan,” our folks up front had to go through this tedious inquisition of just which “Jonathan” they meant. And most times, the callers had no idea.

You can see what kind of trouble this caused in our day-to-day routines, and we felt the best option was to cut the cord.

Obviously, I’m kidding. Jonathan did a great job as editor while he was here. Like most of us journalists, he had things he loved to report and other things he didn’t.

He was a left-leaning voice on this page, and he did a fine job writing

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about topics that interested a large number of our readers.

Why does this matter to readers?

It probably doesn’t, but community newspapers like ours – as you might guess – are not the final landing spots for journalists. Usually, we hire young folks who have a couple of years of experience and we try to train them up to become responsible custodians of your local newspaper. After a few years, they learn enough to be dangerous and go land jobs that put real food on the table.

This is the circle of life for editors at community newspapers, and I appreciate what Garris did for The Leader and our readers.

Moving forward, I am going to assume the role of both editor and publisher (most readers don’t know the difference anyway), and my goal is to add a little spark to our news pages. In my first week doing double-duty, my wife had a grim look on her face questioning

whether I’ve lost my mind. So if we’re announcing a new editor next week, you’ll know who made that decision.

And speaking of community newspapers, another piece of interesting news came down the transom last week.

If you’ve ever lived in one of the suburbs of Houston – not including The Leader area – you probably remember receiving a community newspaper similar to ours. Whether you lived in The Woodlands or Clear Lake, Kingwood or Katy, you likely got a newspaper on your front lawn from a company called Houston Community Newspapers.

I actually moved to Houston in 2006 as the vice president of news for HCN, and I’ve always had a soft spot for the work the 25-plus papers around the city do to keep their neighborhoods informed. In 2012, the owners of my former company sold HCN to a group based in Colorado, and after four years of ownership, that group has decided to sell all the community newspapers in the Greater Houston area.

The new owner of HCN happens to be Hearst Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle. News of that sale was bittersweet for me (not that you really care). The Chronicle assuming ownership and management of the neighborhood newspapers in

the city makes a lot of sense. They can eliminate a lot of the redundancies between the two companies, they already print most of those newspapers, and they’ll do a fine job of covering those communities – at least I hope so.

But it’s bitter because I’ve always thought that cities like Houston, with all its neighborhoods and diversity, need the same sort of diversity in their local news coverage. Just look at our neighborhoods of the Heights, Garden Oaks, Oak Forest, and the rest of the North Houston suburbs (we love them all, it just takes too long to list them).

If you were reliant on just the Chronicle to publish local news about this community, you’d miss a whole heck of a lot of news. An outfit as large as the Chronicle isn’t going to cover the seismic truck that rattled a few neighborhoods this week. They aren’t going to profile leaders in our community like The Leader will.

That’s not just to toot the horn of the people who work for us; that’s just the reality of local news coverage.

What Hearst has done by purchasing the local newspapers in Houston falls in line with what’s happening all over the country.

There are about four newspaper companies that have literally

WASP Without a Sting How are you doing with your guilt trip? Have you even packed yet, because you’re carrying a lot of baggage? I must confess that I am having trouble with this voyage, and I feel terribly guilty about it. My problem afflicts millions of Americans: I am an Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, a WASP, and thus am responsible for most of my nation’s ills, if not those of the entire planet. And I am a bumbling idiot. I will give you a quick example: TV. The butt of jokes, situations, plots, is the white male. If it’s a family sitcom, Dad is the fall guy, whose job it is to look both chagrined and silly while the sound engineer turns up the laugh track. Wife: “Honey, did you go to the grocery store and bring home celery?” Dad: “Is that what you said? No, I went to the bank and brought home my salary.” (This is followed by the father’s hangdog look and the booming laugh track.)

In films, the best example are the National Lampoon movies, where Chevy Chase and then Ed Helms are the most helpless, hapless dummies on the screen. The women are the steady, sane characters. In drama and action films, how often do you see a minority as the villain?

The safe path is the WASP. Count the good white folks in “Roots” and “Glory.” Very few. In the past we could tell jokes based on another race, religion or looks. Al Jolson built his career on black-faced songs, jokes and routines.

Particularly in today’s tense times, we can’t publicly make jokes about minorities, and how many politicians (George Allen), movie stars (Mel Gibson) and sports personalities (Jimmy the Greek) have gotten into trouble or ruined their careers by saying or even emailing a politically incorrect statement?

The only safe target is the white male. (For purposes of feeling victimized, I’ll expand this category to all white males, not just WASPs.) You want to commit social suicide, propose White History Month. Of course, such a move would be greeted with: Every other month is White History Month.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt panicked after Pearl Harbor and sent between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps, and we are reminded of it to this day 75 years later. Then I came upon this: “When we moved out on the march, again some of us just couldn’t make it. They lay on their sides shaking with chills or burning with fever….” Others tried to help, but the guards clubbed them away. “Two or three guards were left behind. They soon came trotting up, wiping their bayonets with rags.” – Texan and UT grad Vince Taylor, survivor of the Bataan Death March. Japan has yet to apologize, and some still honor

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their executed war criminals. What’s the connection?

None. But I feel guilty about those internment camps. I never owned a slave, never shot an Indian and never blew up a mosque, but it’s still my fault. I never tried to keep Tejanos from voting, never insulted gays, never teased a Yankee about his accent. OK, two out of three ain’t bad. As a journalist, I never plagiarized, during the best of times and the worst of times, not even four score and seven years ago, but ask not what your country can do for you. Who signed this treasonous document? “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.” A bunch of slave-owning, wig-wearing pols. We must hope none of them got their pictures on our currency.

Now for a moment of defense, or a sop to mine enemies. All you Irish and Mexicans can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo. Poles, Germans, Greeks, Serbs and Chinese, live it up on your selected holiday, or any other day, for that matter. America is not so much a melting pot as a cafeteria line. Incidentally, Texans are safe targets, too.

But if you want to see an excellent display of Texas’ diversity, next time you are in San Antonio find that big Hemisphere needle. Near the base is the Institute of Texan Cultures, featuring where we all came from. It’s enough to give multiculturalism a good name. Again, these are tense times and not the best days to bring up the matter. On the other hand, when is a good time? Probably never. However, it is socially acceptable for one group to joke about that same group. Some of the funniest Aggie jokes were told to me by Aggies. Remember that line in “From Here to Eternity” when Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra) says: “Only my friends can call me a little wop!” So it’s probably a good idea for us gringos and honkies to keep our ethic and religious jokes to jokes about gringos and honkies, for we are the only safe target left.

Protestants make up 46.5 percent of America’s population, but there is not a single one on the U.S. Supreme Court, and none is on the way. Speaking of Washington, the D.C. area is festooned with markers and monuments to renowned leaders, men on horseback and people you never heard of. There is the National Fire Dog Monument complete

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with life-size fireman (no equally big firewoman) and dog. Plus plaque. There are 49 monuments to women in the Washington area including Seated Yucatan Woman, the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, Crown Princess Martha of Norway and Olive Risley Seward, the foster daughter of William H. Seward, Lincoln’s secretary of state. I am sure they are all most deserving, but couldn’t there be a plaque or concrete celebration, not even on the Washington Mall, crowing about the sacrifices, achievements, glorious remembrances of our small and ever-shrinking sect? If only there was some kind of reminder of the average Joe who served his country, paid his taxes, obeyed the law. Oh, yes, there is one.

It’s called Arlington National Cemetery.

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consumed every “for-sale” paper on the market. Gannett, which owns USA Today, GateHouse, which owns hundreds of newspapers across the nation, BH Media (Warren Buffett’s company) and Hearst have gone on a spending spree across this great land to snatch up every available newspaper, consolidate job titles, and produce news that’s good enough to pay the bills while trying to figure out a way to make a few bucks in the digital realm.

They all have a tough task – just like we do at The Leader – but every time a large media company consumes a few more community newspapers, I feel like this art of local news loses another piece of muscle.

Meanwhile, it also makes me eternally grateful to the readers who love The Leader and support it through your kind (and even unkind) notes. And for the local businesses who use us to market to your neighbors, thank you for helping us keep the lights on. We provide good jobs to people who work here, but more important, I love that our staff shows up to work every day ready to make The Leader a better community newspaper and website.

And no, we’re not for sale.

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HAPPY HOUR The Village of the Heights Come celebrate The Village of the Heights being named 2016 The Leader Readers’ Choice Award winner. There will be light appetisers served and finished off with a champagne toast. The celebration will be from 3:30-4:30 p.m. July 21. Call to make a reservation. The Village of the Heights is located at 1407 Studewood.

The Information: 713-802-9700, www.villageoftheheights.com.

FISH FRY American Legion Post 560 The Ladies Auxiliary Unit 560, 3720 Alba Road, will host their monthly Fish Fry and live entertainment Friday, July 22 (fourth Friday of each month) from 6 p.m. until sold out. The cost is $8 per plate. Information: 713-682-9287, facebook.com/ AmLegionPost560/, americanlegionpost560.org.

FREE DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP Memorial Herman Greater Heights Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every other month, with the next class at 4:30 p.m.

July 26. 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 more information or to register, call 713-222-2273.

SENIOR ADVANTAGE BREAKFAST St. Joseph Medical Center Preparation for surgery is important for all patients and seniors may need to take some additional steps. Amanda Garza, M.D., general surgeon, will share tips for successful surgeries during the Senior Advantage Program’s free breakfast health talk at St. Joseph Medical Center in the Heights, 1917 Ashland St., from 8-9:30 a.m. July 27. Her presentation is titled “Surgery Care for the Senior Adult: What to Expect During Each Phase of the Process.� Call to make a reservation. Information: 713-969-5376, sjmctx.com/senioradvantage.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT Heights Odd Fellows Lodge #225 Heights Odd Fellows Lodge #225 welcomes the community to their first annual National Night Out, from 5:30-8 p.m. Aug. 2, at 115 E. 14th St. There will be hotdogs, snacks and refreshments, free fingerprinting and child ID kits, HFD fire truck, art cars, horseshoes for the adults and a moonwalk for the kids.

Information: facebook.com/oddfellowslodge225.

BIKE LINEN NIGHT 2016 Blue Line Bike Labs Come out to Bike Linen Night 2016, hosted by Fred Zapalac of Blue Line Bike Labs. The event will

be from 5:30-10 p.m. Aug. 6, at 3302 White Oak Dr. There will be art, charity, food and drinks, live bands, local artists, non-profits and bikes.

tickets. Information: 281-2172674, 713-726-6531.

EL NOGALAR (THE PECAN ORCHARD) Obsidian Theatre El Nogalar is set on the TexasMexico border and follows one family’s struggle with a violent, changing world. El Nogalar was written by Mexican-born, McAllen-raised playwright Tanya Saracho. The show will run from July 28 through Aug. 20. Obsidian Theatre is located at 3522 White Oak Dr. Purchase tickets online.

Information: 832-889-7837, obsidiantheater.org.

COMMUNITY DANCE SPJST Lodge 88 The SPJST Lodge 88, 1435 Beall St., will host the Moonglow Orchestra, Big Band, from 8 p.m.11:30 p.m. Aug. 6. The cost is $15 per person. There is a dress code.

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: 713-869-5767, lodge88.org.

GATEWAY TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT LUNCHEON Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce The Annual Gateway to Local Government Luncheon will be from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. July 29, at the Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel, 3000 North Loop West. There will be representatives from the city, county, state and national levels available to answer questions. Mayor Sylvester Turner will be discussing the state of the city. To register for the luncheon email events@ heightschamber.com or call 713861-6735.

SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER Booker T. Washington Alumni Association The Booker T. Washington Alumni Associations’ annual “Big Event� Scholarship Fundraising Activities will be Aug. 19 and Aug. 20. The free Meet and Greet Social Hour is 7 p.m. Aug. 19, at the Houston Sheraton BrookHollow Hotel, 3000 North Loop West.

A Blue and Gold Reunion Prayer Breakfast is at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 20, at the Booker T. Washington school cafeteria, 119 E. 39th St. A $25 donation is requested. The Scholarship Banquet is at 5 p.m.

Aug. 20, at the Houston Sheraton Brookhollow Hotel. A $60 donation is requested. Call to purchase

BACK TO SCHOOL MOVIE NIGHT/WELLNESS FAIR Garden Oaks Montessori Garden Oaks Montessori, 901 Sue Barnett, will be holding a

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Still time to register for Johnson Memorial Preschool at St. Stephen’s It’s not too late to register 3 and 4 year-old children for the Johnson Memorial Preschool at St. Stephen’s. Classes begin Sept. 6 and are held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.

Classes in dance and gymnastics are also offered from 1-2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

All who are grieving the death of someone close are welcome to attend the Griefshare Grief Support Group Tuesdays from 6:30-8 p.m. in Room 201. Sessions include a video teaching on grief recovery and small group discussion.

St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church is located at 2003 W. 43rd St. For information, call 713-686-8241 or visit www.stsumc.org and the church’s Facebook page.

Art Camp at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Enroll children ages preK through fifth grade for stories and art in the My Hands, My Heart Art Camp, on Sunday mornings during the summer from 9:30-10:30 a.m., at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 1819 Heights Blvd. The camp will be held July 24 and July 31.

There will be simultaneous offerings for youth and adults.

Attend one or all, camp is free of charge.

For reservations and information, email lpuccio@saecheights.org.

St. Ambrose holding garage sale Find that special item at the St. Ambrose annual garage sale being held July 23 and 24, in the gym.

St. Ambrose Catholic Church is located at 4213 Mangum Road. Call 713-686-

3497 for information.

Intergenerational activity day at Oaks Presbyterian The community is welcome to the annual intergenerational activity at 11:30 a.m. July 24.

Join the fun, including a hot dog lunch and ice cream floats followed by an exciting Biblebased, hands-on activity.

The summer book selection for the Eat, Pray, Read! book club is Frog Music by Emma Donoghue. The historic novel is set in 1876 San Francisco during a record-breaking heatwave and the smallpox epidemic. The book discussion and dinner will be at 7 p.m.

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Oaks Presbyterian Church is located at 1576 Chantilly Ln. For information, visit www. oakspresbyterian.org or call 713-682-2556.

St. Matthew’s holds Vacation Bible School St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church will have a different approach to Bible School this year. VBS will be held three evenings, from July 25July 27, 5:30-8 p.m. The class will be available to children 3 years (or potty trained) to fifthgrade. An evening meal will be provided each night for both children and their parents.

There will be no charge for the school, but children must be registered before July 25.

Parents may register their children online at www.groupvbspro.com/VBS/ez/StMattUMC_VBS2016.

For information, call 713697-0671. The church is located at 4300 N. Shepherd.

MANNA Community Outreach Program MANNA’s newest program - Community Outreach Program will be the nucleus of linking services to those who might not otherwise have access. Volunteers are needed

A Note from Pastor David Harrison First Church Heights First Church Heights, 201 E. 9th St., is excited about the impact God is allowing us to have in this historic community. In the past few months many people have connected with our church family.

Houston is the most diverse city in America; the Heights is the most diverse community in this city.

Come out and worship local at FCHeights. Worship services are from 10:30-11:45 a.m., Sunday School is from 9:15-10:15 a.m. Please come and fellowship with us and be a part of the Worship Local Movement.

Call 713-861-3102 or visit fbcheights.fbcheights. com for information.

Our Savior Lutheran Fish Fry Fundraiser Our Savior Lutheran Church, 5000 W. Tidwell, will hold a Fish Fry Fundraiser, from noon-2 p.m. July 31. A free will donation will be taken for fried fish, hush puppies, fries, cole slaw and chocolate cake. To go orders will also be available.

For information, contact Janice at 281-414-6565 or visit http://OSLFishFry.eventbrite. com.

Fifth Sunday Singing at Oak Forest Baptist Oak Forest Baptist Church, 1700 W. 43rd St., will have their 5th Sunday Singing at 4:15 p.m. July 31. All are welcome to come sing hymns, Southern Gospel and choruses. There will be an ice cream fellowship after the service.

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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.

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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 live entertainment, Aug. 19 (third Friday of each month). Steaks will be served from 6 p.m. until sold out. The cost is $15 per plate.

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for this project. Volunteers will work in teams conducting safe home visits to those that are homebound and/or lack transportation. Orientation is July 27, at 2 p.m. at St. James Lutheran Church located at 1602 W. 43rd St. MANNA is hiring a driver to pick up donations.

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Back to School Movie Night and Wellness Fair. Bring a picnic blanket and join the fun at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 4. Information: 713696-2930.

Candlelight Church of Christ Join us for Services in English or Spanish Sunday Worship 10am & 5pm Sunday Bible Classes 9am Wednesday Bible Study 7pm

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any of the popular expressions which are meant to console others are worn-out clichÊs which can be offensive. Telling someone that their loved one who has recently died is in a better place may or may not be true, but it almost certainly sounds like you are minimizing their loss. Likewise, telling someone that you know how they feel or that time will heal all wounds may come across as arrogant and insensitive. You don’t necessarily know how or what the other person is feeling and time may never completely erase the pain which the grieving person is feeling. The best advice in expressing your condolences is to be genuine, tell the other person that you are sorry for their loss, and be willing to just be there for them. They probably don’t want or need advice, or flowery words, and they certainly don’t want to hear worn-out clichÊs.

Finally, all of you,have unity of spirit,sympathy, love of thebrethren, a tender heartand a humble mind.

R.S.V. 1 Peter 3:8

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Neighbors: Black MS students win 21 trophies at fighting arts conference

By Elizabeth Villarreal elizasgarden@outlook.com A group of 17 students and chaperones from Frank Black Middle attended the United Fighting Arts Federation conference and tournament in Las Vegas last week, and came home with 21 trophies. Led by instructor Matthew Garza along with Kickstart Kids Assistant Regional Director Derrick Stinson and Sugar Land Middle School Instructor Damien Sauceda, the “Panther Den” went to dominate the competition, represent Frank Black with character, and have as much fun as possible.

Students attending were: Red Belts - Genaro Cardenas, Connor O’Guynn, Elizabeth Reid, Jonathon Rodriguez, Julie Evanicky, Kayla Schaefer, and Maddie Giles; Blue Belts - David Sipes, Eden Jeffers, Ja’Mauri Henderson, Jacob Granados, Justin Cormier, Michael Polasek, and Samuel Clakley; and Purple Belts - Exodus Broussard, Ethan Zamarippa, and Zayd Cerrato.

The conference included valuable seminars where students’ knowledge was enhanced in the areas of selfdefense skills, active shooter protection, bow staff weapons and the KRAV MAGA system.

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Black Middle School Kickstart Kids pose with Chuck Norris and show off their awards at the United Fighting Arts Federation conference and tournament in Las Vegas.

attending along with the students were Meredith Sipes, Sandra O’Guynn, Genaro Cardenas, Yolanda Cardenas, Juan Granados, Dora Granados, Shirley Evanicky, Johnny Evanicky, Nancy Polasek, Angela Zamarripa, Earnesta Grace, Joshua Henderson, Cecilia Phillips, Amanda Cormier, Patrick Cormier, Mykal Amboree, and Jonathan Evanicky.

On the first two days in Las Vegas, the group went out to the Las Vegas Strip in order to get a feel for the city. Investigating their own hotel, the students were thrilled to see

it had an arcade, bowling alley (in which the students soundly beat Mr. Garza) and even a movie theater in which they watched Ghostbusters on the last evening of the trip.

The group also rode roller coasters inside the Adventure Dome! Other sightseeing jaunts included visiting the Bellagio water show; a tour of TV shows Tanked, Pawn Stars, and American Restoration; Caesars Palace; Circus Circus’ Arcade Room; different restaurants and hotels along the strip; ziplining on Freemont Street (the adults said it was a joy to see the students experience their first zipline chal-

lenge); and they even saw some impersonators. One of the highlights of the trip was seeing the notorious and hilarious Blue Man Group’s show.

On the third day, the group checked into the tournament and watched the 5th degree black belt ceremony. This demonstrated to the students what happens when you apply absolute dedication and consistency to what you love to do most.

A festive pool party followed the black belt ceremony where the students socialized with many other “karate kids” from other parts of the country. The party rocked with food, music

and dancing.

Next, the team participated in the Kata portion of the tournament and quite a few FBMS students placed in this part of the tournament, including the youngest ranks!

Later, the Panthers were riveted as they watched team fighting and rooted for their very own Team Texas (Mr. Garza-Frank Black MS, Mr. Sauceda-Sugar Land MS, Mr.Stinson-Regional Director, and Mr. Cardenas-Hogg MS).

These gentlemen took 2nd place for Team Texas against Team Mexico with a score of 20-21, so close!

A banquet was held later

Be wary of bloat in dogs to the stomach, which can cause tissue to die, while toxic products build up.”

What causes bloat? “We don’t know exactly why bloat happens,” says Dr. Faggella.

“Some people do all of the ‘wrong’ things, and their dogs don’t experience it,” she says, “while some do all of what we think are the ‘right’ things, and their dogs do.” But the most widely recognized and accepted risk factor is anatomical – being a larger, deep-chested dog, like your Boxer.

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of the high risk breeds or has experienced bloating in the past, you want to feed them two or three smaller daily meals rather than one large one. If yours is a multi-dog household, sometimes competition can cause one or more of the dogs to eat too quickly.

There are things you can do to slow a gobbler down.Try spreading the food out on a cookie sheet or putting your dogs in separate rooms to reduce the competition at mealtime. A slower, more even rate of food consumption will help reduce the amount of air your dog swallows, thereby reducing the opportunity for bloat.

Vigorously exercising your dog immediately before or after a feeding is dangerous too, as is allowing your dog to drink excessive amounts of water after a feeding. Also consider what you feed your pet, as that can increase her risk of getting bloat. Dog food that is comprised of corn, wheat and other carbohydrates create excess gas in your pet, which can cause bloat. To prevent bloat, always feed your pet speciesappropriate food of the highest quality you can afford. Also, while it has not been proven,

What are the symptoms of bloat?

The “hallmark” symptom of bloat is unsuccessful vomiting.

Unsuccessful vomiting means that nothing (except for possibly mucous or foam) comes up when your dog tries to vomit.

This vomiting might happen every few minutes. Another sign is pale or off-color gums.

Dogs who are experiencing bloat feel really horrible so watch for lethargy (or alternatively, anxiety) and a general feeling of malaise.

Dear Worried, Canine bloat, or more technically, gastric dilatation and volvulus (GDV), is a top killer of dogs--especially of deepchested giant and large breeds, such as Great Danes and Standard Poodles.

“A dog can go into shock from bloat because the stomach expands, putting pressure on several large arteries and veins. Blood does not get through the body as quickly as it should,” continues Dr. Alicia Faggella, DVM. “In addition, the blood supply gets cut off

How can you prevent bloat?

Especially if your dog is one

vets and dog owners alike suspect that elevated pet feeding “tables” increase the risk of your dog getting bloat.

What do I do if I suspect bloat?

Go to the vet immediately.

Bloat can kill a dog very quickly without medical intervention.

While some less acute cases

of bloat may resolve themselves, it often takes an experienced veterinarian to know just how serious the problem may be, and whether surgical intervention is required to save the dog’s life.

Do you have a burning question for Tabby? Drop her a line at deartabbyquestions@gmail. com.

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with awards, a dance and spirited fun. FBMS’s students showed off their fine dancing skills and even made a video of Mr. Garza attempting the wobble!

During the sparring portion of the tournament on the last day, quite a few students took 1st place and cleaned out their division. Garza said, “FBMS students fought strong and fought hard and we are extremely proud of them for having the courage to step up and represent Kickstart Kids and Frank Black at the ITC World Championships.”

In the last tournament event, Mr. Garza took 1st in fighting in his division (featherweight) and went on to the grand championship round against the other weight divisions to win the overall grand championship and the Norris Cup! The entire team would like to send congratulations and thanks to Mr. Garza.

“This is an experience our students will never forget and I am honored to have taken this group and to see the smiles on their faces from the experience,” Garza said. “The parent group was next to none and they were a vital piece to the success of this trip. They were hands on at all times and always asked what they could do to help. Our parents are one of the best support groups in the Kickstart Kids program.”

The Obituaries.

Mary Bartniski, 96, born June 3, 1920 in Chappell Hill, died July 11. She married the love of her life, Billy R. Bartniski in 1938. Bartniski has been a resident of the Heights as well as a devout parishioner of All Saints Catholic Church. She is survived by her two sisters, Gertrude Paradowski and Pearl Nelson, children Fr. Bill Bartniski, Michael Bartniski, Joyce Knussmann, five grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren.

Scott Douglas Holmes,

65, born June 26, 1951, died July 15.

Michelle Hughes, 49, born March 23, 1967, died July 11, after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. Hughes is survived by her spouse of 20 years, Susan Stampp, and her mother, Carolyn Prescott.

Raymond Lewise Radford, 78, born April 22, 1938, died July 13.

Dorothy Ann Wagenhauser, 78, born Dec. 5, 1937, died July 11. She is survived by her brother, Lawrence Wagenhauser.

Charles Lee Zimmermann, 58, March 13, 1958 - July 15, 2016

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The truth about White Linen Night It’s hot. It is so unbelievably hot that you can cook food on the sidewalk. Your feet will certainly feel like they are cooking if you don’t keep moving. I tell you this because all this heat can mean only one thing: White Linen Night in the Heights is coming.

From 6 - 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 6 the 200 and 300 block of W. 19th St., will be filled with thousands in their best white linen to people watch, shop, eat and partake in cool beverages.

Having been there from the beginning, I get many of the same questions year after year.

This year, I want you to join us informed and dispel any rumors or tall tales.

First of all, it’s going to be hot. The heat is exactly why we wear white linen: it is a cool, breathable fabric that repels dirt and attracts wrinkles. It looks good on everyone! Linen is

Photographer Therese Tusa, a participating artist from WLN 2015.

a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.

You’ll have to look that up, all I know about flax is some veggie people like to sprinkle flax seeds on their food. I like the way I look in linen, I don’t want to eat it. Yuck.

The event is always on the first Saturday in August. If you do not own a calendar, ask your smart phone, it’s smart, it knows.

Why first Saturday? The original event, which takes place in New Orleans, is on the first Saturday, and we wanted to make everyone in Houston feel guilty about leaving to visit that one so we made ours the same day.

It’s hotter in New Orleans anyway, stay here.

What bands are playing? The shops on 19th Street have been hosting events since the early 1880’s, so expect Dixieland, Americana and swing. Ok, ok I’m kidding, at least about the music. Our great shops on 19th host a variety of music and many book their bands a year in advance! All the street’s activities are listed on the website, which is updated almost daily until the event.

Where can I find the First Saturday Arts Market at White Linen Night? This question I find perplexing. Since 2012, the market artists have setup on 19th Street itself. It’s impossible to miss the nearly 85 white canopied tents on both blocks. The artists themselves are an amazing group of talented artists that represent the best we have to offer year round.

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The evening crowd on 19th Street at last year’s White Linen Night.

Many work on their art for months in advance in preparation for the big day. These are not just local artists, they come from all over Houston, Galveston and Austin. Nearly half are accepted into shows like Bayou City Art Festival, and have their studios in high profile places like the Sawyer Yards Creative Campus and Hardy/Nance. This is definitely a fine art show.

Where can I get more information? Right here in the pages of the The Leader over the next couple of weeks. There are other big changes to the event this year, that and more can be found on the website: theheightswhitelinennight.com.

Friday night in the Houston art world can

Even classic cars get into the act at White Linen.

be likened to West Side Story as Lawndale Art Center’s The Big Show goes up against Hardy and Nance Street’s Salon Des Refusés: Artwork Rejected from the 2016 Lawndale Big Show. Check out both but be sure to hit Lawndale first from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at 4912 Main St. 77002.The Hardy & Nance Studios from 6-10 p.m. at 902 Hardy St. 77020.

Cohen is the founder of First Saturday Arts Market. Contact him through his website ArtValet.com.

Leader Nibbles Alma Latina Restaurant re-opens doors after tragic kitchen fire

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The beloved neighborhood eatery, Alma Latina Mexican Restaurant, has been closed for renovations after their recent kitchen fire. Loyal customers, we have good news.

“Thirty eight days later, we are excited to announce that we will be re-opening July 20,” the restaurant events coordinator said. “We are forever humbled by all the support and can’t wait to see everyone in the Heights!”

Alma Latina will begin service again on Wednesday, July 20. Normal business hours will resume tomorrow at 10 a.m.

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First, poets Denice Frohman and Yesenia Montilla will showcase their talent from 7 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 21 at Casa Ramirez FOLKART Gallery – 241 W. 19th St. Then, on Sunday, July 24, poets Malcolm Friend and Raina Leon will present their words at Inprint – 1520 W. Main, just along the Museum district.

Both events are set to start at 7 p.m., with a question and answer segment and book purchase/signing to follow. Each event is free and open to the public.

Free Night of Yoga I’ve written about the free yoga at the Raven Tower on Sunday mornings; now meet them on the White Oak Music Hall lawn for a free night of yoga. The evening is kicking off at 9 p.m. and the class duration will be from 9:30 – 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 21. Event planners suggest to get there by 9 p.m. to snag a good spot, and don’t forget your mat!

Save the date for August 18, as Black Swan Yoga will be back at the lawn for another free night of yoga.

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The Houston Dairymaids will be on hand from 5-9 p.m.

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