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The railroad crossing just past the intersection of 34th Street and Alba Road near Lutheran High North appears to be on its way to becoming safer after the concerns raised by several residents in recent weeks and some investigating by The Leader.

The issues with the rail crossing were first brought to the attention of The Leader by several residents in the area in June and again last week. The initial issue was extensive wear and tear on the concrete which left the road broken and jutting upward with the rebar exposed. Burlington conducted temporary repairs in June, during which the company replaced the worn-down concrete around the track before saying they would conduct further investigations before completing additional repairs as they saw necessary. Initially a full rehab was scheduled to occur “inside the 45 days” at the time, but it appears to have been previously held up, during which time residents once again

brought the issue to The Leader’s attention.

“There are a lot of people in this neighborhood who go to work and go over those tracks every day. I can’t understand why, before now, nobody has done anything about it or said anything about it,” said one nearby resident who who wished to remain anonymous. “They fixed some concrete on there, but they did not fix the tracks. It is a mess over there.”

It appears more residents are frustrated with the apparent lack of a solution to this point, evidenced by a sign recently planted near the crossing which says “Warren Buffet, please make your Burlington/Northern Railroad fix these dangerous tracks” in reference to track side rails which appear to be uneven and other issues.

“I’m sure they think they fixed the problem, because they did a beautiful job on the cosmetics, but they did not fix the tracks,” the resident said.

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In an Aug, 13 incident, a man and a woman returning to their home near Saxon Drive and Glebe Road were robbed around 5:30 p.m. by two men with handguns, with the female getting pistolwhipped. The suspects were described as AfricanAmericans traveling in a silver or white Dodge Durango, while one wore a white mask and white shirt. Then, on Aug. 14 two young black males entered LV Nails at 3902 N. Shepherd shortly before 6:30 p.m. brandishing guns and robbing the store.

Witness reports say the robbers allegedly wore hoodies, sunglasses and bandannas according to the Houston Police Department.

One resident who was present at the LV Nails incident but wished to remain anonymous due to the robbers still being at large, said the robbers appeared to want only cash and other valuables, noticing the lack of confrontational or emotionally-charged actions outside of the guns.

“They didn’t rough anybody up or anything, they said all they wanted was cash,” she said. “My friend was in the front and wanted to give him her purse, but he said, ‘No, all I want is your cash.’

Then the other guy went to the back and apparently stole some jewelry as well.”

She said the apparent leader came around and pointed the pistol at the employee who had been working on her nails (who she assumed ran the store), ordering that he be taken directly to the store’s register, threatening to shoot the employee multiple times.

She told The Leader everything happened in the span of five minutes, and it was unclear what triggered the perpetrators fleeing, but next thing she knew it was over.

“I don’t really know what made them leave, but they just left,” she said. “Everybody was emotionally traumatized, but they didn’t hurt anyone. Next thing I knew he (the employee) was out front calling the cops.”

At this point the robbers’ escape vehicle is unknown, and HPD is attempting to locate any available surveillance video from the surrounding stores.

The aftermath “It’s a big city, things happen,” the resident said.

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By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com When Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen received a call from a constituent about two weeks ago who felt as if he had been scammed out of money, he immediately knew that a ruse which he says comes around every six months or so had begun rearing its ugly head once again.

Rosen spoke with The Leader last week in an effort to warn residents about a circulating phone scam which has been affecting those in the readership area.

How it works According to Rosen, a caller tells residents they are with the sheriff’s office warrant division, claiming to have a warrant for a resident’s arrest due to failing to show up for court duty and that the judge has imposed a $1,000 fine for their arrest. The caller says it is simply a courtesy call on how residents can avoid the problem and subsequent arrest.

Many have been scammed out of money in the con out of sheer panic, Rosen said.

Though he added some do push back to wonder whether the call is legitimate, he said the caller proceeds to give their target a number to call and tell the person to call them back in order to verify the number. Once the number is distributed and a person calls back, a recording is played back telling the caller they have reached the HCSO’s warrant division—thus the scammers shift their plan into high gear.

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Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen warns residents about a circulating phone scam claiming to be the sheriff’s office.

a self-addressed envelope to Chris Daniel (District Clerk) to the Harris County Administration Building address,” he said.

“Both (the person and address) are legitimately in county government.”

The part where Rosen noted people begin realizing something may be off is when the scammer requests they purchase untraceable “Cash Pack” cards by which the payment will be made, though by that time he said it may already be too late.

“When you get the money cards you have to call them back and they ask for the number off of the money card.

Then, when you get to the mailbox, there’s an ID number on your mailbox,” he said.

“They make you call them when you get there and give them the ID. All that is a hoax, because as soon as they get the number on the card (from purchase of the Cash Pack), they swipe the money off the cards immediately.”

Combative measures “What we’re trying to mes-

sage to people is that you don’t get warrants for your arrest for missing jury — you just don’t. A judge can certainly have bailiffs come get you and bring you to court to ask why you missed, but there are no arrest warrants,” Rosen said. “We don’t ever call you at home and say ‘Hey, we’ve got a warrant for your arrest.’”

While all are at risk, Rosen noted additional concern that scammers may be targeting more of the area’s elderly population. In efforts to educate the community regarding the scam, Rosen has sent messages out on the office’s web and social media page, via Nextdoor, messaged it to constituents and run several TV stints.

“The best way to combat it is to have the public know what’s going on, educating the public on how they’re doing it and most importantly, when in doubt, don’t do something and alert law enforcement,” he said. “It sounds legitimate, so we’re just trying to prevent people from being scammed,

and we do have an active open investigation going on. I would love nothing more than to bring these people to justice.”

Red flags Any time a caller requests a person to make a transaction in a specific way is something that should sound an alarm in a person’s mind according to Rosen.

“I have never heard of these types of cards. They’ve used Western Union in the past to get people to put money in,” he said.

Another noted red flag should be the simple act of “law enforcement” calling them at home for any reason, a practice Rosen said has never been employed “That’s like what a telemarketer would do when trying to sell you something,” Rosen said. “Law enforcement doesn’t do that — we correspond by mail or sometimes detectives are trying to run people down if they have open warrants, but jury duty is not one of those. While it is very important, a warrant for your arrest is not issued for missing jury duty.”

How residents can help Additionally, Rosen noted several steps a resident can take should they be contacted and receive a similar message.

“It would be helpful if people could capture the number,” he said. “If they have caller ID and could jot down the number, string the caller along while another gets in touch with law enforcement. As much information as you can possibly get is great. Bottom line, do not send any money.”

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Let’s name Ficklin our interim president I t’s a few weeks old, but the Pew Research Center did a survey through most of the month of June and early July, asking people what they thought about this year’s Presidential election. The results won’t surprise any of you.

Nearly 60 percent of all respondents are absolutely sick of election coverage.

And that was in June! Can you imagine what these numbers would say today? I’m guessing about 80 percent of us could care less if we didn’t hear or read another story about this stuff until Nov. 9, the day after the election.

Here were a few interesting tidbits from that survey: • 44 percent of respondents said they’ve read way too many comments the candidates have made (in other words, close to half of us are just sick of hearing them talk); • 43 percent of us have read and heard too much about the candidates’ personal lives (enough with the hair and divorces and purported health problems); • 37 percent of us have heard too much about which candidate is leading the polls right now (more on this in a minute); • Meanwhile, 55 percent of us say we’ve heard too little about where the candidates actually stand on the issues.

Again, those are responses from

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two months ago. And yes, here I am writing more about this election, which you obviously don’t want to read. But instead of writing about the candidates and their walls or emails, I’m quite certain I know why voters would just as soon have all election coverage stop for the next three months, and it starts with coverage.

FoxNews is going to be FoxNews.

They’ve been what they are for a couple of decades now, and in case you don’t know, their ratings are higher than any other network. Same thing with the Drudge Report. If you don’t know about that website, it’s been around for 20 years, got its launch to national prominence during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and caters to conservatives through aggregation of stories that rightleaning voters like to read. There is literally no original content on the site; it’s just headlines from other news sources and, in July, Drudge ranked as the second highest viewed

news website in the United States with nearly 1.5 billion (with a B) visitors. That’s more than Google News, ESPN, CNN, Fox and the New York Times.

The problem with the coverage isn’t those niche sites. There are just as many left-leaning news outlets like MSNBC, the Huffington Post, etc. No, the problem is that every other news source in America – the ones we once trusted for something down the middle – have just mailed it in and chosen sides. And yes, all of them have chosen the anti-Trump side.

National newspapers like USA Today and the New York Times have taken absolutely zero interest in trying to split coverage down the middle. Sure, they give candidates equal time, but their stories are not equal in terms of topics. Same thing is true for the national network news – CBS, NBC, ABC. And you can blame the head honchos at those institutions, because they (like most politicians) believe they are smarter than the American Electorate, and they aren’t going to let a whack-job like Donald Trump into office.

The second problem is clearly stated in the Pew survey mentioned above. We are absolutely sick of polls, because we don’t trust them.

There’s a website called Real Clear Politics, and it averages out the

Take me to your litter THE OFFICE – It’s here somewhere, maybe under this pile of magazines which is under a pile of books. No, so I’ll look on this chair which holds some catalogues, more newspapers and printouts of articles I read online and want to keep. This time I am looking for “The Wit and Wisdom of Calvin Coolidge.” Is this your problem, too? I am on the receiving end of TMI. In the past TMI has stood for Three Mile Island, Texas Military Institute and, of course, Transmarginal Inhibition, but for me TMI stands for Too Much Information, which is also a song recorded by The Police and Duran Duran.

Don’t you love it when some paranoid friend says, “But the media won’t tell us.” Huh? We have more newspapers, magazines and online publications than we can handle. What do you read? I get my daily local newspaper, plus The New York Times and a neighborhood weekly freebee that tells me how much my school taxes will be increased. I used to get the Wall Street Journal, but it had too many jokes and cartoons. However, I do miss those “Donald Trump Is Almost Normal” editorials. Magazines? Four weekly or monthly, I think, although Texas Monthly seems to come daily, and it’s about 99 percent ads. They all pile up in my den, office, in my weekender in Varicose Valley. The fire marshals are worried. Unread books? I have them stacked around, and keep thinking if I just put some by my elbow I can absorb them through osmosis. Do you do this? Rip out a page from some publication with the idea that you don’t need to keep the entire paper, and you’ll read this article tomorrow, or at least next week.

When the paper turns yellow, it’s time to read it.

Go to any Barnes & Noble and check out the magazine section. You will see dozens, scores, maybe a couple of hundred publications: Guns & Guts, Guts & Guns, Muggers Monthly, Fifth Wedding Gazette, DWI Digest. Something for everyone. If you don’t want to know the news from the country music scene, restaurants, taxidermy and home breweries, you may not have this problem. Maybe you don’t have cable or satellite TV, although almost 80 percent of American homes do. I get about 250 channels and watch 10 or 12 max. Bundling is the key. Congress (after a nice fund-raiser) decreed we really do need to take 250 channels, including the Esperanto Channel, Quilting Corner and Faux News. I tape programs to be seen later. Spoiler alert: Don’t tell me how World War II ends. We also have the Internet. Want to check on events in India? The New Delhi Times tells us: “Praveen Rana to replace Narsingh Yadav.”

Now you know. The Chinese Reporter from Hong Kong on

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the PLA, or Peoples Liberation Army of China: “PLA begins live-fire drill near border with Myanmar.” And you thought the term “Chinese fire drill” was just an insult.

Americans may be a first: the first overly informed society in history. Or we could be, if only we kept up. According to a new CNN/ORC poll, 29 percent of Americans say they think that Obama is a Muslim, including 43 percent of Republicans. (I happen to know he’s a card-carrying Democrat.)

A poll commissioned by the American Bar Association found that only one-third of adult Americans can correctly identify the Bill of Rights, and less than 1 in 10 know it was adopted to protect them against abuses by the Federal Government, and – get this – it was a multi-choice question.

Some 28 percent said the Bill of Rights was a preamble to the Constitution; 22 percent said it is any rights bill passed

by Congress; 7 percent chose “a message of rebellion from the Founding Fathers to the British monarchy.” Ten percent said they didn’t know.

Maybe TMI stands for Too Many Idiots.

So while we have access to an overabundance of knowledge, we don’t bother. Why? I think it’s because we have no curiosity or interest, in this case it’s the same thing.

I once had an editor named Henry Hoffman who came to my desk one afternoon, handed me some papers, and said: “Put this together and do a story.” I shuffled through the pile and said, “I’m not interested in this.” He replied, “You should be interested in everything.” He didn’t add, “as a journalist,” but I got his drift.

Millions of intelligent people over the centuries have loved opera and golf. I tried both and can pass, even if Tiger Woods is the lead baritone. I’ve never been much interested in poetry except for dirty limericks.

Do you care about kale? It’s hot these days; celebrity chefs put kale in everything. I just used a semicolon, which is an unnecessary punctuation so I don’t care about it or them.

Maybe I’m just interested in the wrong things, like bagpipe music, the old Southwest Conference and of course, Transmarginal Inhibition. I spend too much time reading the fine print on aerosol cans, but do you know that Scrubbing Bubbles contains both corn starch and dimethyl oxazolidine? So I keep these founts of knowledge until I’ve read or seen them because

polls each week. In the past seven days, I counted 22 polls that were conducted, which obviously means we – the voters – are bombarded with at least three new polls each day.

It’s kind of like media: There’s so much of it now, we don’t view any of it as really credible. Same thing with polls. When you have three of them that all say different things, you tend to ignore them all. Or in our case, we just don’t want to hear about them anymore.

Last, and most important, the biggest problem with this election cycle, as you might guess, is the candidates. We’ve got a guy on the Republican ticket who just won’t stop. I wrote six months ago that, certainly, he would be weeded out from the field. Nope, he’s that weed behind the bushes you just can’t reach and he grows all the way up the side of the house.

Donald Trump’s biggest problem (and our biggest problem with him) is that he won’t shut up and listen.

His second biggest problem (part of Problem No. 1) is Twitter. He sits there with his phone and types out 140 character, juvenile crap, and the folks down the middle of the road, politically speaking, don’t want that from a President, regardless if they think he’d actually fix a few things if elected. If he’d kill his Twitter handle, which is where his quotes

originate for most news stories, his support would increase the next day.

Hillary Clinton’s biggest problem is that she’s mixed politics and private life for too long, and any politician who’s been around as long as she has will always have skeletons.

Hers just happen to be borderline illegal, and the only reason a socialist like Bernie Sanders stood a chance is because a whole lot of Democrats don’t like her.

How do we solve all these problems? Here’s my suggestions: I say Trump and Clinton should drop out of the race tomorrow. We put off the election until November 2017 and we ask a guy named John Wrory Ficklin to run the country for one year. Ficklin, his parents and his grandparents all have worked at the White House, dating back to the Truman Administration. John worked his way up from the mail room to the man in charge of digitizing the White House archives. He started during the Ford Administration and retired earlier this year.

Let’s call John out of retirement, ask him to run the country for a year – because you know he could – and then allow the two Vice Presidential nominees, Mike Pence and Tim Kaine to be the actual candidates we elect next year.

Meanwhile, thank God we’re two weeks away from college football.

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they may contain interesting information. However, others may not share our need for absorption. We are called “pig pens,” “trashy” and “low down slobs who give pack rats a bad name.” (By the same token, be suspicious of people with clean desks and full wastebaskets. They are probably uninteresting themselves.) So I think we can all agree that there is a direct link between curiosity/interest and piles of untouched stuff.

Call them “collectibles.” Keep that in mind when the fire marshal comes calling. But now it is time for me to start digging into my stuff. Here’s a newspaper. What’s this?

Custer’s dead? Next thing I know a woman will be running for president.

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Residents question park recycling

By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com

Some Oak Forest residents have taken issue with the city of Houston’s Parks and Recreation Department due to the perceived lack of an assumed city responsibility. On July 25, resident Ronnie Bement was taking one of his frequent afternoon walks in T.C. Jester Park “As I walk the park in the afternoon hours I frequently come across discarded plastic water bottles, glass containers, and aluminum cans that are dropped along the trails,” he said. “I inturn, pick the items up to put in the proper containers, whether it be ‘Cans & Plastic Only’, or the trash barrels.”

On this day, however, he said he witnessed something he could not believe as he saw a crew working the T.C. Jester Park trash collection, along with taking the items in the blue recycle bins placed around the park.

“I had some plastic containers in hand and happened to see the truck with numerous employees picking up the bags of trash so I caught up with them and asked which bags were for the recyclable items,” he said.

That is when he said one of the crew informed him that “It doesn’t matter, as they will throw away everything anyway.”

HPARD representative Estella Espinosa ensures recycling efforts are being maintained. Park goers can do their part to help.

“That response bothered me, as I try to keep the park clean and I recycle profusely,” Bement told The Leader, adding that it caused him to wonder whether the city of Houston does in fact

employ a recycling procedure.

Houston Parks and Recreation Department representative Estella Espinosa, however, told The Leader via email that the city maintains a standard recycling

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process, which includes the following procedures: • De-littering parks by region and emptying recycle bins on average every three days.

• HPARD staff brings back all recycling items and places them in larger recycling bins located at HPARD’s maintenance facility yards. The volume is then captured by the city recycling contract service managed by SWD. She said the contractor empties the large bins every other week or twice a month from the maintenance yards.

Bags with trash and bags with recycling are kept separate for proper disposal.

Espinosa noted that city crews are instructed at times to discard recycled items, but only if the recycle bins are determined to contain more trash waste than recycling waste, a determination she said can generally be made either on-site or back at the HPARD’s maintenance facility yards.

“Most park patrons respect the dual can system – one can for trash and one can for recyclables,” she said.

Regardless of the reason for the response to Bement, Espinosa said the city “will reinforce this standard procedure with all staff to make sure it is being followed.”

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but I’ve never felt scared before.”

She said her friend, has been also severely traumatized and has remained on high alert since the incident, terrified of even the smallest unknown.

“She (my friend) ordered a pizza today (Monday) and just didn’t want to open the door. She’s just really scared,” the resident said—and her friend is not alone.

According to the Houston Police Department, it is unknown at this juncture whether the LV Nails incident and the aforementioned incident at Saxon and Glebe are related.

Crime trending?

Several additional aggravated robberies, all in the area of Washington Avenue and I-10 near the Rice Military area as well as several on TC Jester and West 20th and 23rd Street—just in the last week alone—have also caused many residents (some who have lived in the area for at least a decade), to feel unsafe in an area where they have always felt secure.

“I’ve never felt unsafe here at all, never ever ever,” resident Kimberly Alvarez told our news partners at KHOU 11.

Despite such a prevailing fear, Har-

ris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen assured residents that while last weekend’s events were obviously unsettling and unfortunate, he does not believe the recent rash of incidents necessarily indicates any sort of potential uptick or upward trend in that sort of crime around the area.

Additionally, Rosen noted that, unfortunate as it may be, the recent string of incidents might simply have been crimes committed simply out of convenience.

“Sometimes a lot of people who commit crimes will do so in a certain geographic area because they like to work that particular area and then they move on—it may just have been a crime of opportunity and they happen to work that part of town,” he said.

“I would not say there is any sort of aggravated robbery crime spree going on—it’s too early to say that,” he went on to say. “But any time an aggravated robbery happens we are very concerned about it because anybody who’s willing to do this in the scope of committing a crime could potentially get somebody hurt or killed.”

Faust says that further investigation has since been completed, and the crossing is scheduled for a full rehab within about four weeks.

“All the materials and equipment are already available—right now what we are trying to do is schedule crews to do the work, but everything is all there. We are coordinating manpower schedules to complete the project,” he said.

Faust noted that the full-scale overhaul of the crossing will give residents a made-over railroad crossing which will provide a safer, more pleasant experience for motorists passing over it on a daily basis as well as nearby residents.

“A full rehab is just that—the temporary repairs will be replaced by a fully rehabilitated crossing, so it will be smoother and will have a much longer-lasting effect,” he said. “It will be a much smoother passage for motor vehicles as they go across (the railroad tracks).”

The rehab of the tracks at 34th and Alba was long overdue.

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A developer of other projects in the Heights, including the forthcoming Heights Mercantile on 7th Street, the rehab of 3210 White Oak which houses Black Swan Yoga and Juiceland, and the former washateria at 420 E. 20th St. where Steel City Pops has opened and Bird’s Barbershop is forthcoming, Radom was actively looking for something on Shepherd because he said it’s becoming a true retail and restaurant corridor.

Radom and colleague Barton Kelly asked Barrett Von Blon with Davis Commercial to approach some business owners along N. Shepherd to see if anyone was interested in selling, and were able to connect with a willing seller. Sol Eisenbaum, the longtime owner of Airmakers Cooling & Heating – and the three warehouses on West 18th – was wrapping up his business and ready to sell. The other tenant, Savvi Commercial Furniture, is still at the location, finishing up the lease.

He wouldn’t disclose the price he paid for the warehouses and said that “it is nearly impossible to find a reasonably priced property” in the Heights now. However, Radom said that their purchase price allowed them to reimagine the existing structures, maintain a central courtyard and still do something pedestrian friendly.

“It’s the challenge of business,” he said, “but if we get creative, we are still able to do something interesting in the Heights that’s not vertical.”

Radom’s promotional materials for the project state that Lowell Street was the former incarnation of Shepherd Drive and appeared on Oscar Martin’s first promotional maps for the new Houston Heights, circa 1891: “With its inviting green space and context to the Heights Community, Lowell Street Market will help return the Shepherd Drive Corridor to O.M. Carter’s Original Vision for the Neighborhood.”

Really?

It will definitely be a step in the right direction according to Radom, who grew up in Los Angeles where the weather was a big factor in outdoor oriented development.

“Houston has constantly been evolving,” he said.

“Developers and city planners are understanding that people are demanding pedestrian and bike friendly projects” Radom says that it’s up to the new developers in the area to make their spaces more pedestrian friendly. For Lowell Market, that starts with having parking in the back and orienting the three main structures to 18th Street.

As it exists now, there is 21,000 square feet of buildings. That will be pared down to 10,000 square feet to accommodate city requirements for parking and to enhance the green space.

“The courtyard will be the nucleus of the development and it will be house outdoor seating, landscape elements, bike racks and trees,” said Radom.

Radom said the development already has signed tenants but that he isn’t in a position to announce them. While the promotional generic flyers shows such tantalizing generic options as a grocery store, dessert shop and spa, Radom can confirm that there are already some food options locked in.

As for what’s next, Radom says his firm is constantly looking outside the Heights for new opportunities in Montrose, the Museum District, West University, the Galleria, River Oaks and yes, Garden Oaks and Oak Forest.

“We’ve spent a lot of time recently there and are pretty close to some properties,” said Radom. “We believe that the area is in its first chapter as far as retail development.”

Senior EXP

September 28, 9:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. • SPJST Lodge 88 (15th & Beall)

The Leader is hosting a day-long event geared toward seniors in our community, and you’re invited.

We’ve invited businesses all across the community to take part to provide information about issues that are important to you. There will be speakers attending to help with health care concerns, including the impact of the new Affordable Care Act, and how it impacts Medicare. We’ve invited professional finance planners who can help you take that dream trip or manage your fixed income better, and attorneys who will talk to you about any legal concerns you have.

But this isn’t going to be all serious business, either. We’ll have breakfast in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. There will be games and activities going on throughout the day and prize give-aways from local businesses.

The best part, besides the food, fun and fellowship is that it is all FREE! All you have to do is register.

What to expect at the 2016 Senior Expo: • FREE Admission • FREE Food & Drinks • Educational information on health, finances and legal concerns • A chance to meet experts who will offer free advice on a number of issues important to you • An opportunity to mingle with friends

REGISTer early Name Phone # Address Email Address Mail to: The Leader - Senior Expo P.O. Box 924487 Houston, TX 77292 Call us: (713) 686-8494 do it online www.theleadernews.com (see “Senior” tab)

Saturday, August 20, 2016 • Page 5A

The calendar.

BARBECUE SANDWICH COMBO FUNDRAISER American Legion Post 586 The American Legion Post 586, 708 E. Parker Rd., will host their monthly chopped barbecue sandwich combo fundraiser Saturday, Aug. 20 (third Saturday of each month] from 11 a.m. until sold out. The cost is $7 per combo. Information: 713-6917741.

BIG EVENT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISING 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 tickets. Information: 281-2172674, 713-726-6531.

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. Information: 713-6829287, facebook.com/AmLegionPost560/, www.txlegion560.org.

FALL SALE 2016 Just Between Friends Just Between Friends Central

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Indoor garage sale at Advent Lutheran Come seek out those bargains at the Advent Lutheran Church indoor garage sale.

The sale is from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Aug. 20.

Advent Lutheran Church is located at 5820 Pinemont Dr. Call 713-686-8201 for information.

Family Fun Night at St. Stephen’s All are welcome to attend Family Fun Night, Aug. 19, at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall, featuring back-to-school banana splits. Students of all ages as well as educators are welcome to bring backpacks, book bags and briefcases to the 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship services Aug. 21, for a special blessing.

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.

Games Day at Oaks Presbyterian GOOF (GardenOaks/Oak Forest) Games Day is from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Aug. 20.

Board games of all kinds from around the world are available.

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77, born March 22, 1939, died Aug. 2.

Betty Braun Daniel, 88,

born Nov. 7, 1927 in Oklahoma City, died Aug. 6. Daniel is survived by her daughter, Betty Phillips, four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and a greatgreat-grandson.

Margarito Garcia, 72, born June 10, 1944, died Aug. 11.

Tom Levi Harpster III, 68, born June 16, 1948, died Aug. 10. Harpster is survived by his wife Sheryl, his daughter Rachel “Scooter� Farris, stepdaughters Jaime and Kim Chitty, brother Bruce Harpster, and sisters Kay Maynor and Jina Chauvin.

Mary Herron, 71, born May 5, 1945, died Aug. 14.

Laura Nell Mobley, 77, born Sept. 14, 1938, died Aug. 1.

area professionals. This month’s event will be hosted by Little J’s Bar, 5306 Washington, from 5-8 p.m. Aug. 25. The cost is $10 for non-members before Aug. 25, and $15 non-member at the door. Register online. Information: info@heightschamber.com, heightschamber.com, 713-8616735.

BREASTFEEDING SUCCESS BREAKFAST Memorial Hermann Greater Heights To learn about breastfeeding, there will be a one hour informative breakfast held on Wednesday, Aug. 24, featuring speakers Carie Miller, MSN, RN, and Sharon Smith, M.D. For more information or to register, visit 713-222-CARE.

FISH FRY American Legion Post 560 The Ladies Auxiliary Unit 560, 3720 Alba Road, will host their monthly Fish Fry and live entertainment Friday, Aug. 26 (fourth Friday of each month) from 6 p.m. until sold out. The cost is $8 per plate. Information: 713682-9287, facebook.com/AmLegionPost560/, txlegion560.org, www.txlegion560.org.

MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR Heights Young Professionals Meet, network, socialize and make direct connections with

BOOK SIGNING The Book Scene Kate Sloan author of “Baby

A $5 per person donation is requested.

Adults 50+ are welcome to enjoy games and connect with friends at OAKS (Older Adults Konnecting Socially) on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Various games and adult coloring books are available.

Light lunch is served at noon.

Next fun day is Aug. 23.

The Eat, Pray, Read! book club discussion and dinner will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 6.

For information, visit www. oakspresbyterian.org or call 713-682-2556.

Job fair at Greater First Baptist Church Greater First Baptist Church, 4441 Haygood St. 77022, will host a free Community Job and Career Fair, from 10 a.m.2 p.m. Aug. 20. There will be onsite interviewing with several employers expected to attend. Come prepared with plenty of resumes and dress professionally.

Call 713-695-7061 for information.

Blessing of the backpacks at Heights Presbyterian Children are encouraged to bring their backpacks and have them blessed before the

first day of school. The blessing will be at the 11 a.m. worship service Aug. 21.

Heights Presbyterian Church is located at 240 W. 18th St. Call 713-861-1907 or visit www.heightspc.org.

A hot lunch, cooked on-site, is available for $2.

For information, call 713248-1277.

Spaghetti dinner at All Saints Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women Central Deanery will sponsor a Fiesta Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser at All Saints Catholic Church in the parish hall, from 6-8 p.m.

Aug. 25. The cost is $10. There will be door prizes and games.

For tickets, call 281-948-1387.

Proceeds benefit seminarians and charities.

All Saints Catholic Church is located at 215 E. 10th St.

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Alba Road, will host their monthly Comedy Nite at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14 (second Wednesday of each month).

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Cynthia Austin, 67, born July 30, 1949, died Aug. 8.

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he concept of the prophet has changed considerably over the millennia. Prophets are usually thought of in the popular imagination as mouthpieces of God, people like Moses who spoke to God face to face and then delivered His message. Apart from Moses, however, Israel’s prophets were usually not depicted as having actually seen God. The later Old Testament prophets, such as Isaiah and Hosea, are not just messengers of God, but also great symbolic portrayers of God’s relationship to Israel. Consider how God directs Hosea to marry the harlot Gomer to symbolize Israel’s faithlessness to God. After Old Testament times, it is tempting to think that there are no more prophets, or that after Jesus, somehow there is nothing left for God to reveal. But, Paul speaks of those who have the gift of prophecy on numerous occasions, and so it is clear that at least until the time shortly after Jesus’ death, there were prophets and prophecies.

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Tabby tackles a sensitive social subject

Dear Tabby, We adopted a dog last year and we love her so; however, we’ve recently relocated overseas and have discovered something alarming: our dog is racist! She acts aggressively toward people of color--men specifically. This is unacceptable behavior and we’re concerned. Help!

Embarrassed expats formerly of Garden Oaks Dear Embarrassed Expats, I can imagine how problematic your dog’s aggression toward people of color is but let me first remind you that dogs aren’t racist. Racism is a uniquely human trait (not one of the most endearing ones, I might add) that requires complex thinking and other higher cognitive functions that canines simply don’t possess. However, it’s not uncommon for dogs to be fearful of certain groups of people that they haven’t been exposed to--be it males, African Americans, people in wheelchairs or even children.

A dog may react in fear-based aggression to a person of color for two reasons: 1. Insufficient positive associations in early socialization to people of all races 2. A traumatic incident with a person of color that has now generalized to all people of color.

Also, certain cultures and demographics don’t have dogs as pets, or at least aren’t as familiar and exposed to dogs as companion animals. So, when

a dog walks past a person and gets a fear response from the person, and then continues to see people who look similar in some way (in the dog’s opinion) and she continues to get a fear response, she’s going to generalize.

The good news is that dogs can learn to love people of all races. Ultra-socialization of puppies to people of all races one may encounter should begin at 8 weeks of age, if possible. Since your dog has missed the window of socialization opportunity, I would suggest a sort of doggie diversity training, whereby the pet is gradually exposed to what sets it off. If you can convince some friends (who also happen to be people of color) to come by and hang out with your dog and offer up treats for good behavior, you might find that, over time, things get easier for you all.

How you can help: Scout’s Honor Rescue is hosting a huge adoption event on Saturday, August 20 at Paw’s Pet Resort (3425 Couch Street) in The Heights from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Why? To find your perfect pet (or foster dog!) and help get these wonderful homeless animals into a permanent home. While you’re at it, grab

a hotdog and burger and have some fun! Even if you aren’t in the market for a new pet, please come out and support Scout’s Honor Rescue and give a pat and treat to a homeless doggie. Learn more at: www. scoutshonor.org.

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Neighbors: Remembering former Tradewinds owner Marie Hulett Gordon ily of Marie Hulett Gordon who passed away on the 4th of July, 2016. Mrs. Gordon, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, died peacefully after living a wonderful life that spanned 93 years. She was born in Jasper, TX on June 16, 1923 to William Mulligan Hulett and Linnie Ener Hulett. She is preceded in death by her parents; daughter Betty Gray; brothers, Billy Ray Hulett, James Roy Hulett and Ernest Troy Hulet. She is survived by daughter, Shirley Houston and husband Tom; Wil Gordon and wife Judy; grandson, Walker Richard Gray, III (Cody) and wife Wendy; great-grandchild, Walker Richard Gray IV (Austin); son-in-law Walker Richard Gray II (Sonny) and sister-in-law Glenda Hulet of Lumberton, Texas.

Marie married Walter Louis Gordon on July 25, 1937. He remained, from that time, the love of her life, her best friend and her business partner until his death in 1993. Louis and Marie started Gulf Welding Supply in 1947. The family wanted to move to a big city so that the children would grow up and find employment close to home. Marie found a house that was the perfect house for her in a new area of Oak Forest and in 1953 they moved to Houston. Marie has lived in the same house for 63 years and still loved it just as much as she did when she was a young woman. Their plan worked because all three children stayed in Houston as well as her grandson. Today none of the children live over eight miles away from the fam-

By Elizabeth Villarreal elizasgarden@outlook.com Wedding bells are ringing!

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Happy birthday to Janet Gebhardt Mahon of Lazybrook! Mrs. Mahon is a native Houstonian who grew up in the Heights, attended Reagan High School, and is a long time member of Heights Presbyterian Church. In celebration of her 86th birthday this year, Mahon’s great-granddaughters, Smith (6 years) and Virginia Maxey (3 years) of Birmingham, AL, flew in with their grandparents who are also Mahon’s daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Brian Maxey of Ocean Springs, MS, for an early celebration. They and the rest of Ms. Mahon’s family, including her husband Joe Mahon, son and daughter-in-law Mike and Brenda Mahon of Houston, grandchildren Stuart and Laney Maxey of Birmingham, Becky and Garrett Chumchal of Houston, and Matt Mahon of Houston send her happy birthday wishes on her special day.

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Marie and Louis had another successful business venture when they opened Tradewinds Roller Rink on Thanksgiving Day of 1957. The skaters lined up and down the street to get in the skating rink. The skating business was a thriving business partly because Marie was a people person and was always thinking of ways for the young people to have a good time. Tradewinds would have floats and skaters in the rodeo parade. They would decorate the skating rink and vote for Miss Tradewinds and her court of princesses. That was a formal night and all the girls would wear formals to skate and the boys suits.

Among families that skated at Tradewinds was the Swayze family. Patrick of Dirty Dancing fame was one of that family. There were so many other skaters that have called and said the best years of their life was at Tradewinds Roller Rink. Upon retirement, Marie and Louis sold the business to their son Wil Gordon who ran it for many years. The skating rink was open for 45 years.

After retirement, Marie became caregiver for her husband who had failing health from heart disease. He used to call her a jewel of a nurse.

They played cards every day even if there was just the two of them. Marie played cards almost daily since the day she left the skating business and was still playing until two to three weeks before her death.

Even when she got macular degeneration and could barely see, she was still often winning at cards with those that were younger and could see better.

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Banks, who was a late addition to the Texas Exclusive Student Athletes team that took first place, made the roster after his AAU Houston Hoops teammates, Jamare and Jamere Redus, invited him to play for the team.

Joining the team just days before the start of the tournament, Banks had no idea that his team would be competing for a real Junior Olympic Championship.

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also visited the University of Mississippi and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Five players graduated from St. Thomas this past year, so Banks knows that he will have to become a more versatile player in order to help his team win.

“This summer, I have tried to work on my dribbling and shooting more,” Banks said.

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