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Fighting for a better future

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True Grid helps recyclables find a “home”

By Jonathan Garris jgarris@theleadernews.com Those who have stood on a pavement during the middle of a hot Houston summer know firsthand just how hot it can get. Homeowners with typical pavement for their sidewalks and driveways also know some of the pain that comes with poor drainage and flooding in their yards. One Heights area business is looking to change pavement solutions with an environmentally sustainable alternative dubbed TrueGrid.

Barry Stiles, founder and CEO, said the brand had first been launched two years ago. Stiles originally had a manufacturing company of his own and was inspired by

green solutions and permeable pavement in densely populated areas in Europe.

“I came back to America and saw there were European imports on the market and there was a real need for change over here,” Stiles said. “I used my engineering background and I thought I could do a better job and design something that you could not only put in a driveway but also drive a truck over.”

TrueGrid aims to provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to typical pavement materials like concrete, Stiles said.. The material is made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled plastic, a consumable made from disSee Grid, P. 8B

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Is anyone else a bit worried that loathing “green” designations or items is almost just as much in vogue as appreciating them?

Perhaps it’s me spending too much time watching the Presidential race and hearing what people far removed from the scientific community have to say about where the planet is headed. I can’t blame some people for being exhausted from being bombarded with promotions from major companies about how their products or services are green, environmentally sustainable, Earthfriendly and any other buzzword they can think of without actually explaining how it benefits us or our planet.

With this issue, we want to take a different approach and dedicate a special section to issues (and solutions) for environmental sustainability and improvement throughout our community. Each story you find here is anchored by the hard work and dedication by neighbors, business owners and city officials right here in our own back yard.

Having a passion for anything is something I can appreciate but there is a special kind of pride that comes with seeing so many people invested with keeping this area clean and sustainable for the next generation and beyond. In this section, you’ll read about how people like Gary Stiles, a local business owner, and Yvette Leno, the leader of a community garden in Independent Heights, both want to leave the world in better shape for those next in line.

It’s amazing how so many people from so many different backgrounds can come together for one green purpose.

Find Inside  Growing with a local garden  Improvements to Bayou trails  Update on the One Bin program  Youngsters tackle recycling

Photo by Christina Martinez Barry Stiles, Founder and CEO of TrueGrid, holds a section of his company’s environmentally safe alternative to asphalt and concrete, called TrueGrid.

Saving the Buffalo

Annexation efforts would benefit Little Thicket Park

By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com Residents of Shady Acres who have been vocal about wanting improvements to Little Thicket Park on West 23rd Street just may get their wish, and then some.

A proposed annexation by the Memorial Heights Redevelopment Authority and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) #5 of 18th through 21st streets from TC Jester to Shepherd, as well as Durham and Shepherd Drive from I-10 to I-610, and a few other nearby areas like Little Thicket Park, is on Houston’s City Council agenda next week.

If the annexation passes, TIRZ #5 Board Chair Ann Lents said they will start working on projects in “broad parameters” and identifying the priorities. According to Lents, the candidates include park design, improvements and construction of trails in Little Thicket Park, an improvement plan for 18th, 19th and 20th streets, and developing connectivity to the White Oak and Buffalo Bayou Trails by providing pedestrian and biking improvements along Shepherd and Durham.

“There are enormous needs in this neighborhood,” said Lents.

“The public hearing went well. I am very optimistic.”

One Shady Acres resident who spoke at the hearing was former SACC President Nancy Wilcox.

“What we understand is that [the TIRZ proposal] will dovetail nicely with the larger vision we have for Shady Acres,” Wilcox said. She said that having connec-

Environmental groups, city officials battle over proposed, stalled Buffalo Bayou project

By Jonathan Garris jgarris@theleadernews.com For environmentalists and city officials, the need to preserve the ecosystem of the Buffalo Bayou isn’t up for debate – the process to do it, however, has sparked a local controversy that has endured for years.

Tom Helm is familiar with the debate. He not only offers canoe tours up and down parts of the bayou, but he is also a geologist. There’s a particular stretch of the Buffalo Bayou he particularly enjoys that falls under the Harris County Flood Control District’s proposed Memorial Park Demonstration Project which aims to restore and stabilize the banks of the bayou.

“It’s amazing that this stretch of the bayou exists so far inside Houston,” Helm says as he slowly paddles his way through the stretch of the Buffalo Bayou that flows adjacent to Memorial Park and the River Oaks Country Club. Despite being in the middle of civilization, this stretch of the bayou seems far from it, with the sound of the relatively close West Loop 610 and Memorial Drive all but a subtle hum in the distance.

Here, the wilderness remains relatively untouched on the Memorial Park side; however increased urbanization and increased sediment

deposition on the southern bank has caused parts of the banks to erode extensively. Helm and others in the coalition Save Buffalo Bayou feel the HCFD’s plans to restore the area are misguided.

“We feel like a lot of this natural forest and vegetation, along with the animals here, will be lost,” Helm said.

“We want to be heard.”

Battle for the Bayou The Memorial Park Demonstration Project is a public-private partnership

which spans a 5,800 foot section of the Buffalo Bayou, stretching from the Hogg Bird Sanctuary & Bayou Bend parking lot upstream to just south of Memorial Park’s Picnic Loop. According to the project’s website, the purpose of the $6 million project, which would cost taxpayers $4 million, is to not only restore Buffalo Bayou back to a “natural, stable condition,” and repair and stabilize its banks along with improving water quality, but also See Bayou, P. 7B

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File Photo by Jonathan Garris Nancy Wilcox surveys the wilderness and litter at Little Thicket Park.

Photos by Christina Martinez Members of Save Buffalo Bayou don’t want a ‘fix’ for the bayou. They believe that it should be left alone. The Memorial Park Demonstration Project disagrees.

Readers give insight on what being green means to them

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“I am collecting cork tops and bottle caps to use for future art projects such as a cork board for our community garden. I’ve made a scrabble like game out of bottle caps before, and am collecting more in a jar before the next inspiration project hits. Being a photographer, it will probably be something photo related.

Anything that I don’t use will eventually be donated to Texas Art Asylum.”

Jennie Rexer Oak Forest resident

“Being green isn’t always easy. I strive to reduce, reuse, and recycle, but it can be a challenge in modern life. One of my biggest problems is cardboard boxes. I get a lot of deliveries, and am constantly filling up the recycling bin with cardboard, and then have no space for the cans, plastic, and glass.”

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Beauty’s Community Garden takes root

By Jonathan Garris jgarris@theleadernews.com Yvette Leno knows her own community garden, called Beauty’s Community Garden is more than just a sustainable way for her neighbors to enjoy fresh vegetables right in their own community. She calls working in the garden an enriching experience for people both young and old alike.

The garden is now in its third year at Independence Heights, and is nestled at 3201 Airline Dr. at the corner of E. 32nd Street. The lot the garden occupies was formerly Leno’s home, but a fire later destroyed the home after she had moved out.

“Initially, I didn’t know what to do because all I was doing was paying taxes and having someone mow the lawn,” Leno said. “After the fire it took a little while to come back because it was painful for me. But when I came back I was saddened because [the neighborhood] looked war torn to me compared to what it looked like when I was here.”

Through her exposure to other community gardens and other organizations, Leno decided to embrace the idea of a garden project for her fellow neighbors.

“I found out that I could be the ‘somebody’ to help bring beautification to the neighborhood and it’s something the area truly needs,” Leno said.

“We grow everything without chemicals and this is good, nutritious food and we give people an opportunity to have access to good nutrition.”

Currently there are about four or five volunteers but Leno said more are needed to help care for the lot. Gardening classes were offered each first Saturday every month, however Leno is currently looking to restart that program with a new instructor.

“We’d love to have at least 12 people to help with weeding, planting and harvesting our garden,” Leno said. Some of the plants in the garden include turnips, lettuce, eggplant and others. Volunteers are compensated with vegetables of their own.

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“Sometimes they’re amazed or get wide-eyed when they see a garden like this and crops actually growing up close,” Leno said. “We also have the opportunity to teach them how the garden is a lot like our lives as you have to continue to cultivate your life and wait

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Construction adds more unity to bayou trail

By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com Ever since the Houston Parks Board launched the Bayou Greenways project to bring 150 miles of biking and walking trails along Houston’s bayous, it’s been more fun to be a cyclist in Houston. Now, enthusiasts have even more to be excited about as there is a new, 2-mile piece of White Oak Bayou Greenway currently under construction.

Previously just greenspace, under the purview of the Harris County Flood Control District, the new trail will travel west along the south side of the bayou, connecting a point on the Heights trail at Studemont and I-10 to the new MKT Railroad Bridge.

Houston Parks Board Communications Manager Catherine Butsch notes that they are not connecting the trail to Stude Park because the Public Works department has a grant to complete that portion.

The greenway will also offer street connectivity at Bonner Street, Patterson Street, Yale Street and Heights Boulevard.

“You will be able to get on at Patterson and take the trail all the way down to Buffalo Bayou,” said Butsch, who also noted that the connection on the north and south sides of Heights Boulevard would give Cottage Grove residents west of the bayou new access to the rest of the trail system.

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File Photo by Jonathan Garris Cyclists along White Oak Bayou will soon be able to enjoy a new trail traveling west along the south side of the bayou, connecting the Heights trail at Studemont and I-10 to the MKT Railroad Bridge.

The project, which is estimated to be complete in about a year, will cost $4 million.

Butsch said that the funding comes from the bond that voters approved in 2012 as well as from Memorial Heights Redevelopment Authority and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #5. Times Construction Inc. is doing the work on the trail.

The work might be impacted by TxDOT’s rebuild of the Yale Street Bridge, but Butsch said that even if there is a delay at Yale, there are other pieces of the White Oak Bayou Greenway at Patterson and

Heights Boulevard that would likely open sooner.

Of course there are some cyclists who don’t want to wait.

“People are so excited that as soon as we do go through with equipment, they are coming along behind,” said Butsch who reiterates that obviously this is not encouraged and that it’s important for cyclists to be safe.

Another piece of good news with regard to the Greenway is that the HPB and Houston Parks and Recreation will be able to complete a small sec-

tion of the trail between the new bridge and W. 11th St. They were impeded in their efforts by a large hole in the banks of White Oak Bayou just south of W 11th St., but the HCFDC began repairs on the eroded area in recent weeks.

By early 2016, HPB and HPARD will be able to build this missing piece of the White Oak Bayou Greenway trail and connect the new bridge to the existing trails along White Oak Bayou and T.C. Jester north of W 11th St.

Annexation from P. 1A tivity to the White Oak Bayou trails is highly desired by the neighborhood which has become “quite dense” in the last 10 years.

“A pedestrian friendly area is exactly what we’d like to see happen,” she said.

Jennifer Curley is a Senior Staff Analyst with the city’s Economic Development Division. She said that the income generated after an area is annexed, through taxes mostly from commercial properties – no more than 30% of property in a proposed zone can be used for residential purposes – is used to fund TIRZ projects only if it is an increment of what was collected the year before.

In other words, if there’s no growth, there’s no money for projects. Once annexed, Shady Acres will have to wait until 2016 for an increment, and a new spending plan, to see some of their wish list items to come to fruition.

Lents says that even when there is money, their budget and Capital Improvement Plan have to be approved by City Council, in the same way Public Works operates. Still, she said that by virtue of the TIRZ being a smaller group, it is easy to navigate to get things done. Their meetings are public and Lents says that Super Neighborhood 22 and Woodland Park always sends representatives.

“We are neighborhood friendly,” she said. “This TIRZ is low key.”

She is hesitant to put a definitive dollar figure on any one item but says that the Little Thicket Park project would likely have smaller numbers, and be more readily accomplished, than some of the street improvement plans which are more “expensive to touch.” She said she looks forward to visiting with the neighborhood, and bringing in a designer. Instead of doing everything all at once, Lents said “a smaller series of projects” might be the way to go.

And what if the annexation doesn’t pass next week?

Lents’ term ends this year and her replacement will be a mayoral appointment. Taking another pass at annexation would be a decision of the next administration and probably wouldn’t happen for quite some time due to the work involved.

“It’s not easy to get this pulled together,” said Lents.

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One Bin program continues struggle

By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com In March 2013 with great fanfare, the City of Houston received $1 million for the One Bin for All program from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayor’s Challenge. The program would offer residents one container in which to collect waste that would then be diverted to facilities focused on sorting and recycling a multitude of different materials. In July of 2014, the city received five proposals from vendors who would help implement the technology – in a facility that would cost $100 million to build – and get the program going. And since then – crickets.

According to COH Deputy Director Christon Butler, they are still interested in One Bin for All which mandated a 75 diversion rate, with the other 25 percent of waste going to landfills. That would certainly be better than the current 19 percent diversion rate. “The City remains committed to increasing our diversion rate and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,� he said, noting that the Bloomberg grant has been used for consultants and services required for the enactment of the program.

Butler said that they are still reviewing the five proposals. “Implementation of a project of this magnitude requires due diligence,� he said. “We will proceed as soon as we can.�

There are some though who hope the One Bin proposal will die a quiet death, not because they don’t believe in recycling, but because they feel that One Bin would hurt the environment much more than it would help it.

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tor with the Texas Campaign for the Environment Melanie Scruggs says that along with allies in the Zero Waste Houston coalition, they have generated “tens of thousands of letters� to the mayor, encouraging the city to look at alternatives to One Bin. “It’s a pretty unpopular idea,� said Scruggs, who pointed out the fact that the Montgomery, AL, facility that Sustainability Director for the City of Houston Laura Spanjian touted to The Leader last November has now closed.

WTVM in Alabama reports the facility shut down at the beginning of October, less than two months after it received an innovation award. Infinitus Renewable Energy Park - Montgomery’s business partner - claimed that the closure was due to commodity prices.

Scruggs said that even though the city had a high recycling rate, there was no environmental benefit because the recycled material that resulted from food waste mixed with other trash caused contamination and was unsellable.

There are also fears that Houston would use incineration, including gasification, to convert waste. As Zero Waste Houston noted on their website this “has never been used on municipal solid waste in Texas because it is expensive and polluting.�

Another reason Scruggs thinks the One Bin program would be unsuccessful is because it would only cover those who use city trash services, exempting private neighborhoods who opt out of city services and get sponsorship grants for doing so.

“It’s incentivizing landfilling,� said Scruggs.

She also said that apartment dwellers, about 42 percent of Houston’s residents, would also not be able to take part because most don’t utilize city recycling services.

For many environmental groups, the answer is three bins, including one for food waste, plus a lot of education and a long term goal.

Scruggs is optimistic for Houston’s recycling future if the One Bin plan is abandoned.

She mentioned the city’s recently passed Plan Houston which will support recycling, expand education for waste management and measure diversion.

Scruggs thinks a 90 percent diversion rate by 2040, and a zero percent waste goal, is attainable with the right plan.

uby Gruszeczka of Houston, Texas passed away on Monday, October 26, 2015 at the age of 90. Ruby lived a long, full life touching the hearts of everyone she encountered.

Ruby was born in Columbia, Mississippi on November 4, 1924 to the late James Leroy and Zora Davis. She grew up in Pine Burr, MS with her large family with six sisters and seven brothers.

She held many jobs from working in a canning factory to machining artillery shells during World War II. In the early 1940’s, she moved to Houston along with many of her family members. On August 31, 1944, she married Andrew Gruszeczka, her husband of nearly 60 years. They enjoyed their life together taking trips around the U.S. and fishing in Port O’Connor and Lake Somerville. Ruby also had a passion for hunting and gardening. She enjoyed spending her time with family and friends.

Ruby is survived by her daughter, Gloria Mutz of Houston, TX; grandson, Charlie Mutz and wife Traci of Pinehurst, TX; granddaughter, Lisa Cole and husband Ben of Hockley, TX; great-grandchildren, Chris Mutz and wife Allison of Spring, TX, Brittany Cole, Benton Cole, Tristle Cloud, Troy Cloud; great-great-grandchildren Caden Mutz and Jaxon Garabedian; sisters, Polly Powell of Houston, TX and Ruth Robbins of Collins, MS; brothers Paul Davis of Cypress, TX and John Davis of Houston, TX, and many other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held 6:00-8:00 pm on Thursday, October 29 at Pat H. Foley & Co. Funeral services will be held 10:00 am on Friday, October 30, then laid to rest at Memorial Oaks Cemetery.

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By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com For Oak Forest’s Kelly Long, her dogs are not just her pets, they’re her family. So along with three dog-loving friends, The Doggie Express was born.

Launched in May, The Doggie Express offers organic, glutenfree, dairy-free, gourmet doggie treats, delivered right to your front door. “All dogs deserve to enjoy treats, but when we started paying attention to dog treats on the market today, we didn’t like all the artificial ingredients,� said Long. “Our goal is to provide nutritious treats for pets and convenient accessibility for the owners.�

That’s where Chef Tiffiany Henningsen comes in. Henningsen was trained at the Texas Culinary Academy and previously owned two restaurants – Kozy Kitchen in Dallas and The G’s in Houston – both of which were gluten- free dining concepts.

Henningsen, who calls herself a “baker by trade,� focuses solely on canine cuisine these days and started experimenting with recipes a few years back.

Long said that in addition to nutrition, they are also working to perfect texture and taste. Not everything was a hit off the bat, and, for some items, there was a bit of trial and error.

For instance, the popular Pup Eyes, which are now made with organic Spinach,

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For the sake of freshness, they make their treats in smaller batches and in the last two weeks there have been a lot of batches – about 1,000 pieces – since The Doggie Express was a sponsor at the Garden Oaks Wine Walk and also set up shop at Oak Forest’s artisan market. “We want people to learn about our products, taste them and become as passionate about nutritious treats for their pets as we are,� said Long.

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Jason Krahn, project manager with HCFD, said there hasn’t been a major project like this along the Buffalo Bayou.

“The urbanization we’ve all seen has crept right up to the edge of the bayou,” Krahn said.

“Because of the growth of private property lots along to the edge of the bayou, the river itself is widening and deepening, particularly due to higher stormwater runoff rates.”

Property owners along the bayou are understandably unwilling to allow their property to erode away. The natural channel design technique examines a wide variety of past and present conditions along the waterway and would use the bayou’s natural tendencies and mimic the bayou’s features to revitalize the banks while cutting back on erosion.

However, in addressing the enormous amount of erosion that has taken place, officials have had to remove some of the surrounding vegetation, Krahn said. This has been a big cause of concern for people like Susan Chadwick, another member of Save Buffalo Bayou who was born and raised in Houston.

“We are really fortunate to have a dynamic river right in the middle of the city,” Chadwick said. “The area is so terribly eroded and I have to wonder why you would want to go in and destroy it to fix it.”

Chadwick and others say the bayou is not only home to a variety of wildlife, but also contains prehistoric sandstone and bluffs and if the city were to commit to bulldozing or otherwise continuing to remove vegetation it would put the ecological and historical significance of the Buffalo Bayou at risk.

“That’s why the Memorial Park Conservation Master Plan recommended leaving the bayou there as an educational tool,” Chadwick said. The existing riparian forest is still the best way to control erosion, the group says, and replacing it could potentially cause permanent damage to the ecosystem.

Indeed, in the original Memorial Park Master Plan first published in 2004, officials recommended the Bayou simply be left alone.

The Bayou can serve as a valuable environmental education tool that depicts the change inherent in nature,” the plan says. “Possible solutions such as concrete surfacing and decreasing the bank slope would only destroy the habitat value and visual amenity of the bayou and conflict with the ability to observe natural process.”

“The [HCFD] has been tearing down a lot of trees to provide detention but it’s unclear if it’s a good policy for flood control or preserving wildlife,” Chadwick said. “In their charter, it says they are supposed to protect forestry. We think people would like to see the bayous restored and the Bayou

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Source: Harris County Flood Control District Maps available through the Harris County Flood Control District give an idea of just how far the project area stretches along Memorial Park.

Greenways project is great but they should respect the natural processes of the bayou, as parts of it do need more trees and more vegetation.”

However, Krahn says that isn’t the case and for the project to be successful some of the vegetation will have to be removed.

“Additional trees alone will not address the problems we have out there,” Krahn said.

“We have to go one step further and address the root cause.”

Krahn said the project will focus on narrowing the everwidening bayou and deepening it and beyond that officials will focus on planting a “tremendous amount of trees,” which would provide deep root systems to support the banks and a canopy to help cool the temperature of the water for wildlife.

“Once [the banks] are stabilized, the project proposes to plant 8,500 trees along that particular stretch,” Krahn said.

Nature knows best Chadwick and others also take issue with the use of “concrete armoring” or riprap, which is comprised of loose stones to armor the banks of the bayou. Some of this was done along the banks of the River Oaks Country Club.

“It puts the bayou in a straight jacket,” Chadwick said. “It essentially destroys the dynamic, living ecosystem of its banks.”

However, Krahn said that there is no proposed riprap for the area of the project directly under their control outside of the immediate, isolated areas surrounding storm drain outfalls.

“When you have storm water falling out of a drain, when it comes out it’s initially concentrated in one area and very corrosive,” Krahn said. “That riprap dissipates the initial energy of water leaving the storm drain, but there is no proposed use of widespread riprap.”

With the tremendous amount of development along the bayou not slowing any time soon, Krahn said work needs to begin sooner rather than later as it continues to widen and deepen, putting both the current ecosystem and private property at risk. Officials hope the project demonstrates to others in Houston a bet-

ter, more holistic approach to stabilizing the bayou’s banks versus stabilizing individual properties one by one.

“One thing we can kind of point to is that this is a method used successfully throughout the nation,” Krahn said. “The ultimate goal is to address this in a holistic manner as if we were to sit and do nothing we would see continued tree loss and widening of the bayou.”

Krahn also points to support from other stakeholders in the project, which include the Bayou Preservation Association and the Memorial Park Conservancy. Other private citizens with environmental backgrounds have also endorsed the project, Krahn said.

However, Chadwick said she is puzzled by some of the support from groups like the Bayou Preservation Association.

“We have a lot of high-level geologists on our team and this plan is just not appropriate for the kind of geology we have here,” Chadwick siad. “Nature knows best. We still think the city and county should avoid razing the forest and vegetation and avoid stripping or filling the banks of the bayou. We think the city should leave this stretch alone.”

For now, the stretch will be left alone as the Army Corps Of Engineers is still in its process of determining whether or not to issue a permit for the project. As both sides wait in a holding pattern, Krahn says he and other officials are still

open to talking with the public regarding the project and its current issues.

“We’re glad to continue that moving forwad,” Krahn said.

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Photo by Betsy Denson Oak Forest Elementary students love to take the bins to the outside dumpster.

School recycling programs teach as well as inspire

By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com Want to find an enthusiastic group of recyclers? Come to Oak Forest Elementary on Friday afternoons. That’s where a group of about 10 fourth and fifth graders put on their orange vests, grab some plastic trash bag liners and get to work.

The school’s recycling program was rejuvenated five years ago by PTA members Miriam Smith and Christina Amos.

“We wanted to find a way to reduce the impact of our school on the environment,” said Amos. “So we decided to reduce the amount of paper sent home by sending out email communications instead and get the students involved by picking up recycled paper as well as plastic and cans.”

Each Friday, students collect recyclables all over the school and place them into large bins. Then they wheel the bins out to the large green recycle dumpster and pitch in their haul.

Fourth grader Evan Weltin said he joined the club because he saw other people doing it.

“I thought it would be a lot of fun and would help the school,” he said.

“I think it’s helpful to the environment because recycling can help the earth more than throwing everything away. My favorite part is when we gather everything up and take it to the dumpster because sometimes I find cool stuff that is not supposed to be in the recycling.”

Current PTA Green chairs and student advisors Julie Wilson and Vic-

tor D’Souza estimate that the group recycles about 100 to 150 pounds a week, most of which is paper. Wilson said that the teachers are good about putting paper in the recycling rather than the trash.

This year the recycling club instituted team captains to give some of the older students a leadership role.

“Since we only have fourth and fifth graders doing recycling, it was an obvious place to introduce this idea,” she said. “Of course, they all want to be leaders so we are rotating the leadership roles, giving the students several weeks to lead and try out new things.

It requires some coaching from adult supervisors, asking student leaders to make decisions that the adult would normally make.”

Travis Elementary also has a recycling program which is led by teacher Samantha Flecker. Flecker said that all of the fifth grade students were able to choose their top three for a fifth grade club and then placed by the school counselor into clubs.

“I have 12 students in the recycling club,” said Flecker. “The students are divided into teams of three and are assigned areas of the school to cover.

On Tuesday mornings, students pick up recycling for all of the classrooms and offices on the downstairs level.

On Thursdays, [they] pick up recycling for all of the classrooms and offices on the upstairs level. I also have the recycling club come up for lunch on Fridays to get to know each other.”

Flecker said she loves that the work is something that helps other teachers and her students feel that they are contributing to the community.

“I know, personally, that I hate when my recycling is full,” she said.

“It’s a huge relief when it is taken care of.”

Tacos A Go GO says January is a go

By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com When The Leader reported last June that the Roznovsky’s Hamburgers building, 3401 W. T.C. Jester, had been purchased by Braun Enterprises and subsequently leased to Tacos a Go Go, the news generated a lot of excitement.

Now Tacos A Go Go owner Sharon Haynes says that they are hoping to be open by January. She said since the building is already a functional restaurant and they are keeping the kitchen and dining room, the new construction won’t be intensive.

“We anticipate it going pretty quickly,” said Haynes, elaborating that they are waiting on final plans and will take the plans to permitting in the next few weeks.

Tacos a Go Go already has a popular location on Main Street, which opened 10 years ago, and one on White Oak Drive which has been around for the past four years.

Haynes said she is equally excited about the potential of her newest restaurant.

“For us it had everything – a freestanding building, a parking lot, and it was a commercial property with no big restrictions,” she said. When she looked at the site map of the area she described it as broccoli, with “trees and residents as far as the eye can see.”

There were some challenges with the location, however, namely that it’s in a floodway, which is different

Grid from P. 1A carded plastic materials like bottles and containers, and its permeability decreases the need for retention and detention ponds while also preventing runoff pollutants from entering nearby rivers and lakes.

“The other types of pavements, like concrete and asphalt, the water hits it and runs off into the streets and into the bayous and takes all the pollutants with it,” Stiles said. “All of the things that come off vehicles goes right into our water.”

TrueGrid can be placed over a gravel or grass base, so water permeates through the surface, Siles said.

“When it’s filled with gravel, it helps cleanse a lot of pollutants out of the water before it hits the aquifiers and bayous,” Stiles said. “Plus it adds detention, which we’ve seen is important with all of the flooding we’ve been having.”

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Photo by Betsy Denson Tacos A Go Go owner Sharon Haynes says that she was thrilled to find the spot.

from being in the floodplain.

“There are restrictions on how much you can improve,” said Haynes, noting that during the May floods the restaurant didn’t get a drop. “The city and country is well versed in this by now and there are rules. We are picking our way through.”

One person who will be glad to see Haynes open is Hunington Properties broker Rafael Melara who reps the property behind Tacos a Go Go which currently houses Mirage Cabaret and 1 Stop Food Mart.

The other three spaces in the development, two at 1,550 square feet and one at 2,000 square feet, are currently for lease at $1.25 to $1.50 per square foot.

“We’ve been looking for new tenants,” said Melara, who says the spaces have been vacant for a number of years.

“The end game is to have quality tenants,” he said.

“It would be awesome to have some retail there,” said Haynes. “It’s such a great location, and could be appealing.”

She said that although she has the Continental Club and Fitzgerald’s near her other two locations, having an adult entertainment club next door is new.

“It’s not what we would seek out but it doesn’t scare us,” she said.

Haynes is currently evaluating her signage at the end of the parking lot, and brainstorming some kind of “visual separation” between Tacos a Go Go and the other tenants, while not blocking their signs.

Interesting in being Tacos a Go Go’s neighbor? Call Hunington’s Rafael Melara at 281-690-0535.

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“We’ve had places like Whole Foods and St. Arnold’s use it in their parking lots,” Stiles said. Other users include the White Oak Music Hall, along with smaller projects like church lots and local homeowners.

TrueGrid is available in a Pro model and a Pro Plus model. The former offers the standard permeable pavement shipped in pre-assembled sheets, while the latter adds the support of SuperSpots, which are small domed and ribbed parking delineators.

Stiles also said the notion of “green costing more green” also doesn’t ap-

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“A big savings for business and developers is land savings as well, [because] rather than spending thousands of dollars on a detention pond, you can put detention directly in the parking lot,” Stiles said. “You can basically walk on water. We’ve had everyone from restaurant owners and others saying they would have to put detention in their lots [but] not having to as they can simply put it in the parking lot.”

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