Lakes of Fairhaven - February 2022 by Peel, Inc.

February 2022 Volume 15, Issue 2

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News For The Residents at Lakes of Fairhaven

THE ANDREA CURRAN TEAM

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Spain Students Immersion Program

Host a Basque student for the summer! With this program, you’ll be able to share the American culture and hospitality with a Basque teenager (ages 14-17) while you learn about a different culture. These students come to the US to improve their English while living with an American host family. If you want to try something different, this is a very entertaining and special opportunity! Practical info: • Dates: June 27- July 25, 2022 • $400 stipend for hosting the student • The students have organized trips and activities with their group, as well as a 4 day camp • Host family provides meals, housing, and transportation for student. If you're interested in hosting or would like more information, please email Kristy Stark: K.Stark200579@gmail.com

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Andrea Curran and Her Real Estate Team with Heart Submitted by Stephanie Fantasia

You don’t have to live in Cypress for long before you hear about Andrea Curran and her real estate team. She and her team are top producers in the Houston area, but they’ve taken Cypress by storm in more ways than real estate. More specifically, you’ll often find The Andrea Curran Team scattering kindness throughout Cypress.

The Andrea Curran Team cares about their clients and their community. They take pride in building relationships all over Cypress because not only do they love it here; they live here. They enjoy being your neighbors and know how much Cypress has to offer. Their real estate journey began here, and their team has grown here, thanks to the support of Cypress friends and neighbors like you. You can learn more about The Andrea Curran Team by visiting www.AndreaCurran.com. Don’t forget to check out The Andrea Curran Team on social media to hear about upcoming community events! 4

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Andrea is driven by giving back and serving others. Here in Cypress, she has served as president of the Cypress Gems Chapter of the National Charity League Inc., a non-profit organization created to encourage mothers and daughters to serve and volunteer together within their communities. Andrea also volunteers as a guardian ad litem for Child Advocates, an organization that specializes in training and supporting volunteers to provide a voice for foster children. Late last year, she nominated Child Advocates to be the recipient of financial support from Compass Real Estate’s Compass Cares program and was thrilled when they were chosen. As the leader of a successful real estate team, Andrea uses her heart to guide how her team interacts with the surrounding community. She

often shares that she’s lucky to live and work in Cypress and considers it an honor to be part of a community where people never hesitate to serve one another. That is why you can find her real estate team giving back in a myriad of ways, like building up small business owners and their businesses, creating unique local spotlight videos, and hosting events. You will also find them at local community events hosting booths and offering complimentary gifts and treats to their neighbors, in schools spoiling teachers, and at the firehouses feeding heroes, The team has also partnered with local philanthropies serving children and animals in need. “Everyone is touched by kindness in their life at one time or another,” Andrea shares. “For me, it was at a time when I had a horse who needed a bandage changed almost every day, which was hard for me to manage alone. Two of the other horse owners at the barn took it upon themselves to make sure that I was able to have my horse properly cared for and they loved him like he was their own.” Andrea continues, “That meant the world to me, which is why I strive to do things that will mean the world to others.”

The Beacon Continued from Page 4 As if building the Cypress community by serving its schools and businesses isn’t enough, The Andrea Curran Team is frequently spotted dropping off gifts to randomly-selected homes, handing out gift cards all around town, and doing what they love to do most: spreading kindness here in Cypress. To make a more significant impact, Andrea set her sights on doing even more. She wanted to create a ripple of kindness that would impact individuals and families more directly, which is how a new Cypress kindness campaign was born. The Random Acts of Cypress campaign began in October of 2021 with the creation of a Facebook page encouraging the Cypress community to share random acts of kindness, good deeds, and heartwarming stories . You’ll find neighbors sharing uplifting stories - like strangers picking up fast food tabs, bystanders rendering impromptu aid in emergencies, elderly receiving unsolicited help with bills in a crisis, and much more. She invites the whole community to participate by joining the Facebook page and spreading kindness! https://www.facebook.com/groups/randomactsofcypress.

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My interest in writing memoirs began when I decided that it was time to tell my family about my grandmother’s vital role in our family. She was both the brick and the mortar that held our clan together, yet she never got credit except for a peck on the cheek at Christmastime or a flower on Mother’s Day. Even though, as a child, I had patiently listened to my grandmother tell me about

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her loving memories of her exciting visit to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis and the six white horses that delivered her to church on her wedding day, I neglected to go beyond her stories. I did not ask her how (or why) a metropolitan girl growing up in St. Louis with electricity, indoor plumbing, access to streetcars, and all the modern conveniences of the day could marry (a country bumpkin), move to the hinterlands, and raise her children in abject poverty. Of course, there were many unanswered questions. After searching far and wide, traveling back to my home state of Missouri to interview scores of stillliving relatives, searching ancestry.com, Facebook, and other genealogical sites, I gathered a plethora of usable information. Finally, I had grist for the mill. In the end, I garnered enough stories, photos, and insights to create a mini memoir that generations to come could enjoy. After that, my mission became to convince others to write their family’s stories while their relatives were still alive. With help from living relatives, they can ask all the questions they need to create a meaningful legacy.

You, too, can write your legacy for future generations. And, you don’t have to do it alone! We can begin it together in a four-week class which I call “Spinning Your Tale,” designed to help you get your thoughts organized, your questions answered, and your starting place defined. In this 4-week session, we’ll start with experiences that will help you visualize your pivotal life moments, and we will work from there. What I can promise you is fun, friendship, and a new way of viewing family connections. Whether you end up writing your book or not, it will be a helpful guide to understanding why you created your life as you did and how all that history can be turned into gems of wisdom. The four weekly hour-long classes begin on February 17th at 11:00 am at the Cypress Historical Society, 26026 Hempstead Rd, Cypress, TX 77429. They will last through March 10th. For more information, contact Jackie Devine, Publishing Consultant jackie.devine@comcast.net or 832.316.6006.

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