Sugar Land List February 2019

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black history in fort bend

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SILVER SCREEN

Latest and Greatest Movies in Theatres Soon

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THE LIST

10 Things for a Fresh February

THE GUIDE

Furry, Flying or Finned Friends

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PARENT LIFE Ask the Doc

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Taste of Pan Africa Food Festival

February 15th | 5:00 until 10:00pm | Sugar Land Town Center | 15958 City Walk, 77479 Enjoy with friends the best of Pan-African cuisine as chefs from East, South, and West Africa, Brazil, Haiti, and the Caribbean’s arouse and excite your taste buds.

1st Annual George Ranch Rodeo

February 16th | 10:00am until 10:00pm | George Ranch Area | 10215 FM 762 Road, 77469 The inaugural George Ranch Rodeo will spotlight the amazing history of black cowboys and honor James and Willie Thomas. Come out to celebrate Fort Bend County’s black cowboy legacy!

5th Annual “Musclepalooza” Car Show Festival

March 2nd | 8:00am until 3:00pm | Constellation Field | 1 Stadium Drive, 77498 A car show and drag race for all makes and models of awesome cars!

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March 14th | 7:00 until 10:00pm | George Ranch Area | 3527 Highway 6, #250, 77478 Small Spaces Concert series is an intimate setting to showcase the visual and performing arts.

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Black History In Fort Bend County

and slavery was abolished, steps were taken to make sure that cheap labor remained available in the agricultural south. Confederate veterans Edward H. Cunningham and Littleberry A. Lewis found a loophole around the abolition of slavery; leasing Texas’s entire prison population. The Texas prison system now served as a new source of cheap labor.

Convict leasing is rarely mentioned, but it was the dominant way by which slavery was replaced.

The history of Sugar Land is complicated.

Today, Houston and its surrounding areas enjoys a reputation as one of the most diverse parts of the country. However, Sugar Land’s roots, as its name suggests, can be traced to the farming of sugar in the region. This farming often depended on slave labor, though this slave labor was the kind that could only be found after the Civil War was already over.

In the years after the Civil War ended

Under the convict leasing system, plantations would lease convicted individuals to perform labor on their lands in a system of involuntary servitude. The plantation was responsible for feeding these involuntary servants as well as clothing and housing them. The system began in Louisiana as early as 1844, but the process soon spread throughout the United States. This form of involuntary servitude did occur to a limited degree in the north, but the system was particularly harmful in the south, where states gave up entire groups of involuntary servants to private leasers.

Sugar Land’s growth was partly contingent on this system. Sugarcane plantations heavily relied on slave labor, which helped transform the Lower Brazos area.

Entrepreneurs such as Matthew, Samuel, and Nathanial Williams began some of the first sugar plantations in the region. These plantations were founded in the 1830s but transformed sugar into a major economic

powerhouse within only a decade. The plantations that populated the area were powered by slave labor until it wasn’t legal anymore, which is when the area switched to the system of involuntary servants.

Involuntary servants faced many of the same hardships that slaves had faced before them. Working conditions were harsh, mosquitoes carried epidemic causing diseases, servants were regularly beat, and medical care was lacking. This created a high mortality rate among the people working these fields. The convict leasing system, which entered Texas in the 1880s, continued to drive profits for the sugar plantations in the area up through 1910. By then, investigations of the Texas prison system forced the Texas Legislature to eliminate the system of involuntary servitude. However, over the course of those three decades many lives were lost.

Evidence of those lost lives can be found in the 95 bodies discovered, on accident, while the Fort Bend Independent School District began was constructing a new school. The discovery forced a halt in the school’s development as activities clashed with the school district over what should be done with the land. Today, organizations such as the National Black United Front are working to find a resolution regarding how to best honor the lives of those black prisoners and former slaves. The district needs a new school built, but the memory of the departed also has to be preserved.

Debates on the issue are still ongoing.

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Natalie is a young woman disenchanted with love. Her worst nightmare comes true when she discovers she’s playing the leading lady in a real-life romcom and must escape every cliché in order to finally find her happily ever after.

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Carol Danvers, a former U.S. air Force fighter pilot, is turned into one of the galaxy’s mightiest heroes and is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds.

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Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house and now cohabitates with the couple.

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Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their children to the beach house, hoping to spend time with friends. Their serenity soon turns to tension and chaos when a group of “strangers” arrive uninvited.

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Fresh February

“Slap Your Mama Garlic Wings” These wings are a hit and my boys ask for them regularly. I use an orange blossom honey that you can get in the cheese section at H-E-B. It’s in a glass bottle with a stopper but you can make your own by squeezing oranges into the honey and then glazing the meat. This also works well when baking a ham.

You’ll need: Two packets of winglets 1 tbsp. garlic salt 1 tbsp. pepper Olive oil Orange blossom honey Lay out the washed winglets in a flat and shallow pan.

Drizzle olive oil on them to coat lightly…for those cooks that measure stuff you’ll use about a tablespoon Lightly sprinkle with garlic salt and pepper and then run a glaze of the orange blossom honey in a zig zag pattern across each winglet. Place in a 375-degree oven for 30 mins and then crank up the broiler. Watch them to make sure they are crispy and caramelized, but not burned.

Hint: There’s no sauce needed for dipping as these are absolutely PERFECT from pan to plate!

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Take your “green” thumb to a new level by cutting toilet paper rolls in half. Stuff paper towels in the bottom and fill them up with moisture-rich potting soil. Start seedlings in a warm place to go directly into the garden next month.

Buy a bouquet of fresh flowers and display them in a tablescape that brings the outdoors in!

Go through all the medicine cabinets. Gather anything expired and dispose of properly. Inventory the non-medical items and make sure to restock up on masks, shampoo, soaps and salts.

Go through your friends list and make sure to write their birthdays into your calendar. This will make it easy for you to drop them a nice card to let them know how much you love them!

Plan an amazing spring break. Think about going somewhere you have never been to before. The world is your OYSTER, my dears!

I have just finished learning all about Kenya. What could be more memorable than Giraffe Manor and feeding baby elephants?

On my nightside table now “Feeding You Lies” by Vani Hari, “In the Company of Women” by Grace Bonney and The Holy Bible.

Go through your February - April home decor and see if there’s anything that is broken to fix, give away or trash. Keep an area in your attic that has decorations there exclusively so that you can seamlessly move in between seasons and enjoy your home more in 2019.

Make a point to try a new recipe each week and secretly make it vegetarian. This family members will never know that they aren’t really eating meats with so many great options out there. You will be both creative and healthier in no time!

Take the children to the zoo with sketch pads and pens. Have them leave their devises in the trunk and spend two hours in the sun soaking up vitamin D and drawing their favorite animals.

Keep those sketches and tiny masterpieces in a safe folder and by the end of year you’ll have enough art to create a full calendar to make and give as gifts to the grands! They’ll love it and the kids will too!

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FURRY, FLYING OR FINNED FRIENDS Who has a better appreciation for pets than the professionals that dedicate their lives to helping our pets stay healthy and happy?

This issue celebrates pet-passionate individuals that show our furry, flying or finned friends’ compassion.

For those who have made an everlasting impact on your heart, and the heart of your pet. Whether you’re a cat person, dog person, a fish person, or a horse person there’s one thing we can all agree on, and that’s the incredible work carried out by pet-passionate professionals.

This month, The List Magazines teams up with local pet professionals to shine a light on those who help our pets live long, happy, and healthy lives!

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putting DOGs first

Mark and Ashley Mitchell, owners of Wash Groom Go Mobile Dog Grooming | Sit Walk Stay & The Dog Shop Salon, are answering the need for your pet’s well being by offering grooming boarding, pet sitting, dog walking and daycare services.

Our business today is a culmination of 6 years of hard work and big dreams. We are so excited to add cage free doggie day care, luxury boarding and salon style grooming to our existing top-notch pet services. We are driven by our desire to help our neighbors by caring for their four-legged family members with love, respect and compassion. We owe a huge thank you to the community for joining us on this awesome journey, and we hope that you will continue to be a part of our story.

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There just aren’t enough hours in the day. We live in a busy world with a million people going in a million directions. Sometimes it’s hard to give your beloved dog the attention he/she needs. Give yourself a break with Wash Groom Go Mobile Dog Grooming. We make grooming convenient by coming to your location. Your dog never leaves their home or neighborhood! We groom your dog from start to finish in our state-of-the art grooming salons. Our salons have all the amenities you find at a typical grooming facility.

We just recently purchased a third mobile grooming salon and added two new professional groomers to our existing staff, so that we can accommodate more appointments and provide more flexibility in scheduling. We want to make getting your dog groomed as simple as possible, on your schedule not ours. Mobile Groomers: Tiffany Campbell, Brianna Blaisdell, Gail Jordan, Koree Martinez.

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“It’s the sort of space that we like to think dogs would have designed for themselves if they could have.” We knew from the onset we wanted to foster a different kind of culture, something fun, clean and inviting. We know what it’s like to worry when you need to be away from your dog for a day or two. Are they okay? Are they worried or sad? Are they having fun? Do they miss me? We created a space to ease that. Your dog gets to play all day with other dogs his/her size, age and temperament while being under constant supervision. Your dogs become members of our family.

They need socialization, exercise and love. The Dog Shop provides all of this with our highly engaging staff. We are an allencompassing facility with a full range of services where dogs can relax, play and enjoy themselves in the hands of professionals who truly care.

Professional Dog Grooming - We get dogs. It’s that simple!

Your dog can be the envy of the neighborhood with a little help from The Dog Shop pet stylists. Our grooming staff brings more than 40 + years of combined experience to the area and can give your dog the treatment they deserve. Our experienced bathers and groomers will treat your dog with love and gentle hands that you cannot find anywhere else.

Groomers: Rebekah Foley, Destiny Vercher, Khristopher Conway

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Visit childrens.memorialhermann.org/ER to see how we’re caring for kids in your community.

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Sienna Plantation Animal Hospital

Dr. Brian Smith just celebrated his ten-year anniversary as the owner of SPAH. He is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA), and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP). He holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. from Trinity University. He and his wife, Sarah, have lived in Sienna since 2005, and they love raising their four children in the community. Dr. Smith coaches youth teams, regularly attends St. Catherine of Sienna Episcopal Church, and donates to local schools and charities. He is a Purple Jacket Honoree of Ridge Point High School.

Located next to Baines Middle School, Sienna Plantation Animal Hospital (SPAH) provides general veterinary care to dogs and cats (wellness planning, sick visits, surgery, dentistry and nutritional counseling). We also provide daytime emergency care with an in house lab and radiology suite for rapid diagnosis. SPAH is accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), an achievement held by only 11% of veterinary hospitals in the nation! Our team is committed to providing high-quality, modern, veterinary medicine that evolves with the latest medical research.

Our clients are confident their pet is receiving the best care possible.

meet Our Veterinarians

Dr. Becky Nevotti lives in Sienna with her 2 children, Baron and Evalyn, and their two dogs. She is an active member and volunteer at The Harvest United Methodist Church and also volunteers every March with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and loves being a vet in Sienna Plantation because of the wonderful people and pets she meets on a daily basis. Her areas of special interest include dermatology, nutrition and soft tissue surgery. Dr. Nevotti attended Texas A&M University and graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Science and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. She is also a member of the AVMA, TVMA, and AAFP.

Dr. Jessica Rivera enjoys caring for dogs and cats and building a strong bond with her clients. Her passions include internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, and geriatric medicine. She is married to Victor M. Porras, Jr., who is also an Aggie and owns his own law firm.

They have a daughter, Eliana Nicole, and attend Second Baptist Church. Dr. Rivera earned a Master's Degree in Biomedical Science in 2006 from Texas A&M University and graduated with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University in 2011. She is also a member of the AVMA, TVMA, and AAFP.

Dr. Stephen Marsh enjoys living in, and serving, the Sienna community.

“The people here desire exceptional care for their furry, family members.” He, and his wife, Taylor, look forward to raising their young family in Sienna. He adopted his dog, Springer Dinger, from Sienna Pet Fest 2018. Dr. Marsh grew up in Jackson, MS, and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. He then moved to Texas and received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University in 2016. He is also a member of the AVMA, TVMA, and AAFP.

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I am a mother of four.

My oldest 3 are in their mid-twenties, either focused on school (or graduated), in relationships, working full-time and pretty much doing everything a young adult does. My youngest is a 7th grader. They’re all truly the greatest of friends. I love how much they love and support each other.

But as close as they all are, I feel there can be a divide between them at times because of the age gap. My 12-year-old feels left out when they stay out late or watch rated-R films.

She gets so upset when we explain to her why she can’t do certain things with them. How can we bridge this gap in a way that’s convenient and reassuring for both sides? I don’t want my oldest 3 to feel obligated, but I also don’t want my youngest to feel lonely or left out

Help her communicate her thoughts and feelings to her siblings. They are not obligated to do anything differently (and may not have the time), but expressing her feelings will help her to cope with them. If her siblings hear what she has to say, they may also make an effort to include her and spend time making her feel special. For those times when feeling left out is unavoidable, just be there to acknowledge the feelings and comfort her until they pass. Then do some problem-solving with your daughter to come up with other ways to have fun and pass the time when her siblings are busy. She can plan activities with her friends, enjoy a mother-daughter movie night, or get involved in sports and extracurricular activities. Reassure her that the time will come when she can participate in the same activities as her siblings. Make sure you are clear and consistent about specific age limits for those activities to avoid any arguing and negotiating. Most importantly, make sure your daughter is developing an identity of her own that is separate from her siblings.

She may be the artist of the family, an excellent writer, or a talented soccer player. High self-esteem and a sense of belonging will serve as buffers to help her through these difficult transitions.

How do I talk to my kids about the #MeToo movement? I have 3 teens; What a wonderful source of 2 girls and a boy. I want them to feel pride and joy to see your safe coming forward if they’ve ever felt kids develop such a close uncomfortable in certain situations and friendship as they mature! A large know how to make others feel the same. age gap between siblings can I want them to learn how and when to be tricky to navigate, particularly for say no and to understand that they, and the youngest siblings who often feel only they, have autonomy over their own left behind. First of all, it is important bodies, and that other people have the to keep in mind that feelings are not same right. necessarily a bad thing! As parents, our instinct is often to protect our children This is such an important from hard experiences and difficult topic for all parents to think about. emotions. However, those experiences It sounds like you already know and emotions can be some of life’s what you want them to learn, but the greatest learning opportunities. Your question is how to teach them and to 7th grader may have no control over the ensure that they follow through. Parents reality of her siblings moving forward should begin talking with their children with their adult lives, but she does have about body safety and appropriate control over a few things. She may need touching from an early age. It is helpful opportunities to talk about her feelings to teach age-appropriate but accurate and why she feels the way she does. words for private parts and the difference between “good touches” and “bad

parent life touches.” Talk about where your child can and cannot be touched, by whom, and under what circumstances. During elementary school, talk to your children about appropriate and inappropriate behavior (including examples). Discuss body safety rules and make a list of at least 3 trusted adults to tell if anyone breaks a rule. Give them frequent opportunities to ask questions (without judgment) and read books together that teach body safety. During middle school and high school, have discussions about healthy sexuality, healthy relationships, and setting boundaries. Kids are often reluctant to talk to their parents about these topics, because they worry about overreactions and punishment. It is incredibly important to keep an open dialogue with your kids, emphasizing that they will not be in trouble if they have questions or topics they want to discuss.

If these conversations are uncomfortable for parents, there are always counselors and mentors who are willing to help.

Along with the conversations, be aware of the subtle messages your children might be receiving by well-meaning family and friends. When your child’s cousin tickles her and she says “Stop!” make sure it stops. At family gatherings, don’t pressure your son to give hugs to strangers. If a friend makes an inappropriate joke about women, don’t tell your children it was all in good fun.

Be certain that the boys and girls in your home are held to the same standards of behavior. The messages we want our children to learn need to be loud and clear with no room for confusion. Visit www.rainn.org and www.e2epublishing. info (Educate2Empower Publishing) for more information on these topics and helpful resources.

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