The Assistance League of the Bay Area helps at-risk students dress for success.
When League City resident Kathleen Courville retired from teaching in CCISD three years ago, she searched for a new outlet to help children in the community. “I found Assistance League of the Bay Area, and it’s a privilege to be in an organization that gives everything it gets back to the community,” she says.
Rescue and rehab for a growing number of orphaned and injured animals.
Rhonda Murgatroyd and Michelle Johnson are commited to rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned and injured wildlife. Their love for animals moved them to become certified wildlife rehabilitators, and they often spend their days—as well as sleepless nights—nursing them back to health so they can be returned to the wild.
League City businesses house secrets from long ago.
A visit to Main Street in League City is a bit like taking a trip back in time. Lined with 150-year-old live oaks, planted as seedlings by founder George Washington Butler, Main Street tells tales that are an integral part of Texas history.
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Lack of desire isn’t my stumbling block. I long to see the hungry fed, the orphans loved, and the sick healed. I dream up solutions to these problems—I’ll adopt a dozen children, spearhead a community garden, hold workshops on nutrition and healing.
Love and determination in Galveston gifts children in Africa.
In the middle of a December night in 2006, Galveston artist Linda Ercole-Musso woke up and could not get back to sleep. She turned on the TV and happened to catch CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour hosting a documentary on the devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Kenyan children. Her sleepless night turned into a call to action.
Lone stars, cowboys, native landscapes, featured in city-wide greening project!
The sinuous highways of Houston are functional corridors that provide transportation safely and efficiently. Designed by engineers, this network has dominated the visual landscape, particularly lending to Houston’s grayish-brown image with vast swaths of barren concrete and asphalt.
Favorite back-to-school reading recommendations.
“In August swallows southward fly, summer’s waning, fall is nigh,” reads a line from one of my favorite children’s books ever, Tasha Tudor’s Around the Year, a delightfully rhyming poem celebrating seasonal delights of a simpler time.
“Writer in the Schools” helps children share thoughts and learn about the world.
“I love my job,” says Carmen Erma Jacobson, a Bay Area pre-kindergarten teacher who is also a writer. Five years ago, she began working with Writers in the Schools (WITS),
Tommy’s Restaurant joins Galveston Bay Foundation’s oyster reef restoration efforts.
In the Houston-Galveston area we love our oysters and do our part, along with other Americans, to devour roughly 2.5 billion of these delectable little mollusks annually.
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