City of Houston E-Newsletter
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News from Council Member Jack Christie, September 2012
News from Council Member Jack Christie This is truly an international city. I have had the privilege over the course of the year to visit with leaders of various countries as they visit Houston including China, Japan, Thailand, Equatorial New Guinea, Nigeria, Brazil, Russia, Spain, and the Republic of the Philippines. The City of Houston [...]
SPARK at the Bayou City Arts Festival
Join SPARK at the Bayou City Arts Festival It’s time for the Spring 2012 Bayou City Art Festival, to be held October 13-14 in Downtown Houston. As a non-profit partner of this acclaimed festival, SPARK needs your support in providing volunteers to help work the event. Would you consider helping SPARK by working at least [...]
National Night Out
The “29th Annual National Night Out” (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for October 2nd, 2012. We invite you and your community to be a part of our NIGHT OUT 2012. […]
Mayor’s International Newsletter September Issue
50 years ago this month at Rice University, President John F. Kennedy challenged his fellow Americans to send a man to the Moon before the close of the decade. Since then, the students and faculty of Rice have kept the memory of President Kennedy’s challenge alive by continuing to make contributions to space science and [...]
Voluntary Homeless Feeding Registration Program
Facts about Voluntary Homeless Feeding Registration Program City of Houston Clarifies Misinformation Is the City of Houston trying to stop homeless food service? No! The City of Houston is trying to improve the quality, quantity and distribution of food for the homeless through training and coordination. […]
ECHOS September Calendar
ECHOS—Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services—was formed in 1999, as an organized response to health and social services needs in the increasingly ethnically diverse area of southwest Houston. As a non-profit 501(C) 3 organization, ECHOS opened its doors in April 2001 after refurbishing a building donated for ECHOS’s use by the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. [...]
Monthly Newsletter of Council Member Andrew Burks
News2You – Monthly Newsletter of Council Member Andrew Burks Houston is blessed with a number of exciting and interesting museums. History, art, cultural exploration and science are cornerstones of the Houston museum experience. Our museums offer one of a kind opportunities to interact with and view spectacular elements of the natural world,human history and innovation. [...]
Westbury activists enlist HHA to continue popular garden
Westbury activists are wondering if Houston Housing Authority’s plans to expand low-income housing might come at the expense of a community garden that has helped bring diverse neighborhoods together, including some the agency aims to serve. Gardeners learned recently that HHA could be eyeing their plots for a new apartment project when surveyors came out [...]
Benefits of Parks by You
In Addition to improving neighborhood parks, Parks By You is helping bring a 100-year-old plan for Houston’s greenways to completion. It is a plan that makes sense for the Houston of today and the Houston we want for tomorrow. The benefits of Parks By You are far-reaching–touching every region of our city, and, in turn, [...]
