 Bay Area Pet Adoptions presents Woofstock 2019 on Saturday, March 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Boondoggle’s Pub and Chelsea Wine Bar, 4106 Nasa Road One, El Lago, Texas. This year’s event will have a street fair ambiance with popcorn, snow cones, a magician and more. There will also be live music, vendors, a silent auction, a photo booth, dog pools and a parade of Bay Area Pet Adoptions adoptable dogs. This is a great event for dog lovers and their four-legged friends to enjoy the special bonds they share. And, if Fido has a special talent, costume or is just plain gorgeous, be sure and sign up for our Best Costume, Best Trick, or Best Dog in Show contests. Admission is free and the experience is priceless! Don’t miss this fun-filled day for you, your family, and Fido. All proceeds benefit Bay Area Pet Adoptions, a No-Kill Shelter in Galveston County. Many thanks to Boondoggle’s Pub and Chelsea Wine Bar for sponsoring Woofstock 2019!
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CHILDREN’S EVENTS Baby Steps For ages birth – 12 months An interactive lap-sit storytime featuring stories, rhymes, bouncing songs, and tickles followed by playtime. When: Monday, March 4th at 10 AM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Toddlerific Storytime For ages 1 – 3 Bring the little ones in for stories, songs, rhymes, bubble time, and play time. When: Tuesdays, March 5th – 26th at 10 AM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Preschool Storytime For ages 3 – 5 Bring the little ones in for stories, songs, rhymes, bubble time, play time, and craft time. When: Wednesdays, March 6th – 27th at 10 AM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Create Your Own Kite For ages 6 – 12 Come learn about different types of kites. Then, create your own and watch it soar! When: Saturday, March 23rd at 2 PM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 TEEN PROGRAMS Anime & Manga Club For ages 12 – 18 Come hang out with other anime/manga aficionados, talk about your favorites, watch some anime, and have some after-school snacks! When: Friday, March 1st from 4:30 – 5:30 PM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Board Games You’ve Never Played Before For ages 12 – 18 We’ve got board games you’ve never heard of, but will absolutely enjoy! Don’t miss out! When: Friday, March 8th from 4:30 – 5:30 PM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Meme Creation Day For ages 12 – 18 Join your fellow memers and learn to harness the power of meme making. Come for the laughs and stay for the amazing memes! When: March 15th from 4:30 – 5:30 PM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 ADULT PROGRAMS History of Virginia Point Local historian Melodey Hauch will discuss the history of Virginia Point, Texas, a community founded in the 1830 in Galveston County. Discussion of the Campbell, Parr, and Jones families along with locations of family cemeteries and current environmental preservation efforts in the area will be part of the presentation. When: Tuesday, March 12th at 2 PM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 Bird Watching for Beginners Are you one of the millions of people who enjoy bird watching? Join Master Naturalist Kristina River at the library to learn about the amazing birds common to our area, how to distinguish between similar species, and what equipment you’ll need to get started. When: Saturday, March 30th at 11 AM Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library 1701 9th Avenue N Texas City, TX 77590 COMPUTER CLASSES Setting Up an Email Mandatory Pre-Test at 9:30-10 AM; Class from 10-11 AM You must sign-up at the library to attend Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library When: Friday, March 1st at 9:30 AM Basic Email Mandatory Pre-Test at 9:30-10 AM; Class from 10-11 AM You must sign-up at the library to attend Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library When: Friday, March 8th at 9:30 AM Basic Word II Mandatory Pre-Test at 9:30-10 AM; Class from 10-11 AM You must sign-up at the library to attend Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library When: Friday, March 15th at 9:30 AM Basic Excel Mandatory Pre-Test at 9:30-10 AM; Class from 10-11 AM You must sign-up at the library to attend Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library When: Friday, March 22nd at 9:30 AM Basic Excel II Mandatory Pre-Test at 9:30-10 AM; Class from 10-11 AM You must sign-up at the library to attend Library Meeting Room at Moore Memorial Public Library When: Friday, March 29nd at 9:30 AM  What is the Bigass Crawfish Bash ? BigAss Crawfish Bash Foundation is a Texas non-profit corporation that works in partnership with local charities that benefit lives of veterans, children and the disabled. What do we do? We put on a one-day event which is an all you can eat crawfish cook-off with over 80 private teams and area restaurants all competing. Patrons can move about the event sampling everyone’s crawfish and return to booths they love as much as they want. 1. Setting the Guinness record, how exciting was that? Breaking the Guinness World Record was Amazing. It was a lot of extra work for our committee and teams, but it was so worth it to be able to claim that honor! It makes it even sweeter that TEXAS holds the Record and not Louisiana. It is true what they say, everything is Bigger and Better in Texas. 58 K lbs. in 8 hours. We still hold the title today and will hold it until someone breaks it! 2. How many pounds of crawfish are we anticipating on preparing this year? We will prepare 70,000 POUNDS! All you can eat crawfish is guaranteed from 1- 6 but lots of teams will still have crawfish before and after those times. 3. Where do the proceeds go? The proceeds go to Camp Hope for Veterans who suffer from PTSD, Special Olympics, Local Education Foundations, Boy Scouts,Today's Harbor for Children,Rotary Club,CERT,Lions Club and more. In four years we have given out over $300,000 to charities! Not too shabby for just a few lazy guys wanting throw a party and not do any of the cooking. 4.Why do this event? This event is near and dear to all our hearts. First, without the men and women who have fought for our freedom, we would not even be able to put on such an event. We are from Santa Fe and when the tragedy struck us, we were able through our relationship with Camp Hope to provide the kids involved a Night of Recovery with the veterans with PTSD,face to face ,in round table discussions. It allowed kids that had not opened up to do so. The board of directors, Quentin Severin, Mark Crowder, Travis LeDoux, as well as, committee members have always given back to the community in forms of food drives, school supply drives and volunteered for special Olympics or school events, so it all just made sense. The winner of last year's bash went on to participate and WIN the World Seafood Food Championship with a 10K purse. They are now advancing to the World Food Championship with a 100K purse!Way to go Pinchin' Tails,Beau Smith and his team! 5. How many people are involved in pulling off such a large event and what all does it en-tale? We have a small committee of 13 members, but we could not do it without our volunteers and sponsors! We will have about 120 volunteers or Crawlunteers ,as we say. They are instrumental in our success, as well as, our teams. We have the best teams imaginable and they love their craft! Cooking crawfish... Crawficionadoes! It takes blood,sweat and tears, but it is worth it. It is a misconception that because we are a non-profit that we get everything for free. We have lots to pay for from the 70K lbs of crawfish to the security to the bands to kidzone,etc 6. What else, outside of crawfish, can people expect at the event? The event will have live entertainment from Zydecoby Curtis Poullard,Shapeshifters, Jamey St. Pierre & the Honey Creepers and Headlining BAG OF DONUTS! A must see line up...... Patrons are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and make a whole day out of it! We will have an awesome kid zone that will offer all day play wristbands for the kiddos. Kids 10 and under are FREE to enter the event! We have a merchandise vendor area for those inclined to shop! If Crawfish isn't your thing, don't worry! We have a wide variety of food trucks or booths. We will even have a continuous shuttle that will run from Mall of The Mainland, so you don't have to worry about traffic! 7. Will this continue to be an annual event? Yes! Events in other cities? We have been asked to expand and would love to... stay tuned! 8. If you've never been to a crawfish festival/bash, what should you expect and why should you come outside of a love for crawfish? This is a Bash! Great time,Great Music and Great people; young and old from all walks of life coming together for Great causes with their phones in their back pockets,eating crawfish, laughing and loving LIFE! Together we are Truly Amazing! Patrons will get to eat crawfish from all the teams and restaurants competing in the event for one low ticket price! You may visit a booth as many times as you like. The public gets to VOTE on who they like the BEST! We will have a public tent to sit and eat while listening to the bands. We will also have a special Veteran VIP Tent just for veterans and their families! Just bring proof of service, even a photo in uniform on your phone will work. April 20,2019 Gulf Greyhound Park in La Marque,TX #ilovela_marque 11 am to 11 pm BAG of DONUTS Headlining! Kids 10 and under FREE KID ZONE- All DAY PLAY $25.00 Shuttle parking 5 BUCKS Round trip from Mall of Mainland- Free for 10 and under 20.00 pre-sale until prices go up or 35.00 at the gate ALL U CAN EAT! Tickets at Ticket Tailor or Check out our Facebook Lawn chairs and Butter welcomed, leave your puppies and coolers at home, please!! For more information www.bigasscrawfishbash.com Info@bigasscrawfishbash.com   Following our first CAC meeting of 2019 on Wednesday, January 30, we discussed programs for the rest of 2019 and perhaps into 2020. The suggestion was to have you all vote on the Top 5 of the programs discussed and add any other ideas/comments. The thought is that by having a few "wanted" programs, we could then juggle the list depending on speaker constraints, date conflicts, etc.
I was very pleased and I thank you for all the efforts in voting and making comments. I am happy to reports having received 34 votes by the requested deadline of February 8. Great effort; thank you! Below the Program Number (PN) and Voter Ranking (VR), and below that the list of scheduled CAC meeting moving forward. I will be reaching directly with the Ammonia, LNG and - hopefully with Ruth Rendon's help - George P. Bush for an "Ike Dike" presentation! Please let me know any additional comments/suggestions! Thank you, José Comments/Suggested Programs
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The class today was so much fun. We had Chef Q come and visit. 30 kid's along with there adults, cooked breaded baked chicken skewers. We also created our own version of a wedge salad and of course we finished it with some fresh watermelon. Raquel kept the kid's busy doing some great arts & crafts teaching them how to create some very special valentines gifts. Our friend Hart Paris arranged it for the kid's to plant some small plants in egg shells so they could bring them home and plant them in there own gardens. It is amazing what can be done in a 2 hours when we all work together and let God shine. Last but not least we want to thank all of the great ladies of St. Georges Episcopal Church for everything that they do to make the classes such a success. Thanks to all... Chef Jimmy!
Reduce the risk of heart disease with lifestyle changes February marks American Heart Month2/8/2019  GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas – Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. February marks American Heart Month and is the perfect time to learn about your risk for heart disease and what you can do to help your heart.
Heart disease doesn’t just happen to older adults. More and more, conditions that lead to heart disease are happening at a younger age. Americans, ages 35-64, are at risk for heart disease earlier in life due to high rates in obesity and blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Adopting healthy lifestyle changes can lower your risk of developing heart disease,” said Dr. Philip Keiser, Galveston County local health authority. “Controlling and preventing risk factors is also important for people who already have heart disease.” Risk factors include high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and smoking/ tobacco use. Did you know millions of Americans, of all ages, suffer from high blood pressure and about half of those people don’t have it under control? Uncontrolled high blood pressure is one of the biggest risks for heart disease. High cholesterol also increases the risk of heart disease. Diabetes, obesity, smoking and eating unhealthy foods, in addition to not being physically active, all lead to higher cholesterol levels. Smoking also damages blood vessels and can cause heart disease. But, it’s not all doom and gloom. Healthy changes can be made that may lower your risk of developing heart disease. And just the same, controlling risk factors is important for those who already have heart disease. “The good news is you’re in control,” Keiser said. Adopt healthy eating habits Healthy meals and snack options can help you avoid heart disease, and its complications. Fresh fruits, vegetables and foods low in saturated fats, trans fats, carbohydrates and cholesterol can help in the fight against heart disease. Most Americans eat far too much salt, which increases blood pressure. Reduce the amount of salt you consume by choosing low sodium options. Limit sugar, which can increase blood sugar levels by replacing sugary drinks like soda and juices with water or low-sugar alternatives. Get active Only one in five adults meets the Surgeon General’s physical guidelines of getting 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week. That’s just 2.5 hours a week, or 20 minutes a day, and can include brisk walking or bicycling. Staying active helps you keep your heart and blood vessels healthy, maintain a healthy weight and lower your blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels. More than one in three Americans – and one in six children ages 2-19 – are considered obese. Extra weight puts stress on your heart. Put down the cigarettes Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to the CDC. If you don’t smoke, keep it that way. If you do, speak to your doctor about the best way to quit. Take charge Take charge of your health. Work with your doctor and health care team to manage conditions that could contribute to a higher risk of heart disease. This includes high blood pressure and high cholesterol. For more information on how to take care of your heart, visit www.cdc.gov. Texas Independence Trail Ride Association headed for Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo LA MARQUE, TEXAS (February 7, 2019) More than 150 riders and wagons with Texas Independence Trail Ride Association will participate in a Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo trail ride, camping at Mac McGaffey Highland Bayou Park Friday, February 15, 2019, and traveling through City of La Marque Saturday, February 16, 2019. Spectators are welcome to park at La Marque City Hall, 1111 Bayou Road, or La Marque Public Library, 1011 Bayou Road, and watch the trail ride. Riders are expected around 9:30 a.m. The tail ride route continues through La Marque, Texas City, Santa Fe and Hitchcock.
According to Jeff Simpson, Lifetime Trail Boss with TITRA, the group is thankful La Marque has been so welcoming, and the riders are looking forward to camping at Highland Bayou Park. “Thank you for the hospitality,” said Simpson. “We are grateful La Marque is supporting the heritage and legacy of this trail ride to the Houston.” Texas Independence is a nonprofit organization that strives to stimulate, promote and encourage the love of horses, riding and good fellowship. Preserving Cowboy Heritage is a tradition of their ride, as well as encouraging participation in Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. For information, find them on Facebook or email txindependencetr@gmail.com. |