โThe birthplace of Houstonโs kolache sceneโ still serving great breakfasts nearly 70 years after it opened
In this episode of โEat Like a Local with Chris Shepherdโ, Shepherd shares some of his favorite places to pick up breakfast or even road trip treats, including one that got its start almost seven decades ago.
THE CAPTAIN: Davis relishes leadership role
Davis has become one of the more exemplary athletes in the district during her tenure with the program, hence her first-team, all-district selection in 2022. However, her journey would indicate that the skill she possesses didnโt just appear out of nowhere.
Slain spa workers and customers mourned by families
The exception is 44-year-old Daoyou Feng, an employee at Youngs Asian Massage near Woodstock about whom little is known. Instead those relatives are mourning her death Tuesday at the Aromatherapy Spa in Atlanta. โFrom what I understand, he was at the spa that day doing some work for them,โ said Michelsโ younger brother, John Michels of Commerce, Michigan. โHe was actually looking to start his own massage spa. Family members said Yaun and her husband were first-time customers at Youngs, eager for a chance to unwind.
โShe would love this dayโ: Neil Bush says Barbara Bush would be โthrilledโ with just-announced Houston city literacy effort
HOUSTON โ Neil Bush, founder and co-chair of the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, said his mom be โthrilledโ seeing that an effort to combat illiteracy among children and adults was announced in Houston on Tuesday. โSheโs been a passionate advocate for literacy just generally, but specifically for adult literacy. Adult literacy is critical for breaking the intergenerational cycle of low literacy and poverty in this city.โBarbara Bush died at the age of 92 in April 2018. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, along with the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy and the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, announced the joint initiative to increase adult literacy rates in the city with the opening of the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy. In addition to Turner, the newly-announced director of the Mayorโs Office for Adult Literacy Federico Salas-Isnardi spoke, as well as Bush, Cat Tramuto Tobin, manager at Deloitte.
Coronavirus kills husband, wife 1 minute apart
(WDIV) โ Just days before Thanksgiving, a Michigan family lost both of their parents to coronavirus. Leslie and Patricia McWaters spent nearly 50 years together before dying on the same day, one minute apart. Kind of like Romeo and Juliet,โ said daughter Joanna Sisk. โOne wouldnโt have wanted to be without the other.โThe couple was married for more than 47 years. โI can tell you this, when they passed we think Mom -- the boss -- she definitely went to his room and said, โCome on.
Mother in hospital, who had emergency C-section while battling COVID-19, will go home to family before Thanksgiving
TEXAX CITY, Texas โ The Gutierrez family says the Coronavirus tore their family apart, but it wonโt keep them apart. Crystal Gutierrez, who is currently at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, is set to go home next week just before Thanksgiving. She will still need round the clock care, but the family is grateful they will finally be together. He had to leave his job and stay home with them five months ago after his wife Crystal was hospitalized with the Coronavirus. Crystal, who was 36 weeks pregnant at the time, had to have an emergency C-section and then had to be put on life-support.
Testing local drinking water for brain-eating amoeba
LAKE JACKSON, Texas โ In September, news broke that a brain-eating amoeba was responsible for the death of a 6-year-old Lake Jackson boy. RELATED: Lake Jackson residents in need of safe water as brain eating amoeba contaminates water supplyMcIntyre died September 8, just days after his trip to a Lake Jackson splash pad. According to health officials, a parasite, called naegleria fowleri, otherwise known as the brain-eating amoeba was in the water. Cities testing for brain-eating amoebaKPRC 2 Investigates has learned some other cities are now testing their water for this same amoeba, but many are not. Most districts not testing water for amoebaWe contacted 80 municipalities and cities in Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Brazoria and Waller counties.
Mother jumps out of hijacked car in motion with infant to escape violent kidnapping
Hoping for a better outcome, a mother jumped out of a moving vehicle with her baby in order to escape a violent kidnapping, FOX 5 Atlanta reports. According to the report, the Aug. 18 incident began at an Exxon Gas Station in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The woman says she had bought dinner and pulled over at the gas station to eat while her 1-year-old baby slept, FOX 5 reports. Security footage from the gas station shows a man approaching the 23-year-old woman from behind while she was eating near her cars trunk. According to police, the car was traveling at 50 mph when the mother leaped from the vehicle with her baby, still in the car seat.
Kara Lawson excited for chance to coach at Duke
Kara Lawson has always wanted to coach at Duke a fact the first-time college coach hadn't shared with many people. Thats how highly I thought of the institution and the job," Lawson said on an introductory Zoom call Monday. Mom was the one who wanted me to go to Duke, Lawson said. I wanted to become a coach and learn from the best and that led me to Knoxville, Lawson said. Lawson knows one of her first tasks will be to hire assistants.
5 thoughts I had while filling out the 2020 Census
Why not take a minute to fill out your Census form, while you have some down time? If youโre computer-savvy and you want to fill out your questionnaire online, itโll only take you 3 to 5 minutes. Click or tap here and you can still submit your form online. Nope, nope and nope. It was no big deal, I just donโt remember filling out my form last time and this surprised me for a sec.
7 things you thought wrong about maternity leave
Maybe youโre preparing for maternity leave, or maybe one of your friends is expecting a baby and wondering what to expect. So, staying home with a new baby isn't necessarily hard like work can be hard, but it's FAR from easy. And maybe even your spouse had to return to work already, so you're balancing a new baby all day. Heck, maybe we're off-base on this one and youโll want to barricade inside your house the whole time you're on leave. And just remember, so long as you keep yourself and your new baby top of mind, nothing you do is wrong.