Fort Bend Lifestyles and Homes Magazine Dec 2009: News Around Fort Bend County Texas 2

5th Annual Girlfriends Giggle Kick off. Giggle is Fort Bend County Women’s Center “Big Girls’ Pajama Party” that has raised nearly $300,000 to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children since its inception in 2005. This party on Feb. 4 will give women the chance to hang out with their best girlfriends while indulging themselves with massages, new hair styles, make-up tips and much more. Plan to shop to your heart ’s content for home decor, clothes and shoes. All proceeds go toward providing free and confidential emergency shelter, counseling, crisis intervention, and other supportive services provided by the Women ’s Center.

sugar land life chain. About 700 people stood for life with the Sugar Land Life Chain along both sides of Highway 6 from U.S. 59 to Settlers Way on Oct. 4 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Seventeen area churches participated. In addition to the national Life Chain signs, such as “Abortion Kills Children,” “Abortion Hurts Women” and “Jesus Forgives and Heals,” the Sugar Land Life Chain added a sign that stated “Pregnant Women Need Support Not Abortion.”

Life Chain is in its 22nd year as a peaceful, prayerful, public witness against abortion. Life Chains take place across the U.S. and Canada on the first Sunday in October, and this year took place in over 1,450 cities, many with multiple locations. For more information, go to www.lifechain.net.

telfair celebrates national night out. Telfair’s Neighborhood 8 celebrated NNO with a blast. More than150 people gathered to socialize, strengthen bonds and stand up against crime. Law enforcement officers from the city of Sugar Land visited to show their support. The neighbors had great food, music, a moonwalk and other fun activities for kids. Encouraging community cohesiveness, some of the residents gathered for a photo.

Candy Donated To Troops for Veteran’s Day. Johanna Avila and Donna Moore of Cashion & Cody Dentistry prepared shipments of candy to American troops overseas for Veteran ’s Day. More than 17 pounds of candy was donated by patients in a successful Halloween candy buy-back program. The program spared patients of excess candy, and maybe some tooth decay as well, while sending sweet wishes to American troops.

Annual Run/Walk To Cure Huntington’s Disease Sets Record in Sugar Land. The 8th Annual Run to Cure Huntington’s Disease presented by HCSS and Team Hope Walk for HD was held in October at Oyster Creek Park. The 5K Run and 5K walk-a-thon and a Kids K event had an amazing turn out of participants who helped make this year ’s event the most successful—raising $100,000. Over $25,000 of these donations was raised by Jeb Bashaw of James E. Bashaw & Co.

The Houston Huntington’s Disease Run/Walk is currently the most financially successful of 35 HDSA run/walk events occurring across the country.

The Run to Cure HD awarded the top male race winner for the second consecutive year, Adam Davis, and female finisher, Lennie Waite, with The Shirley Whitley Memorial championship prize of an expense paid trip for each winner to the Carlsbad Marathon in San Diego, Calif., in January 2010.

Serving as masters of ceremonies for this year’s event were Sugar Land City Councilwoman Jacquie Chaumette and KPRC-TV Local 2 sports anchor Randy Mcllvoy.