Fort Bend Lifestyles & Homes June 2009
Pam Collins named Child Advocate of the Year. Pam Collins was named Child Advocate of the Year for 2009 at the Child Advocates
of Fort Bend
’s Annual Volunteer Celebration. The event was attended by almost 200 volunteers
and staff.
This honor is awarded to individuals who understand what it takes to make a
nonprofit grow, and they actively work to increase its social capital in the
community and demonstrate that
“whatever it takes attitude,” according to Susie Moseley, executive director,.
Collins has advocated for 19 children during her service to CAFB, served on its
Volunteer Council and numerous event committees.
She has spent countless hours in the courtroom, traveling to retrieve
information on children and organizing volunteers for events.
(L-R) Susie Moseley, executive director; Pam Collins, Child Advocate of the
Year; and Pat King, board president.
tiara walkers hit the pavement in quail valley.
A group of Quail Valley women walk everyday along the cart paths of Quail Valley
Golf Course. Tuesday has been designated Tiara Day. The group dub themselves
“The Walkers” and meet Monday-Friday mornings at 7:30 a.m. at the cart paths on El Dorado of
the Quail Valley Golf Course.
Wearing tiaras are walkers: (front row) Judy Pasadyn, Patricia Allen; (back row) Terry
Colley, Helen Curd and Nancy Thurmond.
Sustaining members Edna Matamoros, Vita Goodell, Terri Osborn and Sevie Dean
with Teresa Ward from JoAnn
’s.
Fashion and Fun at FBJSL Meeting. Fort Bend Junior Service League Sustaining members were stepping out in style
at the April meeting with several members modeling the latest fashions from
JoAnn
’s in Sugar Land Town Square. FBJSL Sustainers enjoyed looking at the fashions
and learning all about the
“must haves” for spring. Teresa Ward with JoAnn’s was on hand with fashion tips.
LITERACY COUNCIL’S MULTI-CULTURAL POTLUCK DINNER CELEBRATES LITERACY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. Making a quick trip around the world was the order of the evening for those
attending the annual Multi-cultural Potluck Dinner celebration on March 28 at
the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County. The event was attended by
approximately 200 people including students, tutors, volunteers and their
friends and families and literacy staff.
Every year, literacy students—a truly diverse group representing a multitude of nations, countries and
continents from around the world
—celebrate cultural diversity by decorating rooms to represent regions, and by
sharing entertainment and food representing traditions and cuisines of the
world. The atmosphere truly transports attendees to each country with the
music, smells and sights. The entertainment ranged from an Italian violinist to
Nigerian, Indian and Pakistani dancing.
For more information on the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, call
281-240-8181 or visit
www.ftbendliteracy.org.
Representing Pakistan are: (l-r) Shahnaz Cryana, Literacy Council staff Linda
Perez, Shaheen Mahmood, Literacy Council staff Diana Turner and Shamin Rehman.
Dew House has a new lawn thanks to The Spencer Company. Approximately 3,700 pieces of sod (7,000 sq. ft.) was donated by Johnson
Development's landscape contractor, The Spencer Company. The sod was laid at
the Dew House in Kitty Hollow Park, which will become the DeWalt Heritage
Center.
This task wouldn’t have been accomplished without the help of Missouri City Public Works
supervisors
Rodney and Kevin and their crew of community service workers. Missouri City Parks director Kelly Snook also joined Team Dew, which included Fort Bend County Historical Commissioners Diane Ware and Dr. Randal Glenn, Fort Bend County Museum Association’s Jerry Hoover and Jennifer Farrell, Fort Bend County architect Jamie Knight as well as well as Lisa Howell, Lisa Glenn and Storer Ware.
The Spencer Company provided the sod at the Dew House in Kitty Hollow Park.
Telfair donates $4,000 to Keep Sugar Land Beautiful for Arbor Day. Kiva Man, TelfairLife coordinator for Newland Communities’ Telfair, presented a $4,000 donation to Keep Sugar Land Beautiful Executive
Director
Vicki Gist and Margaret Hall Spencer, president of the board for KSLB. The donation was part of a community-wide
celebration held on National Arbor Day.
Fifth-graders from Cornerstone Elementary School in Telfair made speeches about
the environmental importance of planting trees, and each student took home a
Live Oak sapling donated by Houston Landscape Unlimited. The event ended with
the students helping to plant a Live Oak tree across from their school. It was
the third annual Arbor Day celebration at Telfair.
(L-R) Kiva Man, TelfairLife coordinator for Newland Communities’ Telfair; Vicki Gist, Sugar Land Beautiful executive director; and Margaret Hall
Spencer, president of the board for KSLB.
helping hands of richmond/rosenberg receives donation from Tri-city. Helping Hands of Richmond/Rosenberg received a $1,500 check from Tri-City. Other
recipients were Cinderfella/Cinderella and Youth and Senior Assistance Program
of Richmond.
Nancy Brown, executive director of Helping Hands of Richmond/Rosenberg, receives
a $1,500 check from Alma Villarreal, Tri-City vice president.
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