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BakerRipley: Kauffman FasTtrac application enrollment is open
Kauffman FastTrac applications are now open! Kauffman FastTrac is a 10-week online class for aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs will develop and refine a business concept, taking it through each step of the business [...]
EAD’s Mural Fest 2021, May 22
Come be artful with us and also watch as a muralist creates a community-oriented mural on a High Meadows Library wall. It's part of citywide activities listed at www.bigwallsbigdreams.
Moderna Vaccines at Greater Pure Light Church, May 17 | 8 AM-3 PM
Anyone Age 18 & Up
Precinct 2: Step-up Internship
Learn while you earn! Join the internship program with Commissioner Adrian Garcia's Office.
New Vaccination Site
Free | Walk-ins accepted | No I.D. required | No insurance required
My East Aldine
Job vacancies, dancing horses, live music, sushi — all at a Mexican restaurant
It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a traditional place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. There is vegan Mexican food made with soy-based tostadas, so-called “Mexican sushi” and an array of spiced cocktails [...]
From gardening to public hearings, a group helps East Aldine transform
On Earth Day, students at Avalos P-tech High School happily spent the afternoon outdoors, planting the “seeds of transformation” for a possible community garden at the East Aldine area campus. The gathering was a special event [...]
Introducing the first health and social services director for East Aldine and the rest of Pct. 2
An 11-foot inflatable model of the COVID-19 virus was recently on display outside Community Health Choice in Harris County’s Precinct 2. The gray bubble with reddish entrails was a not-so-subtle advertisement for the free vaccines inside. “Our job [...]
Fire damages Granada Theatre
archival photo A fire early today destroyed vacant shops at the Jensen Square shopping center in the Aldine area. But still standing is the vacant, historic Granada Theatre, known to many area residents [...]
Eye-popping pop-up markets provide colorful crafts for Easter
They’re as perennial as the bluebonnets, paintbrushes and buttercups that line Texas’ roadways in spring: Colorful displays of piñatas, cascades of cascarones, bunches of bouquets and baskets. Several “Peeps Pop-up" markets lined streets throughout the [...]
