Two July jazz concerts marked the grand opening of the amphitheater at the East Aldine Management District’s expanded Town Center, where the musicians and the hundreds of people in the public audiences inspired each other. Before internationally known trumpeter Ray Vega improvised his solos on stage on the night of July 17, some in the [...]
A cultural and history of hard work — matched by a growing population, consumer demand and lots of elbow room — make the East Aldine community a fertile ground for economic development. Residents of East Aldine have long supported their neighbors' home-grown businesses, leading to success for everyone from Aldine natives to first generation immigrants. [...]
There are times when librarians do sit and watch television. For Jane Holt, branch manager of the High Meadows Public Library in East Aldine, however, her hands are rarely empty. She is always busy folding pages – from books, maps, musical scores, or other papers – to create wall hangings, delicate flower arrangements and beautiful lamps. “It’s a great [...]
A morning of outdoor fun featuring music, crafts and water activities will cap off the summer for children in the East Aldine community, who gladly gathered in classrooms – of all places – for learning new skills from cardio boxing to watercolor painting. BakerRipley is holding its Fun in the Sun summer festival on Saturday, July 10, [...]
Scattered showers did little to dampen the enthusiasm for a splashy new commemorative mural unveiled at the High Meadows branch of the Harris County Public Library in East Aldine recently. Art enthusiasts turned out in bunches to participate in The Mural Fest, which included creating their own artistic endeavors through the Art Bus and the Curiosity Cruiser. For [...]
After a 21-year career in law enforcement for the Aldine School District and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Julio DeLeon has turned his super-secret spicy sauce into a booming family business and a second career as an online celebrity chef. DeLeon, better known as “July the Lion” to his 126,000 followers on TikTok, is a familiar [...]
The recent Wednesday Farmers’ Market at BakerRipley in East Aldine Town Center produced a ribbon-cutting ceremony. It was for the grand opening of Mr. Sweet, a catering food “carriage” run by Venezuelan refugees Aryelis and Daniel Ortiz. The couple’s new business is a result of BakerRipley’s Entrepreneur Academy with the help of the non-profit social service organization’s business [...]
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 and beer. There are even customers who bring horses to the parking lot on occasion, to demonstrate the animals’ “dancing” [...]
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 organized by a community organization called the Houston Department of Transformation, along with staff at P-tech, BakerRipley, the High Meadows Public Library, [...]
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 is not to talk people into getting the vaccine, our job is to make sure they know there is an [...]
