City parks need upkeep. Especially when they get torn up by wild hogs. The feral beasts were the problem at Keith-Wiess Park that led the East Aldine District to one of Jeff Baker’s businesses, Houston Hog Removal. Because the district and the city are non-profit operations, Baker donated his crew’s time and effort to round [...]
There is a new sheriff in town -- well, sort of. We had a chance to get to know the new Harris County Sheriff’s Office day shift patrol sergeant for District 2, which includes East Aldine: Sgt. Raymundo Coronado. Coronado was born in Monterrey, Mexico and migrated to the United States with his family when [...]
Rose M. Avalos’ remarkable life of dedication and accomplishment has always been intertwined with the Aldine Independent School District. She was an AISD student, classroom teacher (English, reading, Spanish), counselor, assistant principal and principal (Escamilla Intermediate, MacArthur Senior High). AISD’s Avalos Pathways in Technology Early College High School is named in her honor. She was [...]
Americans have a tendency to democratize sports for the less athletic or wealthy. Hence touch or flag football for the less brawny among us; slow-pitch softball for those who can’t turn on a fastball; and putt-putt golf for those whom country club memberships and golf clubs are out of reach and/or even swinging a sand [...]
Well, this is one of those places where the name says a lot but not all. Yes, you can select from a wide variety of tacos, and they take justified pride in their carnitas de cerda, but that is not all that is on the menu at this cheery, hyper-authentic Aldine Mail Route taqueria. Panza [...]
Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle compiled a list of the greatest pro athletes from every Houston-area high school. Two 1990s Major League pitchers head those lists for East Aldine’s two largest high schools: Aldine High’s Roger Pavlik and for MacArthur, it’s Brian Bevil. We’ll start with Bevil. A 1990 graduate of MacArthur, the 6’3” [...]
Sometimes you visit a restaurant for the first time and think to yourself, “this place has a very bright future.” Decades ago, I had that impression of a little Mexican mini-mart in Montrose. At the time, there were only about four tables in the place and the menu was very limited, but all of it [...]
Interview with Board Member and Arts Council Committee Member Carlos Silva By Christina Autry What is the Arts Council? The Arts Council is something the East Aldine District has wanted to do for some time now. The management district is tasked with improving infrastructure, economic development, and partnering with organizations in the community to provide [...]
Talk about an urban legend in every sense of both words. Beginning in late 1982 and reaching a crescendo of panic and hysteria in the Spring of 1983, elementary and middle-school playgrounds, classrooms, cafeterias from Alief all the way to Aldine were gripped with dread. Even the tough kids were scared, one former HISD pupil remembered [...]
In the first installment of our three-part history of Aldine from last year, we discussed all the name changes the community went through before settling at last on its name, our best guess as to the origins of that name, and told you about some of the area’s earliest settlers -- Swedish farmers and Kansans [...]
