Rocio C. Witte, community development manager for BakerRipley East Aldine and Gulfton/Sharpstown, is the newest member of the East Aldine Management District board of directors. Harris County Commissioners Court made her appointment official today (Oct. 10) as requested by Commissioners Adrian Garcia. Witte, a native of El Paso, received the Community Excellence Award from the [...]
Tippets At a recent Lone Star College East Aldine Center panel discussion about traits such as pride and persistence, students in the audience needed to look further than Mario Castillo for examples of the characteristics. Castillo, a Latino, is the new chancellor of the Lone Star College system, making him the top executive [...]
BakerRipley event As East Aldine celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month through Oct. 15, residents are showing how the month’s events connect the past to the future. Two young people have already demonstrated how the festivities can be grounded in modern techniques. At the BakerRipley East Aldine Culture Fest, Avalos P-Tech School ninth graders [...]
There’s at least one food treats shop in East Aldine where you can avoid the annual autumn invasion of pumpkin spice-flavored food. At the new Trendy Spot Nutrition Café, just about every other possible flavor is available for healthy drinks, waffles, crepes, doughnuts and refreshing teas and coffee. The small and spotlessly clean café, at [...]
Chief Adrian Dillehay When new Westfield Fire Chief Adrian Dillehay visits Aldine ISD schools to recruit students for the Fire Explorer youth program, he usually doesn't find young people looking for cheap thrills or excitement. “What I see are young people who have a need to help people and become law-abiding citizens,” Dillehay [...]
A five-member team of Harris County Sheriff’s Office Explorer Scout Post 42 stealthily climbed a staircase in the role of deputies. Physical training For the purpose of the training exercise, other young people in the team-building exercise pretended to be suspects in a studio apartment. The “deputies” captured two “suspects,” a missing gun [...]
Towering over the end of Sunny Drive in East Aldine is a tribute to the old cars that have been transformed into automotive showpieces at Ekstensive Metal Works. The artful work was done by native son Bill Carlton, the expert welder and star of the popular TV show Texas Metal. Carlton forged the “Tower of [...]
Graduation They are a group of “community engineers” who help East Aldine shape its future by promoting community events and advocating for cleaner air and neighborhood improvements –- while forging lasting friendships. Graduates of the BakerRipley “Community Engineers” training classes say they expect “life-long” benefits from the course. Ruben Salazar, the youthful founder [...]
Monica Cortez The snack shack known as the Big Kahuna Hut has grown to offer other goods and services with a local touch. The Hut is now a hub for East Aldine community gatherings, coffee klatches, haircuts and beauty treatments. Not to mention retail shopping “therapy,” too. And although the Hut is not [...]
Residents & supporters East Aldine residents who had launched verbal fireworks against the proposed expansion of a concrete batch plant in their neighborhood had plenty extra to celebrate on July 4. A day earlier, residents received a letter from the plant operator, Yellow Jacket Readymix LLC, that it was withdrawing a request to [...]
