Thanks to the Family and Community Engagement team at Aldine Independent School District, the East Aldine Management District took part this week in a “youth empowerment summit” that featured nationally known teen motivation experts such as Gabe Salazar as about 200 ninth graders learned about becoming leaders and achievers. Thanks also to Suvida Health Care [...]
Starting high school can be intimidating for any student... new classes, new friends and looking ahead to a new chapter of life. Now imagine starting high school not only in a new city, but also in a nation where you don’t know the language or the culture. For students facing that situation, Aldine Independent School [...]
Just southwest of the junction of Beltway 8 and Interstate 69, the global business network Atlas Copco produces specialized air compressors that are pivotal to the success of industries across North America and beyond. When oil and gas giants and the new players in alternative fuels need specialized compressor systems for operarating in challenging environments, [...]
In recognition of Black History Month, students in the Aldine Independent School District are competing in a speech contest on the theme of this year’s celebrations: Resilience. But today’s students will be hard-pressed to top a 1988 essay written by Erika Sampson, who was an Aldine-Eisenhower senior then. Her essay was reprinted in March 1990 in [...]
Two long-time East Aldine community leaders were recently appointed to serve on the board of the East Aldine Management District. They are Flor Zarzoza, a former District employee and neighborhood volunteer, and Luis A. Lucio, former dean of the Lone Star College East Aldine Center. Flor Zarzoza [...]
Multi-lingual business owners and employees can better problem-solve for a diverse customer base and build rapport in the local community, helping to attract and retain new customers. This situation is especially true in East Aldine, where some 80 percent of the area’s growing population is Latino and most people speak some Spanish. These factors mean [...]
Artist's rendering Two very different art projects – a prominent, bold sculpture of the late President John F. Kennedy and a tranquil walking space through a “rambling rose” labyrinth – will soon bring more people into the East Aldine community. The five-ton bust of the 35th president, designed by renowned sculptor David Adickes, [...]
An annual tradition was born recently at the East Aldine Town Center under a full moon and a spring-like breeze as kids made snow angels and snowballs in a pile of artificial snow and families feasted on free tamales. Sponsored by the East Aldine Management District, the first Christmas tree lighting at the Town Center’s [...]
Long-time Houston journalist and professor Michael Berryhill painted an insightful picture of the East Aldine area in a 2016 article. “East Aldine is a place you are born into, or drawn to. You work your way up but not out. The public schools are a source of pride and community development. Students graduate and come [...]
Angela Mitchell For Harris County government bus driver Angela Mitchell, a recent trip to the East Aldine Management District’s Town Center provided a big surprise and pleasing reminder of her family’s lengthy history in the area. Featured prominently on a floor-to-ceiling lobby mural, which depicts the area’s history, are her great, great, great [...]
