The Texas Bar Foundation recently awarded Child Advocates of Fort Bend a $5,000 grant. The funds will be used to partially fund a therapist position and a criminal court advocate position in the Children’s Advocacy Center to provide services to sexually or seriously physically abused children. Child Advocates of Fort Bend’s therapy program began in [...]
On Saturday June 1, the Rosenberg Railroad Museum will begin training volunteers to serve as docents. “We are looking to increase our volunteer base and continue to grow our education program at the museum” stated Board President Bill Rickert. “We are looking for exuberant people who are excited about the Railroad Museum and who are [...]
Dr. Randal Glenn of Fort Bend Dental Associates was installed on May 16, 2013 as the President of the Greater Houston Dental Society (GHDS) founded over one hundred years ago. The GHDS is the local component of the Texas Dental Association (TDA) and the American Dental Association (ADA) and is the fourth largest local component society in the United [...]
Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is hosting a community open house for its Breast Center on Thursday, May 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend, tour, interact with staff, see how new imaging technology works and learn what’s new in helping meet the community’s breast health needs. New to the Breast [...]
Natalia Kapacinskas, a junior at Fort Bend Christian Academy, received national recognition with a silver medal for persuasive writing in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2013, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Of the 230,000 submissions received, fewer than 1% were recognized on the national level. Fort Bend Christian Academy [...]
Fort Bend Fire 12 Mizuno Volleyball team won the Houston Power League Volleyball Championships for age12 and under. This is a group from the Fort Bend Fire Volleyball Club, and it is their first year playing at this level. They came in 1st place out of 57 teams.
The Fort Bend Family YMCA received a $5,000 grant from jcp cares, jcpenney’s new charitable giving program, to provide school-aged children with financial assistance to attend afterschool programs at the Y. Specifically, the gifts are providing children at the Y afterschool programs at Stafford Elementary, Stafford, with financial assistance to participate. The children that qualified [...]
Evan Carothers, member of Troop #38, chartered by Parkway United Methodist Church, completed a service project for Austin High School as part of his quest to become an Eagle Scout. To achieve this award, he had to plan and complete a service project for a nonprofit organization in his community. The purpose of this service [...]
This summer, Romic Aevaz of Clements High School will visit India to study Hindi as the recipient of a 2013-2014 National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarship funded by the U.S. Department of State. The NSLI-Y program provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn commonly-taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas [...]
FORT BEND ISD – The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently announced the names of the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Winners, and five Fort Bend ISD students are among the more than 15,000 outstanding students who were named finalists in the scholarship program. FBISD’s National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners are: • Priyanka Chandraker, Travis High [...]
