Two additional well-known fashion designers have joined, the very impressive line up of the Mad Hatter Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show, happening April 26, at the Stafford Center for the Performing Arts, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m., sponsored by Fluor Corporation. One of the designers that has now joined this already amazing fashion show with designer Chloe Dao, [...]
Friday, April 5, the entire school – 700+ students – gathered on the playground and formed a human light bulb in honor of the Light It Up Blue campaign for Autism Awareness. The City of Stafford provided use of a bucket truck, and local photographer Alison Carlino, Carlino’s Photography, donated her services for an aerial [...]
Dust off your fancy hats, and reserve your table today for the Mad Hatter Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show, hosted by Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels. This popular event happens April 26, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. at the Stafford Center for the Performing Arts, Stafford. “Our theme this year is We Are America! This [...]
The Oyster Creek Rotary Club will hold its 33rd Annual Crawfish Festival and Catfish Fry on Saturday, April 13, at the Stafford Centre. Activities begin at 5pm and include a live and silent auction. Enjoy children’s and adult entertainment at its best, while profits from the event support many great charities and charitable events locally, [...]
Bring Everyone in the Zone along with Recovery Is Possible, Inc., both non-profit organizations, have brought a Veteran Peer Support Program to the Fort Bend area. Bring Everyone in the Zone is a Veterans peer support training program that helps veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other brain disorders, recover their lives and help [...]
Mamie George Branch Library, 320 Dulles Avenue in Stafford, will present free, introductory computer classes this month on using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. The classes will consist of a hands-on introduction to basic skills for people who would like to learn more about using these computer programs. The “MS Word Survival Basics” class for [...]
Spring is in the air! Don’t miss Fort Bend Theatre’s musical theatre classes beginning March 23, through May 18. Classes will be held on Saturday mornings at 2815 North Main Street in Stafford. This session’s show will be Seussical. Each session teaches singing, dancing and stage acting techniques, including pantomime, improvisation, vocalizations, and characterization. Classes [...]
Stafford Police are mourning the loss of Detective Raphael Virata. Virata, 48, lost his battle with cancer on March 6, 2013. He leaves behind a wife and young daughter. Along with police work, Raphael was founder and operating partner of Houston Mud Logging supplies with business partner Dipak Pindolia. Virata served his community as an [...]
At the upcoming International Festival of Fort Bend (IFFB) to be held at the Stafford Centre on Sunday, March 24, from 12 noon to 6 p.m., you’ll be able to find excellent food and traditional crafts in a major cultural display that has attracted fair goers for several years. The event also features performing arts, [...]
Russian born and educated Oksana Chernuk is no stranger to the International Festival of Fort Bend, or this area for that matter. She’s from a village in Odessa, Ukraine, and will once again be staging performances at the Stafford Centre for the annual event to be held on Sunday, March 24 from noon to 6 [...]
