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Lloyd Sandel, co-owner of the Surfhouse on West 34th Street with wife Carol, is both realistic and upbeat about the pastime that helps keep them in business.

“Every place else is better [for surfi ng], but we’re better than Butte, Mon-tana,” he said.

For 45 years, surfers and skateboarders have come to the Surfhouse to get advice and gear for their passions. Lloyd, who spent some of his forma-tive years surfi ng in California, started out fi xing skateboards but soon was selling them.

Carol Sandel says that with the closing of Pat Magee’s Surf Shop in Port Aransas, Texas, the Surfhouse is now the oldest surf shop in Texas. It’s the oldest skate shop, too.

Three years after they married, the Sandels started their business on Spring Branch Drive. Six months later they relocated to 34th Street.

“I was very familiar with Oak Forest,” said Carol. The Sandels shared the small strip mall with the Bamboo Lounge, a bak-

ery, Oak Forest Lawn Mower Shop and Leo’s Flowers – all gone now. The candy shop has been a neighbor since 1982.

Over the years, the Surfhouse has remained in business while competitors have closed their doors. “There used to be three other major shops in Hous-ton and none in Galveston,” said Carol. “Now they’re all in Galveston.”

She attributes their own perseverance to a huge surf community since the 1960s – a lot of whom still live in Houston – and the explosion of inter-est in skateboarding in the 1970s and 1980s.

“Once you’ve been a surfer, you stay a surfer,” she said. “And when these guys are in their 40s, their kids are ready to go.” She notes the success of the Texas Surf Camp as an example of how the younger generation is embrac-ing the sport.

They get a lot of car guys, too. “Surfi ng and cars go together,” said Carol, pointing at all the model cars, which have been gifts from customers.

On the skateboarding front, Carol is a big supporter of local talent. She cur-rently works with the Sowle Sisters, skateboard phenoms from Houston.

What they sell the most of depends on the day. “Some days it’s all T-shirts,” said Carol. The Surfhouse carries their own brand now, with a logo that high-lights their longevity.

They sell surfboards on consignment and also offer their own brand, which Lloyd designs with a friend and gets made in California.

Called Octagon, for the popular surfi ng site in Surfside, the boards are es-pecially designed for Texas Gulf surf which is slow and mushy. “You need substance under your feet,” said Carol.

Lloyd says that people who are traveling for the fi rst time to surf in Mexico or elsewhere often ask him how he thinks they’ll handle it. He tells them that surfi ng elsewhere is “too easy” after they’ve mastered our area. “You have to work to be a good surfer here,” he said.

He still rides the waves occasionally, when they are good. The Surfhouse

maintains web cameras at Surfside and Galveston so that customers can see what the surf is doing.

The Sandels joke about the “rustic look” of their shop and talk about the impassioned public who insists they keep the store just the way it is.

“People will not let us change anything,” said Lloyd. “I attempted to change the cash register, and started getting calls immediately. I had to bring the old one back.”

“You’ll get people who say ‘I put that sticker on the fl oor in 1983,’” said Carol.

It’s this same nostalgia that brings fathers and grandfathers back with their little ones. They insist that Lloyd put together their child’s fi rst skateboard, just like he did for them. Sometimes they even take pictures.

One person who may, or may not, have visited the Surfhouse back in the day is Waltrip graduate Patrick Swayze. “He was not a surfer,” said Carol. “He was a dancer and a cowboy. But who would know? He was Buddy then, not Patrick Swayze.”

For more information about the Surfhouse, visit it on Facebook or at http://www.surfhousesurfcam.com/.

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No two work days are the same for Kathleen Maartens of Exhibit Network, the exhibit house she and husband Lenny Maartens co-founded nearly 25 years ago.

Client preferences and busi-ness conditions tend to change quickly in the highly competitive, fast-paced industry of creating, building and managing custom exhibits and displays for trade shows, she explains.

Given that, the company’s long-term success comes from two at-tributes common to the industry and to small business in general, she says: “Perseverance and grit.”

Meanwhile, “You have to be able to turn plans on a dime on a daily basis.”

Maartens says she thrives in that shifting environment. She especially enjoys creating quicker, simpler, more efficient solutions for employees.

Three years ago, her problem-solving skills encountered an in-house workout, however, when long-term employees “encour-aged us to reinvent ourselves.”

The owners tackled that chal-lenge in the interim, investing (a significant amount they declined to share) in the company’s facil-ity, technology and training.

Some of the rebranding includ-ed a fresh logo, a revamped web-site and some major remodeling and expansion of the company’s now 45,000-sq.-ft. facility off U.S. 290.

Intended as long-term revenue boosters, the changes are laying “a new foundation” for handling more clients, she says, while re-taining the company’s hallmarks of “personal, quick, friendly ser-vice.”

“We reinvented ourselves,” Maartens says, meaning the com-pany’s image to the outside world and clients.

Back-to-back schoolAs part of the redo, Maartens

has boosted her business manage-ment skills through the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program offered at Houston Community College. An enthu-siastic, energetic colleague at the Women’s Business Enterprise Al-liance insisted she go.

Maarten’s says her biggest con-cern was whether she’d have time for the session, which met from August to December 2012. Dur-ing its run, she continued to work full-time at Exhibit Network as well as pursue a degree in organi-zational leadership from the Col-lege of Biblical Studies.

No one replaced Maartens at the office during the double dose of coursework. Her weeknights

and weekends were for making up what she missed at work.

“There were some days I hon-estly didn’t think I would survive. But I remembered what my swim coach always said: ‘You can always swim one more lap’,” she says in an email recollection.

The biggest message Maartens absorbed from Goldman Sachs’ program was its “mantra” to work on the business not in the business. In practice, that means Maartens will be looking at the bigger picture for her company once she hires a clone to handle the duties she currently handles.

Maartens says she found the program’s instruction module on mapping competition a particu-larly useful tool in assessing busi-ness practices (and whether or not they were successful). Marketing and negotiations were other top-ics that resonated; Houston’s bus-tling economy is bringing the her company more business but also more competitors, she says.

Business backgroundWhen the Maartens founded

Exhibit Network in 1989, it was with “perhaps more passion and integrity than knowledge about running a business,” her email says.

Early on, however, the small

business earned a Houston 100 award in 1993 and 1994 from the University of Houston Small Business Development Center, Southwestern Bell and the Great-er Houston Partnership.

The company’s employment base previously peaked at 25 peo-ple, when Enron was a client. En-ron’s fall in 2001, however, meant scaling back exhibit house staff to about eight employees -- and a “more efficient and resourceful” business approach.

“It’s still about building an ex-hibit, shipping it, making sure it looks good each time it’s used, and anticipating things that could go wrong,” she says, adding that you have to “love” that kind of work environment -- or get a job somewhere else.

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Wayne’s World of Baseball

Scarborough High junior Keldrick Suazo

Scarborough High offensive lineman Keldrick Suazo is one of the players who’s looking to change the culture of Spartan Football.

The 5-foot-11, 274-pound junior captain was an all-Class 3A-Dis-trict 23 selection last season after transferring from Aldine Nimitz, a Class 5A program, where he played varsity as a freshman.

He’s blocking for sophomore quarterback Titus Randle and looking to lead Scarborough (0-1) to its fi rst victory since 2009.

The Spartans host Wharton at 7 p.m. Thursday at Dyer Stadium.

Suazo competed in track & fi eld in the shot put and discus. He plans on playing varsity basketball and baseball this season.

Do you see yourself as a team leader?

“I see myself as a role model to all of the underclassmen. They’ll say, ‘I need you to help me with my stance or help me learn the plays.”

What do you like about play-ing on the offensive line?

“I like it because it’s a pretty ba-sic position for me. I feel like it’s an advantage for me to be on the of-fensive line.”

You moved here from Birming-ham, Ala. two summers ago. Are you ‘Roll Tide’ or ‘War Eagle’?

“Ever since I knew what football

Athletic Spotlight

Keldrick Suazoby Michael Sudhalter

[email protected]

see Spotlight • Page 8B

Rice University head baseball coach Wayne Graham, a 1954 Reagan High graduate, has won an NCAA Division I Champion-ship, made six other trips to the College World Series and earned fi ve National Junior College Championships.

But the 77-year-old skipper said it was a key season 40 years ago that made a huge difference in his career.

“I wouldn’t be here today with-out the efforts of the kids at Scar-borough,” Graham said. “That jump started my career and made a difference in my life. I might not be sitting here today (if not for that team).”

After 11 seasons in professional baseball, including big league ap-pearances with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets, Gra-ham returned to Houston to be-gin a career in teaching.

He soon decided he wanted to coach as well and became the head baseball coach at Scarbor-ough High in 1971.

Scarborough didn’t have the enrollment numbers of its district rivals, and most of the Oaks Dad’s Club All-Stars attended Waltrip.

But in 1973, Graham’s third season with the program, they won the program’s fi rst district championship.

“The fi rst one was pivotal,” Gra-ham said. “We won with determi-nation and willpower.”

Graham still remembers play-ers like outfi elders Gervais Strakes and Doyle Campbell, second baseman Greg Rhodes, third base-man Don Hendrichs, shortstop Lee Wetmore and catcher Lynn Dodson.

It was during his time at Scar-borough that Graham knew he wanted to become a Division I coach -- a dream he realized 13

years after coaching his last game with the Spartans. He was also a history teacher and assistant foot-ball coach at Scarborough.

Graham went on to lead Scar-borough to fi ve more district championships before accepting the head coach position at Spring Branch High in 1980.

“We had kids that could move well,” Graham said. “We parlayed that speed and commitment. They wanted to win. We had the best defense in the city. We could throw strikes and bunt. We rarely made more than one error in a game.”

Bulldog beginningsGraham grew up on the north-

side of Houston, closer to Davis than Reagan.

But his family moved to the Timbergrove area while he was in high school, and he was a sopho-more on Reagan’s 1952 state baseball championship team that featured star pitcher, senior Jack Schultea, who now coaches the Houston Wildcats’ Stan Musial League Team.

His coach was the legendary Leeroy Ashmore, for whom Ash-more Field at the Delmar-Tusa Athletic Complex is named.

As a junior, Graham played on Reagan’s district championship football team.

“I broke two ribs and nearly ruined my back, so I quit playing football and focused on baseball,” Graham said.

It proved to be a good decision for Graham, who earned Houston ISD MVP Baseball honors as a ju-nior.

He earned a baseball scholar-ship to the University of Texas where he played in the mid 1950s.

“At Reagan, we had really fi ne athletes and really fi ne teachers,” Graham said. “My education at Reagan allowed me to place out of Freshman English at Texas.”

An education in baseballAfter playing third base and

outfi eld at UT, Graham played throughout the United States in the minor league organizations of the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets.

He even played a few seasons of winter league baseball in Nicara-gua and Venezuela, respectively.

“It was an education,” Graham said. “Every experience helps if you’re observant. If you’re not ob-servant, it doesn’t help you at all.”

He spent 90 days in the major leagues, including some time with the New York Mets, a second sea-son franchise managed by the leg-endary Casey Stengel.

“Nobody knew more about baseball than Casey Stengel,” Gra-ham said.

Clemens connectionWhen Graham left Scarbor-

ough for Spring Branch, he led his new program to a district cham-pionship over Spring Woods and its star pitcher, Roger Clemens.

A year later, when he became the head coach at San Jacinto Col-lege, he offered Clemens a schol-arship in June of his senior year.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was so lightly re-

cruited in baseball that he was considering playing football at Division III Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

“Roger could throw strikes -- his fastball went from 84 to 92 miles per hour,” Graham said.

Building Rice into a winnerGraham’s fi ve national cham-

pionships at San Jacinto drew the attention of Rice, which had a moribund baseball program for

decades.“Growing up in Houston, Rice

was a symbol of excellence and in-tegrity. That never left my head,” Graham said. “My dad ushered football games there and always brought me to the games.”

Due to the program’s success, Rice has a majestic stadium in Reckling Park and baseball fa-

Rice coach’s roots run deep in Oak

Forest, Timbergroveby Michael Sudhalter

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Rice University head baseball coach Wayne Graham won six district championships as the head baseball coach at Scarborough from 1971-79. (Photo Courtesy of Rice University)

Rice University head baseball coach Wayne Graham, a 1954 Reagan High graduate, looks through a Scarborough High yearbook from the 1970s. Graham was the baseball coach at Scarborough from 1971-79. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

see Graham• Page 8B

Fastpitch softball star, Chambers, dies at 80Former North Houston resident

Bill Chambers, a former teammate of fastpitch softball great, Julian Kujawa, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 27. He was 80.

“My dad and (Kujawa) played together on some of the greatest fastpitch softball teams to come out of the Houston area,” said Jerry Chambers, Bill’s son.

Kujawa, a Reagan High gradu-

ate who was considered one of the sport’s top amateur pitchers, passed away at age 88 on July 25.

Chambers, a second baseman, played for JH Rose Truck Lines and Metallic Strand Steel. Metal-lic played in the fi rst-ever softball game in the Houston Astrodome.

Chambers, a native of Bryan, earned a basketball scholarship to East Texas State (now Texas A&M-

Commerce) but then found a love for fastpitch softball.

Chambers played in many world tournaments against the best players in fast pitch history and was considered by his peers as the top second baseman in Hous-ton for many years, said Jerry Chambers.

Former North Houston resident Bill Chambers, a standout fastpitch softball player, passed away at age 80 on Aug. 27 (Submitted photo)

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Football scores &upcoming games

Last week’s scores:St. Thomas 46, Rice Consolidated 30Kinkaid 36, St. Pius X 14Westside 35, Reagan 21Lee 31, Scarborough 6Galveston O’Connell 33, Lutheran North 6

Thursday’s gamesWharton at Scarborough, 7 p.m. (Dyer)Pasadena at Waltrip, 7 p.m. (Del-mar-Tusa)

Friday’s gameSt. Pius X at Sealy, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesJones at Reagan, 6 p.m. (Dyer)Strake Jesuit at St. Thomas, 7 p.m. (Tully Stadium)

cilities and offi ces within the ball-park.

That wasn’t the case when Gra-ham took over the program in 1992. Players and coaches had to share a restroom with the few fans who attended those games.

But Graham had great visions for the program, and it culminat-ed in winning the 2003 NCAA Di-vision I Baseball Championship.

“That meant a great deal to a lot of people,” Graham said. “If you don’t con-sider golf a team sport, who else has won a national championship in Houston? It had a tremendous impact on my career and the school.”

For his success with the Owls, Graham was named one of 38 sports legends in Houston before Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004.

“I’ve spent a lot of time acquir-ing the knowledge I have,” Graham said. “Why would you not apply it if it’s helping other people de-velop?”

Graham, who has 953 wins at Rice and more than 1,400 between

Rice and San Jac, is currently coaching two area players -- junior pitcher Zech Lemond (last sea-son’s Team MVP and a third team A l l - A m e r i c a n ) from Waltrip, and sophomore catcher Hunter Kopycin-ski, a St. Thomas graduate.

He said the “next day’s game” is what keeps him interest-

ed in coaching.“I have the same love for that I

had when I was 7,” Graham said. “(I once said) if Clint Eastwood, who is 83, is still directing movies, I’m going to keep coaching.”

Graham • from Page 7B

Above: Rice University head baseball coach Wayne Graham, center, was a sophomore on Reagan High’s 1952 state championship baseball team. Below: Graham featured in Scarborough’s yearbook. (Photos by Michael Sudhalter)

Spotlight• from Page 7Bwas, I’ve been an Alabama fan. I think they’ve got a chance this year for their third straight title.”

Where would you like to go to college?

“If I could go to any college in the world, it would be Alabama.”

You’d like to study Forensic Science. Why’s that?

“I see it as a good career, and it’s something interesting. It’s a com-plicated job, and I like complicat-ed things.”

What do you think of Houston so far?

“I have no complaints whatso-ever about Houston. The football is excellent.”

Showing improvement

The Scarborough High football team showed a great deal of improvement during a 31-6 loss to Lee High on Thurs-day, Aug. 30 at Dyer Stadium. (Photos by Michael Sudhalter)

Happy Homecoming

Oklahoma State safeties coach Van Malone (left), a 1989 Waltrip High graduate who served as an assistant coach at WHS from 1999-02, was part of the Cowboys’ 17-3 win over Mississippi State last Saturday in the Texas Kickoff Classic at Reliant Stadium. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

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NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND INTENT TO FORFEITNotice is hereby given that the United States Department of the Interior is hereby commencing a forfeiture proceeding against the following items of wildlife or wildlife products, which were seized in the Houston area of Texas on the date indicated because they were involved in one or more violations of any of the fol-lowing laws: Endangered Species Act, 16 USC 1538(a)(1)(G), 16 USC 1538(c)(2), 16 USC 1538(c)(1), 16 USC 1538(e) and 16 USC 3372 (a)(2)(A). These items are subject to forfeiture to the United States under Title l6, U.S.C. Sec. l540(e), 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1377, or l6 U.S.C. Sec. 3374 and Title 50, Code of Federal Regula-tions, Section l4.91(a) and 14.61. Any person with an ownership or financial interest in said items who desires to claim them must file a claim with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Law Enforcement office,16639 W. Hardy, Houston, TX 70060-6230. Such claim must be received by the above office by January 19, 2014. The claim will be transmitted to the U.S. Attorney for institu-tion of a forfeiture action in U.S. District Court. If a proper claim is not received by the above office by such date, the items will be declared forfeited to the United States and disposed of according to law. Any person who has an interest in the items may also file with the above office a petition for remission of forfeiture in accordance with Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, and Section 12.24, which petition must be received in such office before disposition of the items. Storage costs may also be assessed.

File No. Seizure Value Item2013202153 04/19/2013 $1,636.00 Two (2) African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) (Ivory carvings), Five (5) African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) (Jewelry ivory)

NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND INTENT TO FORFEITNotice is hereby given that the United States Department of the Interior is hereby commencing a forfeiture proceeding against the following items of wildlife or wildlife products, which were seized in the Houston area of Texas on the date indicated because they were involved in one or more violations of any of the following law: Endangered Species Act, 16 USC 1538. These items are subject to forfeiture to the United States under Title l6, U.S.C. Sec. l540(e), 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1377, or l6 U.S.C. Sec. 3374 and Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, Section l4.91(a) and 14.61. Any person with an ownership or financial interest in said items who desires to claim them must file a claim with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Law Enforcement office,16639 W. Hardy, Houston, TX 70060-6230. Such claim must be received by the above office by January 19, 2014. The claim will be transmitted to the U.S. Attorney for institution of a forfei-ture action in U.S. District Court. If a proper claim is not received by the above office by such date, the items will be declared forfeited to the United States and disposed of according to law. Any person who has an interest in the items may also file with the above office a petition for remission of forfeiture in accordance with Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, and Section 12.24, which petition must be received in such office before disposition of the items. Storage costs may also be assessed.

File No. Seizure Value Item2013203851 08/05/2013 $2067.00 Seven (7) Leopard Cone Shell (Co-nus leopardus) and Abalone Shell (Haliotis asinina) Bracelets, Nine (9) Red Cor-al (Corallium japonicum) necklaces, Seven (7) Starfish (Asteroidea )and Abalone Shell (Haliotis asinina) bracelets, One (1) watch with mother of pearl(Mollusca sp)shell face, twenty five (25) Trocha (Trochus sp.) shell and Puka (Mollusca sp.) shell bracelets, two (2) pearl Mollusca sp.) pendants, One Hundred and Eight (108) Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) earrings, Eleven (11) Troca Shell (Trochus species) bracelets, twelve (12) Great Pearl Oyster (Pinctada mar-garitifera) earrings, Eighty (80) Great Pearl Oyster (Pinctada margaritifera) neck-laces

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AMRI INC., HOUSTON, TXAMRI Inc., a Northwest Houston valve manufac-

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C.W. TRASH HAULING: Resi-dential/commercial, clean out garages, tractor work, box blade. 832-434-8863. (TF)

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EXPERIENCED CAREGIVER: Available five days per week. Latisha, 832-343-4277.

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Eureka! A few more shows have materialized for this first weekend of September, (last Sun-day doesn’t really count by the way) preceded by “NEW” below. There’s a method to my madness, er uh, column, that is. The shows I include start on Friday the week of publication and go out about two weeks, space permitting. To preview what you may be missing if the pa-per comes out early, just check out this column on the www.theleadernews.com website under Hipstrict.

Friday Sept. 6•NEW: HOMEWRECKER Disrupted Archi-

tecture, artist Dan Havel at Avis Frank Gallery, 1606 White Oak Drive 77009. 6 -8 p.m. http://www.avisfrank.com *The home seems to be a big topic with artists this summer. This one fo-cuses on structure. From the artist, “The house form represents a perfect, stable structural icon. It acts as a universal memory of home. The perfection is slowly disrupted and worn by its function as vessel for living. Eventually, time takes its toll, along with acts of nature, to weaken the structure… The energy behind this disruption of order is what I am attempting to convey.”

•Bombshells & Brawlers: Round II & Variety Show at East End Studio Gallery 708 Telephone Rd. Ste. C, Houston 77023. 8 - midnight. Live burlesque act, and fashion show highlighting modern pinup and tattoo culture. http://www.eestudiogallery.com/

•First Saturday Arts Market - 548 W. 19th St at Lawrence. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Day shows are back! Three dozen-plus artists will be on site under as many canopied mini-galleries. Perfor-mances include Alexis A. Moore. Food trucks: H-town Streats and Porch Swing Deserts. Fea-tured nonprofit: 14 Pews. Get all the details on the artists, band announcements and more on-line at www.FirstSaturdayArtsMarket.com

•FrenetiCore and Houston Zombie Walk Present the second Annual Apocalypse Ball, Frenetic Theater 5102 Navigation Blvd., 77011 8 p.m. General admission: $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Wear: Your best doomsday attire (Zombie, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic) Toast to the end of the days and enjoy live performances by FrenetiCore Dance, Houston Burlesque Revue, ChinaCat Dance and Jim Mackenzie, peruse visual art exhibits by Rachel Harmeyer, Bret Harmeyer, Kyle Fu and artists of Zen Art Space, have your fortune told by the mystical zombie Blair Knowles, and let loose with a live DJ & open dance floor. Proceeds benefit the Houston Fringe Fes-tival in October. For more information visit www.freneticore.net.

•An American Fam-ily by b. moody art - Opening Reception. Redbud gallery, 303 E. 11th St.77008. 6-9 p.m. b. moody continues his obsession with the con-tradiction of mythologies and attitudes inher-ent to his beloved Deep South. Runs through Sept. 29

•NEW: Avenue Gallery Opening Artist Re-ception - 3219 Houston Ave., Houston, Texas 77009. 6 - 9 p.m. Featured artists include: To-ria Hill, Vivian Mora, Billy York, Andy Gonza-lez, Michael Henderson, Sam VanBibber, Ni-cole Bolinger, Kiki Neumann, Sherry Masters, Carol McGinnis, Monique Weston, Melinda Negri, Debbie Clendennen, and Taylor Clen-dennen. Www.AveGallery.com

Sunday, Sept. 8• The Art of Rodrigo Aguilera, Houston

Piano Company, 1600 W. 13th St., Houston 77008 2-4 p.m. Preview the latest collection by Colombian-born artist, Rodrigo Aguilera in an afternoon of music, art and conversa-tion. A native of Colombia, Aguilera has been a resident of Houston since 1985 and was a finalist for the prestigious Hunting Prize in 2007 and 2009. RSVP to 713-974-0466 or [email protected]

Thursday, Sept. 12•Art Reception: Marlon Puac Méndez, Rick

Beerhorst, Michelle Weddle. Koelsch Gallery 703 Yale St. 77007 6-9 p.m. www.koelschgal-lery.com This is artist Marlon Puac Méndez’s first U.S. Exhibition with ten paintings in a se-ries titled “Daily Life in San Pedro La Laguna.”

•Anne-Joëlle Solo Show: ‘tour Around The World’ / ‘alrededor Del Mundo’. Black Swan Screenprinting Studio 1824 Spring Street, Suite 103. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. www.annejoelle.com http://www.blackswanscreenprinting.com/ Black Swan collaborated with the artist, print-ing all monotypes on paper and mixed media on wood/metal in this series featuring Anne-Joëlle Galley new series of paintings and silk screens of cities of the world. Anne-Joëlle is an incredibly talented artist, I highly recommend seeing her while you still can –– in person.

Saturday, Sept. 14• Open Artist Studios at Winter & Spring

Street Studios 2101 Winter St. and 1824 Spring St. http://winterstreetstudios.info/ While you’re, there, check out Dianne K Webb in Stu-dio 33.

• Aurora Street Open Artist Studios 129 Au-rora St., 77008 2 ? 8 p.m. http://hasg.blog.com

Sometimes you have to travel to meet the art-ists, as the following two shows proves. I men-tion them here because many Houston area artists will be attending. First Saturday Arts Market artists are behind the scenes on both of these new events –– Alicia Boles at the Farm to Art Market in Dickinson, and Linda Hardy has a studio at The Purple Elephant.

• Second Saturday Farm To Art Market. The Herb Cafe & Market 5828 Fm 517 East, Dickin-son 77539 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Finally, a farmers/art market combo.

• Purple Elephant, 2nd Saturday Art Walk at The Purple Elephant Gallery and Iron But-terfly Studio 12802 McSwain, Cypress 77429. The first Elephant Walk includes the release of a documentary, the unveiling of enormous el-ephant sculpture by guest artist Andre Gandin and guest artist Lorraine Marin http://www.lorrainedavismartin.com.

Cohen is the founder and manager of First Saturday Arts Market. Contact him at [email protected] or visit him on the web at www.ArtValet.com.

City Oven Coming to White Oak

Any day now, HUSA Management, Inc., the Houston-based pub group behind Sherlock’s Pubs, Baker St. Pub & Grills, Watson’s House of Ales, and Local Pour, is opening a new pizza tavern in the Heights, City Oven at 2802 White Oak Drive –– the former site of HUSA’s D’Amico’s Italian family restaurant. According to its creators, City Oven will offer the Heights neighbor-hood an eclectic place to grab a beer, wine or spirit along with a full-service kitchen open for lunch, dinner and late-night with items such as artisan wood-fired pizzas and giant meatball appetizers.

City Oven will have a distinct Heights flavor. The beer selection will be heavily local and regional, with 15 drafts includ-ing eight Texas craft beers, 50 bottled beers, four Texas whiskeys and four Texas vodkas. The building’s architect, Dawn Batsche Arcieri and serigraphy artist who designed the City Oven logo and interior artworks, Carlos Hernandez, are both based in the Heights. Hernandez, an instructor at Rice University, created the artwork and packaging for St. Arnold’s Santo beer in 2011 and has designed and printed posters for the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kings of Leon and the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The menu at City Oven will offer more than 11 artisan wood-fired pizzas, includ-ing the “Thai Dye” – made with olive oil & garlic sauce base, all natural grilled curry chicken, mozzarella cheese, Roma tomatoes and onions topped with fresh basil, cucumbers & a sweet swirl of Thai chili sauce – and the City Oven Meat Pie – made with San Marzano-style tomato sauce with mozzarella, pepperoni, sau-sage, ground beef, ham and applewood smoked bacon.

City Oven will be HUSA’s 10th location in the Greater Houston area. The company also locally operates five Baker St. Pub & Grills, two Sherlock’s Pubs, Local Pour on West Gray and Watson’s House of Ales on Grigsby Road., along with plans to open a D’Amico’s Italian Market Café in Katy and locations beyond in partnership with Nash D’Amico and Brina D’Amico Donaldson.

Houston Brazilian FestivalThe Houston Brazilian Festival will be

held Sept. 7 from 2 - 10 p.m. at Jones Plaza, 601 Louisiana St., with live music, performances, food and more, bringing visitors from around the world. All shows are family-friendly, and kids can stay busy with educational booths, games and inter-active demonstrations. The Heights’ Brazil-ian Arts Foundation organizes and hosts the festival, which provides people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to experience the richness and diversity of Brazil in a setting that highlights the rich-ness and diversity of Houston. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Children 12 and under are free. For more informa-tion, visit www.brazilianarts.org.

Happy Hour with KubiakJoin Crime Stoppers of Houston to

celebrate the Texans Season Opening and the launch of its newest TV commercial featuring Coach Gary Kubiak and the Houston Texans on Sept. 9 from 5:30-7:30 p.,m. at El Real Tex-Mex, 1201 Westheimer Road. There will be a raffle for a Houston

Texans ticket package, complimentary beer, margaritas and light fare included. For reservations, contact Sonia Soto at [email protected] or call 713-521-4600.

Fiestas Patrias Sept. 14-15The 45th Annual Fiestas Patrias

International Parade will be held Sept. 14 from 10 -11:30 a.m. This colorful community-sponsored parade celebrates Mexico’s independence from Spain, featuring music, performers and officials. The parade begins on Texas at Jackson, proceeds west on Texas, north on San Jacinto, east on Preston and concludes on Preston at Crawford.

Sunset Saturday at Celtic Gardens

Every Saturday Celtic Gardens holds “The Official Patio Party”, with two DJs from 3 -9 p.m. Sept. 7. There are drink specials with $15 Dos XX, Corona and Corona Light Buckets (5 bottles), $5 Deep Eddy Ruby Red Vodka, $5 Sangria and $10 Mimosa Carafes.

Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 3-8 p.m with $5 Pinnacle Vodka (all flavors), Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey drinks, Hornitos Tequila drinks, $5 white and red sangria, and $1 off all mixed drinks, wines and draft beers (domestic, imports and craft).

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The Heights Young Professionals Organization of the Greater Heights Chamber of Commerce enjoyed Little Woodrow’s on Shepherd for its August monthly networking event. (Submitted photo)

Mitch CohenArts Columnist

Review: A tale of 2 Little Woodrows

With the exception of a slew of sandwich and suds joints ending with “Creek,” the most detectable name in the neighborhood’s casual drinking and dining scene is Woodrow’s. A couple of years ago a Little Woodrow’s slid into the old Beer Island spot on the corner of White Oak and Stude-wood and has become a cornerstone of the White Oak strip’s resurgence. Just a few months back, a second Little Woodrow’s crashed the Washing-ton Corridor party and swung open the doors on a sixth location for the city’s franchise of laid back beer halls. For those counting at home, that’s the second location for Little Woodrow’s on our end of town, and they are within about two miles of each other.

At first pass, you might wonder why two of the same taverns are so close to each other (although still spaced out compared to our friends at the Creeks). These Little Woodrows might have the same signs out front, but these brotherly bars are different. (As a reminder, the moniker of Woodrow’s has become so popular in the area that a completely different ownership group recently rebranded its Cajun restaurant Woodrow’s and is only four blocks away from newly-open Little version on Shepherd.)

The first Little Woodrow’s to set up shop on the north side of I-10 remains a liquids-only establishment with no food menu on White Oak. However, an elongated parking spot bordering on the bar’s fenced in pa-tio is home to a rotating roster of food trucks that sling out grub that Little Woodrow’s welcomes on its premises. (Bernie’s Burger Bus on Thursdays is Leader Eater’s personal favorite although I’ve been eyeing the Saturday night slot that The Waffle Bus has been occupying lately.) El fresco drinking dominates this location and has become one of the area’s top spots to watch football (yes, it has finally started!) when the sun and temperature go down.

The Shepherd site has tables outside but its vast interior, which is con-figured more as a sit-down restaurant, sets it apart from its cousin on White Oak. In fact, the food menu at the Shepherd location suggests that it is more eatery than drinkery. But it’s probably best described as a pub featuring a terse menu highlighted with chicken wings, fried mushrooms and pickles and a handful of burgers loaded down with heart-stopping toppings.

But these two Woodrow’s show their closest resemblances in what comes out of their taps. Each has a signature procession of pouring levers across the back of the bar that is always loaded up with local offering like No Label’s El Hefe Weizen, which Leader Eater indulged at the Shepherd location recently. You wouldn’t confuse Little Woodrow’s as a haven for the city’s hop heads, but they go up and above stocking Houston area and Texas labels while at the same time not ashamed to carry cases of Bud Light. A suds-centered focus has been Little Woodrow’s calling card from the beginning and has allowed the joint – both White Oak and Shepherd – to have uniform evenings of specialty drinks and events. They both have Ladies Night on Thursday, Texas Beer Night on Monday and the increasingly popular Geeks Who Drink Trivia nights (Tuesdays on Shep-herd and Wednesday at White Oak). So as Washington and White Oak build up their bar scenes and Little Woodrow’s continues to grow, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Hens for Houston, a non-profit organizing advocating for city residents to own pet chickens, is waiting for Mayor Annise Parker’s office to review plans to change an ordi-nance regarding hens in Houston.

Once the mayor, who has previously voiced support for the ordinance, passes it along to the council members, it will go to subcommittee, a spokeswoman says.

Claire Krebs, founder of Hens for Houston, said the non-profit organization has met with the offices of 12 of the 16 city council members to inform them of the organization’s goals.

According to Hens for Houston, it and Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) agreed on a proposed draft with no distance setback for up to eight hens, but a large enough coop would need a building code permit as any other building would. The BARC proposal would allow a permit to have eight hens on the property at one time.

“The next step is to request that transfer to the council and move things into Quality of Life subcommittee,” Krebs said. “So we are asking our members to e-mail and call their representatives and the city to make that next step happen.”

Learning food, from garden to jar to plateTexas A&M and Buchanan’s Nursery in the Heights and the Culinary Institute LeNorte

are offering a seven-session course in how to grow, prepare and preserve food, starting Sept. 10.

Backyard Basics: The Art of Self-Reliance will betaught by Texas A&M AgriLife Exten-sion. Cost is $25 per session until one week before the class, $35 after.

According to AgriLife Extension, the sessions were developed to help people “enjoy healthy living through home-based food production, food preparation and food preser-vation.”

September classes include:– Sept. 10, Vegetable gardening in small spaces, Buchanan’s Native Plants, 611 E. 11th

St., 10 a.m.-noon.– Sept. 21, Salsa in September, Culinary Institute LeNorte, 7070 Allensby, 8:30 a.m.-

noon.To register, contact Dinora Galaviz at AgriLife Extension’s Harris County office, 281-855-

5624 or email [email protected].

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Dan Havel’s ‘Home-wrecker: Disrupted Architecture,’ will have its opening at the Avis Frank Gal-lery in the Heights Friday. (Submitted photo)

Know any Squirrel Earners? Have you actually ever heard of a Squirrel Earner? The Oak For-est Running Group, chock full of merry Squirrel Earners, has been meeting and running since Janu-ary of this year. Lucy Fraga Fisher Crain began the active and friend-ly group as a way to help neighbors meet neighbors and to enjoy our wonderful T.C. Jester Park.

Anyone in the area is welcome to join this free group and enjoy some healthy exercise in a relaxed way with friends. If you live in Oak Forest, you will be asked to join the Oak Forest Homeowners’ As-sociation. The group meets each Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at the Oak Forest Chill located at the in-tersection of Oak Forest and Judi-way. The group is open to runners, walkers and parents with strollers – people from all walks of life and activity levels. Starting at the Chill, everyone runs/walks at their own pace and ends up at T.C. Jester Park.

After walking/running any-where from 1 to 4 miles, the group heads back to the Chill around 7:15 p.m. to enjoy a cold beer. On the last Tuesday of each month, the group orders pizza from Brothers Pizzeria.

After 10 runs members earn a squirrel shirt – hence the curi-ous appellation “Squirrel Earn-ers.” To date, there are 20 Squirrel Earners: Mark Bender, Michael Boucher, Greg Cain, Lucy Fraga Fisher Cain, Kristin Duplantis, Renalie Gomez, Eddie Gonza-les, Renee Hollan, Blake Krause, Alex Pickard, Nelson Sosa (the very first Squirrel Earner), Jacque-line Simmons, Phillip Simmons, Shawn Simmons, Barbara Smith, Kyle Smith, Lucia Valdez, John Wethington, Halcie Wethington and Susan Wethington. For more, email Lucy at [email protected].

Congratulations to Cadet Jen-nifer Guadalupe Pena, daughter

of Mr. and Ms. Abel Pena, who has completed Cadet Basic Train-ing at the U.S. Military Academy. Jennifer entered West Point on July 1 and successfully completed her initial military training including first aid, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, biological, and chemical training. Jennifer began classes at West Point on Aug. 19. She gradu-ated from Waltrip Senior High School and plans to graduate from West Point in 2017 and hopes to be commissioned as a second lieu-tenant in the U.S. Army.

Exciting news for our sweet, neat and livewire neighbor Linda Younger: her band, MyDolls, was chosen as one of the 10 inaugu-ral bands to be inducted into the Houston Music Hall of Fame re-cently as a salute to Houston’s rich musical legacy by Houston Press. My Dolls joins other noted musi-cians and bands who call Houston home such as ZZ Top, Yolanda Adams, Geto Boys, La Mafia, Jewel Brown, Gene Watson, Joe Sample, J. Paul Jr. and The Zydeco Nu-breeds, and Los Skarnales.

MyDolls was an early punk rock band which erupted onto Houston’s music scene in 1978. Although the group disbanded in 1986, Linda, Dianna Ray, Trish Herrera and George Reyes re-united and have played several gigs this year. Linda has also been very involved in the annual teen camp Girls Rock Camp Houston. MyDolls is scheduled to perform at Austin’s inaugural women-in-music conference, MEOW, in Oct. 2013.

The Heights Area Young Life

group hired two buses and took 82 area excited teens to a fantas-tic Young Life Camp at beautiful Windy Gap near Asheville, N.C. over the summer. In Young Life, the term “best week of your life” refers to camp, and judging by the remarks and glowing faces of the kiddos upon their return, it is the truth.

Will Otto, one of our neighbors and the Area Director of Young Life, said, “We took our Heights area high school friends to Windy Gap and we had the best week of our lives. Students from Reagan, Waltrip, and Davis High Schools got to experience great adventure and fun, through mountain bik-ing, go cart driving, horse rides, late night obstacle courses, dance parties, zip lines into the lake, and high energy Young Life clubs.”

The teens turned off their elec-tronics (they actually lasted the en-tire week without their cell phones – imagine!), and focused on them-selves and their faith journeys. Heights Young Life is a faith-based non-profit that seeks to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith.

For more info on younglife, visit the website: younglife.org or follow Heights YL on Twitter @HeightsYL.

Parents and families of these Young Life teens would like to thank the amazing volunteers and generous donors who make the festive weekly meetings and joy of summer camp possible.

To submit your Neighbors items, contact the email address on the by-line above or post to THE LEADER on Facebook.


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