HOUSTON WAS DEALING with crisis levels of pet homelessness before Hurricane Beryl wreaked havoc on the city. But this week, Houston PetSet coordinated with The Babinski Foundation, an animal shelter in Minnesota, to provide relief across multiple channels.
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Tiffany Valle at the Pots for Plots ribbon-cutting ceremony

HOUSTON’S BAYOUS ARE finally being treated like the nature-filled gems that they are, and one local organization wants to ensure that future generations get to enjoy the waterways.

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First Lady Barbara Bush with this year's featured author Jean Becker

ON TUESDAY, APRIL 9, the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation hosts its 30th annual A Celebration of Reading at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Proceeds from the event will advance the foundation’s mission to improve the lives of children and adults through the power of literacy. For the late First Lady Barbara Bush, the ability to read, write, speak and listen, to comprehend and communicate with the world around us, was not only a fundamental human right but key to the economic health and social development of our communities.

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