Posted on Dec 30, 2011 | Tagged in: People , Family , Events , Cy-Fair , Community
Enjoy the pageantry of an authentic Native American powwow on Saturday, January 7, at the Cypress VFW Post 8905 beginning at 7:00 pm.
Venturing Crew 32, a large dance and heritage troupe representing Native tribes from across the American South, will perform. They will be dressed in authentic clothing and dancing to a variety of traditional songs. Powwows functioned as an opportunity for families and tribes to unite and celebrate.
Posted on Aug 12, 2011 | Tagged in: People , Health and Wellness , Cy-Fair ISD
Cypress Ranch Key Club, a service organization for high school students, is inviting all pre-existing and potential new Ranch students to their annual Back-to-School Social on Tuesday, August 16 from 7:30 to 8:30 pm in the Cy-Ranch Commons.
The Key Club social is a great way for students to kick off the new school year, meet new classmates and come together for common philanthropic causes. This year’s event will include music, food, drinks and icebreakers to introduce younger and older club members.
Posted on May 03, 2011 | Tagged in: People , Cypress , Charity
Rita Wiltz was recently honored by the newly chartered Rotary Club of Houston NW Sunset with the Vocational Services Award.
Wiltz received the award for her outstanding leadership of the multi-county services’ organization “Children’s Books on Wheels”. Children’s Books on Wheels is a non-profit community-based organization that promotes literacy by giving out free books and serves as a resource program for Texas Health and Human Services in several counties.
Wiltz has made the program a driving force to ensure books are donated to children and their families who want books to read as well as providing books to special needs children in rural communities and urban areas.
Posted on Apr 18, 2011 | Tagged in: People , Houston , Cy-Fair
The Miss Cy-Fair Houston 2011 Second Annual Pageant was held on April 2, 2011 at the Lone Star College’s Cy-Fair Campus Theater. Mary Kate Baker, 16, was crowned Miss Cy-Fair Houston at the event.
Mary Kate Baker is a sophomore at Cypress Ranch High School. She will now represent the Cy-Fair Houston Chamber of Commerce at many activities and local events.
Brooklyn Mattingly, a senior at Cypress Falls High School, won the crown last year and had the honor of passing the title to Baker.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 | Tagged in: People , Cypress
A U.S. patent was received by two Cypress men for the creation of a new system that charges electronic devices. The men and their research partner have developed this device for Hewlett-Packard.
The patent is for for electronic devices that do not use a docking station to connect to a computer. A computer card or express card is used to power the devices. The card also serves as a connection for peripheral devices such as a mouse speakers or optical sensor. The device creatively eliminates the hassle of having to worry about multiple power sources and interfaces.
The inventors are listed as Paul J. Doczy and Jonathan R. Harris of Cypress. Steven S. Homer of Tomball was also included in the patent. HP owns the patent that was originally filed on July 30 of 2007.
Posted on Dec 29, 2010 | Tagged in: People , Houston , Education
The Houston Book Exchange was recently developed by Cypress native Emely Galvez. Her website now allows area college students to buy and sell their used books amongst fellow students and recoup some of their high bi-annual book expenses.
Galvez, a recent graduate of the University of Houston, launched the site and had it fully functional as of November 30, 2010. She now has more than 80 students, from all over the Houston area, registered and listing or looking for books after just two weeks.
It is hoped that the site will allow students to make more money for selling their books outright than they could get selling them to the campus bookstore. It will give students one central source for buying and selling their books, rather than searching several web sources and bookstores.
Posted on Dec 13, 2010 | Tagged in: People , Education
Mark Kistler is an Emmy Award winning Cy-Fair cartoonist who inspires kids with his amazing art lessons. Kistler began teaching art at a young age and by the time he was 21 he had achieved success with public TV series - The Secret City, The Secret City Adventures and The Draw Squad, which all reached 40 million viewers in over 18 countries.
In 2009, one of Kistler’s shows, Imagination Station, earned him an Emmy for the positive messages and appreciation for classic art, literature and the environment it represented.
Kistler now offers hundreds of lessons on his website, Draw3d.com, as well as working with children through art camps. He has also written books with companion workbooks on drawing in 3-D. His new book, You Can Draw in 30 Days, is due out in February 2011.
Posted on Sep 26, 2010 | Tagged in: People , Community
Local Cypress couple, Joe and Heather Terpstra will host the first ever Miss Cypress Scholarship pageant on October 17, 2010. The pageant will be a preliminary to the Miss America pageant and will be held at the Crowne Plaza-Brookhollow, 12801 Northwest Freeway in Houston.
Joe and Heather got their start in pageantry when they entered their, then 3 year old, daughter Patricia into her first pageant. Patricia was crowned the winner and has continued to enter more pageants since the big win. They have since enrolled their daughter in the Little Princess Program where young girls have the opportunity to be mentored by seasoned local title holders. It was while participating in this program the Terpstras were introduced to the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant, which chooses a Texas State Representative for the Miss America pageant. From all of these experiences the Terpstras came up with the idea to creating their own pageant!
The Miss Cypress Scholarship Pageant will have a Teen winner as well as a Miss winner. The teen winner could qualify for the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen pageant and the Miss winner could actually qualify for the Miss American Pageant. So if you have a little princess at your house, you might consider the Miss Cypress Scholarship Pageant!
Posted on May 26, 2010 | Tagged in: People , News , Community
Do cities have a future? Pessimists point to industrial-era holdovers like Detroit and Cleveland. Urban boosters point to dense, expensive cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco. Yet if you want to see successful 21st-century urbanism, hop on down to Houston and the Lone Star State.
You won't be alone: Last year Houston added 141,000 residents, more than any region in the U.S. save the city's similarly sprawling rival, Dallas-Fort Worth. Over the past decade Houston's population has grown by 24%--five times the rate of San Francisco, Boston and New York. In that time it has attracted 244,000 new residents from other parts of the U.S., while older cities experienced high rates of out-migration. It is even catching up on foreign immigration, enjoying a rate comparable with New York's and roughly 50% higher than that of Boston or Chicago.
