Most importantly, a park would be a place close to home where neighborhood kids could safely get together and play after school. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s a stark contrast to where McNeese’s children and others given no other alternative have been forced to meet up for a game of catch or to toss a football.
“Without a park,” he says, “all the kids are playing in the street. One of the first things I had to teach (my kids) is, if you see a car coming, yell ‘car!’ and everybody immediately get to the sidewalk.”
Houston was a train wreck for Democrats in 2020. Here s why.
Jasper Scherer, Mike Morris, Stephanie Lamm, Staff writers
Nov. 4, 2020
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Democrat Sri Kulkarni, right, listens to voter Destiny Ilori, left, after she submitted her vote at a polling site on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Houston. Kulkarni lost his bid for Texas’ 22nd Congressional District to Republican Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Democrat Sri Kulkarni talks to voters KP, 21, and Avery Crucial, right, 20, at a polling site on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Houston. Kulkarni lost his bid for Texas’ 22nd Congressional District to Republican Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Free holiday meals: Check out food options for Houstonians in need this season
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Lisa Iparrea, director of client services, gives a thumbs up as she helps direct cars through the touchless drive thru food distribution line at the West Houston Assistance Ministries Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Houston. Many people in Houston and around the U.S. live paycheck to paycheck and were caught off guard by the economic fallout from the coronavirus that initially cost the nation 22 million jobs, with 10.7 million still unemployed. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Organizations across the city are hosting holiday meal distribution events to help Houstonians.
Lucille’s partnership provides holiday meals to 1,000 Third Ward families
Sponsored by the Kinder Foundation working with Emancipation Park Conservancy, holiday meals will be available on Dec. 23
Greg Morago December 10, 2020Updated: December 11, 2020, 12:39 pm
Chef Chris Williams, founder of Lucille s 1913, a nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding Houstonians in vulnerable neighborhoods, is organizing a holiday meal service for Greater Third Ward on Dec. 23. Photo: Jenn Duncan
About 1,000 families in Houston’s Greater Third Ward will receive holiday meals on Dec. 23 thanks to an initiative by Lucille’s 1913, a nonprofit organization founded by chef Chris Williams of Lucille’s restaurant in the Museum District.