Her efforts of promoting literacy were recently recognized across Texas.
Donegan serves as director for the Tom Green County Library and received the Wayne Williams Project of the Year Award last week from the Texas Library Association. Officials selected her from a pool of 6,000 other libraries across the state. I was surprised, Donegan said Wednesday, April 28, 2021. It was in recognition for a project that took place over the past year. .we took some of our books and surplus furniture and we donated them to the Boys and Girls Club, so that they could set up a proper library for their kids to enjoy.
Mamá Reyna and crew at Veracruz All Natural.
Courtesy of Veracruz All Natural
Yolanda Guerrero, a taquera with mostly silver hair neatly pulled back and covered by a hairnet, is standing in the doorway of her East Austin taco trailer, Tacos Guerrero. She’s recounting how she got into the food business. In the 1990s, Guerrero beat a hundred other competitors in a cooking contest in her native Monterrey, Mexico. Her winning array of dishes included fluffy, orangey-red rice, chiles rellenos, and half a cabrito (milk-fed kid goat). Guerrero worked at restaurants and cleaned houses and food trucks before her son bought her a trailer in 2016. “You don’t need to work for anyone else anymore,” she remembers him saying proudly.