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Local organization delivers A/C units to seniors in southeast Houston
Re Chelle Turner, KPRC
July 24, 2021 6:56 pm Hold the Heat holds air conditioning installation project
HOUSTON – On Saturday, The Houston Area Urban League Young Professionals, in partnership with the Ascend Cares Foundation and Habitat for Humanity, delivered 30 window units for seniors in southeast Houston.
The “Hold the Heat” Air Conditioning Installation Project seeks to help keep seniors cool this summer.
“I appreciate it so much. I appreciate it. I really do,” Miss Thelma said.
Miss Thelma is 88 years old and loves her new AC unit. She enjoys sitting on her porch, but now she can stay inside and keep cool.
Fire departments have rehabilitation procedures in place to help crews stay safe. Author: David Gonzalez (KHOU) Updated: 10:26 AM CDT July 25, 2021
HOUSTON These hot temperatures can be extremely dangerous for people who don’t have a way to stay cool.
This is one of the hottest weekends so far this year.
On Saturday, air conditioning units were distributed to more than two dozen seniors in need.
Houston’s hot summer will be a little more bearable for seniors like Phyllis Huntsberry. She’s one of 30 seniors to receive a window air conditioning unit thanks to Houston Area Urban League.
“It’s going to make us very comfortable and we will be able to do more to help ourselves,” Huntsberry said.
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Last year, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the black square on Instagram became a virtue signal of solidarity by brands, corporations, and influencers in support of a nationwide fight for Black lives. But a year later as we look back at the hundreds of corporate entities who posted Black squares on Instagram, many without any real strategy or action plan for how they create institutional change, you’ll find that the black square was nothing more than a promise to continue with the status quo.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blasted Houston-area leaders for enacting voting laws that he said were unconstitutional, after they called out state legislators for pushing for new strict voting laws.
Senate Bill 7 would ban 24-hour voting and drive-through voting, and would bar local election officials from mass-mailing absentee ballot applications to all eligible county residents measures that Harris County pioneered or attempted to enact in the 2020 election cycle.
Speaking in the state Capitol, Patrick criticized the county for what he said was overstepping its authority. I have news for Harris County: You re not the capital of Texas,” Patrick said. “The state capital resides in Travis County, in the city of Austin, in this building, not in the county judge or the mayor s office. Harris County does not make policy and create law for the other 253 Texas counties.