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COMMUNITY EVENTS & LOCAL NEWS

2010

You are welcome to submit your local community events.

by simply emailing your entries to Elisa at elisa@brunerteam.com by the 15th of each month.

 

 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

*** Due to extensive computer problems, I lost some emails of events that I may have intended to post to our newsletter's Calendar of Events.  If you do not see your event listed below, please resend it to me and I will post online immediately.  Thank you for your understanding.  - Elisa ***

 

 

NW Harris County Aggie Moms Club Meeting

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

 

MARCH 9:

Please join us in welcoming our guest speaker, Dr. Robert C. Webb Sr., Interim Dean for the office of graduate studies at Texas A&M University.  Our guest speaker, Dr. Webb, received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and MS and PhD in Physics from Princeton University.  After serving on the faculty of University of California and Princeton University, Dr. Webb has served many years in several administrative positions at Texas A&M University in the Department of Physics as professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, and Interim Head for the Department of Physics.  Dr. Webb will be speaking about the wonderful research opportunities available for the undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.

The Aggie Moms will gather on Tuesday, March 9th at 7 pm at the Houston Distribution Center conveniently located near Willowbrook Mall at the corner of Cutten Road and 7100 High Life Drive.  All current, future, and former Aggie moms are welcome to attend!   Our monthly meetings include refreshments, fellowship, guest speakers, the Aggie gift boutique, door prizes, and more!  Also learn about upcoming events, fundraisers, and Aggieland trips.

Aggie Moms will be hosting a baseball tailgate party and an upcoming “Boots ‘N Whoops” western dance fundraiser in March.  Please come and learn more about the great opportunities available through the Aggie Moms Club.  For more information, see our website at www.nwhcaggiemoms.com.

 

Jersey Village Garden Club

MARCH 9:

The Jersey Village Garden Club will be hosting "Native Plants" by Karen Breneman at 9:30am on Tuesday, March 9th at the Jersey Village Civic Center (16327 Lakeview).  The event is FREE to the public.

 

AGGIE MOMS CLUB

NW HARRIS COUNTY

APRIL MEETING

 

APRIL 13:

Calling all Aggie Moms to the April 13th meeting to be held at 7 pm at the Houston Distribution Center conveniently located near Willowbrook Mall at the corner of Cutten Road and 7100 High Life Drive.  All current, future, and former Aggie Moms are encouraged to attend!   One of the main goals for the Aggie Mom’s Club is to fundraise in order to provide scholarships for our Aggie students, therefore the April meeting is all about scholarships!  Join us as we listen to former Aggie scholarship winners and learn how these scholarships contributed to their Aggie experience.   Find out which Aggie students will be recipients of the new 2010 Scholarship awards.  Attend the meeting to vote for your favorite TAMU organization to receive club funds!  Join us as we elect the new officers for the 2010-2011 Aggie Moms Club.

Other upcoming events include a “Boots N Whoops” western dance fundraiser to be held March 28th and a baseball tailgate party in April.  For more information, please see our website at www.nwhcaggiemoms.com

 

Epihpany Lutheran Preschool 2010-11 Regisration

Registration for our 2010-11 school year will begin Monday, February 22nd.  Our program offers classes on various days during the week from 9 - 2:00 PM for our MDO 1 & 2's.  Preschool 3's & Pre-K 4's classes are offered with a 9-12 or 9-2 PM option.  We also have Fun Friday classes for our 2,3,& 4 year olds.  For more information call Nancy at (713) 896-1316. We are located at 8101 Senate Ave. in Jersey Village.

 

 

Joyful Noise Preschool & Mother's Day Out

Jersey Village Baptist Church

 

Jersey Village Baptist Church (16518 Jersey Dr) is now enrolling new students for the 1009-2010 school year.  Children ages 3 months through 5 years are invited to enroll in Joyful Noise.  We are a Christian, part-time preschool, and children attend school Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.  We are offering a new Bridge Program for the upcoming school year for children who will be of a gem but not quite ready to go to Kindergarten.  For more information, please call us at 713-466-9933, or visit our website at www.jvbc.org

 

 

Deerfield Village Bunko Group

Meets the 3rd Thursday of the Month at the Deerfield Clubhouse from 7-9pm.  Bring a potluck dish and $5.25. For more information contact JoAnne Maruca at 281-550-8162 / joann.rich@yahoo.com or Pat Rothman at 281-345-9355 / rr1texas@earthlink.net

 

 

Cake Mixes & Toxins 
(email from Bitsy Aldrige - 07/17/09)

 

This  is confirmed on Snopes     http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/pancake.asp

A student at HBHS (high school) had  pancakes this week and it almost became fatal. His Mom (registered  nurse) made him pancakes, dropped him off at school and headed to play  tennis. She never takes her cell phone on the court but did this time  and her son called to say he was having trouble breathing. She told  him to go to the nurse immediately and proceeded to call school and  alert the nurse. The nurse called the paramedics and they were there  in 3 minutes and worked on the boy all the way to the hospital. He  came so close to dying. Evidently this is more common then I ever  knew. Check the expiration dates on packages like pancakes and cake  mixes that have yeast which over time develop spores. Apparently, the  mold that forms in old mixes can be toxic! Throw away ALL OUTDATED  pancake mix, brownie mixes, Bisquick, cake & cookie mixes, etc.,  you have in your home.

P.S.
Tell this to your  children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces and anyone else who keeps  these types of mixes in the cupboard..
 

 

Incident in Katy, TX

(email from LuJuana Gilmore 03/27/09)

Share with our sisters, daughters, nieces, mothers, and female friends.  This Incident has been confirmed. In Katy , TX

A man came over and offered his services as a painter to a female putting gas in her car and left his card. She said no, but accepted his
card out of kindness and got in the car.  The man then got into a car driven by another gentleman.  As the lady left the service station, she
saw the men following her out of the station at the same time.   Almost immediately, she started to feel dizzy and could not catch her breath.
She tried to open the window and realized that the odor was on her hand; the same hand which accepted the card from the gentleman at the
gas station.

She then noticed the men were immediately behind her and she felt she needed to do something at that moment.  She drove into the first
driveway and began to honk her horn repeatedly to ask for help.  The men drove away but the lady still felt pretty bad for several minutes after
she could finally catch her breath.  Apparently,  there was a substance on the card that could have seriously injured her.  This drug is called 'BURUNDANGA' and it is used by people who wish to incapacitate a victim in order to steal from or take advantage of them.

This drug is four times more dangerous than the date rape drug and is transferable on simple cards. So take heed and make sure you don't accept cards at any given time alone or from someone on the streets.  This applies to those making house calls and slipping you a card when they offer their services.

 

Female Heart Attack Experience

(email from Candi McIlroy, 3/18/09)

 

*NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE*


*I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it on!* *Diane K. in AZ* *FEMALE HEART ATTACKS* *I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I've ever read.* *Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction). Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack ... you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack.* *"I had a heart attack at about 10 :30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've brought it on.* *I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.* *A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.* *After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).* *This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!* *I lowered the footrest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else ... but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I* *wait any longer I may not be able to get up in moment.* *I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.* *I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when* *we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interprets what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.* *'I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.* *'Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important* *in my life to kno w what I learned first hand.'* *1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other* *anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up ... which doesn't happen.* *My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!* *2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can , take an Aspirin.*


*Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!*  *Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road.* *Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road.* *Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally* *OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.* *3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count.. Research has disc overed that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MI's are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive..*

 

 

Swiffer WetJet

(email by Gail Lash on 02/06/09 and Donald Dryden on 02/07/09)

 

WOW VERY SCARY!!

Thought you might find this interesting.

I found this interesting and wanted to pass it along. Recently someone had to have their 5-year old German Shepherd dog put down due to liver failure. The dog was completely healthy until a few weeks ago, so they had a necropsy done to see what the cause was.  The liver levels were unbelievable, as if the dog had ingested poison of some kind. The dog is kept inside, and when he'soutside, someone's with him, so the idea of him getting into something unknown was hard to believe.


My neighbor started going through all the items in the house. When he got to the Swiffer Wetjet, he noticed, in very tiny print, a warning which stated 'may be harmful to small children and animals.' He called the company to ask what the contents of the cleaning agent are and was astounded to find out that antifreeze is one of the ingredients (actually, he was told it's a compound which is one molecule away from antifreeze). Therefore, just by the dog walking on the floor cleaned with the solution, then licking its own paws, it ingested enough of the solution to destroy its liver.


Soon after his dog's death, his housekeepers' two cats also died of liver failure. They both used the Swiffer Wetjet for quick cleanups on their floors. Necropsies weren't done on the cats, so they couldn't file a lawsuit, but he asked that we spread the word to as many people as possible so they don't lose their animals.


This is equally harmful to babies and small children that play on the floor a lot and put their fingers in their mouths a lot.