Join us on Wednesday, October 26, for the Southwest Jewish Conference’s 2016 Awards. Emceed by Sylvia Komatsu, KERA, and John McCaa, WFAA News Anchor, this event will recognize the men and women who are spirited in the pursuit of positive social change and who have made an impact on their…
Maybe you’ve heard it in the news recently, but there’s been a rash of drug overdoses and emergency responses due to the use of K2, or synthetic marijuana. But calling this drug “synthetic marijuana” is deceiving as it has little in common with natural marijuana. Synthetic marijuana can be up to 100…
Nonprofit Veteran to Focus on Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships LaunchAbility, which helps people with learning and intellectual disabilities find work and lead independent lives, announced today the appointment of non-profit veteran Rick Van Hooser as its new executive director. Previously with Big Thought, Van Hooser brings his extensive fundraising experience…
HALL OFFICE PARK REFRESH UNDERWAY WITH NEW NAME, AMENITIES AND UPGRADES HALL Group reimagines the 16-building park, renaming it HALL Park and enhancing tenant experience HALL Group’s award-winning, 162-acre, 16-building HALL Office Park in Frisco is undergoing a park-wide refresh that includes renaming the project to HALL Park as well…
The 5th Annual Dallas Summer Musicals High School Musical Theatre Awards Best Actor and Best Actress Travel to New York City to Compete in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards Best Actress Kaiden Maines from Waxahachie High School and Best Actor John Frederickson from Guyer High School leave…
Families with Children Battling Cancer Benefit from Sales of Goodnight Burger What happens when you mix a delicious hamburger with a fantastic nonprofit? You sell 90,000 burgers and are able to give $90,000 to a local charity. Hopdoddy Burger Bar partnered with Heroes for Children in 2014, as part…
Richland College showed its green side with a campus-wide recycling rate of more than 82 percent during the spring semester, earning the grand champion prize in RecycleMania, an annual competition for college and university recycling programs. Each spring since 2001, colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada report the…
As a native Bostonian, Kenny Bowers grew up surrounded by great pizza. Now, he’ll bring that classic, East Coast style of pizza to North Texas when he opens Kenny’s East Coast Pizza in Plano’s Berkeley Square shopping center at the prime intersection of Park and Preston. “I love bringing real…
Congratulations, Teachers of the Year! Plano ISD 2016 Elementary and Secondary Teachers of the Year, Erika Manning, Weatherford Elementary School instructional specialist, and Bryan Yee, Plano Senior High School mathematics teacher, respectively, were announced by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian T. Binggeli at Plano ISD’s Teacher of the Year…