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Registration is being conducted online through May 31 for the Heights Association’s 28th Heights 5K Fun Run at 7:30 a.m. June 1.

The event, which starts and ends at Marmion Park, will also include a 5K walk which launches at 7:35 a.m., and a children’s 1K, starting at 8:30 a.m.

A post-race party begins at the park at 8 a.m., with an awards ceremony at 9 a.m. All children in the 1K will receive an award. The party includes entertainment, door prizes and refreshments, including tacos, fresh fruit, bagels, water and coff ee.

Online registration is being conducted through 8 p.m. May 31 at www.houstonheights.org, or can be done at Luke’s Locker, 1953 W. Gray, May 30-31, where packet pickup will also be conducted. Signups will also be held on the day of the event.

Cost for the fun run and walk is $25 through May 28 and $30 after. The children’s 1K is $15 until May 28 and $20 after. Credit cards are accepted.

Proceeds from the run/walk go to community programs of the Heights Association.

For information, call 713-861-4002, ext. 4, or email

[email protected].

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Recently, Th e Leader has heard varying reports about the Last Chance Recovery Center in a quiet Mangum Manor neighborhood. Nearby residents have worried that men at the center may be responsible for some of the crime in the area. We sent reporter Michael Sudhalter for a visit and to

talk to police about how the center functions.

FOR SALEHISD’s law

enforcement HS campusThere’s no “for sale” sign out front, but

the nearly 11-acre campus of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice High School at 4701 Dickson St. at Shepherd Drive is on the market.

Houston ISD is taking sealed bids on an all-cash basis through 2 p.m. June 18 at the Board Services Offi ce at district headquar-ters, 4400 W. 18th St.

Although the property is no longer enu-merated on the Harris County Appraisal District rolls, last fall HCAD showed an estimated value of $26 million for the site. Whoever buys it would have to agree to lease it back to HISD for up to fi ve years after it closes, to allow time for the district to construct a new campus for the high school.

Sources with adjacent St. Thomas High School have told The Leader in the past that they’re positioned to make a competi-tive bid on the property, which would allow them to expand their cramped campus.

LECJ High School was not part of the $1.9 billion bond package passed last fall by HISD voters, but a commitment was made as part of the construction package to build a new school using surplus bond funds and/or proceeds from sale of the ex-isting campus.

Bid packages for the property are avail-able by contacting Gary Hansel at 713-556-9268.

Hare Krishna director of outreach, Dr. Hansa Medley, right, stands next to a statue of Swami Prabhu-pada, who brought the Hare Krishna Temple to Houston.(Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

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Hare Krishna Temple in Garden Oaks wants to help community

Any motorist who drives down 34th Street, between Ella and Shepherd, can’t help but see the majestic sight of the Hare Krishna Temple, ISKCON of Houston.

“We want to be a part of the community and enrich the com-munity,” said Dr. Hansa Medley, an internal medicine specialist who serves as the temple’s director of outreach.

The 2,200 square foot temple was purchased in 1985 and was originally a Baptist church. How-ever, it’s just a small part of ISK-CON’s fi ve acres of property.

It also includes a community garden, a community center/Sun-day school, and a new 5,500 square foot temple that’s scheduled to be open within the next two years.

Construction on the new temple began in 2002, and the total cost is approximately $1.6 million and will be one of the largest in North America. It has hand crafted doors that were made in India.

Upon completion, the current temple will become a vegetarian restaurant.

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A robbery at the Carl’s Jr on 3011 Ella and an attempted robbery at the Denny’s on 2120 N. Loop West occured within min-utes of each other around 7:45 p.m. on Sat-urday, May 11, and the Houston Police De-partment said the two may be connected.

Both incidents had a suspect description of a white male in his early 20s, 5-foot-10 to 6-feet, 180-pounds in plaid clothing, who was driving a tan station wagon. He came away with an undisclosed amount of mon-ey from Carl’s Jr but didn’t get anything from Denny’s.

Arrest made in Shipley’s robberyHPD arrested Terrance Leon Scranton,

35, and charged him with robbery by threat in the May 14 robbery of the Shipley’s Do-nuts at 3410 Ella.

Scranton allegedly demanded money from the register at gunpoint. The manager gave HPD a good description of the sus-

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Those who wish to spend a part of Memorial Day honoring America’s war dead can do so Monday at the annual service held at the Houston V.A. National Cemetery.

The service gets started at 9:30 a.m. at the cem-etery, 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive. Texas Air Na-tional Guard Commander Col. Kurt L. Leslie, based at Ellington Field in Houston, will be the keynote speaker. Local veterans’ organizations, ROTC units

and Boy and Girl Scout troops are invited to partici-pate in the parade of colors and wreaths.

There will be a flyover by the U.S. Coast Guard, the playing of Taps, a cannon salute, performance of the hymn “Amazing Grace,” and a rifle salute by the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4.

Guests who plan on visiting gravesites are asked to do so before 8 a.m. or following the service at 1 p.m.

The Memorial Day holiday will alter the city of Houston’s schedule for solid waste collection, and re-cycling centers will close Monday. Here’s how the week shapes up:

Monday (Memorial Day) - No collection services. All Houston solid waste facilities, including the Neighborhood Depository/Recy-cling Centers, the Westpark Recy-cling Center and the Reuse Ware-house will be closed.

Tuesday - Monday’s Garbage, Curbside Recycling, Yard Waste and 4th Monday’s and Tuesday’s Tree Waste collected today. The Neighborhood Depository/Recy-cling Centers are closed. The West-park Recycling Center and the Re-use Warehouse re-open.

Wednesday - Tuesday’s Garbage, Curbside Recycling and Yard Waste collected today. The Neighbor-hood Depository/Recycling Cen-ters re-open.

Thursday – Normal schedule re-sumes.

The Houston V.A. National Cemetery will honor the nation’s war dead with a Memorial Day service Monday. (Photo from Houston V.A.)

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In full disclosure, this year was Leader Eater’s first time at the Great Taste of the Heights event, showcasing more than 20 of the area’s restaurants, coffee shops and dessert makers last weekend. And it showed. Besides needing to have a little patience and an empty belly, there are two impor-tant survival items you need in order to get the most out of this annual foodie fest.

I was not the only one standing single file for The Spaghetti West-ern restaurant’s diminutive yet de-licious meatball sandwich with a quizzical look after spotting fellow food fans holding a hollow wine box or one of those cardboard box bottoms that hold 24 cans of beer. But I quickly realized the simplis-tic ingenuity of an empty box.

The festival’s set up directs foodies into line ups for each individual restaurant, which slings out a sample of one of its spe-cialty dishes in portions that last no more than a few bites. Without a makeshift cafeteria tray, you would constantly be taking away BB’s Café’s okra-laced and biting gumbo or the mac and cheese with short ribs from Glass Wall for a quick nibble to free up your hands. And then head back into another line (which moved along relatively quickly the entire time I was there).

Leader Eater improvised (with some help from my Co-Pilot) and flipped one of the Frisbees that Max’s Wine Dive was giving away (along with some macaroni and cheese) for easy transport of the chicken satays and lush creamy coconut rice from Thai Spice and the briskly biting goat cheese thingamajigs that Benjy’s were offering.

But things started to really turn up for Leader Eater when north Houston’s celebrity chef Ken Bridge (in the flesh) handed

me an empty Pink’s Pizza box (he owns the place after all) for hauling around my chow. Now I could dominate this midway of mini meals. I loaded up with a sweet bun burger from Lola, a slice of a deliciously classic cheese ’Zza from Pink’s, some flavor-bending chicken tikka masala from Witchcraft, a dressed up hot dog from Happy Fatz, a white chocolate drizzled strawberry by La Madeleine and an electric red sno-cone (that was a hit with The Bomber, my five-year-old going on 15) from What’s Up Cupcake.

Now comes the second piece of Taste of the Heights survival gear that the Leader Eater came with-out: a folding chair. We did what we could sitting cross-legged with the Pink’s on the grassy space at All Saints Catholic Community Church’s clean campus. But it would have been ideal to have our own chairs (or blankets or even a full pop-up tent as one group brought) to sit back and enjoy the rock solid live band and people-watching while noshing.

The festival sprawled out its footprint for this year’s event and made it much more man-ageable (I was told) for getting drinks at the Craft Beer Tent or the Regular Beer Tent, heading to the bathrooms and managing the line-ups (which tended to stretch the longest from the higher-priced restaurants). And it was a breeze to sneak back through the sam-pling lines on the way out, which I’m glad I did.

Houston Dairymaids piled up a dozen or so chunks of its Espresso Lavender Utah Cheddar Cheese on some wax paper for me. The cheese, with a dusting of granular espresso beans, hit me with an unexpectedly creative tandem of taste that had me declaring sur-vival success at Leader Eater’s first Great Taste of the Heights.

Great Taste of the Heights215 East 10th St.

www.greattasteoftheheights.comTickets in Advance: $25Tickets at the Door: $35

Adult Refreshments: $4-$6 Kid Friendly: A band, small portions

and grassy areas to play in made it ideal for the young ones.

LE’s Favorite: Espresso and Lavender Utah Cheddar Cheese, Houston Dairy Maids.

Cricket’s Creamery & Caffee on West 19th in the Heights has changed its ownership and culinary viewpoint. (Facebook photo)

As promised I ventured out for a little ar-tistic investigating the past week and paid a visit to Texas Art Asylum. I’m not quite sure how to explain just how vast, cool, kitschy and amazing Texas Art Asylum and its two proprietors are. This past December, Cynthia Lescalleet wrote about Ramona Brady and Jennifer McCormick for The Leader in an article titled Texas Art Asy-lum helps castoffs “find their (crafty) people.” Read that here: http://www.theleadernews.com/?p=3755

“Cool stuff for creative reuse,” is how the store is described on their website. By stuff, they mean literally everything - books, re-cords, transistor tubes, canvas paintings, art supplies - whatever you can imagine it is probably stocked on their shelves. I of course walked in looking at the walls, because they are adorned with artwork from local artists, some with items right off the store shelves, I am certain. Many by friends, and soon by - me. Ahem. More on that later.

Texas Art Asylum is more than an “art” store. Art classes are offered by notably suc-cessful artists, quarterly art events by Texas Art Asylum, and they also host shows by oth-ers. I was most impressed with the nonprofit that happens to have a space there, as well, and founded by Ramona Brady, The Center for Re-cycled Art. Among other things the Center of-fers vastly discounted art supplies to teachers and other nonprofits. Ramona tells me about 60 percent of everything that is brought in goes to The Center for Recycled Art’s Teacher Warehouse.

All I can say at this point about my own contribution to Texas Art Asylum is that I will submit a piece (made from Tupperware) for the upcoming exhibit and collaboration with Theater Under The Stars; Texas Art Asylum & TUTS Tupperware Art Show. To celebrate the Houston opening of Dixie’s Tupperware Party at TUTS, artists are creating one of a kind Tupperware-based art.

The exhibit will be at the asylum’s new loca-tion, 1719 Live Oak St. 77003, with an opening reception from 5-8 p.m. May 31. The show runs through June 9. Visit the website atwww.texasartasylum.com.

May 24Dianna K. Webb will be the featured artist at

the grand opening of Blank Slate, a laser tattoo removal clinic. Blank Slate, 1720 Houston Ave. 77007 6-8 p.m.

East End Studio Gallery presents: The Mouthless-Kat: Hello Kitty & Friends! A cu-rated group show featuring artists interpre-tations of that famous character, Hello Kitty. 708 Telephone Rd. Ste. C, 77023 http://www.eestudiogallery.com.

May 25Houston Re-Market 4302 Harrisburg, 11

a.m.-4 p.m. www.houstonremarket.com.The Lone Star Bazaar, 300 Westheimer on

the Numbers Nightclub parking lot, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. http://thelonestarbazaar.com

For the Elephant -- Houston Zine Jambo-ree, Texas Art Asylum 1719 Live Oak 77003 2-6 p.m. Presented by students from School of the Woods, this event includes perfor-

mances by spoken word poets and local mu-sicians, with enough alt lit to keep the most Indie English professor happy. Refreshments by Monty & Smith’s Fine Coffee. For ques-tions, table booking or performance inquiries, email [email protected].

The 3rd Annual Brazarre – an Artful Bras Event Benefiting The American Cancer Soci-ety’s Relay For Life Greater Heights at G Gal-lery, 301 East 11th St. from 6-9 p.m. Silent and live bidding, with refreshments and a $5 charitable donation at the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/547896291929282/

David Miller - Heights Art Studios & Gal-lery 7-10 p.m. 214 E. 27 St. 77008 Heights art-ist David Miller has been exploring the world of digital art for more than 20 years but last year, through a stroke of luck, he began com-bining his abstract digital imagery with col-lage, mixed media, ink and spray paint. http://hasg.blog.com

Saturday & Sunday - Comicpalooza George R Brown Convention Center 1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston, Texas 77010 http://www.comicpalooza.com – yes, this is not the norm for me to bring you; however, I know a lot of local artists will be there in the “Art-ist Alley.” This multi-format convention cel-ebrates not just comics, but also sci-fi and fan-tasy, horror, steam punk, New Media, movies, film, toys, and gaming of all types.

June 1Lynn Lane’s Art Opening - 14 Pews 800

Aurora St. 6-8 p.m. New art show explores the dancer as kinetic art, plus local filmmaker Cressandra Thibodeaux, will premiere her short film Lynn Lane In Motion. www.14pews.com

Art After Dark - First Saturday Arts Mar-ket at Night! 548 W. 19th Street, 6-10 p.m. The market switches to evening hours for the summer through August. Works of dozens of visual artists, showcasing paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry and handcrafted items, plus live music and, this month, the Good Dog Houston food truck. www.FirstSaturdayArts-Market.com or call 713-802-1213.

Cohen is the founder and manager of First Saturday Arts Market. Contact him at [email protected] or visit him on the web atArtValet.com.

Art a la Carte: Texas Art Asylum is crazy-interesting

Mitch CohenArts Columnist

Memorial Day is a day of re-membering those who lost their lives while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. It also usually coincides with the beginning of warm weather and for some, a three-day holiday weekend.

Some have getaways already planned, while others are looking for hot spots to check out. Here are some of the Thirsty Explorer’s ideas for things to do over the holiday weekend.

Debut of Wakefield CrowBarThe Wakefield CrowBar, which boasts sand volleyball, is sched-

uled to open at 954 Wakefield Drive just in time for Memorial Day Weekend. There will be a variety of dishes offered for lunch and din-ner, as well as breakfast items on the weekends. The CrowBar will have a full liquor bar, over 30 beers on tap and plentiful parking.

When the Thirsty Explorer stopped by to check it out, she learned that the Houston Sports & Social Club meets every Monday through Thursday for Co-Ed Sand Volleyball. For information about Wake-field CrowBar, visit www.wakefieldcrowbar.com.

Extended brunch at Cyclone Anaya’sBrunch at Cyclone Anaya’s has been extended through 3 p.m.

on Memorial Day Monday. Brunch offers the Famous Margaritas, Mimosas and Poinsettias, Rock & Roll Bloody Marys and Cyclone’s Hibiscus Sangria.

The May drink specials include 1800 and Maestro Dobel Tequila and the Reverse Peach Margarita, The Maestro Dobel Skinny Mar-garita and Maestro Dobel Agave Julep. May featured shots are the Skinny Mini, Mexican Red Hot, Tequila Slammer and Fresh Squeezed Kamikaze. For more information, visit www.cycloneanaya.com.

Official cheers for Texas craft brewsEarlier this week the Texas Legislature gave formal approval to a

package of bills that would make significant changes to the Texas craft beer industry. With approval from Gov. Rick Perry, Texas craft breweries will be allowed more flexibility in the way beer is bought and sold. The legislation has the potential to bring the state billions in revenue, in addition to more than 50,000 new jobs.

Happy Hour Thursdays at MFAHAdmission to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is free for Happy

Hour Thursdays thanks to support by a grant from the Shell Oil Company Foundation. The museum-style happy hour gives attend-ees the opportunity to check out the museum at no cost –– along with music provided by a local DJ, food truck bites from Ladybird Food Truck and a cash bar.

This is also one of the last chances to see the featured exhibit, Picasso Black and White, which will have its final day Monday. Happy Hour Thursdays are from 6 to 8 p.m. through June 27 at the Beck Building at 5601 Main Street. For information about the Museum of Fine Arts at 1001 Bissonnet St., visit www.mfah.org or call 713-639-7300.

The 2013 TRILL Comedy Festival“Unbelievably cool comedy festival attacks Houston, Texas!” says

the website www.trillcomedy.com. The 2013 TRILL Comedy Festi-val will feature three nights of comedy packed with world-touring performers and shows. TRILL is Houston’s only comprehensive comedy festival that includes improv, stand up, performance art, musical comedy and more.

The festival continues through May 25 at Station Theater, 1230 Houston Ave., 77007. For information about the performances or to buy tickets, visit www.stationtheater.com.

No Label Brewing Co. Mint IPA Release?“Labels?... We don’t need no stinkin’ labels!” says No Label Brew-

ing Co., which just released its Mint IPA. They will be hosting Crafts and Drafts at the brewery from 7-9 p.m. May 30. Cost is $25 and includes a glass, beer, dinner and craft to make and take home, with $5 going to the Fort Bend County Women’s Center.

No Label offers tastings every Saturday from noon until 3 p.m. at 5351-A 1st Street in Katy. “Bring the kids & the dog,” they suggest. Admission is $5, and those under 21 get in free with a parent. For more information, visit www.nolabelbrew.com.

Memorial Day weekend is here

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Come meat the new Cricket’sCricket’s Creamery & Caffe, 315 W. 19th St., is under new ownership and is no longer

pure vegan/vegetarian. Michael Alcorn is introducing a few options for carnivores while retaining and enhancing a strong menu of veggie choices.

Cricket’s is also strengthening its local relationships, adding items from Kraftsmen Bak-ery, Katz Coffee, Fluff Bake Bar and Fat Cat Creamery.

Creatures from the deep, the mud on sale at BB’sBB’s Cafe, known for its Cajun specialties, is serving up discounted seafood on Wednes-

day nights, dubbing the specials Water Creature Wednesdays. Examples: Crawfish for $4.95 a pound, $7.95 for snow crab clusters. The Heights outpost of B&B’s is at 2601 White Oak Ave.

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CLUES DOWN

THE READER.

After almost a year as custodians, how can we get better?

We’re leaving you graduates a perfectly fine messGood morning, Class of 2013.

Welcome to your required college commencement address delivered by someone you never heard of containing platitudes you will soon forget, such as “march to greatness” and “onward and upward.” If you don’t know the di-rection by now, it’s too late. Look-ing out at your smiling, expectant and innocent faces would give me a thrill, except that I know most of you are texting or tweeting or whatever you call those things, and are not paying the slightest attention to me.

We are here to celebrate your graduation from college after four years, or in some cases, five or six. We know your stay with us was filled with the excitement of learn-ing, of growing, of turning your dorm rooms into meth labs. In that regard, whoever took all the fire hoses from Montezuma Hall please return them, along with the campus fire marshal. You have been living on pizza and beer, sleeping through those 8 o’clock classes and planning tailgat-ing parties. Also, you have been introduced to a fine and expensive education. Whether you partook of it was up to you.

As you leave these hallowed halls of ivy, there are a few things you should know, which I learned through hard work, a few mistakes –– not to mention ex-wives, indictments and enormous legal fees. You have been told never to play poker with a guy named Lucky, never to eat at a diner called Mom’s, and never to buy a Rolex from a guy who’s out of breath.

George Will advised never to take stock market advice from someone who rolls up his sleeves and shouts to you over the TV. I would add never buy stock, period. Never trust someone who calls you “Dude” or asks if he can borrow your Social Security num-ber for an hour or has an unlisted DNA. We all know the expression, never take a knife to a gunfight. I recommend you avoid gunfights in the first place.

We now come to jobs. It’s a jungle out there, and you’re up the Congo without a machete. The outlook is bleak, yet not hopeless. A new survey by the

National Association for Colleges and Employers, which sounds like a make-work project for unem-ployed English majors, has done a survey of 400,000 employers plus government data and rumors from a guy named Dude. The av-erage starting salary for you mem-bers of the Class of 2013 is going to be $44,928, up from last year’s $42,666. A few years ago, during the depths of the Recession, any paycheck was appreciated.

Got any engineers here? Oh, yes, you with the pocket protec-tors and thick glasses. You top the chart at $62,535 for an annual starting salary. Earning more is pretty standard for people who like to work in dark cubicles, tell knock-knock jokes and have no love life. Computer science majors are second with $59,977. You’re in the adjoining cubicle. At the very bottom are those who majored in the humanities and social sciences –– history, philosophy and streaking. The old joke was such graduates should learn how to say, “Would you like fries with that?” Or, “Please pull up to the next window.” Today it’s, “Hello, I’m Lance. This is not a sales call, but you have been chosen....” You know the drill.

If you can’t get a job, do like millions of other recent gradu-ates have done: move back in with your folks. Or just look around at today’s audience. Stay in grad school and become a professor. The work is easy. You give the same lectures every semester. With tenure you can’t get fired, and your grad students do all the work. Think: paid sabbatical. This brings us to a long-running fight here in Texas at UT-Austin and Texas A&M about how much pro-fessors really teach, should they do research and what role the regents should play in micromanaging the school.

What’s really important, teach-ing or research? Let’s cut to the chase here, boys and girls. Former UT regents chairman Frank Erwin put it best, “I want a university the football team can be proud of.” Now there’s a Texan with the right priorities. If you don’t believe me, look at the UT-A&M football stadium race and the coaches’ salaries.

Today you may leave this school, but this school will never leave you. Your university will follow you to the ends of the earth urging you to stay in contact, renew old friendships and, most importantly, send money. The vice president in charge of develop-ment --a sneaky name -- has pursuit abilities to shame the FBI. Your alumni magazine will feature photos of big donors, fat cats holding enormous checks for a new law library and request -- again, a sneaky name -- perpetual remembrance, which means: “In your will, leave your money to us.”

But before you can “give gener-ously” to your alma mater you’ve first got to get a job to pay off your student loans. Today nation-ally, those loans total more than one trillion dollars, more than the entire nation’s credit card debt. Remember you can’t wiggle out of this IOU by declaring bankruptcy. Federal law prevents it.

Right now America is try-ing to get out of two wars. The unemployment rate is high, the economy is stagnant, and global warming is frying the planet. Our bridges are falling down, Detroit is dead and the world’s Muslims hate us. What’s more, my generation is leaving you a little house-warming gift: a huge national debt.

What to do? Just do what your parents did, pass the IOUs on to your own children. Some say the Class of 2013 is inheriting a real mess. Nonsense. It is obvious that we have left you a perfect world. Don’t screw it up.

Next spring another graduat-ing class will be sitting in these very chairs, all thinking the same thing: “How can I get your job?” You have a one-year head start. Get busy.

Ashby is employed at [email protected]

So how are we doing? Seems an easy enough question, but in more than 320 years

of American publishing, I don’t think newspapers have asked that question nearly enough. In fact, it’s a question so rarely asked that very few people will bother to respond.

Of all the mistakes our industry has made (and we know there are plenty), one of the worst is that we rightfully earned the reputa-tion of too often trying to dictate thought. We should have been facilitators of, and responders to, thought. Not dictators of it.

In the same sense, I don’t be-lieve newspapers, in general, have ever done a good job of asking you what you want to read. Asking if you even care to read. And, for that matter, changing anything because our readers asked us to do so.

One of my first, and most influ-ential, bosses told me something that has stuck through my 17 years of working at community newspapers. He said, “Jonathan, this isn’t your newspaper. It’s your community’s newspaper. You’re just the custodian for a little while.”

Accept my apologies for the philosophical tone today. As you’ve probably realized, we tend to run the gamut of emotions in this space, and today seems a good time for reflection. We’re a

few weeks away from marking our first anniversary of owning The Leader, and after nearly a year, I’d like to ask how we’re doing.

Again, I know most of you will not go out of your way to send us responses, and that’s perfectly OK. You have families to raise, careers to manage and grandchildren to discipline. But for those of you who do have the time, and for those of you who actually pick up the paper each week, rather than leaving it in the gutter, this is one of those chances for you to make an impact on a product I still believe has relevance in our community.

This isn’t a self-aggrandizing at-tempt to earn praise, either. I hear from so many nice readers who enjoy this column, or who love that we cover food and restau-rants. We’ve heard from the nicest of people, and we’ve heard from others who have really strong opinions (like the lady, pardon, woman who believes I’m sexist

because men are buffoons when it comes to shopping for babies).

So how are we doing? Could we be a more relevant newspaper if we covered less crime and more features on community organiza-tions? Are we a good medium for the local businesses who choose to use our pages and website to advertise their products? Have we become boring in that our stories all seem to repeat themselves (same robbery, different address)?

Next to today’s column, I’ve included a form for those of you who like to clip and mail. As al-ways, I also publish my email ad-dress at the bottom of this column every week. And for those who would rather fill in the blanks, these same questions will be posted at the top of our website, beginning on Friday. You can visit www.theleadernews.com and click on the quick survey.

Ultimately, I’m just trying to heed the advice I was given so many years ago: This is your newspaper, not mine. And I believe that in order to continue offering a service to our readers, we don’t need to dictate what you read. Rather, we need you to dictate what we write.

For those who have the time, thank you. For those who don’t, but who enjoy The Leader, feel free to write or call anytime.

Email [email protected]

JONATHAN

MCELVY

Publisher

How arewe doing?

If you have time and a stamp, please consider answering the five questions below. You can mail them to:

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1. What do you always read in The Leader?

2. What do you never read in The Leader? (Hard question if you never read it...)

3. Are there topics (like healthcare, or small business, or bingo games, or just about anything) you wish we’d cover more often?

4. Do you read the sports pages in The Leader? Are there other sports stories you’d like us to cover?

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You don’t have to use a stamp. You can email your answers to [email protected], orYou can visit our website at www.theleadernews.com and answer the survey at the top of the page.

ASHBYAT

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Old Heights church making way for retailCool. if there’s one thing the Heights needs less of, it’s historic

architecture, and if there’s one thing the Heights needs more of, it’s new-construction retail and dining.

Dan Binder via THE LEADER Facebook page

So true. We are so lucky to have a century old building replaced by a stucco strip mall. How did we get so fortunate? I am so glad developers love the Heights enough to make sure no part of what makes it special will remain.

Viula Tremblay Torgerson via THE LEADER Facebook page

Please, please let there be a cell phone store or a place that buys gold!

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Wahoo! I hope we get a bunch of fast food chains and a public storage facility!

Kyle Jones via THE LEADER Facebook page

Sexist throwback?Are you living in the 1950s? What a bunch of old-timey sexist

drivel. “Men, have you ever bought Lil Tummys gas drops?” Yeah, women without kids buy stuff for babies all the time because they are women and that’s what women do. Men, with or without kids are clueless idiots and would never buy something for babies, whether they have them or not.

“Ladies” without kids don’t know this stuff either. It’s not about gender, it’s about whether or not you have a baby. And the proper word to pair with “Men” is “Women”, not “Ladies”.

Signed,IsThisThe50s via www.theleadernews.com

[Quick Response from the Publisher: I guess there’s always one out there. You are correct, this is not the ’50s. I don’t know that it’s the ’80s anymore, either. All I know is that my wife absolutely loved it. I think her word was, “classic.” So if my wife is happy, that’s all that really matters to me.

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The 84-year-old Houston resident started a recovery center in downtown Houston for people battling drug and alcohol addiction.

In February 2001, he opened Last Chance Recovery Center Inc./Landing Point on three acres at 5130 Milwee. He has 75-to-80 all-male residents who are required to attend nine Al-coholics Anonymous/12-step meetings per week.

“We’re very serious about what we do,” Edinger said. “I love to see the guys as they progress. I like to see the light in their eyes, when (they overcome) being morose and de-pressed.”

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A local church’s Sunday School brings toi-letries to the residents, and it’s not uncommon for the center to receive donations of $10-$50 from area residents.

Edinger said the center performs thorough background checks of each applicant and does not accept sex offenders under any circum-stances. They make sure the applicants are se-rious about recovery.

They host annual “sobriety birthdays” and last year, the center honored 63 former/cur-rent residents who have been sober for at least a year.

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“Usually, parolees are your best residents because they don’t want to go back to prison,” Edinger said.

Last Chance has a close relationship with the Houston Police Department, and according to Edinger, the center’s managers will call the po-lice even in the case of a verbal disagreement.

According to HPD, there have been 18 calls over the past six months from Last Chance for assault, assault in progress and various inves-tigations.

Edinger said all of those calls have made by Last Chance staff to deal with residents who question the managers’ instructions or give negative feedback.

Hank Thomason, a manager at Last Chance, said there’s been just one physical altercation in the 10 years that he’s been there.

“It lasted two seconds because I broke it up, and the guys were off the property within five minutes,” Thomason said.

Sometimes, residents commit crimes af-ter they leave the facility and use its address because it was the last place they lived. One example was Billy Wayne Ellis Jr., a parolee who only stayed at Last Chance for a couple of nights and weeks later was arrested by the Harris County Sheriff ’s Office on a parole vio-lation.

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The rent is $100 per week, and Edinger said he loses about $1,000 per week on rent because

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“We don’t hold it against them that they have a past --- we care about the future,” Ed-inger said.

If the police come by because a resident has a warrant for child support payments or some-thing else, Edinger ensures that they “go down there, serve their time and come back.”

In addition to helping with the recovery process, Edinger also wants to instill a sense of community in the residents.

Every Friday, they wake up at 4 a.m. and make sack lunches for homeless people through the “Sack Lunch Express” program.

Laurenzo’s, on Washington Ave., supplies the bread, but the rest of the ingredients are made on site.

At one point, Edinger considered stopping the program due to financial reasons, but the residents objected, saying that waking up at 4 a.m. was a small price to pay in order to help the community.

“Everybody wants to do something about the homeless,” Edinger said. “They don’t, we do. “We’re not supermen, not superhuman. We don’t get a dime or thanks. We don’t want it. We just want people to support us.”

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Diaries

Theby Molly Sue McGillicutty

For The Leader

Last Chance Recovery Center manager, Hank Thomason, left, and owner James Edinger, have helped many alcohol and drug addicts recover from their addictions. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)


Last Chance Recovery Center strives for positive influence in community

Members of the Houston Hare Krishna Temple congregate in prayer during Sunday’s service. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

tion and prayer, the approximately 5,000 members who attend the only temple of its kind in the Houston area strive to be more spiritual.

About 70 percent of its members were born into the faith and 30 per-cent are converts, said Peter Medley, a convert from California who now lives in Houston.

“We don’t think we’re the only way or anything like that,” Peter said. “God has more than one name. We want to be good members of the community.”

The Hare Krishna faith came to Houston in the 1970s under the di-rection of Swami Prabhupada and was based downtown until 1985. The Medleys said the current loca-tion is “very central.”

The temple hosts festivals and has a good relationship with its neighbors. Hansa said the adjacent

YMCA allows them to use their fa-cility for extra parking during fes-tivals.

On the other side of 34th Street, the community is building apart-ments and encouraging some of its members to live there. They have purchased about 14 houses in the surrounding area and plan to add about four more acres to their cur-rent property.

They hope to add a full-time school on the property at some point in the future.

The temple is open daily, and the members make 300 vegetarian sack lunches for underprivileged school children in southeast Houston each week and feed the local homeless on 34th.

Every Sunday, members arrive around 5:30 p.m. for prayer, fol-lowed by a class and a feast.

Krishna • from Page 1A

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pect, and officers found Scranton walking on nearby Couch Street. He matched the description and evidence, including what turned out to be a BB gun, was found on him.

Woman robbed outside Chase BankA 64-year-old woman was robbed outside Chase Bank, 545 W.

19th Street, at 10:30 a.m. on May 16. She sustained minor inju-ries in the robbery. The suspect was described as a black male who drove a silver four-door Dodge Charger. He came away with an undetermined amount of money.

Retaliation?In the 800 block of Pinemont, a man was robbed of his bicycle

on May 11. The suspects were two black males. Police are investi-gating whether the crime was a retaliation as the suspects and vic-tim reportedly know each other.

Heights Walgreen hitThe Walgreens at 950 Studemont in the Heights was robbed at

12:55 a.m. on May 12. A suspect described as a black male grabbed an undetermined amount of money and fled on foot.

Purse snatching at cleanersA 26-year-old woman was robbed of her purse, phone and keys

at the Heights Cleaners in the 3300 block of Ella at 4:26 p.m. May 13. The suspects are two black males who were driving a white, four-door Chevy Malibu.

Phone, keys taken at gunpointA 33-year-old man was robbed of his cell phone and some keys,

at gunpoint, in the 1100 block of Columbia Street at 3:45 p.m. May 15. The suspects were two black males driving a 1995 or 96 white Ford Explorer.

Insurance agency robbedThe Family Auto Insurance Agency, 2017 N. Shepherd, was

robbed at 12:30 p.m. May 17 by a suspect described as a white male in his 20s to 40s driving an early 2000s model dark blue unknown four door vehicle. An undetermined amount of money was stolen.

Crime • from Page 1A


Gordon Leo Austin, Jr., 71, died May 13. He was in the Army Reserves before working as an auto mechanic at CenterPoint Energy for 31 years. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Cheryl, daughter, Leslye Hermes, son Jeffery, sisters Margaret Austin and Rita Hatten, and two grandchildren.

Utz William Buford “Chief”, 92, died recently. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942 and served on the USS Chenango as an aviation mechanic. Following World War II, the family moved to Texas and eventually settled in the Oak Forest community. Buford spent more than 50 years working in geophysical drilling with the last 20 years of his career as owner of Buford Drilling Company. Survivors include his daughters Kathy Clarke, Patricia Buford and Elizabeth Danna, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Wounded Warriors Project, www.wounded-warriorsproject.org or the Houston Area Parkinson’s Society, www.hapsonline.org.

Gene Oliver Caldwell, 78, died May 5, in Longview. He was a retiree of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, and the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Caldwell was an active member of St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church and served as a docent at the Houston Zoo. Survivors include his daughter Kathy Jean, and sons Kenneth and Brian, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Juanita Marie Hablizel Green, 87, born Aug. 3, 1925 in Houston, died May 14 in Seguin. She enjoyed her active role in the Jeff Davis High School Group, Foley’s Lunch Group and The All Saints Third Age Learning Center. Survivors include her son Brian Maxwell Green and daughter Beverly Renee’ Kmiecik, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Sam David Henry, Jr., born Aug. 30, 1927 in Ft. Worth, died May 16. He attended Texas A&M and left in 1945 to join the U.S. Navy during World War II. He married Lou Dyer Henry June 2, 1947. Henry worked for many years at Tommie Vaughn Ford and retired in 2006. He was a member of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church and a 32nd degree Mason. He is survived by his daughter, Karen Henry Dobbins, two grandchildren and two great-grand-children. Memorial contributions may be made to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund.

George W. Munns, born March 30, 1934 in Mercedes, Texas, died May 11. He attended Texas A&M from 1951-1955 and was a member of the Cadet Corps. He received a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and proudly served in the Strategic Air Command as a Navigator in a refueling squadron. Munns was active in the YMCA, teaching two scripture classes at the M.D. Anderson YMCA and attending the men’s scripture class at the Foster Family YMCA. Survivors include his children Kelly Harris, Kyle Munns and Brian Munns, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Memorial contributions may be made to the MD Anderson YMCA or Foster Family YMCA.

Ailene Slominski, 80, died May 18. She was a member of Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Survivors include her sons Allen and Walter, sisters Claudine Rivera and Diane George, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org/ or to Gethsemane Lutheran Church at www.gethsemanelutheran.org/.

Shirley S. Williams, 88, and Carl J. Williams, 89. Shirley died May 9, and Carl died May 14, both in the loving embrace of their children. Shirley was an RN who worked at the original Hermann Hospital in Houston then became a part of opening Spring Branch Hospital where she worked for many years until her retirement. She renewed her nursing license up until the age of 87. Carl served in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 15th Air Force, 376 Bomb Group as a staff sergeant nose gunner on B24 bombers over Italy. Carl worked with several architectural firms in Houston and retired from Lin-beck Construction Company. They are survived by their children Rebecca Molleyo, Diane Price, Laura Giltner, David Williams, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Carol Lake Winkler, 74, of Kerrville, died May 10. She graduated from St. Agnes Academy in 1957. Survivors include her daughters Joyce and Kathy, sons Jimmy and Raymond, sisters Betty, Mary, Doris, Erline and Bea, brother Bobby, 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. A Memorial Mass will be held 10 a.m., June 14 at St. Rose of Lima, 3600 Brinkman St., with Father Clint Ressler officiating the services.

John C. Winkler, born Jan. 4, 1939 in Houston, died after a short battle with cancer and a longer struggle with COPD. He was educated at All Saints and Blessed Sacrament Schools, St. Thomas High School and the University of Houston. His career with The Upjohn Company and Dow Chemical lasted for more than 31 years. Winkler is survived by his loving wife of 18 years, Betty, sons Kevin, John III and Thomas, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

OBITUARIES NEWS FROM YOUR PEWS

PRACTICE VIRTUE

Aristotle famously claimed that “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” You can’t be courageous just once or twice and

claim the virtue of courage. To be courageous requires that you have a settled disposition to act forthrightly and that you put that disposition into practice whenever the situation calls for it. Benjamin Franklin recounts in his autobiography how, as a young man, he systematically engaged in a project of self-improvement which involved spending four weeks on each of 13 virtues, the entire project thus taking him through the course of a year. With practice and self-re ection, he worked diligently to perfect those virtues, and at the end of the year, he had made signi cant progress in self-mastery. None of us are blessed with a perfect disposition and thus all of us must work hard to be good. Like anything that is dif cult, we get better at it the more that we practice. So, perhaps we should practice virtue and goodness and not be dismayed when we fail, for there is an eternity of time in which to perfect our souls.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you

can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

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Vacation Bible School registration now open at St. Stephen’s

St. Stephen’s United Method-ist Church, 2003 W. 43rd St., is holding registration for Vacation Bible School. This year’s pro-gram “The Everywhere Fun Fair - Where God’s World Comes To-gether,” gives children a glimpse of life during Bible days.

Children age 3 (potty-trained) through 5th-graders are wel-come to register. The cost is $15 for the first child and $10 for each sibling. Registration forms are available on the website, or through the church office.

Call 713-686-8241 or visit www.stsumc.org for informa-tion.

Charity car and cycle show at First Baptist Heights

First Baptist Church Heights, 201 E. 9th St., is sponsoring a Custom and Classic Car and Cycle Show benefiting Jeff Hale, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. May 25. There will be live music, food, games and a silent auction.

Entry fee is $25 per car or cy-cle. There will be a free display area for non-judged cars.

Longtime Woodland Heights resident Jeff Hale suffered a massive stroke Nov. 8, 2012. He lacks insurance and a means of income. His 9 year old son, Tay-lor, attends Travis Elementary.

One can donate items for the silent auction or make a monetary donation to Citizens National Bank, P.O. Box 127, Chandler, Texas 75758. Make checks payable to: Friends of Jeff Hale. Online donations can be made at http://www.gofundme.com/1rf4sw. Click on “Friends of Jeff Hale.”

Call 713-397-9336 for infor-mation.

Women’s study at Oak Forest Baptist

Oak Forest Baptist Church, 1700 W. 43rd St., is offering a women’s Bible study class. James: Mercy Triumphs is an eight-week Beth Moore Bible Study with flexible participa-tion to be held Thursday morn-ings from 10 a.m.-noon through May 30.

James, the brother of Jesus was a skeptic, an unbeliever, who later became a disciple. Small group study will be from 10-11 a.m. followed by a video pre-sentation from 11 a.m.-noon. Homework is optional. One can participate in both activities or attend either the small group study or the video.

For information, call the church office at 713-682-4942.

St. James Lutheran to host Summer Camp 2013

St. James Lutheran Church, 1602 W. 43rd St., and its Fam-ily Life Center will host Summer Camp 2013, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 10-July 3, for children 6 years through 12 years. Activities will include games, music, educa-tion, and art. Snacks and lunch will be provided. Registration is required. For information, call Robert Rivera, director, at the church office.

Other upcoming summer events include GED, Adult Lit-eracy, basic computer classes and a health forum.

St. James is led by the ministry team of Rev. Raymond LeBlanc and Aura Suarez, minister of outreach.

For information, call the church office at 713-686-1577 or e-mail at [email protected].

Kidventure Camps at St. Theresa’s

St.Theresa’s Catholic Church and School, 6623 Rodrigo St., will be hosting Kidventure Camps. Camps are scheduled from June 10 through Aug. 2 for Pk3-8th grade.

Call 713-864-4536 or visit the website at www.sttheresa.cc for information.

Everywhere Fun Fair at Fairbanks UMC

Everywhere Fun Fair is a glob-al celebration that will be held at Fairbanks United Methodist Church, 14210 Aston St., from 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 17-21. With the look and feel of a world’s fair, children will be introduced to special places from all over the world. Activities include interactive Bible storytelling, global games, music, super sci-ence, crafts, and more. This free event is open to children 3 to 11 years old.

Register online at www.fair-banksumc.org or call 713-462-3206.

Yard sale at St. Timothy’sSt. Timothy’s United Method-

ist Church, 8787 North Hous-ton Rosslyn Road, will host a yard sale 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. June 28; and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. June 29. Individuals can rent lawn space June 29, for $15. Barbecue lunches will also be available. Call 713-819-8456 for information.

Vacation Bible School will be 9 a.m. to noon July 15-19. The theme is “Everywhere Funfare.” There is no cost and children age 4 and up are welcome to attend.

Call 713-466-5500 or visit www.sttimothysumc.org for in-formation.

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Establishing winning habits: Robbins setting standards for Lions’ program

Lutheran High North fi rst-year head football coach Nathan Robbins is focusing on quality over quantity during spring drills.

“Establishing winning habits,” Robbins said. “is what we’re focused on. I love the effort of the guys. They’re taking a new brand of coaching well. The harder they work, the better they feel.”

Sixteen players participated in spring drills for the Lions (which concluded on Thursday), but atten-dance wasn’t always consistent.

That, Robbins said, will be part of changing the culture of the program.

LHN fi nished 1-9 last season under head coach Thump Phillips. Their lone victory was against Galveston O’Connell, whom they open against in the fall.

Robbins was hired as football coach and athletic coordinator in March.

As AD, Robbins has implemented an after school

weight program, and he’s been encouraged by the av-erage of 30 athletes -- across all sports -- that attend the program.

In football he expects about 25 players to come out for the team this season.

“(This spring), it’s not how much we install, it’s how well install it,” Robbins said.

Robbins expects big things from junior running back/kick returner Tink Campbell and junior defen-sive end Connor Burkett.

But the team has to fi nd a quarterback during the offseason, and they don’t currently have any with playing experience at the high school level.

“Setting a .500 goal is ambitious but attainable,” Robbins said. “We’d need a signifi cant improvement to go beyond that.”

The Lions will compete in 7-on-7 passing this sum-mer. They’ll participate in a round robin league, be-ginning June 3, with Houston Christian, Northland Christian and St. Pius X. Then, they’ll play in a state tournament qualifi er on June 8 in Hitchcock.

Lutheran High North fi rst-year head football coach Nathan Robbins goes over strategy with his players dur-ing spring drills. The Lions fi nished 1-9 last season.

(Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

CorrectionsSt. Pius X freshman Kade

Stewart was the fi rst freshman golfer from the school to quali-fy for the state tournament, not the fi rst golfer from the school.

Last week’s track & fi eld re-sults were mistakenly included from the top times/marks of the year. The correct results are as follows:

Class 4A GirlsMeaghan Quickel (second,

Shot Put), 36-8Chyna Fruge (sixth, 200 me-

ter), 26.79

Class 5A BoysJordan Jackson (second,

High Jump), 6-6Zack Knight (fourth, 100)

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Throughout the 1980s, Craig Reynolds, a 1971 Reagan High graduate and former Houston Astros shortstop, was one of the city’s most popular athletes.

While the 60-year-old has fond memories of his 15-year MLB ca-reer, he said the truly important things in life are faith and per-sonal relationships.

“I think very little about base-ball,” said Reynolds, who is a pas-tor at Second Baptist Church’s Kingwood campus. “What I really think about most is the people. It’s not the events, it’s not the game. It’s the people.”

That’s one of the reasons why Reynolds, who lives in the King-wood area, stays involved with Reagan’s alumni. Last month, he played in the Reagan Alumni Golf Tournament that raised $60,000 in scholarships and delivered the pre-game prayer at the tourna-ment dinner.

Reynolds keeps in touch with former Reagan principal Joel Sturdivant, who served as princi-pal when he was a student there.

“It’s fun to go back every year and see people you don’t see very often,” said Reynolds, a member of the RHS Hall of Fame. “The older you get, the more you real-ize how much of life is about re-lationships -- a relationship with God and relationships with other people. We really have to take care of the relationships in our lives.”

Reynolds and his wife, Josey (a Waltrip High graduate), have been married for 37 years. They have three children, Ashlyn, Kyle and Reagan, and two grandchil-dren.

“The school probably weighed in to some degree,” said Reyn-olds, when asked if he named his daughter after his alma mater.

He played in three National League Championship Series and on two All Star teams, but those were just accomplishments on the fi eld.

Reynolds was truly honored to receive the Danny Memorial Thompson Award in 1979. The award named for a baseball player who died of leukemia was award-ed to a player that “exemplifi es the Christian spirit.”

“When you receive an award like that, you’re humbled by it,” Reynolds said.

LOCAL ROOTSReynolds grew up in a neigh-

borhood called Glenburnie, north of the Heights, but he gradu-ated from both Hamilton Middle School and Reagan.

He was a two-sport star for the Bulldogs, as a point guard for the basketball team and a second baseman in baseball. He always played against older competi-tion to improve his skills in both sports.

“Basketball was my fi rst love in high school,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds is still friends with his high school basketball coach, Charlie Cothren, and they were teammates in the alumni golf tournament last month.

By the time he was a senior at Reagan, Reynolds knew he’d have to make a decision -- sign with a professional baseball team or ac-cept a scholarship to play baseball and basketball at Baylor.

The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Reynolds in the fi rst round of the 1971 MLB Draft and signed him shortly thereafter.

“It was an exciting time,” Reyn-olds said. “I was not expecting to go in the fi rst round. It was a rude awakening. You’re in high school one day, then you’re thrown to the world. It’s a big life change in a hurry.”

He credits host families throughout the minor leagues with providing him a positive environment, but he thinks most athletes should experience col-lege.

MLB DREAMS AND HOMECOMING

Reynolds was 22 years old when he made his MLB debut on Aug. 1, 1975.

Less than two months later, he’d compete in the fi rst of three NLCS games. He got a chance to play alongside the late Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Stargell. The Pirates lost to the eventual World Champion Cincinnati Reds.

“Probably of all the people I ever played with, for making a team better, Willie Stargell had the best demeanor. He brought cohesiveness, to a team,” Reynolds said. “He was an encourager to everybody. He cared about people and made every team better.”

Two years later, Reynolds was traded to the expansion Seattle Mariners and made the American League All-Star Team in 1978.

Although he enjoyed Seattle, the Reynolds family was ecstatic when they found out they’d be coming home to Houston -- where he’d grown up going to Buffaloes, Colt .45s and Astros games.

“That was really a dream come true,” Reynolds said. “To have a chance to play here 11 years was great.”

In his fi rst year as an Astro (1979), Reynolds made the Na-tional League All-Star team and went on to play in two more NLCS -- 1980 and 1986.

“People talk about the ’86 se-ries a lot (when Houston lost to the New York Mets), but the 1980 series was one of the best,” Reyn-olds said. “We got within just a few outs of going to the World Series.”

When it came to pitchers, Reynolds said Hall of Famer Steve Carlton was the toughest he faced. He enjoyed playing along-side Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, and toward the end of his career, a young Craig Biggio.

‘FAVORITE THING I’VE EVER DONE’

When Reynolds played pro-fessional baseball, he was always involved with ministry and out-reach.

In the early 1990s, Second Baptist senior pastor Dr. Ed Young asked Reynolds to join the church’s staff.

“I love what I do,” Reynolds said. “It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever done -- even more than base-ball. It’s a privilege to be a part (of the ministry). It allowed me to walk in (people’s) lives with them at times. It’s a real sense of joy.”

Reynolds served at the Wood-way campus for 16 years and went to the Kingwood campus three years ago.

Since he’s very busy with his ministry responsibilities, Reyn-olds admits that he doesn’t have much time to follow the Astros these days. He always wishes they’d stayed in the National League.

“I hope it goes well for them -- (rebuilding) is not an easy thing,” Reynolds said. “I’m a National League guy at heart, although I played two years in the American League. I’m not a fan of the des-ignated hitter...I understand the move but wish they hadn’t (done it.)”

A Hometown HeroCraig Reynolds, a 1971 Reagan High graduate, played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball, including 11 with the Astros. He’s now a pastor at Second Baptist Church in Kingwood. (Photo by Michael Sudhalter)

Reagan grad recalls time with the Astros


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