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By Adam Zuvanich azuvanich@theleadernews.com Hundreds of thousands of Houstonians could be forced to switch hospitals – or pay higher, out-of-network costs – if contract negotiations remain contentious between two health insurance giants and two of the largest hospital systems in the region.

A spokesperson for Connecticut-based insurer Cigna said it has told Memorial Hermann Health System it will ter-

minate their contract on March 16, 2020, because of a dispute about costs for medical care.

Memorial Hermann is the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas and has 13 hospitals in the Houston area, including Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital at 1635 N Loop W. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist Hospital said UnitedHealthcare, the world’s largest healthcare company in terms of revenue, has said it

plans to terminate their contract at the end of this year.

The insurance company has had a similar dispute with Houston Methodist, which has seven hospitals in the region. “Negotiations are still underway, but with little progress,�

Houston Methodist spokesperson Stefanie Asin said in a Dec. 21 email.

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Photo by Adam Zuvanich Kathryn van der Pol, a former schoolteacher who has been the co-owner of Liberty Hoepfl Garage on North Shepherd Drive since 2004, is the Leader of the Year for her civic activism and involvement in the community.

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Kathryn van der Pol might be most knowledgeable about history – world history, American history, Texas history and the history of her community.

She’s also well-versed in religion, public policy, military life, literature, the principles of journalism and the state of education. She takes interests in wildlife and the environment, too, and knows what it’s like to be a mother, a grandmother and a caregiver.

Van der Pol has experience running a business as well, so she can talk about finances, profit margins and promotion. She also can talk in a few different languages.

These days, she spends most of her days talking about cars and how to keep them running and wellmaintained. “I don’t know how she does it.

She’s into everything,� said Nadia Troutenko, a longtime friend and associate of van der Pol’s. “She’s got more energy than the Energizer Bunny.�

Van der Pol, 60, also is a pillar of Northwest Houston and displays more civic pride than most. As a re-

Photo by Adam Zuvanich Kathryn van der Pol, foreground, is president and founder of the North Shepherd Community Alliance, which held a street cleanup event over the summer.

sult, she is our Leader of the Year.

The former schoolteacher and current co-owner of Liberty Hoepfl Garage is the founder and president of the North Shepherd Community Alliance, the president-elect of the Automotive Service Association of Texas and a member of the founders’ board for Heritage Classical Academy, a charter school that’s in the works.

Van der Pol is a former board member for the Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce and

a past president of the Professional Women’s Exchange Group, a private women’s business organization. She also is part of a weekly women’s Bible study group that meets at the Harriet and Joe Foster Family YMCA. “I think God put us here for a reason, and we’re supposed to make things better,� van der Pol said. “I’m supposed to take care of my customers. In order to do that, we have See Van der Pol P. 8A

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The sounds of Christmas serenaded the crowd at the Heights Theater, where nearly 50 Waltrip High School students performed in front of two of the most prominent Houstonians.

Mayor Sylvester Turner and Bayou City business leader Jim “Mattress Mack� McIngvale were special guests at “Swing in the Holidays� on the night of Dec. 17, when two jazz ensembles from the

Waltrip RamBand performed 90 minutes’ worth of holiday tunes.

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Do you want to travel internationally but don’t want to go alone? Heights resident Alex Coleman and his wife, Elise, co-founded Here & Now Travel so you don’t have to.

Here & Now Travel is a group travel company for young professionals between the ages of 21 and 35. It launched in Houston in May and combines shorter trips with the freedoms of traveling by yourself without actually having to go alone. “You go where you want when you want,� Coleman said. “You don’t have to plan with any of your friends. You don’t have to work around schedules, but you get the experience and the safety and some of the cool stories of traveling with people.�

Coleman is the first to admit that the concept of Here & Now Travel isn’t new, but he’s molded it to be unique by narrowing it down to people in a similar stage of life, the way the trips are set up and the way he makes sure that it’s not just Here & Now that benefits, but the countries they visit as well. “We say 21-35 is a mindset, like generally, people that come on the trip need to be open-minded,� Coleman said. “They need to be cool being active on their feet all day.�

So while they won’t turn someone away for being out of the age bracket, Coleman said it’s important to be in that same mindset.

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THE PUBLIC. The Leader • Saturday, December 28, 2019 • Page 2A

Cisneros retains city council seat after runoff results become official

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Nearly a week after the runoff election, Karla Cisneros could finally bank on a second term on the Houston City Council.

Cisneros, the incumbent in District H, beat Isabel Longoria by 12 votes in the unofficial runoff results released early Dec. 15 by the office of Harris County Clerk Diane Trautman. That margin increased to 16 votes in the official canvas completed Dec. 20, when 40 provisional and other ballots were factored in.

Cisneros received 5,305 votes in the final tally compared to 5,289 for Longoria.

“Congratulations to (Cisneros) on a second term and a spirited campaign,” Longoria said Dec. 20 on Twitter.

Cisneros won another four years as the city council member for District H, which includes part of the Heights as well as Indepence Heights, Sawyer Yards and

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Northside. The former Houston ISD teacher and trustee spearheaded educational and quality-of-life initiatives during her first four years at City Hall, including a program that provides internet access and learning tools to low-income residents, resource fairs for immigrants in the community and a spay-and-neuter initiative to help control the stray pet population.

Longoria served on the Houston Planning Commission for nine months before

running for city council. She also has worked for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) as well as in the offices of former state legislators Jessica Farrar and Sylvia Garcia.

“Thank you (Longoria) for a well run and hard fought campaign,” Cisneros said Dec. 20 on Twitter. “I look forward to working together for the benefit of District H residents and the city we love.”

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ew Year’s resolutions have never really been my thing.

It’s not that I’m opposed to the idea, which is a good one.

And I made a few when I was younger in an attempt to improve things such as my eating habits and spending habits.

It’s just hard to make them stick, which many of you can understand, and sometimes we’re not ready to make major changes just because a calendar has flipped.

So at one point a while back I stopped making them altogether.

But that’s just me personally.

I also represent The Leader, and as we illustrated last week in our 65th anniversary edition, our lovable local newspaper is much bigger than one person. The efforts and enthusiasm of many – from publishers to editors to contributing writers to advertisers to readers like you – have made it a community commodity over a span of decades.

We resolve to keep that going in 2020 and beyond, and we want to make The Leader even better by expanding our digital footprint and feeding you more useful news and perspective both in print and online. Now that I’ve spent more than a year in the Northwest Houston community we cover, becoming more familiar with area residents and businesses as well

delicious pasta dishes and brickoven pizzas, likely will become an affordable housing complex.

Speaking of affordable housing, Adam it’s a critical issue in a sought-afZuvanich ter part of the city that is in close Editor proximity to downtown and other job centers. That’s because our slice of Houston also is home to increasingly expensive land.

Area homeowners don’t want to be surrounded by apartment as what’s important to them, I feel complexes, and understandably better equipped than ever to do so, but this part of town must also that. be a place where restaurant workWe already have some great ers, nurses and police officers can stories in the works, and we’ll afford to live. Here’s guessing that reveal more about that when the city and community leaders will time comes. And we know that continue to work toward a comseveral important and interest- promise that will benefit everying topics will reveal themselves body. throughout the next 12 months.

The push and pull is especially In the meantime, here are one pronounced in the Heights, a hiseditor’s expectations for what will toric neighborhood that is zipping happen in 2020 in the Heights, its way into the future. Almost Oak Forest, Garden Oaks and oth- everyone wants to live there, but er neighborhoods in Northwest there’s less and less open land Houston, in no particular order: with each passing month.

We will lose a community instiAs a result, the Heights will tution. The days are numbered for continue to build up instead of Doyle’s Restaurant, which opened out. High-rises are sprouting up in 1954, the same year as The as we speak, and there’s also Leader, and plans to close on Feb. commercial development nearly 21, 2020, according to owner Pe- everywhere you look. ter Doyle.

The most intriguing developThe property on West 34th ments in 2020 might be what hapStreet, where nearby residents pens on bustling White Oak Drive, have enjoyed solid sandwiches, where a Chicago-based parking

garage company has scooped up lots of property and is in the process of developing it. Easy Park isn’t saying much publicly, but its master plan appears to include the construction of an automated parking garage on or near the former site of Fitzgerald’s.

Nearby homeowners hate the idea, of course, but we all know there’s a need for more parking on the street. It’ll be interesting to see that shakes out.

On the other hand, we won’t need as much parking if there aren’t as many cars and trucks on the roads. A growing number of people across the city, and especially in the Heights, are looking toward other modes of transportation in the midst of climate change and increased population density.

That sentiment will continue to grow in 2020 as more and more people choose bicycles over vehicles and METRO makes use of the $3.5 billion in bonds that Harris County voters gave it permission to borrow in November. The METRONext plan calls for more infrastructure for public transportation, including light rail, during the next 20 years.

It will be just as interesting, and no less important, to see what happens to our public schools during the upcoming year. The

2019 - The year of the loser What a year it was. People will be talking about it for eons to come. Fantastic! Proud and bold! That’s the year 1776, not this past freak show. 2019 gave us a parade of forgettable and unforgettable stunts, clowns and eye-rollers. Take former Gov. Rick Perry. Please. After listing the U.S. Department of Energy as a government agency he would abolish if elected President and calling candidate Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism,” Perry accepted the post of Energy Secretary, and said he told Trump: “Absorb that you are here at this chosen time because God ordained it,” and compared Trump to “Old Testament kings.” Apparently the king is a deadbeat. Trump owes at least 10 cities for rally expenses. The biggest invoice, for $470,417, was from El Paso. Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke held a smaller rally on the same day in El Paso. He paid his $21,000plus police bill on time.

Houston U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, under fire from a former aide’s lawsuit alleging she was fired in connection with a sexual assault complaint, said that she, (Jackson Lee) would step down temporarily as chairwoman of a key House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice.

Jackson Lee also resigned as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Moving on, at a Congressional hearing, Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz endorsed President Trump’s call for a Space Force, including defense against celestial Blackbeards: “Pirates threatened the open seas and the same is possible in space.” On a separate matter, Cruz accepted over $10,000 worth of tickets to the 2018 Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets as gifts. Speaking of the Rockets, after club general manager Daryl Morey tweeted: “Fight for freedom, Stand with Hong Kong,” the Chinese government went ballistic, which could cost the Rockets between $10 million and $25 million in business with Beijing.

The Houston Astros’ season ended with a whimper in the World Series. What’s more, they had to fire assistant general manager Brandon Taubman, who directed an obscenity-filled tirade toward three female reporters.

The Astros apologized to a Sports Illustrated reporter whom they falsely accused of fabricating a story about the episode. And a woman sued the Astros for $1 million, claiming her index finger was “shattered” when her hand was struck by a T-shirt fired from an air-powered cannon wielded by Orbit, the team’s mascot.

We now turn to our state legislature, which is always

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good for a laugh – or a cry.

Be pro-life or I’ll kill you. In the past legislative session, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, Arlington Republican, proposed a bill that would make it possible to put women to death for having an abortion. He said the measure was necessary to make women “more personally responsible.” The bill made no exception for rape or incest, and anyone involved in an abortion would be open to homicide charges.

Just four days after being named chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, state Sen. Kel Seliger was stripped of that position by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for comments made by the Amarillo Republican. Seliger, insulted by a remark made by Patrick’s senior adviser, Sherry Sylvester, said in a radio broadcast that he had “a recommendation for Miss Sylvester and her lips and my back end.”

David Whitley, nominated to be Texas Secretary of State, discovered that approximately “95,000 individuals identified” as non-citizens are registered to vote in the state, “58,000 of whom have voted.” Alas, many if not most of those 95,000 had become citizens who were perfectly legal to vote. Whitley didn’t get the job.

Democratic state Rep. Poncho Nevárez of Eagle Pass turned himself in after dropping a cocaine-filled envelope with his office letterhead on it at an Austin airport.

Republican state Rep. Rick Miller of Sugar Land, when asked to characterize his two challengers in the upcoming GOP primary, said: “He’s a Korean,” describing Jacey Jetton, a former chairman of the Fort Bend GOP. “He has decided because he is an Asian that my district might need an Asian to win.” A second Republican primary candidate, Leonard Chan, “jumped in probably for the same reason.” Hours later, Gov. Greg Abbott rescinded his endorsement of Miller, and by late afternoon Miller announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection.

Michael Center, former men’s tennis coach at the University of Texas, pleaded guilty to accepting $100,000 in bribes to falsely designate a Los Altos Hills, Calif. student, who did not play competitive tennis, as a recruit.

The good news is that several other universities besides UT were also charged in the phony admission scandal including Yale, Georgetown,

USC and Stanford, all lumped together in news reports as “elite schools.” The other good news is that, after Center’s firing, the UT men’s tennis team won the 2019 NCAA championship -- a first for the Longhorns.

In Houston, Daniel Albert, chief of staff to District F Councilman Steve Le and the highest-paid city council staffer, continued to collect his $119,600 annual salary despite being out of the state for months attending U.S. Army military law training programs. Le fired Albert and announced he would not run for re-election. Members of Harris County Commissioners Court were unable to agree on a resolution expressing solidarity for the victims of the August 3 mass shooting in El Paso and calling on

policy makers to address gun violence. Three Dems voted for the resolution, the two Republicans voted against it because of its mention of gun violence.

The driver of a white Mercedes was racing a green Dodge Charger one night through Houston on I-10 going about 100 mph. The Mercedes headed southbound on I-45 and then exited on Dallas Street, running a red light. Unfortunately for the driver, a car he zipped passed was driven by none other than Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, going home from work. Hehehe. In January, Acevedo gave a speeder a $304 ticket for driving 140 mph in a 65 mph zone.

Houston ISD Board of Education will soon be replaced by a stateappointed board of managers after years of unacceptable academic performance at Wheatley High School and a Texas Education Agency investigation that found trustees violated the state’s open meeting laws as well as contract procurement rules.

Lots of Houstonians don’t like the idea of a governmental agency usurping the will of voters and stripping publicly elected officials of power, but it’s still going to happen after a federal judge recently dismissed HISD’s lawsuit seeking to prevent the takeover.

The hunch here is that the state takeover will end up being a good thing for HISD and the families it serves.

Those are just a few of the key storylines to follow in the upcoming year. There’s no doubt there will be many more.

The Leader will be right there to report about it all, just like we have for years. And you don’t need a New Year’s resolution to know that. azuvanich@theleadernews.com Follow Adam Zuvanich on Twitter @ AZuvanich

THE READER. Art Valet: Creatives carving path into history of Heights

Dear Editor: Thankful for Mitch Cohen for raising the awareness of our Houston Art Treasures, these renegades who became Icons. They have influenced and help elevate the Art scene here putting Houston in the international art world’s lens. Mr. Cohen is also part of that legacy. One still in the making I might add.

Arthur Deatly

HISD to provide free meals during winter break

Dear Editor: Please, let’s be clear about these meals. The Federally funded National School Lunch Program covers the bulk, if not the entire cost.

Our Federal Tax Dollars at work.

Bob Choate

Port Authority: Oak Forest resident challenges HOA on carport issue

Dear Editor: Just a little FYI: I called the city, several years ago, and asked what the process was for the city to enforce Deed Restrictions. I was advised that the city did not have the resources to enforce Deed Restrictions and that they would not be doing so. In fact they said that the neighborhood or an individual would have to hire their own attorney to sue the neighbor that was violating the deed restrictions.

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Coyote, from P. 1A Harbor Hospice in Houston. Mary Judy discharge Lee Speed, 77, born of a firearm, it was a “The key is that as long as

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by John Simms Kirten, than thePiper alternatives.

- a national nonprofit orgagranddaughter; Spurdis. first lovebased and husband of 19 “Personally, I think shoot-her nization in Mill Valley, her parents, C. J. and comEva ing them is far 92, more humaneyears, California, that promotes Ophelia Briones, born setting out (conibear)Schmitt, sisters,conservation Elizabeth Kenpassionate and MAr. 31, than died on Dec. 18. traps,� LeeAnn Hickman said.nedy, coexistence between people Lucille Spears and brother, catch Pokluda, and release is notBuddy andSchmitt. wildlife After through educathe death Mary“But Schmitt considered an option tion,first science and advocacy. husband, Mary was 100, resided in Houston, Texas,becauseof her you’ll just Dec. be relocating Foxtocalls the coyote a “maher loving husband and passed away, 17, at a nui-married sance animal from one place ligned carnivore� and said it is to another.� estimated that 500,000 coyBonnie Bradshaw with 911 otes are killed each year by Wildlife, a wildlife removal humans, partly because they and relocation company with are unprotected by law in 42 offices in Houston, said the states.

There are no definitive good-riddance attitude regarding coyotes is typical in neigh- population counts for coyotes either. borhoods throughout the U.S.

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of 47 years, Frank J. Pokluda, Jr., “They’re in not2015. valued enough deceased Mary was a reviewed, radio-collar studies toloving, monitor,�

Fox said. and strong have proven that most relohardworking Texas iswho a state where coycated wild animals die within woman triumphed over tragotes are undefended clas- two weeks after being released ic events in her life and but remained sified as a non-game species. in unfamiliar areas.� a positive role model for her TPWD Wildlife biologist DiThe incident along the baychildren and all who knew her. ana Foss of the Texas Parks & ou last week warranted a poShe is survived by her Wildlife Department saidchildren it is lice visit because it is illegal to William Kirten and wife, Nancy,discharge a firearm inside the illegal to kill a coyote for comJohn Kirten and wife, Elaine, mercial purposes on publicly corporated limits of a municiJesse land Kirten, Eva Kirten and pality having a population of owned in Texas. wife, Cookie Davenport, Sue Ann “However, it is legal to (kill) 100,000 or more.

Wallace andproperty husband, “It’s dangerous,� Cannon a Pokluda coyote on private Jere, Frank J. Pokluda III; grandfor any reason,� Foss said. said. “No matter what you are children, Lindsayshooting at, it’s still an illegal “The personMichael taking Kirten, the coyote Kirten Skittrall, Lauren Kirten, must have a current hunting li- discharge of firearms.�

Courtney Kirten from Sanders, Billy cense.

No permit TPWD Cannon said anyone with isFuchlow needed.�Wallace, Jamey Pokluda information about the incident IV, Nikkialso Pokluda, Ortiz, April Foss said Tina a newly should call HPD. Faure, law, Ray-C LeBlanc, passed House Bill David 4544, Boak,Fox said the irony is that if Kellyecertain Skaer, and numerous allows cities, such asloving humans left coyotes alone to great-grandchildren, great-greatHouston, to manage coyotes self-regulate, they would do nieces and or neph-so. bygrandchildren, capturing, relocating euthanizing a coyote ews. The family askedlocated that in lieu Project Coyote’s Coyote within the city limits or the to Friendly Communities proof flowers, donations be made city’s extraterritorial juris- gram aims to give both urban The Alzheimers Association. diction or by requesting as- and rural audiences the tools sistance from Texas Wildlife to foster coexistence.

Services. “We need to teach coyotes Relocating a coyote, ac- (about) the behavior we don’t cording to Bradshaw, also support,� Fox said. likely means death. “Contrary to public opinion, relocated animals don’t have a wonderful new life out in the country where they belong,�

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Art Valet: Anderson returns with ‘Urban Observations’ Mitch Cohen Art Columnist

“Occasionally, an artist ‘appears’ on the scene, running full speed, if you will, toward success. Joel Anderson seemed to be doing just that when we met at my market just a few short years ago. Recently retired from ‘big oil’ a little early, Anderson was determined to make art his new life. He has done just that.”

Two years ago this month I wrote that about Anderson, a Heights artist and a solo exhibit titled “Submergence” at

Archway Gallery.

Anderson incorporates modern digital methods into the ancient medium of encaustic painting. Encaustic painting is beeswax mixed with damar resin.

While the works featured in “Submergence” two years ago were about introversion, Anderson’s next exhibit is a full 180 and definitely about extroversion.

Mark your calendar for Saturday, Jan. 4, when Archway Gallery presents “Urban Observations,” featuring the new collection of encaustic paintings by Anderson. The artist will be on hand to visit with guests during the exhibition opening reception from 5–8 p.m. at the gallery, located at 2305 Dunlavy St. There will

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be an “Artist Talk” at 6:30 p.m. as well as complimentary valet parking and light refreshments.

Anderson’s newest collection of works is his third show at Archway Gallery and a stark

contrast to previous shows.

In this exhibition, Anderson creates works as seen through his eyes, while driving and walking through the Heights.

There are new perspectives on Houston’s downtown skyline,

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Bright yellow, blue and purple are painted on the walls of Ike’s Love & Sandwiches.

While this doesn’t aide the sandwiches, it did lift my spirits on the dreary, rainy day I visited the shop.

The sandwiches don’t need help to stand out. I’m convinced Ike’s is a sandwich lover’s paradise, with options on options.

Although I will say that the cute sandwich names were endearing. There’s the Lizzy McGuire, a fried chicken sandwich, the Tony Soprano, a turkey, ham and salami sandwich, and even the Michael Jordan, a meatball sandwich.

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The shop was busy during the lunch hour, so I had to wait a bit for my sandwich.

When it came out, the first thing I noticed was the Dutch bread. Its crust was broken up like a mosaic. It was chewy

which has become a signature series for Anderson, as well as things that interest him in one way or another, including the tree canopies, cellphone towers and, yes, the gargoyles that inhabit the Bayou City.

“Preparing for this exhibition was like a treasure hunt in some ways,” Anderson said. “Where exactly does one stand to get compositionally great images of our city? Realizing I needed to get above the trees and power lines for some of the shots that I wanted, I bought a drone and became an FAA-certified drone pilot.”

Anderson continued: “I also wanted to go big in this collection, and that meant scaling everything up, from my workspace, techniques, processes and framing decisions to even

trading in my SUV for a van to accommodate the bigger pieces.”

Anderson maintains a studio at The Silos on Sawyer and is a frequent exhibitor on the local art fair circuit, including the Bayou City Arts Festival and the First Saturday Arts Market.

Follow Anderson on Instagram. He entertains while showing off his creative process and endeavors at @joelandersonart and on the web at JoelAndersonArt.com. Find out more about the gallery at ArchwayGallery.com.

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A new decade is about to begin, and with it will come a slew of new restaurants in the area.

If all permits align, here’s a few of the ones we know will open in 2020: Crawfish Café will join the new redevelopment of Shepherd Row in the Heights at 1002 N. Shepherd Dr. It will be the second location for the Viet-Cajun crawfish restaurant, which operates at 11209 Bellaire Blvd.

The café is known for its flavorful boils, such as garlic butter. Menu items also include shrimp and crab, turkey necks and chicken wings.

The restaurant will be approximately 3,500 square feet, plus a patio. It will be joined

by Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, which is opening its first Houston location in the development.

The farm-fresh, fast-casual restaurant Flower Child is opening its third outpost in the Heights. Flower Child will be included in the 30,000-squarefoot lifestyle destination space, Market at Houston Heights, at 1533 N. Shepherd Dr. The restaurant will be placed on the northern endcap of the two-story building and will incorporate Flower Child’s playful branding and color palette, complete with a wraparound terrace.

Voodoo Doughnut is expanding to Houston with its seventh location. The store will open at 3715 Washington Ave., serve doughnuts 24 hours a day and seven days a week and be the franchise’s first outpost with a drivethrough window.

The doughnut shop was created in Portland, Oregon, in 2003 by longtime friends Kenneth Pogson and Richard Shannon. When first coming up with the concept, neither had ever made a doughnut. So

Photo by Zarah Parker Food from Crawfish Cafe, a Viet-Cajun restaurant that will open next year at 1002 N. Shepherd Dr.

they jumped on a plane and flew to Pico Rivera, California, where they learned the ins and outs of doughnut making.

Voodoo Doughnut is known for its unique culture that seeps into its doughnuts, like with its “Voodoo Doll” doughnut. The doll has a humanoid shape with a swirling target and pretzel stake through the middle and is filled with raspberry jelly.

The Filipino cuisine of Be More Pacific Kitchen and Bar is to take root in the Heights at 500 Yale St. As reported by the Houston Chronicle, co-owners Mark Pascual and Giovan Cuchapin teamed up with Longhorn Capital Group to bring the Austin-based restaurant to Houston. The restaurant is using Nextseed, a crowdfunding service, to build out the location.

The menu will feature traditional Filipino cuisine and tropical cocktails. Condiments and sauces will be made from scratch.

The Euro-Indian restaurant Da Gama Canteen is named after Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer who was the first to map a sea-based trade route to India.

Da Gama Canteen, which will occupy 3,250 square feet in the upcoming M-K-T development at the northeast corner of North Shepherd Drive and 6th Street, will offer food and a full bar. It is not Rishi Hospitality’s only Houston restaurant as it also operates Oporto Fooding House &

Wine in Midtown. The Di Virgilios also had British pub the Queen Vic before it closed in the summer of 2018.

Kin Dee Thai Cuisine, 1533 N. Shepherd Dr., has leased a 2,500 square-foot end cap with a patio from The Market at Houston Heights development that was designed by the Michael Hsu Office of Architecture and developed by Houston-based Capital Retail Properties in partnership with Randy Wile of Wile Interests, Inc. Lukkaew Srasrisuwan and Miranda Leotkhamfu, partners in the Kin Dee restaurant, plan to introduce Houstonians to the exotic and unfamiliar flavors and presentations with scratch-made dishes and showcasing regional and royal Thai family recipes that utilize authentic ingredients.

Vienna Valencia Bement and Ricardo Valencia previously owned Cyclone Anaya’s before selling the restaurants, which had six Houston-area locations. They maintained ownership of an Austin location.

When the opportunity to open a new restaurant arose, the Oak Forest area was the perfect place because they grew up in the neighborhood.

Bement has never left.

The new restaurant is Valencia’s Tex-Mex Garage at 2001 W. 34th St. For this concept, the duo is pulling inspiration from their parents’ first restaurant, which was an ice house with garage doors. This concept

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Van der Pol, from P. 1A to have good people and I have to train them. And the community has been very good to us. I just want to leave our area better than I found it.”

The North Shepherd Community Alliance, an organization dedicated to the responsible development and improvement of the North Shepherd Drive thoroughfare, has grown to about 30 members since van der Pol started it in 2010. The group was especially active this year.

Van der Pol led a community cleanup event on a Saturday morning over the summer, when area business owners, residents and candidates for Houston mayor and United States Congress picked up trash and did landscaping work along Shepherd between 34th and 38th streets. The North Shepherd Community Alliance also is in the process of rallying support for a revitalization and beautification project on the street, which van der Pol considers a “gateway to the city.”

She plans to pitch the idea, which includes adding artwork and vegetation along North Shepherd Drive near Garden Oaks, to the Houston City Council for support and funding at some point in 2020.

Van der Pol has organized previous cleanup events as well as toy drives. If a member of her Bible study group has a medical issue or needs help financially, Troutenko said van der Pol often spearheads a donation drive.

“Amazing woman,” said Troutenko, the owner of Troutenko Insurance Services and a former board member for the Greater Heights chamber. “She will give her shirt off her back for you.”

Life of service Van der Pol was born in Northern California to Jim and Lanelle Eaves. Her mother was an attorney and her father an officer in the Navy, which caused the family to relocate often and to places such as Oregon, Virginia, Georgia, New Orleans and Japan, where van der Pol spent four of her teenage years and got her first job delivering a newspaper called Pacific Stars & Stripes.

Van der Pol graduated from high school in New Orleans, where she met her husband, Sybren van der Pol. They moved to Houston in the late 1970s, with Kathryn earning a bachelor’s degree from Rice University, and started a family that includes three daughters and now two young grandsons.

Kathryn van der Pol spent 24 years teaching Latin and history, first at St. Thomas Episcopal School and then at St. John’s School. During that time she also started a community newsletter in Spring Valley called “The Hornet,” and cared for her mother, who was legally blind and could not walk after previously having hip replacement surgery.

The latter experience was “really

Medical, from P. 1A cle reported that as many as 100,000 people with employersponsored plans with UnitedHealthcare would have Houston Methodist removed from their list of in-network medical providers. Asin said physicians employed by the hospital would be dropped from the network on April 1. Seniors in the insurance company’s Medicare Advantage programs also would be affected.

As many as 178,000 people with employer-sponsored Cigna plans would have the Memorial Hermann system removed from their in-network list of providers if that contract dispute is not resolved, according to the Chronicle. Although seniors covered under Cigna’s Medicare Advantage program would not be affected.

Cigna spokesperson Brian Henry said in a Dec. 21 email that Memorial Hermann raised its prices for Cigna customers earlier this year and has refused to lower its rates to be in line with what the hospital system charges other customers. If Cigna ends up dropping

Photo by Adam Zuvanich Kathryn van der Pol in the “Texas Liberty” room at Liberty Hoepfl Garage.

tough” for van der Pol, who also raised her daughters during that time. But it also provided perspective.

“That just taught me that life has got some really difficult hardship moments,” she said. “If you’re going to let it frustrate you, it’s going to be really more difficult that it needs to be. If you try to embrace it, what good you can get out of it, what lessons you can learn and what love you can put in that will help someone else going through it, then you get through it.”

About a year after her mother died, van der Pol and her husband purchased Adolf Hoepfl & Son Garage in 2004. She said she did not know much about auto repair or how to run a business, but she

made it a point to learn.

The 73-year-old garage at 4610 N. Shepherd Dr., which was renovated and rebranded as Liberty Hoepfl Garage earlier this year, has won a Reader’s Choice Award from The Leader in each of the last seven years.

The auto shop, where van der Pol has created a Monarch butterfly habitat outside, also allows her to pursue her passion for teaching and promoting civic engagement.

Van der Pol said she has distributed nearly 10,000 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution during the last 15 years, and the garage includes other odes to Texas and U.S. history, such as a copy of the Declaration of Independence as well as quotes from John Adams, James Madison

and George Washington hanging on the walls. There also is a “Liberty Library” near the front desk that includes books customers can borrow.

“We do not push any political party at our shop,” van der Pol said. “But we do celebrate the great ideas of our founding, and we honor those and promote those.”

Van der Pol said she draws inspiration from America’s founding fathers as well as from military leaders such as Texas native Chester Nimitz and world leaders such as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. She wants to make her own impact on society, even if on a smaller scale.

Van der Pol also enjoys simpler pleasures such as riding bicycles with her husband, Sybren. She said they regularly pedal from the H-E-B grocery store in the Heights to their home in Inwood Forest a few miles away.

She likes spending time with her grandsons, too, picking them up from preschool or daycare three days per week. It’s all part of van der Pol’s well-rounded life and her mission to make life better for others.

“I just want to make Shepherd a little better and make the neighborhood a little better,” she said. “If I can get this school off the ground with our board, those are little things that I hope will have some impact.”

Travel, from P. 1A Memorial Hermann from its network, Henry said “Cigna customers receiving ongoing care for certain conditions may be able to continue their care at Memorial Hermann at the in-network benefit level for a set period of time under their plan’s continuity of care guidelines.”

“We would very much like to keep Memorial Hermann in our network,” Henry added, “but not at the excessively high rates that it’s expecting our customers to pay.”

Memorial Hermann told Houston TV station ABC13 that Cigna has been unwilling to budge in their negotiations, refusing to entertain the hospital’s offer to create a valuebased reimbursement program that would effectively lower healthcare costs.

“Our goal is to make Houston a healthier place to live today and for generations to come,” Memorial Hermann told the station. “We remain open and ready to work with willing partners in this effort.”

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Contributed photo Sylvester Turner, second from left, with Waltrip’s jazz ensemble.

on West 19th Street.

Students from all high school grade levels performed as part of the two jazz ensembles. Among the highlights were Mario Hernandez’s trumpet playing with high notes during “O Holy Night” and Deizmin Shaw’s alto saxophone feature during “Please Come Home For Christmas.”

Angie Flores sang “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” as Santa chipped in by playing percussion.

“I’m really proud of the performance the Waltrip jazz ensembles gave the community,” Waltrip principal Michael Niggli said. “The atmosphere was electric.”

Now utilizes weekends and holidays.

“Right now we’re in Central and South America,” Coleman said. “We know most of our travelers are coming out of Houston and Dallas, so we tried to make the flights under five hours so it’s super manageable. You’re not burning 13 hours on one of your five days flying.”

The typical cost of a trip is between $749-$999 and includes everything except flights and dinners.

Past experiences with other traveling groups also had a hand in how Coleman decided to run Here & Now. “We started going on a couple of those trips just to try and see if it was something we liked,” Coleman said.

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For instance, in Colombia, Coleman said he works with two women who started a tourism company to try and help change perceptions about Colombia being a dangerous place to travel.

“I got in touch with them before I went and asked if they could show me around and try to plan out some local authentic spots,” Coleman said.

Heights resident Amanda Retta traveled to Colombia with Here & Now in August and said that having it all planned out took the stress of traveling out of the equation.

She said that having local guides lead the group through the city gave them a different perspective of the city than what they may have experienced

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as solo travelers.

“The best part of the trip was seeing parts of the city that I probably wouldn’t have seen had I gone on my own,” Retta said. “We went through neighborhoods where there were beautiful murals on every wall and so many artisan markets.”

The group also participated in an event called Ciclovia, which happens every Sunday in Bogota, Colombia.

The city shuts down major roads throughout the city and people come out to ride their bikes, go to food trucks and take classes in the parks.

“The idea we’re going for, I want it to feel like we’re coming, we’re meeting up with a friend who lives there, and they’re showing us around,” Coleman

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said. “It should feel really organic.”

One of the main focuses for Here & Now is sustainable travel, which is twofold.

Environmentally, Coleman said they are carbon neutral. Because airplanes emit carbon into the atmosphere, Here & Now partners with Trees for Houston, a nonprofit organization dedicated to planting, protecting and promoting trees, to mitigate its footprint.

Socially, Coleman said Here & Now makes sure whoever it hires is local and the attractions visited are locally owned.

“If we have impacts on the land, which tourism does, if they get the impacts they should also get the rewards,” Coleman said.

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