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prepare its dough, the business had prepared on the date of Hurricane Harvey’s arrival for possible business the days after. “When we make our dough, we are thinking three days out so we had already rolled for Sunday and Monday. So by the time we opened on Tuesday (after Harvey), we had dough for Sunday and Monday that was ready to be cooked.” “Since the dough is made from scratch, we were prepared to serve this community that had welcomed his business with open arms,” Bock said. “We knew when we opened up on Tuesday there would be people that wouldn’t be able to pay because of what they were going through,” Bock said. “We were already getting phone calls about people wanting to know if we could donate any pizzas. “We just decided then to just give it away,” Bock said. “We put it out on Facebook to come and get some pizza, it was on us. And we had a line at the door almost immediately and people were telling us they could pay for it.” It was then that Bock decided that for those who could pay, that money would be placed into a donation fund to help Harvey victims. It was during that time that Bock found out that one of his employees had been working at the pizzeria but was constantly being sent pictures from family members of the rising water at his house. “There he was working and watching his house flood,” Bock said. “We ended up taking a portion of the donated money and gave it to him to help his family.” The pizzeria ran out of food at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. On Wednesday, 1000 Degrees Pizzeria opened with big batches of dough made and ran out of food at 6:30 p.m. To date, Bock is still donating pizza to workers that are helping work on houses that were damaged by Hurricane
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Harvey. At 1000 Degrees Pizzeria, the customer is the chef. Create your own authentic 10” Neapolitan Pizza, choosing from over 30 fresh and delicious toppings for one low price. “All of our topping are fresh and will always be fresh,” Bock said. “We don’t put any additives into anything. Everything we do is done from scratch unlike any of our competition.” 1000 Degrees Pizza, a fast-casual American spin on authentic, hand-tossed Neapolitan pizza. 1000 Degrees serves personalized, made-to-order authentic Neapolitan pizza. Each pizza starts with fresh, never frozen, hand-tossed dough, created with authentic Neapolitan flour and available in both a personal 10” and sharable 14” sizes. Guests then choose to create their own pizza or order one of the 1000 Degrees favorites. The Katy 1000 Degrees location is the third location in the greater Houston area, and is owned and operated by local entrepreneur Bock of Bock Restaurants LLC, along with his wife Brenda and friends Travis and Elizabeth Masterson. Bock has worked in the restaurant industry for 22 years and currently works in real estate, while his wife Brenda teaches in the Early Childhood Autism program in the Katy Independent School District. Elizabeth Masterson is an insurance agent and Travis Masterson is a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army. “In 2014, my friend Rob was leaving his job at a restaurant in Stafford and I told him to not take another job and let’s do the restaurant that we always wanted to do,” Bock said. “We started to focus on pizza because we both really liked to cook pizza and we found this pizzeria in New Jersey called 1000 Degrees. We liked everything about it and fell in love with it immediately.” Robert Rankin, an experienced restaurant manager in the area, works as director of operations. As longtime residents of the Katy area, the entrepreneurs were drawn to the brand’s authenticity, proprietary oven and devotion to serving fresh, high quality ingredients. The entrepreneurial team is set to open two more 1000 Degrees locations in Sugar Land and Spring later this year. “We’re thrilled to open our first 1000 Degrees location in our hometown of Katy. We want to give back to this great community and we look forward to opening our doors and sharing our love for premium fast-casual pizza with the residents of Katy,” said Bock. “1000 Degrees offers some of the best tasting specialty pizzas, and guests are sure to appreciate our fresh, hand-made dough and quality toppings.” Customizing a 1000 Degrees pizza is truly a unique experience, as guests can choose to top theirs with any of the more than 35 high quality cheeses, sauces, meats, vegetables
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If you call yourself a “pet parent” rather than a pet owner, if your pet has more clothes than you do, or if your pet shuns the doghouse in favor of the comparative opulence of your bedroom (or even your bed), then you understand the mindset of folks who seek the best pet accommodations they can afford. It should come as no surprise, then, to discover the hustle-and-bustle which passes as peoples’ lives these days has spawned a relatively new profession: pet care specialists. Taking the common practice of letting a loving, responsible neighbor care for pets in lieu of boarding those same pets at an unfamiliar location one step further, pet sitting has become a fast-growing pet care alternative. Three professional Katy-area pet sitters recently joined Barking Life Pet Concierge founder and owner Elizabeth Maklary for a story-swapping session as they shared anecdotes and the pros and cons of their job. “It’s really rewarding when you get the pets to trust you,” said pet sitter Lacy Magee who, at 26, is already a five-year veteran in the pet care field. According to Maklary, having pets cared for in the owner’s home appeals to a wide section of pet owners.“It’s difficult to board elderly pets,” Maklary said, “because they often have health issues, including blindness and hearing loss. Those pets, for instance, almost have to be cared for in their own homes. “But pet sitting is becoming more and more popular for a
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Most times, however, pet sitting goes quite smoothly, the sitters agreed, with pet and owner idiosyncracies the only bumps in the road. “We’ve had clients whose pet was at the vet’s, recuperating from surgery, who had us cook food, cut up grapes and such, and deliver it to the vet every day,” Maklary said. “Then, there was the client who was at the port, ready to board his cruise ship the next day, who’d forgotten his passport. We were the only ones with access to his house, so he called us to find his passport and have it overnighted to him.” “Don’t forget about Clover the chihuahua,” Magee added. “We cooked him steak every day and he had to have his plate with the meat, cheese and such laid out in a certain way. Otherwise, he wouldn’t eat it.” “You know, asking your friend or neighbor to help out with your pet is one thing, but we’ll do things you don’t feel like you ask your neighbor to do,” Goodson said, “like cleaning up those special little pet ‘accidents’.” Barking Life Pet Concierge, Maklary’s company, offers a wide range of services for an equally wide range of prices. According to the pet sitter extraordinaire, clients are hiring professional pet sitters to do everything from exercise and/ or feed their housebound pets during the workday to caring for one or more pets while living in the pet’s home during the owner’s absence. A once-a-day visit with one pet runs about $22, with prices rising and as the number of pets and/or services increase. Pet owners can choose services such as administering subcutaneous injections of medicine to having pets driven to and from doggie daycare, having pet supplies delivered to the pet’s home or living with (which sometimes means sleeping with) one or more pets for days while the owner is absent. Just as important as the services offered are the pets who receive the services which, in Maklary’s case, can range from the usual dogs and cats to birds, reptiles and fish. “We call Lacy ‘the parrot lady’,” Maklary grinned. “But Lori [Haines] cared for a flock of chickens one lady kept for the eggs and helped re-home them during the flood. I’ve also cared for bearded dragons, soft-shelled turtles, pet crabs and pot-bellied frogs. “But no snakes,” she emphasized. “I don’t want snakes.” Barking Life also offers adjunct services such as house sitting, plant care and even offers to bring clients their house key should the client get locked out. (“We’re cheaper than a locksmith,” laughed Maklary, who said she keeps client’s keys locked in a key safe which is locked in her office.) “We were hired once to keep an eye on a few houses which a builder had recently completed but weren’t occupied yet,”
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entertainment. An exciting silent auction and Big Board auction will feature unique items with proceeds directly benefiting The Brookwood Community. Tickets to the Katy Wine Fest may be purchased online at www.KatyWineFest.com <http://www.KatyWineFest.com> . Day-of general admission tickets will be available at the door. “The Rotary Club of Cinco Ranch is thrilled to bring the Katy Wine Fest to our community. This is a fun event that allows our guests to enjoy great wine and culinary delights from local restaurants,â€? said Katy Wine Fest chairwoman, Mary Ellen Morris. “It will be a great night to enjoy with friends while supporting an amazing organization like Brookwood.â€? The Cinco Ranch Rotary (CRR) was established in May 2002 and has raised thousands of dollars to support deserving charities in our community. In addition to the Katy Wine Fest, the CRR also hosts an annual fun run each spring. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, the Cinco Ranch Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Founded in 1985, The Brookwood Community provides an educational environment that creates meaningful jobs, builds a sense of belonging, and demands dignity and respect for adults with special needs.  Brookwood strives to provide opportunity through education so that Brookwood citizens will acquire meaningful job skills and hold real jobs in the Community’s business enterprises, experience the pride that accompanies the ability to contribute to one’s own support, and grow socially, emotionally, and spiritually. For more information about the Katy Wine Fest, visit www. KatyWineFest.com <http://www.KatyWineFest.com>  or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/katywinefest <http://www. facebook.com/katywinefest> . Â
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Elite Women’s Care Center is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered, high quality care that is available from female adolescents to postmenopausal women. Through efficient use of modern technology, we are able to offer exceptional, personal care in a comfortable atmosphere. Our goal is to foster a doctor-patient relationship that facilitates respect, trust and compassion. Through preventative counseling and education, we strive to promote the health and wellness of women in our community.
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