Contemporary Handweavers of Texas coming to Sugar Land on June 2

By Mitch Cohen

Joey Barnes brought the Contemporary Handweavers of Texas (CHT) to my attention recently. CHT is a non-profit founded in October 1949 and promotes interest in handweaving and related crafts.

The last time Joey Barnes’ name appeared in “Art Valet” was February 2015, when she was part of an artist group that created polymer clay jewelry. Barnes is still creative, but she’s (obviously) picked up weaving, and as I wrote in 2015, “Joey Barnes is the type of person that pushes the envelope in everything she does.”

Beginning Friday, June 2, Handweavers from all over Texas will gather in Sugar Land for their biannual meeting, exhibit and Member Sale of handwoven goods. The public can enjoy the member sale, exhibit and vendor hall which has offerings of fiber, yarn, tools and baskets, just to name a few.

This year’s conference theme is “Nothing But Blue Skies,” which will “celebrate time’s traditions, the essence of weaving and its storied history, and to embrace its future,” according to the event website.

The member sale and vendor hall hours are Friday, June 2, 1 – 5:30 p.m. and 8 – 10 p.m. Saturday, June 3, 9 – 5 p.m.

The entire event takes place

Discover Downtown Rosenberg's free concert series begins June 2

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Discover Downtown Rosenberg is presenting its free Friday night Summer Concert Series at Water Tower Square beginning June 2.

Residents are invited to bring a blanket or chair to listen to the sounds of local and regional live bands.The concerts take place from 48 p.m. on the first Friday of each month and feature performances from different musical genres: at Marriott Sugar Land, Ballroom VI + Veranda Boardroom (2nd level), Sugar Land Town Square, 16090 City Walk. For more information: (832) 767-5441, email weavetexas@ gmail.com or visit weavetexas. org.

Friday, June 2 – Mi Mariachi Band (Mariachi Music) 4-8 p.m.

Friday, July 7 – The Horizon Band (Country Music) 4-8 p.m.

Friday, August 4 – The Jam Band (Rock Music) 4-8 p.m.

Food trucks will be on-site with tasty treats available for purchase and several of our downtown restaurants will be serving up great food as well. For more information, visit rosenbergtx.gov or call 832595-3301.

Cohen writes Art Valet, an arts column in our sister paper The Leader, and is an artist and founder of the First Saturday Arts Market and The Market at Sawyer Yards. Find him at ArtValet.com.

'Orion' helps kick off Fort Bend County Libraries Summer Reading Challenge in June

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Fort Bend County Libraries will welcome the Sugar Land Space Cowboys’ mascot, Orion, who will help launch FBCL’s annual Summer Reading Challenge at several locations in June.

Families with children of all ages will have an opportunity to meet Orion, take photos, hear about the Sugar Land Space Cowboys minor league baseball team, and sign up for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge!

“Meet & Greet” events will take place at the following locations:

June 8 – 3:00-4:00 pm

– Mission Bend Branch Library (8421 Addicks Clodine Road)

June 12 – 2:30-3:15 pm –

University Branch Library (14010 University Blvd, Sugar Land)

June 21 – 2:00-3:00 pm

– Albert George Branch Library (9230 Gene Street, Needville)

FBCL’s annual Summer Reading Challenge encourages reading among children from birth and up, as well as

‘Orion’ will help kick off the Fort Bend County Libraries Summer Reading Challenge in June. Courtesy Sugar Land Space Cowboys teens and adults. “All Together Now” is the theme for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge. Readers of all ages can earn rewards based on the number of books they read or time they spend reading, and children can participate in a variety of fun and exciting programs at the libraries in

June and July.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, see the Fort Bend County Libraries website (www.fortbend.lib.tx.us) or call the library system’s Communications Office (281-633-4734) or the branch libraries.

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METHODIST

CHRIST CHURCH SUGAR LAND • 281-980-6888

A United Methodist Community

3300 Austin Parkway • Sugar Land, TX 77479

Rev. Dr. Daniel Irving, Senior Pastor

Sunday Schedule 9:30 am Blended Worship 9:30 am Sunday School for all ages 11:00 am Traditional & Contemporary Worship www.christchurchsl.org

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ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH • 281-499-9602

605 Dulles Avenue, Stafford, TX 77477

SUNDAY: 10:30 am Worship Holy Eucharist www.allsaints-stafford.org

CHURCH OF CHRIST

STAFFORD CHURCH OF CHRIST • 281-499-2507

402 Stafford Run Rd. -Stafford, 77477 Stephen Higley, Preacher

Sunday Bible Study 9:30 am

Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Wednesday 7:00 pm www.staffordcoc.com

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH • 281-240-3195

502 Eldridge Rd. -Sugar Land, TX 77478 Reverend Dr. Fred Seay, Pastor Sunday Worship In Person 11:00 am / Nursery Available Worship Online on YouTube www.fpcsl.org

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Nelly

Hi! My name is Nelly and I am a 2 year old cat who LOVES to cuddle! My favorite hobbies are taking long naps and eating yummy treats. I am looking for my forever snuggle buddy!

I am a very playful and adventurous cat who is always ready to have fun! Come visit me today at Houston Humane Society and meet my loving personality! ADOPT NELLY!

is in need of medical treatment. I am not having a baby. Wait. Here comes a nurse. “Just taking your temperature.” Fortunately these days they just stick a dull plastic needle in my mouth. Be thankful for medical science. Where was I? Oh, yes. Hospitals. They operate, so to speak, 24/7 Christmas and Super Bowl included, with an army I refer to as “nurses” since some are and some are not: they are also technicians, lab workers, cleaners, X-ray types and waiters. Once every January an actual doctor comes by, looks at my chart, asks a few questions, nods and leaves.

Everyone is cheery and helpful, but I could not work in a hospital. Patients keep hitting the Help button so some kind soul can rush in and scratch their back or move their pillow. At 3 a.m. they slightly knock on the door and enter to take my blood pressure, give me a pill or, upon demand, scratch my back.

Here comes a nurse who says, “Time for your Quilatain.” There must be a company whose job it is to come up with names for medicines. Like those which advertise on TV. “Be sure to ask your doctor for XXtyztcon” or, “Feeling tired and depressed? Then you need Nycoggatrine.” What she is feeding me could easily be cocaine or rat poison. How am I to know? I swallow a pill about the size of what Cristian Javier was throwing last night in Minute Maid Park. Taken with a gulp of water. Trying to swallow water while

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832-860-1054

May 01, 2023 lying on your back brings on a sensation. The medical term is “massive coughing.”

Hospital rooms today look something like a MAS*H operating room. I count three computer screens, some metal boxes and lots of buttons. There are even buttons on both sides of the bed to make it go up or down or, I suppose, sideways. Hopefully there is not an ejection button. All are connected by wires. I must have a mile of wires in this room. Then there is this paddle in my bed with – one guess – buttons. It allows me to turn on the TV or summon a nurse. The TV carries channels from all known stations except the one that shows the Astros. I suspect the engineer who installed this gizmo is a Texas Ranger fan. You know the old line about, at a hospital, they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill? At precisely 3:45 a.m. last night or this morning, sure enough, that’s what happened to me. I once visited a hospital late at night and asked the nurse if he disliked working 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. since every study shows our bodies need to sleep at night. “Not at all,” he said. “At night the halls are empty of visitors. No flowers, teddy bears or balloons. The patients are asleep. I get off in the morning, eat a big breakfast and sleep all day. At night I go out to dinner with friends, have maybe a half glass of wine, and go to my job.”

You may have seen the movie, “Airplane!” It was undoubtedly the dumbest, silliest and funniest movie around. One exchange was when a doctor says a passenger is ill and needs to go to a hospital: Flight Attendant: “A hospital? What is it?” Doctor: “It’s a big building with patients.” I am currently in a big building with patients, lots of patients. It’s in the Texas Medical Center or TMC as we hypochondriacs call it, the largest medical complex on Earth. How big? It has 106,000 employees and 61 institutions, eight different academic and research institutions and 21 different hospitals. Over 160,000 people visit the TMC each day – yes, each day. That’s more than 7.2 million visitors a year. More heart surgeries are performed in the TMC than anywhere else on the globe. Today, people come from across the country and all over the world to die in Houston.

Let’s talk about food. No one checks into a hospital to critique the food. But it’s bland, tasteless and most unappealing. So what’s the solution? I haven’t the foggiest idea. The menu looks really tasty with Italian food and seafood and delicious salads and desserts. But the kitchen has to serve up 400 or so meals all at once. Most chefs don’t have to worry about serving saltfree diets, no sugar, cut the mayonnaise and go easy on the Jell-O. This morning I was served the nicest breakfast of scrambled eggs, French toast and bacon. Alas, the eggs were not just cold but frigid. The French toast was soggy and the bacon was limp. This is an observation, not a complaint. I couldn’t do any better. I just wonder if a deliverer from Door Dash carrying six dinners of enchiladas with taco salad would delay the dollies trying to take a patient to a double lung transplant.

A brief mention as to why I am in this hospital. One night I was engaged in my after dinner routine: in my patio with cigar, brandy and iPad to read the next day’s New York Times. Just as I was setting up my evening nest I tripped and fell. I couldn’t move. Being all alone that night, I was stuck until I was found by a son. He called 911, two very large medics arrived within minutes and raced me to the hospital. I felt really stupid lying in the back of a screaming ambulance, red lights flashing, racing through the rain on a Houston expressway. I can hear a motorist saying, “Poor devil, hanging on to life.” I had two skinned elbows and two skinned knees. But the doctors didn’t like my heart beat, so here I am – two days and nights of tests. My advice to you: If you’re ever in a hospital, don’t order scramble eggs.

Ashby has recovered at ashby2@comcast.net

To my patients:

It is with mixed emotions that I am announcing my retirement. My last day in the office will be May 31, 2023.

I am excited to inform you that Dr. Ajay Aggarwal, an experienced pain medicine physician, will be taking over my practice. Dr. Aggarwal is board-certified in anesthesia and pain medicine. Dr. Aggarwal and his team will continue to see you my current location. I am confident he will provide you with the highest level of care.

Daisy and Ashley will stay and continue to provide the same personal and professional relationship you have become accustomed to.

To contact Dr. Aggarwal for appointments and information, please call: 979-285-9995 or 979-245-7246

For medical records of visits prior to June 1, 2023, please email: cathy@yourpaindoc.com

It has been my pleasure to be a part of your care, and I will miss our visits. I wish you all the very best.

Sincerely,

Mark Brown, M.D.

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Texas Department of Banking Notice

Application to Establish Bank Branch Office

Notification is hereby given that The First State Bank, 206 North Street, Louise, Texas 77455, has filed an application with The Banking Commissioner of Texas on May 31, 2023 to establish a branch at 200 Century Square Blvd, Sugar Land, Texas 77478.

Any person wishing to comment on this application, either for or against, may file written comments with the Texas Department of Banking, 2601 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78705-4294 on or before the 14th day after the date of this publication. Such comments will be made a part of the record before and considered by the banking commissioner. Any person wishing to formally protest and oppose the proposed branch and participate in the application process may do so by filing a written notice of protest with the Texas Department of Banking on or before the 14th calendar day after the date of this publication, accompanied by a protest filing fee of $2,500.00. The protest fee may be reduced or waived by the banking commissioner upon a showing of substantial hardship.

FDIC Notice

Application to Establish Bank Branch Office

Notification is hereby given that The First State Bank, 206 North Street, Louise, Texas 77455, has filed an application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on May 31, 2023 to establish a branch at 200 Century Square Blvd, Sugar Land, Texas 77478.

Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the regional directors (RMS) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at 1601 Bryan Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 no later than June 15, 2023. The nonconfidential portions of the application are on file in the regional office and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the nonconfidential portion of the application file will be made available upon request.

Notice to Creditors

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Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased, were issued on May 22, 2023, under Docket No. 23-CPR-039063, pending in the County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County, Texas, to Angela L. Moore and David K. Moore.

Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased, were issued on May 22, 2023, under Docket No. 23-CPR-039063, pending in the County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County, Texas, to Angela L. Moore and David K. Moore.

Claims may be presented as follows:

Claims may be presented as follows:

Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased, were issued on May 22, 2023, under Docket No. 23-CPR-039063, pending in the County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County, Texas, to Angela L. Moore and David K. Moore. Claims may be presented as follows:

Representative, Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased c/o John J. Clennan 4502 Riverstone Blvd., Suite 103 Missouri City, Texas 77459

Representative, Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased c/o John J. Clennan 4502 Riverstone Blvd., Suite 103 Missouri City, Texas 77459

Representative, Estate of Arthur T. Moore a/k/a Arthur Tompkins Moore and Arthur T. Moore, Deceased c/o John J. Clennan 4502 Riverstone Blvd., Suite 103 Missouri City, Texas 77459

All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

DATED May 23, 2023.

DATED May 23, 2023.

DATED May 23, 2023.

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