Austin in Action
Pflugerville ISD announced that its families and staff members collected approximately one and a half tons of food items for local food banks in advance of the holiday season. This is the eighth annual food drive spearheaded by the district’s food services department...
Austin in Action
For a fifteenth straight year, Simon Youth Foundation, a national nonprofit that provides educational opportunities for at-risk high school students, will award a college scholarship to one student from every community that is home to a Simon property. Simon Youth...
Austin in Action
Austin Diaper Bank announced in January that it has provided over 100,000 diapers to babies and seniors in need since its founding in summer 2013. In May 2014, the organization achieved its original goal to secure an independent space by leasing office space in north...
Austin in Action
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum has the largest touchable sculpture collection in Texas, museum officials announced in late December. The collection is important to visually impaired visitors as an avenue for arts education. “I was a summer intern...
Austin in Action
The Signing Connection and City of San Marcos Parks and Recreation have announced a continuation of weekly Baby Sign and Play classes in 2015. The classes are held Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. for $7 per child at the San Marcos Activity Center, 501 E. Hopkins Street....
Recalls
Comfort Research is recalling about 125,000 vinyl bean bag chairs because the zippers on the bean bag chairs can be opened by children, who can then crawl inside, become entrapped, suffocate or choke on the bean bag chair’s foam beads. The recall involves vinyl...
Family Matters
Q. Our daughter Sara is 15 and a sophomore in high school. She is a good student, and up to this point, she has been an easy child to raise. However, recently she seems to be attracted to kids who pride themselves on looking different and not being well-engaged in...
Education
There are countless articles that address the educational merits of including art education in the public school system. With the emphasis of many schools being placed on standardized testing, some believe that if objectives are not measured in the test, they are not...
Family Connections
My earliest Valentine’s Day memories live in the blissful wonderland of elementary school. I remember a particular shoebox that I decorated in the first or second grade—the ones that we made to hold our stash of mushy, anxious scribbles. My box was crimson red with...
Lifelines
Over the last decade, there’s been increasing awareness of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that can cause people to stop breathing for short periods of time during sleep. According to the Mayo Clinic, anyone can develop OSA, although it is more common in...
