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An opening date has not been revealed. www.walk-ons.com 10 Velvet Taco will open at the incoming Shops at Baybrook at I-45 and Bay Area Boulevard in Webster. Velvet Taco, which has several locations across Texas and beyond, serves unusual tacos, includ- ing chicken and waffle, bacon burger, and rotisserie chicken tacos. The Shops at Baybrook will open in late 2023. www.velvettaco.com 11 The Crack Shack is coming to the Shops at Baybrook at I-45 and Bay Area Boulevard in Webster. The restaurant serves fried chicken, chicken sandwich- es, salads and desserts with ingredients sourced from farmers and purveyors in the markets in which the restaurants are based. The Shops at Baybrook is planning a late 2023 opening. www.crackshack.com IN THE NEWS During a Clear Creek Cleanup event Feb. 11, almost 200 volunteers collected 15,246 pounds of trash. League City helped at the event by providing an exca- vator, four trash dumpsters, a police boat and portable restrooms, according to a news release. The event, held annually by the Clear Creek Environmental Founda- tion, celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. The foundation holds the event to preserve the local ecosystem’s health and beautify the area. 281-830-3419. www.bit.ly/3Yn3IFY Elementary school students with dis- abilities will be able to swing into a new school year next fall as Clear Creek ISD plans to install new adaptive playground equipment this summer, according to a release from the school district. The CCISD Special Services Department has decided to add adaptive swing set systems for disabled students at 13 existing elementary school playgrounds with accessible wheelchair ramps and rubber material underneath the sets. Sets will be installed at Armand Bayou, Bauerschlag, Bay, Campbell, Fergu- son, Greene, McWhirter, Mossman, Parr, Ross, Stewart, Wedgewood and Whitcomb elementary schools. CCISD is open to installing more adaptive playground equipment at other elemen- tary schools, according to the release. 281-284-0000. www.ccisd.net

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FEATURED IMPACT IN THE NEWS In late February, downtown Houston was the site of a temporary memorial honoring the victims of COVID-19. The Greater Houston Rose River Memorial was displayed at Tranquility Park, 400 Rusk St., Houston, from Feb. 24-26. The memorial included more than 12,000 handmade red felt roses, one for each Greater Houston area resident who died of COVID-19, said Mohammed Nasrullah, a Clear Lake resident who helped organize the memorial. Nasrullah owns the COVID-19 Wall of Memories nonprot website with his wife, Ruth Nasrullah. The website, launched in January 2021, allows visitors from around the nation to submit entries of those who died from COVID-19 for display on the virtual wall. The opening ceremony for the memorial Feb. 24 included local elected ocials, leaders and family members who lost loved ones to COVID-19, according to a news release. Los Angeles artist Marcos Lutyens created the concept for the memorial and has helped install it in dierent designs throughout the country. Now that the memorial has been taken down, the roses will be used in a dierent memorial in the next city interested in displaying them, the release reads.

More than 60 volunteers worked on the project by making roses and connecting them with shing lines, designing and building the memorial’s structure, assembling the memorial at the park, and then taking it down and preparing it to be shipped, according to the release. “From the design to the installation, local volunteers have worked hard to honor those lost in the Greater Houston area,” Lutyens said in the release. Opening ceremony speakers included Houston City Council Member Letitia Plummer; Edward Rios, community liaison for Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia; Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones; and local family members of those who died of COVID-19. Several hundred visitors viewed the memorial during its weekend display. www.covid19wallofmemories.org

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