Fonda San Miguel raises funds for Emancipet to honor late Chef Miguel Ravago

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Austin’s award-winning Fonda San Miguel is honoring its late chef and co-founder Miguel Ravago, who passed away earlier this year, with a giving campaign benefiting Emancipet, the non-profit on a mission to make high-quality, low-cost veterinary care accessible for all pet owners.

In addition to being an influential leader of Austin’s culinary scene, Ravago was also a big animal lover. Fonda San Miguel is inviting people to make a special gift to Emancipet in his honor at epet.convio.net/ChefRavago and will also honor Ravago with a plaque on the donor wall of Emancipet’s new soon-to-open Central Austin clinic. Read more

Freedom Solar completes unique dual purpose solar array for Guido Construction

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Freedom Solar Power recently designed and installed a one-of-a-kind project for Guido & Companies Inc. that uses solar panels to spell out the word “GUIDO” on the building’s rooftop and doubles as creative aerial advertising.

Guido Construction Company and Guido Building Materials Company are located at 8526 Vidor Avenue, right next to the San Antonio International Airport, so people flying into or out of the airport get a prime view of the company’s large solar panel “billboard.” Read more

ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot Art Contest opens; deadline Nov. 27

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Imagine free ThunderCloud subs all year long, and treating your friends and family to sub sandwich parties! Three hundred and sixty-five subs are the grand prize for the winner of the 2018 ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot Art Contest.

Artists ranging from graphic designers to middle school students compete each year to create the iconic Trot artwork that appears on 20,000-plus T-shirts and other materials promoting the annual Thanksgiving day event. November 27 is the deadline to enter; the winner will be notified in January. Read more

The Trail Foundation announces Boardwalk benches available for adoption

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Bench adoptions last 10 years; limited number available

The Trail Foundation will install new benches along the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail and give members of the public the opportunity to dedicate the benches through a new program. Read more

Kerbey Lane’s famous pink pancakes benefiting breast cancer charity return this October

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‘Cakes for a Cure’ at all seven locations, Oct. 3- 31

During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kerbey Lane Cafe will serve pink pancakes and donate all of the proceeds to Breast Cancer Resource Center of Texas. Kerbey Lane will also donate all proceeds from its limited edition “Cakes for a Cure” T-shirts.

The pink pancakes Kerbey Lane will feature during this year’s “Cakes for a Cure” are:

  • Oct. 4-10: Strawberry Confetti
  • Oct. 11-17: Strawberry Banana    
  • Oct. 18-24: Chocolate Covered Strawberry
  • Oct. 25-31: Strawberry Lemon Chiffon

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ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot unveils 2017 artwork and announces event registration

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Early bird registration for the ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot is now open with reduced pricing, and the winner of the annual Art Contest has been selected. Jillian Collins won 365 vouchers for free ThunderCloud sandwiches for her watercolor painting of a turkey runner in front of the Texas State Capitol topped with a sub sandwich.   Read more

The Trail Foundation’s executive director Heidi Cohn featured in the Austin American-Statesman

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Heidi Cohn, executive director of The Trail Foundation as of June, was recently featured in a stellar article by the Austin American-Statesman’s fitness and outdoors reporter Pam LeBlanc! The story is copied below, and you can also read the original article on the Statesman’s website by clicking here.  Read more

Emancipet offering FREE vet care for Houston pets in the wake of Hurricane Harvey

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A collaboration with The HSUS and The Lewyt Trust, with support from Maddie’s Fund, will help keep pets and their people together
Emancipet, the nonprofit veterinary clinic operating in Houston’s East End, has seen a huge outpouring of support for its initiative to provide free veterinary care to Houston pets whose families were impacted by Hurricane Harvey. As a result of this generosity, and especially a significant grant from the Alex & Elisabeth Lewyt Charitable Trust and The Humane Society of the United States, and a generous grant from Maddie’s Fund®, Emancipet will be able to provide free veterinary care at it’s Houston location for three months beginning this Saturday, Sept. 9, as families get back on their feet.

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Kerbey Lane donates to Harvey relief fund

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Now through the end of September, Kerbey Lane Cafe will donate $1 from every Crispy Chicken Benedict and Green Chile Mac & Cheese sold at its seven locations to the Austin Community Foundation Central Texas Long-Term Hurricane Recovery Fund.  Read more

Emancipet to aid pets affected by Harvey with free emergency vet services in Houston

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WHAT: Emancipet will provide free emergency veterinary services for Houston pets whose owners were displaced during Hurricane Harvey, and for pets that were already in shelters when Harvey hit. These emergency services are outside of Emancipet’s normal operations, and donations are critically needed to begin purchasing additional medical supplies immediately. Donations may be made online here.  Read more